Day 2 - Favorite anime you’ve watched so far

[sara_tanaquil]

I love this meme because I feel like it might make me start watching more anime again. For years now I've spent far more time studying and reading manga than actually watching anime, and there are so many things I haven't seen.

Favorite anime is a really tough call, but I think the award would have to go to



Rurouni Kenshin was one of the first series I properly saw when I went searching for anime in a major way (I always wanted to watch more anime, but it wasn't until I moved to CT that I found rental stores that carried it), and it's still one of the very best. I think my favorite part is how it kicks you in the gut with characters' backstories every.single.time. -- even and perhaps especially the villains. I prefer the lightness of the TV series to the darkness of the OVAs and movies, though.

Runners-up would be Escaflowne and Fushigi Yuugi, both of which I also watched very early in my anime-watching career -- hmm, something is wrong when all your favorites are the ones you saw 10 years ago. I love Escaflowne so much that it possibly ought to have got the award for favorite, but RK edged it out for epic awesome.

Hey, maybe now that I can sort of read Japanese, I should go back and read all those Rurouni Kenshin volumes I bought when I was still trying to decipher the difference between "ru" and "ro".

Everyone feel free to pile on with their nominations for favorite in the comments!

Now back to grading.

Comments

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

Yay, Miaki fans unite! (collarnojutsu is with us in spirit.)



(I also do not hate Meiling or Chibiusa, lol.)

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

And Chibiusa was going to be next on my annoying list. You must have high tolerance. ^_^ (It took me a sec to figure out who she was because I mostly know Sailor Moon through the English dubs.)

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

Oh, ugh, if we are talking about "Rini" it's a different story entirely.

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

Wow, was she that different in the dub? Another series I need to re-watch (or watch properly, I never did see any of the later episodes). But I'll be having more to say about Sailor Moon soon.

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

Well, it's partly because her dub voice is so freaking annoying. And partly because my opinion of her character is colored by later episodes, which the dub didn't get to (or rather, by the time the dub got to those episodes, I was no longer interested in the dub).