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StandardVC10 posted:Barakamon mentioned above is a good choice. I wouldn't really call Shirobako a comedy, exactly. It has jokes sure, but it also has a fair amount of serious drama. It is very good though.
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Maybe Moyashimon? It's about some friends going to an argricultural university so mostly adult schoolkids  It's pretty funny and has a neat gimmick where the main character can see and talk to microbes! They learn a lot about fermentation and how to make sake and have fun college adventures!  
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Sesquiculus posted:I haven’t really watched anime since the late nineties, but a couple of shows on Netflix and the simulwatch thread here have reignited my interest. I’m looking for mellow, character-focused comedies, preferably with adult characters and not schoolkids. I don’t really have an interest in over-the-top goofy comedies or action stuff. shirokuma cafe, wakako-zake
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Sesquiculus posted:I haven’t really watched anime since the late nineties, but a couple of shows on Netflix and the simulwatch thread here have reignited my interest. I’m looking for mellow, character-focused comedies, preferably with adult characters and not schoolkids. I don’t really have an interest in over-the-top goofy comedies or action stuff. While it's set in a high school, Hyouka sounds like it's more or less exactly what you're looking for. Very relaxed, light-hearted mystery show with great characters and some fantastic direction/animation. Most of the characters are a fair bit more mature than in most anime set in high-schools, so you shouldn't really need to worry about them putting you off. Be warned, mind, that the show was never actually licensed by anybody, so it's not officially available in English. Still, highly recommended. I'd also recommend Steins;Gate, although with the proviso that it's not really as mellow as you're probably looking for, and the main character (while great) can be pretty goofy. Nonetheless, it's a sci-fi mystery/drama/comedy, quite character-focused, and most of the characters are university students. It's also excellent, has a great dub if you feel like trying it, and is on Netflix in several countries to boot. EDIT: Also seconding recommendations for Shirobako which have already been made. Fantastic show, well worth watching.
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StandardVC10 posted:Shirobako hits two out of three - it's adult characters (don't let the opening of episode 1 fool you) and has some solid character moments and comedy, but it's not really mellow in the way that Flying Witch or Tanaka-kun are. Oh, I forgot to put Shirobako on the list. I watched the first four episodes but it reminded me a bit too much of my job to be funny. I may give it another shot when I have more time. Thanks for the recommendations everyone!
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Knorth posted:Maybe Moyashimon? It's about some friends going to an argricultural university so mostly adult schoolkids
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Nate RFB posted:I liked Moyashimon when it first aired but I can't help but think of it as a worse Silver Spoon Nope! 
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Although, SIlver Spoon is also a pretty good recommendation too if they're willing to relax the school kids thing, plus I thought the humour in Silver Spoon was a bit goofier
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Nate RFB posted:I liked Moyashimon when it first aired but I can't help but think of it as a worse Silver Spoon. I mean it does feature high school kids but they deal with some pretty heavy stuff sometimes! Silver Spoon is a worse Moyashimon  They're both good and different enough to be worth watching though
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The cast in Silver Spoon is just so endearing, there's nothing even close to that level of character development in Moyashimon IMO. From what I recall of the manga too Moyashimon never really went anywhere interesting in its later arcs whereas Silver Spoon just kept getting better and better (though sadly its release schedule has gotten kind of hosed).
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Knorth posted:Although, SIlver Spoon is also a pretty good recommendation too if they're willing to relax the school kids thing, plus I thought the humour in Silver Spoon was a bit goofier I'll give it a shot. The characters-who-are-adults thing is just a preference - pretty much all of the shows I've watched and enjoyed recently involved some high school drama.
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From what I hear silver spoon is a better manga than anime. Unless things picked up past season 1
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i vastly preferred season 1 of silver spoon. the production values felt a bit better and it had less of a focus on horses, the worst animal
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Captain Invictus posted:From what I hear silver spoon is a better manga than anime. Unless things picked up past season 1
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Davincie posted:i vastly preferred season 1 of silver spoon. the production values felt a bit better and it had less of a focus on horses, the worst animal Horses will gently caress You Up and not even care
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Oh my god Space Dandy. Thank you, it's loving awesome.
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Turtlicious posted:Oh my god Space Dandy. Yes. Yes it is.
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Alright, so another list of potential series I've either heard about or seen pop up in the random series list that I'd like to ask if they're worth reading or not. Accel World Akame ga Kill Big Order Boku to Majo no Jikan Doubutsu no Oishasan Gisele Alain Hajiotsu. Hohzuki Island Koi Inu Ore no Ko desu ka? Perfect Twin QED ReLIFE No major details needed, just whether they're good, or go all trainwreck-ey, or are just bad series in general, etc.
