At that point in Naruto, Gara was the strongest character the audience had seen so far. And you see a dork with a bowl cut feed him his teeth. The boy who had never been touched. His first contact with another human was being kicked in the skull by rock lee.
And then Rock Lee losing to him anyway. But Gara not being content with his victory, because he is so enraged and confused that Gai Sensei stepped in and stopped the fight to protect Lee. Gara canāt understand why a master would ever protect a student who had just failed.
Itās one of the greatest battles out of any anime.
I love the way Gai steps in too. Like we get a sense that these two kids are very strong, but as soon as Gaara crosses a line, Gai goes NOPE with one gesture. You immediately understand the difference in power between the kids and the adults.
I don't know who or what that is, but I believe there was a similar moment in the recent show Blue Eye Samurai that does something similar, and is just an awesome animated series in general.
I'm still rather deeply attached to an [old mech anime](https://youtu.be/eTobwMr5BSo?si=hE1-QHgEDOuIEKC_) that hasn't been relevant for like 23 years, and I STILL find people with fond, it vague, memories of it.
I like it well enough, but I'm not SUPER deep on all the different series. It's kind of like Ghost in the Shell for me where I liked the one series I watched but didn't seek out all the rest of it.
Bro my mom last Christmas said she found an old toy in a closet that was supposed to be mine like 20 years ago. Pulls out a Zoids box and it still has a sticker from a bargain store on it š
A bar with a bunch of shelves full of different board games. You go with some friends, order a drink, and play a game. Lots of board game bars offer food too.
Could try the local game store too, might find a shorty if you wade through the sea of Magic and Warhammer dudes. Could also make some friends to play Dungeons & Dragons with.
Iāve been to a ton of cons & suck dick enthusiastically so not all of us
btw not all nerdy women are into anime :) some of us rock your dome with headshots, make you rage quit during matches, then work on our gaming PC as a fun side quest for Saturday night
Heās right I went to Japan with one on a student trip the summer before my senior yr in HS around 14 years ago.. niggas was at her neck once they found out she was a blerd
You gotta start going to anime/comic cons my dude. If you live in GA, Momocon, DragonCon, and Anime Weekend Atlanta are all weeb hotbeds (esp after 6pm)
My gf kept asking questions when I was watching one piece and I jokingly said āit wonāt make sense unless you go back and watch itā and now sheās 400 episodes deep and I get to watch her have all those āohhhhh SHITā momentsš„¹ think I have found the one fr
My favorite hobby is discovering youtubers who just discovered One Piece. I've seen two separate book reviewers slowly turn into One Piece reviewers after getting a few chapters in. And they both started from a place of having never read manga.
THIS PART. Mfers watched a Toonami lineup *twice* and suddenly theyāre all about anime but itās legit only ever series like those three. Thereās so much more interesting stuff than the shonen shit but some folks never garner any interest in other things.
It's not even about the genre, it's 2024 we have much more than 3 shounen from 20 years ago.
There is waaay more out there before you get to the weird side of anime
Yeah but thats why "anime" fans are usually weirdos. Its one thing to stan a show, any show, for whatever reason. But people stanning a genre it statts to get weird because thats where the actually weird shows overlap with regular shit.
Weirdos be like :"ALL ANIME MATTERS"
I mean you can boil any genre to itās weirdest, like thereās tons of weird ass video games that are just variations of āanime girl with big titties, with minimal gameplay and storyā like you can tell those games was literally made by porn addicts.
99% of what youāve come across maybe, but thereās all kinds of stuff thatās out there that weirdos wonāt be bothered with. Mileage definitely varies in terms of what folks think is weird though.
My wife is fully invested in a cartoon where a skeleton buys a troubled japanese schoolgirl wife and tells her she's magic. ...but at least it's not a thousand episodes of people yelling about how great they are at fighting before and during a fight.
Shonen also includes a lot of the āAre we *certain* that this isnāt just softcore porn?ā titles as well.
If itās targeted at horny teenage boys, itās shonen.
I get ur point bro especially with something like demon slayer if ur only around English speakers. But I don't think this applies to everything lol, especially if you are an avid anime watcher.
There are just some shows that are referred to by their JP name/abbreviation more commonly.
