No.1166914
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Have you watched any good anime recently?
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not got into new series lately. since having no motivation nor drive to see any shows.
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I've watched a handful of anime recently but none of it's good.
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i've been watching Delicious in Dungeon, which has been a great time!
i watched the first season of Psycho-Pass after it was described to me as "Minority Report if it was an Anime" and i had a great time
and i'm currently watching Frieren, which is great, but every episode is making me reflect on my life and making me want to hang out with my dad and friends, knowing that one day it will all be over and all that will be left is the memories...
i highly recommend
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>>1166932a spoonfull of anime helps the existential ennui go down!
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Was watching a ton of anime up until just recently, really.
If i remember when i wake up, I might go through it all in here
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Frieren.
One of the best anime I've ever watched. Straight up.
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So I started my recent anime journey by watching Engaged to the Unidentified.
What starts out as a seemingly normal romantic comedy with a little bit of a weird premise becomes a show about dating some never-specified-in-anime supernatural being hence the title (Unidentified being a reference to UMA or Unidentified Mysterious Animals). It's probably best known for the character Mashiro, pictured here.
Overall it's a sweet and funny romcom anime that ends at a pretty good place considering the manga continues on for literally over a decade more to end literally last month in March. Could definitely use more seasons because of it's cuteness, but I doubt it will ever get another. Though it is only from 2014 and older animes have gotten sequels out of nowhere, so who knows.
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>>1167005I'm not necessarily gonna go over every anime I've watched since I don't remember which ones I did lol.
Anyways, the second main one I watched was Gosick.
It's a mystery anime based on light novels where the stories take place in a fictional European country called Sauville in the years after World War 1 and preceding World War 2 (which starts earlier in the universe's canon than it does in our world). The main character is a Japanese student attending the prestigious Saint Marguerite Academy boarding school as a foreign exchange student (his father is an important military person). The school is known for having a lot of ghost stories and mysteries, and because he's Japanese in a world of light skin and light hair, he is immediately ostracized because he looks like on of the monsters in one of the ghost stories, the "Black Reaper".
The kid ends up discovering this really smart girl who lives trapped in the library because of family politics bullshit and is only allowed to leave with permission. She has an analytical mind that is able to solve mysteries very easily and her brother is the star inspector of the state police who uses her abilities to solve cases, which she does because of intense boredom.
Long story short, the two start solving mysteries together, both around the school and in other parts of the country, and develop a romantic relationship.
It's a very good anime, it's funny and the mysteries are fun and the relationship between the two characters is sweet. The anime covers a good chunk of the light novels that were published at the time and the original light novel series is over, though there is a sequel series where the character are older and have a private detecitve business in America after World War 2, which happens in the end of the 1920s and ends in the mid 1930s. My favorite character is Victorique, the detective girl.
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>>1167006Gonna run through a couple I didn't watch a lot of real quick
I rewatched a few episodes of Violet Evergarden, since it's been quite a few years. Anime is amazing, as good as it was back when it aired (which really wasn't that long ago). I definitely recommend it a bunch, but also read the light novels if you can.
I also watched some more of the Fruits Basket remake. I'm still in the middle of season 1. It's great, I'm really glad they decided to remake it, the old one was good but it was super rushed and also it FEELS very old going back to it. The series definitely needed a redo.
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>>1167007Other big anime I watched a good portion of was Hyouka.
Pretty straightforward anime, all things considered. It's pretty popular mainly for the main girl love interest, you've probably seen her all over the place if you're into anime fanart places.
Basic premise is that it is a mystery solving anime, however instead of dealing with big important mysteries like crimes and whatnot, the mysteries that are solved are just like. Either personal for the main characters, or just really small everyday things. The closest they get to solving a real crime is coming up with an ending for a student-made crime drama type deal.
What really makes it stand out is the characters, who are all interestingly written, and the animation. The animation, for the most part, is pretty run of the mill slice of life anime, if with relatively high production values. However, there are multiple times in the series where the animation suddenly bumps up in quality and the things that happen with it. These are usually to show the emotions that the main character is feeling at certain times, usually in pertaining to the main girl/love interest, in generally pretty abstract ways.
