Thread: animes or manga which were materpieces

Good ol' Evangelion
Samurai X
Urotsukidōji
Mazinger
Martian Successor Nadesico
Fullmetal Alchemist
Macross Plus
Macross 7
Saint Seiya
Blame!
FLCL
Monster
Hellsing
Eden
Akira
Tokyo Godfathers
Spirited Away
Trigun
Gungrave
Howl's Moving Castle
Metropolis
Gundam (although I haven't liked the latest ones much)
Spriggan
Shurato
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
HunterXHunter
Gunbuster

Why? Possibly because after Grave, you want a pickmeup like Totoro. Or maybe they didn't recognize just HOW depressing Grave is.

Originally Posted by secret_toad

Which animes or manga do you guys think are masterpieces?

Originally Posted by Dante Obscuri

Urotsukidōji

I wish more of the fandom were like you.

Originally Posted by colt45joe

wow.. why would they do that? grave of the fireflies is all depressing and realistic. while Totoro is all happy child-like.

There are more relations between My Neighbor Totoro and Graves of the Firefly than most people would think. Just search it up a little.

The World God Only Knows. Its in onemanga.com and its hella funny. I esp liked the first chapter.
Kurohime and Shina Dark are not bad too. I always liked concepts of demons and gods...

Wolf and Spice - 'nuff said
Maburahu (manga) - because I can relate to what he did the way he did..
DearS - Ren-godness thats all screw you and whoever mentions chobits!!

berserk
dragon ball
saint seiya
fist of the north star
al least for action manga and many others

Originally Posted by lews_therin_tel

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, amazing story told by a guy who threw away his mangaka future to direct "decent" anime. I will never forgive him.
Wolf's Rain, and you better damn well know why.

To Nausicaä I agree, but Wolf´s Rain is, besides that anonym Novel, the only book I ever burnt. (If I just threw it in the trash can, a garbage collector might have seen it)

Originally Posted by Dante Obscuri

Blame!

If it weren´t for that end... but I have high hopes for biomega

masterpieces...
Anime:
-Super Dimensional Fortress Macross (1982-1983)
-Most of Hayao Miyazaki´s anime
-Riding Bean (1989)
-Nadia - Secret of Blue Water (1989-1990)(-Island Episodes)
-Excel Saga (1999-2000)
-Azumanga Daioh (2002)
-Witch Hunter Robin (2002)
-Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002-2003)
-Onegai Twins (2003)
-Uninhabited Planet Survive! (2003-2004)
-Appleseed (2004)
-Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG (2004-2005)
-Aria the Animation (2005)
-Blood+ (2005-2006)
-Aria the Natural (2006)
-Saiunkoku Monogatari (2006-2007)
-Guardian of the Sacred Spirit/Seirei no Moribito (2007)
-Lucky Star (2007)
-Appleseed: Ex Machina (2007)
-Sola (2007)
-Saiunkoku Monogatari Second Series (2007-200
-Spice and Wolf (200
-Aria the Origination (200
(I didn´t like all of them, but regard them as masterpieces anyway)

Manga: (only finished [no manhwa and euro-comics sob])
-Urusei Yatsura (1878-1987) (felt like putting something from Rumiko Takahashi in)
-Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1982-1994)
-Ghost in the Shell (1989-1991)
-Battle Angel Alita (1991-1995)
-The Wings of Vendemiaire (1996-199 (maybe no masterpiece, but I like it and it needs advertisement, only available in japanese and german I think)
-Cardcaptor Sakura (1996-2001) (I think if I had been a little girl, I would have loved it)
-Aqua-Aria (2001-2002-200
Usually I like mangas better, but I have higher demands caling a manga "masterpiece" and some (hopefully)masterpieces aren´t finihed yet. (like Last Order, Claymore or Sketchbook)

You need to read Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou. It's what Aqua+Aria wants to be when it grows up. (It's also exactly the same length -- 14 volumes.)

(Also, you don't consider Aria the OVA a masterpiece? )

Originally Posted by pseudorandom

You need to read Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou. It's what Aqua+Aria wants to be when it grows up. (It's also exactly the same length -- 14 volumes.)

(Also, you don't consider Aria the OVA a masterpiece? )

I still just know little about Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (once read ch.1 and put it on the "to read"), but as far as I kno, it has no charming SD picturesat all. How can it be what Aqua+Aria wants to be when it grows up?

Aria Ova... I don´t know it, and I never heard that many people talk about it (I just know Aria as it was "advertised" in the end of the sketchbook anime)