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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Speaking of anime-ish anime, here's a question: watching Haruhi Suzumiya with someone else that hasn't seen it yet (I have, though) -- chronological order, or broadcast order? (this isn't "their first manga", they just haven't seen this series yet)

    Broadcast. Dramatic irony and reveals that don't play as reveals are discarded in chronological order.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The main reason I still remember Haruhi is the fact that Endless Eight was actually allowed to be done

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    You do have to watch all eight episodes of Endless Eight once you get there. No skipping ahead.

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 14
    Chronological order is always a trap unless it's the order the source material was written in to begin with

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  • FrozenzenFrozenzen Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I watched Haruhi the first time last year and it was excellent.

    A friend made sure I watched it in broadcast order and I'm very happy they did. Chronological order would probably not have made it bad, but it surely would have made it way worse.

    And for those who haven't seen it the movie is also on crunchy and was great.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Separately, re: latest Akane-banashi (97)
    is it just me, or does it feel like this is building up to an ending? The plot isn't over, but the progression in this chapter all felt somehow familiar from other times that an ending has been coming. I might just be imagining it, though.
    If this were to end just with Akane getting her futatsume recommendation after the current performance, I feel like that would be really unsatisfying. I feel like, and hope that, we're going to spend a lot more time with these characters. If nothing else, I feel like we need to see a real sit-down between Akane's Dad and the old rakugo master that expelled him. And then eventually, Akane reaching that rank of shinuchi,

    I'd be shocked if it's ending now.

    Generally speaking, once a series is past 50+ chapters they don't seem to get cancelled, outside of health issues. (I really hope RuriDragon returns sometime!). But beyond that, it's been getting a lot of colour pages (Generally a sign the magazine likes it). Like a lot a lot. Not sure how it's doing on actual sales etc, but i'm pretty sure it's fairly safe.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Naphtali wrote: »
    Legend of the Galactic Heroes

    I'd be apprehensive about recommending LotGH out of the gate to someone new to the medium.

    I think, to some degree, its unfair to have them watch something that will make every other anime look worse by comparison.

    it just means the rest of anime has to step its game up zon

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Look Back, by Tatsuki Fujimoto (of Chainsaw Man fame) is getting a movie this year



    https://lookback-anime.com/

    Holy shit. Holy shit. Holy shit. I am ecstatic. This is one of my favorite pieces of media ever. I can't think of anything more unlikely and yet completely deserving of getting adapted. This is going to wreck me.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    https://youtu.be/6pKt9OsxwWc?si=uQHQgCKO9lYMKMnT

    Was just coming to post about that, here's the YouTube trailer

    Edit: it's by the Flip Flappers director, let's fucking gooooo

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  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Maddoc wrote: »
    Never accept anime recommendations from anime fans

    https://youtu.be/oi5-LD8ofD0?si=Up8h2D8Ee-3l0xos

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    If I saw that in the theater, the chance of ugly crying seems quite high... not sure I wanna do that.

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  • Andy JoeAndy Joe We claim the land for the highlord! The AdirondacksRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    The only anime TV series I would ever recommend to a normie is Red-Haired Snow White.

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  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    asofyeun wrote: »
    I think Monster is probably the least anime-ism'ed anime

    And even this is no guarantee, since I had a non-anime fan friend of mine just bounce right the hell off of 'Perfect Blue'. His chief complaint was "why didn't they just film this in live-action if they aren't gonna animate it more?", because his primary exposure to anime is 'Akira' and quite frankly comparing animation quality to 'Akira' is going to be a losing proposition.

    He also bounced off of 'Cowboy Bebop' (only did the first 5 episodes, and honestly if Ballad of Fallen Angels didn't hook him than nothing was gonna), so I think any future anime watches are going to be dependant of him saying "I'm curious about this, wanna watch?"

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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I don't talk about anime with anyone but an anime fan. I say I watch it or read it if it's relevant to do so but I don't mention it otherwise.

