3x3 Thread

To filter out retards like you.

Rakugo's 1st season was great. Shame the second season had the incest part to it.
Shinsekai Yori was a bad show, the least of its problems being that it was gay.
What's Hyouge Mono like? Is it better to read the manga?
Battle Tendency was the worst Jojo part. Blue jacket Lupin is very cool, almost as good as green jacket.
Sorry, I'm not into BL or rape fantasy, which I assume everything with that art style is.
Because you get to show off pretty pictures. It's also a great filter for faggots because it takes 10 minutes to put it together.
Tokyo Godfathers is the best Satoshi Kon. Porco Rosso is pretty good, but it doesn't tingle my ecofascist itch like Ponyo and Totoro. Kaguya looks beautiful, and it's a humanist criticism of Buddhism, but sadly it's made by a commie that puts his propaganda in everything he makes. Still one of the greatest achievements of animation to date.
Didn't like Mind Game. Yuasa doesn't appeal to my sensibilities.

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I repeat that Battle Tendency is the worst Jojo part.

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3x3 threads aren't about people's favourite anime, they're about people's 3x3s

Watch more anime

I have and I do all the time. I just picked my favorites :)

Where'd you see Kaijuu no Kodomo?

Not him, but your selection does seem to lack variety, which in turn suggests that you're only watching a very specific kind of anime. Lupin and Golden Kamui (arguably also Golden Boy) stand out a bit, but not enough to make your 3x3 seem varied. And including both versions of Hunter x Hunter also seems strange.

>Rakugo's 1st season was great. Shame the second season had the incest part to it.
That was one of the best parts about the ending though. It's ambiguous anyway. Storytelling and its power over others is a big deal. They were both fucked up people, and they MAY have done yet another fucked up thing, but they also managed to reconcile and make something good out of it. It's not exactly presented as a heartwarming romance.

Bad post

2/2
4.5/5, Golden Kamuy's manga is far better.
3/3, Porco Rosso is my favorite of Miyazaki's.
2/2

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That just means his 3x3 is doing a good job in conveying his taste in anime

That Kintaro face is one of the funniest shit I seen.

Well, if his taste is that narrow, sure. Most people do have a bit of a broader taste.
I'm not judging him for it, but he does seem very limited in either his taste or his experience.

Feel free to recommend me stuff you think are must-see! I just love a good shonen what can I say fellas :)

>stuff you think are must-see
There is no "must-see" anime out there. There are, of course, those that most have seen, but that doesn't say much.

>I just love a good shonen
That's okay. But what do you watch other than shounen?

I have seen "Neon Genesis Evangelion", "Now and then, here and there", "Nichijou", "Azumanga Daioh", "Desert Punk", "Alien 9", "Bakuman", "His and Her Circumstances", "Gunbuster", "One Punch Man", "Cowboy Bebop", and last but not least some Ghibli movies!

Also there's probably more that I have forgotten. Also excuse me for that awful setup. I should have used greentext instead, but it slipped my mind.. Whoops!

2/3 +rakugo, arakawa -kaiji
is hyouge mono watchable if i dont know much about all the real history? the first episode was practically incomprehensible to me but it always comes highly recommended
3/5 +mob. champloo, hxh - kamui, jojo part 2
2/4 +kaguya, mind game -porco ross, belladonna
i've really got to get around to macross it looks to beautiful.
1/2 +urotsukidouji -one punch
2/2 +ponyo, totoro
3/4 +logh, eva, poroporo -kaiji

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>some obscure shorts from the 60s and 70s
>some random obscure shoujo
>the artsiest looking single frame from some show I'm embarrassed about liking cherrypicked to be misleading
>some 80s OVA nobody has seen like Dragon's Heaven or something
>his and her circumstances
>Miyazaki
>something by Satoshi Kon
DOES MY CULTURED AND WORLDLY TASTE IMPRESS YOU????

Well, some popular picks among those. None of them suit your taste?
What are you mostly looking for in an anime? Characters? Animation? Certain themes?

What prompted this outburst?

I don't really care. I just watch what I think looks cool haha.

Also I really liked them all! But the ones in my collage-thingy are my ultra fucking favorites!

You are a bit of a strange one. There surely must be something that makes your favourites your favourites. Is it the comedic element they (at least to an extent) share?

Idk man. I just like shonen stuff. I've only been watching anime for a year maybe, so I'm a bit new. Ofcourse I watched anime before like DBZ, Pokémon, Yu-gi-oh! and the like. But yeah I'm just trynna experiment to see what I like. I like alot of stuff, but in the end the shonen just really resonates with me. Maybe I just like seeing people get beaten the fuck up. My favorite out of all of them is HxH, so It's not like I'm stupid ;)

I feel like this suddenly became even worse despite getting the same score. I guess I simply have Eve no Jikan that much.
Don't know what to say. Genuinely shocked. I can even swallow some of these, but picking One Piece's anime just comes off as a parody no matter what. That adaptation has virtually no redeeming qualities.
>Redline
Get a strong rope. You know what to do.
Now I am afraid KnK is actually as bad as the Japanese claim for it to be.
I don't even know. Indifferent towards most of these. Don't think I'll ever get the appeal of Tokyo Drift but in bad.
Honestly, I can't respect 3gatsu pickers anymore. The series tries way too hard to bait emotionally stunted teenagers by introducing dozens of reasons the audience is expected to feel empathetic over. If someone is unable to relate to the cast circumstance because of A and B then they are slightly on the spectrum, once C and D are introduced you need to be autistic to not feel empathetic for them, but then the show introduces E to Z anyway. Comes off as something that was primarily made to appeal to the tonally deaf, but maybe that's just me. Even Oregairu is more genuine, no pun intended. KareKano is just dogshit. If you spend 80% screentime on people being stuck in inner monologue then you're shit at what you're doing, plain and simple.
If you're embarrassed about liking it why put it into the gird at all? You've just accused someone of tailoring their grid to other people's impression, so why pick something they'll disapprove of if you've already picked 8 anime you only pretend to like? Lackluster diversion if you ask me.

