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openHelp me find an asian cgi animated (3D) show Anime
I don't know if the "anime" category fits, because it's a TV show and I don't remember much.
But I used to watch this show on TV when i was young (around ~7 years ago). There was a young girl who lived in a village on or near the beach. I think she lived with a father figure too. She got a fish tank as a gift, and the girl found out the fish can talk (only she can understand) . She put them in a fish race, then the girl let them go. I think the fish wanted to stay though but they went away anyway.
This part kind of fades out of my memory, but I also remember that she was looking for her mother. When she went underwater there was fish that helped her breathe underwater (they gave her a pearl or something). This isnt in order, but I think she had a guy friend too. She also got kidnapped by some pirates, but in the end some huge octopus broke the ship and the girl with the boy escaped.
When she found her mother she saw that she was frozen, and her statue got somehow shattered. The daughter put them back together and the mother was alive (or mightve been an illusion). Mother gave her daughter a temporary flying ability.
I also remember that she was in a volcano with the boy and they tried to escape it. She was also friends with a creature that had a huge library.
Not to mention the intro song was an asian lady singing her native language to some beautiful instruments and it was powerful yet calming.
The show mightve been from around the 2000s. (1995-2010) It looked decent when I was younger though.
This is all I can remember. I will be super thankful if someone can find this show, because I've been thinking about it for awhile.
Edited by GrizopenScience fiction anime, space girl / planet guy Anime
I saw the beginning of this show sometime in 2000-2007. I believe, but am not 100% sure (it was a long time ago) that it was dubbed.
A boy raised planetside arrives at a space station and is clueless about the way of life of space people / how to function in space. He meets a girl raised in space; he comes off as clumsy and clueless, being in a foreign environment. Also, the two have a conversation about how in this space society, wanting someone else's DNA for your children is a high compliment. Then the two of them leave the space station and somehow wind up crashing on a planet. I left off at a space pod or some such crashed in what looked like a wheat field or tall grass, and with the impression that now that they're planetside, rolls will flip and the girl will be awkward / clumsy while the boy is knowledgeable.
openNo Title Anime
This was an animated film, almost certainly Chinese, longer than a typical TV episode but shorter than feature length. I saw it on British TV, probably some time in the 1980s.
In the opening scene, a crop of cabbages is sprayed with pesticide. A caterpillar (her species is referred to as "cabbage worm" in the English dub) eats one of the cabbages and becomes ill. She travels to the "Hospital for Useful Insects", but she is considered a pest, so she has to shroud herself in leaves as a disguise in order to gain treatment. The doctor is a crow. She overhears an insect in a neighbouring hospital bed mentioning that he likes to eat cabbage worms, and she hides deeper in her disguise.
By the time Doctor Crow and the other insects discover what she really is, she has pupated. Doctor Crow tells the insects to watch the pupa closely. When she emerges as a butterfly, Doctor Crow and the other insects accuse here of being a cabbage worm, which she denies, claiming that she is indeed a useful insect. In the final scene, she attempts to fly away, but she becomes entangled in a spider web, and Doctor Crow and the other insects laugh at her. This is clearly intended as a happy ending.
openanimated kids show - ninami? (found) Anime
Im trying to find this japanese animated kids show. One of my primary school teachers would put it on for us to help us learn japanese in around 2009. It was about a little yellow squirrel thing, who im pretty sure was called ninami or nanami.
I recall the first episode was about a girl going into the attic of her grandparents (?) house. It was like a tree house. And in there was a ball of fur hanging from the rafters and eventually it popped open and it was the squirrel thing! The rest of the show was about the squirrel thing learning how to speak japanese and learning social norms.
The show had a similar vibe to Moomin or Totoro.
im not sure how to attach images but i drew a picture of how i remember ninami looked: [1]
openRed, Green, Blue Flying Disc Weapon Anime
I've been searching every where. I believe this show was Western Animation or maybe Anime from the 80s or 90s.
