realization bout anime

i just finished watchin eureka 7 all the way thru for the first time and i just came to a realization. the best animes usually leave u teary eyed at the end. they have this tendency to take you thru a bunch of emotions, u'll end up hating characters, then turn around to love them. they make you laugh, they make you genuinely feel for the characters, and make u care about what happens to them, and at some point u worry things wont turn out alright, and in some cases...things dont.

just think about some of ur favorite animes and tell me what u guys think, whether you agree or not, but some of the best animes i know do this: full metal alchemist, code geass, the world only god knows, cowboy bebop, eureka 7, omamori himari, gundam wing, and neon genesis evangeleon. i know a few animes that dont follow this too much and they are really good, but they are few and far in between and the majority of the ones that i remember do follow this pretty well...so tell me what u all think

I got emotional when Neon Genesis ended.

I got emotional when Neon Genesis ended.

Kcube

the ending to the movie left me bamboozled

so what he killed everyone

Wow, I really do need to get off my ass and watch Eureka 7. Everytime I turn around someone is telling me how great it is. The synopsis of it doesn't interest me, but so many people seem to think its great so I suppose I'll give it a whirl.

On topic though, I definitely agree. Call me old school but still the two biggest emotional responses I have when thinking about anime are Pokemon' and Dragonball Z. I mean those two animes WERE my childhood. It makes me really sentimental thinking of both of them and how much they meant to me. Those shows were really a part of my life, and are part of me today.

[QUOTE="Kcube"]

I got emotional when Neon Genesis ended.

spawnassasin

the ending to the movie left me bamboozled

so what he killed everyone

Not enough people died.

Wow, I really do need to get off my ass and watch Eureka 7. Everytime I turn around someone is telling me how great it is. The synopsis of it doesn't interest me, but so many people seem to think its great so I suppose I'll give it a whirl.

On topic though, I definitely agree. Call me old school but still the two biggest emotional responses I have when thinking about anime are Pokemon' and Dragonball Z. I mean those two animes WERE my childhood. It makes me really sentimental thinking of both of them and how much they meant to me. Those shows were really a part of my life, and are part of me today.

[QUOTE="spawnassasin"]

[QUOTE="Kcube"]

I got emotional when Neon Genesis ended.

Kcube

the ending to the movie left me bamboozled

so what he killed everyone

Not enough people died.

ok your gonna have to explain that one to me cause i literally to not remember the entire last 20-15 minutes of that movie

[QUOTE="KeitekeTokage"]

Wow, I really do need to get off my ass and watch Eureka 7. Everytime I turn around someone is telling me how great it is. The synopsis of it doesn't interest me, but so many people seem to think its great so I suppose I'll give it a whirl.

On topic though, I definitely agree. Call me old school but still the two biggest emotional responses I have when thinking about anime are Pokemon' and Dragonball Z. I mean those two animes WERE my childhood. It makes me really sentimental thinking of both of them and how much they meant to me. Those shows were really a part of my life, and are part of me today.

powerman89

Brother! Ha.

But yeah yu-gi-oh was one of those things that almost made it into that group with dragonball z and pokemon. It was the card game that everyone played when I was in middle school when we were just too embarrassed to mess with pokemon cards anymore in front of all the girls in our awkward adolescence. Yu-gi-oh seemed more mature, and it was in terms of how it looked as compared to pokemon. But it just didn't make as strong of an impact as the other two mainly because pokemon had already taken the "cool animal looking things that could fight" slot for me, and there was no way yu-gi-oh was going to take that away from pokemon. So it kind of got left out in the cold eventually. It was pretty cool though, I remember having some pretty badass card fights with yu-gi-oh. They were actually more exciting than the pokemon card fights I'll admit, but that's probably because the pokemon card battle system was constructed poorly compared to yu-gi-oh.

[QUOTE="Kcube"]

[QUOTE="spawnassasin"]

the ending to the movie left me bamboozled

so what he killed everyone

spawnassasin

Not enough people died.

ok your gonna have to explain that one to me cause i literally to not remember the entire last 20-15 minutes of that movie

ok

I balled when Asuka died.

