chinese cartoons

[Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers]

because of the Rog/Tyrone thread, I've felt the need to state for the record my favourite of all time chinese cartoons. here's an attempted ranking

10. Akagi/Kaiji

While it's not the best work by this mangaka (that goes to Ten: The Nice Guy on the Way to Tenhou), Kaiji is still one of the funnest manga by Fukumoto; Akagi is the side story of the best character from Ten and is a great anime in its own right.. Essentially I'd rank Kaiji and Akagi the same.





9. Free!

The best show about friendship, brotherhood, swimming and various upper body muscle groups ever produced. KyoAni did it again!



Make us freeなSplash! 重ねた光のコントラスト浴びて
Feel so freeな今日 飛び込むオレたちの Brand new blue, yeh
思うように sei! sei! sei! a-oh
自分らしく kick! kick! kick! a-oh
掴みたいんだ pull! pull! pull! a-oh
届きそうな deep! deep! deep! Splash Free





8. Mushishi

This is a very relaxed and beautiful animation. Something about the calmness of this series and it's episodic nature makes it a good show to put on if you want to relax. The manga has been excellent for years, and season 2 is finally getting made.



7. Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

BURE BURE BURE BURE BURE



RUMBA RUMBA RUMBA RUMBA RUMBA



6. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

This series earns a spot more because of the fact that the manga is 25+ years old and still running strong with one of the best stories in manga. There's only been an anime of Part 1 and 2 of 8 parts, but Part 3 is getting adapted soon and promises to be possibly the most popular arc of the series.

JoJo is perfection.



Josuke > Giorno > Joseph > Josuke > Jolyne > Johnny > Jotaro > Johnathan

Also Duwang was the best interpretation of the manga.



5. Mobile Suit Gundam (Universal Century)



0079, Zeta, ZZ and Char's Counterattack all fall under here. Essentially the series that started mecha. And perhaps more importantly than that, the series that started Gundam. No Gundam show has yet to surpass the story of Amuro and Char. Everything from the top quality (at the time) 70s animation, the groovy 70s Japanese music and the coming of age story in it all make this one of the best series ever.







Also Gundam 0079 was the first series to feature Char Aznable, the greatest character in all of anime.














and on that note

4. Evangelion

ZANKOKU NA TENSHI NO YOU NI
SHOUNEN YO SHINWA NI NARE



3. Cardcaptor Sakura

The best traditional mahou shojou anime. Sakura is the queen.





2. Revolutionary Girl Utena

This anime was a post-modern deconstruction of the mahou shoujo genre with lesbian protagonists before Madoka made it cool. It's stylish as hell and has one of the only OSTs I'll actually put on my phone. Kunihiko Ikuhara's masterpiece.



Also every episode has one of these scenes.



1. Legend of the Galactic Heroes







To me this is undisputedly the best anime ever made. A sprawling 110 episode space opera with several skirmishes and wars with gigantic intergalactic fleets. It's not only about the difference between empires and democracies, it's about the 100s of characters in the series; some come in briefly and leave just as fast, some are in the show for long periods.

This is the cast:


It was recently re-released on blu-ray, so there's really no better time to watch it than now.

www.nyaa.se/?page=download&tid=262181

You'll notice sometimes in a lot of the Rog/Tyrone vids they will have a screencap from this show; that's because pretty much every fan of chinese cartoons has to at the very least recognize this series as a masterpiece.

[Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers]

Here's this old guy reviewing all these shows.

Legend of the Galactic Heroes


JoJo (Note this is the OLD school anime and not the newer 2012 edition)

[Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers]

i should give this series an honourable mention just because it had gene simmons in it







these two characters are the same person, which is pretty much the plot of Detroit Metal City. Basically the little faggot on the right has always wanted to become a pop musician like boring Swedish bands or doing folk/love songs. He travels to Tokyo to study music because he really wants to become a pop artist. Instead, he ends up turning into this guy



basically this series is about coming to terms with who you are and making the most out of the gifts you have.

sometimes even when your dream is to be a pretty boy swedish pop musician, it turns out you were a death metal god all along.

They had fucking Gene Simmons come to Japan for the live action movie

[Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers]

lol found this list

it's actually very accurate from what I can tell. Keanu Reeves has mentioned liking anime in interviews, Kanye shitposts about anime on his twitter, RPatz is a known patrician (which explains his good taste), he probably got Jackson into Jojo, Gackt made that Gundam m/v I posted, Christian Bale has mentioned liking MGS, it doesn't surprise me that Hogan likes a manga about wrestling, Robin Williams literally trolled Eva fans in One Hour Photo with an action figure from his own Eva collection, and Masi Oka's character on Heroes mentions some shit about wanting to be like Jotaro from Jojo.



basically all these famous people women clamour over (and Hayley) love anime/manga. so if you think anime is for nerds and neckbeards (only), you need to get your head out of your ass!

i'll admit it's still a nerdy hobby. but if you're handsome and talented, no one actually cares how big of a nerd you are.

