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Re:Zero is very much fine. It's not breaking some huge new ground that no other isekai or fantasy story has done, but it attempts the bare minimum of having actual character development with flawed people with some semblance of broader lore that posits that the setting exists beyond the POV of the protag. None of these are particularly earth shattering pluses but most isekai only do the limpest of overtures for them so it's at least something. All of which is to say theres nothing wrong with not liking it because "a bit above average for an isekai" is not exactly a huge hurdle I think worth applauding.
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What other good groundhogs day anime is there aside from steins;gate?
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Was there any indication that there was an issue with that guy not liking it? Why is re:zero singled out from the half a dozen series they listed lol
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Summertime Rendering is airing right now, there's also the Saike Mata Shite mo manga (dunno if scans finished it yet).
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ninjewtsu posted:What other good groundhogs day anime is there aside from steins;gate? The Tatami Galaxy
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Apr 27, 2022 19:13
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ninjewtsu posted:Was there any indication that there was an issue with that guy not liking it? Why is re:zero singled out from the half a dozen series they listed lol
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Julias posted:The Tatami Galaxy You know somehow I have never heard anyone mention that that's an aspect of that story. I really should finally sit down and watch it
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ninjewtsu posted:You know somehow I have never heard anyone mention that that's an aspect of that story. I really should finally sit down and watch it It’s very good, I put it off because of over recommending but what sold me was same animation style as devilman crybaby. Also it’s actually funny and in college and not middle/high school.
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Tatami Galaxy is a show I wish aired a few years earlier since it would have truly changed my life if it aired when I was still in college.
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ninjewtsu posted:You know somehow I have never heard anyone mention that that's an aspect of that story. I really should finally sit down and watch it yes. the night is short, walk on girl is incredible too
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Whimsicalfuckery posted:Hi guys, during the pandemic I started watching a lot of anime and now that I've finished several really long good series I'm looking for stuff that can kind of fill the void. I wondered what you might recommend based off my lift of most enjoyed series? Revolutionary Girl Utena SSSS.Dynazenon Kyousogiga Mob Psycho 100 RahXephon Wolf's Rain
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Srice posted:Tatami Galaxy is a show I wish aired a few years earlier since it would have truly changed my life if it aired when I was still in college. I watched it in college and I definitely spent some time staring into the distance or at the wall/ceiling in contemplation lol. One of the dearest pieces of media to me + its companion walk on girl
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ninjewtsu posted:You know somehow I have never heard anyone mention that that's an aspect of that story. I really should finally sit down and watch it I mean it's not not groundhogs day but I'm not surprised nobody has described it like that, it's not a 'almost everything that happens is literally identical but the protag navigates it differently' show (it's still good).
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Hi everyone, thank you so much for your recommendations, I'm really looking forward to checking some of these out at the weekend.Julias posted:Senki Zesshou Symphogear Interesting synopsis! Added it to my list, cheers. The Colonel posted:I might not have given Hunter x Hunter enough time to get going, I think I stopped at episode 3. Do you think the original series or the newer one is better? Nadesico sounds wild, I'll give it a try, thanks! Chiasaur11 posted:Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans I can see the similarities just looking at the promotional materials haha. I'll give it a go (this will be my first look at anything Gundam related.) Fwiw I thought Shin held it together remarkably well to the point of being a little too stoic at times lol. DamnGlitch posted:It's not done but if you want sick animation Jujutsin kaisen. Didn't put it on there but I liked Jujutsu Kaisen, looking forward to the movie when it's available dubbed. AOT I think I watched all the way until part way through the 2nd season. I ill revisit it again at some point. ninjewtsu posted:what you liked about those shows and why you bounced off the others would probably be helpful Really hard to explain, I don't know why myself. I usually binge through series so it has to be interesting enough to hold my attention while not being so complicated that I lose the thread of who people are or what's going on in the plot. I did actually watch a lot of Re:Zero and I think I fell off sometime in the second season, after Echidna is introduced. To begin with I quite liked it but it started getting a little hard to follow. I think the earlier episodes where he's just figuring out what is going on and how to exploit the return by death thing are the strongest points of the show. It doesn't help that I don't usually vibe with isekai that much (Inuyasha not withstanding). Summertime Rendering looks cool, I get Shiki vibes from the synopsis so I'll check it out.  Tatami Galaxy doesn't sound like something I'd normally go for but I'll give it a try anyway and expand my horizons. Pootybutt posted:Revolutionary Girl Utena Thanks, I see Revolutionary Girl Utena come up a lot so I'll check it out. I watched Mob Psycho 100's first episode and thought the animation was amazing but decided to leave it until I could give it the right level of attention. Wolf's Rain I remember watching a long time ago - I couldn't tell you what happens in it. The others are new to me, I'll do a little research on them. Thanks
