| I probably sound like a broken record at this point, mentioning it in every other thread, but Aria. It's the only perfect piece of media I've ever experienced. That applies to anime, film, television, literature, etc. And yeah, I know for a fact I'll never have the pleasure of seeing something so incredible again, but I'm just thankful I ever came across it in the first place. |
 "I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited." ― Jorge Luis Borges [url=]Goodreads[/url] | [url=]Letterboxd[/url] |
| Man i have quite a few Anime that i find very special and unique and this list doesn't even cut it close S: Code Geass Steins Gate FMAB Attack on Titan Dragon Ball Fate Zero and UBW Monster Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Kara no Kyoukai Inazuma Eleven Cross Game Madoka Naruto Death Note Katekyo Hitman Reborn Seriel Experiments Lain Zetsuen no Tempest Anohana |
| Higurashi. It's such a great, one of a kind franchise in general |
| I agree with you on Monster. It's a good one |
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| Monster certainly set the benchmark for anime quality back when I watched it, although now that quite a bit of time has passed I can't really say it's an absolute favorite of mine, but it will always be a special anime to me along with Mushishi. I think most people have that feeling at times where they watch something really exceptional and think that nothing else will ever top it. But if you watch enough anime that feeling likely won't last forever as your taste develops/changes and you watch more and more as time goes on. You can have long-lasting favorites of course but you probably won't have a show be your "best anime ever" forever. |
CallMeHoot said: KIRA2207 said: There won't be anything like death note. NEVER EVER That's a good thing, because it was bloody terrible :P Don't mind me. I know it's not the popular opinion, and I get some stick about that, but I just have to say it. Every. Single. Time. I'm sorry. The great thing about anime, is that everyone will have different likes, dislikes, and opinions. As long as people respect that, its a great community to be apart of! |
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HungryForQuality said: CallMeHoot said: That's a good thing, because it was bloody terrible :P Don't mind me. I know it's not the popular opinion, and I get some stick about that, but I just have to say it. Every. Single. Time. I'm sorry. Huh I've never seen someone on this site have a negative opinion of Death Note. My opinion is mixed but what made you hate it if you don't mind me asking? Well, since you asked I guess I gotta tell ya. Not gonna lie though, broseph. I relish any opportunity to bash Death Note. Anyway, that's enough of that. As I say, I know a lot of people enjoy it and that's cool. I'm not judging those people in any way, shape or form. I just really fucking hated it. Well, that's incorrect. I grew to hate it, over it's far too long run-time. Most of the time I was just bored, waiting for the next deus ex machina moment. *Disclaimer : My bash of Death Note is my own personal opinion, stated here because I was directly asked. Please, if you wanna discuss it with me then PM me. Don't de-rail this thread. Cheers, people |
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CallMeHoot said: dont forget he made that shit up in the pilot movie. When the speech is over and he just keeps saying it till everyone does. Comander-07 said: Nice to see someone mentioning Battlestar Galactica in 2019! I have such a deep love for BG no western show ever reached it again. Like, sure Breaking Bad was good, but have you ever heard of Battlestar Galactica? There was a time when I watched it once a year, has been some time since. Sadly I dont really have the dedication to watch long shows anymore (also because I spend way too much time on anime) but BG might actually convince me. So say we all. *said in perfect imitation of the smooth and deep tones possessed by Edward James Olmos* I really wish BSG would be more popular today, or simply would be newer (without any changes) so we could get all the merchandise other stuff gets. Like come one, octagonal paper!! OCTAGONAL BLU RAYS |
| "This emotion is mine alone. It is for Madoka alone." - Homura or how I would descripe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. |
| Greyleaf said: I probably sound like a broken record at this point, mentioning it in every other thread, but Aria. It's the only perfect piece of media I've ever experienced. That applies to anime, film, television, literature, etc. And yeah, I know for a fact I'll never have the pleasure of seeing something so incredible again, but I'm just thankful I ever came across it in the first place. Yet your forum set is full of YKK... Then, as I was about to call you a traitor, I checked your profile, and now I'm confused. So... Which should I believe? :p Joking aside, I agree, though I'm more reserved with the "finding something as incredible again" part(how could they if I'm not even open to the idea haha). Also read your blog post related to it, and it's amazing how so many reviews share the same feedback. Genuinely wondering how many lives Aria changed by now, and I try to rewatch it yearly just so I won't forget what it brought me. |
rahillimitciMay 1, 2019 3:09 PM
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DaCraziGuy said: LotGH, there is nothing as good as that one imo, I liked all of it... except some plot armor that certain character had... Giulia14 said: Made in Abyss for seinen. Since when Made in abyss is considered Seinen? Since… Always? If you see in Mal it says (+17 for violence and profanity). And the scene of episode 10 Mod edit: added spoiler |
