What is the most /lit/ anime?

[Anonymous No.13825857]

Jin-Roh, LoGH, Cowboy Bebop, Death Note, Berserk 97?

Some of these are kids shows, others degenerate, but generally they are good anime considering the limitations of the medium. Only watched like 8 anime though.

[Anonymous No.13825862]

[Anonymous No.13825868]

>>13825862

[Anonymous No.13825869]

>>13825857
>Only watched like 8 anime though.
Maybe you should more before being too declarative.

[Anonymous No.13825873]

>>13825868

[Anonymous No.13825875]

Evangelion is #1 by a huge margin

[Anonymous No.13825877]

>>13825862
I liked NGE(for an anime) but it's overrated as hell and seems at best - in relation to its many themes - a purposefully childish simplification.

>>13825869
Was not declaring but advising.

>>13825873
As I said before, the presentation of an abstract should be the becoming of it. Rather than a subtext that isn't even really there as these notes testify.

[Anonymous No.13825882]

>>13825875
Shinji was the most annoying damn character I have ever seen. "Muh depression" and at best seemed like a young girls cartoon.

[Anonymous No.13825941]

>>13825857
never seen the anime but berserk is one of the worst things ive ever read

[Anonymous No.13825952]

>>13825941
>berserk is one of the worst things ive ever read
Could you expand on this?

[Anonymous No.13825960]

>>13825952
derrida.mpeg

[Anonymous No.13825974]

>>13825857
What does "being /lit/" means to you?

[Anonymous No.13825980]

Machikado Mazoku

[Anonymous No.13825991]

>>13825877
>but it's overrated as hell and seems at best - in relation to its many themes - a purposefully childish simplification.
Not really

[Anonymous No.13825994]

>>13825974
It means OP is a weakminded pretentious faggot

[Anonymous No.13826013]

>>13825941
>>13825952
>>13825960
I enjoyed it for a manga but almost everything past the Golden Arch - save the point around where he stabs the demon woman - is nigh garbage. The 97 anime was pretty good (for an anime) even if it did have a lot of stupid shit.

[Anonymous No.13826018]

>>13825974
>>13825994
It means the average /lit/er is an effeminate midwit. And by this, that I am your superiors.

[Anonymous No.13826023]

>>13825991
would you rather I say accidental?

[Anonymous No.13826030]

>>13826023
No, why would I?

[Anonymous No.13826056]

>>13826030
Why is everyone on 4chan socially retarded?

[Anonymous No.13826062]

>>13825974
cooming

[Anonymous No.13826067]

>>13826056
Beautiful irony here

[Anonymous No.13826068]

Evangelion is the best anime but the most /lit/ anime is haibane renmei

[Anonymous No.13826075]

Tatami Galaxy
LoGH
Evangelion

In that order.

[Anonymous No.13826076]

>>13826056
>y did noone laff at my cleva liddle jowk, u autists

[Anonymous No.13826077]

>>13826067
>Beautiful irony here

[Anonymous No.13826079]

>>13826076
>not knowing it was a joke

[Anonymous No.13826081]

>>13826075
Explain the first choice.

>>13826068
Never heard of that, explain.

[Anonymous No.13826086]

>>13826079
>not realizing I knew all along

[Anonymous No.13826091]

Serial Experiment Lain

[Anonymous No.13826102]

>>13826086
>le smug anime girl #1

[Anonymous No.13826103]

>>13826081
It's well drawn, pompous, self-serving and self-absorbed with a young, student--ich-protagonist.

[Anonymous No.13826106]

>>13826091
isn't that a girls cartoon? I know wheels liked it.

[Anonymous No.13826109]

>>13826103
which one?

