Top 10 favorite anime

Some mighty fine reviewing ya done there.

Attack On Titan:

Also has anyone seen The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki. Looks really not good, but apparantly its great, might watch it now or maybe in a few days

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Also has anyone seen The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki. Looks really not good, but apparantly its great, might watch it now or maybe in a few days

i havent but its on my list too

i watched a few more (idk why but ive been in an anime mood)

Monogatari (season 1: 7.5/10 ; season 2: 8.5/10 (so far))
The Monogatari series revolves around Koyomi Araragi, a third-year high school student, who's almost human again after briefly becoming a vampire. One day, a classmate of his falls down the stairs into Koyomi's arms. He discovers that Hitagi weighs nothing, in defiance of physics.

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Elfen Lied (8/10)
Elfen Lied takes place in Kamakura, Japan, focusing on a new strain of the human race, Diclonius, similar to human beings.

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Sword Art Online overall 7.5 / 10 (if i was rating season 1 alone, 8.5 / 10)
Sword Art Online (SAO) is a Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG), released in 2022. With the Nerve Gear, a virtual reality helmet that stimulates the user's five senses via their brain, players can experience and control their in-game characters with their minds.
On November 6, 2022, the players log in for the first time, and later discover that they are unable to log out. They are then informed by Akihiko Kayaba, SAO's creator, that if they wish to be free, they must reach the 100th floor of the game's tower and defeat the final boss. However, if their avatars die in-game, their bodies will also die in the real world.

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SAO only had 1 season, its just that it feels like 2 seasons since it changes mid way through
I thought i made a post on this already, but i think it wouldve been better if each part had its own season
Like if the first half had 25 episodes so the pacing wasnt so jumpy and if the 2nd half had its own 13 episode season (since it takes place of too short of a time span to have 25 episodes)

I also liked this anime, mainly just the first half, the 2nd half felt too contrived and i didnt really like it, and i hated what they did with asuna during that part
I only have 1 major complaint about the first half

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There should be a second season coming out theres 2 more games in the manga

Also theres an anime called Accel World that was made by the same person that made SAO, it takes place in the same universe, but 50 years in the future, its also pretty good and you should check it out

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Attack on Titan overall 9.5 / 10
One hundred years prior to the beginning of the story, giant humanoid creatures called Titans have nearly wiped out humanity. What remains of humanity now resides within a country surrounded by three concentric walls, Wall Maria (outermost), Wall Rose (middle), and Wall Sina (innermost). Inside these walls, humanity lived in peace for one hundred years, until one day a gigantic sixty-meter Titan mysteriously appeared and breached the outermost wall, allowing many smaller titans to enter and begin killing humans again. Mankind is forced to abandon the land between Wall Maria and Wall Rosé, resulting in turmoil and famine.
Very little is known about the Titans and their origins. All that is known is that they are giant humanoids that vary between 3 and 15 meters in height, and they instinctively attack and devour ordinary humans on sight. However, they apparently do not require food for sustenance, as they do not prey on other animals, surviving the century beyond the walls even with the long absence of humans, and apparently gain their energy directly from sunlight. They have hard skin and regenerative abilities, and can only be killed by a deep incision at the base of the neck. This weakness led to the development of the Vertical Maneuvering Equipment, allowing humans to navigate quickly in a three-dimensional space. Although it permits great mobility to a skilled user, it carries a large risk of overtaxing the muscles, requiring extensive physical conditioning and agility.

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The last bit of the last spoiler in my last post in the attack on titan thread has my theory on what the last scene of the finale was
You should read it (if you havent already)

But yeah i was surprised at how good it was, i went into it not wanting to like it, but it was really good

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Elfen Lied (8/10)
Elfen Lied takes place in Kamakura, Japan, focusing on a new strain of the human race, Diclonius, similar to human beings.

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Elfen lied was the first anime i saw with subs, like 8 or 9 years ago
I cant beleive it was that long ago because i still remember a lot of it

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I still havent watched the things that i want to watch, but i did see 1 thing

Stein's Gate: Burdened Domain of Deja vu
This movie is amazing and wraps up stein's gate incredibly well
I could complain about the time travel being inconsistant but im not going to since the movie is more about the characters than it is the time travel and the story is so well done that i can ignore the time travel inconsistencies

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I also liked this anime, mainly just the first half, the 2nd half felt too contrived and i didnt really like it, and i hated what they did with asuna during that part
I only have 1 major complaint about the first half

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There should be a second season coming out theres 2 more games in the manga

Contrived is a really good way to describe the 2nd part. Everything that happens is exactly that

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i can't even imagine what else they could do with the show. by the end of the 2nd game, they've finished everything that was left pending.

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im not as big on time travel animes as you are but i was thinking id give steins;gate; a try. i know you didnt realize it but chaos;head; is its prequel. is it worth starting there or just skip to steins?

