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Yeah, what Hypnos said. But there are also fan-translations, obviously. The latest is Volume 34 if I'm not mistaken, and the anime ended around Vol. 13.
You can Google it, or send me a PM if you can't find it. Not sure if it's alright to post licensed manga here.
Touma/Tsundere, pure "tsuntsun" has no "deredere" points.
Oniyuri/the hottest girl in the series, torako's big sister.
if you want to study about japanese girl character traits you gotta watch it.
but unlike sayonara zetsubou sensei, they dont have weird chara's like a stalker yandere girl, hikikomori girl, super positive girl, super normal girl, fujiyoshi girl (girl that loves yaoi), tail fetish masochist bondage girl, chibi moe text deliquent girl etc..
Maria Holic - yuri love kome, sugoi version of "Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru"
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See Gantz(Violence/Adult)Really nice,the problem is it ends really bad, gonzo did with gantz the same thing they did with Sunabouzu(or desert punk)(comedy/violence)a fake really bad end that pisses(almost)everyone out.
u should see both and if u like Gantz u can pick up the manga(reaaaly good too)
Okay, right now I'm after a darker themed anime. Stuff such as Higurashino Naku Koro Ni and Elfen Lied are among my favorites, but I'm having trouble finding other stuff. Blood and gore is no issue here.
Bible Black would be perfect if it didn't have the sex scenes.....
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Okay, right now I'm after a darker themed anime. Stuff such as Higurashino Naku Koro Ni and Elfen Lied are among my favorites, but I'm having trouble finding other stuff. Blood and gore is no issue here.
Bible Black would be perfect if it didn't have the sex scenes.....
Berserk and Hellsing Ultimate; there's also Claymore, but honestly I'd recommend reading the manga instead.
Oh, and Gantz. Epic bloodbath and huge body count.
Oh, and Gantz. Epic bloodbath and huge body count.
The GANTZ anime is fine if you pretend the final arc never happened. The manga suffers from being a real long-runner and the creator seems to have more and more trouble not indulging his fetishes in the story along with less and less idea of where he's going with it.
What else I'd recommend:
Infinite Ryvius: Starts out as a typical shonen space show, but pretty rapidly descends into a sort of Lord Of The Flies aboard a space station
Texnholyze: One of the bleakest, harshest cyberpunk shows I've ever seen. Really makes the medium work for it, if you can get past the deliberately disjointed beginning.
Now And Then, Here And There: A grim-ified take on the whole 'portal to another world' cliche. The first few episodes are lighter, over the top shonen stuff but it takes a dive into the fucked up pretty quickly. Not the greatest, but serviceable for what it is.
Basilisk: A ninja fighting series. It's bloody but mixes in a lot of politics and character conflict rather than just straight up 'we kill the enemy now' violence. Major downside is that it really over-sexualises most of the female characters and resorts to rape as a plot point far too often.
Jin-Roh: A movie rather than a series, but pretty brilliant. Police and politics in a pseudo-fascist alternate modern Japan.
Mnemosyne: The plots mostly an excuse to show off gore scenes (the main character is functionally immortal and they aren't afraid to abuse that fact) but it's short enough that the weak plot doesn't drag too much. It's best watched like a SAW movie: The story is just there to frame the violence, not take your attention.
Perfect Blue: Another movie, this one heavily focused around identity, psychosis and desire. For a largely non-violent and completely non-supernatural show, it's pretty creepy. But not for everyone.
Red Garden: This is what happens when someone decides to do a semi-horror take on the usual 'schoolgirls fighting monsters' cliche. It's a bit slow in parts, but definitely watchable.
If you can tolerate more characterisation and relationships rather than violence, I'd also recomment the following:
Saikano: A hybrid of the oldschool 'magical girlfriend' genre and war stories, but here it's the relationships and the damage war does that take centre stage. It's utterly fucking depressing, giving hope only so long as it takes to get you attached to a character and begging for them at least to get a happy ending. Then it crushes them.
