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Whats your favorite anime?
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2017-11-30 at 5 AM UTC
Originally posted by 霍比特人说中文不好 I hate that stereotypical anime girl scream
YATTA!!!!!and the moments where it sounds like a tinfoil bell is ringing and then they change the art style to something more simplistic because something funny/crushing/cringey/scary happened.
Yeah that shit is infuriating, it's hard to explain but it's like an even worse version of a laugh track or the horror movie "sting" sound.I want more miyazaki tier films. People say to me, "Oh you just don't like anime" but I don't like most tv/movies. Anime is a big wide genre tho so it's hard to find out how to describe what I do like, and also I'm not sure why I'm ranting about this.
You should try Your Name. It's not, like, INCREDIBLE, but it's a very good, solid film. -
2017-11-30 at 5:06 AM UTCGonna watch it tomorrow, will report back thnx.
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2017-11-30 at 5:50 AM UTC
Originally posted by Sophie IDK Mal Mal, people have been telling me Food Wars is the shit for some time now. I should probably just stop complaining and watch it. But an anime about food doesn't seem appealing to me in general.
You should check out Amaama to Inazuma. It's the spiritual successor to Usagi Drop and the cooking scenes in almost every episode are downright cathartic. -
2017-11-30 at 6:18 AM UTC
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2017-12-08 at 8:32 AM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny You should check out Amaama to Inazuma. It's the spiritual successor to Usagi Drop and the cooking scenes in almost every episode are downright cathartic.
I just finished Amaama to Inazuma. It was one of the better SoL's i have seen in a while. Very enjoyable, very endearing. Thank you for recommending it. Definitely worth the watch. I started watching Mahoutsuki no Yome. Wow, the art style is amazing, the story so far is unique in the genre, engaging and full of interesting characters. As far as i am aware there's only been 9 episodes released so far and a few OVAs. New episodes take a month or more to come out but that is due to the crazy production value i'd imagine. It's episodic but it feels a lot like movie. Anyway, it's definitely already one of my all time favorites. And i think you'll enjoy it too Lon Lon-chon. -
2017-12-08 at 9:15 AM UTCIs SHUT THE FUCK UP AND KILL YOURSELF an anime? I like that one the most.
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2017-12-08 at 10:33 AM UTCSteins;Gate
Fist of the North Star
Welcome to the NHK
GTO
Gintama
Honorable mentions:
Lucky Star
K-On
Haruhi
because they remind me of times gone by -
2017-12-08 at 11:19 AM UTCPokemon
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2017-12-09 at 8:28 AM UTC
Originally posted by Sophie I just finished Amaama to Inazuma. It was one of the better SoL's i have seen in a while. Very enjoyable, very endearing. Thank you for recommending it. Definitely worth the watch. I started watching Mahoutsuki no Yome. Wow, the art style is amazing, the story so far is unique in the genre, engaging and full of interesting characters. As far as i am aware there's only been 9 episodes released so far and a few OVAs. New episodes take a month or more to come out but that is due to the crazy production value i'd imagine. It's episodic but it feels a lot like movie. Anyway, it's definitely already one of my all time favorites. And i think you'll enjoy it too Lon Lon-chon.
I don't watch airing anime anymore (I find it's not enjoyable when I'm following multiple series weekly) but I'll definitely check it out once it's done. I'm a sucker for an interesting/high production value art style. Fall season is looking dope, also hyped for S2 of 3-gatsu no lion to finish (same mangaka as hachimitsu to clover which is one of my all time fav SoL series), especially after a boring summer season. -
2017-12-09 at 8:31 AM UTCHonestly how do you guys watch that stereotypical shit? Is it different? Is there more to it I'm not seeing?
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2017-12-09 at 8:32 AM UTC
Originally posted by mso8 GTO
GTO's art style was dogshit, the voice acting in both the dub and original was garbage somehow (the dub was doubly jarring because it was Steven Blum doing good as always along with literally the worst English voice actors you can find), and a lot of the plot was some contrived shit, but somehow I ended up liking it by the end and I don't really know why. It's a fan favorite too. I think it's some kind of voodoo or some shit. -
2017-12-09 at 8:44 AM UTC
Originally posted by 哈哈你看不懂中文 Honestly how do you guys watch that stereotypical shit? Is it different? Is there more to it I'm not seeing?
Are you talking about a particular series or gene or anime in general? There's a pretty decent artistic range, about what you find in modern american network television, and like american network television if you only watch the top X whatever it's going to be fairly stylistically homogenous.
It's fairly common that people unfamiliar with genre norms will mistake satire or experimentation with cliche. 90s and early popular 2000s anime did lean pretty heavily on a handful of tropes but modern aesthetics are to invert them in interesting ways. You could compare it to like the recent resurgence of marvel franchise movies/TV: a foreigner might look at it and being familiar with like silver age comics think it's really cliched rehashing but actually there's at least an attempt reinterpret a part of our cultural history from a different, more cynical or edgier perspective. -
2017-12-09 at 6:28 PM UTCBasically most animes are the same, and I've watched a fair number of different ones. Stuff like Fairy Tail and Naurto and whatnot. I like stuff like Gintima but most satire outside that falls pretty flat. I also don't like the rehashed marvel stuff for exactly the same reasons I don't like most anime. Same old same old.
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2017-12-09 at 7:19 PM UTCFairy Tail and Naruto are both very straight line shonen series. And Gintama plays with the formula a bit but is definitely in the same general space. If the only thing you're watching is fight anime made for young boys obviously it's going to seem the same. What have you watched that isn't a fight series or outside the shounen demographic?
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2017-12-09 at 7:29 PM UTCI forget the names, but stuff like Silver Spoon, Mushishi (actually love that one) uhhh Spice and Wolf, Monster, Death Note. Those are just the ones I can think of.
Mushishi is one of the very very few animes that I like and will rewatch but I haven't found anything like it. Love the whole paranormal ecologist aspect. -
2017-12-09 at 7:40 PM UTCSo you may or may not have liked each of those series, but do you think they're "basically all the same"? They seem pretty diverse in art style, theme, plot, and genre.
Hotarubi no Mori e is commonly compared with Mushishi. Haibane Renmei is similar in it's low-plot high-atmosphere setup. -
2017-12-09 at 7:47 PM UTC§m£ÂgØL, you will like Hajime No Ippo
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2017-12-09 at 8:42 PM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny So you may or may not have liked each of those series, but do you think they're "basically all the same"? They seem pretty diverse in art style, theme, plot, and genre.
Hotarubi no Mori e is commonly compared with Mushishi. Haibane Renmei is similar in it's low-plot high-atmosphere setup.
Yes. They're the same. The monster anime detective bullshit. The guy girl cutesy shit. Same fucking predictable shit all the time with not a shred of uniqueness. Putting the same characters in different situations does not make for interesting dynamics. -
2017-12-09 at 8:45 PM UTCSpice and Wolf has no real "detective" element, monster has no real supernatural element and doesn't have a romantic subplot. I have a hard time seeing why exactly is the same here?
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2017-12-09 at 8:55 PM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny Spice and Wolf has no real "detective" element, monster has no real supernatural element and doesn't have a romantic subplot. I have a hard time seeing why exactly is the same here?
Wow, you take the "they're the same" statement literally, don't you? Obviously I am referring to the common tropes in anime.
