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@Ohiotaku So would you recommend it to someone who doesn't like mecha but does enjoy when anime tackle deep topics?

@Seshi Well, I guess that's one more of the hugely popular ones I haven't seen Don't know how I missed that it was so popular though. But for some reason it just doesn't seem interesting to me.

@Seshi I have seen a bit of Ghost in the Shell many many years ago but I didn't find it too interesting back then. Might look into it when I have some time though. Haven't seen Sword Art Online either but I mainly avoided it because (as far as I remember) it had this whole "people in a game" idea which I generally don't like too much. I think Rising of the Shield Hero did it very well though. But is Sword Art Online already something really big? I knew it was popular but always thought it was more of a niche thing?

For those who don't know (since I don't think there is a spoiler button, is there?). Just put the word "spoiler" in [] before the text and the word "/spoiler" in [] after it to put something in a spoiler (without the quotation marks " "). Yu-Gi-Oh!

The idea behind this thread is to talk about anime that are generally considered a classic or great (by whatever community/standard out there) that you haven't seen. I'm thinking something in the line of the big ones like let's say One Piece. And maybe talk about why you haven't seen it and others might en/discourage you to watch it, or tell you if it might be an anime you'd actually enjoy. I've never seen Neon Genesis Evangelion, not even a single episode. I don't really know why, but I remember as a child seeing it in a manga and it seemed to have to do with mecha which I'm not a huge fan of. To me it seemed to be rather dark with a strong focus on the mecha part. You think it is a must-watch? Apparently it deals with quite deep topics though, which is why I might be interested.

Great Teacher Onizuka, Akira, Amagi Brilliant Park , Kikis Delivery Service, Eden of the East (would not recommend Eden of the East though)

How about always continuing the list by putting the names that already were mentioned first and the new one after that (to avoid repeats and to not have to go back pages)? Great Teacher Onizuka Akira (so the next person would go: Great Teacher Onizuka, Akira A.......)

I also think that the franchise in general has done a fantastic job at keeping it interesting. The only thing is that when they announced that it is going to be an "RPG" like Pokemon game I kinda expected something different. Don't really know what, but the name "Sword and Shield" also seems to go into the classic RPG direction. So far it seems a lot like the classic pokemon games only on Switch. Not saying that that's bad, just saying that for some reason I thought they would change it more. As for new ideas on how they look, they should just take a look at the variety of animals there are (especially the lesser known ones). There are some crazy looking animals out there.

Have you heard about this? I knew they were planning on releasing a new Pokemon game in 2019, but I didn't know there actually was a trailer out! Here it is What do you think about it? Is this the big Pokemon-RPG they were promoting? Kinda expected it to be different, although I do think the more open world theme looks decent. I don't know about the starters though!

@Seshi Technically you could still do that, although I think they'd probably call the police

@Ohiotaku Hadn't thought about Spear Heroes development, but I think you might be right. I kinda don't think he is malicious in general but maybe he turns out to be.

@Seshi The Rock looks like a monster next to Kevin. Their laughter cracks me up I thought this one was great, rarely seen Japanese laugh so much

This was one heck of an episode! I also thought the whole curse shield absorbing the rage of others was a very clever twist I don't get the whole cheater thing though, it's just his shield's ability, isn't it? I'm curious to see where the whole curse shield thing is going to lead. His ability was impressive though!

There's some rough stuff here! Children don't deserve such a hard time. I myself was born into war, but luckily I don't remember too much of it, so it's not that tragic. Other than that whole thing and trying to escape etc., for me when I was a child was pretty good. For my parents it wasn't of course, but I didn't really realize that as a child so it didn't faze me then.

I enjoy watching Conan O'Brien remotes, where he goes to other countries (like Mexico, Japan, Israel, Germany, Cuba, Italy) https://www.youtube.com/user/teamcoco/playlists

@SanguineTear I see, so you mean something like someone who is willing to kill someone is probably not going to change (there actually was a famous philosopher who thought so too). Too bad you don't want to debate it, would have been interesting! Maybe we mean the same thing with what I said that it is a bit too simple. Moral parsimony, if it actually is moral parsimony, should not be based on any kind of social correctness (I'm not saying it is not used like that, just saying it should not). Rules like "the morally right thing to do is to always give white people an advantage" or "it is morally right to always maximize the amount of damage you can do to society" would be very parsimonious, even though many would not call it morally right. That's also what I mean with that the quiz is too simple, it probably doesn't factor in such rule (although I'm not sure it doesn't). So yeah, maybe they only factor in rules that kinda presuppose ideas like "killing is wrong" but I can't be sure. In some European countries, policemen are not allowed to kill an attacker if it is not necessary. They are only allowed to use the kind of force that is necessary in the given situation. Of course this is hard to judge especially when the attacker has a firearm etc. I do get the problem of putting your colleagues at risk but I suppose that is something that takes a lot of experience to judge correctly. (this doesn't refer to this debate specifically, just in general) I also want to add that in philosophy people are quite straightforward, so if someone has an opinion which someone else thinks is false or not well argued for, philosophers usually say so in exactly those words. Just making sure no one thinks that someone wants to offend someone else.

@ArchieKun Truly cherish those moments man.

Don't know if it's true but I kinda don't expect anything decent from it. It's a prejudice on my side, but I just don't see google making anything decent when it comes to gaming.

This sounds so weird to a European ear I know guns are quite popular in the US and you also have a strong culture build around it in some of the US states, so it seems normal to you. But in Europe where people like me literally only know no one or one single person who owns firearms (a relative who is a police officer in my case), this sounds like something out of a movie. It's like I'd say how I just bought another company after the three others last week went broke. Not impossible but something you usually only see in movies. Not trying to make a value judgment, because the topic is kinda complicated (with different interests having to be weighed against each other), just trying to say what it sounds like to me. Suffice it to say I can't add anything meaningful to this topic

Would you recommend this Slime anime? Just the title kinda made me not want to watch it, but seeing that so many people seem to like it, I'm thinking about looking into it.

Hi, is that Orochimaru as your avatar?

@SanguineTear Holy moly that's intense. Hope your surgery goes well if you need to have it!

Kinda reminded me of Rurouni Kenshin and his final attack the "Amakakeru Ryū no Hirameki" which they said like 100 times in only a couple of episodes But yeah I've noticed titles getting longer as well which I find pointless after a certain length.

The title pretty much says it. Is there an anime which you think should have gotten another season? I'm not talking about ongoing anime (like My Hero Academia) but those that officially have not been continued. I would have liked to see another season for School Rumble and Silver Spoon. School Rumble was simply fun to watch and I would have liked to see more of it. Silver Spoon just ended after Season 2 somehow, with many chapters of the manga left. Ultimately, I think it would have been great if they had continued it for at least one more season or two.