A few years ago I would have laughed at anime. I thought it was nothing more than Japanese kids cartoons with that anime girl artwork the "weird" girls drew when I was in high school. Was never into any sort of comics so didn't have exposure to that.
That's until I got bored with western stuff being just not good anymore. At the time I didn't hate it for the wokeness because I hadn't paid enough attention to that, but I just knew the shows were getting really shit. So I decided to give it anime a try. Here we are at the end of 2021 and I'm not sure I watched a single series of anything close to a modern Western fictional series the entire year.
Higurashi/umineko if you like a nice mix of slice of life/incredibly fucked up murder mystery. Higurashi specifically has 4 20+ episode seasons though... although 3 was more of a soft reboot of sorts until like... the last quarter. Space dandy is pretty fucking good. Rising of shield hero (although season 2 keeps getting fucking pushed back.) Uzaki was pretty good/has another season lined up. Assassination classroom was really good (don't know how far back you quit watching stuff tbh, just spitballing stuff here). Great pretender is actually really good for something netflix churned out. Dorohedoro was really good but really fucking weird... it works though, nice mix of comedy/mystery/action but holy hell is it weird. To your eternity is supposed to be fantastic, haven't watched it yet. Danmachi is really fucking good too. And tbh, i just got into anime this past year outside of basic toonami shit as a teenager... theres so much shit i'm sitting on i haven't watched yet, and most of the stuff i listed i've watched during the pandemic. A silent voice is a really good movie too.
Just saw someone mentioned konosuba/made in abyss, cannot reccomend those two highly enough, god damn. Combatants will be dispatched is from the guy behind konosuba if you enjoy that too, protag is basically a carbon copy of konosuba's but in space and he gets money for being a dickhead.
I keep googling stuff and I am realising how much of it I have seen before without context.
Space Dandy was made by the Bebop/Champloo dude, right?
Yeah, I am reading Chainsaw Man now, that could potentially lead into Dorohedoro when it comes to weird and just... ugh.
I think, i dunno. I'm a pleb when it comes to this stuff basically and get most of my recs from random shitposts/imageboards tbh. I know dandy is made by some "uber western" type guy, i remember that much which is why a lot of people say it works so good with the english dub... Just a goofy space bounty hunter trying to find new alien species and love along the way... and a pretty feels worthy episode in season 2. Pretty fucking funny show though.
A few years ago I would have laughed at anime. I thought it was nothing more than Japanese kids cartoons with that anime girl artwork the "weird" girls drew when I was in high school. Was never into any sort of comics so didn't have exposure to that.
That's until I got bored with western stuff being just not good anymore. At the time I didn't hate it for the wokeness because I hadn't paid enough attention to that, but I just knew the shows were getting really shit. So I decided to give it anime a try. Here we are at the end of 2021 and I'm not sure I watched a single series of anything close to a modern Western fictional series the entire year.
Any anime you would recommend?
I used to be majorly into anime, but then shit happened and I'm out of the loop with current stuff.
Higurashi/umineko if you like a nice mix of slice of life/incredibly fucked up murder mystery. Higurashi specifically has 4 20+ episode seasons though... although 3 was more of a soft reboot of sorts until like... the last quarter. Space dandy is pretty fucking good. Rising of shield hero (although season 2 keeps getting fucking pushed back.) Uzaki was pretty good/has another season lined up. Assassination classroom was really good (don't know how far back you quit watching stuff tbh, just spitballing stuff here). Great pretender is actually really good for something netflix churned out. Dorohedoro was really good but really fucking weird... it works though, nice mix of comedy/mystery/action but holy hell is it weird. To your eternity is supposed to be fantastic, haven't watched it yet. Danmachi is really fucking good too. And tbh, i just got into anime this past year outside of basic toonami shit as a teenager... theres so much shit i'm sitting on i haven't watched yet, and most of the stuff i listed i've watched during the pandemic. A silent voice is a really good movie too.
Just saw someone mentioned konosuba/made in abyss, cannot reccomend those two highly enough, god damn. Combatants will be dispatched is from the guy behind konosuba if you enjoy that too, protag is basically a carbon copy of konosuba's but in space and he gets money for being a dickhead.
I keep googling stuff and I am realising how much of it I have seen before without context.
Space Dandy was made by the Bebop/Champloo dude, right?
Yeah, I am reading Chainsaw Man now, that could potentially lead into Dorohedoro when it comes to weird and just... ugh.
I think, i dunno. I'm a pleb when it comes to this stuff basically and get most of my recs from random shitposts/imageboards tbh. I know dandy is made by some "uber western" type guy, i remember that much which is why a lot of people say it works so good with the english dub... Just a goofy space bounty hunter trying to find new alien species and love along the way... and a pretty feels worthy episode in season 2. Pretty fucking funny show though.