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I don't think you've ever actually mentioned it one way or the other and if you have I apologise for missing it, but have you watched the series referenced in the literal gag thread title, Legend of the Galactic Heroes? While the majority is space politicking, the actual spaceship battles are fantastic in exactly the sort of hard sci fi you seem to be after. Ships arrayed in grids, firing lasers light years away from each other, trying to predict fleet movements with time delay from being so far away from each other that visual information is literally delayed, shields being useless at anything but the farthest range distances. Fleets of ships being measured in the tens if not hundreds of thousands with millions of crew on deck across them. Carriers with both fighters and boarding craft, and melee weapons and armor being used by boarders in lieu of guns due to anti-firearm tech. And that's not even getting into the awesomeness of something like the Iserlohn Fortress, a planetoid fortress with controllable liquid magnetic metal on its surface to defend from weaponry. It was such a prolific recommendation for a reason, and if you're looking for hard sci-fi, it's probably right up your alley.
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a bit surprised nobody has recommended you Old Knight of the Frontier, Bard Loen yet. It's about an elderly retired knight who goes on a journey to find a suitable place to die, and enjoy wonderful food and drink along the way. It's gorgeous, it's dramatic, it's cute and funny in places, it has great action, and it's powerfully sentimental.  I also love that it'll have beautifully detailed artwork most of the time but also just randomly give Bard a :3 face in places 
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Jun 27, 2023 19:29
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also if you hop into The Faraway Paladin, don't watch the anime, read the manga. the anime is a subpar adaptation, while the manga is stellar.
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runawayturtles posted:I feel like I add something to my reading list every time you post. I barely ever read manga these days though, so the list is getting very long...      it's super loving good. top tier.
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My Love Story, for sure, if you like fluffy romcoms.
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Eat The Rich posted:I'm sort of a manga newbie, I just pounded through Berserk and Vinland Saga. I like OPM and most of anything on Toonami was pretty good. completed: Fullmetal Alchemist Monster I Am A Hero Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Yokohama Shopping Trip Dorohedoro Chainsaw Man(main series completed, a sequel series has started) Pluto Kumika's Sense of Taste Parasyte Attack on Titan Battle Angel Alita(and all its sequels) The Observation Record of my Fiancee, the Self-Proclaimed Villainess Franken Fran Beastars Spirit Circle Ressentiment Boys on the Run TEPPU Hinamatsuri Blank Canvas, My So-Called Artist's Journey Akumetsu Helck Kids on the Slope ERASED A Silent Voice Silver Spoon not completed: Otoyomegatari(Young Bride's Story) Dungeon Meshi ONE PUNCH MAN Shiori Experience Knight of the Frontier, Bard Loen Re: Zero Yona of the Dawn Land of the Lustrous Yotsuba&! The Wrong Way To Use Healing Magic March Comes In Like A Lion Asuperu Kanojo(also known as "Asperger's Girl" or "Aspergirl") Heterogeneous Linguistics Kaiju Girl Caramelise My Daughter is an S-Ranked Adventurer some other series you might enjoy that fall outside your requested types: Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun! Zatch Bell! (completed, has a sequel series that started up and is also great) Oh, My Sweet Alien! (completed) The Boy Who Cried Wolf Told Another Lie Today (completed) Paradise Kiss (completed) Ideal Sponger Life (not completed) there's a lot of manga!!!
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yeah, the dorohedoro anime is quite good, but it doesn't cover all too much, so you'll have to make the switch eventually. depends on whether you want to do that or just stick with the manga aesthetic the whole way through.Eat The Rich posted:Edit: oh also I added a whole bunch of everyone's recs. I'm excited to check out dorohedoro after all the chat about it. I'll be revisiting the post as well as I get through stuff. Thanks everyone. Especially Captain Invictus with that chonker of a list completed: Fullmetal Alchemist Monster I Am A Hero Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Dorohedoro Chainsaw Man(main series completed, a sequel series has started) Pluto Battle Angel Alita(and all its sequels) TEPPU A Silent Voice not completed: Otoyomegatari(Young Bride's Story) Dungeon Meshi ONE PUNCH MAN Shiori Experience Knight of the Frontier, Bard Loen Yotsuba&! March Comes In Like A Lion and if I had to narrow it down EVEN FURTHER to my like, 5 picks I'd say read first, it'd be these in no particular order: Monster Fullmetal Alchemist Dungeon Meshi Dorohedoro Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind many series can be read on Mangadex. and if the series is licensed, which most of these are, they are generally linked to from their respective mangadex pages on where you can buy the official volumes. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Jul 24, 2023 |
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thetoughestbean posted:Eden: It’s An Endless World, maybe? It’s a very different work, though
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StrixNebulosa posted:Why is it bad? quote:I read through all of eden for some reason and wished i hadnt when I finished but it had some cool stuff. I would highly recommend against reading it, because while it does have some good stuff especially earlier on, by the end you will only be disappointed and regret the wasted potential. as for recommendations, I have a bunch of stuff that might interest you, though I'm not entirely sure if they'd totally fit what you're looking for. so I'll split them into which series I think are top shelf series, stuff with caveats, and unread stuff: unambiguous recommends: Pluto My Wife Has No Emotion Ghost in the Shell Appleseed Heavenly Delusion Battle Angel Alita(and its sequel series Last Order and Mars Chronicle) Yokohama Shopping Trip And Yet The Town Keeps Turning(mostly not sci-fi, but when it does, boy is it fun) Spirit Circle Hotel(only read this chapter, it's part of an anthology, the rest is unrelated) Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction The Wandering of Girls' Pair No. 7 Ressentiment Girls' Last Tour 20th Century Boys The Kodoku Experiment All You Need Is Kill(the Tom Cruise movie Edge of Tomorrow was mostly based on this) Hinamatsuri recommendations with caveats: Donyatsu(weird, cutesy series with donut-animals but also a starkly realistic-looking world around them with some interesting sci-fi stuff, dunno if it ever finished, the series bombed super hard unfortunately) I Am A Hero(not hugely sci-fi, it's a pre-and-post-apocalypse, set before, during, and after a world-ending zombie outbreak) Franken Fran(quite a lot of stuff about human nature, and also quite a lot of hosed UP body horror with oodles of dark humor in between) Knights of Sidonia(phenomenal sci-fi designs, some really amazing robot designs and settings, and also just some of the dumbest characters imaginable sometimes) Destronaut(not really a caveat, just that it's a oneshot) Ai-Ren(existential tragedy, not a perfect series but it really affected me so it might hit you too) Oh My Sweet Alien(slice of life with a man who married an alien. I really love the epilogue of the series) stuff I haven't read yet so I'm not sure if they're good or not but you might give them a try: Saturn Apartments Leviathan(someone recommended this to me but I've not gotten to it yet) Memories of Emanon I hope you find some stuff you enjoy amongst these! Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Aug 4, 2023 |
