I Finally Watched Anime! | Violet Evergarden and Demon Slayer
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- Опубліковано 21 лют 2024
- Dante from @theanimeunderworld8338 came on to discuss Anime and I gave my thoughts about the two that I started with
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Violet Evergarden is a hell of a choice for one of your first anime
As someone who knows nothing about the show: How come?
That was my second ever anime I watched 🤔
@@blueflare3848 It gets pretty sad/emotional. One of the few stories to make me cry by the end.
@@blueflare3848 Greg kinda explains it in the video, basically it is a very slow-paced but beautiful examination of a weird emotional what-if. Which makes it an odd choice for a first experience, very risky, because a lot of people hated the pacing.
Remember
Disney might have set up the basics for animation
Japan revolutionized it
Japan did something brilliant: they have a whole content pipeline.
There are websites where people self-publish webnovels. The best of those get picked up as light novels. The best of those get picked up as manga, and the best of thise get picked up as anime which is a sales pitch for the other material since you only get so many episodes of an anime, and selling action figures, and the band that does the opening and closing songs are trying to sell their albums.
It has negative aspects like anything, but it means you're always seeing new stories, new characters, and while sometimes what you see is derivative it isn't the same exact thing like western companies retelling the same story over and over again.
Honestly i think thats why you see so many franchise assassinations in the west, because writers dont want to tell the story of Superman again, they want to tell their story about whatever but since they can't they try to take the story people want you to tell and change it into the story you want to tell.
Another huge difference is that the creator keeps the rights to their work, so for example the old show Trigun got remade, but it got remade by the original creator who wanted to retell the story in a different way, so even as a remake has heart because the creator loves his creation and if he didnt he could try making something else and quite possibly succeed massively because new stories actually stand a chance.
(I did warn you about the long comments)
Inner monologue apparently is a thing in anime especially in action scenes when it's adapted from manga or visual novels where the characters would describe what's going on, I thought it was pretty normal in fact I actually find it entertaining that way because of the high quality voice acting but I have never thought it was a demerit until you mentioned it, so that's a bummer. Anime action scenes without inner monologues are actually rare so you may wanna steer away from shounen if it drives you that crazy.
ATTACK ON TITAN!! One of my all time favorite shows.
Greg, I highly recommend you check out Escaflowne. It's a giant robot anime but it's a medieval fantasy.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood! It's the only anime I've watched 3 times and still get the itch to watch it again. IT'S SO GOOD! And no filler :)
I cannot accept the fact that as consumer of pop culture greg don't watch Anime and he started so late
THANKS TO ME
I introduced him to the world
Yeah, that surprised me too. He seemed like the type to dive into it with his family or something
Violet Evergarden also has a special as well with an opera actress, and with the two movies, "Eternity and the Auto Memory doll" is the first movie, then "Violet Evergarden: The Movie". The first movie was quite nice, as well as the second, but the special felt a bit forgettable. As for the episodes, the one with the Mother and Daughter, as well as the one after with the soldier had me crying.
And as for Demon Slayer and the internal monologuing, it does get annoying and is in quite a few anime it feels like, but that main plot and action is still good enough to keep watching. One thing I feel that Demon Slayer falls short with is the magic system in which something will only be used once then never again (case in point: S1 EP 6).
Edit: (rather bland, obvious pick but...) AoT is really good for cool fight scenes, good plot and character development, amazing OST, and doesn't really fall victim too much to the inner monologuing unless it's explaining how a character might be feeling. Just don't watch it with the kids
Very proud of you Greg! My dad still gets turned off by the word “anime” even if the premise sounds good. He can’t handle that world lol. But he did watch A Silent Voice
Also I do agree that anime does have a bit of an over-narration problem that sometimes makes me a bit annoyed
I recommend you watch "Erased (2016)" It's a mystery thriller around a murder that happened 18 years ago. It's heart-wrenching and well-written.
That was excellent! I watched it as it came out and was totally enthralled
I think I get overwhelmed with just thinking of tackling an entire show,
so I'd just recommend watching Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms.
It's about a young mother and her "adopted" son.
