Where should I start?
Attack on Titan surprisingly has a nice plot progression too, and an interesting setting.
Ignore all of those suggestions and watch Bible Black instead.
This is really the way to go. You're gonna get any of a few hundred "must watch nao!" shows depending on who's talking to you, because like most nerds animu fans love to push their tastes on other people, but at the end of the day anime is a medium that covers pretty much every genre under the sun. The best way to suggest something you might like is to know what sorts of movies or TV series you're into, because chances are there's probably a good match to them. If you wind up getting sucked into the weeb world, there's plenty of time then to venture beyond your initial comfort zone. (Example: turns out a show with the flowery name of "Princess Tutu" is goddamn awesome.)Where should I start?
What genre are you generally interested in, considering your usual media diet?
But yeah, failing all else go with Bebop. It's pretty much THE gateway drug.For americans with nostalgia goggles. :p
Mobile Suit Gundam movie trilogy. Yes, the one from the early '80s.Who the **** recommends this to a first time watcher?
Have an overly long chart to make the rest of the thread obsolete (except for my bible black recommendation of course)Enjoy.Hidden Text: Hidden because its a really large picture • Show
For americans with nostalgia goggles. :pSilly me, I thought it was because it's well-animated, it plays around with a wide range of genres, it's largely episodic and therefore far more accessible to a neophyte viewer than your average heavily-serialized story, its soundtrack is beyond godly, it had an absolute dream-team of staff working on it, and at the end of the day Watanabe has better directorial skills than at least 95% of his peers. I won't deny that airing on basic cable helped gain it wide exposure, but it more than has the pedigree to back up its reputation.
I mean, nothing against Cowboy bebop, its a solid show (good, but not great imho). But over the years I noticed that 9 out of 10 times its americans that recommend Cowboy Bebop because it had an okay dub and aired on american tv a lot back in the day.
But my favorite part of saying that Cowboy Bebop is overhyped and is not a 10/10 as most people make it out to be, is the guaranteed angry replies.(https://img.memesuper.com/36e1b4e13995f683737eccf88f517c2c_oh-you-dog-memes-on-surf-meme-dog-oh-you_263-200.jpeg)
Which is why I can never help myself.
But my favorite part of saying that Cowboy Bebop is overhyped and is not a 10/10 as most people make it out to be, is the guaranteed angry replies.(http://i.imgur.com/yoktrL5.png)
Which is why I can never help myself.
(Perhaps not very popular opinion: people should watch the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist adaptation over Brotherhood.)
Hi!
I have never watched an animé in my life (except Pokémon).
Where should I start?
I have never taken heroin and peer pressure is getting to me please help. :pI am the person who does the totally sane comparison of a form of entertainment to a destructive harddrugs.
Sad childhood wordsI am the person who has to go out of his way to tell everyone he doesn't like a form of entertainment, despite nobody asking.
I could take "alongside" as an acceptable substitute. Either way, the 2003 series most definitely handles the original manga content better than Brotherhood did, and at least for my money the plot goes in a more interesting direction than Arakawa's original did. There's also not much of what I'd legitimately call "filler," since that earlier adaptation was intended from the beginning to veer away from the original manga and tell its own story. I'm not saying that I consider Brotherhood bad or anything, but it just didn't grab me in the same way that the 2003 version did.(Perhaps not very popular opinion: people should watch the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist adaptation over Brotherhood.)
My disagreement stems 100% from the twin sources of your use of the word "over" when "alongside" would be perfectly agreeable, and because 2003 FMA has filler, which should be avoided at all cost when trying to show someone good anime.
I have never taken heroin and peer pressure is getting to me please help. :pYou're not kidding. A drug habit would be far cheaper than the mounds of DVDs and Blu-rays I've managed to pile up over the years. :D
ghost in the shellWas going to suggest that. start with either the 1995 movie or Stand Alone Complex. They are both a fairly hard scifi about the meaning of humanity in a world where the line between machine and humanity has become extremely blurred.
I was forced to watch Dragon Ball and One Piece at lunch for years
I have never taken heroin and peer pressure is getting to me please help. :p
I have never taken heroin and peer pressure is getting to me please help. :p
Righto, I'm making an executive decision: I'm gonna watch Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Thanks for your help everybody!
