3x3 Thread

1/2 I've been keeping these in my backlog for years now
1/1
2/6
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The worst one by miles.

5/8
I recommend you don't try to turn these into recommendation threads.
I also recommend you remake your 3x3 from hand or at least with a program that doesn't cheaply upscale the panels to ridiculous dimensions.

Too many: ~60%
I recommend you make your mind up about which of these you like more than the others.

4/4
I recommend you post this more often. I like it.

1/4
I can't really recommend anything.

4/7
I recommend not using fanart, generally. But I do compliment your choice of recognizable pieces.

0/2
I recommend you decide whether to focus on eyes in all of your pics or in none of them.

6/9
I recommend you try out some other type of anime. You might enjoy something that's less "shounen".

2/5
I recommend either using colourful pics for all of your panels or for none of them.

2/6
Not much I could recommend here either.

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... and anime.

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I recommend a better rope for your next suicide attempt.

4/6
too much
none
5/7
5/6
4/7
6/9
2/4
6/7
4/4

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5/5
5/5
7/9
1/3
7/9
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3/3
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>too much
Learn to count, retards

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Hey, OP wanted recommendations. Not me.
Be careful what you wish for.

>190915207
>190915291
>4/4
For both at once or for each of them?

/4
>For both at once or for each of them?
For each of them

i made a 3x3 thread, not a 7x7. Condense your shit

Faggot

6/8
1/3
8/8
2/3
8/9
4/7
3/3
(OP)
2/5
2/4

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Ran out of arguments to make already?

>nobody gets the turkey reference

its hxh

oof i didn't noticed luffy

2/3 I thought I would like Guru guru more than I did

6/8

9/9

3/4 Gachaman Crowds had an interesting concept but I didn't enjoy its execution

5/5

5.5/6, I really liked a good chunk of Gintama, but also hated a good chunk of it too.

6.5/9

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reposting here since i didnt see the thread at first

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No recommendations anymore. That stuff is taxing.

4/5

2/3

3/9

3/4

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3/3

3/3

hello syy

3/3

sauce for bottom right please?

1/1

5/5

4/4

4/4

6/6

6.5/7

17/17

Who is this autist piece of shit?

What the fuck are you doing, retard? Can you please stop wasting a post for each rating? Just post all of those at once.

apologies

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2/3
4/4
1/2
2/2
1/1
1/1

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5/9

2/8

0/5

One punch Man, sorry my taste aren't that classy

What's not classy about OPM?

You're kidding, right.

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4/4
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1/2
6/8

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It's fun, but that doesn't mean it can't be classy. Beats pretty much every "serious" battle shounen out there without effort and, if we're talking about the manga, looks better as well.

IM made it on after all. Sorry Yamato.
5/6
5/5
4/6 This grid is way too dark. I had to stare at some of these squares for way too long in order to figure out what they were supposed to be.
4/9
I preferred the version with Tiger Mask and Patlabor. It had much better composition too.
3.5/7 Please be my GF.
5/7 Cool guy.
1/6
What is?
2/7

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what makes you like s;n0 over s;n?

Posting mine to bump.
I'll rate others in a few hours if the thread is still up I swear.

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I like Okabe's character a lot more (him dealing with depression, etc), the whole Amadeus arc reminds me of that Black Mirror episode that actually had good writing and the action scenes are more entertaining than in the main story
I wonder if they'll have any OVAs for the 10yr aniv.

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4/7

3/5

6/8

Is my taste that gay that people think i'm a grill?

Which one is yours?

this

Not excessively gay/girly, no. I guess your choice of pictures makes you appear a bit "soft".

4/4
muh old animu/9
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3/5
1/4

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>muh old animu/9
Old? What kind of colossal newfag are you? Half of those are not even 20 years old.

>trying to fit in

7/7
1/1
4/4
5/5
3/3
4/6
-HNK, -KLK
2/2
1/2
-SnK
3/3
4/4
2/3
Pretty generic, but okay.
3/3

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What? Start making sense.
That 3x3 isn't even mine. And it's trying less hard to fit in than you, Mr. "I have Lain, Madoka, Evangelion and Holo in my grid but use fanart that's hard to recognize".

5/6

4/5

4/4
8/20
3/4 just because I'm currently watching Utena.
3/4 Clannad isn't worthy, mate.
3/4
4.5/5 SSY first 8 episodes are incredibly boring.
5/5
4/4
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what is middle left, middle right and top centre?

4/5

RahXephon, Gunslinger Girl, and Gungrave.

there are so many more :/

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The ultimate contrarian. Too much of a teen for Eva, Noir and Trigun. Lol.

What are you even saying, user?

Thats rahxephon? How dont i remember that part, it barely misses being in my 3x3

Once in a while I consider swapping it out with SAC or Gankutsuou.

Time for another RPG (random-picks grid). Though, considering the same grids (and lately even panels) always tend to end up in it, I have pondered whether I should use a higher threshold for the sample-size. Right now, I start making these with 24 proper grids posted in a thread. Maybe 27 or 30 woul be more sensible, but that would also mean I make them less often. (Threads often make it to 24, but rarely to 30.) Any opinions?