[Anonymous No.13826113]

>>13825857
Serial Experiments Lain - Obscurantist and pretentious, very /lit/. Though I'll admit it's a personal favorite of mine. Explores technology and its ramifications. Aired in the late 90s, almost eerily predictive of the modern internet society.
Psycho Pass - Explores morality of a high surveillance state, mediocre anime in and of itself though.
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Overrated as fuck honestly, but the later parts strike some philosophical notes
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - Pretty well written, could just as well have been a novella
Your Name (Kimi no na wa) - Including this for same reason as FMAB, though it's a movie. Good for anyone who wants a taste of anime.
Bakemonogatari (Monogatari) series - Adaptions lie close to the light novel source material, if you know japanese and japanese mythology it's very /lit/ and should probably be enjoyable. Otherwise just an oddball anime with a fuckton of borderline incestuous scenes.
Any Miyazaki movies for the general aesthetic and feel. Good to flaunt around like a trophy of your taste, very /lit/. Spirited away is a personal favorite.
Akira - Shouldn't really have to explain this one, go watch it. Hella aesthetic as well as some philosphical undertones. Read the source material if you want to be extra.
Steins;Gate - Staple sci-fi anime. Time travel plot, earnestly very good. Must watch imho.

[Anonymous No.13826114]

>>13825857
Read or Die is probably the most /lit/ it gets. Library Wars might also be worth looking into. Almost all of the main characters of R.O.D. are known to intensely like books, with the exception of one, though there is a good explanation for that in the series.

[Anonymous No.13826119]

>>13826106
no not really, the synopsis sounds like your average anime at first but believe me it's nothing like this.
>The series focuses on Lain Iwakura, anadolescentmiddle schoolgirl living in suburban Japan, and her introduction to the Wired, a globalcommunications networkwhich is similar to the Internet. Lain lives with her middle-class family, which consists of her inexpressive older sister Mika, her emotionally distant mother, and her computer-obsessed father; while Lain herself is somewhat awkward, introverted, and socially isolated from most of her school peers. But the status-quo of her life becomes upturned by a series of bizarre incidents that start to take place after she learns that girls from her school have received an e-mail from a dead student, Chisa Yomoda, and she pulls out her old computer in order to check for the same message. Lain finds Chisa telling her that she is not dead, but has merely "abandoned her physical body and flesh" and is alive deep within the virtual reality-world of the Wired itself, where she has found the almighty and divine "God". From this point, Lain is caught up in a series of cryptic and surreal events that see her delving deeper into the mystery of the network in a narrative that explores themes of consciousness, perception, and the nature of reality.
>The "Wired" is avirtual reality-worldthat contains and supports the very sum ofallhuman communication andnetworks, created with thetelegraph,televisions, andtelephoneservices, and expanded with theInternet,cyberspace, and subsequent networks. The series assumes that the Wired could be linked to a system that enables unconscious communication between people and machines without physical interface. The storyline introduces such a system with theSchumann resonances, a property of the Earth's magnetic field that theoretically allows for unhindered long distance communications. If such a link were created, the network would become equivalent to Reality as the generalconsensusof all perceptions and knowledge. The increasingly thin invisible line between what is real and what is virtual/digital begins to slowly shatter
It's a 1998 anime

[Anonymous No.13826121]

>>13826109
Tatami Galaxy

[Anonymous No.13826125]

>>13826113
Oh, also Ghost in the shell. Can't believe I forgot that one.

[Anonymous No.13826132]

>>13826113
>Serial Experiments Lain - Obscurantist and pretentious, very /lit/. Though I'll admit it's a personal favorite of mine. Explores technology and its ramifications. Aired in the late 90s, almost eerily predictive of the modern internet society.
Seems gay but might consider.

>Psycho Pass
Utter garbage how can a human being like this at all?

>Neon Genesis Evangelion
Refer to>>13825877

>Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Isn't that a kids show? Am aware that it has some philosophical and Kabbalistic things but for the most part just seems like le epic battles.

>Your Name
Feel like I'm getting into weeb territory.

>Bakemonogatari
Sounds boring and degenerate.

