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[ggamer]

It's too late for me now

It's suprising how much angst one animation studio can fit in twenty minutes. Ridiculous.

[penguinofhonor]

Watch the series, then the movies.The movies are pretty clearly intended to be watched after the series.

Spoiler: big spoilers (click to show/hide)

Because they occur after the series.

Oh god, EOE3 is out, isn't it?

[Reelya]

Looking for suggestions: I finally got my one ex-g/f who i'm still friends with watching some anime, and she's really enjoying it! I put her onto Nana, which turned out to be a great choice and she's interested to watch more shows now. The only thing is, she is dyslexic + has bad eyesight, so that completely rules out subs for her, so anything would need to be dubbed (I watch most things subbed so I'm not up on which shows have the best dubs). She likes TV shows like Supernatural, Being Human, Lost, Firefly, Buffy, as well as the girlie-stuff.

I'm going to try out Haruhi Suzimiya, Baccano, Cowboy Beebop, Death Note & Hellsing, and a few other ones (including the 'Supernatural' anime). Any recommendations of other series with really good dubs she might like? Especially intelligent Shoujo ones like Nana, i don't know so much about that genre.

(EDIT: btw what are the dubbed versions of FMA like? She mentioned she got into Avatar:TLA when it was on TV here as well, so she might like something like that)

[Tellemurius]

Watch the series, then the movies.The movies are pretty clearly intended to be watched after the series.

Spoiler: big spoilers (click to show/hide)

Because they occur after the series.

Oh god, EOE3 is out, isn't it?

well 1 and 2 are suppose to be remakes and 3 is the sequel (3 is out in japan, don't expect a american release for maybe another year)

[Furtuka]

Watch the series, then the movies.The movies are pretty clearly intended to be watched after the series.

Spoiler: big spoilers (click to show/hide)

Because they occur after the series.

Oh god, EOE3 is out, isn't it?

well 1 and 2 are suppose to be remakes and 3 is the sequel (3 is out in japan, don't expect a american release for maybe another year)

Nope 1 and 2 start out appearing like remakes but turn out to be more like an AU.

[penguinofhonor]

Yeah. It's more subtle earlier in the rebuild series, but they change some pretty significant things that you're supposed to notice and be like "Wait what's going on here" like how they're afraid of Third Impact instead of Second Impact.

I think this is why I like Eva. It has all this crazy Homestuck-level bullshit that you've got to keep track of to get the whole scope of things, and even then you only sort of grasp what's going on.

[ToonyMan]

I'm on volume 16 of Zetman, this is getting insane.  I'm going to catch up soon.  :[

Guess I'll have to---woah there's an anime??  That sounds fun to watch.  SUPERHEROES

[Chaoswizkid]

Please watch the movies instead of the series, you would be less mindfucked.

Bad Tellemurius. Recommending the Rebuild series that's not even finished yet in order to replace the anime. You should be ashamed.

Watch the series, then the movies.The movies are pretty clearly intended to be watched after the series.

Spoiler: big spoilers (click to show/hide)

Because they occur after the series.

Oh god, EOE3 is out, isn't it?

Yeah, but not out for NA. I've been keeping track of the... uh... "private localization", and so far, there is an entire audio _{maybe-maybe-not-legitimate} recording that has been translated. However, there hasn't been much progress... "obtaining"... the visuals. The best so far is small bits and pieces of poor quality, and the desperate need for people in NA to watch it has some people actually wanting to Frankenstein what's actually laying around on the net and time it to the audio and translated subs.

My suggestion is just to wait until it's released in NA. There was a "pre-release" for 2.02 that people went for, but honestly the movie is so much better seen off of disc.

Looking for suggestions: I finally got my one ex-g/f who i'm still friends with watching some anime, and she's really enjoying it! I put her onto Nana, which turned out to be a great choice and she's interested to watch more shows now. The only thing is, she is dyslexic + has bad eyesight, so that completely rules out subs for her, so anything would need to be dubbed (I watch most things subbed so I'm not up on which shows have the best dubs). She likes TV shows like Supernatural, Being Human, Lost, Firefly, Buffy, as well as the girlie-stuff.

