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Tsuki Ga Kirei is an extremely good 12-episode romance.
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Is Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood fine to watch if you're unfamiliar with the original FMA? My wife has never seen FMA and I haven't watched any FMA in almost 15 years so I don't remember much other than there's a sexy lady with black hair and it's all secretly Hitler's fault. Should we just hop straight into Brotherhood or should we watch the original FMA first?
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Jun 7, 2020 11:10
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Mordiceius posted:Is Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood fine to watch if you're unfamiliar with the original FMA? original FMA branches off after...I want to say like chapter 30 or 50 of the manga? because it caught up and instead of waiting they wrote their own original storyline for it. the hitler thing and whatnot is entirely original to the first anime. FMA brotherhood is the manga in its entirety put to animation. the first 10 or so episodes are a bit fast-paced because the studio figures people have seen the initial parts of the series from the first anime, but then gets into a good, steady pace for the rest of it. I would say you can go straight into Brotherhood. the first episode's kinda weird, it's been a while since I've seen it but it throws a bunch of info from the early parts of the series together for an introductory episode for some reason, it always felt kinda unnecessary, but it's probably more for first timers. it's real nicely animated though.
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Jun 7, 2020 11:19
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Jun 7, 2020 11:49
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Mordiceius posted:Is Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood fine to watch if you're unfamiliar with the original FMA?
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Endorph posted:Brotherhood is its own thing. Its not a sequel, but a reboot thats trying to be closer to the original manga. The first third or so of the show goes through the early chapters at a pretty steady clip but it still works fine for people who havent read the manga.
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Thanks for the tips. I was aware of the situation with surpassing the manga, my main concern was just to whether the abridged nature of FMA:B’s beginning would make either of us feel lost. Some friends were telling me that they felt like FMA:B seemed like it expected that you had seen the original series.
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Mordiceius posted:Thanks for the tips. I was aware of the situation with surpassing the manga, my main concern was just to whether the abridged nature of FMA:B’s beginning would make either of us feel lost. Some friends were telling me that they felt like FMA:B seemed like it expected that you had seen the original series. I'm actually just re-watching FMA;B like 9 years later with my wife who had never seen it. One of her current favorite sci-fi authors (NK Jemisin) had tweeted about loving FMA etc so I suggested she check it out. Biggest thing I can tell so far is some of the early emotional connections with characters just doesn't develop because the story goes through super fast. Like Shou Tucker's daughter and the dog, that whole story was at least from what I remember really sad and built up for a while. In FMA:B you meet them one episode, dead the next and onto the 1st battle with Scar. It's still impactful, but I remember in the original series it was like, really more of a feeling of loss for everyone and now it's like "oh a kid, ok bye kid sorry your short life ended bad" and done. That said, I remember when I finished FMA:B I liked it a great deal more than the original FMA. We are on about ep 12 or so right now so I'll see if I can tell when it slows down.
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Ive shown brotherhood to people who had never even heard of the original 2003 series or the manga and they got it fine. There's one character whose intro is completely skipped but he's comic relief so him showing up and talking about stuff that never happened onscreen actually kind of works.
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Mordiceius posted:Thanks for the tips. I was aware of the situation with surpassing the manga, my main concern was just to whether the abridged nature of FMA:B’s beginning would make either of us feel lost. Some friends were telling me that they felt like FMA:B seemed like it expected that you had seen the original series. It's not abridged, and honestly I don't even really agree with the "rushed" assessment. It's more that the original FMA put an outsized emphasis on early characters / events that simply aren't that important in either FMA:B or the manga in the long run, except insofar as they inform other characters' motivations. Endorph posted:Ive shown brotherhood to people who had never even heard of the original 2003 series or the manga and they got it fine. There's one character whose intro is completely skipped but he's comic relief so him showing up and talking about stuff that never happened onscreen actually kind of works. plus this guy, but yeah, his deal is clear basically as soon as he shows up
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I never consumed any fma media and I liked brotherhood quite a bit.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:It's not abridged, and honestly I don't even really agree with the "rushed" assessment. It's more that the original FMA put an outsized emphasis on early characters / events that simply aren't that important in either FMA:B or the manga in the long run, except insofar as they inform other characters' motivations. Yeah, I’d agree. There are aspects about the beginning that are to a degree rushed, but the original basically gave the early characters expanded roles that created more attachment due to lack of manga material. Like the original basically expanded the timeline which is irreconcilable with how the manga/BH storyline plays out.
