Gunslinger Girl: Every episode wrenched on my heartstrings so hard it was almost suffocating. The situation those little girls were in was heartbreaking. ...at least to me it was anyway.
Animes That Have Blown You Away
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so much "seriousness". It's not just about meaning people. It's also love for anime as a medium of art and comedy and few do that as well as:
nichijou [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z30Y572EmCk]
You can really tell that the artists enjoyed drawing out each action.
nichijou [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z30Y572EmCk]
You can really tell that the artists enjoyed drawing out each action.
What was wrong with the second series? It just felt like more of the same to me, just as heart wrenching as the first.FireAza said:
I find that to be such an overrated anime. The concept it nice. But I find it frustrating how so many people think it is better than .hack.Toshiooh said:
Sword Art Online is an interesting concept. But it quickly turned into some of the worst pandering garbage I have ever seen. It is like they took a lot of nice possible exercise in thinking about the possible future of technology in a Kurzweilian fashion and used it as nothing more as a pretty coating for a bland, generic, obnoxious harem anime.
Some of the most obnoxious harem anime tropes in the world with a thin coating of Ray Kurzweil thrown on top does not "blow me away."
I'm in shock know one has said this one yet...
I adore this one with every fiber of my being. I love the concept, the characters, the theme, and more importantly
VASH.
I watch this show for Vash and Vash alone.
I'm currently watching this adrenaline fest...
I'm currently on episode 13 and am currently in a deep depression cause I'm not watching it at this very moment. Its that mind blowing.
I should probably be doing my homework, buuuuuuut grinding my teeth and going above and beyond sounds like the better option right now.
I adore this one with every fiber of my being. I love the concept, the characters, the theme, and more importantly
VASH.
I watch this show for Vash and Vash alone.
I'm currently watching this adrenaline fest...
I'm currently on episode 13 and am currently in a deep depression cause I'm not watching it at this very moment. Its that mind blowing.
I should probably be doing my homework, buuuuuuut grinding my teeth and going above and beyond sounds like the better option right now.
Thank all that us gratuitously gravy in the world for your comment.EstrogenicMuscle said:
What makes it worse is that BOTH the villain and protagonist are god modded wish fulfillment characters. Plus I've yet to find a clear indication as to WHY Kayaba trapped everyone in there. Not to mention the legal precautions that should have taken place in the real world given that THOUSANDS of people are in a cyber induced coma.
I refuse to believe anyone is dumb enough to say SAO is better than .Hack by any extension
Ahh fuck it, I'm quoting you cause you said everything I would have said XD Seriously, these 3 animes were amazing. Especially Gurren Lagann. As cheesy as it is, that show changed my life. I wear a core drill of my own, and I go by the "My drill will pierce the heavens" thing now, because as I have known in the past, I won't simply give up on stuff like life just cause it gets tough. I'm better than that, and this show is a symbol of my determination~Yuuki said:Hmm I haven't seen any of the anime in OPI really have some catching-up to do.
So I'm going to go out on a limb and put my vote towards an anime that is typically featured in everyone and their mother's top 10 lists...sorry if I come off as bland/unadventurous :S
[HEADING=3]Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood[/HEADING]
Awww, who wouda thunk it? An emotionally-moving story about two brothers who are on a quest to get their bodies back after an alchemy attempt horribly gone wrong (or should I say, right
[HEADING=3]Code Geass - Lelouch of the Rebellion[/HEADING]
This one's a personal favorite of mine, mostly because the sheer suspense and plot-twists are enough to make your brain either say "fuck this" or, if you're me, keep you glued to the edge of your seat and literally WAIL your eyes out at the sad moments. This anime features mecha (wooo unique) and goes for a rather complicated chess-style storyline with plot-twists up the ass, but it has one of THE BEST endings I can possibly think of for any anime. Seriously, it's so dramatic and meaningful if you've allowed yourself to be taken in.
The art direction is faithfully CLAMP, the same group of women behind Cardcaptor Sakura and Chobits. Some people don't like it very much, but for me it sure as hell got the job done and the fight scenes very good, what more could you want? It's more an emotional/suspense drama with a healthy sprinkling of mecha action, the best of it's kind.
[HEADING=3]Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann[/HEADING]
Robots which can scale to absurd sizes, the manliest of men, coolness factor x 9000, blatant disregard of physics on an astronomical scale that would make Einstein rip his hair out and Hawking get off his wheelchair at run away at the speed of light. Oh and sexy girl in revealing outfits.
As much as that description comes off as juvenile, it's not, it's just...err...thinking of description...can't...too awesome. Throw all your logic away and JUST WATCH IT because you will not experience anything like it. No seriously, logic simply does not apply to this anime - only the rule of universal awesomeness.
That's all for now.
That was true, but that erection in my pants made me feel another emotion too.canadamus_prime said:
This was a loli show without the fanservice. Danmn those girls were hot!
God I adored the hell out of Spice and Wolf. I remember comin across it on Netflix, read the synopsis, figured meh can't be that bad.mParadox said:
Seriously, Spice and Wolf looks deceptively like a premise for an ecchi centric show but no! It's actually very educational. Teaching you about medieval economics and the culture of the time. It's amazing and the show's protagonists(Kraft Lawrence and Holo) are one of the best and most adorable couples I've seen. The way their relationship builds over the course of the series, it's... beautiful man. T^T
[sub]Also, season 3. I'm slightly bitter that there might be no season 3. >~>[/sub]
There's also:
Higurashi (for the craziness.
Hellsing and Hellsing Ultimate(the gore and Crispin Freeman's voice, come on)
Another (loved the premise, execution was slightly wobbly though)
Full Metal Alchemist (is it bad that I haven't watched Brotherhood? Probably. >.>)
Clannad (no tears were shed, but my heart was broken regardless.)