Raw data:
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Older RPG:
mega.nz/#F!VvAlzYzT!32Ca0qvfqMjMYsGu9yUn6g

Keep posting!

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7.5/9 ~Ryvius -Now and then
7/9 -Rainbow, Gungrave; surprised how recognizable that Gunslinger shot actaully is. I don't even remember the building but the atmosphere kinda gives it away anyway
5.5/9 ~Gunsmith -RoV, Utena, Onisama reeee
3.5/9 +NGE, Lain, SnW ~E7 since I have no clue waht that fanart stands for. The show, the sequel, the Hi-Evo series, all.
3/9 +Heidi, NGE ~Lupin, Patlabor
2/9 +Chiichan a shit ~SDF, Patlabor (first half of the TV show was great anyway, but the second half is bloody abysmal)
5/8 -SnK, Goyims Gate, Yahari; never seen Jojo
1.5/9 +KON ~JAV Live
Nice cropping
3/9 + E7, Bebop, TTGL
6.5/9 ~CCS, Holmes, Gungrave
7.5/9 ~Kaiji -Karekano
~Conan, Rem -Key, Narumon
6/9
Cringe

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Yes. The combination of Moriwaki and two long running shounen series doesn't do you any favors.

Great, 6 exceptional shows on here

HxH 1999 is better but 6/9 good taste

Plus points for Heidi - 8/9

a lot of 6-7/10 shows on here

K-on, Haruhi, NHK is good, but everything else meh

i like most of the shows but as 3x3 its too much of the same. diversify your taste - still 7/9

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4/6

5/7

4/8
Please rate others.

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5/8

Another update:
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Also, I had given it the wrong filename. Doesn't really matter, I guess.

You'll probably enjoy it even more now.

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This is the first "consistent" grid I've seen with MIA on it. Usually it's just lumped in with 8 entry level turds.

anime 3x3

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Based, make sure these threads die quickly.

7/8
Please rate others.

Sould we keep the thread alive for this ( ) mate here?

yes

The soundtrack is certainly fantastic. As far as the "anti-blind faith message," I didn't really read a moral into the movie. The way you put it makes it sound as if the man was in the right and the little girl was in the wrong and I never really felt that. It pretty accurately conveys the feelings of nihilism after losing faith though.

What's middle left supposed to be? Just Hiroyuki Imaishi in general?

Run out of grids, gotta make new ones.
6.5/8 ~Angel's Egg -Kino
+Ping Pong
30/40 or so
+Giant Robo
3.5/6 ~Tutu -Conan, Rem
+Guru
5.5/6 ~5cm I think
+Disappearance
5/5 Humongous homo for fanart.
+Kaiji
I liked you more when you had Patlabor and Sunred on the grid.
6/6 +Dragon Ball
5/5 +Blame
3/4 ~Fate, Death Note
+Higurashi
Finally got around watching CHU and it was absolutely horrible, switched to manga shortly after and it wasn't any better.
5/6 -Cutey Honey
+Meshi
3/5 ~Sailor, Plastic -CHU
+HxH
6/6 Another gay fanart lover.
+Houseki
Are you from Yea Forums or something, sorry user, nobody watches sports anime here.
5/5 +OP manga
5/5 if that's Texh+
7.5/8 ~Champloo
+GTO
6/6 +Beeb boop
2/6 +Haruhi
5/5 +Jinrui
4/4 +SDFM
4.5/6 ~Sailor -HnK anime, love the manga though
+Lupin
Another homosexual fanartfag
4/5 -Sora no Woto
+Eva
6/6 +Galactic Railroad
4.5/5 ~Haibane
+EoE
3.5/5 ~Haibane -Sora no woto
+Lain
6.5/9 ~Joe, Mind Games, Corner world -Fuujin
+Mononoke
6.5/7 ~Kaiba
+FMA
6/8 ~I need to rewatch Spirited Away, Kon, Champloo, Gatari
+Perfect Blue
7/7 +M Plus
No.

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I rewatched sunred and the second season didn't hold up as much as the first season did. It was probably due to the change in directors.
Patlabor was good and I did try rewatching it and stopped. Should give it a rewatch soon to really see if I can enjoy it again. That's my standard for my grid.
Natsuyuki Rendevous was just the most recent anime I was engrossed in.

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>Rewatching wholesome comedy shows without any story or depth doesn't work that well
Color me surprised.
Does it mean Haruhi did held up? Or is it specifically Disappearance, because I really doubt I would enjoy rewatching either TV season, but I did rewatch Disappearance like a year or two ago and despite noticing some flaws, I still loved it.

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>anti blind faith message
It had no meaning at all even the creator said he had no idea, so you clearly are some pseud. Get some taste angels egg was trash and also watch more anime so you can get better taste.

those manga look really interesting; could you list them, please?

Nice buzzwords. Go back to your board.