It's one of those animes that doesn't really look like much off the cuff but is a lot better than you might imagine it. It's especially good if you like mystery animes but want something that's more down to earth and deals with more personal problems.
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>>1167009The other major anime I watched is ACTUALLY a major anime, it is Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation.
Honestly I do not really have the energy to really go in depth with this anime in the way I would like to, because I have a lot of feelings about it.
Basically what I can say is that it is an extremely mixed bag in many aspects, but overall it is a VERY well made and fun anime to watch, but it has a lot of caveats to that.
I think at the moment I'll just leave it at that without really going into any detail about said caveats or anything like that. Maybe some other time I'll feel more up to it, but I did just wake up.
Overall I like the storyline and I like the characters a lot, even the main character despite the myriad of problems there is with him.
Roxy and Eris are my favorites.
Do I recommend it? I don't know. I don't think I would give it a blanket recommendation like I would for a lot of my favorite animes, but I would recommend it to certain people who I know wouldn't be put off with it's negative aspects.
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>>1167011After that I watched Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunnygirl Senpai.
Basically the premise of this one is "what if we made Monogatari but it didn't exist in a weird void world and instead of actual monsters and stuff we did psychological things that somehow effect the real world"
Overall it is really good, but I cannot stress enough how it is almost the exact same thing as Monogatari.
It DOES however put itself apart from the Monogatari series in the ways it handles itself. As I mentioned before, it takes place in a much more normal, real-world environment, rather than the weird questionably-inhabited "white voids" of Monogatari. It also doesn't deal with youkai, gods, monsters, or anything like that. Instead it deals with what the series calls "Adolescence Syndrome" (according to Wikipedia, it's called something else in the anime I don't remember). Essentially it is psychological problems that high school girls have that manifest in actual supernatural-style things happening in the real world.
For example, the titular "bunnygirl senpai" deals with the main girl's problem that some people are forgetting that she exists and are unable to see her. She was an actress famous for her childhood roles that extended into young adulthood, but because of a certain event involving her manager (also her mother) she decided to take a break from acting and go to school normally. This begins to cause an issue where because she is out of the public limelight, she literally begins to essentially fade out of existence. The scene where the main character sees her in the library wearing a bunnygirl outfit is from early one when she is first noticing that this is happening to her. This is a metaphor for her own internal feelings about being forgotten by people because she's so used to being in the public consciousness and now has lost that.
So essentially it deals with these sort of weird supernatural situations in a way that ties much very deeply into psychological issues in a much more explicit way than Monogatari does.
I definitely recommend it, but I do have to say that it does come off mostly as a pale imitation of the Monogatari series. But it's still worth watching despite that.
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>>1167012I also started rewatching Monogatari again because of this anime, and it's as good as ever.
Anyways, that's about it for me. I've watched more/other animes but these are the main ones to mention.
I am looking forward to eventually watching Sousou no Frieren when I build up the emotional fortitude for it. I also can't wait to watch Dungeon Meshi, but I'm waiting for it to end first so I can watch it as I wish. And finally, Mysteries, Maidens, and Mysterious Disappearances (adapted as Mysteries Disappearances for the anime), one of my favorite mangas has received an anime and I really look forward to seeing how it goes once it finishes.
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I'm in a constant debate with myself over my faith in anime. It's never completely gone, but the popular stuff is almost always stuff I don't care about. Either it's the fifth season of some isekai with a bland self-insert guy protagonist and his harem of cute girls, or it's sadboi stuff that tries to evoke Deep Thoughts™.
The former is dreck. The latter has value and there's a place for it in media, but it's usually not for me. I get sad about about my own mortality every few days of my own initiative, I don't need to watch Frieren for it.
What I look for in anime is escapism and cute girls, so magical girls are usually perfect for me. And, y'know, Gushing Over Magical Girls has both magical girls and a girl who gushes over them (relatable), so it's pretty good.
