IGN Recommends 8 Anime To Watch If You Love Video Games
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[QUOTE=Fr3ddi3;50952763]I'm not an anime fan at all (not the art style, more what's usually produced with it, fan service and attempts at humour ect) but Holy fuck how can you not include ghost in the shell, and Grave of the fireflys. those 2 films are incredibly 'western' with adult stories, fireflys (is a real story) actually had me crying at one point.[/QUOTE]
Naoki Urasawa's Monster is extremely Western and is a masterpiece in my opinion. The ending could have been better but the journey is great.
[Media]http://youtu.be/n86hgIXc1BM[/media]
[Media]http://youtu.be/GaguNANwrK8[/media]
Konosuba has a few things that annoy me so far, mostly just one or two cringey throwaway gags, but other than that it's pretty fun.
You know that one weirdo you run into in an MMO that just won't play their class right for 'roleplay' reasons? The 'frost mage' black mage in FFXIV who barely does any damage? People who insist on using polearms in vanilla WoW? Konosuba is like if you stuck on competent, average person in with like three other people like that and made a comedy out of it.
It's neat.
[QUOTE=Reds;50954484]shallow power fantasies where everybody spends the entire show jerking off to how great and powerful the main character is, who is dumped into a setting carefully designed for him and his band of literal original-character-do-not-steals to be the strongest with no opposition because the world is designed so that the strength limit is way below their power level.[/QUOTE]
Holy shit, that sounds like the best thing ever. I hope it's executed well.
[QUOTE=kono_kun;50955069]Holy shit, that sounds like the best thing ever. I hope it's executed well.[/QUOTE]
Don't worry, it's absolutely not
[QUOTE=d00msdaydan;50955095]Don't worry, it's absolutely not[/QUOTE]
Damn. Maybe the other guy should've used actual cons of the title instead of the baller premise to deter people from it.
[QUOTE=kono_kun;50955069]Holy shit, that sounds like the best thing ever. I hope it's executed well.[/QUOTE]
Starts off slow, and ends right before shit starts to really happen(it still has a badass fight scene at the end). Even with that, it still is a good show in my opinion.
[QUOTE=Zet;50955186]Starts off slow, and ends right before shit starts to really happen(it still has a badass fight scene at the end). Even with that, it still is a good show in my opinion.[/QUOTE]
That fight scene, like all of the others, sucked. It's just him hurling dozens of spells that are effectively all the same because they don't have their purpose explained and thus mean nothing beyond "does damage", and it's only even a fight because he deliberately gimped himself to be at a fraction of his power, and then he wins the fight using [sp]items from the pay-store. Yes, he uses actual pay-to-win items. [/sp]
Meanwhile Log Horizon did MMO combat properly so it's extra bad when somebody already did it the way you should be doing it
He is mind-numbingly invincible and reality-shattering and could conquer the world in a weekend if he wanted and instead spends the series meandering and pretending to be a generic swordsman doing menial tasks for a generic adventurer's guild. He doesn't do anything interesting at all.
Anybody will look at Overlord's premise of him being a skeleton overlord and think it's a great idea, but it's used about as well as SAO.
[QUOTE=Reds;50955341]and then he wins the fight using [sp]items from the pay-store. Yes, he uses actual pay-to-win items. [/sp] [/QUOTE]
but this is so funny that it makes me want to watch Overlord
At least it's not SAO's whole [sp]died then deus ex machina'd back to life for no reason[/sp]
[QUOTE=Reds;50955341] and then he wins the fight using [sp]items from the pay-store. Yes, he uses actual pay-to-win items. [/sp]
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This sounds brilliant.
As someone who hates anime and anime tropes, I'd reccomend Samurai Champloo. It really avoids a lot of them and is just a really good time. The movie Akira is also pretty good, and although it sometimes revels in that annoying anime convoluted plotlines and exagerrated emotions, the story is really fun to watch and feels very real.
[QUOTE=Rika-chan;50955040]Naoki Urasawa's Monster is extremely Western and is a masterpiece in my opinion. The ending could have been better but the journey is great.
[Media]http://youtu.be/n86hgIXc1BM[/media]
[Media]http://youtu.be/GaguNANwrK8[/media][/QUOTE]
I've started watching this and it's really good. It doesn't have many anime tropes and feels more like a thriller series from the UK, just animated.
[QUOTE=maddogsamurai;50952948]8. Any other Gundam series NOT SEED[/QUOTE]
Ohh boy. I tried to forget about this specific show.
When I tried to watch SEED, I knew it was supposedly terrible, so I watched the compilation movies to try to power through it quicker and get it out of the way.
