is like a japanese second life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTRU_4B-IoE&ab_channel=ソバルト%2FSoVault
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Bocchi the Stone.
Bocchi is stoned
hot weather is awesome
https://i.imgur.com/xo1dRQS.jpg
i saw the new gundam g-witch prologue, it was really cool
Hunter ROBIN, really like it.
Just finished Erased (highly recommend) and just started Demon Slayer because 2 of my friends says it's the best starter anime (I'm new to anime - that's literally all I've seen).
anyway, watch Erased if you haven't. It's actually really well made.
I've been watching Seiyuu Radio no Uraomote. I love that feeling of female rivalry growing into friendship. Especially a gyaru and a quiet studious girl...
>>52
I also liked Erased a lot. The English title for the anime is a bit odd, the Japanese translates to "town with only me".
Don't think there is a "best starter anime", people have different interests and different preferred genres. It may be a good shounen.
There's an almost infinite amount of anime and manga out there when you're new so take your time and enjoy whatever interests you the most. If you liked Erased and want to recapture that feeling you'll probably like some other things with a "Psychological" tag. Try out some different genres too over time. Don't worry about what's most popular.
I watched your name yesterday. It was very good. The two main characters don't know each other so it creates a really cool dynamic and I thought it was very well made.
I'm watching anyamal tantei kiruminzoo. Really good magical girl anime, very much enjoying it. But as someone used to my 12 episode one cour anime, 50 episodes of highly episodic slice of life can be pretty slow to get through.
I'm watching Nichijou. It's exactly my humour and I wish there were more episodes. Also the drawing style is really cute and sometimes funny, just as everything else about the show.
Post about something that you want to watch/read/play later on but too busy to right now.
I want to watch Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation at some point. Isekai fantasy, lewd and well drawn, and pretty fun to boot. Watched 3 episodes so far.
Kaiba by Masaaki Yuasa - I loved all his yojouhan/tatami galaxy stuff, and this seems similarly artsy
I've been meaning to watch Skull Man, Sunday Without God, Heybot, and Monkey Typhoon when I get the chance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Game_(film)
Also everything by that studio that made Yosuga no Sora anime.
Visual novels:
Anime:
there's so many
if I had to pick one from each category, I'd like to watch ojamajo doremi, read one piece, and play sakura no uta.
My favorite Manga is Death Note.
What's yours?
>>15
Consider having an opinion of your own and not following popular teenage culture.
Melancholia by Dowman Sayman
it's an anthology like his other work, Nickelodeon (which is also really good but maybe should be read before) and they connect to eachother, along with his other work Voynich Hotel
Unlike nickelodeon however, all the short stories connect at the end which is a trope I like
His manga are always weird, surreal, and occasionally disturbing which i really like. For the same reason I'm also a big fan of:
I really like Battle Angel. Love that scrap heap 3rd world aesthetic. But Ranma 1/2 has to be my favourite manga.
>>16
Lain is popular with teens? Since when? Also, it’s not a manga.
some stuff that hasn't been listed
Blade of the Immortal
Emanon
Halcyon Lunch
Helter Skelter
Homunculus
Mato Seihei no Slave
Molester Man
Ousama Ranking
shit guess this too
yancha gal no anjou san
>>17 I haven't read any of Dowman Sayman's stuff in like 10 years... must see what I've missed. Thanks for dropping their name here
I'm surprised nobody's mention made in abyss
Girls' Last Tour.
Franken Fran
Claymore
BLAME
Sousou no Frieren
Hotel
Uzumaki
Fetish
berserk
Definitively Nichijou. It always cheers me up when I read it and it has, in my opinion, a cute drawing style.
Why does all anime look the same now? What happened? They all look so similar to one another these days. It's incredibly dull and boring. They all use the same color palate, the same art style, thin lines, all the characters look identical, the shading and tone is the same and then there's all the choppiness and framerate issues which lead to general ugliness. It's like they sink the entire budget into visual set pieces.
It probably costs less to stick to one style.
Most of the more generic anime from the mid 2000s looks pretty much all the same too. I think that style looks better, but I guess I am just becoming an old fart stuck in the past. Or it really just does take more time and effort to do it with the old techniques that made the style of the time. Stuff like Kanon, Air, Clannad, I really think that is the style to go with. It even looks decent on 360p. I still like new shows though, there's usually something I like in every season.
The framerate issues probably have to do with studios outsourcing work to the Philippines, China or South Korea. When you have animators spread out over multiple countries speaking different langauges choppinness and general ugliness is the result. It's a double edged sword really. The Philippine animators get to build expereience, but being used as cheap labor keeps them from producing their own high grade product. Anime also has to have a high turn over rate and they pump that shit out and whoever has to make it, Japanese or not, end up overworked and then their work sucks because they can't stop their hands from shaking.
To appeal to Americans anime has to look a certain way. So studios pump out the same “anime style” artwork which leads to less artistic diversity. More Americans consume anime than actual Japanese people so now they are the target audience. So its become an Asian minstrel show where people play into the stereotypes others have about them just to make money.
Hand drawn is dead. Everything is made by computers using engines and graphical tools that recycle the same components. Everything today is painfully stock.
>>3
I wonder how long those cheap labor sources have before Japanese studios just start using AI instead. Then everything will look the same and extra ugly.
>>6
They'll probably always use them. If AI will get rid of anyone it will be the Japanese animators. You'll have a handful of Japanese involved in the process, AI will do the heavy lifting, and they'll outsource the remaining human element to the cheap labor in foreign countries. The Japanese are adopting the Hollywood model of corporate exec dictated art and building huge endless content franchises. Give it decade and it will look exactly like Hollywood.
