Anime aren't so popular in countries outside Japan for a couple of reasons: Most of the productions are aimed towards 'big kids'. They're considered to be too violent for children (e.g. spaceships shooting at each other), but the older viewers think they're too old for these animated shows. In Japan, there seem to exist much more of these 'big kids' as in other countries. Anime normally have a good storyline and complex character development. Unfortunately, the dubbing (new voices in the appropriate language) often destroys the original dialogues replacing them for example with dumb phrases (considered to be fit for children). And violent/"erotic" scenes are often censored to perform an additional blow on the original.
If you're interested in Anime, try those newsgroups:
Pictures: alt.binaries.pictures.anime Discussion: rec.arts.anime.misc Fan-art: rec.arts.anime.creative Particular anime: rec.arts.anime.fandom Computer games: rec.arts.anime.games Announcements: rec.arts.anime.info Swapping: rec.arts.anime.marketplace Model Kits: rec.arts.anime.models Anime music: rec.arts.anime.music
Anime is on IRC, too: Try channel #Anime!.
Anime on WWW:
You want Anime and Manga on the WWW or FTP? You can have it.
Here are a couple of sites with a tremendous collection of
links. You can go to far more than 1000 locations from there.
Each allows to add new sites.
Japanese/English On-line Dictionary
Perhaps useful for bit more understanding of Animes when you watch them in the
original version. Doesn't keep you from learning Japanese, does it? Of course
this is suitable also for people who have a general interest in the Japanese
language. I recommend a Japanese capable browser for optimal usage.
Server in
Japan
Server in
Canada
My favourite Anime:
You might think, Akira is my favourite anime. It isn't. I'll tell you the
reasons at the home page. So here are my objects of desire (no particular
order):
| These anime are somewhat nice, too:
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Anime I've seen but didn't make it into the two lists above although some come close (they're in italics):
Armitage III, Black Jack Movie, Bastard!!, Battle Angel, Bubblegum Crisis, Captain Tsubasa, Cat Girl Nuku Nuku OVA, Cat Girl Nuku Nuku TV, Cat's Eye, Dangaioh, Detonator Orgun, Dirty Pair Flash, El Hazard, Fist of the North Star, Gall Force, Ge ge ge no Kitaro, Ghost in the Shell, Giant Robo, Gun Smith Cats, The Hakkenden, Irresponsible Captain Tylor, Kimagure Orange Road, Kiki's Delivery Service, Kimba, Maps, Macross Plus, Magical Girl Pretty Sammy, Moldiver, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, Neo Genesis Evangelion, Ninja Scroll, Oh my Goddess!, Omoide Poro Poro, Patlabor 1, Plastic Little, Pon Poko, Porco Rosso, Project A-ko, Ranma 1/2, Record of Lodoss War, RG Veda, Robot Carnival, Romeo's Blue Sky, Saber Marionette J, Saber Rider, Sailor Moon, Silent Möbius, Sol Bianca, Street Fighter II Movie, Tenchi Muyo OVA, Tenchi Muyo TV, Tenchi Muyo in Love, Tenchi Muyo: Manamatsu no Eve, Tokyo Babylon, Urotsukidooji, Venus Wars, Vision of Escaflone, Voltron, Wicked City, Wings of Honneamise, Yawara! (to be continued . . .)
I've seen many more on German TV but they're too unknown so I decided not to list them. You can look them up in the Anime on German TV Home Page. The page is in German, though.
I can't wait to watch these:
Have fun at the Akira Home Page !
Manga-oriented Newsgroups:
Discussion: alt.manga rec.arts.manga
Enjoy !!!
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