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Jun 8, 2020 05:37
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any anime where a drill hair girl is shown putting her drill hair together
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Jun 8, 2020 22:55
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Davincie posted:any anime where a drill hair girl is shown putting her drill hair together
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Jun 9, 2020 02:51
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This thread highly recommended FMA:B as my break in anime a few years back and it was probably the best suggestion possible now that I look back. I started off slow but I binged the whole back half over a single weekend once I got invested in everything. I still havnt started on the Legend of Galactic Heroes part of the original recommendation post though...
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Jun 9, 2020 03:55
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Endorph posted:This happens in madoka rebellion doesnt it?
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Jun 9, 2020 11:14
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Galactic Heroes is probably the fastest I've ever watched a show past around the episode 15 point, I spent the next like 5 days just... watching...
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klapman posted:Galactic Heroes is probably the fastest I've ever watched a show past around the episode 15 point, I spent the next like 5 days just... watching... Kiercheis... *Touches photo*
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Watching the 2003 Astro Boy dub, and it seems to have held up pretty well. It's got some definite early 00s dub hallmarks (mostly dialogue added where there probably wasn't any in the original) but is willing to not treat its audience as idiot children. (the whole 'kokoro' idea and all) it's got a very 'hit the ground running' or maybe in medias res feel, since there's a fair bit of implication from early on that while Astro's starting over from scratch, this isn't his first rodeo. Why do amnesiac narratives always make me think Disco Elysium now?
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Is this the Galactic Heroes people are talking about? Because it looks decent to me and I'm gonna start watching it. Tower of God is also going on my list, but in case those two fall through, I could use a cool anime about explosions. There are a few things that I have a very low tolerance for in anime: Pervy bullshit (Any scene with a character casually groping a boob or butt equals basically an instant loss of interest, because that personality trait isn't going away anytime soon), characters who exist entirely to be explained to, and characters who exist entirely to be boobs (Overlap often occurs with the previous peeves). These aren't deal-breakers in and of themselves, but the rest of the anime needs to be loving magnifique to get me to ignore that poo poo. I also don't enjoy the current trend of power fantasy isekai. Anime I have thoroughly enjoyed: FLCL Scryed (The result I got when I asked for a cool anime about explosions back in 2008 or so) Vandread (The sole exception to the boob-groping policy) Gurren Lagann MEGALOBOX Kakegurui Beastars Skull-Face Bookseller Honda-san The Tatami Galaxy My Hero Academia (Deku is not the hero I would have wanted him to be, but that's perfectly all right) Robotics;Notes Redline Anime I enjoyed, but not to the point of the previous category: Dr. STONE Ace Attorney (It's just going over the plot of the games, but still enjoyable) Attack on Titan Aldnoah.Zero Castlevania (Really need to watch season two, though) Anime I enjoyed, but felt went bad towards the end: Hunter X Hunter (The Chimera Ant arc tried to add an ensemble cast, went too big with it, killed off most of the interesting ones, the main characters didn't grow in any meaningful way, and then the anime ended and I can't find a source for the manga) Yakitate JaPan (The anime I think outpaced the manga, and the ending there was kinda forced and sudden. I finished the manga a few months back after remembering it existed, and the entire Yakitate 25 arc was an exercise in more and more strained puns, culminating in an admittedly cool final battle followed by a completely unnecessary final chapter where the world is saved from rising ocean levels with bread) Shokugeki no Soma (The third and fourth seasons just kinda dragged, I'm hoping it gets better in 5. All the clothes exploding leaned close to pervy bullshit, but at least it was mostly equal-opportunity) Anime I dropped for one reason or another, often just because I haven't felt like watching the next episode rather than some definite reason: Overlord (One episode, boob groping) Seven Deadly Sins (One episode, boob groping) Goblin Slayer (Pervy bullshit) Jojo's (I want to like it, but it's just weirdly-paced and something rubs me the wrong way about it. Season one was also a big offender in the people-existing-to-be-explained-to category. And yes, I did get up into what everyone calls the good part, the next episode in my queue is Death 13, part 2) Code Geass Ushio & Tora Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans Phi Brain (You'd think an anime about solving puzzles would be entirely my jam, but they just gloss over 80% of the actual puzzle) Fire Force One Piece (Like Jojo's, weirdly-paced and rubbing me the wrong way. Sanji also veers dangerously close to pervy bullshit and Nami too close to existing purely as boobs. I'm somewhere in the Mermaid Kingdom arc) Aggretsuko And probably like a dozen more that I can't remember, these are just from my crunchyroll and netflix queues.
