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EvilJoven posted:Im sick af and looking for something to watch. I used to be into anime a lot when I was a kid and you'd hike to that one comic book store that rented dvds. Last Exile came out back in 2003 yea? Gonna take a wild guess and say you ducked out of anime back in the late 2000s, correct me if I'm wrong. If so, and you haven't watched Hunter X Hunter (2011), it will be extremely up your alley. One of the most popular 'young boy goes on an adventure' series, for good reason. The later the story arc the better it gets. I'm not sure if Netflix has the whole series, but there are 148 episodes fyi. You could also watch A Place Further Than The Universe if you want to see a young girl go on an adventure. Definitely more grounded and realistic than most anime, but considering how much you liked the first episode of Yuru Camp I think this one is gonna be a slam dunk. And finally, Steins;Gate is all about 'what if hanging out with your college buddies' became an adventure. The first ten (twelve?) episodes are funny and on the slower side of things, but when things go south things go south. Excellent voicework in this one no matter which language you choose. Feel better! Edit: Also the first season of Yowamushi Pedal sounds like super your jam. I haven't watched it myself but it was a hugely popular cycling anime in the last decade. Worth a shot. Malsangoroth fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Sep 1, 2022 |
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EvilJoven posted:Avatar, The Dragon Prince, The Witcher, How to train your dragon series, The OA, Black Sails, The Mandalorian, Stranger Things to name a few. Eureka Seven - though it does get dramatic and philosophical quite a bit, it also has people piloting robots that literally surf on giant robot surfboards upon sky-wave energy set to a top shelf soundtrack. And if you like character growth, Renton and Eureka are great for that.
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EvilJoven posted:Avatar, The Dragon Prince, The Witcher, How to train your dragon series, The OA, Black Sails, The Mandalorian, Stranger Things to name a few. Well, you might like Chainsaw Man, which starts in October. It's about a teenage orphan who grew up in poverty, and how he learns to live in society when he finally escapes his hometown and his father's debt. He meets a lot of people, learns about life and love, and establishes new goals. It's really good, probably going to be one of the big hits, especially since the manga is already a bestseller. Admittedly, his initial goal is touching boobs, and most of his friends die horribly, but it still seems like it might be what you want. For stuff that's already out, Mob Psycho 100 is about a teenager with psychic powers and his growing up while working for a fraud exorcist, 86 is basically a well done YA novel where a young major tries to help the troops under her command (including a emotionally distant but still caring ace pilot who she quickly falls for. As I said, YA.) fight against her society's prejudice and the endless armies of zombie robots swarming over the world, Gridman and its sequel Dynazenon are the most naturalistic stories you'll find about kaiju fighting giant robots, Baccano is a jazzy (and not-entirely linear) story about prohibition era gangsters, thieves with hearts of gold, a train, and immortal alchemists, Future Boy Conan is an old-school adventure set in a series of post-apocalyptic islands, Gun Gale Online is about a socially isolated college student learning to make friends by playing a vicious PVP MMO, Hisone and Masotan is about an overly honest JSDF pilot candidate who's recruited to fly a dragon, and Mobile Suit Gundam, Iron Blooded Orphans is about a unit of child soldiers in a PMC who have to escort a diplomat to Earth from Mars so she can advocate for their homeworld. Any of those sound like they could be interesting?
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Endorph posted:hell yeah I'm half way through the first season and this poo poo is adorable af has made me laugh a few times and now I wanna try the curry soup and stuff. Thanks for the recommendation!
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If you like that try Yama no Susume/Encouragement of Climb which is similar but with a focus on climbing (obviously) rather than just camping and has very slightly more drama.
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EvilJoven posted:Avatar, The Dragon Prince, The Witcher, How to train your dragon series, The OA, Black Sails, The Mandalorian, Stranger Things to name a few. Wakfu is pretty great. It's franime instead of anime, but has a fun hero's journey and a fantastic first season which tells a complete story. Basically, an orphan kid is trying to find his family, and discovers his magical powers along the way, while picking up a knight errant, a bratty princess, her bodyguard, and a cranky old prospector along the way. It also has one of the best fight scenes I've seen in a series. Tunicate fucked around with this message at 07:40 on Sep 12, 2022 |
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Watched Wakfu with subs (didn't remember enough French from school to make it through) and it was pretty great. The main villain goes loving ham in French, it's a sight to behold. It takes a while before the animators get a real handle on their toolkit, but when they do, oh boy. They can have some fun. https://i.imgur.com/W9kxTvp.mp4 They somehow managed to make me give a poo poo about a three episode long soccer torunament, too. So i guess that's another recommendation from me. HenryEx fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Apr 29, 2023 |
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Sep 12, 2022 18:52
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Never actually watched the show but I do love how the villain moves. Just the way the head juts up feels so mechanical and amazing.
