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18083228 No.18083228 [Reply] [Original]

Recommend me some /lit/ anime

>> No.18083241

There was a Count of Monte Cristo anime that ended with a mecha battle

>> No.18083249
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bruh come on

>> No.18083280

>>18083228
Monster

>> No.18083285 [DELETED] 

>>18083228
UC Gundam
Patlabor TV
Creamy Mami
Fancy Lala
Ginga Tetsudou 999
Azumanga Daioh

>> No.18083302

>>18083228
UC Gundam
Patlabor TV
Nadesico
L-Gaim
Xabungle
Dougram
Vifam
Creamy Mami
Fancy Lala
Ginga Tetsudou 999
Azumanga Daioh

>> No.18083308

berserk 1997

>> No.18083337

>>18083228
Anything by Takahata, Kon or Miyazaki.

>> No.18083354

>>18083337
>Miyazaki
hack

>> No.18083363

>>18083228
Akira

>> No.18083405

>>18083354
You got filtered son. Wait a few years and try again.

>> No.18083404

>>18083354
>He's more brilliant and successful and SOVLFVL than I could ever be, so I must seethe.
t. (You)

>> No.18083412

>>18083354
Princess Mononoke is one of the greatest movies of all time

>> No.18083413

>>18083228
Kino no Tabi
Sayonara zetsobou sensei
The world only god knows
Monogatari series

>> No.18083416

>>18083412
Princess Mononoke was sleep

>> No.18083559
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>>18083413
>monogatari
Sorry but i'm not a pedo
>Sayonara zetsobou sensei
OK, i have heard a lot about this one, gonna give it a try

>> No.18083561

>>18083228
kys.com

>> No.18083598

Ghost in the shell

>> No.18083611

>>18083228
akira
ergo proxy
psycho pass
FLCL
ghost in the shell SAC
kino’s journey

>> No.18083617
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SNK

>> No.18083620

>>18083249
I'm seconding this. so fucking good. I'm only on episode 12 right now though. Maybe it gets worse.

>> No.18083642
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Midori (1992)

>> No.18083669

Aoi Bungaku
Mushishi
GiTS
Kino's Journey
Haibane Renmei
Ping Pong

>> No.18083723

>>18083228
I'll just list a few I enjoyed
Also I hated anime for all my life until a few weeks ago (I still hate weebs though), so I haven't seen much

The one in your post (vinland saga in case anyone else wants to know and is too lazy to google the file name)
Psycho Pass
Banana Fish (warning for other homophobic people, there are gay people in this one and apparently it wasn't a comraderly love thing)
Parasyte and Mob Psycho were entertaining personally

>> No.18083802

>>18083620
by episode 50 it gets kind of meh but is still pretty good. Keep on, it retakes on 60 or so.
Best anime I've ever seen.

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>>18083354
what's wrong with falling in love with a twelve year old girl?

>> No.18083832

>>18083823
The kanji used for the age are "one" and "two" instead of "ten" and "two". Never seen someone spell an age like that.

>> No.18083847

FLCL
Monogatari


>>18083723
>Banana fish

The only good part about this show is just how fucking hot Ash is, that's it. The story sucks big time

>> No.18083973
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>>18083228
Kaiba

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>>18083228
Not so much a /lit/ anime as much as /lit/: The Anime.

>> No.18083988
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>>18083228
Delivering because I am based.
>>18083241
>>18083249
>>18083280
>>18083308
>>18083337
>>18083363
>>18083413
>>18083598
>>18083611
>>18083617
>>18083669
>>18083847
>>18083973
Are also worth watching.

>> No.18084005

Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai

>> No.18084033
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>>18083228
Just watch whatever you enjoy. If you go into anime expecting high-art you're going to exhaust the medium pretty quickly.

>> No.18084066

>>18084033
god klk had some of the most kino shots i've seen in my life

>> No.18084113
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>>18083228

Gankatsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (sci-fi version)

It was originally supposed to have been an adaptation of The Stars My Destination but the publishers said " Nah, no thanks" and this masterpiece came out based from Alex Dumas' story.

>> No.18084126
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I liked Angel's Egg

>> No.18084153

>>18083228
Hunter x Hunter

>> No.18084156

>>18083228
Tatami Galaxy. It is based on a novel, which is also pretty good. Hits hard, especially if you are a student and could identify with the protagonist.