As a father of one at the time (now two,) I was so glad to have found it, out of everything I could have picked.
Simple at it's heart, with side-plot characters offering foils to the protagonist.
A couple of anime I'd personally recommend to new comers.
Super-Robot Mecha (basically shounen mecha) - Gurren Lagann, it's easily my favourite anime and frankly work of fiction. It's 27 episodes (17 is a recap) and everything from the music, the voice acting especially the Dub, the characters and the art style, its just so much fun.
Real Robot Mecha (Gundam like anime) - Code Geass, only 2 seasons 50 episodes, though the Akito movies are also really good. Its such a great series, full of nuance, and exploration of complex themes. Also known for its amazing English Dub, with a lot of the same cast as Gurren Lagann.
Shounen - I'd say Jujutsu Kaisen, I do honestly like Demon Slayer more, though I understand its not for everyone but I think you'll warm up to it. Jujutsu Kaisen is such good action, it's power system is also really cool, its just so good and given season 2 just finished, now's a good time to watch.
Seinen (basically a more mature version of shounen) - either Bungo Stray Dogs or Vinland Saga. BSD has its characters named after writers and they all have powers named after/based on works of said writer, and ALL of its cast is amazing, again now that season 5 finished now is a good time to watch. Vinland Saga is set in the 11th century and is based on the Vinland Sagas a set of stories from that time, and it is so beautiful from its music, characters and animation its all amazing.
Shoujo and some of the other genres I'm not as familiar with, but these are all the main series I'd recommend to new comers
I didn’t see you mention it, but I think Cowboy Bebop is another anime that’s good for beginners. It’s only one season long and it has good pacing and no filler. The dub is also pretty solid.
Death note is a good beginner anime
The problem with anime (if you're not already into it) is that there is SO MUCH. The styles, genres, and the super involved stories, etc. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it is just very overwhelming in a lot of ways.
Violet Evergarden For the Win!!!!
"Eureka Seven" or "Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan" are great first Mecha shows.
Gundam can be really hard to get into until you have a better feel for how anime works. I'd say "Eureka Seven" first because it came out first and "Gurren Lagan" really did hark back to it in some ways (and "Evangelion" too of course, but that is definitely NOT a first Mecha Anime). But they really are stories about love and building a family, both romantically but also with building a family with who you have not what you are born with. The action is great and it eases you into Mecha really well.
Yes, battle shonen tends to have a lot of filler. And character arcs that don't really go anywhere, since the goal of long-running serialized manga (incl nearly all battle shonen) is usually, above all, to maintain serialization indefinitely and never end.
Demon Slayer is very, very popular but its writing is... not particularly great, and it is very, very derivative. It's mostly notable for having excellent, well above average animation - particularly in later seasons and in the movie - and for having a huge, builtin fanbase since it's a currently serialized / ongoing battle shonen published in weekly shonen jump. Which is more or less the japanese equivalent of (old school, and not exclusively superhero-focused) marvel / DC comics, more or less.
Filler and frustrating amounts of redundant internal monologues and/or narration isn't at all a feature of ALL anime, it's an animation / production crutch used to stretch out animation production budgets (which are EXTREMELY low by western standards), and features pretty heavily in battle shonens (and several other subgenres) for a variety of reasons.
