So I recently ran across Princess Tutu...
Dec. 24th, 2005 11:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lilfluffPrincess Tutu has been mentioned a few times recently, including reference to an accidental Tutu/Akira crossover suggestion. So, having recently run across Tutu I have to ask, "Why did no tell me to look at this sooner?" In case anyone wasn't sure, as much as I like Full Metal Panic (Big mecha taking down helicopters with thrown giant knives, yay!) and Ghost in the Shell SAC, I also like cute stuff. Cute stuff rocks!
So I thought I'd try asking for suggestions. Here is a list of anime and manga that I like and if anyone has any suggestions just post a reply.
1. Slayers (all of it)
2. Noir (haven't finished it yet, but like it through the third disc)
3. Inu Yasha & Ranma (the shows run forever, but I still like them)
4. Hellsing (Nice twist having Dracula, excuse me, Alucard work for the vampire hunters)
5. Hyper Police (Catgirls, werewolves, kitsune, and gunfights, yay!)
6. Nuku Nuku, and Nuku Nuku DASH (Nuku Nuku TV on the other hand gets a big, 'Eh, whatever.' On the other hand, if Nuku Nuku TV had been done as a sentai show... Can you picture a live action show if someone done up as a catgirl facing off with someone in a washing machine costume? Complete with creative camera angles and simple special effects work. It might work, it just might work.)
7. Trigun (I really need to grab the last few discs but I like the first 2/3rds)
8. The first volume of the Tutu manga (and the first episode of the Anime, yay for preview discs!)
9. Fruits Basket. (Whatever I could say has already been said better.)
10. Card Captor Sakura (The manga, only seen a little of the anime)
11. Tsubasa
12. Xxxholic
13. Magic Knight Ray-- okay, lets save space and just say CLAMP.
14. The first three volumes of Desert Coral (Please ADV, please give us more!)
15. The Kindaichi Case Files (Please, may we have the anime and live action Kindaichi too?)
16. Bleach (Which being the new 'manga you're required to like' I was prepared not to like, but it grabbed me)
And a few non-manga/anime
1. Sledge Hammer. What's not to like about an intentionally over the top cop show.
2. Eerie Indiana. Imagine if the X-Files had been done a few years earlier and involved a group of middle school students rather than FBI agents. Reduce the angst a little and mix in a touch more silly and you have Eerie Indiana.
3. Danger Mouse. What's not to like about it? Other than the lack of additional episodes.
4. Firefly. Will someone please stop letting Fox have anything to do with good shows.
5. Jack of All Trades. Bruce (Ash) Campbell as an American spy in the early 19th century Caribbean. Goofy mad science, a midget playing Napoleon, and the historical accuracy of Xena.
6. My Best Friend is a Vampire. Ah, who wouldn't enjoy a vampire coming of age story? Or was it a warning of why grocery delivery is a dangerous career.
7. Babylon 5. Everything Star Trek wanted to be. Continuing story lines, good to great characters, epic battles, politics, a universe that was allowed to change as events occurred, Penn and Teller as guest stars. Someday we will invent a device to travel between parallel worlds and get to see the full runs of Crusade and Rangers as well.
8. Stosstrup. A series that used to run in Furrlough. In 2020 Swiss scientists trying to use genetic engineering to speed up cheese production instead accidentally kill half the worlds population with a vicious plague. In 2026 the survivors band together and world peace breaks out --- wait it may be a furry title but the politics isn't that cartoony. In 2026 the various countries have mostly ended their internal civil wars and strife and decide to distract their citizens with external fighting. What starts as a sci-fi battle involving battles in earth orbit and cutting edge aircraft soon bogs down and becomes a ground war with no end in sight. The European Alliance vs. The Eurasian Commonwealth, with the common soldier caught in the middle.
9. Albedo. Another furry title, this one a fairly hard science fiction series. Three hundred years earlier the citizens of a planet suddenly realize they have no idea where everything came from. Near as they can tell one day they suddenly woke up and went to work in nice modern cities with no memory of anything prior. When researchers can't find any evidence of earlier civilizations their attention turns to space. Then when the first few colonies and space explorers find no evidence of life out there attention soon turns to the time honored world of politics (eg: Hurrah for Utopia, but why in the world should our neighbors get to have utopia too). The issues come out on an irregular and long schedule, but it's worth waiting for.
10. Usagi Yojimbo. Interesting trivia time, the first story was published in the back of an issue of Albedo. UY has also been made into an RPG by two different companies (the second of which has also made the current Albedo RPG).
