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Well, I've always had a soft spot for teen titans. Also, some that Ghibli Studios work is FANTASTIC! (Princess Mononoke, made me cry...sniffle)

dogma wrote:
Centurions.

I thought this show was part of Mask for some reason.
But now its all coming back.

fav:
- Robotech (apart from the Southern Cross and Invid Invasion turd piles)
- Exo Squad
- Guyver
- Battle Angel Alita (Doesnt hold a candle to the Manga, but oh well)
- Ghost in the Shell
- Gits Stand Alone Complex
- Big O
- Cowboy Bebop
- Giant Robo
- The Original Transformers Series
- FLCL
- Eat Man

Well gonna list a few of my favourite animes (mostly all I've watched so far though): Code Geass, Naruto, Full metal Alchemist, and am currently waiting for episode 9 of negima!? to load up to watch. If you couldn't tell, I'm an anime fan.

Trigun has to be my all time favourite anime, i engaged with the characters so well even thought the anime holds nowt to the manga its still an awesome series, any excuse I get to dress up as Wolfwood is used now, beach party....yeh i'll be going as wolfwood then.

Gundam Wing, the series the made me love anime, I can't stress how much I like mechs and the designs in Wing are fantastic better than pretty much the rest of the Gundam series, top this off with well written characters (Heero, Trowa, Zechs and Tres spring to mind) and a well paced plot you can see why I love it so much.

For many reasons mainly nostalgia and my my love of mechs I love G1 Transformers, far too much some people would say.

Cowboy Bebop nothing I can say about this that hasnt been said before its simply fantastic.

LunaHound wrote:Is there anyone out there can finish this anime without shedding a single tear?!

I can.

I would have picked Grave of the Fireflies for biggest anime tearjerker.

On to the list I guess:

Ranma 1/2 - Liked the characters, funny
Golden Boy - funny and wrong at the same time
Tenchi Muyo (original series, not much for the 5 million series afterward) - liked the characters. I have a giant stuffed Ryo-Ohki
Tom & Jerry 39-45 - The early years are some of the funniest cartoons ever made.
Fairly Oddparents - Had to watch it and it grew on me
Venture Bros. - Great combination of adventure, humor, and obscure references
Gummi Bears - though it may be just my memory, haven't seen it in years
Robotech - The Valkyrie is still the best (transformable) Mech design ever created
Animaniacs - What isn't to like?

99MDeery wrote:
Gundam Wing, the series the made me love anime, I can't stress how much I like mechs and the designs in Wing are fantastic better than pretty much the rest of the Gundam series, top this off with well written characters (Heero, Trowa, Zechs and Tres spring to mind) and a well paced plot you can see why I love it so much.

I have a list I got from a friend, of animes I should watch and gundam is the next anime I'm watching.

Are gundam machines only in gundam? or do loads of other anime pieces use these blueprints for the war machines?

Emperors Faithful wrote:Are gundam machines only in gundam? or do loads of other anime pieces use these blueprints for the war machines?

There are a lot of animes with the same type of machines. Code Geass for example has giant metal suits kind of the same as gundam machines.

I do have to admit, they look fething awesome. But why are they piloted by teenagers?!?

In Code Geass IIRC it's people from the army who pilot the machines they have. Gundam I haven't started watching yet so I have no idea.

But they all seem like kids JUST out of school, hardly grizzled vets who can be trusted to pilot these things...

So is this a Gundam thread now or what?

Gundam = Anime, no?

Ahtman wrote:
Ranma 1/2 - Liked the characters, funny
Golden Boy - funny and wrong at the same time
Tenchi Muyo (original series, not much for the 5 million series afterward) - liked the characters. I have a giant stuffed Ryo-Ohki
Tom & Jerry 39-45 - The early years are some of the funniest cartoons ever made.
Fairly Oddparents - Had to watch it and it grew on me
Venture Bros. - Great combination of adventure, humor, and obscure references
Gummi Bears - though it may be just my memory, haven't seen it in years
Robotech - The Valkyrie is still the best (transformable) Mech design ever created
Animaniacs - What isn't to like?

Early Tom and Jerry has some really cool and disturbing psychadelic stuff.

Oddparents is decent but Pixies rule in an authoriarian accountant type of way.

Emperors Faithful wrote:Well, I've always had a soft spot for teen titans. Also, some that Ghibli Studios work is FANTASTIC! (Princess Mononoke, made me cry...sniffle)

I too find Teen Titans to be quite fun on a lazy weekend morning. I wish they hadn't had to call Deathstroke by his real name (Slade) to make it suitable for the kiddies. I'm not sure it's safe for kids anyway; have you seen what the female Titans wear?

Also, I hear that the movie is due sometime next year. Can't wait!

Cheese Elemental wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:Well, I've always had a soft spot for teen titans. Also, some that Ghibli Studios work is FANTASTIC! (Princess Mononoke, made me cry...sniffle)

I too find Teen Titans to be quite fun on a lazy weekend morning. I wish they hadn't had to call Deathstroke by his real name (Slade) to make it suitable for the kiddies. I'm not sure it's safe for kids anyway; have you seen what the female Titans wear?

Also, I hear that the movie is due sometime next year. Can't wait!

I wish they would've chosen another character as main antagonist. I never saw Deathstroke as the behind-the-scenes-sceming villian he's portrayed as in the show.