For strong counter-examples, to an extent, I'd strongly, strongly recommend watching 86, and/or any of the following:
Psycho Pass (cyberpunk police thriller / minority report)
Fate/Zero (brutal action battle royale between mages in a unique contemporary / modern-day hard-magic setting)
Puella Magi Madoka Magica (bit out of left field, this is an excellent show that, at only 13 episodes, must be watched blind)
Frieren (excellent, currently airing classic-fantasy-masterpiece / reexamination thereof done well)
Code Geass (offbrand not-Gundam Gundam / mecha show, with a pretty interesting protagonist / villain and powerset. Writing falls apart in most of R2, iirc, but still notable for a fairly famous ending and huge mecha battles)
Gundam: Witch From Mercury (recent, somewhat atypical standalone gundam incarnation. Notable for having a gender-flipped protagonist - and classic gundam antagonist - *done well*, which would definitely be interesting to see your thoughts on)
Monster. If you have time to burn, this 74-episode psychological / crime thriller about a neurosurgeon-turned-detective in West Germany who attempts to hunt down the eponymous "monster" is hard to beat. (for a shorter version of this, plus near-future cyberpunk / sci fi and Japanese social commentary, see Psycho Pass)
Sonny Boy. Very trippy, weird, ultimately straightforward coming of age story about a classroom of japanese high schoolers, with superpowers, who become unmoored from time and space. Passion project from the director, and excellent, fantastic animation (and truly out-there)
Chainsaw Man. Very out-there *technically* shounen (published in shonen jump!) action anime / manga that will completely, and repeatedly, challenge and subvert your expectations. Only 12 episodes, so very low requirement / commitment to watch that through.
Odd Taxi. Fantastic mystery / detective story about a taxi driver, who is a walrus, written (iirc) by a pair of Japanese comedians with some excellent narrative twists.
Attack on Titan. Fairly high commitment (~94-105 episodes, depending on how you're counting). Currently completed. Would not be at all inaccurate to call this the anime version of game of thrones in terms of sheer cultural impact. And a show that both completely stuck the landing (w/ the anime, at least), and that continuously, somehow, gets better with each and every season. Excellent writing and character development with incredible amounts of buildup and foreshadowing, and an actually-fully-planned-in-advance complete and self-contained story arc that took 10 years to complete in both manga and anime form. Also by far one of the most original - and well done - dark fantasy settings around. And with incredible action that, justifiably, turned this into one of the best shonen (and borderline seinen) series of all time. Also probably one of the ONLY ones (alongside oddballs like chainsaw man, weirdly enough) that actually commits to and executes on delivering a single, *plot-driven* story. (as opposed to keep-this-serializing-indefinitely open-ended story with endless filler and nearly static / no-real-permanent-character-development or plot progression). Heck, attack on titan is technically a complete and thorough deconstruction of the entire premise and tropes of shounen, period, which itself is a massive accomplishment.
Actually the reason why monologues are so prevalent in anime is because most anime are panel by panel adaptations of their source material. Manga is a medium that heavily utilizes monologuing so these often are featured in their adaptations. It’s also why anime originals have no monologues.
Not to mention people get pissed if an adaptation lacks all the monologuing in the source material. People complained about fate stay night unlimited blade works anime because ufotable went for the “show don’t tell” approach. Without Shirou’s monologuing, the character came across as a generic hot blooded shonen protagonist when in actuality he’s supposed to be more complex than that, and this complexity is shown only through monologues in the source material. So no wonder why ufotable decided to just show all the monologues in demon slayer.
I think the best we can hope for are adaptations that utilize monologuing sparingly. Shows like Frieren, chainsaw man, and Vinland saga for instance. All three use monologues, but only to an extent and most of the storytelling relies heavily on “show, don’t tell”.
About internal monologue in Demon Slayer - i think sinnce anime is usually very close adaptaion of the manga - and in a comic there's limited space to show things, so chraracter will explain alot of what's happening in text. I personally like it, they often use that to establish the stakes and help you read the battle. Battle becomes more readable almost like a videogame rather then just some cool animation - you undestand exactly why they doing what they doing and what woud happened if the didn't. It also help animes with low-budget animation to still have undestandable complex battles. But i completely get that it's super jarring for a non anime fan.
Haven't delved too deep into anime myself, but Yu Yu Hakusho and Rurouni Kenshin will always have a place in my heart.
I recommend hxh it’s made by the same person who created yu yu hakusho
I would recommend Frieren and One Punch Man. Frieren is probably the best fantasy anime I have ever seen, and One Punch Man is a good action comedy.
Anime is just as broad as film. Some recent favorites are Odd Taxi, Sonny Boy and ACCA 13. They're all very different from what you'd expect to be explored in animation, but the deeper you go, you'll see how animation is just as effective as film for all types of storytelling.