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Mmh ... have you tried some of the more violent late-80s/early-90s OVA?
Like Demon City Shinjuku, Angel Cop, Ninja Scroll, Urotsukidoji, Mad Bull 34 or the Devilman OVA?
You might enjoy them.

Nope, but I'll give them a try! Thanks friend!

~EoJ
7/8 mid-entry level taste
+Golden Boy
~Champloo, GK
2/7 mind-numbing taste
+CCA, DYRL, Tokyo G, Porco, MG
~Ninja Scroll, Redline
6/7 high-entry level taste
~SM
-OPM
0.5/2 retro taste
+Totoro
~Ponyo
1.5/2 small-town girl taste
+Pat tv, Omoide, RoV
~Kino, Initial D, Kaiji, LoGH
5.5/8 narrator taste
pre-teen jizz taste
+kemono no souja erin, ping pong
~I didn't get that deep into IdolM@ster
Proto-culture taste

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for sangatsu, fair. i can't see liking it if it wasn't extremely personally appealling considering how many of the episodes lay it on heavy in overblown melodrama monologues. the criticism of tone shifts i still have yet to understand despite how often that area cited as an issue for the series. karekano uses what it can to make up for the fact that the dialogue of eva in a high school comedy would be offputting to say the least but it's done in enough of a self-aware fashion that i don't find it as obnoxious as the same monologues could be in another show with less competant staff.

2.5/4 +rakugo, arakawa; ~eve; -shinsekai yori
2.5/3 +mob, champloo; ~jojo
6.5/8 +dyrl, tokyo godfathers, porco rosso, belladonna, mind game, kaguya; ~ninja scroll; -redline
1.5/4 ~overfiend, opm, sailor moon; -dna2
2.5/3 +ponyo, totoro; ~invisible
2.5/5 +nge, only yesterday; ~kino; -patlabor, logh
5.5/7 +3gatsu, flcl, nge, kare kano, mind game; ~monogatari; -ttgl
4/6 +kaguya, miss hokusai, ping pong; ~arete, shashinkan; -stormy night
1.5/4 +azumanga; ~kyousougiga; -rahxephon, escaflowne

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Middle left on the real one? I don't recognize it.

Zettai Shounen Summer was great but they totally ruined it with Winter which is some of the worst teenage bullshit in anime.

1/1

3/4

Anime: 5/8
Characters: 6/8

1/2

2/3 (for the "real taste")

1/5

>people don't like Eve no Jikan
But why?

2/2
4/7 fellow Kamuy nigga
0/0 I get the impression that you're a woman, or a huge faggot
Could you id top left for me? Looks interesting.
3/5 I like the composition of this one
2/3
2/2 Bottom left?
1/3
2/4 Season 2 of Kaiji dragged too much near the end for me, but season 1 was great
4/5 not bad, source on bottom middle?
1/2 3x3's like yours are dumb and so are you
3/3 id for middle right?

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This looks great but I'd suggest changing the borders

Can't speak for the ONA, only watched the movie
-obnoxious amount of affirmative questions not only make the characters look like a bunch of autists but also treat the audience like a bunch of retards
-inconsistent about its own rules, e.g. the two boys being told about the rules of the cafe, break them multiple times, yet are never kicked out; one time the bartender tells them to shut up, they continue to talk about it anyway (without adjusting volume I might add), completely breaking immersion since despite it being the most valuable rule of the cafe, neither the customers not the bartender ever actually enforce it consequently
-various world building elements that are merely introduced as fluff
>3x3's like yours are dumb and so are you
What am I to take from this?

kare kano

It ran at a film festival in Melbourne.
I wouldn't have cared much about it if not for the epilogue episode. The episode where Kiku goes to the afterlife should have been the last one. It was such a good conclusion, then it was ruined by "HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED NEXT".
>Now I am afraid KnK is actually as bad as the Japanese claim for it to be.
They're just being brainlets. Listen to the French opinions instead. For once, they're right.
>I can't respect 3gatsu pickers anymore
It was obvious from the beginning that they're wristcutters who look at a show like Hyouka and go "Oreki is literally me". They're worse than Utenaposters.
>bottom left
Invisible from the Modest Heroes Ponoc shorts

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4/6
why is your hxh pic so low res comparitively
1/2
2/4

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>why is your hxh pic so low res comparatively
cause google images, and I was too lazy to track down the exact episode to screencap, though I honestly should.

I watching Eve no Jikan after marathoning Texhnolyze. I remember it extremely positively, but that may be because i watched after such a depressing fucking show.

>Putting Shigurui in there just for the buttseks
Respect
192574319
True, it did drag there. But once things came together it got very interesting.
Not going into specifics, but I thought the story-telling was really clumsy and the drama was very sappy.
underage connoisseur

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Which French opinions?

Which French opinions?

The French had it at a film festival there, too. The reception was very positive. When it comes to weird movies and strange animation, the French are all over it. You can search out the reviews easily.

see

1/2 +Kaiji -SSY
4/5 +Mob, One Piece, JoJo, champloo -HxH
2/2 +Redline, Tokyo Godfathers. I only watch tokyo godfathers at xmas though
2/3 +Yotsubato, OPM -HxH
2/2 +JoJo, Yotsubato
3/3 +Eva, Kaiji, LotGH
3/6 +FLCL, Eva, Monogatari -March, Utena, Gurren
1/1 +Ping Pong
5/8 +NHK, F/Z, Tatami, Hero, Eva -Gurren, Toradora, HxH
3/4 +FLCL, Ping Pong, F-ON! -March
1/1 +FMA
4/5 +F/Z, S;G, Katanagatari, K-ON! -Lain

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>Pat tv
In all honesty, Patlabor 2 is probably my favorite. I still love the series in its entirety though.