It's also fucking weird. Like I can't believe the manga got published, let alone turned into an anime. It's just about ecchi, and by just about ecchi I mean it's barely not hentai. And I wouldn't call it deviantArt hentai, but it's definitely weird side of Gelbooru hentai. We're talking two kinks per episode and they didn't play it especially safe with them.
But I like the part where the mouthy blonde girl whips out her Giant Fists and beats up the main girl like she doesn't just have her boobs Out There the whole time she's doing it.
That part is fun. I like the mouthy blonde girl.
Anyway don't watch Gushing Over Magical Girls. I'm super special and open-minded and tolerant and shit but the average person is going to take quite a bit of psychic damage from it.
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>>1167032i noticed a bunch of reincarnation anime seem to appear recently, usually involving video games. it's interesting how an entire anime can be made (well, maybe not that intricate of an anime) based off a single random idea i (and others) may have had while playing an rpg once - i.e.: anime about killing slimes for 300 years and maxed out level (actually pretty good), put all my stats in defensive stats anime (stopped watching early on after got weird fetish vibes), and the great cleric (kind-of want to stop watching after got a weird fetish vibe). and then there's ascendance of a bookworm which is about reincarnation but not a video game reincarnation - just a fantasy world reincarnation.
gushing over magical girls i cannot watch (watched a bit). i would rather not get sexually aroused by characters with little depth, and im not interested in random fetishes. the anime also reminds me a bit of the tokyo mew mew anime girls, which is an anime which seemed to have been created purely to make cute characters as well, yet this anime takes it a step further, as seems to be the trend in modern society
im thinking fetishes in anime must b a gen z thing.
(never thought tokyo mew mew would seem tame and not at least somewhat embarassing to like, yet here we r - also i haven't watched tokyo mew mew, either.) i guess tokyo mew mew is now good, old-fashioned, traditional wholeseome anime (at least in anime circles) =o
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>>1167043I don't really begrudge the good isekai, few as they are. I think cool things can come from the idea (Konosuba was good). But they have a tendency to follow a certain formula that I'm not really a fan of, and there are
so many and I feel like they're crowding out better anime because they're somehow still popular.
I've heard the characters are actually deeper than people would expect, but I can't really comment because I'm only four episodes in. There are some arcs happening, I guess? I wouldn't call it vapid, it has plot.
>im thinking fetishes in anime must b a gen z thing.I don't think it's a thing? There's Gushing Over Magical Girls and there's always been the occasional dominatrix, but it's not pervasive as far as I've seen.
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>>1167044>plot...
>fetishesin older anime it was there but it was harder to spot and less varied, or the anime was satirical to some extent.
gushing over magical girls is wat ppl who watched tokyo mew mew probably originally did, and now there is an anime about the meta concept, so of course an anime about the meta concept will b more explicit in every way. modern anime seems to take rly narrow concepts and explore them in depth... interesting, though not completely unexpected, as consciousness continues to diffentiate itself into finer and more subtle forms.
im also probably becoming a boomer, and im not even that old (or og, as they say nowadays).
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The last thing I watched not too long ago is the Perfect Blue film. It was on a list of the best horror anime ever.
It wasn't bad, but to be fair, I didn't feel that it was horror, really. Psychological thriller or something more like.
If it did set the precedent for Bojack Horseman's Showstopper then I admit that's a feat.
It's not really anime, but I did enjoy Wendigoon's breakdown of Uzumaki not too long ago.
At some point I need to go through Lucky Star again. I need something to scratch that Nichijou itch.
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>>1167045Listen the plot is really good okay I watch it for the plot or something.
I mean there's always been fanservice, right? I personally define fetishes as kinky stuff that isn't integrated into or seen as normal by wider society, so I can't say I've been made aware of any other non-hentai anime involving fetishes. Maybe Totally Spies but that's French and therefore not really anime.
>im also probably becoming a boomer, and im not even that old (or og, as they say nowadays).Man
I'm becoming a boomer and I'm literally Gen Z by the usual metric. These kids and their new-fangled isekai.