Your next animes have to be either Fullmetal alchemist/ Fullmetal alchemist brotherhood, and or 86. Greg, you will love 86.
Cowboy Bebop is accessible for non-anime watchers and also among the best anime series ever
I watched Violet Evergarden with my daughter and we both cried. Demon Slayer is watched by all my kids and we love every episode!
What genre do you like to watch with your family the most Greg? Comedy? Thriller? Action?
How about choosing based on that?
I am a big fan of anime. I haven't watched everything great but I have watched a lot. I'd love to listen to your take on it.
Also, I resent that calling yourself a 'normie' just because you haven't watched or read a genre/type of art.
If I don't like or listen to classic poetry, does that make me a Normie?
Anyway, hope you have fun. Anime is a journey. There are many ups and downs and there are way too many hidden gems.
MY personal recommendation, "Sousou no Frieren".It's absolutely amazing.
It may seem boring, but it's good boring. You'll see if you check it out.
It's not completed. But there are a bunch of episodes out already.
I hope you like it.
Ascendance of a Bookworm is a good series with a family oriented message and lots of fun with a little science. Your family could definitely get along with it.
Attack on Titan-esp seasons 3 and 4 should be required watching for the entire world. I can’t think of a better depiction of the evils of racism and the increasingly popular trend to hold current peoples hostage to sins committed in the past as depicted here. A literal masterpiece.
The narrating visible stuff thing is unfortunately really common in shonen anime. I think it's got to do with coming from manga, where it's normal to have a character's internal monologue provide context, because it's hard to convey certain things with still images. This habit gets carried over in the anime sphere even though it's unnecessary.
Gotta take some bad with the good, unfortunately.
I find that my irritation with the phenomenon is much lower when watching subbed, though. (Especially since dubs are generally dog vomit due to poor direction, obsession with matching lip flaps, and activism.)
This is why I can't watch Saint Seya. I tried once and for every 5 seconds of action there was at least 30 seconds of reactions narrating the action.
I’ve heard that My Hero Academia is notorious for its unnecessary exposition.
@@blueflare3848 Pretty much all shonen do it, but yeah, MHA is definitely an offender.
I believe it's a holdover from being adapted from LNs, VNs, and Manga, where there is either only text or still images.
Actually the main reason is because anime adaptations of manga are 1 to 1 adaptations of it. Not to mention that some manga (like Kaguya sama and JoJo) are impossible to adapt without monologues.
Attack on Titan, please. Arguably on the same level as Breaking Bad as the GOAT show of its medium. You will not be disappointed, I promise
Please keep making more videos about anime here on your channel because I would love to see more. I love hearing your thoughts on the different anime’s you’re watching.
Kotaro lives alone is probably best anime on Netflix
Also just started watching Violet Evergarden, it is hard to watch that without tearing up. I feel like there are onions always around me.
I know a lot of people will say "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood", but I would REALLY, REALLY ask that if you are going to watch it, watch the original "Fullmetal Alchemist" FIRST.
A lot of people will tell you that you don't need to, that it's "only half the story" and "it's anime original ending is worse", but I disagree. Not only does it have arguably one of the best "anime only endings" it flushes out the beginning half of the story much more and is so much more detailed. Brotherhood really does assume you've seen the first one that came out before the anime was finished. It really is a completely different take on the story and the alchemy and the relationships. It doubles your investment and I'm sure like most people you will find the ending to "Brotherhood" better, but I think you will find it rewarding, much, much more so than watching "Brotherhood" first. You will feel completely different about it if you watch it after "Brotherhood" one day.
Watch Cowboy Bebob and Fullmetal Brotherhood dubbed
As a several decades long anime watcher, one thing I would recommend is to always watch in japanese audio with english subtitles when it's available. There are some anime that are properly translated and have good dubs, but they are fairly few and far between. If the dialog is frustrating you, definitely give the jpn audio a try, it might be considerably more tolerable as the voice acting is usually leagues better than the dub.
Really just comes down to personal preference, I think. I personally have a hard time getting into subs. I’d rather focus on what’s happening on-screen, not worry about reading subtitles. The dubs I’ve watched so far have been pretty solid.