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NO, retard.
1/1
1/2
1/1
3/4
3/3

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bump

I liked the patlabor OVAs best but that's just because I watched them first. I'd like to hear why you guys prefer the TV/movies.

I liked the movies because they were Oshii's style at its most pronounced. The OVA was very fun, especially the sea monster episode. I watched half of the TV show until Kanuka left. It wasn't very interesting.

>The OVA was very fun, especially the sea monster episode.
Much like how the 2nd movie is similar to the last two episodes of the OVA, I imagine WXIII was similarly derived from that episode.

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Never watched movie 3. How bad is it?

5/8

2/6

3/8

0/5

>My favorite out of all of them is HxH, so It's not like I'm stupid ;)
God you're such a faggot

>My favorite out of all of them is HxH, so It's not like I'm stupid ;)
God you're such a faggot

He's clearly underage. No adult thinks HxH is good. Where are the mods?

>My favorite out of all of them is HxH, so It's not like I'm stupid ;)
God you're such a faggot

well fuck me with the connection error shit
at least I reiterated the point

Just pictures? No one watched Endless eight simultaneously?

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How did people enjoy this show? It was the same thing 8 times. That's extremely boring.

there's more to art besides entertainment

2/3 Loved eve. I'm about to watch Tutu.

shounenbebbi but good shows 6/7 and nice Kintaro pic you chose

0/1 I only recognize Freesia. I tried getting into it multiple times but the artstyle never appealed to me. Becchin to Mandara and Tropical Citron were nice though.

3/5
whole middle row 3/3 watching sailor moon atm. Hotaru was the best

5/5 Image of Rei is cool

Utenabro 4/5 What's in the bottom right?

7/7
5/5
5/7

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what's the anime at the bottom right?

>Hotaru was the best
Hotaru is a nice girl, but too young for my taste (at least for most of the series).
I think that she's so frail and gets a lot of abuse, and that she connects so well with Chibi-Usa, really make her very endearing to most of the audience. It also made me hate Kaorinaito.

in this corner of the world

Groundhog day shit isn't art.

>Listen to the French opinions instead. For once, they're right.
Dunno. Most of the Annecy reviews I've seen are somewhat critical of the second half as well. In all honesty though: doesn't come as a surprise. Shoving 50 manga chapters into a movie was bound to rub most people the wrong way. Especially given its narrative progression. The series isn't merely SoL after all.

disagreed

>Most of the Annecy reviews I've seen are somewhat critical of the second half as well.
It's a warranted caution that you should not expect the next Ponyo. If you go in expecting a light and colourful movie for your 9 year old children to enjoy you will be very disappointed. If you go in knowing that it's not supposed to be accessible, you'll love it. A lot of English speakers think that animation is intended to be light entertainment and brought the wrong attitude in. That's why they were unhappy with the climax.
There isn't much criticism regarding the material left out of the movie. The reviewers most likely haven't read the manga. If they had read the manga, there's not a whole lot to complain about because as far as adaption goes, they included the most important parts and it fits to film very well. Most sourcefags don't understand the art of adaptation. Making something 1:1 is a bad idea and doesn't produce a good final product. This is especially true of an animation intensive movie. There are limited resources and a limited time frame. This manga is one of the better ones to adapt into a movie because even though it has around 1700 pages, a lot of that is purely visual. They can be communicated in a movie in a very short period of time as opposed to a dialogue heavy manga.

Yeah, personally I'm a little sceptical.

Here you are.

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very good
shounentard
shoujotard
good, but redline is fucking horrible
good
okay
looks great, what is upper left corner?
vey good
okay
very good
i'm a pleb and can't identify half of these
you win automatically for Joshiraku
very good
good
okay
good
okay
great
good

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manga

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>looks great, what is upper left corner?
Children of the Sea. Wait 3-4 months for the American release.

3/3
1/1
6/6
4/4
2/2
2/2
2/2
>using fanart
Really?
2/2
3/3
I like Please Save My Earth, but the MC was

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>but the MC was
The MC was what? Come on, don't be a tease, I wanna know!

Annoying. Sorry, I’ve been having technical issues posting recently.

The MC of Please Save My Earth embodies all the negative tropes of a generic shoujo protagonist without having any real strengths of her own. The antagonist is quite well done though.

3/4

2/3

4/6

3/6

4/5

Bump.

I'd post my scores of other peoples' stuff but I'm too retarded to consistently recognize specific anime/manga.

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>I'm too retarded to consistently recognize specific anime/manga.
Have you tried using saucenao? I'd estimate that about 90% of the things posted in here can be found with the combined power of saucenao, Google and Yandex.

Yeah I was doing that but then the thread hit page 10 and I wanted to just bump it with my 3x3.

Well, you can always post your ratings later.

I dropped it right after I finished E8 just to make sure it was the pile of shit that I thought it was
-Haruhi

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Ratings:
3/4
1/3
1/1
7/7
2/2
2/2
3/3

It's actually not that bad of a kaiju movie if you go into it expecting absolutely nothing Patlabor related.

Bump.

1/2

4/4
3/4
middle right?

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I liked the sci-fi stuff in PSME but I didn't like the MC either. I hear there's a sequel but I doubt it's any good.

Imagine actually reverse image searching people's 3x3s in order to give a rating no one cares about

Better than not rating at all.

I have no problem with non-raters so long as they put effort into their collage

They are opting out of the thread that way. Even worse if they expect to receive ratings from others.

I can't speak for anyone else but I think it's more interesting to see a comment about a single anime than it is to see an x/y rating.
Reverse image searching is good for finding new stuff to avoid, it doesn't help with ratings because you generally only need it for stuff you haven't seen.

>trying to make 3x3
>keep finding series I watched years ago I remember loving
>impossible to narrow down to 9
This is suffering, how the fuck do you people do this? This is even after I eliminated all the movies.

>it doesn't help with ratings because you generally only need it for stuff you haven't seen.
No one will recognize every single frame of every anime he's seen. Multiple 3x3 sport relatively obvscure shots. And I tend to reverse search stuff that seems vaguely familiar, often being surprised by the result.

