Adding my recomendations for the following:
Planetes
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Death Note
Aria
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
Spirited Away
Haven't seen Cencoroll, about to give that a watch in a few. I remember seeing the trailer for it months ago but forgot to read up about it again.
butterfλi Wrote:I usually don't pick up an anime before reading at least two reviews on it. Despite it's thread title, I see this more of an Anime Titles list rather than recommendation because people are always going to differ in opinion (dead obvious). I personally found The Girl Who Lept Through Time to be slow and boring yet plenty of people are saying it's good.
Right. This is more of a "notable titles" list if anything. It's hard to make a general recommendations list. A lot of these titles I wouldn't recommend in conjunction with each other unless the other person was an exact clone of me or something.
If someone is into certain stuff, I'd only recommend them stuff that seems like it'd match their list of series they liked. Like in the thread Greg made before his ban. I wouldn't recommend him Hidamari Sketch based on the list of stuff he's shown interest in. I'm not even sure if many people here would even like Princess Tutu, but if you're into magical girl anime then it's worth noting.
Having the list separated into genres is great for this. This thread could also be used for as a general recommendation thread.
"Hey guys, I liked x on the list, and wanted to know what else there is pretty similar to that."
"I didn't like y. What other titles on the list would probably bore me as much as y did?"
"WHERE CAN I FIND DOUJIN OF CHARACTER Y FROM SERIES X ON THIS LIST? I JUST SAW THE SERIES AND NOW I NEED TO FIND STUFF FOR THIS CHARACTER!"
Ah, please add my recommendation to Spirited Away. You missed my recommendation for that.
Also adding a recommendation for Higurashi and Death Note.
I haven't yet watched any of Satoshi Kon's works, Planetes, Beck, or Texhnolyze yet; but I have high hopes for them and I'm sure they'll be as good as I thought.
Lexy]
Underrated' anime (meaning "why the hell don't people say anything about these shows?)
[LIST Wrote:[*]Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo (yes, that's SORA and not TOKI)
[*]Strike Witches (I hate fanservice but I loved this show)
[*]Shinigami no Ballad
[*]REC
[*]GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class
[*]Moyashimon
[*]Ushiro no Shoumen Daare[/LIST]
Didn't add these yet. Wasn't sure if you were for or against or if you were just listing "underated" anime.
Yotsuba Wrote:so perhaps you can contact a specific member for more series that aren't on the list if you find you have similar tastes.
Here's one I should have thought of immediately, being one of my favorite animes. It didn't hit me til now though. Recommending Yuu Yuu Hakusho (or Yu Yu Hakusho, etc)
Satoshi Kon is a crazy mofo and I love him. I need to watch the rest of his movies.
Maybe it would help if we tossed links to ANN and MyAnimeList up there with a "here are titles, do your own research" disclaimer?
And this is really petty, but could my name not actually be in the recommendation column for Kiddy Grade, Phantom, and Michiko to Hatchin? I enjoyed them and I think others should give 'em a watch, but I'm treating stuff I ++ as stuff I could see myself watching 3 or 4 times (if I haven't already) As if it weren't troublesome enough to maintain a thread like this.
Oh jesus, lots of people responded to me. I don't have the time to respond to everyone, so I'll just make one mashed up response to what I think you said.
Yes, I do like "What should I watch now???" threads, especially if the OPs have lists on ANN, MAL, or Anime-Planet. I've watched something like 200 anime, enough for me to give out recs based on what people like, not just the usual few. Threads like this fail because the difference in opinion leads to people watching shows they might not like (especially when one vote gets an anime put up on the list). I see quite a few anime that are generally regarded as "bad" on the list and would never make a "What should I watch now???" thread.
"Top Anime" rankings on ANN, MAL, etc. also fail because there are so many people who watch three or four anime, make a list that gives them 10/10 and Naruto 1/10, and then never watch anything else.
/a/'s list works because it's in between the "everything works" recommendation thread and the mass popularity contest of MAL. A bunch of people who have watched enough anime to judge anime fairly collaborate to make the chart. In other words, it's like MAL for the elitist bastards. You weed out the people who don't know enough about anime, yet you don't have everybody throwing recommendations either.
Beck is a sports anime minus the sports. It's about music, but everything else is the same.
I put Strike Witches under "underrated" not because I don't hear people talk about it (despite what I wrote), but because I always hear people making their stupid false assumptions that it's fully fanservicecrap. Of course there's fanservice (loads of it), but it's way better than any of those ecchi comedies out there. Imagine a Sora no Woto with fanservice, and you're somewhere near Strike Witches.
In other news, why hasn't anybody recommended One Piece? Having only watched 30 episodes of the anime (yet up to date with the manga), I'm in no position to say this, but it's a really great series. I don't see how people can just "forget" it and suggest obscure shows like Dragon Half and Ai to Yuuki no Pig Girl Tonde Buurin (which nobody can really go against because nobody else has ever seen it)...
