Recommend closest anime to mahouka koukou?

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Dec 25, 2014 11:53 AM

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hiya,

i just found out about mahouka koukou no rettousei. and decided to join MAL because mahouka koukou is awesome.

id like to ask senpai-tachi here what's the closest anime to mahouka koukou that you could recommend to me?

the points i like in mahouka koukou are

- Capable, calm collected main character

- Said main character have ideals, but does not need to shout or have burning speech every other episode

- Protagonists in general that are overpowered and almost always win. But the win is peppered with narration of intellect or showing said intellects at works

- good pacing, doesn't feel drag out

- modern era / future era settings are preferable im not really into history period era

anime i don't look for at the moment is something like prince of tennis series or naruto or one piece or bleach or any 100+ eps animes. As good as they are, it has far too many episodes, and the pacing drags out so much.

yoroshiku onegaishimasu...

nopdromDec 25, 2014 3:36 PM

Dec 25, 2014 1:22 PM

Pazuzu95

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Psycho pass pretty much covers everything you mentioned.But there is no magic there :P.

Dec 25, 2014 1:23 PM

Mayuka

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Tokyo Ravens
Akame ga Kill

New Prince of Tennis is 13 episodes. What are you talking about?

underneath the stars

Dec 25, 2014 1:56 PM

blessofcurse

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Chrome shelled regios - the mc hiding his power, he's almost invincible if he get serious

Dec 25, 2014 3:36 PM

nopdrom

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mayukachan said:
Tokyo Ravens
Akame ga Kill

New Prince of Tennis is 13 episodes. What are you talking about?

i meant there's prince of tennis, then zenkoku taikai hen, and then the new one. the whole series. i should've made that clearer.

i counted zenkoku taikai hen as the new prince of tennis as well. edited the 1st post to reflect that.

give me more recommendations...

i've watched chrome shelled regios. and that does feel like mahouka.
i hvn't watch all the others you guys recommend.

nopdromDec 25, 2014 6:08 PM

Dec 27, 2014 11:50 PM

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Try Log Horizon. It has a similar intellectual MC that has a large impact on their world.

I'd also recommend Toaru Kagaku no Railgun/Toaru Majutsu no Index as the settings for each are very similar, a near future with a mix of sci-fi and magic that swaps between light comedy and action/psychological like mahouka

Dec 28, 2014 4:43 AM

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Nicman07 said:
Try Log Horizon. It has a similar intellectual MC that has a large impact on their world.

I'd also recommend Toaru Kagaku no Railgun/Toaru Majutsu no Index as the settings for each are very similar, a near future with a mix of sci-fi and magic that swaps between light comedy and action/psychological like mahouka

hiya! does to aru have a stoic collected main chara too?

i dont care at all about the settings, well, maybe not horror but anything other than that goes.

ill try log horizon for now. thanks!

Dec 28, 2014 10:15 AM

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Hagure Yūsha no Estetica. Though MC is rather pervert, he is Gary Stu just like Tatsuya.

No wonder, dragon with no head must be retarded.

Dec 28, 2014 10:18 AM

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infinite stratos. it even looks similar.

Dec 28, 2014 12:17 PM

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Kaze no Stigma

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Dec 28, 2014 2:12 PM

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SolvitePriest said:
infinite stratos. it even looks similar.

the two episodes i've watched of infinite stratos is just an excuse to make harem shows and fanservice without any plot going on.

i might be spacing out when i watch it though.

in what aspects are they similar? having collected main character or harem-wise?
because i dont really care about the harems...

Dec 28, 2014 3:30 PM

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I believe that No Game No Life might be of liking to you.

That being how intellectual the two MC's are, and how they think everything through to the smallest detail. They never lose, nor do they struggle much (unless a lot of people are involved).

Dec 28, 2014 5:15 PM

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LightSwitch said:
I believe that No Game No Life might be of liking to you.

That being how intellectual the two MC's are, and how they think everything through to the smallest detail. They never lose, nor do they struggle much (unless a lot of people are involved).

i watched NGNL right after Rettousei. because based on the MAL page recommendation it seems to be the closest.

anything else?

Dec 28, 2014 5:24 PM

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How has no one reccomended code geass

Don't bother checking my list, im too lazy to fill it in XD

Dec 28, 2014 7:10 PM

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FMA/FMA: Brotherhood, SAO/SAO II, Darker than Black, Full Metal Panic, Death Note, Shingeki no Kyojin, Hyouka, Strike the Blood, Black Bullet, Noragami, Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu, Scrapped Princess, Madan no Ou to Vanadis, Hitsugi no Chaika, Muv Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse, Blood Lad, Btooom!, Innocent Venus, Mondaiji-tachi, Suisei no Gargantia, Machine Doll wa Kizutsukanai, Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio, Zero no Tsukaima, Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou, Dance in the Vampire Bund, Un-Go, Code Breaker, Devil Survivor 2, Mahou Sensou, Black Cat, Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi

Just went through my list and looked for shows that had OP main characters that weren't too annoying. Some of them are history, some of them are cyber punk, some of them are fantasy (and I tried to omit those that are deliberate harems). They're also in the order of how I scored them so you'd probably enjoy the ones on the top the most. I also omitted the ones that were already mentioned but they're all very good. ESPECIALLY Code Geass. There's also Fate/Zero but to get into the Fate Series there's a LOT to watch. (Kara no Kyoukai is amazing too).

