Have any one seen any good anime lately?

[Gray Fox]

Anime fourm seens kind of dead. So... Have you seen any good anime lately. I dont get that much time to watch anime anymore. Not until winter and summer break comes.

[Alteredninth]

I've just seen the new Final Fantasy movie Advent Children. I haven't played the game series so I came to it cold. I saw the first movie but i know it has nothing to do with the games (or the second movie). All i can say is WOW! Easily the best CGI I've ever seen. Makes the first one look like tom and jerry

It probably makes a lot more sense to people who are familiar to the universe but i enjoyed it anyway. wonder if they used SGI machines on this one?

[voth]

Gray Fox,

Why not just do a random download of a episode/series and play it by ear, that's how I found a lot of interesting series.

[rob]

I've gone to watching lots of classic stuff, as I'm now on a Uni connection and it's a bit tricky to aquire new stuff

[voth]

I've gone to watching lots of classic stuff, as I'm now on a Uni connection and it's a bit tricky to aquire new stuff

University cracking down on all BT/*mule traffic are they. Well you could always go the route of Usenet

[rob]

There's a massive notice up saying "Don't do it", so I'll just wait until I go back home in a couple of weeks

[Gray Fox]

Gray Fox,

Why not just do a random download of a episode/series and play it by ear, that's how I found a lot of interesting series.

I wish that I could, but i have dial-up.

[VenomousPinecone]

Watched all six episodes of Furi Kuri this weekend....

If you have not seen it, see it now, at all costs. No review does it any justice, people will interpret the story however they want and still be far from the truth.

The fact is, it is just fun to watch.

[Gray Fox]

Watched all six episodes of Furi Kuri this weekend....

If you have not seen it, see it now, at all costs. No review does it any justice, people will interpret the story however they want and still be far from the truth.

The fact is, it is just fun to watch.

I seen all the fooly cooly episodes. Like to see them all again.

[GIJoe]

All i can say is WOW! Easily the best CGI I've ever seen. Makes the first one look like tom and jerry

what makes you think so? i found the main problem with the first one in the look department to be the animation, otherwise it was quite nicely done imho. now, advent children looks like motion captured or rotoscoped body animation as well, there are a few horribly weird anims in there too. facial stuff ranges from impressive and subtle to totally laughable. hair animation i remember to be better in the first, cloth sim/dynamics were nicer in advent children though.
one impressive thing that advent children had was the extreme close-ups on some characters where you could literally see every pore of their skin or surface details on their clothing.

as for the movie itself, i too haven't played FF7, so i didn't get a lot of the story (listening to japanese and trying to catch up with english subtitles didn't help either ) but i somehow dislike the whole videogame style. the first one was more serious and - i think - overall better, yet still not good
btw. there's also a 2d/hand drawn FF7 spin off that's called FF7: last order.

[jimmer]

I saw miyazaki's 'Howls Moving Castle' two weeks ago - most excellent and this week I've been OD-ing on Crest/Banner of the Stars - totally excellent! And as ever in these matters, USENET is your friend...

[TeeTylerToe]

I heartily recommend full metal alchemist to everyone. if, after the first two awesome episodes, a few are a little slow, keep with it. I really got a lot out of it.

[Gray Fox]

Thanks ya all.

But most of the anime you all requested I have seen.

[radicaledward]

Kino's Journey just came out in DVD box set recently if you like the more philosophical anime, and Planets is also very good if you are into more realistic anime.

[Gray Fox]

Last night I watched some anime movies on TCM, they played the 2 movies two times in english and then in japanese.