Essential What Anime are you currently watching?

[T-K-G]

Reccs that I would suggest in general.
Frieren
Dungeon Meshi
Apothecary Diaries
Vinland Saga
Orb
Dark gathering - only if you like horror
Look Back

For ones suited for battle shounen fans

Blue Lock
JJK
CSM
Dandadan
Bleach - TYBW
Wind Breaker
Shangri-La Frontier
Attack on Titan

Action that is story driven
86
Black Butler (skip filler episodes in S1 & Skip S2 it’s all filler)
Golden Kamuy
Mob Psycho
Summertime render
Undead Girl Murder Farce

Aot definitely in the wrong spot:
-all of the action is story driven they not out there just boxing for the sake of it
-there's no real power scaling that determines how shyt is gonna go before hand, imo that's the main characteristic of battle shounens, a rankable power system
-attack on politics was a real thing

it gets grouped with battle shounens because it's popular as hell but it never was the same type of show


i think your "action that is story driven" is moreso "Slice of Life with some action scenes"


like apocalypse hotel could be in there with mob psycho, jobless, frieren, konosuba, etc.


Action w/heavy plot needs it's own list, would prolly be like:
AoT
Made in Abyss
Heavenly Delusion
Ranking of Kings


where the fighting is just a byproduct of the plot we're trying to figure out, they would do it without fighting if they could

 

[Jmare007]

Action w/heavy plot needs it's own list, would prolly be like:
AoT
Made in Abyss
Heavenly Delusion
Ranking of Kings

All fire ass shows, we should get more of that style

 

[tripleaamin]

Lord of Mystery is definitely moving too fast @tripleaamin could barely make sense of what was happening in the beginning outside of them having sealed objects similar to JJK with grades and everything and trying to find a book from some family, other organizations also looking for the same book.

it sucks ass to have a crazy fight sequence but 0 idea of who is doing what or how because they never bothered to explain any combat or how these peoples powers work whatever moment they're rushing the studio to get to better be worth it cuz they still gonna have to come back and explain the power system and whatever else they skipped

Dunn has sleep abilities but also a lightning affinity? Leonard can use plants but has some darkness/shadow affinity he's keeping secret for now (he also pretended to be trapped by the puppet so he could watch Klein)

i have no idea what the rest of the team was doing besides getting clapped up

the Gray Fog/Mist place where he had that meeting is similar to the Cube in Super Cube, Klein can go there and basically take a timeout from any fukkery going on around him, it's in its own dimension



but since the animation is crazy nobody in here should have any issues with the plot pacing it doesn't matter

Yeah, this show def feels like it was made for the novel readers. Which I ain't completely mad at, but I went on the subreddit, and apparently they already adapted 1/3 of the first book.

I can only hope when Orv anime comes it doesn't go like this for anime-onlys.

Aot definitely in the wrong spot:
-all of the action is story driven they not out there just boxing for the sake of it
-there's no real power scaling that determines how shyt is gonna go before hand, imo that's the main characteristic of battle shounens, a rankable power system
-attack on politics was a real thing

it gets grouped with battle shounens because it's popular as hell but it never was the same type of show


i think your "action that is story driven" is moreso "Slice of Life with some action scenes"


like apocalypse hotel could be in there with mob psycho, jobless, frieren, konosuba, etc.


Action w/heavy plot needs it's own list, would prolly be like:
AoT
Made in Abyss
Heavenly Delusion
Ranking of Kings


where the fighting is just a byproduct of the plot we're trying to figure out, they would do it without fighting if they could

Fair point. S1+S2 it was basically discovering the world and just literally surviving. (Starting to realize Hells Paradise feels inspired by AoT, but is more of a typical Shounen, Kind of surprised I just realized.)

Transition starting in S3 was more so all of that world building and lore. It went deep in that direction starting in Final Season.

Perhaps the better wording would be narrative-driven 86, STR, AoT, MiA, etc.

