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Captain Invictus posted:I do love that they just keep on trying these really out there premises that are most likely completely horrible and insulting
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i only read five pages but the demon thing didn't seem literal, it just seemed like a dude who really needed some butt cream and was awkward about it. weird premise for a gag manga but w/e.
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RabidWeasel posted:FWIW I thought that Yona of the Dawn (anime) was pretty bad and if everyone's genders were switched it would be absolutely generic as gently caress. If Yona didn't have to be repeatedly saved by her father's murderer who she is also absurdly, cripplingly enfatuated with then I'd probably rate it a bit higher but that poo poo pissed me off a lot. Maybe the manga moves on from this point but I wasn't exactly loving it even ignoring the spoiler. Also suffers from hypercompetent ally syndrome which somewhat blunts Yona's own character development. protip: literally everything in this post is both stupid and factually wrong.
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Nov 29, 2017 19:28
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RabidWeasel posted:I'm not going back to see exactly what happens and when but what I do remember quite clearly is that the first thing that happened to her after the "pirate magistrate" arc was her getting temporary brain damage and having to be protected by Soo-Woon (in a rediculous deus ex machina way, as well, as far as I recall he is randomly just in the right place at the right time by total coincidence). It's about the last major plot event that happens in the anime and was sufficiently stupid that it completely removed any desire I had to see the story continue. It just ruins the story for me when Yona is beaten over the head with a stick saying "it doesn't matter how hard you try to grow and be independent, RabidWeasel posted:for obvious reasons that can't accidentally be read as thinly veiled misogyny.
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Nov 30, 2017 00:22
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" especially immediately after a cool scene where she gets to do something decisive instead of having the harem take care of everything for her. It goes bizarrely against the main theme of the show and if this was a lovely anime addition or something then I'm glad that the source material is better.
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The Shortest Path posted:Start with Fate/Zero imo, it's probably the best VN adaptation anime ever made. Also, since it's a technically a prequel, you won't have a lot of the end parts spoiled(ish) by F/SN. fate/zero isn't even based on a vn also TBH If you want to experience Fate I'd say just read the original VN. I don't think any of the adaptations really capture everything that makes it worthwhile. I understand reading an 80 hour VN is a hard sell, but I just don't think any of the adaptations are worthwhile on their own. Ufotable's UBW isn't terrible or anything, but it's missing a lot of what I love about the VN, and ufotable's heaven's feel movies seem pretty good but wouldn't work without Fate and UBW preceding them, and also won't be finished until like 2020. Like, if you don't want to read the VN, I'd say just don't bother. If you REALLY just want anime battles, then Zero, UBW, and Apocrypha are all fine, but you'd probably be better off skipping any talky bits that go on too long. Or honestly, if you want ufotable fighting, watch the Kara no Kyoukai movies, they're a bunch fo movies so they're easier to swallow and they all end with big fights, and they're actually good stories. Endorph fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Jan 4, 2018 |
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Jan 4, 2018 15:40
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Nipponophile posted:The guy said he wanted cool anime fights, not wordy slideshows.
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Jan 4, 2018 17:02
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I mean, it's more "they aren't, really." people just see black military uniforms and assume nazi poo poo even though those outfits arent really similar to the ww2 german military uniforms at all, the closest part is the red insignia
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Jan 6, 2018 22:13
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Jenny Angel posted:I tried watching a bunch of animes from 2016 and 2017 seasons recently, and the three that really clicked were Flip Flappers, Land of the Lustrous, and The Ancient Magus' Bride. Especially Flip Flappers, which I'm pretty sure is my second favorite anime now after Monster. Everything else I've tried, I've bounced off pretty quickly kyousougiga is pretty similar to flipflappers in terms of being a colorful rabbithole type story, though the watch order can be pretty confusing and no matter how you slice it the first couple of episodes are pretty rough. definitely worth checking out, though. If you enjoyed Ancient Magus Bride you'll probably enjoy other fantasy shoujo series. Snow White with the Red Hair is another enjoyable series about a young woman finding her place in the world, though it's much less pensive and much more focused on romance. though the romance doesn't overpower the main character's growth, it's definitely a big aspect of the story. Akatsuki no Yona is also a pretty good series, though it's much more action/adventurous and the anime cuts off just before the point where the story gets really, really good, so I'd recommend switching to reading the manga after you're done with the anime. Or just reading the manga straightup.
