Anybody around here watch the Anime?

[Naruzeldamaster]

I say 'the' because well, I mean the medium in General.
I used to watch it a lot but I stopped watching them at some point.
I'd like to get back into them to have something to watch. (if ya'll have suggestions)
But I have no idea what's new/good and I have no idea if any of ya'll know what I be yapping about lol

For the record: I don't care about how old/new it is, just needs to be of a moderate length, and maybe (fingers crossed) a proper ending. (I have seen so many short boy anime that don't reach their conclusions because of budget/other reasons )

I love a good mech anime, but I also like the classics (Yu Yu Hakusho, DBZ etc)
I've seen a couple 'The MMO but Real' anime like Log Horizon but I haven't seen Sword art Online or .hack series. (Actually I seen a BIT of .hack)

I've seen a couple Rom Coms and at least one Slice of Life. Heck, I like Magical Girl ones too lol (those are more of a guilty pleasure)

 

[xena]

I think we're on the same boat. It's been a minute since I properly enjoyed it, I typically tune in to watch popular new releases

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

I think we're on the same boat. It's been a minute since I properly enjoyed it, I typically tune in to watch popular new releases

Yeah, after being 'gone' from it for a while it's hard to know what's good or not.

 

[pmmg]

Most anime choices do not attract me. I've have seen a fair number, but do not expect much from it. I think it has kind of hit it peak, so to speak. Its influence on culture is in decline. I'd be open if something super showed up, but I've not seen it for a while. Course, I feel that way about most stuff that has come out in the last 10 or so years. I am hard to please, I accept it.

Last anime I recall enjoying was probably Violet Evergarden. I watched that when I was home with cancer. Course, I watched just about everything that there was when I was stuck at home with cancer. I am not sure the release dates on most stuff. I think the most recently released one I liked was Cleavatas, but I feel it stepped on itself and just missed being super good.

Anyway....I am indifferent to most Anime, hostile to some, and enjoy some others. I'd like some of the ones I liked to have more coming, but it seems they are not in production anymore.

 

[RoccO]

I feel like the last good Anime was GITS Arise. There are plenty of reasons to farm the decade after the milenium, but the audience has lost interest since Netflicks worked their magic. Stuff like Black Lagoon and Fruits Basket make it, even Invader Zim nowadays. There are most popular examples, being Naruto and Full Metal Alchemist, who seem raw on the power of tongue in cheek for a lot of their gags. Though fighting style is relentless, and does not have the digital aged edge.

So, for me personally, I am not sold on recent incarnations of anime for those reasons. They are all niche and clique, for an audience that is either growing up or wallowing in senility. The choices are most numerous than they used to be, and it has evolved from Gundam and Neon Genesis Evangelion, to something more like Sword Art Online and Parasyte the Maxim, and further doldrums from there, being an avant guard medium not anything super punchy and an acquired taste like a corporate hell.

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

I feel like the last good Anime was GITS Arise. There are plenty of reasons to farm the decade after the milenium, but the audience has lost interest since Netflicks worked their magic. Stuff like Black Lagoon and Fruits Basket make it, even Invader Zim nowadays. There are most popular examples, being Naruto and Full Metal Alchemist, who seem raw on the power of tongue in cheek for a lot of their gags. Though fighting style is relentless, and does not have the digital aged edge.

So, for me personally, I am not sold on recent incarnations of anime for those reasons. They are all niche and clique, for an audience that is either growing up or wallowing in senility. The choices are most numerous than they used to be, and it has evolved from Gundam and Neon Genesis Evangelion, to something more like Sword Art Online and Parasyte the Maxim, and further doldrums from there, being an avant guard medium not anything super punchy and an acquired taste like a corporate hell.

I think the main problem with anime right now.
A lot of them are 'grasping at straws' to find whatever bottled lightning made DBZ/Naruto/FMA/Bleach work. instead of doing their own thing.

Anime in all genres seems to have lost a bit of the 'magic' (I agree with Pmming on this aspect) and I think the industry/audience feels that.
What's funny is that those smaller 'no name' ones can sometimes be good.

