First, God will start to toast the world.
Then, Man will try to enhance his existance via the Hunman Enhancement Project (Human Instrumentality Project if you are Gendo).
Hello all, and especially CmdrTaco. I would first like to say that I am proud to be an Otaku. You might want to check out http://www.animeondvd.com, it is a very very good and professionally run anime site. As far as I know, it is the best reference for anime on dvd. This site has news, articles, and reviews, in which they rate both region 1 and 2 dvds, usually accoring to sound, video, content, and packaging. This is great to find out info about anime before you buy them. There are even primers for new anime fans, which explain the terms. http://www.animeondvd.com is kind of like the slashdot of anime on dvd, if I might say, and there are forums which you may like also. Now on to my personal anime favourites: Anything made by Studio Ghibli is good. Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki have produced some of the best anime, and even best movies of all time. I strongly suggest everyone, not just anime fans, check out the 1988 movie "Grave of the fireflies" or "Hotaru no haka" it's original name. It is available on DVD. This is a wonderful movie about the hardships of war on two innocent children living in Kobe during the end of world war two. This movie is based on a book by Akiyuki Nosaka, and it was written in a partly biographical style. Roger Ebert liked this movie so much that he showed it at his own personal film festival. You can find what he had to say on it here: at http://www.ebertfest.com/grave_rev.htm The subtitled version is better than the dub, as is almost always, but the dub is good too. I cried watching this movie, that is how gopod it is. Another great movie produced by ghibli is Princess Mononoke, which was the highest budget to date, I believe. It will be released on DVD by Disney or it's subsidiraries sometime in the next 18 months. It came out in 1997, and is still in theatrical run around the world, through the form of Miramax's english dub, which is very good. Hideaki Anno worked on this movie, which may be of note. Those were mainstream movies. Another anime must see is Hiroyuki Yamaga's "Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise. Anno Hideaki worked on this movie, and it was produced by GAINAX. Both Anno and GAINAX went on to produce Neon Genesis Evangelion. This movie is simply one of the best works of art on the planet. When it was produced in 1988, everyone was stunned. This movie threw all of the conventional anime rules and styles and through them out of the window. The movie has a minimalist plot, and centres on real characters that are very unheroic. With all that said, I could identify with the characters in this movie more than almost all the others I have seen. The plot centres on a alternate world, which seems a little like a precolumbian civilization that had advanced to a modern society. On this world, no one had yet been into space, and the plot follows a man, Shiro Laddat, who becomes the first astronaut. This movie is very well done. The plot is great, the music is so good I spent $50 cdn on the soundtrack, and the ending is beyond words. I think that this movie has a religious conotation that is beyond words. If you see this movie in your video store, (it is quite common in my area), Rent it Now! Anno Hideaki went on to create Neon Genesis Evangelion (Shin Seiki Evangelion). If anything could top Wings of Honneamise, this would be it. Evangelion is mainstream too, but if were released theatrically, the reviewers, including the estute Roger Ebert, would FREAK! I mean it. This 26 episode TV series, which was done on a OAV budget (Original Anime Video, The Japanese equivalent to direct to video animation movie), and two movies, have to be some of the best sci fi on the planet. This show follows Shinji Ikari, a boy of 14, who becomes involved in one of the most intricate stories ever written. You thought Mission Impossible was complicated! Ha! EVA (or NGEva, or however you like to abbreviate it) is so complicated that every single brushstroke, in every frame, in every scene is almost integral to the plot. And I mean from the begining of the theme song till the end of the movies. You don't need to pay attention to all of it, but if you do, you will find that everything means something. All of the music and dialouge, even the dialouge of passing by characters is important. There are so many subplots and plot twists that the metaphors, forshawdoing and every other device don't simply push the story along, the become an entirely different dimension of the story. I could say, but Roger Ebert said "I would give anything to watch my favourite movies for the first time", and I agree, because I wouldn't want to wreck this. It might become your favourite fiction also. I haven't seen this entire series either, but I can't wait to! That's my otaku rant! Some other good anime you should watch are: BGC 2040 (Bubble Gum Crisis: Tokyo 2040) Gundam (Any and all, especially the original and 0080: War in the Pocket. Gundam was the first big robot (mech) anime AFAIK, and they are usually war movies that have an anti war moral.) There are some DVDs out. check http://www.animevillage.com for more info. Anything that Ghibli, Gainax, or their star employees (Anno, Miyazaki, Takahata, etc.) ever worked on. Patlabor is also great, and very complicated, more so than Mission impossible anyway, especially the second movie, which is all i have seen. It is supposed to be on DVD this year. I hear Escaflowne is great also. Super Atragon is drawn good and is ok, but has a silly plot and a lame ending. We can't forget Akira can we? It will be out on DVD sometime in the next 18 months. (DA DA DA DA!) Here are some anime to avoid: Kimera -- Four words: Sleazy Transvestite Vampire-from-outer-space porno Gowcaizer -- Someone told me it has graphic incest for no reason at all... unless you go in for that sort of thing. Anyway, I'm glad CmdrTaco say the light, and I'm glad I had the chance to write this post. Now that I have missed my lunch break, I think I'll go eat before I pass out. Anime Otaku Forever!!!!! Rob Sollanych P.S. -- Don't buy any fake anime soundtracks!!! I bought $200 cdn. worth of SM (sonmay) Anime Ever, and Archer CDs. They are illegal pirated copies! I feel ripped, but now you don't have to go through that!
