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Captain Invictus posted:even if it's rather disorienting to a non-native. As someone from the US, not at all. Its fascinating. e:VV That's what I meant. I've never heard of Tengus or Tanukis, or really any of the mythological aspects of the show. You just said exactly what I meant. It's both a wild and wondrous fantasy spectacle and a bit of a learning experience. Not knowing about the mythology behind a lot of the show and learning a bit about them (albeit superficially or course) is what makes it fascinating. ViggyNash fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Aug 4, 2013 |
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Thank you Viggynash for such a Viggynash-esque missing of the point. Tanukis, tengus, etc. are not things you are generally familiar with unless you're a ridiculous anime fan or study Japanese myths and legends. As someone with only a cursory knowledge of that sort of thing, a lot of stuff in Eccentric Family is just baffling, but I instead choose to view it as a crazy-rear end fantasy world rather than anything based on Japanese legends. That some characters speak pretty cryptically doesn't help. That being said, it's one of the most enjoyable shows of the season, might be my favorite pick just from the sheer charisma and interesting stuff it exudes at almost every turn, but it can seem somewhat impenetrable in certain aspects at times. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Aug 4, 2013 |
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Thanks for all the replies. They're very helpful and have pointed me the right direction. Especially the top ten list. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing "the new Death Note" or something. I've watched and enjoyed a lot of the older popular stuff like Naruto/Bleach/One Piece, HxH, LOTGH, Berserk, Death Note, Hellsing Ultimate, FMA, Code Geass, TTGL, Hajime No Ippo, Kaiji, Akagi, One Outs, a several others, but it's been a while since I've come across anything new and I knew that there had to be some stuff that came out recently that was good. I still have a few things on my old list I haven't watched yet. I was planning on checking out Eve No Jikan, Canaan, Kurozuka, The Tower of Druaga, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Kara No Kyoukai, and Shiki. I just throw stuff on a list whenever I hear about it and it sounds interesting. I have no idea if it's actually any good or not. Anyway, I'll check out the stuff you guys mentioned. Thanks again. -Blackadder- fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Aug 4, 2013 |
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-Blackadder- posted:Thanks for all the replies. They're very helpful and have pointed me the right direction. Especially the top ten list. It sounds like you'd like Liar Game. It's by the same author as One Outs.
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Maybe I missed it but has anyone talked about Danganronpa? I came across it on Hulu, and while it's clearly from a video game It's quite an interesting mystery thriller. EDIT: Also, I'm finding the GIF thread to be very good source of anime recommendations as well. You guys should check it out if you haven't already. VVVVVVVVVVVVVV dayum, so I did. Dukeofdummies fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Aug 4, 2013 |
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You missed an entire thread about it: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3557235
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Someone PMed me about how they really enjoyed a lot of series I've recommended over time, so here's a copy/paste of the post I made in the Shoujo thread of all the romance/drama series I read that were suggested there. Most if not all of them are at least worth a shot if not exceptional series like Wandering Son, Octave, Paradise Kiss, Bonnouji, Sekitou Elergy, Masturbation Master Kurosawa(no this is not a joke).quote:Alright, apologies for the double post but this thread doesn't move too quickly, and I've nearly run out of suggestions folks gave me, I think! Things I've read so far that's been suggested and what I thought of them:
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-Blackadder- posted:I still have a few things on my old list I haven't watched yet. I was planning on checking out Eve No Jikan, Canaan, Kurozuka, The Tower of Druaga, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Kara No Kyoukai, and Shiki. I just throw stuff on a list whenever I hear about it and it sounds interesting. I have no idea if it's actually any good or not. I'm not sure where you're getting some of these titles, but you can definitely skip out on both Canaan (maybe you're thinking of Kanon?) and Tower of Druaga, because they are neither popular nor good. I wouldn't call Shiki "popular", but the others are fairly popular on this side of the internet.
