If you wanna talk about garbage, we can have a Sword Art Online topic.
i heard monogatari is good
IMHO Gurren Lagann falls off a cliff afterdies.Kamina
As a reviewer back in the day for one of the UK sites this and Heat Guy J made me quit. 4 solid episodes of recap in the first half of the show made me table flip. The animation is gorgeous, the soundtrack is cool, but that recap was enough for me to just go "Nope, not doing this any more".
I miss a good ol violent, edgy and crazy anime.
I want more like Berzerk, Ninja Scroll, Akira, Mad Bull, Golden Boy, Samurai Champloo... those are some of my favorites.
He just bounced off me completely. Could be just me.
I didn't like Monster. The main protagonist was great. The main antagonist (and the driver of the entire plot) was so dumb.
Ok, but that's usual that there's more in the manga and more plot. It ended well, I don't want any more.
I've only seen one episode of Bebop, is the rest of the series as good as the first episode?
Hehe I wouldn't put Tatami Galaxy as mainstream at all, but one hell of an amazing show!One Punch Man is popular among the Toonami sort of crowd, but there's plenty of anime I would show to normal people completely unfamiliar with anime before it (and certainly before Death Note), taking into account their genre preferences of course. Emma: A Victorian Romance, Space Battleship Yamato 2199, Tatami Galaxy, Eccentric Family - these are series with mainstream appeal that aren't rooted in action.
2. Gakkou Gurashi(School-Live)
Now....I know what you're thinking, I was recommend this by a friend and originally stopped on the first episode because I thought it was moe trash.....I was wrong. I can't say much other than to power through the first episode until the 19min mark and then you're good. Only 12 episodes and it's a very solid series
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i think it's fair to say that the manga resolved all the themes of that early half of it, it would do a lot for the first season to have a second which explored at least some of the story's final moments
but there was so, so much between that and it got so dark in its way there that a single more season would probably hurt it more than help it
i'd say the first is about an average of the series, but it has really high highs and not as many lows
There's like one or two crappy episodes. The rest are good or better than Asteroid Blues. The episodes that follow the 'main story' are all excellent: Ballad of Fallen Angels, Jupiter Jazz and The Real Folk Blues, what a stellar string of episodes.I've only seen one episode of Bebop, is the rest of the series as good as the first episode?
I've only seen one episode of Bebop, is the rest of the series as good as the first episode?
Yeah, I saw it when Adultswim aired it all those years ago here in the US and they skipped those 4 recaps. I have never seen them and I own the series. The second half of that series is really good, really weird, and pretty damn interesting. It's been awhile since I've seen an anime with that kind of aesthetic and the air of impending tragedy that show managed to instill. I want to say it's one of a kind but my knowledge is pretty limited. I've only really been following anime for like a few years.
Such nice animation wasted on a fucking piece of trash series.Such beautiful and wonderful garbage though
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Watch Shigurui if you want violence. (and an actualy good anime.)
Art style aside, I'd disagree. I mean the art stays cute(sometimes) and they do that chibi face crap but it makes sense in context of the main character and they're are some intense moments. It's not perfect but it's still really good id say.There is a twist, but I still have to say that this is moe trash.
This thread is actually making me think of getting back into anime. The last one I tried to watch was Bleach and I only lasted a few episodes.
Art style aside, I'd disagree. I mean the art stays cute(sometimes) and they do that chibi face crap but it makes sense in context of the main character and they're are some intense moments. It's not perfect but it's still really good id say.
SPACE BROTHERS
Hunter x Hunter
Space Dandy(some episodes are meh but when it's good, it's DAMN good)
Ping Pong
Hajime no Ippo
Gurren Lagann
Fate/Zero
JoJo's Bizzare Adventure
Shirobako
Chihayafuru
Steins;Gate
Baccano
FMA Brotherhood
Gunbuster(80's but I don't care)
Here's a list I just came up with without thinking much with stuff that is at least as good as Trigun/Bebop or whatever you have nostalgia for.
How many episodes did you make it after that point? There's a very clear turning point that happens not long after. If anything if you don't want to deal with the series the two compilation movies are an option and speed through the stuff that you might not have liked.I've tried multiple times, the series just loses all of its life for me after that happens.
Meh to each his own I guess. I hate moe anime but made it through that with no problems.The thing is that School-Live still retains a lot of why I avoid that kind of anime in the first place. I lasted until episode 7, and there's plenty of "cute girls doing stupid cute things," cutesy stuff overall, and even weird sexual fanservice with characters that look like they're eight years old.
There are some emotional moments (which I think were overtly melodramatic for the most part), but they are so overpowered by the cutesy crap that I had to quit. From how long I lasted, they weren't used as subversions of the genre, but the anime reveled in them while the elements of the "twist" were constantly looming in the background, but not directly addressed a lot of the time.
Anyone should watch it at least for Mikorin.Such a great list, Baccano, Gurren Lagann, Steins;gate and especially Shirobako. Need to check out Ping Pong, Space Dandy, and Ippo sometime. Also recommend Gekkan Shojo Nozaki-Kun for comedy (no my avatar doesn't make me bias.... maybe -_-)
Ahh yes, I've been meaning to get around to that show since I've heard good things. Thanks for reminding me. I don't know how it slipped my mind.I don't know if it is linked or not but I've often found a lot of people who liked Wolf's Rain also really enjoyed Haibane Renmei. Like I said, I guarantee nothing, but if you've not seen it it's still a good series and well worth checking out.
Fate Stay series (both Fate/Zero and Unlimited Blade Works - controversial I know, but I love UBW), Steins;Gate, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Hunter X Hunter are all elite tier IMO.
Still need to check out some of the shows people have listed here. Quite excited to see Space Dandy, Gurren Lagann etc for the first time.
There's one person with an anime avatar that poo-poos on Cowboy Bebop on the first page and that's DTL. Everybody else is doing what the OP wants and suggesting anime that they think is the most equivalent to Cowboy Bebop that's been released since then without actively trashing it.Right on the first page, people with anime avatars are poo-pooing Cowboy Bebop.
That's the last straw weaboos. I am declaring a normie fatwah on Animegaf.
Yeah the quality of the animation is incredible. I actually saw a gif of the first fight betweenUBW may be controversial but it LOOKED amazing. If you want an animation highpoint....just point to that, it's phenomenal. The plot stalls a bit in places but it's a good watch overall.
Putting the Trigun trashing to the side Hellsing Ultimate is pretty much better.
This guy gets it, trigun is leagues ahead of those other shows.How is trigun at the level of a cowboy bee pop or evangelion
Lain is garbage. Nowhere near the level of Bebop.
Can't think of any other anime that has reached the level of success of Cowboy Bebop as a gateway anime.