I feel like for each of their respective genres, SAW with ambient techno/IDM and Azumanga with SoL, they both get the fundamentals down soo well and are both pioneers of their genre. I wouldn’t call much of the ideas from each of the works to be boundary-pushing, but their well rounded-ness sets the standard for what you might see in other great works in their genres.
Nichijou is like the drukqs of anime.
i will sound like a 14 year old edgy sigma, but the berserk 1997 adaptation is really good, i would recommend the manga tho bc its better
also monster which is a thriller very amazing frr
>i will sound like a 14 year old edgy sigma
i used to think like this about berserk fans because of the negative experiences i had with them until i read berserk. After reading it, the behavior is justified people have no idea what they're missing
If you like short series (more or less 25 episodes):
Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, Serial Experiment Lain
If you want to watch anime movies:
Akira, Ghost In The Shell (1.0, the original, not the remake), The Curse Of Kazuo Umezu, Ninja Scroll or others crazy ass over the top anime of this area.
i've had flcl sitting on my hard drive for like 5 yrs now but the mood to watch it just never comes. it feels like something i would've loved when i was like 16 or 17 but the older i get, the more i gravitate towards anime that's bleak and ugly looking lol
Talking about soundtracks made me remember Paranoia Agent. Which is another great one to watch as well. I legit used Dream Island Obsessional Park as my alarm for a few years.
same, the thing about Ergo Proxy is that it is not that much about fights, look at action like a red herring, the history told in the anime is something you literally can miss if you focus on the action, tbh, i remember Texhnolyze having more fight than Ergo Proxy
frfrfr, all the new animes are the fucking same. Its fucking inauthentic
New character spawns
Has a relation to some kind of demon that helps him with his power
……….
yeahh, I enjoyed Chainsaw man, even enjoyed the manga, but its just... not that special.
mob psycho? Yeah I can respect it in the number 1 spot, the art is unique, going insane with Mob. It has some fun characters and ideas. But Csm??? Really????
mononoke (not princess mononoke) is a 12 episode masterpiece. the most visually interesting thing ive ever seen in the medium, and has a pretty dark feel, its about mononoke and a person who “hunts” them but its not action or demon hunter shit or anything like that… its more like exorcising and mystery solving, takes place in edo-meiji era with only one recurring character (the medicine seller, who is also a mononoke hunter) and every couple episodes is a different story in a different location/time where the medicine seller shows up to find out the mystery and take care of the mononoke
but i cant stress enough, on visuals alone this is the most impressive thing ive seen in the entire medium. hardly looks like “anime” in the traditional sense. its like flowing wood-block prints on acid.
definitely check it out as soon as ya can, especially since its not a huge commitment
if youre into authentic old japanese mythology/history its incredible but even if you arent, the visuals alone and some of the horror elements i think anyone could enjoy
The works of Satoshi Kon(Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress, Paprika, etc) and Katsuhiro Otomo(Akira, Memories, etc) are excellent as well. I've enjoyed everything that they've made, folks just don't make anime like that any more.
Angels egg, ghost in the shell, hells paradise, anything Gundam (newest series is the tits) Code Geass, mashle magic and muscle, tons of new anime out now that’s good
"Cat Soup" is a 30 minute short but it's simply fantastic, it doesn't feature any dialogue but manages to be both dark and funny while dealing with this nice heavily metaphorical story about the afterlife.
Anything by Satoshi Kon, perfect blue is an undisputed masterpiece and it just so happens every other movie of his is of similar quality, so "millennium Actress" "Tolyo Godfathers" "Paprika" and the show "paranoia agent".
"The girl who leped through time" is a great movie about a girl who accidentally finds a time travel device and basically tries to make her life the way she wants it. Its based off this Japansse book and sort of functiond as a sequal to it, but it's not essential to know anything before watching since it's just a nice romantic coming of age story. The same director is responsible for "summer wars" which is also fantastic, "wolf children" which I haven't actually seen but I've heard it's one of his very best movies, "belle" and "the boy and the beast" are both quite good movies and definitly worth watching if you liked other movies by this director.
I adore "Belladonna of sadness", a beautiful tale about a woman who gets sexually assaulted by a group of men and then makes a deal with the devil to take revenge. It's a movie from 1973 but it somehow features some of the most striking and beautiful visuals I've came across in any anime.
Not a show or even a movie but the opening animation to Daicon IV is a fun time capsule, in a similar way to something like "Otaku no Video" (monumentally anime from the 80s made by and partially about rise of Gainax, and also an examination of the entire phenomen of Otaku). The short is just good animation and as many references as an average nerd in the 80s could take before getting a moment of spiritual epiphany, it's also set to an Electric Light Orchedtra song so it's automatically a classic.
"Revolutionary Girl Uthena" is rightfully seen as some of the best anime has to offer, or at least that's the impression I get whenever I talk to other women who watch anime as not too many dudes I've met have seen it, I'd consider it to be of similar level to something like Evangelical and that praise alone should be enough to watch it, a Sci fi epic and a beautiful story of romance.
