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Differences please? I'm attempting to get more into it/them. I enjoy Robotech. Watched some Gundam and Macross this evening and found it to my liking, so would probably stick to similar themed ones.
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Macross Frontier began airing last fall, and I've heard it is one of the better Macross series. Do you enjoy the mecha or war theme more?
I'm not big into mecha anime and I don't feel I understand what you want enough to make any solid recommendation, but I will throw a few names that you can read about or test run a few episodes. Honestly MAcross, Robotech, and Gundam are the only series I know of that are really like one another.
-Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Stylized and with a little more comedy than you may be looking for Gurren LAgann prides itself on being outrageous.
-The Vision of Escaflowne: Escaflowne is a fantasy mecha series told in the style of an epic and targeted for both a male and female audience.
-Full Metal Panic: The story isn't spectacular, but I enjoyed the combat sequences.
-Code Geass: Mecha being used in war serve as more of a backdrop than a focus for the series, but if you enough scheming there is plenty to be had in this series.
None of those series are quite like the three you listed. Nadesico and Patlabor are also mass produced type mecha series, but from what I have heard they aren't very good.
I'm not big into mecha anime and I don't feel I understand what you want enough to make any solid recommendation, but I will throw a few names that you can read about or test run a few episodes. Honestly MAcross, Robotech, and Gundam are the only series I know of that are really like one another.
-Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Stylized and with a little more comedy than you may be looking for Gurren LAgann prides itself on being outrageous.
-The Vision of Escaflowne: Escaflowne is a fantasy mecha series told in the style of an epic and targeted for both a male and female audience.
-Full Metal Panic: The story isn't spectacular, but I enjoyed the combat sequences.
-Code Geass: Mecha being used in war serve as more of a backdrop than a focus for the series, but if you enough scheming there is plenty to be had in this series.
None of those series are quite like the three you listed. Nadesico and Patlabor are also mass produced type mecha series, but from what I have heard they aren't very good.
Do you mean what's the difference between anime and manga in general?
Anime is cartoons. Manga is comic books.
More specifically, when doing anime adaptations of long running manga series, the animators have a nasty habit of making filler material to stretch out the series more. The unfortunate prime example of that is DBZ, where a 13 page chapter was turned into a 23 minute episode, making a "five minute fight" last for almost an hour.
Some anime are made specifically for the medium. That tends to be the case with mech series like Gundam and Macross. I think that those series tend to be more tightly composed, as a whole, and thus more enjoyable. On the other hand, some of the liberties that animators take with manga or novel adapted anime turn out for the better, as in the case of Slayers or Haruhi Suzumiya.
There are several dozen flavors of Gundam, so that can keep you occupied for a while. I liked Gundam Wing quite a bit. Other mech series range from RPG enchanted robots in Magic Knight Rayearth, to ********* mecha in the form of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Anime is cartoons. Manga is comic books.
More specifically, when doing anime adaptations of long running manga series, the animators have a nasty habit of making filler material to stretch out the series more. The unfortunate prime example of that is DBZ, where a 13 page chapter was turned into a 23 minute episode, making a "five minute fight" last for almost an hour.
Some anime are made specifically for the medium. That tends to be the case with mech series like Gundam and Macross. I think that those series tend to be more tightly composed, as a whole, and thus more enjoyable. On the other hand, some of the liberties that animators take with manga or novel adapted anime turn out for the better, as in the case of Slayers or Haruhi Suzumiya.
There are several dozen flavors of Gundam, so that can keep you occupied for a while. I liked Gundam Wing quite a bit. Other mech series range from RPG enchanted robots in Magic Knight Rayearth, to ********* mecha in the form of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
More into the Mecha aspect, but when they use them for wars it's like a double bonus. Only reason I even considered it was it was on Sci-Fis' Ani-Monday, and I had nothing else to do. Knowing how much I like Robotech, someone recommended Gundam...I wasn't disappointed. When I saw Macross Plus was on as well, I knew it is from there that Robotech got its roots.
I realized after posting, and analyzing what I read on Wikipedia, that Anime and Manga were cartoon and comic respectively. Couldn't put that together last night while half asleep.
I realized after posting, and analyzing what I read on Wikipedia, that Anime and Manga were cartoon and comic respectively. Couldn't put that together last night while half asleep.
People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think, don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome. ~River Tam
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catwho the Mundane wrote:
DBZ, where a 13 page chapter was turned into a 23 minute episode, 23 episode fight.
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TirithRR wrote:
catwho the Mundane wrote:
DBZ, where a 13 page chapter was turned into a 23 minute episode, 23 episode fight.
Fixed for accuracy. You know it's true
That one's pretty hilarious to watch on the Spanish channels when you only understand about a third of what they're saying.
The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
That one's pretty hilarious to watch on the Spanish channels when you only understand about a third of what they're saying.
One of the other thirds is grunting, and the last portion is repetitive exclamations of how every characters' power level is over 9000.
Edited, Jan 15th 2009 4:00am by Allegory
Allegory wrote:
The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
That one's pretty hilarious to watch on the Spanish channels when you only understand about a third of what they're saying.
One of the other thirds is grunting, and the last portion is repetitive exclamations of how every character's power level is over 9000.
I wasn't counting the grunting.
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