Kimi Ga Nozomu Einen: A romance anime, but not a happy one. Lots of time spent ruminating on loss, failure to move on and being stuck in the past.
Serial Experiments Lain: More of a transhumanist manifesto than anything else, it's a slow and trippy look at what it identity, what it means to be human, to be connected and free will against determinism. Significantly slower and more thought-provoking than most shows, but if you're just after action and gore, you really won't like it.
I'm also obligated to recommend Noir to anyone who listens. It's borderline for your request but I happen to think it's one of the best anime I've ever seen.
The GANTZ anime is fine if you pretend the final arc never happened. The manga suffers from being a real long-runner and the creator seems to have more and more trouble not indulging his fetishes in the story along with less and less idea of where he's going with it.
What else I'd recommend:
Infinite Ryvius: Starts out as a typical shonen space show, but pretty rapidly descends into a sort of Lord Of The Flies aboard a space station
Texnholyze: One of the bleakest, harshest cyberpunk shows I've ever seen. Really makes the medium work for it, if you can get past the deliberately disjointed beginning.
Now And Then, Here And There: A grim-ified take on the whole 'portal to another world' cliche. The first few episodes are lighter, over the top shonen stuff but it takes a dive into the fucked up pretty quickly. Not the greatest, but serviceable for what it is.
Basilisk: A ninja fighting series. It's bloody but mixes in a lot of politics and character conflict rather than just straight up 'we kill the enemy now' violence. Major downside is that it really over-sexualises most of the female characters and resorts to rape as a plot point far too often.
Jin-Roh: A movie rather than a series, but pretty brilliant. Police and politics in a pseudo-fascist alternate modern Japan.
Mnemosyne: The plots mostly an excuse to show off gore scenes (the main character is functionally immortal and they aren't afraid to abuse that fact) but it's short enough that the weak plot doesn't drag too much. It's best watched like a SAW movie: The story is just there to frame the violence, not take your attention.
Perfect Blue: Another movie, this one heavily focused around identity, psychosis and desire. For a largely non-violent and completely non-supernatural show, it's pretty creepy. But not for everyone.
Red Garden: This is what happens when someone decides to do a semi-horror take on the usual 'schoolgirls fighting monsters' cliche. It's a bit slow in parts, but definitely watchable.
If you can tolerate more characterisation and relationships rather than violence, I'd also recomment the following:
Saikano: A hybrid of the oldschool 'magical girlfriend' genre and war stories, but here it's the relationships and the damage war does that take centre stage. It's utterly fucking depressing, giving hope only so long as it takes to get you attached to a character and begging for them at least to get a happy ending. Then it crushes them.
Kimi Ga Nozomu Einen: A romance anime, but not a happy one. Lots of time spent ruminating on loss, failure to move on and being stuck in the past.
Serial Experiments Lain: More of a transhumanist manifesto than anything else, it's a slow and trippy look at what it identity, what it means to be human, to be connected and free will against determinism. Significantly slower and more thought-provoking than most shows, but if you're just after action and gore, you really won't like it.
I'm also obligated to recommend Noir to anyone who listens. It's borderline for your request but I happen to think it's one of the best anime I've ever seen.
Thanks much. I think that'll keep me occupied for quite some time.
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Basilisk: A ninja fighting series. It's bloody but mixes in a lot of politics and character conflict rather than just straight up 'we kill the enemy now' violence. Major downside is that it really over-sexualises most of the female characters and resorts to rape as a plot point far too often.
Okay, right now I'm after a darker themed anime. Stuff such as Higurashino Naku Koro Ni and Elfen Lied are among my favorites, but I'm having trouble finding other stuff. Blood and gore is no issue here.
Bible Black would be perfect if it didn't have the sex scenes.....
I've never seen BB, but it's that occult-themed H, isn't it? That, Higurashi, and Elfen Lied are contemp fantasy, with liberal amounts of grimdark, if I recall properly. That's pretty much antithetical to my own tastes and I've never actually seen any of them, but I'm sure I can find something.
