Im gonna suggest two slightly different anime from everyone else. Black Lagoon and Saga of Tanya the evil.
Black Lagoon is basically a show about some mercs in south east asia during the 90s, and the weird shit they get up to also it can be rather melancholy at times.
Saga of Tanya the evil is about some poor bastard who picks a fight with a god and promptly gets reincarnated as a little girl in WW1 Germany, where they proceed to succeed downwards into a frontline role when they just want to be a rear line officer. Also they commit technically not a warcrimes.
I see this recommended all the time to people just getting into anime, but I’ve found that if someone doesn’t get anime they really won’t mesh with a hyperviolent and slow paced slice-of-life. I think it’s the same thing as people that insist Akria (or buckaroo banzai) makes sense - once you’re on your 30th rewatch, have the manga and read enough reviews about it, you lose the perspective of someone new discovering it for the first time.
Said as someone who dismissed anime for years because I figured it was all self indulgent wank like bebop (I love it now, but boy is it not a great intro to the genre)
I feel it’s same way with people that enjoy series for example, different strokes for different folks, I grew with dbz it was huge where I lived to the point kids would skip classes to watch it, so watching anime grew from that, I don’t enjoy shows like Game of Thrones or things like Family Guy, but there’s others of the same genre that I do watch, again preferences do matter, maybe you won’t enjoy an anime series but maybe you will just a movie something like Redline, Spirited Away…
What I’m trying to say is don’t feel pressured into liking it, do you.
Because modern anime has a lot of mass produced trash. It’s no ranma 1/2 or utena or Saint seya or macross, Gundam, cowboy bebop, outlaw star, cat’s eye, lupin iii, etc… there are ton of well produced anime before 2000 that are actually good. Some are confusing messes but at least look amazing. I tried watching bleach and the newer stuff is just so boring and cringey.
You probably aren’t autistic enough. The way anime is directed, and more often then not the main content tend to be quite autistic. I especially always found romance in anime to make no sense, but after seeing autistic people in my social circle get into relationships it was almost identical to what I was struggling to understand. The cast of cutesy characters in anime of that sort almost always have a few characters that are autistic. Key for example had a semi non verbal girl in one of their works, and the recurring chuunibyou has gotten a “holy shit that character is me as a kid” from a few people with Asperger’s that I know.
No but seriously, besides your use of those terms you’re not wrong. The characters in a lot of anime don’t act like regular people (I get it they’re in non realistic situations).
Especially in romance, it’s one of my pet peeves actually. You helped this girl up from a fall/defended her once/said something nice about her/is your childhood friend once, whan yall were kids and now she’s in love with you and wants to marry you forever.
It all stems from the nature and target audience of anime, they’re aimed at kids/teens mostly and have to be relatively simple and they have to repeat key info relatively often which makes them seem autistic sometimes.
I’m not saying all anime is like this, just most of them plus I’ve noticed it’s been getting better and better since I graduated high-school a decade ago.
I still dont get anime. There are like 2 or 3 that I’ve watched, but I can’t really get into it.
That’s like saying you don’t get movies, or cartoons. You’re just not watching the genres you’d like.
Ok, what would you recommend? If it helps, the stuff I did like was the promised neverland, chainsaw man, and some of full metal alchemist.
Im gonna suggest two slightly different anime from everyone else. Black Lagoon and Saga of Tanya the evil.
Black Lagoon is basically a show about some mercs in south east asia during the 90s, and the weird shit they get up to also it can be rather melancholy at times.
Saga of Tanya the evil is about some poor bastard who picks a fight with a god and promptly gets reincarnated as a little girl in WW1 Germany, where they proceed to succeed downwards into a frontline role when they just want to be a rear line officer. Also they commit technically not a warcrimes.
Start with cowboy bebop.
I see this recommended all the time to people just getting into anime, but I’ve found that if someone doesn’t get anime they really won’t mesh with a hyperviolent and slow paced slice-of-life. I think it’s the same thing as people that insist Akria (or buckaroo banzai) makes sense - once you’re on your 30th rewatch, have the manga and read enough reviews about it, you lose the perspective of someone new discovering it for the first time.
Said as someone who dismissed anime for years because I figured it was all self indulgent wank like bebop (I love it now, but boy is it not a great intro to the genre)
Why is this so good?
I’m not a huge anime buff but try more mature ones. Gantz and Tokio ghoul come to mind.
The Tokyo Ghoul anime post-s1 is a rushed mess lol.
Which is a shame cuz the manga is fucking fantastic
One punch man, samurai champloo, cowboy bebop, and trigun are great action shows
Darker than black is a real good one along those lines, full dub too
I feel it’s same way with people that enjoy series for example, different strokes for different folks, I grew with dbz it was huge where I lived to the point kids would skip classes to watch it, so watching anime grew from that, I don’t enjoy shows like Game of Thrones or things like Family Guy, but there’s others of the same genre that I do watch, again preferences do matter, maybe you won’t enjoy an anime series but maybe you will just a movie something like Redline, Spirited Away…
What I’m trying to say is don’t feel pressured into liking it, do you.
I don’t feel pressured, ive just tried it a few times and could really get what made people like it so much.
Because modern anime has a lot of mass produced trash. It’s no ranma 1/2 or utena or Saint seya or macross, Gundam, cowboy bebop, outlaw star, cat’s eye, lupin iii, etc… there are ton of well produced anime before 2000 that are actually good. Some are confusing messes but at least look amazing. I tried watching bleach and the newer stuff is just so boring and cringey.
I mean… there’s plenty of good stuff post-2000.
And plenty of stuff pre-2000 sucked, you just didn’t hear about it because only the big hits got imported.
You probably aren’t autistic enough. The way anime is directed, and more often then not the main content tend to be quite autistic. I especially always found romance in anime to make no sense, but after seeing autistic people in my social circle get into relationships it was almost identical to what I was struggling to understand. The cast of cutesy characters in anime of that sort almost always have a few characters that are autistic. Key for example had a semi non verbal girl in one of their works, and the recurring chuunibyou has gotten a “holy shit that character is me as a kid” from a few people with Asperger’s that I know.
They hated you because you spoke the truth lul.
No but seriously, besides your use of those terms you’re not wrong. The characters in a lot of anime don’t act like regular people (I get it they’re in non realistic situations). Especially in romance, it’s one of my pet peeves actually. You helped this girl up from a fall/defended her once/said something nice about her/is your childhood friend once, whan yall were kids and now she’s in love with you and wants to marry you forever. It all stems from the nature and target audience of anime, they’re aimed at kids/teens mostly and have to be relatively simple and they have to repeat key info relatively often which makes them seem autistic sometimes. I’m not saying all anime is like this, just most of them plus I’ve noticed it’s been getting better and better since I graduated high-school a decade ago.