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Man inspecing a robotic factory Anime
I saw this back in the 90s. A man goes to an automated factory, I think in a jungle somewhere. What he doesn't know is that the factory is starting to break down, and the machines won't let him leave. One scene I remember is that each night when he receives his supper, it progressively gets worse and worse and more and more inedible. Near the end his "supper" is like spark plugs and a piston covered in oil or something. I don't remember how it ended.
Any ideas?
Mecha cartoons Anime
I remember watching them on an arabic channel the cartoons were like 3d clay type in it the people fight with enemies by going in big robots the heroine had pink colour hairs i remember the last episode clearly in the spaceship the heroin sees hero with other girl and aims her gun at him but then cries and talk and let him go hero is injured little bit in the end the spaceship blasts and hero and the other girl survives please if you know them help me
Dr Dolittle type cartoon from 90s Anime
This is from late 80s-early 90s, I remember an anime style cartoon that might have been Dr Dolittle. It had a two headed donkey or horse, a remember a pyramid, maybe it was dubbed to English or was in English. I don't remember much of it. Been trying to find it for ages! Please help!
Anime bath scene, injured arm. Please help Anime
It's pretty much just another random anime bath scene. A typically hot girl is washing a guys back and when she's gonna do his arms, one of his arms is a little injured. So she blindfolds him and instead of washing his bad arm with a sponge she puts it between her breast. Like, she uses her breast as sponges cause his arm is so sensitive. Unable to see anything, he just remarks that it feels funny and ask what she's doing and she tells him not to touch her. Now I don't remember how it ended, but think his blindfolds came off. He saw what was actually happening and typically in anime, this kind of scenario makes the girl scream in embarrasement before beating the guy up. Keep in mind, I can't say for sure that this is how the clip ended but it's very plausible. So does anyone recognize this? This is all I remember so I can't give anymore details, sorry. If you have any idea, if you're just thinking "it might be that anime...", please let me know. Any guess could be right. Thanks in advance everyone!
A about manga ghost girl only seen by one guy. Anime
It have a page on the site, but as I don't know the name, the only place I found a link for it was a page which had a rather long anime manga section and I'm pretty sure that part of it was about japanese censorship. If I remember correctly it has about three albums. It's comedic. The main characters are the guy, the ghost girl who don't remember her name (Who in one of the albums thinks she was a pyromaniac when she died, but it was false.), The guys sister (who catches him in emberrasing situations with the ghost girl), a rich girl who calls the her pet (thanks to a love letter in the past which might have been in a wrong locker.), and a girl with occult interest who got a glass that according to her shows ghosts, while in reality is an x-rax glass.
All female voice cast anime Anime
I never seen this show, I just remember reading about it on this very wiki years ago. It's an anime where everyone is born a female, and gets to choose their gender once they turn 18. All the voice actors are female, which leads to male characters sounding like husky voiced females.
Tendonman music video Anime
I'm looking for the Tendonman music video and I'm not having any luck
Cartoon about a boy and dragons from late 90s early 2000s Anime
For a while now I'm looking for a cartoon show I watched when I was younger. Maybe between the years 1997-2002. I know it was around these years because I also got a copy of Digimon World for Playstation and played the hell out of it. So what I can remember from the show was it was a young boy as the protagonist (maybe a female lead as well) that traveled through a portal via some type of rocket car? Now this portal was like built in a lab by a scientist (I believe was related to the young boy) and the transport should have been on rails leading into a metal ring which would generate a portal. So the kid traveled to a world with dragons. I want to say that the main dragon he paired up with was an Earth Dragon. There were other dragons in the show and I specifically remember a Fire Dragon. I can't remember any names from the show either besides that the dragons were referenced towards an element (probably had a name). The only other thing I can remember is the Earth Dragon put on a pair of magical boots that they perhaps acquired. He didn't sit down or anything but they appeared on him? I don't remember the properties of the boots. Speed, flight, or something else. Anyway, that is about all I can remember. This was aired in the US. I looked through the 4kids entertainment and Foxbox. I can't remember if it was regular T.V. programming or if I had Satellite T.V. at the time. I wanna say Fighting Foodons aired around the same time but I'm still not too sure. I tried to look at programming schedules through a wiki for the T.V. stations and I didn't find what I was looking for. If someone knows that'd be great. I'm just a big dragon fan and that show stood out for a long time as something I just could not remember.
