Can anyone recommend me an Anime?
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Yeah, the first one seems to be blocked, though. Stuff from the second one I either already watched, or it's from a genre which doesn't interest me.FireAza said:You watched the videos I posted too right? That's packed with that sorta of thing. I also made a part 3, but YouTube removed itSmertnik said:From memory, the anime I had in the video that would interest you would be:
Requiem from the Darkness
Memories
Memories is already on my to-watch list and as far as Requiem is concerned I can't say I'm a big fan of episodic horror stories. I'm looking rather for stuff along the lines of Dead Leaves and Mind Game. But thanks anyway
Hmmmm... Have you seen TRAVA: Fist Planet, Tailenders and Soul Eater?Smertnik said:Yeah, the first one seems to be blocked, though. Stuff from the second one I either already watched, or it's from a genre which doesn't interest me.FireAza said:You watched the videos I posted too right? That's packed with that sorta of thing. I also made a part 3, but YouTube removed itSmertnik said:
Requiem from the Darkness
Memories
Memories is already on my to-watch list and as far as Requiem is concerned I can't say I'm a big fan of episodic horror stories. I'm looking rather for stuff along the lines of Dead Leaves and Mind Game. But thanks anyway
@SvenBTB, @deathbydeath and @hinataxemnas, thanks for the Claymore recommendation
I'm loving the series so far, it has a lot in common with Vampire Hunter D in that it has a dark fantasy setting and a strong, silent protagonist who is also half a monster; but this with chicks
And even though the animation is a little low-budget and repetitive; the awesome battles, and story totally makes up for it all!
So cheers for that, it was spot on
@eggy32, @Yopaz, @BristolBerserker, @JasonSantora, @AnoniMus - Are you guys serious!
Welcome to NHK, I watched waaay too many episodes of this crap expecting it to be something amazing after receiving so many recommendations.
I stopped watching after the scene where the main guy goes to a little girls school to shoot erotic pictures of them while hidden in the bushes!?
That was some serious pedo bullshit!
What the frak is wrong with you people, why would you recommend this to ANYONE!
And where in my post have I indicated that this is something I would want to watch.
I'm loving the series so far, it has a lot in common with Vampire Hunter D in that it has a dark fantasy setting and a strong, silent protagonist who is also half a monster; but this with chicks
And even though the animation is a little low-budget and repetitive; the awesome battles, and story totally makes up for it all!
So cheers for that, it was spot on
@eggy32, @Yopaz, @BristolBerserker, @JasonSantora, @AnoniMus - Are you guys serious!
Welcome to NHK, I watched waaay too many episodes of this crap expecting it to be something amazing after receiving so many recommendations.
I stopped watching after the scene where the main guy goes to a little girls school to shoot erotic pictures of them while hidden in the bushes!?
That was some serious pedo bullshit!
What the frak is wrong with you people, why would you recommend this to ANYONE!
And where in my post have I indicated that this is something I would want to watch.
You're missing the point dude. That's like saying why would you want to watch A Clockwork Orange since it's full of rape and senseless violence. Which ignores the fact that it's important to the story, as it establishes Alex's personality (a gleefully sadistic horrible person), which makes the end of the movie more confronting, since we shouldn't care what happens to him because he's such a vile man, yet we do because of how he's treated.UnknownGunslinger said:
Likewise with Welcome to the NHK!, Sato's disgusting behavior during the period in which he discovers lolicon is important to the story, as it tells us about his personality. He has an extremely obsessive nature (going from not knowing what lolicon is, to spending all day filling his computer with lolicon images) and a complete lack of what's considered socially acceptable (any scraggly grown man hiding in the bushes outside a school with a camera would obviously be seen as a criminal). And Sato's personality is pretty much the entire reason why he's in the situation he's in, it's not like he comes from a poor family or anything. And since Welcome to the NHK! is semi-autobiographical the point is pretty clear: it's not outside influences that's responsible for your problems, YOU are the problem.
But yeah, some people prefer to watch TV shows with the intent of being entertained, so confronting stuff might turn them off a particular show.
Darker Than Black is really good. So is Casshern Sins, Trigun, and Cowboy Bebop. Oh yeah Hetalia Axis Powers is good (just a bit bizarre).
i think i should mention Makoto shinkai, he's the closest to an indie anime director i've seen and the two films (of three) he's made are stunning . theyre called A place promised to us in our younger days and 5 centimetres per second.
And FLCL is my favorite series along with cowboy bebop
(i also liked Beck:the mongolian chop squad which is about a struggling indie band)
and for something more mature the millenium actress or grave of the fire flies (both of which have obnoxious english voice acting so if you don't speak japeneses or like subtitles) Also the genius party series is good it like a show cas eof japenese animators.