@@blueflare3848 I get that, and like I said, some dubs aren't too bad. Cowboy Beebop and FMA are some great examples. BUT, some are horrifically bad... like Naruto. I used to be a dub only guy when I first started watching anime many years ago, but over time I started to really prefer the subs. After a while you get used to it to the point where it doesn't really feel like you're having to split your attention between watching and reading anymore. The brain truly is a remarkable thing.
Yooo death note, full metal alchemist, cow boy bebob get on it,
Full Metal Alchemist please
I didn’t see anyone suggest Frieren Journey’s End.
It’s good. You’ll like it.
I'm not kidding, I thought about the Violeto Garden idea before knowing it's existence.
Great series, would love for it to explore that world
Personal favorite Isekai, Ascendance of a Bookworm. A young girl who loved books and reading more than anything is reincarnated in a medieval fantasy world, but instead of being a strong noble action protagonist she ends up in the body of a poor peasant girl who's so sickly she's out of breath after walking down a flight of stairs. When she finds out that there are no printing presses in this world and books are luxury item only rich nobles can afford, she decides to make the books herself. It's a slow paced, slice of life cartoon, so slow paced that it literally takes till the middle of the second season to finally make her first book.
Howdy, I'm usually not a fan of anime, like, at all, but there is one I *deeply* enjoyed that I think would be up your alley, and that is Steins;Gate. It's intense, it's beautiful, the writing and plot is clean, everything exists for a reason. It's also SIGNIFICANTLY more family friendly than other ones (such as Demon Slayer), while certainly still having those adult themes, that internal tragicomedy. The only anime I give a 9/10, and it deserves it. All the characters are likable, everything works well. As for the genre, it's something of a sci-fi story in a very "down to earth" way. Think something along the lines of "20,000 Leagues" when it comes to the 'scope', if you will.
Also, I am going to ask you to check out a video game called "Slay the Princess", my favorite of all time. Absolutely phenomenal writing, something that I didn't know could still be produced with that sort of poetry in 2023. It may well be the only romance I have ever gotten invested in, and I want to say it has 97% positive reviews on Steam. I have something like 50 hours into it? For reference, the game is 6 hours long. It is the first game to have ever made me actually cry. But yeah, anyway, it isn't that much of a time sink, it's fantastic literature, and if you don't feel like investing your money into it until you've checked it out, the developers have made a statement supporting piracy of it.
In addition to what others are suggesting, you would probably enjoy Cowboy Bebop. For many of us in our 30s who are into anime, our gateways were mostly Dragon Ball Z on Toonami and Cowboy Bebop on Adult Swim. DBZ is widely considered the progenitor of modern shounen so you might want to give it a watch at least through the Namek saga. But Bebop is an anime I grew to appreciate more and more as the years went by and now I consider it one of the best (top 5 at least) ever made.
Finally, someone recommended Dragon Ball. With how popular it is, I can’t believe no one else has mentioned it. Cowboy Bebop is a bit more beginner friendly I would say, but Dragon Ball is definitely worth the watch. I’m currently watching DBZ with a friend (who grew up on the series and wanted to introduce me. We finished the original show a few months ago) and I’m really enjoying it so far. We just finished season 2 yesterday.
@@blueflare3848Yea, when I first watched it on Toonami it was hard to enjoy because it was always stuck on reruns. But if you watch the completed seasons back to back it's actually a solid story. And it doesn't have much of that "let's explain in detail everything that's happening as it's happening" thing that Greg hates. Or at least, not much of it that I can recall.
@@mccasper5721 It has some unnecessary exposition at times, but I personally think it’s passable. It’s not a constant thing and I don’t think the exposition is nearly as excessive as some other shows.
Yeah, overall the story is pretty solid so far. It’s not without its flaws, but I think the positives greatly overshadow the negatives. I especially like how the show subverts expectations. There have been a few times already where I thought the plot was going to go one way and it ended up going another. I also like how the show uses certain tropes, but it puts its own spin on it. It keeps things fresh and new. It’s a nice change of pace to watch a show without being able to predict the story beat for beat. I’m very eager to see where the show goes. We have a long way to go before we finish it.
