No.7742
>>7740It feels nice to take a gamble on an original and have it pay off. It's worth recommending to people in the future for sure.
No.7744
>>7742I almost always watch originals tbh it's fun not knowing how it will develop and speculate with others. And the best is it will actually get an ending. Unlike most adaptions and hell even many manga.
Sadly, NegaPosi was the only new original (aka non-sequels) besides Mecha-Ude this season. I also enjoyed Mecha-Ude but can't say much about it besides having some good designs and sounds and feeling like a TV action anime from the early 00s to me.
No.7838
>>7835This is one of the earliest anime series I remember watching and it gave me nightmares lol. I just remember it veing incredibly violent comperable to the art style
No.7839
>>7838Yeah it is more violent than one would assume. How old were you when you watched it? I can't really imagine it scaring me much, but I understand everyone's different
No.7840
>>7839Probably 6 or 7. It was in the children's section of the local DVD rental. I actually can't remember too much of the details just that I shouldn't have been watching it and being terrified of the frog hats. I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually rather tame. I feel like I was a wuss as a child.
No.7841
>>7840Oh that is understandable. I was around that age when Coraline came out and was too scared to watch it even though my mom got me the DVD hahaha. So I was wuss too
No.7855
Happy New Year everyone! What's your 2025 Winter Season looking like?
I'm catching up on my backlog and probably BanBaBan and Sakamoto Days this season.
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>>7855Backlog as well, I only ever watch shows when they're completed so I'll wait patiently for Ubel Blatt and the newest Monogatari to finish. Other than that nothing is catching my eye.
No.7857
>>7855Considering Yellow, surely watching Green.
I usually end up only following ~four series these days so I will probably ignore most yellows after one episode.
That aside there isn't much to choose from IMO. WAY too much otome and isekai shit these days. And isekai-like non-isekai, whatever you call these. Might also watch some obscure OVA I still have in my backlog (and the Big O) if I have time because I also draw a lot of fanart again these days.
No.7863
>>7855Same to you, HNY!
SakaDays and perhaps Doctor Detective? Maybe more'll catch my eye as they start airing, dunno.
No.7864
>>7854Akira Amano is still doing boring ass fujobait?
No.7872
>>7654I just want to let you know I'm half-way done with the first season and really like it so far! The melancholic backstory scenes underpinning the series really sells it for me and grounds the screwball antics.
Though maybe I'm missing something, but Kanae's father comes off as a total deadbeat, and aloof jackass. I'm waiting for an episode which is going to really sell why he's neglecting everyone. Like I get that he was working on some kind of weapon(?) and ran away, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of pressure besides Bach's lackeys showing up to cause mischief. I get why the Classicaloids like him, but I don't get why we as the audience should.Anyway, you're right Mozart is an absolute devil. His design made him look like he was going to be more of a cutesy character but this man is lore-accurate lol. I think Chopin or Beethoven are my favorites. Chopin has a total moe vibe and his quiet personality is a nice offset to the entire rest of the cast. Beethoven is either the deepest character in the cast or a one-note gyoza joke and I can't tell but I'm enjoying his antics regardless. Great series so far and after seeing the guy who directed Ososan did it I'm kind of surprised it's flown under the radar, the humor is pretty similar and it feels like a more family-friendly version of that series.
No.7884
>>7883I always try a bunch or look into the 4chan threads for the rest since screenshots are often very telling. Anime are like songs, I can tell within the first minutes (for songs the first seconds) whether I might like it or not. Sometimes something seemingly good ends up being bad but you can easily weed out 95% of the shit within minutes or even seconds.
So far I am watching/sticking to Medalist. IMO good manga, some people said it had proper gay hinting between the two adult dudes later and they both seem to be good IMO and the girls are pretty but not sexualized. Plus, the mangaka is a woman which usually means that it will avoid a lot of the pitfalls I hate.
The only downside is that I have to share the threads with pedos.
No.7885
>>7884Really? I always find the screenshots misleading since they only post shots of female characters.
The most noticable was with this one isekai, Campfire Skill. The female character that kept getting posted had at most one minute shots per episode where she would send down a message from heaven to get the mc to offer her Japanese food at a shrine. They never even meet in the story, but from 4chan screenshots you'd think she was the mc.
No.7886
>>7885This is certainly a problem but I can often tell whether or not I like something by the artstyle and other things. Quality is also visible on screenshots and /a/ often posts webm as well and direction is everything.
Plus a lot of screenshots show the subs, so you can guess the quality of the dialogues and maybe even the mindset of the creator. Most anime screenshots show generic art styles, shitty CGI backgrounds and a sexualized girl without proper facial expression saying love related shit that tells me it isn't for me. Or some insecure boy stuff.
No.7887
>>7883I actually liked Isekai Red until the knight showed up, his obsession with the princess makes him completely insufferable and the "power of friendship" bit with the MC is not even homo, it just makes the MC look stupid.
No.7926
>>7919Kek isn't the bottom pic Shuro from Dungeon Meshi?
