Anime recommendations

[Hoax]

I just skipped to the episode number black/grey screen. Problem solved.

[Pennilenko]

Titan annoyed me with its five minute recap/credits at the beginning of each episode.

Another show that manages to squeeze as much non content in is Hunter X Hunter. Every 24 minutes in that show is filled with 5 minutes of recap and at least another 5 minutes of slow-mo action recap/narration, then at least 3 minutes for intro and 3 minutes for credits. You feel fucking lucky if you actually get a solid ten minutes of forward momentum with the storyline.

[Stormwaltz]

Over the holidays, we watched a mix of Captain Harlock (from 1978), the original series of Pretty Cure (my oldest son loved it), Haganai (left me breathless with laughter more than once), and Maid-Sama (sweeter than expected).

I think we've completely scrambled Hulu's profiling.

[Bzalthek]

Man there is some seriously good older anime in genres I'd never have thought I'd like.  Nana comes to mind, I blubbered like a little girl.

[Fordel]

I really really don't get the hype for the Giant show, at all. I've watched half a dozen episodes now, maybe more, up until they need to plug the hole in the inner wall with whats his face special boy. The shits I don't give about anyone in this show. It feels like every overacted anime moment rolled into one ball of meh. It's very pretty, so I guess that's a plus.

[satael]

I read the manga for Attack on Titan a few years ago and wasn't impressed enough with the story to watch the anime too.

[Rendakor]

I don't get the hype for Titan either; the manga is alright but comes out so slowly it's hard to stay invested.

[Bann]

I ended up watching all the anime eps over the 3day weekend. My only interest in manga or anime these days is just bleach/naruto because I've been reading them forever and its part of my routine. I really enjoyed AoT. Wife joined in around the 6th or 7th episode, and she ended up devouring them all as well.What I enjoy about it is that it keeps both the viewer and its characters in the dark about a few mysteries. Despite that, it still operates in a way that appears to be internally consistent.

[Stormwaltz]

I haven't watched it, so I have no opinion on whether or not it's good...

But Attack on Titan is definitely over-merchandized.

[satael]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQkgmHEA5_E

Official Live-Action Attack on Titan, Subaru Forester Collaboration TV Ad 

[cironian]

Titan had its moments, but does every tense action sequence have to be broken up by an extensive flashback AND several minutes of discussion? That really killed some sequences which might have been great otherwise.

[Bzalthek]

I think I saw a shark in there.  It was being jumped.  Fucksake.

[Korachia]

So.. got lured into watching AoT. Yep it's good. Binge-watched it over the weekend instead of doing actual work. Wops.

Definitely looking forward to season two.

[Simond]

Titan had its moments, but does every tense action sequence have to be broken up by an extensive flashback AND several minutes of discussion? That really killed some sequences which might have been great otherwise.

Watch Kill La Kill instead. It's 

[cironian]

Watch Kill La Kill instead. It's 

I managed to completely miss this one until now. 3 episodes in, and you are of course right. Thanks for the tip!

[Pennilenko]

Kill la Kill makes me feel uncomfortable and dirty, but I keep watching it anyways.

[Simond]

Kill la Kill makes me feel uncomfortable and dirty, but I keep watching it anyways.

 

[Khaldun]

We watched two Attack on Titan, we liked it.

My 13-year old daughter has been insane binge-watching anime, she and two of her friends are intensely into it now. She just watched over two weeks every episode of Fairy Tail, she really loves Fruits Basket, and she's just started a new one today, haven't asked her yet what it is.

She and I are going to binge watch Fullmetal Alchemist. We started it once when she was seven but the early episode where the dad merges his daughter with the dog to make a chimera freaked her (and me) out too much and we stopped.

[Rendakor]

The original FMA or Brotherhood? The latter is much better.

[Bzalthek]

Agree.  The remake was so well done.  The original was barely tolerable.

[Rendakor]

The ending of the original is one of the worst cases of "we ran out of manga so make shit up" I've ever seen.

