| Sick to death of the red-haired tsundere and the blonde/pink-haired genki girl, that one male MC who always screams every sentence, and the chuuni edgelord who just goes "Huh" at everything. I'm sitting here watching absolute trash because I'm so bored and it's just making me mad. Please recommend me something where the characters act like fully fledged human beings, with some depth and dimensionality, rather than these pathetic half-baked cookie cutter retards spammed ad-nauseum by the masses of talentless hack writers and mangaka alike. Things in the vein of LoGH, Vinland Saga, Yamato 2199, GiTS, or Cowboy Bebop. Basically, I want shows where there characters feel like they could actually be real people rather than being reduced to the same half a dozen or so two-bit stereotypes we've all seen too many times already. Don't really care what genre it is, I'll even stoop as low as watching mecha at this point. |
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| @dibindibi As you say, I have a huge PTW list and I don't remember 99% of what I put in there, or what it actually is. I honestly should just delete the whole thing at this point since it no longer serves any practical purpose, and since most of what I have on that list I probably have no interest in anymore anyway. As for LotGH, I am waiting for the next chapter of Die Neue These and I'll go back and finish the old show afterwards. I am caught up as far as the remake has aired in it, it's just not updated. I will check out the other recommendations though. |
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| https://myanimelist.net/anime/570/Jin-Rou , most of what makes it good, and scary, is just how realistic it is https://myanimelist.net/anime/27989/Hibike_Euphonium https://myanimelist.net/anime/60083/Kowloon_Generic_Romance https://myanimelist.net/anime/44511/Chainsaw_Man |
| https://myanimelist.net/anime/16201/Aku_no_Hana |
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| Vinland Saga is certainly a great example of that, yeah. After watching something like that, it can be harder to enjoy cookie-cutter trope shows right after. Kinda like eating Taco Bell right after dining at an authentic Mexican restaurant. Here's a list of non-trope shows: The Apothecary Diaries Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu Sweetness & Lightning The Summer Hikaru Died To Your Eternity Fairies Albums Link Click The Fire Hunter Ascendance of a Bookworm Future Folktales (this one is the most family-friendly, since it was made for kids) Arte Barakamon Banana Fish Kino's Journey Natsuyuki Rendezvous Children of the Whales Mushishi Yuri!!! on Ice Poco's Udon World Your lie in April (the blonde seems like a genki girl, but her situation is horrid) The Heroic Legend of Arslan |
| https://myanimelist.net/anime/2025/Darker_than_Black__Kuro_no_Keiyakusha https://myanimelist.net/anime/10087/Fate_Zero https://myanimelist.net/anime/49778/Kijin_Gentoushou |
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| Wow, I 100% empathize with this struggle and it has made me almost give up on modern anime... Rather than spam a massive list to you I would say the standouts (apart from those you already mention) would be Mushi-shi and Boogiepop Wa waranai... I only picked these out of my favorites and if you already watched them congrats you have excellent taste (if not- go ahead, modern anime tropes are nowhere to be found) |
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