Find all candidates and then order them by direct comparison.

You speak for basically everyone, an axiom of these threads is that no one really cares about the ratings they just do them anyways

Just make it 9 anime you like then, not necessarily ~top best 9 favourite anime~

I'll start commenting. Be the change you want to see.

>no one really cares about the ratings
Bullshit. If no one cared, no one would do it. And no one would ever call those lazy arseholes who don't out.

Find me 1 person who cares

By being a professional autist who has a meticulously organized list. And even I have problem choosing favourites. I'm basically a theory-loving arthouse film buff who also enjoy watching low brow poppy entertainment because postmodernism. My taste does not always coincide with what is considered as the "elitist's taste" because many of the "anime classics" simply looks middlebrow for me: not avant-garde enough to be compared with the modernist works of Tarkovsky, but also not vulgar, playful or energetic enough to be compared with the postmodernist works of Tarantino. They're decent but decency is just a decent name for mediocrity.

I'd be embarrassed to write this

Me.

Liar

Me.

Writing a comment takes effort and requires you to know what exactly it is you disapprove of. Also is at the risk of making you look like a retard if you misunderstood the show you choose to comment on. X/Y ratings are a meme unless you add titles. Problem is: There are only 3 or so people who give you all the information required to figure out which anime they approve or disapprove of.

No, honestly. 3x3 threads would be pretty shit if no one ever rated anything. This way, we at least know how others relate to our taste. Otherwise, everyone would just drop his shit and leave.
Ratings are literally what keeps these threads alive.

>There are only 3 or so people who give you all the information required to figure out which anime they approve or disapprove of.
Because it's also a lot of work if you want to rate more than a handfull of grids.
If you want me to elaborate on a rating I have given, I'll usually do that if you ask nicely and even give my reasons. I've done so multiple times in the past.
But I will not do that by default for every single 3x3.

Samefag

If you loved theory you would be able to appreciate the middleground though. but maybe i have the wrong idea about what kind of film you would classify as "middleground" because modernism vs postmodernism is an asinine way to classify film (not to mention associating low art with postmodernism and art house with modernism exclusively; that might be even worse)

Okay but you don't actually CARE care

Nope. Try again, retard.

I care about them about as much as I care about these threads. Which is, well, as much as I care for any thread I enjoy.
Posting a 3x3 without rating is pretty much the equivalent to shitposting in a current series' thread: Not participating.

One reason why I distance myself from a typical "elitist" is that the typical anime "elitist" rarely care about "the sensuous surface of art" as Susan Sontag has put it, about more about how "methodical" the storytelling is. I'm also more favourable to shorts and one-offs because I don't need to watch 10 hours of something that has the same visual style. But all that is more about the compromise that I've made, rather than that I don't care about the unity of form and content at all. I hate it when the story is too irritatingly bad or too tedious that it undermines any other good things it has. It's just that it isn't necessarily a requirement for me an anime show to have an outstanding story to be judged as good. I also generally don't look for moral teaching in a show. A good message doesn't make a good show. And a show is often more interesting when it is a clash of contradictory currents than when it is a one-sided expression a simple idea.

In short, if you see I give a relatively low score for a highly acclaimed show, chances are that I'm probably comparing it with a better work from literature or from film. If you see I give a relatively high score for what seems to be a "trashy" anime, chances are that I think it has offered me a unique experience that I couldn't find in other media.

My favourite anime are Twelve Kingdoms, 3-Gatsu no Lion and K-On by the way.

You should have kept your favourites to yourself

Just be honest about it: The only time anyone gives a shit about the rating given, is if they respect the person who rated. How often does that really happen?

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I'd like to hear how you justify your (absolutely revolting) favorites using your metrics.

>The only time anyone gives a shit about the rating given
It's not about giving a shit about one particular rating you receive. It's about all ratings you receive as a whole, and even about all ratings in general.

I feel we should stop talking about ratings. Isn't there anyone in here who can just post his 3x3?

> a show is often more interesting when it is a clash of contradictory currents than when it is a one-sided expression a simple idea.
thats a matter of taste. for me, art is an expression of the artist(s). so if a show has a message, I see it as the show being the artists way of trying to articulate his point of view in the abstract. clear message, contradictory currents, or no message at all is fine with me as long as the show does what it sets out to do well.

> chances are that I'm probably comparing it with a better work from literature or from film.
doesn't that ignore medium specificity almost entirely? like yeah, all of those mediums share elements (primary being narrative). but the way to tell a good story in a book is vastly different from that of an anime or movie. and while film and anime are definitely comparable; I can't really think of classic anime with superior film equivalents.

Enjoy!

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You simply don't understand Cant's teachings. My other favourites are Nana, Kaze Tachinu (that's The Wind Rises for you, gaijin), Inaka Isha, Tori no Uta and Koushoku Ichidai Otoko. They all provide extremely unique experience on a spiritual level that can't be found in other media.

I'm not particularly attached to the identity of an anime fan. Anime is just one amongst other art media I enjoy. I also love modern art and architecture, literature (Chinese, Japanese, European), photography, classical music and experimental music. I was a maths and theoretical physics major but I despise academic compartmentalisation. So I read anything that seems important and interesting to me.

My analytical perspective on art and culture is influenced by Hegel, Kant, Marxism, and formalism.

that wasn't really a defense of your tastes

Why yes I am a critical thinker.
I've always liked this one

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Ok I took my list and narrowed it down to 153 anime that I consider interesting. This does not include films.

I will make another pass.

That's pretty good taste, please don't associate it with shitposters

Is it yours though?

Did someone say kino grids? I can't even identify 6 of the 9 anime on this grid.

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>9 anime on this grid.
Not sure whether you're serious, user.
There are not 9 anime on that grid.