1. I presume you've seen Higurashi and Higurashi Kai, but are you watching Umineko no Naku Koro? It's the latest in the series, and it's being aired now in Japan. That means you'll be getting speedsubber groups, but to be honest, I've always thought it a bit of an arbitrary distinction in the community - good subs are good, bad subs are hilarious.
"Let's break up." "OK." And hundreds of Batou/Togusa slashfics were spawned.
2. Death Note is pretty popular, apparently. I've never seen it, but I understand that it's got a pretty big fandom. Basically, a death god (shinigami) looking for entertainment gives a notebook that grants power over life and death to a high schooler - he writes a name in that notebook, and that person dies. He sets out to create a better world through mass bloodshed, and Ryuuk has himself some entertainment even better than cable TV. It's supposed to be really good for the Thirty Xanatos Pileups as all these complicated plans start crashing into each other.
3. Air may be a bit brighter than you're looking for. It's sad and occasionally a bit dark, but not at all grimdark in tone. It's also less bloody than the shows you listed: don't expect significant violence or bloodshed outside the middle arc, and even there it isn't all that significant. Also, it doesn't do much with the two secondary girls from the original dating sim, but that fact does explain the little side-trips it takes in the first arc.
"Goal."
4. Ayashi no Ceres is a slightly older work. It's quite good, rather dark contemp fantasy involving a girl, Aya, who her family tries to kill on her 16th birthday to prevent the family curse from taking effect through her. They fail, thanks to the intervention of a mysterious stranger and said family curse. Features love triangle, a bittersweet story, fated deaths, forbidden love and obsession, brother-sister incest, and Yuuhi, who really just kept getting sucker-punched by the story.
5. Noir is the story of two assassins, Mireille and Kirika. Strong overarching plot of ancient conspiracies (Les Soldats), a lot of action (not of that sort, Bible Black fan), beautiful music.
5b. I've never seen them, but Noir is also related to two other series in the "Girls with Guns" set from studio Bee Train, El Cazador de la Bruha and Madlax, all of which feature two strong female leads in different cirumstances and plots.
6. Gunslinger Girl is another anime about assassin girls in the modern day, except these are actually literal girls - that is to say, children trained to kill. I have not seen it, but I've heard good things.
7. Last Exile is another decent anime, set in an alternate world with fliers piloting van-ships as the dominate mode of communication, travel, and war. It's not drastically high sci-fi, with guns and positively Napoleonic methods of warfare at times, but it's very interesting. Also, Dio's...quite odd.
8. Scrapped Princess, following the titular "Scrapped Princess" Pacifica Casull and her older siblings, Raquel and Shannon as they attempt to not be killed by an empire trying to prevent a prophesy that she will cause the end of the world. Medieval fantasy with major science-fiction overtones. Tends to go between light and dark, more light at the beginning and darker at the end. By the way, if the character names start looking a bit familiar...
Other shows, either that I have not seen or did not think of as all that great, but that you might find interesting since your tastes differ from mine are as follows. You can look them up at anidb.net, where the other links above go.
Not seen:
El Cazador de la Bruha
Madlax
Jigoku Shoujo
Noein (second-hand warning: blatant abuse of unresearched QM)
X
Witch Hunter Robin
Wolf's Rain
Seen:
Getbackers: heavy fanservice, manga never ended
Ghost Hunt: bland Mary Sue protagonist until the final arc, when he's out of commission - on the other hand, it did feature a Winchester House clone
Full Metal Panic: jarring transitions between school and military, couldn't decide if it was comedy or action and couldn't manage a middle ground
Shows that only marginally match your requests:
Eureka 7 (caveat: sci-fi, I've never seen it)
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex (caveat: cypunk sci-fi)
Fafner of the Blue Azure (caveat: giant mecha anime, kills almost as many people as "Kill 'em All" Tomino...though not everyone can start with near-extinction and end with blowing up the universe...to be fair, it didn't really, but memes...)
