Yeah I've read the manga pretty much exclusively and it's just your standard battle shonen at the core.
The protagonist even has a super special move that was sealed away because it can harm the user, so she has to perfect it in order to make it relatively safe but also eventually make it hers compared to the original owner's variant. And what is this special move?
Any anime thread/forum always has the absolute WORST taste about half of the time. I see people list of recommendations to people and just shake my head.
I see I was already beaten to it, but yeah my most recent show to recommend would definitely be Odd Taxi. It's a mostly tightly scripted, focused crime story that knows exactly what it wants to be, the rare anime that doesn't care about selling figurines or waifus or anything.
Not really that recent, but definitely a standout that doesn't get nearly enough general appreciation is Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu, which starts a bit slow but is a smart, psychological story about a prickly, difficult old entertainer and the tragedy of his life, and also subtly explores a lot of stuff about like early Showa gender and sexual expression.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
Any anime thread/forum always has the absolute WORST taste about half of the time. I see people list of recommendations to people and just shake my head.
People generally have decent enough taste around here. Not always, but usually. And everyone has some trash show that they really like, but they usually acknowledge when that’s the case. Usually.
There's something neat about shows when they reach a certain level of fucked up. Not like the misogynist or slave harem fantasy fucked up. That's pretty pedestrian as far as anime goes. Things more like Wonder Egg or Back Arrow that went completely off the rails and raise meta questions about everybody and everything involved with them.
Like Taboo Tattoo is a terrible show, but everything about it is fascinating to me. JC Staff clearly though it would be the next Index and put a ton of money into its animation and action scenes, but it's clear that the writer at some point decided "BORED NOW" and it launches into an extended flashback arc only tangentially related to anything at all before returning to the present with a timeskip where we're all now at the Northern Crater fighting over Jenova for some reason before ending in no way whatsover. What the fuck happened with the production of this show? Multiple people clearly put a lot of effort into the creation of something that is plainly a disaster on all fronts, and THIS is what they ended up with? How? Why?
If you asked me if I would like to have stinger missles in my tidds I would say yes immediately please give me surface to air defense capabilities and an absolutely sweet pair of knockers at the same time.
A man bumps into me in line at Starbucks and does not apologize. I clap my ass and immediately two anti personnel mine launchers activate from under my arms firing a radial screen of steel shrapnel killing everyone within a 20 meter radius.
I will say that the remake is actually pretty good! I havent wathced the orginal LoGH, but Die Nue These is very strong and worth your time. I'm really hoping production IG follows it up, but there's only been vague rumblings of "2022" last i went looking.
Also @Juggernut have you watched SSSS Gridman and it's follow up SSSS Dynazeon? Very much recommend, and they're both tight 12 episode series so they dont outstay their welcome. I'm reallly looking foward to the capstone series which is SSSS Gridman X Dynazeon. Really great character work mixed with excellent GIANT ROBOTS and kaiju.
Oh definitely; almost finished with the first season
But like… still would be nice to have the original for an actual affordable price
Oh, i was more meaning as a general thing - i never see it get talked about. Totally agree on the pricing of things. Dear... everyone: Make your shit affordable.
I will say that the remake is actually pretty good! I havent wathced the orginal LoGH, but Die Nue These is very strong and worth your time. I'm really hoping production IG follows it up, but there's only been vague rumblings of "2022" last i went looking.
This thread is getting close to discussing what every Cheers character's favorite anime would be, but I'm not nearly versed enough in anime to make any guesses on that.
Where do folks look to see top anime for the year? I think I used to use Tokyo Anime Award or Anime Grand Prix, but the winners the last couple years don't really seem up my alley.
I just pull up some variation of the list of shows per season and look up the description or trailer for any show that looks interesting. I don't think reviews or awards would really influence me. People I know recommending them would hold more weight.
That reminds me. How many shows for Winter will be reincarnation in RPG world?
Only seven?
Gee, a light season of it then.
And moving from hockey, the two quirky sports shows desperately hoping for attention for being a weird sport are badminton and... futsal. Well, we already did kabaddi, so, sure. Why not. It's amazing we haven't had a cricket anime yet, and apparently decided Eyeshield 21 was going to be the only football anime ever.
edit: Holy crap they have a cricket association. Let's get on this, I would watch the hell out of a cricket anime.
I find cricket massively boring to watch but I'll watch highlights and read up on the strategy behind historical games, cos that's the actually interesting bits. Any anime would fast forward the boring stuff. Lets go.
As of 2016 3000 people across 200 teams in the entire of Japan. You know that probably would make an interesting anime? Cos most people wouldn't have even heard of it, and characters actually interested in playing cricket in japan are automatically odd enough to have something interesting about them.
I was going to make a comment on how Windjammers was getting a sequel, but ain't no Ultimate Frisbee or even TRON-esque pong anime neither, but then I looked it up, and apparently it's some French developer doing it and Japan decided it doesn't exist.
