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Furnaceface posted:I feel like Ive never actually asked this before but can you guys recommend me some anime from the late 80s and early 90s? Genre doesnt matter in this case. DBZ might be the only anime I have ever watched from that time period and I feel like Ive seen enough modern shows that it might be nice to watch some of the stuff that inspired it. Akira Fist of the North Star Patlabor Vampire Hunter D Grave of the Fireflies Gunbuster Golgo 13
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Furnaceface posted:That is one of my favourite moments and episodes in the show. The music that plays over it while the snow slowly accumulates is just so well done. Yu Yu Hakusho Patlabor Gunbuster Akira Kinnikuman
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AlternateNu posted:Fist of the North Star Havnt seen these ones yet. I remember starting Fist of the North Star at least twice but getting sidetracked at the exact same episode with something else and never going back.
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Furnaceface posted:That is one of my favourite moments and episodes in the show. The music that plays over it while the snow slowly accumulates is just so well done. I throw in Dirty Pair (1985) and Slayers (1995) into the hat
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GateOfD posted:I throw in Dirty Pair (1985) Also watch Dirty Pair Flash (1995) just for the comparison.
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Furnaceface posted:That is one of my favourite moments and episodes in the show. The music that plays over it while the snow slowly accumulates is just so well done. Saint Seiya, maybe? I know it never was much of a hit in the US, but it was huge in Latin America. Not sure how well it holds up nowadays, but its orchestral soundtrack still slaps. Slam Dunk's a pretty solid sports anime, too.
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YES bread posted:all the scenes where Subaru gets brutally or swiftly executed are good. I also like the parts where he cries those goddamn rabbits... re;zero rabbit scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYEIEu78uLM
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Furnaceface posted:That is one of my favourite moments and episodes in the show. The music that plays over it while the snow slowly accumulates is just so well done. Cyber City Oedo 808.
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Seconding Gundam 0080 War in the Pocket, and Patlabor (start with the Early Days OVA). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMpI_bc3LrI edit - and watch Gunbuster (1988) if you have not seen Gunbuster. The Dirty Pair Project Eden movie (1986) is also 80's as hell, radical and tubular, completely absurd in its plot and scope in a good way, just lots of fun. Mentat Radnor fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Feb 8, 2023 |
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Ninja Scroll Macross and Macross II Bubblegum Crisis I think I have VHS of these stashed somewhere. Man I got so nostalgic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an_0IIRDlc4 infraboy fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Feb 8, 2023 |
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Furnaceface posted:That is one of my favourite moments and episodes in the show. The music that plays over it while the snow slowly accumulates is just so well done. Gunbuster and Giant Robo
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AlternateNu posted:I also want to hop in and just say that Re:Zero's S2 opening, Long Song, is top 5 OPs of the last decade. And we only hear it like 3 loving times the whole season because they crammed so much content, they just skipped the OP/ED for 10 of the episodes. True, since numbers 1-4 are all Ciki Ciki Bam Bam https://youtu.be/TyqDOOpJlcA Furnaceface posted:I feel like Ive never actually asked this before but can you guys recommend me some anime from the late 80s and early 90s? Genre doesnt matter in this case. DBZ might be the only anime I have ever watched from that time period and I feel like Ive seen enough modern shows that it might be nice to watch some of the stuff that inspired it. Tenchi Muyo e: double fist the old and new Urusei Yatsura PRADA SLUT fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Feb 8, 2023 |
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I just finished biomega and it was nowhere near as good as blame!. It sort of made me think of when a five year old tells a story and says stuff like: "and then blammo and then pow and kaboom!". Makes sense to the person telling the story, but not the person listening. Trying Dr. Stone now and it's ok, I suppose.
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PRADA SLUT posted:Tenchi Muyo Very young me was always confused by this series. It kept resetting the plot and I didn't know why! Like trying to reconcile the difference between Muyo and Universe was more than my 11 year old brain could handle. I'm still trying to figure out what happened in the prime timeline. Or what even was the prime timeline for that matter.
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and then tenchi in tokyo came and just got totally lost
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My primary recollection of Tenchi Muyo was child me being constantly mad at Tenchi for not recognizing or appreciating how rad Ryoko was There’s a right choice and a wrong choice here Tenchi The right choice is the badass space pirate you loving rube
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Captain Oblivious posted:My primary recollection of Tenchi Muyo was child me being constantly mad at Tenchi for not recognizing or appreciating how rad Ryoko was Not emptyquoting.