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A bit late on the "new, popular" recommendations but I noticed a few that people forgot to mention. Bakemonogatari and its sequels are all quite popular. The show's not for everyone but it features quirky dialogue while Studio Shaft does their thing. Gundam Unicorn sells like hotcakes (Each volume sells over 100k which puts it at #1 in anime sales each year except when powerhouses like the Evangelion movies are released). It started out being rather accessible to newcomers to Gundam but I'm not sure how it is as of the latest episode (perhaps someone who hasn't seen much Gundam could answer that? I can't really distance myself from all my Gundam knowledge to think of how someone who's not into Gundam feels about it). But either way, it's quite good and there's a reason why it's the biggest hit Gundam has had in a long time.
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Surprised more people haven't mentioned Chihayafuru as a great recent show. I'm not as enamoured with it as a lot of people, but it's one of the best 'new' things I've seen and definitely one of the best sports animes out there. I'm currently in the mood for an anime where the location (preferably a city) plays a big role - more than just a backdrop. There should be a sense of geography. Although Apollon wasn't set in a bustling city, I had a solid sense of where the different places the characters visited were in relation to the others, and of course there was the titular hill. I felt the same feeling in Tatami Galaxy (possibly helped by its iterative narrative) and Welcome to the NHK. No coincidence that both of those shows have a thematic emphasis on being stuck in time and space, I suppose. I guess I like the idea of watching a show where it feels like the characters are inhabiting a neighbourhood rather than a collection of stage backdrops. Eccentric Family is scratching the itch somewhat due to its use of authentic locations, but I've run out of episodes. Chas McGill fucked around with this message at 01:12 on Aug 5, 2013 |
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Chas McGill posted:Surprised more people haven't mentioned Chihayafuru as a great recent show. I'm not as enamoured with it as a lot of people, but it's one of the best 'new' things I've seen and definitely one of the best sports animes out there. Did you watch Aku no Hana, by chance? It only finished recently but one of the major themes is of the main characters being stuck in their dead end town and school and hating it completely. It was extremely polarising, but I think it's one of the best things I've seen for ages and ages. Also notable for rotoscoped animation, which again was very polarising.
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Chas McGill posted:Surprised more people haven't mentioned Chihayafuru as a great recent show. I'm not as enamoured with it as a lot of people, but it's one of the best 'new' things I've seen and definitely one of the best sports animes out there. Dennou Coil was very good at this, in part for reasons probably beyond the scope of what you're looking for, but it's definitely worth watching.
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Paperhouse posted:Did you watch Aku no Hana, by chance? It only finished recently but one of the major themes is of the main characters being stuck in their dead end town and school and hating it completely. It was extremely polarising, but I think it's one of the best things I've seen for ages and ages. Also notable for rotoscoped animation, which again was very polarising. Sarcophallus posted:Dennou Coil was very good at this, in part for reasons probably beyond the scope of what you're looking for, but it's definitely worth watching.
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-Blackadder- posted:I'm just looking for recommendations for new and good/popular shows. Chas McGill posted:Surprised more people haven't mentioned Chihayafuru as a great recent show. I'm not as enamoured with it as a lot of people, but it's one of the best 'new' things I've seen and definitely one of the best sports animes out there. Emphatically seconding the suggestion to watch Chihayafuru.
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Chas McGill posted:Really liked the Aku no Hana adaptation. In fact, I much preferred it to the original manga, mainly because of how great the interstitial shots of the town were. I'm on the positive side of the polarisation you mention. If I hadn't already seen it, this would be a great recommendation. Dennou Coil is fantastic. You should definitely check it out.
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Yo Chas if you're not averse to manga, of the stuff I listed before, if you want detailed backgrounds and realistic stuff, read Sekitou Elergy. Dude loving loves his (grimy, weathered)scenery and vehicle porn. There's a bit where the two main characters go on a moped trip, and there's a pretty great bit of pages where there's almost no dialogue but they climb Mount Fuji. I really enjoyed the rest of it too, but the vehicle and scenery detail most of the time is top-notch too. It's definitely apparent that the artist's skill increases by leaps and bounds over the course of it, but never to the point that the characters don't lose those wonderful goofy-rear end faces. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Aug 5, 2013 |
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Captain Invictus posted:Yo Chas if you're not averse to manga, of the stuff I listed before, if you want detailed backgrounds and realistic stuff, read Sekitou Elergy. Dude loving loves his (grimy, weathered)scenery and vehicle porn. There's a bit where the two main characters go on a moped trip, and there's a pretty great bit of pages where there's almost no dialogue but they climb Mount Fuji. The penwork for the scenery in those pages you linked is ridiculously good. Large, high contrast e-ink screens need to come out sooner so I can actually check all this stuff out.
