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Suggest me an anime - just finished Dr. Stone
I just finished the first and (for now) only season of Dr. Stone. I loved it. It's definitely a shounen, but interesting characters and the whole science plot makes it a good watch for adults.
I like the idea of learning interesting stuff through anime.
I like shounen with a twist — the typical juvenile stuff usually bores me to no end (the last one I gave up was My Hero Academia). And seinen is usually too serious and dry for my taste. I guess I'm hard to please!
I also like:
- Death Note (pretty smart with a great premise)
- Overlord (now I know VR fantasy is a whole sub-genre, but at the time it was new and awesome for me)
- Code Geass (a tad too political for my taste, but a great main character)
- Fullmetal Alchemist (the first one)
- Mob Psycho 100 - one of my recent favorites
- One Punch Man
- Netflix's Castlevania (not actually anime but whatever — great anime-like cartoon)
I dislike:
- Fillers and useless scenes (like on Attack on Titan)
- Pure Drama / Pure Romance
First things first, watch Kimetsu no Yaiba. Shounen, but with serious OOMPH. It won Crunchyroll's anime of the year 2019 and is pretty much guaranteed to be in the top 3 anime of the decade on any major poll (Vinland fanbois fight me Kimetsu is 10x better). Shounen with expected shounen plot points, but with a 'we're taking this shit seriously' animation style and enough sneaky world building to sink a ship.
If you liked FMA then I believe you are kinda legally obligated to watch Brotherhood, which appears to make people cream their pants in sheer joy. I thought it was just pretty good, but I thought the original FMA was meh so take that as you will.
If you liked One Punch Man then you might want to give KonoSuba a try - it's also a parody, but of the Isekai genre that Overlord is in. The characters then join Overlord, Tanya the Evil, and Re:Zero for Isekai Quarter, which is a meta-meta parody involving the characters drawn as chibis. (note Tanya the Evil is FUCKING BRILLIANT, Re:Zero is interesting). On the isekai note you may also like Slime Katta, which has a similarly OP protag to Ainz Ooal Gown.
Kanata no Astra you will likely enjoy - don't judge it by its early episodes, it's setting you up for something cool.
Lastly if you want to watch something as it happens then Kyokou Suiri and Mugen no Juunin are both great.
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That was on my list, I even started watching it, but fantasy stuff is hard for me. I will give it another go!
Nah! Life is short, I refuse to watch 50+ episodes of something that is "kind of the same story but not really". ADHD doesn't help. I also think the first series is perfectly fine. Sue me! hahaha
Konosubalooks right up my alley, and I love the crossover (will I be able to understand the references, though)? It's not available on Brazil's Crunchyroll or Netflix, so I'll have to look into fansubs.Saga of Tanya the Evilis available (is that the one you mean), so already on my list.Is
Slime Katta== That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime? Cause if so, I got it!Great suggestions!
KonoSuba is a parody of isekai (Overlord, Sword Art Online, etc) like OPM is a parody of battle shounen like Dragonball. It's funnier if you know where they're coming from, but OPM works on its own and so does KonoSuba. In general an isekai involves a person from Japan getting hit by a truck (truck-kun) and being reborn in a fantasy world. They are given special abilities because reasons, then go and defeat all the evil, get a harem of women to marry, are loved by all and generally have a good time . Overlord spins that up by having the person from Japan be the evil guy, but aside from that it's pretty much a genre-conforming isekai.
The other 2 you got ok. They are both isekais as well, but because isekai is very heavily done they all have a twist to the design - Tanya the Evil is a little girl in what is basically WWI Germany with magic, and Slime Katta is... a slime.
If you want a good handle on isekai before you watch konosuba then you should watch a couple of isekais like Rising of the shield hero, No game no life, How not to summon a demon lord, Sword art online, In another world with my smartphone, or Demon lord retry. None of these are particularly good anime, they're cliched as fuck and all have flaws (and none of their 'twists' on the genre is as good as Overlord, Tanya, or Slime), but if you find you like the genre you'll be able to enjoy them anyways. Then you get to watch KonoSuba rip them apart.
Within the non-parody MMO animes, which you consider the best?
I'm not sure if I wanna put in the effort into watching crappy animes to better enjoy the satire. Maybe one satire can inform the other. And I suppose my general knowledge on the MMO clichès from playing World of Warcraft and overall gaming culture will help.
I also watched a few Sword Art Online episodes backing in the day.
