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What anime besides Steins; Gate and Attack on Titan are worth watching?
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Jex
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Dresden already has this covered. You can also throw this thread into the mix:
NeoGAF Top Anime List --RESULTS--
Most of these lists are fairly trustworthy compared to, say, ANN or something.
YosemiteHam
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Attack on Titan ain't shit. Watch Madoka Magica and Yu Yu Hakusho
I've heard JoJo's Bizarre Adventure was great and should be getting a new season soon.
Also check out the Mobile Suit Gundam movie trilogy. Shit's great.
I've heard JoJo's Bizarre Adventure was great and should be getting a new season soon.
Also check out the Mobile Suit Gundam movie trilogy. Shit's great.
This is a surprisingly good list if not outdated. There's a disturbing lack of movies on there but the comparison is kinda difficult anyway.
Novel > manga > TV series
Has nothing to do with the anime. Don't drop manga spoilers in anime threads.
I've always said that movies need a separate category within the voting. Not enough people watch them, and they are kind of forgotten by the end of the year.
Not it doesn't. Don't bother. If you're interested in the story, read the manga. The anime is poorly planned, poorly directed, poorly animated schlock that is coasting on a cool idea.
Fornaximus
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I think the best parts of the series are episodes 17 - 21. The 2nd half of the Trost arc (where you are) is not very good. I wanted to drop it because it just kept dragging and dragging.
There have been mentions of Full Metal Panic, Clannad, K-On, Hyouka and Free in this thread. I don't understand the reason to be fixated on Haruhi when its not even KyoAni's biggest property. Should we be upset that Munto was not mentioned either?
Wiktor
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Haruhi might not be their biggest property, but it's their most important one historically and it definitely deserves more mentions than utter moeblob crap than K-On is.
But K-on isn't crap.
peaceiscloser
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Heartcatch Precure
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Wiktor
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I was just gonna say The Tatami Galaxy, but holy crap these are great suggestions.
You clearly haven't seen enough moeblob shows to say that with a straight face. K-On is pretty good if you get past whatever is preventing you from enjoying a good show for what it is.
On your other point, you are correct. Despite alot of the hate it gets, Haruhi was a good series. The movie was better.
scytheavatar
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You are living in an alternate dimension. The anime is probably the most brilliant manga to anime adaptations of all time, it saved a manga featuring one of the most terrible art quality I have seen for a monthly series. But the series itself had to be dragged out to fit 34 manga chapters into 25 episodes, and the manga itself gets increasingly dragged out over time. So the dragging is only going to get worse, much worse for the anime after 13 eps.
Wiktor
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It's moeblob show about essentially nothing. That's what's preventing me from enjoying it. And it's not something I can get past by. It might be a good show in this category (from the ones I've seen it is the best one), but I just hate the whole category.
No. No. Just no. Holy shit levels of no.
wtf holy shit lololololololololSo its NOT the greatest manga to anime adaptation of all time then? Or its greatness is so blinding that it overcomes this poor pacing and terrible planning on the part of the director?
Aad
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From what I've seen, I recommend watching any of these:
Higashi no Eden
Kemono no Souja Erin
Eve no Jikan
Aoi Bungaku Series
Mushishi
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor
Usagi Drop
Berserk
Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei
Moyashimon
Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou
Hunter x Hunter
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
Juuni Kokuki
Mobile Police Patlabor: Early Days
Touhai Densetsu Akagi: Yami ni Maiorita Tensai
Chi's Sweet Home
Natsume Yuujinchou San
Bartender
Kemonozume
Natsume Yuujinchou
One Outs
Samurai Champloo
Hunter x Hunter OVA
Level E
Gankutsuou
Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku
Hunter x Hunter: Greed Island Final
Shoubushi Densetsu Tetsuya
Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou
Hunter x Hunter: Greed Island
Mousou Dairinin
Dennou Coil
Seirei no Moribito
Shigurui
Serial Experiments Lain
Fullmetal Alchemist
Sorry for some of the titles being in romanji. I just copied and pasted from my list at MAL.
Higashi no Eden
Kemono no Souja Erin
Eve no Jikan
Aoi Bungaku Series
Mushishi
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor
Usagi Drop
Berserk
Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei
Moyashimon
Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou
Hunter x Hunter
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
Juuni Kokuki
Mobile Police Patlabor: Early Days
Touhai Densetsu Akagi: Yami ni Maiorita Tensai
Chi's Sweet Home
Natsume Yuujinchou San
Bartender
Kemonozume
Natsume Yuujinchou
One Outs
Samurai Champloo
Hunter x Hunter OVA
Level E
Gankutsuou
Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku
Hunter x Hunter: Greed Island Final
Shoubushi Densetsu Tetsuya
Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou
Hunter x Hunter: Greed Island
Mousou Dairinin
Dennou Coil
Seirei no Moribito
Shigurui
Serial Experiments Lain
Fullmetal Alchemist
Sorry for some of the titles being in romanji. I just copied and pasted from my list at MAL.
