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What is your favorite anime and why?
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Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana wo Kazarou
alot of people think this is a love story and to a certain extent it is,it's also how we move though time the son becomes a father the story moves on.death and rebirth
alot of people think this is a love story and to a certain extent it is,it's also how we move though time the son becomes a father the story moves on.death and rebirth
It depend of season but this season it One piece (like usual) Black clover ( i don't know why so many dislike it it super good and many think it as Naruto sucesor but i think it more a One piece sucesor not in popularity but with the sensation as every think is planed ahead and the lore expanded )
Cop Craft and Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo. and of course some that i could watch every time to time like ginga eyutsu denstetsu , re zero , saint seya ....and many other
Cop Craft and Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo. and of course some that i could watch every time to time like ginga eyutsu denstetsu , re zero , saint seya ....and many other
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T.R.I.G.U.N! 
T.R.I.G.U.N! T.R.I.G.U.N! T.R.I.G.U.N! T.R.I.G.U.N!
gROWING UP WITH SONGOKU, GOING TO THE GRAND DAD TO WATCH ASTERIX & OBELIX
oHHH ... THoSE WERE THE DAYS ... Later early weekend mornin' hook up with ...
Lupen, LAgoon, spider man, x-man, ... late in the afternoon -> batman, superman, dexter
Later in the evening there was justice league, there was teen titans, batman beyound, young JLA
Later in the end of child hood ... came T.R.I.G.U.N! came cowboy bebop came Dunpeale
There were the King of my castle hooks and whistles that draw me to Ghost in the shell
After the movies came Animatrix then there was Bleach ... Naruto ... Full metal alchemist
Soo addictive, so visceral ... Got hooked on Hellsing -> all the ovas, all the series
T.R.I.G.U.N! T.R.I.G.U.N! T.R.I.G.U.N! T.R.I.G.U.N! gROWING UP WITH SONGOKU, GOING TO THE GRAND DAD TO WATCH ASTERIX & OBELIX
oHHH ... THoSE WERE THE DAYS ... Later early weekend mornin' hook up with ...
Lupen, LAgoon, spider man, x-man, ... late in the afternoon -> batman, superman, dexter
Later in the evening there was justice league, there was teen titans, batman beyound, young JLA
Later in the end of child hood ... came T.R.I.G.U.N!
came cowboy bebop came DunpealeThere were the King of my castle hooks and whistles that draw me to Ghost in the shell
After the movies came Animatrix
then there was Bleach ... Naruto ... Full metal alchemist Soo addictive, so visceral ... Got hooked on Hellsing -> all the ovas, all the series
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Jesus, what's people's favorite anime?
I think I'll just list a few, otherwise I'm bound to burn myself out thinking about it:
Tensura
Konosuba
Nichijou
POPTEAMEPIC
Saga of Tanya the Evil (the fish lips are stupid, but after reading the manga I still love the story for what it is)
Restaurant to Another World
Hayate the Combat Butler
The Royal Tutor
Log Horizon
Koizumi-san Loves Ramen
Isekai Izakaya
Kill la Kill
Dagashi Kashi
Wakaba Girl
...probably should stop there...
I think I'll just list a few, otherwise I'm bound to burn myself out thinking about it:
Tensura
Konosuba
Nichijou
POPTEAMEPIC
Saga of Tanya the Evil (the fish lips are stupid, but after reading the manga I still love the story for what it is)
Restaurant to Another World
Hayate the Combat Butler
The Royal Tutor
Log Horizon
Koizumi-san Loves Ramen
Isekai Izakaya
Kill la Kill
Dagashi Kashi
Wakaba Girl
...probably should stop there...
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Oh wait maybe I should try and state why I like the anime I do. Uh...
Tensura as the MC isn't some hero destined to save the world, but is generally just someone sitting on the sidelines who has to take action to create the kind of world he believes in the best.
Konosuba, as state by the light novel's author, has it's character mainly just devolve into kinda idiotic characters, but that makes them lovable (EX~PU~RO~SION~!!).
Nichijou- Hilarious, especially if you have a certain understanding of Japanese culture. Even some of the things that just don't make sense are too hilarious to pass up.
POPTEAMEPIC- Literally just a big middle finger to anything and everything. So stupidly funny.
Saga of Tanya the Evil- Not so into the anime, but in general the story is basically following the advent of WW1, but with magic being more scientific kinda like Irregular at Magic High.
Restaurant to Another World- Food porn in another world that is just dazed by what we would probably consider ordinary food in general? Makes me wanna cook it myself~
Hayate the Combat Butler- Broke kid becomes a servant to a stupidly rich girl and his vast, vast, VAST array of skills are demonstrated in a comedic way.
