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pipcome said:
Kinda old but still good imo
akame ga kill, claymore
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I remember not really enjoying the ending of Akame ga Kill
Everyone dying off felt really forced and the protag’s insane power up threw me for a huge disbelief in the tension of the final fight. I’d compare it to Another. Intriguing start but the ending left me wanting something more desirable
I have been pushing Claymore off so I should finally watch it *yawn*
 
Shady Attorney said:
I remember not really enjoying the ending of Akame ga Kill
Everyone dying off felt really forced and the protag’s insane power up threw me for a huge disbelief in the tension of the final fight. I’d compare it to Another. Intriguing start but the ending left me wanting something more desirable
I have been pushing Claymore off so I should finally watch it *yawn*
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If you like the action and violence yeah but claymore is pretty similar in that the ending can bee seen as an ending but there is lots of unanswered questions and you are left hanging a bit.
Its because both are mangas and the animes never finished and just stopped at the most opportune time.. guess money issues.
 
Shady Attorney said:
Okay guys, I need an anime recommendation (no movies though). Any genre is fair game :sighduck:
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Read or Die and it's follow up TV series R.O.D The TV.

InsolentGaylord said:
A question: Do you guys think that Anime will start pandering to "western audience" (more accurately the blue checkmark morons on Twitter) due to foreign influence? Or is that just BS that OAG believes because he's very unhinged?
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I don't see it happening because Japan has never cared that much about the western audience.

Case in point, Cowboy Bebop, in the US you couldn't have a bigger success story for an anime than it did, but because it wasn't as popular in Japan it never got any sort of follow up (save for the movie, but that was released in Japan before the TV series had even aired in the US, so it's a coincidence)

So if Bebop's popularity in the US didn't matter, there's no way blue checkmark Twitter will matter to them, how many in Japan are even aware of that culture? The whole idea is absurd, sex appeal is so intrinsic to anime's entire aesthetic it's impossible to imagine it without it.
 
Shady Attorney said:
Lol I downloaded the tv series long ago to only find it in Spanish subs. I should look for it again
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If you have a BakaBT account it's there, I also believe it was at one time streaming on Crunchyroll.

But I also believe one can simply buy the old dvds off Ebay for not too much money.

But trust me, find it and watch it, it's worth it, R.O.D The TV is and I say this quite literally, the most underrated anime of all time, it's fucking great and it breaks my heart how obscure it is.
 
Yeah, Read or Die is another one of my all-time favorites.

If you're looking for mecha stuff: Gun x Sword, Full Metal Panic, and VOTOMS are all really great. s-CRY-ed is another good one and it's a fully self contained 25 episode series.

If by chance you haven't seen it, The Garden of Sinners is excellent, although it's a series of 9 films of various lengths.
 
Didn't see a mention about Spy x Family anywhere. Should probably rectify that, then:
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I honestly couldn't make it past 10 minutes in Darwin's Game (new anime.)

Dude launches a mobile game on his phone and hallucinates a snake coming out of the screen and biting him that causes him to pass out. Rather than thinking "what the fuck?" He simply brushes it off. His friend who clearly knows about the game is acting superior serious and, again, he brushes it off. Then the final nail in the coffin, he sees a dude on a train coming at him with a knife and, you guessed it, brushes it off. MCs who are clearly too stupid to live piss me off beyond belief.

I don't understand how the people making these anime expect viewers to stick around.
 
OnMoTi said:
I honestly couldn't make it past 10 minutes in Darwin's Game (new anime.)

Dude launches a mobile game on his phone and hallucinates a snake coming out of the screen and biting him that causes him to pass out. Rather than thinking "what the fuck?" He simply brushes it off. His friend who clearly knows about the game is acting superior serious and, again, he brushes it off. Then the final nail in the coffin, he sees a dude on a train coming at him with a knife and, you guessed it, brushes it off. MCs who are clearly too stupid to live piss me off beyond belief.

