Good anime

[inkhana]

Tokyo Pig? What's that about?

Tokyo Pig is about a schoolkid named Spencer, his magic pig Sunny (or Sonny, can't remember) and the crazy adventures they have. It's fun! It's crazy!

[MillyFan]

Just a small note on Berserk: it's yaoi, and explicit at that from what I hear. In fact, even I wouldn't consider buying it from what I've seen said about it. . .

[Gypsy]

No, Berserk does not belong on the "Good Anime" list. When we say good anime, we mean basically clean anime.

Berserk is a strictly adult anime film. It's not hentai, but it's definetly not something that should be recommended here. It's filled with violence, rape, and sex, and there is also mention of a homosexual relationship.

Anime Cafe gave Berserk an X rating, and for some very good reasons:

http://www.abcb.com/parents/berserk.htm

[Bobtheduck]

hmm... I don't know if I could put my favorite anime in here... I'd say Pretty much any Ghibli movie, even though Mononoke is incredibly violent (for a Ghibli movie, in particular.)

Um... I'd like the say Onegai Teacher (minus episode 13) but I know how it could be picked apart. I'd also love to say I, My, Me Strawberry Eggs, but that could easily be picked apart even for (an issue that gets resolved at the end) suggested homosexual feelings. But, in my opinion, those are both very good shows (though the spinoff to OT is really dirty...)

Hmm... None of my other faves could go in here... Lain ventures into a cyber sex chat place and contains an image of "flying solo" though you really have to be paying attention to pick it up. Boogiepop is nauseating at many times, and contains a conclusion that probably can't be Christianized like Lain can. Hmm... I know! .hack//sign! Yeah, and the whole .hack series. Games, OVAs, and Anime (I haven't watched dusk yet) they are very clean and also pretty darn intelligent.

Apart from that, cant' really think of anything else that could garner no opposition... Metropolis maybe, but it is a little violent... hehe, I mean, yeah, Metropolis is very clean. And just downright cool. It's based on a manga that was a rewrite of an old French movie, which makes it shocking how good it actually was.

I honestly have only seen one good French movie, and that was Amelie. Amelie was also the CLEANEST french movie I ever saw, which isn't saying much. Ok, so my favorite director, er second favorite (now my fave is David Cunningham) is Luc Besson because of "Leon: The Professional" and he's french, but he's an exception in my experience.

But, yeah, Metropolis is great, though it does bring up those same sort of questions and mindset that bugged me about Chobits... Purely as a story, it's incredible.

[Bobtheduck]

Lesse, i'd make the following reccomendations:

Azumnaga Daioh:
Off the wall humor and two of the my favorite characters in an anime ever! It's about a bunch of girls in High School, hilarity ensues.

Beserk:
Sometimes a guy has to feel down to feel down. This anime is sad, all sorts of sad. And the manga makes it even sadder. It's good, violent though, but good.

Sexy Commando Gaiden:
I won't say a single thing about this anime. It's entertainment though, I highly suggest this one! Off the wall crazy humor!

Azumanga daioh... I've heard the fanservice on that one is through the roof, much worse than Love Hina.

Berserk... I only saw episode 1 which was very violent, but I didn't find much wrong with it... However, I've read other things on it and it seems to be very very wrong... So, um... No.

Never seen Sexy Commando Gaiden. Although the Japanese Animators and Manga-ka have attatched weird names to their products, Sexy was usually one I could trust would have something to do with the product... Maybe I'm wrong on this one, though.

[yog^sothoth]

oh....there is no sex in sexy commando. there aren't even any women...really. sexy commando is the fighting style they use.

as for beserk, the anime is filled with violence. There are subtle..and not so subtle hints of a homosexual relationship but i'll leave that to whatever denomination you subscribe to for the morality of that. i've watched up to episode 10 and have yet to see nudity or any sort of sexual related crime.

And, I suppose I should erase beserk if you want clean anime. It is quite violent...but then so is princess mononoke or mononoke hime...spelling error...and it is one of the anime i think everyone should watch.

