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I am no anime aficionado. Hell I'm not really even an anime fan. But I come here humbly asking for your help. I remember seeing an anime short several years ago (over 5 I believe) that I remember being called simply "Techno Anime". I could be wrong, but I think I remember the title being something stupidly vague like that. This wasn't some kid editing a bunch of anime together to an electronica song, but a complete short film with a bumpin soundtrack written specifically for it. Things I remember about the film: - It was about souls (I think). They would get separated from people and harvested by some bad guy (with a very high shrill voice naturally). He (she / it?) would have a big robot controlled like a puppet, and go around eating them up. - There was a group of rogues who would try to free these soul things. In the end they eventually get the bad guy eaten by his own robot. - The end credits were a bunch of the kids in the film singing something in English. If I remember anything else, I will post it here. But I was hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction? Thanks advance in your help! P.S. Go ahead and make this an "identify this anime" megathread or whatever.
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Sounds like Noiseman Sound Insect, by the great Koji Morimoto.
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Sep 1, 2010 01:22
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Nailed it, thank you!
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Sep 1, 2010 03:05
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This is going to be vague as gently caress because I saw this forever ago, but here goes: Can anyone remember an anime (actually it might be western animation, but I don't think so) about a bunch of armored suit pilots (specifically smaller than a mecha. One scene I remember was the pilot testing the arm, he was squeezing his hand, and the suit was imitating it and it was maybe twice the size of the pilot? The plot was something vaguely Mars-related, and involved a woman who was somehow not what she appeared to be (clone or alien pretending to be the woman or something like that.) I'm thinking it might have been based on Bradbury?
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Sep 2, 2010 00:33
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Mirconium posted:This is going to be vague as gently caress because I saw this forever ago, but here goes: Martian Successor Nadesico? I might be wrong though. It's been a while since I (partially) watched it.
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Sep 2, 2010 01:00
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sounds like MOBILE SUIT ZETA GUNDAM
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Sep 2, 2010 01:07
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Does anyone remember an anime where two kids find magical koala wizards and then the koala wizards tell them they have to dress up as koalas and go to the magic koala wizard kingdom to find someone's dead grandpa or something? Also the koala wizards in the koala wizard world are fiercely racist and would utterly destroy the two kids if they found out they were not actually koala wizards as well.
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Sep 2, 2010 01:14
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Martian Successor Nadesico? I might be wrong though. It's been a while since I (partially) watched it. I think this looks about right, thanks.
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Sep 2, 2010 04:03
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Martian Successor Nadesico? I might be wrong though. It's been a while since I (partially) watched it. Doesn't sound right. An Aestivalis is standard mecha size, not small at all. Additionally, the pilots didn't need to move themselves to move their mecha.
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Sep 2, 2010 04:24
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Mirconium posted:This is going to be vague as gently caress because I saw this forever ago, but here goes: Genesis Climber Mospeada had motorcycles that transformed into a mech that wasn't much larger than a human, an expeditionary force coming back from Mars to reclaim Earth, and involved three apparently female characters who weren't what they seemed; one was actually a dude who was hiding his identity, the other two were aliens changed into human form. It was adapted into the third part of Robotech, which might be the part about western animation you're remembering.
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Sep 2, 2010 05:04
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Mirconium posted:This is going to be vague as gently caress because I saw this forever ago, but here goes: This is Appleseed yo. The 2005 movie. Ashenai fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Sep 2, 2010 |
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Sep 2, 2010 06:19
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e: ^ ^ why did you remove the link?Vincent Valentine posted:Does anyone remember an anime where two kids find magical koala wizards and then the koala wizards tell them they have to dress up as koalas and go to the magic koala wizard kingdom to find someone's dead grandpa or something? This was definitely My Neighbor Totoro Kweh fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Sep 2, 2010 |
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Sep 2, 2010 06:32
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Kweh posted:e: ^ ^ why did you remove the link? I thought it would be  since turns out the entire movie is up on youtube
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Sep 2, 2010 06:36
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Kweh posted:e: ^ ^ why did you remove the link? No it wasn't totoro had the giant cat not the koala wizards Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noozles turns out it's the Noozles, but there's only one kid. I'm mostly just happy I my parents weren't slipping me drugs when I was 5 years old and that the show actually exists because for awhile there I wasn't sure. Vincent Valentine fucked around with this message at 10:28 on Sep 2, 2010 |
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Sep 2, 2010 07:15
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Vincent Valentine posted:No it wasn't totoro had the giant cat not the koala wizards Narrowed it down to either MOSPEADA or VOTOMS ruled out a bunch of others because the other criterion is that I saw it in '97 or so on a pirated VHS tape, so I have zero idea when it aired, but it was before then. (Sorry forgot to mention that.) MOSPEADA is a good suggestion though, it might be it. Votoms because I don't really remember if it was actually mars or not in the movie, just some red planet, and the art direction looks really similar, and I'm doing to watch it anyway, because, hey, why not? Also, HOLY loving poo poo WHAT HE HELL IS THAT PEDO KOALA poo poo?
