Hmmm ... Anime?
POSTED BY: JenDandy
UPDATED: Thursday, October 14, 2004 19:26
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I just moved into a new apartment, and my roommates are really into anime. They watch it every night, and they've gotten me hooked too. We're watching Kenshin right now, but I've also seen two episodes of Inu-yasha.
What I'd really like is some recommendations for an anime with a strong female figure, or more character development in general. I don't know much about Inu-yasha, but I don't really care for the secondary characters in Kenshin, Kaoru especially. (Keep in mind, though, I've only seen about a season's worth. Maybe it gets better with the longer story archs in season 2 etc.) Princess Mononoke and Cowboy Bebop are two animes that have been recommended that I'm planning on seeing.
Oh, and I prefer Japanese with subtitles. Man, I wish anime was in Chinese so I could at least understand the occasional swear word.
Julia
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Well, there's always Sailor Moon. Nyuk nyuk nyuk. While the main female character in Inu Yasha is a school girl named Kagome, she's a very strong-willed school girl, and central to the entire series. Sango is a demon exterminator in the same series, very strong in her own right.
Gundam Wing - While Relena isn't a pilot, she's a very powerful personality in the series.
Gundam 08th MS Team - This time the main female character is a pilot, and a skilled one at that.
Outlaw Star has a few strong female characters.
Record of Lodoss War. Deedlit and Pirotess.
Princess Mononoke.
And here's a list of what I like, anime-wise:
- Inu Yasha
- The Big-O!
- Mobile Suit Gundam, Gundam Wing, Gundam 0080, Gundam 0083, Gundam 08th MS Team, G Gundam
- Rurouni Kenshin
- Dragonball, DBZ, DBGT
- Outlaw Star
- Excel Saga
- Escaflowne
- Trigun
- Cowbow Bebop
- Excel Saga
- Ah! My Goddess
- Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky
- Akira
- Sailor Moon. Shut-up, all of you. It was Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z that got me into anime. Long live Toonami. Long live Moltar.
There's a lot more, I just can't remember them all right off the top of my head.
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Originally posted by pingjing:
What I'd really like is some recommendations for an anime with a strong female figure, or more character development in general.
I guess that would depend on if you'd like to watch shoujo/magical girl stuff. You can always find plenty of that, i.e. Sailor Moon, but strong female characters are always an interesting find.
I think Escaflowne is a great anime to find strong female characters. Hitomi is a schoolgirl magically transported to another world...blah blah blah, almost all anime is like this. But in this series Hitomi is cool though, because she can read tarot cards, (among other things, like seeing into the future) and the rest of the characters come to accept her abilities. Merle is the girl/cat-thingy character, and she's good for a laugh who also comes to respect Hitomi, even though she hates her at first. The characters are extremely well developed and they are connected in interesting ways. The series has a bit of romance, mecha, sci-fi, and fantasy all put together to great effect.
Oh, and another strong character was that girl in Cowboy Bebop that was first one of their bounties, and then becomes a member of the crew. (I can't remember her name. She's cool and feisty though).
The 2 female characters who are chasing Vash the Stampede in Trigun are cool too.
Some more anime I'd recommend (although it's not out until October in the US) is Satoshi Kon's Paranoia Agent. I watched the first 4 episodes and I really can't wait for more. It's a sort of Twilight Zone show that deals with Shonen Bat, aka Lil Slugger, a kid in golden skates who hits people with a bat. Everyone in the town is trying to figure out who the kid is. It's engaging.
I'm sure there are a few I'm not thinking of. I don't know why so many people don't consider anime worthy of watching, as someone said higher in the thread. There are such great stories that I don't understand why people wouldn't want to watch.
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Oh, and another strong character was that girl in Cowboy Bebop that was first one of their bounties, and then becomes a member of the crew. (I can't remember her name. She's cool and feisty though).
Faye Valentine
Also in Serial Experiments: Lain (or just Lain)the central figure is a girl.
Neon Genesis Evangelion has several female characters that are important to the story.
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Thanks to TheGreyJedi, Rhymephile, and Beatle. I'll definitely check some of these out.
Julia
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Also, as a random anime reccomendation, if you can find it, I suggest Fullmetal Alchemist. The music and animation are great, and the story is killer.
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I discovered japanese anime about a month ago, but I really like what I've seen so far.
Samurai champloo
Samurai 7
Rurouni Kenshin (Only seen the first ep so far, gonna dowload em all next week)
Heard good stuff about Trigun , but haven't seen it yet.
Gonna check out some suggestions.........
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Quote:Crest/Banner of the Stars: at root, a very subtle and sweet love story set against a galaxy-spanning war. Probably 80% of the senior officers and leaders who actively take part in the story are female, however, and every one of them is just magnificent. Character development focuses primarily on the two protagonists, but is nicely done nonetheless.
Originally posted by pingjing:
What I'd really like is some recommendations for an anime with a strong female figure, or more character development in general.
Sol Bianca has nothing but strong female characters -- the male roles are all victims or villains. Character development is understated, mostly told in past tense through flashbacks.
Bubblegum Crisis features four women of various personalities fighting rogue mecha in custom-made battlesuits. I prefer the more recent ("2040") retelling, because to me the characters are stronger and their motivations better explored, but there are also purists who swear by the original.
Magic Knight Rayearth: Three girls from modern Tokyo are pulled into another world to be its champions. This looks light and fluffy at first, but it absolutely is not: probably the best of the "magical girl" genre in that regard.
Noir follows two female assassins as they attempt to re-discover their (mutual?) past. As the name suggests, very twisty and psychological.
For character development, you can't beat Kareshi Kanojou no Jijou (His and Her Circumstances; KareKano). Yukino isn't so much strong as unusually real. The only drawback is that the manga hadn't completed when they filmed the anime, and so the story just abruptly ends in the middle.
Quote:Most swearing in Japanese is very mild by American standards, and epithets often consist of as little as using a common pronoun in the wrong social context. Try researching Japanese slang on the Internet.
Originally posted by pingjing:
Oh, and I prefer Japanese with subtitles. Man, I wish anime was in Chinese so I could at least understand the occasional swear word.
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Quote:In addition to TGJ's comments about Kagome, I'd add my first impression of her: She's kidnapped by a centipede-demon, thrown into the past, finds a corpse hanging on a tree, gets kidnapped by townsfolk, nearly exorcised as a demon, attacked by the centipede-demon again, is brutally stabbed, watches the centipede get ripped into bloody little chunks, and then gets nearly mauled by another demon. At no point in any of this does she freak out.
Originally posted by pingjing:
What I'd really like is some recommendations for an anime with a strong female figure, or more character development in general.
I'd also recommend Read or Die (the OVA; can't talk about the series) for a fairly strong (and incredibly cute --as in she beats Kaylee by a pair of glasses) female lead.
There's also Witch Hunter Robin, that I'm recommending sight-unseen. Ask me again in a few weeks (thank you YTV
).And Cardcaptors/Cardcaptor Sakura has a variety of female characters, some more strong-willed than others, though they're all ten-year-olds
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I just started watching Saiyuki on DVD. The first 2 eps are pretty good, lots of good action and plenty of comedy.
Anybody else seen this one? If so, what did you think of it?
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