Ah **** I forgot, I am posting in the bad part of hardlight, time to bail.
You don't.
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I have never taken heroin and peer pressure is getting to me please help. :p
This is really the way to go. You're gonna get any of a few hundred "must watch nao!" shows depending on who's talking to youWhere should I start?
What genre are you generally interested in, considering your usual media diet?
It is honestly a poor comparison. I mean heroin's pretty bad but it's not got anything on the negative effects anime has on people.I have never taken heroin and peer pressure is getting to me please help. :pI am the person who does the totally sane comparison of a form of entertainment to a destructive harddrugs.
I mean, nothing against Cowboy bebop, its a solid show (good, but not great imho). But over the years I noticed that 9 out of 10 times its americans that recommend Cowboy Bebop because it had an okay dub and aired on american tv a lot back in the day.
It is honestly a poor comparison. I mean heroin's pretty bad but it's not got anything on the negative effects anime has on people.It's true, I mean, just look at how you turned out.
Come at me bro :P
Who suggests what might be a good piece of information to have, esspeically if you are asking content creators - like Spoon (sorry for singleing you out)-It's actually super puzzling to me why you decide to single me out here. I mean, what shows have I actually personally recommended in here? (outside of the 11/10 masterpiece bible black, fun for the entire family.)
Some of the people who could concieveably post here also have well documented pet peeves, likes and dislikes, in case of Spoon they are quite obvious through is work. So combing that knowledge with the recommendation could be quite helping. Esspecially in cases when consensus is building from very different people.
You know what you did wrong (and it's not what you think), right?You tell me what I did wrong exactly, my posts were great, amazing and of exceptional quality.
Works every time. I mean, I almost literally put a post directly after it saying that its bait. And you turboweebs still bite! :p
A bit jumpy, huh?I have never taken heroin and peer pressure is getting to me please help. :pI am the person who does the totally sane comparison of a form of entertainment to a destructive harddrugs.
Hey, I tried to persuade someone not to give in to peer pressure, can't fault one for trying. :PSad childhood wordsI am the person who has to go out of his way to tell everyone he doesn't like a form of entertainment, despite nobody asking.
we are all just being tongue and cheek right?You seem to be one of the few in the thread that actually seems to get it though.
A bit jumpy, huh?You clearly have a different nerd circle which uses a more... exotic vocabulary to describe their hobbies, than I do.
When I went to my comics shop (back when I didn't use Amazon and Bookdepository for my dose) I used to say the owner was my pusher, similar metaphors regarding nerdy stuff are very commonplace.
Besides considering "anime" a genre is like considering "animation" a genre, there are about a few light years distance between Howl's Moving Castle and the stupid crap most anime fans seem to be into.Wow, I stand in awe at your very informed opinion.
Mobile Suit Gundam movie trilogy. Yes, the one from the early '80s.Who the **** recommends this to a first time watcher?
I mean, I love gundam but come on man.
You don't just jump onto whitebase like that.
QuoteWho suggests what might be a good piece of information to have, esspeically if you are asking content creators - like Spoon (sorry for singleing you out)-It's actually super puzzling to me why you decide to single me out here. I mean, what shows have I actually personally recommended in here? (outside of the 11/10 masterpiece bible black, fun for the entire family.)
Some of the people who could concieveably post here also have well documented pet peeves, likes and dislikes, in case of Spoon they are quite obvious through is work. So combing that knowledge with the recommendation could be quite helping. Esspecially in cases when consensus is building from very different people.
You assume, presume, suppose and infer that I am somehow a good example for the point you are trying to make. You say that I have 'well documented' likes and dislikes.
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what I draw inspiration from for WoD is a really small sample base from all of the shows I've actually watched (which is around 570ish according to mal).
When I actually do try my hand at recommending someone an anime series, I always try to recommend stuff based on what I think someone might end up liking, rather than just listing them my favorite mecha shows. Since I don't really know Joshua, I just gave him that rather helpful chart instead, so he can come up to his own conclusions.
QuoteYou know what you did wrong (and it's not what you think), right?You tell me what I did wrong exactly, my posts were great, amazing and of exceptional quality.
