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openNo Title Anime
it wasnt an anime as its known now but an animated kids show it was set around a bunch of kids in the medieval time in a renaissance type castle the characters that i remember where a fat girl with ginger hair that spoke like the looney toons tasmanian devil another girl who was the daughter of the king but liked hanging out with these peasants a bald kid who seemed to be the butt of all the jokes and a skinny old man who was always tied up in a jail cell
i remember one episode in particular where to impress her dad the main girl i mentioned before dressed the bald kid up as an eagle in the competition being held at some point the kid was offered a worm he had to eat and the weird girl previously mentioned ate one too because why not
was similar to a rugrats type style in a way
i watched this show when i was young in 2010/11
Edited by GobononoopenAnime with the Characters Sleeping during the Credits Anime
I have this memory of an anime where the characters were all sleeping at night during one of the credits...
The anime in question had a guy with a strange doll and the credits end with the guy and the strange doll waking up to a new day.
openA film where cartoons and anime collide Anime
Hi I'm looking for a *Canadian* film where a bunch of anime characters appeared at a Canadian high school on a space ship, I think the main character was prince. This was released somewhere between 2004-2015. Thanks if you can find it!
resolved Anime with a girl fighting two colorful monsters Anime
When I was younger, I watched part of a scene from an anime randomly on TV, but I never learned what the name was because it was a random scene. There was a girl who saw another girl with her parents. The first girl was then chased by then couple, and all of a sudden, these slimes emerge from the mom and the dad that form into two demon monsters with long claws (one red and one blue), which caused the parents to collapse; apparently they were being possessed by the monsters. The girl fights these monsters, but then the monsters embrace and fuse into a larger purple monster. So the girl fights this thing with magic or something and destroys it, and this causes the girl and her parents to wake up all better. I tried to search for it, but I couldn't find it. What is this anime?
Edited by SilvershadeWolfopenA manga that I only remember by cover art Anime
I've been stumped in my attempt to look for a manga. The only thing I could remember from it was a picture of 2 girls and 1 boy in school uniforms (button-up shirts, ribbon, or necktie) holding an apple. The guy looked like your typical male romcom lead, the first girl had bobbed hair and was wearing a plain uniform while the other girl had long black hair and was wearing a hoodie over her uniform, earbuds, and glasses. I have nothing else on this manga and I'm kinda interested in it, so I'd really appreciate if someone could at least the image
openTongue trauma Anime
Basically It was an anime I use to watch about a slice of life of group of girls where the leader female character always get slapstick violence. The only specific scene I remember that happen exactly it was one where she bite her tongue by accident and start to comically throbbing(something like what happen to Gotenks in one episode) maybe because some tongue twister or hot/spicy drink/food. She had brown hair and was a student who use to be not so smart or something like that. The animation was something like little witch academia(cartoony sometimes, exgagereted expressions, adrenaline and painfully slapstick) but it's not the same anime. Nope, it is not nichijou or the other anime who looks like Nichihou but with red uniform. Another thing I remember is that it may be old, like one of those 90/80 animes, so probably it is not so remembered.
openA particular scene from a particular Pokémon movie. Anime
This spans many years ago, when I was deeply into my Pokemon phase. As a kid, I'd constantly keep up to date with all of the anime episodes and specials, making sure I got home from school just at the right time so I didn't miss one second. This hasn't changed much as I am still a big fan of the series.
Anyway, I remember in one of the movies, there was this scene in particular that always stuck with me. I believe it had something to do with Ash's Pikachu not being able to use any electric type attacks after being hit by..something? Not wasn't sure if another pokemon had volt absorb, or lightning rod, but he wasn't able to fire off his signature thunderbolt. As a lover of electric type Pokemon, I remember this bothering me a little bit. Later on, I recall Ash having to train him again or something of the sort because Pikachu completely forgot or simply didn't possess the ability to use electric type attacks. Another thing I remember is that his powers suddenly came back, and Ash prompting Pikachu to use volt tackle on him while his mom was appalled at the 10 year old's reckless nature.
Leading up to the scene, I remember someone telling Ash that Pikachu were rare in the area they travelled in, and his mom commenting that he (Pika) had been sparking alot
That's all I remember, though my memory could be off (pokemon movies are wild). I don't have time to rewatch the movies in search, and I haven't been able to find anything online. I do know, however, that it was a fairly recent movie (maybe after black and white).
Thanks!
Edited by RehydratedFortuneopenSuper obscure anime with monsters from the 2000s (possible lost media) Anime
This is... something, alright. Nobody I ever talked to it about knew what I was talking about, nor it seems that it was already documented here. Did I have hallucinated this? I don't know.
