Does anyone here like Japanese anime? I hadn't watched any until recently when I saw 'Akira' and 'Ghost in the Shell'. Now I'd like to see some more and a few recommendations would be great.

Its called Anime brother. What kind of anime are you into. Is your preference movies or are you open to watching TV series.

From a movie perspective, you can try Ninja Scroll, Professional Golgo 13, Devilman [2 part OVA], Fist of the North Star, Project AKO, Macross 2: Do you remember Love, Macross Plus: Movie, Urotsukidoi: Legend of the Overfiend, Blue Gender: Warrior. These are pretty generic that most anime lovers know, but it will get you started. Also try Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, Appleseed, Goldenboy.

As for TV series there is,
Super Dimensional Fortress: Macross [This is the source material for Robotech: Macross Saga], Super Dimensional Calvery: Southern Cross [This is the source for Robotech: Masters Saga], Gantz, Helsing, Berserk, Great Teacher Onizuka, Midori no Habi, Fullmetal Panic, Bubblegum Crissis: Tokyo 2040, Elfen Lied, AD Police TV, Ebichu etc and there a literally billions also. If you want to find out information on the above, either type the title into google or use a dedicated Anime database like the link.

Anime Database

If you want information on how to acquire these *cough*, send me a private message and i will link you to areas where you can acquire them legally...well at least the unlicensed ones

I'd second the above with additions:
Movies I'd add:
Perfect Blue
Princess Monenoke
Spirited Away

Seris:
Shaman King
Excel Saga
(maybe) Dragonball Z (though personally I found it too impenitrable)
Gregory Horror Show (tecknically Amime, though styalistically compleatly differant)

Not tecknikally Anime I'd recomend Aeon Flux, though very Anime in style.

Get Toonami or Jetix on Sky Digital! They often show some great Anime.

Vampire Hunter D and the "sequal" Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust are very good. as are the serial animes Hellsing, Boogiepop Phantom, Cowboy Bebop and Serial Experiments Lain. also, please dont call it Japanimation, it makes you sound like a noob and it's a loathsome American term!lol!

Just finished watching Metropolis from F4 last night - stunning anime and an intersting (if slightly muddled plot) - very good indeed and a lovely Dr Strangelove bit near the end....

You can also try

Heat guy J 1-26
Genesis Climber Mospedea
Urotsukidoji 2: Legend of the Demon Womb
Urotsukidoji 5: New Saga: Hentai this, very hardcore but actually pleasant to watch.
Blue Gender 1-26
Angel Cop [6 part OVA]
New Fist of the North Star [3 Part OVA]
[Avoid Ninja Scroll TV 1-13....its rubbish]
The Last Exile 1-26
Full Metal Panic Fumoffu 1-15
Guyver: Mobile armour division 1-12


The ones to avoid although it is my opinion, don't let that stop you being curious mind.

Devilman Lady 1-26....this is CRAP
Urotsukidoji 3: Return of the overfiend.....its crap.
Urotsukidoji 4: Inferno Road.....thats even craper

Out of the list my absolute favs are
Great Teacher Onizuka [absolutely Funny] 1-43
Helsing [You'll love this] 1-13 [they are doing a new OVA for this weeeeeee YEEEEESSSS]
Super Dimensional Fortress: Macross [my fav Anime of all time] 1-36
Super Dimensional Calvery: Southern Cross 1-23
Heat Guy J 1-26
Berserk [You will love this if you are into gore] 1-24
Full metal Panic 1-24
Full metal Panic Fumoffu 1-15
Futari 1-13
Ebichu [my fav ecchi anime....you WILL split a gut watching this] 1-24
Cowboy Beebop [obviously] 1-26
Devilman [Hardcore voilence at its best]
Midori no Hibi [another FAV...seriously what happens when you wake up one day and your hand is a girl...] 1-13
Elfen Lied [This is very gory but also distrurbing in a psychological perspective. I recommend you watch this but not for the gore because the story is very touching at the same time...one of my favs] 1-13 [plus a DVD special]
...anymore????
...god i'm sure i've left a lot out.

Currently waiting for Episode 3 of Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid

Many thanks to everyone for taking the time to post these ideas! I'm going to get watching straight away.

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Originally posted by kaptain kangaroo:
If you want information on how to acquire these *cough*, send me a private message and i will link you to areas where you can acquire them legally.

Thanks again - I'll see what I can beg, borrow, etc. but I might get back to you about this. Really useful to know about the database, BTW.

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Originally posted by plan9:
Also, please dont call it Japanimation, it makes you sound like a noob and it's a loathsome American term!lol!

Well, that's because I am a noob - but point taken. The word shall not pass my lips again!

Cheers everyone.

Why has no one mentioned

Street Fighter 2 an excellent film
also the Guyver series although they have been mentioned
Uno Sucadozi(Sp)

Street Fighter the Anime movie in my opinion i crap, but if you like that sort of stuff, more to you. Even had a chance to see the uncut version.....it was still crap, although the chance of watching Chin Li in the shower did *cough* make my trouser snake *cough* happy....it was still a crap film tho.

Both of the Street Fighter anime's are pretty bad in my opinion