What Anime are you Currently Watching?/Anime Recommendations

[Soldier Blue]

I've got to get back to Serial Experiment Lain too. I only watched one episode of that.

This has been on my list for years, my old roommate had it on VHS but I only caught a few episodes. Looked reaaaally good.

Never really cared for that one to be honest. It just seems like one big acid trip. Yes it is supposed to be open to interpretation and philosophical in nature, but I find it to be too crude.

[isiolia]

Never really cared for that one to be honest. It just seems like one big acid trip. Yes it is supposed to be open to interpretation and philosophical in nature, but I find it to be too crude.

I rewatched it somewhat recently after I got the Blu-rays, and it seemed substantially less so compared to when I first watched it.

[catnip]

Just got to episode 50 of the HxH 2011 reboot. Man, did this show get real bloody, real fast...

[Fragems]

Just got to episode 50 of the HxH 2011 reboot. Man, did this show get real bloody, real fast...

Yeah it is one of those shows that can get really brutal when it wants to. Think one of the old movies even had a character have all of his limbs ripped off one by one during a fight .

[Gamerforlife]

I've got to get back to Serial Experiment Lain too. I only watched one episode of that.

This has been on my list for years, my old roommate had it on VHS but I only caught a few episodes. Looked reaaaally good.

Never really cared for that one to be honest. It just seems like one big acid trip. Yes it is supposed to be open to interpretation and philosophical in nature, but I find it to be too crude.

Open to interpretation = we can't tell a good, coherant story and are pretentious dbags. I hated Serial Experiment Lain

[Gamerforlife]

Open to interpretation is such an obnoxious euphemism. It just means, "Our story doesn't make sense and we expect you to make it make sense by coming up with a bunch of theories that aren't actually supported by anything in the series but make sense in your head"

[J T]

Open to interpretation is such an obnoxious euphemism. It just means, "Our story doesn't make sense and we expect you to make it make sense by coming up with a bunch of theories that aren't actually supported by anything in the series but make sense in your head"

I think this is a legitimate way to write. It's just a decision to involve the audience in the story, as long as they can accept that there isn't a right answer to what it all means. That being said, it's an approach that is seldom well executed.

[johnny turbo]

I like lain pretty well. I find its themes stand up well to the test of time and might even be more relevant in today's Internet dependant world. Sure the story makes little sense and it suffers for it, but the show has a great atmosphere and mood. Pretentious? I don't know. It doesn't feel pretentious enough that it harms my enjoyment of the show. Certainly not nearly as bad as something like Ergo Proxy. That show could have been so wonderful l, but it totally squandered it. The only director that can be pretentious as shit and get away with is Oshii, but even he often fails.

[ZenErik]

Hard to say only 3 episodes in, but Terror in Resonance looks to be the best anime this season and so far the best I've seen in the past year or two.

[SNESdrunk]

I like lain pretty well. I find its themes stand up well to the test of time and might even be more relevant in today's Internet dependant world. Sure the story makes little sense and it suffers for it, but the show has a great atmosphere and mood. Pretentious? I don't know. It doesn't feel pretentious enough that it harms my enjoyment of the show. Certainly not nearly as bad as something like Ergo Proxy. That show could have been so wonderful l, but it totally squandered it. The only director that can be pretentious as shit and get away with is Oshii, but even he often fails.

Yeah, from what I remember, it didn't come across too badly that way, nothing like Evangelion which is like Philosophy 101 for 13 year olds. *ducks*