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Yet another early-to-mid-80s anime series. This time the memory reminds me of Urusei Yatsura, except there's no Lum or aliens; just a bunch of down-to-earth high-schoolers with the slapstick humor. I remember characters who now remind me of Urusei Yatsura's Mendou, Ataru, and Sakura. The Sakura-like character is also very attractive to schoolboys who keep pestering her. She would literally send the boys flying, and as they soar through the air, the boys have their arms stretched out and their legs forming a diamond (soles clapped together), leaving jet contrails in their wake. The episode I got to watch was the gang visiting a temple and they seem to be taking up the challenge of breaking the temple's bell. The Mendo-like character uses a ladder to try to break the bell from the inside, while a couple of other guys are repeatedly punching and kicking it from the outside. The Ataru-like character comes on to the Sakura-like lady who slams him into the bell (as apparently was his plan). Apparently they fail and the priest gives them their consolation prizes, which are smaller versions of the bell. (The Ataru-like character gets a very small one for hitting the bell only once.) I'm really interested in knowing the series' title.
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I remember watching an English dub of an anime sometime in the late 90s to the early 2000s. It featured a scientist's daughter (no, not a Mad Scientist's Daughter, a sane one) who was sent to the future for some reason (ill with no cure or was it a war..?). She had this bird like machine thing which she'd lie in often, I think it talked. The girl collected a bunch of companions who could transform into some kind of insectoid-like armour, and one of them had fire powers. Eventually she died, and then a new girl (also from the past?) showed up. She cooked, had orange hair(?) and her name may have been Tofu. Someone had an answered query of this show before, but it's gone, and I've forgotten the show's name, again. It took me seven years to find it's name the last time, so any help is VERY much appreciated!
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I remember watching this on YTV back in the 90's... it had two genies (father and daughter), one (the clumsy father) could be summoned by sneezing, and the other (the mischievous daughter) by yawning. They would grant wishes to a boy named Joey, but almost all of them quickly turn into disasters. There was also this weird, cartoonish old man with an umbrella who would appear during scene changes... Anybody know which series this was???
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A while ago I was reading a thread and while I'm not quite sure I think it was Raw Power who linked to a shoujo manga, the poster stated that the protagonist looked like Lelouch and the heroine had glasses and a high ponytail, I can't find the thread or posts again and the name escapes me.
A later post also linked to the same manga stating that the page was "Cullen-Like" but still enjoyable.
I'm looking for an anime film from about 10-15yrs ago that has a young kid training as some kind of martial artist with a fat/sumo guy for a teacher/sensei and at the end the kid fights a dragon... any guesses?