[SailorX]

Of Cousre most people should know I love Inuyasha! but there's others to:

Inuyasha- A half dog demon/half human boy is sealed by an arrow to a tree for fifthy years by his Priestess love over false Betrayl set up by the serie's main bad guy. Kikyou dies right after Inuyasha is sealed from a fatal wound "Inuyasha" gave her. But anywho all this is over a powerful jewel called the "Shikon no Tama". 500 years later a 15 year old modern Tokyo named Kagome lives in the Shrine-keeper's house of their family shrine. She falls into the well which takes her 500yrs back to Feudal Japan. she somehow wakes up and unseals Inuyasha, who tries to kill her, but the remedy is hilarious , anyway the Shikon no tama was inside Kagome, but a centipede women tears it out. Kagome watched the jewel until she throws it and a demon bird eats it. She shot the bird with an arrow, but in the process shattering the jewel into hundereds of peices all over the countryside. Since only one shard is enough to make any demon stronger, it's up to Inuyasha and Kagome to collect all the jewel shards and kill the bad guy, Naraku before it's too late. Oh, Kikyou comes back to life (booooooooo**hiss hiss** boooooo). This anime is still going!

Fruits Basket: Avery cute story about an Orphan girl who lives in a tent so not to burden any family or friends, but she soon finds out she is living on the land of the Souma family. The 3 guys of the house take her in in exchange for her cooking and doing chores, but she finds out about their strange curse. The family is cursed to turn into an animal of the Chinese Zodiac if embraced by someone of the opposite sex! You meet almost everyone, but the anime ended in only volume 8, the magna is still going!I looooooooove this Anime!

Sailor Moon Sailor Stars: The last season of Sailor Moon from episodes 173-200 can stand as it's own anime! This was never released in America-

Mamoru(darien) leaves for studies in America. Usagi (Serina) is left to cope untill she meets Seiya. Seiya is one of the very extremely popular boy band group called the "Three Lights". The other 2 lights are Yaten and Taiki, but they have a secret. They are actually three sailor Senshi from another planet to find their princess. I think the sex-changing thing was a big no-no for America, but anyway, Seiya falls in love with Usagi and everything breaks loose as even more Sailor Senshi arrive, helping Galaxia take over the Galaxy. They need "True star seeds". Each person in the galaxy has them, but Galaxia only wants the ones strong enough to stay out of their owners. Earth is the last planet to have them.

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE This series, and no Seiya and Usagi aren't a lesbian relationship, Seiya only loves her as a man...and they show him shirtless to proves he is a guy!

That's all I really watch. I like Trigun, Zoids, Yu-Gi-Oh, and cowboy Beebop as well.

[TheMelodyMaker]

Would you guys consider Hamtaro to be good anime, despite the two episodes in which Kana and Oxnard use fortune-telling cards? (Hope that wasn't a spoiler.)

[Bobtheduck]

Hmm... It's sorta like how almost every kids show in the US now has something about evolution and "tolerance" that is not tolerable by biblical standards?

I honestly didn't know there were fortune telling cards in Hamtaro, but Japan's main religion is Shinto/buddhism combination, and I think that a kid's everyday life in Japan is more spiritually dangerous than the Fortune telling in Hamtaro... Well, not more, but equal.

[Bobtheduck]

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE This series, and no Seiya and Usagi aren't a lesbian relationship, Seiya only loves her as a man...and they show him shirtless to proves he is a guy!

That's only in the anime... I believe that in the original manga, seiya was ALWAYS a woman... Of course, that may only be the Mixx manga...

But, in the anime, Seiya is only female when playing his role as senshi. He and Usagi aren't in ANY sort of relationship at all... There is tension there, but Seiya is loyal to Kakyuu and Usagi is always loyal to Mamoru.

Now, Kakyuu seems to be the pimptress (or whatever a female pimp of male, um, employees would be called... I think a "Queen Bee" has only female, um, employees) here, man... She's got 3 guys... I'm shocked no one ever brings that one up when they dog on stars...

If you're going to put stars in this section, it must be noted that for a quarter of the last episode, both sailormoon and Galaxia are naked... Of course, they are like barbie dolls, but they still got butt cracks... And Ami shows up naked once, but i don't remember where (it may have been SuperS...) but once again, it's barbie doll... And a couple of brief shots of man butt happen in the show (I think fisheye in SuperS and Seiya in Stars) That's all of that, out of a whole 200 episodes.

[Lufkin777]

Yo, i have been watching anime for yeaaaaaaaarrrrrrs now, so i know many of them. Some of them that i really like are as fallows:

Now and then here and there (very hard to watch but very sobering)

Any film done by studio Ghibli to name a few
Spirited away
Grave of the fire flys
My nabor totoro
I can hear the ocean
Wisper of my heart
And the list goes on.