I was not ready for the magnitude of UTTER SHIT that was thrown my way. I almost cried several times throughout-- Not because of any sad character deaths or whatever, no, just from how fucking terrible it was. So much pointless drama and anger and LOL LOOK HOW INSANE THE BADGUYS ARE Xd and "Jesus Yamato", a character with plot armor so thick you swear you could see it warping spacetime around him in every scene.
The only decent thing were the mobile suit designs, and the two main characters of the first season got noticeably more tolerable in Destiny, only for it to come crashing back down with Ultimate Teenage EdgeAngst: The Characterâ„¢ being introduced.
And don't even get me started on Recogunista in G.
Does Paranoia Agent counts, since one of the episodes is centered around JRPGs? [sp]And then the rest of the show turns into wonderful, incredibly dark, and cynical study of paranoia.[/sp]
[QUOTE=bunguer;50951891]From that list, Re:Zero, Fate, Log Horizon (1st season) and SAO (first arc, ~13 eps) are decent choices that don't abuse most tropes that give anime a bad name (e.g. excessive fan-service) but only the last two are directly gaming-related, there are better starting animes in any case.
Spirited Away is an amazing movie that shows what anime can do. If you want a TV series you have Cowboy Bebop and more recently you can try ERASED.
Facepunch has an hate boner for anime because it's fashionable to hate on it, anime is an art medium, you can do amazing things with it or you can do shitty things. No one evaluates movies as whole by taking a look at transformers or games by taking a look at bad rats.[/QUOTE]
If you watch anime that's all good and fine. However as soon as you get into that "Bok-choy is best girl, Bok-choy is my waifu" and you start buying those figures you loose me.
And that kind of fan culture is pretty closely tied to anime, video games and kids shows. Like for example when Breaking Bad was still airing most of the fanbase wasn't saying stuff like "Jessie Pinkmen best guy, Jessie Pinkmen is my husband" where as when you talk to someone about an anime I swear most of the time they have to mention "so and so is best girl yadda yadda yadda".
[QUOTE=megafat;50955897]I've started watching this and it's really good. It doesn't have many anime tropes and feels more like a thriller series from the UK, just animated.[/QUOTE]
Guillermo del Toro and Naoki Urasawa actually have a deal for a live action version of it. There hasn't been any news on it since last October though.
Fuck anime, manga is the shit.
[QUOTE=Slim Charles;50957207]If you watch anime that's all good and fine. However as soon as you get into that "Bok-choy is best girl, Bok-choy is my waifu" and you start buying those figures you loose me.
And that kind of fan culture is pretty closely tied to anime, video games and kids shows. Like for example when Breaking Bad was still airing most of the fanbase wasn't saying stuff like "Jessie Pinkmen best guy, Jessie Pinkmen is my husband" where as when you talk to someone about an anime I swear most of the time they have to mention "so and so is best girl yadda yadda yadda".[/QUOTE]
I disagree that's a problem associated with any of those mediums but a problem related to the content.
You will find that most of those comments don't appear when talking about mature shows, which Breaking Bad is, you won't find that type of comment in Monster. You do see a lot of that type of comments in less mature TV shows such as Supernatural though.
It also become a bit of a meme in anime, where people will use that sentence in a jokingly manner.
But there's serious animes where people are still making the waifu/husbandu thing
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I just find personally anime and cartoon fans are a bit more obnoxious with their in jokes then avid fans of other mediums.
[QUOTE=Hikkotch;50957296]Fuck anime, manga is the shit.[/QUOTE]
I agree. There are many good mangas that get butchered down by their horrible anime adaptions. Sometimes it's really sad.
[QUOTE=Antimuffin;50957740]I agree. There are many good mangas that get butchered down by their horrible anime adaptions. Sometimes it's really sad.[/QUOTE]
GATE being a great example. Sure the manga and the light novel series feels very Michael Bayish the way the author likes to jerk-off how amazing and nice the JDSF are and all of the other countries are greedy a-holes(America wants resources and to annex the fantasy land, China wants to overtake it, and Russia wants to blow it up), but the anime cuts some of the important and interesting political parts and makes it look like an ecchi series with dragons and rocket launchers. So its pretty much just the hilariously dumb Michael Bay moments throughout.
[sp]Plus the manga is a defining piece that makes me question how far I've crossed the line on liking monster girls. Dem Bunny Warriors 'tho.[/sp]
[QUOTE=Slim Charles;50957712]But there's serious animes where people are still making the waifu/husbandu thing
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I just find personally anime and cartoon fans are a bit more obnoxious with their in jokes then avid fans of other mediums.[/QUOTE]
I can agree that there are certain behaviors that are more commonly found in anime fans but I do think that more mature content tends to have a more mature community, in a way that you can mostly avoid all that crap and have good discussions and reviews. Exceptions always exist, even in normal tv shows, like people still fawning over Natalie Dormer in game of thrones despite being serious show.