Horror anime Anime
A horror anime, I think it might have been on the original Toonami. It was at least on TV in the same decade. I remember there being these egg/cocoon-like things. I think people had been getting trapped in those things, or at least that's what i inferred from what i saw. What I do know is that the eggs/cocoons were bad news. When the eggs/cocoons were opened, dead bodies, goo and/or insect monsters came out. I also remember seeing scenes with someone in an embryo like thing, possibly naked, conscious or at least semi conscious. I remember those scenes being brighter than the dark backgrounds where the action was taking place, which is strange, because it seemed to be implied she (i think it was a she?) was in one of those cocoons. I'm think I only saw a few episodes, or maybe just one, unless the show was Betterman, but I don't remember there being an episode like that.
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Anything but lucky star Anime
Does anyone know an anime where the character kinda looks like someone from lucky star but has a crush on a boy with glasses? Theres this girl who is like a cat. I also remember the glasses kid spinning a pen.
No Title Anime
I watched it on dish on demand in the late 2000s or early 2010s. There was a group of friends who would fight against these robots or robot like creatures. I remember an episode where there was an ocean of black goo serounding them in the heat of battle and then I think the robots may or may not have helped them escape from the ocean of goo. Also I'm not entirely sure it was exactly an anime but it was toon looking. Sorry I don't remember much. P.s. there may have been a body swap episode where a guy and a girl get swallowed up by a green blob but then escape with the help of their other friends and when they escaped the blob their minds were swapped but I'm REALLY unsure about this being linked to the same show I'm thinking of, so yea.
Anime possibly set in Fuedal Japan Anime
I'm only going off a short clip I saw but it was an anime, I think set in Fuedal Japan and it might have involved demons or vampires or something to that effect. It was a big fight scene and I think one of the main characters was this kid, must have been around 14 or so who I think gets killed and is then promptly brought back to life and the whole scene is one of those comedy bits where while all this over the top fighting is going on, the main guy is complaining that the villains just killed the kid. The more I think on it, the more I think that if the setting wasn't Japan, it was like some kind of Victorian setting but again, out of a 2 minute clip I saw in gif form a year or so ago, it's hard to remember.
Indestructible Mecha Anime
I swear the title of the anime had "Hell" in it. It was a mecha movie from about the 90s where the mecha was almost impossible to defeat. I don't remember the story, but the mecha could be damaged but repaired itself by replacing damaged parts with alternate universe versions of itself. It similarly replaced spent ammo by pulling it from other universes. I know there's a page here for it, but I can't think of the right search terms to find it.
mecha anime Anime
I'm looking for a mecha anime, it aired during in the Netherlands but I'm not sure how old it really is. Here is what I remember there were three pilots with individual mecha. Naturally they combined in the regular way where each robot transforms either the arms legs or torso and head but they also had something I think was unique.
There was a fourth mecha separate from the three individual ones and they basically flew into from an opening in the back and transformed into their limb modes before it closed up again. Both combined forms typically required all three pilots or at least two of them to control.
At one point the pilots of the mechs that formed the arms and legs were in trouble without mechs and were saved by the four mech combined form assuming the remaining piot did all the work. In truth a support character, who I think was being trained as an emergency replacement for any of the three and who had messed with the settings of the mechs to make it easier for him, was acting as the second pilot.
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No Title Anime
I really can't remember much about this show other than the main characters are a team/friends and there's 1 girl and 2 boys. There's a love triangle between them and one of the guys gwt ahead of the other guy by giving the girl something during a festival or something while in the libarary. I think the girl has pink hair and they may be training to be something like samurais. There's this one scene where they are fighting monsters and then they ride the monsters using the carrot and stick method. I think it was shown around early 2000s when I grew up in the Philippines. It's probably an anime show and It's so vague in my head but driving me crazy so help is much appreciated.
