uhh.sorry never heard of it. Lol is it a brand new anime?

no, he had dark hair with glasses, tried to take over soul society, ichigo defeated him, and will lose his powers because of it... they are on a different arc now

How can you classify anime by which decade it was from? Anime began in the 1950s and continued developing through the '60s and '70s. In truth, it has more to do with drawing style than plot or characterization based on its roots.

Battle Of The Planets, aka Gatchaman, could be considered anime based on that, and it goes back to the late '70s while Akira came out in what? 1989?

hey what s going on this evening. I am up too playing call of duty and being board.

what you up too??

COD... love that game... ghost recon too...

Oh, I didn't know that they were too different series. I assume it's not the same "children's show" that I was thinking. And Akira wasn't a show. It was a manga that was turned into a full length movie. If you haven't seen it, I would really advise watching it... So, "these are still running" don't really apply to Akira. And Ghost in the Shell had a good run. A lot of great shows don't last forever. They last until they're not popular anymore. And since the vast majority of "anime" viewers these days are kids, well you get what I'm saying. Anime was like american cartoons once were. Made for grownups. Now, like just about everything else, they're marketed toward kids, lol. Ah, what I wouldn't give to go back to the 90s!

I was ranked in the top 55000 in the world in kills in cod4

you mean makin good ranks in black ops. i love that game!! I prefer xbox over ps3. I played ghost recon only once, it isnt that bad. But black ops rock the gamin world

That's about right on the release of Akira, not sure and too lazy to look it up. But anime refers directly to animation. It's basically an abbreviation of the japanese word for animation. Originally, anime was much the same as early american cartoons and the first anime (if i'm not mistaken) came out around 1920. The style changed dramatically over the years to reach what most people accepts as the "definitive" anime style in the late 70s through the 80s. Since the early 90s, it's been moving more and more toward a younger audience. This is why I referred the decade.

The word for comic in japanese is manga. And since most anime became animation adaptations of manga, they used the common style of manga art at that time. So, they are two distinctive things, even though they share the same base. "How can I classify anime by which decade it was from?" Simple... I can. Watch one from each decade and tell me they're even remotely similar in a span of 10-20 years. In some cases, yes they can be slightly similar, but on anime as a whole, it's an ever evolving thing. And I, personally (I might add), feel that it's been evolving in the wrong direction. You're free to have your opinion, but I feel that the 80s and (in some cases) early 90s were the best years for anime.

And as for the comment on Trigun and Outlaw Star... I've never watched Outlaw Star and only a few episodes of Trigun. What I did see of it was okay, though I've never really gotten into the story.