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Astro Boy-esque anime movie with child protagonist and a robot girl Anime
I watched this movie very late at night on I believe Cartoon Network or Boomerang when I was fairly small, at least 7 or 8. From what I can remember, it's a (possibly) post-apocalyptic world where robots and machines are everywhere. Entire buildings are made of metal and from what I remember everything was fairly trashy and gunky looking. The protagonist is a young boy who befriends a young girl (I believe she's a robot). I was fading in and out of sleep when watching this movie, so all I remember is the ending - the girl had presumably died and the boy and all the robots (which did not look human like the girl did) were tearfully wishing and waving her goodbye. I'm also certain there was a massive explosion at some point in the film, or at least the large collapse of one of the metal buildings (which may or may not have led to the girl's death).
The animation style seemed old, how old I can't be sure but it gave me Studio Ghibli/Astro Boy vibes, however I don't think the art style was similar to Ghibli or Tezuka's. Again, the world and setting seemed post-apocalyptic; everything was dirty and brown and most of the metal looked rusty. The boy was the only human I remember seeing in the film. The movie was dubbed when I watched it, and the dubbing was pretty poor. If anyone knows what this movie/OVA was that would be a life saver as it has been the bane of my existence since I first ever watched it. By this point I'm honestly wondering whether I dreamed it up.
My Hero Academia Fanfiction Anime
Okay,so a few days ago I read a MHA fanfiction where Izuku destroys the zero pointer at the entrance exam by luring in the other robots and tricking them into firing on each other destroying them all, I just can't remember what the story was called...can you help me?
MTV's liquid television Anime
There was a skit, on liquid television, where a little girl knocks on doors, when the unlucky homeowner opens the door, she proceeds to destroy house with an explosion, or possibly, a giant shark. (Little girl might be a girl scout or just a kid trying to sell for school fundraisers) Thank you.
Sci-fi sports anime Anime
I remember watching an anime 7-10 years ago. It was about some kind of a space football game. The main character was the captain of the team playing this sport and his father disappeared somewhen before the start of the anime. Towards the end, it is revealed that the main characters' father is a space pirate
???? Anime
I'm trying to find the name of the show in an old video. The video was deleted, but I recall what happens. A bunch of robot servants are crushed under a chandelier, and a girl proceeds to jump on top of another one, before she is hit in the back by some kind of headpiece(looks like a tiara, reminds me a bit of sailor moon(definitely NOT that)), only for it be revealed the girl is a robot as well as she lays there, leaking oil or something brown. Another girl then proceeds to kick off a robot's head before fleeing, with the servants in pursuit. I know it's one of the older anime, it's closer to the older style 2ds rather than the more modern animes.
Robot servants look identical.
I remember what the real-character and the one who was supposedly normal looked like, so if you can find a picture I'd recognize them.
Video used to be on youtube, but has since been deleted, I can't find it anywhere.
Tiara or whatever the headgear is I believe looks like Wonder Woman's tiara only fully silver.
One of the maids survives the impact, and half of her face its destroyed, revealing the circuits under it. The real-character(The one who isn't a robot) had brown hair I think, I remember the robot that got hit in the back had brown hair and a brown vest or something similar on them.
It's not from: Najica Blitz Tactics, Gintama, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
A remote helicopters anime Anime
An anime that has remote vehicles as normal and the Kid Hero protagonists are helicopter controllers. There is the protagonist, a girl about his age and a younger kid.
Early 2000s anime? Anime
I remember watching this show on youtube back in 2012. I can't remember the plot at all, but I know the protagonist was a kind of generic looking highschooler with some kind of destructive power that causes runes to appear all over his body. I think the mc also had two friends, a guy with glasses and a girl who can use a sword. There was also this guy who could break bones by snapping his fingers? I can still kind of remember what the opening theme sounds like. I'm not even sure if it's early 2000s, but any help would be appreciated.
?? Anime
Looking for an Anime. It looked ultra-violent, and the animation was very fluid. Possible Mad House, or Production I.G. There was a guy running in what looked like a sports arena. He was getting attacked, limbs torn off, and regrowing them rapidly. I believe he was fighting a girl. Both were most likely high school students.
