Anime to watch that isn't garbage

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TroonsDid911

TroonsDid911

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Not a very big anime fan but my husband loves that shit and I'm trying to watch anime with him in the hopes I can convince him to watch regular shit with me. So whats some anime that isn't the cookie cutter derivative cliche crap that 90% of anime seems to be?

Anime Ive recently watched that I liked:

One Punch Man
Death Note
Castlevania (does this count?)
Blood +(years ago)
Kinichi History's Greatest Disciple
Sound and Fury

I know for sure Ive seen much more then that but I can't remember them off the top of my head.

I don't care if its subbed or dubbed, but for the love of christ there had better not be any loli shit in it. Started watching No Game No Life thinking it was gonna be a good show...until the 12 year old bath scene. I feel I need to make this abundantly clear because of all the sub-human anime avatars creeping on this site.

FYI - Anyone who recommends Beaststars is a furfag, or worse yet, a hybrid furfag/weeb who will bring about the apocalypse.
 
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As far as good entry-level non degenerate shit goes, my list is as follows:

Mob Psycho 100
Cowboy Bebop
Samurai Champloo
Black Lagoon
Berserk ‘97
Oddtaxi (which I guess is furryshit but it’s way less pretentious than Beastars)
 
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Never marry a man into anime that was your first mistake. Anime is 99% crap these are my recommendations for the best as not to spend time watching any weeb garbage.

Movies
-Perfect Blue
- Akira
-Ghost in the Shell
-End of Evangelion but you got to watch most of the show to know what the fuck is going on
- most of the studio Ghibli stuff is at least enjoyable if not good

Shows
-Cowboy Bebop
-Evangelion
-Fooly Cooly
-original Berserk
- Dragonball not Dragonball Z
-Kill la Kill
Chances are if that shit is more than one season its not worth it.
 
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Ousama Ranking is one of the best shows this season.
Vinland Saga
The Vampire Dies In No Time (gag comedy)
Dr Stone
Space Dandy
Gintama
One Piece (you can watch the movies plus the TV specials that are named "Episode of X" are summaries of entire story arcs)
Yakitate Japan (bread baking battles)
 
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Lucipurr said:
Anime is 99% crap these are my recommendations for the best as not to spend time watching any weeb garbage.
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The stagflation/degradation that has decimated them for 30 years now can be traced through many sectors of their society, and animu is no exception. I know for a fact the average 80s/90s series typically got a 24-26 episode run, and even low key series could often receive multiple seasons with solid runtimes. OVAs for all kinds of genres were being made, with the 80s being the golden age, and even the TnA had serious quality behind it like go nagai.
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Fast forward 30 years of economic debasement later... The average series is lucky to get a singular 12-13 episode season. True OVAs are few and far between, and many "series" have reduced runtimes. Many aren't even made by a Japanese majority studio anymore. Despite the switch from painted cels to digital animation and the explosion of popularity in the west, the industry has continued to atrophy actual quality. To make things worse, levant-friendly monopolies continue to infiltrate and buy out studios desperate for shekels.
 
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Attack on Titan was the first anime I watched. It's pretty accessible and has almost no japanese cultrural degeneracy + good animation and action.
Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood is decent.

Lucipurr said:
-End of Evangelion but you got to watch most of the show to know what the fuck is going on
- most of the studio Ghibli stuff is at least enjoyable if not good

Shows
-Cowboy Bebop
-Evangelion
-Fooly Cooly
-original Berserk
- Dragonball not Dragonball Z
-Kill la Kill
Chances are if that shit is more than one season its not worth it.
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Bro Evangelion is way worse than you remember in terms of loli shit. You don't have to wait for the hospital room scene to figure that out. I rewatched a couple of episodes when it got added to Netflix and remembered that Shinji hits near-troon levels of degeneracy in episode 2.

It is a real shame because the Thunderbirds-esque lauch sequences are fantastic.
 