Magical girls? Anime
All I can remember is 2 girls on top of an indoor elevator, the main characters, they had some sort of powers and costumes but can't remember what kind but just know that they had secret identities. Two of their friends were inside the elevator but one the main characters whispered this crucial sentence shhh don't speak too loudly or they might recognize our voices. I thought it to be 'pretty cure' perhaps but turns out it isn't. I watched this series between the years of 2004-2007 in montreal.
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No Title Anime
At the stat of the show a boy is Given an amulet with a green gem in it from his grand father. Then latter that night he is teleported to another dimension. The the weird crystal starts to glow and a bear like monster appears it has orange horns I think and white tufts of fur on its chest and on all four legs no arms in the town the boy appears in the is a statue of the monster. As he progresses his jorney and finds a girl and another boy and all three of them have to protect a book which the girl gets a coffee stain on as hey travel they find more monsters and the boy befriends a lot of them. When he does this they turn into crystals based on what kind of monster they are one example is he finds a black sludge mobster and it turns in to a orange crystal. At the end of the series the have to fight a multi headed dragon I think and they have to pass puzzles one is that they have the book replicated a bunch of times and they have to pick the right one they do it by looking for the stain and that is all I can remember I hope it is enough it used to play on Netflix if that helps to please find the show I have been looking forever
Shonen Anime + MODOK? Anime
I remember the intro to a late nineties anime, probably a Shōnen series, with artstyle a bit similar to Toriko. Thing is, it was trying to cash in on the Pokemon craze, so the main character had a Mon, a creepy-looking circular thing with a human face and tiny arms and legs, kind of like a miniature version of Marvel's MODOK. I think holding it gave the guy fighting powers. I never actually watched the thing because it looked so weird for my childhood self, but now I grew curious.
TV show Anime
So I remember watching this show around late 90's early 2000's on The Disney channel, I'm sure of the channel.
Setting: Post apocalyptic planet (Maybe Earth) in the future-ish?
Plot: Something to do with getting this girl/woman/princess to a certain location to do something.
Characters: I only remember the two. The princess lady and some kid.
Now the kid could be upgraded to an adult when the lady used cards to upgrade him. He would turn into an adult with this red armor and protect her. I think the show ended with her dying peacefully. Thanks to all help given
Also from what I remember the show had a somewhat similar art/animation style to sailor Moon or the first Dragon Ball. Reminds me of the blue people from Daft Punk's music videos.
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Anime about mice who visit fairy tale worlds Anime
Basically the title. I know the general gist of it, one particular episode involves one mouse having to fight in a martial arts tournament and throw a fight because his love interest has been kidnapped and so takes a beating before she manages to free herself.
No Title Anime
HELP THIS SAD OTAKU! OK, guys. This one has been buggin' me for YEARS. I saw an anime on TV in the 90s or maybe even 2000 involving a teen(?) aged boy and some companions riding around in a tank or something in the middle of a desert. The plot revolved around the antagonist (if I remember correctly, a fat bald generally evil/sterile looking guy) chasing after this silver or white-haired girl. The boy meets up with her somehow and tries to protect her, but the bad guy nabs her eventually and the n there is a distinct scene with TONS of these girls falling out of flowers or pods in the sky and hes running around catching them like "nope...not this one" but much more melancholy and serious. I have no clue what the hell else happens. This has been the bane of me for so long and I have literally scoured anime databases and found NADA. MERCY. PLEASE, someone find this!!!!
Anime that I can't remember Anime
so this might be a western cartoon, but I'm gonna go with my gut and say it's an anime. All I remember is a part near the beginning I think, where the main character (a boy) and another person (might be a girl...?) go to the boys family ship (which was flying btw) and the boys family is there and greets them and saying things like "oh you finally got a girlfriend!" I also think the family had a special pet. sorry if it's too little to work with but help in any way you can!
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90s cartoon or anime with robot flying thru space Anime
So there is old 90s cartoon with robot flying thru space, like superman style, with "bus" attached to his feet's. The robot is actually spaceship, and the long "bus" its a rest of it, full of children i think...so whet it come to battle, a spaceship separate its self from the "bus" thing, and transform in to a robot... I was 7 back then, I don't remember to much...
White haired guy with psychic headaches Anime
I watched a fairly mature anime (there was smoking, drinking blood, etc) on SBS anywhere from late 90s to the 2000s. Key points I remember: