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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Hunter x Hunter slows to a crawl once it hits the Chimera Ant arc though. Like I love it, it's probably my favorite shonen series, but "super well paced" it is not. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I ended up skipping that arc after a while, now that you remind me, because it took too long to get anywhere. I still kind of recommend it because up to that arc and afterwards it's great, but definitely a big asterisk now.
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Another is my favorite mystery/thriller, but it does have a bunch of slow burn moments in between all of the gruesome deaths. I think that's normal for the genre so maybe it's decently well paced in that context? Shiki is the only similar anime I can think of, and it's a much slower series. LoGH is sort of all over the place, there are huge space battles that are absolutely gripping but there are long stretches of political stuff that I remember kind of zoning out during. Not that I don't think every anime fan should absolutely watch it!
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Erased is pretty okay too although your mileage may vary on the ending.
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I wish more people would've read the manga for Erased because it was far better paced (8 volumes vs. 12 episodes) and certainly didn't rush its ending nearly as much.
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The Colonel posted:chimera ant's pacing is fine if you binge the entire arc across a week with no breaks This
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Greed Island is the real enthusiasm killer in HxH.
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If there was an edit that removed 90% of the narration and shortened the scenes that are extended solely for the narration Chimera Ant would be decently paced
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Aug 28, 2019 02:44
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It was the last arc I actually read but I remember liking Greed Island a lot in the manga, I wonder if it was better paced there.
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Terrible Opinions posted:If there was an edit that removed 90% of the narration and shortened the scenes that are extended solely for the narration Chimera Ant would be decently paced The epic narration is half of what makes Chimera Ant so awesome.
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Nate RFB posted:It was the last arc I actually read but I remember liking Greed Island a lot in the manga, I wonder if it was better paced there. I remember the pacing being good in the manga too. Went pretty smoothly from bumbling around like a bunch of noobs to eventually just metagaming the gently caress out of everything.
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Coincidentally, I’m in the middle of a HxH rewatch and am in the middle of the Chimera Ant Arc. Pretty much everything everyone above said is spot on. There are a lot of points where you could tell the author had an idea that never really materialized, like when they spend half an episode narrating the NGL crime boss’ back story and nothing really comes of it. He also spends too much time on the dynamics of the colony trying to set up the internal conflicts when it isn’t really necessary. He got the same level of characterization out of the Phantom Troupe without all the fluff. (And Yorknew is still my favorite arc.) Also, Palm is the most useless character, and I will never understand her purpose. The arc did give us Knuckle and Morel though. 
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Aug 28, 2019 11:27
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the internal conflicts/politicking of the chimera ants is the best part of the arc imo
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Aug 28, 2019 11:43
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The chimera ants part isn't great but the king arc is super good
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Aug 28, 2019 21:51
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ninjewtsu posted:The chimera ants part isn't great but the king arc is super good That's kind of my take. After the King is born and all the Royal Guard are fully introduced, the conflicts re: the first generation Ants become super low stakes. And tying up those loose ends take a bunch of time that I feel is just wasted. A couple neat things come from keeping them around, but overall, it becomes kind of a slog mucking down the conflict with Meruem and his arc with Komugi and Pitou.
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Endorph posted:the internal conflicts/politicking of the chimera ants is the best part of the arc imo
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idk chimera ant could definitely be improved but i ate up 50 episodes of it and got less bored than i have watching 26 episodes of any season of any other long-running shounen so i'll consider it successful
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Chimera Ant is epic all the way thru
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I did not say chimera ant was bad
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Looking for recommendations! I just binge-watched/read Houseki no Kuni, and it's left me craving something similar to it in terms of intensity. I love how the story is propelled by its characters making high-stakes decisions that are affected by their deepest desires and drives, and how the decisions they make tend towards self-destruction. Some things I can think of that give me a similar feeling: Chimera Ant arc of HxH Made in Abyss Madoka Fate/Stay Night Nier & Nier: Automata Eva Utena Bokura no I'll take anime, manga, or even video game recommendations. Thanks!
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drakengard 3 the revolutionary girl utena video game on the sega saturn fate/hollow ataraxia koudelka/shadow hearts/shadow hearts: covenant there's a lot of video games like this lol
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For video games, I would definitely throw Xenogears into that pile. I'm more hard pressed on anime, but what comes to mind would be akin to Promised Neverland Monster Paranoia Agent ...sighs Attack on Titan Maybe Eureka 7?
