Anime Recommendation

[Brigandier]

No, not for me, this is for you guys.

I cannot stand anime, must be a cultural thing. Thankfully Shinichiro Watanabe has extreme love and interest in the western culture, and happens to make anime. I fell in love with his style in Cowboy Bebop and have been following it since.

Yesterday, I realized he started a new series, yay for 26 episodes of something worth watching! Better yet, he teamed up with Yoko Kanno, whom he worked with on Cowboy Bebop.

Now, here I am watching and reading a show that pays more homage to American Jazz than anything in America does.

Please enjoy, Kids on the Slope

 

[Printer Bandit]

golden boy

 

[Brigandier]

golden boy

Richie?

 

[Brigandier]

That my excellent compatriot Music Jazz

Just saw this scene, and it'd convert me.

 

[Newbian]

Anything with tentacles.

 

[Aikouka]

Eh, I find that anime can be hard to get into because people just lump it all together like that. It's like saying, "I find it hard to get into (live action) movies." It's all about finding what you like to watch and potentially experimenting with different classifications to see if they float your boat. For example, I usually like animes where the main character tends to get accidentally get into precarious situations, and see how it just blows up in their face. The precarious situations can involve simple misunderstandings or even ecchi (perverted) themes. The latter is usually amusing, and even with the word choice, it's not actually dirty.

I noticed that I was having trouble finding anime to watch, so I checked AniDB, and chose a few from their popular section. I thought CODE: BREAKER was terrible, but I've been enjoying Robotics;Notes, Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo and Tonari no Kaibutsu. The first one... I like the characters, but I'm a little wary about, because it's by the same people that did Steins;Gate, and I didn't care for that one much. It was just too weird. The second one is an example of precarious and typically ecchi situations, but it's just good fun. The latter is more of a shoujo anime, but the characters are interesting enough to watch it.

Oh, and Initial D 5th Stage is finally starting to come out.

EDIT:

Oh, and I'll check out that show.

 

[xSauronx]

No, not for me, this is for you guys.

I cannot stand anime, must be a cultural thing. Thankfully Shinichiro Watanabe has extreme love and interest in the western culture, and happens to make anime. I fell in love with his style in Cowboy Bebop and have been following it since.

Yesterday, I realized he started a new series, yay for 26 episodes of something worth watching! Better yet, he teamed up with Yoko Kanno, whom he worked with on Cowboy Bebop.

Now, here I am watching and reading a show that pays more homage to American Jazz than anything in America does.

Please enjoy, Kids on the Slope

i may start watching this. love me some jazz.

ive been watching mushi-shi lately. older show but netflix has it, mostly enjoying it.

 

[Brigandier]

This show is funny, it's only had only a couple of fight scenes in the five episodes I've watched so far. Instead, this show treats musical bouts as fights scenes; instead of having great fight scenes set to a great score, the great score becomes the source of dynamism throughout the episode.

 

[lxskllr]

Never liked anime. Japanese animation has always put me off. I'm just not a fan of the style. I prefer American stuff from the birth of animation, up through the 60s or so, but especially stuff from the 30s.

 

[takeru]

Fairy Tail
Sword Art Online

currently watching these two. i like the story flow in fairy tail. it started a little slow, but gets very involved. sword art is only up to episode 19, but i like the story so far.

 

[Brigandier]

Never liked anime. Japanese animation has always put me off. I'm just not a fan of the style. I prefer American stuff from the birth of animation, up through the 60s or so, but especially stuff from the 30s.

98% of anime is unpalatable to me. The overwhelming factor being there are a billion episodes of any said anime and they often boil down to using arbitrary mechanics and villains to move the plot along. The plot is often thread-bare, and just a mechanism to show nifty characters doing nifty things. Those, I cannot stand, and have not been able to since I matured out of adolescence.

Watanabe is different though, he only does 26 episodes in each "universe"" and really develops the characters. He also has pretty good taste in music and douses every one of his shows with them.

I'll leave this here

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

Lol, I read "Kids on the Slope" and I was like "wtf is that?"... Then I saw the pic "Ah, Sakamichi no Apollon"

Yeah, thats one of the best animes in the last decade, it does just about everything right

People who hate animes just because are bigots... There are lots of anime out there with more mature themes than you will see in any american movie

Go watch "Monster", and tell me anime sucks (beware, its 75 episodes long, but its a masterpiece)

 

[Albatross]

I liked planetes,about a group of astronauts whose job is to clean up space debris in orbit.

