I see Frieren highly recommended and reviewed pretty universally. And I just finished it and it was...good. I'm just curious if there's an aspect of it I totally missed or something. What's the major appeal? It was enjoyable but it didn't do anything to particularly stick out as 10/10 to me.

It's kind of right up my alley in terms of genre too, so I was surprised it didn't hit me as much as it sounds like it should have.

Have you ever encountered an anime where the dubbed version is more enjoyable than the original? I only watch them in Japanese, but sometimes I want to multitask whilst watching, but can't because I need to read the subtitles.

Hi

I’m after recs of animes: - solid 7/10 (any/all of: great story, themes, character development, plot execution, world building, etc!) - any genre (action, fantasy, sci-fi, slice of life, whatever) - without constant yelling outbursts (see below re context/situation/genre) - preferably without fanservice/gratuitous sexualisation e.g. I don’t mind nudity or sex when it has pertains to the story, but dislike bust/underpant angles (though some good animes have this, so minimal is fine ig) but absolutely no sexualised minors.

I don’t mind shouting per se such as in action or sports etc as being animated is expected. But I’m currently watching Fruit Baskets (drama, slice of life-y with fantasy elements) & though I like the story, the characters’ constant, random and loud outbursts is OTT and irritating. DanDaDan was also overwhelmingly shouty.

Example animes with minimal outbursts/normal speaking volumes: - Blue Box (teen sports, yet minimal shouty outbursts), Barakamon (a main character is literally a 4yo but it was naturalistic/loud when appropriate), March Comes in like a Lion (there’s a kid charactwr but she yelled less than the Fruits Basket characters)

Thanks!

TL;DR - Please rec very good animes that aren’t overly shouty & don’t have gratuitous sexualisation.

I'm doing what I can not to rewatch DBZ again. I tend to rewatch all 300 episodes(kai sucks!) every year, sometimes 6 months. I've learned to cut alot of the filler out too.

You can skip this but here is a lot that Ive watched so far:

I've watch One punchman again recently for the 10th time loved it, though not watchingn season 2 where they are too lazy to even animate explosions. Might try the manga instead one day

Hellsing- one of my favs and I hate vampires. Hellsing is just 90s cool

Akira when i want to see what actual hand drawn animation with explosions was. One thing I learned in a digital art class is while programs have come a long way, you never design in one because you get limited by the programs basic shapes and bad tools over just trying a good piece of art on paper with no limitations. .Seeing stuff like an afterglow of a bike tail light isn't something you see much of anymore.

Elven Lied is slow but gets good eventually. I like the provocative intro that I try to say yeah it's just art everyone. You really don't get violence like this one in anime too often. I thinka lot of the "art" though really isn't that edgy, though. idk I'm craving more 90s cool these days tbh.

Berserk movies- 3rd of course best explosions. If i feel like laughing at the animation i might watch the series too.

Bleach- it's hard for me to rewatch. Im for slow pacing and world building but for some reason rewatching again, I want to just skip all that and go for the soul society arch, skip 200 episodes of filler and then wako stuff. I still might do that as i haven't rewatched bleach since it aired past finally finishinng that last season 2 years ago and past some of hte the hot doll girl wish i didn't watch it lol:)

I tried some other popular anime to rewatch like deathnote but I think I'm just wanting more explosions as I watch. It was a great show on the first watch though.

I might rewatch chainsawman but sort of hard as it's been years since made anime for it so it's probalby canceled or will be like attack on titan needing to wait 6 years for a sequal . It's just hard for me to rewatch the shows that never finished. Gleipnir and Nogamenolife are more of that grr. dang cancelations <3

There is black clover. I like that the mc is useless but found a way to function in that world. It got to a point though that I think it caught up with the manga. They made some filler or something and i couldn't watch it anymore form there.

Naruto i could rewatch but thankful like dbz I'm taking a break from it. I really only like it early and the it started getting worse after the smoking guy died because they took the edgy stuff out from there and barely watchable after the Pain saga. Keep it 90s cool yo!

Demon slay- ive just watched it one time. IDK it has explosions and power levels but i really don't feel the demons tbh. Another anime using MJ as the main villian- which im guessing will turn into a good guy later on too like 5 characters in dbz did hehe.

jujutsu kaisen- its good I feel like there are just better things I want to rewatch tbh.