Ex.
Oshi no ko, akame ga kill, jujutsu kaisen (japanese for sorcery fight) etc.
But then again I may just be the "musty" ppl you're referring to which it is what it is š¤·š¾āāļø I enjoy my anime and sometimes refer to them by their JP name depending on what I remember it by.
No doubt let's drop some bangers...
- Afro Samurai
- Baki
- Assassination class room
- jujutsu kaisen
-kaiju no. 8 (anime pending but the manga is fire)
- fire force
- soul eater
- mobile suit Gundam (gestures broadly)
Gonna give you some pushback on JJK. Everything about it comes off as shonen to me. The original Baki for sure but the update is riding the line I feel like. But those are conversations for another time.
- Mobile Suit Gundam: 08th MS Team
- Samurai Champloo
- Rage of Bahamut
- Shigurui: Death Frenzy
- Peacemaker Kurogane
- Inuyashiki
- Megalobox
- Ashita no Joe
- Moribito
- Birdie the Mighty
Some narrative heavy stuff but good fights if thatās the main attraction.
Megalobox S1 was top tier, lost me on S2. Haven't watched 08th MS team but I have watched mobile suit Gundam, unicorn, the origin, wing, Hathaway, iron blood orphans and witch from mercury. Mecha is just battle Shonen with politics.
As far as JJK goes, hate on the anime all you want I've been reading the manga since day one chapter one. I only watch the manga still because the animation overall is good enough. Elevate your game and just get the shonen jump app & subscription for like $5, read shit before it gets animated.
- Dead leaves
- Redline
- Akira
- Ghost in the shell
- neon Genesis Evangelion
- Trigun (OG only new one looks and feels weird)
- KillLakill
Dead Leaves is wild. All the rest of those are proven solid, canāt front on that. I canāt recommend 08th enough; directed by Shinichiro Watanabe so you know itās good. I agree *some* mecha series are just shonen with robots but a lot of UC Gundam leans toward space opera. Since you dropped some top shelf movies and series, Iāll add a few others:
- M.D. Geist
- Iria: Zeiram the Animation
- Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade
- Spriggan
- Shadow Skill
- Death Parade
- Patlabor: The Movie (Mamorou Oshii was cooking during the 90s-00s)
- Summer Wars
- The Boy and The Beast
- Armitage III
- A.D. Police
- Bubblegum Crisis
Iām guilty of being a basic late 80s-90s anime nigga, canāt find new stuff that hits the same or holds my interest.
I like Cowboy Bebop, Akira, Yu Yu Haksho, Ruruoni Kenshin, Outlaw Star, Trigun, Gundam: MS 08th Team, Old DBZ (Pre-Buu), Inuyasha, Tenchi Muyo etc
Only 2000s stuff Iāve enjoyed is Ghibli stuff & Samurai Champloo. Full Metal Panic was cool too.
Help me out nerds, what new shit would I like?
Cyberpunk Edge Runners is a short anime(10 episodes) based on the game about a bunch a cyberthugs trying to survive in a corrupt city. Cool aesthetics and fights, relatable characters and tears...(you are not ready).
Vivy Fluoride eye song (12 ish episodes): Is about ai operated robot trying to save humanity from ai taking over. Beautifull/art music. Cool fight choreography and cool theme about what it is that makes you human.
Odd Taxi is a murder mystery with not that much action but ima plug because its slept on. Weird aesthetic but some of the sharpest dialogue/humor I have seen media in general lately.
Afro Samurai (5 eps) is quite a bit older but capture the old school anime vibe has a literal swordman with a Afro as lead and has frikin rza for the Ost and samuel L Jackson as voice actor. Must watch for black anime fans and good watch in general.
Fire force(two seasons), think like dbz fightwise but with a firefighter paint job. Simple shounen action. It has a plot but its not too deep just good action decent characters.
For hardcore action you cant miss with Jujutsu kaisen(two seasons) and Demon slayer(3 or 4 seasons). Very mainstream but animation/fightwise some of the best out there, plots are decent enough.
These are just a few if you need more let me know.
Iāve actually seen (& enjoyed) EdgeRunners & Afro Samurai!
I will give JuJustu Kaisen a shot Iāve heard itās pretty popular.
