Hyperactive anime character behaviors/sounds usually reduce the joy I get from the rest of what I'm watching.

While I heard Studio Ghibli films aren't "real anime," their works are the most anime-like thing I love.

  • CanYouFeelItMrKrabs [any, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Legend of the Galactic heroes is a sci-fi epic that is pretty cool. It's mostly follows the military commanders in different factions. I've seen the first season of the newer 2018 adaptation but the original 80s/90s series is also supposed to be very good

    Megalo Box is a boxing anime that was pretty realistic in terms of characters

    Monster is a mystery show about a surgeon investigating one of his patients who became a killer. It's a very good slow burn

    some anime movies tend to be more real life/subtle with their characters compared to TV anime. Wolf Children and Perfect Blue are really good

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I started a month ago and I'm 20 eps in. The pacing is surprisingly good, and every episode so far has been engaging, even if it's just a side story.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      LoGH is right at the cusp of class awareness, it's frustrating how often it'll do a "both sides" thing. I'm pretty sure the author of the novels is an ideologically coherent liberal, and it shows sometimes.

      spoiler

      It's still extremely good. It's one of the only pieces of media to attempt showing realistic reasons for warfare. The show puts the ideology stuff at the forefront, stuff like democracy versus dictatorship, but the show is aware enough to portray these as sitting on top of conflicts money, land, resources, trade routes. The most outright villainous characters are the Phezzani merchants and Job Trunicht, the president of the Free Planets Alliance.

      Now that I'm typing this out though, the liberal capitalist Free Planets Alliance is shown to be completely at the mercy of a corrupt lazy political class that disintegrates from within due to pressure from an internal fascist cult (Cult of Terra) and is quickly overtaken by a pseudo-fascist galactic empire. It didn't matter that the FPA had more talented generals or more conviction, they were doomed from the start. The author knew what he was doing.