What is your Favorite Group/Team/Organization in Anime?

I was looking for it, but could not find a thread like this…This is just to see what are your favorite anime Organizations, Group, Teams, this Groups, have something in common, They are a association of the best in the given series, even if they are Bad Guys we still found them interesting and even like them above anything else.

This is open to any kind of Group, it could be a Group of two or a group of 20, It Could be a group that want to rule the planet, or save it from destruction, it could be a Sports team, or just a group of Sexy Females (or males) just looking for some good fun!

SOS-dan (Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu) All I can say is made of WIN and GOD. Kyon is one lucky man in this Brigade, they do slack off sometimes but still, Haruhi is an awesome leader.

Team Rocket (Pokemon) LOL filled goodness in every ep.

Baroque Works (One Piece) One of the toughest and most intelligent organizations and scary thing is, Crocodile's plans NEARLY worked.

CP9 (One Piece) No shit this organization is my fave look at zeh username

Henshin Club (Strawberry Panic) Chikaru is fucking awesome and made of win and god as well.

Team Yamato (Naruto Shippuden) Yamato and Sai can replace that emo any fucking day.

Gotei 13 (Bleach) Awesome set of Shinigami that guard the Soul Society and keep the peace in tact.

Mugiwara Kazioku-dan Fuck yeah this is obvious.

warp

My favorites:

1. Genei ryodan: Probably the best in any manga or anime I have ever read. They are brilliant and have awesome personalities.

2. Passione: From Jojo's bizarre adventure part 5. These guys kickass also. I mean a stand related gang, brilliant!

3. Barque works: Mostly because I loved this arc. Crocodile and mr.1 are "the shit"

Aldrich

The Shitenno/Riders of Havock (present and past) from Bastard!!. Pretty much the definition of badassness.

Taleran

1. Genei Ryodan

all other numbers are meaningless.

EDIT: I really got to read Bastard! one of these days

The Shitenno/Riders of Havock (present and past) from Bastard!!. Pretty much the definition of badassness.

1. Genei Ryodan

Can you give me a good pic of them? They seem pretty badass.

gaara d. lucci

Genei Ryodan: Reasons warp listed. My favorite members are Kuroro (awesome design and cool look), Hisoka, and Nobunaga (A real swordsman).

CP9: Cool looking characters with a personality. Wish we'd had some actual background on them tho. One Piece tends to lack in that aspect but they are still cool anyway. My favorite members are Lucci, Jabs, and Kaku.

Team Urameshi: When these guy get together, it's guarenteed to be awesome. A group of badasses (even Kuwabara).

Z-Warriors: Needs no explanation

Team Gai: Needs no explanation

Aldrich

DS and the current Sky Emperors:

There's 4 more who were his lieutenants 100 year ago, the guy in my av is one of them (and a batshit crazy mofo to boot).

Taleran

Ryodan (and current wallpaper)

Mr. Evil

Strawhat Pirates (OP) All awesome characters.

Genei Ryodan (HxH) Easily my favorite villain group. Lots of original powers too.

CP9 (OP) Also great villains with some cool powers and even comedy.

Bounty1Berry

Arlong Kaizoku-dan
CP9
The Deimon Devil Bats (Eyeshield 21). I'd probably like the Zokugaku Chameleons too just for their weirdness, but we don't get enough of them.

Impel Down

Mugiwara Pirates
Akatsuki
Black Order
Espada
Alchemic Warriors (from Buso Renkin)
White Royal (Jagged. I made it, so I say it counts! :getlost: )

@Aldrich:

DS and the current Sky Emperors:

[qimg]http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/1534/gal13ea5.jpg[/qimg]

There's 4 more who were his lieutenants 100 year ago, the guy in my av is one of them (and a batshit crazy mofo to boot).

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d114/taleran/Hunter%20x%20Hunter/ryodan05.jpg

Ryodan (and current wallpaper)

Both groups look awesome, really got to get into HxH and Havock.

Oh and how could I forget the Deimon Devil Bats and the White Knights of Eyeshield21?

Captain Kuro

Definitely the Magnificent Ten from Giant Robo.

There's some brief info about them on this site:
http://members.tripod.com/giantrobo/cast3.htm

But really you'd just have to see them in action (although some of them don't get much screen time unfortunately).

Sano

Here is my favorite group…. The Shichi'nintai (Band of Seven) from Inuyasha. Good thing, Adult Swim finally going to reair this arc of Inuyasha starting next week for the first time, since the first time the arc aired almost two years ago.

Cap'n Carter

@Captain:

Definitely the Magnificent Ten from Giant Robo.

There's some brief info about them on this site:
http://members.tripod.com/giantrobo/cast3.htm

But really you'd just have to see them in action (although some of them don't get much screen time unfortunately).

I haven't seen the Giant Robo OAV yet, but I'm definitely interested and hopefully I'll pick it up tomorrow night. But after then I'll probably list Big Fire as well.

