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palmkernel posted:Hello my friends. I was hoping you could recommend some anime to me. I really don't like most anime at all but I did like Ghost in the shell, and Cowboy Bebop because they were sci-fi and had good music. Could you recommend me anything else like this? Thank you very much, in advance of course. Legend of the Galactic Heroes, The Irresponsible Captain Tylor (TV not OVA), Mouretsu Pirates, maybe Outlaw Star. I don't remember the music being particularly amazing in any of those, but I do remember enjoying a bit of it.
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Lallander posted:Legend of the Galactic Heroes, The Irresponsible Captain Tylor (TV not OVA), Mouretsu Pirates, maybe Outlaw Star. Thank you Lallander for your recommendations and your kindness, though you do have a pony avatar, for these things I like you.
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Smoking Crow posted:Hi, I'd just like to say that I have uploaded a hard to find fan sub (I had to download it from an obscure blog) of Sally the Witch to youtube. I love Sally the Witch and I want everyone to watch it, so here you go! Nipponophile posted:Thanks for posting this. It's a quaint little show. TSHS is obscure? The guy that runs it just finished subbing all of Giant Gorg. Everything they sub is pretty much gold. http://skarohuntingsociety.blogspot.com/search/label/Mahou%20Tsukai%20Sally For more. He did the first six episodes then switched to the color ones. Nanto also subs Sabu & Ichi if you want some more really good black and white anime.
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Guyver posted:TSHS is obscure? The guy that runs it just finished subbing all of Giant Gorg. Everything they sub is pretty much gold. There are 17 black and white episodes and it makes me sad that he didn't do the rest. Edit: The black and white looks markedly better than the color. It's too garish and I think that anime would be better with more black and white anime.
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palmkernel posted:Hello my friends. I was hoping you could recommend some anime to me. I really don't like most anime at all but I did like Ghost in the shell, and Cowboy Bebop because they were sci-fi and had good music. Could you recommend me anything else like this? Thank you very much, in advance of course. There aren't too many sci-fi shows with the action chops of those two that don't go down some weird anime holes, but there are some fantastic thoughtful ones like Planetes, a hard sci-fi show about space garbagemen, and Time of Eve, an Asimov influenced show about domestic robots. Time of Eve especially has great music.
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palmkernel posted:Thank you Lallander for your recommendations and your kindness, though you do have a pony avatar, for these things I like you. Please watch The Big O. It has good music and is in the spirit of science fiction if not always the aesthetic.
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I also recommend Cyber City Oedo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Q6AwrGUkQ
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TheEye posted:Yes, I also mentioned this in my previous Twelve Kingdoms post(s), but there are currently two novels (second Taiki novel and Kyouki/Kyou-ou novel) and a book of (awesome) short stories that were never translated by TokyoPop but have been fan-translated by Eugene Woodbury. His translations are much more accurate and consistent than TokyoPop's editing nightmare, but are also very literal and a bit difficult to get used to. Now I just wish someone would do the same for Banner of the Stars.
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muike posted:I also recommend Cyber City Oedo. This is good advice for anyone.
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Since my dickhead nephew decided to spoil Lain's ending and I'm trying to catch up with The Tatami Galaxy, I realized I have a bunch of downtime to read. Among the many MANY mangas my friend brought back from Japan, I've found one called The Five Star Stories. Besides the incredibly old school look the covers have, is there anything note-worthy about the series? e: Fuckin' A! I love me some DUNE!  He also brought a lot of Novels. But I want to start slowly: Five Star Stories and probably Shiki (since I rather liked the anime). Additionally, what's the general goon consensus on the Boogiepop novels? Wark Say fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Jan 31, 2014 |
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Jan 31, 2014 22:07
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Five Star Stories is actually pretty great, think Dune with giant robots.
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Wark Say posted:Since my dickhead nephew decided to spoil Lain's ending and I'm trying to catch up with The Tatami Galaxy, I realized I have a bunch of downtime to read. Among the many MANY mangas my friend brought back from Japan, I've found one called The Five Star Stories. Besides the incredibly old school look the covers have, is there anything note-worthy about the series? The author of Five Star Stories is Mamoru Nagano, who, among other things, designed L-Gaim, the Hyaku Shiki from Zeta Gundam, and enjoys cosplaying as Sailor Moon. He is a strange man and puts a lot of passion into his work that is not always deserving of it. Please enjoy Five Star Stories.