All of it holds up I watched disappearance countless times because it is entertaining. When I rewatched the TV series it was in chronological order. The beginning of S1 sucked because it was just episodes of exposition, one after another. Once you get through that, you get to see Haruhi develop as a character. I want to revisit it again with the broadcast order again to see "Kyon's order" where you see Kyon's development.
S2, I knew endless 8 was coming and was prepared for it. That aside, the movie arc was great: it was like an actual movie. Meaning there was no beginning of the episode reviews: the first scene of current episode was a continuation the final scene from the previous episode. It's an interesting but subtle way of producing that arc.
Another thing I liked was the constant foreshadowing of Disappearance as passing lines in dialogue, jokes or hypothetical situations that would be dismissed as absolutely unlikely to happen. It's a well executed show.
The only weak point I can see was characters that were not Haruhi or Kyon.

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I am not that nice. Go read Dorohedoro.
>foreshadowing of Disappearance
Now that sounds actually interesting, sadly S3 Haruhi had burned down along with Kyoto Animation main building.

>Go read Dorohedoro.
That's the one manga you suggest I just so happen to be currently reading.

"My taste is shit so other people should stop liking good anime"

108/163

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I don't care what Yea Forums says, these are honestly my favourite

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Watch more anime/10

I don't like slife of life/romance/ecchi stuff, which is probably what Yea Forums means when they say "watch more anime". Yea Forums has a tendency to hate shonen and action oriented anime, which is totally unfair because those are genuinely good and enjoyable for many.

you should watch more of what's on my list

read manga

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safe taste, these are mostly fine but i'm a big planetes/kaiji disliker
theres a lot here but they look good at a glance
reminded me to download brigadoon, i wanna watch that - like most of these, especially your taste in kids shows
not much to say here, i'd definitely recommend watching blu-rays where possible for old cel anime
safe taste, nothing really stands out
not really my kind of anime on the whole, but i appreciate that you like them
posts on mal forums
if i ignore everything but that slot this is a pretty good grid, i like ryukishi07's original higurashi art a lot so i never bothered with the deen adaptation, seems ok though
aino taking center stage with a sexy pose!
another safe one, though it's allowed on Yea Forums puppet theater is not anime
weird mix of stuff i like and stuff i don't hate
not fond on the whole though i do like e7 quite a bit
don't like it lad
don't really care for any of these
don't much like this one either
do like most of these, not sure if i'll bother with patlabor beyond the ova and movies though
like it on the whole though i cant really comment on the right hand side too much, +points for good eva episode
i picked nazo no kanojo x as a horny show a while back, the artstyle is cool but it was pretty boring, grid is an ugly mixed bag
i like it, ihatov gensou is my fave kenji miyazawa adaptation though
don't like it much
im the damn imasoko disliker, i'd quite like to watch the 'of the stars' shows some time
i watched crusher joe yesterday and quite enjoyed it - it's super long though and although there's no comprise in quality it doesn't really need to be 2 hours, i particularly liked the scene in the disco
you're on the way, embrace visualfaggotry

word limit 1/2

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not much off the beaten track here, pretty safe
found cobra incredibly annoying at first but i think it picked up as it went on, final arc felt pretty poor though, would quite like an otaku gf to cosplay lum for me, oshii is better when his films aren't dry
i forgot what top left was and i can't be bothered to check the version where you can tell what things are, most of these are fine, i wonder what kono sekai would look like if takahata directed it
quite fond of the imperfection of ABe's art though i never really enjoyed any of the shows attached to them, nothing too wild on here
not for me, you can take better screenshots than that too

2/2
Think it's 3/3, unless I've forgotten some.
1/2

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half of these are the exact same but i have nothing better to do

5/5
23/27 fuck you
3/3 kukuri a best
4/4
5/5 god npc
2/4 some shit but props for unique taste
3/3 expand a little
2/3
4/5
3/4
4/4 good npc
4/4 good npc
6/6 based moefag
3/5
5/5
4/4
4/4 fan art reeeee
3/3
4/4
6/6 interesting FLCL pic choice.
6/6
7/7
4/4
7/7 be my friend please
5/5
6/8 watch gunbuster
3/3 kukuri a best

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took me a while
7/8 - texhnolyze
not going to bother
5/5 great!
4/5 - nichijou
8/8 kinda boring
4,5/6 - Hxh, ~ trigun
3/5 - death note
2/3
6/8 - madoka, hnk
3/6 - op, fma
6/7 - gungrave
5,5/7 - nhk
6/8
5/6
6/7 - tanya
8/9 favorite itt
2/4 - girlfriend x. fuck fanarts
6/6
3/4 I think
5/8
5/6 - monogatari
4/6 - patlabor movie, otaku no video
9/9
5/7
4/7 good for you
3/3

2/3

>Finally got around watching CHU and it was absolutely horrible, switched to manga shortly after and it wasn't any better.
Well, it is Go Nagai, and very much so. That's not everybody's cup of tea.

1/5

7/8

2/9

>these are honestly my favourite
That's okay. Makes me doubt both your experience and your taste, but it's absolutely okay.

