Shik
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I'm just curious...how many people here are also raving otaku?
While I'm not as loony as some of the people I met a month ago at Otakon, I am a fan. I love a lot of the sci-fi stuff, with "Evangelion" & "Cowboy Bebop" at the top of my list. I grew up on "Yamato" & "Macross," both the real & the bastardized American versions & I love some of the stuffthat's even "fringy sci-fi," like "Tenchi." Recently, my crush (yeah, 25 & I'm crushin' hard on someone....sad, really) has been crash-coursing me in bishonen.
Oh, yeah...if CC ever decides t'open an anime forum here, I call dibs on the moderator post!
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I think there's alot of it, too much for it to be just one genre like it is. There's all those little sub-genre's. Yeah, I like it but no nut either.
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As far as anime goes, my vote for greatest of all is Ninja Scroll. I've seen Crying Freeman, Ghost in the Shell, and many others, but nothing comes close to the story and action found in Ninja Scroll.
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I usually don't like anime, but I really enjoyed Iria: Zeiram the Animation. I saw it on one of those anime things they have on the sci-fi channel.
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Do they show Evangelion on any channel or do you have to buy the videos to see them?
I like Ranma 1/2, Sailor Moon, Sakura Wars, Doraemon, Pokemon, Digimon, and Card Captors. I don't like getting into a series if I can't access it on a regular basis though.
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Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
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Ninja Scroll is a great, but sometimes disgusting movie.
Also, there is Macross Plus. It's supposed to revolve around the Macross series, but the battles and the war have been put behind in favour of a love triangle. And it works.
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I caught "Evangelion" on KTEH (channel 54) out of San Jose--- it's a Silicon Valley PBS station which runs "Science Fiction Night" on Sunday...
and begs accordingly from the SF fans to keep Science Fiction Night.
"Evangelion" only ran once. "Tenchi Muyo" (2nd Series) played twice a couple of years ago. We got "Key the Metal Idol" twice, and "Those Obnoxious Aliens."
When they really want pledges, they play "Bubble Gum Crisis."
Now we're getting "Please Save My Earth," "Space Island One," and the PBS standard "Doctor Who."
and yeah, there's no way in heck that "Evangelion" will ever see the light of day on Cartoon Network or the average local station. T&A, violence, and bizarre metaphysics: not really a great venue for breakfast cereal and toy commercials.
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I caught an episode of Tenchi Muyo on Cartoon Network last weekend. I loved it! I know Ryo Oki from a friend who had a really cute stuffed animal of it, but I didn't know it was from this.
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Shik
Starship database: completed; History of Starfleet: done; website: probably never
Member # 343
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It IS a fun little romp, tain't it, Tora? Those little Ryo-Ohkis were rare, rare, rare for a while--managed t'get MY hands on one, though. Now that Cartoon Network is showing it (albeit severely slashed), they're being made again by a second company...but mine's one of the original Pioneer ones.
Heh...one day, I should post the pictures from Otakon, including the guy who dressed up as a cabbit.
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