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Ohayotaku

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  1. What qualifies as “good” anime will largely depend on your personal preferences & interests. Your profile mentions Naruto & action based series so you’ll probably enjoy titles like Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen, Soul Eater, Fire Force, Ushio & Tora, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Attack on Titan, Dororo, Vinland Saga. Some other titles that I consider representative of different aspects of anime: Death Note (supernatural/psychological) Big O (giant robot/mystery) Cowboy Bebop (character driven) Star Blazers 2199 & 2202 (space opera) Fate Zero (supernatural/tournament/dark) Fruits Basket 2019-2021 (teen drama/romance) School Rumble (comedy/slice of life) Madoka Magica (magical girl/dark) Magic Knight Rayearth (shoujo/isekai) Re:Zero (isekai/dark) Slayers (fantasy/comedy) this is actually just a small sampling & I’m not very familiar with some genres myself (mecha, sports, idol, etc) but hopefully some other members will have some suggestions & it will start you on your way. Once you have a clearer idea of what you like, feel free to ask for more recommendations.
  2. That would be my favorite Mel Brooks movie Haven’t seen it yet, but just bought my ticket for Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness this weekend.
  3. Rain all day, possible storms this afternoon & evening.
  4. yeah, that’s a pretty good representation Too many frivolous things rattling around inside my head to focus on what I need to be doing
  5. Honestly felt more rested when I woke up @ 4:30 am than when the alarm went off 2 hrs later. Shower didn’t help much. The day doesn’t really seem to be dragging, just that I’m not in the same place physically & mentally. Becoming far too frequent a feeling.
  6. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-05-02/in-spectre-anime-season-2-delayed-to-january-2023/.185226 A bit disappointed by the delay, but glad it’s still getting a continuation at all since I don’t think it was actually that popular. I enjoyed it though.
  7. Where I stand a month into the season WATCHING Spy x Family Ascendence of a Bookworm 3 The Executioner & Her Way of Life Rising of the Shield Hero 2 Heroines Run the Show Birdie Wing Trapped in a Dating Sim-Life is Hard for Mobs Skeleton Knight in Another World Aharen-san wa Hakarenai Healer Girl Kaguya-sama Love is War 3 Science Fell in Love … season 2 Estab Life: Great Escape Love After World Domination NOT SURE IF I’LL FINISH Requiem of the Rose King Don’t Hurt Me, My Healer Onipan Tomodachi Game In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki Ya Boy Kongming (on hold) The Demon Girl Next Door 2 (on hold) Deaimon: Recipe for Happiness (on hold) Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie (on hold) DROPPED Dawn of the Witch A Couple of Cuckoos I’m Quitting Heroing The Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody The Last Summoner Miss Shachiku and the Little Baby Ghost RPG Real Estate
  8. Up to episode 5 and I admit I was wrong Raido’s weird imagination is the perfect complement for Aharen’s weird behavior. The fact that they’re both so stoic makes it even funnier. Word of warning, that one gets pretty ecchi I get the same reaction everytime I consider getting back into One Piece
  9. I enjoyed Gamers too. Honestly, I don’t get the reasoning of many MAL users that anything scored less than 7 isn’t worth watching. There are actually several series currently airing that have low MAL scores but I enjoy (Healer Girl, Birdie Wing and the Executioner & her way of Life). Most times when I consider a series bad but still enjoyable it’s because it makes me laugh (even if it’s embarrassing to admit because it’s dumb or crude ) Some examples: Asobi Adobase, Ramen Fighter Miki, Demon Lord Retry, The Ones Within, Estab Life, Dokoida, Magical Girl Ore, Akikan, Akibas Trip. That’s another one
  10. Welcome, glad you found your way here Hope you enjoy it.
  11. Just heard some thunder. When I looked out it was raining hard & even some pellet sized hail even though the temp is in the 60s
  12. For recent series: Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer & Fire Force. For some older favorites of mine: Buso Renkin, Soul Eater, Ushio & Tora, Akudama Drive, Dororo. Some of these lean more towards seinen, but still have a good bit of action & cool fights.
  13. @AlwaysSearching for Mei Hawht-sume Though after starting Tiger & Bunny earlier this week, I have to say Blue Rose is #1 superhero waifu
  14. A new episode of Dragon Maid just went up on Crunchyroll. Also a series called The Last Summoner https://myanimelist.net/anime/41915/Zuihou_de_Zhaohuan_Shi which I know nothing about (though the harem tag makes me apprehensive as it’s the genre that’s aged the worst for me) Will check them out when I get home tonight.
  15. Started watching Tiger & Bunny to determine if season 2 was worth checking out. There are some similarities to One Punch Man & Super Crooks, but so far I’m liking this one better.
