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Blue Labrador posted:Oh poo poo, Tatami Galaxy is my favorite anime of all time, but my friends aren't sub watchers and I'm scared they'll be put off by the speed lmao. I actually haven't watched Kaiba myself, so maybe I'll see if Tatami works out, and if not, switch to Kaiba. In that case both Devilman Crybaby and Ping Pong have dubs if they absolutely don't wanna watch something subbed.
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That Works posted:As much as I absolutely loved Tatami and Ping Pong I just can't seem to get into Kaiba. Never made it halfway through an ep yet really. I need to give it another try It's been a while, but I remember not really appreciating Kaiba until I got pretty far into it.
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I'm all out of the good ghibli and looking for more anime to watch. I like relatively chill stuff. Things i've enjoyed includes like tatami galaxy, tokyo godfathers and some of satoshi kon's other stuff (though maybe 'chill' is the wrong word for those), planetes, mushishi.
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mila kunis posted:I'm all out of the good ghibli and looking for more stuff to watch. I like relatively chill stuff. Stuff i've enjoyed includes like tatami galaxy, tokyo godfathers and some of satoshi kon's other stuff (though maybe 'chill' is the wrong word for those), planetes, mushishi.
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mila kunis posted:I'm all out of the good ghibli and looking for more anime to watch. I like relatively chill stuff. Things i've enjoyed includes like tatami galaxy, tokyo godfathers and some of satoshi kon's other stuff (though maybe 'chill' is the wrong word for those), planetes, mushishi. Ping Pong if you haven't already. March Comes in Like a Lion. Run Like the Wind if sports stuff is at all interesting Silver Spoon
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mila kunis posted:I'm all out of the good ghibli and looking for more anime to watch. I like relatively chill stuff. Things i've enjoyed includes like tatami galaxy, tokyo godfathers and some of satoshi kon's other stuff (though maybe 'chill' is the wrong word for those), planetes, mushishi. You've gotten some good recs already, but if you're in the mood for something a little more downbeat, I think Girls' Last Tour is exceptional and a bit overlooked.
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mila kunis posted:I'm all out of the good ghibli and looking for more anime to watch. I like relatively chill stuff. Things i've enjoyed includes like tatami galaxy, tokyo godfathers and some of satoshi kon's other stuff (though maybe 'chill' is the wrong word for those), planetes, mushishi. Time of Eve
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Chas McGill posted:Time of Eve This is a good recommendation in general. The movie version's a little better than the ONA series, as it's got a little more interstitial content to tie all six episodes together (though it's still pretty easy to tell you're looking at a compilation film), and has an English dub if that's your preference.
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mila kunis posted:I'm all out of the good ghibli and looking for more anime to watch. I like relatively chill stuff. Things i've enjoyed includes like tatami galaxy, tokyo godfathers and some of satoshi kon's other stuff (though maybe 'chill' is the wrong word for those), planetes, mushishi. Since you liked Tatami Galaxy you should definitely hit up The Night is Short, Walk on Girl.
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thank you all
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Fauxbot posted:have there been any yuri animes in the vein of Citrus in the last few years? have a soft spot for that style but haven't seen any news on anything noteworthy Adachi and Shimamura was waaaaay more grounded and less pervy but still follows the stereotypical arc of "Girl realizes she's gay but can't work up the courage to do something about it." It's also really cute so that helps. While I'm here - I just binged Eighty Six and it broke my brain. Can I get something light and wholesome with a lot of episodes to fill the hole in my heart? Similar to: Nichijou, Aggretsuko, Daily lives of highschool boys
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KillHour posted:Adachi and Shimamura was waaaaay more grounded and less pervy but still follows the stereotypical arc of "Girl realizes she's gay but can't work up the courage to do something about it." It's also really cute so that helps. Gintama, which has several hundred eps and a similar style of humor to Nichibros.
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adashima is okay but if you watch it don't expect the main relationship to hit literally any kind of major progression by the end of what's been adapted unless the relationship you're thinking of is the two side character girls the pace of adashima is uh, not anime adaptation-friendly
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read the books tho they're licensed (and also have good fan TLs) and incredibly good if you have any patience at all for slowburns.
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if i'm watching ghost in the shell for the first time do i want the original 1995 version or the 2008 updated version that i'd never heard of until just now
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ninjewtsu posted:if i'm watching ghost in the shell for the first time do i want the original 1995 version or the 2008 updated version that i'd never heard of until just now 1995 version. 2008 adds lovely CGI.
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I had never heard of 2.0 so I googled it to see if the CGI was really that bad and wow, it really was.
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Not only is the GC horrible they use for 'iconic' scenes, utterly ruining them in the process, including the Major diving which is probably my favourite scene in the movie.
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yeah basically none of 2.0's "additions" are actually like. necessary or add anything. like the cg in innocence works cause it's used for lots of weird perspective shots and stuff, but the original movie is perfectly fine as-is
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ninjewtsu posted:if i'm watching ghost in the shell for the first time do i want the original 1995 version or the 2008 updated version that i'd never heard of until just now Just keep in mind that while I still think the first ghost in the shell film is good, by far the best adaptation of the source material is the GiTS:Stand Alone Complex. You should avoid the later series, they are really really bad. The prequel *major dumb plot spoilers* has some of the main cast part of a terrorist group attacking the city since there was a cover-up about their reason for massacring a bunch of children. they still actually massacred the children, but it was "justified". Personally, I don't even think the original manga is good.