>Miyazaki
He's literally a children's animator and dissed (old) Disney.

>Akira
I'm aware it's a classic of major important within anime. Probably no.1 on my to watch list.

>Steins Gate
I heard it was pretty good and have considered watching it but these same people like Sailor Moon(a girls cartoon). Seems like it could also just be an average kids show with a few good moments.

[Anonymous No.13826137]

>>13825974
Having cultural worth to it and fitting in with the general sentiment and taste dominant on this board.

[Anonymous No.13826139]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Bg4SQvhXU

[Anonymous No.13826140]

>>13826114
I didn't mean an anime with many books in it.

>>13826119
Sounds alright, I figured it would be a bit like this. I get Ghost in the Shell feels (first film), am I correct?

[Anonymous No.13826143]

Bernard jou iwaku

[Anonymous No.13826145]

>>13826103
>>13826121
You haven't made it sound very good anon.

>>13826125
Already seen both films, I admit for an anime the cinematography and 'vibe' of the film was done well but seemed pretty average.

>>13826137
Fuck you I soully determine what is /lit/ or not.

[Anonymous No.13826147]

>>13826145
The pompous quality makes the other parts run into the positive. Give the first episode a watch. It's truly great.

[Anonymous No.13826148]

>>13826140
Sorry I have yet to watch Ghost in the Shell

[Anonymous No.13826152]

>>13826147
>>13826148
Both within one minute. Hmmmm

[Anonymous No.13826153]

>>13826132
You seem to have skimmed my list or purposefully ignored my explanations as to why I included the anime in my list. Please go back and re-read or stop being a retard.

>Isn't that a kids show?
Not really, no. It's got a fair share of grim moments, such as the genocide of an entire ethnic peoples and more. Even if one were to consider it a kid's show it'd be a hella accomplished one.
>Am aware that it has some philosophical and Kabbalistic things but for the most part just seems like le epic battles.
It dwells a ton on morality and the like. As you say it's le Ebin battles until the midway point where shit starts to go down. It's a bit of a long watch but the end is worth it.

>I heard it was pretty good and have considered watching it but these same people like Sailor Moon(a girls cartoon). Seems like it could also just be an average kids show with a few good moments.
Ignore the retarded fanbase. The show has le Ebin waifus in it which is bound to attract cumheads and disabled moeposters. The story is good and even if the retards glorify the characters as moeblog garbage they aren't really so.

[Anonymous No.13826154]

Throughout this entire thread I have not seen one good anime, apart from my original possible recommendations. You'r all disgusting effeminate pseud weab faggots with horrible taste.

And Goodnight!

T. Op

[Anonymous No.13826158]

>>13826154
Ok

[Anonymous No.13826161]

>>13826154
Nobody gives a shit

[Anonymous No.13826163]

>>13826153
>It dwells a ton on morality
I feel like the anime serves the "philosophical themes" rather than the other way around. Which makes me ask why watch it at all when I can just continue reading philosophy, psychology, theology, religion and the likes.

>disabled moeposters
Based mask poster. Or are you a Raimi chad?

>The story is good
Will try to give it a try. But it still seems like just an average show.

Refer to>>13826154

If thread is still up tomorrow I will reply.

[Anonymous No.13826165]

>>13825857
Is the blame manga any good?

[Anonymous No.13826178]

>>13826102
>le smug (yet cute) anime girl #2

[Anonymous No.13826186]

>>13825857
Ghost in the Shell, Mushishi, Sword of the Stranger, Angel's Egg, NGE, Monster, Shigurui, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Texhnolyze, Serial Experiments Lain.

I also believe a few shows from recent years are worth a shot:
Mob Psycho 100
Yakusoku no Neverland
Dororo
Megalo Box
Violet Evergarden
Mahoutsukai no Yome
Inuyashiki
Youjo Senki
Goblin Slayer
Drifters
Bungou Stray Dogs

There were a few more that I appreciated, such as Attack on Titan or Boku no Hero Academia, but I'm not sure if they're able to make the /lit/ tier.

