On one hand I'm dissapointed it's sole focus was on Sakura and not Yugiri even though she does have a more prominent role, I enjoyed the episode overall but with not many episodes left outside of Tae *ahem*. THE LEGENDARY TAE YAMADA death being a hilarious footnote like "she chased the dog off a cliff, the end" I wonder how they're going to close out the season.
I take it you want recs in general and you don't need them to be at this sale ? With that caveat:
Fate/Zero - perhaps a bit rote rec but still necessary one if you haven't seen it.
Mononoke - superb set of stories about Japanese ghost buster.
Afro Samurai - Feels like it belongs here, given the Drifter and Hellsing mentions. Doesn't overstay its welcome, packs some superb fighting scenes and more blood than you can fit in an olympic pool.
Below some series a bit at odds with your picks in that they're slower, with less or no action in them.
Mouryou no Hako - Occult murder mystery in 50's (60's ?) Japan.
Mushishi - It's Mushishi
House of Five Leaves - Slow and thoughtful samurai drama.
Shin Sekai Yori
Shigurui - Blood n'Guts samurai drama. Warning for extremely extreme content within. And the 'read the manga ending'.
Mind Game -
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Maybe Kemonozume also. With the caveat that it sort of goes bonkers with Yuasa unable to properly weigh its drama&comedy ratio and that you need to be able to handle the chara designs and general visual style.
Well in a sense the stuff I want to see doesn't necessarily have to be super violent in the case of Hellsing or Drifters.
I'll admit Ninja Scroll was my first experience with Anime back in 1996 mind you, which expanded to other films like Ghost in the Shell and Akira, and then I saw Patlabor and Ranma 1/2 for the first time and that was a huge influence on my tastes as well.
I don't mind the occasional shonen / boy adventure / action fight series every now and then, but I prefer something a bit more mature that covers some subject matter that won't typically ever be encountered in a Shonen anime that consists mainly of a coming of age story or a group of heroes fighting evil. Case in point the more psychological / metaphysical aspects in Ghost in the Shell typically aren't present in most shonen shows. Nor is there many lead characters the fall on the much darker end of the moral compass as in the case of Code Geass or Hellsing. Maybe I'm not looking for Seinen series but stuff that just is just "different" from the typical DBZ, Naruto, or One Piece.
I also have a preference for complete series so I don't necessarily mind waiting for a series to finish first before I just buy it the entire series, which may explain my hesitance in picking up the Overlord seasons because the structure of the anime catching up at pace with the Light Novels that may or may not lead to a 4th season.
Just wrapped S1 of Log Horizon again. The last 3 eps of S1 yeah really kinda just fall off a cliff, or more kindly are really banking on your enjoyment of the last two arcs, or maybe it reveals how important resolving satisfactorily is to the overall enjoyment of an arc.
I don't know what they were doing - I can't tell if it finished halfway through an arc they quickly repurposed as a 'and then the adventure continues!' or they tried to cram an arc into 3,4 episodes and failed. The last half of episode 25 in particular is just a conversation between Shiroe and The Antagonist which almost completely comes out of nowhere (they were good enough to hint at her existance beforehand, I guess) where they talk in weird mysterious circles. It's one of those scenes where you trust that Shiroe knows what he's doing because they pull it off all the time, where the characters have more information than the reader, but then they don't pull it off at the end so it kind of just comes down to "Uhhhh I guess they know what's going on? Idk"
Now, I literally don't remember anything about S2 except there was an episode in a TV station or something and then another episode that followed the old Tea Party leader around China or something, so going back to rewatch that should be pretty fun!
Since I haven't ready the LNs I couldn't tell you what they did with the end of S1, but I think it does add some interest to how the interactions between People of the Land had changed as well as giving Shiroe a situation that lacks any specific logic. I think my biggest issue ended up being the forced love triangle that I'm still not even sure why it exists. Admiration as opposed to actual love for a character trying to be a more competent person?
