Recommended Anime/Manga?

[BrianC]

The manga is indeed rather confusing to me, I'm reading the Dark Horse release which unfortunately flips everything to left-to-right for Kwanzanian readers, and I'm not sure if the original Japanese volumes were this disjointed in terms of starting plotlines. I feel like I should just go watch the 1980 anime instead.

The US Dark Horse release of Astro Boy wasn't released in order (I think the first story wasn't until volume 13, if I remember correctly), but I think some of the posts may have been referring to the manga version of Atom the Beginning, rather than the original Astro Boy manga.

[KAI]

DAMN!!! Koike's Lupin III: Chikemuri no Ishikawa Goemon is soooooooooooooooooooo fucking goood. 1 hour of pure Badassery.

Can't wait to watch his next Lupin movie (hope there's one more).

[BIL]

^^^ word. Fuckin' wild. Baton you should watch this if you haven't.

[FinalBaton]

^^^ word. Fuckin' wild. Baton you should watch this if you haven't.

Will check it out for sure

[Bananamatic]

Does anyone else here watch Aikatsu?

[WelshMegalodon]

Tried the first few episodes just last week, actually.

It's rather uninteresting. Aurora Dream and its sequel Dear My Future are more watchable if you ask me.

Or, you know, iM@S.

[soprano1]

The Hayate no Gotoku manga has ended. Hope they animate the rest of it.

[BryanM]

Talking about web novels, the great continent of China has invested in an animation of The King's Avatar. You can start watching the thing right now on their youtoob channel.

Just in case you absolutely need to watch a mary sue pro gamer guy being the proiest pro that ever pro'ed in video games before, spending a laborious six years becoming the biggest [s]nerd[/s] pro on the planet and learning what it's like to hold a girl's hand, right before he dies of lung cancer five minutes later in the real world.

[Durandal]

Oh fuck

[soprano1]

Don't know if we should discuss this matter here, to be honest.

[soprano1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa_D0HfTeb0
WTF, one more for the "there is manga/anime of EVERYTHING" pile.

edit: This one seems more hotblooded, if that's possible:
https://myanimelist.net/manga/88442/Ses ... _e_Youkoso

[maximo310]

Rewatched all of Serial Experiments Lain with some friendos yesterday. c:

It's so crazy how much depth there is to it, even after watching it 4/5 times. It's truly one of those masterpieces that doesn't age in my book.

[soprano1]

Spoiler

Oh fuck

It seems there is an alternative now, still very early.

[copy-paster]

Attack on Titan 2

Compared to the first season, it's more talkier and less action-packed. Still good though.

Highschool DxD

Watched this when it was booming back in 2012, now I have completed the first season. I'm not generally an ecchi fan but this one turned out... good? Can't remember other animes that's nipple-fest throughout the episodes.

[evil_ash_xero]

Is the Berserk manga good? Like, as good as the anime was?

Does the quality wane? I know it goes on a lot further than the anime does.

Are the Dark Horse graphic novels reversed (as in normal left to right, rather than right to left). I don't like reading manga in it's "original" format. It's too weird to me.

[BryanM]

Is the Berserk manga good? Like, as good as the anime was?

It's the story of a guy who walks around murdering demons, while the demons are busy trying to eat and rape everyone.

The art is regarded as top-tier, which it kind of would have to be for this type of thing to get as popular as it has.

Hard to compare anything to Berserk Abridged, however. Example: Corkus, and his zany love of murder~

Does the quality wane? I know it goes on a lot further than the anime does.

The quality of everything always wanes over time. You keep getting more of something you already have until you reach a surplus.

Berserk is infamous for being especially bad for adding a bunch of plucky nakama. The art quality never goes down (I'd argue it gets even better)... but it's good to call it quits after the Scooby Doo ghost pirates arc.

I advocate at least going that far - there's camaraderie to be had in shared suffering.

[evil_ash_xero]

Is the Berserk manga good? Like, as good as the anime was?

It's the story of a guy who walks around murdering demons, while the demons are busy trying to eat and rape everyone.

The art is regarded as top-tier, which it kind of would have to be for this type of thing to get as popular as it has.