So I thought I'd try asking for suggestions. Here is a list of anime and manga that I like and if anyone has any suggestions just post a reply.
1. Slayers (all of it)
2. Noir (haven't finished it yet, but like it through the third disc)
3. Inu Yasha & Ranma (the shows run forever, but I still like them)
4. Hellsing (Nice twist having Dracula, excuse me, Alucard work for the vampire hunters)
5. Hyper Police (Catgirls, werewolves, kitsune, and gunfights, yay!)
6. Nuku Nuku, and Nuku Nuku DASH (Nuku Nuku TV on the other hand gets a big, 'Eh, whatever.' On the other hand, if Nuku Nuku TV had been done as a sentai show... Can you picture a live action show if someone done up as a catgirl facing off with someone in a washing machine costume? Complete with creative camera angles and simple special effects work. It might work, it just might work.)
7. Trigun (I really need to grab the last few discs but I like the first 2/3rds)
8. The first volume of the Tutu manga (and the first episode of the Anime, yay for preview discs!)
9. Fruits Basket. (Whatever I could say has already been said better.)
10. Card Captor Sakura (The manga, only seen a little of the anime)
11. Tsubasa
12. Xxxholic
13. Magic Knight Ray-- okay, lets save space and just say CLAMP.
14. The first three volumes of Desert Coral (Please ADV, please give us more!)
15. The Kindaichi Case Files (Please, may we have the anime and live action Kindaichi too?)
16. Bleach (Which being the new 'manga you're required to like' I was prepared not to like, but it grabbed me)
And a few non-manga/anime
1. Sledge Hammer. What's not to like about an intentionally over the top cop show.
2. Eerie Indiana. Imagine if the X-Files had been done a few years earlier and involved a group of middle school students rather than FBI agents. Reduce the angst a little and mix in a touch more silly and you have Eerie Indiana.
3. Danger Mouse. What's not to like about it? Other than the lack of additional episodes.
4. Firefly. Will someone please stop letting Fox have anything to do with good shows.
5. Jack of All Trades. Bruce (Ash) Campbell as an American spy in the early 19th century Caribbean. Goofy mad science, a midget playing Napoleon, and the historical accuracy of Xena.
6. My Best Friend is a Vampire. Ah, who wouldn't enjoy a vampire coming of age story? Or was it a warning of why grocery delivery is a dangerous career.
7. Babylon 5. Everything Star Trek wanted to be. Continuing story lines, good to great characters, epic battles, politics, a universe that was allowed to change as events occurred, Penn and Teller as guest stars. Someday we will invent a device to travel between parallel worlds and get to see the full runs of Crusade and Rangers as well.
8. Stosstrup. A series that used to run in Furrlough. In 2020 Swiss scientists trying to use genetic engineering to speed up cheese production instead accidentally kill half the worlds population with a vicious plague. In 2026 the survivors band together and world peace breaks out --- wait it may be a furry title but the politics isn't that cartoony. In 2026 the various countries have mostly ended their internal civil wars and strife and decide to distract their citizens with external fighting. What starts as a sci-fi battle involving battles in earth orbit and cutting edge aircraft soon bogs down and becomes a ground war with no end in sight. The European Alliance vs. The Eurasian Commonwealth, with the common soldier caught in the middle.
9. Albedo. Another furry title, this one a fairly hard science fiction series. Three hundred years earlier the citizens of a planet suddenly realize they have no idea where everything came from. Near as they can tell one day they suddenly woke up and went to work in nice modern cities with no memory of anything prior. When researchers can't find any evidence of earlier civilizations their attention turns to space. Then when the first few colonies and space explorers find no evidence of life out there attention soon turns to the time honored world of politics (eg: Hurrah for Utopia, but why in the world should our neighbors get to have utopia too). The issues come out on an irregular and long schedule, but it's worth waiting for.
10. Usagi Yojimbo. Interesting trivia time, the first story was published in the back of an issue of Albedo. UY has also been made into an RPG by two different companies (the second of which has also made the current Albedo RPG).
I didn't see you mention...
Date: 2005-12-24 10:27 pm (UTC)Re: I didn't see you mention...
Date: 2005-12-24 11:47 pm (UTC)Heck the way things we going if Hitomi were to spend more time on Gaea I suspect they would become friends.
But that might be my bias speaking. ^.^
Re: I didn't see you mention...
Date: 2005-12-25 03:16 am (UTC)And no, I agree about Merle and Hitomi. I think they WERE friends by the end.
I expect Hitomi will go back in a few years.