What animes have you guys been watching lately?

[Cyanoxide]

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.

[C0FFINCASE]

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.

[Cyanoxide]

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

I'll check it out, thanks for the suggestion (:

Slightly unrelated, I've started playing Persona 5 and it's awesome. I'm going to need to play the older ones now too!

[C0FFINCASE]

I'll check it out, thanks for the suggestion (:

Slightly unrelated, I've started playing Persona 5 and it's awesome. I'm going to need to play the older ones now too!

Persona is really great. The animes aren't very good usually though.

I just started Gundam Build Divers which seemed like a weird thing to exist but like it.