Hard to compare anything to Berserk Abridged, however. Example: Corkus, and his zany love of murder~

Does the quality wane? I know it goes on a lot further than the anime does.

The quality of everything always wanes over time. You keep getting more of something you already have until you reach a surplus.

Berserk is infamous for being especially bad for adding a bunch of plucky nakama. The art quality never goes down (I'd argue it gets even better)... but it's good to call it quits after the Scooby Doo ghost pirates arc.

I advocate at least going that far - there's camaraderie to be had in shared suffering.

About which book would you say it starts to get old? Also, did it have an ending?

[BryanM]

It gets old as soon as your personal desire to read demon murder is sated. The stock animu plot decay happens somewhere a bit before he gets the Berserk armor from a random NPC.

Berserk never ends. It is on-going, with a new chapter released once a month. On occasion. For a while "five years, still on that boat" was a meme. But it's much better now with four to six chapters a year consistently.

It's the definition of a "long runner", having premiered in 1988. That you can see the artist level up from being a great artist, all the way into a transcendent one over the decades might be part of its charm.

(This kind of thing is one of the reasons why I'm currently more interested in web novels. That medium creates content at roughly 3 chapters a week, a pace illustration and animation can't possibly match. No matter how much you might like something, it's really hard to stay interested in it for 28 years nonstop.)

(I might sound a little negative since I'm an old man, but you sound like you really want to justify reading some more Berserk. Go for it man, and stop when it starts getting tiresome to you.)

[cj iwakura]

Attack on Titan S2 is phenomenal so far. The shift of focus away from Eren is a blessing, it really makes everything more interesting.

Love the slow burn and focus on dialogue, too. Makes the action have even more kick when it hits.


Lain is classic, obviously. (see user name)

[GaijinPunch]

Attack on Titan S2 is phenomenal so far. The shift of focus away from Eren is a blessing, it really makes everything more interesting.

Love the slow burn and focus on dialogue, too. Makes the action have even more kick when it hits.

This is something new that has piqued my interest. Will give it a glance I think, when I get a moment to breathe.

[Bloodreign]

4 episodes into Maria Holic, all I can say is......it's good. Reading the description some sites give to it makes it seem meh, but not so.

[soprano1]

4 episodes into Maria Holic, all I can say is......it's good. Reading the description some sites give to it makes it seem meh, but not so.

With everyone's favourite bizarre VA, Yu Kobayashi.

[Bloodreign]

With everyone's favourite bizarre VA, Yu Kobayashi.

She's cute and adorable, that's for damned sure.

[soprano1]

With everyone's favourite bizarre VA, Yu Kobayashi.

She's cute and adorable, that's for damned sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpEPEWZnFE0
Some cuteness...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oQHHxnlP10
Some weirdness...

All in one!

[Bloodreign]

Even the weird is cuteness overload, I know I like action movies and shit blowing up, but anime and it's cuteness at the end of a long work day is relaxing and soothing. Of course seeing someone this cute and beautiful would only help matters, but I don't live in Japan.

[zeruel85]

Have you ever watched Kiseiju (寄生獣)? I'm watching it in these days and it's pretty good imo.

I also like Ajin (亜人).

[FinalBaton]

I also greatly enjoy season 2 of Attack on Titans. The twists are numerous and crazy, holy
Very cool , enjoyable stuff

[soprano1]

I also greatly enjoy season 2 of Attack on Titans. The twists are numerous and crazy, holy
Very cool , enjoyable stuff

The manga isn't going in a good direction, imo. I'm finding it a bit dull right now.

[KAI]

The manga has been shit since the 1st anime season started airing, at least the 2nd season adapts the story till the point it was still decent.

Started watching Natsume Yuujinchou last week. I always thought this was Mushishi for teenage girls, but it's great so far. Hope the episodic rhythm of the story doesn't get boring or repetitive during the next seasons.

[lilmanjs]

I could seriously take an entire show done like the little breaks in Nichijou. Most random show I have ever watched as well, but those little breaks are quite pretty to look at. Especially the ones from the view of an outdoor vending machine and that large tree at night.