I'll just honestly never understand why people have to go out of their way to tell someone to stop liking something they don't like. Or to have their only contribution to a topic be "I don't like it." I mean, I've probably done my fairshare of it back when I was younger, but then I grew up and realized I was being a jerk for no reason for doing that.
Ah **** I forgot, I am posting in the bad part of hardlight, time to bail.
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(Perhaps not very popular opinion: people should watch the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist adaptation over Brotherhood.)Honestly, I think both versions are very good and deal with similar themes. My one complaint about Brotherhood is that they really rush through the early plotlines that were already covered by the 2003 series.
First two large blocks of textFair enough.
Why do you cut off the next line? - The "too much coffee"-remark was the telling part.The thing you are doing here is reading my facetiousness posts and taking them seriously. I triple post when I'm just feeling silly (Blame Battuta, I learned it from watching him)
This was more about you getting more frantic and somewhat disruptive to the discussion after you posted your "chart to end all charts". You kinda undermined your own intent to help in my opinion.
(My dislike for double-posts might not be well known - I prefer to edit my posts unless they have been replied to. I know many people do it differently but I prefer to do that way)
The "it's not what you think"-part was in reference to your own post:Ah **** I forgot, I am posting in the bad part of hardlight, time to bail.
And you just know engaging an obvious non-entry into the discussion by Hades might not turn out to help this discusion escape the looming threat of a self-reinforcing shouting match.Again, you mistake jest for seriousness. Hades and I know each other quite well, this is the only way we know how to communicate.
I suppose he could jump on at Gundam: The Origin. I like the movie trilogy because A) it's the classics and B) it shows people not all anime is about spiky people with their tits hanging out.Anime with spiky people with their tits hanging out is objectively the best anime though. I mean, come on.
Dude, it's not just my circle:we are all just being tongue and cheek right?You seem to be one of the few in the thread that actually seems to get it though.A bit jumpy, huh?You clearly have a different nerd circle which uses a more... exotic vocabulary to describe their hobbies, than I do.
When I went to my comics shop (back when I didn't use Amazon and Bookdepository for my dose) I used to say the owner was my pusher, similar metaphors regarding nerdy stuff are very commonplace.
And it's all about the person saying it. For example, I know for a fact that Hades is a dirty weeb (in denial), which gives all of his posts a slightly different context to place things in.
I thought I was stating the obvious, here in Italy anime are more or less like superheroes (in the sense they are essentially mainstream), even if you are a weirdo like me that doesn't like them you learn enough about them via pop-cultural osmosis.Besides considering "anime" a genre is like considering "animation" a genre, there are about a few light years distance between Howl's Moving Castle and the stupid crap most anime fans seem to be into.Wow, I stand in awe at your very informed opinion.
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I thought I was stating the obvious, here in Italy anime are more or less like superheroes (in the sense they are essentially mainstream), even if you are a weirdo like me that doesn't like them you learn enough about them via pop-cultural osmosis.
Hell, before getting fed up I grew up on heavy doses of "The Rose of Versailles", Fist of The North Star, Saint Seya, Lupin III and that ridiculous cartoon about Japan winning the football world cup more or less like everyone here.
Why do american otakus are so readily offended and passive-aggressive about everything?
Gundam Build Fighters season 1 references the Italian popularity of some anime with their character Ricardo Fellini, who enters competitions with a Wing Gundam model.The absolute finest gunpla commerical I've ever had the pleasure of watching.
You still acted like you are under the same kind of persecution complex though.I thought I was stating the obvious, here in Italy anime are more or less like superheroes (in the sense they are essentially mainstream), even if you are a weirdo like me that doesn't like them you learn enough about them via pop-cultural osmosis.
Hell, before getting fed up I grew up on heavy doses of "The Rose of Versailles", Fist of The North Star, Saint Seya, Lupin III and that ridiculous cartoon about Japan winning the football world cup more or less like everyone here.
Why do american otakus are so readily offended and passive-aggressive about everything?
It's a mystery, I'm dutch myself so I wouldn't really know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe rather than wondering why people are being 'passive-aggressive and readily offended' when you tell them their hobbies is crap, you should do some self-reflection and wonder if it's maybe your bad posts that makes people not really want to engage you in a serious matter.