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im not as big on time travel animes as you are but i was thinking id give steins;gate; a try. i know you didnt realize it but chaos;head; is its prequel. is it worth starting there or just skip to steins?

Chaos;Head isnt its prequel, they are completely separate things, i really dislike chaos;head, in my original post i said:

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I almost didnt watch this series because i thought it was a spin-off of an anime called Chaos;Head, which had a lot of potential but ended up sucking

They do take place in the same universe but are completely different things

Also your the one that recommended steins;gate to me, so i thought you saw it already

this would actually be brilliant.

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Chaos;Head isnt its prequel, they are completely separate things, i really dislike chaos;head, in my original post i said:

i meant to say, i know you didnt like it but... whoops

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Also your the one that recommended steins;gate to me, so i thought you saw it already

i did something i never do and read the plot of the first 10 or so eps. i dont remember why, i think i was in a weird mood where i wanted a good story but i wanted the spark notes version of it. anyways i read enough to know that you'd like it
i cant really remember it all that much
its weird actually, the only thing i can remember are microwaves. which kinda makes me not want to watch it. wtf kinda show leaves a lasting impression involving a microwave

Accel World [some eps 7/10, most eps 8.5/10]
so i ended up watching accel world on pat's recommendation. it's premise is a little bit similar to SAO: it largely takes place in a digital world. the world has more depth than a lot of SAO's though, abilities gained in this virtual world can affect reality to a smaller extent.
i liked the show but mostly because i like the VR genre
i could have really liked the show, except it did that anime thing where it takes what could really be a good story and makes nothing bad ever truly happen. the story itself is not smart and the characters are periodically very not smart in a frustrating way. that said, it still manages to be very, very funny and a pretty good story

overall i'd say if you want a VR story that has good characters and a good world -- go with Accel world
if you want a VR story with a good story, watch the first half of Sword Art Online (and then, for the love of god, stop)

pat do you have any other VR rec's? I think i might have finished all of them

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Accel World [some eps 7/10, most eps 8.5/10]
so i ended up watching accel world on pat's recommendation. it's premise is a little bit similar to SAO: it largely takes place in a digital world. the world has more depth than a lot of SAO's though, abilities gained in this virtual world can affect reality to a smaller extent.
i liked the show but mostly because i like the VR genre
i could have really liked the show, except it did that anime thing where it takes what could really be a good story and makes nothing bad ever truly happen. the story itself is not smart and the characters are periodically very not smart in a frustrating way. that said, it still manages to be very, very funny and a pretty good story

Yeah accel world is light hearted, especially with the whole

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It didnt occur to me that you would think it would be serious like SAO, but i guess what i said would make you think that, and i can see how going into it thinking that would make you disappointed, sorry
It does have its moments though

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pat do you have any other VR rec's? I think i might have finished all of them

Im sure youve seen all the .hack series so i wont even bother mentioning any of those

Ghost in the shell, which i mentioned somewhere here before so you probably saw it already, plus its popular so even if i hadnt said anything im sure youve seen it

Ergo proxy, which is more cyberpunk than VR, i guess ghost in the shell is more cyberpunk than VR too though

Denno coil, though there are some things youll have to get past when watching this, also its more AR than VR, but it feels like VR

Summer wars, which is a movie and while most of it takes place in VR its not really the focus, it is good though (but a bit corny), i think ive posted about it here so you may have seen it already

Fractale, which is like a magical girlfriend type story, idk if you like that kind of thing

Persona 4: The Animation, kindve sortve VR (since its based on a game it may as well be VR when they go into the other world, they never explicitly say its VR though), its really good and you should watch it (my opinion on it is biased though as i played the PS2 game that the anime is based on and loved it)

Log Horizon, which is new and still airing, i havent actually seen it yet, though it seems to be very very similar to SAO and is on my to watch list, this is probably what you are looking for so if you only pick 1 from this list it should be this one





Theres 2 more anime, both of which im reluctant to say, for very different reasons

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Theres also a movie that i cant remember the name of, since i cant remember its name it probably wasnt that good, but my inability to remember the name is really bothering me
It was about a world where people rarely talk in person as technology has taken over every aspect of their lives, it had VR in it, i cant remember if i liked it or not either
Ill try to see if i can find it again, or remember it cause it will bother me for the next day or so

Seren and i restructured the forum a bit so that anime move and tv all have their own sections, we deleted the old TV and Movies section after we moved all the threads that were their into the 3 new sections

From now on if you want to do an anime review start a new topic for that anime in the anime section

And this thread is only for top 10 lists of anime now, if you want to continue the discussion of any anime mentioned in this thread make a new topic about it in the anime section, if its something we talked a lot about, ill move the relevant posts from here to the new thread

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