HOLY CRAP! O.O
The Soviet Union in 1968 released a movie called War and Peace...WHICH COST 700,000,000 DOLLARS! IN TODAYS CURRENCY IN AMERICA! O.O
HOLY CRAP!!
I was looking at The Curse of the Golden Flower(on wiki) and when I scrolled down to the See Also thingy and it had a list of the most expensive movies of all time...O.o And it was War and Peace, Metropolis, and then Red Cliff...
And for some reason Apocalypto was on it...APOCALYPTO...What did they spend their money on!? They made the pyramids out of gold? They paid people to leave that city so they could shoot? What? I can't really figure it out...O.o That's just really weird...
And PONYO was on there...PONYO...What the heck!? Another movie that makes no sense...Really, what did they spend their money on THIS time?
And Princess Mononoke...which makes sense, I guess...All that paper and no computers...
And Letters from Iwo Jima and Pan's Labyrinth...Which, I guess, makes sense...There was a lot of stuff put in to it...Not that surprising, though.
Okay....the first three pokemon movies are all on this list...None of them were really that good....I don't get it...TT^TT And Pokemon 4Ever...Which was a TERRIBLE movie, I hated that one...>.> Even as a kid...It was boring...>.>
AKIRAAA!! That's not a big surprise....that animation had to cost SOMETHING...
And another Pokemon movie...Are all the Pokemon movies on this list!?
And a lot of Godzilla VS whatever movies...O.o
Anyways, going back to Pokemon, I know like a lot of people this was really big in my childhood, and for me the movies were the ones I remembered the most (well, I remember the Mewtwo movie because I really had to go to bathroom, but I made it through almost all of the movie until the Blastoise part...XD). My favourte one was Pokemon 2000...
And now that I think about it Pokemon 2000 really influenced my thinking as a child and kinda up to this point. Because that movie was...really pretty epic...And so much stuff happened and the whole world was all messed up and it was all up to Ash to save the world. And I really like that now and when I was a child. And if you look back at my old ideas and the old shows I watched it really reflected the kind of person I am now and my kinds of likes for instance...My favourite parts in some anime that remembered:
Not actually that part, but the part where she's floating down in the sky and she's alone. Now I draw a lot of those necklaces and I like glowing in pictures like that and falling thingy...
I couldn't find a really good picture, but I really liked this part in the Sailor Moon R movie. It was just soooo awesome...O.O I liked the together to make something more awesome kind of thing....I guess the part in the Sailor Moon S movie was OKAY, but the remembering about how life is beautiful part ruined it for me...I kinda forgot what was going on because of all the nature stuff...O.o But I really like it when in Sailor Moon they combined to make something even more awesome, and I do that a lot in my stories and stuff.
YUUUGGGIIIII!!! I've been searching for this picture FOREVER now....TT^TT My GOD! Wikipedia!? Why couldn't I find any link to the page of her!? And...
TSUGARUUUU!! This was actually one of my favourite characters in all of Tenchi Muyo...And I loved his design to DEATH as a character, and you can tell. Hikaru Miko Wakusei's clothing design was based off of his! XD Yugi, Tsugaru, and Sasami were my favourite Tenchi Muyo characters, and I think you can tell in some of my early art and my art now, kinda.
Though I've strayed from being unoriginal with my designs and characters, but the kinds of thins I like have always been around those kinds of people.
Then there is all the anime I watched when I was little (and most of them are/were on toonami or [adultswim]):
Sailor Moon (LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!! LOVE THIS TO DEATH!!! I will always love this anime and I don't know why! XD)
Dragon Ball (Why did I like this? I think it was the epic adventures and stuff and all the fun things that Goku had to do...)
Dragon Ball Z (I liked Android 17 the most! <333 I like converses because of him! ^ ^ I loved the action in this and the creativity)
Ronin Warriors (which isn't very popular, but I remember it pretty well)
Reboot (That one show with the green 3D people! I didn't really like this show, but Sailor Moon came afterwards so I watched it anyways, same for Ronin Warriors, though I knida liked Ronin Warriors)
Tenchi Muyo! (The original, Tenchi Universe, and Tenchi in Tokyo)
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (my favourite Gundam series to this day! There are so many references to this today in comedy shows like The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy...the part where Heero is in his Gundam going nuts and saying something about his heart and all of his sorrow...O.o Unless that was another series, but I do remember it being Heero....>.>)
Outlaw Star (I think this somehow started my love for seinen manga...even though it's not seinen...just the seinen manga I like have some parts that remind me of Outlaw Star)
The Big O (I need to rewatch this, I can't remember anything about it except how awesome Dorothy looks!)
