Please Help me find my Anime with Psychology and Philosophy
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Ok, I am a big fan of Evangelion, because of its religion, philosophy and psychology attributes.
...and it also helps that the world "ends" when the series were finished.
Can any one please help me find an anime that deals with philosophy, psychology, or relgeion in any fashion? PLEASE!!! Thank you
...and it also helps that the world "ends" when the series were finished.
Can any one please help me find an anime that deals with philosophy, psychology, or relgeion in any fashion? PLEASE!!! Thank you
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Texhnolyze, to a certain extent.
Denno Coil - It's not too messed up compared to other philosophical mind-blowers, but it's a pretty awesome example of the potential for augmented reality.
Paprika - Deals with the possibility of technology being able to let people share dreams, with a few ethical issues being brought up with it.
Ghost in the Shell - Classic example of what may when humanity gets deeply integrated with technology.
Keep the suggestions coming please!
Utena!
Utena!
Deals with Jung, Gnosticism, Mahayana Buddhism, gender roles, and fairy tales, while also being a highly entertaining weird-twist-on-shoujo story about swordfighting teenagers with awesome characterization. Oh, and the music is like a chorus singing metal songs about the Precambrian Period. It's amazing.
Edit: Watch the TV series before you watch the movie. The movie is cool, but more like a highly-condensed remix with extra WTF thrown in.
Yes; Ghost in the Shell's two seasons both have central plots revolving around what it is that makes people human, bringing up interesting points through cyberpunk futurist stuff, and thus deals with sociology, psychology, and philosophy,
A lot of GAINAX's other stuff from the 90s covered some equally deep (or pretentious, depending on your view) stuff in different ways. Kare Kano, for instance, was largely fixated on the notion of "self", and the bulk of the series' dialog is the narrators contemplating (and questioning) their own motives and behavior.
Akira is often mentioned in the same breath as GitS and Lain as far as staples of anime's cyberpunk wing, so it'll be well worth a look if you find GitS (either the films or series) compelling. Metropolis is solid, and Now and Then, Here and There might also be worth a glance.
As far as stuff in the genre that's just intellectually stimulating (or "heavy"), Grave of the Fireflies and Tokyo Godfathers are pretty well regarded.
Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo never quite reach the philosophical depths of something like Evangelion, but they're extremely solid entertainment, and take a very noir-esque approach.
And if deep down you're really just looking for something that's going to bum you out like EVA did at the end, Chrono Crusade's last episode will make you burn with rage for having watched the goddamn series.