Nichijou is fantastic, I can’t wait for the blurays finally getting an international release.
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I was actually talking the other day on twitter about how I got my start by watching Saturday Anime on the Sci-Fi channel back in 96-97, and I found a few videos from that era that have sent down a trip. The super-edgy 90’s aesthetic of promoting anime was the shit
or the time they got the voice of Ulala from Space Channel 5 to promote Galaxy Express
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Heads up for Gundam fans, Noizomi just announced they are bringing the 08th MS Team Blu-Rays over.
That is kinda the saddest part of it all, it suddenly gets super good and touching, but you have to get through so much gross fanservice to get there.
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Yeah, like i get the themes they were going for with clothing being evil yadda yadda but there had to have been a way to not be as gross about it.
Speaking of series you wish you could like but you just couldn’t for various reasons, I just realized I still haven’t gotten over my disappointment in how Dimension W had such a powerful premise and strong start, and how that all got thrown away with it stampeding from the beginning of a first act to the conclusion of a third act in the latter half of its season.
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@Zacmortar I think this is the first complete home video release of Nichijou anywhere in the world. In Japan only the first couple episodes got released on Blu-Ray, and sold so poorly that other volumes were never made.
@Bearpigman Oh my god yes! I used some of this for trailer reels last year, and watching them again really brought me back (I didn’t use that last video because I found it too embarrassing). I remember being probably 10 years old and seeing stuff I was way too young for and falling in love with it. This was also around the same time DBZ was in rotation on Cartoon Network. Some of the stuff Scifi Channel showed still holds up; The Venus Wars is pretty damn good even if the third act is very rushed, Robot Carnival is great outside of the godawful Presence segment.
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This is so depressing but I’m glad it’s actually getting /something/ finally. This series deserves so much more love and attention than it got.
hi hello Kaiba is one of the handful of animes I would call good. It’s a very bizarre series with a unique art style. It’s also a very sad series, but it’s done in an almost hauntingly beautiful way. It might not be great if you’re prone to depression, but otherwise it’s definitely an experience I recommend.
Also, anime is not real. It’s the largest example of the Mandela Effect.
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Kaiba has an extremely good art style that I just adore. Tatami Galaxy is also another good anime with a unique art style that I would recommend to people who are looking for that sort of thing.
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Both Kaiba and Tatami Galaxy have been on my to-watch list for so long, I really need to get around to actually going through them. All of Masaaki Yuasa’s work looks so interesting and visually unique, I feel like I’m missing out on something special by not watching his stuff.
We are of corse forgetting the crowning achievement of Japanese animation, Popee The Performer.
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Jesus christ this is legitimately horrifying. As a person who has been desensitized by horror, I’m actually horrified by whatever… that was.
Edit: is that literally Majoras Mask music in there?
It gets more and more surreal as it goes in.
Poppee the Performer is high art and I will hear nothing else on the matter
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I started watching Popee out of morbid curiosity but… I can’t stop watching. It’s disturbing… but so charming???/ What is this? I love Keda???
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Here’s another recommendation from last year: My Hero Academia by Kohei Horikoshi, a series basically about a high school for superheros. It’s a genre you don’t see much in anime, and MHA handles it very well. It’s got great action scenes, great music, a huge cast of fun and well-designed characters, and more.
Here’s a sample scene where the protagnist, Izuku, has to find the courage to use his incredibly self-destructive power on a giant robot: (japanese audio, not-English subtitles. Apologies, couldn’t find the scene in englsh):
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My Hero Academia is great because it’s the shounen formula you know and love with a lot of the fat trimmed off of it, and it’s all the better for being a leaner execution of that formula, I liked it a lot. Need to get back onto the manga train, though, I fell off it a while back specifically so I can have a ton of material to read through at once.
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my favorite anime of all time is Nichijou. it’s just so, so good. some of my other favorites are K-On!, Steins;Gate, Cowboy Bebop, Yuru Yuri, Ping Pong the Animation, Non Non Biyori, and One Punch Man.
i’m mostly moe-loving trash, but i’ll basically watch anything. for a couple years i was watching almost everything that came out each season, but last year i started having trouble keeping up with that pace and burnt myself out, and i didn’t watch anything for the whole summer, and only this season have i really started getting back into the groove (i’m not sure if watching entirely too much anime is a groove i should be getting back into, but whatever).
this season, i’m watching 3gatsu No Lion (really great, glad to see it mentioned earlier), Interviews with Monster Girls (pretty good), Fuuka (pretty bad, but not bad enough for me to stop watching), Gabriel DropOut (great), Miss Kobayashi’s Maid Dragon (really great and gay), KonoSuba season 2 (hilarious), Little Witch Academia (amazing), Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu season 2 (great), and Saga of Tanya the Evil (surprisingly good). there’s a couple other shows i’m planning on catching up on this season, and a couple shows from previous seasons that i need to catch up on, but i’ve gone on long enough
anime is real as hell
Guess I’ll be the one to rant and rave about in my opinion the greatest of anime, and all science fiction in general - Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Originally a novel series by Yoshiki Tanaka (his other big known work is The Heroic Legend Arslan) it was adapted into what’s probably the longest OVA series spanning 3 movies, 110 main series episodes and 52 gaiden episodes. It’s quite daunting with a first glance but once you start it’s very hard to put down! I’ll steal a bit of text here from another forum for the basics on the story:
"In the 35th Century, mankind has spread throughout the galaxy. And where man travels, war is sure to follow, and the space is no different. Two factions, the Galactic Empire and the Free Planets Alliance have been fighting a fruitless and tireless war for 150 years with little indication of one side actually gaining ground. The war effort has been reduced to a political staging ground, where the rhetoric of politicians and nobles send millions to their deaths to further their own goals on the home front. Neither side seems particularly interested in changing the status quo, and instead exploit it for their own greedy profit.
But the these turbulent times are soon to change with the rise of two men on either side: Reinhard von Lohengramm, a young upstart of a noble with revolutionary ideals for the Empire and a desire to rescue his older sister from a tragic fate, and Yang Wenli, a humble yet irregular man who yearned to become a Historian, but found himself forced into the FPA military to pay the way for it…only discover himself rapidly rising in the ranks due to his superior skill in strategy and tactics. Amidst a sea of corruption and backstabbing, these two men and their allies will clash against each other in a stagnant war that is soon to see some drastic changes…"
This series is so god damn good. The animation may be a bit dated, but everything else makes up for it. The story, the music (consisting mainly of old classical music!), the characters, it all just comes together so well! It keeps you on your seat. Funny (though more scary) enough, despite originating as a series of books from the 80s, it covers topics that definitely apply to today. It’s a series that makes you think about society. I would go as far as to call it The Wire of anime/science fiction…though when I try to sell it to some people I know I just call it Game of Thrones In Space(only without some certain content).
Amazingly enough, the book series has been getting released, and hopefully sales for it stays high enough for the entire series to be released! The anime itself for many years was never licensed due to the pure scale of it all, but unless something has changed recently, Sentai Filmworks announced awhile back that they licensed it! Can’t wait for the releases to get them all. Until it IS released though, it’s an easy enough series to find if you choose to watch it. This would be the recommended viewing order:
Movie 1 - My Conquest is a Sea of Stars
Movie 2 - Overture to a New War/Battle (An extended retelling of episodes 1 and 2)
LOGH Main Series 1-110 (you can skip the first two episodes)
LOGH: Gaiden (optional view really)
Don’t watch movie 3.
In the case of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, anime is the most real. And wow that’s a lot of words about anime.
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