I remember in the year 2009 in Italy they broadcasted a Mon anime series, which unfortunately, I never memorized the name. I'm pretty sure it was an anime and not just an Animesque cartoon, because it had that style typical of the Turn Of The Millenium animes. It had at least an Italian dub.
This Mon show was very notable in that it looks like it lacked any semblance of mon-related collectibles, which implies it was NOT Merchandise-Driven, nor it seemed to have evolutions for the mons; this also means that I couldn't possibly have seen Bakugan or a Digimon or Yu-Gi-Oh! series.
Other details I can give to better help identify it: The setting was mostly like our world except critters live alongside humans.
The protagonists were a quartet of kids plus the mascot mon, and pretty cliched; the protagonist was a red-headed Hot-Blooded Idiot Hero and probably an Extreme Omnivore as well; the deuteragonist was much more stoic and probaboy wore either blue or black, but also had some un-boyish hobbies; then there's the girl who was a pink-wearing tomboy; and finally the timid yellow-wearing smart guy; plus the mascot Mon who was a white-colored Cartoon Creature. I remember the five main characters bickering a lot with each other.
The main antagonists were a Terrible Trio of Green and Mean devils who were revealed to be brainwashed, but there also were a couple of GreaterScopeVillain.
I also don't remember any of the characters' names.
Some episodes I somewhat remember:
- An episode where the aloof lancer is revealed to like collecting plush toys, but his parents scold him for having such hobbies, but it's also revealed that the big guy from the Terrible Trio also collects plush toys and attempts to steal a rare plushie from the good guys;
- An episode where there's a huge monster on a rampage, and also a Mon that looked like a fire-breathing Jack-o'-lantern (one of the few "generic" Mons I remember from it);
- An episode where The Smart Guy saves the day but mistakes a boy for a girl;
- The Myth Arc and possibly the "finale arc", where the masco Mon flees, the kids try to find him with the protagonist trying to bait him out with EXPIRED snacks (that's very dumb, but one of the only scenes I remember clearly...), all the four kids touch a magic stick and get transported to a special place, where a "butler-like" Mon reveals to them that the mascot had an older brother who did an Heroic Sacrifice, using carvings in a wall to illustrate the story.
I've tried giving the most detailed account I could give at this point, and so far nobody else even had the faintest idea of what I was talking about. It could be lost forever..
openStrange CGI Anime Anime
I saw a glimpse of this on You Tube once and never again. Some sort of 2000s Japanese animation, possibly an OVA, involving doll-like CGI characters (probably only doll-like due to both technical limitations and what happens when you translate a 2d anime character’s design into CGI.)
My memory believes that the main character(s) were dressed in the Japanese ‘Lolita Fashion’, albeit a bit more downplayed than most examples of such. Pretty sure dark, moody clothing colours and ribbons were present. The ‘animation’ was basically a slideshow of still renders with added voice-over and ambience. I remember checking the comments — and perhaps a tvtropes page — and seeing that the story involved prostitution or something like that in a somber perspective.
Does anyone know the name?
openGirls pee pastries Anime
I'm not sure this wasn't a fever dream. But there were these 3 school girls who were gifted (cursed?) with this ability to pee giant pastries.
I want to say it's from the early to mid 2010's but that's just when I was shown it.
openA shoujo manga about a high school student working for a fashion designer?? Anime
And no, just to make sure it is not Paradise Kiss, just want to make that clear ^^'
Anyway what I remember is that it lasted for like 5 volumes I think?
The plot was a high school girl who started working as an apprentice to a fashion designer guy, and they fall in love along the way. I know sounds pretty generic, but if it helps I do remember that the guy was a pretty boy, like almost feminine looking and the age gap wasn't that big, i seem to remember the protagonist was already in her graduating year and he was at most in his mid twenties and the guy was actuallypretty decent when he realized he liked her he actually tried to keep his distance, but you this is a romance shoujo so that didn't last lol.
(I'm not 100% sure of this one detail, but I think they had a bit of a Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy dynamic.)
One scene I do remember clearly was that the guy, as her boss pretty much forced her to not work when she was having her exams, so she could focus on her studies, and when she was done with it and was about to show him her grades he actually yelled at her to get out by mistake, not remembering the exam season was over.
resolved Card game Anime Anime
On Cheez TV or Toasted TV there was an Anime series that based around a card game sorta like Yu-Gi-Oh!
