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For some reason OKG always makes me think of that dude I wonder if he's doing alright e: oh god the first google result after his twitter is a KiwiFarms page on him. gonna take the answer to that question as a HARD NO.
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yeah anyone who gets systematically harassed by kiwifarms is probably pretty hosed by that, unfortunate
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I hadn’t watched anime in a while and started watching Hunter X Hunter (2011 edition, although I watched the first two ‘99 eps first) not really knowing anything about it and it blew me away how good and totally unexpected plot wise it was. I really enjoyed it. I followed that up with Hero Academia which is also really good but a little more standard shonen stuff, and then I tried to start Fairy Tail and it’s ok but but probably not the best choice after those other two. Are they any recommendations for other kind of higher brow or deconstructive shonen series that are in a similar vein to HxH or HA? I’m not well versed in what’s even out at the moment so any suggestions are welcome even if it’s not shonen stuff
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Aesop Poprock posted:I hadn’t watched anime in a while and started watching Hunter X Hunter (2011 edition, although I watched the first two ‘99 eps first) not really knowing anything about it and it blew me away how good and totally unexpected plot wise it was. I really enjoyed it. Mob Psycho 100 doesnt fit everything youre looking for but its really loving good anyway so start with that.
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That’s by the dude who wrote one punch man right? I’ll check it out thanks
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Aesop Poprock posted:I followed that up with Hero Academia which is also really good but a little more standard shonen stuff, and then I tried to start Fairy Tail and it’s ok but but probably not the best choice after those other two. Are they any recommendations for other kind of higher brow or deconstructive shonen series that are in a similar vein to HxH or HA? I’m not well versed in what’s even out at the moment so any suggestions are welcome even if it’s not shonen stuff Gun x Sword is a mid-2000s mecha series with a pretty interesting view of revenge and heroism, it can get a bit episodic in the middle but it's only 26 episodes so it shouldn't be bad compared to an average shonen. Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is another more non-standard shonen rec you see get tossed around, lots of focus on war and its victims, the anime adaptation starts out pretty goofy though since it's speeding through material that was covered by an earlier anime (that didn't adapt the whole manga.) Tiger & Bunny is a fun superhero show with a mostly adult main cast, including the two leads. Some people dislike the more serious second half but I like it well enough, and it has some interesting ideas on capitalism and tv coverage of crime, it's not exactly super deep but it's definitely something that's aimed at adults. Jojo's isn't really higher brow or deconstructive, but it is one of the other big shonen shows of the moment, so you might dig it. It's definitely very different from stock shonen like Fairy Tail, partly because while it's a fiarly recent anime the manga it's based on has been running for decades, and partly because the author just has very odd (but interesting) ideas on what a shonen manga should be. Endorph fucked around with this message at 06:47 on May 10, 2019 |
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May 10, 2019 06:45
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trigun is considered shounen right?
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ninjewtsu posted:trigun is considered shounen right?
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Endorph posted:Gun x Sword is a mid-2000s mecha series with a pretty interesting view of revenge and heroism, it can get a bit episodic in the middle but it's only 26 episodes so it shouldn't be bad compared to an average shonen. If you check GxS out, give it until episode 6 to actually get going and get REALLY good. Some of the initial episodes are kinda so-so.
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May 10, 2019 08:34
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Or if you don't like it just stop watching, its ok.
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I watched two eps of Mob Pyscho and I already love it so when I’m done with that I’ll watch the ones Endorph and Neddy recommended. I watched Trigun and liked it until the end when I loved the direction it took and I watched the original Metal Gear Alechemist, is Brotherhood different?
