No.344258
>>344257Were you a scene girl?
No.344263
>>344260Oh wait wrong girl, I mean wrong series but kagura is the best inuyasha girl.
Honestly think Kagura is a contender for best girl in Gintama since Rie kugimiya probably has her best performance in it.
>>344261They might be mistaking you for someone else.
>>344262I never finished Crono Crusade, but it seemed cool, reminds me of D. Gray Man.
No.344264
>>344263Go watch it, its worth your time
Its shitty generic humor at the beginning really hides what's a really decent show with some soul put into it.
No.344268
>>344264>Its shitty generic humor at the beginning really hides what's a really decent show with some soul put into itI don't actually agree I think early Gintama was actually peak japanese humor and really funny in its own right. Its just really hsrd to keep up with due to its meta nature. I guess not being a weeb who knows about nippon culture also hurts but it was one if the first kinomed that really hooked me.
The show is literally about the japanese version of an SS super soldier coping with the death of his friends and the soul of his country, and trying to continue the oldschool soul of the samurai in the face of its decline as Japan is culturally colonized by (((aliens))).
No.344270
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>>34426760s and 70s had some greats like original dororo, battleship yamoto, and ashita no joe, 80s had urusei yatursa and lotgh, I don't really agree that 80s mecha was all bad. You can find decent anime in all decades even now, its just at this point its at its worst.
I do really have a special place in my heart for anime of the 2000s, I'm now thinking about Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex, which was a great show.
No.344271
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>>344269Does it have to be in order?
This isn't in order:
Gintama
Inuyasha
Berserk 97'
Toraru Series
Monogatari Series
Ghost in the Shell SAC
Natsume and the book of friends
Samurai 7
Both Fruits Basket Adaptions
Devil May Cry (2007)
Honestly I can't fit all the shows I like on one list, I'm a real big fan of Trigun, and yeah I know all of the west is but its a good show. the Alita OVA is also a lot of fun. GTO also ranks up there as one of my favorites.
No.344272
>>344271Oh One more great show I fondly remember is Kamisama Kiss, I would call it peak shojo kino.
Temple was a show that came out a few years ago that oddly emulates 2000s anime.
HoriMya is a manga from the 2000s that got adapted a couple years ago, its also pretty good.
No.344281
>>344242I've only ever heard good things about it. Skipped it when it came because I knew this annoying weeb couple at the time who acted like the couple from the show was literally them and that left a bad taste in my mouth.
No.344282
>>344278You're killing the vibe. Can't we have a NICE thread?
No.344283
>>344269I haven't seen some of these in over a decade, so I don't how I would feel if I went back and rewatched them, but in terms of what anime left the biggest impressions on me:
Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Cowboy Bebop
Gundam (really just 0079, War in the Pocket, and 08th MS Team)
Macross (really just the original and Plus)
Patlabor (all of it)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Touch
Urusei Yatsura (original)
Dragon Ball + Z up to the first Cooler movie
No.344285
>>344269>>344269Roughly in order:
Detective Conan (all 1100+ episodes)
Patlabor
City Hunter
Toaru (even though Index Season 3 is bad)
Future Boy Conan
Astro Boy 1980
Ryosuke Takahashi mech shows (Mellowlink if I'm just picking one)
Gundam (80s stuff and Fighter G mostly)
Lupin III
JoJo
If manga were included some things would get knocked off the list by Kindaichi, kaiji etc.
No.344286
>>344285City Hunter is kino.
>Toaru (even though Index Season 3 is bad)But you can't deny that it still isn't entertaining.
No.344288
>>344285Some more pics
>>344286>But you can't deny that it still isn't entertaining.the source material is good, I read the novels, they just decided to adapt too much at once so a lot of interesting stuff gets shafted, especially the Battle Royale arc
First two seasons adapted 6 novels each, season 3 adapted 10 and skipped one altogether.
No.344289
>>344288Yeah I'm aware they bit off more than they could chew. Its sad cause it may never get adapted again.
Railgun on the other hand is a manga and its a lot easier to adapt. I Feel Railgun really solves my main problem with cute girls doing cute things shows, because they actually do more than just being adorable. Railgun has some of the funnest fights in any anime I've watched, Kuroko herself probably takes the cake for me as the character in Toaru with the most consistently enjoyable combat scenes, brief as most of them are.
No.344290
>cuckime
No.344299
>>344282No, fuck cuckime
Watch kinome instead
No.344303
>>344271>>344283>>344285I like how everyone's list is completely diff from mine
>>344270Idk I remember going through those decades, 60s was mostly just disney inspired furry shit and really campy stuff, 70s kinda had some more darker stuff with ashita no joe, 80s I feel was the era of like super robots (ideon (which was kino), and shit like that or stuff like fist of the north star which is also kino, but the majority of it was just not for me
to me the golden age was somewhere from the mid 90s to 2007 ish, right before bug eyed clannad cute girls doing cute things took over, took a few years for anime to recover from that shit, zeta left an impression on me simply cause the MC had legit autism, legend of the galactic heroes I feel fell off in the second half with reinhard becoming a sister complex faggot and yang just being a pacifist pussy the entire time, ruenthal was my fav
No.344304
>>344303>legend of the galactic heroes I feel fell off in the second half with reinhard becoming a sister complex faggotI think it's interesting. Here you have this ruler of the Galactic Empire, a dictator commanding a huge military fighting a space war, and at his core he's a sensitive sister complex guy.