I don't really remember much about it, but one of the characters had a very unique weapon... I want to say it was a red/green/blue 3-colored disc, and I want to say he could fly or hover on it. Additionally, the red/green/blue parts could separate and basically become 3 different boomerang-shaped weapons, and I believe that each color might have had its own ability..
Does this sound familiar to anyone? I'm starting to feel like I dreamed it up?
Edited by JBoothUAopen"Magic glass" artifact Anime
I remember a few years ago reading about ancient artifacts that were mysterious or ahead of their time like the Antikythera Mechanism and one thing I read about was an artifact that I can't fully remember. From what I can recall it was a centuries old glass tablet that when exposed to sunlight, an image would appear on it. This would have seemed like magic at the time but the artifact still exists and has been figured out. I think tt was done by using layers of glass carved in a certain way.I believe religious words appeared on the tablet when exposed to sunlight. I think it came from somewhere in asia. Not sure if there is a better place to put this. Thanks for the help.
EDIT: Not an anime, a real life object.
It is not the roman Lycurgus Cup.
Edited by glassbooksopenSchool Class Map Orienteering Exercise - Sprained Ankle & Jealous Girl [SOLVED] Anime
I may be able to figure this out on my own eventually, but I'm hoping you guys can help me out.
There is a school trip - probably high school - in a wilderness-type area. Students are divided into teams - possibly by class - and tasked with a map exercise for points or standing. Groups must navigate to certain points on the map to visit manned stations. All stations must be visited before the end of the day?
Several members of the group we're following sort of dash off without a real plan and without keeping track of where they're navigating. Eventually the group ends up off the beaten path and has to traverse some rocks across a river. One of the girls in the co-ed group is nervous, stumbles a bit, and is helped by one of the guys.
She ends up spraining her ankle - or something similar - and the guy who helped ends up giving her a piggy back ride so the group can keep going. At this point it's getting pretty dark and they start worrying that they are lost. I get the feeling that one of the other girls in the group is jealous about this turn of events, but is unwilling to admit she has feelings for the guy carrying the injured girl.
You'd think with this much information that I could figure this out myself, but my Google-fu is coming up empty. I keep getting results for how to treat sprained ankles, and generic anime school trips and training camps.
Edited by RydavimopenMissing reference for TF entry Anime
Back in my very first Trope Finder entry, my attempts at differentiating my trope from Please Put Some Clothes On included the male half of the pairing being "decapitated by a giant spiked club" as one of the possible injuries. I know I was referencing an anime, and I know the wielder is a purple-haired demon clad only in her panties (hence the club), but I unfortunately can't remember the name of the anime in question.
Edited by Gofastmikeopen(Found) Manga about demonic books Anime
I've been trying to find an scanlated mystery manga (only up to the first two chapters last time I checked, with each being done by a different group and with a significant time gap between them). In it, the main characters are a twenty-something grumpy guy and his child assistant. They have a book shop, but their true job is finding demonic books and either destroying or just hiding them. These books contain instructions about how to turn yourself into a human-hunting demon and cast some sort of compulsion to follow them in those who read it. Later on it turns out that the child is a full demon and the guy is at least halfway there, with the kid being the one actually in charge and pretty evil. Also, I think one of them had a name that ended in -taro. Shintaro, maybe?
The first chapter also shows a cheerful occult enthusiast visiting their shop, acting like he's known them for a while, but he doesn't show up in the second chapter so I don't know if he's a recurring character.
Edited by SetoraopenCute anime girl crying while eating french fries Anime
Okay, so a long time ago I saw this clip on Youtube with an anime girl with her friends at a table in a fast food restaurant, and she's sad and crying for some reason. So one of her friends tries to cheer her up by feeding her a french fry.
openScary Anime with Melting Anime
I remember in history class the teacher showed us this cartoon about a Japanese family living their normal life until the hiroshima bomb hit. Then it was scary, people's flesh and eyes were melting out, and they were moaning with deformed. One of the kids melted was a kid with a paper airplane. The cartoon ends with the paper airplane taking off and a new Hiroshima is built.