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Jan 6, 2018 22:20
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Mr Interweb posted:I've been aching for some new anime to watch. But I'm somewhat picky about it. I'm into 1) relatively light-hearted, not-too-serious, action/adventure anime as well as 2) straight up comedic ones. To give you an idea of what I like: Also, since you seem to like 90s/early 2000s action shows, Trigun's a real good one, and not that long, if you never saw it back in the day. Lots of cool gunplay, and the main character's hilarious when he gets going, not to mention there's some clever gags about how he deals with his general pacifism despite being in a kind of sci-fi wild west. Tsukikage Ran's a comedy/action thing about a wandering female samurai. Some of the gags get dragged out a bit too long (Ran's drinking habits can only be funny for so long) but the action's super well-animated and there's this kind of humble, homey atmosphere to it that makes even the less funny jokes kind of charming, and it has some really great gags in there too. I'd definitely recommend checking out the first episode to see if it works for you. Samurai Champloo's another samurai show, obviously - it gets downright weird in places (there's an entire episode about baseball, somehow) but the action's well-done, the characters all have interesting little arcs, and there's some good jokes mixed in. It's by the Cowboy Bebop director, if you ever watched that. Ushio to Tora is a recent anime adaptation of a pretty old manga. It definitely scratches those oldschool shonen itch, just in terms of how it's written, and it's also pretty good on its own - the main characters have an appealing dynamic that grows over the course of the series, and there's some actually pretty interesting villains. And the fights are pretty good.
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BigRed0427 posted:Hey all, I'm kind of just now getting back into anime and manga. So let's ask for two recommendations. There's also New Game, which is about women who work at a small game studio. It's got some fanservice but way less than dragon maid had, honestly, and also some fairly heavily implied relationships between a few characters. The first season is mostly slice of life gags, but the second season gets a bit more into game development and the main character trying to succeed as a character designer for games, and actually does it pretty well, with a very satisfying ending. It's also pretty funny, especially in the second season when the gags are paced a bit better and there's more variety to the show's tone, though the first season still has some good jokes. BigRed0427 posted:Second, lets go for some darker superhero/action orientated stuff that still manages to be uplifting in the end. Stuff like Madoka Magica and Neon Genesis Evengellion. Princess Tutu has a very fairytale aesthetic and its action scenes are depicted as ballet scenes for the most part, but it's a very creative show, fairly dark, and incredibly uplifting towards the end. Its darkness is more philosophical and a heavily oppressive atmosphere in the middle than literal death and gore and such, though, so depends on what you're looking for. It plays very heavily with metanarratives about the nature of fiction itself, with characters literally talking about the nature of stories, so if you're into that kind of thing it's cool. Rahxephon is often compared to Evangelion, and I enjoy it a bit more - it's very confusing at the start, but the characters and their arcs are very well done and its convoluted situation is wrapped up much more cleanly than evangelion, IMO. That said, the action is pretty sparse - entire 3 episode arcs go by without any fighting - so again, depends on what you're looking for.
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in the time it took me to write that post literally everything there got mentioned well except rahxephon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1_35xiub4
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Jan 12, 2018 02:04
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Jimbot posted:How's The Slayers Revolution seasons? I've been watching the first three seasons again and I forgot how good the show was. The new stuff as good as the old stuff? Worse?
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Jan 17, 2018 23:56
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re:zero isn't amazing, some of the drama is a little forced and the white whale fight really doesn't land in my opinion, but the characters really sell it and it does have some moments where the drama really lands. solid show all in all. Also the villain is so obnoxious and overdone that he loops back around into being amazing. It helps that you can tell the animators and voice actor were having a blast with him.
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Jan 18, 2018 07:12
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Ulio posted:What are some good animes with tournament arcs or battle royale situations like in the Fate series? also girls und panzer and gundam build fighters, if you're okay with tournaments that involve fighting in tanks/mechs. the first half of g gundam would also work if you want one with more stakes than some kids wanting to win.
