MediaConsumesMe

I got a slew of feelings, I'm pretty happy cause I just worked out a feature that will yet me watch Fate UBW on the new software I got on my PC. So no subtitles, 1080p is finally something I can enjoy. The rest of my Fate collection was all Blu-ray, but Unlimited Blade Works due to the Hanabee release having locked subtitles on the openings. And they were yellow... why? So I'm glad I don't have to downgrade to 420p for the sake of being able to turn subtitles off. However the trouble I've gone to over this is almost laughably absurd, I got the Blu ray - which had locked subs. Had to go out of my way to get an external blu-ray player for my PC, install software (several different ones until I narrowed it down to one that worked and I liked) on it and then spend all me free time messing around with features because unlike the Made In Abyss, Kill La Kill disc this one was not working as well (menu froze - as to use the playlist feature), all so I can watch the damned anime I brought how I want to watch it. If anyone at hanabee reads this message - don't lock the subtitles, it annoying and a pain. Madmen doesn't do it, copy them.

I just finished Psycho Pass the Movie, looked only to see there was a movie trilogy called Sinners of the System. And in the description it said the Blu-ray has english audio, but I was under the impression that film trilogy was only subbed not dubbed? If it dubbed, that be awesome cause I'd love to continue the series a little more as it one of my favourites.

I got a anime for you... Fate/Stay Night. There are several routes, Stay Night, Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven Feels. There's also the spin off Fate Apocrypha which is also has a romantic plot within its core. Beyond Fate there is also Parasyte the Maxim, which as a romantic element in the plot but isn't a major focus. Beyond those I can't think of many action-romance shows I've seen.

Got a external blu-ray/dvd player for my PC. Set up Leawo as the PC software player. Just so I can enjoy my anime without obnoxious locked subtitles in the openings. If I want to watch Kill la Kill or Made in Abyss without subtitles displayed over all the foreign text and opening/endings that should be my choice. So at least this set up now lets me do that.

I just finished Kill la Kill, so next is Psycho Pass the Movie, and then I'll try and complete Hunter x Hunter after that - not sure if I'm gonna finish Chimera Ant arc and move directly onto the Chairman Election arc or take a break in between. It a great series but is a massive series so I gotta break it down into more watchable chucks.

"The opposite of boredom is not pleasure... it is excitement. People will gladly seek out any kind of excitement even pain." Shogo Makishima

I've got a few which have a high chance of death for the characters that I've seen; All the Fate shows. I thing the lowest body count goes to Babylonia - but that still has a high body count of supporting characters compared to other anime. Fate Zero has the highest body count of the series, I think. Not many make it through it, and those that make it through and are better off at the end are even fewer. Got to plug Berserk 1997, won't ruin the ending of the show if you've not seen it yet but the term Betrayal gets a whole new meaning. Psycho Pass also has a decent body count, and because the characters are well developed and rounded (even the Villain is enjoyable and a guy you might route for by the series climax) it makes the 'deaths' feel really gut punching. Death Note also has a very high body count, I will say less important characters who are sort of throw away make up the bulk but some supporting and even main characters get killed off during the shows run so another great high body count show to check out. Steins Gate sort of has a high body count... if you count different world line versions of a specific character getting murdered over and over again by the half way point onwards as adding to the body count of the show. Finally Madoka Magica for a magical girl show has a pretty respectable body count I wouldn't rank it alongside Berserk, Fate, Psycho Pass or Death Note but I feel it pretty equal to Steins Gate level. Also all the aforementioned shows defiantly have the feeling of one mistake equals instant death in a lot of situations.

Well there's one show I know of which is both Action and Comedy, and that's Gintama. I've not personally seen this one yet, so I can't comment on it however over on Mal it one of the highest rated shows and a lot of people praise it comedy and action so that might be a solid bet.

I'm not crying, it just raining inside.

A couple other recommendations building off of Ohayotaku list would be; Psycho Pass - Police Procedural, Action and Dystopian Code Geass - Mecha (Real Robot), Military and a little bit of Slice of Life (and Pizza) Ergo Proxy - Phycological, Supernatural, Apocalyptic and Atmospheric Hunter x Hunter - Action, Adventure, Comedy Legend of the Galactic Heroes - Poltical, Space Opera and Military Sci-fi Toradora - Slice of life, comedy and romantic drama (not a personal favourite but a lot of people on the forum like it) Kill la Kill - Magical Girl, Action and Comedy Gurren Lagann - Mecha (Super Robot), Comedy and Action Overlord - Action, Iseaki, Ecchi

