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openSome kind of anime or cartoon involving defective robots in one episode Anime
It was anime episode with a stereotypical group of kids investigating an old laboratory where they find piles of cogs and machinery, and it turns out that they are the remains of defective robots which suddenly begin shimmering and vanish into those piles. I recall an image where there are robots lining up, a few flickering into rusty machinery, and brought into a crushing room where scientists destroy them due to being defective. I recall them showing a robot being crushed while screaming Nooooooo! I think they made friends with some robot, then there's a huge gap in my memory. Anyway, they find themselves in a plateau surrounded by robots, the one they made friends with then flickers and vanishes into a small pile of machinery. They then walk away really depressed, but then suddenly they (for either a reason I don't remember or absolutely no reason) they begin laughing and run cheerfully away. I think it might have involved magical animal trainers, maybe not. I recall absolutely loathing this show and avoiding every airing episode like it was the freaking plague.
openAn Anime movie about a girl and a digital world. Anime
So i remember seeing with my dad an western animation film or an anime movie (pretty sure it was an anime movie) long time ago, and for whatever reason some parts of it stucked to me. And now im trying to remember it and see it again. Here is what i remember: -The protagnist was a girl, she was a student i think. -it was set in the near future where small bot like tech exists, and are something like siri if i remember correctly. -virtual reality world exists, (similarly like Sword Art Online.) -the little bot thing that the girl has makes her an male avatar for her to try out the game, -i think she starts grinding levels so she can stand a chance against stronger enemies in the virtual reality game. -the girl sees an female figure and with her interaction with the figure the game i think. -at the end there is some virus and 1 or 2 users die or get in a coma because of it.
Thats all i remember, im sorry if its not enough or if my English is bad.
Edited by PootisBirbopenSome anime my friend can't remember... Anime
Series in which the protagonist is able to see (with magic eye) creatures (some humanoid i believe) and joins a 'terrorist' group of them to combat more sinister ones. His sister is to some degree disabled and is featured reading a letter from the protagonist whilst looking out over a lake. I believe the city has been cut off from the rest of the world.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
openManga About a Flower, Inspired by The Little Mermaid? Anime
So, it's a story about a flower (a morning glory, I think?) who falls in love with a human guy after he almost steps on her, but the guy really likes flowers so he apologizes. So, she gives up her stem, leaves, petals, etc. for a human body, a family, and a house (I think, it's been forever since I read it). Then she meets the guy and they bond over popsicle stick wishes? I think? I also believe an author's note said it was inspired by the Little Mermaid. I know this has been five sentences of unhelpful but I don't remember much. ^^;
Edited by Aria-AmberkinzopenNo Title Anime
I remember watching an anime, at least I'm pretty sure it was an anime, when I was about ten, I don't remember a great deal of it, but bits of the ending have stuck with me for twenty plus years, so bit may have changed. It was about a magical girl who some how ended up in a cabin in the forest, I think she might have been a princess and she may have been in hiding, I'm not quite sure of that. Suddenly it cuts to a villainous dark shadowy figure on horse back riding fast through the forest, the image I have in my head is of his face, he has quite pointed angular features, maybe looks a little like Vampire Hunter D, and there are speed lines behind him. He gets to the cabin and the magical girl comes out sees the dark figure and opens a large ravine in the ground with lava at the bottom, there is a battle and the dark shadowy man ends up falling into the ravine and the last shot I can remember is of a skull sinking into lava. I have scoured the internet looking for any kind of clue, hopefully someone her can shed some light.
openPrincess possessed by a demon Anime
It was either an Anime or Western Animation Film, I think it was the former. After a Princess dies, a young soldier is ordered to guard the body for three nights until the funeral, but on the way is warned to hide in a different specific location (In the church) each night, so the demon or evil spirit possessing the princess won't find and eat him. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
openWeird Anime Anime
I can't remember the name of the anime, but, some kid got a blue jewel stuck in his arm, I think, and thanks to it, he turns into what You Tube comments I saw call "orange dolphin".
openVery vauge specific scene Anime
Okay I've been stuck remembering once chunk of a scene from an anime, and have no clue where it's from. All I remember is a close-up-ish of a guy's face, the guy has the happy squinted-but-not-closed eyes and is crying a little and is saying "My Son!" [possibly "Son's name? My son!"] ...any suggestions?
