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zenintrude posted:You guys recommended Haibane Renmei to me after I wrote about liking the realistic, day-to-day/slice-of-life aspects of Niea_7. Hmm. Binbou Shimai Monogatari maybe? Its been a while since I watched it, but the non-comedic slice of life bits of NieA felt kinda similar in tone to most of that.
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The Aria series (Aria the Animation, the Natural, and the Origination) is basically the chillest goddamn thing I've ever seen.
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Apr 1, 2013 06:51
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The Aria series, Hidamari Sketch, Ikoku Meiro no Croisee, Kamichu, Minami-ke, and Tamayura are all things that come to mind then. The amount of romance involved varies a lot, but they're all mellow happy slice of life shows.Smoking Crow posted:vvvvv Are you joking with me? I've been told by the anime fans I know never to watch K-on. Something about creepy fans? K-on! is objectively a pretty good show if you like slice of life comedy, but its success is largely to blame for the fact that we get like 4 Moe-blob "3-6 cute girls in a club doing cute things" shows a season now, so it gets a lot of poo poo for that. Blhue fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Apr 11, 2013 |
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Apr 11, 2013 20:40
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ShardPhoenix posted:Is there a recommended way to get into the Fate series? I've heard the first anime wasn't as good as the VN, but I dunno if I want to have to replay a VN 6 times to get the good ending or however that works. You should really just play it. There's 3 routes, and events change significantly enough between them that it isn't samey at all. Even if you watched the adaptions, only 2/3 of the routes are represented so there's still plot points in Fate/Zero you wouldn't quite get.
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Apr 14, 2013 11:26
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Chas McGill posted:Hyouka was recommended to me when I asked for chill stuff and I see how it fits the bill of problem solving, though I only managed to watch about 4 episodes before giving up because I didn't like the art style/setting very much. Shame, since I love the idea of an amateur detective crew solving mundane mysteries. Kamisama no Memochou maybe? The mysteries are more serious than Hyouka's though.
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Apr 21, 2013 14:52
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Last Emperor posted:Just finished Gurren Lagann and, holy poo poo, it was amazing. I've never watched any mecha anime before so I wasn't sure how I'd feel about it but it blew over and surpassed all my expectations. I was a bit worried at the start of the second season but then the whole thing just went into overdrive. You could try Aquarion. Its a little monster of the week, but it has some gurren lagann esque bits.
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May 1, 2013 01:54
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Black Lagoon is the only other thing that comes to mind for me that doesn't break your requirement about no teens.
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May 4, 2013 22:00
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What he said. Also I'd recommend trying Darker Than Black, based on what you said you've liked. Its pretty good, and dubbed.
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May 5, 2013 02:43
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I don't really remember any part of its soundtrack being all that great except for the remix of Sword of Promised Victory.
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May 11, 2013 01:34
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Hidamari sketch maybe? Less goofy than those though. Or the first season of Minami-ke. Squid Girl is good too.
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May 11, 2013 17:16
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Read Yumekui rather than watch it. The anime is pretty mediocre, and diverges from the manga in some ways straight from the beginning.
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May 12, 2013 20:11
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Stay/Night is another one where the VN is leaps and bounds better than the adaptation thereof.
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May 20, 2013 01:17
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Sketchbook: Full Color's and Kamichu are some other decent happy slice of life shows.
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May 22, 2013 20:38
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The Devil Tesla posted:Planetes, if you get all happy thinking about space. I dunno, the main emotion Planetes inspired in me was wanting to punch the male lead in the mouth.
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May 23, 2013 03:53
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A lot of the recent suggestions for slice of life qualifies for that. Particularly the Aria series. Tamayura and Ikoku Meiro no Croisee too.
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May 24, 2013 02:54
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Hmm. Sora no Woto maybe?
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May 24, 2013 03:21
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.hack is way up there on the list of boringest goddamn things I've watched, and this is coming from someone who likes mellow, atmospheric slice of life stuff.
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May 29, 2013 03:05
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Some people are just bored to tears by slice of life. I loved that show start to finish, but I can see why some people would find it dull. Its definitely a 3 episode test show though, since the third episode is when it starts to get good.
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Jun 1, 2013 23:43
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I think the first summer vacation episode was where I really started liking the show. Osaka's ghost story loving killed me and it went up from there.
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Jun 15, 2013 03:28
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I assumed the intention was to imply that they were reincarnated and found each other again. If you liked that, you should probably watch Clannad, since it was written by the same folks and actually has the episode count necessary to finish the story.