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Wait, you can't turn on lights in the room or something? Or is it always backlit no matter what? What sort of display is it? I just plugged my computer into my TV and read'em that way when I can, I'm guessing that's not a possibility for you where you are but I guess I'm a bit surprised that backlighting can hurt your eyes unless you're staring at it for like ten hours a day. edit: oh, duh, phone screen. Yeah, I can see that being a huge issue when trying to focus on something so small.
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Srice posted:Bakemonogatari and its sequels are all quite popular. The show's not for everyone but it features quirky dialogue while Studio Shaft does their thing. Oh yea, how did I forget about this? Bake- really was fantastic, but is artistically inferior to Nise- (haven't seen Neko-) which has some of the best art I've ever seen in anime. Too bad that all of the awesome dialogue of Bake- was replaced with the most fascinatingly stylish sexual creepiness I've ever seen. Oh god, the toothbrush scene...
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Recommendation thread's on page 2, let's fix that with filling up my tank again. I've run low on stuff to read so I grabbed a bunch of random stuff based solely on either hearing their names a lot around here and being curious, or seeing them in the top 100 or so of the "what's popular" list on Kissmanga. I'd like to know which of these are worth reading and if they're horrible, really great, middling, ultrageneric, status quo hells, big fat bummers or super-happy-carefree-nothing-bad-happens-ever funfests, if they run into filler problems/hiatuses(the reason I haven't read Berserk yet), etc. Velvet Game Nise Koi Baby Steps Dengeki Daisy Hetakoi(this seems like it'd be terrible, but it's popular) Love So Life Kaichou wa Maid-Sama A bunch of these are multi-hundred-chapter epics it seems, so I'd rather get some ideas on if they're worth it before diving in. edit: alright, so far I'll give a shot to: Claymore The World God Only Knows Yankee Kun and Megane Chan(what an awkward title) Deadman Wonderland Pokemon Adventures Thrown into a fire: Sword Art Online Kimi no Iru Machi Nyotai Ka Denpa Kyoushi Probably pass on: Liar Game Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Aug 6, 2013 |
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The World God Only Knows is really fun monster-of-the-week shenanigans with a prodigal protagonist who hates his job. That job being to get girls to fall in love with him. Some passing familiarity with and tolerance of common dating sim/anime girl cliches is pretty necessary. It stops being monster of the week right around when you hear someone mention the word "goddess" and becomes a lot more serious, but still mostly preserves the humor. I know a couple people who have taken issue with the whole setup out of gender equality concerns, but you'd know whether or not you care as soon as you read the synopsis. No hiatus/filler concerns as far as I remember but I have a really bad memory for events in manga.
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Yankee Kun to Megane Chan is amusing. What I read of it was funny enough and it was good at not getting too repetitive. Pretty decent all around. Liar Game is like Kaiji but with people that aren't ugly. Some games get a little too complicated for the sake of being complicated, but it's definitely a good substitute for Kaiji (but if you haven't seen Kaiji, watch that first. It's better). It's not the best in the genre but it's still very much worth checking out, especially since there's not a lot of gambling manga available in English. The author of the Sword Art Online light novels was 15 when he wrote them. It's basically Twilight for otaku in the sense that it's poorly written wish-fulfillment. I don't if the manga differs from the light novels or anime, but regardless I'd say there are plenty of better ways you could spend your time. I can't imagine the manga straying that far from the source material anyways. e: VVV I haven't read Kimi no Iru Machi but knowing that it's by the guy who made Suzuka means I can easily believe in its awfulness. Srice fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Aug 6, 2013 |
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Kimi no Iru Machi is awful. Claymore is alright, it's the only full-on shonen series with lots of fighting that I stay up to date with. a kitten fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Aug 6, 2013 |
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Liar Game is also on hiatus for an unspecified amount of time last time I checked, but yeah It's pretty good. Deadman Wonderland was pretty good, I haven't really bothered reading it since it came back from Hiatus but I enjoyed it even if it kinda went in a different direction than I expected.
