What animes have you guys been watching lately?

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I watched Peace maker kurogane which I really liked. Kind of an old school shonen thing mixed with historical drama.
Also just marathoned C-Control or The Money of the Soul which was really interesting to watch. Sort of a shonen combined with a philosophical discussion of wealth.
I'm rewatching Beck, Kids on the Slope, and You Lie in April.
My Hero Academia starts up again on April 4th or 5th.

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I watched Peace maker kurogane which I really liked. Kind of an old school shonen thing mixed with historical drama.
Also just marathoned C-Control or The Money of the Soul which was really interesting to watch. Sort of a shonen combined with a philosophical discussion of wealth.
I'm rewatching Beck, Kids on the Slope, and You Lie in April.
My Hero Academia starts up again on April 4th or 5th.

Yeah I saw the trailer for Hero Aca the other week, quite surprised that it's airing so shortly after the last season finished (or at least it seems that way to me).

I'm now up to date on Magus bride and I just started Devilman Crybaby which seems interesting enough. I'm in the process of moving house at the moment so my ability to binge watch anime might be handicapped a little though.

I've also heard rumors that there doing more Steins;Gate this year as well which i'm very excited about if that's true.

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Yeah I saw the trailer for Hero Aca the other week, quite surprised that it's airing so shortly after the last season finished (or at least it seems that way to me).

I'm now up to date on Magus bride and I just started Devilman Crybaby which seems interesting enough. I'm in the process of moving house at the moment so my ability to binge watch anime might be handicapped a little though.

I've also heard rumors that there doing more Steins;Gate this year as well which i'm very excited about if that's true.

Crybaby was surprisingly good.

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Crybaby was surprisingly good.

Yeah, I just finished Devilman and it was good. Not sure how I feel about the ending but everything else was good.

I also finally watched the original Ghost in the Shell movie on a flight this week and I've got to say I was pretty disappointed with it. I think I mentioned it earlier in the thread but it was the same with Akira too. It seems I just don't enjoy the older stuff.

I think Evergarden just finished the season now so I think I'm going to start that tomorrow.

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Yeah, I just finished Devilman and it was good. Not sure how I feel about the ending but everything else was good.

I also finally watched the original Ghost in the Shell movie on a flight this week and I've got to say I was pretty disappointed with it. I think I mentioned it earlier in the thread but it was the same with Akira too. It seems I just don't enjoy the older stuff.

I think Evergarden just finished the season now so I think I'm going to start that tomorrow.

Crybaby is good for the same reason Akira and Ghost in the Shell are. They ask serious questions about what it is to be human, challenge assumptions about morality, and what our place in the universe is. The animation on Akira and GitS were also groundbreaking at the time. GitS was also the first time anime was really introduced to a larger audience and done at a time when America was testing out the idea of "cartoons for adult" Heavy Metal was out among other things.

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Crybaby is good for the same reason Akira and Ghost in the Shell are. They ask serious questions about what it is to be human, challenge assumptions about morality, and what our place in the universe is. The animation on Akira and GitS were also groundbreaking at the time. GitS was also the first time anime was really introduced to a larger audience and done at a time when America was testing out the idea of "cartoons for adult" Heavy Metal was out among other things.

Don't get me wrong, I completely appreciate that and I know for a fact that without them most of the shows I watch now wouldn't exist or at least not in the form they are now. I just mean that with so much hype surrounding both of them I was expecting a bit more from them.

The points and themes addressed in both are great even now when those ideas have been recycled many times over by more recent media. It's more the story that I was disappointed by. I can't recall my reasons for disliking Akira as it was a while ago but GitS seemed to end really abruptly as if it ended half way through the film and I didn't feel like any progress had been made developing the story.

I suppose that's the thing with expectations though. If you go into something expecting it to be great and it's only "okay" then you will persevere it as being bad.

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Don't get me wrong, I completely appreciate that and I know for a fact that without them most of the shows I watch now wouldn't exist or at least not in the form they are now. I just mean that with so much hype surrounding both of them I was expecting a bit more from them.

The points and themes addressed in both are great even now when those ideas have been recycled many times over by more recent media. It's more the story that I was disappointed by. I can't recall my reasons for disliking Akira as it was a while ago but GitS seemed to end really abruptly as if it ended half way through the film and I didn't feel like any progress had been made developing the story.

I suppose that's the thing with expectations though. If you go into something expecting it to be great and it's only "okay" then you will persevere it as being bad.

Yeah, you really have to control you expectations on things. Particularly older shows and movies.
You might like Kids on the Slope, random suggestion.