Made in Abyss is fantastic, but like Mushoku Tensei & Monogatari I am hesitant to casually recommend it to people. Like for Made in Abyss, it gets really dark and bleak, but where it starts to sexualize children is the main thing. Ignoring that it is a masterpiece imo. Would never touch the manga because I heard it's even more creepy than the anime

 

[T-K-G]

All fire ass shows, we should get more of that style

THIS is what i be saying when i shyt on shows that are only good at one side of the coin (animation/plot) there are a ton of piff stories that get dragged down simply because the studio who owns the rights to it are trash/cheap

the shows i named are head and shoulders better than the projects with cool plot/bad animation and shows with good animation but terrible plot


but it's like the vast majority of anime fans must just be talking over/ignoring the plot of shows they're watching and solely ranking them on the animation (which REALLY should go to the animation studio, not the stories themselves)


animation is only gonna get better every year, are the top all-time rankings gonna continuously change simply because a studio had more budget to make the movements smoother? That conversation is gonna be unserious very quickly if that's the case.

if the quality of the plot isn't in the same realm as the quality of the animation im not rolling

 

[storyteller]

Just found out Takashi Miike executive produced a new anime...but I really wasn't expecting this.



Cats contract a virus that causes people who have too much physical contact with them to turn into cats. It's a zombie apocalypse, except instead of people turning into zombies, they're cats. Miike made legendary horror movies like Audition, and also gonzo stuff like Ichi the Killer, but this is a wild one

 

[T-K-G]

Made in Abyss is fantastic, but like Mushoku Tensei & Monogatari I am hesitant to casually recommend it to people. Like for Made in Abyss, it gets really dark and bleak, but where it starts to sexualize children is the main thing. Ignoring that it is a masterpiece imo. Would never touch the manga because I heard it's even more creepy than the anime

i feel like japanese animation in general strings that stuff along way more than they need to

on a read through it's way easier to speed past that stuff, it shouldn't be compelling for a grown adult to read anyway.

i will continue to say in Jobless once you past the (entirely skippable) ED arc that shyt fades well into the background, dude is just juggling hoes in his house from that point on and the plot for the story doesn't even start until this next season that's coming out. Episode 1 (maybe 2 if they stretch it) is gonna be the heaviest shyt of the series (which could easily go another three seasons)

the nikkas who go at length to defend that arc are wild tho i straight up dropped that shyt and picked it back up once i read it was skippable and pointiless

in Abyss idk cuz i didn't read it if they get too heavy into the trauma-porn side of things i'll drop it, but for right now everything is just falling under the standard "this place is fukked up" umbrella

 

[tripleaamin]

Just found out Takashi Miike executive produced a new anime...but I really wasn't expecting this.



Cats contract a virus that causes people who have too much physical contact with them to turn into cats. It's a zombie apocalypse, except instead of people turning into zombies, they're cats. Miike made legendary horror movies like Audition, and also gonzo stuff like Ichi the Killer, but this is a wild one

This is one I want to try. Studio looks solid too with that crazy premise.

 

[tripleaamin]

YESSSSSSS

 

[T-K-G]

Yeah, this show def feels like it was made for the novel readers. Which I ain't completely mad at, but I went on the subreddit, and apparently they already adapted 1/3 of the first book.

idk they seem pissed off too the show isn't even giving us proper inner monologue so we can understand what characters are thinking when they do stuff

they mighta taken the shows title a bit too literally, but apparently episode the fight with Clown was the "moment" they wanted them to reach in the first 3 episodes, if episode 4 is back to a regular pace i might just read it to fill in the blanks we already missed out on.

also saw that the reason they sped through it was so a fight would be in episode 2 as well

this rushing to "get to the fights" trend in anime is gonna ruin the business in the long run, stories with good plots shouldn't be trying to rush to keep up with braindead stories who only have fights to offer, but it looks like that's what the studios are pushing for everybody want that Demon Slayer money (i like demon slayer, but it aint a top 5 story, the art style is top notch tho)

but all that's gonna happen imo is Tower of God all over again, less budget for season 2 and it's too late to double back an explain stuff cuz you already lost the casual crowd


reddit saying they whitewashed his teacher he was supposed to a darker skinned breh but japan just gotta make everyone white

 

[tripleaamin]

idk they seem pissed off too the show isn't even giving us proper inner monologue so we can understand what characters are thinking when they do stuff

they mighta taken the shows title a bit too literally, but apparently episode the fight with Clown was the "moment" they wanted them to reach in the first 3 episodes, if episode 4 is back to a regular pace i might just read it to fill in the blanks we already missed out on.