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Jan 21, 2018 23:18
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the arcs that were recapping the movies were really rushed and bad, but once they get to the actually new material with the universe 6 tournament the art's pretty consistent, mostly because they basically stole all the animators from Pretty Cure. https://sakugabooru.com/data/5d9c93ec32c116af11e8f79ad311a5b6.mp4
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Jan 22, 2018 03:27
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Xun posted:Noot sure if this is the right place to ask but w/e Though they're introduced literally sleeping in the same bed, which, come on. Also the voice actors have literally just said they're gay without anyone backpedaling. The show works mostly because the characters are really likable and vibrant and the show commits pretty heavily to their arcs. Later seasons lean more into goofy action comedy which is also a look that works well, the writer has a real head for wacky situations and triumphant turnarounds, though the third season really stumbles with how it tries to give Hibiki more of an arc. The second season has one of the most hilarious anime villains ever, a random white guy from Ohio who went to Harvard and does nothing but quote schwarzenegger movies while running screaming from any actual fight. Like I said however, the first season can be pretty all over the place in terms of tone, and you and your girlfriend would need to be willing to put up with some moderate fanservice. I'd describe it as more fanservice than your average shonen anime but less than, say, Kill la Kill. They dial it back noticeably after the first season but, yeah. The singing premise is kind of goofy on the face of it, but it works really well in my opinion. The characters getting a power up being accompanied by them literally singing a big song is a nice shtick, and there's some pretty solid music in there. Plus they get more inventive with in the second season, with things like two characters having a fight that is also essentially a j-pop equivalent to a rap battle, and some of the lyrics do actually give some insight into the characters. In Conclusion: results inconclusive. you can make your own decisions in this life, i can only hope to inform you. Other suggestions for Lesbian Fight-y anime: Canaan (More gunfights than shonen action, plot can be a little hard to follow but the action's really well done, the main character is female and in a fairly sweet relationship with a reporter girl that's pretty explicitly romantic though there are episodes where they aren't onscreen together, it's mostly towards the beginning and end of the series that their bit develops) El Cazador De La Bruja (Another gunfight based series, it's a sort of soft western, the main characters have a good dynamic, unlike Canaan the plot and characters actually follow a pretty reasonable track, slightly less explicitly gay but the characters are onscreen together for the entire show) those are two off the top of my head. if anyone else can think of any lesbian fight-y anime, please share so that we may all be blessed. Endorph fucked around with this message at 11:44 on Jan 23, 2018 |
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Jan 23, 2018 11:38
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I meant it more as a poor joke recommendation really. it has one fight scene that's played as a gag, come on now
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Hiro Protagonist posted:I just watched Land of the Lustrous, and it was fantastic. What are some other good anime that deal with Buddhist themes and philosophy? Hunter x Hunter has some pretty heavy elements of it in the Chimera Ant Arc, but that's the second-to-last arc of the 2011 TV series and it's mostly absent from the rest of the show, since most of it's tied into characters who either aren't relevant or aren't introduced until that arc. It's also like 150 episodes long. A lot of anime deal really heavily with reincarnation in a way that's clearly buddhist-influenced, but anime that outright discuss it or based a lot of their plot on it feel a lot rarer. I'm no expert on buddhism though, so maybe there are people out there who saw it in other shows.
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Jan 23, 2018 23:08
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Xun posted:No worries! We have actually already watched it together and really enjoyed it. Will definitely check out some of the recommendations though! Also legend of galactic heroes caus it has to be in the thread title for some reason It's not a bad show, mind, it goes in some pretty interesting directions and it's so dry that it winds up semi-unintentionally hilarious when the characters do or say something weird, but unless you and your girlfriend are sci-fi buffs iunno if you'd get much out of it.
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Jan 23, 2018 23:16
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CharlestheHammer posted:Well yeah a lot of times rec threads become a way for people to try to fulfill their own desires and not really help others find poo poo they would like.
