Forum - View topicarmy anime
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resp4wn
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do some one know about a good army anime seris or move somting like that. not like gundam but somting more like real world.
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Haiseikoh 1973
 Posts: 1590 Location: Waiting for the Japanese 1000 Gunieas. |
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In the army, parts of the story deal with the Armed Forces, or any Branch specific themes?
Silent Service deals with a group of Submariners from the JMSDF (Tom Clancy-ish). 801 T.T.S. Airbats with the JASDF (Comedy). Patlabor: The Movie 2 has the JSDF spoiler[attempt a politcal coup.] Can you be more specific? |
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elniro
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I'm also interested in finding real life war anime, such as anime based on WWII.
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kusanagi-sama
 Posts: 1723 Location: Wichita Falls, TX |
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You might find Grave of the Fireflies interesting, since it occurs during the firebombing of Japan in WWII |
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WaR.KiN
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I heard Barefoot Gen is something like Grave of the Fireflies... a family's struggle during the bombing of Hiroshima.
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ANN_Bamboo
ANN Contributor
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There's also a great movie, if you can track it down, called Who's Left Behind? It's also a great WWII film, along the lines of Barefoot Gen and GotF.
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elniro
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yea that's one anime i know is based during WWII, its one on my to watch list, but i was looking for anime thats more war action such as "saving private ryan" movie |
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Tony K.
 SubscriberModerator  Posts: 12058 Location: Frisco, TX |
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Last EXILE is a little military-ish. There are a few scenes near the beginning with musketeers, vanship dogfights, and battleship-type combat, but they stray from it after about 6 or 7 episodes, I think, it could be less. It's probably not something you'd like enough to call "army" though, since a majority of the series is science fiction.
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JackBassV
 Posts: 241 Location: Coventry, England |
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can't think of any anime that hasn't been mentioned, but you might try the Manga Cat Shit One (aka: Apocalypse Meow).
While animals are the characters (Rabbits for US troops, Monkeys for Japanese, Panda for Chinese, etc) it's pretty accurate in historical terms. But Grave of the Fireflies is a favourite among the anime. |
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BoygetsfireD
 Posts: 475 Location: earth |
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I didn't really like Grave of the Fireflies. maybe it was the lack of action, though, or maybe figuring out that spoiler[the 2 kids and both their parents die] sorta killed the drama for me.
am I the only one who feels this way? |
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Tony K.
Subscriber Moderator Posts: 12058 Location: Frisco, TX |
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Oh, I also forgot to mention Jin-Roh. It's more of a special ops. kind of deal where you have one guy as the main focus with a bunch of conspiracy between the government, the military, and rebel factions, but I like it. It's very dark and very slow, so don't say I didn't warn you. If you like slow movies though, try it out.
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matticans
 Posts: 192 Location: Lewisville, Texas. |
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It is really hard to think of war type animes without any mechs in them like gundam
 . I do think it would be cool if they did make more real life war animes though.
Jin-Roh and gotf are both extremely good movies and i highly reccommend them. If your watching gotf i also reccommend a box of tissues  .
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Bruce Lee
 Posts: 715 Location: Seattle, Washington |
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Jin-Roh is a great movie - in fact, it was the first movie that came to my head when reading this thread. Unfortunately, the movie is more spoiler[about Fuse's internal struggle]. The military type stuff is not too prevelant.
The Gundam series' are based on a future military, and all (except G) are very good. Lots of war and political themes running, and showing different sides of war. An excellent choice in my opinion, but pretty different from SPR. Neon Genesis Evangelion has guest appearances by the UN Defense Force, but the story mainly revolves around 3 children made to pilot giant robots, and their inner turmoil. An Anime classic, but maybe not what you're looking for. Dai Guard is a funny show about a civilian defense force working with the military to save the world. Not really on the dramatic scale of SPR, though. After WWII, the rest of the world wasn't too hot on Japan having a big military force. Also, keep in mind that Japan's efforts in WWII were focused on the Pacific Theater. I'm no history professor, but I can guess that it'd be vastly different than the European invasion portraid in SPR. That being said, Anime does offer a lot of police/defense force type shows. Somebody mentioned Patlabor - I've never seen the series', but both of the first 2 movies are excellent. Mobile Police in big robots can't be beat. Ghost in the Shell would fit into this category also, but there are 2 flavors - the movies are much more sci-fi, and the TV show is much more police-type. The Section 9 crew is awesome, though. |
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CorneredAngel
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<b>The Cockpit</b> is really the only anime I know of available in English that really shows actual WWII-era combat (Grave of the Fireflies/Barefoot Gen/Rail of the Star all deal with the impact of the war on civilians) If you're willing to suspend some disbelief and see mechs/powersuits simply as the next evolution of armor/MBT's, <u>Gasaraki</u>, especially the first few episodes, before it veers off into mysticism/SF, should be exactly what you're looking for. |
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