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I'm looking for the most 80s anime. Something with neon colors and ridiculous hair. Same but for 90s.
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Looking for something comedic, but with story to it (so not Nichijou). Fantasy settings, whether medieval fantasy or sci-fi are preffered to modern, although modern-fantasy is good. Previous series I've enjoyed are things like: Nichijou Code Geass Acchi Kocchi TTGL Servant x Service Gatchaman
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Smoking Crow posted:Same but for 90s. I hate mentioning the same show on the same page but Cyber City Oedo. As for 80's probably Dirty Pair or Space Adventure Cobra.
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Sakurazuka posted:Space Adventure Cobra. Son of a bitch, beat me.
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Conot posted:Looking for something comedic, but with story to it (so not Nichijou). Fantasy settings, whether medieval fantasy or sci-fi are preffered to modern, although modern-fantasy is good. Time of Eve tends to be pretty silly. It's a sci-fi show about a cafe where you aren't allowed to discriminate between humans and robots. It's pretty short at 6 half-length episodes though. If you haven't watched it, Silver Spoon has the comedy of Servant x Service, but with a great story attached.
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Conot posted:Looking for something comedic, but with story to it (so not Nichijou). Fantasy settings, whether medieval fantasy or sci-fi are preffered to modern, although modern-fantasy is good.
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Conot posted:Looking for something comedic, but with story to it (so not Nichijou). Fantasy settings, whether medieval fantasy or sci-fi are preffered to modern, although modern-fantasy is good. Trigun is hilarious up until about the halfway point when its tone takes a screeching right turn, but the characters and story are unique and interesting enough that the dampening of the comedy doesn't kill it. At least, that was my reaction. vvv: Indeed, it's a very different show after episode... 12? But again, I cared about what was going on and who was involved enough by that point that the tonal shift, while still jarring, didn't harm the show for me. Che Delilas fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Feb 2, 2014 |
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Che Delilas posted:Trigun is hilarious up until about the halfway point when its tone takes a screeching right turn, but the characters and story are unique and interesting enough that the dampening of the comedy doesn't kill it. At least, that was my reaction. There's still some comedy after the midpoint, but gets pretty overwhelmed by the darkened atmosphere. Its an amazing show, but keep that in mind.
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Conot posted:Looking for something comedic, but with story to it (so not Nichijou). Fantasy settings, whether medieval fantasy or sci-fi are preffered to modern, although modern-fantasy is good. Seconding Silver Spoon, also try The Devil is a Part-Timer.
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Thanks for the recommendations, I haven't watched any of the suggestions except for The Devil is a Part-Timer, so much appreciated.
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Conot posted:Looking for something comedic, but with story to it (so not Nichijou). Fantasy settings, whether medieval fantasy or sci-fi are preffered to modern, although modern-fantasy is good. There's a few older shows you might want to try. Slayers is pretty much the definitive fantasy comedy, and each season goes through a full plot arc on top of the slapstick comedy. Louie the Rune Soldier is about a standard adventuring party of fighter, mage, cleric, and thief who get up to fantasy adventures. While the big dumb guy who thinks with his fists is constantly getting in the way of the three women in the group, the twist is that the guy is the mage.
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Conot posted:Looking for something comedic, but with story to it (so not Nichijou). Fantasy settings, whether medieval fantasy or sci-fi are preffered to modern, although modern-fantasy is good. Try Full Metal Panic If you haven't yet. The second season doesn't have an overall story to it, but you should still really watch it.
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Conot posted:Looking for something comedic, but with story to it (so not Nichijou). Fantasy settings, whether medieval fantasy or sci-fi are preffered to modern, although modern-fantasy is good. The Devil is a Part-Timer/Hataraku Mao-sama! The most surprisingly funny thing to come out of last year. It has no right to be as good as it actually is. Kokoro Wish fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Feb 2, 2014 |
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The Black Stones posted:Try Full Metal Panic If you haven't yet. The second season doesn't have an overall story to it, but you should still really watch it. FMP was laughably terrible, but it did lead me to watch Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu which is basically the comedy parts of FMP turned into a full show and cranked it up to Nichijou levels of ridiculous.
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If you like Servant x Service why not watch the better Working!! from the same writer? No fantasy though.