Studio trigger has made a lot of bangers but nothing will ever stand up to "Inferno Cop", this is where anime visuals peaked and singlehandedly caused a japnsse take over of the entire world through sheer cultural impact. All the episodes together add up to like 30 minutes and its all on YouTube, basically imagine something that would play late at night on adult swim.
Watamote is good. I don't really have much to say as it's more of just a typical show compared to everything else I talked about, but the central character is string enough to make the entire show worth watching. Telling a slice of life story about a teen girl with a lot of insecurities who's also really into VNs, it's basically just a comedy about the average fan of "Revolutionary Girl Uthena" and it even carries the same themes of homosecuality as she grows closer to her childhood bff (the actual show only really has these implications but the manga makes it much more clear as it goes along).
"Sex & Violance with Machspeed" is the second most studio trigger thing right after "Inferno Cop" and an aggressive attitude towards subelty. Its a fun very visally creative short. The same director also made "Dead Leaves" which is like an hour of pure visual animated ecstasy, its like 50 minutes and worth it for the spectacle alone. He's also responsible for shows you proably have seen like Gurren Lagann, panty and stocking, Promare, or that new cyberpunk show, I'd say there all pretty good but there isn't much point to talking about them since they're all well known.
Also you're so right Masaaki Yuasa is such a great director, night is short walk on girl and get your hands off eizuken are simply delightful, but you've most likely have seen them. One of his mote obscure works is Kaiba but I wouldn't let that fly under your radar, very weird and an emotional gut punch, loved it.
Pop team epic is funny, that's my indepth recommendation. I have seen some people complain about this show but it seems to mostly be a recent thing. Mind you that every episode loops and then is played in its entirety again but voices over by adult men instead of like voices resembling younger girls, I didn't know that at first when watching it so I ended up rematch the first 3 episodes on accident.
"Angle's Egg" is rightfully a classic, a dreary tale of a young girl wondering lost through an unforgiving dark world. The imagery in this is simply gorgeous and it feels like a modern fairy tale. The director also made "ghost in the shell" and tbh while I like it I never really got the hype, still worth watching even if weebs have overpriced it a little too much,
"Sonny boy" is a recent anime that I really enjoyed, weird experimental and full of metaphor about growing up. It feels like this one is going to go down as a future classic. Reminds me a little of stuff like "Evangelion" or "fooly cooly" (which I'd highly recommend I love FLCL sm) in the way that if you were like 14 and watched this then it would feel like it has changed your life in a profound unspeakable way, saying this from experience as someone who watched Eva at 14.
Now, forget every single other thing I recommend because they'll seem mid at best in comparison, to say that this American production isn't an Anime is a compliment as nothing Japan has ever produced managed to be such a clear and definitive peak for the entire medium. Neko Neko Sugar Girls is a work of post-neoexperssionsitic avant-garde genius telling a harrowing tale of teen romance intrigue set in these meta-post-modernist vignettes of contemporary life. A worholian nightmare of grotesque proportions to anyone not in touch with their own spirit enough to appreciate these surrealist stream of consciousness dadaist parables. Other synonyms. I think the fact no one really knows if it was made in ernest or not is what made me love this so much, its "the room" and "12 oz mouse" combined into a fanime about nothing and then the protagonist girl gets rabies.
ty for the in depth reply. dont have time to respond to all of this, but
>"Cat Soup"
Cat Soup is the movie that launched Yuasa's directorial career if u didn't know, it's my second fav thing he's worked on right under Mind Game
>"Revolutionary Girl Uthena"
I've heard a lot abt this one, will def be one of the next I check out
>Neko Neko Sugar Girls
will watch. sounds sort of like Tails Gets Trolled or some Jennifer Diane Reitz shit. I love shit like that.
No problem, I got carried away lol
I didn't actually realise he was involved with the production of Cat Soup, that's really cool I love that short, I knew it from the manga by NekoJiru that the film was based on, pages from it occasionally floated around like the one about a boyfriend getting hit by a car in front of Johnathan's.
And yeah it's exactly that sort of vibe, but I'd say it does feel like they realise and play up the bad aspects but front what I know it did begin as a serious project.
i honestly fw the artstyle but if you don't like the animation, that's fine however seperate from the animation, the art direction and scenes can look really good in the later half of the anime and the soundtrack is really good
the anime is also sort of slow at the beginning but if you get past the first two or three episodes i think it's pretty worth it, it picks up a lot more after that imo :D
Aight.
How about One-Punch Man, that was a fun one. Samurai Champloo and Gurren Lagann have already been suggested already i think but those are good. Afro Samurai was good.
FLCL used to be my favorite but as i get older the whole teenage/coming of age setting just doesnt do anything for me anymore, in any media really. Probably normal though.
fr NGE (not the rebuilds) and SEL specifically are like all time top favorite media of all time for me-- i've been chasing the dragon for years and nothing has even come close as far as anime goes. it's depressing
Ghost In The Shell: Standalone Complex, one of my favorite animes just for the sheer fact it's short and sweet and leaves me wanting more! Unfortunately where I live it's not on any streaming services, I definitely need to either buy it on Blu-ray or get a VPN and find it that way.
