I never really watched anime until Cowboy Bebop came on adult swim. I was like "whoa, is this what I've been missing out on?" The answer is no, it is a a unicorn. One of one. Basically nothing I've watched since has been even remotely as engaging for me. I've had a couple OK ones (Berserk) and guilty pleasures (Baki), but overall the medium as a whole just doesn't seem targeted toward me. And that's fine, I'm not litmus test for the universe. I enjoy other stuff.
The answer is no, it is a a unicorn.
Plenty of good anime on par with Cowboy Bebop. Samurai Champloo leaps immediately to mind. Anything by Satoshi Kon also very good - Tokyo Godfathers, Perfect Blue, Paprika...
There's a bunch of crap, sure. But that's true in every medium. People just like to pick on anime.
Champloo was fine. I made it through the whole run, which is more than I can say for most series.
Shonen is mostly a garbage genre for teenage boys.
I really adore more pensive slice of life stuff like Wandering Son and Yuru Camp.
I feel like Fullmetal Alchemist gets up there, if you're into shonen stuff. If we're not doing a strict interpretation of "anime = animation from japan" but rather the vibes/storytelling style then I'd argue for Samurai Jack and Avatar: The Last Airbender too.
I have also thoroughly enjoyed Hellsing Abridged though it is incredibly cringe and incredibly late 00's humor. The first two episodes especially suck ass, but the ending is pretty good.Full Metal Alchemist is definitely one of the few I've actually found some enjoyment in along with titles like the original Berserk.
I missed Avatar on its original run, didn't have cable at that time. My child showed interest in it so we sat down and watched it, but it didn't really hold my attention (nor his actually, but he stuck with it longer than me I think). Samurai Jack definitely has something interesting happening with it, but it doesn't really call to me to keep watching it. However, when I worked at a video store (showing my age here), I can remember it being one of the better things we were allowed to play over the TVs in the store.
You should give Primal a go if the story of a guy and his dog (the dog is a dinosaur) against the world sounds appealing. The violence can get a little graphic but it's definitely Genndy Tartakovsky's most impressive show to date.
I don't know if this will 100% grab me, but I think my son would love this. Thanks.
DBZ was so popular in my school that even the preppy kids were turning in to see Goku whoop Frieza.
Yeah it pretty much all started because I didn't watch Dragon Ball Z when everyone else did. I only ever watched it because a show I liked came on right after it and the only DBZ episodes I watched were boring AF.
All of my DBZ knowledge comes from watching Abridged in the mid 2000's
All the good parts of DBZ are the stupid bits nobody cares about - stuff like Piccolo getting his driver's license and Gohan going to high school
Pretty much me until this day with DBZ. I did end up watching the Cell saga at some point and it was cool, but I could never really get into the whole series. Its a bit weird too because I've just absorbed some knowledge of the series from what people around have said about it and thats it lol.
I was under the impression that I wouldn't get bullied if I was cool
"The construction of the other is by itself a violent process and therefore the other willaalways be the recipient of violence" or something like that. We don't have a Levinas emoji.
No, the only thing that worked was that time in high school when a pretty girl asked me to come to her place and watch anime.
It was all very horny anime and the anime watching didn't last long
Do you thing most anime nowadays are horny invoking?
I watched naruto only once and never watched any other anime ever again as I think most become sus sometimes in the show
I don't watch enough anime to say for sure, but I imagine it invokes horniness about as much as any other genre. It's just that the most vocal fans of anime are also the folks in whom horniness is easy to invoke.
I too am not an anime enjoyer.
I watched Akira back in the 90s once and that was it.
It's not that I don't enjoy anime it's that so much anime I'd like to watch either hasn't been dubbed or has an awful dub
I hear from dub watchers that Delicious in Dungeon has a good dub.
It's also just a very good show.
I keep hearing about delicious in dungeon. I remember being tickled by Fighting Foodons, does it scratch that same itch?
It's a DnD party with a dwarf that is very concerned about nutrition and sustainable farming, the most divorced hobbit alive, a neurotic elf mage and the fighter is that kid in class that was really into dinosaurs.
I never saw Fighting Foodons, wasn't it like a gag Pokemon ripoff?
Delicious in Dungeon is about cooking and ecology (and being autistic) in the setting of a classic tabletop dungeon delving roleplaying game type fantasy world.
Yeah, Fighting Foodons was a parody of the fighting monsters genre.
I guess Delicious in Dungeon is just about how to cook monsters. Which isn't a million miles away from something I wanted to do with a D&D campaign
I mean that's a thing that happens in basically all my D&D games whether I intend it or not
Real chads watch with neither subs nor dubs and just enjoy the vibes
You're not the only one. I've been ragged on in a sumo channel's chat for not knowing what certain anime are or whatever. I used to watch, but haven't watched anything in probably 12 or so years. It just doesn't seem any different from any other TV series. They're all derivative and nothing has creativity anymore.
My grandfather was a pretty nerdy guy, always making electronic gizmos, inventing board games, etc. When I got into computers I expected he'd be really into them, but he wanted nothing to do with them. My grandma got a PC, but he refused to use it. I think he felt like he was too old to get into a field that was so big and complicated.
That's how I feel about anime.
anime is bad and you are a bad person if you like them
sorry i dont make the rules