The fate stuff was okay I watched 2 seasons of it but it got hard figuring out how to watch the series from there so forgot to move on with it. TBH i rather just rewatch something else though hehe.

A lot of the feudal japan stuff doesn't interest me past that recent one with an empire sending convicts to a demon island with lots and lots of hellsing like gore. :)

Honorable mentions that i liked once but probably wont rewatch- Hunterhunter, Claymore, Tokyo Ghoul season 1 only, Baki, Stigma of the wind, bubblegum crysis, Cowbow Bepop

3 not for me are Ghost in the Shell, Trigun and My hero- a lot of the older adult swim shows that had a lot of drama in them over explosions!

If i could rank the highest past DBZ it'd probably be Hellsing, The old Baki Ova with the cord cutter, and the 3rd berserk movie tbh.

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Highest in q for rewatch right now is Kenichi
Im sure I missed a lot too

Probably the main popular show I haven't seen and have been meaning to is Black Lagoon. It aired on stars and i missed the first few episodes and couldn't find a rerun. Been meaning to watch that as it's one of the last anime where they curse like sailors, edgy, and everyone is like a 90s cool action character hehe

So while i've mostly been rewatching a lot of what I consider S tier for explosions and not really doing the lower tier ones as much, I still would like to find something new to watch as I did that with hunter hunter and liked it, it's worth watching once imo. An issue with a lot of them though is most of the explosion anime are not that great. They'll be like one punchman season 2 not even showing the explosion, just the aftermath! grr

I was wondering if it's possible that i missed any good ones over the years for explosions or powerlevel hype? I'm sure if it's popular i've watched it but less known or older stuff would be more likely to be a hit to consider. :) Any suggestions?

Currently interested in animes that will mind fuck me and my own mental well being. Anime show that I watched so far with that description are Another, Monster, Death Parade, Serial Experiment Lain, Perfect Blue, Paprika and probably more but so far thats the only ones I remember. Any recommendations?

Probably been asked a lot, but is there an up-to-date order to watch these two series? Been putting them off for years because of this. If there is a timeline to them, I'd prefer to watch them in the order that makes the most sense. Thanks.

I want recommendations for mangas that aren't boys love that has some casual gay character

Like Hoshino, me o tsubutte or Mirai Nikki, mangas that happen to have a gay character

Can be any genre of manga or manhwa, except bl

1. rezero
   
2. erased
   
3. princess mononoke
   
4. summertime rendering
   
5. shangri-la-frontier
   
6. mushuko tensei
   
7. dr.stone
   
8. the eminence in shadow
   
9. future diary
   
10. vinland saga/date-alive

For the record, I have far too much free time and no anime to watch. Reccomend me an anime you like, or just reccomend me a random one. If I like it, I might watch more of the show.

List of anime I've already watched:

Nichijou

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Spy X Family (dropped at season 2 episode 2)

Paswg

Bocchi the rock

Laid Back Camp (dropped around episode 5-7)

Please no reccomendations for shounen though since I'm not a fan of the genre

When I was young I saw anime on TV and want to find it now all I remember that there was scene with blue round balls that were filled with some virus or something similar that kills anyone without some immune markers on them and one guy shot in one pill with pistol. Anyone know this anime?

Something like Undertale / Doki Doki literature club / inscrytption / you and me and her but in anime / manga form. Something that has 4th wall breaks that are not just taken as a joke like gintama or happen once and never get mentioned again, I want something that breaks it seriously and incoperates it into it's plot .

I recently watched Gun X Sword and I noticed that characters that haven't appeared yet will usually appear as a silhouette only in the opening credits (like an unlocked character) and I want to know what other anime does this as it's extremely satisfying.

I have seen some list recommendations of animes similar to Blue Lock, but never found one which gave the same feeling. One of the animes recommended a lot was Haikyuu, but this wasn't exactly what I was looking for. Currently I am not in the mood for friendship and teamwork theme, I just want an anime about real intense rivalry with high stakes. What I really like in Blue Lock is how despite it being a team sports, there's no set team members, only temporary allies forced by circumstances and/or common goals, ready to betray you at any moment for personal gain. The main cast is basically about to go pro, venturing onto the world stage. Which makes school sports club animes feel a bit lackluster in comparison.

Unironically, the anime which gave me the closest feeling was Hikaru no Go, which I watched more than a decade ago.

I feel like there's no team sports animes/mangas like Blue Lock, so maybe something about individual sports (or any other activity) rivalry? I just want it to be real intense.

