My first time watching Steins;Gate I dropped it right about where you are for mostly the same reasons. I gave it a second try years later and I’m glad I did! It really picks up around… episode 12. Yeah. 12. It takes way too long to get exciting, but when it did I found myself unable to put it down.
Didn’t know this existed! Thanks for putting it on my radar!
I’ve never seen anyone else looking for bad anime to listen to before! I have a few suggestions:
It’s nice to see shoujo fans still get something animated every now and then.
I should clarify something about Fullmetal Alchemist. There are actually two Fullmetal Alchemist anime. The original aired in 2003 and was quite good for a while, but then about 1/3 of the way through the story it caught up with the source material and had to start making things up. Unfortunately I don’t think it did a great job of that. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood was made in 2009 and does a really good job of following the story of the original manga. It probably has the best ending out of all the action/adventure anime I’ve ever seen; I highly recommend it. It also has the best English dub I’ve ever seen in an anime, so that’s also something to consider if you don’t feel like reading subtitles.
If you’re looking for another cool fantasy thing I can heartily recommend Delicious in Dungeon. It starts out as a simple adventure where the party is trying to get deeper into the dungeon to resurrect their fallen comrade while scavenging for food along the way. Once it’s taken a few episodes to establish the personalities of the main cast it quickly starts expanding on everything else that’s going on and the adventure gets a bit more complicated. It’s got really cool worldbuilding, character writing, and animation and is easily among my favorites.
I just about lost it when she pulled out that keychain! Reminded me a bit of the start of Wotakoi.
Not a bad faith take, and I disagree that the movie has anything like that. Sure there are events that stand out as significant, and one of them stands out as most significant, but I really don’t think it stands out in a bad or offensive way unless you just don’t like that sometimes sad things happen in movies. But maybe we’re not talking about the same thing. I have no way of knowing.
Yes.
edit: sure would be nice if Lemmy had support for inline spoilers.
I’ve seen it and I have no clue what “the thing” is here either. Maybe they’re referring to the fact the story is about as happy as you’d expect from the person who wrote it.
Well-deserved; this is one of my favorite movies ever.
Dang, I didn’t know shoulder chips could get that big!
One of the more memorable ones recently was last season going from watching Medalist, a sweet and wholesome show about a figure skater, to The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really Really, REALLY Love You which is probably the horniest show I’ve ever seen.
Right now I’m going back and forth between Yakitate!! Japan, a very goofy and happy-go-lucky show about a young baker, and Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam which is mainly watching people die in space and elsewhere. I think they each make for a good break from the other.
Crazy that Gundam GQuuuuuux, which has been great so far, didn’t make the list.
This really is just monkey’s paw: the anime. Nico may know exactly how that paw will curl, but that sure doesn’t give her the wisdom to care!
That sure was a way to start an episode of anime.
My guess is it’s because the doofus who wrote the article didn’t do basic research.
It’s frankly embarrassing that Yakitate!! Japan isn’t on the list.
Yeah, a lot of the music, sound effects, and some visuals like the ones you posted were pretty nostalgic. Was weird hearing and seeing them alongside modern high-budget animation.
Glad you liked Cipher!
Yep, that’s the one!