They go into it about how thehuman souls deserve to live on Evangelion but that we cant be aliveon it anymore.Then we get the death of Asuka...and the mind **** begins..Then you cry..you want your 170$ back for the ending.

Wow, I really do need to get off my ass and watch Eureka 7. Everytime I turn around someone is telling me how great it isKeitekeTokage

I find that usually when people are doing this the show is actually awful and rife with nauseating anime stereotypes. For example: DBZ, Naruto, Death Note, S-Cry-Ed, Elfen Lied, FMA, Bleach, Code Geass, Inuyasha, etc.

[QUOTE="powerman89"][QUOTE="KeitekeTokage"]

Wow, I really do need to get off my ass and watch Eureka 7. Everytime I turn around someone is telling me how great it is. The synopsis of it doesn't interest me, but so many people seem to think its great so I suppose I'll give it a whirl.

On topic though, I definitely agree. Call me old school but still the two biggest emotional responses I have when thinking about anime are Pokemon' and Dragonball Z. I mean those two animes WERE my childhood. It makes me really sentimental thinking of both of them and how much they meant to me. Those shows were really a part of my life, and are part of me today.

Brother! Ha.

But yeah yu-gi-oh was one of those things that almost made it into that group with dragonball z and pokemon. It was the card game that everyone played when I was in middle school when we were just too embarrassed to mess with pokemon cards anymore in front of all the girls in our awkward adolescence. Yu-gi-oh seemed more mature, and it was in terms of how it looked as compared to pokemon. But it just didn't make as strong of an impact as the other two mainly because pokemon had already taken the "cool animal looking things that could fight" slot for me, and there was no way yu-gi-oh was going to take that away from pokemon. So it kind of got left out in the cold eventually. It was pretty cool though, I remember having some pretty badass card fights with yu-gi-oh. They were actually more exciting than the pokemon card fights I'll admit, but that's probably because the pokemon card battle system was constructed poorly compared to yu-gi-oh.

not gunna lie but Cowboy Bebop and the secret story of Spike Spiegel really interested me in the emotional sense. He is a BA character and yet he has a dark past which is also quite interesting. Same goes with Samurai Champloo and Mugen. Thats why i love Shinichirō Watanabe. He is an awesome story teller

HRRRRRNGGGG :cry:

I don't really get sad from any animes to be honest but I do sometimes feel emotional when I watch Hajime No Ippo because there are a lot of parts I can relate to. And it also happens to be my favorite anime so maybe tc's on to something.

I keep meaning to watch Eureka 7 because I hear great things about it, but haven't gotten around to it yet. I'll get to it sooner or later though.

[QUOTE="spawnassasin"]

[QUOTE="Kcube"]

Not enough people died.

Kcube

ok your gonna have to explain that one to me cause i literally to not remember the entire last 20-15 minutes of that movie

ok

I balled when Asuka died.

They go into it about how thehuman souls deserve to live on Evangelion but that we cant be aliveon it anymore.Then we get the death of Asuka...and the mind **** begins..Then you cry..you want your 170$ back for the ending.

[spoiler] Death of Misato do you mean? Asuka is one of the two characters we know is alive at the end (the other being Shinji). [/spoiler]

i burst out crying every goddamn time i want to remember the ending of bible black..

I find the best anime are the ones that leave you speechless and/or confused and scared. The likes of Paranoia Agent, Serial Experiments Lain, Texhnolyze, End of Evangelion fit both categories just fine.

Also, if you ended up "loving" any of the characters from Code Geass, then I've no idea of what to say because that's queer

Yea code geass was one of them (best anime ever )

Fullmetal Alchemist jumped to mind instantly. Such an incredibly series.