1/2

2/3

2/2

3/6

4/6

4/9
+ EoE,Trust and Betrayal,Tex,Angel’s Egg
/ Kino
- KareKano,Kaiji,Ping Pong, and definitely Planetes
3/Too many
+ Death Note,Gurren Lagann, Made in Abyss
I didn’t like Gunbuster at all
1/at least 5
+ Dennou Coil
- Tutu, Conan, Brigadoon,YSL
1/at least 6
+ Disappearance
2/9
+ Lain, Gankutsuou
I give most of these below a 4/10
2/9
+ Togashi
4/8
+ HxH,SnO,Death Note, Higurashi
I don’t like that you put several Gainax/Trigger shows in one square
Props for bottom row though
3/9
+ Kingdom, AnJ, Major
1/9
+ HxH
4/5
+ SSY, Gankutsuou, Gurren Lagann, EoE
Neutral to Cardcapter Sakura
1/9
+ Gurren Lagann
0/9
Liked the K-On and Haruhi movies a lot
1/9
+ Lain
3/at least 3
+ OD, Madoka, Hidamari
2/6
+ OD, Ranma
2/7
+ Madoka,Lain
1/5
+ Katanagatari
4/7
+ EoE, Abe
Neutral to what I think is Monster
4/8
+ Abe,NaTHaT, Made in Abyss
2/9
+ HxH, Kaiba
1/9
+ Perfect Blue
1/4
+ Lain
5/8
Neutral to Utena, Spirited Away
- SaW
Ok
0/1
Only recognize three of these from images
Neutral to Heartcatch
2/9
Monogatari,Only Yesterday
Can you describe the appeal of Gunbuster to me. I found it overindulgent and a little annoying. The rating shouldn’t bother you. I respect your tastes, they are just different from my own.

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what are they?

>Makes me doubt both your experience

How does one become "experienced" in anime? It's not exactly a skill to sit on a couch and watch something.

>Top Row:
Serial Experiments Lain
Patlabor 2
Zeta Gundam
>Middle Row
Macross Plus
Space Adventure Cobra
Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine
>Bottom Row
Space Battleship Yamato 2199
Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still
Otaku no Video

Whats the point of doing a rating, everyone generally has good anime in there 3x3s

>what are they?
Not him. But they are quite solid choices to get into anime classics easily. Certainly very popular as well, and a bit clichée, but less so than your list (which is the very definition of "entrylevel").
I do think his advice is sound, as they do share their lightheartedness and simple structure (not necessarily a bad thing) with your grid, but are generally better constructed.
If you want names, try saucenao.com first. If, after that, there are still some left that you can't find, come here and ask for specific things, not whole grids.

>How does one become "experienced" in anime? It's not exactly a skill to sit on a couch and watch something.
Experience does not have to come from a skill. You will gain the skill to recognize and evaluate anime better the more you see (Not only anime, but also manga, films, books and other narrative media).
It's like wine-tasting: Drinking itself is not a skill, but the more experience you have, the less likely will you say that a 3-dollar-wine from your local convenience store is among your favourites.

>everyone generally has good anime in there 3x3s
That's a very generous approach you have there. I doubt that you like all the anime in here, or even a huge majority. Or at least you don't like them all to the same extent.
If you end up giving 100% scores all the time (or 0% scores), maybe you should re-calibrate your rating-system. In your case, that would mean being a bit harsher and setting your standards for what gets a point a bit higher.

>i watched crusher joe yesterday and quite enjoyed it - it's super long though and although there's no comprise in quality it doesn't really need to be 2 hours
To be entirely honest: If it wasn't for the character animation and character dynamics, I wouldn't even like it. Visual directing is pretty lukewarm and while the story is ok, the only reason I am not too offended by it is because it's kinda the first of its kind. That's also why the OVAs are so terrible by comparison. Focus on story and mechanical animation instead of characters and their respective dynamics.

Does an anime being "entrylevel" somehow make it better or worse? it's entirely possible that some people like the entry level stuff even after watching hundreds of anime.
So many times i try watching these "anime classics" and find myself bored to tears, eg: Giant Robo and Lain in his list.

character animation definitely stood out, i liked particularly yasuhiko's cut of talos punching two dudes after getting smacked over the head in the disco

How the FUCK do you get bored by Giant Robo?

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>Does an anime being "entrylevel" somehow make it better or worse?
No. "Entrylevel" just means it's easily accessible and most people have seen it (or at least enough of it to have an elaborate opinion on something).

>it's entirely possible that some people like the entry level stuff even after watching hundreds of anime.
Yes. It is. However, it is highly unlikely that you wouldn't find at least one "lesser known" thing that you enjoy more. A hidden gem of some kind. Just like you can still like an "entrylevel wine" after having tried hundreds, but will likely have some things in your shortlist of favourites that not everybody knows. (Rioja wines, for example, are something that's widely known, yet still well liked among experienced tasters.)

>So many times i try watching these "anime classics" and find myself bored to tears, eg: Giant Robo and Lain in his list.
You don't have to enjoy every classic out there. Nobody likes all of them.

A lot of my love for Gunbuster comes from the context of when and how it was made, who it was made by, and what it was inspired by and what it further inspired.
Looking at the work by itself, the first half, although it's grown on me greatly, do come off as you said and very corny.
This is assuming you didn't finish the series though, so if you did I'd be interested in hearing a little more about what bothered you in the 2nd half.

