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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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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.
Aye Aye Anime
I'm looking for the anime all the footage from this video
is taken from. I've tried searching for it myself, but I'm not sure how to go about it.
An old mecha anime Anime
I only remember that it was an early 2000 or late 90's mecha anime. I don't remember the plot much, but there is a pilot who falls on earth(he's probably alien) and meets a girl who cures his wounds, but he's really cold to her.
Yaoi Manga Anime
Which manga is this? It's about a boy in kendo who falls for an archer.
Blond idol singer??? Anime
I remember watching a clip on of an actiony anime about a bunch of teenagers fighting other teenagers with weapons like katanas and stuff and they wore like white uniforms or something, I do remember like one of the background characters saying "You Kyoto/Tokyo bastards!" And then there was this blonde girl who suddenly singed and then her teammates injuries healed I think?? I also remember a Dark Haired Aloof Girl as one of the main characters and I think she was called "Commander".
Marchen rings in my head Anime
I remember this manga about a reverse trap/tomboy who was named something like Marchen or Marche and she went around using magic to fend off these like evil beings that possessed ordinary items due to people's feelings and regrets or something and it was written by I believe a Korean man but I absolutely do not remember much else at all, I'm drawing a blank on the manga title I do remember she had short hair and had very small breasts but I cannot remember anything else
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90’s/00s mini cartoon show Anime
Hi i’m looking for a cartoon show I think it started before a bigger show or it was just a mini show I don’t really know I was young but it was something like this (intro); 4 or 5 boys and they were little troublemakers, something with a jar and one of the boys was pulling it and when it snapped open there were insects everywhere on his head on the walls, floor etc.. and the intro stopped with the boys spinning around, they fell and one of them had to throw up... and it had this really fun, sticking-in-your-head tune... that’s all I can remember, I hope someone can help me!! Thanks anyways
A Grandmotherly Cat Anime
Anime's the closest category, but I'm looking for a manga I read some time ago about a college student whose cat turns out to be a bakeneko or something similar. She first became human pretty early in the 20th century, so she behaves a lot like an old woman despite looking like a teenage human. There's a crazy club of cat-lovers on campus, a few other bekeneko turn up, and it's not too terribly tragic in the end despite the cat being immortal.
The only other clue I have is that I think the series is named after the cat and she has a pretty short name.
Underground demons or something Anime
This guy comes from underground and he's like super-strong. The demons or whatever are scared to invade above being they think humans are super strong. There's this family and especially the sister. At some point they go on a rescue mission, and the girl fakes having powers by using her cellphone's many apps. I got to like chapter 20 or so, and no I've forgotten the show.
[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.
Edited by Codric
Some american tv show I think Anime
So I watched this when I was around 5 or 6 im now 15 so it wasn't that long ago. I remember I watched it from my digibox it was prerecorded there. I don't remember much maybe one episode but it's about some dudes in a dungeon or something and they summon guardians from some sort of bracelet thing and one of the guys has a guardian named "metallian" who has a face shaped like a hockey mask if I remember correctly and then there are some bad dudes who also have their own guardians and then the guardians fight and one of the boys from the good guys goes awaken an ultimate guardian so they can win againts the bad guys it was shaped like an angel maybe. So yea I hope that made some sense and it was maybe anime I doubt it but maybe
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Anybody remember an anime show about ice skating? Anime
I'm not talking about Yuri!!! On Ice but an early shoujo romance show about a female ice skater who imagines her audience being customers being served food. There's also this other male character who's the love interest, he's blond and is a ghost (?) That can only be seen by the protagonist and hates/fears/loathes tomatoes or something which the female protagonist takes advantage of. I think the characters looked like the main pair from Maid Sama!
I really wanna know the name of this anime and Google isn't really working for me lol
Can't remember. Main characters were 3 teens? Anime
Fuzzy on details but it's killing me on remembering the name! The show was some spooky looking town were a human boy lived, he was the main character, and he had two friends, one was a mummy girl and the other a "vampire" boy? He had vampire parents but didn't inherent the gift. And they usually talk to a zombie postman who sounded like a surfer and always said "dude" I think they used to show it on CITV? Is that what it's called? Someone help its driving me crazy!
Edited by SakuraMochi
Solved! The secret of cerulean sand Anime
I think it was an anime at least. the show was about a girl from Britain i belive, that traveled to a dessert and she had a locket that contained a blue powder. There were flying machines powered by some kind of blue powder that charged in moonlight. Also blue crystals that worked in the same way. The dust and crystals would blow up if charged in sunlight, and it turned red. some evil dude wanted t use the powder and crystals to take over the world or something.
