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According to the page, there was a Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Alternate Universe manga starring Simon and Nia, that took place in Teppelin. I recall reading the first few pages of it and then completely forgetting about it, and now I fail to remember its name. As such, I can't continue reading it.
Does anyone remember the name of it?
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This could be either anime or western animation. It's more a search for my mum; she remembers watching it growing up.
It was a series of cartoons, possibly Japanese or Asian in origin, since she has always said that Sailormoon reminded her of it. Done in watercolor and ink styles with large eyes.
They were based on fairytales and folklore, but she doesn't remember which stories or the title of the series by now.
Would have aired in the States between 1962-64. Not so sure the station.
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It's a manga that I read in Summer 2009, I think it had three or four volumes in total, but I only read the first one. It was about a teenage girl who is staying at a lakeside cabin, and she discovers a lake monster who becomes a human boy when it emerges from the lake, so she lets the monster (now a boy) stay with her. It was very interesting. Anyway, the one part that stands out in my mind is the chapter where the girl is trying to potty train the boy (because he wets his bed the first night she lets him stay with her). After she shows him how to pee and poop, the boy tries pooping by himself, and his is huge (it was accompanied by a big, loud *SPLASH*).
Also, I remember that the girl looked somewhat like Etna from Disgaea. Does anyone know what the name of this manga was? Because I would like to read the rest of it.
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A manga I read the first two volumes of. There are nine different versions of Earth, and the main character is chosen to decide which of the nine gets to survive, which is a problem as she's one of those gigsntic-ditz sorts of characters. Her female mentor tries to whack the ditziness out of her. including by laying out a bunch of cakes and giving her holy hell when she chooses one without thinking, because all choices for her must be taken very seriously. The second volume ends with a good part of the cast nearly drowning, while someone internal-monologues that they have to open these doors with their own two hands.
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Okay, I want to know what Anime the footage from 1:43-2:12
is from.
I also asked this in the fourm's Chatterbox, but have yet to receive a reply.
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I was looking through the image links for Off-Model, and I stumbled across a blog post
that showed various off-model anime shots.
I was wondering where, "I made lunch!" and "Today has really been a long day..." came from. Two later shots had the same mistake and one of them ("shouldn't have signed up for art class") looked like it came from the same show as "lunch" because the characters look the same. Since this site doesn't show on-model to give context, my next question is, were those normal for the show's style or was it truly off-model?
P.S. I am not responsible for any ruined computers resulting from laughing while drinking.
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An ordinary guy is told that not only is he coming into a lot of money and the chairmanship of a huge company, but his future wife will be chosen via a contest. All of the typical harem archetypes are present: the childhood friend, the current crush, the heir of a rival company, etc. The girls participate in events and as they win points they get some one-on-one time with the boy.
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Trying to find something for my father. Its an anime film (I think, a series is possible too) which would've aired in the US sometime in the 60s or 70s. All he can remember about it is that there were little characters running around going "barbecue" in a high pitched voice. If anyone has any idea what this could possibly be, any help would be appreciated.
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help, i barely remember this one but i used to watch it all the time in the early 90s, the hero often rode his spaceship on the outside (like ontop), he had a stafe (staff weapon) but when his weapon was inactive it was in two pieces and he kept it holstered like two cowboy pistols and to activate it he would join the two halves and they'd grow into one....
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Sci-fi anime that aired on Adult Swim or anytime late at night on Cartoon Network. All I remember is that the opening had a boy running in a hallway, and a specific scene.
Scientists are performing what looks like X-rays. When they're doing x-rays on the boy, his x-rays didn't have a skeleton.
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Could be Anime or Manga.
I'm looking for the origin of an image I saw here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeuaU7-QgYo
It's at 1:48, on the right hand side of the screen. It goes by REALLY FAST. It's part of a documentary about Little Women. It shows four girls (who must be the Little Women—Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy) in rather Stripperific outfits like Japanese superheroes. At this point the narrator says "[Little Women has had] Adaptations from High to Low culture", and the screen shows a "High Culture" image on the left next to this bizarre one I am wondering about, which is the example of "Low Culture".