MS Gundam: 08th MS Team (caveat: giant mecha anime, though harder to real on the "super/real robot" spectrum than almost anything outside of Patlabor; dramatic war story)
Full Metal Alchemist (caveat: first series diverges from manga while second series remains faithful, fair to mediocre, magitek/"alchemy-punk" fantasy)
Gankutsuou (caveat: Count of Monte Cristo IN SPACE!, slightly jarring art style)
Planetes (caveats: mundane near-future sci-fi with exploration of space, serious political and philosophical themes, sci-fi harder than diamond, little action until late in series, occasionally light-hearted - SPACE NINJAS! ON THE MOON!)
Princess Tutu (caveats: magical girl ballet anime, generally light-hearted until the story actually gets serious,
Rozen Maiden (caveats: "magical girl" anime, light-hearted until everyone starts dying, no real ending to the overarching story arc yet)
Serial Experiments Lain (caveat: serious mindscrew. No, seriously, this is one of the most often named animes for mindscrews)
Revolutionary Girl Utena (caveat: serious mindscrew, systematic deconstruction of magical girl animes, Akio...holy hell, just Akio)
It helps if you read the all-caps and exclamation points in your best BRIAN BLESSED! voice.
If you're looking for mecha/action there's Code Geass and the Gundam series though I would recommend the newer gundams (like Gundam 00 and Gundam Seed) if you're looking for more fast paced mecha/action.
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hello, it's been some time since my last post here, and I still like comedies a lot more than serious anime, so, this time I'll recommend some that I really enjoyed:
-rosario to vampire (12 eps per season, 2 seasons):
it's about a regular guy that gets to go to a high school for monsters, (where they hate humans, so he has to hide that fact). he becomes friends with a vampire, a succubus, a snow woman, and gets in trouble and the usual stuff.
I found it very fun to watch, so I guess that if you like high school comedies, you should try this one.
-toradora: another high school romantic comedy, a nice guy that everybody is afraid of because his face looks menacing, meets the most dangerous girl in school, they call her "tenori taiga", portable tiger, because she's agressive and becomes enraged easily and fights and causes destruction.
the guy likes her best friend, and she likes his best friend, so they agree to help each other, and as the series progresses, it becomes more a romantic drama than comedy, but you still have the usual stuff in this kind of series,
(the summer vacation episode, the christmas episode, the graduation episode...). the plot gets better as the series go, and, it has an ending...
something some romantic comedy/drama series forget.
Spoiler warning:
(I FUCKING HATE ICHIGO 100%, THAT'S NOT AN ENDING, AND THE MANGA GETS WORSE BECAUSE IT HAS A TERRIBLY BAD ENDING,THE GUY DOESN'T CHOOSE THE MAIN LOVE INTEREST, GAAAAAAAH!!!)
so, overall, I really recommend "toradora" to those that enjoy this kind of thing. (man, I wish I could go to high school in japan!, I wouldn't mind having to go through it there because it seems like paradise compared to the hell that was regular western high school...)
iii)if you like comedy with a touch of supernatural adventures, GS Mikami is a very good series. she's a ghost sweeper, some kind of medium that do exorcisms and that kind of stuff. she has a sidekick with a crush on her,well, he's some kind of pervert, and coward, so he's the comic relief, every time he does or says something stupid, mikami beats him severely.
it's a 45 eps series, but the manga went on several years after the anime ended, too bad, I really liked this one.
Spoiler warning:
BUT I HATE THE FUCKING MANGA BECAUSE IT HAS ONE OF THE WORST ENDINGS I'VE EVER HEARD OF: THE MAIN CHARACTERS THAT YOU LIKE AND CARE ABOUT, ARE DEAD, AND SOME ROBOTS FROM THE FUTURE DO AN EXORCISM ON THEM AND THAT'S IT,THE END.
????????????GRAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!,NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOO!!,
HOW COULD THEY KILL MIKAMI AND YOKOSHIMA!!, I WANTED THEM TO END UP TOGETHER!!, GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGH!!!
anyway, end of rant.
I like comedies, I liked rosario to vampire, I loved toradora, and I liked gs mikami, now I'm trying to find more series like those.
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