anime movies?

Question

what are some good anime movies that you dont have to watch the anime to watch it.in not a picky person so you can list any

Answer 1

Here's a bunch of movies that I have watched:

>The Place Promised in Our Early Days:

The anime follows the story of three friends living in Aomori on the northern end of southern Japan: two boys, Hiroki Fujisawa and Takuya Shirakawa, both child prodigies; and one girl, Sayuri Sawatari. In 1996, the three are in eighth grade, their last year of middle school, and they are fascinated by the Hokkaido Tower visible across the Tsugaru Strait to the north.

On the last day before spring break, one of Sayuri's friends, Kana Matsuura, confesses to Takuya that she has romantic feelings for him, but he does not return her feelings. Takuya tells Hiroki that he should date Kana instead, but Hiroki declines, as he is actually romantically interested in Sayuri. Hiroki stays after school for archery practice while Sayuri stays after school for violin practice; they ride the train home together and get to know each other, and Sayuri becomes close friends with the two boys.

The two boys have found a crashed Maritime Self-Defense Force drone plane. Naming it the Bella Ciela, they work on rebuilding the plane, scrounging parts from their workplace, the Emishi Manufacturing factory, with the help of their boss, Mr. Okabe. The three teenagers promise to one day fly to Hokkaido to visit the Tower. However, before they can do this, Sayuri mysteriously disappears during the summer.

Three years later, Takuya and Hiroki have stopped working on the plane, having taken different paths after the grief they suffered at Sayuri's disappearance. Although only in high school, the brilliant Takuya is working as a physicist at an Alliance scientific facility sponsored by the United States National Security Agency, researching parallel universes (per the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics) alongside Ms. Maki Kasahara under the supervision of Professor Tomizawa. They know that the Hokkaido Tower, which began operating in 1996, replaces matter around it with matter from other universes, but they do not yet know why it does this for only a 2-km radius. Takuya becomes involved with the Uilta Liberation Front after he learns that Mr. Okabe is its leader; his factory workers are the other agents of the organization. Okabe was originally motivated to form the group when his family was trapped in Hokkaido by the Separation, and he signs Takuya on for an excursion to Ezo with Uilta.

Sayuri is revealed to have been hospitalized over the past three years, having developed an extreme form of narcolepsy; she has been sleeping continuously for most of the three years. Her mind is trapped in an unpopulated parallel universe, where she is all alone. Tomizawa has discovered that she is somehow connected to the Union's research into parallel universes and the Hokkaido Tower's ability to change the surrounding land into alternate possibilities, but Tomizawa keeps this information, as well as her whereabouts, secret from Takuya initially. Tomizawa is secretly working with the Uilta Liberation Front and lets Mr. Okabe know about Sayuri, while Mr. Okaba reveals that the Uilta Liberation Front plans to bomb the Hokkaido Tower to incite war against the Union, hoping that this will lead to the reunification of Japan.

Hiroki has moved to Tokyo where he attends high school. He is haunted by frequent dreams of Sayuri and suffers from depression, leading a miserable and lonely existence. A letter written by Sayuri before she became completely comatose eventually reaches him and he reads it in March 2000, giving him a lead to go looking for her. Though in separate universes, the two manage to make brief, temporary contact, and Hiroki realises that the only way to wake Sayuri is to fly her body over the Tower, to take her to the "promised land of our childhood". Sayuri's body, however, has been taken to a secure hospital ward at the Aomori Army College.

Tensions continue to grow between the Alliance and the Union, as it becomes apparent that the Union is attempting to use the Tower as a weapon to replace the existing world with a parallel universe. Things are further complicated when it is discovered that Ekusun Tsukinoe, who constructed the Tower, was Sayuri's grandfather, and that the only thing preventing the Tower from activating is Sayuri's coma (the closer she comes to wakening, the greater the radius of the area affected by the Tower), forcing Hiroki and Takuya to choose between saving the world or saving Sayuri. After fighting over the decision, Hiroki convinces Takuya that Sayuri is worth risking the world.