Crappy is probably going too far for most of them, they're usually good watching, just don't expect anything out of the ordinary. Power fantasy is the name of the game.
Demon lord retry seems like the one you would like the most. Similar schtick to Overlord, but not as popular. The first cour (12 eps) of Sword Art Online cover all the isekai tropes besides truck-kun. You need truck-kun in your life though, so watch this intro to Watashi, Nouryoku wa Heikinchi de tte Itta yo ne.
Just checked on Netflix, I'm only missing 4 episodes to reach 12. Sword Art Online it is.
Konosuba works well enough on it's own without extensive knowledge of Isekai anime. If you understand the concept of Role Playing Games, stats, partying up, tank-DPS-Healer, etc. you will understand Konosuba. The real engine behind the humor is the character interactions moreso than the Isekai setting anyways.
Personally I've only watched a few Isekai, and I'm kind of done with them because most tend to fall into the trap of being wish-fulfillement, fanservice, or really generic worldbuilding, or any combination of those three. The recent ones I really enjoyed were mostly Log Horizon and Konosuba, I do not feel strongly about Overlord, Slime, Shield Hero, DanMachi, or the cellphone one. I have heard some good about Cautious Hero but I haven't had the time to watch it yet.
If you liked Log Horizon and KonoSuba then you're pretty much guaranteed to like Shinchou Yuusha. You could almost describe it as Log Horizon with KonoSuba's humour.
I'm on episode 11 of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime.
It's pretty good!
I loved the choice to give conscious to a slime because in every RPG the slime is kind of a boring, mindless, throwaway NPC that overflows grinding areas. It's physical inadequacies make for a bunch of funny situations (Slimey in shackles was just too much!).
The series continues the theme by giving distinct personalities to The Horde, which is awesome! Is Slimey creating an army of monsters to counter the prejudices on mainstream society? I kinda hope so!
I don't want to give too much away, but one thing that you will either love or hate about him is that the main character doesn't have a singular master plan per se. In many ways it feels like he is directing his own adventure story, which I thought was very refreshing.
Just finished with the Slime. I loved it and think it’s one of the best shows I’ve watched in a long time. Slime Datta is a lot more clever than it looks. I’ll write an extended impression as an individual post tomorrow. Or maybe just wait for the next weakly thread.
Here's a few
Hataraku Saibou ("Cells at Work!") - Cells and pathogens personified in a city-like representation of the body. They do a good job with scientific accuracy while still being humorous and entertaining.
Yuru Camp ("Laid-Back Camp") - School girls in an outdoors club go camping around Japan. Interesting camping/outdoor info and some light Japan travel info. Cute, light, feel-good, and educational.
Shokugeki no Souma (Food Wars!) - Intense is an understatement to describe the culinary high school this show follows. Everything is settled in cooking battles. Super over the top, but the dishes are great, they talk about techniques and culinary info to varying degrees of detail, and there's full recipes in the manga (i've made a few, they're good). Also quite funny.
Yakitate!! Japan () - Kid pursues his dream to create a bread of Japan. I imagine Shokugeki took a lot of inspiration from here. This one can be very over the top, but the bread-baking principles are sound (one episode even had a live-action recipe demonstration for breadmaking in a rice cooker).
Haikyu!! - High school volleyball. Super intense. Great characters and animation. I learned a lot about the game.
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Personally not a shounen fan but a lot of people like the adaptations of Yoshihiro Togashi's work like Yu Yu Hakusho and Hunter x Hunter (1999 and 2011).
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I have watched the Hunter x Hunter version from 2011 and liked it very much. Yu Yu Hakusho is a great omission in my anime knowledge, but nowadays I'm not prone to watching old-school stuff.
Copy/paste/rephrase from my previous comment:
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Excellent animation, insane fight scenes, awesome mechas and a quality english dub. There's no hand-holding, or overly expository introduction; you're thrown into an organic world and watch a story that's already well in motion. Plots, subplots and sub-subplots allow for multiple viewings, encourage light reading of synopses, and don't treat the viewer like an imbecile. Every time I start a new anime, I'm hoping it will topple Evangelion, but they all fall short. The last two episodes are pure introspection, so be sure to watch the alternate ending - movie 'End of Evangelion'.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
The animation and fighting are top quality and the satire of mechas is refreshing. What blows me away about Gurren Lagann is the exponential growth of the characters, powers, plot, stakes etc. It never stays at one level for long before rising to new heights.