[Anonymous No.13826206]

>>13826163
Well, anime is entertainment. Very few shows are "essays" if you get me. If you wanted to read philosophy you would, I wrote under the assumption you wanted entertainment that also appealed to some kind of specific "/lit/" taste at the same time, whatever that might be.

The only show I can think of that expressly acts as a sort of video-essay is Lain. It's not very entertaining to be frank.

I'll assume you're based non-fiction reader, so in the same sense that you won't read fiction for philosophy you'll run into a roadblock when you look for pure thought in what's primarily an entertainment medium (although it doesn't have to be, as mentionied).

>Based mask poster.
I do not belong to any definite 'poster' group. I define myself as the negation of the posters I decry, and as such I require there exist retarded moefags such that my existence can come into being through contrasting them.

[Anonymous No.13826210]

>>13826132
Holy shit this post reeks of insecurity, are you actually underage, I think that might be the only reason you'd be so terrified of being caught watching a "kids show"

[Anonymous No.13826247]

>>13825974
Means objective taste. The thread is actually off topic you know.

>>13825857
Oh only eight? I'll list a few basic ones then that I saw (during my youth (mostly)):

>ergo proxy
>azumanga daioh
>fullmetal alchemist (the first is so emo I like it more and watch both at once switching to brotherhood after a bit)
>hellsing (facial boners, the anime)
>trigun (did they never finish this)
>el hazard (a random hidden gem of mediocre variety but has no manga and is not super slow an anime so is fine, just normal animu)
>fruits basket (because I watched it with my gf and when I drink the intro makes me cry but nothing else seems to)
>nge (it has to be)
>random movies of anime (like the first few stuidio gibli
>elfin leid (because edge)
>dragon ballz and such (because when you're really drunk you don't notice plot holes and power creeping)
>possibly pic a nice mech anime
>yu yu hakusho (sloooooow also reasons)
>cowboy bepob
>spice and wolf
>vampire knight and other vampire animu
>death note (until 'he' got killed and the intro chimps out in anger)
>gunslinger girl
>tsubasa
>xxx holic (it couples with ^)
>serial experiments lain (no, plot the anime)
>inuyahsa (because reasons)
>haibane renmei
>I'm tempted to post Excel Saga and Puni Puni Peomi and such due to behead all satans being /lit/ yeah? Also that bludgeoning angel one. I don't care it's comedy. ur comedy
>rozen maiden (I like it)
>bleach (the beginning was fine before rescue)
As per example of movies, from the new world, was fine, more so than visually stimulating stuidio gibli stuff.

I don't watch anime much though.

Why make a random list? Because your thread is bad anyway--

Oh, I also like Ranma one half. I like how Ranma is low key gay.

Also forgot Ghost in the shell stand alone complex OP.

>>13826186
I forgot ghost in the shell stand alone complex anon. Thanks for reminding me.

How do you not die of boredom during Texhnolyze and why is it so advertised so often?

[Anonymous No.13826274]

>>13825857
SE Lain
Perfect Blue
Getter Robo Armageddon
Ashita no JOe

[Anonymous No.13826290]

Monster and Kara no kyoukai were pretty good

[Anonymous No.13826302]

>>13826247
>How do you not die of boredom during Texhnolyze and why is it so advertised so often?
If you aren't a zoomer with ADHD who only watches shonen trash then you can enjoy it very much

[Anonymous No.13826306]

>>13826302
I'm 30 but k anon. Considering the intro is such boring shit I have to think you've been advertised to to even bother with it.

[Anonymous No.13826391]

Bumping

[Anonymous No.13826396]

>>13826113
>almost eerily predictive of the modern internet society
I don't think it was very hard to predict at that point. It's just hard to see the evidence from which that prediction came, if you're looking at pre-internet times.