In the meantime, here's this video featuring BF my friend showed me:

sgamer82

I've never given it too much thought. Though I suppoes the Genei Ryodan/Phantom Troupe are on the list. I'm fascinated by the fact that this group of bad guys are actually fairly friendly and loyal towards one another. Usually when a bunch of villanous badasses get togther they're completely unable to work together and/or their only goal is to backstab the other guys before they get stabbed.

In a random personal plug, the Troupe even inspired an idea on that line: A band of theives that are completely loyal to one another I named the Nakama.

Captain Kuro

@Cap'n:

I haven't seen the Giant Robo OAV yet, but I'm definitely interested and hopefully I'll pick it up tomorrow night. But after then I'll probably list Big Fire as well.

In the meantime, here's this video featuring BF my friend showed me:

Yeah, that video shows some of the coolest moments of Big Fire.

I also like the Experts of Justice, but it's too bad only some of the Celestial Nine (the good guy equivalent of the Magnificent Ten) were revealed.

If you do see the OAV series, I'll try to find the link to the translated laserdisc notes. They have quite a bit of information about the characters and stories that you don't get to learn about from the series itself (there were lots of prequel storylines and a sequel storyline that were planned but never got made).

Ramza

Mugiwara and Genei Ryodan

CosmicDebris

Mugiwara Pirates
the Bebop crew
Lupin's gang
Science Ninja Squad Gatchaman
The cyborgs of Cyborg 009

I feel like I should say more…but I can't think of anything to say, I just like them :3 It's all about chemistry.

Megadoomer

Mugiwara Kaizoku-dan (rather obvious)

Cipher Pol 9 (kind of obvious)

Team Gai

Gotei 13

Karakura Superheroes (were shown at the end of chapters 81-88 of Bleach; consists of Don Kanjonji, Ururu (quiet girl from Urahara Shop), Jinta (red-haired boy from Urahara Shop), Karin (Ichigo's blue-haired sister))

Black Order (D. Gray-Man)

Deimon Devil Bats (Eyeshield 21)

Seibu Wild Gunmen (Eyeshield 21)

Senshi Mizaka

The Seiryuu Seven (Fushigi Yugi): Nakago was the group. Most of the other members were dull compared to him. I like how much of a manipulative bastard he is, and what he did to both Miaka and Yui.

Generic_Soda

Team Rocket, hells yeah… (Pokemon)

The Black Order (D. Gray-Man)

The Hajike Trio (Bo-BoBo)

HEATXZ

I don't like Team Rocket they are annoying
but my favorites are
CP9
Akatsuki(Naruto)
The Six Cyber Knights(Bobobo-bo)
L.X.E(Buso Renkin)
Arrancar and Vizard(BLEACH)
The Seven Devil Chojins(Kinnikuman)
Sunshine and Ashuraman(Kinnikuman)
Team Mar(Mar)

Aldrich

Another pic of DS and the Shitenno, from the anime, I love this one.

@Aldrich:

Another pic of DS and the Shitenno, from the anime, I love this one.

[qimg]http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6162/00000242ya2.jpg[/qimg]

Oh now that one's really badass.

I don't like Team Rocket they are annoying

Why not? Sure they're loosers but they never fail to make me laugh no matter what episode.

Impel Down

Luberia, from MÄR, because they have Nanashi.

Cap'n Carter

@Daisuke:

Why not? Sure they're loosers but they never fail to make me laugh no matter what episode.

After the first season or so they became incredibly redundant, with their appearances becoming less humorous and more tedious. Everytime they appear there's this sense of "why are they still around?" But luckily Meowth is a around to come up with some retarded plot to capture the "Pokemon of the Day" and give it and sexual favors to Giovanni

KatanaJon1.1

Most of them have been said, but here are mine.
In random order.

Baroque Works (OP)
Genei Ryodan (HunterXHunter)
Band of the Hawk (Berserk)
Vizard (Bleach)
L.X.E (Buso Renkin)
Shinsengumi (Gintama)

Along with many others I can't think of right now.

Cap'n Carter

Alright, I picked up the Giant Robo OAV and watched the first two episodes, and yes, Big Fire is awesome.

Too bad there's like no Giant Robo resources online or I'd post some pictures or something. As is, Shocking Alberto is more than enough to make the organizations better than more anime villain gangs, but the blackface minions… awesome.

King Calamari

@Captain:

If you do see the OAV series, I'll try to find the link to the translated laserdisc notes. They have quite a bit of information about the characters and stories that you don't get to learn about from the series itself (there were lots of prequel storylines and a sequel storyline that were planned but never got made).

If you could find that link it would be greatly appreciated. I bought the entire series last year on DVD and Big Fire was so cool and I really like to read more about them.

Runkuz

The Gantz team & Strawhats

Senshi Mizaka

I thought Team Rocket were funny at first. It's kind of fun to have a group of villains that aren't all that threatening, and can be used for slapstick material. It got annoying how in every episode, they had a different plan to kidnap a pokemon using throwaway movie props, and failing every time. To me, they're like the low-budget versions of Wil E. Coyotee.