Escaflowne

Haibane-Renmei

His and her circumstances (Kare Kano)

Akira (viloent and some nudity *sigh*)

Lain (very weird)

Record of lodoss war (some nudity in last ep of ova)

Well i could list many more. If you are wondering about any just ask me, i can fill ya in, about 80 to 90% of the time i will know nuff about it to fill you in if its good or not.

[Blewin]

some animes to recommand here...

Last Exile: time frame set in around the time when ships can fly in the sky (similar to Laputa and Valley of the Wind). It's a rather serious anime but i love every bit of it, oh yeah, lots of 3Dish battleships too.

Full Metal Panic: for some fun and humour. um... don't really feel like describing it for some reason.. a cross between fun and serious anime.

Crest of the Stars: if you don't mind lots of talking (based on a novel), this space travelling anime is excellent. From what i heard, they're still making new ones though, but the novels are out already (in Japanese....)

a couple more, but i think you guys would probably know, so i'll leave my recommandations for now.

[BrianC]

I don't know about that Azumanga Daioh having worse fanservice than Love Hina, but it probably isn't true. From what I read of the manga (the first volume), it has some fanservice (if you count a girl with a big chest and some jokes about it as fanservice), but no nudity and the fanservice isn't all that frequent (not nearly as bad as Love Hina, I think). If you got that info from Anime News Network, I wouldn't recommend trusting their opinion at all.

As for another good anime, I highly recommend the first Ranma 1/2 movie (NOT the second one). The most pontentially offensive thing is the movie is Happosai stealing panties and bras (and the fact that he's a big pervert), but he only steals them from clotheslines and drawers is this movie (unlike in the second movie). There is no nudity or fanservice (unless you count Happosai) in the first Ranma 1/2 movie and it's very funny. There is some violence, but it's brief and not graphic, though there is some blood in a couple scenes.

[inkjet1987]

I must have missed something but I don't think Cowboy Bebop was mentioned even once. But anyway:

Cowboy Bebop: This is definatley my favorite series so far. There is plenty of action and story, though the story dosn't start relly developing till near the end of the series. Most of the episodes are lighthearted and fun to watch. It can sometimes be pretty violent and the cursing isnt to bad compared to some anime. I really loved the characters in this show also! Watching the episodes and finding clues to each of their pasts is very entertaining. Gosh I love this show!

Trigun: I absolutely recomend this show. It's awsome! I love the endind to this series! It ends on a really good note. Vash is always kind and very funny. This show is awsome.

[hana]

i recommend...
Fruits Basket & Veggietales: humorous and kawaii! the content is clean many good stuff to learn and entertaining to watch!
i know veggietales is not japanese anime but it is animated in America so...well, you see the connection. it's really good cuz it's christian based.

[DanekJovax]

Oh my...

another thread that makes me think through my 380+ titles and boil down to the real good ones.

Well, here's a "You Have to See This Before I Call You an Anime Fan" recommendation:

1) Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - Movie by Hayao Miyazaki; movie that founded Studio Ghibli and is still considered the #1 anime movie in Japan (though far from top grossing). Nausicaa, the main character, was #1 in the Animage popularity poll from '84 to '90 until Nadia (from Secret of Blue Water) bumped her off - no other character ever equaling or surpassing that long a reign in popularity ever since.

In short, this is my all-time overall favorite anime story. It is an encapsulation of the larger and longer manga series that Miyazaki wrote under the same title name, but it is still the Hope Diamond in my anime list of gems.

Beautiful story and art, wonderful song score by Joe Hisaishi, very positive themes (care for others, care for Earth, love one another)... if it only mentioned Christ in this, it would be even better!

One cautionary note: There may be a few copies of the once-distributed "Warriors of the Wind" by US Media (I think that was the name) still floating around in some second-hand rental shops. This is a basterdized/edited version of the story, and something that should BE AVOIDED!

As Disney still holds this title on hostage for reasons unknown to us mere mortals with no mention of a US release anytime soon, there are some fansub versions floating around that show the full-length feature. I also have a copy, so PM me if you're dying to see it.

I also own the import Nausicaa sountrack CD (with the white-background watercolor of Nausicaa) and highly recommend it for anyone into anime soundtrack collecting - Joe Hisaishi is a great composer, someone I equate much with John Williams' masterworking of the Star Wars soundtracks.

