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Cake day: June 14th, 2023
  • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoAnime@ani.social•Anime I've tried in 2026English
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    9 days ago

    Mushi-shi is quite a few years old now, but it’s found its way onto a lot of ‘best of’ lists for the stellar tone that it maintains. Wonderful and mysterious, but never withholding. No grand narrative arc; each episode tells its own story, which is rare these days. Give it an episode or two and you’ll get the vibe.

  • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoAnime@ani.social•Global Musicians Crown Evangelion's 'A Cruel Angel's Thesis' The Greatest Anime Song Ever - AnimehunchEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Top 20:

    1. Neon Genesis Evangelion — A Cruel Angel’s Thesis
    2. Naruto Shippuden — Blue Bird
    3. Dragon Ball Z — CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA
    4. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Gurenge
    5. Sailor Moon — Moonlight Densetsu
    6. Tetsujin 28-go — Tetsujin 28-go
    7. Astro Boy — Astro Boy
    8. Your Name. — Zenzenzense
    9. One Piece — We Are!
    10. Spirited Away — Always With Me (Itsumo Nando Demo)
    11. Oshi no Ko — Idol
    12. Attack on Titan — Guren no Yumiya
    13. Mashle: Magic and Muscles — Bling-Bang-Bang-Born
    14. GeGeGe no Kitaro — GeGeGe no Kitaro
    15. Obake no Q-Taro — Obake no Q-Taro
    16. Chainsaw Man — KICK BACK
    17. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind — Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
    18. Ponyo — Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
    19. Sally the Witch — Sally the Witch Song
    20. My Neighbor Totoro — Sanpo (Stroll)

    Definitely some recency bias in here. And I don’t see how half of these rank higher than Yoko Kanno’s ‘Tank!’.

  • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoAnime@ani.social•Announcing Winners of the 2025 Fediverse Anime AwardsEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I adored Apocalypse Hotel and am delighted to see that it won, but CITY the Animation and others are still on my to-watch list.

    I don’t know if this applies to anyone else here, but I felt genuinely unqualified to vote having not seen every one of the series nominated. In fact, I’m not sure if there was any category from which I’d watched all the nominated entries.

    For more participation, I’d ask for perhaps fewer nominees or more time between the announcements and closed voting.

  • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoAnime@ani.social•Anime with a high death count that's actually good?English
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    11 months ago

    The deeper question here is what interests you about about having a high body count in an anime?

    If it’s about pure numbers, you can’t beat Apocalypse Hotel; every human dies or flees the planet by the end of the first episode. The show itself, however, doesn’t really linger on that. It’s just the setup for how a bunch of robots cope and find usefulness after all the humans are gone. It’s life-affirming.

    If you’re interested in general bleakness and existential dread, where anything can happen to anyone at any time, I’d recommend Made in Abyss and Sonny Boy. These are two VERY different series. Made in Abyss falls into the newly coined “guro-moe” genre (purposely-designed chibi characters dealing with gut-wrenchingly painful situations) where the main characters are compelled to face increasingly dire and morally complex scenarios in service of a Sisyphean quest from which they may never return. Sonny Boy starts with a well-worn “floating classroom” trope, but quickly turns into a dense meditation on existential philosophy. Taken in isolation, you’ll find yourself constantly playing catch-up to understand what the hell is going on. If you decide to try this one out, I strongly recommend following up each episode by reading Steve Jones’ episode reviews on Anime News Network, which really help unpack the action and provides context clues to a lot of the philosophical musings the show gets into.

    These may not be exactly what you had in mind. Two others that I read about that might be up your alley are Death Parade and Alice in Borderland, but I haven’t watched or read either of them.