What would you recommend to someone who enjoyed Goblin Slayer, Campfire Cooking, Solo Leveling, and Rising Of the Shield Hero but didn’t care for Gurren Lagann, One Piece, or Seven Deadly Sins?
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The mandatory recommendation for all KIA2 readers is Legend of the Galactic Heroes. It's quite possibly the most MAGA anime ever made. Although it's a convoluted mess to watch because of all the different versions of it out there. The normal recommendation is to watch the 110 episode series first, which you'll have to pirate. If you make it through that (despite the terrible animation), you'll be invested enough to learn about all the other material out there.
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+1 to this. a lot of people don't like the remake Die Nu These, but I thought it was good. I just wish they would actually finish it all the way through.
the OVA is good, if you don't mind the old animation. I just hope you know japanese, or are a very fast reader, because the show can be really hard to keep up with doing just subtitles. there's a ton of different characters and subplots going on, and it can be exhausting.
isn't the OVA the one available on HiDive?
DNT is good if you're starting with someone who is completely cold to the idea. The first four episodes do a better job of setting up Yang and Reinhard's character motivations.
The best way to watch the original Legend of the galactic heroes OVA is watch the 2 movies first and then skip episode 1 and 2 and go straight to episode 3 and watch onwards. https://files.catbox.moe/b7jw99.png
Anyone think that Legend of the Galactic Heroes and Star Wars should really swap their names. ? Legend of the Galactic Heroes is about actual wars in space, whilst Star Wars is about well... legend of heroes in space ..
I want to watch it as well as read the manga. So many people have recommended it
I'll recommend the show, but not the manga. It only has a few chapters translated and is a worse adaptation than either the original ova or the new series.
Oh. Ok. Thanks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HWzLjL8SnM
Thanks!
I think you mean it's the most /pol/ anime ever made.
I think Angel Cop (uncensored sub) still holds that title.
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Who the hell do you think I am?!
A FUCKING HERETIC
I really like traditional animation, so all of my recommendations will be older or just plain old school.
Riding Bean (got retooled into Gunsmith Cats later on, but worth a watch as is, imo)
Gunsmith Cats
Dominion Tank Police
The Slayers
Dirty Pair
Appleseed
Akira
Yu Yu Hakusho (dragonball z before dragonball z. Formulaic, but fun.)
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
Trigun
Ursei Yatsura
Ghost in the Shell
Ranma 1/2 (slow burn, but fun. Caution: goes on way too long IMO)
Outlaw Star
Record of Lodoss War
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi
Devilman Crybaby (extremely detailed high quality art, but also absolutely grotesque. watch at your own risk)
Baoh (same high quality art but grotesque warning as above)
To add to the older anime: 12 Kingdoms is pretty darn good.
I'll second that. I remember watching that with a bunch of my friends back in college and enjoying it. Never finished it though, maybe I should fix that.
AKA the other 90s space cowboys. Definitely worth a watch, even if it's constantly overshadowed by the more famous show.
I always saw Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, and Outlaw Star as sort of a space western trifecta, and it's always a shame that Outlaw Star is always forgotten.
Especially being the best of the three. CB was good but it was very "hard sci-fi" where OS had just the right mix of fantasy elements to make a super interesting universe.
Patlabor
Obligatory
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. It's overhyped at this point, but it is good.
I've also been enjoying The Elusive Samurai, definitely a quirky show but I like its sense of adventure.
I'll give Frieren another spin once all of the blurays are out. I feel like it deserves another watch to see if it's overhyped or not.
Elusive Samurai is so damn good right now. Literally every single season has 1-2 really good ones and it'll make me dread anime of the year awards already.
Frieren has become one of those ones that is both very good AND overhyped.
Which probably does it a disservice if people are going in expecting some high-energy excitement. It's mostly mellow, has great character writing, and is very good at creating ambiance.
Fist of the North Star
Redo of Healer.
I watched the first few episodes of this because I like fantasy plots and I like porn. But it just wasn't very good IMO. I like a good revenge fantasy as much as the next guy, but Redo took it so far that I wasn't offended, I was bored. You can kinda tell that a lot of people felt the same way because nobody hardly bothered to even make more hentai using the characters.
I recommend Ishuzoku Reviewers instead if you haven't seen it already. I'm still astounded that it got a whole season.
Hi Dev. Your politics are shit
Don't recall there being any lolis.
But in all seriousness hello handshake. Hopefully this troll is smarter than the previous ones.
He might be referring to the wolf girl which I'd put more as a teen, or maybe the younger sister of the main bitch/loving servant but again that's at least teen.
