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There's so much anime out there that you couldn't have only watched this year's stuff. Or maybe you did. I sure didn't! Use this space to talk about your favorite anime not from this year, or decade if you're a thread title hardliner. There's five days left in the year so there's still time if you haven't watched anything yet! I recommend Nineteen19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWIK8F5lqZY
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K-on simulwatch!
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Dec 27, 2019 03:17
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Yugioh GX
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Dec 27, 2019 03:18
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Finally watched Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood after watching the original anime back in like junior high and then spending like a decade or so just kinda meaning to get to it. That anime's really loving good. Incredibly well produced for such a long show, I really like the brothers, Scar, and the Hawkeye/Mustang duo, and it winds up having a very strong and coherent overall thesis.
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Dec 27, 2019 03:18
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saki: episode of side-a
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Dec 27, 2019 04:24
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The anime I finished this year that weren't made this decade were: Revolutionary Girl Utena Char's Counterattack Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water Bubblegum Crisis Wolf's Rain Kemonozume Ghost Hound Kaiba Outlaw Star Zeta Gundam Some of those make it pretty hard to choose but I think it's got to be Kaiba, it's one of the few shows I've seen that I immediately wanted to rewatch.
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Dec 27, 2019 07:13
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I watched Gundam war in the pocket and also utena. Both were great shows, I was surprised at just hard both shows go on their themes
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Dec 27, 2019 16:49
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i just watched dennou coil and that one goes directly into my all-time favs list
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Dec 27, 2019 19:36
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toradora, as is proper for every christmas season
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Dec 27, 2019 20:17
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I also re-watched Utena after one of my friends got hooked into Ikuhara's shenanigans by way of Sarazanmai. As I had mentioned before some time ago (don't know if here or in the discord) that I thought Utena would benefit of having a tighter pacing into a 24-to-26 episode format, not unlike Penguindrum, but Endorph mentioned that, were that the case, characters like Anthy would barely be characters and would resemble more like props for the plot or something along those lines, so I tried to watch it with that in mind and, I gotta say, I definitely appreciate it more. Also re-watched Ippo's 2nd season (New Challenger) after a youtube compilation of the Takamura vs Hawk match hyped me up. Takamura is best/worst guy. 
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Dec 27, 2019 20:30
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i wish MAL history worked. i THINK Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn? i watch a lot of old stuff so it blends together
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Dec 28, 2019 01:45
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i didn't really watch all that much anime this year outside of the toxx which i barely survived badly burned out. instead i chose to focus on manga, although even that has seriously cooled down now that ive seemingly read most of the series im interested in (some 325 this year only counting the ones on mal). that said i managed to watch a few Tytania: apparently this was this year? must have been something i finished 99% of last year. Imagine if you had LOGH, but the entire series was only the first prequel movie and the rest never got adapted. not worth watching. not even any good strategy or space battles and most of the smart characters you only know they're smart cause they have servants telling you they are Canaan: i played the great vn 428: Shibuya Scramble, so i decided to watch the sequel anime as well. huge mistake. any characters that carry over are giving character changes like they just went through bimbofication, and its just the usual incredibly idiotic type moon nonsense which is only made worse by following up on something that had actual enjoyable writing. Emma: A Victorian Romance: i thought season 1 of this was a great, acceptably realistic, look at cross class romance in the victorian era, certainly an era not often explored in anime. season 2 blew it by relying on shoujo level coincidences and annoyed me by getting random historical tidbits wrong. also the love rival was a way better girl than the drab emma, even if she's bougie Bartender: a bunch of low tier, predictable seinen stories interspersed with wikipedia articles on alcohol Senkou no Night Raid: i indulged in my taste of historical drama again, with this reverse harem set in pre-war china. it starts off great, featuring a massive multicultural city, with more languages spoken in single episodes than most anime put together. they truly sell the whore of the orient as the international hub of artistry it was. also the opium and whore filled hub it was. i greatly enjoyed these episodes that featured lesser known historical happenings. then it started focusing on an idiotic plot involving a rogue japanese faction using time travel to get the atomic bomb and i lost interest. interesting side note is that it had 0 problems displaying the japanese as the villains they were during that time, a rare feat for anime. Future Boy Conan: one of the major early hits of anime fandom, this vehicle that helped launch miyazaki's career has fantastic animation. its a gorgeous show to look at from start to end. it also has a very likeable cast, managing to make characters that in most shows would be annoying loveable. it also made me laugh a fair amount. the major problem for me though, which might not be an objection for many, is that its still a children's show, so it remains stuck to childish writing. that led to it being a bit dull at times for me.