    I dunno I like telling people about some.of the good ass animes that are interesting stories if they don't mind the medium, which is never shonen or isekai but there are animes that id recommend to any one who wants a good to show watch (Pluto)

    In general I tend to find the whole "anime is so weird, glowing anime recommendation only 90% caveats, blah blah" stuff in the internet kind of... I dunno, vaguely amusing?

    Like I would consider something like Yurucamp or K-On or whatever to contain significantly less "bullshit" than like, your average live action american shown on tv. It's just more familiar to the people that post on the anglophone part of the internet. A good story will generally have people who have a modicum of an open mind be ready to engage it where it's at.

    I mean hell, right this past week one of my coworkers, who had never watched anime beyond watching some DBZ as a kid (because, you know, I'm in Spain, an overwhelming majority of people within one generation of me on either side watched DBZ as kids), had another of my coworkers get him to watch Attack on Titan and he's currently absolutely hooked and has apparently devoured almost all of it in ten days, and it's not like AoT is exactly low on what people might consider "anime bullshit" - or being real, even that much of a good story.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Look Back, by Tatsuki Fujimoto (of Chainsaw Man fame) is getting a movie this year



    https://lookback-anime.com/

    Holy shit. Holy shit. Holy shit. I am ecstatic. This is one of my favorite pieces of media ever. I can't think of anything more unlikely and yet completely deserving of getting adapted. This is going to wreck me.

    I think Goodbye Eri would make a fantastic one, but this works too.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Look Back, by Tatsuki Fujimoto (of Chainsaw Man fame) is getting a movie this year



    https://lookback-anime.com/

    Holy shit. Holy shit. Holy shit. I am ecstatic. This is one of my favorite pieces of media ever. I can't think of anything more unlikely and yet completely deserving of getting adapted. This is going to wreck me.

    I think Goodbye Eri would make a fantastic one, but this works too.

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    Goodbye Eri is basically a movie shot with manga panels. I hope to see it adapted some day as well.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I'd say Nichijou is low to zero "anime bullshit" but also is so just so generally weird who knows if a non anime person would like it.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I have a coworker who I know likes anime, but I'm still hesitant to talk to him about it because all his stuff on his desk is My Hero Academia

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  • CururuCururu Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    "Torture" Princess ep. 6:
    Add the Hell-Lord to the short list of actually good fathers in anime.

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  • GridlinkGridlink Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Ghost in Shell Stand Alon Complex season 1 could be a decent recommendation. Some fanservice and anime bullshit with the major with her clothes, but the stories and overall general plotline is adult/mature leaning. Season 2, 2nd Gig, is great too but I feel like having watched season 1 is kind of a necessity to know where the series is picking up from.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I'd recommend Delicious in Dungeon or Frieren to almost anyone, I think.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    So I've been treated to a bunch of sakuga lately.

    This week's One Piece episode 1093 was incredible, especially contrasting with last week's clip shops. High highs, and low lows.

    As a manga reader, the current anime arc (Shibuya Incident), kind of soured me on the series, so I'd put off watching it until this week, when I binged the whole thing.

    What an absolute triumph of animation and visual storytelling. Mappa dropped a brick on the gas and did not let up for the entire arc. Just incredible.
    What a travesty of labor rights. I now understand why so many animators were suicidal and sending out pleas for help over Twitter.
    I'm convinced Mappa did more for JJK than Ufotable did for Demon Slayer. They were able to translate some decent fight choreography, messy art, and soso story into peak media.
    I don't have faith in the author's plot, and the way he discards characters like used toys and introduces new ones is ridiculous. He had so many great female characters and decided to just not use them.

    Finally I've been catching up on new Bleach: Thousand Year War. This series was always style over substance, and the new anime is capturing the style and making their strong points flourish. I like what they've done.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Personally, I thought the Shibuya Arc was a hot mess, especially the blatantly obvious dimming, which really hurt key scenes. The best presentation was easily during the Hidden Inventory prologue(and also told a much more concise, less messy plot).