In my opinion, the more exposure people have to good anime, the easier these stereotypes can be dismissed as being a subset of the medium/community and not something that is mainstream.
As it happens with most things, the more obnoxious are also the loudest and they paint a bad picture.
[QUOTE=bunguer;50952547]Everyone has their opinion on SAO and it's definitely controversial to like it.
It was originally written by an amateur and this is apparent throughout it's multiple pacing issues, shallow characters and cheap conflict-resolving tactics. The best arc in terms of writing is by far the Mother's Rosario where the main character sidesteps and the author focus more on the side characters.
Still, despite the obvious writing failures, SAO has very good production values with amazing backgrounds and OST. It has good fighting sequences and I found it generally entertaining and easy to watch.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzMEcMDtAQw[/media]
However, I feel that SAO is that summer action flick that somehow people like to over-analyze as if it was trying to be a master piece. I certainly didn't watch it expecting to be on the same level as NGE or similar.[/QUOTE]
If by good fight scenes are you by chance talking about "I need to fight this boss" *commercials* "I beat him"? Because that literally happened.
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[QUOTE=Reds;50954484]Do yourself a favour and stop, Overlord is trash unless you like shallow power fantasies where everybody spends the entire show jerking off to how great and powerful the main character is, who is dumped into a setting carefully designed for him and his band of literal original-character-do-not-steals to be the strongest with no opposition because the world is designed so that the strength limit is way below their power level.[/QUOTE]
I think you missed the point of the show.
[QUOTE=SpartanXC9;50958368]
I think you missed the point of the show.[/QUOTE]
I got the point and I didn't like it because it was incredibly boring. The point was "watch this skeleton guy steamroll generic fantasy universe" and it was executed in the dullest way possible that made me dislike all of the main characters on top of that.
[QUOTE=SpartanXC9;50958368]If by good fight scenes are you by chance talking about "I need to fight this boss" *commercials* "I beat him"? Because that literally happened.[/QUOTE]
I'm talking about the overall animation quality and production values, such as:
[vid]http://sakuga.yshi.org/data/1aaac2bcafebe02e1e4fb4ab5f641114.webm[/vid]
[vid]http://sakuga.yshi.org/data/703291b623f29b845047fba145a45f15.webm[/vid]
I know not everyone cares about things like that, but I'm an hobbyist artist and those animations are really fluid with a very dynamic camera.
The only anime I've ever watched is Samurai Jack
[QUOTE=bunguer;50958523]I'm talking about the overall animation quality and production values, such as:
[vid]http://sakuga.yshi.org/data/1aaac2bcafebe02e1e4fb4ab5f641114.webm[/vid]
I know not everyone cares about things like that, but I'm an hobbyist artist and those animations are really fluid with a very dynamic camera.[/QUOTE]
I don't know if it's just me, but that doesn't look like anything special.
Sure it could be worse but it just looks average at best.
[QUOTE=bunguer;50958523]I'm talking about the overall animation quality and production values, such as:
[vid]http://sakuga.yshi.org/data/1aaac2bcafebe02e1e4fb4ab5f641114.webm[/vid]
[vid]http://sakuga.yshi.org/data/703291b623f29b845047fba145a45f15.webm[/vid]
I know not everyone cares about things like that, but I'm an hobbyist artist and those animations are really fluid with a very dynamic camera.[/QUOTE]
You need to watch more anime because those are very average.
Saying SAO has good animation is like saying AOT has good animation.
[QUOTE=SpartanXC9;50959232]You need to watch more anime because those are very average.[/QUOTE]
I never said it was the best, I said they were good. IMO there are animes with better animation and overall quality.
[vid]http://sakuga.yshi.org/data/ce98eeca27b2f3619117c0726513cfd4.mp4[/vid]
However, I do think SAO has good character animation, maybe if you watch it like this you can see what I'm talking about:
[vid]http://sakuga.yshi.org/data/cc4b5de4bb016fc66d0efb6f2a371063.webm[/vid]
There's a lot of movement in the scene, like the hair, clothes and so on.
[QUOTE=bunguer;50958523]I'm talking about the overall animation quality and production values, such as:
[vid]http://sakuga.yshi.org/data/1aaac2bcafebe02e1e4fb4ab5f641114.webm[/vid]
[vid]http://sakuga.yshi.org/data/703291b623f29b845047fba145a45f15.webm[/vid]
I know not everyone cares about things like that, but I'm an hobbyist artist and those animations are really fluid with a very dynamic camera.[/QUOTE]
SAO's animations are the bare minimum of "good fight" and not really anything else, I can think of many, many shows with better animation in fight scenes.
[vid]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/h2g1xffzqww43me/garcher.webm?[/vid]
In all fairness, here's some animation that is decidadely worse then SAO's
[vid]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/48skt0vc7v06don/whybother.webm?[/vid]
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