stanklem28 said: Dark anime is better with gore, tits, and messed-up things. That doesn't mean that those things have to be in there for an anime to be dark. It just means that without those things, the anime might be a little boring. Why does it even matter to you? You're just gonna read the wikipedia entry. And just because there is not tits, gore and messed-up things, that doesn't mean an anime can be a bit boring. The biggest example of this is Steins;Gate and a whole load of Shonen. |
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etatau said: Deepshit anime sucks. Death Note is shit. Mirai Nikki is shit. Elfen Lied is shit. All shit. Moe is love. Moe is life. Elfen Lied == Moe. XD |
| Didn't read the thread, but Mirai Nikki is the Sword Art Online of psychological anime. |
etatau said: Series like Death Note, Mirai Nikki, and Elfen Lied are dark, but they're not deep nor are they mature. Monster and Texhnolyze are dark and mature. And Wolf's Rain and Tatami Galaxy are deep, but not dark.Deepshit anime sucks. Death Note is shit. Mirai Nikki is shit. Elfen Lied is shit. All shit. Moe is love. Moe is life. People who are accustomed to shallow moe standards can't tell the difference. |
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I’m just excited to see my Lord and Savior, Baphomet, represented in such glorious Italian stone. I do hope his eyes gaze upon me and that my allegiance is recognized. |
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katsucats said: etatau said: Series like Death Note, Mirai Nikki, and Elfen Lied are dark, but they're not deep nor are they mature. Monster and Texhnolyze are dark and mature. And Wolf's Rain and Tatami Galaxy are deep, but not dark.Deepshit anime sucks. Death Note is shit. Mirai Nikki is shit. Elfen Lied is shit. All shit. Moe is love. Moe is life. People who are accustomed to shallow moe standards can't tell the difference. Wolf's Rain is a bit dark, isn't it? Seemed darker than Mirai Nikki to me. |
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Solvite said: Didn't read the thread, but Mirai Nikki is the Sword Art Online of psychological anime. Hahahaha, that's rich |
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Ghostony said: I don't know what is a dark anime..don't think I've ever seen one... Higurashi was really comical, Elfen Lied had naked chicks, Deadman Wonderland was constant sex talk, Code Geass had highschool kids talking about their next club meeting, and Psycho Pass has a bunch of kids shooting lightning balls.. :I Wow, that is amazing. If i had your type of creative outlook, i wouldn't waste it by watching anime. I would just take drugs...lots and lots of drugs... |
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RisingCascade said: Solvite said: Didn't read the thread, but Mirai Nikki is the Sword Art Online of psychological anime. Amen! Mirai Nikki is psychological? If having psychopath in the show means it's psychological, then I guess Mirai Nikki do count as they have a number of rather comical psychopaths in there... Personally, I think Ryuugu Rena of Higurashi is an okay psychopath, but her alone is deeper than all Mirai Nikki's psychopaths add together. |
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| Serial Experiments Lain isn't bloody or gory, but I think it definitely takes a mature mind to understand any meaning in the plot. By the way, although moe anime pretty much has peaked the last couple of years, that doesn't mean that every fan of dark horror anime has switched tastes. Hell, it doesn't hurt to balance a really dark, twisted series with a more mindless fun one. :P |
AirStyles said: RisingCascade said: Solvite said: Didn't read the thread, but Mirai Nikki is the Sword Art Online of psychological anime. Amen! Mirai Nikki is psychological? If having psychopath in the show means it's psychological, then I guess Mirai Nikki do count as they have a number of rather comical psychopaths in there... Personally, I think Ryuugu Rena of Higurashi is an okay psychopath, but her alone is deeper than all Mirai Nikki's psychopaths add together. Doesn't it have the MC going through some sort of psychological difficulties? I mean, he was suddenly told to kill random people by his imaginary friend, was it and he had a psychopath in love with him. |
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| I don't get why Madoka Magica is psychological. I tought an anime must fuck the shit out of your mind to be considered psychological. |
RisingCascade said: Jauregui said: I don't get why Madoka Magica is psychological. I tought an anime must fuck the shit out of your mind to be considered psychological. Madoka has done exactly that to a lot of people I know. I know you have to use your brain to understad the end properly but still.. Well, maybe it IS psychological for the target audience. |
RisingCascade said: Jauregui said: RisingCascade said: Jauregui said: I don't get why Madoka Magica is psychological. I tought an anime must fuck the shit out of your mind to be considered psychological. Madoka has done exactly that to a lot of people I know. I know you have to use your brain to understad the end properly but still.. Well, maybe it IS psychological for the target audience. I bet both of us have differing minds in regards of Madoka's target audience. What's your sentiments on that? Excuse my wordiness. I think people less than18 or 19 years old, and since I'm 20+ I wasn't mind fucked. But maybe a 16 years old got his mind blowed. |
| I spend hours and hours looking for serious animes.More than serious I wold say not cliche-like ones.Im not saying that cliche-like animes are bad, just that if 80% of the series tend to follow preconceived cliches, they end up being a little tedious. I love animes with serious atmospheres and adult characters (+20 at least) where they just focus on the plot and nothing else.The fact is that, given that anime is seen as "cartoons" and the target group is thought to be between 14-18, producers find more benefit making animes for that group(at least that is what i think). If we take into account the seinen animes out there,they are just a little portion of the whole "anime world". In my opion serious animes are rated much better than childish or cliche-like ones(for instance some masterpieces like elfen lied,monster,ghost in the shell,ergo proxy... |
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| Depends whether it's good or not. Not every mature anime is good. |
