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openI wanna find a show that's been bugging me for years... Anime
So, years ago, I was getting into this cartoon (maybe anime), but it suddenly dropped off the face of the earth. It was definitely on TV (AUS WA TV, don't know the channel or year).
I also have no clue about the title of the show, but I do remember some key intel on the show. The story was based around the stone age, the village was a cliffside surrounding a big tree with caves in the cliffside where our characters lived. The MC (main character) is a boy, bravery is his best trait. His father is known around the village to be the most cowardly person there and the MC gets a lot of hate because of that. There's also a young girl who's the same age as the MC. I believe she may have short purple hair, but I could be remembering wrong, I just know that she's drawn cute with a bit of tomboy attitude mixed in. She is the daughter of the chief of this village and has a good reputation with everyone. She sees the MC for how he really is and had a small crush on him. I believe the MC boy is oblivious of this but is envious of how much respect the girl gets.
There are a fair few other characters, like the bully/hunter boy who I think was rescued by the MC in one of the episodes. Bit cliché, so I don't know if that would help. And the chief who I believe is big on hygiene. I believe I remember him saying something like "I smell nice because I wash my clothes in CLEAN water." Don't know if that helps either haha.
This Cartoon or Anime has to be decades old now, and my memory of it may be corrupted being so long ago. So some of some details may be off. I don't trust my memory of how the girl looks. Just her relation to the MC and being the daughter of the chief. So take my words with a grain of salt. This is why it's so hard for me to look it up. I don't know if the show was canceled or taken off TV at the time. I was just never able to catch it ever again.
I really hope this rings a bell with someone. Then I can finally put my thoughts to rest.
openComedic manga Anime
Looking for a manga about a deliquent-looking boy interacting with a short, long-haired girl.
Notable things I remember:
The girl is very good at crane games and gives her prizes to the boy which he uses to surround his bed so they watch him while they sleep. Later he adds a life-sized statue of the girl to the watchers.
The girl has a female friend who's huge but very timid so she always hides just out of sight.
The girl has an elementary school brother who looks exactly like her.
The boy always thinks the girl is doing something outlandish when she's actually doing something normal. The one time he turned out to be right she actually was participating in a big beyblade tournament.
openManga with a fake resurrector Anime
A manga where the heroes run into a girl with the power to raise the dead. Except she's actually using telekinesis and ventriloquism to fake the dead people moving around.
There was a moment (I think, or it might have been a different manga) where the girl tries to stab the heroine as she sleeps, but the heroine keeps shifting at just the right moment, and dreams of food so she ends up glomping and drooling over the evil girl's breasts.
Ring any bells?
openAnime with a princess shooting a man point-blank after kissing him. Anime
Asking for my brother actually, in his words, here's what he remembers.
"I watched this anime in the late 1990s or early 2000s, but the anime itself may be older than that. Two countries are at war with each other in a fantasy-like setting. Their equipment is a level with tanks and firearms. A woman, who is possibly a princess of one of the countries, ends up in a beautiful cave with a man. They hug and kiss. A gunshot is heard. The man steps away, and we see that the woman has shot him at point-blank range. The man is shocked and falls dead. The woman then shoots herself. Her body falls from a cliff into the lake."
Any help is appreciated.
Edited by ShirokurouopenAn slice of life about a girl oriented camp group Anime
The thing I more clearly remember is this 1 scene
2 girls are walking while it's raining and they go inside some tunnel, then, when they see a shadow and hear noise from it. The girl got scare and think it's a monster, but it reveals that it's actually one of the few male characters, he said that he's not a monster and he told them that we should go back.
One I remember seeing it in the 2000s and most of the characters are girls
Edited by SlappyBirdopenNo Title Anime
Romance anime with lots of reverse piggyback / reverse princess carry
I want an anime with the female character carrying the male character in a romantic way. I want the female character to be physically strong and smart and the male character to be kind, naive and fluffy. It's best if it's a lighthearted comedy romance, but any genre is ok. I've seen Witch Craft Works, GSNK, and Akame ga kill, Magi
openWhat show is this? Anime
Iirc, this was a high-school romance anime. I believe it had a significant focus on growing up and the future, etc. The only scene I can remember clearly is between MC (M) and his love interest (F), and takes place near/at a railroad crossing. The two are talking about the future (I think LI is planning to travel for efucation) and MC realizes that he's not capable enough to be with LI in the future. He says something to the effect of "I can't go to where you're going (or where you are)", and talks about his flaws. And I believe the crossing bars come down between them during this, signifying the obstacle separating them that he cannot overcome. LI responds with (Then I will come/go to where you are." After this my memory gets hazier. MC tries to explain that she can't give up on her happiness just for him, and she says MC is her happiness.
It's just gnawing at me at this point, cause I can see like 2 minutes of the show so clearly in my head, but everything else is sketchy. Any help would be massively appreciated.
openManga where boy has multiple girls fall in love with him (NOT ROSARIO VAMPIRE) Anime
I was reading a manga a while back about a kid who unlocked some "secret ultimate power", which caused all of the bad girls in the school to fall in love with him. I want to say it was something like Rakujou or something, but I can't remember. There was a short girl who led the school mafia, the big busty girl with a sword, a girl who was part of a triplet set, and a girl who was a loan shark.