BrandonMay 3, 2019 11:20 PM
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| I'm still quite new to anime but Shingeki no Kyojin certainly has a special place in my heart. To answer your question, I don't think there will be a show like Shingeki no Kyojin for a long time atleast. (For me atleast) ^^ |
| All the time but once a year you discover a show or something new comes out and you be like DAMN why didn't I find this sooner? |
Aemnesias said: Greyleaf said: I probably sound like a broken record at this point, mentioning it in every other thread, but Aria. It's the only perfect piece of media I've ever experienced. That applies to anime, film, television, literature, etc. And yeah, I know for a fact I'll never have the pleasure of seeing something so incredible again, but I'm just thankful I ever came across it in the first place. Yet your forum set is full of YKK... Then, as I was about to call you a traitor, I checked your profile, and now I'm confused. So... Which should I believe? :p Joking aside, I agree, though I'm more reserved with the "finding something as incredible again" part(how could they if I'm not even open to the idea haha). Also read your blog post related to it, and it's amazing how so many reviews share the same feedback. Genuinely wondering how many lives Aria changed by now, and I try to rewatch it yearly just so I won't forget what it brought me. Haha, I actually just recently read YKK so it's kind of my latest obsession (and I'm thankful, because I never really read much manga prior to it, but it's really piqued my interest in the medium). Even then, I'll probably keep this forum set for a while, because I just love Alpha to death. ^_^ But nah, that in no way undermines my love for Aria, and while I may have been exaggerating to some degree about coming to terms with never finding something as great as it in the future, that statement still rings true in many ways. That series pulled a certain emotion out of me that I can't quite describe- one that I had never experienced from any form of entertainment before that. If you read my blog (thanks for checking it out btw, lol) you probably already have a good understanding of what I mean by this. It just opened my eyes to a lot of things- much more than I was expecting upon going in to it. I'm sure a lot of people have that one show, movie, book, or whatever that really felt like a life-altering experience in some regard; that was Aria for me. :) |
"I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited." ― Jorge Luis Borges [url=]Goodreads[/url] | [url=]Letterboxd[/url] |
| I feel like the style of the 80's and 90's is pretty well gone for good which is a shame. However I have no reason to think that anime with newer sensibilities can't be as good or better. Neon Genesis is a fairly exceptional case, I think it will be some time before anything can compare to it. |
| No LOTR to me was the best piece of fiction I have ever read and still means a lot to me. I read those books as a kid before I even really really got into anime. I judge things on their own merits sure not every story is going to be really impactful or maybe as good as some stuff I have enjoyed in the past but that doesn't negate their ability to stand on their own as enjoyable works. Just because I have looked at the Pieta for instance doesn't mean all art is ruined for me. I can't really see how you can think like that. |
| Hunter x Hunter (2011), no contest. |
| A lone warrior surviving hundreds of battles, when it comes to losing, I'm the strongest. |
| I saw someone else mention this but Shingeki no Kyojin is pretty much in a league of it's own - it has the highest calibre artwork and OST as well tension, excitement, and deep and involving characters. I just watched the first episode of the new season - wow, it totally blew me away with it's brilliance and grandeur! |
| There will never be anything greater than Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion. |
| Cowboy Bebop, it's the feeling of older animation plus the incredible production quality that that anime had, added with the jazzy-blues soundtrack, can't be surpassed at least not in the near future with the current trends being taken. For movies, probably Ghost in the Shell, that scene on the boat, where she's looking at the city, the rain, everything is majestic hand drawn animation. |
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Geshtinanna said: Shingeki no Kyojin is pretty much in a league of it's own - it has the highest calibre artwork The artwork looks bad.... I mean there is mostly never consistency between the characters and the backgrounds, characters look like cut from somewhere else and then pasted onto another image with different style....   Look how the lighting and shading for the character looks one way and the ones for the background a completely different one... looks annnoying to watch, like a terrible green screen effect. |
| Easily New Game! and Konohana Kitan for me. Miss Kobayashi's dragon maid will always be really special too and is a favorite from how much laughter it gave me, plus watching it is what lead me to absolutely adore New Game! and Konohana. Honestly, the Yugioh dark side of dimensions movie too. I randomly decided to start watching the dual monster anime like a year and a half ago, and my brother and I started to play again after I was watching it for a few weeks, and then I saw the movie a few months after finishing the show, and it just had a special flare to it, especially because I already decided to build a blue-eyes deck before I saw it, so I loved seeing Alternative and Chaos max (I actually built vanilla blue-eyes, though) on screen, even though the Cgi models didn't have the same feel as the hand drawn monsters. Also, The Irregular at Magic High School (light novel). I loved the show and I decided to buy volume 1 of the novel around when I started watching, and it became my favorite ln/manga really quickly. Plus, it's the first light novel I ever read, and since I don't really read lns, it's one of only 2 I read that are listed on my account with Occultic;nine being dropped because even the novel just bothered me when the show didn't. The Your Name ln isn't in the database here since it doesn't have artwork, so it doesn't count much here. |
