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resolved White haired guy with psychic headaches (solved) Anime
I watched a fairly mature anime (there was smoking, drinking, blood, etc) on SBS anywhere from late 90s to the 2000s. Key points I remember:
- This woman goes to this private detective-type to find her brother
- The brother has white hair and he was having these massive headaches that cause him to kill people with Psychic Powers against his will
- When confronting the brother another guy takes off a cloak(?) and he is a man in military uniform with white hair. The military man reveals that the brother is actually a clone of him and he was sort guinea pig for the process for giving Psychic Powers. The military man boasts that the experiments on the clone allowed him to have the powers without the headaches
edit: found it, Goku: Midnight Eye II - sequel to Goku: Midnight Eye
Edited by jormis29resolved The Garfield and Dr. Seuss, Sonic Generations, The ZhuZhus' Cindy-Lou Who and Frankie Show Anime
The Garfield and Dr. Seuss, Sonic Generations, The Zhu Zhus' Cindy-Lou Who and Frankie Show
resolved ABOUT time travel Anime
A team of few people travel in time and stop the events to change as some other person also travels in time to change everything.. But these people will stop that..
And in one episode I remember that Pyramids in egypt for which the nose is destroyed and the events will be in such a way that the nose will be destroyed but the event doesn't change..
- THEY WILL SAVE THE HISTORY OF EARTH FROM CHANGE
resolved Anime with a girl fighting two colorful monsters Anime
When I was younger, I watched part of a scene from an anime randomly on TV, but I never learned what the name was because it was a random scene. There was a girl who saw another girl with her parents. The first girl was then chased by then couple, and all of a sudden, these slimes emerge from the mom and the dad that form into two demon monsters with long claws (one red and one blue), which caused the parents to collapse; apparently they were being possessed by the monsters. The girl fights these monsters, but then the monsters embrace and fuse into a larger purple monster. So the girl fights this thing with magic or something and destroys it, and this causes the girl and her parents to wake up all better. I tried to search for it, but I couldn't find it. What is this anime?
Edited by SilvershadeWolfresolved hero network Anime
I'm looking for a manga from the '10s. It's about a group of hero's, all from different worlds who give each other advice and help through a computer network.
resolved [Solved] Frog movie Anime
I remember watching this movie on animax that was about a girl in a dimension with frog rulers, where she has to get back home before the frog rulers' tadpole children become frogs or she's stuck there. Before she starts going, a teenage boy who claims that he's going to be reincarnated as her baby brother, goes with her. In the end she does manage to get back to where she wishes that her brother will arrive safely.
Edited by Animaltamerresolved Card game Anime Anime
On Cheez TV or Toasted TV there was an Anime series that based around a card game sorta like Yu-Gi-Oh!
Elements I remember include
- Believe there four main characters
- The male hot headed boy protagonist
- Shorter glasses wearing boy who was The Smart Guy
- A girl who was friends with them
- A slightly ditzy girl who was new to the area and was mostly used to ask questions about the game so it could be explained to her and thereby to the audience
- Before each game the players would hold out their decks in front of them and shuffle them
- One game has the protagonist playing the game outside in near a waterway and some storm clouds start rolling in. The opponent points to the sky and makes a speech about how the storm is harbinger of his victory. The opponent gets exactly the cards he needs for his tactics and while the others are wondering how the ditzy girl points out that he swapped his shuffled deck for an unshuffled one while they look up at the storm clouds in the sky.
- The characters going through rooms beating top players until the come to a girl's room and while they are looking for the occupant, a phone starts to ring and the ditzy girl answers. It turns out it's the ditzy girl's room and she is the player, pretending not to know about the game for some reason I forget and have a game.
resolved Asking for someone on Twitter Anime
I'm looking for this anime where a girl with red, short hair that lives in the same house of a monster with a skull head. Do you know the name?
resolved BNHA live action Anime
I remember seeing a video on Twitter about a BNHA-inspired live action sequence. In that video is a fight scene between two characters, and one of them has the ability to swap himself with an object, and fights by throwing around his backpack. Does anyone know where I can watch the whole thing?
resolved Anime retelling of the console wars featuring Captain Ersatzes of Sega and Nintendo characters. Anime
Title says it all. I remember that pretty much everyone that wasn't human in their source material is humanized in the anime, that the protagonist is basically human-Sonic, that a Tails expy dies, that the intro features a humanized Kirby that doesn't appear in the show proper and that the main antagonist is a Mario expy.
resolved Comedy Anime Vampire Anime
This was something I discovered on You Tube a few years ago that I intended to watch, but I've lost the name.
