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I am looking for an animation film (not a series, to my knowledge) that is most likely anime but could be western animation. There are two opposing camps of robots that look like animals (not Transformers), and they're fighting over crystals on some alien world. I remember something like the robots carrying the minds of a dead alien race. One of the robots actually turned traitor. I also remember there being humans in it, though I am not so sure. The final battle took place on a space ship, and it seemed that the head evil robot was vanquished, but just before the credits it turned out he had survived.
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Hey, how do you make a new post? New here :P I need to know a show that was on Cartoon Network. I remember to get to the page on the website, you pressed an "X", in a black circle, at the top, center. This show was anime. It was where this kid(pretty dang sure) "battled" or something with balls, that held "spirits" inside. No, not Pokemon, or Bakugan. Somewhere from 2007-2009 (I think) Anyways, I remember that this kid ditched his old "spirit ball" for a new one or something. I think the kid had grey-ish hair. Sorry for so little details, but that is all that I could think of.... Googled various search terms for ages, and couldn't find anything like it... So THANK YOU if you figured out what this show is, and could please post a reply about the name, or more details.
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I remember watching this anime on the russian channel, many years back. From what I remember it was about a kid in orphanage and guy was telling him a story of terrible pirate the ruler of the seas. Then the kid receive the letter but runs of without it. Later he finds two other guys in garbage cave and they decide to become pirates or something. They venture and find a girl at nun island or something. There more to the anime, but I won't bore you.
Most interesting points to this anime was that in the letter there mirror, and the kid is actually connected to the king of seas. Oh and there was another guy, he was very muscular. They also thought that the girl was a boy at first. Oh and there was a "Sex" scene on top of hill after which three other guys stole the ship...
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I saw it in the early 90s on Sky. All I remember was a child seemingly lost in a post apocalyptic Tokyo, running through the subways. And there were a lot of demons/monsters around following him? And there was a huge angel fighting something in the ruins! Very vague but this was 20years ago and I have had no luck finding it myself still! So no earlier than 97, and I cant remember if it was in Japanese or American...
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I am pretty sure about the anime status. Yes, my head is like a sieve. Maybe I should just take to writing down everything I witnessed, or else I'd forget it all. XD;
An anime I was sure I caught on The Hub (now Hub Network) or Nicktoons not too long ago, probably within the past year or two. I checked both of their lists, and also Teen Nick, and I'm not seeing it.
It had a very .hack feel, but I don't think it was animated by Bee Train. I don't see it on that list, either. It was much tamer, though. All I remember is catching the first episode, I think. It was about a boy who was, maybe, a royal raised as an orpha,n and had a belt who was somehow the key to bringing peace to the wartorn land, by collecting plot artifacts to restore it to its former glory, or somesuch. Could have also been taking it to someone far away who could repair it.
It's very vague, but it was on very recently, and I'm hoping someone knows what the heck I'm talking about. All I know is, the belt was important to the plot.
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Some time ago I saw a short clip from an anime on You Tube. I can't remember how I linked to it. In the clip, a teenage boy and a girl french kiss each other in a "romantic moment" at a public park at night, then the screen fades to black. We see from the boy's perspective as he opens his eyes and sees the bloody lower half of the girl on the ground. We then see the boy turned into a monster, his head is now a giant mouth with blood dripping from it. The "boy" says something like "Oh no, not again" and the the girl's upper half slides out of his mouth.
The clip was in Japanese with English subtitles, the comments for the video were all in English and some of them said "I'm in the weird part of the Internet again." Now I want know what show that was.
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I'm looking for a manga. It's sort of based on the Wizard of Oz, but the storyline isn't like it at all. It's more like it's got alot of puns and references to it. From what i can remember There's a boy who lives on a boring island. He and his friends want to go adventuring. The boy's dad went off adventuring when he was a baby, and at some point the father sent him a map with the phrase "the world is vast" written on it.Then one day burglars come to the island on a plane to fill up on gas and food, and when the plane takes off he stows away to go exploring. On the plane he finds a dog that he decides to keep as a pet.He ends up working for the captain of the ship(It might have been some zeppelin type flying ship, but it was definitely air travel), and i think it was implied the captain was his long lost father cause he talked about exploring and said "the world is vast" like what his dad wrote on the map. I think the boy said it was his birthday, but that might have been a metaphor for him becoming braver. The next part is really fuzzy, I Think the plane ended up crashing and he was able to save the dog, but all the people died or were implied to have died. At some point the boy and the dog meet a girl who looks like a confident anime version of Dorthy from Wizard of Oz, she ends up naming the dog Toto and she knows a martial art style that's based on tornadoes.