The Royal Tutor- One of the few animes/mangas/LNs that I enjoye the bishounen cast.
Log Horizon- I think it's just a better SAO in terms of how the game world is handled. IMO.
Koizumi-san- I personally love noodles for food, and ramen is an all-time favorite. So yeah, why the hell not, doggo?
Isekai Izakaya- I'm a sucker for food porn. Sue me. Please don't, actually...
Kill la Kill- The extreme visuals and general style of Trigger makes everything feel so hyped up, even if not much is happening.
Dagashi Kashi- Food porn (more like candy porn, though), comedy, some out of context sexual innuendos. What else can I ask for?
Wakaba Girl- Just...comedy. Yeah.
Obviously there are also popular ones I haven't mentioned that I like such as Rising of the Shield Hero, Boku no Hero Academia, and Fire Force, but this list is too fucking long already. So yeah.
Ahh a subject I can enjoy talking at length about!
#1 - Cowboy Bebop: A masterpiece of character story telling, manging to not have a central throughline in terms of plot without feeling crazy. Simple, relatable and interesting characters, coupled with great music, great fights, and interesting and believeable world and knew when its arc was done and ended it. The intra-character relationships are extremely interesting without feeling arty, existing just as what they are unapologetically within the odd world they inhabit.
#2 - Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood: Like bebob, it exactly spends the time it needs to tell the story it is telling without trying hard to inflate its events or run forever (Read DBZ / One Piece / Naruto, etc which are built around a consistant cast but without an end in mind). Interesting characters, designs and the, though perhaps overt, use of physical combat for characters fighting with their interal sins (only allowing these fights to be successful as that character overcomes that flaw, Scar beating Wrath only after he has put aside his hatred and blind desire for revenge, that everyone generally fails to defeat Pride aside those who have struggled with that emotion and overcome it emotionally).
#3 - Jojo's Bizzare Adventure: Man it is just a trip. It's odd and knows it is odd, but delivers cool characters super high visual style and a neat narrative that sorta just does its own thing, exisiting as a unique identity that's hard to immitate. The use of color and shape is so well done that it excuses the totally insane plot and characters that exist, though season 1 has some 'this recurring character is a super huge litteral nazi, and one is an italian supporter of nazism and the show sorta fails to be aware of this' which does diminish that 2nd arc, but is largely the only critizim I have of it.
#4 - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: While both the original movie (and its sequal), and 2nd Gig have their own place (Along with its Manga heritage), in particular Stand Alone Complex I love for its interesting character arcs, awesome world and tech, while talking philosophy as said tech advances creating new problems all the while an interesting crime drama happens during an investigation.
#5 - Trigun: An older one with a lower budget than the other three, a sort of anime doctor Who, the timeless godlike being who wanders with ulteristic motives. An amazing style, a great cast, etc. It's a bit prechy with its protaganist's hard 'no kill policy', but often goes out of its way to show the harm that concept can cause to both the person holding the belief and those around him, while also showing the importance these concepts have.
#6 - Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans: I was going to limit this to an honorable mention below, but it just fails to do it service. I think this show is great, and can stand entirely by itself without other Gundam entries. Like Trigun it allows the normal anime protag theme of 'trying really hard and overcoming through force of will' but taxes its heroes with horrible personal costs at every turn (The protag in this case becomes a life time cripple, first losing use of an arm, and latter, use of his legs). And it manages to do this without wallowing in pity. It has -great- fights, awesome drama and a great central story and theme.
#7 - Mushi-Ishi: Fuck I really ment to do only 5 of these, but MAN Mushi-Ishi is truly legendary. An episodic telling of a wandering spirit sooth sayer solving unrelated problems of spirits turned malicious or otherwise causing problems. It is a slow paced show orbiting Gecko (said sooth sayer) with an amazing visual style.
#8 - Now and Then, Here and There: Well I'm over 5, why not do ten? This single season show follows the impossibly determined child through a trip into an alternate reality. I've never had a show better show a characters personal convictions, and the reverbations it create in the world around them in such a pronounced way.
