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Okay, so I saw an episode of an anime six years ago when visiting Portugal (and therefore had NO IDEA what was going on or what the title was). The bits I remember are a boy being turned into a vampire (I'm pretty sure that's what happened anyway...) and being restrained by another guy who had orange hair and a green tartan poncho (or coat. possibly.) who was using silver thread or string.
And then some guys in futuristic white lab-coat-radiation-suit-hybrid outfits appeared which completely clashed with the old-church location and feel of the anime. Closing credits were just focused on one girl, I think.
I'm pretty sure it was made early 2000's, possibly late nineties. This has been bugging me for years, literally, if anyone can help me find out what it is I'll be immensely grateful
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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 about a teenage boy who's relative (sister or aunt maybe?) is either sick or simple abandons her little girl (preschool age) and the boy is such a good guy that he basically raises her. it's super cute and the little girl chants "onigiri" in the sing-song voice.
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I'm pretty sure this is an anime of some sort, it was a short film I think, and all I remember was that the hero had to go into a tower where an evil shadow lived and that if the shadow attacked the hero's shadow it hurt the hero. That's all I remember, seeing Princess and the Frog recently reminded me of it.
I think it also came on a Dvd collection with an animated version of The Dancing Shoes and some story about a girl who goes into a goblin's castle to rescue a prince who was turned into an owl but while there she cannot say a word or she'll drop dead (wouldn't mind knowing what that one was either).
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Probably a comedy, most likely after 2000. The scene I recall is a spoof of the first episode of Onegai Teacher when Kazami first enters the class she is teaching. However in this anime the teacher, instead of staring shyly, flips out and throws a desk at the students that tried to joke with her.
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Anime that was playing on the ImaginAsian (ia) channel one day and now I for the life of me can't find it again.
The characters fight with magic-fighting. I think the characters got their powers from tattoos or from a seal that glowed on their bodies...I only saw one scene, where there was a girl (late teen-early twenties), extremely exhausted and weakened, fighting against this rather obviously-evil woman...exhausted and worn out, the girl drags herself over to stand in front of the woman and barely touches her fist to the woman's stomach. The woman says something like "Hah! You call that a punch?" and then the girl releases her power. (Note that this is the English dub.)
The opening looked interesting so I'm just curious what it is.
Edited by asterseleneopenNo Title Anime
This new anime I watched at a convention but can't remember the name... It was about a girl who goes to a boarding school and she and her brother are vampires, but it wasn't vampire knight. There was a scene where her brother was playing some kind of board game with another guy, where they pulled cards and had to do whatever the card said no matter what. The nonvampire guy's card said "the player must accept what happens next." Then the vampire chick's brother pulled one that said he had to stab his hand with a sword, so he stabbed his hand and showed the other guy that he could heal.
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I remember in 7th grade our art teacher showed us a VHS compilation of old Japanese animated films. Osamu Tezuka's "Jumping" was on there, among other things. One of them was a short animation about the Hiroshima bombing. At first I thought it might have been the atomic bomb scene from Barefoot Gen, but that wasn't it, although it was very similar. I tried searching on amazon.com for said VHS but to no avail.
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Has anyone else read the manga "Dance Till Tomorrow"? I always figured I'd find it here but I guess not. Anyway I'm trying to build a page from the ground up and I've found out its a lot harder than it looks reading through the site. I know there's a place for shows that are coming out, and the YKKTW for tropes, but I'm trying to find a place where I can put out The Call to anyone who's read this to help with the tropes.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DanceTillTomorrow
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Hi! Back in the late 1990's / early 2000's, I used to watch Cardcaptor Sakura and another anime that I can't find. It was about a little girl (black hair, pigtails, pinkish clothes?) who went to school and had a friend (guy, brown hair, greenish clothes?) she used to hang out with. She liked him a lot, but she was too shy/afraid to tell him (besides, I think he was older than her). I vaguely remember swings, jumping ropes and sunsets. During the ending song/credits, she was by the window, thinking, some soap bubbles around her reflected her memories? and the last thing we saw was the class picture, where the two friends were looking at each other, although they were apart.
Edited by 78.29.187.186openNo Title Anime
You remember how back in the early 2000s networks were churning out Hilarious in Hindsight bad dubs of kids anime just as fast as they could so that they could cash in on some of the success that Pokemon had? And a lot of these were hilarious crap, like Flint The Time Detective. There was one, and it's been bugging me like crazy that I can't remember it, and that I can't totally differentiate which parts I remember from this show or Flint The Time Detective (I blame the likelihood that they were in the same time block).
Here are the details of what I remember: The two protagonists were children, and there was a Responsible Adult father who was some kind of scientist. They went on adventures to some alternate world, where it assumed a pretty non-challenging Monster of the Week format, if I'm remembering correctly. Remembering character designs and interactions is a bit sketchy, unfortunately. I get the feeling the girl had pink hair and the boy had some two-tone haircut, and the the scientist father acted a lot like Dr. Toros from Zoids. The villains as a whole were a threat, but the daily ones were a female set of Those Two Guys.
The one episode that's sticking in my mind revolved around Frog Dissection Day in the normal world (which freaked out the female protagonist to no end), and the villains in the other world doing some freaky bug experiments (with at least one of the underlings complaining about the ridiculous bug-like hairstyle the master had her wearing). Also appearing was some blond chick filling the role of Distressed Damsel (possibly with dryad-like empathic powers), who got an Imagine Spot of the male protagonist, I Am Not Making This Up, in a cloud of Bishie Sparkle and a kilt (the ludicrousness of which was lampshaded in the Imagine Spot—gotta love faithful translating). I believe the female protagonist got a little Tsundere about that. The protagonists eventually beat the genetically altered gigantic bug creatures with some combination of light and sound tricks, and the two minions were tied up and dangling from their ship. Back on planet Earth, the female protagonist got over her froggy issues and was the only one not bothered when the frogs all got out.
If I had to sum it up, I'd say it was probably what would happen if you mashed up Flint The Time Detective with Shinzo, favoring the ridiculous side of things. I've looked through some lists of programming blocks from that time period on Wikipedia (with a very wide window for time), and have so far turned up nothing. Any help for this rambling and possibly over-specific query would be appreciated.
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Well, I think it was an anime, but I'm not totally sure. This is gonna be kind of vague, but. . . I remember a scene where someone talks about being able to recognize women by the curve of their hips. That's all I remember. I just want to know what that came from.
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Anime time, people. I remember an OAV from the mid-'90s that had a strange title, Two Words, starting with A, not Japanese or English; it was like a made-up word. I don't remember its signifigance to the plot. The plot did have a blind woman trying to help solve a case involving a serial murderer. She had extrasensory abilities. Of course, she wound up becoming a target and the climax of the film had her dangling from the ledge of a building, with the main male hero trying to hold her up. This was also the anime's cover art.

What is the origin of the 2nd and 9th image in this image
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