The final scene I liked to help setup the mystery of a larger plot, even if too much of it was left unexplained. I think the pieces are there to help the viewer make sense of who she is and why she's interested in Shiroe and his past, what with Minami being brought up several as well as Shiroe's contact, though it could have been a bit more telegraphed in places to really clue you in on why that conversation actually mattered.
The episode you are talking about is at the end of the season, related to
getting a satellite dish or radio tower up and running to communicate with the moon(?) and other parts of the game world
It's super weird but ties into some other reveals that occur during the season. I think the biggest problems people had with it outside of drop in animation quality was that almost every arc felt like a B-plot line due to how they were paced out over the season.
I haven't gone back to it since Sunday, but I might try and tackle more of S2 this weekend. I definitely know there are some arcs I've mostly forgotten as well as specific character motivations.
Finished up Steins;Gate and S;G 0, and long story short, it was one of my favorite pieces of entertainment ever, period.
More than anything else, I found the exact "recipe" that I think I'm looking for: story, cast, and music. If an anime is strong in those 3 things, there's a good chance I'll love it.
Any gems you guys recommend that are specifically strong in those 3 areas? Steins:Gate and Attack on Titan are the prime examples for me right now.
Finished up Steins;Gate and S;G 0, and long story short, it was one of my favorite pieces of entertainment ever, period.
More than anything else, I found the exact "recipe" that I think I'm looking for: story, cast, and music. If an anime is strong in those 3 things, there's a good chance I'll love it.
Any gems you guys recommend that are specifically strong in those 3 areas? Steins:Gate and Attack on Titan are the prime examples for me right now.
SG is one of my fav anime. I felt lost during SG0 though, even though it was really good.
Recent favorites of mine are Made in Abyss, Land of the Lustrous, and One Punch Man if you have not seen it yet.
Not sure what recipe you are talking about, time travel?
SG is one of my fav anime. I felt lost during SG0 though, even though it was really good.
Recent favorites of mine are Made in Abyss, Land of the Lustrous, and One Punch Man if you have not seen it yet.
Not sure what recipe you are talking about, time travel?
Well in a sense the stuff I want to see doesn't necessarily have to be super violent in the case of Hellsing or Drifters.
I'll admit Ninja Scroll was my first experience with Anime back in 1996 mind you, which expanded to other films like Ghost in the Shell and Akira, and then I saw Patlabor and Ranma 1/2 for the first time and that was a huge influence on my tastes as well.
I don't mind the occasional shonen / boy adventure / action fight series every now and then, but I prefer something a bit more mature that covers some subject matter that won't typically ever be encountered in a Shonen anime that consists mainly of a coming of age story or a group of heroes fighting evil. Case in point the more psychological / metaphysical aspects in Ghost in the Shell typically aren't present in most shonen shows. Nor is there many lead characters the fall on the much darker end of the moral compass as in the case of Code Geass or Hellsing. Maybe I'm not looking for Seinen series but stuff that just is just "different" from the typical DBZ, Naruto, or One Piece.
I also have a preference for complete series so I don't necessarily mind waiting for a series to finish first before I just buy it the entire series, which may explain my hesitance in picking up the Overlord seasons because the structure of the anime catching up at pace with the Light Novels that may or may not lead to a 4th season.
Finished up Steins;Gate and S;G 0, and long story short, it was one of my favorite pieces of entertainment ever, period.
More than anything else, I found the exact "recipe" that I think I'm looking for: story, cast, and music. If an anime is strong in those 3 things, there's a good chance I'll love it.
Any gems you guys recommend that are specifically strong in those 3 areas? Steins:Gate and Attack on Titan are the prime examples for me right now.
Watch the series and then watch the movie Rebellion. All on Netflix.
I'd also suggest A Place Further Than the Universe, Planet With, and depending on you constitution, Devilman Crybaby. That's at least a few good ones from this year that come to mind.