If you'd like to read more on this title, read here:
http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,283,qllnyi,nausicaa_of_the.html

...and here's the page with my review (look for "Ethan Wilson...":
http://www.animenfo.com/review.php?id=283&page=14&n=qllnyi&t=nausicaa_of_the&type=anime

Enjoy! I'll come up with more recommendations of what I think is "Good Anime" later, when I cool my fingers and wrists...iitte!! ;2)

[BrianC]

I just saw another good anime that I highly recommend. Animation Runner Kuromi. It's a humorous look at someone who ends up working as a producer (I think) at an animation studio and the craziness that goes on while she tries to get the project finished. It's very clean (no nudity, fanservice, or cursing) and very good.

[Macross]

I watched i little while a go a very good anime,Armytage 3, it´s some sort of old i belive... but it´s nice...

[DanekJovax]

Oh yeah, Armitage III - Polymatrix, I think it was called. I haven't seen it. What's it like, pros and cons?

[Ashley]

There's a review here that Shatterheart did on Polymatrix as well as the other one (duel matrix I think?)
http://www.christiananime.net/forums/showthread.php?t=917
http://www.christiananime.net/forums/showthread.php?t=851

[true_noir_chloe]

Danek has about the same amount of anime as me. Otaku nut! That said, these are some of my favorites:

Azu Manga Daioh (I didn't see much fan service at all) Watch the Summer Vacation 3 episode over and over and you'll be rolling on the floor.
Fruits Basket (one of the best shows. Kyo curses a lot, watch with subs)
Rurouni Kenshin
Slayers (A classic anime series)
Angelic Layer
Cardcaptor Sakura (if you don't mind cards )
Anything by Hiyao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. My favs are My Neighbor Totoro and Princess Mononoke
Scrapped Princess (my new favorite)
One Piece (lots of fighting )
Naruto (lots of fighting )

I'll put some more really good shows down another time. But, this will do for now.

[DanekJovax]

I *wish* had the amount of anime as I claimed to have seen, hah! But, I do have a decent collection... maybe sometime I'll post a link to it once I am done getting it updated. There's several titles in my collection I've gotten since it was in fansubs that I haven't even had time to see yet and now they're already released in the US!

Anyways, M'Lady Chloe (which is sporting an even cuter av than before!), I believe we have very similar tastes, especially in the Ghibli realm... perhaps we should chat about that some more, hm?

:2)

[true_noir_chloe]

I wouldn't mind chatting with you Danek when I have some time. We do seem to have similar anime interests.

Thanks for the comments on my cute little Hello Kitty avatar - but, I have changed it once more. Due to popular demand - my kids opinions -I now have Trinity. I think she looks cool in this Animatrix b&w look, don't you?

A few more good anime to add since I'm on the link:

Nanaka 6/17 (so sweet)
.hack Legend of the Twilight and Final Fantasy Unlimited (I think they're pretty safe for kids)
Trigun (very good classic)

[DanekJovax]

Yeah, I like that avatar, m'lady.

I see you've recently seen Nanaka 6/17... nice... I saw that too about a month or so ago... I think I mentioned something about it in this thread:

http://www.christiananime.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1846

I've also seen the other two titles you've mentioned and they're both good ones.

Insofar as Miyazaki, have you seen any really rare animation footage from him, perhance? I'm trying to finish a filmography collection of his works and I'm having trouble finding some TV spots.

[bemanisuperstar]

Hmm... It's sorta like how almost every kids show in the US now has something about evolution and "tolerance" that is not tolerable by biblical standards?

I honestly didn't know there were fortune telling cards in Hamtaro, but Japan's main religion is Shinto/buddhism combination, and I think that a kid's everyday life in Japan is more spiritually dangerous than the Fortune telling in Hamtaro... Well, not more, but equal.

You sure about that? I look at more like It's entertainment BAH let the kids watch it and explain it's all fantasy. Besides most kids shows now are anime so it's all good. Don't worry about Japanese youth our missonaries are reaching them.

Good anime to me is something that can be appliled to our lives and or where we as humans are going of have been. Objectional content sometimes has to be nessary to get a point across

Ghost in the Shell- I feel that with in 10-15 years this could very well be
our reality. The Nudity isn't even human nudity but the movie does bring up the question of what it is to be human so it's up in the air.

AI Yori Aoshi- nice spin on the Love hina theme only it's a married couple. Very cute story about a couple and a few girls that make thing quite difficult.

Kenshin- I think why it's good has been said already

Trigun-same thing what makes this so good has been stated here already

Ah My Goddess-before you gasp there is an almighty God they all answer to. If you dig deep enough into it you will find some good morals with in.