>narrowed it down to 153
>tfw I haven't even completed 100 shows
>watching list keeps growing as I don't finish shows that I start
How do you do it user? I often find it difficult to just sit down and binge a show all day, or multiple. I would always rather do something else.

Literally every mosaic posted in this thread belongs to me. It's all an elaborate puppet show provided by yours truly.

So, here are today's random picks. 9 random grids, one random panel each.
I like this one. It has Yotsuba.

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Archive:
>mega.nz/#F!VvAlzYzT!32Ca0qvfqMjMYsGu9yUn6g

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i reckon we could probably be pals, quite like everything here

the rest of you are cool too, keep enjoying the anime you enjoy unless it sucks and i hate it

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my favorite anime, tales from the topographic ocean.

Sorry. I just realized directly after uploading that it had another duplicate (after the one we've had yesterday). I re-randomized that panel:

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Thanks!

>I would always rather do something else
Then what's the problem?

I actually enjoy anime.

5/8

1/5

Anime: 5/5
Girls: 5/5

2/3

3/5

5/7

Took me over three thousand years to make

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Well the problem is I would like to expand my tastes and experience more shows, but I'm really bad at committing to watching something. Ironically, I can somehow watch meaningless youtube videos all day.

maybe this hobby just isn't for you

Holy pseud bro

Classic millennial burnout

You are just lazy.

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Is this post a joke?

No point in forcing yourself if you don't enjoy it. My suggestion would be to distance yourself from television anime since the require noteworthy amounts of commitment. Watch movies and shorts instead, they tend to be better anyway. Too many "anime fans" watch nothing but television anime and it shows.

>narrowed it down to 60
FUCK THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE. END ME.

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Lol

You wouldn't talk to me like this in public.

Anime isn't supposed to be a chore, you don't need to commit to watching anything. Go do whatever you enjoy and maybe drop by again in a decade or so if you've picked up some anime along the way.

Why would I speak to you at all?

Just awoke from a dream in which Anonymous (referring to you in this case) admitted he was mistaken about that scene from Mob Psycho instead of ignoring my post as he did in the waking world. Thought you should know this.

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Also: drop shit like a hot potato. If it's bad, drop it. If it's boring, drop it. If it fails to entertain, drop it. You can always revisit shows. When I first started watching anime I dropped almost all the artsy anime because I was unable to see their appeal. Over time my priorities changed, so I gave them another shot and (sometimes) fell in love with the very shows I didn't give a shit about beforehand. Especially if it's your goal to expand your tastes. Just pick up random shit and drop it. Don't listen to people who tell you to only pick up shows you know you'll like. Those are the ones who are forever stuck in a specific subgenre and rarely ever develop true appreciation for anything. Just drop, drop, drop, drop. That's virtually what anime was made for. Watching 2 episodes and droping it. There's no point in betting on statistical outliers, praying for the latter episodes to be better. Again: You can always give dropped shows another try, but ruining your mood and motivation for the sake of finishing something simply isn't worth it until you've ran out of worthwhile content to consume.

Or, you know, you can just be a shiteater who finds enjoyment in anything and call yourself a true anime lover.

sad but true desu
You're right, maybe I am forcing myself to watch more things than I should be, in an effort to impress others by having a big dick watch list. Perhaps there are too many tv anime that I'm wanting to make myself watch that are getting in the way of me enjoying the shows I actually want to watch.
What I was just thinking, I need to stop trying to watch so much crap that I become disinterested in.

Not sure what you're referring to, but it's very worrisome that you dream about me. Are you referring to my claim for Mob to possess the ability to distribute his powers at will which you then "countered" with "it was subconscious". If so, then it doesn't really make much of a difference to me given how it still shows that he has the ability to do so. Doing it subconsciously simply means he's not accustomed to doing it yet. So it's a dormant ability. You know, like haki was in One Piss.

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Now kiss

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Sorry, went for a shower.
The psychic abilities in Mob do whatever One wants them to to service the theme or message he's focusing on at any moment. The're nothing more to them than what's shown on the screen/page. I don't think it's fair to compare them to other more organized power systems, though I'm not familiar with OP's personally. In that vein, assuming he'll be able to do it consciously when there's only one instance of him lending someone his powers (assuming, haven't read the manga) and the implication is that it only happens because of the specific circumstances is trying to be overly critical where it isn't necessary I feel. With that in mind I don't think it's a betrayal of the overarching theme of self-improvement especially since that theme is taking a backseat at that moment for the message One is trying to push immediately.
You did say it betrays itself multiple times though so I am interested in where else you think that's the case.

>The're
There's.

This was the nicest exchange I've seen on Yea Forums wtf

>overly critical where it isn't necessary
Well, I merely described why I hate the show. That can be for any reason I choose. As far as I am concerned, the show is dogshit on all fronts. That final segment didn't suddenly shatter my enjoyment. It was merely served as the cherry on top of an already rancid piece of animation.

From what I remember, MP100 also makes it one of its points that Mob is a somewhat pacifistic individual. An individual who doesn't like conflict. Yet all conflicts he finds himself involved in are solved through violence and the powers he simply happens to possess. He doesn't want to be defined by being an esper, yet all he ever really does his use his psychic abilities after he went through a process of emotional buildup. Doesn't that mean that he's betraying his own ideals with every action he makes? I get it, that's likely even the point of the show, given how it's the same pants on head retarded approach present in OPM, but I simply find no enjoyment in it since both are terribly constructed works to me. I always found that calling OPM a parody was a parody in and on itself. A desperate attempt to generate undeserved acclaim. Muh subversion/deconstruction, the biggest fucking meme in anime. Add his autistic personality and inferiority complex, despite being exceptionally powerful in a world ran by psychics, and I can't help but watch the show and almost permanently have my eyes rolled in the back of my head.

I don't care if other people like it, but sometimes I am a bit confused about people's attachment to this show while the smae individuals gloss over moral ambiguity in series like Naruto because, uhm, it's Orange Ninja = Bad. To me MP100 is neither doing a good job at subverting anything, nor is it funny, engaging or, due to the terrible composited digital effects, does it look good.