I don't take it seriously as 1. Fictional 2. This was made to appeal to women so welcome to how fucked up THEIR fantasies are lol.
I don't accept the gradual shifting of the word in the English speaking sphere pushing the term slowly towards meaning "any girl who could be plausibly under 18" or "any girl with small boobs." Lolis are pre-pubescent girls.
Not implying you're saying otherwise, just reeing at a cloud for the peanut gallery.
We are are a strange section of the zeitgeist with the Right where people will scream their heads off about women looking post-wall and ugly in media, but at the same time if they don't look at least 27 then they scream the opposite way about pedos and lolicons.
Not trying to come off like Lethn or an enlightened centrist or something, but that's one of the things that pisses me off the most about the average right winger. Conservatives have their own brands of virtue signaling, and that's one of them.
Many of these people will be perfectly fine with telling you that women are a huge part of the problem with how easily duped and prone to hive mind mentality they are, but the second you start suggesting that the culture would be better off shifting back to them getting married in their late teens and early 20s they'll screech about you being a pedophile.
Of course, that point isn't helped on this board specifically considering the specific troll we've been dealing with who makes a similar argument in a much more vulgar manner while speeding past the proverbial line at the speed of light.
Lethn will turn any conversation to dunk on Righties, that's a far step from criticizing legitimate issues with them/us that we need to work on or watch for.
But one huge issue right now is the problem of ultra contrarianism, wherein because the Left does/likes anything, we must tear it down entirely and then blow any possible issue with it into its entirety.
Anime is probably the most obvious example, wherein things that just are about it (like every character being in high school) are sudden proof positive that all Anime is for pedos.
I fully understand, I was giving the MAXIMUM good interpretation that they were just retarded and mistook petite size with youth. You know, the Australian government's position.
Well, loli can also be almost 600 year old vampires so there's that. To me it's more of a bodytype and not based on age.
Hell, I barely saw any of it, pretty much just the second episode I believe. OP's list, three out of four were pretty much "edge," so I jokingly gave a super edgy recommendation.
Its not. They don't even try anymore, if they ever did.
I'd actually say Reincarnated as a Slime as it can have the chill vibes of Campfire Cooking plus the op powers of Solo Levelling
Other than that, Overlord might be good since it has all the dark tones Goblin Slayer has and good timing since the film is being released soon, The Unwanted Undead Adventurer is a slept on show that's very good.
Need to know if this is the few that you have watched as I can go older but if this isn't the full list, there's a good chance you've seen them.
Reincarnated as a Slime is the one anime I would say is too boring. Solo Leveling does the OP powers stuff a lot better, slime instantly gets OP and then it's boring. I watched almost all of the first season(probably 4-5 episodes off from finishing it). Not worth it.
It's personal preference as I would say it gets better in season 2 onwards since a certain event makes Rimaru drop the nice to everyone and go full merciless towards those he deems an enemy.
Plus the arrival of best butler and best friendo.
I noped out of that show when the devil horned people showed up and Rimuru started expressing homosexual attraction towards some of them.
Wait you mean the orges? If you're talking about after they evolved he just goes 'oh come on they went from monsters to 'pretty boys' and the old guy is now some dashing silver fox!'.
He then completes the joke when the blacksmith ogre turns up and looks like a normal dude and just goes 'finally! We'll be best friends!'. Anyway despite being a slime he ain't gay, his comments about Frey are enough to determine that and ironically the future wife in his head is what's stopping him getting laid.....literally.
I tried slime after seeing a bunch of recommendations, but dropped it after it got boring. It started out interesting with the weak little slime exploring the cave and trying to figure out what's going on, but then the MC is revealed to be such a mary sue that most every other character automatically loves the blob and wants to be its friend even though the slime is a boring doormat of a character, leading to the MC becoming crazy overpowered such that there's no tension or challenge left.
I'd say the side characters getting time to shine is what makes it for me, my favourite is Geld and I'm happy this latest episode they eluded to Zegion.
A few good ones I've watched recently:
Mashle (One Punch Man meets Harry Potter .. and punches him in the face)
The Legendary Hero is Dead (amusing fantasy unwilling-hero journey series)
Psycho-Pass (currently watching that one, it's a dystopian sci-fi, basically Minority Report on steroids, bonus points for being banned by the Chinese Ministry of Culture for hitting too close to home I guess)
Konosuba (another traditional isekai with decent humor)
Wind Breaker (contemporary martial arts gang warfare I guess, the overall story is ok but what makes it great IMHO is the animation, character design and character writing)
Haven't watched your series yet but they sound kinda fantasy/isekai-ish, so here are a few series in that genre that I've run into. They're fairly new and only have a few episodes out yet but they seem funny or interesting:
https://9animetv.to/watch/i-parry-everything-19229
https://9animetv.to/watch/the-ossan-newbie-adventurer-trained-to-death-by-the-most-powerful-party-became-invincible-19219
https://9animetv.to/watch/no-longer-allowed-in-another-world-19247
I might have been watching too many lately ...