[Fabricated]

I preferred the tone and overall arc of the original FMA anime because the actual manga turned into a shitty JRPG and had a boring ending.

[Bzalthek]

I am currently watching Arpeggio of Blue Steel [it appears to be a naval combat / harem anime.  The harem are the human personification of non-human battleships.  Yes, I actually said something like that.], Coppelion [3 genetically engineered high school girls search the irradiated capitol for survivors.], and Unbreakable Machine Doll [Combining magic and science, puppeteers control weird fighting robots to the point it's become a military trump card.  The Royal Academy is where they learn to control these puppets.]

I don't have much time for anime these days, so I try to find seinen since shounen gets a bit over the top (hah!).  Anyways, I find all three of these titles to be interesting enough I thought some of you might enjoy them.

[satael]

The ones that I'm following at the moment are Log Horizon (players being stuck in a MMO) and Hozuki no Reitetsu (comedy that takes place in japanese version of hell). Also the second season of Magi has been decent so far.

[Rendakor]

I've seen the first few episodes of Coppelion and enjoyed it, just haven't had a lot of time to watch it.

[Rendakor]

Just watched the first few episodes of Acchi Kocchi; it's a slice of life/romance anime with a lot of gaming references thrown in. I'm not very far but I laughed quite a bit at what I've seen. It reminds me a lot of Lucky Star, in a good way.

[Fabricated]

I haven't really watched actual anime in forever since nothing has interested me but I read a lot of Manga anymore.

Recommending:

One Punch Man - there are two versions now; the original by ONE who is a webcomic author whose art is...crude, but the guy has impeccable skill at framing/action/dialog. The other is a panel-for-panel redraw done by Murata, who is the guy responsible for Eyeshield 21 and a really fucking good artist. It's pure eye-candy. Really funny, goofy, and kinda vaguely profound at times.

6000 - Basically a horror story that takes place in a deep water research lab. Very psychological, art is good, story is pretty interesting.

Hajime No Ippo - It is distinctly less terrible now after two really bad arcs. Also there's a new season of the anime out I have yet to watch but hear is great.

Toriko - The goofiest thing I read. Ridiculously shounen and possibly the most ambiguously gay cast of characters in history; the artist is a masterful troll about it. You'll either think it's retarded, or brilliant if you just accept that it is constantly trying to top itself in silly power creep and monster designs. the art has improved a fair amount but is pretty inconsistent early on.

Diamond No Ace - I normally hate baseball. I have no idea why I like this so much. It's a lot more technical/realistic than most shounen baseball stuff while still having the typical shounen type cast. Art is pretty good too. Focuses heavily on pitching and the pitcher/catcher battery concept, as well as the whole super-serial-guys training of big Japanese high school teams.

I also read a lot of Manwha now:

The Gamer - Korean webcomic where people can obtain "superpower" type skills either through training or being randomly gifted by the planet itself. One day a kid wakes up and discovers he has the powers of a videogame character (specifically like an MMO/ARPG character). I.e. he can level up, change stats, has a magical floating inventory screen he can call up and stuff items into, etc. It's pretty predictable but funny and a fun read. Plain but okay art.

The Breaker/The Breaker New Waves - Starts out a real typical martial arts story (loser kid stumbles upon astoundingly powerful martial artist and convinces him to become his sensei to better himself), then expands into a conflict between the secret world of the "murim" (a society of martial art schools with borderline superhuman abilities, but not DBZ ki blasts- more like being able to jump 50 feet in the air, smash steel, dodge bullets, etc) and the regular world/governments. Amazing, amazing art. New waves continues the story right after the first one but IMO was lame for a while since it shits out all these new characters at you when the main protagonist and particularly his teacher are way cooler.

[Simond]

One Punch Man - there are two versions now; the original by ONE who is a webcomic author whose art is...crude, but the guy has impeccable skill at framing/action/dialog. The other is a panel-for-panel redraw done by Murata, who is the guy responsible for Eyeshield 21 and a really fucking good artist. It's pure eye-candy. Really funny, goofy, and kinda vaguely profound at times.