Anyone know what this was?
openAnime u think it was anthologic terror Anime
So, in 2008 or 2009 i think, when Cartoon Network actually aired anime, there was an episode about some kind of a skeleton that made paintings of beautiful women, but the models are unable to move, when the skeleton finishes the painting, the model dies instantly. Thats all i remeber, i hope some one knows somerging about it.
open3 episode Cat Anime on Youtube [SOLVED] Anime
This girl had a cat, her mom liked the cat originally but then the woman got close to it after trying to get rid of it after putting it in a box in the playground (the girl was jealous of the attention the cat got). The cat was only attatched to her and no longer liked the mom. After the girl got older, the cat died. The girl was rly depressed, and when walking home, she saw a box with a white cat which reminded her of her old cat and took it home. Please help, it was rly sad and nostalgic.
Edited by TeddysTropemasopenDid you guys know this? Anime
Hi, I want to asking the title for a manga. Its about an Yakuza who works as debt collector who one day finds an abandoned little girl In an apartment when he is carrying out his duties.
openLooking for the origin of a gif Anime
So, there's this gif I really like on tenor that is someone apparently sitting on a car and we see only this person's hands holding a revolver with its chamber open, then the person fill the chamber with those fast reloaders and closes it.
I don't have any idea where this is from, already searched it in some ways and found none.
Here's the link if you want to check it out and if you know the source I WOULD REAAAAALLY APRECIATE IT.
https://tenor.com/view/aesthetic-anime-guns-loading-gun-locked-and-load-gif-12379724
Thx
open[SOLVED] Animated "movie" made of clips from other movies Anime
It most likely had anime clips in it, in fact, it might even have been entirely comprised of clips from anime. And it had this ridiculous title which probably contained the word "Space".
Edited by BeTheFireopenComedy Manga about a school girl that everyone thinks is a delinquent Anime
Basic premise is the main character has all the stereotypical traits of a Japanese delinquent—creepy smile, long skirt, scars—but is just a really socially awkward girl. The story was about her trying to come out of her shell.
It's definitely not Tomo-chan is a Girl, I know that for sure.
openAnime about a boy who returns to his hometown? Anime
The most I remember about this one was that this boy had a group of friends he returned to after a long stretch of time and most of his friends, now grown up, were very happy to see him, save for one girl who acted rather distant. I believe that girl also used to play a violin, now that I think about it. I don't think I saw much of this show but ever since I randomly remembered it, not remembering it has stressed me out.
openMaybe YouTube Anime Anime
Mkay, bear with me here. There is an anime i saw years ago i think on You Tube. The anime was of a rich elite school. There was a smart girl who wanted to go but couldn't pay for it, however they had a special program for kids like her. This program was the rich seniors would pay for the education of those smart "poor" kids, but in return they had to make sure they graduate. Not just tutor, GRADUATE. They had to be passing their classes in order for them to pay. I didn't see much of the anime, so i couldn't tell you a lot. But there was this one scene stuck in my head. The rich senior she was paired with a perverted asshole, or that's how he was portrayed as in the beginning. He had a painting assignment that he said he couldn't do cuz he wasn't inspired or he just didn't want to idk. But he told her the only way he'd do it is if she'd let him draw her naked. Of course she said no. He threatened to stop paying her and she'd get kicked out of the school. She kept her dignity as long as she could, but realized she would never go to college without this school so eventually she gave in. (I think they were in a classroom.) She began to undress herself, but as soon as she got to the very end when she was about to completely reveal herself, he looked away and stopped her. He told her he didn't want to do it anymore and just walked out and left her alone in the room. Through the facial expressions and great animation/camera skills, you could tell he could tell how uncomfortable she was and he actually liked and cared for her underneath his idiotic perverted persona. So yeah that's all i remember. I'm not sure if maybe i got some details wrong, but that's what i remember. Thanks in advance if you help me find this anime. It's been years and i still can't find it, even though it's stuck in my head. Mkay, have a great day/night!!
open Vampire anime Anime
Its an anime that has this like vampire theme... There is a doctor? (brown hair) i remember he has like stubbles but he wears a long white coat... The main character has blue hair and they live in like a small town... there are vampires... It has this specific style with the hair of the characters being ribbon like and by that i mean the ends of their hair is like the tips of ribbons (W shaped)... I think the town is trying to get rid of the vampires and stuff
openOld anime on AXN or Animax in the 90s or 2000 Anime
This was a very old and super generic heroes-trying-to-save-the-world show I watched sometime from the 90s to 2000.
The MC is a sword-fighting red haired boy and is said to often get mistaken as a girl. I mean I remember thinking that he looked feminine enough that he could pass as a girl. I know he's a guy because he and (maybe) some others had to swim across a river so he took off his shirt.
The heroes (MC included) each had a mystical ball of power with a kanji or something on it and travelled from planet to planet. They are not really special in any way; they were just selected to be heroes as they had the ball.
I remember they fought human-sized robots (which I guess was to lower the age rating as the MC cleaves his enemies into pieces). It was not a mecha anime.
The main(?)/last villain had a ball of mystical power too. I recall near the end (I know because the show ended soon after) that he killed his attendant with a sword to increase the power of his ball (The sword had a socket or place for the ball).
The villain’s ball was crushed in the end, and a blonde or brown haired girl was the only survivor of the heroes.
The world is saved.
P.S. I. I could have sworn the blond/brunette's name was Isabelle, Isabella or something similar. But Anime-Planet had nothing.
II. My sis recalled that the title of the anime was pretty long. She also found the show poor.
Edited by Nick4117

I remember that it was something about a girl who was in love with her protector, a boy who was her childhood friend during Ancient Japan (don't remember the period, sorry). Then her brother tried to something bad (? i think it was an assassination attempt on her) and she and the boy had to run away together