What >>4 said more or less, in tandem with:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Japan
Generic marketable slop.
Most stuff produced in the 90s was also formulaic slop but there was more visual diversity back then at least. Probably because there were more studios with their own styles while today there are a handful of big corporations that have monopolized the industry. Formulaic slop happened when traditional cel animation was abandoned. Coincidence? I don’t think so. If you walk into a studio you’ll see most of the animators use the same tools and rely more on their tools than animators of the past and the bosses are slave drivers who want them to produce as many episodes fast as possible.
>>47
Nadesico is bullshit. Dominion Tank Police is better.
>>49
Dominion Tank Police is good. Getter Robo is better
>>50
They are both bullshit. Space Battleship Yamato is better.
Nadesico isn't better than some of the better Gundam series but it sure is a lot better than Evangeshition.
>>52
Please all of you are wrong! LOTGH is anime's Evangellion. I wish Gundam died and it lived!
Patlabor or death.
>>53
LOTGH is bullshit. The battles don't make any sense.
I've never read a light novel before, but I've become interested in reading one. Have you ever read a light novel? Did you enjoy? What's your favorite?
Boogiepop Series is really fun if you read it while listening to the songs that are referenced in the book
boogiepop? sounds like a song
Seconding Welcome to the NHK. If you're the sort of person who's browsed textboards a lot, it almost certainly hits home on a number of topics relating to old school "otaku" culture, depression, and addiction.
The worst LNs I ever read were Sword Art Online 1-3, when assured by my friend that the anime (which I had not, and still haven't watched) was garbage and the LNs were actually good. This was not the case - I will never get back the time spent on those novels.
My overall vibe was "reminiscent of [type-moon's] Nasu's work, but a lot worse", though I get that the series started as a fanfictiony web novel. Maybe this is par for the course for many LNs though and I'm being too harsh. I read the Haruhi LNs back in the day for validation about my pet theories on Kyon's abilities but they never came. It was good I guess - it's been too long to really think about it objectively. Perhaps a re-read is in order!
Welcome to the NHK isn't an LN!! It's just a novel.
>>10
that makes sense tbh
>>10
uh... what is the difference? Aren't light novels just regular novels but with animu stuff? (´･ω･`)
Whether something is a novel or light novel is determined solely by the publisher. It's like how if something is published by DC Comics it's going to be considered "superheroes" even if no one actually has superpowers (say, Batman vs the Joker.) Or in anime/manga, like how anything published in Shonen Jump is "shonen" even if it's romance or magical girl (genres usually associated with shoujo.)
Welcome to the NHK was published by Kadokawa Shoten, who are an LN publisher. Outside Japan it was published by Tokyopop who deal even more exclusively in LNs.
I just started reading boogiepop and can already tell it's gonna be amazing
Kind of a random thread, but any cool Anime and OVAs based on video games that you folks know of?
I know of:
The Ninja Gaiden OVA (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_qqm96rQeA
Super Mario Bros: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach! (1986)
https://archive.org/details/mario-anime
Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie (1996)
https://archive.org/details/1996sonicthehedgehogthemovieupscalednew
Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlsBT1yhLys
Not really sure if this one counts, but the late 80s Zelda show got repackaged as a movie in 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5uKTqXQq3Q
SF2: The Animated Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsRA8TMV98g
Street Fighter II: Return to the Fujiwara Capital (The weird sequel with no street fighting, it's like educational or something)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l2CpWOnpLE
> Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals (1994)
I remember this one because of the crystal embedded in the main heroine's butt that she shot laser beams from.
How was it? Don't need to finish the entire thing before talking about it, one episode, one chapter, or even looking at a cover page is enough.
I've been catching up reading Tomo-Chan is a Girl! I originally passed on reading it cause it didn't look too good but it's been mostly good. I love me some pure tomboys
I'm reading A Silent Voice. It's in the same genre as "Masturbation Master Kurosawa" in that it's a douchebag who takes what he deserves in stride and tries to improve his ways regardless manga, and I'd say its depiction of such a type of character is far more mature overall(though the protagonists of both are different ages during the story so I suppose that's to be expected). I think that most of the people here could relate to this man somehow, hell his plan of "pay my mom what I owe so I don't have to feel like I died with unfinished business" is something I've thought of verbatim for as long as I can remember. This is all just from me reading up to Vol. 2, so maybe I'll update this review when I'm finished.
Good shit. Hope it doesn't fall off.
>>11
That's one of my favorite yuri mangas. She's a good girl.
Usually I prefer something with more of a supernatural theme though, like the Ne No Kami visual novels. Highly recommended VN for yuri aficionados.
>>17
Tell me more about this Masturbation Master Kurosawa. Where can I find him? Doth he live as a hermit in the mountains of Kagoshima or lie deep in the fiery pits of Unzen?
"When I Returned to My Hometown, My Childhood Friend was Broken" is good; sweet even. tl;dr, guy comes back home after being away for work and discovers that his outgoing tomboy childhood friend is now a paranoid NEET who looks like a gyaru whore. He tries to rebuild their friendship and she's constantly paranoid and ashamed because of what happened to make her this way.
Currently watching Minky Momo and The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess.
>>20
This was not so great, the man has no defining features, he could very well be replaced by a bag of rice and it would be the same story
I was watching hand maid may. It had me thinking about how much anime and otaku culture has changed since then. For example, the association between otaku and hobby electronics has vanished.
Iketeru Futari. It was ok but the ending was abrupt and right when things were getting interesting.
Sousou no Frieren. Am now enjoying severe depression.
