Welcome everybody to the 2006 Academy Animated Awards!
This thread is for
Best Action Series and I've made some updates on the last year version, showing what the details of the Best Action Series category all about, who won, and who else was nominated for the award.
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| Best Action Series Presenter: Krang |
Like last year, you get to vote for two of the nominees. And those nominees are:
:: Hiro Maruyama, Masahiko Minami, Ryo Oyama - FullMetal Alchemist
Edward and Alphonse Elric's search for the Philosopher's Stone reaches new heights as the brothers face off with the Homonculi and that also of the military. After the war in Lior, Alphonse has become the Philosopher's Stone and Edward makes a vendetta to defeat the Homonculi himself. After learning the truth about the power of alchemy and about the science itself, Edward and Alphonse sacrifice each other for one other and a new search continues as the brothers journey to be reunited across different worlds.
:: Nariko Kobayashi, Yutaka Sugiyama - Neon Genesis Evangelion
In the year of 2015, Shinji Ikari is summoned by his father to the city of Neo Tokyo-3 after several years of separation. There he unwillingly accepts the task of becoming the pilot of a giant biological humanoid by the name of Evangelion and protect the world from the enigmatic invaders known as the Angels. Even though he repeatedly questions why he has accepted this mission from his estranged and cold father, his doing so helps him to gradually accept himself.
:: Takashi Kochiyama, Takatoshi Hamano, Tetsuro Satomi - Samurai Champloo
While on a personal search to find a certain "samurai that smells of sunflowers", Fuu, play a chance of luck, comes around two very similar yet very distinct warriors. Mugen, the street fighter with a unique "Bboying" fighting style and Jin, the refined traditional fighter with near-perfection in his skill. Fuu manages to save the two and convinces them to help her find the "sunflower samurai" before the two warriors head off to kill one another in an all-out duel. The three journey throughout Japan and come across many obstacles, such as assassins, gangsters, and baseball.
:: Shigeru Kitayama, Masao Morosawa - Trigun
With a $$60 billion double doular bounty on his head, Vash the Stampede lives on the planet of Gunsmoke constantly being hunted with numerous rumors spread about him. Two insurance agents, Meryl Stryfe and Millie Thompson, are sent to minimize the damage that he causes and creates but that's more than they can do. Also traveling with preist Nicholas D. Wolfwood, the pacifist Vash travels the planet in search of his twin brother Millions Knives, who has a vicious gang known as the Gung-Ho Guns whose mission is to make Vash suffer for not joining him and his ideals that have always conflicted with Vash's.
Peace.
Cowboy Bebop - Kazuhiko Ikeguchi, Masahiko Minami