Cowboy Bebop is a must watch. It’s one of the great classics that is referenced all the time
It’s pretty beginner friendly as well. It’s only one season long and it has good pacing and no filler. The dub is also pretty solid.
I’m of the opinion that Demon Slayer was carried by ufotable, without the godlike animation it would just be an above average shounen.
'Grave of the Fireflies' is the most emotionally crushing movie I've ever seen in my life. It's set in Japan during WWII, the main characters are two orphaned children who are living on the street with no adult guardians to take care of them. It's even more sad than 'Schindler's List'. Don't watch it with your kids, because it will traumatize them for life - Hell, it might traumatize you for life. It's the voice acting of the little girl that punches you right in the gut. Your face will hurt because you are crying so hard.
That movie was shown as a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro, must have been a jarring experience...
@@diemes5463 Both will make you cry, but for wildly different reasons.
Demon slayer is over rated imo. Can't stand it.
Violet Evergarden was a great choice for an introduction into anime. I wouldn't say Demon Slayer was, aside from the animation...
Here are some recommendations for beginners:
Family:
• Princess Monoke (award winner)
• Wolf Children (award winner)
• Your name. (award winner)
• A Silent Voice (award winner)
• Patema Inverted (award winner)
• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (award winner)
• Weathering with You (award winner)
• Studio Ghibli films obviously
Crime / Detective:
• Monster (you would probably like this one a lot, it's just slow to get through)
(• Bungou Stray Dogs (characters based of Japanese authors fight with super powers))
Comedy:
• Great Pretender
• Ya Boy Kongming!
• How Heavy Are the Dumbbels You Lift?
(• Assassination Classroom)
Action:
• Black Lagoon (adult cast, R18)
• One Punch Man
(• Chainsaw Man)
Drama:
• Beastars
• Death Parade
• To Your Eternity
• Oshi no Ko
• Blue Period
Adventure:
• Hunter x Hunter
• Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
• One Piece
• Ranking of Kings
Fantasy / folklore:
• The Ancient Magus' Bride
• Land of the Lustrous
• Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
• Made in Abyss (horror!)
Isekai (transported to another world) / Reincarnation:
• Ascendance of a Bookworm
• Oshi no Ko
(• That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime)
(• Death Mount Death Play)
Science-fiction:
• Redline (adult cast)
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
• Gurren Lagann
Mystery:
• The Promised Neverland (season 1)
• Summertime Render
• Serial Experiments Lain (award winner)
Horror:
• Parasyte: The Maxim
(• Devilman Crybaby = R18+)
(• Hellsing / Hellsing Ultimate = R18)
Historical Drama:
• Vinland Saga (you will probably love this one)
• Kingdom (wonky animation in first season)
Supernatural:
• Dororo
Chinese animation (dongua):
• LORD OF THE MYSTERIES in 2025 (already got an insane trailer and there's an eng sub version too!) = isekai
• Mo Dao Zu Shi - Founder of Diabolism / Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (drama, fantasy, technically romance) = my #1 anime/dongua/webtoon (has a really good and popular live action adaptation)
• Link Click (crime, mystery, supernatural, adult cast)
• The King's Avatar (gaming)
• Daomu Biji Zhi Qinling Shen Shu - The Buried Tree Devil (kind of like Indiana Jones)
• Da Li Si Rizhi - White Cat Legend (kind of like Puss in Boots)
Seriously, THANK YOU for putting them in genres. My ultimate plan is to make a video about diving into Anime and figuring out why it's blowing up in the west, and I wanted to cover multiple genres during the analysis. This is beyond helpful, now I have a heading so I know the bases are covered
@@gregowen2022 Glad I can be of help on your mission then, but is there a way I can help you more? Also, I remembered that we're already in 2024 and there's been QUITE a few good ones, so I'll be adding them!
Please please PLEASE watch Frieren
I think that's next on the list. Probably the number one recommendation I see, I'm excited!
