"Ellynne" == Ellynne G rilliara@juno.com writes:
An interesting thing about anime is, compared to a lot of other SF/F, the way it represents robots and machines.
Pet peeve: Anime is just animated movies from Japan, it varies wildly in style, content and genre.
B7 by Masamune Shirow (creator of _Ghost in the Shell_ and _Appleseed_, among other things): It turns out that Avon is the product of a Federation biotech project, and that Orac's programming is a downloaded copy of Ensor's mind. There is much speculation about if either of them can be regarded as human, and if not, _why_.
B7 by Hayao Miyazaki (_Mononoke-Hime_ and _My Neighbour Totoro_): For the most part slow and poetic, giving great insight into the personalities of _all_ the characters. At the end, you still feel that Servalan is a deeply evil person, but you can now understand why she is that way and why she thinks she's doing the right thing.
B7 by Rumiko Takahashi (_Ranma 1/2_ and _Maison Ikkoku_): Life on the Liberator as a romantic comedy soap opera. Blake and Avon are both deeply in love with Jenna, who can't choose between them. They all spend _dozens_ of episodes on the verge of actually telling each other how they feel, but never actually do so. Every other episode, someone from one of the three's past appears and stays on. By season nine or so, the relationships are so many and complex that new viewers are hopelessly lost.
B7 by the people who make _Tenchi Muyo_: The only male on the crew is Vila, and *everybody* is in love with him. Most of the characters have more or less strange powers, often of an explosive or otherwise destructive nature. The Liberator's autorepair system gets used a lot.
B7 by the people who make _Sailor Moon_: All the female characters can transform into scantily clad alter egos with magical powers. All of the men are useless, but Blake vanishes off the scene as soon as the going gets tough and a handsome masked stranger appears at the last minute and saves the day. Servalan is a reptiloid monster with vast magical powers, which she uses to send Travis to be killed over and over again by the heroes.
B7 by the people who made _Urotsukidoji_: Er... No.