End of world animes

[Wavie]

Ok i know 2.

Stellvia (well its begining of a new world), and macross/robotech.

Is there anymore - i seem to love end of world type animes =) or ones where an entire planet is put at risk.

Edit: forgot one - main end of world one I have seen - Blue Gender

[Shiryuu]

Interlude OVA (licensed) - They don't actually reveal that the world already ended until the last ep.

Gaogaigar Final OVA - mecha anime.

Shin Getter Robo (licensed) - mecha anime. Japan basically causes the apocalypse.

[C.A.]

Theres a whole bunch of 'End of world' series in the mecha genre lol

Evangelion - Definitely end of the world
Eureka 7 - End of the world, not Earth though
Top Wo Nerae! - Probably counts as end of the solar system or maybe even end of the galaxy.
Ideon - End of the Universe lol

There are quite alot of planet threatening mecha anime, though I'm not sure if they do fit directly as end of world though

[jedinat]

Wolf's Rain (it is, right? first anime I ever watched, so it's been a while)
Pale Cocoon - really awesome one episode OVA
Texhnolyze - so... very... depressing

[chrno_the_sinner]

Narutaru (in the manga, after the anime ends)
X (it's about the coming end, close enough)
Akira

[SlugZilla]

Zegapain - Will be spoilerific if I say it (since it is not revealed from episode 1) but it definitely has an end of the world setting. It has its fair share of mecha and 3D battles.

Soukyuu no Fafner - A bunch of teenagers trying to survive all odds on their island base against an onslaught of unknown enemies. Also mecha.

Hokuto no Ken - A war torn world where nuclear weapons eradicated civilizations and a new age of chaos and violence ensues. A very fighting oriented anime based on the popular manga.

[physics223]

Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on Heaven's Door

This is the end of the world as seen when beautiful, golden butterflies dance around your head ... it's a symbolic movie with a lot of action, and a lot of insight to the characters in the Cowboy Bebop universe as well. This may be seen standalone - it's beautiful, or seen as a companion to the Cowboy Bebop series - which gives a look into why Spike has made that decision that he did in the later episodes.

[Rich]

Saishuuheiki Kanojo/最終兵器彼女/She ~ the ultimate weapon ~-Link Link-

[Potatochobit]

this beautiful and ugly world.
mahoromatic season 2
magikano

i cant think of any serious shows at the moment. evangelion?

[saznami]

Saikano thats end of the worldy.

[miaka]

magic knight rayearth - clamp's worlk in fantasy setting. Its not end of our world though its end of another dimensional world.
space battleship Yamato - its older than macross vintage around 1975

[SlugZilla]

Sousei no aquarion - This series is mediocre imo, but it fits the criteria. Some people seem to like it so it's worth a mention. It's a lot like Evangelion. Though the pilots orgasm whenever they fuse into robot form.

Tideline Blue - A global catastrophe results in six billion deaths and almost all of earth covered in water. Kind of like waterworld, with emphasis on a boy and his adventure on a submarine.

Turn A Gundam - Gundam series set in the future after an event that threatened all of earth. The new war between the earth and moon may repeat the mistakes of the past.

[wingdarkness]

Originally Posted by physics223

Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on Heaven's Door

This is the end of the world as seen when beautiful, golden butterflies dance around your head ... it's a symbolic movie with a lot of action, and a lot of insight to the characters in the Cowboy Bebop universe as well. This may be seen standalone - it's beautiful, or seen as a companion to the Cowboy Bebop series - which gives a look into why Spike has made that decision that he did in the later episodes.

Do you even understand the underlining message of that movie (atleast that I found)?? Re-watch it really carefully especially the ending and what happens after the credits roll...

Spoiler for Bebop Movie:

The underlining message of that movie is that the anime characters are perhaps figuring out that they are not real (Vincent and Spike specifically)...That they only exist as animated characters...it's really deep and you can miss it if your not observant enuff...That's why this is one of the greatest anime movies of all time IMO...reatch the whole butterfly thing in the end..I'l leave the rest up to you....

as for the topic here are a few off the top of my head:

Gundam X
Trigun
Blue Gender
and don't forget about Dragonball Z (lmao, every episode is the end of the world almost^^)

[jedinat]

Originally Posted by wingdarkness

Spoiler for Bebop Movie:

The underlining message of that movie is that the anime characters are perhaps figuring out that they are not real (Vincent and Spike specifically)...That they only exist as animated characters...it's really deep and you can miss it if your not observant enuff...That's why this is one of the greatest anime movies of all time IMO...weatch the whole butterfly thing in the end..I'l leave the rest up to you....

That's retarded. Not you, but that, if it is true.

[wingdarkness]

^

Spoiler for retarded Goodness:

Not really, it's actually amazing and groundbreaking, much like the concept of that series on whole...Remember this movie is the final chapter of Cowboy bebop in the sense the series has ended already eventhough this takes place between certain episodes....I'd have to re-watch the movie aswell to give you all the detailed examples, but when I first watched it, i rewatch certain scenes over and over and the end-scene after the credits puts it all together for me...The movie is so much deeper than a mystery ailment that makes you see butterflies...although you would never have to realize this to enjoy the movie on a superficial level because it's that good too...

