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Baldbeard posted:I'm not really a big anime watcher, but I just finished kyousogiga after seeing it in the GIF thread and I really enjoyed it. Any recommendations on more serious or mature story-telling series like this? Stuff like school boy unlocks special powers + many upskirt shots immediately turns me off of a series, and I find myself having to watch like 20 pilots before finding something I can stick with. Samurai Champloo Maybe Blood Blockade Battlefront?
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Baldbeard posted:I'm not really a big anime watcher, but I just finished kyousogiga after seeing it in the GIF thread and I really enjoyed it. Any recommendations on more serious or mature story-telling series like this? Stuff like school boy unlocks special powers + many upskirt shots immediately turns me off of a series, and I find myself having to watch like 20 pilots before finding something I can stick with. If you like Kyousogiga that much you'll probably like Katanagatari, and there's always the works of Masaaki Yuasa such as Ping Pong The Animation and The Tatami Galaxy.
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Aug 29, 2015 18:59
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If we're recommending Yuasa then Kaiba is totally fantastic.
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Aug 29, 2015 19:04
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You could try The Eccentric Family too, it's on CrunchyRoll.
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Aug 29, 2015 19:07
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Awesome, thanks goons. I'll check these out.
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Aug 29, 2015 19:18
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Baldbeard posted:I'm not really a big anime watcher, but I just finished kyousogiga after seeing it in the GIF thread and I really enjoyed it. Any recommendations on more serious or mature story-telling series like this? Stuff like school boy unlocks special powers + many upskirt shots immediately turns me off of a series, and I find myself having to watch like 20 pilots before finding something I can stick with. If you like mature storytelling, look no further than this thread's title.
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The Colonel posted:If we're recommending Yuasa then Kaiba is totally fantastic. +1 on this it is great!
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Aug 29, 2015 21:56
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If you liked the fun, charming, and wistful story of kyousougiga, stay far away from the thread title
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Aug 29, 2015 21:57
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You can't go wrong with anything Yuasa directed. All his shows and films are gorgeous, charming, have something positive and insightful to say, and have virtually none of the compromises or hangups someone who's only watched bad anime might expect. I haven't seen everything he's worked on as a key animator or guest director, but what I have seen is generally good too. (If nothing else it will be well-animated.) I'm sort of responding to the Kyousogiga guy but this goes for everyone, really. Tuxedo Catfish fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Aug 29, 2015 |
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Aug 29, 2015 22:08
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Linnaeus posted:If you liked the fun, charming, and wistful story of kyousougiga, stay far away from the thread title Warning against Legend of Galactic Heroes is something you should only do to someone you hate.
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legend of galactic heroes is good but it has plenty of flaws and it gets annoying when people try to recommend it regardless of what the guy actually said. i don't think it's a bad recommendation in this case since he just said serious/mature, but it is nothing like kyousogiga
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Bongo Bill posted:Warning against Legend of Galactic Heroes is something you should only do to someone you hate. Kyousogiga is a lively, colorful show, and LoGH is a real dry sci-fi series. There's definitely the sort of person that digs sci-fi that will eat LoGH up, but enjoying the former definitely won't correlate to liking the latter.
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I started Crunchyroll's free trial to checkout My Love Story (which is great), is there anything else good to make a paid subscription worth it? The last anime I remember watching were the first season of Chihayafuru, Nichijou, Daily Lives of High School Boys and Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru.
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gmq posted:I started Crunchyroll's free trial to checkout My Love Story (which is great), is there anything else good to make a paid subscription worth it? The last anime I remember watching were the first season of Chihayafuru, Nichijou, Daily Lives of High School Boys and Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru. http://www.crunchyroll.com/kyousougiga
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There's also gatchaman, wakakozake, working, etc CR does a good job of picking up the good shows
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gmq posted:I started Crunchyroll's free trial to checkout My Love Story (which is great), is there anything else good to make a paid subscription worth it? The last anime I remember watching were the first season of Chihayafuru, Nichijou, Daily Lives of High School Boys and Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru.
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gmq posted:I started Crunchyroll's free trial to checkout My Love Story (which is great), is there anything else good to make a paid subscription worth it? The last anime I remember watching were the first season of Chihayafuru, Nichijou, Daily Lives of High School Boys and Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru. Shirobako.
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Linnaeus posted:There's also gatchaman, wakakozake, working, etc TheEye posted:Shirobako. These are all fantastic recommendations and I second all of them
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gmq posted:I started Crunchyroll's free trial to checkout My Love Story (which is great), is there anything else good to make a paid subscription worth it? The last anime I remember watching were the first season of Chihayafuru, Nichijou, Daily Lives of High School Boys and Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru. Squid Girl is fun, Non non biyori is super chill and sweet, Girl Und Panzer is a super cool sports anime about tank battles, Mushi-shi is worth checking out to see if you're into it and Humanity Has Declined is really interesting and charming! There's a couple more recs from Crunchyroll's front page but all the previously mentioned ones are pretty great too
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Humanity Has Declined is so good. Also check out House of Five Leaves. Basically any good anime from the past three or so years is either on there or on Funimation's service.