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Dec 28, 2019 01:51
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Relin posted:i wish MAL history worked. i THINK Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn? i watch a lot of old stuff so it blends together https://anime.plus/
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Dec 28, 2019 01:51
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My best rewatchs this year were Stellvia which held up real well, Jubei-chan season 2, Yes Precure 5, and Kashimashi Girl meets Girl
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Dec 28, 2019 02:11
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I dunno. I've been mainlining older shows this year, and there's enough variety that picking one "best" is a little beyond me. I suppose I could give the nod to Gurren, as the climax of Gainax's old mech escalation. But yeah. So much old, good stuff. Helped make up for the new stuff not being on par with last year for the most part.
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Dec 28, 2019 02:26
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Pokemon: Advanced Generation and Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl. Seriously. (The latter didn't end until 2010, but the OP suggests that the thread title should be interpreted loosely.) It's amazing how much better the Pokemon anime got starting in the last third or so of Johto, after the terribleness of the rest of Johto. The quality declined again with Best Wishes, though.
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Dec 28, 2019 02:55
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Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick This anime is probably my favorite of the year. I don't think I'd recommend it to most people because it has a fair amount of flaws but I thought it was awesome. This show has rapid tonal whiplash that would probably turn most people off, pairing cheesy puns, haiku jokes, and other old man humor right next to pretty heavy themes like the choice between choosing a death you're satisfied with against living an unfulfilling life, the dangers of transforming your political beliefs to religious fervor, and trying to outrun and escape your trauma. A scene where a character flashes back to their mother committing suicide is immediately followed up with a piss joke, which is followed up with an absolutely harrowing jail cell fist fight that had some of the most innovative animation I've seen in an anime that ends with one of the fighters being thrown into a toilet. There's a rapping space chef and a dog that rides in a motorcycle sidecar equipped with a dog-accessible machine gun, but there's also a plotline about brainwashed androids thinking they were lovers in their original lives, only to find out that they never knew each other and that just sort of hangs there uncomfortably. A fair chunk of the early show is written like a kid's show with childish plots and character beats. It reuses the good jokes a little too often and lets bad jokes go on too long. The main character is sexist in a way that isn't really addressed while the show analyzes sexism in other regards. That said the show's themes resonated heavily with me and the way it treated every character with some dignity no matter how awful they were or how mean the writing was to them impressed me. It also looks great, it's an animator's anime and every scene has something going on even when dialogue is dull. As nihilistic and bleak as the show becomes it never loses its colorful, larger than life flair which fits with the themes about living life as boldly and loudly as you are able. because we all die one day. Even the messiness of the show is endearing to me because it's a show made by people to entertain themselves and they don't care if you're ready or willing to enjoy it. I'm glad that they decided to share it with the rest of us, warts and all.
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Dec 30, 2019 07:09
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martian successor nadesico is a 90s mecha anime that succeeds at being fairly introspective about mecha as a genre, and the ways that people interact with and take meaning from media, while also just being a genuinely funny show with a very likable and human cast of characters whose relationships develop and change in ways that feel very natural the first season of saki is one of the best animated things gonzo has ever made and the show itself has really funny writing, they did justice to strong source material with it The Colonel fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Dec 30, 2019 |
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Dec 30, 2019 18:10
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Same one as every year: Gunbuster.
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Dec 30, 2019 18:46
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Rewatched Slayers and Slam Dunk, with friends. Wanted to rewatch Ghost Sweeper Mikami and B't X but couldn't work that in at the time. Also,EthanSteele posted:Same one as every year: Gunbuster.
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Dec 30, 2019 19:33
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Mind Game, the 2004 Yuasa. Really visually fun to watch though I didn't get much of the plot due to the reefer
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Dec 30, 2019 19:34
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SAC 2nd GiG. Better of the two Stand Alone Complexes.
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Dec 30, 2019 20:48
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I AM THE MOON posted:toradora, as is proper for every christmas season Also ToraDora.
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Dec 31, 2019 03:28
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I finally watched Cowboy Bebop this year, so I've beaten you all.