No.344312
>>344289Railgun season 1 is an example of "filler" done right
half of season 1 is anime original content but you'd never know, it doesn't feel out of place.
JC Staff decided they would take the more serious manga and morph it into a cute girls doing cute things show. the result is as you said, a solved version of the genre where there is actually substance to what is happening. It feels unique in its perspective since it's kind of a slice of life anime set in a shonen battle setting. This makes it work well as an introduction as well, since you're mostly just seeing the surface level of the setting during the first season
My recommended way to experience Toaru for anyone interested:
Railgun Season 1
Railgun Season 2 (S)
Index Season 1
Index Season 2
Accelerator
Novels 13 - 22, including SS 1 and 2
Index Season 3 (optional, this covers the same content as the novels above)
Railgun 3 (T)
No.344314
>>344304>at his core he's a sensitive sister complex guy.I think this was one of my favorite parts of Reinhard's character, His sister
and Kircheis were so important to what he chose to become in the first place, its why hes a far more hollow man in the latter half of the series. If anything I have learned the same lesson I learned with Shinpachi and Otae of Gintama, close siblings tend to be a little bit insane, at least in fiction.
>>344312I like the way the filler builds up the characters of kuroko, saten, and uhiharu, as well as the tired researcher onee-san One of the highlights of Railgun is seeing Misaka act like her sterotypical big sister persona to all her beloved students in Tokiwadai, and her love of solving peoples problems, only to get her character broken by Toumas
bullshit power. Watching him treat her like the neighborhood girl next door and seeing her break this character of hers is probably one of favorite depictions of the tsundere type character in cuckime. Needless to say I find Touma more entertaining as a side character, although I have heard he is a lot more interesting in the novels.
No.344316
>>344312I've actually never seen it
>>344314Second half lost sense of direction, ruenthal was the true kaiser.
No.344321
>>344314the main thing they pare down in Index seasons 1 and 2 is Touma's inner monologue, so he is more contemplative in the novels, but the difference isn't huge
he just seems cooler in Railgun because that's Misaka's impression of him
No.344322
>>344321>he just seems cooler in Railgun because that's Misaka's impression of himHe certainly comes across as a lot cooler, big of a dork as he is. But I just really like how he just treats Misaka, it makes her entire character in railgun seem like a facade, however, the more you watch toaru the more you figure out that as angry as Misaka can get she only becomes that childish when Touma is around as he takes away her status as the one in charge.
here Its kinda like CIA and Bane, Misaka is a big gal until she meets the cornball king himself and she becomes little, not to mention the ultimate hothead.
I've noticed a lot of normalnigger/failed normalfags seem to hate Index, but I fail to see what us wrong with her character, shes an adorable english Nun who's whole purpose is to be cute, moody and to serve as a sort of motivation for Touma to protecc. Than again as the series goes on you sort of find out
that loli protrection is the status mark of mc in toaru, even Misaka gets her own loli to protect in Railgun S's filler arc that Toaru's main characters have little more movtivation than Itsugo from bleach, protect muh friends.
No.344331
>>344322Not everything is about Bane.
No.344361
>>344303>legend of the galactic heroes I feel fell off in the second half with reinhard becoming a sister complex faggot and yang just being a pacifist pussy the entire timeYeah, the tension never reached the same heights as the first half, at least for me. It felt like a lot of things happened just to keep the plot going. The most disappointing thing to me is that they never really did anything with the Earth cult, despite giving them a more important part in the story. Every other faction is treated as this complex and realistic group, but the cultists are little more than Saturday morning cartoon villains. It's difficult to take them seriously, even after they
kill Yang. That's not to say they should have made them sympathetic or nuanced or anything like that. It's possible to make a fanatical cult like interesting and still make the audience hate them. LotGH just never did that.
No.344383
>>344361The idea of some cult having the resources to engage in meaningful galactic politics is dumb anyway. Space travel and space warfare (as otherwise depicted in the setting) are manifestations of states with enormous resources at their command. An entire planet gaining power due to functioning as a trade conduit between empires is believable, some schmuck cult is not. The "cultists" should have simply been an Earth faction as depicted for example in Starcraft Broodwar.
No.344384
>>344383Also this kind of reminds me of my annoyance at LotGH and interplanetary sci-fi generally: I never get the sense that the politics of
entire planets is being depicted in storytelling, it's always just feels like national geopolitics being projected onto planets. Most authors are too chickenshit to speculate on how a planetary government might function, so they just settle for pretending a planet is the same as a nation. Of course this applies especially so for the author of LotGH, who was trapped in the mental confines of liberal electoral republics and was unable to think of other possibilities besides dictatorship.
No.344465
>>344384>Most authors are too chickenshit to speculate on how a planetary government might function, so they just settle for pretending a planet is the same as a nation.I felt this somewhat worked with LOTGH simply because it was always about the bigger picture even if the author was limited by modern political thought. Also some planets were around the size of a larger nation anyways.
No.344503
>>344465>Also some planets were around the size of a larger nation anyways.yeah the impression I got was that very few planets were globally colonized, so a single normal planet ends up not much different from a landmass like australia, where almost all the people are condensed in the same few spots
No.344543
>>344285>Lupin IIIGreen jacket or red jacket
or pink jacket?
No.344545
>>344543I always remember Lupin wearing blue.
No.344551
>>344543Red Jacket > Green > Pink
I appreciate what they were trying to with pink jacket though, if Mamoru Oshii had gotten to direct Pink Jacket's movie like he wanted it could've been really good