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Jun 15, 2013 20:40
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Naw, its a fairly normal high-school setting. There's some supernatural things that happen, but they're the exception rather than the rule. There is an alternate ending to Angel Beats too, it shows Otonashi remaining in that world, guiding people to pass on and waiting in the hopes of Kanade appearing there again, much like she waited there for him. Blhue fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Jun 15, 2013 |
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Jun 15, 2013 21:12
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Yep. The closest he got to character development was when the revealed he had demolitions experience during the dirty bomb defusing bit. That aside his role was to be the guy who looked like Batou's chubbier clone.
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Jul 15, 2013 03:54
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ViggyNash posted:Are there any good detective mystery type shows? I've had a bit of an itch for it since watching Hyouka which did the detective mystery thing amazingly. I tried GoSick but I couldn't deal with it firstly because of the tsundere detective and secondly because Bones doesn't seem to understand what pacing is. Try Kami-sama no Memochou. Its somewhere in between Hyouka and Gosick, with more serious cases. Also, I dunno how far you got into Gosick before giving up, but I'd recommend finishing it. Its one of my favorites, even with some of the more contrived cases and plotholes.
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Jul 17, 2013 04:05
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I'd say read the manga of Gunslinger Girl, since it wasn't adapted in its entirety. The anime doesn't end mid-arc or anything, but it does just kind of end with insufficient fanfare.
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Jul 30, 2013 01:40
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RebBrownies posted:Are Kino's Journey , Gunslinger Girl, and Vampire Hunter D worth the watch? He was responding to this quote from earlier, not your question.
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Jul 30, 2013 04:14
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There really aren't that many serious yuri shows. Aoi Hana and Sasameki Koto are about the only other ones to come to mind, and both are incomplete adaptions of their original works. Edit: And Strawberry Panic, I guess. It's Maria-sama's slightly retarded cousin basically. Blhue fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Aug 9, 2013 |
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Aug 9, 2013 02:42
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Pretty sure finding Hack/Sign boring as poo poo has nothing to do with childhood.
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Aug 17, 2013 23:07
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Azumanga is great, though the first few episodes are kind of meh while the team seems to work out how to adapt a 4 koma properly. Yes, watch Bebop. I've never watched the sub but I've heard that the dub is better. And for ROD, the ova is good but the series itself is only so-so.
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Aug 18, 2013 20:37
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That sounds like Apocalypse no Toride
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Sep 1, 2013 07:03
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They're pretty similar, come to think of it. Yuruyuri is a slice of life comedy with an entirely female cast, many of whom have crushes on one or more other member of the cast. Despite that, there's not really much overtly sexual content to the show, so it doesn't really feel as skeezy as that sounds. Yuyushiki is also a slice of life comedy with an entirely female cast, but mostly lacks the lesbian thing. 2 of the 3 main girls frequently sexually harass the third, but they're more messing with her than out of any romantic interest.
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Sep 2, 2013 05:18
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Try Tamayura (its second season just aired too) or Ikoku Meiro No Croisee. The former is basically Sketchbook with a smaller cast and a photography theme. The latter is a SoL show about a young Japanese girl living in 19th century France.
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Sep 19, 2013 05:01
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Ef's first season gets pretty emotional towards the end of both stories its presenting, and does some really interesting things with the direction. The sequel... just isn't as good, for one thing. I don't really remember any of the awesome directing from the first season happening. While one of the stories is pretty good (they give the whole story about the priest guy and the nun who seems to be a ghost), the other one is fairly creepy, involving a romance between that blonde underclassman (the minor character who's a fan of the mangaka protagonist) and that older guy who's neighbors with the other protagonist.
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Sep 19, 2013 07:40
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Its sad, it had a bomb rear end OP too.
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Sep 21, 2013 18:25
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The closure or the movie itself? Or both?
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Sep 30, 2013 04:31
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I would second Busou Renkin. Really awesome shounen action that people tend to overlook.
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Oct 9, 2013 21:57
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I still can't believe they stretched one conversation over so many episodes and it didn't get old.
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Oct 25, 2013 04:45
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You should probably just read the rest of those things that you watched, as neither comes close to the end of their stories. Sasameki Koto especially, Aoi Hana was kind of disappointing in the end though. Besides what's been named, the only other thing I can think of that's got outright yuri themes instead of just a subtext is Kannazuki no Miko, and that's very different in tone than the others.
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Nov 14, 2013 19:14
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The problem being it does exactly the things he said he'd like them not to do.
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Nov 16, 2013 22:13
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Pretty much that. I liked Regios, but either its an incomplete adaption of its original work, or its just really anticlimactic. Destruction was just pretty bland, something only worth watching if you're really bored and want to see something you haven't.
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Someone was translating the manga adaption of it, which was supposedly more accurate than the anime and I enjoyed what there was of it, but its not complete.
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