Edited by RexMcKey
Alien girl in a ugly chibi mecha Anime
An anime where a high school boy has an alien girl show up and proclaim him her husband, but she is a total Gonk. The Gonk turns out to be a mini mecha that is bigger on the inside, and piloted by a more typically pretty girl. Also has a childhood friend with Gag Boobs and a sarcastic Konata-lookalike character.
EDIT: It's Kemeko Deluxe!.
Edited by kor
Random kids show Anime
I can't remember the name of this show. It was about these non-human people (idk what they were called) who lived out in the forest (I think). When they fell asleep they would turn into a household object. One of them I remember turned into a broom and the one who was the main character turned into a hairbrush. Some human kid finds them and befriends them.
For some reason, I can't remember, the kid and the hairbrush kid could fuse with one another by clapping their hands together.
Edited by Alan2022
Please help me remember these two shows Anime
Both shows are very fuzzy to me. The first show had a girl trapped in some sort of spirit world with these fantasy creatures. Meanwhile in the real world I believe she was in a coma of some sort and her brother was trying to find a way to get her mind back from that other world. The second show was I believe a mystery show. The only thing i remeber clearly from this show is during the theme song each charater was show with a stong colored filter over them. One the the main male characters color was green. I appreciate any help! Thank you!
Old anime movie where girl has to wear power limiting armor (also maybe wrestling?) Anime
It's an old (70s-80s) anime movie. Science fiction with space travel. A comedy. A girl who I think might be a princess? She's from a planet where everyone is incredibly strong so they have to wear a kind of harness to limit their strength so as to not murder everyone they come into contact with by a handshake. I think on the cover is a picture of her in a blue outfit and maybe red hair.
She goes to a planet and it's a beach resort and I think she gets a crush on a guy but he is only interested in her because she's a princess. I THINK.
At one point she is wrestling another girl with the harness but the opponent takes hers off or turns it off and cheats to try and win the fight.
I watched this like 20 years ago on VHS and I am going insane not being able to figure out what this is!!!
Medabots Episode Anime
I'm not sure whether this belongs in Animation or Anime, but I'm looking for a specific Medabots episode. The robots are getting their memories taken away and forget their names. I remember the ending had one of the robots stamping on the machine, destroying, and saying, "I have a name, and it's," whatever it was. If not Medabots, it may be a similar robot anime.
Childhood show Anime
It had a little girl who helped a lone giant robot fight against other robots. I remember a few other characters, like her talking animal companion who got sea/airsick a lot, and a little boy who was an engineer. It was a mostly lighthearted show that had some heavy moments, and at the end of the show when the girl was going back home the little boy gave her a holographic picture of the characters together. I think that the show was an anime but it had a more cartoony style. It was the sort of thing that my mom rented from a library for me to watch.
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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
Was on Hulu Anime
This anime/cartoon had 3 or 4 kids that were human but chosen as elemental guardians for another world. When the villain did something in the other world; their world, human world, would also suffer. The kids would go to a secret library and go through a portal that took them to the other world. One would stay in the human world to overlook things and that kid would be randomly chosen by the portal. The portal made them have different bodies for when they were in the other world, bodies that represented their elements. One episode I remember was when the birds disappeared in the human world and the wind guardian was turning invisible because of the wind residences in the other world turning themselves invisible to retrieve something that was taken from them. This use to be on Hulu but I can’t seem to find it or remember the name.
Kind of Old Manga with an Iguana? Anime
It wasn't popular or anything and I don't think it got an anime adaptation either but it had a decent length, like 60+ chapters? I'm not sure but it was completed. Its main character was a guy with glasses and he had a contract with iguana or a lizard of some kind that gave him air powers of some sort that let him sort of fly. He was really loyal to this one girl I can't remember anything about except that she's really strong and there was a whole group of people with contracts with different animals that he was a part of.
The setting wasn't fantasy or anything but there was an end of the world scenario. Near the end I remember the main character has to fight that girl.
There was also another girl in that group that also liked him but ended up with the fat dude in the group.
I tried really hard to find this but I either find nothing or Popcorn Avatar, it's driving me crazy. Sorry if this was too vague or if I got some of the facts wrong. At this point everything is starting to blur together. The talking iguana contract is the thing that stood out the most.
Edited by Redska