• BombOmOm@lemmy.world
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    4 seconds into first anime, high pitched squeal coming from female lead

    10 minutes in, realize the main character is 15, girl phobic, and being put in charge of serious military equipment nobody has the right to touch until they undergo a year of training and are willing to follow orders; starts wondering if the person giving the child multi-billion dollar military equipment is more incompetent than the main character…it’s really a close call

    15 minutes in, bitches like the child they are for the rest of the episode

    episode ends

    I love anime, but boy are some of the tropes really annoying and is a massive part of why so many people just turn it off shortly after it starts.

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      TIL why I can’t get into anime but didn’t know it.

      Bit OP isn’t wrong about medical, legal, and police procedurals.

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        The put some damn fan service into Law and Order: SVU and I might start watching!

        Am I right fellas!?

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          Yeah I know it’s a wide range of art, and there is likely stuff I would like. It just hasn’t tickled my brain yet.

          Meanwhile, I did love Arcane, but I also know calling that anime is likely to start a religious war ;-)

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            ‘Chainsaw man’ is really good for ‘a boy and his dog whos actually not a dog but kind of the anthropic personification of how people think about chainsaws but also still kind of a dog, the faustian pact they make, and the secret shadowy government organization that uses him as a child soldier’

            ‘Death note’ ‘psycho pass’ or ‘ghost in the shell: stand alone complex’ if you want very anime but still need to be watching a cop show.

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                They’re not entirely copaganda; two are cyberpunk, one is… The protagonist of ‘death note’ very much has 100% cop brain, but it’s kind of a breaking-bad-esque exploration of 'how this guy could possibly be that much of a piece of shit?’ but i remember it being fun.

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      A few recommendations with that in mind (Boy does that one restriction really just nuke the list! Common Japan!):

      1. Spice and Wolf (2008 series, I have no clue if the 2024 series is good)

      2. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

      3. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

      4. Gate: And Thus the JSDF Fought There

      5. Crest of the Stars

      (Roughly in that order, too)

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      This so much, I’m tired of shonen and kawai nonsense, most of the mainstream Anime plots and characters are generic, and I’m too old to related to 14 year old protagonists, I’ll take something like Arcane over another Anime any day

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    Don’t worry, this new NCIS spinoff is different! It take place in… throws dart at a map …Oswego.

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      • Akagi
      • The Apothecary Diaries
      • A Silent Voice
      • Azumanga Daioh
      • Bocchi the Rock!
      • Cowboy Bebop
      • Delicious in Dungeon
      • Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
      • Kaguya-sama: Love is War
      • Kaiji
      • Little Witch Academia
      • Spy x Family
      • Steins;Gate
      • Takopi’s Original Sin
      • Violet Evergarden
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        Lot of solid choices, I’ve got 3 new ones to check out. Much appreciated, the ones I recognize are good so I’ll be giving the new entries a fair shot

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        Apothecary Diaries, Delicious, and Frieren are my faves on this list. And of course Cowboy Bebop is a classic.

        Also, I will never stop loving Akira. The animation, direction, the score, just chef’s kiss. They don’t make 'em like this anymore.

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          Akira really is something special. Or maybe something different… Only Frieren begins to approach that level, Akira is physiologically challenging beyond just the mind bending of something like guran lagan

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    I’m in neither camp. I don’t watch much anime, and I hate these detective/murder solving shows. There’s plenty of third options to choose from here as well. Lots of good stuff.