also saw that the reason they sped through it was so a fight would be in episode 2 as well

this rushing to "get to the fights" trend in anime is gonna ruin the business in the long run, stories with good plots shouldn't be trying to rush to keep up with braindead stories who only have fights to offer, but it looks like that's what the studios are pushing for everybody want that Demon Slayer money (i like demon slayer, but it aint a top 5 story, the art style is top notch tho)

but all that's gonna happen imo is Tower of God all over again, less budget for season 2 and it's too late to double back an explain stuff cuz you already lost the casual crowd


reddit saying they whitewashed his teacher he was supposed to a darker skinned breh but japan just gotta make everyone white

I feel like the studio doesn’t have faith that people will be hooked by the dialogue alone. It makes it feel like why you even animating it then. Not every story needs a great start like AoT. Slow burns exist for a reason.

The show not easing you into the world is a red flag. I don't want to hear people say, well, it has a lot of dialogue and exposition. Well, same thing with Monogatari, but it eases you into the world. There are other examples of that too with other shows.

I can deal with bad/mid animation if the writing and pacing is good. Sword of the demon hunter is like that because no one checking that one for the action. Hell I dealt with the abomination that was Kingdom S1+S2 animation and visuals because the writing and pacing were on point. Then it became a godsend starting in S3.

Bad pacing and skipping important stuff is the easiest way to ruin an adaptation. Unlike things like art direction and animation where future seasons can be better in those areas. It is close to impossible to fix bad pacing because the author writes everything for a reason.

 

[tripleaamin]

Spoiler: AoButa S2 - Episode 1

So the first thing that is clear is that Miori Mitou is incredibly sus.

• She is knowledgeable about Puberty Syndrome.
• She even knows the whole not being seen, which was a core element in Bunny Girl Senpai, Dreaming Girl and Knapsack Kid arcs.
• Though the weirdest thing, despite looking similar it seems that Uzuki didn't recognize her.

On the other hand, it seems that Nodoka and Uzuki had a bit of an argument. Uzuki works as a solo artist potentially. Although interesting point that Sakuta said that Nodoka is complaining of her work increasing is an interesting viewpoint. I wonder for Nodoka it will about her rising to the challenge, assuming Uzuki does move to Solo artist work.

The name Touko Kirishima was confusing when I watched the post credits of Knapsack Kid movie. Though it seems no one knows Touko's identity. Uzuki maybe being her could make sense. Though Uzuki being body swapped is def interesting. My first guess it would be Miori.

 

[Figaro]

Solo Leveling…

Bro level’d up in episode 6

6 bodies, 1 monster & rent paid all in a days work

 

[Balla]

Edgerunners 2 in production.

 

[tripleaamin]

Man CyGames Pictures continues on delivering This only adapted chapter 1+2. As well as a few pages in chapter 9+10. So much added context is anime original that really elevates the early parts that I read so well. How good the cinematography here was absolutely stunning. Instance like how the environment gets darker when it is time to get more serious in tone was great. Do note that there is some Yaoi/Boys Love subtext. The focus is small compared to the Horror+Supernatural Mystery aspects of the series, which is the meat of the series.

The big thing that is made clear is that the Hikaru we see is not the Hikaru Yoshiki knows. But the feeling of not wanting to let him go is something I get. Do we really want to say goodbye to our beloved friends & family. The movie scene is great because he has Hikaru's memories and recalls him seeing it. But this version of Hikaru has not seen that movie. It further shows you there is a difference in the two Hikarus.

Really excited to see how this adaptation plays out.

 

[Jmare007]

Made in Abyss is fantastic, but like Mushoku Tensei & Monogatari I am hesitant to casually recommend it to people. Like for Made in Abyss, it gets really dark and bleak, but where it starts to sexualize children is the main thing. Ignoring that it is a masterpiece imo. Would never touch the manga because I heard it's even more creepy than the anime

in Abyss idk cuz i didn't read it if they get too heavy into the trauma-porn side of things i'll drop it, but for right now everything is just falling under the standard "this place is fukked up" umbrella

I did not start the manga from the beggining but caught up once the anime finished. At least the stuff I read was not but idk if the author went full retard in the earlier

parts of the story