Animedragon

I don't drop series because I don't subscribe to any streaming services and buy all my anime on disk, which can be expensive, but then again I don't loose access to my favourite series when the streaming company decides to cull their catalogue. Over the past year there have been a couple of series where a few episodes in I wonder why I purchased this rubbish, but I stick with it (I paid for it after all!) and usually by about halfway through I change my mind and think it's a reasonably decent series. I often find such series are much better second time round. Of course there have been some, fortunately not many, that start bad, continue to be bad and are still bad at the end.... and yes, Kokoro Connect, I am looking at you!!

Most of my usernames have "dragon" in them somewhere, because I like dragons.

Happy Birthday. I hope you have a really enjoyable day.

Based on the series you mention. For old anime I suggest: Gunbuster, Saikano and Noir. It's not all that old, but I'd also highly recommend Violet Evergarden.

I've just finished watching Violet Evergarden, TV series and movie 1, for the second time. The first time I saw it I thought it was a really good anime. Second time round I think it's an outstandingly excellent anime. A few days ago I posted this about anime on another topic: It can reach into your heart and break it. It can reach into your heart and lift it up. I think that just about sums up every episode of Violet Evergarden. (All I want now is a UK Blu-Ray or DVD release of the second movie.)

...and 20 years after that you'll hardly be able to run at all. As the dinosaur of the forum I thought I'd just throw that in to "brighten" up your day.

"Sound! Euphonium" This is an unpretentious little series about a high school concert band club and their quest to enter and win an inter-school band competition. It's told primarily through the lives of four of the band's members as they learn to play their instruments and learn to play the music they'll perform in the contest. There are no major dramas for them to face, actually there are, but they're the sort that are very important to school students but have little relevance in the world outside school. Even though I have no real interest in classical music or bands I found it to be a very enjoyable little series to watch.

Here's the result of 20+ years of buying manga...

I think that anime ranking systems are very subjective. A quick read through of the Top Ten List topic on this forum will soon make it quite clear that what series appeals to one person does not necessarily appeal to someone else. Some reviewers rate series for various aspects of the series like storyline, animation, artwork, sound etc but even those can be subjective. People's taste in anime series can, and often does, change over time. Some of the series I watched 20 years ago and thought were excellent I now wonder what I ever saw in them. I think that while 'Top Ten' lists are fun to do we shouldn't get too hung up on 'ranking systems' we should just sit back and enjoy watching the anime we like and not worry too much about what other people think of our favourite series.

What's the coolest thing anime can do? Let's think... It can reach into your heart and break it. It can reach into your heart and lift it up. It can reach into your mind and challenge it.

Like you I got the Gunsmith Cats manga because I wanted more than just the OAV.

Royal Space Force : Wings of Honneamise. I first saw this film back in the mid 1990's when VHS ruled the home entertainment industry, and I thought it was a really good film. So when the DVD era dawned and I was replacing my old VHS tapes with DVDs it was one of the films I wanted to have in my DVD collection but the DVD release when it came out was one of those Special Editions and *seriously* expensive, so I didn't buy it. Then last week I spotted it on Amazon at a 'bargain bin' price so I added it to my current order. Last night I settled down to watch it, for a film made in 1987 it is very much a product of its time and has the distinctive 80's anime style, this is not a bad thing of course and there are many 80's anime series that are still well worth watching, but to my mind Wings of Honneamise is not one of them and the 25 years since I last watched it have not been kind to it. I can see why when it was first released it was regarded as a great film, but I don't think it has aged well and I found the storyline pacing a bit slow and even slightly boring in places. Part way through the film someone knocked on my door, now normally this would annoy me as I don't like being interrupted while watching anything, but I was quite willing to hit pause and answer the door and I suspect that had the call been about something that needed immediate action I would quite happily not gone back to the film. I realise that there must be those who regard Wings of Honneamise as a great film and I'm sorry if I've upset or offended you, but in my opinion (for what it's worth) it was a great film that just hasn't stood the test of time.

You do realise don't you that that couple have a framed copy of that photo hanging on their wall and tell all their friends how they met a professional wrestling star.

I'd buy a manga usually for one of three reasons. Because I enjoyed the anime version and want to read the manga it's based on. I've found that some anime follow the manga very closely others, just don't. Sometimes I think the manga is better, sometimes I think the anime is better, sometimes I can't decide which I prefer. But generally I find the anime adaptations to be much closer to the original than the average Hollywood film-of-the-book, which often leave me wondering if the scriptwriters had only read the dust jacket rather than the whole book. Because the anime is only the first few volumes of the manga and I'm curious to know how the story continues, although for a couple of manga I quickly realised that it was a sort of soap opera and there wasn't going to be an ending and dropped the series. Because there isn't an anime version, but the story looked interesting.

The sun is shining in an almost cloudless sky and the weatherman says it could reach 18 C today.

You did well. 9/10 Top row: Cardcaptor Sakura. Clannad. Fushigi Yugi. Middle row: Ef: A Tale of Memories. Macross. Magic Knight Rayearth. Bottom row: You're Under Arrest. Noir. Bubblegum Crisis.

I'm just finishing watching Love Hina again after, well, rather a long time. It's as crazy and off the wall as I remember it to be. The two movies are what anime series movies should be, a continuation of the story not an attempt to recap the whole 24 episodes in one and a bit hours.

Age is just a number. Never forget that while Growing Old is compulsory, Growing Up is optional.

Currently 20 C, warm and sunny. Which makes a nice change, but it also means that I don't have an excuse for staying in and watching anime.

"interpretive" is a very good way of describing the final couple of episodes.

I've noticed that problem with replying to certain posts. When I click 'submit' it comes up with message that says 'saving' but that doesn't seem to go away until you move off that page. The emoji pop-out closing when you move the mouse outside the pop-out bar is common to all such controls, not just this forum. If you move the mouse outside the pop-out area the program thinks you no longer wish to use that feature and closes it. Horizontal and vertical scroll bars do the same thing, which can be annoying, but the program is working as designed.

I don't think I'll outgrow anime. I watch anime every day, usually while having my lunch and dinner as there's nothing I want to watch on TV at mealtimes. The big plus being that when watching a DVD the programme starts when I've got the meal ready and there's no advert breaks! Apiology accepted . I wonder if that makes me the oldest person on here? Are there any other claimants for the (dubious) title?

At 69 I'm probably more of an Animedinosaur than an Animedragon. I discovered anime in 1996 while flicking through the TV channels looking for something interesting to watch, then found some anime on VHS in a local shop. The rest, as they say, is history.

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