• wrinkledoo@sh.itjust.works
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    23 days ago

    I find that if you want good anime recommendations, the recommendation must come from someone that doesn’t like anime. Anime fans tend to be really out of touch with certain baselines… like not being an open pervert.(I’ve seen that hentai hoodie, don’t lie.) Also people who don’t like anime can distinguish between “good for an anime” and “good”.

    So I offer mine: Cyberpunk Edgerunners and Spirited Away.

    • brsrklf@jlai.lu
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      23 days ago

      Anything that was on TV in Europe back when the American cartoon market was dominated by Hanna-Barbera and Filmation, and their uninspired crap.

      In France at least, they did a lot of shite with anime.

      Basically broadcasting rights for anime were sold for dirt cheap in the 80s/90s compared to other productions, so some networks started buying anime for their (very) young kids programs. And they all had that good old mindset, “if it’s animated, it’s obviously for kids”. Or worse, they probably didn’t care and just bought everything.

      So yeah, everything got heavily censored, but for some reason they still thought Hokuto no Ken/Fist of the North Star was A-okay to show to 6 year-olds. Because they were “shocked” by what they had to work with, the voice actors working on the dub literally sabotaged the show by making it sound as ridiculous as they could.

      Toward the end of the 90s, we got a shitty moral panic on all anime from media watchdogs, and we owe it entirely to a few idiots in French TV networks not caring about target audiences.

    • Camelbeard@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      “Anything that was on TV in Europe back when the American cartoon market was dominated by Hanna-Barbera and Filmation, and their uninspired crap.”

      As a kid I did enjoy Dunderklumpen! but I don’t think it holds up pretty well

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    -Hey, do you know any Japanese food you could recommend?

    -Sure. What are you looking for?

    -Anything, as long as it doesn’t have rice or soy in it.

    -… here you go.

    Asking for anime without the idolization of young female beauty is just entitled ethnocentrism. It’s part of Japanese culture. Unless you are living in Japan, you don’t get a say in their culture. Asking for art that only displays scenarios that fit your normative views is an entitled misunderstanding of the purpose of art/craft, both as an expression and as a product. If you need your world filtered so you experience only things that reinforce your worldview, you might as well move to a compound in the woods, because that’s the only way you’re going to avoid all the people who don’t share your beliefs.

  • ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml
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    23 days ago

    Heavy metal comedy = Detroit Metal City DMC.

    Post-apo conspiracy = Ergo Proxy

    Alien abduction comedy = Level E

    Occult shop = xxxHolic

    I can’t name anything else matching your criteria

  • hmmm@sh.itjust.works
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    23 days ago
    • Attack on Titan
    • Monster
    • Girls Last Tour
    • Akira
    • Black Lagoon
    • Death Note
    • Ghost in the Shell
    • Kaiju No 8
    • Orb: On the Movements of the Earth
    • Redline
    • Paprika
    • Pluto
    • Serial Experiment Lain
    • Spy X Family
    • Tokyo Revenger
    • ERASED
    • Stein Gate
    • Mob Psycho 100
    • Cowboy Bebop
    • Vinland Saga
    • Dorohedoro
    • Dororo
    • Perfect Blue
    • Gintama
    • NANA
    • Berserk
    • Anne of The Green Gable(1987)
    • Anne Shirley (2025)
    • The Apothecary Diaries (MaoMao look underage but she is 19)
    • Maid in Abyss
    • MUSHI-SHI
    • Kingdom
    • Hajime no Ippo
    • Look Back
    • A Silent Voice
    • Bungo Stray Dogs
    • To Be Hero X
    • My Dress-Up Darling (Primary Adult Cast/Sienen)
    • Code Gyatt(GEASS)
    • Parasyte
  • pizzazzie@lemm.eeEnglish
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    23 days ago

    my personal goated anime list:

    • ACCA 13
    • link click (well. its a donghua, but still)
    • mob psycho 100 (theres maybe like 1 or 2 instances of weird stuff i can think of in the first season? overall a pretty good series tho)
    • great pretender
    • moriarty the patriot
    • 91 days
    • nichijou
    • dororo (ok this one might be a reach cuz its been a while, but it made me cry)
    • skip and loafer
  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    23 days ago

    Taxi Driver, a murder mystery of sorts. Low stakes, good characters, look past them being furries.

    Slam Dunk, delinquent asshole joins basketball team to woo his love interest, becomes a better person afterwards