[Saxy Steph]

Kaiji and Cardcaptor Sakura are Chinese? Whaaaaaat?

[Cheesemaster V]

Apr 10, 2014 21:50:58 GMT -5 Saxy Steph said:

Kaiji and Cardcaptor Sakura are Chinese? Whaaaaaat?

lol

[Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers]

Apr 10, 2014 21:50:58 GMT -5 Saxy Steph said:

Kaiji and Cardcaptor Sakura are Chinese? Whaaaaaat?

repostan

[Saxy Steph]

lmfao meanie I WAS JUST CLARIFYING

[Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers]

basically what happened is way back in the day on 4chan, people would come to trollbait on /a/ by posting stuff like "why the fuck do you nerds spend all day sitting around watching chinese cartoons", and then /a/ in its infancy would retort, "THEY'RE NOT CHINESE, THEY'RE JAPANESE!" etc. Soon it became very obvious that it was a simple way of trolling anime fans to refer to anime as "chinese cartoons". Eventually, everybody was calling it chinese cartoons, even anime fans themselves. Which is why in ironic videos like the Rog and Tyrone videos, it's only natural to make them seem as if they're arguing seriously about "which chinese cartoon is the Evangelion of this generation" or "which chinese cartoon has the best girl". These are common tropes on /a/, no matter what season or year it is. This is also why Tyrone was made to say "Hello everybody! Or as they say in Chinese, 'Pantsu wo taberu!'" which means "eating panties" in Japanese.

The more you know

[Saxy Steph]

oh, 4chan and your silly antics. lol

Thank you for that explanation, Mike :3 I feel less stupid now rofl

[Duvet]

I can't rank which chinese cartoons I liked more than the other so I'll just list w/e comes to mind first

baccano
durarara
fate/zero
kara no kyoukai
katanagatari
kill la kill
panty & stocking
psycho-pass
steins;gate
ttgl

lol mostly newer chinese cartoons, but I do respect older classics like the ones posted above. I can't stand the majority of the shit that's being aired nowadays because of obnoxious fan service, moeshit, or lack of quality original content. I just simply don't have the time or interest to bother watching shit people recommend anymore, I'll pick up like 1 series on a whim if it seems aight. the time in high school where I could marathon some shitty show in one sitting is literally impossible for me to do now

[Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers]

baccano and durarara were alright
fate/zero a shit
kara no kyoukai was entertaining
katanagatari was very nice
kill la kill a shit. i tried 5 times to make it through the first few episodes and just found doing physics homework more entertaining
panty and stocking is classic gainax
psycho-pass a shit
steins;gate was fun
ttgl was fun

[Duvet]

chinese cartoon overlord has spoken

j/k it's all good, they're not masterpieces by any means, but I liked them because they appealed to me

likewise, I really don't understand how one can legitimately enjoy and watch free. a couple of weebs I sometimes talk to keep saying it's some revolutionary masterpiece or some shit when I could barely even make it through the first episode without feeling the massive need to close that shit. the same weebs also find sword art online, log horizon, and madoka to be the greatest chinese cartoons ever created and at that point I just pretend I don't know these people

[Cheesemaster V]

I haven't watched enough shows to make a meaningful top 10 list, but interestingly enough I seem to have some similar interests with Patrick. Of the shows I've watched, my favourites so far are Baccano, Durarara, Fate/Zero, and Steins;Gate.

[Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers]

Everyone's entitled to enjoy whatever anime they enjoy. In the immortal words of ancient Eastern philosopher Yui Hirasawa:



Free is not deep or some kind of masterpiece. I like Free for exactly the reasons I stated:

The best show about friendship, brotherhood, swimming and various upper body muscle groups ever produced. KyoAni did it again!

Basically it's K-On with boys. Also it made me really enjoy going to the gym to go swimming, and I just liked the characters and friendships between them.

You have the boy that makes people gay, Nagisa Hazuki




you might not admit it, but a part of you wonders what he'd look like with a girly wig and a pair of panties on

the alpha Makoto Tachibana,


O M G those back muscles


the moetistic Haruka Nanase





the cunning Rei Ryuugazaki





and the archnemesis Australiafag Rin Matsuoka





he cries in the end lol


I'm not going to pretend the show is deep or something. If you're not interested in pretty men, much of the appeal of Free is lost on you so I completely understand not liking it. I feel similarly about JoJo although JoJo is actually one of the best manga ever made, artistically, imaginatively and in terms of storyline. You pretty much have to like men to like Free, not necessarily with Jojo. You just have to like manliness and cool adventures.

sword art online and log horizon looked too dumb to watch. madoka was definitely a creative series, but like I've said, if you want to watch a truly imaginative postmodern shojou series, Utena is your best bet.



To be perfectly honest the only anime I'll actually call a masterpiece definitively is LoGH for the reasons stated in the first post.





Basically I saw this image posted on /a/, and then I torrented the whole series. Best anime I ever decided to watch.