Alright nanons.
Due to a distinct lack of decent vidya as of late, im looking to get back into anime.
I was big into it way back in the 90s but have fallen behind & i'm looking for some recommendations. Here is a list of things i'v seen and enjoyed:
<Urotsukidoji (God tier)
<Fist of the North Star
<Berserk (God tier, especially the manga)
<Legend of the Galactic Heroes (God tier - my absolute favorite of them all)
<Vampire Hunter D
<Akira
<Wicked City
<The Guyver
<Dominion Tank Police
<Cowboy Beebop
<Patlabor
<Neon Genesis Evangelion (was bretty good but had an unlikable protagonist seriously Shinji, man up you whinging little faggot. Fuck I just wanted to punch him in the face every damn episode and a pretentious, nonsensical ending
<Crying Freeman
<One Punch Man (watched it with my kids & actually enjoyed it)
<Devilman
<Full Metal Alchemist
.....and probably a few others whos names escape me at present.
Started watching Tokyo Ghoul recently but it's not really doing it for me.
Bearing in mind LOGH, Urotsukidoji & Berserk are my favorites, can any based weeb nanons give me some more God tier recommendations?
Thanking you in advance.
Here are the three that I'm watching ranked from best to worst (none of them are "bad" imo they're just not as good)
Demon Slayer (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
Vinland Saga
Cop Craft
>>1665 >Cowboy Beebop
Samurai Champloo(https://anidb.net/anime/1543) has a similar vibe although completely different setting.
>Patlabor
Obviously watch Planetes(https://anidb.net/anime/895) if you didn't already, it's a masterpiece and focuses on space realism a lot.
>Tokyo Ghoul
The anime is utter shit sadly, i highly recommend reading the manga(https://myanimelist.net/manga/33327/Tokyo_Ghoul) and its sequel(https://myanimelist.net/manga/81117/Tokyo_Ghoul_re) they are both really good, lot of fucked up stuff and lot of gore(i think you are into that stuff based on your list), it a incredible journey but don't expect much from the ending.
Some other recommendations:
<Shingeki no Kyojin(https://myanimelist.net/manga/23390/Shingeki_no_Kyojin)
Manga is better, but also the anime adaptation is not bad. What to say it's the best manga in 10 years IMO, i've made a thread about it here on /a/.(although i did not read Vinland Saga yet so i may change my mind about that)
<Hellsing Ultimate(https://anidb.net/anime/3296) there are Nazi vampires, do i have to say anything more? It's a classic, really fun watch, god-tier animation.
<HunterxHunter(https://myanimelist.net/manga/26/Hunter_x_Hunter)
Not your usual shonen manga, really good worldbuilding and characters, dismemberments and death during fights are pretty normal and it's a manga that is not scared of showing violence, the 2 animation are both good(the 2011 one in particular).
I can provide more if you want more, good watch/read nanon.
>>1666 (demonic numbers)
Are you demon or a demon slayer? xD
>>1668 Thank you for the effortpost anon. Good comprehensive list there, that gives me some stuff to check out. Appreciated.
>I can provide more if you want more, good watch/read nanon.
Was having a scroll through gogoanime & found a few things that piqued my interest. The new(er) fist of the north star stuff....any good? I know the original is a bit dated and cheesy (especially the english dub) but I have fond memories of it and it was very influencial, with many a classic claiming it had inspired them (Berserk for one)
Same goes with the newer Devilman stuff if you have seen it. Is it worth a watch?
Also is there anything else on the level that Legend of the Galactic Heroes is on - both in depth and scope? Like I say, i'v a serious love for that particular anime. It really occupies a niche that a lot of anime lacks. A solid space opera but grounded in a kind of realism & continuity you rarely see in anime (plus those ebin space battles with classical music are just sublime)
I know they have remade recently it but I don't really want to watch it tbh - it's something you cannot improve upon (at least in my opinion) and I fear they would taint it & dumb it down into to nexflix tier shit. I'v avoided it thus far.
>Planetes
>focuses on space realism a lot.
Ill certainly be checking this one out thanks nanon.
>Manga is better
Aint that the truth in most cases tbh.
Animation hasn't progressed since the 80s. In truth, it has nosedived straight into the trash and people celebrate its death and what killed it is seen as a virtue.
Anime is no longer produced by otaku, instead it's produced by mega corporations who just want to separate you from your money. The good storytelling we once witnessed is gone, and stories have devolved into copypaste unoriginal cliched trash rehearsed in 10 year cycles, after which a new trend takes over.
With those acknowledgements out of the way, I heavily recommend you go back to a point in time before those things, and watch some hand drawn anime for the actually good stuff.
>Urusei Yatsura
The best slice of life ever, also the first one. Nowadays this genre is one of the pillars of garbage, but this one you might like even if you're not a slice of life fag. Has cuckquean themes (male protagonist has an alien girlfriend, still chases skirts) and a NTR episode though.
It's an adaptation of a manga and doesn't adopt everything, but one recurring theme of the era is that anime is much better drawn than manga, so I'm confident the anime adaptation is better than the manga for what it covers.
>Kimagure orange road
Not nearly the first idol anime, but one of the best.
>Saint Seiya
Manga adaptation, I also think it's better than the manga.
Invented the shounen genre the way we see it (Astro Boy is shounen, but it's not like shounen as we know it), also the best one.