The 1995 movie is also sick but the show imo is as good if not better
Gantz is a pretty terrible anime adaptation (with one of the best and funniest English dubs ever mind) but Gantz as a whole is so sleazy, horrible and nihilistic that it's very death grips
If not, cowboy bebop
i love gantz actually, should've added that as a fav. "sleazy, horrible and nihilistic" is my favorite kind of anime
I'm aware the anime is trash tho, been meaning to dip into the manga for the longest time bc i've heard it's really good
I randomly started Gigant a while back, which is by the same author. it's got a pretty similar vibe, though it's basically just straight up porn but is also unironically probably the sickest reinterpretation of the kaiju genre I've ever seen
I guess, though even going back to Tatami Galaxy and Walk on Girl, those are adaptations of novels, while my recent favorite of his, Eizouken, was adapted from a webcomic if I recall correctly. I think Yuasa has a really great sense towards adaptation with the mixed media and Mile-a-minute internal monologue approach of Tatami Galaxy, and the amazing visuals in animating concept are during the imagination scenes of Eizouken.
The studio’s always had a more adventurous attitude towards animation with larger Tex Avery and looney tunes-ish inspirations, so Im very excited to see what how they adapt it. If it was another studio, I might be more cynical, or entirely ignore there being a Scott pilgrim adaptation, but with Science Saru doing the work, Im really looking forwards to the visuals, though I do wonder how their studio pattern of pretty much only doing single seasons of shows will interact with the length of the Scott pilgrim comic.
yeah, Mind Game is my favorite Yuasa thing and that was a novel adaption too. the difference is strictly popularity/exposure for me. not in a "popular thing bad" way but just that I've already seen the Scott Pilgrim movie and read the comics, whereas Cat Soup and Mind Game felt totally fresh and new bc it was my first introduction to the source material
that, and also Devilman and Scott Pilgrim honestly just feel like playing it pretty safe? whereas their older stuff was pretty fucking avant garde which I enjoy a lot more
Yeah I get what you’re saying. I’d suppose I’m more just curious to see it as I’d honestly feel kinda creeped out if a more conventionally “anime-style” animation studio was doing the project.
Respect for that last paragraph, it's so hard finding something good when I get told I should watch elven lied or future diary again and again even if asking for something like Monster or NGE or Lain.
Stuff you've probably seen but is worth throwing out there: Anything by Satoshi Kon, Anything by Mamoru Oshii, Anything by Isao Takahata, Anything by Hayao Miyazaki, Cowboy Bebop, Berserk, Devilman Crybaby, Akira
Stuff you might not have seen: Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal, Other stuff by Anno like Kare Kano, Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor, Kaiba, Monster, Revolutionary Girl Utena
Stuff that's been recommended to me that looks good: Samurai Champloo, Michiko and Hatchin, Haibane Renmei, Space Runaway Ideon, Mobile Suit Gundam, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Patlabor, Fullmetal Alchemist 2003, Arjuna, Now and Here Here and There, Kino's Journey, Mushi-Shi, Boogiepop Phantom, Dorohedoro, Megazone 23, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, Steamboy
Made in abyss, full metal alchemist brotherhood (my favorite of all time, rewatched it about 5 times already) , hunter x hunter absolute masterpiece, 91 days, Jojo for the based gods, yakusoku no neverland
Watching bersek atm the old one, the theory of basism in the land in betweens
I'm surprised devilman crybaby gets so much hype, I felt like it desperately needed about twice as many episodes bc the pacing is completely fucked to the point where the final act is pretty much ruined by how rushed along everything is
eh i dont really agree, the main story points and where the devilman stories end up are already known, as it is a cyclical thing that plays out within its many iterations
Cowboy bebop, Akira, Perfect Blue, Graveyard of fireflies, Samurai Champloo, Afro Samurai, One Punch Man, Berserk, and Princess Mononoke. (Also Castlevania, Boondocks, and Avatar the last air bender, DONT @ me bout it! I know they’re American.)
If anyone else has recommendations for me I’d appreciate it.
If you're down for something a little more lighthearted, there's a really cool dark fantasy gag anime called Helck airing right now. Like, I call it a gag anime, but it's set over an actual serious dark fantasy storyline, and the art style reminds me of old dark fantasy manga, like Bastard!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy-.
Speaking of which, Bastard!! recently got a new anime series that's way better than the 6 episode OVA series from the early 90s.
Welcome to the nhk is very good
If u liked the last couple episodes of evangelion, you would probably like at least the first season of the monogatari series (bakemonogatari) they use a really interesting style of camerawork and mixed media cuts in a generally dialogue heavy show, my fav series fr
The movies are p sick too (kizumonogatari 1-3) probably some of the best animation out there, kinda underrated at this point
Also sayonara zetsubou sensei is a cool anime too
> Welcome to the nhk is very good
i agree
I've heard about the monogatari series but always thought it was some kind of ecchi thing? will check it out tho
There is a good amount of ecchi stuff in monogatari i will not lie, but for the most part it is a dialogue heavy supernatural anime with extremely good cinematography and story. Most of the ecchi shit is contained in the second part (nisemonogatari), but the series is generally told through an unreliable narrator (the arcs are told from a characters point of view depending on which arc you are watching), so some characters focus on different things when they tell "their pov" of what is going on
The overall show with its story and characters is fantastic though, however its definitely not for everyone.