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There was this really of anime I saw on VHS, about group of... teenagers I guess? traveling through fairytales in verious vehicles, like stag beetle (light blue), grasshopper (green, it was for only one pilot) and later crab (orange, created for battle purpouses).
In each episode they were fighting with other realm-traveling group, the villains, who also had big robots, like pig, ant-eater, a bear etc.
Each of "evil" robots was defeated thanks to smaller robots of various shapes and sizes (caterpillar, some shelly bug) that were inside good guys' robots.
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An anime from the early/mid 2000s that I can't remember the name of. Involved a man with long white hair and a black cloak who came from the future for a girl with short black hair, I'm not sure why. I think the girl could somehow manipulate reality? she might've been some kind of key to saving the future. They were vaguely romantically involved. They traveled back and forth between the timelines with strange portals that had some sort of negative impact on peoples bodies. The future planet they were on was being attacked by strange, huge aliens that they couldn't fight off. The white-haired man had a rivalry with some guy who had massive cylinders coming out of his back that conducted electricity. At the end of the anime a glowing male entity/weird pile of light with a broken gold mask was involved somehow? I think he wanted to start a new world with the black-haired girl.
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Okay I remember seeing this cartoon on tv between 1999 and 2002, I believe the story line follows a boy(i think teen or pre-teen) and somehow he is in a mystical land not sure if that is the normal world that he is from or if he was somehow sent/taken there. I think in one of the first episodes he ends up fighting a wolf(who can talk) who i think may of been the leader of a pack, and he ends up befriending the wolf and the wolf joins him on his journey. I also recall him or maybe a different character fighting a giant stone humanoid being. The word "moon" comes to mind, i keep thinking it has something to do with the wolfs name or something. I have been looking through lists of cartoon names trying to find this show, so if anybody knows that would be awesome. Thanks
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I remember almost nothing about this show. All I remember is it came on Cartoon Network at 12 a.m. on Saturday. I remember 3 characters: a brown haired guy, a pink haired girl, and a brown haired guy with glasses. It took place in outer space. Definitely before 2006. I remember these lines of dialogue: "Can't you see that he and I are together now!" the pink haired girl says that. "You never stood a chance at a fight against me" Brown hair, no glasses, says that to guy with glasses. Brown hair, no glasses, is backed up in a corner with pink hair behind him, protecting her from brown with glasses. That is all I remember. I'm sorry if this one is hard. Thank you in advance.
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So I remember really little except that I watched it when I was a kid probably around the late 90s early 2000. It was on Fox Kids or Cartoon Network or something. It was definitely anime style (probs japanese) and it was like a fantasy fighting genre type. They were either kids or teenage and later in the series I remember they did some kind of transformation where they would become super powered but also older. Not sure if it was an older version of themselves or a completely different spirit. I remember one of the older versions was this guy with really long purple hair dressed in all purple. That's all I remember.
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Hi all,
I'm looking for an old japanese (I guess) anime movie I was used to watch, as a kid, on TV in the 70s. It was quite similar to the russian's one "The snow queen" (1957) being in fact about a snow (or ice) queen (a magic creature or kind of a witch looking like a icy cold hearted beautiful woman) kidnapping a girl. Her brother (or just friend) then started a journey alone searching for her to get her back home (in the russian's one the roles of the two kids are inverted). Both kids are very young. The snow queen (unable to love or feel pity) wanted the girl to herself and tried to stop the boy with cold wind pictured as flying long silver ribbons with fox or wolf faces (this is very similar to Miyazaki's "The Sun Prince - Hols' Great Adventure" - 1968; the whole movie I'm looking for was visually similar to the Miyazaki's one but it wasn't that one at all). All those 3 movies (russian's , Miyazaki's and the one I'm looking for) were repeatedly broadcasted in the same period on TV and I remember I noticed the similarities. It looks that the one I'm looking for was a sort of clone of the russian's one copying Miyzaki's visual style at the same time. I'm quite sure I'm not mixing recollections in my mind since I found other people remembering the same things in other forums but wihout being able to find the movie as well. Other details: the queen was mostly sitting on an ice throne, wore a V shaped crown, was in a castle in her ice reign and in the end released the girl.
Thanks for your help
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hey guy i saw an anime or cartoon around 2004 but i dont know the name i just remember the main character is a young guy with blonde hair and he find a robot but is kinda weird is like a long stick with head and the guy used the weird robot to control machines he inserted i dont remember very clear but i think it was in space or in the future it kinda look like treasure planet the movie reminded me of the anime well that all i can remember hope you know the name