Avoid any of the recent CGI/3DCGI series and the newer mangas though, they're all terrible. There's even a puke-inducing yidflix one.
>Yu Yu Hakusho
After shounen blew up there were many of them. It consolidated into something and strayed a fair bit from Saint Seiya. If you like the genre and perhaps Saint Seiya is too different for you or you have trouble finding good ones you haven't watched in general, this is one of the best.
>Riding Bean
Dumb american action movies in animated form might be the worst trend of the 80s, but at least this one does a dumb action movie well, and it has some of the best animation ever.
>Armitage III
It was produced in the era of cheap mass produced export anime (mid/late 90s), and it has most of the bad that comes with it, including butt ugly aesthetics and barely any animation to call bad. But it's still a great cyberpunk anime for its story. And I suppose if you like hoes the female lead is a fine hoe.
>Slayers (seasons 1 through 3 + OVAs/Movies except Premium)
The animation is only middling except for the OVAs/Movies which are amazing, but don't be mistaken, even bad hand drawn animation (which this is not) is better than any digital or heaven forbid 3DCGI anime.
Otherwise, it's one of the longest and best fantasy anime ever. Avoid seasons 4 and 5 and premium, they're so ugly you'll cry.
LN adaptation, as far as I know the LN is still running. I haven't touched the LN to tell anything about it though.
>Buttobi CPU
It's almost a hentai, it's about a guy who gets tricked into buying a computer powered by his semen. Has an original art style and an overall late 90s aesthetic many people enjoy.
Also a manga adaptation, but I haven't touched the manga.
>Burn up
It's a whole franchise, however it already starts off with a meh "dumb american action movie" 80s OVA and then I really couldn't bring myself to watch the rest of it.
The OVA has one of the best anime aesthetics ever and everything else about it isn't good but it isn't bad either. It's a 40 minute watch, so it's worth it.
I don't recommend the rest of the series though, but if fanservice can make a series hold up for you, the parts of the franchise other than the OVA (which has it but little) have plenty of fan service and a season dedicated to being extra heavy on the fan service.
>Record of Lodoss War
Everyone who is enlightened to the truth that all CGI and 3DCGI is bad knows this one. It's the first anime to do tolkienic fantasy, so it has some "virginity" to its fantasy so to speak. It doesn't get caught in cliches, because well, except for the fact that it didn't invent copying Tolkien (by proxy, since it's based on a DND run adapted into LN), little about it had been done before.
I'm very sure it also has the best art style in all of anime history, I haven't been able to find a better anime art style.
I'm talking about the OVA, there's a TV series that drops the ball, but is in all likelihood still better than the great majority of modern anime.
If you like this song https://0x0.st/zJ1b.opus , you should download all of the soundtrack CDs in it, because they all have at least one such song.
>The Cockpit
It's a 3-story WWII anime OVA, there's no other way to describe it. One of its stories isn't realistic, but the others are, and its animation is great to boot.
So if you like WWII, anime, and animation, you're certain to like this.
>Bakuretsu Hunters
A perfectly average fantasy anime manga adaptation. It looks average, its story is average, its characters are average, and so on.
I don't exactly recommend it, but if you're running out of fantasy to watch, there's this.
>>1621 Thankyou for the list anon. Seems like there is plenty there to dig into.
Truth be told I'd pretty much stopped watching around the time the original xbox came out ('01/'02) and only dipped back in & out on the surface level intermittently (ghibli stuff with my kids etc) so my knowledge of more modern stuff is much more cursory.
Like you say, older is often better (in my case LOtGH being a prime example of this) and i'v noticed lot of corporate crap being churned out for nexflix that is full of cgi and void of the substance that made the older stuff so great.
Iv had more contact with japanese entertainment from vidya for last near 2 decades now (especially jrgps & the glory days of ps2) but gaming has taken such a such a turn for the worse these last few years, I need some non pozzed escapism to occupy my relaxation time lest I go fucking mad.
Thanks again for your list, i'll be sure to check these out sometime. Record of Lodoss War & Yu Yu Hakusho definitely sound like something to check out. The WWII one too.
Due to a distinct lack of decent vidya as of late, im looking to get back into anime.
I was big into it way back in the 90s but have fallen behind & i'm looking for some recommendations. Here is a list of things i'v seen and enjoyed:
<Urotsukidoji (God tier)
<Fist of the North Star
<Berserk (God tier, especially the manga)
<Legend of the Galactic Heroes (God tier - my absolute favorite of them all)
<Vampire Hunter D
<Akira
<Wicked City
<The Guyver
<Dominion Tank Police
<Cowboy Beebop
<Patlabor
<Neon Genesis Evangelion (was bretty good but had an unlikable protagonist seriously Shinji, man up you whinging little faggot. Fuck I just wanted to punch him in the face every damn episode and a pretentious, nonsensical ending
<Crying Freeman
<One Punch Man (watched it with my kids & actually enjoyed it)
<Devilman
<Full Metal Alchemist
.....and probably a few others whos names escape me at present.
Started watching Tokyo Ghoul recently but it's not really doing it for me.
Bearing in mind LOGH, Urotsukidoji & Berserk are my favorites, can any based weeb nanons give me some more God tier recommendations?
Thanking you in advance.