I'm going to recommend Haikyuu. Good story, LOVABLE characters, and amazing soundtracks. Also, go watch A Place Further Than the Universe, Land of the Lustrous, Made in Abyss.
Honestly, Aerosmith to L'il Bomber might be the worst name change in the series. Maybe Sex Pistols to Six Bullets is slightly worse but its one of those two.
I kinda like the role swap in this fight where the villain is being hunted and trying to figure out what the protagonists stand does since the villains stand is rather obvious.
Finished up Steins;Gate and S;G 0, and long story short, it was one of my favorite pieces of entertainment ever, period.
More than anything else, I found the exact "recipe" that I think I'm looking for: story, cast, and music. If an anime is strong in those 3 things, there's a good chance I'll love it.
Any gems you guys recommend that are specifically strong in those 3 areas? Steins:Gate and Attack on Titan are the prime examples for me right now.
Since I haven't ready the LNs I couldn't tell you what they did with the end of S1, but I think it does add some interest to how the interactions between People of the Land had changed as well as giving Shiroe a situation that lacks any specific logic. I think my biggest issue ended up being the forced love triangle that I'm still not even sure why it exists. Admiration as opposed to actual love for a character trying to be a more competent person?
The final scene I liked to help setup the mystery of a larger plot, even if too much of it was left unexplained. I think the pieces are there to help the viewer make sense of who she is and why she's interested in Shiroe and his past, what with Minami being brought up several as well as Shiroe's contact, though it could have been a bit more telegraphed in places to really clue you in on why that conversation actually mattered.
The episode you are talking about is at the end of the season, related to
getting a satellite dish or radio tower up and running to communicate with the moon(?) and other parts of the game world
It's super weird but ties into some other reveals that occur during the season. I think the biggest problems people had with it outside of drop in animation quality was that almost every arc felt like a B-plot line due to how they were paced out over the season.
I haven't gone back to it since Sunday, but I might try and tackle more of S2 this weekend. I definitely know there are some arcs I've mostly forgotten as well as specific character motivations.
Oh yeah the stupid love triangle bit is really terrible. It's a good distraction as a way to lead into the conspiracy arc (which was set up great, except Malves appears like, once, and then gets immediately neutered) but honestly... like, if Minori had been older or Akatsuki younger it maybe could have worked better. That cake episode was a real challenge and I ended up skipping most of it.
Also Akatsuki really suffers from not actually doing anything for most of the arc and for the one preceeding it, which they acknowledge, but it makes this one (where she's centre-stage still not doing anything) even more bullshit.
Watch the series and then watch the movie Rebellion. All on Netflix.
I'd also suggest A Place Further Than the Universe, Planet With, and depending on you constitution, Devilman Crybaby. That's at least a few good ones from this year that come to mind.
I'm going to recommend Haikyuu. Good story, LOVABLE characters, and amazing soundtracks. Also, go watch A Place Further Than the Universe, Land of the Lustrous, Made in Abyss.
I wish this show had an overarching plot instead of the phenomenon-of-the-week thing it's doing. I'm interested in seeing Kaede's arc getting a resolution.
I wish this show had an overarching plot instead of the phenomenon-of-the-week thing it's doing. I'm interested in seeing Kaede's arc getting a resolution.
Every arc was literally a self contained light novel in its own right originally. I think the pacing would feel more natural if they had spread out across double their planned episode count.
Don't forget there's a movie planned after the TV series wraps too.
Every arc was literally a self contained light novel in its own right originally. I think the pacing would feel more natural if they had spread out across double their planned episode count.
Don't forget there's a movie planned after the TV series wraps too.
Oh, someone please put Ghost in the Shell out of its misery. Shinji Aramaki makes paint drying look entertaining and Kenji Kamiyama has already done enough harm to the franchise. It's 3DCG too? Fuck me. Oshii's animation career is rolling in its grave.
Actually, you should not, regardless of the answer to that question. While S1 isn't a complete dumpster fire like its follows up, it's still not worth actively seeking out.