#9 - Boogiepop: Phantom: Immensely dense and complex, positing social and temporal realities which overlap and interact. Based on a series of novels and manga, it uses ultra dense symbolism and metaphor and super not for everyone. But I do rate it as a show that's likely had the most impact on how I see the world. Told as a pulp fiction, each episode following a different character, each orbiting a familiar cast, parting out the story from different persectives, moments in it's progression, all to illistrate a point about how history and soical interaction is shaped by personal perspectives. A show that asks the viewer to pay attention and piece things together, expect to have to watch it 2 or 3 times to really get all the information needed to draw real conclusions. Though I liked it a touch less, the new season is also great, four short stories making 3-4 eposiode arcs following a particular character (rather than shifting every episode), and much more 'about' the shows two core characters (Nagi Kirma and Boogiepop), though the latter very indirectly (as the character is weird and the show itself generally makes it unclear exactly what Boogiepop is (a suppressed personality of a character acting rather like a super hero, a supernational manifestation possessing that person for unclear reasons, etc).
#10 - Neon Gensis: Evangelion: The immensely impactful Evangelion, the mech show that posited the concept of "We can have robots punch monsters but also have it be about really depressed children!" It, like Boogiepop above, is at time up its own ass with its symbolic nature, so if you don't like a show more about drama and thinking and at times having to rewatch and be like "The fuck is happening?", maybe look elsewhere, and also look else where if you want a happy or even sensible ending, because this shits gonna get wieeeeeeerd. Still, the effort to detail (like seriously, the first fight in the show of the giant robot spends as much time showing the immense logistical feat that is moving these robots through a city, the crews getting rail systems, power cords, and what not into place. That these robots are not a single pilot saving the day, but the effort of hundreds of men and women working towards a shared goal (Even if their efforts still rest on the shoulder of a single pilot who must bear the responsibility of their hopes). Includes a movie that re-ends the show, and three new movies that are both a reboot and a contiunation of the show. Because that's how wierd the show gets.
The honoerable mentions, Code Geass, One Punch, Black Butler (exclusively season 1), Devil is a Part Timer (a darling slice of life that does so much right in action, drama and comady), Welcome to the NHK (a look at anti-social paranoia and the growing hakkiamori rise in Japan), Outlaw Star (A show in which space ships that -litterally- punch each other is a central event).
I'm sure there are more I could list but these are the ones that spring to mind, limiting myself ONLY to anime Shows (thus exlcluding Akira Mononke, Howls, etc). I could obviously write a bit about the honrable mentions if desired as to why I think they are good, and could write an entire disertation on any of those 10 listed in great detail, and would likely use them as a pretense for rewatching them.
#1 - Cowboy Bebop: A masterpiece of character story telling, manging to not have a central throughline in terms of plot without feeling crazy. Simple, relatable and interesting characters, coupled with great music, great fights, and interesting and believeable world and knew when its arc was done and ended it. The intra-character relationships are extremely interesting without feeling arty, existing just as what they are unapologetically within the odd world they inhabit.
#2 - Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood: Like bebob, it exactly spends the time it needs to tell the story it is telling without trying hard to inflate its events or run forever (Read DBZ / One Piece / Naruto, etc which are built around a consistant cast but without an end in mind). Interesting characters, designs and the, though perhaps overt, use of physical combat for characters fighting with their interal sins (only allowing these fights to be successful as that character overcomes that flaw, Scar beating Wrath only after he has put aside his hatred and blind desire for revenge, that everyone generally fails to defeat Pride aside those who have struggled with that emotion and overcome it emotionally).
#3 - Jojo's Bizzare Adventure: Man it is just a trip. It's odd and knows it is odd, but delivers cool characters super high visual style and a neat narrative that sorta just does its own thing, exisiting as a unique identity that's hard to immitate. The use of color and shape is so well done that it excuses the totally insane plot and characters that exist, though season 1 has some 'this recurring character is a super huge litteral nazi, and one is an italian supporter of nazism and the show sorta fails to be aware of this' which does diminish that 2nd arc, but is largely the only critizim I have of it.
#4 - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: While both the original movie (and its sequal), and 2nd Gig have their own place (Along with its Manga heritage), in particular Stand Alone Complex I love for its interesting character arcs, awesome world and tech, while talking philosophy as said tech advances creating new problems all the while an interesting crime drama happens during an investigation.
#5 - Trigun: An older one with a lower budget than the other three, a sort of anime doctor Who, the timeless godlike being who wanders with ulteristic motives. An amazing style, a great cast, etc. It's a bit prechy with its protaganist's hard 'no kill policy', but often goes out of its way to show the harm that concept can cause to both the person holding the belief and those around him, while also showing the importance these concepts have.
#6 - Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans: I was going to limit this to an honorable mention below, but it just fails to do it service. I think this show is great, and can stand entirely by itself without other Gundam entries. Like Trigun it allows the normal anime protag theme of 'trying really hard and overcoming through force of will' but taxes its heroes with horrible personal costs at every turn (The protag in this case becomes a life time cripple, first losing use of an arm, and latter, use of his legs). And it manages to do this without wallowing in pity. It has -great- fights, awesome drama and a great central story and theme.