  16. My own anime journey spans 4 decades it all started for me in the late 70’s/early 80’s when I saw Star Blazers (the Americanized version of theoriginal Space Battleship Yamato) while getting ready for grade school. From the subject matter, to the story continuity to the art style, eveything about it stood apart from the other “cartoons” that airedaround it (primarily Hana Barbera & comedic shorts like Loony Toons, Tom & Jerry, etc. ) I became so fixated with it I would even set my alarm clock for 6 am over summer break so I could watch it & go backto bed afterwards. Even when it went into reruns (they only had the first two arcs: Journey to Iscandar & The Comet Empire) I made it a point to watch every weekday when it aired. I remember seeing thedubbed version of the Galaxy Express 999 movie on tv around the same time & noticing it had the same style of characters. Battle of the Planets(Gatchaman) would also air sometimes before orbetween sporting events to fill air time, but I neverreally got into it. Over the years that followed , Iremember various other “cartoons” with similarities,some of which I now recognize as anime, thoughsome technically weren’t. Examples: Voltron, Mazinger Z, Thundercats, Beast Wars (TransformersCGI series), Mighty Orbots, Cyber 6, & Escaflowne.The one besides Star Blazers that had the biggestimpression on me was Robotech. That one getssome hate from hardcore otaku because it was 3 unrelated mecha anime (Macross, Southern Cross &Genesis Climber Mospeda) that were splicedtogether. But I enjoyed it & even read the novelizations that bridged them. My family didn’thave cable tv growing up, so my exposure was limited to edited/Americanized versions. My next phase started in the mid 90’s when I had my first full time job & started exploring anime on VHS tapes. Memorable titles from that phase includeProject A-ko, Ranma 1/2, Slayers, Tenchi Muyo, Nadia-Secret of Blue Water & Irresponsible Captain Tylor. Moved on DVD with titles like Outlaw Star, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop & Saber Marionette J. Thatwas also the phase when I started exploring subtitled anime more. Around 2010 my interest in anime waned. DVDs werestill petty expensive & increasingly things seemed tobe shifting to streaming. I lived in a rural area at thetime & although we had cable tv, a lack of reliable high speed internet made streaming not a viable option. I still enjoyed anime, but didn’t spend much time on it. Then around 5 years ago, my life underwent a pretty big shakeup. In the aftermath, I moved into town &started watching more anime again as a way of trying to recapture nostalgia. However, the increasedfreedom of streaming led me to explore a wider spectrum of what anime has to offer. I’ve found a number of anime, sometimes a single episode other times an entire series that seem to resonate with what I went through or where I am right now. Plus many others that addressed complex topics. Of course there’s plenty of the more escapist variety as well. I’m not sure where things will go from here, but seems highly unlikely I will ever completely outgrow my love of anime Edited December 8, 2021 by Ohayotaku About the only thing I’d add to this previous response is that I’ve always been fascinated with animation as a medium because of it’s ability to give form to worlds that only exist in imagination. Even when dealing with a realistic topic/subject, art style & character designs can add a level to it not found in the natural world. While this is not exclusive to Japan, the sheer amount of anime that is created on a seasonal/annual basis & the variety of genres explored seems many times greater than what other cultures produce when it comes to animation. Granted certain genres have been over represented & there are too many knockoffs without any originality in tecent years, but I still feel anime is the best representation of the medium’s potential.
  17. A Couple of Cuckoos - yeah, this was an easy one-and-done for me Somehow managed to cram every harem trope imaginable into the first episode
  18. A bit of a PSA/advisory to anyone considering Skeleton Knight in Another World. The opening scene is a very disturbing attempted rape by a group of bandits. Considering that the scene is replayed later in the ep as the course of events, really can’t help but see it as needlessly gratuitous. Fortunately the 2nd ep didn’t have anything like that & was actually pretty wholesome with the MC accepting a quest from a little girl who wants to help her mom & obtains a Pokemon-esque mascot character along the way. The 3rd ep is pretty typical for this sort of anime demonstrating that murder, rape, slavery & torture are standard practice for the bad guys & no mercy is shown to children. But fortunately it’s not as detailed as that first ep. And the MC disposes of them with extreme prejudice. Does seem like there will be a certain level of fan service as the female lead is pretty oppai, but again fairly standard stuff. I’m kind of on the fence with it. Despite being pretty violent, the MC’s personality is comically over the top (what I imagine Ainz Al Goown would be like if his human/player personality had remained dominant & same VA as Veldora from Reincarnated as a Slime with his trademark laugh).
  19. I was considering setting that one aside because it was a bit dull, but dang if it ain’t the most wholesome romcom I’ve seen in recent memory, which does have it’s own appeal. Though I must confess I’m also smitten with Yuu’s mom
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