Gen. I
Gen. II
Gen. III
...& so-on.
You can name for one or each.
It can be because of sentimentality or because they're your favourite Pokemon or because of efficiency or whatever.
I know CC awhile ago alluded to both Naruto & Harry-Potter's fallen student type story-telling being taken from the God/Lucifer (Satan) story (Paradise Lost as I heard now), but this is interesting
"Btw anyone notice the religious symbolism..."
You can read-on from there...
...or at-least could be argued to be.
Some from what I've heard or think so myself:
Matrix - Ghost in the Shell
Rocky - Ashita no Joe
Star-Wars - Space Battle-Ship Yamato
Inception - Paprika
Lion-King - Kimba
Atlantis - Nadia/Laputa
EDIT: Hollywood as in big-budget movies from...
Akira Toriyama himself has said he didn’t really like (or whatever the term is) the beginning of DragonBall anime and how it was done. He thought it felt too much like the Dr. Slump anime or something. The editor then eventually thought the same, at the point Goku defeated the original Piccolo...
All DragonBall (Z too) OPs & EDs.
All Yu-Yu-Hakusho OPs/EDs.
One-Piece - We Are
Saint-Seiya - OP#1 & OP#2
Hokuto no Ken OP
All City-Hunter - OPs & EDs
If you feel some way about the way the vid.s are & TV-Size, then you can rank them both way.
Is that unlike other series (even series I like) it does not harp on friendship or friendship speeches. There is team-work, but no cheesy nakama/yujo speeches/scenes IIRC.
They used to, but not anymore. I know Hayao Miyazaki once said that all the contemporary anime try to do the “cute” bulsheeeet thing nowadays, but that doesn’t extent to the older generation like say the 80s. Are they just not natural enough and sound too professional? Are they too big like...
...a million times more interesting, if it had been about Yusuke's life before getting hit by the car. The first ten or so minutes of the series are better than anything that came after. You had delinquent manga before I think, but not as many that were somewhat serious dramas, but instead they...