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guess i'll recommend dofus as a wakfu-related thing that gets less talk. it's less of a continuous story and instead is focused on the daily lives of an old adventurer guy, his adopted son, their talking house and their lesbian housekeeper, every episode is about the old guy telling people his stories about his rambunctious adventures from his youth. there's a general lighthearted air of him being kind of a selfish jackass who never learned from his mistakes and broke a lot of the relationships he had back then in the process, but acted in ways that did ultimately help others with his better nature reflecting in his adoption of and genuinely supportive relationship with joris. joris also appears in stuff around wakfu's time so it's neat if you want a bit more context for him as a character
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I watched Ghost in the Shell last night in theaters and it's made me want to check out the rest of Oshii's anime films I haven't watched yet (I tried watching his live action Kerberos films and nope can't do it). So far of his work I've watched his Patlabor films, Ghost in the Shell and the sequel Innocence and I think I miight have seen parts of The Sky Crawlers? Ironically I think my favourite Oshii film is Jin-Roh, which he didn't direct, so it feels more human while still exploring his social insights. What should I be looking for next.
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Arc Hammer posted:I watched Ghost in the Shell last night in theaters and it's made me want to check out the rest of Oshii's anime films I haven't watched yet (I tried watching his live action Kerberos films and nope can't do it). As other's said, Angel's Egg. I'd also highly recommend the 6 episode OVA series, Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai.
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as another rec ask mentioning ghost in teh shell, i watched that movie with my dad the other week and he really enjoyed it. mostly the philosophical stuff about the nature of life and existence, the scifi aesthetics and everything he seems to just like not love. anyone have any recs for other anime movies that have a similarly plainly-philosophical bent to them?
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So something with philosophical musings but without a sci-fi aesthetic, or is that still okay? You could always try showing him the Memories short film anthology. Stink Bomb is mostly fluff and jokes about overworked salary men (its great don't get me wrong) but Magnetic Rose had got Satoshi Kon's signature view of the nature of illusion versus reality all over it and Cannon Fodder has a poo poo ton to say about militarized society, xenophobia and ignorance and done almost entirely through visuals.
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Obvious answer but Fullmetal Alchemist probably fits the bill.
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ninjewtsu posted:as another rec ask mentioning ghost in teh shell, i watched that movie with my dad the other week and he really enjoyed it. mostly the philosophical stuff about the nature of life and existence, the scifi aesthetics and everything he seems to just like not love. anyone have any recs for other anime movies that have a similarly plainly-philosophical bent to them? The Psycho-Pass movie, the very first one. Maybe Angel's Egg or Night on the Galactic Railroad if he's open to more dreamlike and artsy fare.
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ninjewtsu posted:as another rec ask mentioning ghost in teh shell, i watched that movie with my dad the other week and he really enjoyed it. mostly the philosophical stuff about the nature of life and existence, the scifi aesthetics and everything he seems to just like not love. anyone have any recs for other anime movies that have a similarly plainly-philosophical bent to them? I can't judge how philosophical is philosophical here without knowing more, but maybe Jin Roh?
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ninjewtsu posted:as another rec ask mentioning ghost in teh shell, i watched that movie with my dad the other week and he really enjoyed it. mostly the philosophical stuff about the nature of life and existence, the scifi aesthetics and everything he seems to just like not love. anyone have any recs for other anime movies that have a similarly plainly-philosophical bent to them? Angel's Egg
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ninjewtsu posted:as another rec ask mentioning ghost in teh shell, i watched that movie with my dad the other week and he really enjoyed it. mostly the philosophical stuff about the nature of life and existence, the scifi aesthetics and everything he seems to just like not love. anyone have any recs for other anime movies that have a similarly plainly-philosophical bent to them? Julias posted:As other's said, Angel's Egg.
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While they aren't exactly as philosophizing on a grand scale, I would say try Satoshi Kon's films like Millennium Actress and Paprika. They are at the very least thought-provoking and beautiful.
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Hi! I rewatched Samurai Champloo for the first time since I was a teenager and I like it better now than then, and I loved it back then. So now I'm looking for some "quality" shows because after perusing a few anime's I'm realizing just how quality SC really was so that's why I specify that. I like all genre's except comedy but obviously if there's comedy in it like SC and Bebop that's fine. Anything sad, soulful, etc is good too....if it's quality. If it makes me cry, all the better. I think I've tried every anime on netflix and just couldn't get into them. edit: Oh and I think I've seen most of the heady/philosophical/surreal/horror stuff like Paprika and I'm probably not into that stuff anymore.
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Have you tried Edgerunners yet or Carole and Tuesday? Watanabe did C&T so it shares DNA with Champloo.
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Arc Hammer posted:Have you tried Edgerunners yet or Carole and Tuesday? Watanabe did C&T so it shares DNA with Champloo. I have not! Thank you!