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Because the main character is downright cringeworthy and nearly made me stop watching the show with how creepy he is? SxS has much more interesting characters than Working and while it's still comedy and gag humor, the characters are usually more than just their gimmick(Boss Bunny notwithstanding) whereas Working is made up of a bunch of one-notes. Mostly. They both have absolutely outstanding OPs though. Gonna go ahead and recommend a manga here, Koe no Kotachi. I made a thread for it with more details, but suffice to say, it deals with some really uncomfortable topics for Japan to talk about, so much so that despite winning awards even though it was merely a one-shot(which you should skip and just read the actual series proper instead), it still took a lot of effort to get an actual series started up. But now that it has, it's gotten rave reviews and has become very popular. The subject matter can be pretty uncomfortable for some if you've had experience with it(disabilities in school, severe bullying, social ostracizing, depression) but it's definitely a pro-read. 
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Yeah, Working was gross and not even that funny. The deaf manga looks pretty interesting. Might make an exception to my rule of not reading anything set in a school.
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Chas McGill posted:Yeah, Working was gross and not even that funny. You should also break this rule to read Qualia the Purple
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Conot posted:Looking for something comedic, but with story to it (so not Nichijou). Fantasy settings, whether medieval fantasy or sci-fi are preffered to modern, although modern-fantasy is good. How about Log Horizon and Spice & Wolf? Both have a fantasy setting and are fairly light watching (S&W moreso than Log Horizon), but they have an optimistic feel and quite a bit of strong storytelling. S&W also has the benefit of an excellent dub!
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RabidWeasel posted:I try not to recommend S&W to anyone (even though it's excellent) because I still find the dangling plot hooks after S2 excruciating
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RabidWeasel posted:I try not to recommend S&W to anyone (even though it's excellent) because I still find the dangling plot hooks after S2 excruciating Yeah.  It wouldn't be the first anime to have a rather weak ending because they reached the end of the published material available to adapt at the moment. It's a big bummer that they never ended up making a few more seasons, such an awesome show.
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RabidWeasel posted:I try not to recommend S&W to anyone (even though it's excellent) because I still find the dangling plot hooks after S2 excruciating I would also not really classify it as "comedic." It has some funny bits, but mostly it's just about watching a relationship grow. Did you like Maoyu but felt like everyone was a cardboard cutout with no reason to feel about or interact with any of the other characters the way they did? S&W is like that show but with actual characters. It's quite good, but it's not a comedic show. vvv I suppose that's true. He didn't say "a comedy" after all, and S&W is largely pretty light-hearted so it might satisfy his requirements. It's certainly worth watching either way, not least because it's different from standard fare. Che Delilas fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Feb 3, 2014 |
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Spice and Wolf has at least one laugh-out-loud moment an episode. It's not exclusively a comedy the way something like, I dunno, Nichijou or Astro Fighter Sunred is, but it's not going to disappoint someone looking for a comedy either.
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What do you mean it's not comedic? There's plenty of moments while watching S&W where I just laughed out loud at some ironic twist, tricksy turn-of-phrase, or just Holo and Lawrence being brilliant and playing off each other. Yeah, it's not "Dude sees the girl changing, girl whacks him with hammer" comedy, but it's totally comedic in a bunch of places! Anyway, yes, um, we're actually agreeing, since the dude specified lighthearted rather than specifically "a comedy".
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Spice and Wolf has funny moments, but what makes it awesome is the character interaction. I'd definitely recommend it, even though you'll be joining the rest of us in wishing for another season.Nate RFB posted:I would have read these translations years ago if I had known they existed. I was pretty upset that Tokyopop only got as far as literally right where the anime ended, as I was dying to read at least the conclusion to Taiki's story. I think I'm about halfway through that book and it's more or less as good as I was hoping. So thanks. Hate to disappoint you, but there's no conclusion to be had here. His arc is 3 books long, and the third may never be written. Do check out the short stories though, they're great.
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I'm seven episodes into Tactics, and I'm really hoping that it doesn't fall flat. There seems to be this weird "slavery is actually ok sometimes" subtext, and the main character seems to treat the other characters TERRIBLY, and gets no come-uppance for it, or really feel backlash. I'm wondering if down the line, he learns that the way he is treating others is not ok. Also, is he gay for that one guy? Because it seems really obvious and every episode seems laden with this weird, "I want to say I love you tall man with dark hair" subtext. Could someone recommend if I should keep watching or not? I'm kind of watching now just to take the piss from it.
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TheEye posted:Hate to disappoint you, but there's no conclusion to be had here. His arc is 3 books long, and the third may never be written. E: Just finished it and gently caress. Would love to know where it goes afterwards. Nate RFB fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Feb 3, 2014 |
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