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Dareon posted:Is this the Galactic Heroes people are talking about? Because it looks decent to me and I'm gonna start watching it. Tower of God is also going on my list, but in case those two fall through, I could use a cool anime about explosions. This is the modern remake; it covers (thus far) the first season of the original (80s) adaptation, which is available on Hidive in all 110 episodes of its talking-heads-over-classical-music splendor.
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Pick IBO back up, that show rules
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Going to give you two very different recs here and suggest you try Mushishi and also Mob Psycho 100. Both have two seasons, both are consistently spectacular.
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You are basically me so thank you for this post I'm looking forward to all the recommendations you get. Lemme recommend Vinland Saga (no explosions, but like, very cool and explosive fights and actions), SSSS Gridman, Any of the Lupin movies, Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex, One Punch Man, and Appare-Ranman!, tho that last one stopped airing due to covid, and is only just coming back next month, looks p good tho.
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e: wrong thread!
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Dareon posted:There are a few things that I have a very low tolerance for in anime: Pervy bullshit (Any scene with a character casually groping a boob or butt equals basically an instant loss of interest, because that personality trait isn't going away anytime soon), characters who exist entirely to be explained to, and characters who exist entirely to be boobs (Overlap often occurs with the previous peeves). These aren't deal-breakers in and of themselves, but the rest of the anime needs to be loving magnifique to get me to ignore that poo poo. I also don't enjoy the current trend of power fantasy isekai. Kimetsu no Yaiba Steins;Gate I'm also going to throw Fate/Zero in the ring despite the forum's general aversion to it outside the Fate fanbase. Its great as a stand alone series even if you don't plan on getting into the greater Nasuverse.
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Fate/Zero is okay but be warned it does lean into the edge HARD.
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Fate/zero spends a not-inconsiderable amount of time screwing over its female cast members. Fridging like four love interests sure is a thing.
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as someone who's fairly into fate i did not like fate/zero very much outside of like a couple eps but it seems pretty popular with a lot of people who can't get into other fate stuff so. idk
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gotta be honest before I make too many recommendations I have to hear how Kakegurui doesn't fall under pervy bullshit cause that show is unbelievably horny if it's specifically horny stuff used in a gag context that annoys you, I'd recommend Devilman Crybaby cause it's a very fun and snappy show that's over and done with in ten episodes
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klapman posted:gotta be honest before I make too many recommendations I have to hear how Kakegurui doesn't fall under pervy bullshit cause that show is unbelievably horny I watched one episode of Kakegurui and needed to go take a shower from how slimy it made feel
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it wasn't nearly as good as Kaiji, which I'd also recommend if you were into Kakegurui
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thetoughestbean posted:I watched one episode of Kakegurui and needed to go take a shower from how slimy it made feel yeah there's a lot of spittle and sweat flying towards the camera lol
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klapman posted:gotta be honest before I make too many recommendations I have to hear how Kakegurui doesn't fall under pervy bullshit cause that show is unbelievably horny Kakegurui isn't pervy. It is freaky. There is a wide gulf between those two descriptors, especially in the context of anime grab-assery.
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there are shows about people being horny and there are shows about "ha ha sexual harassment is hilarious" and for some reason the former is treated like it's taboo and for adult audiences only while the latter constantly makes its way into shows that are nominally for kids/teenagers
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Are there any other shows like Promised Neverland where there's a season arc basically about breaking out of jail? Any sort of Great Escape-style shenanigans or Ocean's Eleven heist twists?
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Dareon posted:Anime I have thoroughly enjoyed:
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Captain Hotbutt posted:Are there any other shows like Promised Neverland where there's a season arc basically about breaking out of jail? Any sort of Great Escape-style shenanigans or Ocean's Eleven heist twists? Great Pretender which is currently running. I was amazed by how Ocean's 11 it was. Maybe closer to something like the Sly Cooper games where it's a group of more honorable thieves loving over and robbing way shittier and legit evil criminals.
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klapman posted:gotta be honest before I make too many recommendations I have to hear how Kakegurui doesn't fall under pervy bullshit cause that show is unbelievably horny Lemme see if I can get this into words. Like, yeah, there's a lot of boobs and butt and squirming thigh close-ups, but the MC and the other horny chick aren't being horny for a person. That makes it better even if their horny is being displayed for the"benefit" of the viewer, and the rest of the characterization and detail is good enough that if the horny got too heavy I could roll my eyes and hold out until the actual psychological poo poo kicked back in. A lot of really great looking suggestions, thank you all.
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