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Aesop Poprock posted:I watched two eps of Mob Pyscho and I already love it so when I’m done with that I’ll watch the ones Endorph and Neddy recommended. I watched Trigun and liked it until the end when I loved the direction it took and I watched the original Metal Gear Alechemist, is Brotherhood different? I asked this question like 18 months ago and the best response I got was that the original took a few too many creative liberties in adapting from print to animation while Brotherhood sticks much more faithfully to the print version and is better for it. Furnaceface fucked around with this message at 20:06 on May 10, 2019 |
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Aesop Poprock posted:I watched two eps of Mob Pyscho and I already love it so when I’m done with that I’ll watch the ones Endorph and Neddy recommended. I watched Trigun and liked it until the end when I loved the direction it took and I watched the original Metal Gear Alechemist, is Brotherhood different? The original FMA caught up with the manga at Maes Hughes's death. Rather than add a ton of filler or go on hiatus or whatever, they made up an entirely new story past that point, with the original author's help. Brotherhood gets very, very different past the diverging point and is pretty much an entirely new show with the same characters. As a bonus, it skims over the stuff that's the same pretty quickly.
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"Bonus" It was arguably a good choice back when the first series was still fresh on people's minds, to get to the new content faster, but a direct consequence is that if you don't watch the first series for those earlier bits, a lot of the weight of certain earlier events and character beats is diluted and robbed from the viewer. This is especially notable the further out we get from the shows airing, in that the definitive anime viewing experience is watching half of the first series, then Brotherhood, but even that has it's own issues with incongruous elements between the two shows.
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Julias posted:"Bonus" Eh, I feel like if you watched the first series, Brotherhood gives enough to refresh your memory. I mean, the two shows came out like 5 years apart to begin with, so it's not like the original it was ever really super fresh to people to begin with. Best way to watch it is probably just the way ot aired, first series, wait a while until you feel like watching more, then Brotherhood.
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The best answer as always is to read the manga, if that is at all up for consideration.
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May 10, 2019 21:19
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I do read manga sometimes too, I’m reading the dark continent arc of Hunter x Hunter right now since I really doubt the anime’s gonna be updated any time soon, and I was reading One Piece up until the Big Mom arc since I got really burned out by the glacial pace of the anime pretty soon after the time skip. I’ll look into it and see if it grabs me There was a Korean webcomic called like Tower of God or something that I was reallly into for a while but I remember getting a little confused by what the hell was happening in it after a while. Is that still going on or worth keeping up with?
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Tower of God is still going, still pretty darn good, and has an active thread. There was a year or two where I was kind of down on it and it felt like it was spinning its wheels but it's been pretty entertaining for a while. I look forward to each week's chapters these days more than say anything in Shonen Jump.
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AnoHito posted:Eh, I feel like if you watched the first series, Brotherhood gives enough to refresh your memory. I mean, the two shows came out like 5 years apart to begin with, so it's not like the original it was ever really super fresh to people to begin with. Best way to watch it is probably just the way ot aired, first series, wait a while until you feel like watching more, then Brotherhood. Brotherhood does have one very minor failing in that it skips over a small manga arc that the first show adapted which introduces a fairly-regular secondary character in the mid/late parts of the show. He just kinda pops into existence complaining about those damned Elric Brothers not letting him get away with his Scooby Plans in his past. Really you can get the best of both worlds by watching the original series up to about episode 12-13 when it wraps up the Elric's childhood flashbacks and move on to Brotherhood.
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Holy gently caress Inuyashiki Last Hero is ridiculously good. Simultaneously one of the most heart warming and violently disturbing things I’ve ever seen. I love the level of line detail in the art and animation - like Otomo or Juan Jose Ryp - so many animes have this cheap washed-out look to them and Inuyashiki is actually an improvement on expensive time-consuming hand-drawn animation, not a substitute. I regret waiting so long to watch this.
