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openRetro magical girl anime with a blonde protagonist? Anime
No, it wasn't Sailor Moon.
I can't remember which series this is and looking through Magical Girl didn't help. It's a 80s or 90s Magical Girl, or possibly Cute Witch, anime where the lead is a blonde girl of around 8-13 years old. I know it wasn't Ririka SOS . It might be Akazukin Chacha but I'm not certain.
openMagical girl anime Anime
I don't remember too much unfortunately. It was properly a magical girl anime aired around early 2000's or maybe late 90's. I watched dubbed so can't tell when the original aired. The main character was a high school girl who could transform into a fairy-like/angelic person with wings. She had a rival (maybe even love interest) who was also a student at the school. He had no powers but had combat skills and probably weapons. He wore white clothing, which include a half-mask (i.e. it covered the lower half of his face, up till his nose). He also had blue hair. The one scene I remember is when they went on a date to a funfair and on the Ferris wheel, they were both alerted to some incident and both had to make up excuses to leave (they are unaware of each others secret identities).
I know it's a generic description.
openTwo anime movies or series (not sure) Anime
These are both two anime stories I saw in the mid-90s.
1. The first involves a globe-traveling archaeologist who's somewhat of a modern-day Indiana Jones. I don't recall much about how the story progresses, but at the end it is revealed that he is a member of an almost godlike alien race, and the story ends in a huge battle between him and some other immensely powerful alien. I think the final showdown takes place at a Meso-American style temple.
2. A sci-fi story set 20 Minutes into the Future. The only scene I recall is the main character (maybe a guy? I really don't recall) is facing off on a rooftop against a Killer Robot. The hero realizes that the robot's attack programming is limited, so he just walks straight towards it and doesn't dodge or try to evade at all. Meanwhile, we're shown scenes from the robot's point of view, and we can see it projecting images of all the different ways the hero can avoid its attacks, and it shoots in all those directions. However it can't hit the hero because he was right: it's programming couldn't compensate for someone who wouldn't try to avoid its attacks.
Any ideas?
openIDfk this old ass anime Anime
Looking for an anime that aired on adult swim (toonami) in the early 2000s (like around 2007) and was about a "dark hero" protagonist that saved a girl from bandits, he got his arms cut off and then later found his mother that knew he was already dead. The details are fuzzy because i was about 8 at the time.
openNo Title Anime
There's this anime girl who's popular in fanart on Deviantart and Tumblr. I feel like I've seen her many times in the last few months. Today I got curious and decided to look up who she is and what show or game she's from, only to find I couldn't relocate any of the fanart. Now it's really bugging me.
She has long blond hair with pieces of metal in it. I guess they're some kind of futuristic gadgets. She wears a white uniform with black trim that includes a pleated skirt that comes to points, like it's made of a bunch of elongated pentagons.
openBattle Sci-Fi / Twenty Minutes Into The Future Anime! Anime
I only ever saw a fight scene of this anime, but I am really intrigued about what the anime is. It was set sometime near the modern age, and the fight scene had a young albino boy fighting an old man. The boy kept using some kind of ability involving chains, and the old man used swords that spun in circles. The boy was wearing some kind of suit, and eventually lost his arm and got cut in half, but didn't die (something about his body being fake).
Please and thank you for helping me find out what anime this is!
openTitle unknown Anime
I've tried to find this for years now, asking everywhere but receiving no answer. I think it was an Anime. A movie or maybe a OAV, back in the 80ies. I believe it was an Anime because the design was fairly Anime style and some of the themes treated. I only saw it aired on TV once, it's been thirty years give or take, this is what I remember:
On a peaceful planet inhabited by people capable of shapeshift through the medium of a ring they were given at young age, the emergency life pod of a starship landed in which there was a human baby. This baby was adopted by the leaders of the planet (king and queen maybe) but as age and self awareness sets in he understands he's not from that planet, since he can't shapeshift like the others. He had a... something that was more than a simple crush on his adoptive sister and this fully reciprocated his feelings (and here the suspect was Anime increases, as the two had on screen intimate behaviours well above the western rating of the times). At a certain point, when he was teenager, invasion from another planet (may have been a militaristic earth) destroys the peace of that planet. He was separated from his adoptive parents, who went under the radar shapeshifted as animals in wait for better times, and from his sister/lover. From there he started wandering the galaxy landing on planets with different cultures than his (I remember he exploring a western-themed planet) to be reunited with his relatives, followed by his sister that for some reason had taken the form of an alien cat, or maybe ferret, but that refused to or couldn't, on first, transform in her humanoid shape, leading her brother/lover to, on first, resign himself to the fact she was not her sister/lover but an animal that looked a lot like her in that form... though I remember she transformed once in a different humanoid form to seduce into self-destruction a robot in the western themed world as above for some reason... the two wander around for an amount of time I can't remember clearly, to be reunited with his parents and MAYBE to fulfil a prophecy that wanted him the saviour of the world he was adopted from.