Imagine if you were an anime character living this whatever type of life filled with action, sex, and violence and one day something happens within the confinds of the series that starts to hint to you that you are actually not real and only exist on this limited mental plane brought to life with ink...Now that $hit is heavy...Now imagine that you figure it out and want to do something about it...Remeber Spike has always been living a dream, what if what happens to him in the anime series made him sense that he wasn't real...groundbreaking stuff even if you see ity as crazy...It blew my mind...

[jedinat]

Originally Posted by wingdarkness

^

Spoiler for retarded Goodness:

Not really, it's actually amazing and groundbreaking, much like the concept of that series on whole...Remember this movie is the final chapter of Cowboy bebop in the sense the series has ended already eventhough this takes place between certain episodes....I'd have to re-watch the movie aswell to give you all the detailed examples, but when I first watched it, i rewatch certain scenes over and over and the end-scene after the credits puts it all together for me...The movie is so much deeper than a mystery ailment that makes you see butterflies...although you would never have to realize this to enjoy the movie on a superficial level because it's that good too...

Imagine if you were an anime character living this whatever type of life filled with action, sex, and violence and one day something happens within the confinds of the series that starts to hint to you that you are actually not real and only exist on this limited mental plane brought to life with ink...Now that $hit is heavy...Now imagine that you figure it out and want to do something about it...Remeber Spike has always been living a dream, what if what happens to him in the anime series made him sense that he wasn't real...groundbreaking stuff even if you see ity as crazy...It blew my mind...

If you want that then watch the Matrix man, lol. What your suggesting would be breaking the anime. For mean at least, anything attempting to take away the idea that what you're watching is "real" is a major turn off and makes me feel like I'm wasting my time. That's why I've always had a problem with the .hack anime... it's like, who cares? And anyways, I don't think something like that is all as deep as you see it.

[wingdarkness]

Spoiler for Deeper than you think:

It doesn't break the anime in any way...It provides an even more visceral aspect to an already incredibly concieved anime...Your missing the point...The point is no one knows this, not even the characters until this movie (which doesn't even fully expose it, just leaves food for thought that i got and you didn't)...So your comparisons to the Matrix or .hack (Which i also think is wak) are unfounded because those literary arts presented this aspect to begin with while bebop may have had a hidden aspect to that...Choose to ignore it, it's fine...You might not be able to see it, but it is a form of deep expressionism if it is the case...Your totally missing the point based on that argument...Especially if you think it's simply retarded...

[physics223]

I don't see it that way.

Spoiler for open after watching Cowboy Bebop:

Simply put, for Spike, living is Julia, just as Elektra is to Vincent's living. Nothing could have been more real than what happened between them two. With her being gone, he just wanted to answer the question if he truly was only in a painful dream ('am I living in the real world?') or if he faced a reality without Julia, which to him was not living at all. You're taking a modernist stance somewhat seen clearly in literature; I'm taking a stance based on a simple reality - the reality which is Spike's.

Although we disagree, I think we'd agree when I say that Cowboy Bebop is among the best anime there were. Of all time, I should add.

[wingdarkness]

Originally Posted by physics223

I don't see it that way.

Spoiler for open after watching Cowboy Bebop:

Simply put, for Spike, living is Julia, just as Elektra is to Vincent's living. Nothing could have been more real than what happened between them two. With her being gone, he just wanted to answer the question if he truly was only in a painful dream ('am I living in the real world?') or if he faced a reality without Julia, which to him was not living at all. You're taking a modernist stance somewhat seen clearly in literature; I'm taking a stance based on a simple reality - the reality which is Spike's.

Although we disagree, I think we'd agree when I say that Cowboy Bebop is among the best anime there were. Of all time, I should add.

Not sure if you were talkin to me 0_o...

Spoiler:

Anyways...No I'm not talking about any of that...I agree with Spike's reality as deemed by the series..what i am talking about is a bigger deeper meaning in addition...I am not subtracting any of those events or comparisons...

It seems I will have to re-watch the movie again so that I can paint a more descriptive and vivid picture of my explanation since it hasn't really been done...I wouldn't ask someone to agree with the totality of what i just mentioned without giving them the full anlysis...That's why at the very beginning I called it an "underlining message"...It's very much there, but it is deep...I don't know what else to say as this is already off topic...

[jedinat]

I get what you are saying. My examples were just sort of similar concepts, the Matrix being something I could stomache (since it does not "break" the anime, as I put it, because it doesn't in any way identify itself as fictional). .Hack was just an example of my disposition towards anything that doesn't give an impression of true escapism.
Geh... it's kind of pointelss for me even to comment I guess. I hardly remember the ending to the movie.

Sort of unrelated... I was just rereading a manga today... the ending which I had always loved, suddenly turned sour when I realized a totally different meaning for the that few sentences.