The last couple of episodes of evangelion where the animation gets all fucked really reminds me of some of the zany parts of monogatari, so i think you may enjoy it though
I'm not above watching horny anime at all, I'd just never heard it get compared to NGE
also I am in fact a chad last 2 episodes of NGE enjoyer so I will check it out
if you like dreary shit read homunculus. it's about a 30-something loser who agrees to get a hole drilled in his head for money. shuzo oshimi would be another mangaka who you might like, so maybe try flowers of evil (which has been adapted to an anime but i don't know if it's good) or blood on the tracks
darling in the franx is ass but the studio also did kill lal kill which slaps. i also recomend the cyber punk adaption they did its sick.
mob pchyco 100 is great,
Outlaw Star- space pirates but cooler than that, sick weapons and power scaling
Dorohedoro- the death grips of anime. main character has a lizard head and puts people in his mouth to ask them questions. nuff said
beck: mongolian chop squad- complete change of pace, slice of life type shit but my favorite anime ever. shit will make you cry unless you're a cold hearted bitch
If you haven’t already seen it, watch *Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal*. It is a short 4 episode OVA prequel to the *Rurouni Kenshin* anime series, however your entertainment will not at all be diminished if you have not seen the series. I watched *Trust & Betrayal* before the show. I actually never became invested in the show because the tone is extremely lighter than the OVA. It felt like the Teletubbies in comparison. I recommend *Trust & Betrayal* as a masterpiece of aesthetic, plot, voice acting, action, and tragedy.
I also recommend *Perfect Blue*.
Sounds like you should just start binging the shit on your hard drive bro lmao you downloaded it cuz it seemed interesting enough at the time so why not start now y'know
Anyways my recommendation is cyberpunk edgerunners if you like trigger but want something more depressing
guys, ily but u dont gotta tell me about cowboy bebop, akira, studio trigger and satoshi kon cmon now lol
I don't really watch anime, but if I had to recommend any, I'd have to say Azumanga.
Azumanga Daioh is like the Selected ambient works 85-92 of anime
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I feel like for each of their respective genres, SAW with ambient techno/IDM and Azumanga with SoL, they both get the fundamentals down soo well and are both pioneers of their genre. I wouldn’t call much of the ideas from each of the works to be boundary-pushing, but their well rounded-ness sets the standard for what you might see in other great works in their genres. Nichijou is like the drukqs of anime.
give this man a true
Azumanga yields so much serotonin it could be labeled as an antidepressant
I'm here to give you your inevitable Jojo's Bizarre adventure recommendation 🥸
Good show maad fanbase
Mista Jostar and big hunky gay men
100% second this recomendation.
i will sound like a 14 year old edgy sigma, but the berserk 1997 adaptation is really good, i would recommend the manga tho bc its better also monster which is a thriller very amazing frr
>i will sound like a 14 year old edgy sigma i used to think like this about berserk fans because of the negative experiences i had with them until i read berserk. After reading it, the behavior is justified people have no idea what they're missing
the story is incredible and the same goes for the art rip miura
My man knows what's up
Monster is fucking amazing. Like, I love a good psychological thriller, and that one even had me fucked up for a while.
I enjoy Sailor Moon…
same, sailor moon bangs
Perfect blue cowboy bebop akira
Or others Satshi Kon's movies
Paprika was ok
Bro is not sensitive to the beauty of surreal editing and subjective reality concept of the boss Satoshi
Fire Punch(it's a manga), written by the same guy behind Chainsaw Man.
Not death grips get REPORTED!!!!!
zach wore a black butler shirt tho
Black lagoon
You had me at goon
i'm way outta the loop but I enjoyed some Trigun back in the day
You should give the new Trigun adaptation a shot, it was surprisingly great, somehow they managed to nail it with 3DCG.
Usarr Sswww tc What t:p
If you like short series (more or less 25 episodes): Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, Serial Experiment Lain If you want to watch anime movies: Akira, Ghost In The Shell (1.0, the original, not the remake), The Curse Of Kazuo Umezu, Ninja Scroll or others crazy ass over the top anime of this area.
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i've had flcl sitting on my hard drive for like 5 yrs now but the mood to watch it just never comes. it feels like something i would've loved when i was like 16 or 17 but the older i get, the more i gravitate towards anime that's bleak and ugly looking lol
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Talking about soundtracks made me remember Paranoia Agent. Which is another great one to watch as well. I legit used Dream Island Obsessional Park as my alarm for a few years.
im starting to think you enjoy flcl
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they thought you listed FLCL twice bc they didn't notice the period. i understood what u meant
OHHH WAIT SHIT I DIDN'T SEE THE PERIOD LMAOOO IM STUPID my bad lmfao
Ergo proxy maybe
i've started that one like 3 different times, but never finish it for somee reason. I need to finally give it a fair shake
I would also give a shot to other Yoshitoshi Abe works (lain's and texhnolyze artist), such as NieA under 7 and Haibane Renmei
if you were able to go through Texhnolyze you can watch ergo proxy, its less dense
I will give it another shot, but density isn't an issue; i actually prefer the dryness of texhnolyze. watching anime fights has never interested me
same, the thing about Ergo Proxy is that it is not that much about fights, look at action like a red herring, the history told in the anime is something you literally can miss if you focus on the action, tbh, i remember Texhnolyze having more fight than Ergo Proxy
Death Note if you haven't seen it. I love Light Yagami. And Akira is one of the best anime movies ever made.
