Anime for people who hate anime

all of the good parts of monogatari's direction without all the indefensible shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWnvzR_hrDA

i'm so sick of mmorpg animes

I haven't seen the anime, but Erased doesn't really fit in that list, really loved the manga. (Though I guess it heavily involves "reincarnation" of a sort.) Weird to see how different the anime style is from the original. I know it's on Netflix (as is the live-action version?) Anyone seen them already and can tell me if it's worth the time?

Haven't read the manga, but I enjoyed the Erased anime. Didn't set my world on fire but worth seeing. Little bit meandering at points, but given the short length, easy to overlook

Lately I've been watching Haruhi Suzumiya, which I know is pretty well-known but I'd never seen. Liked the weird ordering of episodes and the overarcing plot, but as usual the fan service sucks and it was too cliched at times to really recommend. It's been a looong time since I've seen an anime I loved

I decided to give Serial Experiments Lain a re-watch over the last week. I had vague memories of a "cool" show that went way over my head; I was worried it would just turn out to be dated and pretentious. By the third or fourth episode, I was completely hooked. Like one poster says upthread, the best approach is to just take it all in, and maybe reach your own conclusions, since we're only being fed bits and pieces of a larger story anyway (or at least, that's how I see it).

btw a very poor english translation of the playstation lain game, which precedes the show and is significantly different from it afaict, is online here: https://3d.laingame.net/#/game

friend of mine is working on making the translation better

whaaaaaat

wow now I want to rewatch Lain

https://blog.alltheanime.com/books-leiji-matsumoto/

the one episode that's mostly the history of computers >>>>>>

トレンドにガンダムＷがあるけど、ガンダムＷというと映画「ブレードランナー2049」「ラ・ラ・ランド」に出てたライアン・ゴズリングとヒイロ・ユイとの完全一致画像を思い出せずにはいられない。#ガンダムW pic.twitter.com/fYHohjugiN

— てんげるまん🌀tengelmam (@fcbliebe1900) April 15, 2021

I cannot stress enough just how much you need to stop whatever it is you are doing and watch the opening titles of this documentary. I promise you're not ready for what's coming. https://t.co/UenN1Zs9iO

— non anime enjoyer (@VoltySquirrel) May 27, 2021

I could have posted that on a more specific thread, but that would spoil the surprise!

omg lol

trailer for TV series that adapts Japanese literature classic Tale of the Heike
starts airing in Sept and has an amazing staff list including director Naoko Yamada (A Silent Voice, Liz and the Blue Bird)
super excited for this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OQpRQ8syqw

yeah looks great. excited to see yamada working in a different visual style, as much as i like kyoani stuff

The stylish film noir thriller ODDTAXI is the best anime I've seen in years. While there's no direct connection, it feels like it carries forward Satoshi Kon's legacy, to the point that one episode could almost slot right into the first half of Paranoia Agent. Beautiful animation, great soundtrack, and some of the finest writing I've ever seen in an anime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kdvfKp1EG0

anyway all of anno's pre-eva miyazaki-inspired series nadia is on hulu and i recommend it; it's very digressive but also very charming

― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Sunday, September 13, 2015 7:49 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i love that i said this six years ago and am just now picking up nadia again. gonna finish it this time!!!!!

will try oddtaxi!

odd taxi is a masterpiece

where/how are you guys watching it?

it's on crunchyroll i think. also the usual suspects.
https://www.crunchyroll.com/oddtaxi

thanks.

my usual t o r r e n t sites don’t have it but i’m not on any anime specific ones tbf

n/m "found" it

i'm only 15 episodes in and nadia is surprisingly brutal. i guess i shouldn't be surprised given anno made evangelion after but this is still significantly more traumatized than gunbuster

watched Odd Taxi this week and loved it, wasn't the furry bullshit it looked like from the outside

i am currently working my way through Haijime no Ippo which follows the manga INCREDIBLY faithfully and is great before bedtime stuff. Season 1 is 75 20 minute episodes, which is insane.

i've reached nadia's infamous filler arc, where the main characters are stranded on a deserted island for like seven episodes. it's godawful, even the animation is bad

the show before this arc started was kind of a masterpiece

thats the only thing i know about nadia because literally everyone has the same reaction to it

i was hoping it was not as bad as everyone has said for years and years. it is

nadia's vegetarianism is one of my favorite things about her character but they devote so much energy in the deserted island arc to making her look obstinate and stupid in her vegetarianism and i'm like... so angry about it

they can't even draw nadia's hair right from scene to scene lol

Nice video about Cyber City Oedo 808 and cyberpunk in general.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOoQDtuehoo
I've never actually seen this. A friend gave me a loan of it and the vhs player instantly chewed it up (I've never bought into VHS nostalgia, they were shit). No region B bluray yet, but I'm waiting.