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Dec 31, 2019 06:35
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I finished Toward the Terra tonight. Turns out I watched two space anime featuring a spaceship called Moby Dick that give me mixed feelings! Based off a 1977 manga this is the grandparent of a lot of space opera in anime and manga. Mobile Suit Gundam ripped a LOT of ideas from this, right down to a climactic swordfight between the main characters in the middle of an explosive battle. Instead of being intricately plotted the story proceeds based on the emotional logic of the characters involved. This results in a narrative that isn't predictable and asks you to empathize with people who are under extreme duress to make sense of what's going on which means it's probably not for everyone. It also has a great portrayal of the intergenerational effects of genocide and has an ending that doesn't tie everything together neatly and leaves a lot of the themes up for the viewer to decide, which is part of the thematic thrust in general! I'd also like to praise the environmental sense of the production, a lot of thought was put into how the spaceships would look and move inside and out. The animation is cheap at times but the character design style is pleasant enough to counteract that, and it's the characters that are on screen 90% of the time anyway. I'm glad I watched it, even if it didn't inspire very strong emotions beyond "This is good stuff" most of the time.
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Dec 31, 2019 06:50
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Oh yeah the other space anime (space anime were my theme this year) I watched was Galactic Cyclone Bryger which is kind of like Lupin in space I guess. There's a giant robot that shows up for two minutes every episode that looks really ugly. I think it might have the first sex scene in television anime? It was great episodic fun with our heroes fighting various space criminals and mobsters with a truly huge variety of plots from "helping a rock band break free of their awful contract" to "training children in the art of combat so they can take revenge for their parents' murder personally". My favorite episodes were the one where our heroes help space truckers get revenge on the cops that killed a radio DJ for letting truckers know where they were hiding, and the space casino episode that was reminiscent of the loopier Lupin episodes. The entire end show plot where the King of Egypt kills just about drat everybody is delightful as well. This show was also popular among HIdeaki Anno and friends according to the manga Blue Blazes and several of the late show plot twists made their way into Gunbuster. If you can appreciate 70s/80s anime style you'll probably like this anime whether you enjoy mecha or not, because like I've said the robot only shows up for a few minutes as an afterthought mostly. Another anime I forgot to mention is Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas, a gorgeously animated prequel anime that I think you could probably enjoy even not having seen all 140+ episodes of the original Saint Seiya. If you want well animated shonen action it's the show to watch! It's also on Netflix so it's pretty accessible unlike the rest of the shows I watched. My only complaint about it is that it doesn't really use it's period piece setting at all past the beginning, and sometimes it defuses interesting plot situations just so it can move on to the next thing. I don't have a lot of words about this because what it does is pretty simple and it does it exceptionally well. Just check it out!
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Dec 31, 2019 07:03
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GorfZaplen posted:I finished Toward the Terra tonight. Turns out I watched two space anime featuring a spaceship called Moby Dick that give me mixed feelings! Based off a 1977 manga this is the grandparent of a lot of space opera in anime and manga. Mobile Suit Gundam ripped a LOT of ideas from this, right down to a climactic swordfight between the main characters in the middle of an explosive battle. Instead of being intricately plotted the story proceeds based on the emotional logic of the characters involved. This results in a narrative that isn't predictable and asks you to empathize with people who are under extreme duress to make sense of what's going on which means it's probably not for everyone. It also has a great portrayal of the intergenerational effects of genocide and has an ending that doesn't tie everything together neatly and leaves a lot of the themes up for the viewer to decide, which is part of the thematic thrust in general! I'd also like to praise the environmental sense of the production, a lot of thought was put into how the spaceships would look and move inside and out. The animation is cheap at times but the character design style is pleasant enough to counteract that, and it's the characters that are on screen 90% of the time anyway. I'm glad I watched it, even if it didn't inspire very strong emotions beyond "This is good stuff" most of the time. If "climactic" means that the fight's at the end of Towards the Terra (rather than an earlier big fight), it would be physically impossible for Gundam to have ripped that off. Mobile Suit Gundam ended in January 1980. Towards the Terra ended in May of the same year. Even before you consider the relative turnaround times for a manga chapter and an episode of an anime, it'd be difficult for anyone, including Tomino, to steal ideas from a manga that didn't exist at the time.
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Dec 31, 2019 07:13
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I think I've only watched one show this year that wasn't made in the 2010's, and that's Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure. A fun silly little parallel world show with mechas and immature adults and silliness. It was short, but fun, and didn't take itself all that seriously so the whole thing was a nice change from what I usually watch.
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Dec 31, 2019 08:06
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chiasaur11 posted:If "climactic" means that the fight's at the end of Towards the Terra (rather than an earlier big fight), it would be physically impossible for Gundam to have ripped that off. I'm not going to let something like facts keep me from dunking on Gundam so I fully intend to repeat these falsehoods in the future. Neat though!
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Dec 31, 2019 16:07
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history is written by the posters
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Dec 31, 2019 16:24
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