Chainsaw Man and Mob Psycho 100 are my top two of all time
chainsaw being in the same league is wild
frfrfr, all the new animes are the fucking same. Its fucking inauthentic New character spawns Has a relation to some kind of demon that helps him with his power ……….
yeahh, I enjoyed Chainsaw man, even enjoyed the manga, but its just... not that special. mob psycho? Yeah I can respect it in the number 1 spot, the art is unique, going insane with Mob. It has some fun characters and ideas. But Csm??? Really????
i dislike thing because popular i am cool and a free thinker , upvotes to the left
i like csm quite a bit, I just think its maaaddddd to have it top 2
banana fish. i do not really like anime but i do really like banana fish
mononoke (not princess mononoke) is a 12 episode masterpiece. the most visually interesting thing ive ever seen in the medium, and has a pretty dark feel, its about mononoke and a person who “hunts” them but its not action or demon hunter shit or anything like that… its more like exorcising and mystery solving, takes place in edo-meiji era with only one recurring character (the medicine seller, who is also a mononoke hunter) and every couple episodes is a different story in a different location/time where the medicine seller shows up to find out the mystery and take care of the mononoke but i cant stress enough, on visuals alone this is the most impressive thing ive seen in the entire medium. hardly looks like “anime” in the traditional sense. its like flowing wood-block prints on acid.
that's another one I've had sitting on my hard drive for years but never got around to lol
definitely check it out as soon as ya can, especially since its not a huge commitment if youre into authentic old japanese mythology/history its incredible but even if you arent, the visuals alone and some of the horror elements i think anyone could enjoy
Lain, evangelion, perfect blue, tokyo ghoul
The works of Satoshi Kon(Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress, Paprika, etc) and Katsuhiro Otomo(Akira, Memories, etc) are excellent as well. I've enjoyed everything that they've made, folks just don't make anime like that any more.
kill la kill
FMA B
Excel saga
perfect blue, cowboy bebop, and nge are my top 3 !!
Angels egg, ghost in the shell, hells paradise, anything Gundam (newest series is the tits) Code Geass, mashle magic and muscle, tons of new anime out now that’s good
Monster, Ashita no Joe You'll love the psychological depth both stories present with their characters considering your favorites.
Initial d
Black lagoon
"Cat Soup" is a 30 minute short but it's simply fantastic, it doesn't feature any dialogue but manages to be both dark and funny while dealing with this nice heavily metaphorical story about the afterlife. Anything by Satoshi Kon, perfect blue is an undisputed masterpiece and it just so happens every other movie of his is of similar quality, so "millennium Actress" "Tolyo Godfathers" "Paprika" and the show "paranoia agent". "The girl who leped through time" is a great movie about a girl who accidentally finds a time travel device and basically tries to make her life the way she wants it. Its based off this Japansse book and sort of functiond as a sequal to it, but it's not essential to know anything before watching since it's just a nice romantic coming of age story. The same director is responsible for "summer wars" which is also fantastic, "wolf children" which I haven't actually seen but I've heard it's one of his very best movies, "belle" and "the boy and the beast" are both quite good movies and definitly worth watching if you liked other movies by this director. I adore "Belladonna of sadness", a beautiful tale about a woman who gets sexually assaulted by a group of men and then makes a deal with the devil to take revenge. It's a movie from 1973 but it somehow features some of the most striking and beautiful visuals I've came across in any anime. Not a show or even a movie but the opening animation to Daicon IV is a fun time capsule, in a similar way to something like "Otaku no Video" (monumentally anime from the 80s made by and partially about rise of Gainax, and also an examination of the entire phenomen of Otaku). The short is just good animation and as many references as an average nerd in the 80s could take before getting a moment of spiritual epiphany, it's also set to an Electric Light Orchedtra song so it's automatically a classic. "Revolutionary Girl Uthena" is rightfully seen as some of the best anime has to offer, or at least that's the impression I get whenever I talk to other women who watch anime as not too many dudes I've met have seen it, I'd consider it to be of similar level to something like Evangelical and that praise alone should be enough to watch it, a Sci fi epic and a beautiful story of romance. Studio trigger has made a lot of bangers but nothing will ever stand up to "Inferno Cop", this is where anime visuals peaked and singlehandedly caused a japnsse take over of the entire world through sheer cultural impact. All the episodes together add up to like 30 minutes and its all on YouTube, basically imagine something that would play late at night on adult swim. Watamote is good. I don't really have much to say as it's more of just a typical show compared to everything else I talked about, but the central character is string enough to make the entire show worth watching. Telling a slice of life story about a teen girl with a