This thread is getting close to discussing what every Cheers character's favorite anime would be, but I'm not nearly versed enough in anime to make any guesses on that.
Cliff Clavin would tell you every anime is his favorite, for a variety of intricate reasons.
Cliff Clavin has never watched a single anime.
I was going to assume he would be a Fate fan because that series supposedly has incredibly convoluted lore.
Fate's only complicated because there's a bunch of spinoffs that are unrelated plot-wise and generally unrelated timeline-wise but still share the same fundamental setting and add a bunch of detail to that setting - to some degree it runs on something similar to DC/Marvel, I guess, where there's a bunch of individual authors writing works in a shared setting
it's not like, say, Nier, where you have to read everything to get the complete story and figure out how on earth Automata is a sequel to Replicant, but there's a lot of small cameos etc. that get explained in mostly-unrelated works
e.g. Heaven's Feel ends with a reference to a nameless puppet magus (Touko Aozaki from Kara no Kyoukai)
the individual stories are mostly self-contained, although generally speaking the spinoffs are "what if"s so they have a tendency to assume that you're at least aware of Fate/Stay Night before reading the story that's "what if FSN but there's two teams of seven", "what if FSN but in cyberspace", "what if FSN but in WW2 Japan", "what if FSN but we cut the fighting and it's just the cooking scenes"
(the stuff that doesn't even have "Fate/" in its name is even more unrelated and self-contained, of course, and the shared setting is slightly different too, if still similar)
Fate's only complicated because there's a bunch of spinoffs that are unrelated plot-wise and generally unrelated timeline-wise but still share the same fundamental setting and add a bunch of detail to that setting - to some degree it runs on something similar to DC/Marvel, I guess, where there's a bunch of individual authors writing works in a shared setting
it's not like, say, Nier, where you have to read everything to get the complete story and figure out how on earth Automata is a sequel to Replicant, but there's a lot of small cameos etc. that get explained in mostly-unrelated works
e.g. Heaven's Feel ends with a reference to a nameless puppet magus (Touko Aozaki from Kara no Kyoukai)
the individual stories are mostly self-contained, although generally speaking the spinoffs are "what if"s so they have a tendency to assume that you're at least aware of Fate/Stay Night before reading the story that's "what if FSN but there's two teams of seven", "what if FSN but in cyberspace", "what if FSN but in WW2 Japan", "what if FSN but we cut the fighting and it's just the cooking scenes"
(the stuff that doesn't even have "Fate/" in its name is even more unrelated and self-contained, of course, and the shared setting is slightly different too, if still similar)
I don't disagree with your main point about Nier lore, but
how is it even slightly confusing how Automata is a sequel?
Replicant: Welp, all the humans are going to die off. Oh and a robot was clearly becoming sentient at one point.
Automata: Androids, fight all these sentient robots to save humanity! Third act twist: humanity died off... like Replicant said it was going to.
Fate's only complicated because there's a bunch of spinoffs that are unrelated plot-wise and generally unrelated timeline-wise but still share the same fundamental setting and add a bunch of detail to that setting - to some degree it runs on something similar to DC/Marvel, I guess, where there's a bunch of individual authors writing works in a shared setting
it's not like, say, Nier, where you have to read everything to get the complete story and figure out how on earth Automata is a sequel to Replicant, but there's a lot of small cameos etc. that get explained in mostly-unrelated works
e.g. Heaven's Feel ends with a reference to a nameless puppet magus (Touko Aozaki from Kara no Kyoukai)
the individual stories are mostly self-contained, although generally speaking the spinoffs are "what if"s so they have a tendency to assume that you're at least aware of Fate/Stay Night before reading the story that's "what if FSN but there's two teams of seven", "what if FSN but in cyberspace", "what if FSN but in WW2 Japan", "what if FSN but we cut the fighting and it's just the cooking scenes"
(the stuff that doesn't even have "Fate/" in its name is even more unrelated and self-contained, of course, and the shared setting is slightly different too, if still similar)
I don't disagree with your main point about Nier lore, but
how is it even slightly confusing how Automata is a sequel?
Replicant: Welp, all the humans are going to die off. Oh and a robot was clearly becoming sentient at one point.
Automata: Androids, fight all these sentient robots to save humanity! Third act twist: humanity died off... like Replicant said it was going to.
I guess it's mostly just that in the huge time skip there's also a couple important short stories like how the robot from Replicant gave the gift of intelligence to the (otherwise unrelated) machines, or how the Nier Replicant drama CD is where the emil vs. aliens war happens, etc. etc.
It's not absolutely necessary - there's plenty of people who just played Replicant without Drakengard or Automata without Replicant and weren't confused - but Yoko Taro's work is all incredibly interconnected across many different types of media.
the diehard recommendation is "read the VN", but the more reasonable recommendation is just to watch Fate/Zero and/or Unlimited Blade Works in whatever order and then just pick up whatever anime you feel like after that (you've basically gotten most of the groundwork you need)
it's a weird thing where FZ is a prequel to UBW but it's written after the fact so it relies on that to underscore the inevitable tragedy etc., but UBW was broadcast after so the anime assumes that you watched them in the "wrong" order
...also, I guess you shouldn't watch Fate/Extra Last Encore unless you've played the Fate/Extra game or something? I dunno, I didn't watch it but that's the feeling I got from people who did.