>> No.18084181
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Cat Soup

>>18083354
Anonymous was a mistake!
Nothing but trash!

>> No.18084206

>>18083228
>>18084156
The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl also fits the bill, since it's loosely connected to Tatami Galaxy, at least the anime.

There is also The Eccentric Family, also an anime adaptation of another of the author's books. You can kinda tell it's based on a book due to the pacing, exposition and introduction to characters being very novel-like, in a way I thought doesn't always translate well to an animated medium.

>> No.18084240

>>18083354
Disliking Miyazaki is peak midwit. Brainlets like him because lmao nip disney, midwits hate him to act superior, chads enjoy his work because it is genuinely really good.

>> No.18084251

>>18083988
gud list

>> No.18084252

I never got animes apeal. It just seems like intellectual slop for the masses to suck up. Theres very few that actually take advantage of the potential of the medium or even its seemingly neverending following. I personally think anime was meant as a way for japan to teach its youth the value of civil service and camaraderie but became out of hand (see 90% of animes revolving around a young group of friends overcoming overwhelming odds via the power of friendship) That being said there are some I enjoyed which go beyond that

Psycho pass
Terror in resonance
Monster
Anything by studio gibly (or however its spelled)
Kaiba
Ergo proxy (if youre under 20)

>> No.18084260

>>18083228
Unironically Tenchi Universe. It's the classic representantion of the journey of the hero. The two films that conclude the story of Universe are also worth watching; Tenchi in Love and Tenchi Forever. The first one is about juvenile love and family, while the sequel is a character study and the main topic is mature/adult love.

>> No.18084263

>>18084252
Oh and Jin-roh: the wolf brigade

>> No.18084266

>>18083988
>Yuureitou
worth watching?

>> No.18084269

I can never decide whether to read the manga or watch the anime.

>> No.18084279
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HxH

>> No.18084282

>>18084252
A lot of it is infantile trash. Some of it can be good for mindless entertainment in the same vein that you're not always watching French arthouse kino or reading 19th Century Russian lit. A small portion of it is genuinely good.

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>>18084279

>> No.18084303
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>>18083228
Everything by Isao Takahata
>>18083823
He probably meant that in a platonic sense.
>>18084005
Secret Kino

>> No.18084304

>>18084279
>>18084284
kek

>> No.18084317

>>18083337
Kon I can understand but ">muh ghibli" is too obvious to the point of being trite. I would replace Miyazaki and Takahata with Oshii and Sugii

>> No.18084367

"Miss Bernard said." Is the quintessential /lit/ anime that every good /lit/izen should be able to relate to.

>> No.18084370

>>18084317
Miyazaki and Takahata are genuinely good at what they do, no amount of popularity will change that. Very few films can match the beauty of something like Princess Kaguya and even fewer movies, animated or live action, manage to imbue their characters with life like Miyazaki does. Trite is the last word I would use to describe him, in fact his genius lies in his restraint, subtlety and quietude.

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>>18083981
>>18084367

>> No.18084705

>>18083228
>anime
>literature
go back

>> No.18084903

>>18084279
At this point I can't tell irony from sincerity with hunterfags

>> No.18084914

>>18083249
Might have to check this out

>> No.18084922

>>18083981
>>18084699
Based.

>> No.18084944

>>18083249
Basically the only /lit/ anime. Maybe Monster as the sole other one. There are plenty of others that are good, but they aren’t /lit/. Ping Pong the Animation as a third maybe.

>> No.18085186

Uchouten Kazoku

>> No.18085221

>>18084279
>>18084284
Hunterfags love to namedrop philosophers and books they've never (and that Togashi probably never read either) to try to make their shonen look more intelligent than it actually is. It's essentially the Rick and Morty of anime.

>> No.18085279

>>18083249
Ugly animation, dull politics, illogical sci-fi, out-dated Sun Tzu's stratagem, boring, and overall it's trying too hard to look smart.

Watch monster and ping pong.