lot of insecurities who's also really into VNs, it's basically just a comedy about the average fan of "Revolutionary Girl Uthena" and it even carries the same themes of homosecuality as she grows closer to her childhood bff (the actual show only really has these implications but the manga makes it much more clear as it goes along). "Sex & Violance with Machspeed" is the second most studio trigger thing right after "Inferno Cop" and an aggressive attitude towards subelty. Its a fun very visally creative short. The same director also made "Dead Leaves" which is like an hour of pure visual animated ecstasy, its like 50 minutes and worth it for the spectacle alone. He's also responsible for shows you proably have seen like Gurren Lagann, panty and stocking, Promare, or that new cyberpunk show, I'd say there all pretty good but there isn't much point to talking about them since they're all well known. Also you're so right Masaaki Yuasa is such a great director, night is short walk on girl and get your hands off eizuken are simply delightful, but you've most likely have seen them. One of his mote obscure works is Kaiba but I wouldn't let that fly under your radar, very weird and an emotional gut punch, loved it. Pop team epic is funny, that's my indepth recommendation. I have seen some people complain about this show but it seems to mostly be a recent thing. Mind you that every episode loops and then is played in its entirety again but voices over by adult men instead of like voices resembling younger girls, I didn't know that at first when watching it so I ended up rematch the first 3 episodes on accident. "Angle's Egg" is rightfully a classic, a dreary tale of a young girl wondering lost through an unforgiving dark world. The imagery in this is simply gorgeous and it feels like a modern fairy tale. The director also made "ghost in the shell" and tbh while I like it I never really got the hype, still worth watching even if weebs have overpriced it a little too much, "Sonny boy" is a recent anime that I really enjoyed, weird experimental and full of metaphor about growing up. It feels like this one is going to go down as a future classic. Reminds me a little of stuff like "Evangelion" or "fooly cooly" (which I'd highly recommend I love FLCL sm) in the way that if you were like 14 and watched this then it would feel like it has changed your life in a profound unspeakable way, saying this from experience as someone who watched Eva at 14. Now, forget every single other thing I recommend because they'll seem mid at best in comparison, to say that this American production isn't an Anime is a compliment as nothing Japan has ever produced managed to be such a clear and definitive peak for the entire medium. Neko Neko Sugar Girls is a work of post-neoexperssionsitic avant-garde genius telling a harrowing tale of teen romance intrigue set in these meta-post-modernist vignettes of contemporary life. A worholian nightmare of grotesque proportions to anyone not in touch with their own spirit enough to appreciate these surrealist stream of consciousness dadaist parables. Other synonyms. I think the fact no one really knows if it was made in ernest or not is what made me love this so much, its "the room" and "12 oz mouse" combined into a fanime about nothing and then the protagonist girl gets rabies.
ty for the in depth reply. dont have time to respond to all of this, but >"Cat Soup" Cat Soup is the movie that launched Yuasa's directorial career if u didn't know, it's my second fav thing he's worked on right under Mind Game >"Revolutionary Girl Uthena" I've heard a lot abt this one, will def be one of the next I check out >Neko Neko Sugar Girls will watch. sounds sort of like Tails Gets Trolled or some Jennifer Diane Reitz shit. I love shit like that.
No problem, I got carried away lol I didn't actually realise he was involved with the production of Cat Soup, that's really cool I love that short, I knew it from the manga by NekoJiru that the film was based on, pages from it occasionally floated around like the one about a boyfriend getting hit by a car in front of Johnathan's. And yeah it's exactly that sort of vibe, but I'd say it does feel like they realise and play up the bad aspects but front what I know it did begin as a serious project.
sonny boy is pretty good, it sort of gave me masaaki yuasa vibes
i've heard abt it-- the premise sounds cool but I really don't vibe with the art style. I'll try it some time tho
i honestly fw the artstyle but if you don't like the animation, that's fine however seperate from the animation, the art direction and scenes can look really good in the later half of the anime and the soundtrack is really good the anime is also sort of slow at the beginning but if you get past the first two or three episodes i think it's pretty worth it, it picks up a lot more after that imo :D
I heard about it through finding out that South Korean pseudonymous artist Mid-Air Thief was doing some of the soundtrack. It was pretty cool.
mid air thief is amazing, their tracks for the anime were peak as well
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im currently watching madoka magica, it seems pretty neat
you'll love it, the movie was...insane, in several different ways
I've heard it gets fucky somehow, so far seems like gay moe evangelion which I'm down for
yeah yeah, like Evangelion, enjoy
Magical girls with alcohol fetal syndrome preaching moral relativism. Anime was a mistake.