I thought it was Tokyo Ghoul, but after two and a half seasons, I know it was not.
I don;t remember the name, it was a series of cartoons Anime
Hi, I am looking for an old cartoon, I don't remember the name, it was about a boy who goes at night in his room and the to his space ship (kind of a racket) and travels throw galaxy on other planets and discovers new worlds, something he is taking his dog some gold dog (maybe a golden retriever). The series is very old, ca colors are faded and it may not contain conversations, just sound similar with Tom and Jerry on this part. Maybe someone else remembers it. Thank you
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:
- This woman goes to this private detective-type to find her brother
- The brother has white hair and he was having these massive headaches that cause him to kill people with Psychic Powers against his will
- When confronting the brother another guy takes off a cloak(?) and he is a man in military uniform with white hair. The military man reveals that the brother is actually a clone of him and he was sort guinea pig for the process for giving Psychic Powers. The military man boasts that the experiments on the clone allowed him to have the powers without the headaches
Soccer team Anime
Old animeted show , its about a soccer team they wear orange shirta i think they have 2 girls in the team they dancr and sing before every match ans the goalkeeper is fat
Gender based manga Anime
I am looking for a manga about a boy and a girl who fall in love with each other. The boy has feminine interests like cooking and sewing that he desperately tries to hide while the girl is a bit of a tom boy. The boy has a male friend who writes and publishes the boy and the girls relationship with the boy and the girl gender-swapped and under a female pen name. The reason the boy is so desperate to hide his feminine interests is because his father ran away while the boy was still young in order to become a girl.
Manga about a dying dude and his android girlfriend Anime
If I recall correctly, this manga takes place in a post-apocalyptic setting, with a dude and an android gal basically boinking and growing closer romantically before the dude kicks the bucket. Anyone know what it is?
Character that draws death to them Anime
I think it is most likely an anime, based on what I normally watch.
A female character that attracts death, so that anyone near them dies. Pretty typical trope. I really can't remember much else aside from the MC promising he'd stay with her and not die. I'm sure it has been done multiple times, but I really can't remember much at all, and I don't expect anyone to just list off every example of it, but if anyone has ideas that would be great!
Red haired male protagonist Anime
I watched this when I was very little. It had a red haired male protagonist that was from a different world. There was a blind woman and she was looking through the portal. One of the scenes I remember was that he was leaning over in pain levitating while talking to a girl from earth.
Girl falls in water? Anime
Ok so a girl falls in water,sacrificed to an ocean god or something, and her friends start looking for her? There were boats and a kid with white hair. And no it is not Bride of the water God.
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No Title Anime
All I know is that I watched this show when in the early 2000’s and it was an anime or cartoon. There were a group of kids that at times would ride skateboards or bikes to a facility where they would enter tubes and go up white/blue lifts like they were being sucked into a spaceship. They then entered a matrix/cyber world were they had weapons and powers to fight robots or machines. I’m pretty sure there was a red head girl who was in some white or blue matrix that had to solve puzzles or stuff that the others had to protect. Besides that I know nothing else. It was an action show mostly.
Sci-fi anime film with a scene in a space ghost town towards the end Anime
I think it was an anime, at least I remember it was an animated film, so basicly the only thing I remember from it is a scene towards the end of a little girl (I think) that walks through a space ghost town (far west style town) that has probably been abandoned for a long time, and I remember this sequence being dark (like being literally on the moon and seing space, so not that dark but still dark), and also I remeber all this scene being serious and perhaps sad like if the little girl remembered something walking through that town. I also remeber that at some point the girl picks up a teddy bear lying on the ground in this same city, but once she picks it up and has a look at it, the teddy bear turns to dust. So this is it, it's all I remeber and it's very blury so the details may be false but I'm pretty sure the general idea is right, also I think this isn't a very well known anime, plus it's probably quite an old one (1990 to 2000 maybe), and finaly the last detail, it may not even be a true japanese anime (really not sure about that last detail), when I was young and watched it, it was also the time when I watched russian/polish stuff so this is all, thanks in advance
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Anyone know this anime ? Anime
Ok so all I remember is that the album cover for this anime is a girl , I think a school girl, riding a bike, and she’s looking directly front and she looks really excited/happy. It had a really good theme song, and that’s why I want to remember what anime it was.