For Psycho pass, I'd stop after first season, they kinda lose direction after unfortunately.
Was about to post that one. I can only second this. WTF were they thinking when they made an absolute top tier season 2...
Do you mean season 1? Or what does that mean - season 2 is top tier?
1,i don't know what kinda stroke came over me there. 2 is dreadful and I don't know what they were thinking.
Ah, that sucks. I'm currently 6 episodes into season 1 and it's pretty good so far.
Just finish at season one as being honest, if you finish there you actually have a satisfactory ending with how that season finishes.
Good suggestions.
I wholeheartedly second the first four. Wind Breaker is fun, and still worth a watch, but gets a bit too much 'power of friendship' and the tone just gets a bit weird.
As for the last three, I Parry Everything is absolutely braindead. I'm still watching it, and the last episode was a bit better but, damn, that has one of the absolutely most dense MCs in existence. It's a shame, much of the rest of the show is fun, but his outright stupidity ruins it, in my opinion. Still hoping it gets better, but if that last episode hadn't shown an improvement I was ready to drop it. Ossan Newbie is fun, and No Longer Allowed is fun but weird. Definitely won't be everyone's cup of tea.
I do want to point out, I don't think that's the main site you're linking, and is someone else mirroring it. aniwave.to is the new site, after the rebrand. If the other works, that's fine, but I did want to point out that that's an unofficial offshoot, so probably technically even less trustworthy than other greymarket sites.
Yea, Wind Breaker is a bit of a "don't think too much about it or your eyes might start rolling" story but I really like the animation and character drawing style.
Agree with I parry everything, too. The obliviousness of the MC is a bit overdone but it's still amusing, so I'll keep watching to see where it goes.
No longer allowed really has an odd MC and it takes a few episodes to find out what the title is even about. Considering the flood of isekai series it's nice to have something different.
9anime has been around with a few domains but it's hard to keep track with these streaming sites if they're still the original or some mirror because the previous one shut down. I'll add aniwave.to to my bookmarks in case 9anime shuts down.
Yeah, Wind Breaker is visually really good.
Martian successor Nadesico, 3x3 eyes, Rune Soldier and eX-Driver
I wish they had made more eX-Driver. That was a fun show with so much more potential to it.
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I really liked what you listed. Solo Leveling and Campfire Cooking especially.
There is a bunch of new fantasy cartoons this season. Here are those I like up to now :
I Parry Everything
Moonlit Fantasy. I linked S1, but the second season just finished
A Nobody's Way Up to an Exploration Hero
Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything with Low-Level Spells
Released previous season, but I loved The Unwanted Undead Adventurer
I watched alot of fantasy Japanese cartoons over the past couple years, it would take a long while to dig up my favoites, but I can direct you to this search result page listing the fantasy Anime avaliable to watch, they seem listed by newest to oldest published.
Failure Frame has an interesting twist on the usual isekai trope but that CGI animation style is horrendous. Gives off a real 90s vibe, and I'm not talking Toy Story but those low budget TV series: jarring transition between drawing and rendering and stiff as a board. I might keep watching for the story but damn do the action scenes look ugly.
It's somewhere in the ''upper bottom half'' of the animes I watched. The story is interesting enough to keep me watching up to now.
Legend of the Galactic Heroes can't be emphasized enough. Readily available at most sea-sailing websites. Since many of my other recommendations were mentioned, I'll do movies instead:
Akira
Ghost in the Shell franchise
Princess Mononoke
Boy and the Heron
Weathering with You
Wolf Children
Your Name
Girl Who Lept Through Time
Ninja Scroll
Angel Cop uncensored
That should keep you going for a while
Kill la Kill https://myanimelist.net/anime/18679/Kill_la_Kill
いい名前ね。
I happened upon KLK about a week before The Zoe Post hit, and the superposition of those two stimuli was enough to shatter my Libstian psychological conditioning.
10 years later, really fascinating to look back on how much my personality pivoted on those events.
Lots of good recommendations in this thread, but going off just these, maybe Log Horizon?