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    what's dimming?

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
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    I'd say Nichijou is low to zero "anime bullshit" but also is so just so generally weird who knows if a non anime person would like it.

    https://youtu.be/wLcELc5O5c4?feature=shared

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    what's dimming?

    The photosensitivity-related dimming of certain scenes that could conceivably be triggers for people with epilepsy or other forms of photosensitivity

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    modern anime will periodically dim the brightness of flashing lights/action scenes, it's due to broadcast rules in place to avoid another porygon incident iirc

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Jragghen wrote: »
    You don't notice it until you do and then you never not notice it

    I usually don't, but some parts are so brightly lit in the Shibuya Arc that it was really obvious, like during the Dagon fight.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    MHA does it a lot

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I miss the cute seizure warnings at the start of shows that they did for like five years. Dumb nostalgia, I know. Now it's always just a station message ticker.

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    yeah i noticed it a bunch in MHA

    although strangely i felt it was kind of a benefit to the hype for certain scenes? like when you're playing a ps2 game and the framerate tanks because too much shit is popping off

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  • LockedOnTargetLockedOnTarget Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    It annoys me that streaming services don’t just give you a choice to watch the non-dimmed versions.

    You have to buy the Blu Ray, basically.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Lanz wrote: »
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    I'd say Nichijou is low to zero "anime bullshit" but also is so just so generally weird who knows if a non anime person would like it.

    https://youtu.be/wLcELc5O5c4?feature=shared

    This was my first exposure to Nichijou, which I imagine is true for a lot of people. It's just so emblematic of the show's whole thing.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    It annoys me that streaming services don’t just give you a choice to watch the non-dimmed versions.

    You have to buy the Blu Ray, basically.

    Same for song lyrics, for all three people who care about that.


    Sometimes I do them myself, since I had no intention of buying the BRs, like for DRRR S2.

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6toer1

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Andy Joe wrote: »
    The only anime TV series I would ever recommend to a normie is Red-Haired Snow White.

    Even that show has some weird baggage from otome games and other shoujo fantasy genre works, like the weird focus on people randomly kidnapping her into slavery multiple times through the series

    Princess Jellyfish, Haibane Renmei, and Eizouken are usually my go-to for shows that are femme-focused but not overtly anime-as-negative-adjective

    Mushi-shi and OddTaxi are also very high on the general "but not too anime" list

    The most anime-as-adjective thing my body can handle is probably Monogatari Series

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    It annoys me that streaming services don’t just give you a choice to watch the non-dimmed versions.

    You have to buy the Blu Ray, basically.

    Considering they can't get the sub vs dub thing right a lot of the time, I wouldn't want to risk someone having a seizure because the software fucked up.

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I'm trying to think of anime-as-adjective reasons to not recommend Apothecary Diaries (to mature audiences) and, besides one of the courtesans' massive badonkadonks*, I can't really think of one.

    *one of her breasts is bigger than the 17 year-old woman protagonist's head

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  • BadablackBadablack Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Apothecary Diaries is cute and funny but it deal with some pretty horrific concepts.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Elaro wrote: »
    I'm trying to think of anime-as-adjective reasons to not recommend Apothecary Diaries (to mature audiences) and, besides one of the courtesans' massive badonkadonks*, I can't really think of one.

    *one of her breasts is bigger than the 17 year-old woman protagonist's head

    Ehhhhh. There are a lot of parts of it that have a very rosy view of sexual slavery and various other human rights violations, which are definitely Bad Anime Things™ that anime in general struggles with. It's not SO bad about it as like, isekai with all their good child harem wife slave owners, but it is another case of good child wife slave owners. A lot is so needless too, like trying to be all dreamy over their interactions and then Jinshi will casually mention that he personally had the culprit from a week or two ago's entire extended family rounded up and executed when it could have just... said nothing at all. Thanks for the reminder of the war crimes being committed here, guys. I need that in the story as much as I'd need James Herriot bringing up how many cows he shoots in the face.

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