An anime of a guy(or woman) who changed bodies at midnight Anime
I don't remember if it was a Gender Bender deal like on Ranma 1/2 but i (barelly)remember the protagonist changed genders at midnight and it was something of a spy series, sorry if i could remember more info i would put it but my memory isn't helping right now.
Brainwashed kids going missing at night Anime
In a village, I believe, masses of children were known to go missing at night. The protagonist discovered that during the night, some kids were just walking out of their homes and leaving the village/town in an organized line or crowd. They appeared to be brainwashed or under some spell. The protagonist followed them to some place, possibly a castle or some abandoned or inaccessible place. My memory's fuzzy, but the culprit, though literally brainwashing and keeping the kids captive, may have had "good" intentions, providing them a home, or perhaps just creating a big family. I don't believe that the kids were killed. The overall feeling of the episode was that of a mystery. This could be an anime (most likely since that's what I watch) or a Western animation or film. There is a similar arc in Black Clover, but what I'm recalling is different since that very Black Clover arc triggered these memories. Thanks!
[Unsolved] Blue Alien Comedy Anime Anime
Alright, this has been on my mind for a while. Some years ago (should have been AT LEAST before 2010, probably closer to 2000), I watched an Anime which centered around a boy (who may have been the Only Sane Man) and two classmates: One was a blue guy, the other was a human-sized (anthropomorphic?) frog. (The Only Sane Man part is that, as far as I remember, the boy was the only one who thought that the two were strange in any way.) I remember the blue guy being an alien (the frog probably was, as well), but I am not too sure about that. The show was focussed on comedy, derived from the fact that the alien and the frog were completely ridiculous and tended to subvert the main characters expectations.
I remember three scenes from this show: One was from an episode in which the characters were trapped inside a video game (I think?). While walking through a desert, the main character sees a little shop in a distance and makes his way to it, only to realise that the shop seems to travel away from him, judging it to be a Hollywood Mirage... only to THEN find out that it is a real shop, and the blue guy is actually dragging it away from the main character.
Another scene showed the class which the characters attended visiting a swimming pool and the main character commenting on how salty the water was (as if it was the ocean), cutting to the other two, who were actually pouring salt into the pool (and mentioning that it still wasn't salty enough.)
Finally, there was an episode where the main character's love interest was mad at him for some reason, so the three protagonists found out (possibly by travelling into the past) that he once gave her a promise to replace some of her dolls; the rest of the episode was spent on them finding out that the manufacturer went out of business and trying to get some of those dolls.
That's about all I have. So far, looking for it has only pointed me toward "Sgt. Frog", which is not the Anime I saw, so here's hoping that the TV Tropes Hive Mind can help me with this.
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An anime, I think about three kids that are on a adventure Anime
One of them either can transform into a frog and cannot control it or he was a frog from the beggining. There’s a magical creature that keeps control on them.
Anime with half-human half-cricket or Grasshopper main character Anime
When I was young and visiting Tunisia, I remember an anime that looked like it came from either studio Ghibli or nippon animation world masterpiece theater. The main character, or at least the one I saw in the Intro, was a half-human half-grasshopper or cricket like character who rode a bike. He had the face and a lot of body parts of a human, but he had antennas and abdomen of either a cricket or a grasshopper (my memory is very bad about this series). So, this would fall under the trope "Little Bit Beastly", but looking in the Trope page it or some similar series is not listed there (and I was sure to double check. If you want to prove me wrong, PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO DO SO). Also, the fashion of the series seem to look like something out of the late 1800s and early 1900s.
This series has been giving me a headache trying to figure it out for a long, LONG time, so I'd really appreciate it if anyone knows what I was talking about. The series was dubbed in French, but I KNOW it wasn't a french cartoon or even a Tunisian one. It was very clearly an Anime.