That’s attack on titan for me. Never could get into it.
Relatable.
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SW42@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
binarytobis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was the same. Watched the first season as soon as it came out and thought “It’s a little murder-porny but I’m kind of intrigued to see where the plot goes.” Then after the first season the plot got worse instead and I lost interest. People seem to love it though.
pir8t0x@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You never got into it even a single time?!! Surprising to hear but okay 😶🌫️
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
The original run was brilliant. Then the new seasons came out, and it just doesn’t feel the same.
frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
The art style was stabbing my eyes back then. I could not do the thick line character outlines in the setting they chose. If they had a different background art style it could have worked for me but that was not happening.
Sabata11792@ani.social 3 weeks ago
My Hero Academia. I got too annoyed by the main character.
alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
MHA is praised as peak? In what universe?
Sabata11792@ani.social 3 weeks ago
I thought people liked it, or maybe there just loud.
yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I got too annoyed because they couldn’t shut up about what “One For All” is. They kept repeating that god damn flashback over and over…
pir8t0x@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Lol
MalReynolds@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Notable absence of Cowboy Bebop,
3,2,1 Let’s Jam…
PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Because absolutely nobody dislikes Cowboy Bebop. It’s, like, the perfect anime.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I never cared for it.
But I don’t dislike it, I’m just indifferent.
So you’re still correct.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
One Piece
I love the universe and characters to bits, and still keep up with the manga.
But at some point the anime became utterly unwatchable for me.
Even the admittedly amazing recent improvement in animation, is ruined by the sfx work.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I heard One Pace fixes the pacing, I just haven’t had the drive to start it over.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
One Pace is certainly the best way to watch it.
But the pacing isn’t the only issue that crops up over the series.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I’ll contend that pre-TS legitimately can stand with the absolute best of the genre, but recommending OP to people feels like a trap. It’s like “hey here’s 500 episodes of peak to get you hooked, now you get to watch 500+ episodes of mid because you just wanna know how it ends.”
VivianRixia@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The pacing dropping to 1ch = 1ep ruined it for me. And yeah, not a fan of the sfx use we keep seeing specially in Zoro fights.
PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
One Piece.
I feel like I might have gotten into it if I started watching it when I was 10. But I didn’t.
Butterpaderp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s complicated, cause there is a good story there, you just won’t see it until like 100 episodes into the show. Really slow start to it. Also doesn’t help that alot of the early seasons are pretty dated now in animation style, and there’s a ton of filler and recaps. I can’t even watch the show myself, but I’ve been reading it since the beginning.
Hoping they go through one day when the show’s done and make a condensed & updated version. You could probably remove half of the episodes as it is, no joke.
Ashenlux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
For those interested, “One Pace” is a fan edit that removes a lot of recap and shit. I just got my GF caught up not too long ago using one pace and I think it is the way to go if you insist on watching it and not reading it. One pace isn’t caught up, but it will get you through a lot of it.
PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I just wanna know when the furry character shows up (the cat looking thing with the pink hat; Chopper, I think is his name?). That character is what made me wanna see the show in the first place and I have no idea what season they’re introduced in.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
for real. it’s just…not good, as a new adult viewer.
I’m sure plenty of people feel the same about DBZ, but I saw my first episodes as a young teen and loved it.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Neon Genesis Evangelion for me. The original ending where everyone was clapping around Shinji was so weird. It’s at its best when it’s about giant robots fighting the angels but gets really strange once the characters are out of the cockpit.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I like Evangelion specifically because most of it wasn’t intended to have a meaning. Anno just put it in the show because he thought it looked/sounded cool.
This is similar to why I like games from Hideo Kojima. Its just filled with stuff he thought is cool. It doesn’t always have to have a meaning or explanation.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Metal Gear Solid really clicked for me even though it had some strange shit going on with it too. Maybe because the tone and pacing was handled pretty well. The Patriots, Les Enfants Terribles, and even Revolver Ocelot’s arm possession just fit the narrative quite nicely.
msage@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
To me it always felt like people were trying to justify the plot and setting as some sort of grandiose idea, when it’s just a shit idea with random words and images.
It’s angels, that why they explode into crosses, also the children experience trauma, that’s why the mechs…
Fuck off. I’ve watched deep dives of episodes, with frames explained down to pixels, and it’s still random shit for the sake of shock, nothing more.
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It beats NGE’s convoluted story so thanks.
Gutek8134@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Death Note, couldn’t get past like 5th episode. Still, second opening is fire
Newsteinleo@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
You and me both. The main character is supposed to be smart but keeps doing dumb shit.
ekZepp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean, to each his one. Maybe you could try something with a more light tone. There are lot’s of hilarious slice of life series. 🤷
binarytobis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve found I usually don’t like the ones with the most fans, for whatever reason. Specifically I don’t tend to like ones in high school settings or ones where the author just really enjoys murdering characters in gruesome ways. That really limits my options.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Let me guess… you watched Angel Beats or Danganronpa and didn’t like it?
While there is a lot of school themed anime, there are plenty of scifi and fantasy themed anime as well. Options become less limited the farther back in time you go, because the 80s and 90s seem to have more scifi and fantasy than school themes, as they were more popular. Unless you like slice of life, in shich case you have like, three shows tops and they’re all from the last 4 years.
SleepyPie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Shield Hero 🤮🤮🤮
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I like shield hero but anyone describing it as peak has shit taste.