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Sep 6, 2010 09:45
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Vincent Valentine posted:No it wasn't totoro had the giant cat not the koala wizards What the gently caress I am not going to lie, I thought you were just trolling.
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Sep 6, 2010 11:54
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Mirconium posted:Also, HOLY loving poo poo WHAT HE HELL IS THAT PEDO KOALA poo poo? It aired on nickeloden it's for 5 year olds not pedos.
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Sep 6, 2010 12:45
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Hopefully someone will be able to get this off my mind. Saw a couple of shows sometime back. Might or might not be the same 1 show. Here's what I recall: -Giant mecha -Magic -Immortal in girl form -Mecha launching from the ground -Police cars/Secret service types hunting down protagonist Might be a totally different show altogether: -Last episode/arc involved all the protagonists on some sort of vessel going to a Ryleh-esque kind of island to do battle -Some enemy had whips -Sniper guy from the good team does something self sacrificial or someshit Here's where it gets fuzzy.. -Minor character form villian team joining up with protagonist team -Mass villian invasion of the good guys' base -Villian with some poison capability drat my memory is messed up.
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Sep 6, 2010 15:28
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Orientek posted:Hopefully someone will be able to get this off my mind. RahXephon? edit: or Code Geass. Jesus, I think all of these fit just about every mecha show. Ashenai fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Sep 6, 2010 |
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Sep 6, 2010 15:42
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Ashenai posted:RahXephon? Nope. It's neither of those. I think I might just be insane  .
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Sep 6, 2010 16:13
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Demonbane comes to mind, but thats just the only magic + mecha show I can recall. The main dudes companion is a chick that is actually the necronomicon and she summons a mech for him to use to fight other grimoires and Lovecraftian old gods.
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Sep 6, 2010 16:16
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Another vague as gently caress description but it's the best I can come up with after like 18 years. The anime itself seemed follow a more realistic style ála City Hunter. I'm quite sure it must have been a filler episode or something. Some girl decides to hide in a newly developed military tank that's equipped with AI. The tank pretty much confines the girl inside and busts out from wherever it was. It rampages through the city wrecking stuff while the hero group and military try to intercept it as it's heading towards the ocean to sink itself. I forgot how they managed to get the girl out of the tank but it ended on a happy note and the tank sinking itself. Man, I'd be surprised if anyone could actually figure this one out
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Sep 6, 2010 22:22
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Spectral Werewolf posted:Demonbane comes to mind, but thats just the only magic + mecha show I can recall. The main dudes companion is a chick that is actually the necronomicon and she summons a mech for him to use to fight other grimoires and Lovecraftian old gods. I think you got it! Thanks!
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Sep 7, 2010 00:33
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Grausherra posted:Another vague as gently caress description but it's the best I can come up with after like 18 years. The anime itself seemed follow a more realistic style ála City Hunter.
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Sep 7, 2010 21:45
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afro gunsou posted:The only series I know of a girl in an AI tank is The Third: The Girl With the Blue Eye. I've only seen an episode, so I can't say anything about the ending you described. A part inside me wishes that too but only if it were that easy. The setting for this show was rather normal, like everything else besides the tank seemed to belong to 80's/90's in terms of looks. Even the tank looked like a normal M1 Abrams besides the whole AI thing.
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Sep 7, 2010 22:32
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Mirconium posted:This is going to be vague as gently caress because I saw this forever ago, but here goes: Maybe Exosquad? It's quite vague, Exosquad sorta fits the bill as it was an "American Anime" which more or less meant that it had a defined plot that went from A to B instead of villain of the week which was the standard at the time. Even if it's not that you should watch Exosquad it ruled.