Region 2 BR here https://www.animebluray.co.uk/Home/Product/1786

Thankyouverymuch!

Watched the three Mobile Suit Gundam movies on netflix, which stitch together the original anime series. Was surprised by how much of what I associate with Evangelion - trauma relating to an unloving, distant father figure; youngsters manipulated and instrumentalized by a cruel militarized authority - was actually introduced in this show. The animation is sometimes charmingly primitive but, as with much manga and anime from the 70's and 80's, the character models feel to me like they're strongly influenced by bande dessinee, and I certainly prefer that over the sort of garish sensory overload that a lot of anime after that seems to go for. The story, despite having giant robots in it, sometimes feels more like one of those bitter WWI novels; it's pretty unflinching about the War Is Hell stuff. The second movie has some soundtrack jams, including an E Street Band type rocker with lyrics that apparently are all about the sadness of loss and tragedy of war while the backing gets all fist pumping. I looked up the dude who recorded it, Tadao Inoue, and he's also responsible for this album with an all-time great cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUAt_y8EdZM

Anyway, I felt like by the third film it all got weighed down with too much pseudoscience babble and (admitidely cool) psychedelics, but that's kinda appropriate for something like this. Made me want to check out the next series at least, which apparently is from the pov of the faction that the protagonists in this one are fighting!

i don't like zeta gundam as much as the original but it's an interesting direction at least. i do like ZZ though which seems to be generally disliked for being sillier

if you want to see the best gundam series, it's Turn A by a fair margin imo

new season of mob psycho announced, anyone here watch that

me, i'm most excited for the new season of jojo, which is one of those shows that is so good but so hard to explain to normies that you can't recommend it to normal ppl lol, plus the body horror stuff turns ppl off

i liked the first three eps of mob psycho, does it develop into something?

i read the first three cycles of jojo and don't think i could handle the pacing if it were animated.

thanks ciderpress, the amount of different series is indeed intimidating!

apparently zeta gundam's soundtrack is Neil Sedaka songs with new Japanese lyrics

it looks intimidating but most of them are standalone series, only zeta/zz and char's counterattack directly follow on from the original

it's aliiiiiive!
Mitsuo Iso's long awaited film Chikyugai Shonen Shojo has a trailer and a date
(if you don't know Iso he was a key animator on various Gundams, Porco Rosso, Ghost in the Shell film, Evangelion, Perfect Blue, FLCL etc etc + director of the criminally underrated Dennou Coil)

【特報公開】#電脳コイル 磯光雄監督最新作

オリジナルアニメ『#地球外少年少女』

2022年1月28日前編、2月11日後編、各2週間限定劇場上映
劇場公開版Blu-ray&DVD同時発売予定https://t.co/Xiyb31IpHA pic.twitter.com/HDLImA2jue

— 地球外少年少女_オリジナルアニメ公式 (@Chikyugai_BG) October 27, 2021

nice, hope he's still got it, i'm a huge fan of dennou coil

Cyber City Oedo 808- it's nice enough, love the insanely tall buildings, the futuristic vampire story and half robot sabretooth tigers. A lot of what interested me most was in the features. The screenwriter written 3 novels continuing the story and he went on to write futuristic ghost stories.

It wasn't that successful in japan and the UK version is almost a different film. Manga Entertainment not only added new soundtracks to some of their films/series but they deliberately tried to make the dialogue swearier and edgier to put the age rating up and added jokes that weren't originally there too (this makes me look at Devilman in a new light). The tone of the original japanese Cyber City is totally different, a surprising number of people prefer the UK version. I understand people preferring the UK soundtrack (it's included as a bonus disc), I absolutely love the UK soundtrack to Fist Of The North Star series because there was a greater feeling of desolation. One of the guys at Manga Entertainment talks about why he created new soundtracks and I do think that maybe in japan they're a bit too willing to just slap some cheesy pop or rock in there, maybe those bands are popular? I would generally prefer to hear what the director intended but I can't deny how good some of the new soundtracks are.

Manga Entertainment's catalogue was quite limited in genre (mostly violent action and cyberpunk) and targeted young men too much (they used Celtic Frost and KMFDM in their advertising) and it was a surprise to some that Cyber City had a lot of girl fans who loved Benten. I didn't realize that anime fans are actually quite keen on all the fan culture and history that develop outside japan, I thought they might deem it impure.

Big thanks to Zappi for the bluray link

Den-noh Coil has just turned up on Netflix, I've been wanting to watch that one for quite some time now! I managed to track down another long-time anime curiosity, Princess Tutu, on HiDive, and I'm completely hooked.

those are the 2 best animes of the 00s, enjoy

I am, and also just discovered (not Princess) Mononoke is on Youtube, apparently in its entirety, I'm gettin completely spoiled here

that's #3

canadian netflix has every ghibli movie fwiw