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Raenir Salazar posted:Any manga or anime that explores depression as a central theme?
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zenintrude posted:You guys recommended Haibane Renmei to me after I wrote about liking the realistic, day-to-day/slice-of-life aspects of Niea_7. Time of Eve. I love a bit of mundanity myself and I found HR a bit slow paced, though I still enjoyed it. Time of Eve is one of those shows where the slice of life sections serve to bolster the thematic and narrative aspects rather than distract or dilute from them. Don't let the robots put you off! Neddy Seagoon posted:(Thanks again for reminding me it existed, Chas McGill!)
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Looking for something chilled out with nice music that I can watch before bedtime. I don't want any explosions or shrieking, thanks. It can still have action, but it better be slow and calculated. Something like a better Bartender would be ideal.
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Kingnothing posted:Sakamichi no Apollon (Kids on the Slope) is a real nice show with plenty of good jazz. The relationship stuff gets a little annoying but overall really chill and nice. Neddy Seagoon posted:Nichijou would be pretty good for this if you haven't seen it. Keyboard Kid posted:Is this suggestion missing a word or is it some kind of April Fools' joke? GloomMouse posted:Nichijou has plenty of comedic shouting and crazy action gags though. unpronounceable posted:There's also Aria the OVA: Arietta, which takes place between Natural and Origination. Along the same lines, Sketchbook ~full color's~ is similarly paced, and also extremely chill. McNagah posted:I want to second this recommendation as well. The first season has a rocky start though, but Natural and Origination is quite excellent. If you don't mind a manga recommendation I suggest checking out Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou also. Endorph posted:Kino no Tabi/Kino's Journey would be a good choice. There's a two parter that's somewhat action packed, but even that is pretty slow and calculated about it compared to most action anime. For the most part it's just Kino goes to a place, experiences it, and thinks deep thoughts. Paracelsus posted:Mushishi tends to be rather slow and calculated and has a very chill soundtrack. Zorak posted:Mushishi is chill as can be and I highly recommend it. It has such a very slow and very quiet pace, while at the same time using each little piece phenomenally well. Thanks for the recommendations.
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On the subject of Mushishi - someone on the Guardian did a feature on 5 animes and their choices were quite interesting.
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Jack B Nimble posted:Just popping in to say Welcome to the NHK was good. I'm not sure how I'd phrase it, but I enjoyed that it was slice of life rendered with some realism, and it explored some psychological concepts. As for the dub - I thought it was pretty decent. I particularly liked his nerdy friend's (forgotten the name already) voice. Anyway, I watched a couple of the recommendations people gave me for relaxed shows: Aria - only watched the first episode of this. It does seem to be rather chilled out, but the visual style isn't really to my taste and it's a bit too cutesy. Will watch a couple more, though. Hyouka - I almost gave up on this about 5 minutes into the first episode when Chitanda was introduced - I couldn't handle how full-blown anime it was. However, the idea of a club solving hilariously mundane mysteries really appeals to me, so I watched the next two episodes. The voice acting and character designs for the girls irritates me, but the actual mystery solving and tone of the show is more or less what I wanted. Jury's out. a kitten posted:So is the manga Solanin, it also covers being young and on your own for the first time in the city. Chas McGill fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Apr 4, 2013 |
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Apr 3, 2013 23:57
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Smoking Crow posted:All of these shows seem super depressing. Do you have any quirky slice of life stuff that involves romance and ridiculously happy characters? I wish I had something to compare it to, but I've already played most of my cards in my first post. Nodame Cantabile. It's cheerful and quirky. It's mostly slice of life. Both the main characters have brain problems.
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What's another good protagonist-solves-problems anime in the vein of Master Keaton, Mushishi, Mononoke, GTO, Bartender?
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coathat posted:City Hunter fits the bill too, but you probably wouldn't like it.
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Mo_Steel posted:Maybe Hyouka? Main protagonist is a sort of Sherlock Holmes-esque character but lazy as all gently caress unless something interests him. The characters are enjoyable without being annoying, the puzzles are interesting and varied enough to keep from becoming stale, and it's fairly recent. Zorak posted:Well it's more a protagonist solving a single very large problem, but if you liked Master Keaton you could check out another Naoki Urusawa anime, Monster.
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Apr 21, 2013 14:19
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Kingnothing posted:Please keep going with it. The strange art dials down a whole lot. The setting doesn't change too much, but it does a little bit later (there are a few more mysteries than just the Hyouka one). It really is great. DamnGlitch posted:Art was the only thing that grabbed me about hyouka. I was bored out of my mind by ep 9 or 10 and was horrified when I learned it was a full 24-26 series. The actual animation and colouring is good, as is the representation of flashbacks and data (such as the visualisation of what brunette-toddler-girl's uncle did when he was at school). My main problem is just that I'm tired of high schoolers and uniforms. After a couple of episodes my tolerance for moe infantilisation was stretched really thin. It made me want to watch City Hunter again. I can understand the appeal of the show (unlike other stuff that's been recommended to me, like Toradora) - it seems well made and I like the premise.