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Cephas posted:Looking for recommendations! you would probably enjoy the Rahxephon manga. It's almost completely different from the anime and only 3 volumes long. It's pretty intense.
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Julias posted:For video games, I would definitely throw Xenogears into that pile. Just go with me on this, but you try to watch Violet Evergarden if you have Netflix. You will feel intense things after an episode of that show.
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<comes in whisting Devilman Crybaby's OP> But really, Devilman Crybaby if you wanna feel existential despair and see poo poo slowly get worse and worse.
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Cephas posted:Looking for recommendations! wixoss
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Can second s1 and 2 of Wixoss. No idea how s3 and 4 are though.
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Maybe try this season’s Granbelm?
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tbf i wouldnt really call them 's3 and s4,' characters recur but there's no involvement from the writer of s1 and s2 and they start out with a different cast, and s2 of wixoss ends pretty conclusively. The more recent stuff isn't bad, but as someone who wasn't super into it I'd mostly describe it as like, a spinoff or something. An AU.
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Qualia the Purple is quite short and fits the bill.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:this is basically just a bunch of my favorite shows in disguise, but all the same: i more or less agree with this analysis, but i feel like the reason why this is the case is (if not exactly important) a fun note. whoever decided to end the TV anime where they did is a complete trolling rear end in a top hat and i love it for anyone who's not aware and doesn't wanna go watch for themselves, essentially: imagine you're watching a series that's spending a whole lot of time and effort on getting you invested in its main couple. when you're specifically on board with them or not on board with them is gonna vary, but regardless, the series desperately wants you to feel empathy for them and want a happy ending for them, and the varying plot twists seem to be specifically leading up to something like that. and then the female lead abruptly stabs herself in the gut with maybe 5 minutes to go in the last episode. and the protagonist then literally spends eternity in a horrible depression about it. THE END, MOTHERFUCKER, NO MORAL, HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE SHOW this is, if you haven't figured it out yet, not quite where the manga ends, and is in fact the manga's fake-out ending before the pendulum swings back the other way. the only hint as to this in the anime whatsoever is a brief stinger of the protagonist's future-prediction-phone-thingy changing that's actually kind of easy to miss. the OVA only needed to be an OVA, and only needed to have that padding, because whoever directed the anime was a complete amazing jackass.
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Yak of Wrath posted:Qualia the Purple is quite short and fits the bill. i've never felt my brain crash like this before lol, great manga
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Yeah qualia the purple is fantastic. It does so much crazy poo poo in just 18 chapters.
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So I found out that a bunch of my coworkers are all basically nerds and formerly weebs, and I was thinking of arranging movie evenings centered around environmentalist movies. We already have some American / English movies to watch, but I'm curious if there are any anime movies with heavy themes related to the environment / environmental sustainability? I have Princess Mononoke on my list already.
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Princess Mononoke's predecessor, Nausicaa!
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Stalins Moustache posted:So I found out that a bunch of my coworkers are all basically nerds and formerly weebs, and I was thinking of arranging movie evenings centered around environmentalist movies. We already have some American / English movies to watch, but I'm curious if there are any anime movies with heavy themes related to the environment / environmental sustainability? I have Princess Mononoke on my list already. origin: spirits of the past pom poko
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Davincie posted:origin: spirits of the past Fair warning; The opening credits track is a hell of an earworm that will never leave you.
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Stalins Moustache posted:So I found out that a bunch of my coworkers are all basically nerds and formerly weebs, and I was thinking of arranging movie evenings centered around environmentalist movies. We already have some American / English movies to watch, but I'm curious if there are any anime movies with heavy themes related to the environment / environmental sustainability? I have Princess Mononoke on my list already. Legend of the Forest
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Stalins Moustache posted:So I found out that a bunch of my coworkers are all basically nerds and formerly weebs, and I was thinking of arranging movie evenings centered around environmentalist movies. We already have some American / English movies to watch, but I'm curious if there are any anime movies with heavy themes related to the environment / environmental sustainability? I have Princess Mononoke on my list already. Fist of the North Star (1986)
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