Of course, I'm an offender of that too (my "underrated" anime weren't put up, though). Obscurity doesn't equal "
I'm against... Angel Beats: It's just not good enough. People praise it for jumping from scene to scene, but I call that "bad plot." It's rushed and disjointed, and nothing short of a spectacular ending can save it. To Aru Kagaku no Railgun: Personally, I would rarely recommend this. The show is only enjoyable if you've watched Index and liked Mikoto and Kuroko. If not, then this show is a waste of time. Bakemonogatari: I didn't like Senjougahara, and that completely ruined this whole show for me. Ouran High School Host Club: I thought it sexist. Serial Experiments Lain: I liked it, but it's clearly not for everybody. Heck, it's not for 99% of anime fans...
P.S.: Lucky Star doesn't have the "s" at the end. Also, did people send PMs against Lucky Star or something? I don't see the three votes against it in this thread.
In response to your "Ai to Yuuki no Pig Girl Tonde Buurin" comments. I've seen it when I was a kid, and if you wanted my age at the time, I was around 8. Of course, I'm 21 now and it's been ages, but I've managed to re-find some episodes and re-watched them just for fun. Just because it's an older anime means it has to be disregarded by the anime community? Most anime have very old origins and people will still watch it, I'll give you one example. Robotech. That's an extremely old anime, around 1985, and even then, some people still regard it as a decent anime regardless of the fact that it's been what, almost 25 years? And yes, some people might not know of it because they were never born around the 80's, but those that have been born early in the 80's might know about it. I was born in 89 and watched it anyways. -shrugs- Though I only know about it because Japan is very close to Vietnam, so it doesn't take very long for anime to reach Vietnam, tbh. The animation quality isn't as great as today's anime, but then again, most people these days are too picky about their's, or not picky enough and only watches an anime based on how the visual effects are. Just my opinion, doesn't mean I'm right, but this is what I think.
inb4morepeoplebashingoldanimejustbecauseit'sold
Reason as to why sometimes, older anime should be recommended:
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PyotrYouDrive Wrote:Hi. I just registered on this forum because I wanted to thank Omni for finding out that the anime's name was Eto Ranger! I used to love the show as a kid but I watched it in Korean so I had no idea what the title would be and always looked up "anime chinese zodiac" with no good results until today. I guess the right google search was 'anime chinese zodiac rat fairy tale'! Thanks again~
You or another group of people might have not seen it, but there are probably older people out there probably nearing their mid 20's or late 20's who have seen an older anime, and they might prefer those over the recent ones that comes out these days. It's all personal preferences, no right or wrong. A lot of it depends on when you've seen a specific anime title, and your age-range (though people can argue on the latter).
Some anime that were introduced were stuff such as Gundam, and of course, animation quality wasn't great. Ai to Yuuki no Pig Girl Tonde Buurin" is the same, in the sense that it was around that time-frame and the animation was far from great (though it was more like early 90's but whatever). But older people that have seen it will realize it's a pretty good series.
Pretty off topic there, Omni. I did not say "old equals bad." My sentence got cut off there at the end, but what I was going to say was "Obscurity doesn't equal 'good.'" Many, many people love to recommend obscure titles, as if to say "look what I've watched!" You may or may not be like that, but you're recommending some pretty obscure shows.
On the old note, though: In general, old anime are regarded as worse than newer (2000s+) anime. It's not just the visuals (though that certainly is a plus). Older anime might not pertain to us anymore. Their target audiences were anime fans of the 70s, 80s, etc. We're in the 2010s, and anime has changed - maybe not for the better, but you know more people like it this way or else things like K-ON! wouldn't be so ridiculously popular.
Robotech was popular back in its day, but it's not popular today. Today, we have Bakemonogatari. We have K-ON!. We don't have Robotech. It's not that people shouldn't disregard things like Robotech, it's that people don't. Who's going to dig through hundreds of web pages to find the original Fist of the North Star? Heck, I don't think anybody even bothered to translate all 100+ episodes of that 80s anime.
And if you still don't believe that I was talking about something different: I mentioned Ushiro no Shoumen Daare in my first post in this thread. I watched that thing, 220p VHS quality, on my computer and I could barely make out the subtitles, but I loved it. Watch it if you have the time. Beats the pomegranate out of Grave of the Fireflies or any war anime.
Lexy]Pretty off topic there, Omni. I did not say "old equals bad." My sentence got cut off there at the end, but what I was going to say was "Obscurity doesnt equal 'good.'" Many, many people love to recommend obscure titles, as if to say "look what I've watched!" You may or may not be like that, but you're recommending some pretty obscure shows.
