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I heard about an anime, and I want to see it so badly! There were multiple arcs, but I only vaguely remember any past 1. A half youkai guy is trying to defend humans from youkai. I think his father who was the youkai is dead, and they want him to replace his dad. At the end of the arc, he joins them. Next arc has him dealing with his powers, wich possibly have something to do with the moon. There may or may not be a youkai prehistory who was one of his dads most trusted. There are also the youkai equivilent of gang wars. I believe there to be 4+ arcs in total, and if you have anything close, even if it goes against some of this stuff, post it. And it's NOT Claymour.
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I appreciate any ideas or help you can offer.
I believe I saw this on cartoon network in either 2000 or 2001. The whole world is a desert. There is one main city with a huge tree. There is a silver-haired girl girl. Her physical description made her very special for the world religion. She was captured by pirates or bandits.
Everyone traveled on the sand on "ships." All the key religious figures (almost catholic like in rites) go to see her sacrificed. A boy tries to save her. I believe he wanted revenge for his fathers death. However, the tree gives her power and she destroys the wicked people and brings water and life back to the world.
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NOTE: This is WESTERN ANIMATION. I messed up the tags and don't know how to fix it! >_<
Okay, here is a challenge. This is a show that I saw very briefly as a kid way back in the early-mid 90's. I remember very little about it, only one section of one episode. I am sorry, but I have no names to help you. My details are very vague, I understand that, but I am trying to flesh this memory out and gather as many details as possible. This is what I remember. Here we go:
I am pretty sure it was a space show where humans colonized a planet akin to Mars, red environment everywhere. They lived in bases/stations (I think). Not sure of the overall storyline, but I know two kids were involved, a boy and a girl, I think. The youngest of the two had befriended a small pet alien. I believe the alien had several tentacles as its appendages. In this particular episode, a large monster was destroying several bases. The other people living there thought it was the boy's pet, as it had been acting strange (due to it being sick?). It eventually disappeared in the episode (kidnapped? ran away?) and the kids were looking for it. When they left a room and turned off the lights, a glowing message was seen on the wall asking the boy for help (presumably from the alien pet).
That's all I can remember. I know it is not much to go, but there it is. If someone manages to help me figure this out, you will end a 10+ year quest to find the name of this show. I am eternally grateful for any help anyone can give. Good luck!
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I saw what I'm pretty sure was a film on the Sci-Fi channel's Saturday Anime in about 1998. It looked sort of 80's style, and involved a girl with long blond hair being put into some sort of tube thing and sent out into space/waking up in some sort of tube. She may have been from the past/a destroyed planet/etc etc. There were also bald, green-skinned (though otherwise humanoid) aliens involved, whom I think may have found her.
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There's this anime i watch quite a number of years ago. pretty sure its 90's. it was a movie about this guy with long white hair who was called a Guardian who shot the needles of light from his hangs. there was also a chick with a robot arm that had a blade in it and her husband turned into a monster. theres a big showdown at the end (if i remember correctly) also the main charactor was dressed all in black and i think he had a hat on >.> any guesses?
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I remember watching an animated show (dubbed in Korean, although I'm guessing it was Japanese) on VHS about a girl with some kind of magical hair ribbon/band (and perhaps magical red shoes?) fleeing from an evil witch of some sort. That's all I remember; I was trying to look up possible anime adaptations of The Wizard of Oz (because I distinctly remember red shoes playing a part) but came up empty.
I watched this show sometime in the late 1990s as a kid, not sure whether it was made earlier than that.
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It might have been an anime about mecha, but all I remember about it was that it had two kids (a boy and a girl, can't remember their appearances) and a scientist who was either raising them or fostering them (tall, black haired and bespectacled). The style of the anime was quite similar to Metal Fight Beyblade.
I had watched it dubbed in english and it seemed pretty old, maybe it had been created in the early 2000s...
So, halp?
