Hey guys, im not into anime all that much, but im wondering if anyone can recommend a good one with relatively simple dialogue which i can listen to in order to practice japanese. I brought a couple of Naruto episodes but they are pretty hard. I was thinking maybe one thats made for kids would be good, but not stuff thats gonna bore the crap out of me.
any ideas?

I'd definitely be interested in this aswell.

But in the meantime, you should just try to watch as much as possible. I've watched like 7 anime series and when I first started learning the language I realised that my pronounciation was really, really good. There's also several basic words which I've picked up throughout.

If you're watching basic animes you might not really enjoy it, but if you're watching good shit, then it's going to give you the drive to keep learning, and hearing the language everyday will be a kinda decent substitution for being in Japan and haivng conversations every day.

But yeah, sorry I can't really recommend anything.

i kinda agree with revvy on this one.

if you watch lots of subtitled anime, you tend to pick up bits and phrases here and there. it's a good idear.

if you're looking for something less mature, maybe for schoolkids...dunno. i'll have to look around.

i don't think you'd like anime for little kids though. it would probly drive you crazy and then i'd be seeing in the news how some guy flipped out and murdered shitloads of people while screaming phrases from hello kitty. then there'd be this thing about how anime is worse for kids than grand theft auto and there'd be restrictions placed on that stuff and then i'd have problems getting my daily dosage of shotacon and i'd probly go crazy and kill lots of people myself.

*shivers at that thought*

my body count would be soooo much higher though.

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-yar.

tengen toppen gurren lagaan is kinda childish whilst still being watchable, but it's still not exactly simple....

If you can't find anything else, you might wanna go with this.

oh! super milk-chan might be something you'd wanna get into. it also gives you lots of references to japanese culture, as well as having somewhat simple dialogue.

Even though it will make you feel really, really gay, Bottle Fairy will teach you shit.

Do NOT use anime to learn Japanese.

Find a Japanese Drama.

Why not?

And what decent Japanese dramas do you have to recommend?! (Which are easily download/streamable)

i'm interested in the answer to this question too. i want to see what else japanese people watch on tv besides anime and weird gameshows.

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-yar.

i didn;t know there was something else to watch. it can't be very popular...