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Lone MacReady said:
The stagflation/degradation that has decimated them for 30 years now can be traced through many sectors of their society, and animu is no exception. I know for a fact the average 80s/90s series typically got a 24-26 episode run, and even low key series could often receive multiple seasons with solid runtimes. OVAs for all kinds of genres were being made, with the 80s being the golden age, and even the TnA had serious quality behind it like go nagai.
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Fast forward 30 years of economic debasement later... The average series is lucky to get a singular 12-13 episode season. True OVAs are few and far between, and many "series" have reduced runtimes. Many aren't even made by a Japanese majority studio anymore. Despite the switch from painted cels to digital animation and the explosion of popularity in the west, the industry has continued to atrophy actual quality. To make things worse, levant-friendly monopolies continue to infiltrate and buy out studios desperate for shekels.
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I think there are other factors at play here.
Before 1996, you either aired at a reasonable time, with cartoons for teens in early primetime, and cartoons for kids in the morning, or you released a 4-episode OVA to test the market, usually targeting either a small audience of otakus, or the fans of the source material. Production costs were high, so only selected projects were approved and usually focused on proven franchises. So general audience got their stuff on TV, otakus got their OVAs. Almost all TV series up until then had at least 24 episodes, with >40 still being common.

(BTW, Cutey Honey aired on Saturdays at 8:30pm. It was targeted at general teen audience. I believe your screencap is from Shin Cutey Honey OVA, which was released 20 years later, for the otakus that grew up on the original series.)

By 1996, the otaku market started to be too big to satiate with OVAs only, so otaku-oriented anime started airing at night. It was cheaper to put it there, and it was assumed that otakus either are unemployed and will be awake at 2am, or they'll use a VCR.

The first late night anime was Those Who Hunt Elves. How many episodes it had? Twelve. The trend continued, with morning and primetime series having more episodes that the late night series.

Fast forward to today. Anime production is cheap. Studios can pump a lot of it and all it has to do is to shift mangas, LNs and merch to a fickle and easy to bore audience of otakus. That's why most anime today airs at night and has short seasons. But the morning and primetime anime hasn't changed much – it's still about either long-running or middle-length series. Their number is limited by the fact that it's primetime—they are competing with other shows. This market may have not grown as much as the otaku market, but it's still going relatively strong (despite the fact that kids don't watch much TV these days). It's just the Western weeb audience is completely oblivious about it – just go into a general anime-related discussion place and ask about Yashahime or Precure – you know, some of the most popular anime shows on TV right now.

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Japanese Animation TV Ranking, October 4-10

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train Arc TV anime debuts with 10.0% rating
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Fist of the North Star (animation hasn't aged too well but the stories are still solid; basically Mad Max in Japan with superhuman fists)

Appleseed (post-apocalyptic buddy cop series)

Warau Salesman (asshole goes around helping people in a way that makes them more miserable and laughs his ass off while doing it)

Slayers (fantasy adventure comedy with an interesting cosmology)

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood (a dwarf and his brother that were cursed by God after resurrecting their dead mother as a short-lived pile of zombie flesh via eldritch science now have to go around looking for the philosopher's stone to unfuck their shit)

Most movies by Studio Ghibli.

Captain Harlock and Galaxy Express 999 (space adventure drama with memorable characters and space pirates that became mainstays of Japanese media. Also space trains.)

Trigun (cowboys on another planet hunt down the most wanted man alive who is also the nicest guy alive)

Record of Lodoss War (basically the first D&D inspired anime series and a template for others)

Ozanari Dungeon (short comedic adventure OVA series and parody of tabletop at first but the manga is longer, gets more serious and delves into some interesting fatalistic lore)

Big O (post-apocalyptic noir that gets weird as fuck)

Cowboy Bebop (because)

Dragon Quest: Legend of the Hero Abel (video game tie-in with a fun story and no lolis)

Gaiarth (short post-apocalyptic adventure series with robot horses and the biggest laser sword in fiction)

The Berserk 1997 anime might also be worth a shot but it removes Skull Knight which sucks.
 
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