Cardcaptor Sakura (I loved this as a kid, now I hate it...Strange how that happens, but this never really influenced me...O.o maybe on the hair on Sakura)
Zoids
Hamtaro (This influenced my liking of slice of life kind of stuff, I really loved this series! <333)
G Gundam
Transformers: Armada (I liked the characters that weren't robots, their relationships with the robots somehow inspired me..O.o)
Zoids: Chaotic Century
Yu Yu Hakushou (I remember doing tons of fanart of this! X3 I loved this show. The spirit gun really got to me and has influenced me SOOO much)
Rurouni Kenshin (Love this and still love this! ^ ^ My favourite character is Sanosuke! YUUSHHH!! And this also started my love for seinen manga, even though, again, this wasn't a seinen manga...but I love Deadman Wonderland because so many of the characters remind me of Rurouni Kenshin characters. I love samurai stuff! ^ ^)
Cyber 009 (I remembered hating this at first...but then I started loving it, but I can't remember why, and I can't remember why I watched it or what stuck out to me the most...besides their noses...XD)
IGPX: Micro Series (Character designs in this really made me love it and I think there is some of their kinds of designs rubbing off on some of the art I have now...I can't really tell...O.o But I loved F-Zero because of this! XD)
Duel Masters (Well, it made me buy the game...and I'm now like a master of that game if I just have certain cards in my deck...>:D
Astro Boy (Can't remember what it was...maybe the retro futuristic stuff...I think that's what made me love retro futurism! ^ ^)
Rave Masters (Probably influenced me the most...besides Sailor Moon. From the characters, so the stories, to the names, EVERYTHING! OMIGOD!! I was in love with this show when I was little. And I still always love to type in 3173 on calculators and show it to people...they usually get confused as to why I'm showing them that...XD And I still remember the English opening's lyrics! XD)
Zatch Bell (And now I like dolls! XD No...I think this is where I get my comedy from...O.o They all have a Zatch Bell kind of feel)
One Piece (Never really liked this show...until I read the manga...X3 Seriously, 4Kids ruined it...TT^TT)
Naruto (I was a Naruto addict...until Shippuuden...then I just started to hate it...I only actually liked the first few episodes with the Chu-nin exams and Haku, which I still love those episodes, but I hate the whole Akatsuki thing and I just wanted Orochimaru to be the main villain (also because people who don't understand japanese, but love the Akatsuki think I'm talking about the Akutsuki when I say 'My favourite video game is Akatsuki no Momiji' Akatsuki means DAWN, so I just said my favourite video game is Goddess of Dawn, which is FE: Radiant Dawn), that way it'd stay as magical and cool as it was, but it just kinda turned into something unattractive to me...And I no longer like it...>.>)
Transformers: Energon
Yu-Gi-Oh! (Just the original series. I've seen all the episodes of that, and I must, say, it is quite epic...>:) My favourite character is Bakura! ^ ^ Then Seto Kaiba and then Mokuba Kaiba...XD I don't care what anybody says, the original Yu-Gi-Oh! was AWESOME...but then the other series were stupid, I tried watching them, but I just face palmed on every episode...>.> And why are all my favourite visual kei bands always doing the openings and endings!? Oh, and I hate it when people go up to me and ask me if I like anime and then say 'So you like that stuff like Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokemon' and then I tell them no because that's not a very good representation of anime...those are stupid 4Kids series, of course not!)
Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (I loved this show! XD It was just so incredibly random and I loved it! XD But a lot of people hate it and are always talking about how stupid it is...Well, did you consider that it's TRYING to be stupid? That makes it even more funnier! XD)
Transformers: Cybertron (This is the one I remember the most...my brother and I always went nuts whenever we heard them talk about Unicron...though that was in another Transformers series, I think, but still, it was transformers! TT^TT)
Cowboy Bebop (Didn't watch it, just looked at pictures on the internet and I've forever loved Ed because of her character design and overall character! XD)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (First anime I've ever watched on [adultswim] and one of my favourite anime shows of all time. ^ ^ I love everything about this and most of it has influenced me INCREDIBLY.)
