Free Pony Theory ~ Anime, Cartoon and process

Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs recently released the results of a poll it had conducted to determine the best anime movies/series. Here are the top 50 anime:

1. Neon Genesis Evangelion
2. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
3. Castle in the Sky
4. Mobile Suit Gundam
5. Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
6. Mushi-shi
7. Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex
8. My Neighbor Totoro
9. Fullmetal Alchemist
10. Ghost in the Shell
11. Dragon Ball
12. Princess Mononoke
13. AKIRA
14. Spirited Away
15. Doraemon
16. Fullmetal Alchemist-Conqueror of Shamballa
17. Porco Rosso
18. Legend of the Galactic Heroes
19. Crayon Shin-chan
20. Gundam: Char’s Counterattack
21. Card Captor Sakura
22. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
23. Kamichu!
24. Patlabor 2: The Movie
25. Z Gundam
26. Voices of a Distant Star
27. Mobile Police Patlabor

http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=2088

Top 100 Anime List

October 16th, 2006 by James

Dark Diamond Network has posted a Top 100 Anime list compiled by TV Asahi. I guess most of them are pretty recent, since I haven’t heard of a good portion of the titles:

1 Fullmetal Alchemist (TV)
2 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV)
3 Pani Poni Dash! (TV)
4 The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya(TV)
5 Negima: Box Set (TV)
6 Mobile Suit Gundam (TV)
7 Bleach (TV)
8 Prince of Tennis (TV)
9 Rozen Maiden(TV)
10 Strawberry Marshmallow (TV)
11 Shana (TV)
12 Dragon Ball (TV)
13 Vol. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha(TV)
14 Eureka Seven (TV)
15 Yu Yu Hakusho (TV)
16 Overman King Gainer (TV)
17 Naruto (TV)
18 Slam Dunk (TV)
19 Kyo Kara Maoh (TV)
20 Inu-Yasha (TV)
21 One Piece (TV)
22 Gintama (TV)
23 Detective Conan(TV)
24 Saiyuki(TV)
25 Saint Seiya (TV)

http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=609

Top Ten Anime DVDs of 2006
http://www.dvdtalk.com/anime/top_ten_anime_d.html

Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

Animal Farm - 1954

Animal Farm is a 1954 British animated feature by Halas and Batchelor, based on the popular book by George Orwell. It was the first British animated feature released worldwide, but it was not the first British animated feature ever made (that honour goes to Handling Ships, a stop motion instructional film for the Admiralty made in 1945). It can, however, be said to be the first British animated feature film on general release.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm_(1954_film)

Animal Farm
AVI | 512x384 | Divx3, 1230 kbit / sec | MPEG-1 Audio layer 3, 90 kbit/sec | 70 min | 800 MB
Audio: English, Russian | Subtitles: English, Polish, Portuguese, Hungarian

Britain's first animated feature, which, despite the title and Disney-esque animal animation, is in fact a no-holds-barred adaptation of George Orwell's classic satire on Stalinism, with the animals taking over their farm by means of a revolutionary coup, but then discovering that although all animals are supposed to be equal, some are more equal than others...

http://rapidshare.com/files/18694...al_Farm__1954___En__Ru_.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/18969...al_Farm__1954___En__Ru_.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/18979...al_Farm__1954___En__Ru_.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/18704...al_Farm__1954___En__Ru_.part4.rar

http://avaxhome.ws/video/Format/animation/Animal_Farm_1954.html

Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

AfroSamurai - 2007

Afro Samurai (アフロサムライ, Afuro Samurai?) is a Japanese dōjinshi manga series created by Takashi Okazaki, originally featured in the NOU NOU HAU[2] dōjin magazine. It was adapted into a 5-episode anime miniseries directed by Fuminori Kizaki and produced by Gonzo, a Japanese animation studio. The first episode was shown online on January 1, 2007 and premièred on Spike TV on January 4, 2007 at 11:00pm EST. The anime series has since gone on to air in the UK and the US, where it premiered on Adult Swim on May 4,2007[3], and Japan, where it was broadcast on Fuji Television. It also premiered on MTV in Australia in August 2007.[4] The anime series features noted American actor Samuel L. Jackson as the voice of the titular character and his sidekick, as well as one of the co-producers, and also features Ron Perlman and Kelly Hu as character voices. Wu-Tang Clan member RZA produced the original hip hop musical score,[5] which was released on compact disc by Koch Records on January 30, 2007 in both uncut and edited versions. The series was also licensed for North American distribution by Funimation, who released two versions: a SpikeTV version and an unrated director's cut on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. Both DVD versions were released on May 22, 2007 with the Blu-ray Disc version being released on August 26 of the following year. In the United Kingdom, a Bravo Numbered Limited Edition, equivalent to the US Spike TV edition and featuring the same red themed artwork was released on 2 July 2007. A Directors’ Cut Edition Box Set, featuring new artwork, was released later on 12 October 2007. A second Bravo edition featuring artwork similar to the UK Director’s Cut was released on 21 March 2008. A Blu-ray disc version has been released in North America. In August 2005, Japan-based game developers Namco announced they would be releasing Afro Samurai related video games.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro_Samurai

AfroSamurai [2007]
DVDrip | English | DivX 5 572x312 23.98fps 801Kbps | MP3 48kHz stereo 96Kbps | 00:26:14 | 170MB
Creator: Takashi Okazaki

Afro Samurai (Samuel L. Jackson) is the story of a Black samurai in a futuristic yet feudal Japan who is on a mission to avenge the wrongful death of his father. Afro is a warrior who travels a solitary path encountering a myriad of enemies, friends, and challenges beyond imagination.

