The anime thread sequel (it's still not as good as the Manga though),

Finished watching Black Lagoon and i really enjoyed it. The action was great, and the it was pretty dark. One complaint is the ending it felt like there should have been a couple more episodes or even another season.

8/10
Is there anything similar out there?

Just put in disc 1 of spice and wolf, well lets see what the fuss is about.
 
Right this is going to be a long shot but lets give it a try, could you guys by any chance help me find a mecha anime I watched years and years ago back during the VHS days. I don't remember much so here goes all I could recall:

Main protagonist is a young male who's world is invaded by aliens (but aliens look exactly like "humans" in this movie). His girlfriend is killed so he joins the remaining forces to fight against the invasion. In one of the battles his battalion is crushed, there he lays near death and a female alien walks over to him and he half-alive hallucinates that that female alien is his girlfriend.

Another segment I remember is that in underground caves lies mechas, last line of defense of their world and people around this world are randomly teleported to this case to later pilot mechas, including our protagonist.

In the end that female alien joins forces with protagonist and his mecha gang to defeat evil alient (real alien this time, the last of his kind, looks like a monster) who was in charge of human-aliens by disguise.

Now I realize there's like 99,9% chance nobody knows what I am on about but I had to try ;)
 
Nerusy, can you remember roughly when/where (IE was it on TV in the 90's?;)) you saw it, and the sort of animation quality?

It rings a bell, I don't think I've seen it*, but as it's ringing a bell despite that, it might be listed in ANN's buried treasure columns, where they went over older/obscure anime.


*Although I could be wrong, especially if it was on TV at some point.


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Just noticed my sig is broken (oh well time to look at doing a new one:p)
 
Just wondering if there's any decent action type anime series i'm missing out on!

Currently up to date with One Piece and Naruto, have just started watching Toriko....
I have seen:
Bleach
Trigun
FMA
Gundam
Dragonball (Z) (GT)
Samurai Champloo
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Hellsing
Cowboy Bebop
Hajime no Ippo
Teppen Toppa Gurren Lagann


...probably a few others i cannot recall atm! Any recommendations?
 
Robertas blood trail retelling of the lovejoy kidnapping arc with more details.

You sure about that? While I have not yet got around to watching it(So much Animé.so little time :D )
ANN tells it as after the second series if I am reading their description right :)
 
Nerusy, can you remember roughly when/where (IE was it on TV in the 90's?;)) you saw it, and the sort of animation quality?

It rings a bell, I don't think I've seen it*, but as it's ringing a bell despite that, it might be listed in ANN's buried treasure columns, where they went over older/obscure anime.


*Although I could be wrong, especially if it was on TV at some point.


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Just noticed my sig is broken (oh well time to look at doing a new one:p)

Tough to remember but if I have to put it it must have been in late 90s early 00s so perhaps 1997-2002, watched it on VHS and it was a movie as a opposed to an episode. Left quite an imprint as you see :)

Checked every link in buried treasure you linked and none of them rang a bell, will try to find mechas anime by year and try to manually check if anyone rings a bell, the search continues!
 
If it was that long ago on VHS (was it a pre-recorded one do you know?), it's likely to be either an old Manga UK title, or just about possibly an MVM or ADV one as they were the main (almost only) companies doing anime on VHS back then in the UK.


Could it be Detinator Orgun, as that sounds vaguely similar (and is in my collection, but I bought it about a decade ago, so my memories are fuzzy).
From memory it was probably released as a single VHS, or a pair of VHS.
It was also, I think on TV either on Sci-fi or C4 in the late 90's, as looking back I remember recording it onto tape at one point.
 
If it was that long ago on VHS (was it a pre-recorded one do you know?), it's likely to be either an old Manga UK title, or just about possibly an MVM or ADV one as they were the main (almost only) companies doing anime on VHS back then in the UK.


Could it be Detinator Orgun, as that sounds vaguely similar (and is in my collection, but I bought it about a decade ago, so my memories are fuzzy).
From memory it was probably released as a single VHS, or a pair of VHS.
It was also, I think on TV either on Sci-fi or C4 in the late 90's, as looking back I remember recording it onto tape at one point.

Nope not Detonator Orgun unfortunately, checked hundreds of titles on that website you linked and myanimelist and while it seems the movie I am looking for has quite a similar theme to most mecha movies none of them turned out to be the one I am looking for.

At this point I barely remember anything, I am also looking for another non-anime film I watched around the same time and there's no trace of either of them on the internet, I am starting to doubt my own sanity, maybe I made up the whole thing :p

Will check out MVM and ADV releases now :D

Thanks a lot for helping me out by the way.
 
anime was on sci-fi, channel 4, toonami, sky2 (before the channel was shutdown it was airing gundam wing and tekkaman blade)
 
Right this is going to be a long shot but lets give it a try, could you guys by any chance help me find a mecha anime I watched years and years ago back during the VHS days. I don't remember much so here goes all I could recall:

Main protagonist is a young male who's world is invaded by aliens (but aliens look exactly like "humans" in this movie). His girlfriend is killed so he joins the remaining forces to fight against the invasion. In one of the battles his battalion is crushed, there he lays near death and a female alien walks over to him and he half-alive hallucinates that that female alien is his girlfriend.

Another segment I remember is that in underground caves lies mechas, last line of defense of their world and people around this world are randomly teleported to this case to later pilot mechas, including our protagonist.

