| Maybe if you didn't go out of your way to watch shows clearly labeled as drama that wouldn't happen. |
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| your doing it to yourself. i find a ton of not SUPER FUCKING DARK anime just fine. another (not really depressing just horror.) i found it, it was like that, but i did it on purpose. if i want something light and fluffy i will go watch sakura trick or something. :3 |
| anime with cute girls is my thing. |
TallonKarrde23 said: Maybe if you didn't go out of your way to watch shows clearly labeled as drama that wouldn't happen. I do have to agree with this statement. However, I also agree that Clannad Afterstory was unnecessarily and ridiculously sad. In all honesty I find it pretty easy to gauge a show based on the genres and other peoples' reviews. I, like you, don't go for really sad stuff (most of the time). I did enjoy Code Geasse and it's my highest rated anime though. I didn't find that necessarily sad I saw it as beautifully tragic. To each his own though. Anyways there are plenty of feel good anime out there BELIEVE IT! My anime list is full of them;) But don't be one of those people that goes and complains a "feel-good" anime is formulaic, cause then you'll just piss people off lol! |
VirtusSignum said: And yet, these can all be seen as having positive, 'happy' endings.Clannad: AS Gurren Lagann Gode Geass Guilty Crown Angel Beats ect... I don't mind some animes being dark or having dark endings but... it seems really high. Is it a Japanese cultural thing? |
| I really don't think anime is any more depressing than any other medium. Maybe watch some happy go lucky comedy or ecchi anime? Also I don't know why but Gode Geass gave me quite a laugh. |
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Ckan said: VirtusSignum said: And yet, these can all be seen as having positive, 'happy' endings.Clannad: AS Gurren Lagann Gode Geass Guilty Crown Angel Beats ect... I don't mind some animes being dark or having dark endings but... it seems really high. Is it a Japanese cultural thing? Depressing doesn't necessarily mean sad. |
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TallonKarrde23 said: Indeed. And while that may be overly pedantic, my point was that those those endings were not necessarily "dark endings" at all.Ckan said: VirtusSignum said: And yet, these can all be seen as having positive, 'happy' endings.Clannad: AS Gurren Lagann Gode Geass Guilty Crown Angel Beats ect... I don't mind some animes being dark or having dark endings but... it seems really high. Is it a Japanese cultural thing? Depressing doesn't necessarily mean sad. |
| Watch Texhnolyze, then we will talk. |
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| Watch Grave of the Fireflies to help you not feel depressed anymore, that or K-ON! |
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VirtusSignum said: This is like this... sixth or seventh anime in a row that I've watched that has gone out of it's way to be depressing in one way or another. Mostly from a tragedy or death. I understand life is hard and its good to study the pain of loss to learn something or to move people but come on, anime... take some damn prozac. Clannad: AS... oh dear mother of all things holy, this one... this f*cking anime... I think I am forever scarred by this one. Gurren Lagann Gode Geass Guilty Crown Angel Beats ect... I don't mind some animes being dark or having dark endings but... it seems really high. Is it a Japanese cultural thing? You don't know the word DEPRESSING until you watched the ending of PHANTOM:REQUIEM FOR THE PHANTOM. THAT anime made me depressed and shocked for several days.. It changed me. |
| F0XFIRE said: OP 4 most butthurt bitch on MAL. |
Motherurck said: mitch3315 said: Watch Grave of the Fireflies to help you not feel depressed anymore, that or K-ON! Huh? What's depressing about K-On? I said "help you not feel depressed anymore". |
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mitch3315 said: Motherurck said: mitch3315 said: Watch Grave of the Fireflies to help you not feel depressed anymore, that or K-ON! Huh? What's depressing about K-On? I said "help you not feel depressed anymore". I dunno, it's pretty bittersweet at times, especially near the finale. A lot of people cried, I didn't - but I was sad too. Not depressing, but still not devoid of some sad and touching elements. |
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| In some peoples mind depressing means deep and clever. You know the whole drama is superior to comedy because comedies aren't serious type of mentality. |
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TallonKarrde23 said: mitch3315 said: Motherurck said: mitch3315 said: Watch Grave of the Fireflies to help you not feel depressed anymore, that or K-ON! Huh? What's depressing about K-On? I said "help you not feel depressed anymore". I dunno, it's pretty bittersweet at times, especially near the finale. A lot of people cried, I didn't - but I was sad too. Not depressing, but still not devoid of some sad and touching elements. It has it's emotional moments, but they never leave you feeling depressed. I think the overall tone of the show is too happy go lucky to ever leave you feeling depressed. Which is why I used it as the contrast to my terrible recommendation of using Grave of the Fireflies to stop feeling depressed. |
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mitch3315 said: They thought you were using both recs as a sort of sarcastic response. That said Belladonna is a great anime that will lighten up anyone's day :DTallonKarrde23 said: mitch3315 said: Motherurck said: mitch3315 said: Watch Grave of the Fireflies to help you not feel depressed anymore, that or K-ON! Huh? What's depressing about K-On? I said "help you not feel depressed anymore". I dunno, it's pretty bittersweet at times, especially near the finale. A lot of people cried, I didn't - but I was sad too. Not depressing, but still not devoid of some sad and touching elements. It has it's emotional moments, but they never leave you feeling depressed. I think the overall tone of the show is too happy go lucky to ever leave you feeling depressed. Which is why I used it as the contrast to my terrible recommendation of using Grave of the Fireflies to stop feeling depressed. |