Can't remember more. Don't have high hopes, but if someone has any idea about this old Anime, please let me know its title so I can try and re-watch it for old times sake.
Edited by Conceptual_ExistenceopenI am looking for a gender bent manga Anime
I know I am being a little broad but can anyone tell me of a manga where a 7th grade male gets turned into girl through some supernatural means? The story involves this character who is now in high school trying to bring himself back to normal while dodging a female rival who the Alpha Bitch and male who is in love with him. Does anyone know of the anime and/or manga? It was so long ago when I read it.
Edited by GAPopenI don't know Anime
Okay so I remember watching this cartoon/Anima that was definitely post 2000s.
The storyline is that the mom (who is pregnant )and dad are archeologists of some sort and they excavate this tablet but the tablet gives the kid powers to control these monsters that are released. His powers are very sporadic and he has issues controlling them. They travel around in a giant blimp/airship trying to find the pieces of this tablet so that they can control the monsters and stop the antagonist from doing so. This antagonist is a typical bad guy (gray, thinning hair on the side, and wants to destroy the world). One episode I remember they find a mirror that releases opposite evil versions of themselves from another dimension. This is about all I remember thanks for any help. Oh yeah the kid uses a claw/grapple weapon in battle
open4 kids turn into cube warriors?? Anime
Im trying to remember as much as I can but it's a show about these 4 kids, it starts with a boy who just moved to the new city with his dad and makes friends with one other kid, they find an old shop with a mysterious old man, and end up taking home some small rectangular cube objects that are like a puzzle and turn into figureines. In that old shop is a transfer device where they teleport to the planet those figurines originate from, who turn out to be legendary warriors. The main kid has a red one with sword and shield and his friend had a blue one with a bow and arrow. I can't remember this show and its driving me crazy cause it was fun to watch!! The other two had a yellow one with a whip of some kind and a green one that I can't remember. The world was like earth but a cube shape.
openi don't now Anime
it was on nick and had monsters in it i remember a female character with a white cote purple hair and black leggings
openAn anime about 3 kid ghosts living with people? Anime
I remember that when I was really young, I used to watch an episodic anime that centered around 3 child ghosts, each one living with a different family of normal people. One ghost lived in a restaurant, second with a barber, no idea on the third one. I recall that one episode with the chef ghost had him become more scary by eating spicy food, and another where the barber ghost had to rescue a girl with very long hair who gets stuck on Big Ben or a similar big clock.
Any idea what that was?
openLooking for the name of an anime with angels? Anime
I can't remember the exact details of the anime, but there is a child who inherits a orb which is inside his hand.
He was trained by the bad guys in the enemy base camp, but later he goes to a church academy place (?) and trains to fight for the good side. He uses a cross as a weapon. . Also the teachers are angels and there's three of them.
Sorry it's not much to go on.
openpokemon/yugioh-esk kids anime on nicktoons around the mid 2000's Anime
I am trying to remember an anime series that was on (uk) nicktoons around the mid 2000's I remember the show was about this card game/videogame that ended up mixing into reality and I can remember the city having loads of giant mushrooms come out of no where. unfortatly this all I can remember of it and hopefully I can find out what the show was called.
openAnimation about a Robot Girl that had weapons Anime
I found a clip of this animation a long while back, but I never found out what it was from. Its style looks a lot like the thing that ate Mami's head in Madoka Magica and all I really remember is that it was a girl that was actually a robot being controlled by what looked like animals...? I'm really curious as to what this is, so if anyone knows please tell me!
openGirl talks to and enters computer/wire/network Anime
Saw this late night on adult swim (i think) about a year ago. High school girl who interacts with her computer which acts as a door to the network/wire/energy. The crosswalk in Shibuya seemed to be regular scene and everyone see hers face on the public screens.
openSci-Fi Anime Anime
It was a show about a guy from Earth who finds aliens who invite him to join what's essentially the space police. Part of it takes place in the space academy. Also, the main character was a bit of a klutz.
openAn Anime with an Older brother, a ten year sister, a forest, and maybe (red) butterflies Anime
I saw the page for it on tvtropes, and I think that the brother had to protect the sister either because of some powers of hers or others, or from this forest. Maybe they were orphans. I only read the front page of the tvtropes cover.
Don't know to put this under Anime or Print Comic so I made an educated guess. Trying to remember a manga I was reading a while back, about a high school kid who kills his family, gets sent to prison, learns martial arts and turns into an absolute monster. It's not Ichi the Killer neither. Ring any bells?