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Paracelsus posted:If you're looking to try awesome things that aren't action oriented, Time of Eve, Mushishi, and Mononoke are all excellent. Kino's Journey has occasional action scenes, but is mostly observation of new lands. Cool. Unless that's Princess Mononoke I haven't seen any of these. edit: Forgot to mention that I've seen/really enjoyed (most of, I still have a few episodes left) Space Dandy as well.
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:Cool. Unless that's Princess Mononoke I haven't seen any of these.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOsH_LbpbWU mononoke is Cool
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I'm not much for slice of life, so I'm giving Anohana a shot.
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anohana isn't really slice of life at all. i'd call it a drama.
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Crunchyroll tagged it SOL, so I'm calling it SOL. Either way, not my usual fare.
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lol Anohana isnt slice of life. have fun watching it though it is good. secret base is a god tier ending song
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Shinjobi posted:I have been recommended Utena and Love Stage by my sister, and my anime sense is telling me Love Stage is the worse choice. Unlike other yaoi anime, Love Stage takes a few episodes to get really creepy, instead of from the first episode. Progress I guess.
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Srice posted:I'll update the OP tonight to reflect who has picked what so far so if everyone could bold what they picked to make it easier for me to find what they're watching that would be cool. I'm gonna give Turn A Gundam, and Princess Tutu a shot.
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Anime Genres I usually watch, in no particular order: Sketch Comedy (Nichijou/Nichibros/Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu LOVE!) Magical Girl(/Sentai, for the like 3 or 4 animated Sentai anime) Mecha Card Game Whatever Genre you'd consider Death Note and Code Grease Watched a shitload of Shonen when I was a kid, but lost patience for it when I grew up. Anime I've watched and loved from other genres: Spice and Wolf Chihayafuru (technically a card game anime but the fate of the world isn't decided by Karuta so) Lain JJBA Toss me something else.
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Senerio posted:Anime Genres I usually watch, in no particular order: You need a good drama. Something like Kids on the Slope, or The Eccentric Family.
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unpronounceable posted:You need a good drama. Something like Kids on the Slope, or The Eccentric Family. Flipping a coin, I shall be watching Kids on the Slope. Was the dub any good? I might double up and watch the dub with subtitles to see the differences.
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I've started watching a couple episodes of Big O, and I like it a lot! So that's going to be one of the shows I'm watching this month. Another one I started awhile ago but dropped due to time constraints was Banner/Crest/(whatever the first series was) of the Stars. I don't really watch sci-fi space operas, but the banter in it was great. I might finish that as well. Most likely I'm just going to watch a whole bunch of Ghibli movies though.  Gonna start with Porco Rosso first, but after that I have no idea. If anyone else wants to throw in recommendations, cheers.List of Ghibli movies I've seen so far: Spirited Away Princess Mononoke Kiki's Delivery Service Howl's Moving Castle And a bunch of other short stuff like the Cat Returns. I think I remember seeing Totoro a long time ago, but I don't really remember it.
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I'll add Love Live to my list, so I'm covering 3 genres I normally don't consider. For the record, that's on top of A Turn Gundam and Chihayafuru.
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Updated the OP to reflect who is watching what, but it's possible I might have missed something so lemme know if you're not on it and I'll fix it.Nondevor posted:I've started watching a couple episodes of Big O, and I like it a lot! So that's going to be one of the shows I'm watching this month. Another one I started awhile ago but dropped due to time constraints was Banner/Crest/(whatever the first series was) of the Stars. I don't really watch sci-fi space operas, but the banter in it was great. I might finish that as well. While it's not technically a Ghibli film, you should check out Castle of Cagliostro if you haven't seen it. It's definitely a Miyazaki movie so it totally counts as a Ghibli movie in spirit.
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ive never watched a horror anime. unless you count mononoke maybe? or ghost stories. or higurashi, but i count that as a mystery. what are some good horror anime. do they exist.
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Endorph posted:ive never watched a horror anime. unless you count mononoke maybe? or ghost stories. or higurashi, but i count that as a mystery. what are some good horror anime. do they exist. Parasyte, Yamishibai, uh, Pet Shop of Horrors? there's a lot more horror manga than anime
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Senerio posted:Flipping a coin, I shall be watching Kids on the Slope. Was the dub any good? I might double up and watch the dub with subtitles to see the differences. It's a Sentai Filmworks dub, so probably not.
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Endorph posted:ive never watched a horror anime. unless you count mononoke maybe? or ghost stories. or higurashi, but i count that as a mystery. what are some good horror anime. do they exist. If you like mystery, Ghost Hunt is kind of a horror mystery series. It's about a girl befriending some exorcists for hire and I love it. Alternatively, Ghost Stories!
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i literally mentioned ghost stories in my post. c'mon step it up.
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Well, gently caress, you're right. I didn't notice. Really, though, Ghost Hunt. It's great.
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the next person to suggest Jojo's tastes my hanzo steel
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PotU posted:theres so many shows like tamayura that are just way better What would you suggest? I mainly picked Tamayura because it's short as hell.
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Endorph posted:ive never watched a horror anime. unless you count mononoke maybe? or ghost stories. or higurashi, but i count that as a mystery. what are some good horror anime. do they exist. Try Shiki, it's kind of like an anime version of Let the Right One In, the only major stumbling block is the horribly inappropriate character designs for something so deadly serious.