OG Berserk anime (don't bother with 2015/16 series), Chainsaw Man (Goblin Slayer in modern times on crack-cocaine), maybe Claymore (ending kinda drops the ball)
Dungeon Meshi! Honestly a great adventure style anime that feels like a modern classic to me already. Might not fit what you've liked thus far but honestly it's the one I will recommend people now forever.
Code Geass, you might not have liked Gurren Lagann because it's so hyper, maybe something politicalish is more up your alley.
If you've not seen it the quintessential anime to me is and will always be: Death Note, no need to elaborate, just watch it. At least gets that edge of Solo Leveling a bit but it did it before it was cool
I make a habit of rewatching it every now and again: I loved Fate Zero but I am a huge fate fangirl so there's that. Great, gritty urban fantasy and might just fit that Solo leveling feeling(though there is no leveling up, duh).
I've written down a couple others but honestly based on what you liked maybe not unless you really want me to then I'll post a couple more :)
Post away!
Took a bit longer for me to post:
Bakuman, if you're even tangentially interested in Manga making it's worth checking out.
Hunter x Hunter, the old 90s version is great, watch that one+the Yorknew City OVA. If you liked it the 2011 version is good just not as iconic as the old version imho. It's about a kid looking for his father and becoming a hunter.
Shiki, probably my most rewatched anime next to Fate Zero. It says horror but honestly is more mystery about killings of people in a village.
One more recent: Apothecary Diaries, it's probably gonna become a modern classic for me like Dungeon Meshi. Came out this year even, if IT doesn't win anime of the year it's either gonna be Dungeon Meshi or Frieren. It's about a girl being sold as a servant to the palace, it's in a semi chinese inspirated historical setting.
Konosuba! Need I say more? Okay, maybe: it's a comedy anime and honestly probably the most funny one out there. Plays with the isekai trope, MC being isekai'd and instead of epic adventurers(which actually do take place) it's with dumbasses, really really fun and a must watch.
Last I checked no one recommended it, might have happened by now but I gotta mention it: Steins Gate. Guy builds a microwave time machine. The less you know, the better with this one. Amazing visual novel too btw if you're into that. Has a prequel called Zero, also highly recommended.
Speed Grapher (Starts a little slow and odd and then goes crazy)
Hellsing Ultimate (Amazing animation, and amazing protagonist)
Karas (Great animation, interesting MC)
Noblesse (A more civilized Hellsing)
Sadamitsu the destroyer (Just fun for manly manly men lol)
Yukikaze (Very apt for this age of loneliness and AI. And if you like Fighter planes)
Darker than Black (Stoic MC, OP. S2 is a bit slow to start but still good)
Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade (Bros before Hos, the anime)
Redline (Car race madness, fantastic OST here's a teaser)
I haven't heard anyone drop the names Speed Grapher or Karas in a very long time. I see you come from the old guard when everything was a fansub rather than an encode.
Yamato 2199 the first 26 eps. The 2nd season is ok, (episodes 27+) but a lot more contrived and feely. The first season is incredible. There's only a few side missions, and every episode rolls into the next. Huge, badass battles, especially nearing the end.
Overlord, though I'm getting frustrated in places. Still good overall.
Full Metal Alchemist.
Kingdom
Some stuff I find myself re-watching from time to time:
Tsukimichi - 2 seasons out, isekai story I personally like, 2nd season has pretty poor animation and some pacing issues but from reading the books I really like where the story is going.
Haikyuu! - Several seasons, its about volleyball, I think its a great series.
Frieren - great series, great characters, good animation
From a very lazy bit of rummaging through my anime folder...
If you want some good isekai trash I can recommend Arifureta. Dude's class gets isekaied, he has shitty powers and gets dumpstered into the deepest hole of the dungeon and has to claw his way back to the surface and becomes very jaded en route.
Gate might be a refreshing take on the isekai genre. Basically the Japanese military goes to a fantasy world and fights dragons with helicopters and all of the grunts are hopeless otaku on the weekends so they're pretty stoked to go to a world with cat girls.
Grimgar: Ashes and Illusions: The grimdark feeling of Goblin Slayer mixed with isekai. Basically what if your adventuring party wasn't the chosen heroes who set out to defeat the dark lord but instead you all were getting punked by level 1 goblins instead. Kind of a melancholy piece but really well done.
Youjo Senki: WW2 but with magic and also our protagonist is being strong armed into being religious by god. There's some good writing to it that just kept me coming back for more. Maybe it was the sarcasm and cynicism of the protagonist as I tend to be a sucker for that sort of thing.
I would describe Youjo Senki as "what if Hitler was a 9 year old girl in WW1 Germany who can fly and shoot magic bullets".
Either way it's a real good romp.
