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Please recommend me an anime to watch?
so I like animes like vinland saga , beserk , kingdom , MHA , FAB , Black clover . Please don't recommend exremely lengthy animes.. thats the only thing stopping me from watch one piece XD.
i also like feel good animes like ghibli movies , or slice of life animes but rn would like to watch something which has a lot of story and depth to it and also comedy .
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.
Cowboy Bebop.
Frieren.
Delicious in Dungeon.
One Punch Man (at least, the first season).
Claymore.
Frieren is beautiful and sad. Art well produced.
Knew cowboy Bebop would be right at the top of the list.
I feel like Trigun used to get named right along side it back in the day but you don't really see it much anymore.
I dig Trigun, as well as Outlaw Star (which was also often mentioned in the same breath, back in the day), but I don't feel like either of them have aged as well as Cowboy Bebop.
Also, Trigun and Outlaw Star both have a notable lack of Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts.
Can’t speak about Outlaw Star (still need to watch that), but if I recall correctly Trigun was a somewhat cheap production compared to Bebop, and that shows in its art and animation.
The Bebop show looked pretty great and its movie was one of BONES’ earliest works after splitting from Sunrise and looks even better.
Psycho-Pass is a cyberpunk mystery thriller that follows in the line of stories like Blade Runner and Minority Report. It follows Akane Tsunemori's journey of becoming an inspector for a specialized crime department that has the ability to judge and dispense verdicts on out-of-control members of society through a specialized gun called a "Dominator". The story was amazing fun and well worth the journey. OP, you should be fine because of your interest in shows like Vinland Saga or Berserk, but for others not familiar I would caution that it is quite graphic and that's part of the requirement to tell the story that it does. Still, the first season is one of my 10/10 shows.
Violet Evergarden Tackles the story of after the war has happened and after the awesome action is done. What happens next? How does someone who's young life only knows the horrors of war reintegrate with society? What gives their life meaning now? Word of warning, you will cry. That's okay, that just is a good reminder that you are still human. 9/10
A Place Further than the Universe is a heartwarming tale of a group of girls on a quest to make it to Antarctica. It's quite unique and breaks the mold for me in the category where this story lies. You'll be rooting for these girls the entire step of their journey. 9/10 for me.
I'll stop here for now, but I always love recommending good anime to people who are interested. Between these three and the other shows that people are recommending (Putting in extra push for Cowboy Bebop and Frieren) you'll have no shortage of interesting things to watch! I hope you have a good time!
Here are some of my favorites:
Here are some others: https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/journal/blob/main/lists/video.tv.anime.list
+1 on DtB, one of my favorites. I would also add Ergo Proxy to that list of years, feels like a nice dark cyberpunk anime lines up fairly decent there.
+1 for samurai champloo
Also recommend Blue Eyed Samurai
Ascendance of a Bookworm: reincarnation isekai, slice of life. An intelligent, somewhat loner girl who just loves reading dies and is reincarnated in a sword & sorcery world setting, though in to a family living in a city. She wants to read, but books are the domain of the wealthy, so she sets out to mass produce books so she'll have stuff to read. Slice of life, very endearing, other world knowledge utilization. It gradually becomes a bit more action-active at parts, but not as a primary theme.
I'm curious, is there any anime that would basically be like the romance of the three kingdoms games with the drama and intrigue? And that era
I'm sure there's one that's actually like that, but I feel the need to point out the existence of Ya Boy Kongming - in which Three Kingdoms general Zhuge Liang is reincarnated into modern day Tokyo and decides to apply his strategic genius to helping a singer become famous. Each episode is built around some famous strategy of him or his contemporaries, applying it to the modern day.
The first couple episodes were the best....I think they suffered quite a steep drop in strategem into regular idol show territory quite quickly :(
Knowing that though, yes definitely recommend the first few episodes for the unique concept and fun execution
There's a long list of Romance of the Three Kingdoms adaptations on Wikipedia.
Apparently there's a 52-episode anime series from 2009, co-produced by Chinese and Japanese studios. Never seen it.
I feel the long-running video game adaptations are going to be the most well known.
@foryth There's also an older Romance of the Three Kingdoms anime made in 1991 that can be found fansubbed on YouTube. 47 episodes. It focuses on Liu Bei and goes until the Battle of Red Cliffs. It adapts the first half of a manga—the manga is among the top 30 or so best-selling manga series historically. The animation style is a product of its time, however.
The 2009 adaptation has Mandarin voiceovers and better art, but is difficult to find online in English. Apparently the studio that produced it shut down a year later.
Delicious in Dungeon has been really great so far and judging by the manga will probably be just 1 or 2 seasons. And nobody is trying to bang their little sister or a 10000 year old dragon in a 10 year old body. Highly recommended.
If you're looking for feel-good anime with comedy, I think Haikyu, Mob Psycho 100 and Frieren would be good picks. All are these relatively short. Mob is the only one that's completed, however.
Currently watching and enjoying Meiji Gekken 1874. I don't use CR, but it's on there. Newer anime, has a great older anime style with some of the cleanness of modern anime, sounds like it'll fit in well with your group there (it's a historical anime).
Hinamatsuri, I laughed and cried a lot. Watched every episode in one afternoon. Comedy with a lot of heart that really tugs on your heart strings even in absurdist moment.
Might not be as deep as some other recommendations, but my favorite anime right now is Spy x Family. Hilarious, slice of life, some decent action scenes peppered throughout, and super interesting plot/setting. I recommend it any chance I get because I feel that it has something for everyone. My wife and I enjoy watching it together even though we normally enjoy different styles/genres of anime.
Basic premise: in a fictional Cold-War-era East/West Germany, a Spy has to infiltrate some politician's inner circle. But said politician is super suspicious of outsiders, so the Spy has to get close to him via the politician's son who attends a prestigious boarding school. Only problem is that the Spy doesn't have a child or family, so he has to fake one. So he finds a wife and child and even a dog for appearances, and each one is hiding something from the rest, but none of them know each other's secrets*. Leads to a whole lot of wacky hi-jinks and hilarious situations and thinly veiled excuses. And then on top of that there's always side missions and terrorist plots to reignite the war between the East and West that derail their everyday lives. Very unique anime in my opinion, haven't come across anything yet with the same vibe of action/spy/comedy/feel-good (but would be ecstatic to be proven wrong if anyone knows of anything super similar).
* one character actually does know the others' secrets, but they don't know that she knows, which adds to the comedy I feel
Can you go into some more detail regarding what you like about the shows in your list? Is it armies fighting each other?
Do a rewatch of Perfect Blue - I saw it for the first time last mo the and it's just too beautiful.
Hikaru no Go (75 episodes) - A kid is taught how to play Go by a Heian era Grandmaster
Great Teacher Onizuka (43 episodes) - an ex gang member decides to become the greatest teacher ever
Yakitate!! Japan (69 episodes) - a boy on a quest to create a national bread for Japan
A couple great sports animes:
Paprika! So very good, like Ghibli and GITS had a baby. Don’t know how it gets under the radar so much.