I see some of the cartoons on TV when my kids are watching it. The stories are more complex these days. But I don't go outside of Gatchaman much since I don't have much TV...

I have noticed that the characters faces tend to look all the same with very little deviation. You didn't give an 'on the fence option...

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The ones I watch nowadays were like Code Geass and reruns of Fullmetal Alchemist. That was one of Adult Swim's best.

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Some anime I've seen are Blue Seed, School Rumble, DearS, xxxHolic, Ranma 1/2 and Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. One I really liked that I thought was different was Emma: A Victorian Romance.

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Never see Ben Ten, I do not know anything about it. Only that when I am teaching my media unit and ask what shows the kids are watching they give that name. I guess I had linked it to the anime type shows like Digimon and Yu-gi-oh and transformers.

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I have all of Fullmetal Alchemist and Neon Genesis Evangelion, but they're the only non-Gatch animes I've ever seen a lot of, and they're aren't all that new either. I wouldn't call them stale, but I haven't seen any really recent anime series.

I think to us older folks it is. I was part of that Mid 90s Anime boom thanks to Toonami. Back then Anime was that "Cult Phenomenon" The stuff that the "big kids" watched, of course a lot of the popular shows back then were dubbed Anime (Sailor Moon, DBZ, Pokemon, and obviously BotP). Now there's less Anime on American TV, and the whole Anime culture has evolved along with its new fanbase.

I think part of it is we're grown up with jobs and have LESS TIME to keep up with all the hot series that fans are watching. Plus Anime isn't as simple anymore. These days it's either loads of Japanese gags, or deep philosophy, there's the cliche shonen titles too, and these shows have found a new audience.

I'm not saying it's all bad there's definitely some good stuff here and there. Miyazaki's still making movies for one. I myself, am a huge fan of the Anime, One Piece (I find nothing tops it's epicness). And despite my cynicism, Gurren Lagann is THE reason I love Anime and still watch it.

But I've mostly been too busy to sit at my computer and just watch oodles of Anime like I used to. I've resorted to renting Anime via RentAnime.com to catch up with the older series everyone rants and raves about. It's slow going but ONE of these days I might see what this Code Geass is that everyone rants about. XD

I'm so sorry. I meant no offense. I kinda forgot. I sometimes *feel* older merely because most anime fans you see nowadays (IE the NEW crowd) are in their mid-teens and were born in the 90s.

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Originally posted by Cain Highwind I'm so sorry. I meant no offense. I kinda forgot. I sometimes *feel* older merely because most anime fans you see nowadays (IE the NEW crowd) are in their mid-teens and were born in the 90s.

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I wonder what was it like to be a fan of the original Speed Racer back in the day?

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Being an "old phogey" myself I just remembered I used to watch Kimba the White Lion on the old UHF channel.

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