new to anime, help me to understand

tillo005 · newbie! Joined: Jul 06, 2006 Posts: 14

hi everyone, i am pretty much new to anime, i have watched over the years some like saint saiya, altough i didn't know the real name until like two or three months ago, so i need to understand how it all works, i have heard about anime, manga, hentai, and so many other names that i don't understand, but i don't know the difference, i have watched Inuyasha (only two movies), DearS (only 6 episodes), Chobits (27 episodes), but i don't know what to really look for, or what's the difference in some of them. so can everyone just give me my first "Anime for dummys" leason please, i really appreciate it, like i said i am new to this stuff, but i already like it alot, i want more, more!!!!!

eisenmeteor · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 6:01 pm Post subject:

Let's see then

Anime = Animated movies, so basicly just cartoon

Manga = Graphic novel, with other words kind of like a comic book

Hentai = Animated porn

The diffrence between anime series is pretty simple. It's like any tv show they all differ depending on who makes them and what genre etc they're in. Anime is mearly a way of media and there's lots of diffrent kinds of anime in every genre.

If you want to know what people recommend you can always check these two threads.

The what to watch thread, click here

The ask for suggestion thread, click here

Don't know if there's anything more to say so I'll let the thread stay open for a little while.

KevziK · newbie! Joined: Jul 07, 2006 Posts: 19

This may be random but I needed to ask this few month back

OVA means Original Video Animation

Which also means(correct me if I'm wrong) that it has no connection to the main story. Again I'm only going off memory

SouchiroRaito · Naginata Ashigaru Joined: Jun 09, 2005 Posts: 448

there is also a general division of a type of anime.

shounen and shoujo.

shounen being like Dragonball Z (fighting)

and shoujo being like ichigo 100% love affairs and not really concentrated on fighting.
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xenocrisis0153 · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:53 pm Post subject:

v-boi2002 · Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 1:39 am Post subject:

Well... this is sort of a good time to mention the long forgotten A-S Encyclopedia, is it not?

A-S Encyclopedia - Anime
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KevziK · newbie! Joined: Jul 07, 2006 Posts: 19

Thanks for correcting me xenocrisis, now I understand it more myself ^.^

tillo005 · newbie! Joined: Jul 06, 2006 Posts: 14

i have heard about fanserbis or something like that, someone said that chobits falls into that, but i don't know if i spelled it right. i tried the enciclopedia but it's long and there's some stuff that does not help me to understand, i get more confused Sad

. does anyone know the what are the other ones like fanserbis (please don't hit me over the head for repeating things that i don't know how to spell). so is there a way that i can download them from here, or do i need bittorrent? i tried it but it makes my internet fail, i can't check out any web pages at all while on bittorrent

what is ecchi????

eisenmeteor · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:13 pm Post subject:

fan service

Anything used to please the audience that has nothing to do with the show.

In anime, this is a "code word" for things like panty shots, close up of busts, etc. usually when the audience is predominately male.

ecchi

"ecchi" is the Japanese pronunciation of the English letter "H", which in turn stands for "hentai"

It means anything perverted, overly sexual, etc. Always in a negative context.

As for downloading there's only bittorrents here but you can find some sites that have anime for direct download if you click here

Bowser · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:07 pm Post subject:

tillo005 · newbie! Joined: Jul 06, 2006 Posts: 14

so could anyone give me names like Chobits, i read some where it says what to watch, but it's really general, i would like to find a list where they say like what type is it and a full list of all of them, even if they don't say a description. how do i contact the administrators? i don't ever know when it is an administrator and when it's not. hmm, maebe i can get points for the suggestion, a full list of the types of anime with all the existing ones under that type.

tillo005 · newbie! Joined: Jul 06, 2006 Posts: 14

something else, i have been downloading some anime, but i ran into a full series of chinesse subtitles!! how do i know when they are in english or spanish, i don't mind either language, i just want to have them in a language i can understand!!!! Sad

basha54 · Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:45 pm Post subject:

ok if it says raw in it there no subs so it really base on where you get your anime from
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