Yeah thought it was a bit of a mixed bag. The Gundam designs were great but just thought the ending was a bit Meh.
The whole Chars evil half created this other vuy stuff was suitably zany.
Ever watched Death Note?
Reckon itās good atmospheric cat and mouse crime mixed with good supernatural gubbins.
Full Metal Alchemist is also class.
Fucking forgot about that! Will probably watch the film version again some morning with the child. GF does not care for anime one bit so donāt have much time to watch it these days.
Didnāt know there was a film version. Might watch that after the original Gundam films as its the same time line.
Mrs TWI likes some anime but aye end up watching some after she goes to sleep or if Iām off work.
We are all free to have our own wrong opinions
Youāre definitely right about it being difficult to show to someone else who isnāt deeply invested in it
Yeah iircā¦
But utterly bizarre it was never revisited.
CANADA!
donāt think Iāve ever seen someone recommend an anime without saying āit takes half a season to get into itā.
no! Iām very busy, make it good from the start
Iām not very busy really
TETSUO!?
really like the motorcycle chase/battle scene at the start of that
I watch anime shows every so often. The first was Cowboy Bebop, which was decent. Iāve since watched:
Trigun - which I started off liking and then it just became irritating and I donāt think I finished it.
Paranoia Agent - Watched years ago and should re-watch. Part of the Very Psychological genre, so to speak.
Eureka Seven - started to watch and could not stomach all the gross stuff. Just not for me (ad thatās a big reason I donāt watch much anime).
Bleach - started strong and then become ridiculous and unwatchable. Also, when youāre fighting evil spirits that you know are evil spirits and the evil spirits gleefully monologue their evil spirit plans to you, donāt start crying and yelling āoh my gawd you are sooooo meeeeaaannn!ā because that is pretty stupid. Evil spirits - itās right there in the name.
One Punch Man - Really like season one a lot. Have not yet seen season two.
JoJoās Bizarre Adventure - Iāve only seen one season (the second one, I think) and itās wonderful and amazing and I need to watch the entire thing some day. However, there is a lot of violence throughout and Iām not up for that right now.
Samurai Champloo - It was interesting. Iāll give it a re-watch one of these days.
Soul Eater - So, I started watching this when I was homeless and having serious problems with anxiety and the show ends up talking a lot about fear/anxiety and what it does to you and turned into a sort of therapy for me. Some intense stuff but also fun episodes. (some episodes I didnāt like because of how a male character would behave but thatās not the entire series, so.)
Way of the Househusband - Iām reading the manga (which I love) and the āanimeā follows that pretty faithfully but itās barely animated. Iām hoping the live action gets a sub-titled in English release.
Full Metal Alchemist - I liked it but probably wonāt re-watch.
Beserk - I watched most of the first episode, scrabbled for the remote, then burned my televsion beneath a blasted oak at midnight. eesh. Also, the manga artist is a gross person.
Hellsing - Very pretty. I watched part of season one and it was ok? On the list of shows to maybe watch in full some day.
One Piece - Iāve seen two random episodes. It looked amusing but everything Iāve come across mentions that it became completely absurd ( a la Bleach) and stopped being amusing or even interesting. Another show that just dragged on and on and on.
Boogiepop Phantom - Quite liked.
Death Note - Very pretty but did not hold my attention.
Dragonball in all its permutations - Long internal monologues and minutes on end of AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH but still rather fun. Have only watched in small bursts and should probably start over.
Lupin the Third - I will finish watching all the episodes any day now. No, really.
Space Dandy - File this with JoJoās Bizarre Adventures.
Trinity Blood - I have a vague recollection of this borrowing heavily from Catholic imagery and such but thatās about it. Another one of those āitās pretty? got that going for it? I guess?ā
Iāve heard good things about Afro Samurai and it is on my list to watch.
Movies - Studio Ghibli, of course.
Vampire Hunter D and the sequel
Paprika
Millennium Actress
Night on the Galactic Railroad
My Neighbors the Yamadas
The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Tokyo Godfathers
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Any love for Kids On The Slope? Itās another show from Cowboy Bebopās Shinichiro Watanabe, but a completely different set up. Taking place in early 60s Kyushu, it is the story of Kaoru, a timid high school student who has to start at a new school thanks to his fatherās move to a new job. He is a classical pianist, but soon falls in with Sentaro, a wild and undisciplined student who is also a drummer. Sentaro introduces him to jazz, and they begin to play together in the basement of the local jazz record shop, with the store owner joining in on double bass. The ownerās daughter, Ritsuko, becomes the third main character, and the narrative of the series is driven by the shifting relationships between them, but really itās all about the joy of music.
