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openClassic Anime Anime
My very first anime was an anime that i found inside a cd case in the early 2000's my memory is so hazy but the only scene I remember(probably because it was my first time i had seen bare 2D breast) was that there was a girl inside a robot suit. I believe she was doing chores and her robot suit got discharged and she was left naked for the other characters to see thats when she freaked out and covered her body. Only scene I remember, never bothered to do any sort of asking because of the very little information i have of it but heres a go.
openAnime Movie about Gopher Superhero Anime
I have this ache in my head, I'm still trying to figure out that one show with the gopher, pink seal, blue monkey and yellow duck with blue socks..but it also has a movie to go along with it. It has the Gopher boy playing superhero and a rose haired girl in a black cat suit is following him around..can you help me figure it out?
openInvisible Being takes over School Kids Bodies? Anime
Okay, searching for an anime in which an invisible & perhaps omnipotent entity takes over the bodies/minds of schoolkids? It's a sort of existential style (perhaps horror/scifi) show in which maybe the entity turns the kids against eachother or plays games with them. I can't seem to remember if he (the invisible entity) only takes over one kids body or if he moves between body to body. Also, I don't remember the nature of this entity- if he's an alien or what. hope u can help!
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 Grizopen[SOLVED] Anime About Girl Who Can Grant Miracles Anime
This is now solved thanks to a troper who helped identify this as Someday's Dreamers, and I appreciate all who helped!
My family and I had this cd(?) of an anime with several episodes, maybe a season, when I was younger that for the life of me I cannot remember what it's called.
Here's what I remember the clearest:
The artstyle makes me think it was made after the 80's. I watched it as a child in the late 2000's, so it could have been made anytime from 1990's to before 2010? Setting-wise, I can't remember anything that would date the movie but what I do remember is that it was set in the city
The main character was a brunette young adult/older teenager who was able to "grant wishes", so she can make things others wish for come true. I put that in quotation marks because I'm not sure if that was how the anime worded it, but it's the closest I can describe it.
She befriends an older man with black hair and glasses(?) who knows of her gift and may or may not have magical abilities as well. He has a tragic backstory in which he has a Lost Lenore who died in a car accident
The overall tone of the anime was melancholic — the intro (something I remember the tune to, but obviously can't recreate to share here) had sad piano to it and many shots of characters introspective and emoting little
There was this third character of a woman with short, blonde hair and might have been cold and stoic?
I can't distinguish whether or not these were different episodes but here's what I remember in-show:
One of the first episodes featured the Main character granting a guy friend a bunch of snack bars, and since they start magically sprouting from his vest/coat, the friend reacts negatively (I'm also assuming he was being exaggerative and she didn't know better?)
One episode had her go to a club but the girl is disoriented and confused as to her surroundings?
I clearly remember a scene where the girl grabs a floating balloon from the grasps of a young boy next to his mother. But when the girl gives it back to the boy, the balloon suddenly pops and he cries. The mother then demands the girl to make her son feel better and then says something along the lines of "can't you grant wishes??"
There's this one scene where the girl is caught in the rain in a park (?) so she hides under something and finds a cat (that I think I remember being able to talk but I doubt that?)
In an episode, there's a flashback to how the guy lost his wife, which she felt cold so he (the driver) took off his jacket and gave it to her, while still driving. Another vehicle hit them in his moment of recklessness, and he cradles her in the middle of the street as she's dying/dead. I remember snowflakes falling afterwards and I think it has to do with his powers, but I could be wrong
Anyways I remember some things but none of my searches for this one specific anime had been successful in identifying it
Edited by LemonySnippetopenAn old anime Anime
Hi guys, could you please help me with this one? Twenty years ago I watched an episode of a strange anime: the protagonists were four mech pilots, two boys (one of them was a short boy with thick glasses and manned a fish-like mech) and two girls (one of them was a little girl that manned a scarab-like mech), and there was some race of humanoids that in Italian were called "Signori degli Abissi" -it means "lords of the abyss"- (in the episode that I saw they looked like featureless charred humanoids, which for some reasons turned to dust starting from their head). It had the graphics of Future Boy Conan. Thanks in advance!
openA YURI TYPE MANGA WITH A GIRL WITH GLASSES AS THE PROTAGONIST? Anime
I remember reading it so long ago, the protagonist was a freckled(?) short dark blonde haired glasses wearing girl who didn't understand the big deal of relationships and the like, or wanted one really badly. it involved cell phones, dealing with rumors and her meeting a girl with a bad reputation, she had long black hair and isolated because it was rumored she had sex with guys. last time i read i was near the part where the protag starts to realize something is off with her feelings towards the other girl. I think it may have had something to do with strawberries in the title? Either way it was maybe about ten chapters and unfinished, but it seemed to have been created Very Long Ago.
Things I remember about it, very old art style, like Yu Yu Hakusho, with all the little things about 90s manga.
The protag had these really iconic dad glasses! like these :
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The other character looked at lot like hell girl but with dark eyes.
Their school outfits were a plain short sleeved button up blouse with plaid skirts.
It was under the Yuri tag.
openRecent-ish Space Manga Anime
A couple months back I started reading a manga in the middle of the night. It was about a prince of some experimental universe or something going on adventures to reclaim his throne. The emperor had an embarrassing secret duck suit fetish or something.
The supporting cast included a robotic locker that had a girl inside, and a space pirate in the body of a cat. As far as I know, the name of the series is the name of the girl who was in the locker - called a coffin by the people in charge. It made Pico pico/piko/peko noises.