@@gregowen2022 YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After that, try Apothecary Diaries and Madoka Magica. Apothecary Diaries has been hailed as the savior of the shoujo genre much like how Frieren is considered the savior of the high fantasy genre that is saturated with isekai. Madoka Magica is really really REALLY good. I can't say anything more about it in fear of spoiling you.
Thought exposition in anime is common because they often break the laws of physics among other common knowledge things. There will likely become a point in the story where you don't know what is possible or what the character can do without them saying it.
Also most anime is based on manga/comics so thought exposition is the simplest way to explain a situation.
Some great anime to continue your journey.
TV series: Library Wars - Fighting for freedom in an oppressive society.
Girls und Panzer - Underdog Sports story...with tanks!
My Love Story - A gut busting, fantastic, fun story about finding your first love.
Rideback - A young women finds a new purpose in living, before being drawn into an international conspiracy.
Freedom Project - 3 bike racing teenagers born on the Moon uncover a terrible secret about the fate of Earth.
Spirit of Wonder - The Scientific Boys Club decides to built a ship to sail to Mars
movies: The Five Star Stories (1989) - In the far future, two battle androids must find their new masters...or be enslaved.
Galaxy Express 999 (1979) - A young boy's journey to get an immortal robot body and take revenge for his mother's death.
Some deep cuts here, great recommendations
Fullmetal alchemist brotherhood next
Spy x family would probably be better for greg and his whole family to watch together. Or maybe some comedy. Like Saiki.
Dante, here
I recommended Spy X Family
Because in the podcast he wants to incorporate his family in the reviews too so that's a good one
Oddtaxi then
Anime I recommend for Greg. Fullmetal alchemist (both though watch 2003 first) ano-hanna, and assassination classroom.
If Greg likes Violet Evergarden he should watch Frieren: Beyond Journey's End.
You MUST watch Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood (make sure to watch exactly Brotherhood, bcs first earliest version is a fanfic) - best anime of all time. I watched it 10 times and gonna watch 10 more, bcs this is immortal masterpiece in animation and story. Also you can watch it with whole family and everybody will enjoy it.
Oh, and Greg, for the love of all that is holy. Please please watch the subbed NOT DUBBED versions! So much is lost with Western voice actors.
Hard disagree. I’m certainly not a hardcore anime fan by any means, but the dubs I’ve watched have been pretty solid overall. As long as they get competent voice actors, the dubs are usually good. Frankly, I’d rather focus on what’s happening on-screen, not worry about reading subtitles. Additionally, I personally watch with a friend, so there are times when we’ll talk or joke with each other. With a dub we can still hear what the characters are saying. If it were the sub we would miss dialogue the second we look away from the screen.
I told him to watch the dub of Ghost Stories
@@blueflare3848 as you could tell from the demon slayer clip I played, we got better
Absolutely - the subs are so much better. Not only with the fact that the way they voice act is better suited to the styles of anime, but they also change the words and phrases frequently to fit English translations into the animation’s timing and to “make sense” to western viewers. It becomes more and more irritating the more familiar you are with the culture or original story
@@vae8652 Nah, good dubs exist and in some cases, I’d consider them better than the sub. Cowboy Bebop, Dragon Ball, Ghost Stories, and while I haven’t personally watched Attack on Titan, the clips I’ve seen of the dub show some impressive voice acting. I certainly can’t speak for everyone, but I personally have a difficult time getting into subs.
Watch Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, good anime with likable female lead... Definition of how to write a good female character
Just a fair warning that Frieren does contain internal monologuing in it, though it’s not as excessive or as on-the-nose as demon demon slayer is
Anime does just spell things out more. I think some of it comes from trying to faithfully adapt a static medium. Manga needs be more explicit to get the point across sometimes, especially with action.
You’d think they would cut out the unnecessary exposition when adapting it, though.
there is much less exposition in josei and seinan shows, the kids shows have a lot exposition because their for kids
@@diemes5463 I don’t necessarily agree with that, mainly because My Hero Academia has a lot of exposition and I wouldn’t really call that a kid’s show. I think it’s just a shonen anime thing.