No.7928
I've been watching the occasional otome-aligned anime for years but lately I can feel my interest in that slipping away. I was going to watch season 2 of My happy marriage but thinking about it some more I'm not actually all that interested. Same with that new princess lessons one. Since I was going to work on my backlog I'm considering continuing Gundam seed but I put that on hiatus because of the extremely cringy hetero romance dynamic in episode 14. Maybe there's a gundam fan active on here who can tell me whether the series is actually good and it's worth it to sit through the drama.
No.7929
I like Medalist and Zesshu so far.
The latter is het though, but I am somewhat interested in the plot and whether that isekai world is even real or just a drug induced dream after MC got poisoned. I also wonder why she got poisoned in the first place, if it was planned or random and why there are bento boxes that passed their durability date years ago lel
There are other potentially good series but they didn't start yet it seems.
No.7940
>>7936All right, I'll keep going then.
No.8009
>>8004Watching Medalist, Sakamoto and Ojisan too.
I was hesitant with Ojisan since isekai always end up being boring but I relate to middle aged anime men for some reason so I gave it a chance and it's better than I thought. I am happy so far that he actually stays the ojisan (personalitywise) instead of using his former life as excuse for some hack power.
It probably helps that he has/had a family on his own and that he's actually old so he's prone to view others as his kids or young people he needs to help opposed to be an incel in the search for a harem.
Watching Aquarion too because I am always in for original mecha (unless it's lesbian school kids). Might give discount Berserk a try but I am not a fan of the girls, fanservice and the twink though I will see. Orb is still airing as well so that's nice.
No.8022
>>8020Same I am happy as well. I am not a huge fan of the CGI but the direction itself was great and you could tell the team actually likes the source material.
My only gripe is that they skipped the Chota detective chapter which is one of my favorite parts of the manga, since it reveals a bit of everybody's private life and is just generally funny and the only time we really have Chota as the PoV. I think it was also the chapter that made me realise that I like En. I just loved this guy more and more as the series progressed which is weird because I didn't care at all at first and he stroke me as the eccentric leader that is TOO odd to be likeable even for me.
Anyway I am happy it gets another season. Next season should include some of the best parts of the series.
No.8030
>>8022Same! I also loved that arc and I pitifully hope they possibly make it into an OVA like they did for golden Katie's skipped arcs
No.8044
>>8043Pretty much. Back when buddy daddies aired I decided that I should just never enter a 4chan thread when the anime has a little girl in it cause the thread is going to be spammed with garbage. I stopped going into shoujo threads as well cause it's going to have the rapechad autist or the anal autist or both.
No.8050
>>8044kek I didn't know shoujo got such people as well. Yuri too. I stopped visiting such threads years ago and when I casually click one it's the same trash. 0 discussion, just the same spergs talking about yuri, canon marriage predictions and the war against yuri haters or they get triggered because of a male character.
You can only discuss pure sausage fests or series with women that aren't meant to appeal to otaku, aka adult women that look and behave like adults. The second a series has any sort of waifu or a loli it's doomed.
What I hate the most is how pathetically they try to force it. Like even with Bravern or NGWK you have one or a few posters who try to "win" against fujos by trying to make the thread about the lolis and romantic chemistry even if it's Lulu and Smith who were very, very obviously framed as father/daughter dynamic duo. Imagine watching a gay as fuck series as Bravern till the end just to try and fail to control the direction of the discussion and make it pedo.
No.8062
I'm getting back into watching seasonals after a couple years. Any 2021-2024 hidden gems? Non-BL adjacent series are fine.
>>8043>it attracts the boring pedos that can't talk about anything but loli cunny for a single second I just started watching Medalist and yeah, no kidding. Absolute dogshit threads. Hoping for some bait between the two male coaches.
No.8063
>>8062>Any 2021-2024 hidden gems? Definitely give Odd Taxi a chance. It's probably the most surprising series I watched and it was a pure art and love project.
Dungeon Meshi and Frieren are insanely popular and I would rec them if you like actual fantasy and adventure.
Everything else is more subjective I believe but if you like shoujo-like war drama give 86 a chance as well for it has some fantastic direction but gets IMO only really good halfway in of s1. Not because the earlier parts were bad but because I misjudged it and assumed it would go into a different direction. Well I was wrong.
Bravern, Elusive Samurai and SK8 are popular among fujos. Bravern is as gay as anything can get and honestly basically canon despite being a super robot show. SK8 is similar. First features two adult military dudes and an aggressively gay robot (I won't say more about that), second has a varied cast of different ages and pretty character designs. Elusive Samurai isn't really gay but it's a heavily male dominated show with some teasing between certain characters and it has a bunch of cute blushing shotas as well as varied menhera adults and closely befriended ojisan samurai.
It depends on what you like. I am also a huge fan of Vinland Saga s1+s2, Made in Abyss or PLUTO but opinions on these probably vary depending on whether or not someone likes adult dudes, cute kids and sci-fi, fantasy or history.