The Homonculi from Fullmetal Alchemist have a place on my list, too. Though my favorites out of them have to be Envy and Greed.

Captain Kuro

This post is related to Big Fire, which is a really cool organization. So it's not off-topic or anything.

Here's the laserdisc notes:
http://keyframe.cjas.org/~mneideng/trans/giantrobo/

Lots of neat information (but mostly in the notes for the later episodes if I remember correctly). Spoilers if you haven't finished the series yet.

Most of the best Giant Robo sites are gone unfortunately. But I did find some archives of some of my old favorite sites:

http://web.archive.org/web/20031011230522/www.angelfire.com/anime2/GR/

This was probably the best GR site, but the creator was reworking it, so it's been down for a few years. I don't think that many images work in this archived version though. I haven't checked the site out in awhile though, so I don't remember if it had spoilers or not.

http://web.archive.org/web/20021108171655/www.animejump.com/giantrobo/

Okay, this site has some spoilers, so probably only check it out after you've seen the whole series. All the images still work I think. Any of the pics that don't work can be clicked and the full versions should load (like Alberto). But this site is cool because it shows what the original comic versions of all the characters looked like.

So, yeah, Big Fire.

Lazzie

Monkey D. Luffy's nakama
The crew of the Bebop
Kurosaki Ichigo's nakama
The Gotei 13
The Espada
Samurai 7
Mugen, Jin, and Fuu
The Z-Warriors (for old time's sake)

That's an okay list from me. Even if it shows how little anime I've actually seen.

Cap'n Carter

OK I finished Giant Robo just now and yeah, Big Fire.

The Experts of Justice were awesome as well.

I might think of some more and add them later, but for now, Bigu Faiya no tame ni!"

Captain Kuro

@Cap'n:

OK I finished Giant Robo just now and yeah, Big Fire.

The Experts of Justice were awesome as well.

I might think of some more and add them later, but for now, Bigu Faiya no tame ni!"

Rixter

Off the top of my head:

The Straw Hat crew, the CP9, especially the Enies Lobby division (One Piece)
The Deimon Devil Bats (Eyeshield 21)
Parts III, IV, and V's entire casts (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)
The Tenth Division (Bleach)
The Sky Pirates (Laputa: Castle in the Sky)

And a ton of others that I could probably remember if I thought more about it.

Cap'n Carter

OK, here's some more I like:

Shichibukai (One Piece)
Mamma Aiuto Gang (Porco Rosso)
Keroro Platoon (Keroro Gunso)
Vizards (Bleach)
Seigi Idol Choujins (Kinnikuman)
Akuma Choujins (Kinnikuman)
Perfect Choujins (Kinnikuman)
Uruha Jyuushinshuu (Flame of Recca)
Juppongatana (Rurouni Kenshin)
Gung-Ho Guns (Trigun)
Gotei 13 (Bleach)
the Four Brothers (Hokuto no Ken)

I know there's more but I can't think of them right now.

Taleran

how the hell did I forget the Uruha

face-smack

Ramza

from manga, 20th century boys

"Friendship party" XD

Captain Bowlton

well, i know this says anime but i read more manga than anime, so…

mugiwara pirates (op)
cp9/baroque works/shichibukai (op: don't like all of each group, but some of them are my favorite characters)
safeguards/silicon life (blame)
band of the hawk (berserk)
NEW band of the hawk (berserk)
the godhand (berserk)
guts and nakama (berserk)

Hunky Dory

Staw Hat Pirates–One Piece
CP9--One Piece
Neo Band of Hawks--Berserk
The Six Comrades--Rurouni Kenshin
Poison Six Pack(English Dub)--Ultimate Muscle(English Dub)
Gotei 13--Bleach
Esada--Bleach
Akatsuki--Naruto
Ginyu Force--Dragon Ball Z

Setzer

CP9, Baroque Works, Marines(One Piece)

Ojou White Knights(Eyeshield 21)

Team Rocket(Pokemon)

Red Ribbon Army(Dragonball)

Ramza

the Get Backers (Get Backers)

igalsfy

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Kei

Genshiken (Genshiken).

Best amalgamation of clubs ever.

Mr. Lucci

Strawhat pirates(One Piece)

CP9(One Piece)

Baroque Works(One Piece)

Espada(Bleach)

Humunculai(Fullmetal Alchemist)

I guess thats it, I think I'm forgeting a few though

Buuhan1

The Mugiwara's and Baroque Works.

I like other organizations from other animes, just…One Piece is the greatest and I honestly can't think of any I like compared to those.

Captain Kuro

Lots of my other favorites are already posted, so I'll add:

Hyperzoanoid Team 5
The Zoaloards

(Both from the Guyver)

Accelerator

vongola family(katekyo hitman reborn)

they're the best(especially hibari & gokudera)