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Sep 11, 2010 03:26
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YouTuber posted:Maybe Exosquad? It's quite vague, Exosquad sorta fits the bill as it was an "American Anime" which more or less meant that it had a defined plot that went from A to B instead of villain of the week which was the standard at the time. Even if it's not that you should watch Exosquad it ruled. ExoSquad does rule, but I don't think it had a woman who wasn't what she appeared to be. Unless he's remembering Marsh's rat-tail and thought he was a woman.
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Sep 11, 2010 06:07
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Grausherra posted:Another vague as gently caress description but it's the best I can come up with after like 18 years. The anime itself seemed follow a more realistic style ála City Hunter. The plot you've described sounds similar to Roujin Z, except it's not a girl trapped inside the AI machine that's heading out towards the ocean. It's an old man. Perhaps you saw it on the Sci-Fi Channel? The artwork is a bit more realistic-looking since the staff involves Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira) and the recently-deceased Satoshi Kon (Paranoia Agent). MADOX-01 is also about someone trapped in a military unit (and incidentally ALSO starts with a scene of a pilot testing the arm of the machine that's about twice his size), but that's a regular guy in the suit. Plus, that's not really one people would likely encounter unless they were specifically tracking it down.
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Sep 11, 2010 19:23
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Mirconium posted:This is going to be vague as gently caress because I saw this forever ago, but here goes: I haven't seen (or read) it myself, but I know there was an anime adaptation of Starship Troopers. It had the armored suits and the American sci-fi author (Robert Heinlein) aspects, but I'm not sure about the rest.
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Sep 11, 2010 22:44
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Here's one I've asked about in a few places over the years but haven't been able to find.
To give a time frame, I watched this on VHS when I was quite young and living in Russia, so it must have been available there around 1990-1993. I hope someone can remember this for me, I really want to watch it again 
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Nov 8, 2010 14:10
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Nomikos posted:Here's one I've asked about in a few places over the years but haven't been able to find. The blob sounds a little bit like "Shadow Star" (Narutaru), but none of the other stuff sounds very familiar to me. Of course, I didn't get extremely far in that series, so it could be?
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Nov 8, 2010 15:17
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DrSunshine posted:The blob sounds a little bit like "Shadow Star" (Narutaru), but none of the other stuff sounds very familiar to me. Of course, I didn't get extremely far in that series, so it could be?
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Nov 8, 2010 15:44
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Nomikos posted:Here's one I've asked about in a few places over the years but haven't been able to find. That's probably Birth, also known as Planet Busters and World of the Talisman. Here's the blob pet, here's the sword floating through space, and here's the ending.
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Nov 8, 2010 19:40
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Ok, there was this one(or two) episode OVA about pirates, the captain was some blonde with pigtails, and the crew had some elfish little kid, who later fights in energy form against some monster, also, I think the ship flies at some point. Anybody knows what was that?
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Nov 8, 2010 20:28
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cisneros posted:Ok, there was this one(or two) episode OVA about pirates, the captain was some blonde with pigtails, and the crew had some elfish little kid, who later fights in energy form against some monster, also, I think the ship flies at some point. Anybody knows what was that? Ellcia? Most of what you describe matches up. It's a weird little series, from what I remember. The dark, violent atmosphere really clashes with the annoying, stupid-looking characters.
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Nov 9, 2010 05:45
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Kid Fenris posted:That's probably Birth, also known as Planet Busters and World of the Talisman. Here's the blob pet, here's the sword floating through space, and here's the ending. Wow, that's definitely it. Just ordered a copy of the 2004 re-release  Thank you!
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Nov 9, 2010 07:02
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Kid Fenris posted:Ellcia? Most of what you describe matches up. That's exactly it, thanks!(I've been typing "Celcia" to no avail). Man, Locomotion used to have a great selection before becoming Animax and turning into the "Bleach/FMA/Anything as unrelated to anime as possible" channel.
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Nov 9, 2010 18:14
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I remember watching an anime on the Action Channel that had prisoners in the future fighting vampires and I think telekinetic robots. The dub had a character who called a dude a "dicksplash" so that's why I remember it.
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Nov 10, 2010 01:26
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Parmesan Basil posted:I remember watching an anime on the Action Channel that had prisoners in the future fighting vampires and I think telekinetic robots. The dub had a character who called a dude a "dicksplash" so that's why I remember it. Cyber City Odeo 808 Action Channel anime was the highlight of my youth. 
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afro gunsou posted:Cyber City Odeo 808 Yes! This one owned bones.
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