Butterpaderp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The first season was kinda bearable, and then it just turned completely shit
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I read almost all of the novels and you cannot imagine how much worse it gets
pir8t0x@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Relatable
MissyBee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Violet Evergarden. It stinks of “Born sexy yesterday”.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
as a rule of thumb, more often than not an anime being “mainstream” and having a lot of people interested in it is a safe indicator that it’s boring and not watch-worthy
TwistedTurtle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I like edgy stuff but I’m ootl on current anime. Can you recommend anything in particular?
runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I watched a couple episodes of DanDaDan the other night. It’s definitely out there.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Mob Psycho.
Just couldn’t get into it.
Toes@ani.social 2 weeks ago
That’s how I feel about Akira. It’s just really boring to me dunno why.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For me? Frieren.
I am still gonna try two more episodes, but episode one was boring and underwhelming to me. Not that anime needs to have action, because I also like slow films (one of my favorites being Rear Window), but episode 1 of Frieren did not hold my attention that well.
At the end I said out loud “this is what everyone is hyping about?”
Maybe I change my mind by episode 3, but if not I guess I will just have to leave my enjoyment of it to the memes.
Newsteinleo@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
I loved Frieren, but I get that it’s not for everyone. It is a story about grieving, building relationships, passing wisdom on to a next generation. Because of that I think it appeals to people that have experienced loss and are older.
MissyBee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
took me till episode 3 till I was hooked. But for me it was Steins Gate. Tried it 4 times over 6 years or so, never got beyond episode 2.
pir8t0x@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Relatable. I guess I’m just not into time travel
Endmaker@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Understandable. I have dropped Steins;Gate before too.
Personally, I find that it only starts getting good in the second half (i.e. episode 13 and beyond).
pir8t0x@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Frieren was an upper mid anime for me.
BunScientist@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I heard so many people describing Nichijou as the greatest comedy of them all, I liked it but it wasn’t as funny as I expected, they also started repeating some jokes with faster pacing in the 2nd half for some reason
msage@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
It has around 3 absolutely peak scenes, that are on Youtube.
But that’s mainly it.
PonyOfWar@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
City: The Animation for me. Desperately want to like it and the animation style is great, but I just didn’t find it very funny.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Homestuck
mkmusic@torishiro.com 2 weeks ago
for me, it was Steins;Gate, sadly...:BlobCat_Cry:
@pir8t0x@sh.itjust.works @animemes@ani.socialorochi02@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Parasyte, Tokyo ghoul and your lie in april
bob_lemon@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Cyberpunk Edgerunners. Way too much character development harkens off screen between episodes.
Also, Miltech troops having the accuracy of am average A team villain when firing at an unmoving target for literally half an episode was just… A choice
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I think my taste has just changed as I got older. Can’t watch anything focused on kids like demon slayer, Kamen riders, let’s say the vast majority of anime. But everyone talked shit about the Rick and Morty anime but I kinda enjoyed it. I also kinda enjoyed the retro feel of go go loser ranger, but it didn’t hold onto me enough to finish it.
socsa@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That one scene in the first episode where the female protagonist is forcibly strapped to a chair spread eagle and has her clothes ripped off and we spend like a solid 5 minutes doing gratuitous fan service while she convinces aliens not to rape her, completely ruining my ability to recommend the show to people.
Mercuri@ani.social 2 weeks ago
For me it’s Reincarnated as a Vending Machine. A lot of people like it and it’s already in season 3 but I couldn’t do it. And I’m normally a huge sucker for isekai. I gave it 3 episodes and I was done.
SatoruToru@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!: I don’t like how crazy the main character is. And Chainsaw Man, don’t want to elaborated on this
MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 3 weeks ago
I’ll take “99% of Shonen” for $500, Alex.
wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I’ve been feeling this way, too. Most shows with dumbass teenage main characters are a pass for me, nowadays. I think it’s mainly because I’m getting older and they aren’t very relatable anymore.
shani66@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Eh, I might getting older but the old stuff still hits better. Sure there will be a genuinely good show here or there, but standards have never been lower and slop has never been this popular.
ConstantPain@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What is it with all the short-tempered screaming MCs in shonen?
MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 3 weeks ago
It just seems like most Shonen have the same plot line of “the power of self confidence and friendship saves the day!” And it’s just so trite at this point to me. And that isn’t to say that Shonen can’t have a good plotline. But it’s usually some other genre with a sprinkling of Shonen.
That being said, there really is no accounting for taste. It’s the most popular genre for a reason after all.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I honestly wish Japan would split their genres a lil more. Shonen feels like such a default “anime” genre, and yeah most of it is just generic drivel. Then something actually wild and interesting comes along like DanDaDan or Gachiakata or SANDA, but you basically have to find them through word of mouth or knowing the animation studios.
njm1314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Cause you aren’t the audience.
MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Ok? The meme isn’t about the target audience.
redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The pirate cut of Naruto is good. All filler removed, some edits and subtitle changes to make it in line with the manga.
You still may not like it but that’s what came to my mind for quality shonen.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Could I get a lil more info as to where to find this? I’ve long held the opinion that I would actually enjoy Naruto if there was a recut of it similar to One Pace. The big thing that causes me to bounce off it is the anime’s love of flashbacks.
pir8t0x@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
That’s surprising to hear but okay
Jax@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Is it? Shonen is a revolving door of tropes, you’d be hard pressed to find a shonen anime that actually shakes the formula up.
MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 3 weeks ago
I can count on one hand the number of Shonen anime that I’ve enjoyed. There’s been a few that were a “X” + shonen. But it had to be like…a 75/25 split.