A lot of people really hate the fact that pokemon and digimon are associated with Anime. IMO, its kind of in a category of its own, more like "Anime for kids". Plus, there is no way FOX will ever have anything like Kenshin or any of the more violent animes out there on Saturday morning. It is becoming more popular, though, but many times it seems they just show an anime for a few weeks. I know that happened with Escaflowne, they showed just about a thrid of the series then canceled it.

Actually, the company that gave Fox Escaflone really distorted the series and deleted several parts which they thought will not be suitable for children. This desicion resulted in the series seeming to jump from one place to another too soon and turned a lot of people away. And because there was almost nobody to watch that show, Fox cancelled it.
P.S.- I really dont see what the matter is with watching Pokemon or Digimon. After all, these anime might turn younger viewers to other kinds of anime and anime might finally have a nice market in the U.S. :p

I'm not saying theres a problem with watching it, its just that considering they are popular shows with younger ppl many people come off with an impression of all anime being that way (designed for kids). I dunno, its not really that bad.

Anime
 

I'm an anime nut! Notice my name contains the word "anime" wow, anyways, Cowboy Bebop, Blue Gender, Princess Mononoke, AKIRA, DBZ Gundam Outlaw Star everything Anime is cool, Sailor Moon was cool, Hamtaro... little out there, but still funky cool. If it's anime, it's good ;) cept for pokemon... whoever made that should be impaled upon a stick! yup IM me on AOL at Evilstanley to talk Anime or robotics or anything - Ryan

I have recently took out two books about anime from two of my local librairies. For some reason they do not have many books on the subject. The first book give brief decriptions and information for over 2000 animes, and the other book explains Japanese culture in animes that may not be understod by Americans. Now I can find out what much in anime means and what animes I should watch. Anyone who has questions about anything in anime can ask me and I should now be able to answer :D.

Gundam Wing's where it's at ;)

Cowboy Bebop rocks big time (and English dubbed version > Original Japanese). Ghost in the Shell was cool. Akira got me started. Other than those I've never seen anime that was worth my time.

-Joel

Blue Gender
 

If you haven't heard of it, Blue Gender is a really really good anime that FUNimation has released. Yes yes I know you're saying "Funimation?!?! They released sometime good?!" Yes! and the story is completely true, no edits, nothing, in other words, Pure Anime. Anyways, www.bluegender.com is the site and the picture I'm attaching should compell you to buy the first volume. Look at this guy's Sideburns!! (Yuji) But the series is kinda a downer, and not recommended for the squeemish, bug haters, or anti-sideburn people.

Thanks for the info, that series looks pretty sweet. I might just go out and buy that right now.

Bah I only watch cartoons on fox and channel eleven. The only anime there are for kids.(except for yugioh it got warped into being a kids show) Besides what does anime mean anyway?

Anime
 

Anime is a broad term, many people have many different definitons. Basically Anime(Short for Animation) is a cartoon that's usually made with a certain style of drawing, originally from Japan. However, Anime can(and usually is) translated and editted when brought to the U.S. I still call this anime.

And a reply to Chris Nowak, It is sweet! Hope you like the pic, I had to edit the weapon out of Marlene's hand... I mean.. she's clapping!!! Sideburns are cool!

Anime is definitely great. For the most part I watch subbed, since dubbed is generally watered down in my opinion, and I have no troubles reading subtitles and watching the show at the same time. Then again, I don't watch TV at all, everything I watch, I buy, so watching english shows is getting foreign to me. I know, I'm odd. I just tend to dislike what is on TV, and so I don't watch it. I own two dubbed tapes, one is just frightening and I didn't make it past the first episode, the second is good, very cute.

Favorite anime... that in itself is a horrible question for me to answer, as that all I watch is anime. I really like Kodomo No Omocha, Serial Experiments: Lain, Ah! My Goddess!, Love Hina, Digi Charat, Boys Be, Mononoke Hime, Flame of Recca, Fushigi Yuugi, Rurouni Kenshin, Magic Knights Rayearth, Shadow Skill... basically any other anime I've seen, as you can probably tell from the large range of types of anime. I am also a large fan of manga, such as Ah! My Goddess!, Love Hina, Card Captor Sakura as well as others.

As for pokemon... the show is no good, but the different pokemon are cute! Therefore it's all good in my opinion. I mean, come on, I watch Digi Charat, I must like cute things...

Manga
 

I'm glad VIZ is releasing Dragonball and Dragonball Z in the "Manga Graphic Novel" format, it really makes it last longer than their comic book run. :D AKIRA is good in it's manga form too, the story is different than the Movie's , but it contains the same characters. Does anyone read Ranma 1/2 ? I've been wanting to buy it.. but haven't yet..

anyone ever seen abinobashi (sp?)

my friends favorite anime is Tokyo Mew Mew (yuk).

p.s. I hate initial d

I don't get anime. At least not DBZ-like anime. It's cool when things are exploding, but most of the time people are just standing around twitching and thinking. Twitch twitch.