I didn't get the impression you hated it that much. Sorry about that.

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I don't. I just pretend to hate a lot of things when in reality I happen to be pretty much indifferent towards it. I am a man of extremes. Though the digital effects really are terrible.

I haven't watched a TV anime in almost a year because they look revolting. There are only a handful that look good, and even then, they never reach the heights of films. Some people say "but you get a better story in a TV show because there's more time". If I wanted a good lengthy story I would read a book. Books can be a lot more competent. TV anime are always overrated and the films are usually underrated. Its difficult to watch things like Mob Psycho. It's really boring and it looks dull. The style is ugly and the colour palette makes me uncomfortable.

Keep it up, I appreciate the effort you put into posting about terrible anime.

>If I wanted a good lengthy story I would read a book. Books can be a lot more competent
Speaking of books, how do you feel about manga? Do they fall into that sort of category?

Films being underrated can likely be traced back to them requiring an attentive audience. More information/minute. Information is often more challenging to spot because a) people are busy reading subs and b) visual language is used more frequently. The viewer will miss puzzlepieces and consequently accuse the movie of being poorly written, despite all the information being present. Longer = better aka "how can I grow attached to this character within 90 minutes??? there's no character development?!?!?!" seens like a pretty common convention among ironic weeb boomers and legit weebs aswell. Western anime fandom is pretty fucking cancer, no doubt.

I wouldn't say that television anime are bad per se. There are many, many really terrible movies, too. But I have to agree that 2018/19 have been fucking abysmal so far. At least Konomi Kohara a cute.

Praise usually results in circlejerk. It's fucking boring, espcially since most people can't even articulate why they like something. They just... do... because, uhm, it's cool and made them fool fuzzy inside. Like the episode summaries on r/anime. I've never seen such a bunch of empty husks before.
>look mom I am engaging with material by recapping all the events :DDDDD

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Manga are in a weird position of being a book and visual art. Everyone should read more manga, just not shounen manga because it's not very good. There's a good chance you'll find a great series in Afternoon, Ikki or Weekly Young Jump instead of in WSJ. There are so many great manga nobody knows about. Even my favourite artist, Taniguchi, has dozens of manga I haven't read and might not ever read because they're obscure, not translated and never scanned.

>character development
One of the faggiest thongs about animehomos is that they think characters need to have a character arc to be good. They don't understand characterisation. To take a manga example, in Walking Man we know almost nothing about the protagonist. He doesn't have an arc and he doesn't have extensive characterisation. He's a normal person that goes on walks and appreciates life. It's an incredible manga. Animehomos will say that there's no story or character development so it sucks. It's been about 4000 years since the first recorded story and we can set aside the idea that all story structure must be modeled off of Gilgamesh or Don Quixote.

>It's been about 4000 years since the first recorded story and we can set aside the idea that all story structure must be modeled off of Gilgamesh or Don Quixote.

Blame authors for that. The heroes journey approach is very appealing becuase it works, its a really solid way to write your work. So most choose to take the comformist road and roll with it.

Hey guys. I finally reduced my list down to 50. How should I select down to 9 from here?

What you do is you make cards and compare them side by side if one is better than the other you eliminate it. This sorts them until you find the top. Repeat 8 more times.

Raise your standards. If there are 50 things you like, you're not picky enough.

>He doesn't have an arc and he doesn't have extensive characterisation
Neither does Ginko and Mushishi is one of the most highly praised TV anime ever.

Different user, but I could rant for hours about how terrible the western anime community is.

>No respect for the medium or it's history, instead wearing the weeb aesthetic as a fashion statement
>the majority have no variation in what they watch, and just piggyback from one popular seasonal show to the next
>unironically believe in the "3 episode rule", not realising that if the first episode is hot garbage, it's unlikely that the rest of the series will be that much of an improvement
>get impressed over a show having basic storytelling elements like character development or a slight subversion of expectations
>the oldest show they've watched is Eva or MAYBE Sailor Moon and that's only because both shows are extremely well known

I'm glad my irl anime watching friends aren't like this, but I try to avoid the much of the online community when possible.

i guess you have two options as to how to choose

A) select the 9 anime of said 50 that best represent your taste overall
B) keep doing what you have been doing to narrow it down. if there are anime that you are certain will make the cut, set them aside.

Mushishi was a load of shit. The manga is probably better but I haven't looked for it. Mushishi is roughly the same conflict happening for nearly 50 episodes. There are half a dozen good episodes in there.

That doesn't make it not invalidate your point.

Exceptions prove the rule, dumbass, and it's usually a minority sub-community watching that garbage. Kino's Journey is another one of that type. The slow and deliberate pace doesn't translate well from paper to screen.

having fooled fuzzy is the only genuine reason to like an anime or consider it a favorite. anything beyond that is merely interesting. of course you may reflect on your experience of the anime to better understand why you personally fooled fuzzy. you may even try to dissect the anime to better understand why it might induce fuzzy foolery in people generally. but the fooling of fuzziness is itself ultimately all that matters. i can take or leave the extra stuff.

>it's usually a minority sub-community watching that garbage
Nearly 500,000 people on MAL. But I guess this is again only the exception proving the rule. It's very easy to argue against a nonexistent opponent.

>MAL
Please go back there. You don't have the capacity to talk about this topic with us.

>Kino's Journey is another one of that type. The slow and deliberate pace doesn't translate well from paper to screen.
While that might be true, there is still merit to how its being done. Some parts do definetly get lost along the conversion to animation from paper, but i still quite enjoyed the animation itself. A better example i would give would be Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, which in my opinion just doesnt work in animation form.

YKK is a good example of how not to adapt something. It's extremely boring.

A very original response. Live in your world of prejudice all you like then.