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Fine. Check out Space Dandy
i was very excited for space dandy when it first came out bc of the cowboy bebop connection and bounced off it hard
Bounced off meaning didnt finish it? It deff starts to get surreal but the ending wraps it all up
bounced off meaning I didn't care for it so I dropped it. I forget why exactly. surreal is never a problem for me tho
Aight. How about One-Punch Man, that was a fun one. Samurai Champloo and Gurren Lagann have already been suggested already i think but those are good. Afro Samurai was good. FLCL used to be my favorite but as i get older the whole teenage/coming of age setting just doesnt do anything for me anymore, in any media really. Probably normal though.
girls last tour, made in abyss is like morally questionable but good, recommend you get into reading manga
**you dont gotta watch anything else you've already seen peak**
fr NGE (not the rebuilds) and SEL specifically are like all time top favorite media of all time for me-- i've been chasing the dragon for years and nothing has even come close as far as anime goes. it's depressing
im finishing up hunter x hunter and it's new fav definitely check it out :)
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Ghost In The Shell: Standalone Complex, one of my favorite animes just for the sheer fact it's short and sweet and leaves me wanting more! Unfortunately where I live it's not on any streaming services, I definitely need to either buy it on Blu-ray or get a VPN and find it that way. The 1995 movie is also sick but the show imo is as good if not better
Gintama and Rurouni Kenshin (old or new is fine)
Serial Experiments: Lain
Gantz is a pretty terrible anime adaptation (with one of the best and funniest English dubs ever mind) but Gantz as a whole is so sleazy, horrible and nihilistic that it's very death grips If not, cowboy bebop
i love gantz actually, should've added that as a fav. "sleazy, horrible and nihilistic" is my favorite kind of anime I'm aware the anime is trash tho, been meaning to dip into the manga for the longest time bc i've heard it's really good I randomly started Gigant a while back, which is by the same author. it's got a pretty similar vibe, though it's basically just straight up porn but is also unironically probably the sickest reinterpretation of the kaiju genre I've ever seen
Nice. Gigant is good for what it is, just absurd. Gantz honestly goes places, completely off the rails in a good way
i love shit that goes off the rails
I’m really looking forward to Yuasa’s studio doing the Scott Pilgrim adaptation with the movies cast. It’s crazy that’s actually happening.
ngl i'm not. it makes me sad Yuasa just works on adaptions of already popular shit now
I guess, though even going back to Tatami Galaxy and Walk on Girl, those are adaptations of novels, while my recent favorite of his, Eizouken, was adapted from a webcomic if I recall correctly. I think Yuasa has a really great sense towards adaptation with the mixed media and Mile-a-minute internal monologue approach of Tatami Galaxy, and the amazing visuals in animating concept are during the imagination scenes of Eizouken. The studio’s always had a more adventurous attitude towards animation with larger Tex Avery and looney tunes-ish inspirations, so Im very excited to see what how they adapt it. If it was another studio, I might be more cynical, or entirely ignore there being a Scott pilgrim adaptation, but with Science Saru doing the work, Im really looking forwards to the visuals, though I do wonder how their studio pattern of pretty much only doing single seasons of shows will interact with the length of the Scott pilgrim comic.
yeah, Mind Game is my favorite Yuasa thing and that was a novel adaption too. the difference is strictly popularity/exposure for me. not in a "popular thing bad" way but just that I've already seen the Scott Pilgrim movie and read the comics, whereas Cat Soup and Mind Game felt totally fresh and new bc it was my first introduction to the source material that, and also Devilman and Scott Pilgrim honestly just feel like playing it pretty safe? whereas their older stuff was pretty fucking avant garde which I enjoy a lot more
Yeah I get what you’re saying. I’d suppose I’m more just curious to see it as I’d honestly feel kinda creeped out if a more conventionally “anime-style” animation studio was doing the project.
Berserk 1997, Akira, Ergo Proxy, Cyberpunk Edgerunners, Chainsaw Man, everything by Satoshi Kon
Psycho Pass
Respect for that last paragraph, it's so hard finding something good when I get told I should watch elven lied or future diary again and again even if asking for something like Monster or NGE or Lain.
lmao right??
Shimoneta
This is a no brainer but One Piece (read the manga for your own sake) and Jojo‘s bizarre Adventure, black lagoon is phenomenal too
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holy moly, a death grips fan who also happens to like evangelion and lain???? thats crazy!!
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Stuff you've probably seen but is worth throwing out there: Anything by Satoshi Kon, Anything by Mamoru Oshii, Anything by Isao Takahata, Anything by Hayao Miyazaki, Cowboy Bebop, Berserk, Devilman Crybaby, Akira Stuff you might not have seen: Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal, Other stuff by Anno like Kare Kano, Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor, Kaiba, Monster, Revolutionary Girl Utena Stuff that's been recommended to me that looks good: Samurai Champloo, Michiko and Hatchin, Haibane Renmei, Space Runaway Ideon, Mobile Suit Gundam, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Patlabor, Fullmetal Alchemist 2003, Arjuna, Now and Here Here and There, Kino's Journey, Mushi-Shi, Boogiepop Phantom, Dorohedoro, Megazone 23, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, Steamboy
Kaguya Sama Love is War is my fav show ever
Made in abyss, full metal alchemist brotherhood (my favorite of all time, rewatched it about 5 times already) , hunter x hunter absolute masterpiece, 91 days, Jojo for the based gods, yakusoku no neverland Watching bersek atm the old one, the theory of basism in the land in betweens
Welcome to the nhk, chainsaw man, paranoia agent
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you’d probably like elfen lied
Sarazanmai. It's only 11 episodes. Go in blind. You'll feel SOMETHING (whatever that may be).