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Hello all, and especially CmdrTaco. I would first like to say that I am proud to be an Otaku. You might want to check out http://www.animeondvd.com, it is a very very good and professionally run anime site. As far as I know, it is the best reference for anime on dvd. This site has news, articles, and reviews, in which they rate both region 1 and 2 dvds, usually accoring to sound, video, content, and packaging. This is great to find out info about anime before you buy them. There are even primers for new anime fans, which explain the terms. http://www.animeondvd.com is kind of like the slashdot of anime on dvd, if I might say, and there are forums which you may like also. Now on to my personal anime favourites: Anything made by Studio Ghibli is good. Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki have produced some of the best anime, and even best movies of all time. I strongly suggest everyone, not just anime fans, check out the 1988 movie "Grave of the fireflies" or "Hotaru no haka" it's original name. It is available on DVD. This is a wonderful movie about the hardships of war on two innocent children living in Kobe during the end of world war two. This movie is based on a book by Akiyuki Nosaka, and it was written in a partly biographical style. Roger Ebert liked this movie so much that he showed it at his own personal film festival. You can find what he had to say on it here: at http://www.ebertfest.com/grave_rev.htm The subtitled version is better than the dub, as is almost always, but the dub is good too. I cried watching this movie, that is how gopod it is. Another great movie produced by ghibli is Princess Mononoke, which was the highest budget to date, I believe. It will be released on DVD by Disney or it's subsidiraries sometime in the next 18 months. It came out in 1997, and is still in theatrical run around the world, through the form of Miramax's english dub, which is very good. Hideaki Anno worked on this movie, which may be of note. Those were mainstream movies. Another anime must see is Hiroyuki Yamaga's "Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise. Anno Hideaki worked on this movie, and it was produced by GAINAX. Both Anno and GAINAX went on to produce Neon Genesis Evangelion. This movie is simply one of the best works of art on the planet. When it was produced in 1988, everyone was stunned. This movie threw all of the conventional anime rules and styles and through them out of the window. The movie has a minimalist plot, and centres on real characters that are very unheroic. With all that said, I could identify with the characters in this movie more than almost all the others I have seen. The plot centres on a alternate world, which seems a little like a precolumbian civilization that had advanced to a modern society. On this world, no one had yet been into space, and the plot follows a man, Shiro Laddat, who becomes the first astronaut. This movie is very well done. The plot is great, the music is so good I spent $50 cdn on the soundtrack, and the ending is beyond words. I think that this movie has a religious conotation that is beyond words. If you see this movie in your video store, (it is quite common in my area), Rent it Now! Anno Hideaki went on to create Neon Genesis Evangelion (Shin Seiki Evangelion). If anything could top Wings of Honneamise, this would be it. Evangelion is mainstream too, but if were released theatrically, the reviewers, including the estute Roger Ebert, would FREAK! I mean it. This 26 episode TV series, which was done on a OAV budget (Original Anime Video, The Japanese equivalent to direct to video animation movie), and two movies, have to be some of the best sci fi on the planet. This show follows Shinji Ikari, a boy of 14, who becomes involved in one of the most intricate stories ever written. You thought Mission Impossible was complicated! Ha! EVA (or NGEva, or however you like to abbreviate it) is so complicated that every single brushstroke, in every frame, in every scene is almost integral to the plot. And I mean from the begining of the theme song till the end of the movies. You don't need to pay attention to all of it, but if you do, you will find that everything means something. All of the music and dialouge, even the dialouge of passing by characters is important. There are so many subplots and plot twists that the metaphors, forshawdoing and every other device don't simply push the story along, the become an entirely different dimension of the story. I could say, but Roger Ebert said "I would give anything to watch my favourite movies for the first time", and I agree, because I wouldn't want to wreck this. It might become your favourite fiction also. I haven't seen this entire series either, but I can't wait to! That's my otaku rant! Some other good anime you should watch are: BGC 2040 (Bubble Gum Crisis: Tokyo 2040) Gundam (Any and all, especially the original and 0080: War in the Pocket. Gundam was the first big robot (mech) anime AFAIK, and they are usually war movies that have an anti war moral.) There are some DVDs out. check http://www.animevillage.com for more info. Anything that Ghibli, Gainax, or their star employees (Anno, Miyazaki, Takahata, etc.) ever worked on. Patlabor is also great, and very complicated, more so than Mission impossible anyway, especially the second movie, which is all i have seen. It is supposed to be on DVD this year. I hear Escaflowne is great also. Super Atragon is drawn good and is ok, but has a silly plot and a lame ending. We can't forget Akira can we? It will be out on DVD sometime in the next 18 months. (DA DA DA DA!) Here are some anime to avoid: Kimera -- Four words: Sleazy Transvestite Vampire-from-outer-space porno Gowcaizer -- Someone told me it has graphic incest for no reason at all ... unless you go in for that sort of thing. Anyway, I'm glad CmdrTaco say the light, and I'm glad I had the chance to write this post. Now that I have missed my lunch break, I think I'll go eat before I pass out. Anime Otaku Forever!!!!! Rob Sollanych P.S. -- Don't buy any fake anime soundtracks!!! I bought $200 cdn. worth of SM (sonmay) Anime Ever, and Archer CDs. They are illegal pirated copies! I feel ripped, but now you don't have to go through that!