I'll go off the reservation here and say that I enjoyed Otherside Picnic and Lycoris Recoil.... last year, I think? I'm a LOT behind on my weeb-shit.
Picnic has some nice STALKER vibes and modern urban legends. I was going to read the light novel but haven't had the time for fun reading.
Lycoris is CGD
CTJohn Wick things, and the main character's pretty likeable.I was also watching Akiba Maid War with an IRL buddy on recommendation of an internet friend, but we haven't had time to finish it. If you like slightly absurd humor and the occasional maid-o gunfight this has been enjoyable.
Fang of the Sun Dougram is an early 1980's mecha anime that is one of my favorites. The plot is the independence movement of a colony seeking to break away from Earth from start to finish.
It has some surprisingly adult themes for a cartoon that was originally for children, and does a really good job of depicting the political infighting and maneuvering of various factions on both sides.
Important question: all three seasons of Shield Hero, or just the two that were actually good?
I only watched season one tbh
Season 2 is dreadful but 3 is good again.
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress - Attack on Titan with zombies.
Fate series - Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works for starters. Then Heaven's Feel or Fate/Zero. Mages and their Servants battle it out for the Holy Grail. Fate/Zero is incredibly well put together, and is also gorgeous when it comes to animation. But Unlimited Blade Works should probably be watched first.
Fire Force - Fun show, and has some of the best music in anime, in my opinion: OP, and ED.
Dead Mount Death Play - I like this one because it really does its own thing. I like anime, but it can be very formulaic. This one keeps you guessing, and has interesting worldbuilding.
Chivalry of a Failed Knight
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
Synduality Noir
Metallic Rouge
Kaiju No.8
Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor
Isekais with some humor:
Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious
Skeleton Knight in Another World
Problem Children Are Coming From Another World, Aren't They?
Food Wars - If you like it for the cooking. If you're not a fan of fan service, it does get slightly less ridiculous past the first episode, but there is a fair bit. It's pretty hilarious, and the lewd isn't the main focus.
Delicious in Dungeon
Yuru Camp - If you like it for the wholesome chill vibes, is one of the most chill and whole animes in existence. It's literally just girls camping.
If you want the mix of wholesome but with some action, Farming Life in Another World, and My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer, and Banished from the Hero’s Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside might all fit the bill.
SPY x FAMILY is also mega wholesome.
Attack on Titan with zombies on a train.
You can't just leave out the part that makes it zombiepiercer.
Fair enough, fair enough!
Armitage III is an old favorite. Gorgeous animation, great characters, a great dub, and a really interesting plotline involving a murder mystery on Mars and a powerful "women first, women only" feminist government ruling over Earth.
Berserk 1997, or one of the fan edits that combine it with the movies for a more complete Golden Age arc, The dub for it is great too.
Overlord - if you haven't seen this one yet, pretty good isekai, but I think it went downhill after the 3rd season
Another - mc has amnesia and has to figure out which of his classmates is a ghost to stop it from brutally murdering all of them
Dungeon Meishi - probably one of the best I've seen recently. Could be classified as "dungeon survival. I've never seen CC, but I'm guessing this one will probably hit close to Campfire Cooking
Shuumatsu no Valkyrie: Record of Ragnarok - if you don't care about cannonical accuracy, fuggedaboutit! As long as it's not taken seriously, this is a great tournament-styled fighting anime. But there's a plethora of inaccuracies and embellishments
And if you like to read manga, I can recommend Uzumaki. It's a train wreck in the best and worst ways - one is almost compelled to keep watching/reading.
Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest - was already mentioned but is a strong recommend in line with Solo Leveling and Rising Of the Shield Hero
Sword Art Online - same but may have been overlooked as too obvious with many probably assuming you've already seen it
Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash - was mentioned under the alternate title Grimgar: Ashes and Illusions and is a strong recommend in line with Goblin Slayer
Anti fascist? Gundam Zeta was originally going to have a plotline about how jews controlled hollywood https://files.catbox.moe/djhaab.png
And this was a plotline that was made by the original creator of Gundam
he doesn't know what fascist means.
He is the latest troll here. I made the mistake of responding to him. Dont feed him
Sieg Zeon!
Without punching down another another anime.... Yes Universal Century Gundam is great. However if you just want to watch a good one off show set during the Universal Century timeline watch Gundam Unicorn. The animation is top tier, the attention to detail is peak, and the series is short and sweet, 7 episodes. If you want to get more involved in the Gundam Universe that can be a topic for another day.
7 OVAs
They actually adapted it into a 22-episode TV series.
Yeah. I don't recommend watching the 22 episode series. They mesh up some of the narration flow.