PLEASE DON'T SHOW IMAGES OR VIDEOS. I JUST WANT TO KNOW THE NAME. I DON'T WANT PTSD.
openAnime girl joins guy in onsen/hot spring, what anime is this? Anime
I watched this on youtube some time ago and I just can't find it. It was a standard onsen and it was night or more likely evening. One guy, pretty plain with dark, short and a little spiky hair was all by himself in there. He was expecting someone to join him but it wasn't whoever he'd been expecting. It was a girl, and as for her apperance, I only remember she had long hair, a little dark but not very. Maybe light purple, I can't say. Briefly, you could see her from his POV, and she only had a towel hanging down between her legs (NOT wrapped around her waist). Her breasts were obscured by a strand of this guys hair. They both froze when they saw each other, and she staggered back a little. He told her others would be coming soon, so she got into the water (and when she did you could briefly see her butt, if that matters) and sat down right next to him. He was probably expecting her to sit further away, and scooted away just a little but kept calm. I think he might've also half-submerged his head, sp his mouth was underwater. After a little while, she started talking to him about something. She looked at the nightsky while talking maybe she didn't dare to look him in the eyes or something. I think she really liked him, they really liked each other. But I could tell she wasn't one of those typical anime girls, this girl was kind and decent (not violent at all ^^). During the whole clip they were by themselves. Now I've searched for ages, and I just want to find this anime! Please help me, it'd be so wonderful to find this anime. Please note, SHE joined him (not the other way around), in a hot spring/outdoor onsen without any walls between them and they were by themselves the whole time
The anime is not "Tenchi Muyo", "Hyouka" or "Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara" but the scene is very similiar to the one from Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara.
openAnime girl joins guy in onsen/hot spring, help, what anime is this? Anime
I watched this on youtube some time ago and I just can't find it. It was a standard onsen and it was night or more likely evening. One guy, pretty plain with dark, short and a little spiky hair was all by himself in there. He was expecting someone to join him but it wasn't whoever he'd been expecting. It was a girl, and as for her apperance, I only remember she had long hair, a little dark but not very. Maybe light purple, I can't say. Briefly, you could see her from his POV, and she only had a towel hanging down between her legs (NOT wrapped around her waist). Her breasts were obscured by a strand of this guys hair. They both froze when they saw each other, and she staggered back a little. He told her others would be coming soon, so she got into the water (and when she did you could briefly see her butt, if that matters) and sat down right next to him. He was probably expecting her to sit further away, and scooted away just a little but kept calm. I think he might've also half-submerged his head, sp his mouth was underwater. After a little while, she started talking to him about something. She looked at the nightsky while talking maybe she didn't dare to look him in the eyes or something. I think she really liked him, they really liked each other. But I could tell she wasn't one of those typical anime girls, this girl was kind and decent (not violent at all ^^). During the whole clip they were by themselves. Now I've searched for ages, and I just want to find this anime! Please help me, it'd be so wonderful to find this anime. Please note, SHE joined him (not the other way around), in a hot spring/outdoor onsen without any walls between them and they were by themselves the whole time
The anime is not "Tenchi Muyo", "Hyouka" or "Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara" but the scene is very similiar to the one from Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara.
openAnime brief no panties scene? Anime
This scenen was very brief and I probably saw it on youtube, a little more than a year or so ago. Anyway, a guy walks into the kitchen in the house he's in. We hear a this, and he looks to his right. A little girl wearing ordinary clothes and a apron fell over, and quicklu got up. She nervously asked if he saw. Smiling, he replies he didn't see her panties. And she said "Good, because I wasn't wearing any panties today." I don't know much about the anime, but it SEEMED like an anime where one guy lives with a bunch of girls. That's really common in anime nowadays, but another detail is that this guy seems to be the girls'" master"and they're all his servants.