@@blueflare3848not really because unlike western adaptations, anime basically adapt the manga 1 to 1.
Also some manga literally cannot be adapted into an anime unless you include the monologuing. Imagine doing a Kaguya sama anime with 0 monologues; the show would lose its comedic elements
@@Grudgebearer47 I think in some cases exposition works (like how you said, some manga can’t be adapted into an anime without the monologuing), but when it’s just giving a play by play of what we’re currently seeing on-screen it gets a little excessive. Like I said, you’d think they would cut out the _unnecessary_ exposition. Where the audience can get the same information from visuals alone and don’t need it outright explained to them.
Now we have to have greg watch food wars
Please no
I couldn't even get past the trailer for Violet Evergarden. If I'm going to watch butt-slow anime, it has to be something like Monster.
May I suggest Black Lagoon.
I hope you might one day get into One Piece, it's a long show but it'll revolutionize your view of Story Writing, it takes a skilled writer to make a 1000 ep series great and not boring to watch.
I told him about the anime remake so he might get into the anime that way since he watched season 1 of the live action
As someone who has not watched the show at all: What exactly makes the writing good? Like, does it have high stakes? Are the characters interesting and complex? Does the show subvert expectations and throw in twist and turns that you don’t see coming?
@blueflare3848 it's a fun journey with fun characters in a crazy world that has good fights, jokes, humor, dark moments, sadness, etc
Please please please watch subtitled whenever possible lol
Really just comes down to personal preference, I think. I personally have a hard time getting into subs. I’d rather focus on what’s happening on-screen, not worry about reading subtitles. The dubs I’ve watched so far have been pretty solid.
Studio Shonen is the best anime studio.
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Cowboy bebop and Samurai Champloo because-you’re not a teenager.
Excellent recommendation. And FMAB or AOT for a good story with mature themes.
You should check out cowboy bebop!
Is it too soon to recommend Cowboy Bebop? Yes? Ok, watch Afro Samurai and I'll come back later.
See you space cowboy.
You probably don't want to watch either with the kids.
Cowboy Bebop is the first real anime I watched (unless you want to count Pokémon). I think it’s a good one to start with. It’s only one season long and it has great pacing and no filler. It has a really solid dub as well.
Also, given your Demon Slayer take, you might enjoy this: ua-cam.com/video/I1XQduS6IfA/v-deo.htmlsi=ZjZ9x0DfEmUGQQrN. Yea, over explaining fights is definitely a common shounen anime trope.
Hes gonna have hard time finishing the big three given ep count.
I’m surprised no one has recommended Dragon Ball yet, one of the most popular and well known animes of all time.
Fullmetal Alchemist should be your next watch!
Greg, before i watch this, i hope you dont trash Violet Evergarden....
nope
he trashed Demon Slayer
After: im very glad you enjoyed Violet.... also, there is also an OVA as well as the two movies
@theanimeunderworld8338 of course cause he can think past 'fight scene and graphics look cool' (゜∀。)
Well, at least you got one great show.
Demon Slayer is fun but flawed.
Can’t you make the same argument about literally anything, though? Every piece of media is flawed in some way or another. What’s important is that these flaws are minor and don’t negatively impact the overall quality of the show or movie. The positives need to overshadow the negatives.
@@blueflare3848 I give Demon Slayer a solid C. There's issues with the execution that occasionally bother me more, but the highs and it's strengths mostly outweigh the.
Spy x Family is a fun light-hearted comedy that I enjoy. My Hero Academia is another good Shonin anime.
If you wanna go for a genuinely great story, start one piece. The beginning can be hard but it’s worth it 1000%
Sex Sells, whether Hollyweird likes it or not.
not just sex, 'beauty'. The landscapes and art styles in anime is gorgeous at times. Hollywood cartoons have all become bland and boring. They even butchered ben 10. It's just sad.
Watch the full podcast
I definitely said that
@@LazyReaderKanon I know....I love ben 10
@@theanimeunderworld8338 my bad. I'll try to watch it later. Thanks for the video btw.
Hollywood likes it too, their just weird about it