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Whimsicalfuckery posted:I might not have given Hunter x Hunter enough time to get going, I think I stopped at episode 3. Do you think the original series or the newer one is better? Nadesico sounds wild, I'll give it a try, thanks! the 90s anime has a cool vibe and a much darker aesthetic but it's much slower, has a fair bit of filler, doesn't adapt chimera ant and it kinda falls apart at greed island. interesting for a revisit of the story but the 2011 anime is a more complete and consistent one and by falls apart at greed island i mean this is the op for a chunk of the arc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLGhqvAdQrs
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you only watch the 99 version through the end of Yorknew (the first OVA series), but for that segment i think it's the better take thanks to the attention paid to stuff like lighting/atmosphere while 2011 just washes over everything with a light and brighter palette.
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Nate RFB posted:Re:Zero is very much fine. It's not breaking some huge new ground that no other isekai or fantasy story has done, but it attempts the bare minimum of having actual character development with flawed people with some semblance of broader lore that posits that the setting exists beyond the POV of the protag. None of these are particularly earth shattering pluses but most isekai only do the limpest of overtures for them so it's at least something. The main guy is incredibly annoying. I got through half of the first season and I couldn't handle all the screaming and bumbling around he does.
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Monolith. posted:The main guy is incredibly annoying. I got through half of the first season and I couldn't handle all the screaming and bumbling around he does. One of the major points of the show is his slow development into a good person who actually does some pretty cool things with his ability. That said, I know what you mean, they really pushed his annoyingness to the limit in the first season, and I had a hard time getting through it. But yeah, it's still better than most of the standard, boring isekai out there, I think.
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I'm rereading Pluto and it reminded me that I wanted to read more Urasawa. What's his most well known work? Any recommendations?
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Detective No. 27 posted:I'm rereading Pluto and it reminded me that I wanted to read more Urasawa. What's his most well known work? Any recommendations? Monster is definitely his most well known one, and it's very much worth checking out. Really can't go wrong with any of his work though I'll also recommend Billy Bat since it's as wild as it is ambitious.
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Outside of Pluto either Monster or 20th Century Boys would be his most well known works I guess. Can't speak for the latter but Monster is great and has a pretty good anime adaptation too if you're into that sort of thing
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I really enjoyed 20th century boys, it's a pretty good thriller with a great cast of characters and unexpected twists and turns. Probably it's biggest weakness is that it's obvious urusawa planned out the early volumes and the ending, but there's a large chunk in the middle where it feels like he's just "winging it".
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Detective No. 27 posted:I'm rereading Pluto and it reminded me that I wanted to read more Urasawa. What's his most well known work? Any recommendations? Monster is great, but at the moment I'm rereading Billy Bat and it's insane in all the best ways so I'm gonna recommend that.
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Detective No. 27 posted:I'm rereading Pluto and it reminded me that I wanted to read more Urasawa. What's his most well known work? Any recommendations? 20th Century Boys is probably the second best manga I've read outside of Berserk.
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If you want something more serialized, drawn by their hand, there's always Master Keaton. It wasn't specifically written by them, but one of the writers of Pluto was onboard. Got a friend that really loves the series.
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The Colonel posted:and by falls apart at greed island i mean this is the op for a chunk of the arc Lol oh wow that's pretty bad if that's what they decided to show off for their OP animation. Onwards. Are there any non gundam shows that match the sense of scale that the original show has? Among Gundam itself 0079 is still the only show (not counting the 90s UC ovas) where it intentionally feels like we're following one small but crucial part of a larger conflict. Other shows going forward all feel like every action of the war hinges on what the main cast is doing right now, so the wars end up feeling more tunnel vision-y. There's still some pretty large battles across these shows, but they don't invoke the same sense as the OYW stuff where there's always the hint of "yeah this is a big fight, but the wider conflict is even larger" vibes whenever stuff goes down. I know legend of the galactic heroes does macro scale combat really well but I'm wondering what other shows are out there that invoke that same feeling of being part of a larger fight.