Blue Gender, Wolfs Rain and Witch Hunter Robin are all pretty obscure Anime from the 00s. I've mentioned them before. Another one is Guyver, which has come up on this forum a few times, which is also quick cult when compared to other shows of its era. Shows like Psycho-Pass which I'd consider a modern classic on the same level as Steins Gate or Madoka Magica has also been mostly forgotten. The show only came out in the early 2010s and yet how many people discuss the show these days. Maybe if due to Amazon not committing to dubbing the newer series. I mean how many people on here even realise my PFP is from the show. Another show is Escaflowne, I've only seen the first two or three episodes of that show, but that another show that been mostly lost to its time. Maybe the noses were too pointy. Finally Welcome to the NHK, this was a slice of life, comedy, character focus show from the 2000s which isn't talked about much nowadays. Those are all I can think about right now, there are likely a few more.

If you've only seen the first Fate Stay Night from 2004, check out the other routes adaptations by Ufotable - Unlimited Blade Works series and Heavens Feel Trilogy. Or visa versa if you've not checked out Studio Dean's Fate Stay Night yet check it out. Then as Ohayotaku said, if you've not seen it yet, check out Fate/Zero. If you enjoy that or you've already seen it check out some of Gen Urobuchi's other work from that time period - Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Psycho Pass - those two series also got two films that act of sequels which screenplays were also by Gen so if you like those series and want more then you could watch those too.

A lot of people really like Re;Zero and when I watched it I thought it was okay. I'd not watched much Anime at that point, just dipped my toes in Fate and maybe Ergo Proxy so I was very new. I went to watch the second series and I gave up on episode three, I chalked it up to Re;Zero having left so little impact on me that I didn't really care about the story. Then again I find Iseaki for the most part pretty unwatchable, I tried Shield Hero and I gave up on the third episode. Then there's Gundam. And this is not at jab at the overall franchise - some series I've enjoyed such as War in the Pocket, Origin. But the original series was really underwhelming. So overall I like Gundam when it more mature but am uninterested when it goes for a more 'clone wars' style demographic.

Well I'm currently at episode 88 of Hunter x Hunter. The Chimera Ant arc is now ramping up, I cannot wait to see how this arc concludes. Also I began Trigun.

New as in new stuff releasing or new as in new for you? For the former, I'm not much help as I'm not caught up on new releases in Anime. For the latter I can give a few action suggestions but it depends on what you've already seen. So for Shonen action if you've not given Hunter x Hunter a shot, defiantly do, I'm currently about half way through Greed Island arc and its awesome. Highly recommend. There's also FMA: Brotherhood, that another Shonen I've watched and really enjoyed. Then there's Fate. Not sure if Fate even is Shonen, some of the series such as Apocrypha and Grand Order feel very light hearted, Shonen-like but then you got series like Fate/Zero which are closer to Seinen. But if you're looking for some really good fights that is clearly a series to check out. Then there's Code Geass, mecha-Shonen, lots of action as well and a nice easy fifty episode split into two seasons so again a easy one to sit down and watch not as complicated as Fate and all its different timelines and shows. Finally Parasyte the Maxim, this one is certainly an Action-Seinen but it probably one of the best action shows out there so defiantly worth a try. If you've seen all those, I'm sure others can recommend you some more stuff.

I think the film is a character story focused on Homura and her development exiting the true nature of her wish and why she made it. At least the second half. First half is more fan service. Through I do think being able to tell us about the characters personality without saying directly 'this is the angry one' was pretty smart. Using the animation and art to tell the story visually. The ending was originally planned to be more conclusive and less 'sequel baiting' however as it taken several years for them to tease a sequel I would really say the series has been milked overly that much.

I swear I know who bottom right is. But I can't place the face with a name.

You put Saber on there, so you pass

When I first watched Eva, my brother showed me 1 through to 24. Then he switched to showing me the film over the next two episodes. And once I watched the film a few weeks later he showed me the last two episodes of the original series. I think it had somthing to do with End of Evangelion first half happens canonically before either it second half and the original ending with the original ending being the 'good' ending and the movies ending being the 'neutral' or 'bad' ending. Makes it sound like a visual novel.

Well Steins Gate, Death Note are good places to start. After that Ergo Proxy, Neon Genesis Evangelion and Monster are definitely the next step up.