Elements I remember include
- Believe there four main characters
- The male hot headed boy protagonist
- Shorter glasses wearing boy who was The Smart Guy
- A girl who was friends with them
- A slightly ditzy girl who was new to the area and was mostly used to ask questions about the game so it could be explained to her and thereby to the audience
- Before each game the players would hold out their decks in front of them and shuffle them
- One game has the protagonist playing the game outside in near a waterway and some storm clouds start rolling in. The opponent points to the sky and makes a speech about how the storm is harbinger of his victory. The opponent gets exactly the cards he needs for his tactics and while the others are wondering how the ditzy girl points out that he swapped his shuffled deck for an unshuffled one while they look up at the storm clouds in the sky.
- The characters going through rooms beating top players until the come to a girl's room and while they are looking for the occupant, a phone starts to ring and the ditzy girl answers. It turns out it's the ditzy girl's room and she is the player, pretending not to know about the game for some reason I forget and have a game.
openFanfic search (Ranma/Sailor Moon) (solved!) Anime
A story just popped into my head, one I probably read on www.fanfiction.net (which means searching the story contents via Google is effectively impossible) years ago. I've checked a couple of the story collections I thought it might have been in, with no luck, so I'm turning to here.
The part I remember is that it's a Ranma/Sailor Moon crossover, and one of the last (if not the last) chapters had Nodoka Saotome revealing that she used to be a man and was Ranma's real biological father (Genma was actually completely ignorant of what it took to father a child, having been a practitioner of something that translated as "virgin-fist" or "fist of the virgin" until he met and was corrupted by Happosai), while Setsuna Meiou/Sailor Pluto was Ranma's birth mother (and Ranma responds to both revelations with a big "NOOOOOOOO!!!"). And Setsuna had apparently been causing trouble for Ranma, for a while now, for some reason... up until she met and recognized Nodoka, and realized as a result that Ranma was her long-lost son.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Until next time...
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Edited by AnoneMouseJropenAnime that was on netflix about a year ago Anime
ok so from what i remember it started with this lady going to her job and almost getting hit by someone on a dirt bike so she chases her down then finds out that the group the girl belongs to like, kills the rogue robots that malfunction (the robots are like the cleaning crew and treated badly) i think it was set in Tokyo but i'm not sure. one girl was a singer. another worked in a desk job and the main character i can't remember. there were like a lot of chases and battles and the suits they wore were like iron mad armor. thank you if you can help!!
openCartoon in woods - threw black holes - jumped in to escape Anime
My brother and I are both in our early 30s and have been wondering what this show is that we have been recalling. All we remember was it was a cartoon, maybe early 1990s, where there are characters running through the woods, and in order to escape danger, they reached down into their pocket and threw a black disk which stuck vertically in the air. They then jumped into the hole and the hole then shrunk and disappeared, transporting them to somewhere safe I suppose. This mental image has been bugging us for years! We couldn't remember if it was a cartoon show, or maybe a shorty within a cartoon, or even a commercial, But since we both remember something like this, I am confident that it exists. My first thought was The Gummi Bears cartoon, but I cannot find any clips on You Tube of what I am talking about. Please help us.
openAnime with supernatural elements and time travel Anime
Watched it a short while ago late at night and can't for the life of me remember the name. It was basically about a guy living in an apartment with a bunch of girls, the pink haired one is a magical girl, the green haired one is a medium and the brunette is a robot. At the beginning the main guy dies(?) and turns into a spirit. There's a superhero guy that appears later in a blue and red outfit and it's revealed halfway through the series that the superhero guy is the main character of another timeline and failed to stop the apocalypse. I also remember that the magical girl and the main character apparently swapped consciousness when they were young? The shit was wild tbh. pls halp
openNo Title Anime
I remember watching an English dub of an anime sometime in the late 90s to the early 2000s. It featured a scientist's daughter (no, not a Mad Scientist's Daughter, a sane one) who was sent to the future for some reason (ill with no cure or was it a war..?). She had this bird like machine thing which she'd lie in often, I think it talked. The girl collected a bunch of companions who could transform into some kind of insectoid-like armour, and one of them had fire powers. Eventually she died, and then a new girl (also from the past?) showed up. She cooked, had orange hair(?) and her name may have been Tofu. Someone had an answered query of this show before, but it's gone, and I've forgotten the show's name, again. It took me seven years to find it's name the last time, so any help is VERY much appreciated!

Posting this for a buddy of mine, this is how he describes what he knows:
"there's this manga/anime where there's this girl
and her older sister killed herself
so the younger sister goes and meets her older sister's friends (who have graduated from high school now), including the older sister's ex and whatnot and finds like videos that they (older sister and group of friends in like a club) recorded together trying to be funny
this isn't like the whole plot i don't think
but was a part of it"
He says it could be a manga, too, if that helps at all. Thanks!
UPDATE: He remembered it, it was SSSS Dynazenon for anyone who was wondering!
Edited by Drewman