The death of one particular character stands out as one of anime's most tear worthy moments of all time. :cry:

Lol Anime is just cartoonsRobboElRobbo

oh and all live action shows/movies are true stories. STFU

Lol Anime is just cartoonsRobboElRobbo

[QUOTE="RobboElRobbo"]Lol Anime is just cartoonsDeadbeatcobra

[QUOTE="Deadbeatcobra"]

[QUOTE="RobboElRobbo"]Lol Anime is just cartoonsPffrbt

[QUOTE="RobboElRobbo"]Lol Anime is just cartoonsMarineXXII

oh and all live action shows/movies are true stories. STFU

[QUOTE="Pffrbt"]

[QUOTE="Deadbeatcobra"] a book is jusk pages with written words, a movie is nothing but frames.

Deadbeatcobra

[QUOTE="Deadbeatcobra"]

[QUOTE="RobboElRobbo"]Lol Anime is just cartoonsPffrbt

Perhaps a better one would have been to ask why do people such as deadbeatcobra find it acceptable to have emotions envoked from movies assumingly but not anime? I'm assuming this because by saying anime is just a cartoon he seems to be implying that you can't have an emotional response because there aren't real people on the screen, only drawings. My question would then be; why the hell does it matter? Why does it matter if its a real person on the screen or a drawing? The people within the movies may be real themselves, but their character is not, at least they are not relative to whoever the character is they're potraying. It's all the same, both anime and movies with real people in them are both telling a story or have elements that evoke emotion from us, the fact that one happens to be drawings make's no difference. The sadness one might feel is indifferent to whether or not the eye can recognize if they're seeing a real person or a drawing, the emotions are still the same.

All that said, he's trollin' anyway. No more food shall be given.

[QUOTE="Deadbeatcobra"]

[QUOTE="RobboElRobbo"]Lol Anime is just cartoonsPffrbt

How exactly was that not a good rebuttal? Cartoons, movies and books are just a format to tell a story. If you can have an emotional attachment to a character in a book, you can have the same attachment to a character in an anime.

[QUOTE="Deadbeatcobra"]

[QUOTE="Pffrbt"]
Not a good rebuttal.

RobboElRobbo

It's because anime is to a large extent not cartoons, at least not cartoons in the way American cartoons are. There are plenty of animes that are just comedy shows and are comparable to shows like The Simpsons, but there are also a lot of serious anime (e.g. Neon Genesis Evangelion) that can get you very emotionally connected to the characters. I enjoy both kinds of anime really, the more and less serious ones. I'm not sure I've ever actually cried during an anime (or manga), but they have provoked some deep emotional responses.

Lol Anime is just cartoonsRobboElRobbo

Good animes have consistent plots and actual characters (not mary sues). By a consistent plot, i mean it shouldn't be like neon genesis evangelion which had more plotholes than a slice of swiss cheese. And by mary sues it shouldn't have characters like Yagami Light who basically has no character flaws.

Angering anime fans is just way too easyRobboElRobbo

Here's an oatmeal rasin cookie for your hard work.

HRRRRRNGGGG :cry:

Godofnerdyness

I don't really understand how people could get emotional about that one. Since all the drama was overdone to the point that it was obvious it wouldn't last.

[QUOTE="Godofnerdyness"]HRRRRRNGGGG :cry:

_Tobli_

I don't really understand how people could get emotional about that one. Since all the drama was overdone to the point that it was obvious it wouldn't last.

[QUOTE="KeitekeTokage"]Wow, I really do need to get off my ass and watch Eureka 7. Everytime I turn around someone is telling me how great it isPffrbt

I find that usually when people are doing this the show is actually awful and rife with nauseating anime stereotypes. For example: DBZ, Naruto, Death Note, S-Cry-Ed, Elfen Lied, FMA, Bleach, Code Geass, Inuyasha, etc.

i agree with u expect for fma and code geass...i know some of the stereotypes are there...but i think they really work and they dont over do it too much...the rest of them tho are just...bleh to me...actually right now...code geass is one of my favs and i have to try to top it...

[QUOTE="KeitekeTokage"]

[QUOTE="powerman89"] Same about the pokemon and Dragonball Z... Throw in Yu-Gi-Oh and we are twinspowerman89

Brother! Ha.