KitsunehimeMilhiMay 1, 2019 5:15 PM
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Arkab said: Geshtinanna said: Shingeki no Kyojin is pretty much in a league of it's own - it has the highest calibre artwork The artwork looks bad.... I mean there is mostly never consistency between the characters and the backgrounds, characters look like cut from somewhere else and then pasted onto another image with different style.... Look how the lighting and shading for the character looks one way and the ones for the background a completely different one... looks annnoying to watch, like a terrible green screen effect. I've never noticed these 'faults' when the anime was in motion for any of the three seasons. If you look at anything through a microscope you will see rough edges - it is an anime after all, it's not supposed to be real humans filmed against a real backdrop/landscape lol. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess :D |
| I'm actually scared to watch the second season of Kingdom for precisely this reason lol. The first season was so amazing that I'm worried that when I finish the second season it'll be like "that's it" you can't get better than this. I felt similarly with Death Note, that I'll never see an anime as good as Death Note. Kingdom is a major rival now though. I also wonder if there's an anime that will tug on my heartstrings the way Angel Beats did but I do feel confident that there's something out there that will. Kingdom, however, I think you'd be very hard pressed to find an anime out there as epic as Kingdom. |
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Arkab said: you rated snk- 3 by watching 3 episodes its pretty much sums up you are a big hater of this series so there is no need to cry out loud just keep it to yourself and let people enjoy thisGeshtinanna said: Shingeki no Kyojin is pretty much in a league of it's own - it has the highest calibre artwork The artwork looks bad.... I mean there is mostly never consistency between the characters and the backgrounds, characters look like cut from somewhere else and then pasted onto another image with different style.... Look how the lighting and shading for the character looks one way and the ones for the background a completely different one... looks annnoying to watch, like a terrible green screen effect. |
| for me it will always be hxh and fma:b but when i watched mob psycho 100 it was like experiencing the entire range of human emotions at once. not to be dramatic tho but watching mp100 has been one of the most positive and healing experiences i’ve ever had. |
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| Steins;Gate , it's a masterpiece and I'm obsessed with it |
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| Puella Magi Madoka Magica Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Dragon Ball Super Clannad If I were to include visual novels and manga I would also say Umineko no Naku Koro ni. |
 ☆☆☆ "There's a huge difference between one and infinity. However, compared to the difference between existence and non-existence, one and infinite are nearly the same. I am the child destined to become the best witch... no... The greatest Creator in the world...!" -Maria Ushiromiya ☆☆☆ |
| It’s not my favorite but I’d say one piece with how epic the journey has become |
| Surprisingly mine is actually the first season of Mo Dao Zu Shi, which isn't even Japanese. But the way everything was paced, the character development, the story arc; it all happened in ways that I had always wanted to watch but could never find anything like it. I was waiting for it to change from what I was hoping would happen, but it never did. Seriously one of the most excited I felt watching a show |
| I do not think there were anime that made me go like this. There are extremely unique quality anime like Urusey Yatsura Inuyasha Slayers Gokudou and others but I would not have that reaction. I am unsure how many eps into Monster I got years ago but I know for me was a real let down. It was mostly a way to demonize nazies. Some were indeed horrible but most of their practices were not uncommon before the Geneva convention and they were inspired mostly by what the americans did. Edit: some people reminded me of Monogatari and Garden of sinners and yes there was nothing comparable to them since then. The only monogatari series I did not fully enjoy was Kixumonogatari. The manga version was way better done. |
nightcrawlercypMay 1, 2019 11:40 PM
| In music/slice of life category i will say K-ON! the impact while watchin and ending it like theres no other like it again |
| B O C C H I S W E E P |
| Code Geass : The great action, heavy drama, multiple plot-twists this show offered me was unlike any other, with the most memorable ending in anime history sealing the deal. Deathnote : Mastepiece writing with an original story. All the planning, the cunning, the strategic thinking of both parties was truly exceptional. Nagi no Asu kara : One of only two anime's to give me a post anime depression |
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