>FMaB could have been a novella
what the fuck

>Akira - Shouldn't really have to explain this one

[Anonymous No.13826401]

>>13826140
>Lain
>Sounds alright, I figured it would be a bit like this. I get Ghost in the Shell feels (first film), am I correct?
Sorta. But it's definitely more like the films than it is like the Standalone Complex series.

[Anonymous No.13826406]

>>13826186
Drifters s2 never ever ever

[Anonymous No.13826411]

>>13825857
Whisper of the Heart / Mimi wo Sumaseba is the most /lit/ anime out there.

[Anonymous No.13826431]

>>13825941
It's the most Nietzschean manga out there so I assume you don't like Nietzsche either.

[Anonymous No.13826439]

>>13826391
this is a slow board, you don't need to bump a thread here zoomer

Or at least wait until it's on the last couple lines of the catalog, not just five minutes since the last post

[Anonymous No.13826446]

>>13826302
The first episode has no dialoge, and the next two have a lot of exposition on the world. That is some next level filter, i liked the direction and loved that anime which is in my tops, but honestly that could be handled better. Texhnolyze is also the darkest anime i have seen.

[Anonymous No.13826504]

>>13826439
Retarded hyperbole, half an hour =/= 30 minutes. I know /lit/ is a slow board, but my experience with topics like this is that they quickly die, so I bumped it to see if I could revive interest because I want further discussion. Inflammatory shit like the Parmenides Pasta Poster(s) garners much more attraction than threads like this even if the topic might be way more interesting and spur better discussion, at least in my opinion. As such I feel bumping was justified.

[Anonymous No.13826512]

If this thead is to get some recs, i would say Rakugo. Is based on Japan early 20 century, and is about an old art they barely have nowadays, its the story of the two most important performers of this art and how while one very succesful by being pretty orthodox the other had a hard time being heterodox. The protagonist are also representing the fox and the raccon which are like the two animals who can transform and prettend to be humas in the shinto lore. If you want /lit/ it should be japanese /lit/

[Anonymous No.13826514]

>>13826504
FUCKKKKK I MEANT 5 MINUTES NOW I LOOK LIKE A RETARD ONLINE AGAIN AAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHH AGHHHHHHH AAAAHHHHHH

[Anonymous No.13826515]

>>13826446
I'm the guy that hates it. Pilots are meant to be of the best episodes. Fuck that gay shit. Even books often use slingshot effects that take off. That anime is mentioned too often to be so boring. Same thing with SEL having no plot yet being a meme to the point of lainchan being made and such. It's perpetuated way too hard. Perpetuated by a certain type of person. The alienated, depressed, autists. Some people like to use anime as an escapism, not motivation to slash your wrists.

I like how subtle this filter meme is. It's not as insulting as you think it is though. If it's shit I drop it.

[Anonymous No.13826516]

>>13826504
>half an hour =/= 30 minutes
bold claim

[Anonymous No.13826523]

>>13826504
>half an hour =/= 30 minutes.
Screencapped, gonna post this on reddit. You're done for, kiddo
>>13826514
Too late

[Anonymous No.13826558]

>>13826523
Oh no pls have mercy! Maybe we can find another 'arrangement' to keep things discrete. ;-)

[Anonymous No.13826598]

>>13826515
I love media with no plot but Texhnolyze was still too dull for me. I can sympathize with it though. We all spend time doing repetitive mediocre things to find pleasure at some point in the future. There's no real reason a TV show can't do the same thing.

[Anonymous No.13826639]

>>13826504
Just posting to say you're a genuine fucking idiot

[Anonymous No.13826644]

>>13826639
I try my best

[Anonymous No.13826937]

How has this not been posted yet?

[Anonymous No.13827411]

>>13826247
I have no idea why you consider the shit you watched as a teen to be /lit/core.