I'm going to try out Haruhi Suzimiya, Baccano, Cowboy Beebop, Death Note & Hellsing, and a few other ones (including the 'Supernatural' anime). Any recommendations of other series with really good dubs she might like? Especially intelligent Shoujo ones like Nana, i don't know so much about that genre.

(EDIT: btw what are the dubbed versions of FMA like? She mentioned she got into Avatar:TLA when it was on TV here as well, so she might like something like that)

K-On! might be a good choice, though I don't know about the dubs, sorry. Cowboy Bebop has amazing dubs. FMA and FMA:B have pretty good dubs, in my opinion (which ruined the voice actor for Ed, because he can only sound like Edward which can get pretty irritating when working on other series). Watch FMA:B over FMA, of course. Spiral might be a good choice as well, the dubs never bothered me (though I watched it when I was younger) and it's got that cool supernatural+logic thing going on. Maybe Rave Master and Fairy Tale? Those are usually popular with the girls (even if Fairy Tale is like 'hey, look! fanservice! hurray!'). I'm not aware of many shoujo series and even less aware of good dubbed ones.
Another really popular one is Fruits Basket, although I wouldn't touch the mouse that has the cursor over an internet link of an episode of it with a ten foot pole.

[Leafsnail]

K-On is never a good choice.

[Chaoswizkid]

K-On is never a good choice.

I enjoyed it. It was all cutesy slice of life, and I thought that the songs were actually not bad (except for the horrifyingly atrocious lyrics, eurgharhbhgdakl). Shows how much I know, though, because apparently they are bad (and intentionally so).


Not sure if this has been linked before or not, or if most people have seen this, but I've recently been made aware of it and it's quite a fun article:

Spoiler: 100 Rules of Anime (a few are NSFW) (click to show/hide)

http://www.cs.utah.edu/~duongsaa/more_htm/jk_100animeRules.htm

[Delta Foxtrot]

Looking for suggestions: I finally got my one ex-g/f who i'm still friends with watching some anime, and she's really enjoying it! I put her onto Nana, which turned out to be a great choice and she's interested to watch more shows now. The only thing is, she is dyslexic + has bad eyesight, so that completely rules out subs for her, so anything would need to be dubbed (I watch most things subbed so I'm not up on which shows have the best dubs). She likes TV shows like Supernatural, Being Human, Lost, Firefly, Buffy, as well as the girlie-stuff.

I'm going to try out Haruhi Suzimiya, Baccano, Cowboy Beebop, Death Note & Hellsing, and a few other ones (including the 'Supernatural' anime). Any recommendations of other series with really good dubs she might like? Especially intelligent Shoujo ones like Nana, i don't know so much about that genre.

Princess Tutu has a decent dub and should fit well with those preferences and recommendations. It's basically fairy-tales, meta and Tchaikovsky.

[Neonivek]

Yes I will vouch for Princess Tutu

I watched it expecting cheesyness and a lot of Ballet knowledge (actually I think I started watching it because I LOVED its opening theme and I wanted to learn about Ballet)

but honestly... It is actually probably one of the most artistic animes you will ever watch without it being pretentious, confusing, or bad.

It really would go on my list of must see animes.

[Tellemurius]

Hey, EvE was tough, NGE was insane, Rebuild seems to be bridging for me. Hey its my preference anyways.

[fqllve]

Princess Tutu is indeed good, but I can't speak on the quality of the dub.

Most anime these days I think have good dubs, or at least passable ones. But ones that I've seen that I specifically enjoyed would be Pani Poni Dash, Sgt Keroro, and FLCL. Good shoujo that I know to be dubbed would include Nodame Cantible, Please Save our Earth, and His and Her Circumstances. The problem is shoujo just doesn't get dubbed as often as the other genres, and the only one of those I would say is very good or would recommend under normal circumstances is Nodame Cantabile. Which isn't to say the other two aren't worth watching.

[Tellemurius]

The world only God Knows seems to be keeping my interest