What Anime are you Currently Watching?/Anime Recommendations

[marurun]

What I can't fathom is not that Shinji is depressed and whiny (as I am when I am depressed), but that the story makes no effort to do anything about it. If this project is so important, why doesn't it do more to manage those extremely valuable personnel assets? It's not good enough to have good, flawed characters. There has to be some structure to hang them on that furthers the story. Characters need story, and story needs characters. Even the people in charge are constantly making incomprehensible decisions. Everyone in that facility should have died years ago from a combination of nonsense and idiocy.

[Gunstar Green]

Shinji is the anti-Amuro Ray. He's essentially the same character at first except Amuro grows and matures and ultimately takes responsibility. Shinji never does.

[Xeogred]

Eva is okay, but the fanbase is obnoxious. Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out! People read way too deep into it. I get that it's a cultural icon though, but jeeze. I pretty much give zero fucks about Hideaki Anno though, he's a complete hack and wasted talent. The directing to Eva is something that's cool about it, from the camera work and whatnot... it's a bit different from the norm. Gunbuster rules for something that's more upbeat and positive. I'm sure Nadia is good, I'll check it out sometime. But beyond the few shows he did, you only find him crying nowadays about the industry or taking fat dumps on the workhorses sweating blood and tears to get some anime out still to this day. Meanwhile, this guy has spent over a decade milking Eva and almost put Gainax out of business with legal battles. If he's not going to do anything new, I wish he would just shut up and go away. Miyazaki is guilty of a lot of this too. And trust me, I just posted that nostalgia article... I have my preferences for the 80's and whatnot, but when these old creators are just coming out to whine about things, that's helping absolutely nobody.

When Kill Em' All Tomino has a more positive outlook on the medium than you thesedays, you're doing something very very wrong.

Now if you guys want some real chewy unpopular opinions, I freaking LOVE Rahxephon.

[Exhuminator]

Gunbuster rules for something that's more upbeat and positive.

Yes. The original Gunbuster is a masterpiece.

Not so hot on Diebuster.

[Xeogred]

Not so hot on Diebuster.

Don't remind me.. that doesn't exist.

[johnblade]

Gunbuster rules for something that's more upbeat and positive.

Yes. The original Gunbuster is a masterpiece.

Not so hot on Diebuster.

I actually like both series and they do have issue on both of them when you start to take it apart. I can see why people not a fan of Diebuster for it's own flaw but still like the OVA for what it's. I guess do we want another sequel for this series or just stop it there.


Well, I am currently trying to get through DNA2 and start to realize show I use to love as a teen is now become harder to watch. Do anyone have this issue where show you think you like are now becoming harder to watch whether if it's something you saw before in most anime.

[Exhuminator]

I actually like both series and they do have issue on both of them when you start to take it apart.

It's not that I didn't like Diebuster, it was OK. I just didn't think Diebuster was remotely in the same league as Gunbuster. The only fault I can throw at Gunbuster is the project ran out of money at the end. But Gainax still handled that gracefully as could have been done. Gunbuster has so much heart I can't help but love it. Gunbuster was a labor of love not just a calculated commercial product.

Do anyone have this issue where show you think you like are now becoming harder to watch whether if it's something you saw before in most anime.

There are tropes in anime that I can see coming miles away now, which I find hard to watch. I can usually tell if a show is going to have those tropes just by reading a general synopsis of it. Or I can watch a trailer for the show and know for sure if it's for me or not. The one thing in anime I truly get tired of (and not just anime, but modern JRPGs too) are high school protagonists. I understand why the protagonists are often high school students. But damn does that get old.

[Xeogred]

Do anyone have this issue where show you think you like are now becoming harder to watch whether if it's something you saw before in most anime.

There are tropes in anime that I can see coming miles away now, which I find hard to watch. I can usually tell if a show is going to have those tropes just by reading a general synopsis of it. Or I can watch a trailer for the show and know for sure if it's for me or not. The one thing in anime I truly get tired of (and not just anime, but modern JRPGs too) are high school protagonists. I understand why the protagonists are often high school students. But damn does that get old.

I know Gunstar can back me up on this, but schools have completely hijacked and ruined mecha for me.

I liked both Full Metal Panic and Code Geass at the time, but they kind of set the table for that. Gundam is pretty much the only thing nowadays that still tends to stay away from it. Too bad Gundam is so hit or miss.

The irony is how the protagonists of most older mecha were high school or college aged, but yeah it was just all military awesomeness, space exploration, etc. No silly "class is back in session!" episodes in between.

Ah well. Once I knock out my endless anime backlog I'll just start rewatching my favorites again and that should be fun.

Gaming wise, Yakuza is such a nice antidote to this issue. Grown adult Japanese characters... you don't always see that. lol

[Xeogred]

Finally watching Serial Experiment Lain. Seems awesome and I've known what to expect, a little bit.

It's weird how it's oddly nostalgic too... I don't think it was on Toonami/Adult Swim, but I'm seeing it listed for TechTV's Anime Unleashed block back in the early 2000's. That must have been where I caught some if it and hated it haha. I just remembered Lain looking at computer screens. But I never got a chance to watch it in order, so that didn't help. I'm digging it with a new set of eyes now.

Anime Unleashed had such a bizarre selection of anime, it was awesome:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime_Unleashed

Horror anime wise, I still want to say Boogiepop Phantom is my favorite, so check that one out if you haven't.

[samsonlonghair]

Finally watching Serial Experiment Lain. Seems awesome and I've known what to expect, a little bit.

It's weird how it's oddly nostalgic too... I don't think it was on Toonami/Adult Swim, but I'm seeing it listed for TechTV's Anime Unleashed block back in the early 2000's. That must have been where I caught some if it and hated it haha. I just remembered Lain looking at computer screens. But I never got a chance to watch it in order, so that didn't help. I'm digging it with a new set of eyes now.

Anime Unleashed had such a bizarre selection of anime, it was awesome:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime_Unleashed

Horror anime wise, I still want to say Boogiepop Phantom is my favorite, so check that one out if you haven't.

I absolutely LOVED watching Anime Unleashed on TechTV back in the day. Lain was one of my favorites. Dual was also pretty cool.

If you like Lain, check out Texhnolyze next. This series has the same screen writer, same producer, and same character designer. It's not a direct sequel to Lain, but more like a "Spiritual Sequel" that touches on some of the same ideas.