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MikoLayer, is there some place you go to to find out about anime shows? I see a lot of names on your list (and a few you've brought up in the past) that I've never heard of, probably because they're not mainstream big anime shows like Naruto or Full Metal Alchemist.
i just finished watching Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. that was an amazing piece of work. i'll admit that it could've gotten more indepth with the story, and it wasn't as nearly as long as it should've been, but good.
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MikoLayer, is there some place you go to to find out about anime shows? I see a lot of names on your list (and a few you've brought up in the past) that I've never heard of, probably because they're not mainstream big anime shows like Naruto or Full Metal Alchemist.
Some of the stuff I listed is quite mainstream, like AIR. Lets just say whats considered "mainstream" here in the US isnt necessarily the most popular ones elsewhere; naruto, for instance, is targetted mainly at younger audiences. (prepuberscent male lead character, being aired at "prime hours" and all). Personally, I believe one of the main causes for the difference in popularity between the series is availability and quality of fansubs. I rarely ever watch stuff in english subs, and I feel I could fix some errors here and there whenever I do. The worst yet I have seen was Galaxy Angel, an extremely popular series in Asia. Then I was introduced to the english fansubs, which not only made no sense at all to me and my buddies who were watching, but managed to kill all the humor; it was simply unbearable to watch a devoted fan, to put it nicely. As an avid anime afficianado, I have been slowly improving my japanese skills, and now I feel relatively comfortable with some shows without fansubs when they are unavailable.
Googling might actually be more helpful than animenfo, as I have seen some very resourceful animeblogs on some of those shows, mostly ran by those who are completely bilingual.
Their reviews are professional grade and undefiled by fanboyism. They do have a certain bias towards Miayazaki productions and old school animes, but for one the bias is usually transparent and if you look past these minor issues, their reviews are top-notch and they've hardly steered me wrong, only once or twice.
Better than animenfo.com, in my opinion, and much more informative.
animenfo.com has a huge bias towards newer anime and fanboy junk. (e.g. GSD being at 10. Sure it's the best Gundam since Victory, but only because it's a MSG/Zeta ripoff. And even then, it still manages to suck.)
My favored review source is animeondvd.com, but that's really only good for R1 stuff, which will be about a year behind and harder to... acquire for free. But hey, it's better quality with better subs, so not a bad deal at all.
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Just saw first episode of Ergo Proxy, I was very impressed even though I had no clue what was going on. Think Ghost in the Shell with a goth girl as lead (she looks suspiciously like singer from Evanescence on cover of 'Fallen'). Radiohead's 'Paranoid Android' is the opening theme.
My anime experience is limited to Akira, Aeon Flux, Animatrix and a few others. I plan on buying the Aeon Flux boxset that was recently released. Peter Chung is great.
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