And that's it, I think... I'll update this list accordingly if and when I remember some more awesome anime.
I watched the entire first season in a single sittin. Totally hooked. Got to the last episode and freaked out because there wasn't a season 2 so I immediately jumped onto Hulu to pray they had it, totally did. Watched that the next night, ran out of episodes. Super duper sad about the lack of season 3.
Outside of that, I concur on Bakkano! Aside from bein set in a time period that I don't think gets enough attention nowadays, it was fairly clever and had an awesome way of tellin the story.
Angel Beats was absolutely stellar too. Real heart string tugger near the end. That endin still makes me sad, for many many reasons, but not hopelessly sad.
There's probably more that I think would qualify as ones I really really enjoyed, but not many that fall into the "Blew me away" category.
I really don't want to know about you and your erections. X(Julius Terrell said:That was true, but that erection in my pants made me feel another emotion too.canadamus_prime said:
This was a loli show without the fanservice. Danmn those girls were hot!
You know I watched anime as a kid growing up in high school but then after going to college I stopped. Now, ten years later, I have gone back and tried watching some.
While there is certainly some good shows out there some of the things I used to enjoy just turn me off completely. I was watching a show called "Tenchi Muyo! war on geminar" and the whole "I'm really awesome at everything and all the women are chasing me around but I am too awkward and shy to take advantage thing" gets wearisome after a while. It is just such obvious wish fulfillment stuff. The underlying show is actually kind of interesting, in that it shows a world with an interesting social structure and with an interesting history. I think I could have liked the show if it had not been for the over top and frankly ridiculous Mary Sue qualities of "Kenchi Misaki".
I feel if shows could tone down a lot of that stuff then they would work much better. I just watched "Ah! My Goddess" and enjoyed it much more, as it was almost a Romeo and Juliet love story, showing how young love can be so tender and passionate but life can conspire to break apart the relationship. Besides the main male character winning a motorcycle race there were no "I am a master warrior, all around awesome guy who can do anything but talk to women" moments.
Anyway, I am sure this is a little bit tl:dr but I'll try checking out some of the stuff recommended here.
While there is certainly some good shows out there some of the things I used to enjoy just turn me off completely. I was watching a show called "Tenchi Muyo! war on geminar" and the whole "I'm really awesome at everything and all the women are chasing me around but I am too awkward and shy to take advantage thing" gets wearisome after a while. It is just such obvious wish fulfillment stuff. The underlying show is actually kind of interesting, in that it shows a world with an interesting social structure and with an interesting history. I think I could have liked the show if it had not been for the over top and frankly ridiculous Mary Sue qualities of "Kenchi Misaki".
I feel if shows could tone down a lot of that stuff then they would work much better. I just watched "Ah! My Goddess" and enjoyed it much more, as it was almost a Romeo and Juliet love story, showing how young love can be so tender and passionate but life can conspire to break apart the relationship. Besides the main male character winning a motorcycle race there were no "I am a master warrior, all around awesome guy who can do anything but talk to women" moments.
Anyway, I am sure this is a little bit tl:dr but I'll try checking out some of the stuff recommended here.
I've gotta play devil's advocate here, by no means did SAO blow me away. (Admittedly I enjoyed it, but it was total wish fulfillment fantasy.)While SAO was absolutely dripping with problems, it sucked me in. Shit happened in SAO. I couldnt even finish the first .hack episode because the first fifteen minutes was nothing but faffing about! I understand that exposition can be slow, but give me something! (different media but sue me) The Hobbit (book) was an example of how to do slow exposition, .hack is not. I'd be willing to call SAO and .hack even. (assuming .hack ends strong) SAO starts strong and nosedives, and .hack starts slow as hell and (probably) ends well.Madara XIII said:
End of Devil's advocacy. forgive me if .hack got good 15.5 minutes in.
I second thispiinyouri said:
I just recently watched the entire series since I never before had the chance to, but sweet damn was it an experience
a very interesting universe, awesome characters (hard to tell which one I like the most, kind of a tie between the awesome Ed and the smooth ************ that Spike is)
also, it just oozes style
I still get a rush of feels when I hear Green Bird
should probably watch the movie too
Definitely agree on Fate/Zero, also I want a show just starring Waver and Rider btw. Those two are precious.
Erletsee get the usual suspects out of the way:
FMA (Both of them)
Cowboy Bebop
Gurren Lagann (If only for the art, not the bat shit storyline)
EVA (God damn this series, just goddamn it)
Baccano
...Hmmm the rest I've seen don't quite reach 'blown away' status...Dum dee dum...
Yeah I haven't seen any new anime recently to be fair. Fate/Zero did catch me by surprise given how utterly turned off I was by it's spiritual suc/predecessor.
Erletsee get the usual suspects out of the way:
FMA (Both of them)
Cowboy Bebop
Gurren Lagann (If only for the art, not the bat shit storyline)
EVA (God damn this series, just goddamn it)
Baccano
...Hmmm the rest I've seen don't quite reach 'blown away' status...Dum dee dum...
Yeah I haven't seen any new anime recently to be fair. Fate/Zero did catch me by surprise given how utterly turned off I was by it's spiritual suc/predecessor.
Well I'm not usually blown away by an epic story or impressive visuals.
I'm more blown away when something does something out of the ordinary and does it well, which brings me to my point:
Usagi Drop
This thing was just sitting there glaring at me from the "to watch" list and damn did it deliver.
I'm more blown away when something does something out of the ordinary and does it well, which brings me to my point:
Usagi Drop
This thing was just sitting there glaring at me from the "to watch" list and damn did it deliver.