>> No.18085290

>>18084266
Only if you're a cuck

>> No.18085310
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Neon Genesis Evangelion/End of Evangelion
Natsume's Book of Friends
Hunter x Hunter
Musashi Gundoh

>> No.18085379

>>18084279
Hunterchad... I kneel

>> No.18085386

>>18083302
giga based

>> No.18085408

>>18083617
This, but stop at 122.

>> No.18085410

>>18084903
Seriously. I actually fell for the the meme and watched it. It was a nonsensical children's show with too many arsepulls.

>> No.18085721

>>18084944
>>18085279
How is Ping pong /lit/?

>> No.18085863

>>18084303
>He probably meant that in a platonic sense.
this is what is known as a "cope" - a post-hoc rationalization of an unpleasant truth designed to protect the coper's feelings at the cost of their ability to accept and understand the offending thought. mental gymnastics, pure childishness

>> No.18085881

>>18083249
This.

>> No.18085941

Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku

>> No.18086007
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Pic related is for children, but is based on Jules Verne, and has a distict Orientalist theme.

>> No.18086356

>>18084252
>Ergo proxy
This is my 35y old man favorite. The anesthetics in here are unmatched.
I also enjoyed to OPs Vinland sage earlier, but now think it's just another juvenile trash. Also >>18083617 it's better to watch your own dropping in a toilet than this hackish piece of it.

>> No.18086402

>>18085410
Seems like you were filtered. Try reading the entire western and eastern canon and then give Based X Based another try.

>> No.18086403
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>>18083228
Here is some anime that is actually ABOUT literature to some degree.
>Senryuu Shoujo: A teenage girl communicates by writing poems, romance ensues with a "delinquent" type guy who is inspired to start writing poems as well.
>After the Rain: Teen girl falls for a much older man who writes, and his love of literature is an integral part of the plot and shapes his relationship with the girl.
>Chihayafuru: High schoolers playing a card game called karuta which is based on ancient Japanese poetry.
>Hyouka: The arc that the anime is named after is based on a mystery stemming from a story written by a relative of one of the characters. Source material is a series of mystery novels.
>I want to eat your pancreas: A diary written by one of the main characters is an important part of the story.
>Whisper of the Heart: A young girl dreams of being a writer and is working on a story.
Check out Hibike! Euphonium if you like classical music with some minor /lit/ elements.

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>>18083228
Ashita no Joe. Literally Mishima-approved.

>> No.18086444

>>18085721
It is very good, but not necessarily /lit/ in the sense. Still a joy to watch, especially if you are into unorthodox animation styles.

>> No.18086448

>>18084370

>> No.18086466

>>18086403
Bungo Stray Dogs has famous authors as characters and in Domestic Na Kanojo the main character is an aspiring novelist.

>> No.18086519
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Space Dandy, obviously

>> No.18086526

>>18086444
If you saw one sport anime, you've kinda seen them all. I only found China guy intersting

>> No.18086542
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TEXHNOLYZE

>> No.18086623

>>18086526
Well, I'd generally agree with you, except for the fact that Ping Pong uses sport as a tool for storytelling; it is secondary to the story, you could freely swap ping pong with other sport and nothing would have really changed. Plus, Ping Pong strays from cliched ending that protagonist must win due to perseverance and grit, or teamwork.

>> No.18086656

>>18084284
I’ve actually read around a third of the books on that list. You don’t need them to understand any anime, especially not some shonen crap like hunterxhunter.

>> No.18086663

>>18086542
Great, but Chiaki's writing talents are not suited for 20+ episodes. Drags badly in the middle.

>> No.18086751

>>18083228
Ritoru Witchi Akademia

>> No.18086944

Tatami Galaxy

>> No.18086958

>>18083249
Watch order? I tried getting into it but I’m pretty sure I started at the wrong place, help a nigga out

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>>18086958
there you go. if possible do exactly that order and ignore golden wings

>> No.18087223

>>18086623
You just describe most sport anime, good ones anyway, that the sport is a vehicle for the story and characters. It's odd why people keep describing Ping pong not as one.
>Ping Pong strays from cliched ending that protagonist must win due to perseverance and grit, or teamwork.
Did we watch the same ending? Although it's brushed aside quickly, Peco succeeds by magic and sheer will without any repercussion, which undermines the nicely grounded story beforehand. As a result, I find the core theme delivered in the climax cheesy.
The anime has its moments and I was swept up in it though.

