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Our 2016 AotY thread ending reminded me of an idea I had last year: a retrospective AotY thread for a decade ago. In 10 years, a lot can change! For those of us who were watching anime in 2006, our opinions and tastes have probably changed, and some things just don't leave as strong an impression years on. For those of you newer to anime, you've probably only even heard of the stuff that's maintained some sort of presence in the collective fan consciousness. Either way, you should vote, and talk about your choices! I'd like to go ahead and combine best and worst anime votes here, following more-or-less the same rules as our normal threads. Shows are eligible if their final episode aired on TV in Japan in 2006. For best: dogsicle posted:Rules: Namtab posted:The Rules I plan to compile both weighted and unweighted votes, so unless you want all your votes weighted equally, rank them! I'm not going to do Most Avoided, because that seems a little silly at this distance. Feel free to mention it if you care to! In general, talk about the shows of yesterdecade! There's good stuff, there's bad stuff, there's forgetable stuff, and there's stuff that literally no one on MAL has rated. If that's a challenge, I'm not taking it up. The list, sorted alphabetically, taken from MAL. I've tried to put the English name when one was provided, and I've tried to trim the Chinese and Korean shows that MAL's listing now for some reason. I may have missed a couple for both efforts. If you'd care to look at MAL's list, with its little thumbnails of each and a quick blurb, go for it. It also conveniently has a thing informing you if it's on one of your own lists. e:list updated to actually include everything, hopefully! code:Yes_Cantaloupe fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Jan 9, 2017 |
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darkgray posted:Your list seems to be missing shows that started prior to 2006, like Blood+ and Shakugan no Shana. dammit, you're right. I trusted MAL's search thing! oh I used it wrong. updating shortly e: no, fixing what I thought I had wrong didn't work. w/e, I'll just search through the Fall 2005 list and add the appropriate stuff in
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Jan 9, 2017 19:16
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yep, I definitely left some notable stuff out! stuff that started earlier but finished in '06: code:
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Jan 9, 2017 19:30
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Good 1) Suzumiya Haruhi -  Haruhi is really really good anime. I first watched it a bit after the fact, since I mostly wasn't watching currently-airing anime back then, and I've watched it several times since, and it's great every time. A lot has been said about Haruhi, and whatever of value I might have to say I probably said during the simulwatch a year or two back, so look there if you really care. 2) Mushishi  A friend bought the first disc of this years ago knowing nothing about it, and we watched the first episode as a group. It was very green. Half the group fell asleep, and the other half was enthralled and love the show to this day. I eventually watched it all, and it's just fantastic. Moody, mysterious, simultaneously human and inhuman, it just nails everything. I'm slowly working my way through a rewatch, and it holds up as well as ever. 3) Ouran High School Host Club  It's good, it's cute, it's funny. I at 31 can enjoy it as well as my 15-year-old cousin. I've rewatched bits and pieces since first watching it however many years ago, and I still enjoy it. The end was a bit weird and off-tone compared to the rest, but it still had stuff that made me laugh. I still giggle when I think of the refreshing woodcutting. Let's not talk about the beach episode. 4) Simoun  There were cute girls! And they kissed! Holy crap! But that novelty aside, I quickly discovered a lot I liked about Simoun. The opening scene is from the perspective of a doomed enemy pilot, who gives us their justification for the war they're waging, and shows us what terrifying monsters our protagonists are in combat. It's neat, and effective in positioning the conflict not as one between good guys and bad guys, but instead a more natural one that our protagonists happen to be on one side of. The show very effectively portrays war as a thing that sucks, and that tears apart the natural course of human life. The weird gender stuff is cool, but mostly fades to the background in my memory (though every character having a female VA gives a weird feeling to everything that's really neat). What sticks most strongly with me is the suicide bombing, and the end, where our surviving friends who are still in their world go back to civilian life unsatisfied, because losing a war sucks. 5) Eureka Seven  I see what folks dislike about E7, but it's just cool. The robot surfing is cool (though yeah, it doesn't happen enough), the music is super cool, the visuals are cool, the side characters are cool, Eureka is cool, the world is cool, the mechs are cool... but yeah, the kids suck and a lot of the characters are unsympathetic jerks. I like it anyway. Bad, from worst to less-bad-but-still-bad 1) Fate/stay night  Rin was the first character whose design arrested my attention before I knew anything else about her. If I had to pick, she's still my waifu. I watched this because of her, and even enjoyed it, mostly because I didn't know anything about the VN. It's not good, though, and it looks like poo poo. 2) Strawberry Panic  There were cute girls! And they kissed (maybe? my memory's fuzzy)! Holy crap! But yeah, nothing else to this. Unlikeable character and boring conflict. I really liked Marimite at the time, which is how this snagged me, but it turns out keeping only the superficial elements of a good thing is a really bad way to make a new good thing. Wacky. 3) Rozen Maiden: Träumend  Rozen Maiden was a fun enough thing that declined in quality with each entry in the series. Thus, this was a new low point for it, and the end of my consumption of the series. The dolls just needed to be cute, talk in funny ways, and have cool fights, but this somehow hosed it up. Dishonorable mention: Mai-Otome - I watched this because I mostly liked Mai Hime, and wanted more. I don't remember much, but if 2006_Cantaloupe was bored and disliked a show, well, that's pretty damning.
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Jan 9, 2017 23:06
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Srice posted:Major season two is missing from the list. I'm gonna be the only one to vote for it but I demand recognition!! You're right! It appears to be the only winter 2006 show to have started in 2005, and it thus fell through the cracks. Added.
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Jan 9, 2017 23:33
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Miscellaneous 2006 anime thoughts: Kemonozume and Welcome to the NHK are both animes I should watch, they very well might earn a place on my best list whenever I get around to them. Yuasa is always fantastic, and the few eps of NHK I've seen were very promising. Shana and Zero no Tsukaima. Were these really as similar as they seem now? Kugimiya, tsundere, LNs... I don't know, they're practically the same series in my memory. I enjoyed both at first, but fell off after a season or two of each. Unremarkable, really. Aria, along with not-2006-anime Hidamari Sketch, makes up the biggest whole in my SoL resume. I need to fill that hole someday. I never watched more than the opening arc of Black Cat, and I believe it's pretty much your standard shounen fare, but I recall quite liking those handful of episodes, and making a conscious decision to watch no more. If I ever watch fight shounen again, I'll probably institute the same policy. Higurashi was really cool and creepy at first, but then it meandered too much and took forever to come out, and I just kind of lost interest.  I've never heard of Lovedol, and it probably isn't good, but it's name reminds me of Locodol, which makes me want to know more. Shuffle is pretty much an unremarkable VN adaptation, and it's not very good, but I'll always respect it for not going with the yandere childhood friend obvious female lead, and instead going with the cute senpai that the male lead had chemistry with. While watching, that's what I wanted, but I didn't at all expect it.
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Jan 9, 2017 23:37
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The different orders are on wikipedia now, there's no excuse. I don't know that anyone recommends anything other than broadcast order for a first viewing.
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Jan 11, 2017 23:52
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