I know I’m late on this but might as well put my hat in the ring.
Parasyte-the maxim-: A decent horror anime with a dash of philosophical musings every now and then. An adaptation of the manga from the late 80s, the anime does a good job of staying faithful while giving it a fresh new look.
Berserk 1997: A more retro selection, adapts the Golden Age arc and sadly stops there. Still a good adaptation and a pretty decent dub. If you can stand CGI, the movie trilogy adapts the same arc and most of the dub cast returns with more experience.
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Honestly I’m just a JoJo fag. Start from Phantom Blood and watch as each part escalates from Hamon to Stands. Reading the manga is also highly recommended.
Well, that's like the weeb's first edgy anime, alongside with Berserk.
But then again, my tastes have changed so I am now more on chill anime. I additionally recommend Saint Oniisan.
That's been a thing, recently. They redubbed Cardcaptor Sakura in English over in Hong Kong since Nelvana FUCKED IT UP in the early aughts. The new dub, surprisingly, is a lot worse.
Golgo 13 is an anime that I recommend. He’s fucking badass.
I recently discovered a treasure trove of old VHS anime tapes that I purchased when I was in high school. New Cutie Honey, Dragon Pink, F3, Angel of Darkness, Crying Freeman, Sanctuary, Wicked City, Urotsukidoji, Curse of the Undead - Yoma and Golden Boy. All great stuff right there.
That's quite gay of recommendations.
I recommend Legend of Galactic Heroes (all of them), Saint Seiya (the better DBZ), Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works/Heaven's Feel Pressage Flower/Lost Butterfly, Gunbuster, Wings of Honneamise
edit: oh yeah, add Puella Magi Madoka Magica, same writer of Fate/Zero. But only watch if you are familiar with Mahou Shojou genre.
To keep my Overlord withdrawal in check I had to re-watch another good anime with an excellent English dub, in that case Black Lagoon, including the Roberta's Blood Trail OVAs. (Why is Roberta so perfect? ?)
Apparently Rei Hiroe will release the newest chapter soon, but then it dawned on me that after its release he'll most likely go on another year long hiatus...
Golgo 13 is an anime that I recommend. He’s fucking badass.
I recently discovered a treasure trove of old VHS anime tapes that I purchased when I was in high school. New Cutie Honey, Dragon Pink, F3, Angel of Darkness, Crying Freeman, Sanctuary, Wicked City, Urotsukidoji, Curse of the Undead - Yoma and Golden Boy. All great stuff right there.
My recommendations are always anything by Satoshi Kon, CLANNAD, Escaflowne, and whatever else I feel like recommending that day. Although Nerima Daikon Brothers is climbing the ranks because holy cow that was a fun one. Never thought I'd see the day when I'd sing praises of an anime musical.
Just watched the first episode of One Punch Man S2. While the animation isn't nearly as bad as I feared, you can definitely tell it's not from the same crew that did S1, and considering how amazing S1's animation was, I doubt S2's only being just okay won't cut it for a lot of people. Other than that it's still really funny and entertaining so I'll keep watching, but just imagine how much more hype this would have been if Madhouse or even just the original director was still in charge.
Just watched the first episode of One Punch Man S2. While the animation isn't nearly as bad as I feared, you can definitely tell it's not from the same crew that did S1, and considering how amazing S1's animation was, I doubt S2's only being just okay won't cut it for a lot of people. Other than that it's still really funny and entertaining so I'll keep watching, but just imagine how much more hype this would have been if Madhouse or even just the original director was still in charge.
Madhouse has lost a shit-ton of animators in the past few years, most of them going MAPPA's way iirc. So I'm not sure that it's even possible, BONES is a fair shout, but remember that they have what is probably a competing series in MHA.
I honestly thought that a lot of the concerns over the animation are way overblown, the 1st season had shoddy elements too, but that was mainly due to them picking and choosing where the budget would go, I suspect there would be a similar element here too.
Also Yonkou Productions is a massive sperg faggot and he should kill himself.
TV Ontario showed a handful of non-giant-robot-related anime like Belle and Sebastian (Meiken Jolie), Fables of the Green Forest, and The Little Prince,
This is an aside I thought of mentioning but it would have been off-topic in that thread. I was talking about English-dubbed Japanese anime shown on TV Ontario when I was a tween in the mid-1980s and I think those same anime were shown on other provincial public television networks across Canada.
