N00B’S GUIDE TO ANIME – THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A LONG TIME COMING, BUT I ONLY REALLY THOUGHT ABOUT IT THIRTY MINTUES AGO.
Every day I get people asking/emailing/fckbking/myspacing/chatting/texting/*ing me about anime.
“Where do I start?”
“What is a good anime?”
“I don’t want to be a fanboy but (x), (y), (z).”
Here is a list of some good places to start:
Cowboy Bebop
Is a classic in the anime realm. Don’t know when it was made, don’t really care. Tells the life and times of a group of dysfunctional bounty hunters in the future (if the future was more like retro-future, where retro=Wild West).
Neon Genesis Evangelion
This is another classic. Fourteen-year-old cuties in giant robot suits saving the world. The main character is a fucking bitch but you should probably watch it anyway. I seem to remember being kind of bored when I watched this back-to-back, but now that I think about it I get really excited.
***BONUS (REALLY BAD COSPLAY) MATERIAL***
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
This is a really cute anime about a school-girl who thinks she is the centre of the universe. This anime is accesible to just about everyone and has some nice allusions to the Greek and Roman mythology as well. Made me feel all warm and fuzzy and motivated to go and “experience” things.
All of the above are series. I’m sure I don’t need to tell you how to get them.
Hayao Miyazaki is a director of some madcore awesome animated feature films. They are bascially folk stories so don’t watch them if you only like sex and the Internet.
Howl’s Moving Castle
Is the business as far as I’m concerned. Great concept, great animation, great story. Some cute chick gets transformed into an old lady and ends up on some crazy semi-living robot house with Howl. Good times.
Spirited Away
I remember not caring about this at all when it came out because I liked Slipknot or something. Cute little girl finds a spirit land and a giant bath-house. She gets roped in to the bath house and the spirit land and spends the movie trying to esccape. I love this movie and I just remembered that this Japanese dude gave me a Spirited Away book! Ha-ha! Wait, I got it out just then and it’s all in 日本語. Oh well there are some cute sketches and concept art.
ONE PIECE
ONE PIIIIECE
i’m sorry. i have recently become a one piece fan and when you’re a one piece fan you have to preach it whenever possible.
ps. naruto sux yo.
shut up katie
one piece sucks and is gay.
DON’T MAKE ME FUCKING HURT YOU
And now for something completely different. You should get a site counter on here bro’s… I’m interested to know what your view rating is.
Chur to le chur
Anime causes me to have seizures. There. I just had one.
A hit counter? We have waaaaaay too much traffic for that. If you know of somewhere where we can get a hit counter consisting of at least 9 digits, let me/Zach know.
You forgot about Death Note. An oversight i’m sure…
AKKKIRRRRAAAA
FLCL
Alien chick on a flying Vespa knocks giant robots out of a 12 year-old boy’s head with a bass guitar.
Bonus: music by the pillows