Takuya steals the body of the still-comatose Sayuri from the military hospital. The boys finish building the Bella Ciela just hours before the United States plans to declare war on the Union. The plane only seats two, so Takuya leaves Hiroki to pilot the plane and fulfill their childhood promise. Hiroki manages to fly the plane across the strait to the Tower carrying Sayuri and a missile provided by the Uilta Liberation Front. When Sayuri finally awakens while the plane circles the Tower, the Tower activates and immediately begins to transform the surrounding area; the area under transformation grows to encompass much of Hokkaido. In the last few minutes of her coma, Sayuri realises that when she awakes she will lose all her memories and dreams as a child, and thus upon waking she weeps because, unknowingly, she lost the memory of her love for Hiroki. Flying back, Hiroki fires the missile, destroying the Tower and stopping the matter transformation. The film ends with Hiroki vowing to Sayuri that they will start their relationship anew.

>Howl's Moving Castle
The protagonist of Howl’s Moving Castle is Sophie, a timid and unconfident 18-year-old girl who works in her late father's hat shop in the town of Market Chipping. While walking to meet her pretty younger sister Lettie at the bakery one day, Sophie has a chance encounter with the handsome but mysterious wizard Howl, who rescues her from some menacing soldiers. Howl charms her with his looks and dashing feats of magic, briefly sparking happiness in Sophie. But later that night, the vain and jealous Witch of the Waste appears in Sophie's hat shop in the form of an obese, wealthy woman, along with several of her minions. The Witch hints at a prior connection to Howl, and curses Sophie by aging her into a 90-year-old hag before disappearing.

>All four Naruto-movies
These movies has their own individual stories you don't have to watch the whole series to be able to follow it.

>Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children...
A REALLY FANTASTIC CG movie... you should really watch this one although you should have at least a knowledge about the game...

You can watch most of these movies at cruchyroll.com

Answer 2

OK if what you're saying is any good anime movies that you don't necessarily have to watch the series to get into then maybe you can try any Hayao Miyazaki films.Then there's Blood the last Vampire, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Read or Die, Memories, Macross: Do You Remember Love, Ninja Scroll, Project A-ko, Karas

Answer 3

There are a number that I have thoroughly enjoyed...

- Any of the Ghost in the Shell Movies
- Spriggan was pretty good
- Any of the Armitage movies

Many people also say that Grave of the Fireflies is good, however I thought that it was horribly depressing and couldn't stand watching more that 10 minutes.

Also if you haven't seen it already you should check out the Trigun series... Awesome.

Answer 4

I personally loved these movies:

Ghost in the Shell
Howl's Moving Castle
Akira
Saiyuki Requiem
Inuyasha Movie 3

Answer 5

Naruto the movies and OAVs, Gravitation OAV, Kiky's delivery service, Metropolis, Kaze to ki no uta, Kaze no tani no Nausicaa, Mononoke Hime, The castel in the sky, Spirited away

Answer 6

Spiritted Away
is a very great movie. ther's no anime series about that too :D

and Princess Mononoke..
i haven't watched it but i heard it's a very good movie.
it's top rated :]

Detective Conan movies aren't really related to the series..
but the whole thing are great :D
(there are 10 movies of Detective Conan - i believe)

but i'd preffer japanese movies too. (not the anime)

Answer 7

Prefer Detective Conan movies
http://www.animetv.ws/detective-conan/

Answer 8

Naruto Shippuuden has four nice movies with good stories. The stories are independent and you need not to watch the series to appreciate it.

Try crunchyroll.com for the first three movies.

Answer 9

Blood: the last vampire. Download off Veoh.

Answer 10

http://tv-links.co.uk/listings/3

that site has anime and anime movies. When it's a movie it'll have "[Movie]" beside the title.

Answer 11

if you are up to live action manga-based japanese movies, try Death Note 1 and 2.