(Planetes and Gantz were alright too and are quite mature)
EDIT: so disapointed fellow anime fans, what you didn't like FLCL
And FLCL is my favorite series along with cowboy bebop
(i also liked Beck:the mongolian chop squad which is about a struggling indie band)
and for something more mature the millenium actress or grave of the fire flies (both of which have obnoxious english voice acting so if you don't speak japeneses or like subtitles) Also the genius party series is good it like a show cas eof japenese animators.
(Planetes and Gantz were alright too and are quite mature)
EDIT: so disapointed fellow anime fans, what you didn't like FLCL
Spot on, yes I do want to be entertained from my movies and TV shows!FireAza said:
I think that's a fairly decent expectation for anyone no matter the media concerned.
A Clockwork Orange is a good example because it actually manages to entertain despite its graphic subject.
That's how it made you care for Alex the protagonist in the first place even though he was a sadistic rapist!
It's how it managed to deliver its important messages on the culture of violence and Orwellian society in the end!
But you cant compare Satou to Alex because Alex was actually a fleshed out character while Satou is almost a blank slate.
We're not given much detail as to why he dropped from Uni as a freshman and became recluse, we are just given labels.
He's a hikikomori (that's big in Japan), deluded and lonely, we're being told repeatedly in the beginning mostly from Satou himself.
And we're not given even a trace of personal information about him that can make him real - even Alex had an ear for classical music, what does Satou likes or thinks if anything we don't know!
The whole thing feels like an extended social advert to tell you about the issue, made by people who've only glimpsed it on the morning paper.
It's as if they rely on his complete absence of personality and vague social awkwardness so that the viewer can project himself and pick up their slack!
We're not told what he wanted to study, why he's so afraid of the world, does he have dreams or hopes for the future?
No they just hurl labels at you as if that can compensate for real characters.
I don't know how much of this has been based on real events, but what reality there was has been deluded a lot.
That's basically it, and by the time the kiddy stalking came, it got too infuriating for me to keep watching!
I don't know what happens next, but after more than an hour into the series I think Welcome to NHK had it's fair chance.
I simply can't be bothered with two dimensional cartoons!
If you want to see a movie that treats the subject of social reclusiveness in young adulthood and handles the subject with respect, realism and is actually "confronting stuff" I recommend you see the film Suicide Room [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQqBoY9biJU]
EDIT: Sorry for the lengthy post FireAza, but was actually looking forward seeing Welcome to NHK and consequently being let down was rather disappointing
Dude.
S-Cry-Ed.
No no no!
S-Cry-Ed.
Super powered people beating the crap out of each other in progressively awesome and occasionally, yes, bat-shit weird ways.
I'm talking Watermelon Teleporters and a really really flamboyantly camp guy with a huge power-rangers like Zord.
But the main characters are suitably normal but AWESOME.
And it has Straight Cougar, the most incredibly badass badass ever to ass bad. Seriously.
Watch.
This.
Shit.
S-Cry-Ed.
No no no!
S-Cry-Ed.
Super powered people beating the crap out of each other in progressively awesome and occasionally, yes, bat-shit weird ways.
I'm talking Watermelon Teleporters and a really really flamboyantly camp guy with a huge power-rangers like Zord.
But the main characters are suitably normal but AWESOME.
And it has Straight Cougar, the most incredibly badass badass ever to ass bad. Seriously.
Watch.
This.
Shit.
*Watched the first episode*Drakmeire said:
What in the Nine Hells...?!
Were those giant mustached cotton ball monsters?
Hmmm, it is pretty true that Satou is mostly a blank slate, I guess the intent is to make the character as broad is possible so that the average otaku can see themselves in him. The show does seem to make it a point to tell it's audience "don't be like this", as I've said, the souce material is semi-autobiographical, and the author really did go though a hikikomori period. Nether the less, I enjoyed Welcome to the NHK!, possibly for the same reasons that you didn't enjoy it (i.e that the protagonist is such a trainwreck). It's not in my top 20, but I still enjoyed it and found the story and characters interesting.UnknownGunslinger said:
Well, at least you gave it a shot, I respect you at least that much for thatUnknownGunslinger said:
Lawl, ironyUnknownGunslinger said:
Sound intriguing!UnknownGunslinger said:
It's nice to see that I'm not the only one who makes excessively verbose posts, I was starting to think I was in the wrong forumUnknownGunslinger said:EDIT: Sorry for the lengthy post FireAza, but was actually looking forward seeing Welcome to NHK and consequently being let down was rather disappointing