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BigRed0427 posted:Hey all, I'm kind of just now getting back into anime and manga. So let's ask for two recommendations. Not super action oriented but Princess Tutu
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ninjewtsu posted:i haven't seen evangelion but devilman's ending is the bleakest piece of fiction i think i've ever experienced evangelion ends with the literal end of the world, some unstated percentage of humanity loving off to become one big de-individualized mass consciousness, and one of the protagonists barely backing down from strangling the other on a desolate beach next to the graves of everyone else they've ever known while the giant decaying corpse of a supernatural manifestation that used to be the OTHER protagonist turns the ocean red with its blood and slowly falls apart in context, however, this is slightly better than things could have gone and arguably fits with the idea that as long as you're alive there's still the possibility of happiness, so 
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BigRed0427 posted:Hey all, I'm kind of just now getting back into anime and manga. So let's ask for two recommendations. New Game S1 has some pretty heavy cheesecake (basically around the same level as kobayashi) but centers around the relationships between a cast of women working in the games industry, and is generally really goofy and chill, with a ton of gags focusing around the gay couple leading the team. S2 is less relaxed, but it's a lot sweeter as a simple relationship drama--it doesn't pull out any sort of cheap melodrama, it purely focuses on how the stress of working in the industry affects the cast and their relationships with each other, and how they grow closer together through it. Flip Flappers is a bizarre action/magical girl anime focusing around the relationship between two girls, it goes in a lot of directions with the second half taking a much darker tone than the first but ultimately ends with the two leads getting together and finding genuine joy in their every day lives and their relationships with each other and the world around them. It's my personal favorite of 2016, but there are some shots in a few episodes that might weird you out. Kyousougiga is a really imaginative story about a little girl with a dimension-warping hammer learning about her family, who've been distanced from each other across the multiverse for decades, and ultimately bringing them back together by headbutting her dad a lot. It's directed by a woman who got her start working on action magical girl shows for little girls, so it's also devoid of any sort of fanservice. The Colonel fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Jan 12, 2018 |
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:evangelion ends with the literal end of the world, some unstated percentage of humanity loving off to become one big de-individualized mass consciousness, and one of the protagonists barely backing down from strangling the other on a desolate beach next to the graves of everyone else they've ever known while the giant decaying corpse of a supernatural manifestation that used to be the OTHER protagonist turns the ocean red with its blood and slowly falls apart This isn't the thread for it but... That's the ending to the movie "End of Evangelion" Where the main character decides to learn jack poo poo and just be a miserable piece of poo poo for the rest of his life. Because that's what makes him human. The ending to the show itself shows him learning "If I am ever going to be happy and have healthy relationships with other people, then I need to learn to actually like myself and see that I have value." Cue the cast telling him congratulations. I then assume he joins the mass consciousness To me it makes more sense to see the show ending and the movie ending as two different timelines. A good ending and a bad ending.
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Jan 12, 2018 01:53
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:in context, however, this is slightly better than things could have gone and arguably fits with the idea that as long as you're alive there's still the possibility of happiness, so i mean devilman's ending is everyone except a single person is dead, this is the worst possible way everything could have gone, to the point that even the antagonist is in incredible pain and anguish over how it turned out though personally for me the worst part was right before the ending where a sweet girl makes an encouraging rallying cry on the internet to keep up hope and love as the world is consumed by mass hysteria, only to be ripped apart by a lynch mob and have her dismembered body parts put on pikes and paraded in front of her burning house like there's not really any uplifting part of devilman's ending, at all. the closest is the inevitability of god stepping in to gently caress satan's life up forever, no matter what he accomplishes
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Flip Flappers is an uplifting coming-of-age story told via magical girl transformations, pocket dimensions, questionably ethical science experiments, and explosions. It is very gay, very weird, and very wonderful. Could fit for the the second part of BigRed's post. And now when I hit "preview post" I see The Colonel has already recommended it...
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BigRed0427 posted:This isn't the thread for it but... (Evangelion stuff follows) Shinji absolutely does not join the mass consciousness, even if you take the series ending by itself. The last two episodes are incredibly clear on the point that separation, while painful, is essential to having your own identity, and the thought that the infamous "congratulations" sequence is a response to is "maybe I can learn to love myself," which would make no sense if he were going to no longer have a self. I'm more of the attitude that the two endings are concurrent, with the difference in tone being that the TV ending is basically Shinji being held in his mother's metaphorical arms and reassured that life is worth living while the EoE ending is the struggle to actually live, with all the ugliness and rough edges that implies. This is also supported by the fact that brief clips from End of Evangelion (or the earlier meant-for-TV but never-aired version of it) play throughout episodes 25 and 26. Tuxedo Catfish fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Jan 12, 2018 |
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Jan 12, 2018 01:56
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always count on me to recommend flip flappers, motherfucker i'd also recommend checking out houseki no kuni, it's in kind of a weird place as a partial adaptation of an ongoing manga, but for what it is, it's a really incredible show about a whole loving lot of really interesting things and was my personal favorite show of 2017
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Jan 12, 2018 01:56
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BigRed0427 posted:This isn't the thread for it but... No, the series ending is very much "we've run out of money. Anyone got any bright ideas for the last two episodes?"