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Apr 22, 2013 21:19
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ViggyNash posted:Now why have I posted all of this? Because I have no idea what to watch next. I'd like to stay away from actiony stuff (since much of what I've watched has been that) and much of the stuff that I've watched so far was at the suggestion of a friend of mine. I'm just not sure where to go from here. I'd prefer something with a good story, but suggestions? Time of Eve - 6 episode series that focuses on the relationships between humans and androids with reference to Asimov's laws of robotics. It has snappy dialogue, nice animation, and a touching story. Tatami Galaxy - Riotous art style matched to a continuous monologue tells a story with time and space weirdness. Legend of the Galactic Heroes - Probably the best anime ever made, in my opinion. I haven't really recovered enough from watching it last year to stop comparing other animes to it (and finding they fall short).
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Apr 24, 2013 13:32
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SomniumObmutum posted:Thanks for the ideas guys, Baccano! is probably going to be number one on my list because it takes place during one of my favorite story telling periods, Prohibition! Also I guess Legend of the Galactic Heroes is good? I honestly can't tell if its a giant running gag or if its a legitimate thing I should watch. I didn't really like Baccano, but a lot of people do, so there must be something about it.
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ViggyNash posted:I'm holding out for now because it's so freaking long and I don't have that much time to budget. The animations in LotGH are occasionally variable in quality, but they usually maintain a high standard. I think in the old thread I moaned about how the spinoff series, which are made using modern (well, 90s) graphics are absolute guff compared to the originals. The artstyle and character designs make up for any shortcomings in the animations in the original series, in my opinion. ViggyNash posted:On another note, Time of Eve has just blown me away. I wish the show could have been longer so that it could flesh out the world a bit more and provide us with a bit of back story a major event that was only hinted at, but they manage to squeeze so much interesting content into 6 15-minute episodes that it astounds me. I went in believing it would be an overtly serious discussion about AI and the human consciousness, but all of that discussion was delivered in a very lighthearted manner with amusing moments that always took me by surprise. This is a fantastic show that always keeps you thinking about the discussion.  It's the only anime I've bothered rewatching just so I could show it to other people.
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Guys, why didn't I like the two episodes of Baccano that I watched? I should love everything about it, really, but I don't. The opening theme creeps into my head and I find myself humming it while washing dishes or brushing the cat. Most of the characters are adults. It isn't set exclusively in a highschool. It's like the antithesis of all that I moan about in anime. Yet I don't love it. Maybe I was in the wrong mood when I tried it before. I also didn't really like Durarara.
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Thirding Time of Eve. I'm going to try Baccano again this weekend. I think I was put off at the start by the number of characters and speed of the narrative. If I give it a few more episodes things may coalesce into a story I can understand.
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Use peerblock and turn upload off when you get LotGH. It has a billion seeders anyway.
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StandardVC10 posted:So I guess I'm curious about comedy animes. I watched all of Azumanga Daioh and liked it quite a bit, and I have enjoyed Hataraku Maou-sama so far. Hidamari Sketch was decent but very slow paced. That's about all that I've ever bothered to watch more than one or two episodes of. Tuxedo Catfish posted:Recommend me a show with the anime equivalent of Mulder and Scully -- an adult man and woman whose relationship is professional rather than romantic/family/etc, who work as equals to solve problems. If you know of something similar that only follows most of those guidelines, that's fine too; I'm willing to budge on anything except "they're both teenagers."
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May 4, 2013 23:47
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I've seen people talking about how School Days is a big troll before - could someone direct me to a spoilery link that explains it all or summarise what's wrong with it? I'm curious enough to want to know, but not enough to actually watch something that is bad.
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Cake Attack posted:Here's a summary of the whole shindig, I am still not entirely convinced that it's not a brilliant satire of harem anime/Dating sims. Captain Invictus posted:You could watch the ending, which is pretty hosed up and very That's amazing. So, what happens is pretty much what should happen to most everyman protagonists. I'm at work, so I probably shouldn't watch that vid.
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. So he starts dating Girl 1, but when she won't sleep with him, he starts dating Girl 2 who will, without actually breaking up with Girl 1. Then, when he gets bored of Girl 2, he sleeps with Girl 3 when she shows interest in him. Anyway, skipping some stuff, it turns out Girl 2 is pregnant, and (this is where my memory gets fuzzy) shunned by everyone else, our hero starts dating Girl 1 again. Who goes crazy, and kills Girl 2 to see if she's actually pregnant (she wasn't), then decapitates our hero, with the last scene being Girl 1 cradling his head while on a boat out at sea. 