Big O-does mention Jesus in one Episode

Cowboy Bebop-Interesting take on death (you'll see if you haven't)

Golgo 13 Queen bee- For fairness sake I'm going to edit some of what I said about this title. I recomend this for more mature viewers Mainly because it's view on politics is a little too real. I will warn you it's pretty bad content wise so mature viewers only.

Chobits-Cute touching story. Raises some ethical questions too. A must see.

[MillyFan]

Golgo 13 Queen bee- VERY disturbing Violent has lots of sex not for the kiddies but sadly this is how politcs are. and I like the fact that it's about democrats. Not for everybody but for somebody who can handle it and appily to reality it's worth seeing. You'll never wanna vote democrat again after you see this I swear.

I'm not a Democrat or a Republican, but I find this post (and especially your recommendation of an anime that is normally considered *hentai*) highly offensive.

Promotion of hentai and political debates are both against the rules here, so will a mod take care of this? Thanks ~.~

[bemanisuperstar]

I'm not a Democrat or a Republican, but I find this post (and especially your recommendation of an anime that is normally considered *hentai*) highly offensive.

Promotion of hentai and political debates are both against the rules here, so will a mod take care of this? Thanks ~.~

I still recomend it however my recomendation has been edited.
While it is a Graphic and disturbing anime I found it all to mirroring of our times to be ignored. On those merits I recomended it.

[AyanamiRei]

I've scanned through some "popular" series, but only two have fit my guidelines.

Anime I've tried to watch:
Outlaw Star
Scrapped Princess
Kenshin
DBZ
Hellsing
Azumanga Daioh
Fist of the Northstar
Irresponsible Captain Tylor
Chobitz (yea I know , one episode was enough.

I'm not bashing those anime's, its just that I really didnt care for them that much.

Chobitz actually has a lot of good messages. I would say that for every negative comment you could make about chobits, there is at least 1 good one to say. Take for example with Chii. The main char, I forget his name, refuses to take advantage of her nieveness, or her in any way. He spends most of his money on her, and shows that even though he looks at some pornographic material, he has a deep respect about women in general. I would also like to add that hunting magizes like Guns & Ammo have been shown to have a MUCH higher rate of causing men to become rapists then pornography in a general. A psychologist took a study of rapists in prison, and more often then not, they were hunting fans and much preferred those mags, over those such as Playboy. As for Outlaw Star I found many great qualities, and my mom loves that show. DBZ has some great focuses such as Goku or Gohan, both pacifists by nature. Btw anyone here like FLCL/Fooly Cooly/Furi Kuri? (And anyone who disagrees, I would really like you to correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not trying to stir up debate, but rather defend some anime series that I enjoy)

[bemanisuperstar]

I've scanned through some "popular" series, but only two have fit my guidelines.

Anime I've tried to watch:
Outlaw Star
Scrapped Princess
Kenshin
DBZ
Hellsing
Azumanga Daioh
Fist of the Northstar
Irresponsible Captain Tylor
Chobitz (yea I know , one episode was enough.

I'm not bashing those anime's, its just that I really didnt care for them that much.

Chobitz actually has a lot of good messages. I would say that for every negative comment you could make about chobits, there is at least 1 good one to say. Take for example with Chii. The main char, I forget his name, refuses to take advantage of her nieveness, or her in any way. He spends most of his money on her, and shows that even though he looks at some pornographic material, he has a deep respect about women in general. I would also like to add that hunting magizes like Guns & Ammo have been shown to have a MUCH higher rate of causing men to become rapists then pornography in a general. A psychologist took a study of rapists in prison, and more often then not, they were hunting fans and much preferred those mags, over those such as Playboy. As for Outlaw Star I found many great qualities, and my mom loves that show. DBZ has some great focuses such as Goku or Gohan, both pacifists by nature. Btw anyone here like FLCL/Fooly Cooly/Furi Kuri? (And anyone who disagrees, I would really like you to correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not trying to stir up debate, but rather defend some anime series that I enjoy)

I had a break down watching FLCL the other day but that wasn't the anime's fault. I do really like it though. I got a kick out of the south park and Lupin Tributes in it.

Also I think all the naughty stuff in Chobits was done tastefully because Chii her self is quite innocent and she's sooooo cute. I think Chobits is a quite moral anime but what the moral is I don't know.

[RobertMuldooJP]

It was not the kind of anime that I like, and like I said, I'm not bashing those anime's, its just that I really didnt care for them that much

examples of my favorite series: Samurai Deeper Kyo, Trigun, Scryed, Fruits Basket, and Crest of the Stars