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But how do you grade or evaluate fuzzy foolery? Is an emotional outburst of negative emotion more valuable than feeling HYPED upon seeing Goku go Ultra Instincts? Are tears resulting from a burst of positive emotion a more respectable accomplishment than forcing an emotional reaction through a character's death? Do you genuinely respect Takahata for making you cry over a child in a coffin, or is it such a common reaction that only an autist would behave any differently? And if so: Is it really an accomplishment? Are any of those even better than sparking genuine interest in the viewer? If something is so interesting and read a dozen books on it, is the experience really less valuable than Okada shoehorning three emotional climaxes in succession? Genuine interest is just as much an emotion as fuzzy foolery.

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Which is a shame too becuae i again enjoyed the manga itself. Though i kind of knew from the start there was no way they could have handled that in a way that would translate well. Its super hard to give that long, calming scenery in animated form without making it boring.
Always found it really interesting how the, primitiveness of the medium for the lack of a better word, makes shots or scenery you would otherwise find dull, interesting.

I wouldn't say praise is inherently better or worse than criticism, it's just that most people are unwilling to think critically. You get a lot of "it's good because I like it" and "it's bad because I dislike it" without explaining why. A worthwhile negative opinion of a show is particularly rare because most people with a brain will just drop bad shows immediately.
>Konomi Kohara a cute.
Absolutely.

RIP ikki. At least Dorohedoro managed to finish elsewhere.

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why not "Goodnight Punpun"?

I am being picky here. I reduced down from 1.2k.

Makes sense.

Sounds good.

>Its super hard to give that long, calming scenery in animated form without making it boring.
The problem is not the scenery itself. It's the pacing. When you read something, be it manga or text-only, you can give it your own pacing, leave a scene or a moment going as long as you feel like. You can speed up when you want a scene to go fast and slow down when you want to lose yourself in an impression.

Anime and film necessarily take that decission from you, and are often less enjoyable for that alone. The YKK anime is a good example for that, as it forces a certain pace on you that could never compare to the experience the manga gives. (That being said, the YKK anime is not that bad overall. Just very experimental and a bit rough around the edges.)

grading fuzzy foolery induced by anime, studying how it works and determining what is an accomplished work can certainly be HYPE and even generate its own fuzzy foolery, but it is a separate affair from watching anime. i see it not as engaging with an anime but engaging with oneself, using that anime as a prop. maybe that's an extreme view. but i fool that when i am truly engaging with an anime i make myself an object to the anime, allowing it to move me as it will, to greater or lesser effect depending on the anime. when researching anime it becomes the object. it may have incited your interest, but you move on your own.

Honestly, if I wouldn't sit behind a VPN 24/7 so I can torrent terrabytes of shit per month then I'd likely be the same. A Crunchyroll sub cant engage wtih the medium. He has no access to any noteworthy content. If you're unwilling to infringe copyright protection it's impossible to explore the/any medium. Even kissanime, or whatever the current hot streaming website, tends to lack most unorthodox works, especially in reasonable quality. I'd rather kill myself than watch 360p streams of some 60s Toei movie.
But that's why I posed the question. How do you evaluate fuzzy foolery? Let's assume you're forced to assemble a quarter of a dozen cartoons in a 3 times 3 matrix. How do you know which drawing induced the most fuzzy foolings? Do you just roll a dice? Or are you able to somehow gauge the amount the lines have moved you?

Well, yes, but you see, if you only watch it when you feel you need to it's actually very enjoyable. I can understand someone thinking it's boring, but I think that the context in which you watch it enhances the experience. It's actualy one of my favorite OVAs, I often revisit it when I need to de-stress myself from the work or just mundane shit that get on my nerves.

as in my previous description of engaging with anime different anime move me to different degrees and in a general way i can perceive how much i am moved. of course there's no quantitative way to evaluate that fuzzy foolery, so i'm just going on intuition or gut instinct. and in different moods maybe the same anime will move me more or less. but i don't think precision in determining absolute favorites is itself all that important to watching anime. it is again a separate affair.

4/5

5/8

I have more respect for someone who streams older shows than someone who doesn't watch older shows at all. At least the former is trying to actually explore the medium even if their lack of technical knowledge means they're not getting crisp 1080p or the best subs.

CrunchyRoll and Netflix are inadequate. It took Netflix years to even get Eva on there. If a show as mainstream as Eva had to wait years to get released there with a subpar dub, then you can bet that anything even slightly more niche doesn't stand a chance. Pirates are the only people keeping interest in the medium afloat in the west, which is honestly not that different from the days of VHS fan subs.

I got lucky by actually meeting people in person who actually know the medium, but I feel extremely sorry for people who have to deal with the average western fan in person. Those types almost made me give up on anime when I was first getting into it until I decided to dig deeper myself.

I've seen like 40 anime total due to lack of time and motivation, forgive my basic taste.

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4/9
The problem is not so much that you've only seen 40 anime, it's which 40 anime you've seen: You'd do yourself a favour if you went a bit less mainstream. What even made you watch the ones you have seen? Anime youtubers?

Ok, finally done. This is like the fifth edit of it and the only one where I actually went through every anime I've watched to make a list. Excluding movies though, I should make a second one for that.

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>Excluding movies though, I should make a second one for that.
No, you should really just include them in this one.

Texhnolyze is great, but I can't help but be suspicious of why you like it since you have other shows which are complete ass. Also don't use fanart.

Half of this is great and but there's some real dogshit like Tsuritama. Is that Kokoro Connect? What's bottom middle, it looks disgusting. How bad are the other 1200 if Kokoro Connect is the best you can come up with?
At least your top row is excellent.

>don't use fanart.
You know, when fanart is this recognizable, that's actually not much of a problem. It only gets annoying when people use drawings that don't even remotely resemble the anime and characters they're supposed to represent.

No, fanart should never be used. If it's your favourite, why not use the art in the show? It makes me think that these people don't like how their shows look if they have to use fanart of them.

5/9

Overall alright but just really mediocre.

What if they like the show so much they draw fanart of it, and include that in the 3x3?