SamuraiBlue19Dec 28, 2014 7:18 PM

Dec 28, 2014 8:40 PM

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Log Horizon is the closest I've watched, so far. The setting is within a video game, though. Some people will say SAO too because it's the same setting as Log Horizon, but the focus is another, so not really.

No Game, No Life gets an honorable mention for having an even heavier focus on strategy, but the MCs follow another style and the setting isn't bound to a futuristic-magic human society, but rather another world.

Hyouka kinda follows the same style, but without magic.

To Aru Kagaku no Railgun/To Aru Majitsu no Index share the same high school setting in a "magic" society, but the MCs are nothing alike. On a side note: Railgun is the off-spin, but I liked it better because the MCs are much more solid and it doesn't repeat the same dang joke 8 times.

With all that said, if you feel like venturing a little farther from Mahouka, SamuraiBlue19's suggestions look good (although I myself have watched only a handful of those).

Dec 28, 2014 10:16 PM

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i've read the FMA manga.
code geass hasn't been mentioned probably because it's assumed that a lot of people would already watch code geass. i did too yeah.
i like everything clamp just based on their design. i'd say that it's epic!
watched death note.
read the shingeki no kyojin manga.

tried mondaiji tachi first 2 eps and then gave up.

probably check log horizon next due to you guys opinion.
and then Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu just for the name alone.
and then to aru kagaku no railgun next.

btw, nobody here watches terra formars?

i actually made a "recommend me anime closest to terra formars" as well.
http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1330809

no dice as of this reply... lol

Dec 29, 2014 12:44 AM

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Most likely no one watched Terra Formars because of the ridiculous censorship.
And don't watch Railgun before you watch Index...Railgun is basically a spin-off of Index.

Dec 29, 2014 7:29 PM

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SamuraiBlue19 said:
Most likely no one watched Terra Formars because of the ridiculous censorship.
And don't watch Railgun before you watch Index...Railgun is basically a spin-off of Index.

ahaha. i see i see

Jan 7, 2015 3:41 AM

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Strangling yourself with your own intestines could be about as much fun as watching Mahouka.
But if you really did enjoy this show for whatever reason I would suggest Kaze no Stigma, it had very similiar feel and even had some redeeming qualities.

"Well if you have criticisms as a consumer of retail item X, then why don't you step down from your role as consumer and critic and become a creator of the sort of item you were hoping to buy and had thought you had been promised, since everyone knows that the only logical, rational solution to displeasure with a product is to become a manufacturer."

Jan 8, 2015 3:11 AM

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i really like the fact that the main character is a calm, collected, very highly capable person.

it's refreshing as it is the opposite of average main characters of shows i watched, that are usually pretty average person that is new to the environment as the eye and narrative piece for the viewers.

i say i like mahouka koukou a whole lot. maybe i could wish for a dial-down on the relationship part, but that's japan for you. can't have the cake and eat it too.

i can say i like this particular cake a whole lot.

Sep 19, 2015 10:02 AM

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Fruits of Grisaia for sure. Tatsuya shiba and Yuuji Kazami is like the exact same character. Sister having brother complex, messed up past, not afraid to say whats on his mind, not a dense character, stoic features, super soldiers, all girls in love with the one guy and Want to live a normal life. Even, they look alike too... They're same character in 2 different worlds. http://pm1.narvii.com/5777/403fc90ce224a747935900b8cbc5d11c4f429ca1_hq.jpg

Oct 7, 2015 2:52 PM

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Gunslayerboy said:
Fruits of Grisaia for sure. Tatsuya shiba and Yuuji Kazami is like the exact same character. Sister having brother complex, messed up past, not afraid to say whats on his mind, not a dense character, stoic features, super soldiers, all girls in love with the one guy and Want to live a normal life. Even, they look alike too... They're same character in 2 different worlds. http://pm1.narvii.com/5777/403fc90ce224a747935900b8cbc5d11c4f429ca1_hq.jpg

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Nov 17, 2015 10:37 PM

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The Legend of the Galactic Heroes

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No Game No Life

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Toaru Majutsu no Index

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Chrome Shell Regios

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Strike the Blood

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Hagure Yuusha no Estetica

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Kaze no Stigma

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