#21

I was obsessed with this when it came out in 2006, should watch it again

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#22

I canā€™t tell if itā€™s ā€œgoodā€ but it is certainly very entertaining!

#23

I havenā€™t watched it since I was a teenager and Iā€™m 32 now, but I remember it being cute and enjoyable

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#24

My daughter really likes Cowboy Bebop and NGE. I was talking to her about my resistance to the genre recently and trying to get to the bottom of it.

I feel like Iā€™ve got a deep-rooted prejudice toward it and I think itā€™s entirely because of the depiction of the characters. Often the hair, but mostly the faces - the big eyes, the pointy chins, the tiny noses etc. It feels very juvenile to me and itā€™s massively distracting.

I dipped into the NGE thread the other day and the way people were talking about it made me feel like Iā€™m missing out. Maybe I need talking therapy to get past it. Or perhaps thereā€™s a Youtube video out there called something like ā€œSo, you think you hate Animeā€.

Maybe Iā€™ll get past the aesthetic and watch it and still not like because it just isnā€™t for me - after all, Iā€™ve watched enough Marvel to know that Iā€™m not very excited by those stories - but at least Iā€™ll have given it a fair crack. And if I love itā€¦

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#25

Disney has not dissimilar stylisation in its animation (massive eyes, tiny noses), but obviously we tend to grow up with that and accept it as standard.

#26

This, also there are loads of different styles, same as with western animation

#27

I love studio ghibli, pokemon, dragonball z and akira. I havenā€™t delved much deeper but whenever I watch it I tend to like it. If attack on titan is good I might check that out.

#28

Oh absolutely, but I donā€™t really see Disney stuff being much discussed as adult entertainment. Outside of Pixar of course.

#29

Iā€™m going to watch a couple of episodes of Cowboy Bebop and NGE to see if itā€™s for me.

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#30

Really love The Disastrous Life of Saiki K although Iā€™ve only seen the dubbed first season and the couple of episodes that Netflix made. Itā€™s a comedy about a psychic teenager trying to draw as little attention to themselves and live as normal a life as possible. Really hope they dub the other seasons at some point.

#31

Thatā€™s Cool

#32

Like beenadetta from fire emble.

#33

I have been meaning to get more into anime. Iā€™ve seen plenty that suggests Iā€™ll enjoy it but I just always end out falling off. Enjoyed jojos bizzare adventure and dat volleyball one which I forgot the name of. What I saw of em anyways

Love studio ghibili of course. Oddly never watch dbz or dragonball

#34

Give Cowboy Bebop a go. Itā€™s on All4 atm.
Death Note is v good too.
If you were gonna do Db/dbz Iā€™d recommend watching an overview vid for dB and then doing the ā€˜kaiā€™ version of dbz as it does away with the filler and episodes of two fighters just staring at eachother and having internal monologues.

(Iā€™m deliberately not recommending series that go on forever)

#35

DBZ Kai was great! Still the same ridiculous show but much the pacing was so much more bearable

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#36

Cowboy Bebop was extremely frustrating. Lots to love about it: the world building and animation were exceptional, some of the standalone episodes were fantastic, plus Ed and Ein!

But the overall story arc was so generic and predictable, and with the exception of Ed and Ein none of the characters really had any interesting development, or were really likeable or relatable either for that matter :man_shrugging:

#37

Gonna watch the movie?
Thought the backstory EPs for the crew were pretty good and fleshed them out a bit tbh.

#38

Probably not, or at least not for a bit. Weā€™ve been burned by the anime movies-as-conclusions-to-series weā€™ve seen so far. The Fullmetal Alchemist one and in particular End of Evangelion were so laughably bad that theyā€™ve kinda killed the whole concept in our minds. Weā€™re watching the 2019 remake of Fruits Basket atm so will probably just stick to that for now.

The Faye Valentine ones were pretty good at least - the VCR episode in particular was one of the best of the whole series and really moving. Really canā€™t remember any of the ones for Jet or Spike, which I guess says how I found them.

#39

I know weā€™ve been through this but my reaction is still instinctively

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#40

Iirc the Cowboy Bebop movie happens within the span of the series rather than as a finale.

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