Looks like thereās a dub of the whole thing on YouTube as well. Itās only a dozen episodes, give it a go.
Iāve got some opinions on all of this! Goes without saying this is all down to taste and I donāt think thereās anything wrong with what youāve said
Only decent?
Iāve not watched it in a long time but was my favourite anime for a long time. Might have just been me as an impressionable teen, but thought the love story at the heart of it was great.
Yeah it got silly very quickly. Really loved the first couple of arcs but it sorta went off the rails after that. The filler was atrocious too.
Really really great and funny. Loved this show
The third season gets a bit more shonen-y but still good. Thought the first two seasons were the best. Itās a lot of fun though, doesnāt take itself seriously at all which is refreshing
Thought this was pretty great too
I preferred Brotherhood to the original anime, donāt know if thatās a hot take or not. But thought that was one of the best anime Iāve watched
Iāve read the manga rather than watched the animeā¦ yes itās gross and twisted, but itās really something special. Iām not gonna say āit takes half a season to get into itā but the first arc doesnāt really do the rest of it justice. It goes places after that, shall we say.
Thereās a few different versions I think - I enjoyed the two I watched, but they were both pretty short and found them ultimately a bit unsatisfying
I guess it does drag on but itās definitely not like Bleach. Thereās a reason itās still going and that the manga has recently outsold Batman, 24 years after itās inception. Itās utterly ridiculous but of full of charm, magic, and in between the silly childish stuff thereās a lot of really heavy, emotional, heartbreaking, stories. Thereās like a billion characters but Oda still keeps them memorable and unique, and the manga is remarkably consistent even after 1000(!) chapters. The anime suffers from pacing and filler a little like any shonen adaptation but itās still pretty good for the most part. I was sucked into it after watching little bits of the Water 7 and Arlong Park arcs, so didnāt come at it fresh from the start, but would recommend watching up to the end of the Arlong Park arc. Think that has a bit of everything that the show has to offer and youāll know after that if itās worth sticking with.
One of the best shows of all time!!!.. Maybe a little bit edgy in hindsight? I donāt know, Iāve not watched it in a long time. But I found it completely gripping, at least for the first half of it.
Thereās a remake of DBZ called Dragonball Z Kai which cuts out a lot of those long bits and is much, much better in terms of pace. Would recommend if you want to give it a proper go. Itās still pretty silly of course.
Iām with you on this TvDC.
Obvs opinion is key but I was scratching my head a bit when I was just reading description of all the best shows ver being slated or down as okay.
The movies section had me scratching my head too and not just because āMy Neighbours The Yamadasā and Princess Kaguya ARE Ghibli films.
oh yeah this was good! Not normally the kind of thing I would expect myself to have much interest in either
In general, I intensely dislike forms of entertainment that have a lot of violence (physical and sexual), torture of children, body horror, etc. Sometimes that sort of thing doesnāt cause mental distress for me but mostly it very much does and I wonāt watch it.
I go back and forth a lot on One Piece - the two episodes I saw were very enjoyable but then I read something about the filler (god, why is filler so awful!) and think, naw, not worth the time and effort. I dunno.
Iāve watched the beginning arcs of Dragonball Z Kai and DBZ Super! I did like them (because silliness) but itās another one of those that takes time to watch and Iām doing other stuff right now.
One reason I donāt watch videos much is that I only have my laptop for videos and Iām also one of those people who is nearly always doing something else while a video is playing (folding clothes, brushing the cat, yada yada) and thatās harder to do with this small device. Iām pretty sure that comes from not being allowed to watch much TV as a child and we often didnāt have a working tv anyway. Iām better about sitting still to watch shows and movies if Iām with someone else of like mind, though.
Iām currently watching a Chinese adventure drama that has some horrifying parasitic insects/worms in it and I have to squinch my eyes and hope the characters stop talking about them and flee the area now now now now now. And then I have to watch a silly cartoon right after or Iāll have unpleasant dreams.
thought nge took about ten eps to get going too. itās probably better on a rewatch cause you know whatās coming and why itās like that thematically, but before the larger arc gets going itās incredibly formulaic and basic
Thatās all absolutely fair enough! And yeah, no surprise you wanted to get rid of Berserk as quickly as possible.
With One Piece, Iād say the filler is a really small percentage of the overall anime (unlike Naruto which was pretty infamous for it). The pacing is sometimes slow as a result of keeping pace with a 20-page-a-week manga, but if youāre bingeing it, itās not really a problem. It was only an issue for me when Iād caught up and had to wait a week to watch a really slow, dragged out episode.