Well I guess if I had to pick one series that stands out to me I feel Halo. The original trilogy to the newest game Infinite really shows how what producers and developers alongside casual consumers value in there product which is shallow, low effort online life service games which is lacking features and core content games with the most functioning part of the game being the in game store. Also to clarify, I had enjoyed the anime I had seen prior to Apocrypha. I was interested in continuing those shows but there was no driving force pushing me to delve further in anime. Nothing pushing me to hunt down the next show. Why it was Fate? Not sure, I'd guess because I watched Apocrypha I was inspired to watch Zero. After watching Zero I wanted somthing like Zero but not another Fate show as watching two Date shows back to back even I wanted somthing different. Yet still anime. So I choose Steins Gate. And that was also awesome. And it pinwheels from there. For the first few months I watched some really good shows (Ergo Proxy, Psycho Pass, Monster) as well and I think that period shaped my taste for both action and phycological anime. It was also interesting, and proberbly worth a mention but I remember when choosing to watch Psycho Pass it was down to it sharing the same writer as Fate Zero, Gen Urobuchi, and I think that's definitely an important milestone as like Games and Film before it where I eventually grew to try and learn about the people behind what I enjoyed and sought out there other works I was now doing the same with anime. I mean by my second year as a anime weeb I sat down and watched a Magical Girl show just cause I found out Gen was involved in its production.

I've seen Code Geass, Death Note and Toradora. Of those three I really enjoyed Code Geass and Death Note, with I think Death Note slightly edging out over Code Geass, but both really enjoyable shows. Toradora, I'm not massively in love with, not to say its bad, however I'm just not a slice of life guy. The other shows I've not seen yet, and most of them I don't know. However I am pretty sure middle left is Sword Art Online. Might have heard of Re Life. If I'm correct is that the show where the MC becomes a teenagers again after taking part in some clinical drug test? I might be wrong on some of the details.

He has a thing called taste, everyone loves Saber-san, she is the King of Knights and best girl of all of Fate.

Well I guess I'm reasonable new to anime, I've only been watching anime seriously for about 2 years, before that I'd watched four shows (from the best of my recollection), the first was Yamato remake this was around 2015 as I know I'd just seen the Force Awakens with my Brother when it released and we both left feeling pretty deflated from how generic and unoriginal it had been. He'd later stumbled on Yamato 2199 and watched the series and suggested I'd like it. We watched the show, and I enjoyed Yamato, however I did remember thinking there was a little too much fanservice at times. So skip a few months later and my brother was telling me about a show he'd seen clips off online called Legend of the Galactic Heroes. I decided to check it out and after four episodes found myself really enjoying the show and so me and my brother sat through and watched LOTGHs the new thesis. But it was a few months after that when my brother suggested we watch a show he binged in one night called Goblin Slayer. We watched the show, I enjoyed it and that was it for about two years. I ended up re-watching those three shows maybe another time, as we caught rumour that a new series for both the Yamato and LOTGH series was scheduled to air soon. Eventually my brother suggested we watch Neon Genesis Evangelion. So we watched the show, then the movie End of Evangelion. At this point anime went on the back burner as at the time I was in the middle of college and I was also doing some play throughs of some PC games like Fallout, KOTOR and I think Halo MCC had just released on PC. Eventually however I came back to anime, and this time for a pink haired anime girl I'd seen all over the internet... For some reason, Apocrypha had gripped me like no other anime series before. I wasn't even mad when Astolfo turned out to be a guy. Now I just wanted more anime. So I watched Fate/Zero, Steins Gate and then Ergo Proxy, Fate Unlimited Blade Works and then watched Psycho Pass, Wolfs Rain, the first two Heaven Feel movies, Parasyte the Maxim, Monster and so, so many more. At this point now I've watched 90 + shows, and most of those were in the last two years. I guess the way I got into Anime is pretty unusual (it was a real crawl and then a sudden sprint) and Fate is certainly the series that defines me most as an Anime fan. As for why I love Anime, I just think the stories in the shows and the characters are compelling. Plus the characters often look really good (I mean Fate packed with stellar character designs) and the action and animation flow in most the shows I've sat down to watch are super enjoyable. Also as my former primary passion of Games and Films have become too casual and commercialised for me to personally enjoy much anymore, (for films I say I began losing interest in the late 2000s, and as for games the late 2010s) Anime and all the decades of content were an easy medium to fall into. I do worry that one day I'd have watched all the good anime, as I've been working my way back through the years and sooner or later I'll run out, as I've yet to find a seasonal anime I'd really want to sit down and watch with only a few ongoing series that interest me, such as Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Madoka Magica and the Fate franchise. Also I do hold out hope that the Hunter X Hunter anime may return as I'm currently about to embark on the Greed Island arc and well at that point I only have the Chimera Ant arc and the Election arc to watch. I know there's the Dark Continent arc and the Succession arc so I hold unreasonable hope that it may one day be adapted up to the newest arc. A man can dream.