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Arc Hammer posted:Have you tried Edgerunners yet or Carole and Tuesday? Watanabe did C&T so it shares DNA with Champloo. Yeah, Edgerunners does feel like a callback to an earlier era. It's good, but does go more towards old OVAs than Bebop. For another Watanabe, there's Macross Plus, one of the two big Top Gun inspired mech OVAs. Three college friends are torn apart by an incident initially left unexplained, only to reunite years later when the two guys, Guld Goa Bowman and Isamu Dyson (voiced in the dub by Bryan Cranston) wind up competing as test pilots in a head-to-head trial for cutting edge Variable Fighters while the woman, Myung Fang Lone, plays manager to the first virtual idol, Sharon Apple. Things get messier from there. Might also recommend Big O, if you don't mind philosophical and weird with your robots. For a slightly more left field pull... Tatami Galaxy? Fast paced, witty, and very creative, it's about a college student's attempts to have the perfect campus life, hindered by his own indecisiveness and his "best friend" Ozu, a notorious troublemaker who seems to have made it his mission in life to ensure the protagonist never has anything go smooth. Got a pretty big list ready, and if you have anything more specific you'd like, I'd love to see if I've seen anything in the right line, but those should be a decent start, assuming you don't have trouble tracking them down.
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thehandtruck posted:Hi! Akudama Drive
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ping pong the animation 86 gundam: iron blooded orphans post-season 1 attack on titan jujutsu kaisen (note: primarily recommended for very high quality fight animation, everything else is average to above average quality) erased
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thehandtruck posted:I rewatched Samurai Champloo for the first time since I was a teenager and I like it better now than then, and I loved it back then. So now I'm looking for some "quality" shows because after perusing a few anime's I'm realizing just how quality SC really was so that's why I specify that. I like all genre's except comedy but obviously if there's comedy in it like SC and Bebop that's fine. Anything sad, soulful, etc is good too....if it's quality. If it makes me cry, all the better. I think I've tried every anime on netflix and just couldn't get into them. Give Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song a try. Very cool fight scenes, plot is alright and decently cool (if you don't think too hard about it). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLLpfJxQrFY Saoshyant fucked around with this message at 10:07 on Oct 3, 2022 |
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thehandtruck posted:Hi! Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu Kids on the Slope Mushishi
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You guys rock, thank you. I'll report back!
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kiminewt posted:So I'm looking for a realistic sports manga/anime, preferrably not baseball. I am once again asking for recommendations of realistic sports/endeavour-based manga/anime. Last time I read/watch the following that were recommended: Run With the Wind, Supinamarada and Real. Liked all of them. I also watched Ao Ashi which was generic but alright.
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blue period is a pretty realistic art school/painting manga with a decent anime?
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Read Giant Killing: long-running realistic pro soccer manga starring a former player returning to lead his old club to victory as a manager. I’ve heard the anime is mediocre, so just read the manga. I think it’s excellent but I also think Ao Ashi is great (though I haven’t watched the anime for that either) so your mileage may vary.
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edit: I did not read the quote that listed stuff you already read, oops. Huh, Slam Dunk isn't on there. Read Slam Dunk, it's a classic and you see it referenced surprisingly often. Sindai fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Oct 8, 2022 |
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Oct 8, 2022 19:21
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All-Rounder Meguru is very good and pretty far on the realism end of the spectrum Also watch Ping Pong
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teppu is a good mma manga though the ending is pretty jarring and sudden, iirc the author got sick and had to call it. still a good manga tho
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No clue about sports anime or manga except for already-mentioned Slam Dunk and Teppu, which are good. On the "endeavour-based" front, I know you said Shirobako and Bakuman didn't hit the spot for you, but it doesn't get much better than Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, which is also drawing/animation themed. It's technically within the typical "girls doing things" subcategory, but it very much feels like its own thing, and has some excellent character humor in the middle of its animation club shenanigans. It also has some fairly elaborate worldbuilding which is conveyed almost entirely from context cues and environments - I don't think the characters ever mention anything about the weird post-climate change, slightly solarpunk Japan the show is set in. The current anime season also features Do It Yourself!!, an anime original about a DIY club. It's only got one episode out, but it has a very charming and unique look. Last one I'll mention which is an entirely by-the-book "girls doing things" entry is Let's Make a Mug, Too. There's nothing particularly special about it but it's about pottery and pottery is cool  It can be harder to find "hobby and/or activity" stories that aren't set in high school, but two mangas that go the opposite way are Like a Butterfly and Umi ga Hashiru End Roll. Both involve elderly protagonists that decide to pursue a long-held artistic passion later in life (ballet in Butterfly and filmmaking in End Roll). Like a Butterfly is complete (haven't read it all the way through yet) and End Roll is just getting started, with 8 chapters out. Of the ones I've read, the closest one to a hobby/activity story with a young adult protagonist would be Cuprum's Bride. The story's more romance than anything, centered around the daily life of an engaged couple, but there's decent focus placed on the guy's trade as a traditional coppersmith.
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kiminewt posted:I am once again asking for recommendations of realistic sports/endeavour-based manga/anime. Hanebado! is pretty good. Heavy on the drama and the matches are super well animated to the point of maybe being a bit too clean. And it's a quick run through at 13 eps.
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kiminewt posted:I am once again asking for recommendations of realistic sports/endeavour-based manga/anime. Days - manga and anime were both good imo. The manga has 300+ chapters, hits a little different than Ao Ashi but I think if you liked Ao you'd like Days as well. Ace of the Diamond both manga and anime are good, not amazing, but solid. Rookies is old but if you haven't read it, do it. Bit dated now but still funny-serious HS baseball manga.
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