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Captain Invictus posted:Recommendation thread's on page 2, let's fix that with filling up my tank again. I've run low on stuff to read so I grabbed a bunch of random stuff based solely on either hearing their names a lot around here and being curious, or seeing them in the top 100 or so of the "what's popular" list on Kissmanga. Liar Game is brilliant; lots of fun scenarios where people outwit each other, but it does an excellent job of avoiding the nihilism often present in stories like that. Sword Art Online is mostly good-for-what-it-is (that is, the stuff about the lives of people trapped in a virtual world is pretty well done), but it goes in some pretty bad directions in the second half of the anime (some dumb otaku fetish stuff, for example). Also, the main character is kind of a Mary Sue. It has a good ending, though, and the LN volumes that haven't been adapted yet are supposedly better (I haven't read them because I can't endure most amateur LN translations). It also gets points for avoiding the most common trap that romance-related storylines in anime tend to fall into. I've read the first few arcs of Pokemon Adventures a while back and might pick it up again sometime. It's a weird series in some ways; rather than being like the Pokemon anime, it's a shonen action series based on the Pokemon games, and features things like trainers fighting alongside their Pokemon (including a few trainers with weird supernatural powers, and not only the ones you'd expect like Sabrina) and lots of awesomely gimmicky battle tactics. The first arc is probably too fast-paced, and some of the later arcs are probably too slow-paced. You should probably read the first arc or two and see if you like the concept. Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Aug 6, 2013 |
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I remember getting a bunch of the Pokemon Yellow Caballero issues in a box of random comics years and years ago. I believe the plot was the Elite Four wanted to literally genocide humanity and allow Pokemon to take over the natural world. Yeah, really. Is that part of Pokemon Adventures, or a different thing?
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Captain Invictus posted:I remember getting a bunch of the Pokemon Yellow Caballero issues in a box of random comics years and years ago. I believe the plot was the Elite Four wanted to literally genocide humanity and allow Pokemon to take over the natural world. Yeah, really. That was indeed the plot of the Yellow arc of Pokemon Adventures. Incidentally, Pokemon Adventures is also known as Pokemon Special.
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Captain Invictus posted:avoiding berserk. It's worth noting that there is not really filler in berserk, it's all loving awesome, there's 20+ years of it, it just comes out fuckin sloooow these days. You are doing yourself a disservice by avoiding it. The pacing of the material is pretty drat solid, just not the release schedule. Being absolutely gorgeous helps in that regard, though.
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Huh, that's kinda hardcore for a Pokemon thing. Then again that other Pokemon comic that I got in the box had a suicide bombing Haunter in it that killed a bunch of people using the Dream Eater attack. I recall seeing a news story somewhere about the dude who drew it being outed as a pedophile and so they stopped making that comic. Which was kind of a shame, aside from the creepy fanservice he painted a pretty interesting take on the Pokemon world. It was...Electric Pikachu Boogaloo or something? edit: welp, that'd explain that! Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Aug 6, 2013 |
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I remember for some reason the very first pokemon manga being done by some guy who had only drawn hentai up til that point, which meant it was a bit more risque than one would expect pokemon to be. Weird choice on nintendo's part, there.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Liar Game is also on hiatus for an unspecified amount of time last time I checked, but yeah It's pretty good. Deadman Wonderland went on hiatus when it was almost over. The author finally finished it not too long ago, and, at least to me, you get this feeling that the author was trying to wrap the story up pretty hastily. The ending felt pretty generic to me. Overall I did enjoy the ride though.
