Favorite Full-Length Anime?

[bmac]

What are some anime movies you really like?

-Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, etc. by Studio Ghibli/Miyazaki
-Ninja Scrolls (but it is too graphic in a few scenes for me...and I don't mean the violence...)

And sadly, I have not yet seen Akira, but everyone raves about it...

Try and list movies that aren't from well-known/longer running TV series (I think NS was a small series? Not sure...) but if there is one that you think really stands out of course add it in there :)

[cyborgakadjmoose]

Appleseed is by far my favorite full-length anime.
And while this isn't exactly anime-style, Titan A.E. is my second favorite.

[surge]

Akira is okay, and dated, I think the animation is what impressed everyone.
I'd have to say:
Grave of the Fireflies, Howl's Moving Castle, and Cowboy Bebop the Movie.

[Saint Raven]

The Vampire Hunter D movies probably.

[Yoda]

I haven't watched many full length anime movies. The ones I have seen didn't impress me all that much seeing as I can't even remember what they were called. I do distinctly remember thinking "either they were trying to make EVERYTHING symbolic, or they were totally high."

Grave of the Fireflies

Wasn't grave of the fireflies the depressing WWII one thats similar to Lord of the Flies? I haven't seen it but I think my brother told me about it.

[surge]

It's depressing but based on the true story of one man's experiences through WWII. Its also kind of a wake up call that no matter how right we were in bombing Japan, innocent lives get caught up and it sucks for both sides.

[Too Late For Roses]

Does FF VII: Advent Children count, even though it's CG?

[ghostboy]

yes, grave of the fireflies is an impressive, moving film. i actually wept when i got to the end of that one.

howl's moving castle is absolutely fantastic, and bears repeated viewings to really get to the nub of the story.

osamu tezuka's metropolis is also a great film that has a cool, future/retro style that is all its own. and the chance to see daddy walrus "starring" in another tezuka story is always too good to pass up!

technically speaking, akira is perhaps the grandaddy of them all. the animation is among the best ever to have come out of japan. it's great if you want to see something that easily stands up to anything disney have ever done, but does need repeated viewings to get to grips with the somewhat garbled plot.

[Nomad]

Ghost in the Shell. It's beautiful. If it werent' for Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell would be my favorite movie, anime or otherwise.

[bmac]

osamu tezuka's metropolis is also a great film that has a cool, future/retro style that is all its own. and the chance to see daddy walrus "starring" in another tezuka story is always too good to pass up!

I think I heard of that and that it was really good...what's it about?

Just out of curiousity, has anyone seen the Animatrix? I haven't and don't really want to see it (unless it's really good haha) but was curious if anyone here has seen it and what they thought of it.

[ghostboy]

I think I heard of that and that it was really good...what's it about?

Just out of curiousity, has anyone seen the Animatrix? I haven't and don't really want to see it (unless it's really good haha) but was curious if anyone here has seen it and what they thought of it.
i grabbed this synopsis from rottentomatoes.com because it explains the story much better than i ever could...

Metropolis: A future society, where humans and robots co-exist. A giant city-state, atop of which rests what could be termed a symbol of the advanced civilization, the newly completed skyscraper Ziggurat, where an opening ceremony is underway…

During the middle of a florid speech by Duke Red, the prime mover and shaker of Metropolis, a disruptive party crasher is shot and killed by a young security guard, But after it turns out the gatecrasher was just a robot, the young guard goes nonchalantly on his way. Two of the bystanders at the scene watch with great interest. They are Private Detective Shunsaku Ban and his traveling companion, his young brilliant nephew, Kenichi, both of whom have just arrived in Metropolis on the trail of a case.

Their investigation leads them to a laboratory, where a fire breaks out after they break in. Escaping by the skin of his teeth, Kenichi has a fateful encounter with a girl, Tima, who is actually the robotic double of Duke Red’s deceased daughter. Tima has no idea that she is a robot, nor is she aware of the fact that she was secretly imbued with enough power to control the world.

In the midst of the madness surrounding them, the human Kenichi and the robot Tima open their hearts to each other, even as they’re stalked by a persistent killer.

Rock, the young leader of the vigilante Marduk Party and adopted child of Duke Red, has no plans to allow Tima to become Duke Red’s successor. He instead plots to remove her as an obstacle. But Tima is eventually abducted and imprisoned by her “father,” Duke Red, who reveals her robotic origin to her and his plan to place her on the seat of world power. Though she doesn’t know it yet, the fate of Metropolis and all human-robot relations lie in Tima’s hands. -- © 2001 Columbia TriStar

as for the animatrix, i have yet to see that. i have heard good thing about it though...

[bmac]

Thanks man :) I'll have to check both of them out I guess...and Akira still...

[Saint Raven]

Ghost in the Shell is really good.

Animetrix was...okay. I liked some parts more than others. I only watched it once though, and apparently it gets better the more you watch it.

[Tracker]

I've only seen one full length movie, Blood:The Last Vampire, quite good.

[notdoneyet]

I'd have to say Spirited Away. I've heard Kiki's delivery service was pretty good but I haven't seen it yet.

[Miyu]

Spirited Away...by far my all time favorite.

Also among my favorites:

My Neighbor Totoro
The Cowboy Bebop movie
Vampire Hunter D

[cyborgakadjmoose]

I still must see Ghost in a Shell...

[Cludda the Deathless]

FFIVV Advent Children is my favorite at the moment (if you can classify it as anime!) I just saw Howl's Moving Castle last night and was astonished. Really loved it a lot! (I couldn't even knit while I watched, which is highly unusual for me to sit two hours and not be doing something productive! I have the same problem with Advent Children. Too much action going on to look away!)