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I don’t remember anything about tenchi but I assume ryoko was the woman with the business suit shoulders. How anyone else thought they had a chance with her around was absurd.
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Natural 20 posted:Very young me was always confused by this series. Teaching Muyo OVA was the main series and the other two(Universe and Tokyo) were "What if" type of spinoffs. Most if not all of the other spinoffs focus on following the OVA as that's what the one that follows the original works.
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Captain Oblivious posted:My primary recollection of Tenchi Muyo was child me being constantly mad at Tenchi for not recognizing or appreciating how rad Ryoko was plus, cat spaceship
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Captain Oblivious posted:My primary recollection of Tenchi Muyo was child me being constantly mad at Tenchi for not recognizing or appreciating how rad Ryoko was Truth. That is the one thing young me realised. No matter the timeline Ryoko is the best.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:*looks towards camera*
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I just finished the Girls' Last Tour manga and I loved it. I haven't read/watched much manga/anime in my life so popular stuff is on the table for recommending. Could someone recommend a manga/anime that has similar world-building but not extremely serious/depressing and leaves you Thinking About Things and has a strong message? More specifically: I really liked how the story didn't have to explain what happened to civilization. You can infer what happened by just seeing the world around them. I could have this wrong, but it seemed like society was building upwards to avoid the organic god type things that people worshiped which were trying to eat everything humans made and that's why humans left (or tried to leave) the planet. They left behind a huge collection of people's personal belongings, a ginormous library of books from all cultures, and robots to guard them (?) to cement their existence on Earth. It doesn't explain this, you just figure it out on your own. I would like something like that. A story with world-building that gives you little nuggets of lore and you slowly piece it together yourself. emptyrave fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Feb 18, 2023 |
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If you liked Girl's Last Tour you might enjoy Shimeji Simulation from the same author - the tone is a lot more surreal but it covers some similar themes. Other post-apoc (or adjacent) stories that may or may not convey their worldbuilding through hints, but are still worth a read: Uramachi Sakaba and the very similar Haraiso Days from the same author - both explore a futuristic setting through the goings-on at a diner. Haraiso's chapters are slightly longer while Uramachi's are more bite-sized. Usuzumi no Hate is also a last survivor-ish story, though the tone is probably a lot bleaker than Last Tour. Still, it has some nice character moments. Yohohama Kaidashi Kikou is a super well-regarded series that's still on my to-read list so I can't give a full description, but it's also a very laid-back take on the end-of-the-world-adjacent setting. In more general fantasy settings, there's stuff like Heterogeneous Linguistics where the protagonist travels through an unexplored continent populated by monsters and tries to learn about them and their society by studying their languages. There's plenty of room for readers to come up with their own theories and see if they're confirmed further down the line.
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emptyrave posted:I just finished the Girls' Last Tour manga and I loved it. I haven't read/watched much manga/anime in my life so popular stuff is on the table for recommending. Could someone recommend a manga/anime that has similar world-building but not extremely serious/depressing and leaves you Thinking About Things and has a strong message? More specifically: Yohohama Kaidashi Kikou and everything else by it’s author so fits your request it’s almost perfect imo
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Oh wow, thank you both!! I'm going to start Shimeji Simulation since it's from the same author but I'll come back to these recs afterwards. I realized my ask was pretty specific and I could've worded it better, but you were both really helpful.
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Well, I fished Re:Zero on goon recommend and it was mediocre at best. And I still don’t understand the anime worlds obsession with Rem. However, I thought, "there's no way all these nerds are just fetishizing the whole quiet/submissive girl but also Very Badass and worships an rear end of a self-insert MC". So I look for some "Why is Rem so popular" and it leads me to the Reddit anime page. And here are the results: quote:In many ways, she would be the ideal woman to have as a partner, she has good education, manners, physical condition, she is not malicious, although she is not very intelligent quote:She's genuinely cute and weird in a good way, basically a shut-in who doesn't care too much about anything besides the people close to her which in my opinion makes her feel like a real and believable person. quote:It’s mostly due to the fact that we all know from the start Rem hated Subaru but later on fell in love with him,the phycological factor is that people like it when a person who once hated them started to do a complete 180 on them because it’s basically a challenge to get to that point and they like that. Basically the jist of it is that people like characters more that once hated them over characters that already liked them from the start. I think the theory is called the gain/loss theory but I might be wrong on that. thanks a lot goons, this is all your fault 
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Going to Reddit is your own drat fault. Moron.
