I’m gonna say this cause I just finished season 2 of SAO and I need to get this off my back. This show is both terrible and amazing. The first arc when they’re actually in Sword Art Online was very good. It had somewhat weird pacing and for some reason they introduced Silica, built up her character, and then forgot about her till season 2, but it was overall very well done. Asuna is very well established here and even Kirito has a very nice story in these episodes. It manages to end perfectly hitting me in the feels...
And then we get to ALO. The idea is pretty good. Leafa is a good character and she has a good story arc here. That’s about the only good thing though. This entire part of the show feels as if all they are doing is building up Leafa’s character while destroying everything they did with Kirito and Asuna from SAO. They also crammed a lot more fan service into this part than before for some reason, and when a lot of that fan service is in your strongest female character who is a powerful role model, it just comes off as sick.
Moving into season 2 I had no clue what to expect, but I was happy to find out it was better than ALO. GGO was a very unique setting and worked very well to differentiate itself from season 1. Sinon is a great character with a great story and the combat is pretty interesting. There’s only one thing... THIS IS WHERE I STARTED TO ABSOLUTELY DESPISE KIRITO! So Kirito looks like a girl, funny that’ll get some good laughs. But instead they make him pretend to be a girl and trick Sinon for no reason or seems. He’s just being a jerk for fun at this point. And Kirito has become so OP, that watching his struggles has become less exciting and it makes me wish he wasn’t the main character anymore (I’ll talk about that later).
After GGO ends they go back into ALO, and we get the most blatant filler I’ve ever seen. I looked it up and this small arc is called Calibur I guess. It might be building up to something in SAO 3, but these episodes were still incredibly boring on their own and made me take a long break from the series.
After about a month of break from the sword art online series, I started what I will call the Yuuki arc. There are a couple great things about about this arc
1. Asuna is made a powerful female character again.
2. The show manages to introduce another great female character with an emotional story.
3. Kirito isn’t in it as much 🥳🥳🥳
I ADORE Yuuki!!! The fact that they actually killed her off, made me happy and sad cause they actually did something most shows wouldn’t do with their new female protags This arc is the best aside from the first one. Very good story, characters, and a pretty sad one at that.
Before moving on to watch Alicization, I’m going to go through the Gun Gale Online series. I’m thoroughly interested to see what happens next and I hope it’s more like the first arc or the Yuuki arc instead of the ALO arc. Thanks if you read all the way through!🥳
After I finish the first 12 anime series I’m watching I’m going to write reviews of each of them here. If I had to say what I like the most right now Toradora is waaaaay above the rest and clannad is probably second
You're really insulting him over his personal favorites? A good amount of titles in his list are of genuine quality, so are why are you criticizing him? Judging someone's particular tastes alone doesn't tell you if he's a casual fan or a die-hard.
Uh I wasn't insulting him. I just thought they fit into that specific description so well that it was funny. I say worse things about my own tastes lol.
@kkslider5552000 Now that you mention it, I am always amazed when I talk to anime fans even at anime conventions and they haven't seen, liked or will try Studio Ghibli or Ghost In The Shell. These are just stone cold brilliant movies but I reckon the lack of giggly boobs humour which runs rampant through anime puts them off. lol
There's more anime-ish anime which I really enjoyed like Nadesico, Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Tenchi and My Hero Academia but they aren't something I would ever really re-watch again. Whilst I've re-watched Cowboy Bebop every other year as it's that damn good or when I watched Kids On The Slope I was thinking about it still months later which is always a good sign of something being good, there's even a scene where they are playing music at the school and them playing together is described as two princes arguing* is something that is still clear in my mind today despite only watching it twice almost 7-10 years ago whilst I can barely remember what happened in Samurai Seven which I watched a month ago and it wasn't a bad show. To me if I can rewatch it with the same excitement and it stays in my thoughts then it's the mark of being my favourite rather than me thinking something is good only to then move on from it which why I picked what I picked.
I suppose I'm more of an animation fan than anime though, I've been watching less and less anime in the last few years mainly because I'm less willing to watch the rubbish ones to find the good ones now.
*after writing that comment I watched a clip of it and it's almost exactly like I remembered it and it really shows why live music is so much fun even more so than a filmed gig. I want to re-watch that show now!
I was under the impression that I liked anime at least a little bit, but apparently I don’t like anime at all on account of all the anime that I like from @jump‘s list.
That said, I’ve never really been able to get into any of Shinkai’s stuff, despite the impressive visuals. I’m partial to a bit of Hosoda though (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and Summer Wars are classics, and Wolf Children isn’t bad either).
