• Denjin@feddit.ukdeleted by creator
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    1 year ago

    Not all anime is good, a lot is straight up shit. Not all things that aren’t anime are shit some are quite good.

    • missingno@fedia.io
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      1 year ago
      • Akagi
      • The Apothecary Diaries
      • A Silent Voice
      • Azumanga Daioh
      • Bocchi the Rock!
      • Cowboy Bebop
      • Delicious in Dungeon
      • Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
      • Kaguya-sama: Love is War
      • Kaiji
      • Little Witch Academia
      • Spy x Family
      • Steins;Gate
      • Takopi’s Original Sin
      • Violet Evergarden
      • gnomesaiyan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Apothecary Diaries, Delicious, and Frieren are my faves on this list. And of course Cowboy Bebop is a classic.

        Also, I will never stop loving Akira. The animation, direction, the score, just chef’s kiss. They don’t make 'em like this anymore.

        • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Akira really is something special. Or maybe something different… Only Frieren begins to approach that level, Akira is physiologically challenging beyond just the mind bending of something like guran lagan

      • Wrufieotnak@feddit.org
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        1 year ago
        • Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
        • Casshern Sins
        • Monster
        • Ergo Proxy
        • Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
        • Haibane Renmai
        • xxxHolic & Tsubasa Chronicles
        • Gintama
      • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Lot of solid choices, I’ve got 3 new ones to check out. Much appreciated, the ones I recognize are good so I’ll be giving the new entries a fair shot

    • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This so much, I’m tired of shonen and kawai nonsense, most of the mainstream Anime plots and characters are generic, and I’m too old to related to 14 year old protagonists, I’ll take something like Arcane over another Anime any day

    • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      A few recommendations with that in mind (Boy does that one restriction really just nuke the list! Common Japan!):

      1. Spice and Wolf (2008 series, I have no clue if the 2024 series is good)

      2. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

      3. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

      4. Gate: And Thus the JSDF Fought There

      5. Crest of the Stars

      (Roughly in that order, too)

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Don’t worry, this new NCIS spinoff is different! It take place in… throws dart at a map …Oswego.

  • Victor@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m in neither camp. I don’t watch much anime, and I hate these detective/murder solving shows. There’s plenty of third options to choose from here as well. Lots of good stuff.

  • Deestan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Here’s my problem with anime: I keep getting burnt on recommendations.

    Anime fans do not share my distaste for sexualized child-coded characters. Which would be tolerable if they would even acknowledge the CONCEPT.

    It’s a dice toss whether the anime is a Cowboy Bebop or something with loli side characters halfway through season 2, and I’m just rarely up for spending the time to do that research for a recommendation.

    And “Achshually, these are just drawings not real people”, “umm, she’s really a 1000 year old dragon who just chooses/got stuck with a small human body” fuckery just tires me.

    • talkstothecat@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Solo Leveling - early 20s male protag, action sci-fi, no romance subplots atm

      The Faraway Paladin- Fantasy adventure, found family

      Claymore-women/monster hybrids fighting bigger monsters, only one male mc and he’s absent for over half the episodes

      That’s what I can come up with that doesn’t have chibi, loli, or romance. They’re all on crunchyroll with good English dubs

  • XM34@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    See, there’s a big problem. Medival/Legal Dramas are boring, samey and unimaginative. But at least there isn’t a 50% chance to get random incest/pedophile/sexist scenes pushed in your face out of nowhere and without any significance to the plot.

    I love animes, but the amount of time I put into filtering out disgusting fan service is too damn high and also stopping me from recommending it to most of my friends. We need more anime like Frieren, Dungeon Meshi and One Piece pre timeskip and less Shield Hero and Goblin Slayer!

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    4 seconds into first anime, high pitched squeal coming from female lead

    10 minutes in, realize the main character is 15, girl phobic, and being put in charge of serious military equipment nobody has the right to touch until they undergo a year of training and are willing to follow orders; starts wondering if the person giving the child multi-billion dollar military equipment is more incompetent than the main character…it’s really a close call

    15 minutes in, bitches like the child they are for the rest of the episode

    episode ends

    I love anime, but boy are some of the tropes really annoying and is a massive part of why so many people just turn it off shortly after it starts.

    • jumperalex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      TIL why I can’t get into anime but didn’t know it.

      Bit OP isn’t wrong about medical, legal, and police procedurals.

        • jumperalex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Yeah I know it’s a wide range of art, and there is likely stuff I would like. It just hasn’t tickled my brain yet.

          Meanwhile, I did love Arcane, but I also know calling that anime is likely to start a religious war ;-)

          • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            1 year ago

            ‘Chainsaw man’ is really good for ‘a boy and his dog whos actually not a dog but kind of the anthropic personification of how people think about chainsaws but also still kind of a dog, the faustian pact they make, and the secret shadowy government organization that uses him as a child soldier’

            ‘Death note’ ‘psycho pass’ or ‘ghost in the shell: stand alone complex’ if you want very anime but still need to be watching a cop show.

              • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                1 year ago

                They’re not entirely copaganda; two are cyberpunk, one is… The protagonist of ‘death note’ very much has 100% cop brain, but it’s kind of a breaking-bad-esque exploration of 'how this guy could possibly be that much of a piece of shit?’ but i remember it being fun.