Not who you were talking to, but people take for granted that anime "classics" are an entirely different beast from a lot of modern anime. The pacing is much slower, there are fewer cliches that you come to expect from modern anime and so on. Personally, I find myself being similarly bored by modern anime because there's less variety between shows, but I understand that you need to have a tolerance for the style of older shows.

The character sequences felt like they were all animated by him to be honest. It also does an impeccable job switching around from "realistic" depiction webm.red/kaej.webm and character movement to slightly off model slack stick expressions. With the mount suddenly being half the size of the skull. Wish he had actually stuck to making movies like this instead of trying to be serious with Venus Wars and Arion. Gorg had potential, but unfortunately the character cast sports the personality of a milk carton.

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DBS is utter garbage by shonen standard,

Lain is a cult classic for a reason; if your most enjoyable exposure to cyberpunk anime ranges from Akira to Psycho Pass then of course you'd be bored to tears. When it comes to mecha anime and given your shonen predilections, you may as well go down the rest of Gainax's portfolio with Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, Gunbuster/Diebuster, and FLCL,You'll definitely notice similarities to Evangelion and Gurren Lagann as they were all made before those respective series. Oh, and Otaku no Video presents a sort of history of the studio, too; so watch that if you're interested. Other than that, maybe give GaoGaiGar or G Gundam a try?
I mean the OVAs while good, are kinda hard to get into if you're not already to some extent a fan of toku. The series starts and ends without spending much time examining its many factions beyond obvious, superficial antagonisms. Upon first viewing, and having not watched the original toku or read the manga at the time, I was surprised it stopped where it did; I was really left wanting more.

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>Lain is a cult classic for a reason
Yea, because zoomers think it predicted the internet and reddit.

>cyberpunk is reddit
Kill yourself and never come back.

It certainly has lots of synchronicities that can be construed as such. Shows like Lain and films like Innocence have much more to say regarding identity in contemporary internet culture than like, the original Ghost in the Shell and Akira. In any case, here's your (You).

The reason so many anime become so popular and "entry level" is because they are so good. Death Note is one of the greatest anime stories ever made, and is about as entry level as you can get.

People who will deny that are just being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian, but they won't admit it.

>Death Note is one of the greatest anime stories ever made
I do seriously hope you're either joking or underage.

cyberpunk is pretty reddit tho. look at that 2077 videogame with its pandering.
not saying it is reddit by nature, but by now it has been completely appropriated. better find a new aestethic to idolize.

it sure is summer here

I like anime centred around action and/or sci-fi and story. I don't like stuff centred around romance, slice of life, drama, etc. Maybe I have shit-taste according to some, but I can't change what I inherently enjoy or don't enjoy.

There's a reason that popular anime become popular. If an anime were of bad quality, it wouldn't become so wildly popular in the first place. Comparing it to expensive wine is retarded because with wine there is always a price gap. If you are a mid income earner, you're not going to go all out on expensive wine when you can have slightly inferior wine for a much cheaper price. There' s a large price barrier barring access to upper range goods.

With anime, all anime costs the same (and is freely obtainable to anyone willing to use piracy). There's no a price barrier. Someone with who likes popular animes with mass-appeal has as much easy access to more obscure and rarer animes as any other person. The only discriminating factor determining what anime you choose to watch is what you happen to personally enjoy.

Hating popular things doesn't make you smart.

I am not sure how familiarity with the toku/manga would help when the whole plot was Imagawa's invention and many characters bear very little similarity to how they are as written by Yokoyama. Knowing where the characters (their designs, really) originate and being able to spot the references is useful on a meta level so you can realize how much planning and passion went into it, but it doesn't really help with the work itself, I think - it especially won't help to explain why it begins and ends in media res.

Pls rate on a scale from normie to normalfag. This one is a bit old though, I'm not sure I'd still put Steins;Gate on there. The travesty that was 0 sullied the entire series a bit.

5/9 Don't really like Kino and Angel's Egg
Too much stuff.
I only know two of these. 2/9 I guess.
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Nice HxH image.
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6/9 similar to my own, normie as fuck, tastes.
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5/9 Not sure if Infinite Ryvius is actually good or not. Can't make up my mind.
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Mmm on second thought I agree; I suppose I was just turned off by the length of each episode (which is weird because I flew through Macross Plus in one sitting).

>I like anime centred around action and/or sci-fi and story. I don't like stuff centred around romance, slice of life, drama, etc.
>Maybe I have shit-taste according to some, but I can't change what I inherently enjoy or don't enjoy.
Stop liking or disliking things based on a general "genre" or what they're "centered around". If that's all it takes for you to dismiss something, you're really not even trying to get to the core of what the story is about. It's what teenagers do: Read one fantasy novel, like it, and from thereon out only ever read fantasy stuff, because "it's more of what I liked". That's a retarded stance to take. The quality of a narrative does not primatrily depend on what kind of setting or narrative motivation it has. Most sci-fi stories could, with slight alterations, be told as a historical drama and still have the same themes, characters and major narrative arcs.

