Anime xP

[Guest CamCass]

I didn't know what topic this would be under. Anyway, does anyone know any good anime to watch?

; I'm too lazy to read the blurbs and looking through all of the anime on the websites doesn't sound entertaining if half of them are boring. I'm looking for Comedy + other so anything is fine so long as it is funny. 07-Ghost, Junjou Romantica, Perfect Girl Revolution and such. Also if there are any anime that have transgender, I'm definitely interested.

[Guest Kelly-087]

Elfen Lied is wonderful, however it pushes the depths of everything humans find sorrowful about the world. Very graphic.

Neon Genesis Evangelion, a classic. There's quite a bit of humor in this one through most of the series.

Voices of a Distant Star, 5 centimeters per second, The place we promised in our early days. All beautiful films, very worth watching.

There is a transgender in Yu Yu Hakusho however she's a villain, gets felt up and then loses a fight.

Full Metal Panic. The anime version of the Sci-Fi novels by Shouji Gatou. It's very funny most of the time, but also has a great story. Shouji Gatou is an author, who really has a great sense of Japanese humor. As an alternative if you don't enjoy the main series, there's a spin off based off a small collection of stories which only has humor as a goal, named Full metal Panic Fumoffu

[Guest Exeter]

Have you ever watched anything like School Rumble, Ouran Highschool Host Club, Wallflower, Moon Phase, Love Hina, or Maria Holic?

School Rumble is basically a love-triangle comedy. The main guy is in love with a clueless girl who is in love with an equally vacant boy. I really enjoyed it.

Ouran Highschool Host Club is about a girl who cross dresses as a boy to join a club of boys who entertain girls. It's got a good bit of comedy.

Wallflower is about four pretty boys trying to make their land lady's reclusive, horror-film obsessed, slobby neice into a 'lady'.

Moon Phase is basically about a spoilt brat vampire girl. It has some comedy and a good overall story.

Love Hina is a traditional 'harem' type anime. Nerdy boy running an apartment full of girls. Has some funny things, but I personally get annoyed by the girl who's supposed to be in love with the boy always beating the crap out of him.

Maria Holic is about a lesbian girl (who is allergic to men) going to a Catholic all girls school and, incidently, her struggles with constant nose-bleeds. There's also a cross-dressing sadistic boy, who has traded places with his sister, and gives the main girl a difficult time. (It's only subtitled.)

And lastly, have you ever tried Sgt Frog?

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Not certain if any of these suggestions are your cup of tea, or things you haven't already seen, but I wanted to try and help, as I really love anime.

[Guest Robin Winter]

I was a big fan of Ranma 1/2. It certainly has a transgender type theme, and it's funny as heck.

[Guest Kai Reddtail]

Scrapped Princess, Death Note, Angel Beats!, NANA, Rurouni Kenshin, Ginga Nagareboshi Gin and Ginga Densetsu Weed round out my list of favorite anime.

Also, some people count Avatar: The Last Airbender as an anime even though it's US-made. Totally worth watching. Love it.

[Guest Theosphir]

D.Gray-Man, Saiyuki, Black Cat...

I know a few "trans" anime however they are hentai/porn, and the characters serve only that purpose (not very tasteful...)

[Guest Sarah_Maria]

The key animes such as Clannad, Kanon and Air are funny but expect to cry or at least feel sad. I'd also like to second ranma 1/2. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Chobits are two of my favourites. Then for an anime with transgender there is Wandering Son which isn't funny but it deals with some of the issues of a boy and girl both transgender trying to get through life. The manga is definetly better but I enjoyed the anime.

[Guest xlxm]

Im glad someone menshiend Rurouni Kenshin I love that anime as it was my first anime and I rewatch it every year.

But I know of 2 animes with a transgneder theme one is Ranma 1/2 which was menshind before its about a guy who turns into a girl when cold water touches him and he turns back into himself when hot water touches him. The other is Kampfer its really hard to explain but its about a guy who was chosen to to fight in an alien proxy battle and all the fighters have to be female so he is turned into a girl (that luckey duck) Kampfer is deffently PG15 and dont even watch ep. 14 its like a mm from being hentai, unless you like that.

I prefure manga to anime and I know of many transgender theamed mangas. Too many to list hear but if your intristed pm me.

[Guest Alison Mendez]

I've been watching an anime on youtube called Cheeky Angel, though it's also known as Tenshi na Konamaiki. The premise is at the age of nine, Megumi is an aggressive fighting boy. One day he saves a strange man from a gang of other children. In return, Megumi receives a magical book. After accidentally bleeding on the book, a genie appears and offers to grant him a wish. Megumi wishes to become a strong man's man. The trickster genie inadvertently turns Megumi into a woman. The series is all about Megumi trying to cope with her new gender and leaving behind the traits of her old gender.

Unfortunately there's nowhere to legitimately purchase a legal copy. All the copies being sold on eBay and Amazon are recorded off of a TV using a VCR and tapes, then converted digitally, slapped onto a DVD and distributed that way. Bootlegged tv series really.

Still though, all 50 episodes are on youtube. Some in pieces and varying standards of video/audio quality. The first part of the first episode is here:

YOU TUBE CHEEKY ANGEL

It takes a few episodes to really hook you in, but I highly encourage you to give it a go. It really is a great series.