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The protagonist even has a super special move that was sealed away because it can harm the user, so she has to perfect it in order to make it relatively safe but also eventually make it hers compared to the original owner's variant. And what is this special move?
It's not a fart joke.
Not really that recent, but definitely a standout that doesn't get nearly enough general appreciation is Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu, which starts a bit slow but is a smart, psychological story about a prickly, difficult old entertainer and the tragedy of his life, and also subtly explores a lot of stuff about like early Showa gender and sexual expression.
You see? This is what I'm talking about. People who are wrong just popping up nonstop.
There's something neat about shows when they reach a certain level of fucked up. Not like the misogynist or slave harem fantasy fucked up. That's pretty pedestrian as far as anime goes. Things more like Wonder Egg or Back Arrow that went completely off the rails and raise meta questions about everybody and everything involved with them.
Like Taboo Tattoo is a terrible show, but everything about it is fascinating to me. JC Staff clearly though it would be the next Index and put a ton of money into its animation and action scenes, but it's clear that the writer at some point decided "BORED NOW" and it launches into an extended flashback arc only tangentially related to anything at all before returning to the present with a timeskip where we're all now at the Northern Crater fighting over Jenova for some reason before ending in no way whatsover. What the fuck happened with the production of this show? Multiple people clearly put a lot of effort into the creation of something that is plainly a disaster on all fronts, and THIS is what they ended up with? How? Why?
Also @Juggernut have you watched SSSS Gridman and it's follow up SSSS Dynazeon? Very much recommend, and they're both tight 12 episode series so they dont outstay their welcome. I'm reallly looking foward to the capstone series which is SSSS Gridman X Dynazeon. Really great character work mixed with excellent GIANT ROBOTS and kaiju.
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Oh, i was more meaning as a general thing - i never see it get talked about. Totally agree on the pricing of things. Dear... everyone: Make your shit affordable.
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Oh hey, looks like they did announce a third season just recently.
That reminds me. How many shows for Winter will be reincarnation in RPG world?
Only seven?
Gee, a light season of it then.
And moving from hockey, the two quirky sports shows desperately hoping for attention for being a weird sport are badminton and... futsal. Well, we already did kabaddi, so, sure. Why not. It's amazing we haven't had a cricket anime yet, and apparently decided Eyeshield 21 was going to be the only football anime ever.
I was going to make a comment on how Windjammers was getting a sequel, but ain't no Ultimate Frisbee or even TRON-esque pong anime neither, but then I looked it up, and apparently it's some French developer doing it and Japan decided it doesn't exist.
But also, fuck Ultimate Frisbee.
I was going to assume he would be a Fate fan because that series supposedly has incredibly convoluted lore.
it's not like, say, Nier, where you have to read everything to get the complete story and figure out how on earth Automata is a sequel to Replicant, but there's a lot of small cameos etc. that get explained in mostly-unrelated works
e.g. Heaven's Feel ends with a reference to a nameless puppet magus (Touko Aozaki from Kara no Kyoukai)
the individual stories are mostly self-contained, although generally speaking the spinoffs are "what if"s so they have a tendency to assume that you're at least aware of Fate/Stay Night before reading the story that's "what if FSN but there's two teams of seven", "what if FSN but in cyberspace", "what if FSN but in WW2 Japan", "what if FSN but we cut the fighting and it's just the cooking scenes"
(the stuff that doesn't even have "Fate/" in its name is even more unrelated and self-contained, of course, and the shared setting is slightly different too, if still similar)
I don't disagree with your main point about Nier lore, but
Replicant: Welp, all the humans are going to die off. Oh and a robot was clearly becoming sentient at one point.
Automata: Androids, fight all these sentient robots to save humanity! Third act twist: humanity died off... like Replicant said it was going to.
I guess it's mostly just that in the huge time skip there's also a couple important short stories like how the robot from Replicant gave the gift of intelligence to the (otherwise unrelated) machines, or how the Nier Replicant drama CD is where the emil vs. aliens war happens, etc. etc.
It's not absolutely necessary - there's plenty of people who just played Replicant without Drakengard or Automata without Replicant and weren't confused - but Yoko Taro's work is all incredibly interconnected across many different types of media.
it's a weird thing where FZ is a prequel to UBW but it's written after the fact so it relies on that to underscore the inevitable tragedy etc., but UBW was broadcast after so the anime assumes that you watched them in the "wrong" order
...also, I guess you shouldn't watch Fate/Extra Last Encore unless you've played the Fate/Extra game or something? I dunno, I didn't watch it but that's the feeling I got from people who did.
Reject VNs.
Play Super Robo Type Moon.