 

[lxskllr]

People who hate animes just because are bigots... There are lots of anime out there with more mature themes than you will see in any american movie

Bullshit. It's the animation style I don't like. Japan has a distinctive art style, and I don't like that style. I will checkout the jazz one above when I get the time, because I like jazz.

 

[Aikouka]

98% of anime is unpalatable to me. The overwhelming factor being there are a billion episodes of any said anime and they often boil down to using arbitrary mechanics and villains to move the plot along. The plot is often thread-bare, and just a mechanism to show nifty characters doing nifty things. Those, I cannot stand, and have not been able to since I matured out of adolescence.

You do realize that most animes don't go above 26 episodes, right?

EDIT:

I think your problem is that quite a bit of the animes that get shoved in your face in the US are the long, shounen series. These are the ones with "a billion episodes."

 

[MonKENy]

Trigun

Sgt Frog

Golden Boy

Shin Chan

Now and Then, Here and There

Howls Moving Castle

Rage the Beserker

Hellsing

Blood

Vampire hunter D

Ninja Scroll

Samurai Champloo

Oh and Spirited away was an excellent one

I can go on and on but ill to look some up.

Ive been watching anime since I was a teenager. There is so much good stuff.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I was never a big fan of anime. I got hooked on Full Metal Alchemist, watched both series, and the movies. Still not a big fan of anime, but really like this series.

 

[MonKENy]

Bullshit. It's the animation style I don't like. Japan has a distinctive art style, and I don't like that style. I will checkout the jazz one above when I get the time, because I like jazz.

check a few of the ones I listed, try Trigun and Shin chan first one is serious the other is just a plain goofy show. You might like Samurai Champloo as well its more westernized I think.

 

[MonKENy]

I was never a big fan of anime. I got hooked on Full Metal Alchemist, watched both series, and the movies. Still not a big fan of anime, but really like this series.

I hear great things about it but I never could get into long series shows like that,

 

[ch33zw1z]

I hear great things about it but I never could get into long series shows like that,

I probably couldn't if I had to wait a week or something between episodes. I got to watch the DVD's, so I would watch 3-4 at a time once or twice a week.

 

[Aikouka]

I hear great things about it but I never could get into long series shows like that,

Depending on what you watch, it's either 52 or 64 episodes. The original series, which deviated from the manga around the time they went to see their mentor, is only 52 episodes, and Brotherhood, which actually follows the manga, is 64 episodes. I picked up Brotherhood on Blu-Ray for only.. I think about $60 for the entire series.

That Conqueror of Shamballa movie is just a money grab that isn't even canon.

 

[videogames101]

steins gate

 

[Phokus]

Cowboy Bebop was excellent. Also Berserk.

Haven't really been into anime in a long while though.

 

[Oceanas]

The first one... I like the characters, but I'm a little wary about, because it's by the same people that did Steins;Gate, and I didn't care for that one much. It was just too weird.

Did you watch all of Steins;Gate or did you give up part way through? I ask because it starts out slow, but then it really picks up and becomes an amazing show. At least, that's the general consensus; it's obviously not for everyone.

 

[Aikouka]

Did you watch all of Steins;Gate or did you give up part way through? I ask because it starts out slow, but then it really picks up and becomes an amazing show. At least, that's the general consensus; it's obviously not for everyone.

I hate to admit it, but I quit after the first episode. It seemed like it was falling into the trap of being weird for weird's sake... as odd as that sounds. Robotics;Notes is actually starting to do some of the same stuff. I watched it because... well, I like robots, and now they're deviating further away from the robotics club background into all this weird mumbo-jumbo about sending signals into space and some guy being murdered for some reason.

I just want a robot show that doesn't suck. *coughGundam AGEcough*

Maybe I'll give Steins;Gate another shot.

EDIT:

By "being weird for weird's sake", I mean how any sort of story can be following a typical plot line and just suddenly deviate into something completely different for no apparent reason. Usually these deviations tend to include weird, psuedo-philosophical meanings that make it seem like they're trying to hard. It all started with that bastard, Anno, and Evangelion, and now everyone thinks it's cool to go all weird.