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Captain Invictus posted:Denpa Kyoushi Imagine someone combined Great Teacher Onizuka and The World God Only Knows, but without the heart that made either of those two end up working despite having kind of weird/creepy premises, and you'd get Denpa Kyoushi. There are occasional bright spots, but every time the manga has an arc that makes it come close to being actually good it's usually followed by one or more absolutely terrible arcs. Captain Invictus posted:Nyotai Ka(again seems like it'd be terrible, but it's in the top ten most read on the site so might as well ask) That one is softcore comedy-ish porn with genderswapping. Probably not what you're looking for.
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I've cooled off on it a little bit as of late (it's still great though!), but there was a period of time I would have said The World God Only Knows was one of the best currently running manga alongside Silver Spoon. The main character is superb and the humor is pretty great. I'll also throw my weight behind Claymore, since I started the manga thread and all. Its biggest flaw is that it has a monthly release schedule but is paced like a weekly series so it becomes very hard to remember who is who and what happened recently. Obviously less of a problem if you're shotgunning it. Anyway it has cool fights and some awesome monster designs. It's pretty fun. I'd call it a more shounen, less hardcore Berserk but with girls. But then again you haven't read that either! Certainly would recommend that as well. Finally, I used to really love Yankee-kun to Megane-chan but my interest waned as I heard that the ending was disappointing. It scratches that itch that I get from stuff like Persona 4 where you have a large, fairly diverse cast of characters who are great friends and it's just heartwarming as hell seeing them interact with each other. When you're invested like that it's such a bummer to know 100 chapters down the line it doesn't pay out. Most of the rest of your list I either haven't heard of or thought was mediocre. E: Captain Invictus, I can't seem to recall but have you read any of Satoshi Mizukami? If you're just looking for new series in general, that would be a great place to go to as well. He's probably not going to to show up on a top ten list or whatever because he's sadly just not that well known I suppose. Based on what I've observed from you in this and other threads I think you would enjoy his works quite a lot. Nate RFB fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Aug 6, 2013 |
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I was reading some Penny Arcade comic that kinda reminded me of Eatman, but everyone says it's just like Trigun. Now, I somehow have never seen Trigun, is it really comparable to Eatman? the manga was one of my favorites. And since I'm here, is there anything recent like it? I mean, in the "invincible guy goes around fixing things" mold.
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cisneros posted:I was reading some Penny Arcade comic that kinda reminded me of Eatman, but everyone says it's just like Trigun. Now, I somehow have never seen Trigun, is it really comparable to Eatman? the manga was one of my favorites. And since I'm here, is there anything recent like it? I mean, in the "invincible guy goes around fixing things" mold. If you haven't seen Trigun, you should fix this because it's a great series  . (And they're right; Sand is quite similar to Trigun in its premise). Start with the series and, if you enjoy it, Badlands Rumble is a pretty decent watch too. It's a Trigun movie that's pretty much a stand-alone 90-minute episode of the series.
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Looking at it, 8 chapters in is around when the Dog Knight shows up which is still just scratching the surface. There's a lot to look forward to after that. The main attractions to Mizukami's works, which I think is showcased particularly in Biscuit Hammer, is his characterization. As you can probably gather the main character in Biscuit Hammer is quite unconventional and his dynamic with the female lead is one of the big draws. And looking ahead, it's a series that finished on top. Probably one of the best endings I've ever read in a manga. I really hope you stick with it! E: Berserk is sadly probably never going to have a reliable release schedule. But at the same time this is not GRRM we're talking about. And when he does get around to releasing something it actually looks great, as opposed to say Hunter Hunter. Nate RFB fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Aug 6, 2013 |
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Just started Sword Art Online based on recommendations here. Not even done with the first episode and I had to stop and come post how much I'm digging it. It's really taking me back to my MMO days. I'm feeling the urge to level up!  I'll continue to go through rest of recommendations. So far based on some very brief wiki browsing and youtube trailers I think I'll like Steins;Gate, Fat/Zero, Tiger and Bunny, Chihayafuru, and Gundam Unicorn as well. Keyboard Kid, that list is so old I'm not sure where I heard those titles, but I took Tower of Druga and Canaan off, based on your advice. Silver2195, I've watched the first season of the live action Liar Game, it was pretty good. To everyone else thanks again for the great recommendations. -Blackadder- fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Aug 7, 2013 |
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