You don't like Perfect Blue?

Because I use separate sets of criteria to judge shows that are obviously trying to achieve vastly different reactions from the audience. For example Texhnolyze and AoT are polar opposites in many ways but they each pull of their respective schticks in great form in my opinion. I'd rather diversify my enjoyment of media than get bogged down in the hope that something I like as much as Texhnolyze in the same way as Texhnolyze will come along.

What are you smoking? the first OVA is amazing. Now the second one is pretty garbage.

>If it's your favourite, why not use the art in the show?
Well, maybe because you want to make a fanart variation of your 3x3? Maybe because the artstyle fits better with your other picks? Maybe just because you like that fanart piece a lot?
I do somewhat agree that mixing fanart with screencaps is usually a bit irritating. But there's nothing that can be said against using fanart in general, especially not when you make a pure fanart-3x3.

I only recognize one anime in this whole thing...

I recognize pretty much all of these

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+Logh, Aria ~Paranoia Agent, SZS, Soredemo Machi - VEG
+Logh, Golden Boy ~Saiki, Kino, Patlabor, K-on
+Texh, Pefect Blue ~NHK, Eva
+Kaiji, Hyouge Mono, Uchouten Kazoku -Rakugo

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1/2

9/11

3/5

5/9
First time I know all nine on one of these.

You have to watch it, not know it.

Unironically try One Piece.

Same thing. I don't claim to "know" things I haven't watched at least a good portion of.

>Unironically try One Piece.
You unironically seem to have missed that he already has that on his 3x3.

Recommend me something.

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I recommend that you go to and ask them.

That would be a fair response if my reply was a thread.

Some new pictures and a little shuffle.

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Coming to random threads and trying to turn them into your personal recommendation thread is even worse than making a rec-thread of your own.
Honestly, if you are so desperate for suggestions, go to a request board. Or Reddit. Or let MAL suggest something for you.

When did children of the sea get translated? That used to be a meme pick in these threads.

Except I'm not turning this into a recommendation thread? OP asked for 3x3's and I posted one with a simple request on the side. Anyone can ignore if they please.

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>imageboard
Why not just move to a textboard instead of coming here?

VIZ picked it up 10 years ago.

>with a simple request on the side
Yes, that's the thing. You're not supposed to do that.
Also, technically, you didn't post a 3x3 but a 2x2. And you didn't rate, so you can't expect anything from anyone in here.

Hey don't mean mean to 2x2s. Request-user is a faggot, but that's no reason to be mean.

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I really liked Tsuritama, or at least i remember liking it. It's on my rewatch list. I have fond memories of Kokoro Connect because it awakened my true love of anime girls.

Ok I'll keep editing.

What happened to dio-Original?

I'm not saying anything against 2x2. They're fine.
But it's quite commical that he claimed to have posted a 3x3 when he didn't.

Quite possibly the worst taste I have ever seen

There were none that weren't already rated, but whatever.

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This must be a great thread, then. If you want to see some real horrendous 3x3s, check the archive.

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>There were none that weren't already
So what? Does nothing ever deserve more than one rating? Why would it even matter to you whether something has been rated?

I deleted it I think.
IDK, but this is not really a big deal.

you are such a faggot please watch more anime before posting here

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pedo/jail

Hey that's not very nice.. I'm still here, and that hurt my feelings :(

1/4
Rate others.

0/2
Rate others.

2/5
Rate others.

I really hate when people are shit like that.
Just rate, retards.

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3/8

>not recognizing Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere
Might as well out yourself as a newfag.

Can't believe I used to think this looks good. Very embarrassing.

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Ok this includes movies.

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>replacing a show you have fond memories of from personal circumstances
>just because someone on the internet says it's bad
This why that guy made that image

Yuck

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don't make fun

I'm gonna rewatch it before I make my final judgement. I'll be honest. I hardly remember it and for the life of me could not tell you the actual plot. If it is as good as I remember it replaces Mardok Scramble. A lot of how much I enjoy things is colored by circumstance. I enjoyed Eve no Jikan immensely because I watched it coming off of Texhnolyze. Rewatching it I did not enjoy it nearly as much as I expected. But Kokoro Connect was bottom of the nine and walk on girl is much better than it. Honestly I might replace something else with Redline but I don't know what.

is the one in the middle worth it despite only having enjoyed about a handful of shoujo's? 4/6

>The MC of Please Save My Earth embodies all the negative tropes of a generic shoujo protagonist without having any real strengths of her own.
That's true. +The ending of the manga was done really anti climatic imo.
Same. at least her past life was interesting.
The sequel looks like an american fan fiction that has been accepted as canon. The artstyle looks atrocious.
Sounds weird to me because I always called it "oyasumi punpun". Only heard someone calling it "goodnight punpun" in person once.

4/5

YOU can also add that Mob doesn't use his powers because he's afraid of hurting people but somehow when he gets mad and goes 100% he can control it well enough so nobody is seriously injured and they all just learn their moral lesson. Show's complete BS

>RC that's not Presence or Cloud
Seems good to me.

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2/3

2/3

>The sequel looks like an american fan fiction that has been accepted as canon. The artstyle looks atrocious.
That's surprising because PSME's art improved significantly over the manga.

>is the one in the middle worth it despite only having enjoyed about a handful of shoujo's
Not that guy but it has the same author and director as rose of versailles, which you should find more accessible, so use that to judge.

Nightmare is peak Robot Carnival anyway. The character design work is just too good for it to not be, especially compared to the rest of shorts bar Cloud.

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jesus christ lmfao

>Is the one in the middle worth it

That user here.

What said is correct. Oniisama e is about as extreme as you're going to get in terms of shoujo melodrama. It takes the same kind of high-minded melodrama and flowery dialogue/aesthetics found in RoV and applies it to a high school setting. That style isn't for everyone (although it's definitely 100% my kind of thing), so RoV is really more accessible since it has campy adventure arcs and action scenes in addition to all the heavy melodrama.