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Good: Gisele Alain
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Captain Invictus posted:Alright, so another list of potential series I've either heard about or seen pop up in the random series list that I'd like to ask if they're worth reading or not. no no no dunno, probably not dunno yes yes no dunno dunno dunno dunno no
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Gonna comment on two i've actually (partially) read: Disagreeing with above on Hajiotsu, it's a bad execution on an already dumb gimmick. P. much a waste of time. As for Hohzuki Island, i'd give a tentative Read It. It's by the guy who did Erased, but back in the days when he still needed to cram in fanservice to get published. It deals with similar themes as Erased (kids and bad things happening to them), but on a more traditional horror than psychological twist. Thankfully, from what i remember the fanservice is mostly kept to the busty teacher, but if memory serves a little fanservice won't scare you off anyways.
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Captain Invictus posted:Alright, so another list of potential series I've either heard about or seen pop up in the random series list that I'd like to ask if they're worth reading or not. don't know its trashy but i like it, probably ending within the year too. dunno i like it but translation is so infrequent i wouldn't start now, it'll never finish don't know yeah double yeah don't know its okay don't know don't know see majo yes
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QED is Legally Distinct Japanese Encyclopedia Brown solving murders in the late 90s, complete with Sally Kimball (although no Bugs Meany).
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I have no idea what that means. I think I read one encyclopedia brown book when I was like 5
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Is there anything out there fairly similar to Yukikaze? Well made, fairly serious, adult cast of characters that act like humans, preferably interspersed with awesome battle sequences (mech, planes, or otherwise)? Also apparently Tom Cruise is attached to do a live action movie for Yukikaze, which makes me laugh because I once described Yukikaze to a friend as "a slightly gayer version of Top Gun, with aliens." Chocobo fucked around with this message at 17:23 on May 28, 2016 |
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Oh, holy poo poo that might actually be the ticket. I actually remember watching an episode or two and decided to wait so I could marathon it later on. (I wanted to check it out because I saw the live action movie where everyone dies.) Thanks for the reminder.
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the live action movie is incredibly worse and really ruins most of the best parts of the show so enjoy the better version 
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Definitely check out the animated movie when you've seen the show though. That one is good
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Moyashimon is good overall but the three(?)-episode long let's buy mind control drugs from our professor and use them to turn our classmates into sex slaves! arc makes an otherwise sympathetic protagonist look like both a complete imbecile (for believing it could work) and a massive creep.
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Chocobo posted:Oh, holy poo poo that might actually be the ticket. I actually remember watching an episode or two and decided to wait so I could marathon it later on. (I wanted to check it out because I saw the live action movie where everyone dies.) Thanks for the reminder. Hey, that's not true. 11 people make it out okay!
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I'd like to ask for some suggestions for sci-fi watching material, please. To be a little bit more specific, what I'm looking for I guess is old-fashioned adventures but in space. People being heroes, trying to stop problems, bad guys being bad, etc. I'm not against political intrigue or cosmic horror or humans are the real monstersssssss, but I'd like to keep things focused on ADVENTURE  EDIT: Space Opera. That's the term. Oops.  I just recently finished Outlaw Star and I loved the hell out of it, currently going through Cowboy Bebop and Space Pirate Captain Harlock and they're pretty fun as well. Tried Space Dandy, wasn't really 100% on it and dropped it at about episode 10. People keep suggesting Bubblegum Crisis. TerminusEst13 fucked around with this message at 23:17 on May 28, 2016 |
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TerminusEst13 posted:I'd like to ask for some suggestions for sci-fi watching material, please. It's what I was thinking of when I read your post, too! The original Bubblegum Crisis is a good fit if you're looking for some corny sci-fi action fun. edit: For something that's not so corny but still really fun, Birdy The Mighty: Decode is one I can highly recommend. It's a more modern (and longer!) series with an interesting main concept and it's got some great fun character interplay. It's great. esselfortium fucked around with this message at 23:18 on May 28, 2016 |
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birdy the mighty decode season 1 is alright, but it's really worth watching for season 2, which is imo one of the loving coolest character driven sci-fi stories ever. and bubblegum crisis is really awesome, too you could also watch dirty pair, which is about a pair of space cops fighting crime in space and on alien planets. i really love space dandy but i can understand why you'd drop it if you're looking for a space adventure thing, since it's really more of a showcase for a huge mishmash of directors making their own individual stories featuring the same cast of characters
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TerminusEst13 posted:I'd like to ask for some suggestions for sci-fi watching material, please. scroll up and look at space battleship yamato 2199. besides that you should also check out various other leiji matsumoto series since the majority of them (sb2199 is more a serialized story with a couple of one off episodes) follow the old stand alone adventure format. im going through galaxy railways now and besides a few rough episodes in the first 10 its excellent. his galaxy express 999 is an absolute classic and the base for many later space adventure anime. he also did harlock which you're already watching and you'll notice many similarities between the shows, mainly in character design
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TerminusEst13 posted:I'd like to ask for some suggestions for sci-fi watching material, please. I'll second the recommendation for Space Battleship Yamato 2199. It's pretty much exactly what you're after, and it's excellent.
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Isn't space adventure cobra the go to series people recommend for that sort of thing? Or whatever it's called.
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Captain Invictus posted:Isn't space adventure cobra the go to series people recommend for that sort of thing? Or whatever it's called. Yes. What he was describing was pretty much space adventure cobra
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