[Director's Cut] episode 1/5
http://avaxhome.ws/video/genre/action/AfroSamuraiepisodeone.html

[Director's Cut] episode 2/5
http://avaxhome.ws/video/Format/animation/AfroSamuraiepisode.html

[Director's Cut] episode 3/5
http://avaxhome.ws/video/genre/adventures/AfroSamuraiepisodethree.html

[Director's Cut] episode 4/5
http://avaxhome.ws/video/genre/adventures/AfroSamuraiepisodeFour.html

[Director's Cut] episode 5/5
http://avaxhome.ws/video/Format/animation/AfroSamuraiepisodefive.html

CD cut
http://www.pspcrazy.com/forums/ps...-rip-mp4-zip-file-megaupload.html

Afro Samurai: Resurrection - 2009

Afro Samurai: Resurrection is a 2009 film sequel to the 2007 Afro Samurai anime; the movie was shown on Spike TV, on January 25, 2009. American actor Samuel L. Jackson returns as the voice for Afro and Ninja-Ninja, while this time he is joined by Lucy Liu who voices Afros' enemy Sio, Mark Hamill also joins as the voice of Sio's protector and henchman Bin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro_Samurai:_Resurrection

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=24M4VD14

http://software-movie.com/movie/a...0p-bluray-x264-classic-4-mirrors/

Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

Human Contraptions (2002)

Academy Award winning animator of Leisure (1976) and political cartoonist Bruce Petty takes a satirical look at the “contraptions” that shape our lives.

Human Contraptions is a 10-episode, animated series which has screened to great acclaim at festivals in France, Italy, Spain, Malaysia, Portugal and Australia.

Education, sex, finance, globalism, art, media, medicine, law, government and even the brain are all transformed by Petty into evolving machines.

Beginning with a simple concept, Petty takes us through history as each apparatus builds to its complex contemporary form. In the wry, ironic style that is his hallmark, Petty reveals these to be contraptions of a very human kind — imperfect, sometimes unpredictable and always subject to change. It is a witty, provocative and entertaining series, narrated by Andrew Denton.

Says Petty: "The challenge with Human Contraptions was to imagine what could be said about massive subjects in five minutes of animation. I wanted the series to be a cheerful reminder that, as our cars, videos and toasters get smarter and cheaper, the institutions we really need are getting more expensive and unreliable — and are starting to rattle."

http://avaxhome.ws/video/Format/animation/human_contraptions.html

Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

My Neighbor Totoro - 1988

My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ, Tonari no Totoro?), is a 1988 Japanese anime film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. The film follows the two young daughters of a professor and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan. The movie won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1988. The movie was originally released in the U.S. in VHS format with the title, My Friend Totoro.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neighbor_Totoro
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096283/

How can I describe the inexplicable power of My Neighbor Totoro, Hayao Miyazaki’s timeless, ageless family film? It is like how childhood memories feel, if you had a happy childhood — wide-eyed and blissful, matter-of-factly magical and entrancingly prosaic, a world with discovery lurking around every corner and an inexhaustible universe in one’s backyard.

It is both familiar and strange, at once universally human and culturally specific. Images and themes inspired by Alice in Wonderland have been filtered through sensibilities reflecting Japan’s animist heritage and given a surreal imaginative twist that is uniquely Miyazaki.

One might say there is there is something dreamlike about the adventures (if such nearly plotless proceedings can be described as “adventures”) of young Satsuki and her kid sister Mei, who arrive with their father in a new house somewhere in the rural Japanese countryside, a stunningly idyllic landscape of rice paddies, tree-shaded forest

http://www.decentfilms.com/sections/reviews/myneighbortotoro.html

disney dub is far superior than fox

http://www.da-anime.info/index.ph...sk=view&id=1007&Itemid=29
http://movieseyes.blogspot.com/2007/12/my-neighbor-totoro-1988.html

Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind - 1984

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ, Kaze no Tani no Naushika?) is a 1984 film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his manga of the same name. The movie has environmentalist undertones and was presented by the World Wide Fund for Nature when it was released in 1984. Nausicaä is ranked as one of the 50 greatest science fiction films by the Internet Movie Database.[1] While created before Studio Ghibli was founded, the film is considered to be the beginning of the studio.[2] It is often included as part of the Studio's works, including the Studio Ghibli Collection of DVDs.

The movie won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1984.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087544/

It comes as no surprise that the Japanese animation mastermind once again conjures up an entirely believable world that is just a side-step away from our own and as his films and ideas have progressed he has become more and more adept at intertwining reality with fantasy. Despite the outlandish ideas and imagery present in Nausicaa there's never really a need to suspend disbelief and unlike some of his peers, Miyazaki's magical lands are utterly convincing with no need for extensive exposition.
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=12908

http://www.da-anime.info/index.ph...ask=view&id=252&Itemid=29
http://www.phimhongkong.com/f/showpost.php?p=633963&postcount=153