I hope I'm not stating the obvious here.
Sherlock
You still acted like you are under the same kind of persecution complex though."All of the anime you watch that is not from studio ghibli is stupid crap" "no no, I didn't meant to offend, I just merely came into this thread to share with everyone how much I dislike a form of entertainment that you enjoy." "Gawd stop getting so offended and being passive aggressive."
My intention was not to offend, and I apologize for having done so unwittingly but you seem not to conceive that perhaps there are nerd communities that don't take themselves so seriously as to get offended for what was a mere joke about our nerd passions, I mean, we are a community about space pew pew, good grief!
Ah **** I forgot, I am posting in the bad part of hardlight, time to bail.
Ah **** I forgot, I am posting in the bad part of hardlight, time to bail.
Okay, some random things I like:
Person of Interest
Man, there are so many good shows to recommend, just from the things posted in this thread Joshua should have enough material to last him a while. (If all of the DEEP ghost in a shell plot doesn't scare him away for life :p )So you are really determined to see everything I say as an insult or twist it into one it seems.
Legend of the galatic heroes (LoGH) has been mentioned before, with all the valid sidenotes regarding the show. Even so, let me add a suggestion to the recommendation; sample the show by watching the first movie first (it's 1 hour long), that takes place a bit before the main show, called "My Conquest is the Sea of Stars". If you find that to your taste, then the call to watch all wooping 110 episodes or not is much easier to make. Because imho, LoGH is absolutely worth watching for all of its 110 (+50 something side episodes) duration. But I can also understand that it might not be to everyone's taste.You still acted like you are under the same kind of persecution complex though."All of the anime you watch that is not from studio ghibli is stupid crap" "no no, I didn't meant to offend, I just merely came into this thread to share with everyone how much I dislike a form of entertainment that you enjoy." "Gawd stop getting so offended and being passive aggressive."
My intention was not to offend, and I apologize for having done so unwittingly but you seem not to conceive that perhaps there are nerd communities that don't take themselves so seriously as to get offended for what was a mere joke about our nerd passions, I mean, we are a community about space pew pew, good grief!
No sure, you are totally being reasonable here. And you contribute so much to the topic at hand.
Good grief you are making bad posts. Suggestion for self-reflection: Don't go into threads about hobbies that you don't enjoy for the sole purpose to act like a jerk and tell everyone how much you don't like their hobby. And especially don't tell someone they're being too serious and oversensitive after you literally went out of your way to tell them how much 'idiotic crap' you think their favorite sort of entertainment is.
Because you know why not? It makes you look like a bloody immature wanker is why. And the world would be just a little bit nicer of a place if people could just act less like jerks and apply the 'live and let live' motto to their lifes some more.
Now be on your way and enjoy whatever thing you enjoy being entertained by.
Bullock, Spoon, go get a room and watch Urotsukidōji together. It'll do you both good!I had to look it up, I am glad of it.
(sidenote Joshua under no circumstances look that up)
Anime director Hideki Takayama took great artistic liberties with the Urotsukidōji story, mixing elements of horror, violence, and sadistic scenes of rape not present in the original work. Maeda himself stated in an issue of Playboy Japan that he found the anime to be repugnant, cruel and sadistic, yet brilliant. He also said he admires Takayama's take on his vision. The anime series is most famous for being the first in the tentacle rape genre, though only one scene in the first OAV actually contains any tentacle rape.
(http://i.imgur.com/0wxhTyO.gif)Jin-Roh (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin-Roh:_The_Wolf_Brigade) is also a fantastic movie; just, uh, don't go in expecting a happy ending.
Okay, some random things I like:From the little I know about such TV luminaries, Ghost in the Shell should be pretty much right in your Westworld wheelhouse. The already-mentioned Trigun is a classic if you're looking for the Western side of things. Something I haven't seen recommended yet that might scratch a Game of Thrones itch would be The Twelve Kingdoms: it starts with something of a standard "girl sucked into mystical fantasy world" premise, but overall it fits in the high-fantasy mold and delves into the politics of its setting pretty heavily. (The very good Escaflowne has a similar setup, only it adds in romance and magic and giant robots and catgirls and all sorts of other fun stuff. Killer soundtrack too.) Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit is another great fantasy title by the same director as the GITS: Stand-Alone Complex series.
