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Malsangoroth posted:Check out Seirei no Moribito, it's my gold standard for "woman leads who drive the plot" kind of stuff. She might also enjoy Twelve Kingdoms, which starts out decent and becomes fantastic; my personal recommendation is to stop watching after episode 39, since it has one of the best ending points for an ongoing story I've ever seen and the last six episodes set up a sequel that never came to be. I'll second both of these as being fantastic shows in their own right and the fact that they have extremely strong female leads is just a bonus
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hey mom its 420 posted:I have a list of stuff I have yet to watch, which of these would you guys recommend the most: FLCL, Baccano, Legend of Galactic Heroes, Jujutsu Kaisen, Kill la Kill. Legend of the Galactic Heroes, and it's not even close.
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I mean I'd say Baccano! is a super cool show if you want something that's fun and also not over a hundred episodes.
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hey mom its 420 posted:I watched Zankyou no Terror at the advice of this thread and it was excellent! It's a great thriller series. The art and animation is great, has good characters, it keeps you saying holy poo poo i gotta see the next episode. It's also nice that it gets wrapped up in one season. FLCL, it’s a nice tight six eps. Then follow it up with several hundred eps of LoGH
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I rewatched LotGH with my partner during lockdown and I was so sad when it was over it's so drat good, even if some of the stuff that happens during space battles is kind of stupid (look out for the space currents pulling you into the space whirlpool!)
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Saoshyant posted:Humanity Has Declined (Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita). It's a surreal comedy and a cynical social critique, painted in the most colorful pastels you can imagine. The main character is... refreshing -- a deadbeat doing the work no one else wants in a world where humanity is approaching extinction, and that job being a UN mediator with an entirely new species. Said species are a bunch of weird smiling fairies, easily excited and ready to commit exactly all of humanity's excesses without a care in the world. It's pretty drat unique. Seconding this rec. Two things to know going in, though. There is a bit of a lull in the middle, and the story arcs are shown out of chronological order, Haruhi-esk.
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PRADA SLUT posted:Needs recs for an adult woman (if relevant). Not necessary josei or love drama. If it mains women, they should drive positive action in the plot. Doesn’t have to be acclaimed, just good enough to the degree of like a western superhero TV show. Revolutionary Girl Utena
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hey mom its 420 posted:I watched Zankyou no Terror at the advice of this thread and it was excellent! It's a great thriller series. The art and animation is great, has good characters, it keeps you saying holy poo poo i gotta see the next episode. It's also nice that it gets wrapped up in one season. Watch Baccano first for sure, it's one of the most fun anime ever made and it's relatively short. Then watch LOGH if you have an abundance of free time, or FLCL if you want something else even shorter.
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I always forget that Watanabe directed Terror in Resonance.
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hey mom its 420 posted:I watched Zankyou no Terror at the advice of this thread and it was excellent! It's a great thriller series. The art and animation is great, has good characters, it keeps you saying holy poo poo i gotta see the next episode. It's also nice that it gets wrapped up in one season. baccano is very fun and everyone is recommending it for good reason jujutsu kaisen has excellent fight sequences and the writing is perfectly adequate! go for that one if you want a spectacle for turning your brain off i haven't seen flcl or logh. i do not recommend kill la kill, my biggest praise for it would be its fun animation style which i think is beat out in being fun to watch by jujutsu kaisen. i don't really have a high opinion of much* else about it *the soundtrack rules
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ninjewtsu posted:i haven't seen flcl or logh. You should correct both of these things!
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AnoHito posted:You should correct both of these things! i should and i've known it for years alas
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ninjewtsu posted:i should and i've known it for years Correcting the FLCL mistake should be easier. There's six episodes and out, while LOGH is... a bit longer. (I'm actually more fond of Prog than most, but it's a 7/10 on a good day. The only way it can compete with the original is in comparison to Alt, which is just awful.)
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Alright, thanks everyone! I started watching Baccano and I'll get to the others eventually. The first episode of Baccano was definitely interesting, I have no idea what's going on and it introduced a million characters that all kind of look similar and have werid names. It looks great though and I'm wondering how it all fits together so it has me hooked. And while we're on the topic of single season shows, if anyone hasn't seen Odd Taxi, give it a go. It's one of my favorites. It's about a walrus that's a taxi driver in Tokyo.
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the first episode of baccano is something to go back and watch later after you've finished the show to forensically study and determine where in the timeline each scene occurs. the characters will be reintroduced in a way that you'll actually remember
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weird disjointed first episodes ftw. i like the first episode of shin mazinger that's literally just a clip show of the entire rest of the show so you can know going in that yes, they will meet zeus and zeus is a giant guy with a mazinger z helmet
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I thought Violet Evergarden was a pretty good show with a female lead. It's about a soldier who gets injured in the war and becomes a letter writer. Pretty relaxed and touching.