As has been mentioned, Ping Pong is definitely a really good ‘artsy’ sports anime, which I’d thoroughly recommend to anyone. Haikyuu isn’t particularly ‘artsy’, but is still a really solid and well observed sports anime. Perhaps I’ll lose my ‘I don’t like anime’ elitist badge for recommending it, but I think it’s really good.
The Tatami Galaxy and ‘The Night is Short, Walk on Girl’ are both decidedly in the artsy camp (give me my badge back), and are awkward and weird and splendid (although admittedly the former is a little too awkward for me at times). Mushi-Shi is... maybe artsy. I’m not sure. But much like many Ghibli films, it’s very good at presenting the landscape as not only a stage but also a key proponent of the story. The characters and the world in which they live and thoroughly intertwined, and despite its supernatural elements, I think it’s ultimately a very naturalistic story. Or series of stories.
And then on the topic of nature, we have Silver Spoon, which is set in the sprawling wilderness of Hokkaido on an agricultural college. It’s by the same author as Fullmetal Alchemist, and despite the change in scale from world saving adventure to cow milking classes, there are still elements on common. FMA was all about hierarchies of life, and Silver Spoon is sort of the same but with chickens. ...Okay, I’m stretching the similarities, but I think they’re both really excellent.
If there is anyone else that apparently doesn’t like anime on account of all the anime they like, or indeed, actually likes anime despite liking some of jump’s favourite anime, then I’d recommend all of the above.
@Maxz Yeah, I really like some of the ones you named, particularly The Night is Short, Walk on Gir and Mushishi. Your description of Mushishi is dead on, I remember first hearing about it and thinking of it as ghost detective series as it was explained to me poorly, but really it's more like a nature program but with David Attenborough saving the day at the end of the episode. Actually my description of Mushshi is terrible too.
I'd say my favorites would be Eureka 7, InuYasha, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Rurouni Kenshin, and I have a big nostalgic soft spot for DBZ. I did really like what I've seen of SOA, but I kind of fell off after the Gun Gale arc.
In terms of movies it would have to be Ghost in the Shell, InuYasha: Castle Beyond the Looking Glass, & Summer Wars. I also had a lot of fun with the new Broly movie, even though I wasn't big on Dragon Ball Super as a show. I know a lot of people aren't big on them, but I've liked the Evangelion rebuild films I've seen (the first two).
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My favorites are Detective Conan, Haruhi, One Piece, Welcome to the NHK! and The World God Only Knows. Clearly I have a bias towards impossibly long shonen series and shorter series that involve nerds and skeptics failing miserably.
Spirited Away is my favorite anime movie. Which admittedly is a very obvious choice.
My favorite has been Lupin the Third. It's about a rag-tag group of theives gong on adventures and heists, all while on the run from the law. The main reason why I love it is the characters, espesually Lupin, who can be fun, cool and hilarious all at the same time!I got introduced to it by browsing wikipedia and saved me through the craziness of last year. Some of the movies and tv shows are defidently more family-freindly than others, but it's all seriously good stuff and there's a version of Lupin for everyone! (he's been around for over 50 years.)
Oh, and if your a detective conan fan, they have had two crossover movies.
The ones I'd recommend are...
The movie the Castle of Cagliostro
the newest movie Lupin the third: the first.
Lupin the third part 4 or part 5 (doesn't matter what order you watch any of the movies or seasons.)
If those hook you you should check out the other parts. And if you want a more violent and bloody take then you could go with the island of assassins or the R rated movies and spin-off series. But I prefer the lighter take.
Oh, and Cowboy Bebop, Medal gear solid, inspector gadget and possibly even Indiana Jones were heavily inspired by this series. But especially Bebop.
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@JoeDiddley It's frickin' awesome. I enjoyed watching "funny moments" from P4A, but the more tender heartfelt moments are as good, if not better. I don't know if I'll watch P5A, because the animation quality looks pretty dismal and grey at times.
@GamingTelescope The Castle of Cagliostro is a great flick. I find Lupin the Third a really curious thing though as it's arguably more famous than Arsene Lupin which he's loosely based on, at least in non-French countries. It's like how The Pink Panther cartoons are arguably more famous than the Inspector Clouseau films which he came from.
@jump Yeah, especially in Italy and Japan. Pretty cool! I forgot to mention that Cagliostro and the second half of part 1 was directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
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Yeah Lupin's really great. It's not a series I'd ever try to watch even the majority of stuff that's come out from it, but I'm almost always happy with what I do watch of it.
Coincidentally, SAO:Gun Gale and Lupin part 5 are the two anime that I got into not even two years ago and just never got around to watching past the first few episodes for...some reason. Weird.
From what i remember it starts with some kid who rent a vhs from a store and when they play it, it transports them to another dimension or make appear some kind of character im not too sure. I know its vague but i dont remember much
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