Westworld
Person of Interest
Battlestar Galactica
The Last Kingdom
Elementary
Sherlock
Game of Thrones
saw a lot of mentions of the 1995 Ghost in the Shell movie and not one mention of its 2004 sequel (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_2:_Innocence) which is one of my favourite movies of all time.Isn't that one mostly 90 minutes of Batou and Togusa quoting philosophy at each other, with a few sad Basset hounds?
Only if you weren't paying attention, and also didn't notice any of the gorgeous set pieces.saw a lot of mentions of the 1995 Ghost in the Shell movie and not one mention of its 2004 sequel (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_2:_Innocence) which is one of my favourite movies of all time.Isn't that one mostly 90 minutes of Batou and Togusa quoting philosophy at each other, with a few sad Basset hounds?
To be perfectly honest I've never seen it myself, but most fans of the franchise I know weren't particularly keen on it. Plus I greatly prefer the Stand-Alone Complex series to Oshii's original film, so I'm not sure how much I'd dig him cranking the Oshii-ness up to another level.Only if you weren't paying attention, and also didn't notice any of the gorgeous set pieces.saw a lot of mentions of the 1995 Ghost in the Shell movie and not one mention of its 2004 sequel (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_2:_Innocence) which is one of my favourite movies of all time.Isn't that one mostly 90 minutes of Batou and Togusa quoting philosophy at each other, with a few sad Basset hounds?
(sidenote Joshua under no circumstances look that up)
To be perfectly honest I've never seen it myself, but most fans of the franchise I know weren't particularly keen on it. Plus I greatly prefer the Stand-Alone Complex series to Oshii's original film, so I'm not sure how much I'd dig him cranking the Oshii-ness up to another level.
Berserk
It's extremely graphic rape every other page, Griphith is the only major character I don't think has been raped or damn near.
The very first page starts with the main character having sex with someone that ends with him blowing her hear off with a mini-cannon.
don't go in expecting a happy ending.
it is a bit of dive into the deep end, isn't it?
...Did anyone claim otherwise? I literally said it was "a fantastic movie" in the part immediately before the part you quoted.don't go in expecting a happy ending....uhm, a happy ending is not required for a story, or a good one.
I really would love to know just what sort of ****ed-up childhood produced Kentaro Miura.
Cowboy Bebop - don't listen to Scotty's trolling. The "assured" responses he gets for downplaying it have a really damned good reason. CB is by far one of the pearls of animé.
Cowboy Bebop - don't listen to Scotty's trolling. The "assured" responses he gets for downplaying it have a really damned good reason. CB is by far one of the pearls of animé.
Jungle wa itsumo Hare nochi Guu
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i hear the avatar the last airbender is a good animes
Yeah, One Punch Man should have only been able to last for an episode or two before it fell victim to its own premise. If he can beat any enemy with only one punch, how do you manage to keep any dramatic tension? The fact that having watched the whole thing I can't wait for more just goes to show how well done it is.
Also if y'all enjoy OPM check out Mob Psycho 100, its by the same author and has a lot of the same humor and trope flipping. Reigen sensei alone makes it worth watching.
Yeah, One Punch Man should have only been able to last for an episode or two before it fell victim to its own premise. If he can beat any enemy with only one punch, how do you manage to keep any dramatic tension? The fact that having watched the whole thing I can't wait for more just goes to show how well done it is.
Yeah. I've heard Mob Psycho 100 mentioned as being something any OPM fan should like. I'll have to give it a try.I will warn you it took me more than one episode to get into, but that's partly because it takes multiple episodes to set up some of it's jokes.
But yeah, failing all else go with Bebop. It's pretty much THE gateway drug.For americans with nostalgia goggles. :p
I mean, nothing against Cowboy bebop, its a solid show (good, but not great imho). But over the years I noticed that 9 out of 10 times its americans that recommend Cowboy Bebop because it had an okay dub and aired on american tv a lot back in the day.
Post-90s animation budgets.Bebop has better technical animation than the vast majority of what comes out on a seasonal basis. Plus hand-painted cels were awesome.