FLCL (the fist episode I ever watched was episode 4...XD And if anyobdy has seen that episode...I think you'd know that a little 9 year old girl watching that episode for the first time would probably be a bit scarred...I'm fine now that I watched the other episodes and now I love it, but that was really freaky and disturbing for me for the first time! XD I think that opened me up to unrated manga and anime and being more mature...This is why we should show our children heavy sexual content! It'll shock them, but they'll understand when they get older! XD)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (I actually watched this back when I was 12, so it's not that old or nostalgic to me, but I really liked it and it's changed my thinking. So if you want more depth thinking and looking from different perspectives you should definitely watch this anime. It opened new doors for me)
Case Closed (This is why I like murder mysteries! I would sneak out to my TV room at night just to watch this and I loved the bloodiest episodes the most! XD I was strange because I wasn't that kind of kid...But I still love that show! ^ ^)
Blue Gender (Another one that I watched when I was 12...I only saw a few episodes and the last episode because I kept forgetting it was on...XD But I really liked the details and atmosphere)
Lupin the 3rd (I remember watching this a really long time ago somewhere...but I can hardly remember this...But I think it influenced me somehow...O.o)
Samurai Champloo (Made me want to watch more Naruto! XD I really loved the feel of this...but I don't know if it influenced me at all...O.o)
s-CRY-ed (....O.o This was really weird but it instantly became my favourite anime and had all the elements of things that I liked, but now I don't like it and I have no clue what the story was about....O.o I don't remember it anymore! TT^TT)
Shin-chan (I watched this for years and to recently. Yet another anime that influenced my comedy! XD I love this show to DEATH! I was so sad to hear that the mangaka died! TT^TT)
Metropolis (the anime movie based off of the one I was talking about above! XD I watched this and loved it, but my brother watched it and hated it...O.o I don't understand why. I still love that incredibly awesome super-powered person that the world depends on kinda thing! ^ ^)
The Animatrix (Dunno if this counts, but the fighting really influenced my love for action, but I didn't really like this movie...Just whenever I think of fighting scenes and how I should draw it and stuff, I think of Animatrix)
End of Evangelion (ONE OF MY FAVOURITE MOVIES!! Was it on my list? Well, I just love this movie to death for so many reasons. SUPER HUGE influence. In fact, every time I think of creating a new manga and how it should end I ALWAYS think of End of Evangelion. It's what made me love Spike Spencer, it's what made me love action and seinen manga, I just loved this movie to death)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (I actually had this movie, but then I took it to school to watch it because we were talking about the environment and this has a lot of save the environment kinds of things and I left it with my teacher so we could finish it...and I never got it back...TT^TT I want to watch it again. The things that stuck out about this movie the most to me was the lullaby thing with the little girl singing, that big giant monster thingy at the end, and when Nausicaa was running through that 'golden field' of Ohm tentacles...such a magical movie! <333)
Castle in the Sky (LOVE THIS MOVIE TO DEATH!! TT^TT I dunno if this influenced me a lot, but it sure makes me want to play lots of different video games...XD)
Princess Mononoke (I LOVE this movie also! ^ ^ I really liked the end, it was sooo awesome! <333 And again, I really like glowy things! XD So I loved it when the forest god changed into the night thingy...that was so awesome and sparkly.)
Spirited Away (I've always thought this was an overrated movie. It was good, but DEFINITELY not Miyazaki's best...But I REALLY love Haku's design and he's one of my favourite characters in all of anime, him and the other Haku from Naruto! XD I love Haku's hair, I'm always drawing boys like that...but I never post any picture of them like that because it would be overloaded with all my male characters with that hair cut...XD)
Grave of the Fireflies (first anime movie...no, first MOVIE to ever make me cry. The realism of this was so touching...I think this is one of the things that got me into loving World War II stuff so much. That or Letters from Iwo Jima or Flags of Our Fathers.)
My Neighbor Totoro (Gave me the sense of audience and how to create manga for younger viewers or older viewers. You can really tell this is for little kids. But I loved it anyways. I freaking LOVE the main theme, I can even play it on the piano)
Howl's Moving Castle (Love the concept of this movie and the feeling, but it's too short and corny...if they went a who different direction and didn't try to follow the book as much, I think it could've turned into one of the best movies I've ever seen...But I really loved the feel of this movie and the music! ^ ^)
Porco Rosso (I didn't like it at first, but on a third watching of it I love it! I love the planes and the story! It's so awesome! ^ ^)
Only Yesterday (This probably steered me into the direction of making more realistic stories that more people can relate to. I loved this movie and I watched it on my birthday. Funniest thing was that I was the same age as the woman as a little girl in the movie! XD)
Whisper of the Heart (Made me like romances more, or think more about them. They're not at all like the kinds in Sailor Moon...)
Pom Poko (Didn't really influence my stories or character designs or anything, but made me love animals more and be more for protecting them)
Wow....long list and long post...sorry for that, I got a bit carried away! XD
I've watched more than that, I just didn't like it or it didn't influence me....>.> And that's all the anime I can think of that I watched when I was younger than 13...
O.O WOW! Tales of Earthsea is FINALLY coming to America in August! ^ ^ I'm excited now! I've been DYING for that release! ^ ^
And I really want to watch Ghibli's new films and I can't wait for The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter! ^ ^
...Wait...Tales of Earthsea got Worst Movie of the Year in Japan...O.o Uhhh...maybe I don't want to watch it anymore...>.> Well, it makes sense if the guy never wanted to be a director in the first place....O.o Kinda proves that he should stay with landscaping! XD
Okay, sorry for the really long post...
What anime do you think influenced you the most? Or just give me a long list of anime that you watched...or you can agree with me or something, I just wanna know! XD
Okie! Bye-bye! ^ ^