I'm hoping somebody knows of it... Thank you for your time!
openAnime ED Song Anime
Putting this under anime because I'm more interested in knowing the Anime this is from than the song. So, I remember the Getter Robo ED starting with the line "WIN! WIN! WIN! VICTORY!" in a thick Japanese accent and then having some line in Japanese that ended with the singer saying "1, 2, 3" in English. However, I saw the ending online in my video suggestions on You Tube and decided to have a listen, and the line was nowhere to be found. I also, upon hearing it, remembered that song as being the actual ED. So I think I might have been confusing some other ED with the Getter Robo ED, but I can't find where it's from. It was probably from an Anime from the 70s, most likely a mecha, but it could have been something else. It might have even been an insert song or something, the most important part is that it has "WIN! WIN! WIN! VICTORY!" in it.
openMight be a Shounen series(?) Anime
I totally forgot the name of this show or even the rest of the episodes, but I clearly remember the B plot for this one. Someone or something is giving advice to someone about women and tells them to gather multiple females' phone numbers. The person does so, then they have to fight some spider minster or something, and at the end of the episode, I remember all the women finding out that the one person had gathered ultiple hone numbers and they all got incredibly angry and disgusted and went off.
Can anyone help me with this?
Edited by GoldudeopenCreature that enter our world from a closet, carrying an umbrella Anime
I remember one of my absolute favourite cartoons as a child (in the 90s) was about this boy and this creature. The creature was shaped like a human but it had a large, puffy face and it carried a striped umbrella which he could spin, and I think it allowed him to fly. The creature had entered the boy's/our world through his closet. I watched it in Arabic and it was called "Sumbul" (how I pronounced it anyway). I have tried to find it with no luck. Does anyone know what I am talking about?
opena yuri type manga with a girl with glasses as the protagonist? Anime
I remember reading it so long ago, the protagonist was a freckled(?) short haired glasses wearing girl who didn't understand the big deal of relationships and the like, or wanted one really badly. it involved cell phones and her meeting a girl with a bad reputation, she had long black hair and isolated because it was rumored she had sex with guys. last time i read it they were getting closer??
openI cant remember Anime
I cant remember that show in which there was a guy who had a box given by his grandfather which contained a crystal.if a person was selected then some power cards appeared in the box. They had a beyblade like thing but was not beyblade.they go into space when they have to fight.this anime contained real life characters and its name was of 4 words.let me see if the bell rings
openThis is a manga i try to find Anime
i read this manga when i was young but can seem to find it anymore. It was a shoujo manga about a group of schoolgirls who all in the student council of a all- girls school. Due to the trouble they make they was forced by the school principle to become female ninja and go steal something from the all- boys school nearby.
The main girl have a cat that actually her father but she don't know about that. There a science-loving girl who is nice but kinda clumsy, a tomboy girl and a girl who like money and very good at music. Can anyone tell me the english name of this manga pls?
openA Pop! Show I can't seem to remember much of Anime
It was a show on the kids Channel Pop! I'm not 100% sure if it was an anime but it was about 3 children who had this book with different diamond shaped slots in it and would have to find the diamonds to fit in the book. There was also some sort of rip off team Rocket as well I think.
openMagic anime Anime
I remember watching an anime series in the early 2000's about a girl who moved to Tokyo for a job as a magician. At one point a cat curls up in her lap and dies, and at another point her mentor uses his magic to help a woman win the lottery so she can find a missing person. It was a Netflix dvd rental, that's all I can remember. Thanks in advance.
openLooking for a TV show Anime
I vaguely remember a TV show about a boy who wanted a robot in a world were it was normal for people to have them. He got one (I think it was orange) but it didn't work so he got angry with it. I hope I'm remembering it right. Any help would be appreciated.
Edited by WhatTheShockopenBloody room filled with portraits. Anime
Not 100% sure it's anime but here it goes. I remember watching a cassete between 1997-2000 and I remember a bunch of scenes, in one of them there's a blonde girl, a room filled with portraits and then the room fills itself with blood and i think the portraits change into something creepy like corpses or sekeletons, there's also a scene where a guy(s) is(are) standing on horses looking up at an old mansion where i think the girl was, the movie or sereies is depicted in the 18/19 century i think... But these memories are very old, I was like 3-6 years old so... Any help is welcomed I've had this movie stuck in my meories for more then 15 years...
openAnime / movie name from an osu song Anime
So i was playing osu! and at the start of the song there was a short clip of an anime. It was a girl dreaming about how what will happen to her (while she is in the ocean) and afterwards she asks if she forgot what happend ( and you get a short clip of her looking at an explosion while she is holding her laptop.) Then she asks herself is she forgot how to think at all. Then she wakes up in her room, telling the audience (us) that she isn't lonely, and then checks her message box wich says that she hasn't recieved a message in 2359 days. If you know this anime/movie please tell me. the osu! song was: Porter Robinson & Madeon - Shelter (Official Audio) map made by: Monstrata
Edited by 2foon

It was Uniminipet.
I am trying to remember an anime or cartoon, i have no idea about the name, but the title looked like Korean or Japanese. It was about a boy carrying a pendant and his toy friends, but they looked more like plushies. The most memorable toy was a blue cat afraid of snakes. Also there was another toy that was kind of obsessed with the boy. I remember a girl too, she had a weird ball shaped toy with three(?) legs and an antenna that was the antagonist for a long time, but she was unaware of that. the last thing i remember is a professor assisting the boy. I think the way i told it was kind of messed up but i can't remember anything else. Thanks for anyone trying to help.
Edited by Kuriboo