Only takes shows I’ve seen into consideration, so maybe one day I’ll do another, more comprehensive one. Make it a collaborative effort maybe?
Whatever, it was fun to make this afternoon.
Cowboy Bebop is Banime while Kaguya sama and shiteXfamily are worth watching
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A leftist reading of Cowboy Bebop is that it’s a story about atomized existence amongst the disenfranchised under capitalism, produced in the 90s after history ended with libshit world domination. It’s S tier kino animation and plot wise, Spike is also a Literally Me character.
spy x family is good
also cowboy bebop is pretty good politically, but i do not think the ‘plot’ is good. vicious makes every episode he appears in worse, the shows only really good as an episodic thing. many of the individual episodes have great plots though, i’m not trying to shit on it too much
also i think banime means it’s aimed at anime skeptics, and cowboy bebop is an infamously good gateway anime
It’s very episodic, bounty of the week. The weak episodes are okay, but the strong episodes are some of the best stories I’ve ever encountered. And it runs through lots of different genres. There’s some horror, some drama, some romance, some police procedural. Nerds of a certain age consider the sound track one of the best albums of the 90s, if not our lives. Like the music alone is a major artistic achievement and worth listening to.
absolutely. it’s a great show, it looks great, the ost is incredible, it’s got some really amazing episodes of television there. i just think it’s worth putting it in context, and i don’t think it’s true that the plot (which generally refers to the overarching narrative) is “S tier kino”
The Banime category is for “I hate anime and weeb tropes, but I am willing to give something a shot”
And Dirty Pair is doubly hilarious to us Star Trek TNG fans. The TNG writers were themselves fans, so there’s a ton of subtle references throughout the show. For example, in the Star Trek universe there is canonically an element “keiyurium” which is, as one might expect, highly explosive.
Dirty Pair has references to TOS in it!
It’s quality Sci-Fi, but the authors being Star Trek fans makes it even better. They probably went :soypoint-1: :soypoint-2: over seeing the show they worked on referenced in TNG.
The art director, Micheal Okuda is of Japanese descenet if the name didn’t tell you and was an 80s weeb. That’s why there’s an Akira class starship and a a bu.ch of other little names from anime here and there which was unusual as hell for a late 80s early 90s American Sci fi shoe
Oh, yeah, Akira should definitely be on this list. As a story it’s iconic, as art the hand drawn, 24 fps frame rate in important scenes is beautiful.
Red Line is another one that’s worth seeing as art. It’s a wild labor of love personal project that took like seven years to finish. The animation is just incredible. Highly stylized, creative, energetic, and gorgeous.
Check the CW on both; Akira is very violent and emotionally heavy, and Red Line has some cheesecake nudity and exaggerated, cartoon violence.
My two favorite anime are Mushishi and 3 gatsu no lion.
Mushishi is a wonderfully directed episodic show about traveling witch doctor who cures ills caused by spirits
3 gatsu no lion is about a 16 year old chess prodigy trying to live on his own that struggles with depression caused by dysfunction in his adoptive family, and the loss of his bio family. Realistic depiction of overcoming depression by letting good people in. I absolutely adore it. It’s funny, cute, artsy, with great character development.
3-gatsu is the GOAT, I wish I could convince my friends to watch it. The best I’ve gotten through is explaining that it portrays the emotions and thoughts of the characters in a very visual way.
Pitch it to them by saying that 3gnl is what your adolescence would’ve been like if you got the support you needed. Tell them that watching the show is like watching a friend heal.
Or just say that it does the best job of blending drama and slice of life out of any show.
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my favorite anime of all time is revolutionary girl utena, and mobile suit gundam is also great. i’ll recommend 2 anime not on here to check out
hellsing ultimate is about vampires hunting down vampires, with massive amounts of nazi’s being brutally killed. only 10 episodes, though they’re all like 50 minutes as opposed to standard tv anime length. content warning for sexual assault, both threatened and enacted
keep your hands of eizouken is a great slice of life about an anime club that’s made with so much love for animation as an art form. it’s got a unique artstyle and setting and it’s just really neat. only 12 episodes
0/10. It should just say Nichijou