All of DBZ and I really like Batman of the future.

Batman of the Future FTW!

There's a whole bunch of stuff my daughter watches on Cartoon Channel in Japan, which I have grown to like:

Samurai Jack.
Powerpuff Girls.
Puffy Puffy Amiyumi.
Something I don't know the name of where Death, a sour-faced little girl and a Stimpy-like boy live together in a house.
Kim Possible (I think it's on Disney)
Totally Spies.

I in the last while have been watching more and more cartoons as there is no decent nerd TV on anymore.

My sister is mostly a Disney watcher so I just fall in line and watch what ever she does stuff like Kim possible,Phineas and Ferb(spelling) and so on.

As for Anime I watch Bleach,black lagoon(only sometimes),Angelic Layer,Record of Lodoss war and sometimes black cat.

Kilkrazy wrote:
Something I don't know the name of where Death, a sour-faced little girl and a Stimpy-like boy live together in a house.

That's the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. Man, I have to watch that again sometimes. I still love it because it has a lot of jokes and references in it that only older people would get, like the numerous allusions to Cthulu and the inclusion of a guy who's basically a clone of Ash from Evil Dead.

Oh yeah I had almost forgotten about the Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy.

Deff Dread red Edition wrote:Oh yeah I had almost forgotten about the Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy.

Then you are a heretic and must be burned.

Cheese Elemental wrote:

Deff Dread red Edition wrote:Oh yeah I had almost forgotten about the Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy.

Then you are a heretic and must be burned.

Take pity on me!

On topic I also love some strange web cartoons such as apocalypse lane:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/apocalypse-lane/835-The-Master-of-The-Gamerz

99MDeery wrote:Trigun has to be my all time favourite anime, i engaged with the characters so well even thought the anime holds nowt to the manga its still an awesome series, any excuse I get to dress up as Wolfwood is used now, beach party....yeh i'll be going as wolfwood then.

Gundam Wing, the series the made me love anime, I can't stress how much I like mechs and the designs in Wing are fantastic better than pretty much the rest of the Gundam series, top this off with well written characters (Heero, Trowa, Zechs and Tres spring to mind) and a well paced plot you can see why I love it so much.

For many reasons mainly nostalgia and my my love of mechs I love G1 Transformers, far too much some people would say.

Cowboy Bebop nothing I can say about this that hasnt been said before its simply fantastic.

I was really into Trigun until the end. Then i was just angry. "Plants!? F'n Plants!?" was all I could think.

Let's see:
Invader Zim (own the six disc set)
Ren and Stimpy
Venture Bros
ATHF
Korgoth of Barbaria (Why!? Whydid they not run this show!?)
Metalocalypse
Harvey Birdman
Squidbillies (I dunno I just can't pull myself away)
Futurama
Family Guy
American Dad
Animaniacs (and all the little sub shows)
Samuri Jack
Dexter's Laboratory
Ninja Scroll (Everybody I know that's into Anime started here)
Avatar The Last Air Bender
Naruto (until death by filler)
Bleach (some filler arcs as well, but at least interesting ones)
Ghost in a Shell (and Stand Alone Complex)
Elfen Lied (damn they should have kept that one going)
Vampire Hunter D (I like Bloodlust better than the Original)
Cowboy Bebop
Outlaw Star
Deathnote
Full Metal Alchemist
Blood+
Hellsing
Tenchi Muyo (when I first got into Anime now I think Tenchi's gay or was born without at penis or something)
Trinity Blood

I am certain there are more, the titles just don't jump out.

Beavis and Butthead.

Emperors Faithful wrote:Batman of the Future FTW!

Just FYI, if you're from an English-speaking country: Batman of the Future = Batman Beyond

My fave animated shows are, well those that I can think of anyways.

Futurama
Venture Brothers
Simpsons
Gargoyles
American Dad
Clone Wars (Both versions)
Storm Hawks
Ren and Stimpy
Fantastic Four (most recent version)
Wolverine and the X-men
X-men : Evolution
God, the Devil and Bob
Mysterious Cities of Gold
Danger Mouse
The Trap Door
The Happy Tree Friends
Drawn Together
The Real Ghostbusters
Visionaries
Ed, Edd n Eddy
Stressed Eric
Rocko's Modern Life
Dr Katz
King of the Hill
Dave the Barbarian
The Pirates of Dark Water
Taz-mania
Spongebob
Ben 10
Ben 10 - Alien Force
Masters of the Universe
Xiaolin Showdown
Occasional moments/episodes of South Park and Family Guy, although much of it I don't find that funny.

Ahtman wrote:
I would have picked Grave of the Fireflies for biggest anime tearjerker.

This I would agree with, even worse when I saw the film after finding out the story is based off a true story written by the equivilent of the older brother.

The Clangers

Im kinda surprised that there has only been a few mentions for Ghost In The Shell, and the two Stand Alone Complexes.

I mean, I still cry at the end of SAC 2nd GIG when the Tachikomas sacrifice themselves. The back story tie in with Kuze and Motoko punctuated with the origami crane at the end was a rather elegant touch.

On the same storyline, the two Appleseed movies also impressed me.

I guess the silly sort of anime, or the very tired teen based characters dont generally hold much appeal for me.