>If an anime were of bad quality, it wouldn't become so wildly popular in the first place.
There are countless examples to disprove that claim. In anime, but also in film and literature and music. Popularity does not equate to quality.

>Comparing it to expensive wine is retarded because with wine there is always a price gap.
There isn't. There a some very good, very afforadble wines.

>With anime, all anime costs the same
No, it doesn't. Though your general point that "There's no a price barrier" is somewhat true.

>animes
Oh, come on now ...

>The only discriminating factor determining what anime you choose to watch is what you happen to personally enjoy.
You have obviously never heard of peer pressure. It's what reddit is all about.

>Hating popular things doesn't make you smart.
I don't hate Death Note. I just don't respect it.
It is badly written and a thematic mess.

Recommendation thread huh
Knk 5th movie because every other does not live up to the direction standards
Plz someone watch it even if it sucks

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>Pls rate on a scale from normie to normalfag.
Reddit-teen-tier. With a good portion of MAL sprikled in. Crybaby and Ping Pong seem like a desperate appeal to hipsters (Yuasafags), Mushishi and Evangelion to make you appear "deep" and FMA, Stein's Gate and Madoka are straight from MAL's toplists.
Horrible. Simply horrible.
Also, that you rate everyting out of 9 tells me that you have no idea how the rating system works. Wanna name a few titles from those 2/9 or 3/9 grids?

Natsume it is

>Wanna name a few titles from those 2/9 or 3/9 grids?
Well, you're right, I don't know them.
>Also, that you rate everyting out of 9 tells me that you have no idea how the rating system works
Correct.

Also, I unironically like everything on my list. They're all great anime.

>The reason so many anime become so popular and "entry level" is because they are so good.
They really aren't. Take Kimi no na wa as an example. People treat it like the holy grail of animation, when it's barely even animated and has arguably worse animation than the movie it took most of its ideas from. Niijiiro Hotaru is more impressive on a technical level than Knnw. That's a fact.

You can do this for most popular works. The reason why they are entrylevel is because they appeal to the lowest common denominator. But being accessibile or easily digestible neither makes something good, nor does it make it the greatest thing ever made. 3gatsu is pity porn for mentally underdeveloped teenagers. It's popularity doesn't change that. Shigatsu, Yahari and Clannad are very similar in that regard. Most people who praise entrylevel anime don't even know how to properly evalutate them. Everything has great animation, great art (their 350kbs stream doesn't allow them to tell the difference between good and bad) and relateable characters. They would never even try to genuinely learn about why or how something was made.

Now, I am not saying entrylevel anime are inherently bad, because they aren't. But them appealing to a shitton of people doesn't make them good either. Especially when said people don't even really know what it is they like about them.

>Natsume it is
Natsume is what? I haven't seen it, so I won't evaluate it. I don't get what point you're trying to make.

This post is fascinating and sad at the same time.

>look at that 2077 videogame with its pandering
That's r*ddit shit which is recycled ideas watered down to be palatable for the fags. Calling 2077 cyberpunk is like calling Blazing Saddles a western. There hasn't been any notable cyberpunk anime since Psycho Pass, but that was a trainwreck which was pretentious and quoted Phillip K Dick a lot.

>I don't know them.
>Correct.
Well, it's liked/seen. So you putting a nine there means that you're saying that you're familiar enough with ALL things in this thread to rate them.

>I unironically like everything on my list.
That's alright. But you wanted an honest estimation on where you rank on the "normalfag" scale with those picks. I gave you exactly that.

>You have obviously never heard of peer pressure. It's what reddit is all about.

This entire thread is proof that Yea Forums is all about peer pressure. I don't go on reddit much anymore, but when I used to, there wasn't as much pressure or criticism of other people's views and people generally just liked everything.

>So many times i try watching these "anime classics" and find myself bored to tears, eg: Giant Robo and Lain in his list.
Most classics are either mediocre or downright terrible. Especially as far as writing is concerned. Don't worry, this should be the average person's reaction.

Accessibility and digestiblity are the marks of a talented writer. It's why Ernest Hemingway is considered so great.

Uh, no they mean it's fucking obvious you haven't stepped out of your bubble and have only seen like 30 fucking series. Everything on your chart is the most painfully entry level shit, some of which aren't even fucking good to begin with.

Stop this bullshit of "Yea Forums has a tendency to hate shonen and action oriented anime" when there are constantly threads about this shit and numerous "shounen and action oriented" series that are widely accepted even in these very threads. You clearly have no idea what you're even talking about and have mistaken people calling you out for being a low powerlevel faggot with somehow unfairly hating these "great" shows because the entirety of Yea Forums conforms to only liking certain genres and indiscriminately shits on anything "shonen and action oriented". I know these threads attract newfags but seriously lurk more before posting next time.

No, they are the marks of a writer who understands his target audience. Major difference.

>Most classics are either mediocre or downright terrible. Especially as far as writing is concerned.
You don't know the first thing about writing, or what makes a show good. Stick to what you do know, which is what you like and dislike.