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Jan 23, 2018 23:49
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the person that wanted lesbian fighting anime was ages ago (read: yesterday) and the show isnt lesbian but i just remembered soul eater existed, and its like the one shonen action anime with a female protagonist that ran in an actual shonen magazine and just follows pretty normal shonen storytelling without really being weird or fanservicey beyond how shonen normally is. so if your gf likes shows with female protagonists in general that's a good pull. also i guess if you read crona as a girl you can say its kinda gay
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Jan 24, 2018 04:25
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Jenny Angel posted:Talk to me about Steins;Gate for a bit. I see a lot of people losing their poo poo over how good it is, but I have a few questions 2) ruka's shtick is that they want to be a girl partly because the main character, okabe, is straight, and they're into okabe. projection like that isnt uncommon for trans people but ruka is kind of a weirdly written half-and-half character where they don't really write them as a gay guy who presents femininely because that's what the person they're into seems to find most attractive but they don't really write them as a trans character anyway. it's not like, the worst thing ever but there's a couple of dumb jokes of okabe reminding themselves they're a 'guy', or perving on them and then going 'wait this shouldn't be a big deal!' okabe never comes across as a huge shithead, more an insecure nerd, partly because ruka never really articulates what they're going for or how they feel so it's hard to blame him for being kind of confused. and ruka's only a side character so it never really gets resolved in the anime (and the vn's resolution of it is also pretty mudled). overall id say there are ways you can read it that are better than others and the authorial intent is pretty clearly just mostly harmless gags that at their worst are mildly gay panic-y. iunno, it's kind of one of those things thats in the gray area enough that you have to judge it for yourself.
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Jan 28, 2018 03:07
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Jenny Angel posted:This is a great and thoughtful summary - I really appreciate it. Sounds like Steins;Gate might be worth checking out at some point, but probably not for a good while. For now, I'm focusing on the real Jukki Hanada-penned masterpiece... A Place Further than the Universe
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Jan 28, 2018 03:58
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there wolf posted:Can anyone recommend a good anime for young kids, something with a narrative and lots of episodes? We're trying to avoid Pokemon.
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Feb 2, 2018 15:58
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princess tutu goes a little dark/metafictional I wouldn't really say it's a good idea, everything past the first few eps would go over their heads. if you want something on the 'girlier' end of things, check out precure. or, well, glitter force, for the dubs. they're on netflix.
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40-Degree Day posted:I don't watch a lot of anime but my wife does. She was watching Himouto Umaru-chan in the living room and I ended up watching most of it with her and I really liked it. I haven't watched anime since DBZ was on toonami so I wanted to watch more like this one. What are other good cute/funny slice of life animes? Don't care about the subject. Nichijou: pretty much nothing but gags and very smooth character animation due to simplified designs, but there's a neat sense of place to the world. a guy shows up to deliver one line in a gag in one episode and then three episodes later he shows up as another character's brother, or whatever. it really gives the feeling of a small town even through all the jokes about wrestling goats.
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Feb 8, 2018 23:28
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Rinkles posted:Any good detective/crime series? Preferably with an overarching plot with a larger mystery. So more Stand Alone Complex than Conan (cause it doesn't end).
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Feb 17, 2018 22:31
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Wark Say posted:Hey, I need something like Black Lagoon, but I think I've tapped every other alternative I can think of out (Hellsing Ultimate OVA's, Drifters, Jormungand, Future Diary). Can you recommend something like Black Lagoon (crazy, violent fun would be my three key words)?
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Mar 5, 2018 01:53
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unstucker posted:Can you recomend me horror anime? Something bloody like Higurashi no naku koro ni or umineko no naku koro ni.