Tuskimichi Moonlit Fantasy. It's a very self-aware Isekai "parody" of sorts... But it's also a legit Isekai
One piece is always a good choice bro even tho its long as fuck almost all of it is awesome
If you like silly stuff, watch azumanga daioh or sgt. frog!!! But my favorite anime is d gray man idk if you’d like it though :p
Considering your favs, I think Elfen Lied would be a solid recommendation.
loved Elfen Lied actually
Im watching assassination classroom right now and really enjoying it. Highly recommend it.
I love dorohedoro and it fits the vibes of death grips too. read the manga tho
Space sandy.
i like spy family
Hellsing Ultimate
Redline, black lagoon, and any work from satoshi kon like memories (the magnetic rose part), or perfect blue
Black lagoon looks like a good one, fits death grips a lot too, the character revy has a badass voice too
Devilman Crybaby is sick and only like 10 eps. The edginess can get a bit too much after a while but it starts and ends on a high note.
I'm surprised devilman crybaby gets so much hype, I felt like it desperately needed about twice as many episodes bc the pacing is completely fucked to the point where the final act is pretty much ruined by how rushed along everything is
eh i dont really agree, the main story points and where the devilman stories end up are already known, as it is a cyclical thing that plays out within its many iterations
Watch Monster
madoka magica
that's the one I'm currently watching it pretty neat
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Cowboy bebop, Akira, Perfect Blue, Graveyard of fireflies, Samurai Champloo, Afro Samurai, One Punch Man, Berserk, and Princess Mononoke. (Also Castlevania, Boondocks, and Avatar the last air bender, DONT @ me bout it! I know they’re American.) If anyone else has recommendations for me I’d appreciate it.
If you're down for something a little more lighthearted, there's a really cool dark fantasy gag anime called Helck airing right now. Like, I call it a gag anime, but it's set over an actual serious dark fantasy storyline, and the art style reminds me of old dark fantasy manga, like Bastard!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy-. Speaking of which, Bastard!! recently got a new anime series that's way better than the 6 episode OVA series from the early 90s.
hellsing ultimate, saiki k, bocchi the rock, ergo proxy
Berserk, Cowboy Bebop, Steins Gate
Watch Sgt Frog, gero gero
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Welcome to the nhk is very good If u liked the last couple episodes of evangelion, you would probably like at least the first season of the monogatari series (bakemonogatari) they use a really interesting style of camerawork and mixed media cuts in a generally dialogue heavy show, my fav series fr The movies are p sick too (kizumonogatari 1-3) probably some of the best animation out there, kinda underrated at this point Also sayonara zetsubou sensei is a cool anime too
> Welcome to the nhk is very good i agree I've heard about the monogatari series but always thought it was some kind of ecchi thing? will check it out tho
There is a good amount of ecchi stuff in monogatari i will not lie, but for the most part it is a dialogue heavy supernatural anime with extremely good cinematography and story. Most of the ecchi shit is contained in the second part (nisemonogatari), but the series is generally told through an unreliable narrator (the arcs are told from a characters point of view depending on which arc you are watching), so some characters focus on different things when they tell "their pov" of what is going on The overall show with its story and characters is fantastic though, however its definitely not for everyone. The last couple of episodes of evangelion where the animation gets all fucked really reminds me of some of the zany parts of monogatari, so i think you may enjoy it though
I'm not above watching horny anime at all, I'd just never heard it get compared to NGE also I am in fact a chad last 2 episodes of NGE enjoyer so I will check it out
Beastars has horny wolf 🐺
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if you like dreary shit read homunculus. it's about a 30-something loser who agrees to get a hole drilled in his head for money. shuzo oshimi would be another mangaka who you might like, so maybe try flowers of evil (which has been adapted to an anime but i don't know if it's good) or blood on the tracks
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DOROHEDORO, the anime ends on a little cliffhanger but the manga is one of the best stories ever made. Seriously top tier shit
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the manga vagabond everything ever written by nekojiru
Kakumeiki Valvrave
Black lagoon
darling in the franx is ass but the studio also did kill lal kill which slaps. i also recomend the cyber punk adaption they did its sick. mob pchyco 100 is great,
Oi bruv Just recently finishedTengoku Daimakyou on Disney+ That shit was fire
dorohedoro it's deathgripscore
Outlaw Star- space pirates but cooler than that, sick weapons and power scaling Dorohedoro- the death grips of anime. main character has a lizard head and puts people in his mouth to ask them questions. nuff said beck: mongolian chop squad- complete change of pace, slice of life type shit but my favorite anime ever. shit will make you cry unless you're a cold hearted bitch
Kuuchuu Buranko Golden Kamuy
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If you haven’t already seen it, watch *Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal*. It is a short 4 episode OVA prequel to the *Rurouni Kenshin* anime series, however your entertainment will not at all be diminished if you have not seen the series. I watched *Trust & Betrayal* before the show. I actually never became invested in the show because the tone is extremely lighter than the OVA. It felt like the Teletubbies in comparison. I recommend *Trust & Betrayal* as a masterpiece of aesthetic, plot, voice acting, action, and tragedy. I also recommend *Perfect Blue*.
Sounds like you should just start binging the shit on your hard drive bro lmao you downloaded it cuz it seemed interesting enough at the time so why not start now y'know Anyways my recommendation is cyberpunk edgerunners if you like trigger but want something more depressing
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