[b Wrote:Oh, in that case, I've misinterpreted your point, lost-in-translation. Sorry about that, I tend to do that a lot. Yes, they're obscure in the sense that nobody has seen it, especially not on this forum. Or most forums, actually. Then again, I've probably never seen anywhere around 30% of the anime titles listed on here, and it gives me a chance to watch them.[/b]
On the old note, though: In general, old anime are regarded as worse than newer (2000s+) anime. It's not just the visuals (though that certainly is a plus). Older anime might not pertain to us anymore. Their target audiences were anime fans of the 70s, 80s, etc. We're in the 2010s, and anime has changed - maybe not for the better, but you know more people like it this way or else things like K-ON! wouldn't be so ridiculously popular.
You'd be surprised. I know quite a lot of friends that prefers the older stuff over the newer stuff we have these days, and note that they're near my age range. You can say the same for music, people might prefer listening to stuff like Black Eyed Peas, but there are some individuals that might prefer listening to the Beastie Boys or Elvis. All preferences. True that the main demographic was for people around the 70's or 80's, but some people enjoys watching old stuff. I certainly do.
Robotech was popular back in its day, but it's not popular today. Today, we have Bakemonogatari. We have K-ON!. We don't have Robotech. It's not that people shouldn't disregard things like Robotech, it's that people don't. Who's going to dig through hundreds of web pages to find the original Fist of the North Star? Heck, I don't think anybody even bothered to translate all 100+ episodes of that 80s anime.
Yeah, but you're comparing two different types of genres. Also, people still enjoy watching anime such as Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, because of it's storyline and more realistic details, in comparison to ... Gundam SEED. Seed was more recent, and I can find more people that hates Seed than I can find people that enjoys it. People would actually go out of their way to find older stuff once in a while.
And if you still don't believe that I was talking about something different: I mentioned Ushiro no Shoumen Daare in my first post in this thread. I watched that thing, 220p VHS quality, on my computer and I could barely make out the subtitles, but I loved it. Watch it if you have the time. Beats the pomegranate out of Grave of the Fireflies or any war anime.
I'll make sure to remember that, I don't mind trying out new things.
Quote:You'd be surprised. I know quite a lot of friends that prefers the older stuff over the newer stuff we have these days, and note that they're near my age range. You can say the same for music, people might prefer listening to stuff like Black Eyed Peas, but there are some individuals that might prefer listening to the Beastie Boys or Elvis. All preferences. True that the main demographic was for people around the 70's or 80's, but some people enjoys watching old stuff. I certainly do.
Yeah, but that's some. The point of this thread is to appeal to all, not some. Most people prefer the current stuff - that's why they're so popular!
Quote:Yeah, but you're comparing two different types of genres. Also, people still enjoy watching anime such as Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, because of it's storyline and more realistic details, in comparison to ... Gundam SEED. Seed was more recent, and I can find more people that hates Seed than I can find people that enjoys it. People would actually go out of their way to find older stuff once in a while.
It may be comparing different genres, but that's my point. People these days aren't as interested in huge machines fighting each other anymore. Code Geass may have been popular, but K-ON! is just as popular. Take The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya for example. That was arguably the most popular anime of the 2000s. The 1990s, on the other hand, were all about Eva. Nobody
I say SEED is an exception. Almost nobody likes SEED. People loved Wing, people loved Turn A Gundam, but few like SEED. Take 00 instead - that was a huge hit until the last few episodes where the crazy finale killed everything. Besides, Gundam is generally a retro series. People watch the old Gundam series (plural) because there just aren't many newer ones. SEED was a failure, and 00 was the only series in recent years (unless you count Unicorn, but that's an episode per ten years deal. When's the next episode coming out??).
Lexy]The point of this thread is to appeal to all, not some.[/QUOTE]
Umm... no its not. For one thing, it's impossible to appeal to all. I check this thread for things to watch myself and I just hang around the [color=DarkOrange Wrote:comedy[/color], drama, and romance tables mostly.
[quote='Lexy]Take The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya for example. That was arguably the most popular anime of the 2000s.
I didn't like Haruhi because the humor felt really forced and trying and I'm a big comedy fan. I felt sorry for Mikuru for not only being Haruhi's pawn but crying whenever Haruhi throws her into one of her shenanigans. Which I find ironic considering Mikuru is her senior.
Not very hyped up about Maria Holic but I like to see how Shaft presents allergic-to-men lesbians. School Days sounds like a downright tragic story and Ristorante Paradiso sounds like it's a good slice of life romance.
I agree with 'Lexy on School Days and Maria+Holic. About Ristorante Paradiso, it was good. It's pretty slow paced but that gave it a relaxed, laid back feel to it, and the characters are interesting too.
Cross Game is a must-see if you're into slice of life / romance. It's really good stuff.
I also recommend Kara no Kyoukai for some nice (supernatural) action.
One Piece. A seemingly-never ending action adventure that gets progressively more AWESOME.
There's comedy and derp moments when inappropriate, along with some tear jerking moments...
I cried (a little) when
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the Going Merry said Good-bye.
Definitely check it out if you haven't already.
Edit: Detroit Metal City for something short and sweet.