I am NOT looking for any of the "straight" adaptations of the novel to Manga or Anime, I'm trying to find out where this bizarre image came from, evidently some adaptation of Little Women with a real HUGE amount of Adaptation Decay.
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This was an anime movie I saw which was a Mind Screw take on the Pinoccio story. I don't remember the names of any characters.
The Pinoccio analog was made from the wood of a rare (extinct?) tree which has bright blue sap and (I think) magically stores memories. Somebody (the wife or daughter of the puppet-maker?) had died at/before the start of the movie. Possibly the puppet-maker had died also. This dude (had) lived in a rural cottage isolated in a desert, with one (dead?) blue-sap tree growing nearby. The puppet went on a quest, basically, in search of a way to become a real boy. Except he failed and, eventually, gave up and told the other characters "I'm going to become a tree now, but I'll never forget you."
It took place on an alien world with a bit of Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit". For example, "grass" was giant jellyfish floating in stationary formations 15 feet above the ground. I think this planet also had flocks of sky whales. I don't remember any earthlike vegetation, though the blue-sap trees vaguely looked like Earth trees.
Three scenes I can remember: One, near the beginning, where the puppet is either having a weird flashback or just hasn't become entirely sentient yet, and is mistaking some random girl for the woman who had died. He's got this horribly creepy, vacant look on his face and keeps calling her by the dead woman's name. Eventually he snapped out of it and apologized.
Another scene when the puppet and some humans are traversing a desert, and somebody says something like "look at this trick." They draw their knife, hold it in their teeth, and climb up the tendrils of some jellyfish "grass" floating nearby. When they get to the top they pop the balloon with the knife, and the whole thing drifts to the ground safely. One character is creeped out by this, but the puppet laughs and says "It's only a piece of dead grass!"
The third scene I remember was when the puppet was trying NOT to become a tree. I can't recall what triggered it, but he was growing branches and roots and had to exert a great deal of willpower to revert the transformation. Evidently the wood that made him was still alive.
I think also somebody was hunting him for access to the blue sap he carried, possibly because the tree species he was made out of was otherwise extinct.
There was also some subplot I didn't understand involving some Human Aliens who used to live underground but their sub-world was ruined, or something, and they were all dying of what looked like a grey scaly skin disease, or something.
I know it's neither Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water nor Origin: Spirits of the Past.
It could have been A Tree of Palme, except I can't find enough info to confirm that.
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Which anime are these two screenshots
from? I'm curious because it looks weird and cute at the same time, and I'd like to give it a try.
I will give a big thanks to you in advance. ;)
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What anime is the idol girl in this video
that appears at 0:12 seconds from, and the anime the girl in that same video that appears at 1:28 from?
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The cast is a boy, with either black or brown hair, a small girl with long blue hair and a mark on her forehead, and two older girls, one with brown hair and the other with white(?) hair and was tan and had fangs, maybe, and a very cute cat-looking animal.
On one episode the team visits some persons' house (or is it a lab?) and he/she shows them some sort of brown goopy blob that is in a glass case. They leave the room, but we see the glass has a crack and the brown thing escapes. Sometime later, outside, the brown thing shapes itself into a woman and tries to advance toward the guy. But their pet jumps on the creature, and blows up, killing the brown thing. The characters are worried the pet may have died, but they see it jump out well and alive and everybody is happy. Other episodes include the two older girls getting angry that the main guy is seing another girl, placing his head on the girl's lap, which results in the brown haired girl to turn to stone. In another, the white haired girl steals money with the cat as an accomplice and are somehow in a spaceship. One focusing on the blue haired girl tells of her story, with a flashback that shows her being separated from her family, crossing a bridge, and for some reason her mark changed. At the end of this episode we see her older form in the water at night (or is it in the sky?). I might have some errors, since I was pretty young when I watched this.

picture of jessie came from?
This guy who is the main character is stuck with his best friend in a tight space and the main character accidentally lets one rip.