HypnoDarkrai
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I mentioned Haruhi in Post #17
scytheavatar
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So its NOT the greatest manga to anime adaptation of all time then? Or its greatness is so blinding that it overcomes this poor pacing and terrible planning on the part of the director?
The manga itself is dragged out (a strong case can be made that it essentially turned into DBZ after the events of the Battle of Trost) so complaining about the anime having poor pacing is pretty ridiculous. The anime pretty much did its best as far as pacing goes, so it's pretty pointless to complain about the pace of the anime and then recommend the manga when it's not like the pace is any better in the manga.
A few I've enjoyed:
Monster (very looong and slow, but imho worth it)
Spiral (ends very suddenly, I assume so that you have to buy the manga)
HoTD (mindless fun)
Lain (very strange)
SOA (yes we know, the second season is the worst of ALL TIMES!!!)
Trigun (loved it almost as much as CB)
Record of Lodoss War (old school stuff, very solid)
Currently watching Proxy and that one seems pretty good as well (no spoilers please)
yep, at least tell us why you liked it instead of just writing an endless list of shows.
What is with japanese and those godawful german names?
Monster (very looong and slow, but imho worth it)
Spiral (ends very suddenly, I assume so that you have to buy the manga)
HoTD (mindless fun)
Lain (very strange)
SOA (yes we know, the second season is the worst of ALL TIMES!!!)
Trigun (loved it almost as much as CB)
Record of Lodoss War (old school stuff, very solid)
Currently watching Proxy and that one seems pretty good as well (no spoilers please)
yep, at least tell us why you liked it instead of just writing an endless list of shows.
What is with japanese and those godawful german names?
I wasn't actually recommending the manga, per se. Just that if he really wanted to get the story then reading the manga would be faster.
And the standard for greatest ever adaptations must be pretty low if I have to struggle through a best-effort translation of the source material that keeps whatever pacing issues it has in the name of faithfulness. Rozen Maiden 2013, from this season, interprets not so good source material into something well made and interesting.
YesManKablam
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You should definitely watch Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
AoT still has it's moments, but yeah, it did not live up to it's promising first couple episodes.
The thing is attack on titan has some pretty rare but really amazing highs. I like to believe people only watch the other stupid, dull, bad animated, full of shit nonsensical dialog, godawful pacing and boring low episodes in the hopes the next "high" episode is around the corner
and to be honest the last few episodes were pretty hype.
FlyingSaucer
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Penguindrum is one of the few series from the last few years everyone should absolutely watch.
battousai11
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My vote obviously goes to Rurouni Kenshin. Watch the first two seasons and the OVAs; skip the third season.
Also
Fumoffu
Clannad and Clannad: AS
FMA: Brotherhood
Also
Fumoffu
Clannad and Clannad: AS
FMA: Brotherhood
KidA Seven
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The characters aren't realistic though.
Oh, right. My bad.
Razgriz-Specter
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Higurashi No Naku
Thatonemoor
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Durarara and Baccano
Must//
*Last Exile [A master piece, but stay away from Last Exile: Fam the silver wing, make like it doesnt exist please]
*Witch Hunter Robin
*GITS:SAC & 2nd GIG
Ones you should watch but maybe not finish//
*Wolfs Rain its awesome till ep 26 iirc, idk why they ended the series like they did after that :/
*Scrapped Princess: I loved it but Im not sure if it holds up too well
*Ergo proxy: The first episode is absolutely incredible, a must watch by itself, the series cant reach that perfection sadly imo, still great atmosphere overall
*Last Exile [A master piece, but stay away from Last Exile: Fam the silver wing, make like it doesnt exist please]
*Witch Hunter Robin
*GITS:SAC & 2nd GIG
Ones you should watch but maybe not finish//
*Wolfs Rain its awesome till ep 26 iirc, idk why they ended the series like they did after that :/
*Scrapped Princess: I loved it but Im not sure if it holds up too well
*Ergo proxy: The first episode is absolutely incredible, a must watch by itself, the series cant reach that perfection sadly imo, still great atmosphere overall
Jex
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It's certainly outdated in part but the quality of the titles at the top of the list is generally very hard to question. Apparently everyone had great taste (e.g. taste I agree with) back in 2007.
Well there's actually a few really well animated action scenes but that's what youtube is for. Although it is fair to say that, on a whole, the animation is average to bad.
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