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Jan 12, 2018 01:57
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The Colonel posted:always count on me to recommend flip flappers, motherfucker Houseki No Kuni / "Land of the Lustrous" is incredible.
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Jan 12, 2018 01:58
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Neddy Seagoon posted:No, the series ending is very much "we've run out of money. Anyone got any bright ideas for the last two episodes?" wrong they ran out of time, because they originally sent what basically amounted to a 40-minute cut of End of Evangelion to be aired and the censor laughed in their face and told them to forget it
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Jan 12, 2018 01:59
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:wrong Huh, I'd always heard budget  .
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Jan 12, 2018 02:01
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specifically, houseki no kuni is a really surreal show with a very strange, beautiful sense for action, that centers around things like personal insecurity with your own body, and struggling with guilt over being responsible for someone's "death" in a world where death isn't really familiar to people as a concept. it's really fantastic and there isn't a show quite like it
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Jan 12, 2018 02:02
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Time is an important part of budgets so it's technically still true.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Huh, I'd always heard budget it's also worth remembering that the big-picture plot of Evangelion wasn't fully determined ahead of time and that Anno changed his mind about how the series should end constantly early materials for the show are full of stuff like the Evangelions themselves being relics left by an ancient civilization and all kinds of wacky poo poo that contradicts or at least is not supported by the show we actually got
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Jan 12, 2018 02:02
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BigRed0427 posted:Hey all, I'm kind of just now getting back into anime and manga. So let's ask for two recommendations. There's also New Game, which is about women who work at a small game studio. It's got some fanservice but way less than dragon maid had, honestly, and also some fairly heavily implied relationships between a few characters. The first season is mostly slice of life gags, but the second season gets a bit more into game development and the main character trying to succeed as a character designer for games, and actually does it pretty well, with a very satisfying ending. It's also pretty funny, especially in the second season when the gags are paced a bit better and there's more variety to the show's tone, though the first season still has some good jokes. BigRed0427 posted:Second, lets go for some darker superhero/action orientated stuff that still manages to be uplifting in the end. Stuff like Madoka Magica and Neon Genesis Evengellion. Princess Tutu has a very fairytale aesthetic and its action scenes are depicted as ballet scenes for the most part, but it's a very creative show, fairly dark, and incredibly uplifting towards the end. Its darkness is more philosophical and a heavily oppressive atmosphere in the middle than literal death and gore and such, though, so depends on what you're looking for. It plays very heavily with metanarratives about the nature of fiction itself, with characters literally talking about the nature of stories, so if you're into that kind of thing it's cool. Rahxephon is often compared to Evangelion, and I enjoy it a bit more - it's very confusing at the start, but the characters and their arcs are very well done and its convoluted situation is wrapped up much more cleanly than evangelion, IMO. That said, the action is pretty sparse - entire 3 episode arcs go by without any fighting - so again, depends on what you're looking for.
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Jan 12, 2018 02:03
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That’s because people shout “budget” very single time any single thing they don’t like happens in anime.
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Jan 12, 2018 02:04
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in the time it took me to write that post literally everything there got mentioned well except rahxephon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1_35xiub4
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Jan 12, 2018 02:04
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I ended up watching most of rahxephon a while ago but started to lose interest towards the end. In regards to BigRed, have you watched the new Evangelion movies?
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Jan 12, 2018 02:18
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can someone speak up for Amanchu, because everything i've heard about it makes it seem like something perfectly in line with Dragon Maid (maybe less comedy-focused?) but i haven't gotten around to it yet.
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Jan 12, 2018 02:20
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Endorph posted:in the time it took me to write that post literally everything there got mentioned the moral is to never put effort into anything
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Jan 12, 2018 02:21
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dogsicle posted:can someone speak up for Amanchu, because everything i've heard about it makes it seem like something perfectly in line with Dragon Maid (maybe less comedy-focused?) but i haven't gotten around to it yet. oh yeah, Amanchu is pretty much a perfect pick if you want something relaxed and gay too. it's a really chill story about a super shy and awkward girl easing into living on her own in a new town with the help of a really excitable girl who loves diving, it's got a really good ova episode that came out recently and a second season airing this year.
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Jan 12, 2018 02:26
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dogsicle posted:can someone speak up for Amanchu, because everything i've heard about it makes it seem like something perfectly in line with Dragon Maid (maybe less comedy-focused?) but i haven't gotten around to it yet. I knew I was forgetting one! Yeah, Amanchu is good.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rNvDYKKAjs
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Jan 12, 2018 02:29
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It's adapted from another manga by the Aria author, for any fans of that and hosed up cat designs.
