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Post by PTMidnite on Aug 21, 2003 22:11:54 GMT -5
Outlaw Star, Tenchi Muyo, or Inu-Yasha
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Post by John Roche on Aug 21, 2003 23:26:22 GMT -5
Outlaw Star (or what I saw of it) was pretty good. I only saw a few eps, and when a game store showed it on one of the TVs, it had the single longest opening theme I have ever seen in all my years of anime.
Of course, I also must give much love to Gigantor.
Azumanga Daioh was pretty good, like I said. Keep in mind that it's based on a four-panel comic, and the "clip-style" nature of each episode, with each part seeming to deal with a different situation (one scene has a teacher attempt to get to school on time, but the chain on her bike fucks up. A student sees her attacking her bike, and offers to fix her chain. He figures, hey, I'm late, the teacher's late--maybe we can work something out. But then, she leaves with his bike.)
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Post by PTMidnite on Aug 21, 2003 23:47:20 GMT -5
Speaking of openings. I hate when an opening basically spoils who's going to join the main characters side. You know that Aisha and Suzuka will join up with Gene and Jim just by watching the opening.
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Post by Use Ultimo more, dammit! on Aug 22, 2003 16:31:19 GMT -5
Yeah. Dragonball Z has the same problem. Vegeta and Piccolo are in the hero group shot, Frieza and Cell aren't.
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Post by Reflecto on Aug 23, 2003 14:35:19 GMT -5
Depends if you mean "franchise" to equal series- most of the ones put on for this wouldn't be true franchises of anime...
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Post by Use Ultimo more, dammit! on Aug 23, 2003 14:59:49 GMT -5
Depends if you mean "franchise" to equal series- most of the ones put on for this wouldn't be true franchises of anime... ? |
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Post by John Roche on Aug 23, 2003 17:21:03 GMT -5
I think what he's trying to say is that some of the choices are more than one series. For example: Dragonball also includes DBZ and DBGT. Gundam has had many series, movies and OAVs, too many for me to recall. Tenchi Muyo! has had a series of OAVs, two TV series (which I think were released as Tenchi Universe and Tenchi in Tokyo), at least one spinoff (Magical Project S) and another series coming to the States soon (Galaxy Police Force). Sailor Moon has had numerous series as well (just SM, SMR, SMS, SMSuperS, SStars as far as I know). Even Yu-Gi-Oh!, I believe, had multiple series. The original one was much darker, based on the manga wherein the spirit in the puzzle challenges those who would torment others to games, and punishes their failure as he sees fit. The other one is just based on the card game (Duel Monsters) that came from the series. Hope that clears things up for you. |
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Post by Use Ultimo more, dammit! on Aug 23, 2003 23:23:23 GMT -5
I get it. But when i say franchise, i mean something very popular, that had alot of merchindising(maybe Tenchi didn't have quite as much merchindising as the rest, but it's a fave of mine, so i put it up there). When voting you should consider any choice to be the entirety of the franchise.
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Post by Reflecto on Aug 31, 2003 18:40:38 GMT -5
Yes, but in those cases, you still have to determine what constitutes true franchise status from those:
On the one hand, Ranma 1/2 on that list wouldn't really count as one- it didn't have a relatively large amount of merchandise in the United States, and is basically one ongoing series with a lot of seasons.
On the other hand, you've got stuff that, by your definition (popular, large amounts of merchandising), would be franchises of anime. The best example of that would be the series One Piece: it's so popular and there's so much merchandise of it in Japan it would be "franchise" level, but the anime series hasn't been released in the United States yet.
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No, I salute YOU, Ultimo.
