Dragon Ball z. Hands down is the best. Can anyone suggest other good anime that is similar?

I haven't watched in a few years. Most of my viewing was from late 80's to early 2000. Some of my faves:
El Hazard
Tenchi
Slam Dunk!
Kimagure (sp) Orange Road
Love Hina

Bri_Wags90 wrote: »

Dragon Ball z. Hands down is the best. Can anyone suggest other good anime that is similar?

Really, there are no anime quite like it. I always thought that Fist of the North Star was kind of similar, and I know we're talking DBZ here, but Hunter X Hunter also used to remind me of DB simply due to the art styles and such too.

As far as modern anime goes, I am at a loss for ya lol.

Ghost In The shell (boo on the casting of the live action movie) and Evangelion. I don't watch that many new anime because all you hear about is a lot of the crappy stuff toonami has on. So much gets imported that you only end up hearing about by word of mouth. That said i do wish they'd make some more Excel Saga and maybe a Phoenix Wright anime. Getting kinda sick of all the Appleseed remakes though.

I notice no one is mentioning whether they are watching subtitles or dubbed versions. Sometimes they've done a really good job with the dubbing, but others just break your heart. I grew up watching Voltron, and now that I've seen Golion its practically like watching an entirely different show. Half of the stuff that's been "cleaned up" for american broadcast has had to make terrible revisions. Cardcaptor Sakura is a thousand times better than Cardcaptors, so much of the character development is destroyed because we can't have a boy have a crush on a man! Entire episodes don't make sense. I've heard that Yugioh and One Piece have the same problem. I watched all of Slayers/Next/Try on VHS, and loved them but as soon as I got the DVD I discovered that I couldn't stand the actress they chose for Lina. She's no Megumi Hiyashibara that's for sure! My kids are not allowed to watch it until they can keep up with the subs.

That said I'll watch Trigun, Cowboy Bebop and FMA either way. Though I won't swear to the quality of FMA, I haven't watched enough to really judge. And all of the Miyzaki films dubbed since they started working with Disney in the late 90s have been excellent.

Most recently just watched Attack on Titan and SAO. Tried Death Note but couldn't get into it. Some of my old favorites I've yet to mention are Outlaw Star, Rayearth, Tenchi Muyo, Lodoss War, Unico, and Fushigi Yugi (shut-up, I got attached in High School) i wish Shamanic Princess had been a whole series. . . or that I could find the disk

Cowboy Bebop & Samurai Champloo need to be dubbed, because Steve Blum. Stuff like Attack on Titan HAS to be subbed, just for the raw emotion that comes across in the language. The line I draw in the sand, is that how you start it needs to be how you finish it. I tried switching in the middle of a series once and it just made the whole thing weird.

I'm on a anime hiatus right now as I finished Death Note a little while ago and it screwed me up. I'm just getting back to the point where I can sleep through the night without hearing a voice saying, "Delete! Delete! Delete!"

Old school, probably Tenchi Muyo (OVAs). In recent seasons, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Hunter x Hunter, SAO (still working my way through the Gun Gale online season(s))

Re: Sub vs Dub - In most situations, I prefer dub. Although now that you can get both on one dvd/bluray, there's no need to pick. Excel Saga was annoying in BOTH languages. (and I loved that show)

Moribito. For whatever reason, I absolutely loved that show. The episode where she goes full tiger mode was amazing.

I haven't watched a lot of the newer stuff and more into the older. For newer maybe 'Blue Excorsis(sp)"
Recently however I've been rewatching the original Digimon series and preparing for the relaunch

Dragonball Z has to be my all time favorite But I also like Hunter x hunter, Naruto, Hajime no Ippo, Angel beats, Mirai nikki, Shingeki no kyoujin, Kuroko no basket and Free! :P There's probably something I forgot...

Indeed. T_T

I just caught Ghost in the shell: Arise. For sure not the best version of GIS. They bothered to get the actress from Stand Alone complex but don't let her voice the Major. Kinda insulting if you ask me.

I remember when anime wasn't nearly this popular in the 90s lol. It was finally getting big back in 1997 around here when i went to art school and folks were doing their own fansubs of new stuff that Japanese students brought back with them. I can go either way with dubbed or subbed although for stuff like Stand alone complex i go dubbed as the acting is really good. Anything by Manga Entertainment though i go for subbed as they're like the Troma of anime acting.

soldier4242 wrote: »

EssenceSuggs wrote: »

I don't Anime, I Manga.

ok what is the difference?

As for my favorite anime it would be ranma one half, ghost in the shell and samari champloo.

Manga are the books. You read manga.

Anime are the shows. You watch anime.

Took me a while to know the difference, but then I grew up before the internet and didn't have the kind of help kids have nowadays.

On a different note, I found Moribito on Amazon Prime Video, but it isn't free and I'll have to pay for it. Ugggghhhhh...

Angel Beats