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Anime that makes you go 'WTF'?!?!

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And I loved every insane minute of Arakawa Under The Bridge
 
icarus-daedelus said:
Well, your perspective on the film, having already seen and appreciated the TV series to the level where you even grasp the allusions to Jung and Hesse and all that jazz, will be vastly different (& more prepared) than mine fresh eyes were the first time around, so that should certainly help things.

Which is not to say that the movie doesn't stand on its own - I think it does, and it is certainly a thing of beauty in many ways - but more that it is more hostile to new and/or less thoughtful viewers, as well as that I simply think I wasn't mature enough at that point in my life to grasp much on a deeper-than-surface level and especially not something so outwardly bizarre as Adolescence Apocalypse. It was at least intriguing enough to get me to watch the TV show, which, being one of the handful of art works that I can say have genuinely and deeply affected my outlook and thinking on art and life and stuff, I would attribute to 'priming' me enough to dig the movie - and, later, even more abstract and intently allegorical things like Angel's Egg - when I later rewatched it, for more than just reasons of plot similarity and character familiarity.

So...watch the movie! And then make sure to consult this extensive list I made that no one actually saw nor read!
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Angel's Egg is the only thing other than Utena on that list that I recognize. But seeing as how Utena could ultimately be my favorite anime ever, I'll definitely check some of these out at some point.
 
I don't watch anime but my good buddies recommended Death Note many years back. My WTF moment was:
how shitty and rushed the second half of Death Note felt :(
. Other than that it just like any great TV drama.
 
What's up with anime and cousin love? It was weird in Sword Art Online and Elfen Lied. I'm sure there's more. It feels so creepy.
 
Guess Who said:
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This is my answer.

I had marathoned the second half and the End of Eva in one night, so watching the scene at 5 A.M without sleep got to me.

I mean between people turning into tang,Rei's creepy giant head,The sea becoming a blood sea, the weird yet catchy music playing, Eva's growing faces, impaling themselves and orgasming.

So yeah Eva

Runner up is the hospital scene in the beginning.
 
JCG said:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, in the best possible way (WTF doesn't automatically equal bad).
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So far? I don't think the anime is that weird.

I'm sure it gets more 'bizarre' as the series go though. Hope we get the rest of the parts animated.
 
I'm pretty big into Bubblegum Crisis too, I own all of them except Parasite Dolls. I even own the excellent A.D. Police.
 
The last 10 chapters of Utena and the Adolescence movie had me going "WHAT THE FUCK MANNNN" throughout its entirety, so, that.

But tbh it's rare that an anime shocks me in a 'wtf' way, maybe I'm just desensitized or something...
 
bobbychalkers said:
I saw Puni Puni Poemi for the first time earlier this week. I'm shocked at how much wtfery they crammed into 2 22 minute blocks.
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Puni Puni Poemi was probably the first time I wanted Japan to just fucking stop already. Little did I know that moe with a heavy ecchi bent would pretty much take over anime for the next decade.

cajunator said:
There is no anime anymore that makes me go WTF.
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There's nothing you could animate that would really shock me at this point either.
 
I know right, before all this creepy moe crap Japan was heavily into pervy jiggly bewbies with unrealistic physics engines. Those days were so much better~!
 
What anime isn't whacked out insane in some aspect? Besides the aforementioned FLCL which takes the cake, there's Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and Dokuro Chan. On the flipside, Cromartie High School is batshit crazy and also totally awesome, dubbed or undubbed.
 
The attempted rape scene in Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise really sticks out. You gotta pay attention to everything before it to know why it makes sense.

I'm only saying this because I just watched it.
 
Monkey Punch's Alice is a rather screwy OVA, featuring a reverse Magic Pixie Dream Girl and impossibly perverted humor. It's absolutely not politically correct—and that's why I love it. There's also some really unique, rough animation and bendy character designs to make everything look askew. The music sucks.
 
The first time I watched Serial Experiments LAIN, I was saying WTF after the first episode. Even after watching it twice, there are some things I just do not get with that anime. It's worth a watch, though.
 
I just watched Neon Genesis Evangelion a few weeks ago. That scene during the End of Evangelion with the "tumbling down" music playing. I seriously said WTF out loud during that scene. The music combined with the shit that going on was just too much.

Catchy song though.
song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmZBOY6Mczk(SERIES SPOILERS)

Oh yea I forgot about the first couple minutes of that movie. I went from "huh, why is the camera zoomed into this desk for so long and why is he making weird noises" to "DID HE JUST
MASTURBATE OVER A LITTLE GIRL IN A COMA
!?".
 
Moaradin said:
I just watched Neon Genesis Evangelion a few weeks ago. That scene during the End of Evangelion with the "tumbling down" music playing. I seriously said WTF out loud during that scene. The music combined with the shit that going on was just too much.

Catchy song though.
song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmZBOY6Mczk(SERIES SPOILERS)
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End of Eva is a magical experience.
Have you seen the rebuild movies? 2.0 does something simliar. I saw it in the theatre and man, oh man the theatre was dead silent once the credits started and the looks on peoples faces.
So many "WTF" looks in one room.
 
cjkeats said:
End of Eva is a magical experience.
Have you seen the rebuild movies? 2.0 does something simliar. I saw it in the theatre and man, oh man the theatre was dead silent once the credits started and the looks on peoples faces.
So many "WTF" looks in one room.
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Yea, I just saw 2.0 a couple days ago. The end of that movie was so crazy in a good way. I don't know if it topped the pure craziness in End of Eva though. Funimation needs to hurry up and dub the 3rd movie =(
 
icarus-daedelus said:
I remember that when I first saw Revolutionary Girl Utena: Adolescence Apocalypse, the movie based on the tv show, before I had seen the tv show, I was utterly bewildered by the [whole thing, really, but especially a particular scene in the] ending which was maybe the weirdest thing I'd seen in a cartoon up until that point in time.

Here it is.

Spoilers.

You're welcome.
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Such a fitting metaphor for freedom that I'm surprised nobody thought of it before Ikuhara.
 
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