Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Elliot K wrote:

lowonthetotem wrote:

I know that some folks will laugh, but I do enjoy watching certain action cartoons still.
Now, I feel like a wicked big nerd. :-B

Ahem... You're not alone. I used to watch Adult Swim with some regularity. I still think Space Ghost and Sealab were hilarious.

As to shakuhachi in anime - check out the kitty komusos in Studio Ghibli's "The Cat Returns".

Our family anime addiction started with "Witch Hunter Robin" on Adult Swim.  Now we have walls full of manga and anime DVDs...

I'm embarrassed to have missed (or forgotten) the komuso cats in "The Cat Returns", despite having watched it several times.  Um, with our 8-year-old.  Heh.

There are tengai-wearing characters in an episode of "Samurai Champloo", but they're just used for concealment.

There's a great deal of shakuhachi in the music for the mega-popular series "Naruto."

Oh no, I too shall now have to divulge my secret obsession. I haven't taken notice of Shakuhachi in anime up until now though.

Shameless list of some of my favourite anime to follow:
naruto, inuyasha, dragon ball (& z & gt), lain, vampire hunter d, blood the last vampire, samurai 7, texhnolyze, otogi zoshi, rorouni kenshin, samurai x, twelve kingdoms, wolf's rain, hellsing, saiyuki, samurai champloo, haibane renmei. Avatar is definitely worth checking out, not japanese anime though.

I like most bizarre comedy or horror anime. Anime is also the only genre i'll really watch any kind of sci-fi (Aside from movies like Sunshine & Event Horizon, both psycological thrillers)

Has anyone seen Atama-yama? (Mount Head) It's part of Mike Judge's Animation Show.

It's about a guy who has a cherry tree growing out of his head and is narrated (sung) in Japanese on a Shamisen. It's a short film, but very good.

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Was Speed Racer, Astroboy, and Marine Boy back in the '60's anime? After I got used to the big eyes and cartoon style I loved those shows.

Vevolis wrote:

I like most bizarre comedy or horror anime. .

I am really fond of the Ayakashi series.

Lupin

I haven't seen a Lupin episode in a few years.  I loved that one.  Cowboy Bebop is cool too, in a cheesy sort of way that is common to most science fiction.

I"ll admit I really don't like inuyahsha at all!

I have to admit that I don't enjoy every episode, although I am fairly sure that I have seen most of them, if not all, at least those adult swim has to offer.  I think there are a couple of movies, which I have not seen.  The series never resolves itself, storywise.  I think that happens in the movie/s.

I have always wanted to write a script, anime or not, where a shakuhachist in full tengai and all takes on a bunch of samurai (demon samurai, of course, with glowing red eyes) with a huge honkin' shakuhachi.  Then, of course, the shakuhachi player takes off the tengai and it's a girl...look, I didn't say it wouldn't be cheesy!

I think it sounds pretty cool, but I am biased in favor of women.  Of course the sound track would have to be 100% shakuhachi; well, maybe some ensemble pieces.  I wonder how I would set music to a battle scene as opposed to a walking/journey scene.  And, it would be cool to mix original scores with more traditional pieces.  Plotwise, you'd have to reconcile why she was hidden away in the monastery as a babe.  No doubt to save her from the same demon samurai that murdered her folks.  She masters the flute as an instrument of meditation as well as combat fighting off the advances of less than reputable adepts and monks.  Bitchin'

I was doing my weekly check for anime in a store yesterday and came across one of my old favourites, Sailor Moon. Just love that show.....not quite sure why!