>This entire thread is proof that Yea Forums is all about peer pressure.
How so? Elaborate, please.
Because in here, people have widely varying tastes and regularly clash when it comes to opinions on specific anime. This very debate going on right now proves that.

Harry Potter is accessible and digestible, but it's really fucking bad. It's so tremendously bad that modern pop culture should be ashamed to have bought so many copies of such a thing. Re:Zero was accessible and digestible, but again, was really fucking bad. Nobody talks about it anymore.

>Noir
God that show is terrible. Cool OP tho

Yea Forums loves Attack on Titan now that chadren is going full steam ahead with some bullshit master plan. It's shounenshit, but nobody cares because it's fun to read.

attack on titan is still just dumb fun to me, more of a spectacle than a show i think about

Nobody cares whether you think it's a spectacle or whether it's le deep and meaningful. We're reading it because it's fun. Pic unrelated.

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>It's why Ernest Hemingway is considered so great.
Ernest Hemingway is generally not considered "so great". He was a competent writer and a very entertaining one. Quite witty, fun to read, yes. And some very nice short stories.
But you'd be hard pressed to find experts on literature who'd rate him as one of the "true greats". (I mean, sure, there will be some. But those should be rare.)

t. Faulkner

i said its fun. People treat it like its this deep story tho with complex characters and i think thats silly

I am sure the thematically incoherent mess than is 0079, the retconning and illogical actions of Desler in Yamato 1-3, the rushed final third of Escaflowne, the back and forth romance and narrative development in SDF that is inferior to it's modern remake in form of Nagi no Asukara, the tedious plot straints in Layzner, Gorg or Dougram, the deusex machina galore and cheap copouts without any proper setup in VOTOMS, or the exessively padded nature of Ashita no Joe that stretches 170 manga chapters to almost a 130 television episodes are landmark examples of high class scripting.

Unlike literature or live action, most anime scripting aged very, very poorly. That's not even up to debate.

>SDF that is inferior to it's modern remake in form of Nagi no Asukara,
The hell am I reading.

Made me chuckle. Thanks, user.

Literature snobs never consider the popular modern literature writers to be great. I've never met a literature snob proclaiming Orwell to be great, or Phillip K Dick to be great. I've heard Umberto Eco, Herman Hesse and Rudyard Kipling mentioned more often than the normalfag English major picks.
>thematically incoherent mess
>retconning and illogical actions
>rushed
>back and forth
>narrative development
>tedious plot strains
>deus ex machina
>padded
Haha get a load of this pseud.
Listen to what I told you and stick to what you can do, fuckwit.

is otaku no video good? its one of the few gainax shows i haven't got around to yet.

Just remove the robots. Similar themes, similar story, similar approach to prolonging the story by exploiting convenient character run ins to reset character relationships and their development.
Must suck to have a degree in literature yet still consider VOTOMS, SDF or Yamato to be high art. Hope you won't end it before you hit your 30s. Would be real pity.

>I've never met a literature snob proclaiming Orwell to be great
Because Orwell is shit. He literally writes shallow fables, with thinly veiled symbolism that's so obvious that an elementary schooler can immediately understand it. Pandering to hipsters who feel "intellectual" for getting what 1984 is about. He's the Yuasa of literature.

Anyone with a literature degree should be shot because if you feel the need to get a degree in stories, you're a failure. Pointing out your pseudo-intellectual bullshit is not a praise or criticism of any show you brought up, but of your faggy posts. You're a fag and you should stop talking.
If you have no understanding of writing, don't say anything. It's embarrassing.

Of all the Yuasas I've seen, I've only liked Ping Pong. And that was because it's Matsumoto, and he's quite good. Yuasa's other stuff is awful. Mind Game is an insult and Tatami Galaxy panders to the most infuriating demographic.

not the guy you're arguing with, but which of these is ur 3x3?

Manga time

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I'm sorry, in what capacity was NnA about overcoming a technologically superior race with your culture? You can make just about anything sound similar if you're reductionist enough. The romance element wasn't even similar considering the cast's relationships weren't the same, that is just asinine.

I read some of Ichikawa's shorts and I didn't like them. They all involve some sort of inhuman body and creepy relationships. The character design is very nice, but that doesn't help when I'm reading what is essentially tranny propaganda.

How do I sauce the ones I dont recognize
Its always been a problem for me in these threads

ask, or the people could put the show names in the filename

Snipping tool + reverse image search

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Base-level picks battling for the top-right spot. No idea what the RNG is thinking. Maybe it's its understanding of a nice joke.
The thread's pretty long, by the way. 36 eligible grids so far!

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Or just use 4chanx, click on the saucenao link and use their cropping tool. They also offer to forward that crop to Google for you, if they don't find anything.

>people could put the show names in the filename
Only one user in here is autistic enough to do that. Most people tend to keep their filenames short.

Making a piece of writing easily accessible to a normal audience requires skill and is not as easy as you think. Just because something is long, boring and complex does not make it good

not really. it pretty pandering. idk if that's your thing tho.

