What anime is a religeous experience for you? You know what I'm talking about. That feeling you get when you're listening to an amazing song, and everything about it is so perfect, that it makes your heart beat out of your chest, and for just a brief moment, all is right with the world. I'm looking for the anime equivilent of that feeling.
Personally, I kind of felt this way in the closing scene of Evangelion 2.22, but that's really the only example I can think of.
I think Evangelion in general could be the basis for a religion Like a sort of anti-Buddhism
Dominic Morgan
someone's gonna unironically say madoka because they have no experience in storytelling or literature beyond high school and it's going to hurt my soul
Thomas Fisher
Madoka Magica
Tyler Walker
You sound somewhat bright but not that cultured - no offense - you should probably get Yea Forums someday (if you're under 20, not now) and start reading the classics. Looking for this feeling only in anime is going to limit you a lot. Anyway, Liz and the Blue Bird.
The opening for SEL The rest of the anime had almost as much impact as that song
Oliver Ortiz
>all is right with the world Not trying to be edgy, but If any, experience with religion should show you how much thing is wrong with the world.
Ryder Price
>how much thing is wrong the absolute state of *******
Easton Ward
Fine then. I accept your challenge. What books give you that feeling?
Also, I'll check out liz and the blue bird, thanks.
Jackson Wilson
Childhood's End would be a good start, since telling you to read classics would be rather pompous and unnecessary if you're not a history or philosophy major
Christopher Bell
I was thinking along the lines of "a feeling of infinity" or transcendence, or oneness, which your framing of this topic in religious terms along with "all is right with the world" made me think of. Check out The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima, and/or One Thousand Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Neither of those is a stuffy tome for scholars like proposes.
Lincoln Wright
Angel Beats is an anime which is cathartic if you don't think about it and mostly listen to the OP. But if you start thinking about the plot, it quickly gets bleak in a bad way.
Tyler Campbell
Sora no Woto.
Kevin Ramirez
Planetarian.
Christopher Walker
looks good, but looks too dangerous for my fragile heart
Anthony Green
I'd say that if you want a catharsis, then it's one of the best anime ever made. VN is even better. As a bonus, you will feel quite different when visiting the planetarium after it.
Levi Adams
Seconding Liz. This user knows what’s up.
Jose Jones
I was at the Hayden Planetarium just the other day didn't see black science man unfortunately, I do wanna watch it given I'm an astronomy enthusiast, but I know i'll crush my soul if I do, I can tell from the basic description
Chase Morris
Non-explicitly it gives a very Christian vibe (in a good way).
Brayden Scott
Texhnolyze, especially episodes 19-20.
Colton Evans
Japanese lit thread? >reading Mishimeme If you're going to read meme authors you might as well go with a Memaruki Murakami like Kafka on the Shore; at least it's more modern. But if you're interested in a truly Japanese, Zen kind of experience, I'd recommend Kawakami Hiromi's novel, which are transcendentally Japanese in a modern and relevant way.
Luis Rogers
Yea Forums will always be better than the other boards at whatever they do