#7 - Mushi-Ishi: Fuck I really ment to do only 5 of these, but MAN Mushi-Ishi is truly legendary. An episodic telling of a wandering spirit sooth sayer solving unrelated problems of spirits turned malicious or otherwise causing problems. It is a slow paced show orbiting Gecko (said sooth sayer) with an amazing visual style.
#8 - Now and Then, Here and There: Well I'm over 5, why not do ten? This single season show follows the impossibly determined child through a trip into an alternate reality. I've never had a show better show a characters personal convictions, and the reverbations it create in the world around them in such a pronounced way.
#9 - Boogiepop: Phantom: Immensely dense and complex, positing social and temporal realities which overlap and interact. Based on a series of novels and manga, it uses ultra dense symbolism and metaphor and super not for everyone. But I do rate it as a show that's likely had the most impact on how I see the world. Told as a pulp fiction, each episode following a different character, each orbiting a familiar cast, parting out the story from different persectives, moments in it's progression, all to illistrate a point about how history and soical interaction is shaped by personal perspectives. A show that asks the viewer to pay attention and piece things together, expect to have to watch it 2 or 3 times to really get all the information needed to draw real conclusions. Though I liked it a touch less, the new season is also great, four short stories making 3-4 eposiode arcs following a particular character (rather than shifting every episode), and much more 'about' the shows two core characters (Nagi Kirma and Boogiepop), though the latter very indirectly (as the character is weird and the show itself generally makes it unclear exactly what Boogiepop is (a suppressed personality of a character acting rather like a super hero, a supernational manifestation possessing that person for unclear reasons, etc).
#10 - Neon Gensis: Evangelion: The immensely impactful Evangelion, the mech show that posited the concept of "We can have robots punch monsters but also have it be about really depressed children!" It, like Boogiepop above, is at time up its own ass with its symbolic nature, so if you don't like a show more about drama and thinking and at times having to rewatch and be like "The fuck is happening?", maybe look elsewhere, and also look else where if you want a happy or even sensible ending, because this shits gonna get wieeeeeeerd. Still, the effort to detail (like seriously, the first fight in the show of the giant robot spends as much time showing the immense logistical feat that is moving these robots through a city, the crews getting rail systems, power cords, and what not into place. That these robots are not a single pilot saving the day, but the effort of hundreds of men and women working towards a shared goal (Even if their efforts still rest on the shoulder of a single pilot who must bear the responsibility of their hopes). Includes a movie that re-ends the show, and three new movies that are both a reboot and a contiunation of the show. Because that's how wierd the show gets.
The honoerable mentions, Code Geass, One Punch, Black Butler (exclusively season 1), Devil is a Part Timer (a darling slice of life that does so much right in action, drama and comady), Welcome to the NHK (a look at anti-social paranoia and the growing hakkiamori rise in Japan), Outlaw Star (A show in which space ships that -litterally- punch each other is a central event).
I'm sure there are more I could list but these are the ones that spring to mind, limiting myself ONLY to anime Shows (thus exlcluding Akira Mononke, Howls, etc). I could obviously write a bit about the honrable mentions if desired as to why I think they are good, and could write an entire disertation on any of those 10 listed in great detail, and would likely use them as a pretense for rewatching them.
Boku no Hero academia
Code geass
Tokyo ghoul
High school of dead
High school dxd
Strike the blood
Attack on titan
One piece
The classroom of elite
One punch man
Gintama
Saiki
One outs
Noragami
Full metal panic
Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou
Angle beats
Assassination classroom
Baby steps
City hunter
Kochikame
Shinchan
Ninja boy rantaro
Code geass
Tokyo ghoul
High school of dead
High school dxd
Strike the blood
Attack on titan
One piece
The classroom of elite
One punch man
Gintama
Saiki
One outs
Noragami
Full metal panic
Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou
Angle beats
Assassination classroom
Baby steps
City hunter
Kochikame
Shinchan
Ninja boy rantaro
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i got that beat,but I'm not going to write a wall of text to justify my preferences
Ninja Scrolls
Akira
Robotech 1982
legend of the Over fiend
Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari
Arpeggio of Blue Steel Ars Nova
Unbreakable Machine-Doll
Wicked City
been watching anime since 1982 glad to say it still entertains me,most of it is better than Hollywood could even hope to surpass,fuck Marvell
Ninja Scrolls
Akira
Robotech 1982
legend of the Over fiend
Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari
Arpeggio of Blue Steel Ars Nova
Unbreakable Machine-Doll
Wicked City
been watching anime since 1982 glad to say it still entertains me,most of it is better than Hollywood could even hope to surpass,fuck Marvell
I could quote dozens of anime that I consider my favorites and most of them have already been quoted. However, there are three of them that, I think, stand out from the crowd:
1) Berserk: (I'm talking about the series and not the three films) Perfect animation, music that makes your skin vibrate, scenario to make the Hellraiser scriptwriters pale (one of the references of the mangaka), fighting scene to cut the breath, mature dialogues,... The anime is all very well and good and yet the paper manga is even better, it is not limited to the flash-back itself. ^^
2) Gantz: I don't think I've seen this anime quoted here yet. The very principle of survival of the main characters recalls "Berserk" or more recently "Attack on titan". If the anime chooses a different route than the paper manga, its originality allows to see another story. The ordinary guy, a little asshole, who becomes a hero despite himself is interesting.
