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openI cant remember the name of an anime I watched years ago Anime
This was some time ago, early 2000s and this anime really intrigued me younger but I could never find it. I'll say everything I can remember: This anime had a mix of 2d and 3d, the 3d part seemed to be some kind of matrix, virtual reality world where there were three people fighting an enemy. One guy, one girl who was some kind of ninja girl and another girl who wore pink. They were heading to some special room, but ended up fighting someone. The first 2 were defeated and were vaporised in the virtual reality world and returned to real world (in 2d). The pink girl made it to the room will lights, like an upwards tunnel and floats upwards. The 3d stops and everything is 2d again, as if everyone is in the real world. If anyone knows the name of this anime please tell me as it has bothered me for years. I'm sorry it's so vauge, but thanks anyway.
openHelp Anime
I've been searching for this anime/cartoon since like 2010. There are few things I remember so this is a long shot but here goes. It was a anime that children watched, like Naruto or One Piece, but it wasn't as well known. What I remember about the characters is, the first season, there was a antagonist in a red mecha-like suit and the protagonist had a green one. There was another character with a pink suit, the pink one was quite shy and had an evil brother that tries to take over in the second season (I think the brothers name was Phoenix). All through the first season, the red and the green characters were rivals, but in the second season they become friends. What I remember about the plot is that it's a fighting arena/tournament series, and the characters are quite young. The series was either dubbed or recorded in English. I watched this show all the time as a child and I wish to revisit it. If you have any ideas that could help me, I would really appreciate it.
openRed Moon anime (Not the 11eyes anime) Anime
I'm trying to find an anime about a group of (I think)students that have to fight off monsters whenever a red moon appear. I don't remember much of it, but there is one part in an episode that stands out. The students are relaxing someplace when the moon appears. Some of the students go into some tomb like place where there is a door and two torches. I believe there were some murals or hieroglyphs saying that to get the door open they have to change the color of the flames from red to (I think)blue and green. They do this by putting something in both of the torches. I asked this question before and got the 11eyes anime for an answer. I watched it, and it was not this anime.
openSome magical girl anime Anime
I looking for an anime about a magical girl with a pervy penguin sidekick who has a rival who is also a magical girl with a sidekick as well. I don't remember too much about the show, but there was an episode where the girl used her power to lift up a car that I think was crushing someone.
openPls help me Anime
I'm looking for a anime tv show that aired on Cartoon network in the 2000's maybe the 90's it was a tv show Where they World have these cards and a thing on their arm Where they Would sjove the card on top or in the thing on the arm and they would transform into monsters and there were also gold form/edition of the monster they were
Edited by DynamicCapybaraopenAnime featuring giant dog-bird thing? Anime
I saw it in an AMV years ago (like 2008-2011) but can't find the original anime or the video. It's a 2000s anime about a girl and a feathered monster. I remember it having a Tvtropes page.
I remember the bird was in a cage and the girl befriended it. It attacked her for some reason. Later on it escaped (?) but died by falling (?).
openCan’t remember Anime
I’m pretty sure it was animated it was an old tv show prolly 90s bc I remember watching it as a kid and i was born in 99 it had a bunch of good monsters like big and hairy .... can anyone please just help me
openKids show about floating islands and lack of water Anime
So it's a tv show i watched as a kid. they lived on floating islands and flew atround in big ships looking for storaged water. thats about all i remember.
openAnime Turbo Anime
I am looking for anime cartoon of early 90s about a boy called Turbo who could travel trough the space (i guess). He was in love with 3 sexy sisters-trines (not all together, but one by one coz they were killed one after each-other). The second sister was stabbed with a knife in her belly. The third came to him naked on a white horse.. This is all i remember... Looking for it 20 years...
openCartoon series about a magicwielding teenage boy Anime
So I am gonna make this or really easy or really hard. But I saw the face of the main character and knew I loved that show and would love to watch it back. So here is the youtube url with a timestamp so you guys can help me out. https://youtu.be/TFKArvWy4fk
at 0:45 it's the guy dead center in the left category. Thx in advance.