There's one weird omission that you would think would have been all over Canadian public television in that general era, the 1979 Anne of Green Gables (赤毛のアン Akage no An) TV series based on the books by Lucy Maud Montgomery that was produced by Nippon Animation, a studio that specializes in literature adaptations, and which was directed by Studio Ghibli co-founder, the late Isao Takahata. But as far as I can tell, the Anne of Green Gables anime was only ever aired in Canada in French on Radio-Canada (the French-language version of CBC).
So why did the anime adaptation of the most beloved classic Canadian children's novel series of all-time never air in English in Canada? I had suspected that CBC didn't want it to compete with their own lavish live-action Anne of Green Gables miniseries starring Meagan Follows but I just looked it up and found out that it didn't air until December 1985, over 6 years after the anime was made. Even given that western anime licensing was, at best, an afterthought to Japanese studios in 1979 and the few anime shows that did make it to English-language television in North America usually took around 3 years to be licensed and localized, that would mean that a hypothetical English-Canadian dub of the Anne of Green Gables anime would have started airing around 1982. As such, by the time the CBC's live-action series aired three years later, the localization of the Japanese animated version would have already been old news.
I think perhaps it was just that French-Canadian kids were more open to watching anime dubbed than their English-Canadian counterparts back in the 1980s, since Francophones were far more used to watching TV shows and movies that were dubbed from another language, quite often from English. It seems like a weak reason to reject something now that anime is well-accepted but maybe English-speaking Canadian kids embracing a foreign adaptation of a Canadian classic was just too far-fetched an idea for English-language Canadian public television channels in the pre-"Sailor Moon on YTV" era.
This is an aside I thought of mentioning but it would have been off-topic in that thread. I was talking about English-dubbed Japanese anime shown on TV Ontario when I was a tween in the mid-1980s and I think those same anime were shown on other provincial public television networks across Canada.
There's one weird omission that you would think would have been all over Canadian public television in that general era, the 1979 Anne of Green Gables (赤毛のアン Akage no An) TV series based on the books by Lucy Maud Montgomery that was produced by Nippon Animation, a studio that specializes in literature adaptations, and which was directed by Studio Ghibli co-founder, the late Isao Takahata. But as far as I can tell, the Anne of Green Gables anime was only ever aired in Canada in French on Radio-Canada (the French-language version of CBC).
So why did the anime adaptation of the most beloved classic Canadian children's novel series of all-time never air in English in Canada? I had suspected that CBC didn't want it to compete with their own lavish live-action Anne of Green Gables miniseries starring Meagan Follows but I just looked it up and found out that it didn't air until December 1985, over 6 years after the anime was made. Even given that western anime licensing was, at best, an afterthought to Japanese studios in 1979 and the few anime shows that did make it to English-language television in North America usually took around 3 years to be licensed and localized, that would mean that a hypothetical English-Canadian dub of the Anne of Green Gables anime would have started airing around 1982. As such, by the time the CBC's live-action series aired three years later, the localization of the Japanese animated version would have already been old news.
I think perhaps it was just that French-Canadian kids were more open to watching anime dubbed than their English-Canadian counterparts back in the 1980s, since Francophones were far more used to watching TV shows and movies that were dubbed from another language, quite often from English. It seems like a weak reason to reject something now that anime is well-accepted but maybe English-speaking Canadian kids embracing a foreign adaptation of a Canadian classic was just too far-fetched an idea for English-language Canadian public television channels in the pre-"Sailor Moon on YTV" era.
So I've been watching Ranma 1/2 off-and-on for a few years (I've been slowly buying the DVDs), and I think it's a fine show, I like it better than InuYasha in terms of enjoyability, in that at least I'm not bored with it 'specially so far in. I'm aware this is considered one of the first anime dubs that took itself more seriously in trying to actually be a good or well-produced dub despite sounding awkward nowadays. But with episode 94, I started questioning that when they mentioned Pokémon a few times, like... that was the best they could come up with? I didn't check the subs like I should've to see what was originally used, but really? Pokémon? And here I thought Ranma came off as a bit of a timeless dub 'til then.
'Tis pretty silly.
Oh, since I'm on the topic, once I finish Ranma, what should the next Takahashi anime I watch be? I'm trying to decide between Urusei Yatsura and Maison Ikkoku, but if there's any other suggestions, I'll take 'em.
Recently watched Saiki K and Devilman Crybaby on Netflix, recommend both. I'm a reformed Weeb, but they both were really good in terms of storylines, especially Saiki K.
