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Not sure anyone can help with this one, and I'm also not sure if it's really anime or western animation, but i recall some years ago seeing a scene in an animated movie that was being played on starz (Could have been HBO, cinemax, or showtime as well I guess, but I'm 99.9% positive it was starz). involving these giant crab things (I think they were black, but I could be wrong). There were these scantily clad humans rushing them with spears, and if I'm not mistaken a lot of people got cut in half by the crabs' far superior claws. I think it was from the late 80's early 90's, but I don't know for sure. I didn't think to check for the name, and I've been dwelling on it for years now. I've kept it at the back of my mind for the most part, but every now and then it pops back up and drives me nuts.
EDIT: I seem to recall the crabs coming down the side of a mountain.
EDIT: The humans might have all been bald too. I can't remember for sure but I have a feeling they were. Also there's a possibility they were all men. There were a lot of humans; they were like an army. The scene looked as if they were fighting a war. And the thing I remember best is people getting cut in half by the crab-things. I think their spears just broke when they hit the crabs. That is if they even connected. Can't remember.
Edited by TheGorramBatmanopenNo Title Anime
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 on either Starz or the Sci-Fi channel quite a few years ago. I want to say it was in '02-'04ish. There was a boy and a blue-haired alien girl on Earth, and the girl had to dye her hair black because the government or something was looking for her species. I remember a bunch of people who had dyed their hair blue before being detained by the police or something similar, and they were illuminated by spotlights? The girl was a bit clueless and in the scene I remember, she was wearing a sundress and a hat.
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There's this old anime film (I think it's from the '70s) that I don't remember the title of, and I would like to see if you can recognize it through the following summary.
A future Earth is recovering from some apocalyptic disaster/war that caused the sea levels to rise drastically (when the film starts, the sea level only recently began decreasing by considerable margins), and the protagonist is a brown-haired girl who turns out to be the half-breed child of a Merfolk woman whose entire race is composed of telepathic water-breathing near-humans with sea-green hair (her hair turns green whenever she is literally breathing water while, well, underwater), and she is thrust into an escalating conflict between said Merfolk (who can command sea animals) and the human civilization over the latter's rampant underwater construction projects, exploitation of marine resources and sealife, and the increasing pollution and other environmental damage caused by the former two. The finale has said girl desperately trying to stop what would surely be a very bloody battle between the two sides at the ruins of a submerged city near the Merfolk's home, only to end with her taking a shot (with fatal consequences) for the Big Bad that finally puts an end to the conflict with a My God, What Have I Done? reaction to everyone that was about to fight, and the poor girl dissolves into the sea as she dies.
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Rather weird and specific question - doesn't quite fit the forum, but wouldn't fit anywhere else. On the show Final Fantasy Unlimited, there was one character, Makenshi, or White Cloud. I used to have a picture of him: profile of his face, looking to the left, eyes closed, head tilted slightly forwards, wearing his mask - the background was white mist. If you guys knew where to find a good version of that pic, that'd be absolutely amazing - if this doesn't fit the purpose of this page, well... I'll have tried. :)
EDIT: This, only larger: http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSm9vPlFVoVbGE9HPIPqQSfkjfF_Y4JXYQZoaksYzgaJx6EeVa9SP9AJoE
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An anime about a salaryman who's approached by two aliens with the appearance of human women (I think there was a sequence at the beginning where they had a morning gymnastics session because "that's what you're supposed to do in Japan"), who tell him that he has to save the world with teh power of his rock 'n roll music.
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there was this anime I saw on adult swim one night when I was a wee lad. I remember it had robots and lots of seizure inducing rainbows which surprised me because it was a really dark show.
One scene that stands out from my memory is two people; one was this guy dressed in this blue outfit (I can't remember if it was a uniform or not) and the other person whose features and gender I fail to recall. the two are arguing over something next to the body of water and the guy turns away and this robot appears behind him (it appears between an arch thing that just shows up out of nowhere if I remember right), it's a smallish blue robot not a giant mecha and everyone around them starts to panic because the robot signifies the guy is a part of a feared group or something. There was also this bit about this guy in a red mech fighting something which I also fail to recall.
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I say anime, but it's really manga. I have been trying to find this one for YEARS. The only thing I remember about this manga is that it has chinese names, and there are magical vials around their neck, and I think when they are in contact with water, two characters shrink to chibi sized. (They're living with someone too)
PLEASE HELP
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I'm not sure if this should go in anime or western animation. I saw it about ten years ago, probably, and I don't remember much, but it had Pokemon-esque creatures at some sort of temple-y thing. I thought it was Pokemon, because I was a little kid and didn't know what Pokemon was yet (the horror). I'm sorry I don't have more details.
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Likely an anime, anyway. One of my favorite movies that Toon Disney used to show started out with a seagull getting caught in an oil spill. She survives, but only long enough to take her egg to a cat nearby, asking him to save her egg. His friends (including a cat that roams a semi-abandoned(?) library) want to just make an omelet out of it, but he makes sure to raise the bird until it can fly off on its own.
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I want to ask about an anime (not sure from japan/china). I've watched it when I was a kid in middle 90s. It's about,as far as I can remember, 2 sisters one brother and a mother. They were pour. I remember a scene with a boat where one of the girl is pushed into the water and turns into mermaid because of some magic power which saves her life. I remember also a second scene where the other sister is in danger and turns into bird/swan and flies away. The only thing that remains after her are her shoes. And the third scene I remember is when at the end of the movie where the whole family is together again: the mother is blind and lives in house very low to the ground; the boy I think became a fighter (I remember him with a sword); and the mermaid-sister and bird-sister also remain in the last picture. Sorry if it sound messy but it's been maybe 15 years since I watched it but it really touched me. I've searched that movie since I have a computer. I'll be glad if you have any ideas. Sorry about my not very colourful english.
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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.

Not an anime, but a manga. It had a ghost girl that committed suicide or something that fell in love with a boy moving into her old apartment. Might not be exactly that, didn't read too much.