The Anime Thread

Always been interested in the stuff but never seriously followed it. I do love Akira and the Ghibli stuff although the latter is closer to Disney to me than what I would characterise anime typically to be.

I got through about half of Death Note some years ago and would love to revisit that although it doesn't appear to be available to stream for free.

I did watch AoT Season 1 and it now appears to have disappeared from Netflix. I enjoyed that.

Have just finished Neon Genesis and End of Evangelion and suspect, badly explained fluff, endings and philosophies aside, that I've spoiled it for myself as I can't see anything being as good again.

I tried Fullmetal Alchemist this week and didn't love it, but will bookmark it. Tokyo Ghoul seemed brilliantly drawn but shallow and lots of reviews are saying don't waste your time on it.

I've kind of settled on Dorohedoro as my lunchtime Netflix fix now, so let's see how that goes.

I'd like to know what are considered the classics? I'm aware of about seven thousand Gundam series so that seems a fool's errand. I think Cowboy Bebop is one of the must watches isn't it?

Space Dandy is pretty good especially the episode "Sometimes you can't live with dying, baby".

Lovely stuff

Oldies:

Ergo Proxy (very dark, bleak)
Texhnolyze (even bleaker)
Shinsekai Yori (you'll get the story immediately or not, YMMV depending)
Humanity has Declined (google "bread suicide")
Desert Punk (lots of echii/sexual comedy with pervy main character though)

Newer:
Psycho Pass (dystopian, but police angle)
Girls Last Tour (bleak and comfy at once)

And a quick google should shove up thousands of "dodgy" streaming sites, there's always a copy somewhere. If not, I believe we have PMs these days.

Thanks Soviet.

I did Google bread suicide.

I'll see what I can find of this stuff later but have just found the Evangelion films on Prime Video.

Some of the different voices are very jarring. Suzahara just entered and sounds about mid fifties.

Re: dodgy sites. Probably not for me. This is a 'what I can access through the Sky box on my dinner break whilst th either half is at the gym' thing.

Cheers for the advice anyway. I guess DVD/blu ray is also an option longer term.

I tried watching Big-O earlier this year as well, and I really didn't like it.  I remember people hyping it up back when it released, and I really liked the visual design, but yeah, Roger Smith just wasn't likable at all.  He was sexist, aloof and he had weird rules about entering his home.  Every episode was formulaic too.  Dorothy does something, he gets mad at her, he drives to meet a client, they say some nonsense, he goes to "negotiate," ie yells then jumps in a giant robot, the end.

I haven't watched too much anime recently.  The last new shows I watched were Brand New Animal and The Great Pretender on Netflix.  THe latter is pretty much Lupin the Third, the former is pretty much Bloody Roar.  Great shows, though.

I'm looking forward to the new series of Lupin III, though!

I liked the fourth much more than the fifth, personally. m
Still a massive fan of the franchise overall though.

I enjoyed that series. Somewhat related for people that also liked that Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (YKK) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokohama_Kaidashi_Kikō may also be worth a punt, but I'd recommend the manga more highly than the OVAs.

TFW when you don't want to wait a few more weeks to see how an anime ends, so you just start looking for light novel spoilers.

And then, TFW there are no spoilers online so you just translate the novel on your own.

... wow, this stuff is such poorly written drivel. But hey, at least I don't have to wonder about the rest of the anime anymore.



Now when people in weekly discussions are like "oh my god, I wonder what happens next week?" I can smugly think to myself "yes yes, I know what will happen, thank you very much".

Just for info, the first 12 episodes of Stone Ocean will release on Netflix this Wednesday.

Not sure what happens after that - if they will have another batch in January, or if they will just move to weekly streaming.

Been watching My Hero Academia and Demon Slayer recently and both have been really good. MHA really excels with its extended cast of characters and they do a great job off coming up with random special powers that some how turn out to be extremely over powered. DS is just a real solid story. It perhaps falls back on each episode focusing on a demon of the week, but the main characters are great.

The first animé series I watched was Evangelion and I did feel like I made a mistake in watching probably the best one first. I include the complete breakdown ending in that, which completely blew me away. I don't think anything had come close to the thematic depths of that, but I've very much enjoyed MHA, DS, Bebop and Full Metal Alchemist since then.

All i'm going to say is Ranking of Kings is GOAT material!

Could you speak up ? I can't hear you over the HYPE of SnK/KnY Sundays.

Feel I need to catch up on KnY, wasn't fussed about continuing post-movie, but I do enjoy the art. Plus, it's been a pretty quiet season: Hakozume, a nice little comedy drama following two lassie cops and the jaring fan service/sweetness of Sono Bisque Doll... being the only other two shows I'm watching.

Is Shenmue a "Crunchyroll Original" then ? Because I saw a video decrying that very thing pop up in my feed, and it serves as a warning rather than a recommendation after the legacy of trash bandied about by Netflix.

/checks

Yep.

Yeah, I won't be watching it for the plot. I already know I'll be bored of the constant fights, but I'll bet they're pretty as hell.

Forgot I watched Belle too. There's boredom in a compact form. From the guy who did Summer Wars & Mirai, and it took almost 40mins until the introduction of a character for me to realise it was his interpretation of B&TB, albeit with his digital theme. The title should have given it away, and aside from some stunning imagery at times...dull.

Last part of Stone Ocean is out, and I want to mention once again how much I hate the seasonal Netflix drops model. It's basically taken the series out of the zeitgeist. I remember during the Golden Wind run, it was fun and memes every week. With Stone Ocean, its existence barely registered.