Jauregui said: I'll accept Madoka Magica as psychological, but only on the very surface layers of the genre.I don't get why Madoka Magica is psychological. I tought an anime must fuck the shit out of your mind to be considered psychological. RisingCascade said: It's unfortunate, in my opinion, that so many anime fans are so easily awed and mindfucked by anything with passing resemblance to deepness. You can dress a pig up as a philosopher and an anime fan will call it a masterpiece.Madoka has done exactly that to a lot of people I know. |
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| It doesn't have to blow your mind to be psychological. Madoka is psychological because the psychology of the characters is very important. Shin Sekai Yori is another psychological anime, in this respect. |
| I’m just excited to see my Lord and Savior, Baphomet, represented in such glorious Italian stone. I do hope his eyes gaze upon me and that my allegiance is recognized. |
| Stupid question with relation to etatau's post Psych is about the mentality of people yes Is "thriller" the genre that makes an anime mindblowing? |
| sexual incest in nisomonogatari - no one bats an eye romance incest in SAO - everyone loses their minds |
katsucats said: It's unfortunate, in my opinion, that so many anime fans are so easily awed and mindfucked by anything with passing resemblance to deepness. You can dress a pig up as a philosopher and an anime fan will call it a masterpiece. I have to agree. It seems that some people have failed to realize that anime as a medium has always been about more light and accessible entertainment. That is what it is (or was) good at doing. The worst anime are the kind of that try to be the two at the same time, unless they become such extreme clusterfucks of nonsense that they're actually enjoyable like Code Geass or Death Note. |
quik05 said: just that if 80% of the series tend to follow preconceived cliches You really don't have the merit to be making that sort of claim with your massive list of 39 completed shows. You haven't even seen 1% of the anime out there, how can you say what 80% of the medium does? |
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TallonKarrde23 said: quik05 said: just that if 80% of the series tend to follow preconceived cliches You really don't have the merit to be making that sort of claim with your massive list of 39 completed shows. You haven't even seen 1% of the anime out there, how can you say what 80% of the medium does? i´ve seen maaaaany more animes and movies but I made a 2 years stand and now i´m starting again to watch anime i have seen around 180 series or so so don´t mind my list |
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| For once I want to see a MAL thread where users dont try to appear more sophisticated than the masses. |
ssjokg said: For once I want to see a MAL thread where users dont try to appear more sophisticated than the masses. I guess it's because appearing more sophisticated than stanklem is more important. |
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| Who don't? |
Litrydow said: ssjokg said: For once I want to see a MAL thread where users dont try to appear more sophisticated than the masses. I guess it's because appearing more sophisticated than stanklem is more important. It would be nice if it wasnt just stanklem's threads(where you dont even need to try). |
| I like GOOD animu |
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| Sad this wasn't more of a rec thread of ones that weren't more commonly known |
| Dark, Serious and mature is my preferred genre. My favorite anime are Psycho-pass, GitS, Texnolohyze, Monster, Kara no Kyoukai, Mardock Scramble, Berserk, Bokurano, Mononoke, & Mnemosyne. Black Lagoon is also a favorite of mine. It has some comedy spread throughout, but it also has its dark and serious moments. |
| [size=200]MAL AVATAR SYSTEM BLOWS |
| Its my life to watch Dark/mature anime |
| Zero Suit Samus/ Meta Knight M2k DBZ |
| I like mature anime like Gankutsuou, Monster, Kaiji but I don't like over the top super gory type of anime like Genocyber. I can handle and do like gore in realistic type of anime like Rurouni Kenshin Trust and Betrayal and Golgo 13 but I hate gore with like demons or ugly monsters killing people and stuff like that. |
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stanklem28 said: Notice the emphasis on DARK. And "dark" means something that's messed-up like gore and blood. "Dark" could also mean a messed-up story too; a traumatic or psychological story. Again, notice the emphasis on DARK. I'm so Dark, its my name. On a serious note though, contrary to my name, I much prefer lighter shows over the darker ones. |
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| I think the very idea of a "Dark" anime is subjective, I've known some people to think Deadman Wonderland as the most depressing and darkest anime/manga out there yet I simply shrug off the themes in it. There are also those who believe Shingeki no kyojin is a dark and disturbing anime because of all the blood and death while I think it is childish since most of it is senseless killing. |
| Life is like a world-wide play, you may not get the role you want but you still play your part. |
| So, by DARK you mean horror gerne with R rated? |
| They are in the rare but when I do stumble across one, it's bound to be great. |
| Shinsekai yori is best for what you described in the thread title (IMO). I tend to favor darker/mature/serious anime over anything else. |
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| Good is good, crap is crap. Does it matter what genre it has? And to answer the question, it depends, if the anime is crap, does it matter if it's dark, serious and mature? |
| Shigurui is a good example, but it's hardly the end all be all that warrants a /thread. It's dark in a gory way, but psychologically speaking it isn't the best. |
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| Give me more mature, serious, sophisticated, *choose your adj* It doesn't have to be dark. |
| Yes I love Clannad. Man those big eyed aliens made me tensed all the time. Its darker than anything I've seen. |
Kagami_Hiiragi said: Idc if you think its weird, I have a life and friends and an income of money. |
skyzblue said: Yes I love Clannad. Man those big eyed aliens made me tensed all the time. Its darker than anything I've seen. Usagi Drop is really dark and serious too. I've never seen such a harrowing show, anime or otherwise. |
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