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There are loads of animes that I'd love to hear dubbed in English - Master Keaton, with its wide array of nationalities represented, would be perfect, provided the cast was talented enough. I watched Yugo: the Negotiator with a dub a few months ago and the voice acting was absolutely terrible. Same goes for the Big O, Speed Grapher, and Wolf's Rain, so I don't agree that dubs are of a generally good standard nowadays.
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Cake Attack posted:But... those are all fairly old shows. Speed Grapher is the most recent of all of those, and it came out eight years ago.
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Endorph posted:Also Big O's dub was great.
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I think they were put off by how stereotypically 'anime' Blum's acting is. For me, I associate him too strongly with Spike Spiegel. I liked his voice acting in Cowboy Bebop, but I don't think I've enjoyed him in any other role.
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At the rate you're going there won't be any animes left for you to watch in a few weeks.
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KittyEmpress posted:I bought a subscription to Crunchyroll to watch Attack on Titan and HxH. What other ongoing anime are good?
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Pulpie posted:So I'm starting to get back into anime after a long 5 year hiatus. I watched a half dozen different series's to get a footing on what I might like and of them I probably liked Monster the best, even if it was 30 episodes too long. So is Master Keaton worth looking into? I adore both series. Chas McGill fucked around with this message at 17:14 on May 14, 2013 |
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May 14, 2013 17:11
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Is there a Scottish Gundam?
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May 17, 2013 10:00
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Naoki Urasawa knows about Scotland.  There's a Master Keaton episode set here, and one of the robots in Pluto is from Scotland.
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A while back someone recommended the Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou manga to me. I've read the first three volumes and I think it's lovely. The art has an elegant, lyrical quality and really brings out the feeling of a world in graceful deterioration. The writing, which is always from the POV the characters, does an excellent job of conveying a larger narrative without clods of exposition - the characters have a sense of history and place. A gentle, elegant story so far. I think this is the first thing I've read/seen that captures some of what I liked so much about Time of Eve, beyond the superficial resemblance of having robots in cafes (two of my favourite things, I suppose).
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Nate RFB posted:Yeah YKK is amazing, one of my favorite all-time manga. I was so sad when it was over (though I also think it had the perfect ending).  Yep, I saw those already. The recommendation for YKK a few months ago was probably from me asking for something similar. There isn't enough of this stuff. By 'this stuff' I mean slice of life with enough (subtextual?) narrative, interesting characters, and unique atmosphere to keep me watching. That and I think I'd watch almost anything that features a cafe/eating establishment/small shop in a prominent way.
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May 21, 2013 01:17
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The only football anime worth watching is probably Giant Killing.
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May 21, 2013 14:30
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Sonata Mused posted:Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou.
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May 22, 2013 23:22
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I'd suggest Space Bros as another comforting, slow paced thing. Planetes has more plot and more action. I really liked the anime and didn't read the manga. I remember really liking the music in the anime, particularly the track that plays when Hachimaki is hanging on the moon.
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Stravinsky posted:I am looking for something that is very chill, and relaxed and melancholic. Something along the lines of these: Nate RFB posted:As much as I love YKK I didn't really care for the OVAs. It's something that definitely works best in the manga format. You should definitely give a read when you get the chance, there's a whole lot more material the OVAs don't cover.
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I watched the first three episodes of Working!! and...I don't get it. I was warned that the protagonist was a bit of a creep but I wasn't prepared for how repulsive he is. At least the other characters give him a hard time about it, I guess. Although, the way the show works it still caters to exactly the same kind of creeps as the protagonist by giving so much screen time to the unbearable uguu-munchkin object of his desires. The other characters are fine and even amusing at times. I'm intrigued by the lazy Kyoko and her katana wielding sycophant, Yachiyo. The cooks seem like cool guys. Inami beats the protagonist up, so she's fine in my book, though I'm distressed by the possibility that she'll end up falling for the paedophilic milquetoast due to plot pheromones at some point. People have said the second series is better - would it be worth skipping the rest of the first season to check that out? I like the setting and some of the humour, I just hate the two main characters as they currently are.
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a kitten posted:The show is a long way from being perfect, but as an actual anime sitcom set in a restaurant I thought the funny bits outweighed the bad. It's sad how often fun animes are let down by their protagonists.
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The Pickles posted:Goddamn you guys for introducing me to this, it was so good but so short. Now it's going to bug me for a long time that there's no more of it. Since the kickstarter has met its goal and the likelihood of them shipping a new DVD version seems high, I'd actually recommend backing it instead of buying anything now, especially since there may well be extra features and an English dub when it eventually releases.
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Captain Invictus posted:On a scale of 1-10, how realistic would you say the Tachikoma from GITS:SAC are? Mechanically speaking, not necessarily AI-wise or anything.  I've banged on about this before, but I love how they perfectly fit as friendly looking police robots. They're potentially deadly as gently caress, yet they don't really look it. You could see a tachikoma rescuing a child from rubble just as easily as a tachikoma blowing a cyborg away with a cannon. I love tachikomas.
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