Whatโs your favorite ?
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Akira, its the only one I recognise.
1 Evangelion
2 Lain
3 cowboy bebop
4 perfect blue
5 princess mononoke
Akira had nothing going for it besides amazing aesthetics imo.
Haven't seen the others you showed.
Best recent anime recommendation:
Orb:on the movements of the earth
Limited to this list Yu Yu Hakusho.
For Akira to be anyone's fav anime this days one needs to never had watched any other anime, Akira is mid at best.
On this list GTO, but the dorama not the anime.
Cowboy bebop is a 6/10.
Evangelion is a 6/10 if you're not depressed.
Perfect blue is a 7/10
Slam dunk I hsvent watched, don't like sports anime much
Princess mononoke 8/10
Yuyu hakusho 6.5/10
Akira 6/10
GTO anime 5/10, dorama 9/10
Lain 3/10
I like princess Mononoke, but the "muuh they make coal and iron therefore evil" is overly silly for villains lol
Villains in media are almost never portrayed as real people, they're always fundamentally flawed in some way.
One of the reasons why honzuki is my favorite book series of all time is because truly there's no villain.
Even people who are obviously antagonistic to RM (and ehrenfrsf, and yurgenschmidt) have very believable reasons for being who they are. No spoilers, but Georgine has a reason for being a bitch, as does Gervasio (if you don't know the name don't look it up, huge spoiler). I may not agree with their reasoning but it feels human.
The only ones whose reasoning for their behavior is hard to understand (tho still there) is the gods, and I think making them hard to understand that may have been a conscious choice by Miya Kazuki (who I truly think is the greatest writer alive today, possibly ever).
Oof, heavy disagree with most of this.
But I'm glad we both see the significance of Orb ๐ค
Evangelion
Cowboy Bebop --- it has it all: Freedom, absurdity, nihilisim, search for meaning ... and of course lots of blues and space tech. Don't watch it too young or if you did rewatch it again.
Gun to my head had to pick one, probably Cowboy Bebop, but they all are good for their own reasons, although I've never seen Slam dunk.
Brooooooo watch it ๐ฅ
Satoshi Kon is my hero
From this list: cowboy bebop. Otherwise, Eureka Seven and Bleach
Princess mononoke and it's not even close ๐ฅ
1: Neon Genesis Evangelion
So much to learn about different roles within social structures, the grey between classic black and white and the occult symbolism is peak
2: Serial Experiment Lain
Just what the fuck was I watching despite classic utopian matters
3: Princess Mononoke
Peak example of female leads and what it means to be a strong person