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Heredity said: TallonKarrde23 said: mitch3315 said: Motherurck said: mitch3315 said: Watch Grave of the Fireflies to help you not feel depressed anymore, that or K-ON! Huh? What's depressing about K-On? I said "help you not feel depressed anymore". I dunno, it's pretty bittersweet at times, especially near the finale. A lot of people cried, I didn't - but I was sad too. Not depressing, but still not devoid of some sad and touching elements. That's why you read the manga, which doesn't end at the end of high school. It should have though. Luckily KyoAni realised the ending the the high school part was a great ending point for the series and left it there. |
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Heredity said: TallonKarrde23 said: mitch3315 said: Motherurck said: mitch3315 said: Watch Grave of the Fireflies to help you not feel depressed anymore, that or K-ON! Huh? What's depressing about K-On? I said "help you not feel depressed anymore". I dunno, it's pretty bittersweet at times, especially near the finale. A lot of people cried, I didn't - but I was sad too. Not depressing, but still not devoid of some sad and touching elements. That's why you read the manga, which doesn't end at the end of high school. The college manga blows and so does Azusa's stuff. Actually, the K-ON manga overall is pretty bad, it's one of the few times KyoAni's awful work at adaptations worked out for the better. But really, the college shit is way worse than the rest, you can tell the mangaka was just making more because the anime made it popular and he had a wave to ride. Even hardcore fans dropped it not that far in. |
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| Isn't there almost the same, if not more number of comedies in anime? |
Kagami_Hiiragi said: Idc if you think its weird, I have a life and friends and an income of money. |
| Everytime I play shooters, people shoot each other to death with guns. Is this an american thing? |
AeserumMar 10, 2014 5:00 AM
BlackSabotage said: You know the whole drama is superior to comedy because comedies aren't serious type of mentality. If you think comedies can't be serious, you've clearly never seen Scrubs. |
Hulmy said: "animes" Did anyone else find that annoying? Grammar nazi detected.. |
Kagami_Hiiragi said: Idc if you think its weird, I have a life and friends and an income of money. |
| Because the creators want to leave a "lasting effect" after you finish watching that ultimately makes you feel inclined to spend some of your money. |
| not many anime "feel the need to be depressing"; those that do usually end up to be more popular |
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Hulmy said: skyzblue said: Hulmy said: "animes" Did anyone else find that annoying? Grammar nazi detected.. Not at all. I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake. Irregardless its the same difference and i literally could care less for all intensive purposes so you're point is mute per say |
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romagia said: Hulmy said: skyzblue said: Hulmy said: "animes" Did anyone else find that annoying? Grammar nazi detected.. Not at all. I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake. Irregardless its the same difference and i literally could care less for all intensive purposes so you're point is mute per say Preach brother. |
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romagia said: Hulmy said: skyzblue said: Hulmy said: "animes" Did anyone else find that annoying? Grammar nazi detected.. Not at all. I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake. Irregardless its the same difference and i literally could care less for all intensive purposes so you're point is mute per say Proper English is proper. |
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| Clannad After Story didn't do shit for me, I didn't get the 'feels' that everyone else supposedly got. I guess shows with excessive melodrama and tragic events don't affect me. A show that did affect me however was Watamote. Yeah sure as a comedy show it was funny at first but then several episodes into the show it got sad and I felt sorry for the protagonist Tomoko. Then came the realisation that I had just as much of a shitty High school life as Tomoko did and how much I could relate to her. Then I got depressed and had a bit of a cry. http://31.media.tumblr.com/e6104fc28c866787eeb4eda7ac0f2b2e/tumblr_munjklOBFP1sq1hzao1_500.jpg Damn you Watamote. |
| i get depressed when my favorite male protagonist gets netorared in a hentai :P |
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VirtusSignum said: 1. Didn't watch the first season so he didn't get attached to the charactersHow? Are you not human? How did Clannad: AS not affect you? I turned into a crying baby! It was so sad! 2. If you're overly critical then you'll find it hard to connect with the story, and considering he used the words "excessive melodrama," that's probably it. 3. Heart of a brick 4. Any combination of the above. |
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tsudecimo said: Watch Texhnolyze, then we will talk. |
| watch the following for good feels Tamayura Aria Non Non Biyori Minami-ke Particularly Tamayura and Aria, they can make you see the world a bit more beautiful. |
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Korrvo said: 1. Didn't watch the first season so he didn't get attached to the characters. Did watch the first season to try to 'connect' with characters. Even though it didn't make me depressed or cry Clannad is still one of my favourite anime. Watamote on the other hand. http://images.wikia.com/meme/images/archive/9/91/20110826191843!4char-forever-alone-guy-high-resolution.png |
| The shows you listed aren't depressing at all. |
stealthdasher said: wahtKorrvo said: 1. Didn't watch the first season so he didn't get attached to the characters. Did watch the first season to try to 'connect' with characters. Even though it didn't make me depressed or cry Clannad is still one of my favourite anime. Who the fuck makes it sound like they are bashing an anime on one the best things about it when it's actually one of their favorites? |
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| I feel i Motherurck said: mitch3315 said: Watch Grave of the Fireflies to help you not feel depressed anymore, that or K-ON! Huh? What's depressing about K-On? The last few episodes of season 2 are some of the saddest things ever in K-on |
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