Dude you're a pathetic loser and everything you say reeks of "stop liking what I don't like"

>Just because something is long, boring and complex does not make it good
True. But so is the converse. Short and simple isn't automatically good either.
What requires skill is to make something "long, boring and complex" appear interesting and understandable. Most "popular" authors, however, just opt for telling practically nothing in an entertaining way.

>Stop liking or disliking things based on a general "genre" or what they're "centered around".

Stop telling me what to like or dislike

>Stop telling me what to like or dislike
Stop being a retard and try to understand the rest of that paragraph. You're not basing your "taste" on a sensible fundament. If you want to keep dismissing things you might have liked, and for all the wrong reasons, sure, be my guest and keep on doing what you're doing.
Otherwise, for your own benefit, stop being superficial and drop your prejudices.

Making something accessible often has the wrong effect of dumbing down the story. In marketing, there's the principle of the target market. You don't want to appeal to everyone, you just want to appeal to your target market. Trying to appeal to everyone is a bad strategy because it requires you to be lucky and get caught up in the pop culture trend, but guarantees no long term success because trends change rapidly. Appealing to your target market is a good strategy because you can count on them be there when you make the next one.
Complexity is a trap. Most writers are not good enough to write complex stories well. Making something simple is by far the best method to success. Even if the end product is mediocre, people will still be able to enjoy it to some degree. If you're good enough to write a great complex story, you could make a great simple story with the same effort. Murder mysteries are very difficult to do well because they're fundamentally complex. The skill in writing a simple story is making something that will be memorable. If it's simple it won't require a lot of thought to understand, so you have to stick in the audience's head in a different way. With a complex story, particularly murder mysteries, the skill is in getting the audience to go back and see all the hints they were missing the first time around, and thinking whether they could have pieced it together before the reveal. In both types of stories, you want to make something that people want to watch or read again. If there's something you reread or rewatch a lot, that means it does certain things well.

Prejudice is a good thing. It's useful for knowing what to avoid. Giving everything a try is a waste of time. I know because I did that, and hated most of what I watched. Prejudice exists for a good reason.

>Most writers are not good enough to write complex stories well. Making something simple is by far the best method to success.
I think we agree there. I'm not saying that something simple can't ever be good (other anons in here might have said that). But when it comes to skill, telling complex narratives in an engaging way usually produces the kind of result that I enjoy the most.

Fuck off cunt. She did nothing wrong and she will always be Our Leader. Behead those who insult EMTN.

>Prejudice is a good thing. It's useful for knowing what to avoid.
It's not a good thing if it's unfounded or based on the wrong kind of reasoning. Which is what my initial post was all about: If you sort narratives into arbitrary "genres" by setting or other such things, you're not really doing yourself a favour.

Another thing to look for is when someone has a huge success, then keeps trying to recreate it. It very rarely works.

If you have tried a few romance anime and didn't like them, you are best steering clear of romance anime. If you try out 5 shows from a genre, that will usually be enough diversity to give you an idea of what that genre is like. It's a waste of time to consider watching each romance anime. It can even be good without watching anything from that genre. If you hate the gays because you're a normal person, best steer clear of yaoi and shounen-ai.

But that approach can rob you of genuinely good experiences. Stories don't work solely on settings and general ideas. There's a huge amount of "love stories" I don't enjoy or consider overrated. From "Gone with the Wind" to "Pretty Woman". But there are some great ones out there, mostly because their non-love-story related narrative is engaging. "Romeo and Juliet", for example, while not Shakespeare's greatest.

This meme is too highbrow for me. I am assuming this is either referring to JAV Live Honoka or Chii-chan. Someone tell me what EMTN is supposed to mean.
>Just because something is long, boring and complex does not make it good
Who says for niche works match any of these criteria? Many short films are better than feature films, simply because they don't have the time to pander and drift off into new terrain. They get straight to the point and that makes them good. Similar things can be said for short stories, albeit it doesn't work as well I think. It's easier for audio visual media to transmit a lot of information in a short amount of time.

I know that being successful isn't easy. That's kinda the stick of being successful. You stick out from the rest. So the work must be special or otherwise people wouldn't like it, right? The problem is that most casual viewers treat media as nothing but entertainment, which is why the charts look the way they do and Avengers is the highest grossing film of all time. That movie had worse CG than Iron Man 1. Especially in a world ruled by franchise shit and marketing budgets, success isn't necessarily chained to quality.

Being able to tell a big and engaging story in as few words as possible while retaining the same meaning and ideas is a mark of skill with words. Using less words to convey they same meaning and emotion someone else would with many words is a mark of skill

You're the one dismissing things solely on the basis of them being popular. If I know I don't like romcoms because I've tried them and can't stand the genre, there's no reason for me to keep trying with romantic and slice of life crap that I have a 0% likelihood of enjoying

>You're the one dismissing things solely on the basis of them being popular.
Citation needed, retard.
I do NOT dismiss things for being popular.

>If I know I don't like romcoms because I've tried them and can't stand the genre
Again, that's stupid. Not all "romcoms" are necessarily the same. And what is even a "romcom"? Does Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" qualify, for example? There's a good chance you'll enjoy that even when you don't like "romcoms".