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I've got two recommendation requests for you folks. 1. Other than Ping Pong, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and maybe one or two others, I've watched almost no anime from the last decade or so. What would you all recommend as stand-out must-sees? For reference, some of the other things I've seen and enjoyed are: Legend of the galactic heroes Evangelion Black lagoon Code geass FLCL Cowboy bebop Darker than black Witch hunter robin Ergo proxy Ghost in the shell SAC Fullmetal alchemist Escaflowne TTGL Kaiba Mushishi Gankutsuou The rose of versailles Fang of the sun dougram The tatami galaxy Shiki Haibane renmei Various ghibli stuff Akira Master keaton 2. Hit me with recommendations for what you'd consider an under-rated show. I'm thinking something like Witch Hunter Robin, for example. Shows that maybe aren't perfect, but are pretty drat solid, and don't get discussed all that much.
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Vinland Saga, definitely. follows a warrior in viking times, just one of the best series currently running. Also, Odd Taxi. just go in blind. there's a TON of stuff that's come out in the last decade, off the top of my head you could try to check out: Planet With Megalobox A Place Further Than The Universe Hinamatsuri The Eccentric Family Uncle From Another World Sweetness and Lightning March Comes In Like A Lion SSSS Gridman Flying Witch Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Golden Kamuy Ya Boy Kongming
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ODDTAXI is definitely underrated and worth a view. It’s a fantastic one season intrigue/thriller show.
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thetoughestbean posted:ODDTAXI is definitely underrated and worth a view. It’s a fantastic one season intrigue/thriller show. I agree that it's worth a view, but underrated feels like an odd way to describe a show that's almost universally praised, and that managed to claw its way from obscurity to smashing every goal in its DVD box set preorder campaign. It's a lot more obscure than something like MHA or Attack on Titan, but it's also gotten enough adoration that "underrated" feels like one of the few compliments it doesn't merit. For some shows that haven't been brought up: Attack on Titan is one of the biggest names in anime for the last decade. The final final episode (it's a long story) is airing this year, and it might be worth getting caught up. The summary (avoiding spoilers as best I can) is that the last known refuge of humanity is a massive walled city. Outside, giant monsters called Titans roam the land, devouring anyone foolish enough to challenge them. Humankind's best weapon is 3D Maneuver Gear, used by the highly skilled (and highly expendable) Survey Corps to fly through the air like Spider-Man, letting them fight the Titans on their own turf. The protagonist, Eren, wants to join the Survey Corps, save humanity, and wipe out the Titans, alongside his nerdy best friend Armin, and his adopted sister Mikasa. But things don't go as planned. A lot of twists and turns follow, with amazing action and brutal violence. It has some stumbles, but overall, I'd say it earned its massive popularity. Promare is a movie by some of the team behind TTGL. It's the future, and firefighters use giant robots to fight against pyrokinetic superhumans, but there's something rotten in the state of Denmark. Not too smart, but good looking and lively. Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans. The latest completed Gundam AU, IBO's one of the grittiest shows in the series. You don't need any previous Gundam to know what's going on, since it's a new continuity, but to give the basics: In the future, after a cataclysmic war nearly wiped out humanity, a bunch of Martian child soldiers are hired to escort a young diplomat to Earth to plead for colonial self-rule. The corrupt Space Police don't much like this, forcing the kids to fight there way through with an ancient giant mech called Gundam Barbatos. Politics, mech fights, and yakuza style back alley murders ensue. Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunnygirl Senpai: Is better than the title sounds. Basically, it's a well done standard Light Novel format, where a snarky and socially unpopular (he has two friends at the start of the series) outcast meets a famous young actress having a supernatural problem. The two come to grow attached to each other, and wind up helping other people with their weird teenaged supernatural problems like time loops, duplication, amnesia, and so on. If you like old screwball comedy style snappy dialogue and a couple that actually talks to each other about their issues, then it might be worth a look. Konosuba An Isekai where everyone is intentionally a stupid rear end in a top hat pile of issues. It's pretty funny. Also Mob Psycho 100, 86, Dynazenon... look, there's a lot of good stuff. I've got a word count limit to worry about here, so I can't give everything full details, but hopefully at least some of this will be to your tastes.
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Cock and Balzac posted:I've got two recommendation requests for you folks. 1. Mob Psycho 100 86 (Eighty-Six) Land of the Lustrous OddTaxi Vinland Saga Tatami Time Machine Blues (Sequel to The Tatami Galaxy) SSSS.Gridman SSSS.Dynazenon Konosuba Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight Girl's Last Tour Natsume Yuujinchou A Place Further than the Universe Bocchi the Rock March Comes in Like a Lion Acca 13 And a couple of films: A Silent Voice Pompo the Cinephile On-Gaku Promare Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu 2. Harukana Receive Poco's Udon World Deca-Dence Planet With Sonny Boy Heike Monogatari Flip Flappers Pretty Boy's Detective Club Hinamatsuri Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song Call of the Night
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Cock and Balzac posted:I've got two recommendation requests for you folks. dorohedoro!