^^One section of the manga 'animated' flip-book style. It's pretty incredible.
By the way, Have you been reading Assassination Classroom? That's good as well.

And God damn did Kill La Kill have some amazing music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zAMJXZnJoY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdCrRcHB6mg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SSz_F5wOiM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfeF6kHKW2k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWA27DBf8ts

[Rendakor]

Mirai Nikki started off really good then got pretty stupid. The characters consistently made dumb, obvious bad choices and they added in a bunch of DBZ-style fights toward the end for literally no reason. I really wanted to like this show too.

[MisterNoisy]

Been watching Attack on Titan on Hulu.  Haven't watched an anime so hard in a long time.  

LTTP to this, but I'm loving this so far (up to E26) via Netflix.  Given that the first 5 mins of any ep (out of 21 mins total) is recap and/or intro, you can make a lot of progress pretty fuckin fast.  As shonen stuff goes, it's aces.  At least it isn't Bleach.

As an aside, Black Lagoon is apparently on Adult Swim now, so hopefully more people will get to watch it, and it's kinda hilarious to watch a bleeped dub.

[SurfD]

One Punch Man - there are two versions now; the original by ONE who is a webcomic author whose art is...crude, but the guy has impeccable skill at framing/action/dialog. The other is a panel-for-panel redraw done by Murata, who is the guy responsible for Eyeshield 21 and a really fucking good artist. It's pure eye-candy. Really funny, goofy, and kinda vaguely profound at times.

Yeah, one punch man is awesome.  Such a great parody of the Shonen manga genre as awhole, yet the author manages to poke fun at so many of the standard shonen tropes in such a masterful way that you never really get bored.

Only gripe I have is (as eloquently summarised by that Gif posted my Simond) is that it seems the original author REALLY wanted to be an Animator, and only ended up drawing manga as a side project.   You occasionally get nearly entire chapters of the manga that are drawn almost frame per frame like that Gif, where you have to sit back and wonder if the author is doing it deliberately or not (did we really need 3/4 of that chapter to be a frame by frame pan in shot on a location starting from space and zooming all the way in to the main character?!?)

[RhyssaFireheart]

Been watching Attack on Titan on Hulu.  Haven't watched an anime so hard in a long time.  

LTTP to this, but I'm loving this so far (up to E26) via Netflix.  Given that the first 5 mins of any ep (out of 21 mins total) is recap and/or intro, you can make a lot of progress pretty fuckin fast.  As shonen stuff goes, it's aces.  At least it isn't Bleach.

As an aside, Black Lagoon is apparently on Adult Swim now, so hopefully more people will get to watch it, and it's kinda hilarious to watch a bleeped dub.

Yep, I'm watching Black Lagoon this way and the bleeped out dub doesn't bother me at all, tbh.  I can easily fill in the words myself, plus, it gives extra incentive to eventually get the uncensored discs down the line.

Attack on Titan is coming to Adult Swim this weekend?  This month?  Need to check the guide, but I'll start recording and watching that as well.  Glad to see some newer stuff is getting added regularly to [as], it's the only way I get to see things, lol!

[Hoax]

Kill La Kill is on Netflix streaming. Not only that but its the bluray equivalent uncensored sub'd version. So your excuses are ash. Watch this shit.

Unless of course you hate over the top shounen style stuff and you really hate anything resembling fanservice or you hated TTGL (you are a bad sad person). So most of you, probably don't need to watch it. But someone out there hasn't seen it yet and this will make your week.

[Pennilenko]

Kill La Kill was glorious even though it made me feel like a giant perve.

[Bzalthek]

I liked TTGL because it had serious moments which contrasted and toned down the overall feel.  Kill La Kill has the awesome action feel when shit's happening, but the down time is lead paint chip retardation.  It's an OK anime, but that's about it.