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The Devil Tesla posted:Humanity Has Declined is so good. Also check out House of Five Leaves. Humanity Has Declined is fantastic, but it does lose its steam a little in the last few episodes just because they're (deliberately) not in chronological order.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Humanity Has Declined is fantastic, but it does lose its steam a little in the last few episodes just because they're (deliberately) not in chronological order. The last arc is my favorite!
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gmq posted:I started Crunchyroll's free trial to checkout My Love Story (which is great), is there anything else good to make a paid subscription worth it? The last anime I remember watching were the first season of Chihayafuru, Nichijou, Daily Lives of High School Boys and Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru.
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So the first of the recommendations I checked out was Samurai Champloo, and I'm enjoying it so far. Only complaint is there's been a couple really terrible filler episodes that are just awkward. Like the meteor episode where the mining crew are literal zombies.
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Watched Kaiba and Kemonozume, because I'm a sucker for unusual animation styles. Kaiba is really, really good. And somewhat horrifying. It's easy to overlook how incredibly bleak, terrifying and downright murderous this show is with its cutesy style. I kinda wish it were longer, because the early planet hopping episodes were really fascinating (not that the later plot-heavier episodes aren't good, mind you). Also, that has to be one of the best intros I've ever seen! Conclusion: gently caress you, Popo. Kemonozume is... well... I'm not sure. It certainly isn't very good-looking, but it kinda works for it? And I gotta say, this is one of the most nauseating and macabre shows I've seen. At times, it's simultaneously repulsive, hilarious and plain weird. Also, quite a memorable villain. Hats off to the creators - Ooba is one disgusting, sadistic son of a bitch. That really is one guy who enjoys torturing people in all kinds of ways, for pretty much no reason at all. I really liked how deranged he was - it really felt like he had no real plan whatsoever, he just did whatever the hell he wanted, and violently so; and it worked. If I had to sum this show up, it'd be "fascinatingly unpleasant". Weird. ...I'm not gonna watch this again.
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"Fascinatingly unpleasant" is an apt description for Kemonozume, though for my money it starts out more fascinating and ends up more unpleasant.
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Bad Seafood posted:"Fascinatingly unpleasant" is an apt description for Kemonozume, though for my money it starts out more fascinating and ends up more unpleasant. Given the reveal of the main villain in the late episodes... yeah. Yeah. 
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Can you read manga in Japanese anywhere online?
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Sep 4, 2015 17:42
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Yeah there's like a dozen sites for it. You could also just download them off nyaa
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Sep 4, 2015 17:46
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google whatever series you want and then add 'raws'
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Sep 4, 2015 17:48
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Here's a legal site if you want to pay for it http://www.ikki-para.com
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I've been very slowly introducing my boyfriend to anime for a while, so far he's seen Cowboy Bebop, FMA:Brotherhood, Attack on Titan and some Lupin III and Outlaw Star as well as a bunch of Ghibli films. I'm looking for some decent action/sci-fi without any overly Japan-ness (wasn't a fan of Spirited Away). In general he likes stuff with a good amount of character building and decent plot so any recommandations would be much appreciated.
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Black Lagoon is a decent action show with limited Japan-ness. Well, there's a maid
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CherryCat posted:I've been very slowly introducing my boyfriend to anime for a while, so far he's seen Cowboy Bebop, FMA:Brotherhood, Attack on Titan and some Lupin III and Outlaw Star as well as a bunch of Ghibli films. Planetes Silver Spoon The new Arslan series
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That Works posted:Planetes Arslan could be good, I'm also considering Gurren Lagann and Parasyte.
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Sep 5, 2015 02:29
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baccano everyone should watch baccano, and it sounds like just what you need
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CherryCat posted:I've been very slowly introducing my boyfriend to anime for a while, so far he's seen Cowboy Bebop, FMA:Brotherhood, Attack on Titan and some Lupin III and Outlaw Star as well as a bunch of Ghibli films. If you're okay with a show with a bit of a longer burn, you guys should check out the show right in the title, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, in the order recommended by the ADTRW thread for it. It's one of the best space operas ever made, period, animated or otherwise
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CherryCat posted:I've been very slowly introducing my boyfriend to anime for a while, so far he's seen Cowboy Bebop, FMA:Brotherhood, Attack on Titan and some Lupin III and Outlaw Star as well as a bunch of Ghibli films. Bodacious Space Pirates. No, I'm not joking.
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CherryCat posted:I've been very slowly introducing my boyfriend to anime for a while, so far he's seen Cowboy Bebop, FMA:Brotherhood, Attack on Titan and some Lupin III and Outlaw Star as well as a bunch of Ghibli films. Psycho-Pass Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex The Big O Redline (in 1080p/Blu-Ray quality if at all possible, or you're doing your eyes a disservice) Trigun Gungrave Last Exile Jormungand (it's not as good as Black Lagoon, but it's good if you want more in the same vein) Hellsing: Ultimate (the original series isn't as good, and this is a direct adaptation of the manga). Psycho-Pass and GiTS are both set in Japan, but are reasonably grounded in a general 20-minutes-in-the-future sci-fi setting.
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