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>>18083988
wow /lit/ manga taste is trash

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>>18083228
>Madoka not mentioned yet
What's going on?

>> No.18087342

I think Gundam Wing was profound but I’m the only person I’ve ever encountered who has this opinion.

>> No.18087385

>>18087223
I always thought of Peco as of deuteragonist since the narrative was centered on Smile most of the time. And I don't think that Peco succeeded by sheer will--it was clearly shown that Smile decided to yield the victory to Peco (despite his clear advantage because of Peco's injury), since he realized that it is the friends he made along the way was what mattered to him the most, not the goal of becoming a champion. He even throws away his rocket in the end, I think.

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>>18083228
Attack On Titan (by far the most /lit/)
Hunter x Hunter (mostly the Chimera Ant arc is /lit/ but the rest is comfy)
NGE
Death Note (mostly the beginning, gets stupider as it goes on)
Death Parade

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>>18083988
I mean this is just a chart of Seinen, good seinen but not all necessarily with literary qualities, I think the thread's pretty good in that regard.
I would like to highlight the film Belladonna of Sadness 1973. Beautiful arthouse film "animated" in water color

>> No.18087523

>>18087445
That page you posted was probably my favorite scene in the anime.

>> No.18087543

>>18087523
mine too; AoT genuinely reminds me of the Iliad, especially Reiner who really reminds me of Hector.

>> No.18087595

>>18087445
>>18087543
AoT reminds of harry potter where the author doesn't know what the fuck he is doing, and undermines to story constantly with such unattainable level for suspension of disbelief it turns in to pure puke.

>> No.18087603

>>18084370
I like Miyazaki and didn't describe him himself as trite, just an immediate recommendation of him as he's the most immediately visible anime creator of all time. You assume anyone seriously asking about anime has heard of Miyazaki just like they've probably heard of Naruto and Sailor Moon as well.

>> No.18087743

>no Cowboy Bebop mentioned
I feel like Samurai Champloo is kinda there too.
Fate only because of the Heroes.
And apparently One Piece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H54sZO32FHQ&t=815s

>> No.18087856

>>18087743
>dude makes a carefully-edited, 50 minute essay video
>it gets him 55 views and 2 subscribers
This shit is why trying to be big on social media is a fruitless quest.

>> No.18087899

>>18086656
When you read the next two thirds you'll understand why HxH isn't a shounen.

>> No.18088085

>>18087899
Ok

>> No.18088121

>>18083249
I've tried to get into the anime and the novels but I never stuck with them. The series however looks very promising. Is it best to just watch the anime or read the novels?

>> No.18088133

>>18085186
this, great book-to-animation adaptation

>> No.18088142

>>18088121
They're both good, the original OVA is a 99% faithful adaption of the novels.
The books were only recently translated into English, so people in the west mostly know the series from the anime.

>> No.18088168

>>18083988
I'd add Kodoku no Gourmet to the manga list.

>> No.18088192

>>18084252

> Psycho pass

Peak midwit trash anime.

>> No.18088207

Is Yu Yu Hakusho /lit/? Not a modern anime watcher but it's always given me the vibes of an epic.

>> No.18088229
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Yes. Much epic.

>> No.18088500

>>18088207
I love the characters and the setting but I do think it should get the hxh remake treatment.

>> No.18088675

>>18088207
it's worth watching but the plot has its problems
the first arc is mediocre as fuck
the second arc is top tier until the finale where we have the "muh power of friendship" bullshit
the third arc is top tier until the finale in which there's a major asspull as well as the negation of a specific character's death (which makes all the emotional power of the scene useless)
the fourth arc is rushed and doesn't have a proper ending (this is the same case as in the manga which the anime is adapting)
it's worth watching for the character cast and the first 2/3rds of the second and third arc

>> No.18088905

>>18083308
BASED

>> No.18089091

FLCL
Cowboy Bebop
Beserk (2016-2017 is a step down from 1997, you're better off reading the series DESU because of the trash CGI for Beserk's second series)
Neogenesis Evangelism

>> No.18089382

>>18084252
>Terror in resonance
Yes, but drop after episode 4

>> No.18089465

Why are there people here who enjoy anime? I get told on places like /a/ that if you want a good story you should just read a book and post about it on /lit/ instead of complaining about a poorly told story in an anime. Is it possible to want a good story out of books AND anime?