openSome anime i saw on nick Anime
So this is all i remember: The theam song was REALY GOOD (In my opinion), like mettle, but not heavy, and the 1st episode was something like this: So this kid and his 2 friends (1 male and 1 female) just woke up from a camp out in a jungle, and then they go find the main character's dad's laboratory or something, be no one's been there for a wile, (because his dad's missing) and they snoop around, and find a safe with a hand-print lock, and the kid trys his hand, and it works (Because it was his dad's lab), and they find this thing, about as big as a roll of quarters, and its blue, and then the future-SWAT or something come in, and they're like "SPIN IT AND WE SHOOT!!" and then (Cuz its an anime) they spin it, and a giant polar bear with blue crystals on it comes out, and the kids are like "WTF IS THAT RUNNN!!!!!" and the SWAT spin some yellow ones, and something i cant remember come out (but it had a black and yellow color pallet) come out, and then a chase, and the polar bear brakes a wall, more chasing, and they loose the SWAT, and thats all i remember. (Crazy how much i remember that isnt the name) Thanks in advance for the help
openlooking for an anime, will pay $3 Anime
Alright, so, I used to watch this anime when I was a kid so frankly I don't remember all that much but I'll do my best. Basically, there was this girl, (lets call her Sarah) and she had this little... person. So there was this really tiny person or person-like magical Thing, small like a fairy but without wings or anything just looked like a person. And only she could see this tiny pocket-person/pixie/thing and it would just kind of stick around with her mentor-mascot style. And these little pocket-people really loved chocolate so she was always giving him chocolate. Oh, and her parents couldn't see it or basically anybody that didn't have their own little pocket companion couldn't see them at all. But there WERE other people that had them, not everyone only a few that she would sometimes run into. And her crush was one of these people and his pocket-person was a female and had a crush on Sarah's pocket-person and also would grow facial hair when she was stressed. I just know that for sure that it aired in Mexico in the 2000's (in Cartoon Network I'm pretty sure!). I've tried looking for it myself before but I haven't found any indication that it was real and I didn't just fever-dream it, even though I'm SURE it was a real anime. It's been bugging me for years. I'm desperate I'll literally paypal $3 to the first person who can find it for me
openMr something Anime
I think it was a series but I only remember one episode specifically. There was a little homeless looking man and he had this large cat friend. Somehow the guy gets trapped inside of a mirror. He falls in love with a girl across the alley and tries to use a tightrope to get to her but the mirror falls off the rope and smashes into pieces. His name is mr. something but I can’t remember what it is!? Please help it’s driving me insane.
openA like-videogame cartoon show Anime
It's a kids cartoon. The protagonist is in like a dueling academia. Duelists can take the form of a monster they choose and fight in a virtual world taking the form of a choosen field. Duelists can take access to using a monster by taking an photo of it by using a red device equiped with a camera and they can do the same the fields. They can also trade monsters and fields however they want. I remember that the protagonists main monster was a fire monster
openWitch girl drawing magic circles Anime
I was looking for a manga I read once. It was a medieval setting, about a girl who learns she can use magic by copying the magic circles that a wizard left in her mother's house. She accidentally sets the house on fire and is saved by the wizard, who reveals to her that magic can be used by anyone with access to the magic circles, and takes her under his wing and to his tower where he will train her.
openLooking for a cartoon from the 80’s Anime
I’m not sure if this is where I a ask my question. I’m new here and only created an acct to ask for help. I was told if anyone could find this particular cartoon it would be you guys. Anyway here goes. I’m looking for a specific episode of a cartoon that I don’t know the name of or really have a lot of details to. It it holds great sentimental value to me. It was an episode my father and I watched when I was like 6. So from what I remember, there was a rich man, with like a lot of luggage, or items and there was like a servant or bellboy , something along those lines. And he may or may not have been a cat. So the rich guy would ask the servant to do something and the servant would always respond “ lemme hold your wallet” that part I’m very sure of and that is the part that most sticks out in my mind. Not much to go on I know. It would’ve been in the mid to late 80’s that I saw this cartoon. Any help would be greatly appreciated! This was in the USA btw. More specifically Illinois
Edited by HomelessbearopenHelp I can't remeber what cartoon or movie this is Anime
Looking for an old anime cartoon series or movie. I can't remember much. I have a memory where there is a little girl and she's walking or running away from someone and there is these huge grey stones that are all marching the same way in one direction. That's all I remember. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
openI’ve been trying to figure this out for 20 years! Anime
I used to watch an anime show when I was a kid, and I can’t remember what it was. I can only remember a few bits of one episode:
It’s an anime kids show in the late 80s early 90s featuring a young boy, potentially with a car as his side kick He thinks he’s being stalked by a shark while fishing, but it turns out the shark just has a fish hook stuck in his mouth and is asking for him to remove it. I remember there was a really cute octopus in this episode too.
I initially thought it was an episode of “bumpety boo” but I can’t find an episode like the one I remember.
Edited by HannahmwilshireopenYoutube Original Animation Anime
So there was this one animation I wanted to find again. Im pretty sure its a youtube only thing aswell. It was about this one guy with white hair waking up in a new world and finding himself fighing to protect a pink haired girl with cat ears that come off, who turns out to be a princess of this kingdom so to speak. When he fights off these big dog looking things she leads him back to her kingdom and in exchange her sister or something teaches him how to fight. He uses this exo sword thing to fight and he has like a black visor looking thing on. Hes told to bodyguard against this woman whos trying to kill the pink haired girl and so he goes to school with her. He heads up fighitng the woman who was masquerading as a teacher there. thats all I remember.

uhm I have serched everywhere but can't find it. So if none of u guys can't find or remember it either I am pretty sure I have just a crazy mind and I have wasted like nearly a whole day trying to find it.
So it was anime and it was about this girl who loved to dance and was living with orphans or other girls and they treated her super bad and mocked her. She was like a maid for them. And one day she got like these ballerina shoes// shoes form her mom and this was all she had left of her, bc she had disappeared or something. And I remember one episode she got a visit from a man and said he was going to help her. Again I am not sure I it even exist but I am sooooo sure I watched it when I was little.
Sorry for my bad English, It's not my usual language.
Edited by Navia