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Jan 12, 2018 02:38
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dogsicle posted:can someone speak up for Amanchu, because everything i've heard about it makes it seem like something perfectly in line with Dragon Maid (maybe less comedy-focused?) but i haven't gotten around to it yet. I liked Amanchu a lot, though if we're comparing with Maid Dragon then I'll say Amanchu is much more laid back and a bit less comedy-focused. It's very comparable to Aria in its ultra comfy mood (no surprise, same author), but with a real world setting instead of sci-fi and also considerably gayer. https://i.imgur.com/9irm3qM.gifv
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Jan 12, 2018 03:33
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BigRed0427 posted:Second, lets go for some darker superhero/action orientated stuff that still manages to be uplifting in the end. Stuff like Madoka Magica and Neon Genesis Evengellion. You might enjoy Mai-HiME, It's a darker-leaning actiony magical girl show that has some funny, uplifting, and gay parts and also has a great soundtrack.
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Yearly update for Twelve Kingdoms fans: The new novel continues to be delayed. Fuyumi Ono has not been very healthy but has still been writing. The publication is now planned for some time in 2018, but who really knows. Eugune Woodbury started and finished a fan translation of Hisho's Birds, the most recent book (of short stories) to be published. This means there is now a good quality English translation of the entire series except for a single short story. He also plans to translate the new book, whenever it comes out, which is great news.
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BigRed0427 posted:Second, lets go for some darker superhero/action orientated stuff that still manages to be uplifting in the end. Stuff like Madoka Magica and Neon Genesis Evengellion. Serial Experiments Lain, Boogiepop Phantom and The Big O. Uplifting endings not guaranteed though.
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Jan 12, 2018 10:26
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Sakurazuka posted:Serial Experiments Lain, Boogiepop Phantom and The Big O. Uplifting endings not guaranteed though. Be aware that Boogiepop Phantom is pretty hit-and-miss, but worth sticking with. The arching plot episodes aren't great, but the standalone ones are amazingly hosed up in fascinating ways  .
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TheEye posted:Yearly update for Twelve Kingdoms fans: I should check into a couple of other novel series I had been following at some point. Banner of the Stars author I think did put out a book or two over the years, and I can only assume Haruhi is still on indefinite hiatus because I'm sure I would have heard otherwise.
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Jan 12, 2018 11:54
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i'm having a really rough time with some stuff right now, and would love something to watch to keep my mind off things. is there a good comedy anime that won't give my mind any time to wander and also has absolutely nothing to do with sex or romantic relationships
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Jan 12, 2018 13:16
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ninjewtsu posted:i'm having a really rough time with some stuff right now, and would love something to watch to keep my mind off things. is there a good comedy anime that won't give my mind any time to wander and also has absolutely nothing to do with sex or romantic relationships This goon needs 26cc's of Nichijou, stat! 
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ninjewtsu posted:i'm having a really rough time with some stuff right now, and would love something to watch to keep my mind off things. is there a good comedy anime that won't give my mind any time to wander and also has absolutely nothing to do with sex or romantic relationships E: I wish there was a way to find/link the OP because it can do all the convincing for me. All the versions on youtube have seemingly been diced apart for DMCA or whatever reasons. Nate RFB fucked around with this message at 13:53 on Jan 12, 2018 |
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Jan 12, 2018 13:49
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BigRed0427 posted:Hey all, I'm kind of just now getting back into anime and manga. So let's ask for two recommendations. Endorph posted:Rahxephon is often compared to Evangelion, and I enjoy it a bit more - it's very confusing at the start, but the characters and their arcs are very well done and its convoluted situation is wrapped up much more cleanly than evangelion, IMO. That said, the action is pretty sparse - entire 3 episode arcs go by without any fighting - so again, depends on what you're looking for. dogsicle posted:can someone speak up for Amanchu, because everything i've heard about it makes it seem like something perfectly in line with Dragon Maid (maybe less comedy-focused?) but i haven't gotten around to it yet.
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I admit, it’s a REALLY suggestive line. But for me it’s. “This show has gotten so creepy with how it sexualizes it’s characters that the only way to make it less creepy is if the show became a hentai and everyone’s started loving.” Because then at lease we have a reason to be shoving the camera up this one character’s butthole. And thanks for the recommendations everybody. When I get home I’m watching Amanchu. This show looks sweet. :3 BigRed0427 fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Jan 12, 2018 |
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Jan 12, 2018 18:58
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A friend asked me today "What's the most Power Rangers anime you can recommend?" and I don't know what would be appropriate. What say you, goons?
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Gatchaman maybe?
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Wark Say posted:A friend asked me today "What's the most Power Rangers anime you can recommend?" and I don't know what would be appropriate. What say you, goons? Cyborg 009, Gatchaman, Bubblegum Crisis, Ronin Warriors
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If funny parodies of Power Rangers are okay too, DBZ has the Ginyu Force obviously, Excel Saga has a pretty great one, Shinesman is loving hilarious, and Future Diary has a brief (but loving excellent) one early on
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