In the end that female alien joins forces with protagonist and his mecha gang to defeat evil alient (real alien this time, the last of his kind, looks like a monster) who was in charge of human-aliens by disguise.

Now I realize there's like 99,9% chance nobody knows what I am on about but I had to try ;)

only thing i can think of that were out in the 90's that come close to what you describling are the following.

Macross II: Lovers Again
Orguss 02
RahXephon: The Motion Picture (this was 2003)

possible one of the tekkaman blade ova
 
only thing i can think of that were out in the 90's that come close to what you describling are the following.

Macross II: Lovers Again
Orguss 02
RahXephon: The Motion Picture (this was 2003)

possible one of the tekkaman blade ova

Nope none of those, thanks for suggestions though.

One more memory I suppose I could dig up is that female alien (they look like humans though) the one that main protagonist mistakes for his dead girlfriend saved him from getting shot to death (after battle was over I think enemy forces were going around and shooting anybody who was wounded or unconscious) and I think that's when he was teleported to the cave with mechas.

Also it is later revealed that this female alien also pilots a mecha I think it was red and they have a battle one on one female alien and the protagonist. She later joins him and rest of humans who were chosen to pilot them mechas.

Sounds like an awesome movie doesn't it lol :D
 
Nope none of those, thanks for suggestions though.

One more memory I suppose I could dig up is that female alien (they look like humans though) the one that main protagonist mistakes for his dead girlfriend saved him from getting shot to death (after battle was over I think enemy forces were going around and shooting anybody who was wounded or unconscious) and I think that's when he was teleported to the cave with mechas.

Also it is later revealed that this female alien also pilots a mecha I think it was red and they have a battle one on one female alien and the protagonist. She later joins him and rest of humans who were chosen to pilot them mechas.

Sounds like an awesome movie doesn't it lol :D

I only joined in this discussion with this post here, but totally thought you were talking about Wild Arms: Twilight Venom until you mentioned the mechas :p while it is a 90's anime I don't think it fits the rest of the bill... does this list help http://www.anime-planet.com/tags/mecha/anime?sort=year&order=asc&page=4?
 
I only joined in this discussion with this post here, but totally thought you were talking about Wild Arms: Twilight Venom until you mentioned the mechas :p while it is a 90's anime I don't think it fits the rest of the bill... does this list help http://www.anime-planet.com/tags/mecha/anime?sort=year&order=asc&page=4?

Thanks for the link, had a quick look but no success. I have read so many anime plot summaries by now my brain is melting. :D

Fair bit of titles didn't have description so these lists may very well contain the movie I am looking for but no way to identify it.
 
Right this is going to be a long shot but lets give it a try, could you guys by any chance help me find a mecha anime I watched years and years ago back during the VHS days. I don't remember much so here goes all I could recall:

Main protagonist is a young male who's world is invaded by aliens (but aliens look exactly like "humans" in this movie). His girlfriend is killed so he joins the remaining forces to fight against the invasion. In one of the battles his battalion is crushed, there he lays near death and a female alien walks over to him and he half-alive hallucinates that that female alien is his girlfriend.

Another segment I remember is that in underground caves lies mechas, last line of defense of their world and people around this world are randomly teleported to this case to later pilot mechas, including our protagonist.

In the end that female alien joins forces with protagonist and his mecha gang to defeat evil alient (real alien this time, the last of his kind, looks like a monster) who was in charge of human-aliens by disguise.

Now I realize there's like 99,9% chance nobody knows what I am on about but I had to try ;)

Is it Genesis Climber MOSPEADA?
 
There is a movie too, but if it's not the same then this is going to annoy me so much since I want to see it too.

Is there anything else you can remember?

Right, sounds like a very good plot? hehe

Let me try to sum up:

Male protagonist youngish (im thinking 18+)

Aliens (but look human) decide to invade earth (again not sure if it's earth or random planet). I seem to recall that the invasion was in fact nto warranted and was more a of a manipulation of the main bad guy.

Girlfriend of main protagonist dies during said invasion, as a result he joins earth defences forces and his battalion is crushed. While the aliens examine the place of the victorious battle (also I believe they shoot wounded earth solders) we see female alien (pivotal character) stumbling across our protagonist who is wounded / dazed. In his stupor he hallucinates that the female alien is his dead girlfriend, calls out his gf name and passes out. That act moves the female protagonist and she starts to think that earthlings are not so evil afterall.

At this moment (nto sure on this part) his unconscious body is teleported to cave where mechas are located. Now no mechas were used to defend earth from the invasion so they're like a hidden relic that nobody knows about. our protagonist is but one of several "heros" who are teleported to the cave to later on go to pilot those mechas. One of those pilots I believe was teleported while piloting a plane that was shot and was bout to go down.

Then our heros from time to time go to the surface in mechas and fight the "aliens". One of the battles is between our protagonist in his mecha fighting that female alien he met earlier, turns out she is a mecha pilot too. (I believe her mecha was all red might be a false memory though). The fight happens in the city with buildings surrounding them. After much struggle male protagonist pleads to end the fighting for the day.

Later on somehow female alien joins the earth defending mecha pilots and later uses her mecha to fight alongside them.

In the end all of them confront the general or main guy who orchestrated the invasion and it turns out that he is last of monster race that though to have been wiped out. Battle ensues and they obviously defeat him.
 
Im just over halfway through season 1 of Spice And Wolf. I really am liking it, theres just something about Lawrence and Holo thats brilliant. Im gonna be sad when i finish the short series, and i hope i can find something very similar. Any suggestions?
 
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