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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN so, can anybody recommend me a decent series, which doesnt revolve around stupid super-power(s)? isnt gratuitously violent? is at least moderately intelligent? i like japanese animation but with more americanised plots

Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny were really awesome.

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Originally posted by springhit No, real cartoons not the 'Jap Crap' you're into watching

tsubasa chronicles
solty rei
hellsing

plus a few others that ive come across on a madman sampler dvd look pretty good, i might fill in some details on some of them but those 3 atm look like good watching!

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Bleach
Samurai Champloo
Afro Samurai
Deathnote
Monster
Claymore
Golden Boy (loved that one lol)

i got thru a little bit of that sampler dvd lastnight and still have more but yeah ill get to it lol, those 3 really appealed to me!

yeah bleach rules, watched the 1st 2 discs, i told my mate what you said about the 30 or so eppisodes that are "fillers" but yeah he still wants to get onto what has been translated and are "around" cough cough!

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yeah look don't get me wrong - it's still bleach which is just purely awesome but the problem is there's a few different filler arcs:

1: the story continues on a long time into the future, characters have developed/aged a bit (which the filler can fill in)
2: the story continues pretty much from where it left off... maybe 1 month after

bleach's filler is of the 2nd variety... the problem with fillers like this is that they can't play upon character development... the story really goes nowhere and once it's finished it doesnt make any references to what happened before

only good thing about it is there are some vry nice fights

LOL FMA had some great fights in it! FMA FTW lol, totaly in love with FMA

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anime thread aye ... anyone who is an anime lover here should check out the old school stuff, esp. anime series from the early 80's.

I highly recommend:

SDF Macross [known as Robotech if you've watch Agro's Cartoon Connection haha] ~ though Robotech changes the story a bit. Watch the original japanese SDF Macross for the proper ending oh it's a mecha anime - the usual transforming robot jets, though music is the central theme

Kimagure Orange Road : high school love triangle story with a bit of magic haha, may sound typical but is actually deeper than you expect.

Plenty of other legendary animes out there that doest rely on full blown action :

Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, GTO, Ranma 1/2, Kare Kano [though it was cut half way due to budget?], X-TV.
So much more but my brain is a bit dead at the moment.

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ive got the robotech collection box, havent watched any for a while though hehe. and i didnt know they were completely different series until last year

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new set online, Summer Journeys

lmfao ranma 1/2

A couple of Hoyts cinemas have been showing some Anime for the Reel Asia Film Festival

A few good ones coming up clicky

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