Edited by flamyangelwingsopenGory anime MOVIE about test tube babies Anime
So I saw this as a young teen (2007/2008?) and I remember watching this really sad anime that my sister borrowed from a friend, but she doesn't remember it at all. Basically parents don't have genetic children, only test tube babies, and it's very very rare that any of them are siblings. There's a group of teens/young adults that are mentored by (I THINK) a silver haired guy in glasses that dies. I think they're all orphans, but I'm not positive. The mentor ends up coming back multiple times, but every time he comes back, he's more violent and starts killing the group. Two of the boys are siblings and very very close, one maybe 18 or 19, the other probably 12 or 13. The older brother is trying to stop one of the bad guys on a space ship and blows himself up with the ship to stop them. His brother is obviously devastated. That's the main scene I remember. The other one is when a girl is bleeding heavily and crying, running away from the mentor. She goes in a spacious room with a ship in it to hide. While she's there, she starts hallucinating from the loss of blood, thinking her mom is there for her (her mom died) and she gets really happy. The mentor finds her and as soon as she comes back to reality, he shoots her. I feel like this is sort of vague, but I've been looking for this for freaking ever and I only remember it because one of the songs playing in the background of this movie is similar to a song I listen to frequently, but I could just never remember the damn name!
Edited by NatiOoopenThree teenagers work at a chinese resturant and hunt demons. Anime
I remember watching this when I was little. So, the main characters were three teenagers- two male one female. I remember one of the guys has black or brown hair with blond tips, or something? He also wore yellow sports clothes. I also remember one episode where the same guy snuck into a fortune cookie factory or something, and apparently the cookies turned you into a demon monkey, it looked like something from The Wizard Of Oz. Anyways, he ate one, turned into a demon monkey, and somehow an army formed and tried to take over the city? I remember that the girl always had her hair up, a ravenette. Always wore red sports clothes. I also know that their boss was this over wight dude that always wore a white tank top and hair up in a man-bun. Usually he had grease stains on the shirt. Oh! Also, I think they were training to become ninjas? It's hard to remember... I also think the area was Tokyo. I can't really remember anything else...
openKorean/Chinese 3d Animated show about a angry girl with electricity powers who likes a boy. Anime
And no it is not a certain railgun. i say this trailer on You Tube a year ago and i really liked it but i lost it. it was about a girl with electricity powers who who is anti social and tries to stay away from people because she doesn't want to hurt them but a boy falls in love with her anyway and doesn't mind being shocked by her. i think it is based on a tv show.
openPokemon like Robot anime Anime
It was this show that was really obscure about these kids that worked in a lab or something. Then they got robots and to fight other robots, it was very similar to pokemon but with robots. The theme song was really damn catchy, and my brother used to always make jokes about the title because it was kind of stupid... The voices were in english.
Edited by MintyShoujiopenWhat anime is this? Anime
If this request seems familiar, I accidentally posted this in the main Ask the Tropers section a few days ago. Sometime a few years ago (between 2010 and 2013) I watched a couple of episodes of an anime where each episode showed the main character's first two years of college, but he was doing something different every time. The first episode had him join the cycling team, and the second had him involved in a prank war.
openAnime Anime
I remember this one anime I watched a couple years back with my sis and I believe it was on cartoon Network and I know it was on Netflix it was a bout these 3 kids who to a boarding school that has a super computer at the bottom of it and one of the kids Controls the super computer while the other kids go in to a vitural reality thing and they fight monsters and are trying to retrieve the creator of the computer daughter and I think he girl had pink hair
openWhat's this show again? Anime
the main character uses a katana and used to fight in the Japanese military and helps out a dojo and he was something like a man killer or slayer
opencop anime about crime fighting fourth grader and an giant panda Anime
with mommy bingewatching beast wars,one of my uncles was trying to remember an '94 anime. 1)it was an cop anime- it shows in the title"something police something" 2)it was about an fourth grader who was an boss of an group of crime-fighting robots 3)one of the 48 episodes featured an giant panda 4)another one of the 48 episodes was about the leader having an weird dream of the disbandment of the robot team. of course he woke up right in front of the entire team of crime-fighting robots.
openDinosaurs? Anime
It had a bunch of kids that had magic stones that they could swipe cards on to summon dinosaurs to fight for them. I remember that they would shout "Dino Slash!" Whenever they would summon their Dinosaurs. What was it called?
openDoes anyone remember this one animesque show about giant arachnids? Anime
I think this was either a dubbed anime or some animesque project. I don't remember which, but I've been recalling snippets of the show. I think. It may have been hallucinations, or dreams, but I'm fairly certain it exists.... I wanna say 'Spider Crusaders', but somehow, I don't think that's quite it....
An old animated TV show with a little Asian girl in a fuzzy hat who runs up the stairs with a boy who she gets along with very well and they both have spears.