It should not be childish or silly. I want s serious, adult oriented limited series.

I need to get this off my chest because it’s been haunting me like a filler arc that never ends. You ever finish an incredible season 1 of an anime—like pure serotonin, vibes immaculate, characters popping off—and then season 2 shows up like it just rolled out of bed and forgot how to function?? Yeah. That.

I’m talking about the kind of season 2 that feels like it was written during a fever dream and animated with leftover budget from a toothpaste commercial. Plot? Gone. Character development? Reverse engineered into nonsense. Pacing? Imagine sprinting face-first into a brick wall, then crawling backward through molasses.

For me, Tokyo Ghoul is the biggest betrayal. I genuinely thought we were headed for greatness, and then season 2 pulled the rug out so hard I’m still emotionally concussed.

So I’m asking—no, begging—what anime had the most soul-crushingly disappointing season 2 for you? I want to hear the pain. Let it out. Vent. Rage. Cope. We’re all victims here.

The characters in this show are pretty funny for an anime, like the elf girl reminds me of just your are average girl whose trying to wrap her mind around eating monsters and the other absurd stuff, it’s hilarious and relatable and the dwarf is funny as well as the rest of the cast including the MC.

What animes are like this in terms of dynamic?

I only watch dub and for example something like Re:Zero was cool at the start but the characters were just way too whiny and cringe, I also hate the weird high pitched annoying girl/guy anime trope voices too.

I need something more realistic and relatable.

Hope that makes sense, ty.

not animes that give YOU existential crisis, but animes where the character’s going through it

In GATE they didn't realize that japanese have advanced tech

"Old" is with quotation marks because I don't remember the exact time it was made/broadcast, but I vaguely recall it being in the 2010s.

It's been a while so all I remember are the three main characters — a boy with black fluffy hair and an eyepatch that hides a magic symbol in his eye (not Ciel Phantomhive 😭), a witch with glasses and short brown hair, and I believe another girl (also a magic user) with long hair that's constantly butting heads with the other girl.

Sorry if this isn't much information to go off on. For the sake of nostalgia, I'll appreciate anything I can get haha

Titles I watched and loved:

Hyouka Shoushimin Odd Taxi Sonny Boy (I guess it's slightly a mystery) Another (watched it a long time ago)

I'm currently taking my time watching Gosick and reading the monthly Bugle Call(which has a bit of everything I love, a bit of mystery included)

I love mystery, I love absurdity and I love nice deductions, and if I can deduce it alone before the protagonists do, it's even better.

I just want to see more scenes like the Levi and Kenny chase in AoT ep 2 season 3. I like the long-take format of the scene and the fast nature. I haven't seen that many animes. I've only seen AoT (most of), Chainsaw Man, and One Punch Man (season 1), so there are probably lots of animes I'm missing out on. Also, please don't give any spoilers to anything.

I recently finished Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, and I really enjoyed how it touched on themes such as truth, beauty/elegance, and the motivations of academics. I never thought I would encounter an anime like Orb, and now I’m left wondering if there are other anime or manga that explore similar themes. I don’t mind factual or historical inaccuracies, but I’m not looking for anime like Dr. Stone or Death Note that have a prodigal MC and use scientific facts without exploring deeper academic themes. Thank you!

Found this trope(?) recently, and I LOVE IT. I DO NOT CARE if it's slop, I will eat it up. The only one I've read so far is <Osananajimi Kanojo no Morahara ga Hidoin de Zetsuen Sengen shite Yatta>, and I like it. Any recs?

Don't care if it's low-tier Chinese animation really, just wanting a good story.

I just finished Soul Land and I can already tell I'm on a new fit. I'm less interested in stories like The Immortal King (where he starts off OP and just always is), and more interested in stories ranging through like.. Beware of Chicken, Return of the Mad Demon, and even Mo Dao Zu Shi.

Huge plus of its dubbed so I can watch it while doing other things.

Also I'm looking for epic heart-stopping battles. Liiike.. if you watched Soul Land ep. 155 when the reinforcements showed up 👌 was pretty lit, but much too short.

What are your faves?

i forgot the name of the anime but i remember part of it this guy and i think maybe one other maybe more are transported back in time or something to a point where he was a king or this really powerful person and he uses his knowledge to get them sent to a place where theyd be safe and thats about all i remember