But yeah yu-gi-oh was one of those things that almost made it into that group with dragonball z and pokemon. It was the card game that everyone played when I was in middle school when we were just too embarrassed to mess with pokemon cards anymore in front of all the girls in our awkward adolescence. Yu-gi-oh seemed more mature, and it was in terms of how it looked as compared to pokemon. But it just didn't make as strong of an impact as the other two mainly because pokemon had already taken the "cool animal looking things that could fight" slot for me, and there was no way yu-gi-oh was going to take that away from pokemon. So it kind of got left out in the cold eventually. It was pretty cool though, I remember having some pretty badass card fights with yu-gi-oh. They were actually more exciting than the pokemon card fights I'll admit, but that's probably because the pokemon card battle system was constructed poorly compared to yu-gi-oh.

geah...im sorry i used to be into yugioh...it was okay...then i discovered magic the gathering...never turned back...and i never really got pokemon...

Did you just call Code Geass, The World Only God Knows and Omamori Himari "best Anime"??funsohng

of the ones ive seen...infinitely better than dragon ball z and bleach...imo...i know they arent the best out there...but ill still discovering new animes and watchin ones i havnt finished/seen yet...so yeah they are the best of what ive seen...cant possibly expect me to know them all...if u have any recommendations im all ears...btw im in the middle of samurai champloo, ruroni kenshin, and gintama right now...but i really like mechas...so any recommendations are welcome...

[QUOTE="Deadbeatcobra"]

[QUOTE="Pffrbt"]
Not a good rebuttal.

RobboElRobbo

there is this series of books that id been reading...they are by RA Salvatore...they follow drizzt do'urden and his comapanions...there are more than 20 books in the series and they cover about 20 or so years of time...in this books u really get to "know" the characters...some of them fall in love...some of them have problems and breakdowns...they have real emotions..and over the 20 years u get to see them grow up and grow together..and after all of that seeing some of them die really has a profound hurt...its amazing story telling and great plot and character development...and end the end of the last part of his books so far i wanted to QQ cause i didnt want to see people die...(mind u i read to the end and am avidly waiting the next part to finish) the same can be said about any medium...movies and anime can do the same thing...and video games could as well (tho ive only had that feeling once...mgs3 was just amazing) and just because something is a cartoon doesnt mean that its any lesser of a medium than the others...people cry about movies all the time...and its the same idea...so maybe there arnt real actors on screeen...but that shouldnt matter that much...and plus...just because u dont have the same reaction doesnt mean that its ridiculous that anyone else does...

I don't agree. There is no doubt that the best animes can can put you on emotional roller coasters. But that doesn't mean you end up crying. I loved Tenchi Muyo, Gantz, Death Note, Bleach, Hellsing, and many others but I never cried watching them. However I was always on the edge of my seat. The only animes I ever cried watching were DBZ when Frieza killed Vegeta, and during Inuyasha cause thats more of a love story.

that can be said about anything weezyfb

THIS.

Movies and TV series to this too. It isn't anything that is special about animes.

What!? lol He's right anime's are just cartoonsjasonharris48

No, he isn't. A cartoon is a drawing or animation meant primarily for comedy.

i just finished watchin eureka 7 all the way thru for the first time and i just came to a realization. the best animes usually leave u teary eyed at the end. they have this tendency to take you thru a bunch of emotions, u'll end up hating characters, then turn around to love them. they make you laugh, they make you genuinely feel for the characters, and make u care about what happens to them, and at some point u worry things wont turn out alright, and in some cases...things dont.

just think about some of ur favorite animes and tell me what u guys think, whether you agree or not, but some of the best animes i know do this: full metal alchemist, code geass, the world only god knows, cowboy bebop, eureka 7, omamori himari, gundam wing, and neon genesis evangeleon. i know a few animes that dont follow this too much and they are really good, but they are few and far in between and the majority of the ones that i remember do follow this pretty well...so tell me what u all think

lpjazzman220

[QUOTE="jasonharris48"]What!? lol He's right anime's are just cartoonsPffrbt

No, he isn't. A cartoon is a drawing or animation meant primarily for comedy.