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unstucker posted:Mononoke was one of the first anime I watch when I was a kid) It's classics) But thanks for reminding. I'll rewatch it)) no not princess mononoke. mononoke, the unrelated tv anime. mononoke are japanese folk creatures that are basically vengeful ghosts, and mononoke (the tv anime) is about a wandering exorcist of said ghosts. mononoke is a very inventive, stylish series with an incredibly unique aesthetic and a few creepy plot twists, though it's somewhat episodic in nature and intentionally vague about the main character's motivations and history. unless you actually did watch mononoke and not princess mononoke as a kid, in which case, im old. Endorph fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Mar 6, 2018 |
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Mar 6, 2018 07:51
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Hiro Protagonist posted:Should I start with Fate/zero or the new Fate/stay night anime adaptation? They both kind of spoil each other, and people will argue back and forth about which one to start with, and which one is better, so just start with whichever one of those sounds more appealing to you. In terms of production they were made within a few years of each other by the same studio so they don't really differ that much even with them having different directors. the only real difference is that UBW leans more into goofier expressions/slapstick for its humor and even that's partly just a tone thing. For other fate anime: Fate/Stay Night (2006, deen) is a fairly bad adaptation of the VN and pretty much outmoded by UBW, even if it covers a different route of the game. Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works Movie (2011, deen) is a very bad movie adaptation of the UBW route of the VN and is completely outmoded by the UBW tv anime by UFOtable. Fate/Stay Night Heaven's Feel (2017, UFOtable) is a series of movies that should only be watched after UBW and maybe Fate/Zero. They're a good adaptation of the VN's strongest material, but the Heaven's Feel Route is only unlocked after clearing the other routes in the game for a reason - it relies a lot on knowledge of how the story 'should' go. Also, they aren't completed, so. Fate/Apocrypha (2017, A-1) is an adaptation of a spinoff novel that has no connections to fate/zero or ubw, minus some of the characters coming from the same legends as characters in the 'main' stuff and a couple of cameos. It takes place in an alternate timeline/universe, so it can be watched on its own, as a companion piece, whatever. It has some of the franchise's best characters but it also has way too many characters and a main character that's pretty much unanimously really, really boring. Some amazing action animation, though, especially in the latter half. Fate/Extra Last Encore (2018, shaft) is an adaptation of a spinoff game that has few connections to any other part of the fate universe. It's shaft, so it's pretty wacky with its production and rewrites a lot of the game's plot in weird directions. It isn't finished airing, so I can't offer a definitive opinion on it. Regardless, it'd be a pretty weird entry point since its storytelling isnt as standard as F/A. Endorph fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Mar 11, 2018 |
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jeanne is okay but part of that is just me liking her goofier moments in fate/grand order
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Chinook posted:I'm looking for something with some jerky bandits doing horrible things and then getting their asses kicked for it. Kenshin, Hokuto no Ken, Berserk, these things all have that kind of stuff to varying degrees.
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Jenny Angel posted:Hey would you guys mind helping me narrow down a rapidly ballooning watch list now that I'm about to finish all three animes I'm currently watching?
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StrixNebulosa posted:Thread, revive thyself! its karin. karin is the anime i have for you. (tbh its an okay mid-2000s romcom though the grandma is the absolute best character in it by a mile and i wish it was just about her) but yeah, there's a lot of okay genre stuff that uses vampires for flavor, like owari no seraph is a actionish thing with cute/hot guys that happens to have vampire antagonists.
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Adlai Stevenson posted:hits the ground running
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Paperhouse posted:I'm in the mood for something 90s as heck. I have watched and very much liked Eva, Utena, Lain and Escaflowne, and while these aren't all similar I feel like they're high quality, mostly serious shows with good/interesting plots/themes. What could I try next? Irresponsible Captain Tylor is a goofy 90s sci-fi series about a gently caress-up pervert accidentally becoming a spaceship captain. It's got pretty much every gag you'd expect from a 90s anime with that premise but it's funny and I don't feel like the sex jokes ever really cross a line - it's mostly just Tylor hitting on women and making getting laid his number one priority, not really anything assaulty, which makes him an easy guy to find funny. Outlaw Star is the most 90s sci-fi anime ever made. Space samurai girl, space catgirls, protagonist is named GENE STARWIND. I think a lot of its best material is in its first few episodes, but the later stuff gets pretty surreal in a way I like. It's from January 2000 and not the 90s, but Tsukikage Ran still hits a lot of the same notes. It's a series about a wandering female samurai and the random misadventures she gets into. It's only 13 eps and it's pretty chill, whole lot of shots of Ran just hanging out in a boat or whatever. Great fight scenes, too. I think a lot of its comedy isn't exactly amazing but it has a few decent gags an episode and Ran herself is likable, so it's a good little series if you just want something easy to watch.
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