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>119 replies
>ZERO mention of Utena

You're missing out on poets fighting at the top of mount purgatory to become wed to beatrice and ascend to the kingdom of heaven and faustian alchemists goaded by lucifer to attain eternity in the temporal world using human sacrifice

>>18084126
very good also, this one is about the west and japan in kojevian posthistory

>>18089465
weeaboos are animals who feed on slop and couldn't see beauty unless you told them it was there

>> No.18089511

>>18087595
babybrained redditor take

>> No.18089518

>>18089091
The Berserk remake was a crime against humanity

>> No.18089523

>>18089465
hm? You seem confused...anime is simply another form of media. It's just like a book, movie, or visual art..it can be good or bad. Just like how a film could be a masterpiece or a piece of shit marvel movie

>> No.18089555
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>>18089465
>why is there anime
>ON MY ANIME BASED ANONYMOUS IMAGE SHARING MONGOLIAN BASKET WEAVVING FORUM???
Back to plebbit
inb4 oregano

>> No.18089558

>>18089465
spotted the newfag
go back

>> No.18089567

>>18089523
>>18089555
>>18089558
did you even make it to the end of his post

>> No.18089581

>>18089567
No, I don't read

>> No.18089592

>>18083832
Then you still have a lot to learn.

>> No.18089596

>>18083981
This is the only correct answer. Everyone else is just posting anime they think are good because they think "/lit/" = good, but this anime is "/lit/" in the truest sense of the word.

>> No.18089742

>>18089518
I didn't think it was THAT bad. The soundtrack was ok. Some of the animation was ok. The voice acting was fine.

Every CGI monster looks like absolute shit, which was like 50% of the monsters, so you kind of have a point. Kind of hard to have a horror show when you're fucking laughing at the monsters and ghosts.

It was faithful to the material without cutting anything though, and the one addition, the hound master, was on keeping with the show and not out of place.

Obviously it sucks though because now we won't get a real one, and they skipped The Lost Children.

>> No.18089785

>>18087012
Thanks anon

>> No.18090123

>>18089596
>Everyone else is just posting anime they think are good because they think "/lit/" = good
You obviously haven't read the thread (I might have missed some):
>>18083241
>>18084113
>Count of Monte Cristo
Should be obvious.
>>18083669
>Aoi Bungaku
Adopts some famous Japanese literary works (No longer human, Kokoro, two short stories by Akutagawa and some other stuff).
>>18087322
>Madoka
Has some references to Faust.
>>18083988
>Genji Monogatari, A Country Doctor
Also self-explanatory.

Also let me mention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Masterpiece_Theater and Zetsuen no Tempest (for some Shakespeare memes).

>> No.18090150

>>18083412
...said the glasses wearing dyke who's currently on her period.

>> No.18090165

>>18083249
>muh game of thrones in space
>muh politics and ideology deep as fuuuuck

>> No.18090189

Reminder: Calling media you like "/lit/" doesn't make it literary.

>> No.18090199

>>18084240
i don't have a vagina so i don't enjoy miyazaki's work.

>> No.18090206

>>18090150
>>18090199
You got filtered lil niggas

>> No.18090213

>>18083228
Serial Experiments Lain

>> No.18090218

>>18090189
people use it to mean something that can be enjoyed by a person whose taste in art has been forged by literature—in short, snobby anime. I don't see the problem with this shorthand

>> No.18090224

>>18090218
>—in short, snobby anime.
Which is meaningless because video games, anime, television etc. are inherently lowbrow.

>> No.18090229

>>18090224
please tell me how angel's egg is "low brow" by virtue of it being anime and how R.L. Stine is "high brow" by virtue of it being literature

>> No.18090233

>>18090224
that's untrue. 90% of TV is lowbrow but pretty much every one of my ivy league lit profs agreed that the sopranos is as artistic as the lit the study lel i agree with them

>> No.18090237

>>18090224
this "drawing a line in the sand" method of discerning good from bad is a retard's idea of erudition

>> No.18090247

>>18090237
this, great art can be produced in any media
except musical theater