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I thought Arise was its own thing and not an actual prequel to SAC. I wanna know when the second half of 2045 is coming out since it ended right when it started feeling like the Complex episodes of SAC. The first couple episodes were a bit rough but when the dub came out it was a lot easier to follow. I feel the CGI would have also been better received if they just started off in Japan instead of the ugly-rear end American southwest. The forest scenery in Kyoto in the last couple episodes was real pretty, I thought.
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Kenji Kamiyama and Shinji Aramaki blow rear end.
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But they're the go-to guys for jank AF CGI animoos. Blade Runner Black Lotus is gonna suck so hard.
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Coxswain Balls posted:I thought Arise was its own thing and not an actual prequel to SAC. yeah, it's an AU but regularly gets SAC imposed on it. 
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Do I need to know much about Gundam in order to enjoy that Gundam Hathaway thing on Netflix?
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Chas McGill posted:Do I need to know much about Gundam in order to enjoy that Gundam Hathaway thing on Netflix? It wouldn't hurt to watch some stuff in advance because it's tied to characters that go all the way back to the original Gundam series but it would probably be OK without it although certain people showing up etc might seem far less meaningful. You could try watching the Char's Counterattack movie (also on netflix in the US right now) which this is an indirect sequel of. I'm a huge fan of the UC timeline stuff (original gundam, Zeta gundam, bunch of other series, Char's Counterattack etc). If you think you'd like it check out Gundam The Origin (6 OVA's iirc) and then probably the original series (good parts, but very dated, sometimes in a fun way though).
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Chas McGill posted:Do I need to know much about Gundam in order to enjoy that Gundam Hathaway thing on Netflix? Shockingly little. You could probably go in cold. Just in case, here’s everything the film doesn’t clearly explain itself: About 100 years ago humanity began colonizing space, with all the inequity and exploitation “colonizing” implies. About 50 years before the movie, a new philosophy got popular saying humanity’s future is in space. Once Earth is left behind, people will become more perceptive, intuitive, and empathetic; and the planet can heal. Twelve years before the movie, a guy preaching his own twist on that idea tried to force it by dropping asteroids until Earth was uninhabitable. During the final battle of his rebellion, a young teen stole a mobile suit to bring a girl in from the fighting, who had gotten herself involved way above her head. Now he’s 12 years older and having a political thriller adventure in a world of climate crisis, refugee crackdowns, and self-interested government elites. Also, “Gundam” is best understood as a marketing term the arms manufacturer uses to designate a top of the line model meant to showcase their latest tech. While I agree seeing Chars Counterattack first would improve Hathaway, it’s much less accessible than Hathaway is. Maybe watching in reverse order might actually be better.
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General Ironicus posted:
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Chas McGill posted:Do I need to know much about Gundam in order to enjoy that Gundam Hathaway thing on Netflix?
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I think it’s fine as a stand alone but you’ll get much more texture out of it knowing other gundam things. Watch it, it doesn’t really spoil anything (except that’s it’s very well done and not all of gundam is)
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I'm not completely new to Gundam - I've seen the first 5 or so eps of the original series and the Thunderbolt movie. I couldn't really get in the former, but loved the latter. I'll give Hathaway a shot!
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Chas McGill posted:I'm not completely new to Gundam - I've seen the first 5 or so eps of the original series and the Thunderbolt movie. I couldn't really get in the former, but loved the latter. I'll give Hathaway a shot! Check out Origin for sure then. I liked it as much as Thunderbolt
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That Works posted:Check out Origin for sure then. I liked it as much as Thunderbolt I'm starting with Origin cos it's available to stream on Channel 4 here. Thanks for all the responses. I find the Gundam milieu a bit overwhelming. General Ironicus posted:About 100 years ago humanity began colonizing space, with all the inequity and exploitation “colonizing” implies. About 50 years before the movie, a new philosophy got popular saying humanity’s future is in space. Once Earth is left behind, people will become more perceptive, intuitive, and empathetic; and the planet can heal. Twelve years before the movie, a guy preaching his own twist on that idea tried to force it by dropping asteroids until Earth was uninhabitable. During the final battle of his rebellion, a young teen stole a mobile suit to bring a girl in from the fighting, who had gotten herself involved way above her head. Now he’s 12 years older and having a political thriller adventure in a world of climate crisis, refugee crackdowns, and self-interested government elites. Also, “Gundam” is best understood as a marketing term the arms manufacturer uses to designate a top of the line model meant to showcase their latest tech.
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Gundam is slightly less overwhelming once you know you can cut down and focus on certain series in different continuities.
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yea gundam absolutely isn't as overwhelming as it looks at first blush. there's a single sequential series set in the Universal Century (0079 -> Zeta -> Char's Counterattack -> Hathaway's Flash) a bunch of stuff in the Universal Century that isn't directly connected to that, and then a bunch of completely standalone series that you can just watch on their own with no prior knowledge that don't tie into anything else because they're entirely separate universes from both UC and each other.
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Endorph posted:and then a bunch of completely standalone series that you can just watch on their own with no prior knowledge that don't tie into anything else because they're entirely separate universes I'm gonna go search YouTube for a 5 minute supercut of kids starting a computer and saying "what's GUNDAM?!?"
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And I don't mean this as a diss but Gundam does have a bit of "seen one, seen 'em all" to their series thanks to recurring motifs as well as codifying a lot of the pillars of the real robot genre. If you're already familiar with one or two "war" mecha series made after 1980 you'll find Gundam easy to pick up since it is the well that all those shows draw from.
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PerniciousKnid posted:I'm gonna go search YouTube for a 5 minute supercut of kids starting a computer and saying "what's GUNDAM?!?" I have a much better video to explain things for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lvJ6eFcCJE
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