And that's that. Know it? Looked everywhere but can't find it! Please help me.
openAnime Girl walk in on Guy in onsen Anime
So I watched this on youtube some time ago and I just can't find it. It was a standard onsen and it was night or more likely evening. One guy, pretty plain with dark, short and a little spiky hair was all by himself in there. He was expecting someone to join him but it wasn't whoever he'd been expecting. It was a girl, and as for her apperance, I only remember she had long hair, a little dark but not very. Maybe light purple, I can't say. Briefly, you could see her from his POV, and she only had a towel hanging down between her legs (NOT wrapped around her waist). Her breasts were obscured by a strand of this guys hair. They both froze when they saw each other, and she staggered back a little. He told her others would be coming soon, so she got into the water and sat down right next to him. He wasn't expecting that and scooted away just a little but kept calm. After a little while, she started talking to him about something. I think she really liked him, they really liked each other. But I could tell she wasn't one of those typical anime girls who simply strip down, expose themselves to their crush and the berate them and punish them for their own doing. Such anime girls are WAY too common and way too annoying. Anyways, this girl was kind and decent. I don't remember what happened next, but I think it worked out. During the whole clip they were by themselves. Now I've searched for ages, and I just want to find this anime! Please help me, it'd be so wonderful to find this anime.
openOld cartoon Anime
The only thing that i remember is a scene where there are many trees in a forest and each tree has its own enchanted door. Then someome picks a door and goes throught it and falls from the sky into a forest
openMemory Wipe on Birthday Anime? Anime
Going nuts trying to remember this weird anime I saw the first episode of a few years ago. It was some kind of weird [future?] dystopia when on their like thirteen or fourteen birthday, everyone gets their memory completely wiped and are [possibly] assigned jobs. Via something that looked like a theme park ride? I think I remember free admittance to a theme park? Like, bang! you are an adult now! I'm not even sure if MC's parents were actually his parents or if it was an 'you are assigned a child' thing. I think it may be the latter? Anyway. the main character was [somehow?] Immune to the mind wipe process and is saved from it by other Immunes or something?
There was also possibly some kind of control room where the people in control were monitoring the Memory Erase Ride for Immunes
open(FOUND!) Strange Japanese Childrens Show. Anime
As the title says, it was a Japanese(?) show for kids. It was all CGI (which was very poor) and revolved around this little boy and a purple wolf that wore a mask, and both worked in a Circus (I think there were other characters, too).
Dispite being a kids show I remember some episodes were really creepy, had some violence, and it was one of those cartoons were the characters would die in one episode and be fine by the next. Anyways, the last thing I recall is that the final episode ended on a cliffhanger.. or something.
I remember watching/finding it on Youtube a couple years back and it just crossed by mind. So..anyone know what I am talking about?
Edited by RehydratedFortuneopenDog Lost in America Anime
I just remembers a series of anime shorts I watched on Youtube years back but can't find the title anywhere. It's about either a dog or a cat (pretty sure it was a dog) that was accidentally left behind in America (or maybe France?) by a Japanese family after they went on vacation.. The whole show was about the pet trying to reunite with its family. Definitely a kids show.I think it was made sometime in the early 2010s. There was no dub.
Edited by ninjamitsuki2

This anime is probably from the 90s or early 2000s, certainly in 4:3 format. I used to own the box set as a kid and I think it was maybe 6 disks worth?
One of the main characters is a guy who is mostly silent. He has a really powerful gun that uses some type of colorful seed-like things as ammo. He can combine different types of seeds to make different effects?
At least part of the show took place in some sort of desert or wasteland type area. This may be related to why the seeds are so powerful and rare, but I'm not sure.
There was also an old woman they meet who would always add, "[pause]...or something like that." after nearly everything she told them.
I can only remember these couple scenes, I have no idea what the main plot was. Hoping someone can help me out.
Update #1
I would guess it didn't have a large budget. If my vague memory can be believed, I would say the animation style was somewhere around Trigun or Slayers.
There may have been a second male MC traveling with the guy above. It's possible they were searching for a women, but I am much less sure about that.
The title may be only one or two words long.
Loading and firing the gun was a pretty long dramatic sequence. Each "bullet" would get slotted in and there was some sort of repeating dialogue during that. I think the gun loaded either exactly or up to three seed things at a time to setup a single shot.
Edited by Rydavim