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dunbine kinda has things hinging on show and neal given's crew for a bit earlier on but as the core conflict of that show gets bigger and bigger they end up basically just turning into another group of soldiers in the conflict whose individual contributions remain important but, aren't enough to turn the tides of the battle anymore, and they sink into the background of the way endgame conflicts because they've just grown so huge that even they can't keep track of what's going on anymore
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It's not really the main focus of Crest/Banner of the Stars, but when they do get around to doing battle it's really effective at doing the "one small ship trying to do its part in a huge battle" thing.
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Kingdom presents its war battles from the perspective of the foot soldiers, though I have to note that the first season is half CG and looks like rear end.
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Arc Hammer posted:Lol oh wow that's pretty bad if that's what they decided to show off for their OP animation. The first season of 86 has a bit of that. Spearhead gets the most dangerous missions, but they're just one cog in a larger war machine in one front of a much wider war. Of course, the wider stuff only comes up in season 2, when they're more central. For OVAs, there's Mellowlink, the VOTOMs spin-off all about one soldier's revenge quest in the shadow of the larger conflict, and maybe Power Dolls, two one shot OVAs that are vaguely part of a war that only gets covered in the games. Of course, the best example of that I can think of is from novels, not anime. In the 40K "Gaunt's Ghosts" books, there's always an intro talking about the wider war. The general assessment is almost always about Warmaster Macaroth and his daring, risky strategies that decide the fate of billions in one nailbiting engagement. The protagonists, if they get mentioned at all, are just tossed in alongside the 10th Mardine Dog-kickers and the 18th Cadian Expendables as one of the contributing forces. And even the war as a whole is just for one cluster of worlds that most of the wider galaxy will never care about. chiasaur11 fucked around with this message at 23:26 on May 17, 2022 |
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Gods, jf there was an anime equivalent of Sharpe/Gaunt I would be all over that.
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Arc Hammer posted:Gods, jf there was an anime equivalent of Sharpe/Gaunt I would be all over that. Last Exile is a tiny tiny bit of that
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Last Exile captured that sense of watching a ps1/2 jrpg cutscene but a series quite a bit before Made in Abyss, and a lil bit better in my book.
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Tales of Woe posted:mal scores are good at telling you what the sort of people who watch anime youtubers think is good and bad, that's about it Fangz posted:Yeah there's lots of 6/10 shows I like a lot.
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Coaaab posted:alright, what are everyone's fav anime that are rated below 7.00 on mal? Samurai Flamenco Concrete Revolutio .hack//Sign Overman King Gainer Jashin-chan Dropkick Kill Me Baby Punch Line most of these are at like 6.9 but still... and its not really a favorite but mayoiga is a good show under 6.00. i havent watched blue reflection ray yet but thats also under 6 and people here said it was good
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Coaaab posted:alright, what are everyone's fav anime that are rated below 7.00 on mal? Gundam: Reconguista in G has a 5.77 which is insanely wild because it makes it the lowest rated Gundam series by a significant margin when it's actually one of the best. I knew that one off the top of my head though. Looking around some more I mostly see low ratings for a lot of movies I enjoy a lot, which means that either everyone is wrong or I have the disease that makes me think bad things are good. Here's some movies that I think are pretty good and/or interesting but have a rating below 7 on MAL because of the various ne'er-do-wells on MAL: Urusei Yatsura: Lum the Forever (for my money's worth it's the second best UY movie!) Aim for the Ace (Dezaki RULES and it is a crime that it's rated so low) Ai City Windaria Pandora and Akubi Seven Days War Poupelle of Chimney Town Could probably find more if I dug around but I figure that's a decent start!
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Oh, and Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space. I can't forget that one, even if 99% of the people who've seen it want to forget it!
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Srice posted:Oh, and Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space. I can't forget that one, even if 99% of the people who've seen it want to forget it! I just looked this up and what the gently caress is that synopsis
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