I watched Asobi Ni Ikku Yo on a whim ages ago (Mostly because catgirls but the summary sounded funny) and quite enjoyed it. It was very self aware of what it was and didn't care, it told the story it wanted to tell. If I remember right, it even makes a few self aware jabs at itself a couple of times.

Anime does get better the further back you go. Stuff like the black and white Astro Boy still holds up.

They need to stop 'copying what's good' and start 'doing their own thing' I think heck, video games need to start doing that too. What makes a thing engaging/unique is the passion/heart put into it, not the slapped together clone of something.

I've heard mixed things about Rising of Shield hero. Most fans either seem to love the show or hate the protagonist. Sword Art Online I haven't touched due to the hype and...fanbase behind it. I've been wanting to check out the new series of Pokemon without Ash in it, fans seem quite impressed with that one.

 

[TheCrystallineEntity]

My favourites:
Digimon Adventure
Digimon Tamers
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
Cowboy Bebop
Dungeon Meshi
Inuyasha


Ones I enjoyed but don't feel the need to rewatch:
Digimon Frontier
Haruhi Suzumiya
Clannad
Kanon
Little Busters


Ones I watched but didn't like:
Digimon 02
Haibane Renmei
Air
Frieren


Favourite movies:
Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Nausicaa, Princess Mononoke
Your Name/Kimi no na Wa
Wolf Children
Persona 3 movies


Want to watch:
Oh My Goddess
Natsume’s Book of Friends
The Summer Hikaru Died
Witch Hat Atelier

 

[RoccO]

I liked Haibane Renmei, but felt like I was not in that place anymore, but could return to it. Cowboy Bebop I remember, but you forget Death Note.

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

I liked Haibane Renmei, but felt like I was not in that place anymore, but could return to it. Cowboy Bebop I remember, but you forget Death Note.

I've heard good things about death note, but I've also heard the 'protagonist' is a bit of an idiot. It's on my to do list though.
Cowboy Bebop is also on my to do list.

Video girl is one of those 'no name' animes I expected to be a meme, it actually took it's joke and ran with it, but in a completely different direction than I expected. (It ended up being more wholesome than I thought given the premise)

Kenichi The Mightiest Disciple is also good, but the anime stops right as the actual plot is starting to happen. (In the manga I mean) It left a sour taste on that front but it's absolutely Peak otherwise. The Masters are some of my favorite characters I've encountered. Even the one who's basically a more Tame Master Roshi.

If you like Mechs: Lineberrels of Iron is solid. The protagonist starts off with -1 brain cells but he gets more intelligent as the show progresses.

 

[MoSSurII]

I don't watch it as much as I used to, but here are some I just can't recommend enough:

Orb: On the Movements of the Earth
A group of people from different walks of life studying and attempting to prove heliocentrism in a society that believes in geocentrism and deems the other heresy. It has 25 episodes and is complete.

Sonny Boy
Right as the summer holidays are about to begin, a group of high schoolers discover that their school is stuck in the middle of a black abyss and that some of them have gotten superpowers. It has 12 episodes and is also complete.

The Apothecary Diaries
Maomao, a teenage girl who's very smart, gets kidnapped from her rural home and is sold off as a servant to the emperor's palace. There, she uses her intelligence to solve mysteries and help others. It currently has 2 24-episode seasons, with a third one and a movie on the way.

100 Meters
A movie that follows Togashi, a boy gifted with a knack for running, as he journeys through the world of 100 meter sprints. Also, the manga its adapted from is by the same person who made the manga of Orb, Uoto.

All of these hold a special place in my heart, especially Sonny Boy and 100 Meters :3
I have more, but I'd much rather keep this short

 

[Queshire]

Hah.... it's been so hard to find time to watch anime these days. I tend to read manga instead, though even that runs into the time crunch. Frieren is good even if most of the people talking about it have the media literacy of a salmon.

 

[ThrillhoBaggins]

I watch anime, but I'm not that big a fan of it.