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I hope they animate fuan no tane some day. Even as just shorts, that dudes art being animated and with sound woukd make it the top horror anime.
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If you're looking to kill two birds with one stone in a comic, screaming lessons is both shoujo and horror, and plays out like a middle school version of tales from the crypt, except it doeant really pull any punches despite how young everybody is. I didn't read all of it but I liked what I did.
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Endorph posted:ive never watched a horror anime. unless you count mononoke maybe? or ghost stories. or higurashi, but i count that as a mystery. what are some good horror anime. do they exist. Shiki is good, as mentioned; I'd recommend From The New World, pretty sure it's still on crunchyroll too. I'll have to think about something to maybe try for this thread; lately I can't even stay up to date on things that I like and are within my usual tastes. Here's a list of assorted favorite anime and manga. Anime Habiane Renmei Madoka Magica Kiki's Delivery Service (and most Ghibli stuff) Chihayafuru Eureka 7 Macross in most of its forms All of Satoshi Kon's work same for Makoto Shinkai Turn A Gundam Lovely Complex Kimi ni Todoke K-on AnoHana Manga Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer One Punch Man Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind Yotsuba& Paradise Kiss Solanin Aoi Hana Whispered Words Sailor Moon Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Kakukaku Shikajika My tastes are all over the map, for all media really
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a kitten posted:Shiki is good, as mentioned; I'd recommend From The New World, pretty sure it's still on crunchyroll too. Try Yamishibai, it's short, five minute mini-episodes of horror stuff that looks like paper craft It's really good
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Watched episode one of Anohana, overall thought it wasn't bad. I had looked into checking it out a while back (partially why I picked it), so I was sorta spoiled on Menma being dead. But I don't think the episode was trying to frame it in a  way. I guess she's a full-out ghost instead of a hallucination, though?Other thoughts: The timing for some of the subs was off a bit, and that got on my nerves. Nice OP, not quite hooked on the ED. Did think the OP animation should have had the shots of the kids running around their older selves be without the younger version of the character they were around. I'm not really a big fan of the "MC is doing absolutely nothing until the story gets underway" trope, but that's done now. Poppo is either still using the clubhouse to hold on to the good ol' days, or it really is just a nice place to hide his porn.
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a kitten posted:Shiki is good, as mentioned; I'd recommend From The New World, pretty sure it's still on crunchyroll too. maybe something historical like shigurui
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Tamayura was relaxing and an easy watch. I didn't like it enough to watch the TV series but I can see why people enjoy this kind of show.
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Nondevor posted:List of Ghibli movies I've seen so far: Whisper of the Heart. It's a non-fantasy setting, which makes it kind of an outlier among Ghibli films, but it's one of my very favorites. Oh, and it's basically where Cat Returns comes from.
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I'm hard pressed to think of any genre I've had no exposure to, so does it count for this if I watch something I'd sooner drive nails through my eyes than sit through instead?
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I don't think it's really worth it to force yourself through anything you'd utterly hate just for this thread, unless you think it'd make a funny write up or something.
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Rangpur posted:I'm hard pressed to think of any genre I've had no exposure to, so does it count for this if I watch something I'd sooner drive nails through my eyes than sit through instead? Just watch your least favorite/watched genre then. I've watch slice-of-life before, but my preferences are for action. Sakurazuka posted:I don't think it's really worth it to force yourself through anything you'd utterly hate just for this thread, unless you think it'd make a funny write up or something. But then who would watch Cross Ange?
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Rangpur posted:I'm hard pressed to think of any genre I've had no exposure to, so does it count for this if I watch something I'd sooner drive nails through my eyes than sit through instead? Instead of genres, perhaps try going by age? Unless you watch a ton of 70s/80s anime there's probably a genre from that era you haven't seen much of. Plus it can be fun to see how genres change over time. Srice fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Feb 3, 2015 |
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The other week I decided to give Busou Shinki a watch, mostly because a giant statue landed on a store I buy figures from and it looked kinda cool. Well, the anime is about a guy collecting sentient robot figmas that are designed for combat, but he refuses to send them into fights because their paint-job could get damaged. The rest of the episodes I watched had the main character draw the affection of his figures and in one episode he forgets them at home when he goes on beach vacation and he sits his sad rear end down at the beach playing with the toys that his figmas would have been playing with at the beach and then I had to stop as it was the saddest human being I had ever seen. I do not recommend Busou Shinki. The statue is still pretty cool, but horribly overpriced.
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If it makes you feel better, he's not a real human being. A real human would never leave his figmas behind
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Fair enough... I'm a little thin on shoujo melodrama (as opposed to comedy--I've already seen Lovely Complex & Nodame Cantabile), any recommendations? Old, new, either works. Except Rose of Versailles, saw that during the simulwatch.
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Alright, I'll give this a shot Genres I usually watch: Action Supernatural Scifi Mecha Anything with an emphasis on family (ie Kyousogiga, Usagi Drop, Wolf Children) Psychological My absolute favorites include: Gurren Lagann, Mushishi, Baccano!!, Tiger&Bunny, Kara no Kyoukai, F/SN, GITS:SAC, Utena, and generally anything by Ghibi or directed by Mamoru Hosoda Stuff I've watched outside of my comfort zone and liked: I Can't Understand What My Husband is Saying, Princess Jellyfish, Aoi Hana, Chihayafuru, and Spice and Wolf.
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