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I'm pretty sure it's a very old anime (I watched it around 10 years or 13 years ago) in which there was a small boy *I think* is invited to a kingdom underwater led by a small girl *I think, again*. In the end of the movie, there was a volcano erupting (undersea). Maybe it's an anime rendition of 20000 leagues under the sea, because that's the movie's name translated to my native language (but then again, the translation sucks, so that's prolly not it)
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This anime had three girls as the protagonist, living in japan, they where chosen by the earth god or something like that, the earth god then manifested as a kaiju-like being that protected the girls.
The part that i remember of the show dealt with the japanese goverment passing a law that banned all over-50-feet-tall-beings from living in japan, so the army can attack the god/guardian.
The girls also were princesses of somewhere but i don't remember much of that, I think it was later on the show.
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I’m looking for this fanfic that I just cannot find. It’s “Princess Tutu”, and it’s a jokey/funny fic about the times Fakir tried to write Duck into a human and/or make it easier for them to talk to each other/other.
It doesn’t go as well as planned. It’s just a bunch of funny scenes, like Fakir accidentally making them hear each other’s thoughts. All of them.
Stuff like that.
Does anyone know the one I’m talking about?
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Well, I don't know what happens, but I have a picture of this girl from an Anime with brownish hair, red eyes and blood on her clothes and mouth. Her clothes are kind of like a school uniform...Link here to picture:
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=evil+anime+girl&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=709&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=PzOA_Vr-dj-SDM:&imgrefurl=http://www.myspace.com/409045380&docid=OGfS-yZP3VcQhM&imgurl=http://www.testriffic.com/resultfiles/27927Rena.jpg&w=640&h=523&ei=55tGT-PEHJTX8QOOw5mtDg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=580&vpy=188&dur=409&hovh=203&hovw=248&tx=138&ty=128&sig=117245374868426488403&page=1&tbnh=149&tbnw=201&start=0&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0
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I'm not too sure about this one. I THINK I have 2 of them. But for all I remember, they could be just one.
I'll treat them as two.
The main character starts off in the real world, which (If I remember correctly) is always shown as devoid of people. Whether this is the actual case or not is unsure to me. He finds something at his school that pretty much transports him to an alternate universe or something.
I distinctly remember a character who needed to be activated with a large key to the back. And she had a sister/counterpart that was better and more stronger than her in every way. They have a battle at some point. She also had a clone/extra copy of her, too If I remember correct.
There was also a female character that used fire for fighting.
At the same time. I kind of remember Mecha fighting in the real world too. Assuming this is a different anime, the real world was almost always devoid of people, too. And the main character would have to fight things in a mecha. It's not Evangelion, and I'm pretty sure it's not Gate Keepers, Macross or Gundam.
It's been killing me for a while now.
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Okay, this is gonna be a tough one, because of how little detail I can remember about it. It was a manga that was released here in the States a few years ago. Its first volume was considerably thicker than the average manga volume, and instead of having the standard 16+ readers only warning that most manga for older audiences have, it had what equated to an 'M' rating (in fact, I think M was used in the actual rating). Either the front or the back cover had a morose-looking older schoolgirl with long dark hair standing up and facing the reader, holding a sheathed katana in a vertical position (though the details of this aren't 100% clear in my mind, so if you see something that doesn't fit that exact criteria, still let me know). One thing I definitely remember about the actual content of the manga was that the first volume had a high school massacre, where seemingly one fair-haired dude (though he may have had help, it's difficult to recall) brutally slaughters most—if not all— of the students and teachers in the school at the time. And I definitely remember supernatural powers being involved in the story.
Again, sorry for the vagueness of this all.
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This was shown at an anime club I attended from 2005 - 2007.
A girl was transferred to a new school (possible all-girl school). When she went to talk to the principal (female, old) the principal was playing a string instrument, like a cello or bass. It was an eerie, haunting melody, and the show devoted a bit of time to it.
At the end of the episode, the girl magically transported to a different place/realm/reality. The show seemed to be in the fantasy genre.
I'm pretty certain about the first part, not so clear on the second, it was a long time ago.