[Anonymous No.13827775]

>>13826302
Texhnolyze had some good art, and most of all I did like how absolutely relentlessly nihilistic it all was, though that's not the sort of thing that will get it a rewatch.

It was far worse & less interesting than Serial Experiments Lain, largely I think because it was more concerned with being as depressing as possible than with making any sense.

[Anonymous No.13827783]

>>13826937

[Anonymous No.13827991]

lesbian blade runner coming through

[Anonymous No.13828004]

>>13825857
I would guess anime based on novels like LoGH or that reference literature. It seems like pretty vague question.

[Anonymous No.13828020]

>>13826113
Lain isn't obscurantist, you just watched it when you were young, watch it again and you'll find it's pretty self-explanatory and straightforward.

[Anonymous No.13828049]

There is only one /lit/ anime

[Anonymous No.13828087]

See pic
Personal favorites are Utena (favorite of pedo defenders and computer scientists everywhere, great for autists, also, see if you can pick up on the deliberate animation mistakes which give the TRUE plot), Evangelion (angst: japanimation edition), Tutu (intro to metafiction and metametafiction, great for ages 3+), Casshern Sins (walkthrough of the philosophies one can adopt in response to a decaying, hopeless world, also rape), and Mononoke (ghostbusters, but instead of vacuums, you make the ghost feel sad)
>>13826937
it's a literature board, don't expect anyone to be familiar with the GOAT

[Anonymous No.13828104]

>>13827775
Texhnolyze was a failed attempt at combining the staff that worked on Haibane Renmei and Serial Experiments Lain together, It killed multiple careers.

[Anonymous No.13828142]

>>13828087
Jesus, this is incredibly dated and has some extremely questionable picks.

[Anonymous No.13828168]

>>13828142
Then update it friend, or suggest what you think should be updated so that I or someone else can update it with your enlightened viewpoint.

[Anonymous No.13828645]

>>13826937
The only Ikuhara I've watched is Penguindrum. He's a madman

[Anonymous No.13828900]

LoGH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJM3MKfYm7s

[Anonymous No.13828957]

>>13825862
>cinematic masterpiece
>end of evangelion
lmao I can't.

[Anonymous No.13828964]

>>13825857
NGE
Monogatari series
Katanagatari
Ghost in the Shell
The Tatami Galaxy
xxxHolic
Mawaru Penguindrum

Enjoy.

[Anonymous No.13829269]

>>13825974
a pseudointellectual, pretentious, insufferable fucking faggot who never shuts the fuck up about shit that doesn't matter.

Philosophy is all a bunch of bullshit, its literally just listening to any number of random faggots go "you know, I know the true nature of morality, life and the universe and lemme tell yah.."

[Anonymous No.13829292]

Most lit? Probably Baccano. NGE is just bad

[Anonymous No.13829425]

>>13826081
>>13826145
If Kafka made an anime it would be episode 10 of Tatami Galaxy. If Pynchon made an anime it would be basically any other episode.

[Anonymous No.13829478]

>>13826937
Convince me to watch this, give me the closest analogue you can think of or post a beautiful frame

[Anonymous No.13829485]

>>13828049
Pynchon: the anime?

[Anonymous No.13829685]

>>13826247
>behead all satans being /lit/
Say what now?

[Anonymous No.13829685,1]

>>13829685
ALSO AUTHOR OF "CHILD RAPE" BOOK LEFTOPIA, ALSO USES PEN NAMES ROBERTO PINCHAS, SCAM LIKELY AND HA SATAN AND HAS FOUND SOMEONE TO DO HIS "BIDDING" OF READING HIS MATERIAL ON YOUTUBE - EVEN HAS SENT A FORM OF POETIC "SCARE TACTIC" SOUNDING LIKE A LOW BUDGET COLD/FLU COMMERCIAL - - BUT HE HAS REMOVED ALL BOOKS - AGAIN, I. HAVE. EVERY. SINGLE. COPY.