Spring 2011 Forecast

Grab Bag: Give me lesser-know but good old school anime titles! (anything from the last century goes, but pre-95 is preferred)

 

Full Metal Panic

 

Higurashi vs. Umineko

 

D Gray Man vs. Armed Librarians

 

Spice and Wolf

 

Ideas

Grab Bags Regular Showings

Grab Bags

• Oh! My Goddess OVA 

 

• Astro Boy

 

• Maison Ikkoku

 

• Kindaichi Shounen Jikenbo 
• Kind of hard for grab bags though, each arc is usually three to four episodes at least... (~Cindy)

 

• Ashita no Joe
• Do subs for this even exist? Live action movie coming out though, so might as well? (~Cindy)

 

• Chibi-Momoko chan
• I would love your forever if you can find a subbed version that's not in Chinese, so it's probably a no-go, but... (~Cindy)

 

• Tokyo Babylon
• CLAMP. 'nuff said. (~Cindy)

 

• Doraemon
• This is the classic of classics. And a good part of my childhood. (~Cindy)

 

       Supernatural

-          Yu-gi-oh Season Zero (when Yugi murders people and Kaiba has green hair)

-          Dominion Tank Police

-          Other suggestions (old school classic anime theme)

o   The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (Original Macross)

o   Magic Knight Rayearth

o   Captain Harlock

o   Fist of the North Star

 

Regular Showings

• Saint Seiya The Lost Canvas
• Two friends start off in a magic academy. Become badass avatars of major gods. They become enemies and fight. Prologue to Saint Seiya.  (~Kelly)

 

• 07 Ghost
• A boy goes to magic academy. Finds out the school leaders killed his family. Finds sanctuary in holy land. Fights the evil leaders. His possessed best friend becomes a sidekick critter.(~Kelly)

 

• Spice and Wolf
• harvest wolf goddess follows merchant around (~Kelly)
• Amusing. Reccomended. (~Joe)

 

• Shakugan no Shana
• Girl who controls fire accidentally kills schoolboy. They fight soul-based demons (Bleach?) (~Kelly)

 

• Sola
• Boy who loves taking pictures of sky interacts with three girls, including one who has aversion to sunlight. (Hitagi?) (~Kelly)

 

• Supernatural
• Two brothers fight legendary monsters across America while looking for their missing father and vengeance against the yellow-eyed demon who killed their mother   (~Kelly)

 

• Vandred
• Civil war between men and women. Hibiki wants his own mecha, it somehow gets him on the women’s side.   (~Kelly)

 

• Togainu no Chi
• Japan civil war causes gang to take over Tokyo with war game. Boy participates and tries to uncover mysteries. (~Kelly)

 

• Basquash
• Troublemaking Boy wants to  show his crippled sister the moon. Best way to do it is enter boring mecha basketball game and make it interesting. (~Kelly)

 

• Toshokan​ Sensou  
• Girl defends media with librarians.   (~Kelly)

 

• Book of Bantorra, Armed Librarians
• Team protects books infused with human souls.   (~Kelly)

 

• Utawaremono
• Masked man found unconscious in woods becomes village leader. Leads them in war.   (~Kelly)
• Adequate, esp. since we won't make it to the end, where it suddenly gets weird. (~Joe)

 

• Daiguard
• Team desperately protects city against alien invaders with “Daiguard” mecha—funny thing is, it’s a piece of crap. (Good review) mecha   (~Kelly)

 

• Full Metal Panic
• clueless boy raised in the military assigned to protect budding psychic. He is mistaken for a military otaku. Funny at times, sad at others. (~Kelly)  

 

• Umineko no Naku Koro Ni
• a group of eighteen people on a secluded island for a period of two days, and people are getting killed. (~Cindy)