No.8064
>>8063>Odd Taxi>86>SK8>VS>MIA>PLUTOI actually watched all of these, just finished PLUTO today; I've been waiting for it to be released for years but only got to it now lol. Loved them all aside from SK8 which I found to be average but still enjoyable, so good taste.
I'll check out the rest you mentioned, Elusive Samurai looks pretty interesting in particular. Thanks anon.
No.8065
>>8063Seconding Bang Braven since it's basically a BL. It's very campy and has a very gay robot, would absolutely rec to any nonna here. I also liked Sk8 and Dungeon Meshi from the ones that nonna listed. If you like full-on BL Cherry Magic is cute. It's about a 30 year old virgin who develops mind reading powers and realizes his coworker is in love with him.
No.8067
>>8062>Any 2021-2024 hidden gems?I'll go through my anilist for those years and put down some stuff that I enjoyed but don't often see people talk about: Fairy ranmaru, Kyuuketsuki Sugu Shinu, Kemono Jihen, Ousama Ranking, Sankaku Mado no Sotogawa wa Yoru, Shadows House, Uramichi Oniisan, Koukyuu no Karasu, Atarashii Joushi wa Dotennen, Dark Gathering, Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri, Migi to Dali, REVENGER, Sugar Apple Fairy Tale, Undead Girl Murder Farce, Yuzuki-san Chi no Yon Kyoudai, Karasu wa Aruji wo Erabanai, NegaPosi Angler, WIND BREAKER(Tbh I don't think this last one is all that good objectively but if you want to see cute boys beating each other up homoerotically it's great).
No.8068
>>8065>>8067Thanks nonnas. Gonna watch Bravern tomorrow. I have a lot of free time now so hopefully I'll get through most of these and catch up on ~3 years worth of anime. If any other anons are looking for series I recommend Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru and Tsurune for some nice (sports) homos.
And damn I've only heard of a third of these, do you watch everything each season?
No.8069
>>8068>And damn I've only heard of a third of these, do you watch everything each season?Not everything. I browse anichart each season and pick up anything that sounds interesting to me. Sometimes I end up not liking it and I'll drop it, other times I'm glad I gave it a shot.
No.8075
>>8062Pui Pui Molcar. You can watch both seasons in an hour. If you want more cute shorts we've also had Chiikawa (subs are posted on /wsg/ every Tues and Thurs, you can catch up with what's on nyaa), Odekake Koazame, and Yoru wa Neko Issho.
>>8067Seconding Fairy Ranmaru, Kyuushi, Atarashii Joushi, Migi to Dali, REVENGER (though that final ep, good lord), Undead Girl Murder Farce. Was not pleased with Sankaku Mado's adaptation quality, the relationship between the leads is far more fun in the manga but be aware there's a major het pair too.
Throwing in High Card because the leads are very shippable and even though the writing falls apart by the end, the revelations in S2 are batshit homo. There's no other way to summarize what goes down other than "wow pretty gay". Also Onmyouji, which FINALLY got an anime adaptation after decades of live action movies and TV specials, but Netflix gave it all the budget of a vanilla ice cream that contains no real vanilla and put rainbow jimmies on top hoping we'd be appeased. Well Seimei and Hiromasa are meant for each other and they even slipped in Seimei turning up at various men's bedsides so I was happy despite Douman getting genderbent for some reason. I'm guessing someone in production staff demanded more boobs in a period setting where everyone would be covered up. Thankfully she seems to ship the leads, so it's more like genderbending to prevent SeimeiDouman shippers getting in Hiromasa's way (if they even exist).
Shows with little homo appeal I'd rec include Akiba Maid Wars (PA Works doing yakuza mob movie parodies with cute maids), Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (poison loving girl in old China ends up solving mysteries in the palace harem), Paripi Koumei (famous Chinese general takes on Japan's nightclub scene and promises to make a girl a star), and Chimimo (a family of three sisters play host to Suwabe oni/namahage and his cute minions, who are supposed to be researching how better to torture modern humans in hell). I also really liked Tsukimichi and Shinigami Bocchan but those are an isekai and a CG het romcom so your mileage will vary.
I wrote too much for one post, teheh.
No.8076
>>8075Cont.
Do you like trash? Trash with singing? Visual Prison happened, and it was a complete dumpster fire, but it's a rare breed of shameless all male dumpster fire we don't get so often. About vampires who idol band sing while fighting for moon wishes or something, and there's a cat (nobody knows why there's a cat). Gekkan Mousou Kagaku tried taking its title with added giant neon furries and a conspiracy theory archeology theme, but was kind of lacking even in the weirdness department. And then there's Kawagoe Boys Sing, where the boys did sing, and the animation did fall apart, and there's a honey badger (nobody knows why there's a honey badger), but the guys were remarkably likeable and it even gently suggested ships.
Lastly, for children's shows there was a Muteking reboot that had surprise homo between the hero and a space cat-octopus, despite the hero's motivation being a girl he likes.