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why are you lumping in that second comment with the other two, they're not making any kind of reductive comment about her being waifu material, they're saying the character felt believable to them. genuinely that person is giving a normal description of why they liked how the character was written that's making some attempt to express how they come off as a person in the text, not backhandedly insulting her intelligence or describing her as a... relationship challenge
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PRADA SLUT posted:Well, I fished Re:Zero on goon recommend and it was mediocre at best. And I still don’t understand the anime worlds obsession with Rem.
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Feel free to go to the made in abyss subreddit and see the normal posts there tho
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Swerving away from...whatever that is, I want to recommend something. A series that got an anime that was fine, but by most fans of the series' accounts, did not do justice to the property. The Faraway Paladin. One of my favorite series, and one of the best isekai series around, it truly uses the reincarnation idea well; rarely relying on it, but rather using it to improve the person who was given a second chance at life after dying depressed and hopeless. Despite only having about 40 chapters out, it still feels even at the current point like a far longer adventure than that. The way the series deals with religion in a world where gods are real and create visible change in the world from their faiths, the way it deals with tragedy and loss, with how magic works, it's all just fantastic. The art is also quite good throughout most of it, especially in the later chapters. It's genuinely funny when it wants to be, it never makes the stakes seem trivial, and the world feels vibrant with every place he visits. I highly recommend it, it's wonderful.
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if you go looking online you can find lots of weirdos who got a crush on [female character] from [popular anime] and have found truly incredible ways of articulating why. it's anime so it's pretty hard to escape that, especially in a young male demographic targeting show with a heavy romance focus. if you really want to dig into it i think rem is popular because she has a memorable design, is pretty impressive in several action scenes, and gives the main character unconditional love and support in a way that is substantiated by her personal trauma and previous experiences with him. an entire episode is dedicated to a single conversation between her and subaru and she's an active love interest during a time when emelia is absent from the story, who was a largely passive love interest in the previous arcs. it'd be kinda weird if the fanbase at large didn't put a large focus on how they feel about her given the amount of time dedicated to her, and well it's anime fans so
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I think there's also some cool stuff at play around how we perceive Subaru and how the world he lives in must perceive him. To us he's this guy who hosed up and died like four times but to Rem he's someone who showed up, completely defied her expectations and came through for her in one of the most terrible situations in her life. So I think her being crazy about him is both logical and just genuinely a really interesting part of the premise of Re:Zero.
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bit off topic from why online nerds are gross about rem but yeah the way subaru knows everyone 4x longer (or more) than they've known him is a pretty interesting element of the show. somewhat tying back into said gross nerds back when the SA thread was discussing rem vs emelia and why subaru would choose emelia, i always thought the obvious answer was that while subaru's interactions with emelia are almost exclusively positive (big * there lol) he has an early memory of rem beating him to death with a chain. i somewhat wish that that kind of stuff had more direct lines drawn in story, though there's definitely plenty of angst over subaru's general experience of constantly "living" through horrifyingly traumatic events that no one else knows about and he can't talk to anyone about.
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that was one of my issues with it actually was the show never really gave the impression that anyone's known subaru for longer than like a week for all of season 1 so the big rem scene feels blown out of proportion for how soon it happens
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it's a big part of why emelia is really hesitant to accept subaru's affection as genuine and generally just doesn't understand him or his motivations very well rem specifically is a special case where her life and the value she places on it was recently redefined by subaru's actions so she has some recently formed extreme feelings about him to express during that big moment (iirc she said something along the lines of "i already had no reason to live, how dare you take away my reason to die" when subaru is captured by the cultists in the loop prior to their big moment). he literally convinced her that her life has value independent of her failure to be the person her sister could've been, so personally i can accept that her feelings for him developed very quickly. apparently the LN makes it more clear that her devotion to subaru is an unhealthy response to what happened and i wish there was more of that in the show. i thiiiiiiink the other characters generally react appropriately? idk subaru is weirdly buddy buddy with like, reinhardt and old man rom for them only having one or two interactions with him. i'd definitely give those more minor moments to you on that, i'd say we can presume they hung out off screen at some point but i really can't place where such a thing would've happened when subaru wakes up already in the mansion after getting chopped up by the assassin woman in the first arc. ninjewtsu fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Feb 19, 2023 |
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