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Yeah I loved Inuyashiki. Being totally tone deaf, I recommended it to a troupe of dancers I was working with who loved Hero Academia and they were horrified by it. Some of them thought it was a new version of Inuyasha apparently and weren't prepared for crushing existential crises and graphic baby murder
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Brotherhood does have one very minor failing in that it skips over a small manga arc that the first show adapted which introduces a fairly-regular secondary character in the mid/late parts of the show. He just kinda pops into existence complaining about those damned Elric Brothers not letting him get away with his Scooby Plans in his past. Sure, but you'd have to ignore certain homonculus characterizations and a few character deaths in the original if you go that route. Like I'm pretty sure they killed off that secondary character in the original anime
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are either of the fullmetal alchemist movies worth watching?
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ninjewtsu posted:are either of the fullmetal alchemist movies worth watching? conqueror of shambala is basicalyl the actual ending of the 2003 anime, so if you watched the 2003 anime you might as well watch it. sacred star of milos is about as generic a shonen movie as you can get. the characters go to a new place, meet a new girl, beat up some new villains, mustang is shoehorned into the plot despite having no real reason to be there because he's popular. it's got gorgeous animation and some good action setpieces, but everything about the writing is pretty forgettable. watch it if you just want to see more alchemy fights.
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conqueror of shamballa is the most beautifully animated anime movie that I want to forget exists.
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ninjewtsu posted:are either of the fullmetal alchemist movies worth watching? no
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I haven't seen but Conqueror takes the story a more interesting direction than the manga did based in what I know
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I have seen it and "interesting premise" and "excellent execution" are very, very different things
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It’s a movie I watched and enjoyed
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Shamballa's worth it for the animation and the Roma. And, given the original series end functions fine as a nonending, having the movie as a what if and the actual ending in brotherhood makes it just a fun novelty (that has several major problems stopping it from Being Good). It's entertaining though.
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Looking for anime that fall into the "Came for the fan service, stayed for the story" category. If it actually exists.
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Furnaceface posted:Looking for anime that fall into the "Came for the fan service, stayed for the story" category. If it actually exists. Neon Genesis Evangelion 
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Furnaceface posted:Looking for anime that fall into the "Came for the fan service, stayed for the story" category. If it actually exists. Punch Line, maybe? It frontloads the ecchi stuff, but I dunno if anyone really enjoys those parts.
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Furnaceface posted:Looking for anime that fall into the "Came for the fan service, stayed for the story" category. If it actually exists. Rascal does not dream of bunnygirl sempai. Kobayashi's Dragon Maid.
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Furnaceface posted:Looking for anime that fall into the "Came for the fan service, stayed for the story" category. If it actually exists. Danmachi maybe?
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Furnaceface posted:Looking for anime that fall into the "Came for the fan service, stayed for the story" category. If it actually exists. Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Keijo!!!!!!!!, pretty much anything by Sunrise I guess.
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I watched my first anime show over the past few months, Hunter X Hunter, and I have to say it was the best drat thing I have ever seen and I want to watch more anime similar to it. Actually it’s my second anime because as a little kid I came across a show called Ronin Warriors on tv and got really into it. Anyways, what are some other anime as excellent as Hunter X Hunter
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SHOAH NUFF posted:I watched my first anime show over the past few months, Hunter X Hunter, and I have to say it was the best drat thing I have ever seen and I want to watch more anime similar to it. Yu Yu Hakusho by the same author might appeal to you. after that maybe look into Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Ushio & Tora, or Kaiji (depending on exactly what you liked about HxH)
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SHOAH NUFF posted:I watched my first anime show over the past few months, Hunter X Hunter, and I have to say it was the best drat thing I have ever seen and I want to watch more anime similar to it. Actually it’s my second anime because as a little kid I came across a show called Ronin Warriors on tv and got really into it. Anyways, what are some other anime as excellent as Hunter X Hunter
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SHOAH NUFF posted:I watched my first anime show over the past few months, Hunter X Hunter, and I have to say it was the best drat thing I have ever seen and I want to watch more anime similar to it. Actually it’s my second anime because as a little kid I came across a show called Ronin Warriors on tv and got really into it. Anyways, what are some other anime as excellent as Hunter X Hunter Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
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