What Anime do you recommend?

[Angantyr]

Ok then, I will give the fan subs a go when I have got my new HDD, unless of course somebody could send me the 1st 2 or 3 episodes.

I quite like the concept behind it but from that ad alone made me chringe, after reading that review makes me see why its been butched so bad. Americans . Anyway this is what I didn't like:

• The Rap music obviously (People who watch anime are into Rap?)
• Some of the imagery, nobody looked like a real pirate
• It gave off the impression it was going to be another pokemon/yu-gi-oh

But I have yet to see the original nor the dub but I hate how they butcher Anime, I am so glad they didn't butcher Berserk or Full Metal Alchemist or did they?

[Youji Kun]

i would recommend things like
Fruits basket<- it's cute!
Gravitation<- good music & it's cute
Full metal alchemist<- a good adventure anime
dose Final Fantasy VII advent children count?

[Cain Highwind]

Originally Posted by Odin

Ok then, I will give the fan subs a go when I have got my new HDD, unless of course somebody could send me the 1st 2 or 3 episodes.

I quite like the concept behind it but from that ad alone made me chringe, after reading that review makes me see why its been butched so bad. Americans . Anyway this is what I didn't like:

• The Rap music obviously (People who watch anime are into Rap?)
• Some of the imagery, nobody looked like a real pirate
• It gave off the impression it was going to be another pokemon/yu-gi-oh

But I have yet to see the original nor the dub but I hate how they butcher Anime, I am so glad they didn't butcher Berserk or Full Metal Alchemist or did they?

Well I can say the first and third one isn't a surprise considering 4kids did that. The second one's kind of valid. The thing is, I feel like One Piece breaks the mold as far as pirates go, there are some designs that are really out there (but I personally like it), but some like Shanks and Gold Roger fit the bill quite nicely. Much like Dragonball, Oda's designs have that "instantly recognizable" look which you just can't see imitated by other artists. And even though Oda would NEVER admit it, he can make unique characters each and every time that don't simply look like so-and-so's face with so-and-so's hair like Toriyama has a habit of doing.

The thing is One Piece could've been GREAT dubbed. I feel like Anime which places a focus on stuff outside of Japan (people, names, objects, etc) tend to sound better in English especially because they could get people with accents to represent the different ethnicities while Japanese dialog really can't do that (at least from a non-English speakers POV).

It's funny you mention FMA, I remember telling someone once that I'd call OP a slightly lighter hearted FMA with a bit of Dragonball (and yes I mean the original DB not DBZ) mostly because the voice actors while terribly poor in the dub SHOULD sound more along the lines of FMA's excellent voice cast. As well as the fact there's plenty of mature themes like Death, Religion and Racism. I'd probably also compare OP to the likes of Terry Gilliam's Baron Munchausen or Time Bandits. I'd have to say One Piece has a really nice balance of fantasy and realism. It's obviously fantasy with gushy moments (especially in the movies), but at the same time, it's hard to deny the "real" themes they present and they don't sugarcoat it.

EDIT: Oh and the music. While a lot of the Japanese music is a great symphonic score on par with PotC, I think the first opening theme sucks IMO and isn't that much better than the Rap song (by the time you get to 2nd opening though...). Like you, I tried watching the dub, and liked the concept but I could CLEARLY see what was being withheld (even the edits are sloppy) and cut.

EDIT2: Found a couple interesting Youtube videos

A scene in OP done with the Sub and then the Dub. See the difference for yourself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkPdGKRhFTI

Oh and this is just a good scene, period.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UyxwlFz-Qs

I eventually want to do that myself. A sort of "Best of One Piece project" Get some of my favorite scenes and then upload them to Youtube.

[Rurouni_Kenshin]

Rurouni Kenshin: has comical Romance, historical backround, and action(my favorite)
Trigun
Evangelion
Wolf's Rain

[midgarmako]

Bleach! Bleach! Bleach! its the best Anime ever invented and its also a Manga series, it has bizarre stories and a little gore but thats whats so great about it, plus the main character has a huge sword, what more do you want?

And FullMetal Alchemist is a good show too, you should watch them both.

[Double U]

Rurouni Kenshin: humor, action

Gundam Wing: action, good story (litte too heroic sometimes though...)


BLEACH!!!!!!! BEST ANIME EVER!!!

[TomStrife]

Originally Posted by Cain Highwind

Found a couple interesting Youtube videos

A scene in OP done with the Sub and then the Dub. See the difference for yourself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkPdGKRhFTI

Oh and this is just a good scene, period.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UyxwlFz-Qs

I'm a huge fan of the One Piece sub and a planned destoyer of the dub and I have to say the only difference between those two scenes was that the first one had cursing.

You should probably post a fight with blood.

[Cain Highwind]

Originally Posted by TomStrife

I'm a huge fan of the One Piece sub and a planned destoyer of the dub and I have to say the only difference between those two scenes was that the first one had cursing.

You should probably post a fight with blood.

I agree, but still, the scene shows how bad Sanji SOUNDS in English. The different attack names, little pieces of the scene cut. And of course the music.

But yeah I should send a note to the guy saying that there are better scenes to compare (Shanks in Episode 4, Bellemere's Death scene, etc)

[Angantyr]

Haha I can see what you mean, though the differance isn't huge it is still noticable. I don't know if it was cause of my speakers but the english dub sounded terrible, the guy sounds like a retard.

Well I am not going to go out of my way to Watch it as I am more into the Mature anime but if I see it on TV I will give it a go. I Need some new anime to watch anyway

[Sevion]

Chobitserverted Humour. (Almost Slight Soft Hentai)

ummm i dunno what else

[Kinyoto]

I would recommed Read Or Die. Both the OVA and the Series. I have them both and one of the mangas. Its creative and has people for heros you wouldn't think should be heros. Lol, its just great

[Dustin]

I'm going to be honest and say I don't fancy anime. However, I do watch, and very much enjoy 'Cowboy Bebop'.