I was never really interested in it my whole life, but recently have been pursuaded to watch Naruto.
And I love it. It was corny at first, a bit dramatic and contained some questionable elements. But now that I'm a few episodes in I'm hooked. The storyline is an amazing display of character creation and growth.
What do you Phuks think?
Full Metal Alchemist looks dark, but still interesting. Cowboy beebop I've heard of but can't really place the image to it. Which was your favorite?
That stereotype is what kept me away from it all these years. And even still a majority of these fanclubs are a bunch of bronies but at least in the case of Naruto it is different. The drama is actully compelling and the character developent is superb.
Never watched any until the last 3 months (unless you can count Redline movie). Someone got me to watch Kill La Kill, thoroughly enjoyed. Went looking for a universally-acclaimed series for my next bite. Went through Evangelion. Total mind trip. Now everything else I look to watch seems less interesting; seems like I saw a lot of the best.
The only one I've watched is Naruto, and in my opinion it is a wonderful piece of art. Like I said in previous posts, its corny at first and seems to have some of the most "fluff" in terms of anime series. But it really hits home.
I have a few friends who constantly bug me to watch Evangelion. Eventually I will, after Naruto though.
Guess I'll trade you then. Evangelion is really a trip; I had to limit it to 1-2 episodes per day to limit the mental burden
I'm sold then. Once I finish this series, which is apparently several hundred episodes long and I'm barley 40 into it, I'll pick up Evangelion. I'll also take caution for the mind fucks. Thanks.
I like anime because they include quite original ideas. No western series or movie is ever about teenagers piloting flying robots in east Germany during an alien invasion.
Weeb trash get out.
I like the Ghibli films and stuff like Ghost in the Shell. Don't really watch any series though because they have a ton of filler in a lot of cases. The only one I watch is New Game, it's a comedy series about a female game dev company, not sure why I like it so much but I saw it on the crunchyroll marathon Twitch had last year and loved it.
Yes! I've been branded weeb. This means I level up right?
I haven't a single clue about anything to do with anime, but I'll check out some of these that you've mentioned.
Every single one of the Studio Ghibli films is good. I also recommend a documentary about it called the Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, it follows the creation of the film The Wind Rises, but also is just about the history of it and the people who work there in general.
OH I've seen Spirited Away! Never knew that was from Studio Ghibli. I watched it years ago and I know for sure I didn't have the capacity to truly understand what was going on. But I remember it being very strange, foreign, but interesting. A lot of my family liked it as well.
Got way too into it for a while. Lost all interest in the third dimension. Ignored everyone who didn't speak with subtitles.
I knew I needed to get back in touch with reality, so I dug a mass grave for all my body pillows and killed them. I haven't looked at anything even remotely Japanese since.
Those body pillows will be growing into trees pretty soon...lord knows there's enough seed...
Death Note was amazing. Viz killed the localization on it, though - the only way to watch it is with fan subs.
fan subs? is that where people make their own subtitles? pretty awesome if so.
I have a hard time with subtitles, they always distract me from enjoying the visuals. Guess its just something you learn along the way.
That's exactly right; the community sourced subtitles are usually truer to the material (so I'm told, anyway) and are far less sanitized than something a corporation like Viz puts out.
I struggle a bit as well with the distraction piece...the ones I have for Death Note are yellow and in a decent font, so they're not terrible. It does take some getting used to, though.
Naruto is the absolute best in long term series, it only gets better and better even years/ a decade in the story get richer and even more layered. If you are watching the whole thing, mind the fillers as they tend to add nothing to the story and get annoying very fast.
Cowboy bebop is excellent, so is the movie Akira
Fluff is the word that was used to describe what you call filler here. I understand there is a lot of filler shit that needs to happen, kind of character building in its own way. Gotta take a pause from all the badass shit they do right?
aye fluff = filler.
Thing is the complete naruto storyline including Naruto- shippudden is about 920 episodes..... let that sink in...
The story and development of the main chars (about a dozen if not more) and support characters (about 70-100) is pretty extensive and full in the original story alone. No real need to have "extra episodes" especially since most don't tie into the main story that well, only distract from the storyline and feature much weaker personalities/adventures then the main ones. Especially if you are 400 or something episodes in and focused on the main story/personalities fillers start to get real annoying.
I understood they used fillers mainly to slow down the cartoon to not surpass the comics as the writer is still writing the story (even now there is a new naruto series/generation being written). But it just got to much at a certain point and the quality dropped severely in the filler arcs.
These helped me a lot:
Oh this is awesome thanks! I really am becoming attached to the main storyline here. I'll have to check these sites out. I had no idea how extensive it was, and how in depth the meaning of everything goes to. Little details that show up in the first few episodes later get recalled in 100 episodes, and it has a meaningful impact on the world. I am excited for what the show has to offer. Gives me good binge watching material.
There's lots of good ones out there. hunterxhunter is good, cowboy bebop, one punch man, deathnote, full metal alchemist, bleach, etc...