I’ve really liked the weeb-ass-shit scale for cases like this ever since I learned about it.
Three 1-10 scores:
That, I feel, is entirely subjective. Like, Lain might experiment with the medium and not be good for a kid, I imagine an adult with a love of sci-fi or niche films might find it much more tasty than a typical battle shounen.
Well, hopefully I’m ready for it now. All that remains is to hopefully not work too much overtime tomorrow and miss the watch party.
Actually really digging Oishinbo already – it’s basically Ratatouille every episode but it’s still entertaining to watch. Not sure where Orange Road is going yet but I was really put off by the MC treating women like a baby factory.
Funny, it was also like 15 years ago for me and that may be why I didn’t feel anything
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I wasn’t a hormonal teenager 15 years ago but I was still bottling up my emotions like I’d been taught as a child back then. I’ve become much more prone to crying over stories nowadays and usually telling people when I do, because while I do cry often it’s not everyday a story comes along that can do it so I take it as a good thing when it can.
I cry at the drop of a hat these days.
First, the ones others have mentioned:
As for my own:
Maybe hot take, but the only bit that actually got me in the heart was starfish girl in the first season (sadly, I cannot recall any of the characters names anymore). The second season felt too drawn out and trying too hard.
That said I have the ending theme burned into my brain. 🎶 Dango, dango, dango, dango, dango daikazoku 🎶
Gurren Lagann is one of my favorites, and the ending always tears me to shreds. Also the space portions during the big battles against the Anti-spirals (should be fairly obvious why). Strangely, the mid-season-1 drop (just before Nia was introduced) never got to me.
I’ve yet to see Grave of the Fireflies (when I was younger I was scared of what I’d heard, nowadays I’m just overworked and probably depressed) but I will cry every fucking time I watch Kiki’s Delivery Service. Moreso at the people being nice than anything else. I’ve become such a softie as I’ve aged.
Ditto for Trigun, I assume I know the episode you’re talking about offhand. Look up Trigun Hallelujah AMV sometime if you want a nice feels trip.
I once had a friend say much the same about Angel Beats and maybe that, like, ruined what should have been emotional turns for me but I did not end up feeling anything during Angel Beats. It felt like it was trying way too hard to actually affect me.
Very surprised to see a full youtube playlist of an anime in this day and age. Does that mean that so far you’ve only watched 1 episode of that Orange Road anime?
Question: How many episodes have I missed already? Whatever brand of neurodivergence I have would be itching at me if I jumped in somewhere in the middle.
I have a huge soft spot for Slime Time because while I recognize it’s trashy and extremely heavy on the power fantasy, there’s a sense of altruism – that is, the main goal of the MC is just wanting to make life better for the monsters whether they’re his subjects or not – that makes it more enjoyable than other isekai I’ve been introduced to. The early arcs around Shizu and then the Orc Disaster Geld were so touching that they made me cry.
Well, there is that but I was thinking more like the world of The Weakest Tamer where everyone has a magical “skill” dictated by how many “stars” they have and the MC has a voice in their head that tells them things they may not know (which goes unheard by the audience but seems to chime in like a player through a screen (or maybe just a ghost)), but otherwise has no obvious tells of being a video game world. Unless you count the MC doing inventory management on the regular.
I keep thinking there’s a secret third option because of the ambiguous way the question was phrased – something like how seemingly half of all isekai have gaming-inspired abilities despite not being set in nor based on a video game world.
I’m not entirely sure I understand the question being asked, but I want to say that the first season of Higurashi No Naka Koro Ni (AKA When They Cry AKA When Cicadas Cry) perfectly sets the tone and pacing of a mystery thriller where every answer the viewer gets to their questions comes with two or three NEW questions until you’re left with more questions than answers by the end of that first season.
That said, I have to cop to the aggressive animé-ness of the show, from dressing up its underage cast in fanservice-y clothing to the extreme mood whiplash between arcs, not to mention the entire weird premise (which I can’t really blurt out without major spoilers). Also large portions of the second season are dedicated to actions which I do not understand. My point is, it kinda fumbles in places.
My friends are having me watch Shangri-La Frontier at the moment (we take turns suggesting anime to watch together) and while I’m not really enthused by the story, I will absolutely recognize how very… let’s call it true-to-life it is wrt games and gaming culture. A LOT of little details in the fictional games and how the players interact with them (like the whole kuso gaming community) really proves how well the author knows their stuff.
Also the dub is top-fucking-notch, using terms I’m intimately familiar with from the gaming sphere but have never heard from localized anime before.
Higurashi No Naka Koro Ni… [/jk, in case it’s necessary]
Is that an order, or can I stick to eating chicken & mushrooms?
Copy/pasting someone else’s scores both because I have trouble doing this exact thing and because the Venn diagram of my tastes to the average anime fan has nearly no overlap‡, hopefully it helps.
‡as a for instance, I practically loathe Konosuba and yet here it’s rated at a 2 on the shit scale