I don't understand how the people making these anime expect viewers to stick around.
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Tbf not many people read/watch death games for the characters. They're just vehicles to parade around kooky gimmicks, most of the time.

Though I did drop this when the protagonist went full sicko mode. I can handle it, usually (I don't know why its a trend in this genre though) but it was so forced in this one.
 
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Speaking of which, Alice in Borderland is probably the only good death game manga.
All too often death games get trashy sex shots or unfunny humor, this one doesn't have either.
 
Tor Lugosi said:
Yeah, Read or Die is another one of my all-time favorites.

If you're looking for mecha stuff: Gun x Sword, Full Metal Panic, and VOTOMS are all really great. s-CRY-ed is another good one and it's a fully self contained 25 episode series.

If by chance you haven't seen it, The Garden of Sinners is excellent, although it's a series of 9 films of various lengths.
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It's 26 episodes.
 
OnMoTi said:
I honestly couldn't make it past 10 minutes in Darwin's Game (new anime.)

Dude launches a mobile game on his phone and hallucinates a snake coming out of the screen and biting him that causes him to pass out. Rather than thinking "what the fuck?" He simply brushes it off. His friend who clearly knows about the game is acting superior serious and, again, he brushes it off. Then the final nail in the coffin, he sees a dude on a train coming at him with a knife and, you guessed it, brushes it off. MCs who are clearly too stupid to live piss me off beyond belief.

I don't understand how the people making these anime expect viewers to stick around.
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Boobs and gore
 
Dom Cruise said:
I don't see it happening because Japan has never cared that much about the western audience.

Case in point, Cowboy Bebop, in the US you couldn't have a bigger success story for an anime than it did, but because it wasn't as popular in Japan it never got any sort of follow up (save for the movie, but that was released in Japan before the TV series had even aired in the US, so it's a coincidence)

So if Bebop's popularity in the US didn't matter, there's no way blue checkmark Twitter will matter to them, how many in Japan are even aware of that culture? The whole idea is absurd, sex appeal is so intrinsic to anime's entire aesthetic it's impossible to imagine it without it.
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So is it just an urban legend that Trigun: Badlands was made solely because Trigun was popular in the West?
 
Atatata said:
Tbf not many people read/watch death games for the characters. They're just vehicles to parade around kooky gimmicks, most of the time.
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I don't need some deep character arcs or whatever. It's just,
when the dude was repeatedly telling him not to launch the game, and then he did, only to have a thing come out of his phone and attack him - maybe show that the MC's IQ is above single digits and inquire about wtf just happened. You now have a reason for the exposition dump (this is the game, this is how it works, etc.) Maybe show him struggling in his first fight, only to have him accidentally win in some way (so he's not super OP to start, but he's also not entirely useless.)

Atatata said:
Though I did drop this when the protagonist
went full sicko mode. I can handle it, usually (I don't know why its a trend in this genre though) but it was so forced in this one.
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At least you were able to finish the episode which is more than I can say.

wtfNeedSignUp said:
Boobs and gore
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But there really wasn't any in the first 10 minutes. It's like writers forget that you need some reason to root for the MC in order to keep watching.

*begin rant
I don't know. Maybe it's the fact that I've seen so many anime I'm frankly bored of the "weak ass MC who might become powerful not completely useless at the end of season 2" slow ass shit. It's like Hero Academia. The MC in that is given power in the very first episode. He's not able to use even 1% of his power without breaking his own bones until episode 34 (not an exaggeration.) Then season 4 rolls around and he's out on patrol getting practice as a super hero. A little girl comes up and begs for his help, only for him to pussy out and do absolutely nothing. Indecisive and/or legitimately stupid MCs are absolutely infuriating at this point.
*end rant
 
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OnMoTi said:
But there really wasn't any in the first 10 minutes. It's like writers forget that you need some reason to root for the MC in order to keep watching.
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Should have waited for the end of the episode
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Also from jumping around it looks like they try to ape Yuno from Future Diary.
 
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