It was about a vampire with a female human assistant. He was kind of a goofball and she was kind of hot-headed, but wanted to be his girlfriend and (I think?) for him to drink her blood. He refuses, because drinking human blood made him aggressive. There were also two other humanoid monster people (at least I think they were) living with them; one was a girl who lived in a fridge. It's hazy, but I think they had some kind of job as detectives or monster hunters - I recall that because of seeing the female assistant trying to wake up everyone because they had a job and needed to get on the move.
From what I remember of the image quality and art style, it was definitely mid-1990s. Also the vampire guy had neck-length white hair and a dark cloak.
resolved Anime web series where people went into a shop and got sent to a surreal world Anime
So there's this anime I watched some years ago, probably made as a web animation officially posted on Youtube ect. It was relatively recent, likely from the early 2020s or possibly late 2010s.
The concept was about a woman running a shop, I think she was a witch or similar magic user, and each episode would have a new person come into her shop (either seeking it out or somehow finding it in weird places) and get sent to some kind of surreal world that would represent things about their life/current situation or something? I think each episode/world was also set to a different song with little to no dialogue from the characters. Pretty sure it had about 6-8 episodes.
resolved Mecha anime where the mecha is armor for the giant pilot Anime
I only saw a clip of it as described in title. There was a mecha in a hangar and it opened up more like armor revealing the pilot was a giant woman. I think it was discussed in the comments for the clip the pilot can also shrink down to normal size.
resolved [Solved]Highschool student anime where guy gets possession powers Anime
I'm trying to remember the name of this anime where a brown haired highschool student is attacked by a white haired guy, who nearly kills him, but the brown haired guy ends up possessing the white haired guy before he actually gets killed. I think there was also mechas in the anime later on.
Edited by Animaltamerresolved (Character) is having a bad day Anime
I remember a short japanese comic, in full color, with square only panels of the same size.
The comic follows the day of one character through narration. The first panel says (character's name I don't remember) is having a bad day.
The character is a middle-aged man that experiences a lot of misfortune through the day, which is portrayed in a Black Comedy fashion as him having terrible luck. He can't sleep because his wife snores, his lunch is terrible, he gets fired, he comes home to find out his wife's cheating on him, his son reveals he's failed the college entry exam, and the last panel's narration is "his adulterous wife is snoring in bed".
The comic is around one or two pages long - it might be a webcomic or a gag Gekiga. One panel I clearly remember is the son showing the tests results - the teenage boy is wearing a headband and is holding up a thick envelope, which is why I'm sure this strip is Japanese.
Does anyone know what comic that is, or who made it, where one could find it?
resolved 15 + year old anime Anime
Basic summary is that its about a woman who wants to destroy the world (I think she might wield a huge sword?), the plot twist is that the guy she's dragging along is actually an amnesiac god with the power to do so, and at the end she decides against it.
resolved Looking for an anime Anime
I only remember one scene, where a guy asks a girl why she's being so difficult, and she smiles and says, "Because you like me this way."
resolved Witch makes guy pull of panties scene? Anime
I haven't the first idea which anime it could ve, because I saw this long ago on Youtube.
What happened was that a guy and a girl were in some bedroom, discussing something. Then he couldn't control his body and stumbled about, before falling around and, somehow, grabbed her panties. Even though she had a skirt on, and then he sort of fell, pulling off her panties and seeing up her skirt.
He got a nosebleed, needless to say. I kinda remember there being a noise like a party horn, just a funny detail.
After that, the exposed girl quickly stepped off, and then she noticed another girl through her window. A witch with a voodoo doll, the one who had been controlling the guy. I dunno if she was out to steal underwear for something or just fooling around. There might've been a third person in the room with them. And I remember her visible crotch was obscured by a ray of light or such.
Can someone please help me, cause I just can't find it. Going crazy here. 🥲
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I can’t remember the name, but I remember reading Wikipedia a while back and this page was about an anime that was "too good to last".
It mentioned how I the last episode, the crew thanked all the people outside of Japan that watched it illegally. All I remember is that it’s from the 2000s.
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