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is it only anime, or would manga suffice too
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and he gets owned. a lot. I'm pretty sure there's a straight up montage at one point of him just trying a bunch of things to brute force something and getting horribly murdered every time like Edge of Tomorrow Re:Zero does rule tho, subaru absolutely sucks at first but I have greatly enjoyed his growth Eat The Rich posted:Finished Monster and Dorohedoro. They were both pretty incredible, esp Doro. I've been craving gyoza like crazy. I want some Giant Cave Scorpion Hot Pot
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Don't forget the music, thr music is fantastic
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and cool robots
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I dunno if it would necessarily fit the bill, but Any Sufficiently Advanced Science Is Indistinguishable From Magic might be an enjoyable read for you. It's a doctor who gets isekai'd to a world where magic has supplanted basic medical support, so everyone is beholden to the healers who extort the populace. The artwork is insanely good, and the character designs are amazing and sometimes hilarious(the spider girl who is in Gothic Lolita but also just has six legs besides that is great). One of the first operations is doing impromptu surgery on a chimera who gets shot by a ballista bolt and detailing the process of removing an impaled object. Another one involves climbing down a dragon's throat to remove a stomach cancer tumor. It's a very fun series  E: some of the character designs  yakuza dragonkin hell yeah  this guy makes me think of dark souls 
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Just ask in this thread, it fulfils the same purpose
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Definitely at least try out vinland saga, dorohedoro, and chainsaw man.
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If it has even half the action the manga has it has a lot of action and some WILD kind to boot
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I recommend one of my favorite short stories, Hotel. I highly recommend reading this one chapter and skipping the rest, this was the original release and the rest was done later and is unrelated. It is a short story about humans triggering the "Venusification" of earth(a theory that could potentially actually happen if we gently caress things up badly enough), and as penance, building a "Hotel" as a memorial of the planet holding the DNA of the animals of earth, controlled by an AI who protects it. Interestingly, I only learned now when going to find it that this was apparently done by the creator of Doctor Stone a long time ago. Pretty good early work if a one-shot stuck with me all these years.
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SexyBlindfold posted:I don't think the Dungeon Meshi extras (Adventurer's Bible) are easily available as physical copies but y'all should definitely read them somewhere because they're... just great
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Any manga humble bundle like that is generally worth the purchase, it's rare that they cram them full of outright garbage, it's usually a significant value in really good series, and often includes the entirety of them if they're completed series.
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Destroy All Humankind. They Can't Be Regenerated. maybe? it's a manga about Magic: The Gathering set in 90s japan.
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Arc Hammer posted:Fantasy settings that don't wear TTRPG trappings like mana, guilds and character classes, please. I like those things in moderation but I could really go for something unique that doesn't pull from the usual toy box. there's few series I want to see a high budget adaptation more of than Bard Loen. an absolutely beautiful series both in visuals and tone
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Annath posted:I'm in the mood for some different schlocky trash.
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AlternateNu posted:Underwater is just space with more pressure.
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Man I remember that one, it was silly as hell
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BattleMaster posted:My SO and I really enjoy comedy shows where the main character is some kind of terrible goblin who screams a lot and are often drawn as a chibi blob while they have their "clever" plans or reasoning backfire and they get exactly what they deserve while a straight man character or narrator heedlessly tells them that they are an idiot but things turn out alright and heartwarming in the end. Examples we have watched include Tearmoon Empire, The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated!, 'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess, Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro, and Squid Girl.
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for manga, The Old Knight of the Frontier, Bard Loen should suit you well. It's not entirely food-focused, but it does spend quite a bit of time carefully preparing meals while out in the wilderness and foraging/hunting for things. The actual storyline and characters are absolutely top notch, as well. Kumika's Sense of Taste is a fantastic, complete manga about an earth where aliens have made contact and integrated into human society. Kumika is an alien who can subsist entirely off the particles in the air, just by breathing, so she's never had to eat to survive. So when she's introduced to earth food, she learns to love eating for the joy of it, rather than necessity. Very fun, very cute, very chill series. also, one of her coworkers is just a straight-up xenomorph. and if you're not averse to overly fanservicey series, Gal Gohan is about a cooking teacher who has a gal join his class. It's pretty good.
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there's also Beauty and the Feast which is just one of the most  localized titles I've ever seen, about a widow who loves to cook but has nobody to cook for anymore after her husband died, until a high school baseball player aiming to go pro moves in next door. It's very charming, and is completed.
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