3) Hokuto no Ken : Okay there I can't be objective, especially since I got the vf.
As much as in the anime there are a lot of useless episodes to catch up with the mangaka (like for DBZ, Saint Seiya, Naruto,...), as much as when Hokuto opposes Nanto, Tetsuo Hara shows us who's the daddy. Despite its age and the many censors it has undergone, Hokuto no Ken is for me the best animated and the best manga if you add the paper form.
This anime is a masterpiece and if someone told me otherwise, I would tell him to stop lying : "he's already dead."
Special mention: Evangelion, Assassination Classroom, High Score Girl and Food Wars.
edit : And Jojo's Bizarre Adventure ! How could I forget the Joestar family ?!
1) Berserk: (I'm talking about the series and not the three films) Perfect animation, music that makes your skin vibrate, scenario to make the Hellraiser scriptwriters pale (one of the references of the mangaka), fighting scene to cut the breath, mature dialogues,... The anime is all very well and good and yet the paper manga is even better, it is not limited to the flash-back itself. ^^
2) Gantz: I don't think I've seen this anime quoted here yet. The very principle of survival of the main characters recalls "Berserk" or more recently "Attack on titan". If the anime chooses a different route than the paper manga, its originality allows to see another story. The ordinary guy, a little asshole, who becomes a hero despite himself is interesting.
3) Hokuto no Ken : Okay there I can't be objective, especially since I got the vf.
As much as in the anime there are a lot of useless episodes to catch up with the mangaka (like for DBZ, Saint Seiya, Naruto,...), as much as when Hokuto opposes Nanto, Tetsuo Hara shows us who's the daddy. Despite its age and the many censors it has undergone, Hokuto no Ken is for me the best animated and the best manga if you add the paper form.
This anime is a masterpiece and if someone told me otherwise, I would tell him to stop lying : "he's already dead."
Special mention: Evangelion, Assassination Classroom, High Score Girl and Food Wars.
edit : And Jojo's Bizarre Adventure ! How could I forget the Joestar family ?!
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In a previous message I stated that my favorite anime are Death Note and Monster. However, before seriously entering the world of anime, I must confess that when I was a kid I always liked Captain Tsubasa, Detective Conan (or Case Closed) and Dragon Ball.
As for why Death Note and Monster are my favorites, it's simple: their mysterious and original plot hooked me completely.
By the way, it was mentioned recently that a new official one-shot of Death Note, to be published in a few weeks. It will have about 80 pages. I hope that in it, they give their deserved to that asshole called Near. (Long live Kira!)
As for Monster, I highly recommend everyone who has seen it, read its official continuation: the novel Another Monster.
As for why Death Note and Monster are my favorites, it's simple: their mysterious and original plot hooked me completely.
By the way, it was mentioned recently that a new official one-shot of Death Note, to be published in a few weeks. It will have about 80 pages. I hope that in it, they give their deserved to that asshole called Near. (Long live Kira!)
As for Monster, I highly recommend everyone who has seen it, read its official continuation: the novel Another Monster.
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alot's been mentioned already but this one is hilarious, Grand Blue,drinking,drinking running around naked,drinking playing jokes,just being young
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Tenchi muyo, rosario vampire, and The legend of the legendary heroes
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Great plot, great characters, interesting setting, good message of hope. Some of the best twists I've ever seen.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Spice and Wolf are two good runners up.
Great plot, great characters, interesting setting, good message of hope. Some of the best twists I've ever seen.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Spice and Wolf are two good runners up.