Davincie posted:

that is Starship Operators. its alright, solid middle of the road anime. i enjoyed its dedication to realism

Tuxedo Catfish posted:

squealer did nothing wrong

Tales of Woe posted:

definitely try Mob Psycho 100 if you haven't seen it and like one punch man, it's the other series from the same artist and has similarly cool animation but also a stronger emotional core to it.

spice and wolf is kinda unique topically but Katanagatari is another historical adventure series with heavy banter between the leads

PastaBakeWizard posted:

I'm about to run out of Dr. Stone. Anything else out there with that co-operative, getting-poo poo-done atmosphere?
Failing that, my favourites are Stone, Kobayashi's Dragon Maid and Jojo's, Part 4 (1, 2 & 3 are also great and I'm coming around to liking 5, I think?), Kill la Kill and Evangelion. I get that I just listed a bunch of reasonably entry level crowd favourites but go wild. Mould me into the weeb you want to see.

Additionally a friend showed me one of the Gundam movies and I didn't realise that they had the more down-to-earth drama aspect, I sort of thought they were big robot fights all the time. What's the best Gundam entry for that aspect?

Bongo Bill posted:

Moribito

runawayturtles posted:

Cool, thanks. I thought of GitS:SAC also but wasn't sure about the dub quality, glad it's good. Moribito is a good idea; I wanted to suggest 12 Kingdoms, but it's really not good at hooking most people, so I wasn't sure she'd stick with it. A Silent Voice is a good pick too, she'll cry her eyes out. Speaking of which, if I want to be really brutal, I could suggest Wolf Children and make her cry for 2 hours straight.

edit: How's the Psycho-Pass dub? Probably also a decent pick.

Hilario Baldness posted:

Watched Monster and loved it. It was lengthy, but it was a fantastic story.

I think I'm going to give Steins;Gate next.

Filthy Monkey posted:

I finished watching Iruma-kun while exercising and really enjoyed it. Iruma was fun to root for, and both the opener and closer were pretty solid songs to amp up and peddle to. I always watched them, and made them part of the routine. What are some other good, relatively light anime to watch while on an exercise bike? A straightforward story like Iruma-kun has is appreciated, as I would prefer things not be contingent upon missing some small detail while I am trying to sweat.

Chocobo posted:

I need something to watch. My favorite anime of all times are Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Planetes, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Space Dandy, One Punch Man, and Mob Psycho 100.

I like awesome animation, I like humor, I like good characters. If a series only has one of these attributes, but knocks it out of the park, I am on board. I prefer short series with only a few seasons and little to no filler. Any recommendations?

Chocobo posted:

I need to rewatch Redline, I seem to remember it being full of crazy poo poo and just running with it without feeling the need for explanation.

Oh Snapple! posted:

Been watching Haikyu and really enjoying it, it's definitely putting me in a sports show mood. I've jotted Run With the Wind down since I saw it mentioned a couple of times but would love to get some more suggestions.

Everything Burrito posted:

Giant Killing is older and doesn't always have the greatest looking animation but occupies kind of a unique niche in that it's team sports with adult characters outside of a school setting -- One Outs and Gurazeni also fall into that but Giant Killing also has more of a traditional "sports show" feeling with the rebuilding the team plot so I'd recommend it if you want pure sports. One Outs is pretty fun but it's also about gambling and mind games and stuff so it's kind of a different sort of show despite the sports setting. Can't really say much about Gurazeni bc I haven't watched it yet but you might throw it on your list.

I wouldn't put Kuroko's Basketball on the same level as Haikyuu but I enjoyed it well enough to watch 2.5 seasons out of 3 -- the B-plot with the older (normal, non-freakish) characters is some really good sports storytelling and my favorite part of the whole thing.

Yuri on Ice is another pretty unique show since it's built around professional ice skating, it has a lot of really good sports-show feelings with the MC having to rebound from failure and rebuild his confidence.

Chihayafuru is 100% a sports show imo because it captures the excitement and tension of competition, building a team and learning to rely on your teammates, shows them doing the hard work of practice, and lets them fail and have to recover from it. Definitely check it out!

thehandtruck posted:

Hi there

Can anyone recommend some anime that has a ton of depth to it? Bonus points if it's long (cause of quarantine). I love sci fi and very dense shows. If anyone's seen Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy that's kind of what I mean. I dislike the slice of life dramas or comedies unless the comedy is incidental/secondary. Also kinda dislike childishy art styles and 13yr old boy coming of age animes but I loved Evangelion so maybe I have no idea what I want or don't want. Favorite animes are the classics: gits, trigun, evangelion, champloo, beebop, and OPM. Sorry I'm so negative and picky!

Wark Say posted:

Is there anything like the Blue Literature, Requiem from the Darkness / Hundred Stories of Natsuhiko Kyogoku or Ayakashi: Japanese Classic Horror that's like an anthology series worth checking out?

Endorph posted:

hyouge mono definitely isnt everyones cup of tea (heh)

RabidWeasel posted:

Ping Pong since everything I think that's better has been recommended already and I feel that it's criminally underrated

ninjewtsu posted:

I think I'll go with "gundam thunderbolt: december sky"

Tuxedo Catfish posted:

One Piece has a fan project called One Pace that edits the whole thing down to no filler + sane pacing. it's by far my favorite incarnation of the series, mostly because I like the Japanese voice cast

it isn't and likely won't ever be dubbed though

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Ichigo being the "centrist" doesn't really work because Ichigo gets to do all sorts of cool stuff and has a kickass sword while centrists are loving dullards to a one.

Anyway the real question is where Gintoki fits in.

POLICE CAR AUCTION posted:

I'm a bit dead inside from all this isolation, any shows that could kick some feelings loose?

Like, Violet Evergarden and Carole & Tuesday stand out in recent memory

Mordiceius posted:

Thanks for the tips. I was aware of the situation with surpassing the manga, my main concern was just to whether the abridged nature of FMA:B’s beginning would make either of us feel lost. Some friends were telling me that they felt like FMA:B seemed like it expected that you had seen the original series.

Inadequately posted:

So I haven't kept up with anime in a while, what're the best shows released within the last year or two? Open to any genre.

esselfortium posted:

Toalpaz posted:

Normally I watch gay and or magical girl animes...

But today I want to watch war dramas.

I've seen half of legend of the galactic heroes. I've seen the 2000's rear end jungle gundam. The gundam historic battles gundam. And the one with amuro in it though I forget how it ends. I saw gundam seed like 15 years ago. I saw that recent one that had a sharp decline in quality over the course of 12 episodes 1-2 years ago.

What should I watch now?

Toalpaz posted:

I'm looking at the Star Blazer's dub credits and...?

occluded posted:

Looking for more stuff like Dorohedoro, for someone reeeeasonably new to anime? Interesting characters, weird, lighthearted, some sort of magic or technology in the setting but not foregrounded to the extent that there are huge infodumps every episode.

Zerilan posted:

Mob Psycho 100 if you're cool with the setting being "contemporary plus some supernatural."

Zerilan posted:

Ping Pong the Animation if you stopped watching new things before that came out.

Zerilan posted:

I rewatch the series at least once a year, still stand by it being the best animated series I've seen.

knox posted:

Just finished LOTGH, definitely one of my favorites all time along with Samurai Champloo, Berserk, Great Teacher Onizuka. Ninja Scroll, Akira, Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OVAs) some of my favorite films. Not sure what to check out next.