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chiasaur11 posted:I agree that it's worth a view, but underrated feels like an odd way to describe a show that's almost universally praised, and that managed to claw its way from obscurity to smashing every goal in its DVD box set preorder campaign. I never see people who aren’t goons talk about it! I guess I just don’t have a sense for what’s been well-received beyond the smash hits
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thetoughestbean posted:I never see people who aren’t goons talk about it! I guess I just don’t have a sense for what’s been well-received beyond the smash hits It had a slow buildup in popularity as it was airing, and after it finished and nailed the ending there was an explosion in people talking about it online, specifically because they felt it wasn;t getting the attention it deserved, which got more and more people into it. It's not normie level popular, but among most anime communities outside of that you'll see people singing its praises.
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thetoughestbean posted:I never see people who aren’t goons talk about it! I guess I just don’t have a sense for what’s been well-received beyond the smash hits Oh, that's totally fair. Since Odd Taxi wasn't on Toonami or something, it doesn't get mass attention outside of anime geek circles, and if this is your main location for that, then it'd be easy to miss any other talk. It's in the top 600 for My Anime List popularity, it got the top weekly karma on the main anime reddit for the finale, setting a record for the highest climb in position (since it started with almost no-one watching it), and it tended to make people's "best of" lists on a lot of forums. In addition, I've seen a surprising amount of merch made for it after it started being on the radar, suggesting that a market grew as the show did. It's not like Madoka or Demon Slayer where it became a household name, but for a no-name one season anime that was hardly mentioned in the pre-season "what to watch" lists, it got big, and the people who rated it tended to rate it highly. Oh, and just to add a suggestion to keep this tangent from going too far (and a pretty mainstream suggestion, too): Kaguya-sama: Love is War. Two teen geniuses at a magnate school keep making insane plans to make the other make a love confession. It's funny, it's creatively animated, and the show makes actual progress rather than keeping a status quo forever.
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I'm going to give my usual more obscure reccomendation because the rest that I normally recc already have been. Run With The Wind is about a group of 10 guys in college with varying degrees of athletic abilities who get roped into a track and field team to try and participate in Japan's most prestigious relay marathon, the Hakone Ekiden. It's got really good drama, both on the sports side and the personal history side, good characters and interactions, and the comedy is solid. Also, not a high school setting for once.
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What year? That’s sounds cool we will check it out. Just finished s6 of mha was really strong. We’re kinda meandering through seven deadly sins.. … and despite starting REALLY strong, the *second* half of s1 of fire force has been super disappointing. Does fire force pick up at all or should I just bail? The first 13 had banger op and Ed, and despite some occasionally weird action competitions the animation and some key cuts were incredible. The second op and Ed are both dogshit, and it seems like the entire writing directing composing etc team has been replaced with studio titanic.
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DamnGlitch posted:What year? That’s sounds cool we will check it out. 2018, 1 2-cour season, it was originally a novel so it's a full adaptation. If you meant what year the college guys are in, they're a mixed age group across all the college years.
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Ibblebibble posted:2018, 1 2-cour season, it was originally a novel so it's a full adaptation. Nope was curious about the air date, thanks! It’s on my list.
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Cock and Balzac posted:I've got two recommendation requests for you folks. Akiba Maid War's a recent terrific series and is only a standalone single season. Don't look it up and risk spoilers but it's definitely underrated. It's exactly what it says it is but in the best way.
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I'm sick as hell and all full of opioids and want to watch something light and cosy and preferably with gay ladies in it but gay guys also fine (or nobody gay at all if you must) (though tbh the only anime ive watched that fulfil that are dragonmaid and Yuri on ice,and i guess back when i was a teenager gravitation though i think i remember that as better than it was). I've been really badly out of touch with anime for ages so I just reqatched nichijou,food wars and dragon maid but am going to be zonked out on painkillers for days and need more. I never come in this forum but I know if anybody knows what's good it's you log
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Green Wing posted:I'm sick as hell and all full of opioids and want to watch something light and cosy and preferably with gay ladies in it but gay guys also fine (or nobody gay at all if you must). I've been really badly out of touch with anime for ages so I just reqatched nichijou,food wars and dragon maid but am going to be zonked out on painkillers for days and need more. I never come in this forum but I know if anybody knows what's good it's you log Cozy, gay ladies, not too long, Do It Yourself!! It's a story about a DIY school club, a very disaster prone girl trying to reconnect with her childhood friend, and a bunch of other fun dork characters.
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Green Wing posted:I'm sick as hell and all full of opioids and want to watch something light and cosy and preferably with gay ladies in it but gay guys also fine (or nobody gay at all if you must). I've been really badly out of touch with anime for ages so I just reqatched nichijou,food wars and dragon maid but am going to be zonked out on painkillers for days and need more. I never come in this forum but I know if anybody knows what's good it's you log Demon Girl Next Door New Game
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