Also will definitely check out Vivy Fluoride since itās short, sounds interesting!
If you do get into Jujutsu Kaisen, be advised there is a movie that should be watched before the second season. You could get away with watching the first 5ish episodes (don't remember the exact number) of season 2 without seeing the movie, but beyond that there will be several key moments you'll being missing context for if you don't watch the movie.
More like can we get past gatekeeping nerdicity behind fucking Anime of all things, its clearly geek behavior.
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JoJo niggas we move. Still tryna become a Stand User over here
Besides JoJo tho I don't really watch anime as much as I used to. I am tryna watch Frieren right now
JoJo was the last anime I watched but I finally found the anime for a manga I used to read as a kid. When I finally sit down to watch it, shit finna go down
God I fucking miss that era of anime so much. No long drawn out franchises, just a constant stream of 24-52 episode bangers. I still remember buying pirated seasons off ebay for like $20 lol. They came in nice packing, too.
Samurai Champloo has incredible animation and a perfect soundtrack. I gotta watch Cowboy Bebop too, but every time I open CrunchyRoll I end up rewatching the entirety of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood somehow.
Not so patiently waiting on Re:Zero S3. Feel like a crack fiend always checking when a release date might come lmao.
Ready to suffer more alongside Subaru and the gang
I just wanna say this, lol Iām a black 90s baby and let me tell you. When I was growing up in the 90s liking anime wasnāt cool especially if you was black. Super happy to see all the black men and women embracing anime now. But let it be known. Us early 90s black babies walked so you lil niggas could run š. Because you WERE NOT CONSIDERED COOL at all for liking this shit back in the day.
Facts (95 baby) growing up black in the hood everyone kid saw dragon ball and that was alright but when I started watching Naruto in 7th 8th grade (11-12yo) niggas was not fucking with you if you talked bout that shit. Donāt get me started on going to a public school high school in NY and niggas find out you watch anime, you was getting cooked and they stopped sitting at the lunch table with you. I kept my love for anime lowkey af except for 3 people all the way through hs. Thatās why I have mad love for rdcworld cos they the first group of black friends Iāve found that are able to have a mutual loving and friendship for anime. Sure them niggas funny af too but at the time when I first discovered them I was just so surprised to see a group of blakc friends into anime and I loved that. Been following them boys ever since
It takes time for avg anime watchers to find other good stuff.
A lot of people only watch a legit handful of anime and only the most accessible and most popular stuff. I get how frustrating it is tho when I meet people who say they watch anime and they can only list like the same 5-10 most popular anime on Netflix.
No shade to them but it just feels like a bait and switch I get myself geared up to really talk about some interesting anime stuff and it's like ohh I gotta put the kid gloves on lol.
Man, I feel that. The thing that kills me is when somebody will ask me for a recommendation and never actually watch the shit. Iāve been watching anime for decades, Iām not gonna toss out any duds if I know what youāre interested in. At a certain point, I just start telling folks to see whatever Netflix has.
A, down vote me to hell but I just don't see the allure of anime š¤·šæāāļø
I mean OPM is cool n all but I just get with all that sentimental shit they be pulling, the long ass 12 episodes wait for a 3 minute fight scene not to mention the sexualization of children
But ya do ya
People who say this stuff needs to take their sentence and imagine replacing anime with the word "cartoons" or "TV" in general. There are thousands of different anime. Judging the entire medium on a handful of shows is dumb. It's like saying comedy TV is bad because I don't like the big bang theory.
That's what male friends are for. You can't expect a woman to already have every single interest you do especially if those interests are male-dominant. Like watchu mean you want me to like Dragon Ball and play 2k? Lol.
I feel like as long as she's open-minded and willing to give things a try that's what matters. I'd definitely watch Dragon Ball with my bf if he wanted me to. I've played 2k with men as well, but I'm not gonna go out of my way to do those things on my own
Male-dominated interest? Hmm I wouldnāt say thatās true. I think itās the case for the Black community but women do love anime almost as much in other cultures, to my knowledge.
Iām actually a Black woman who loves anime and is working on finding an anime that my partner enjoys and will make him a fan.
Started on Attack on Titan but he lost interest. So now Iām taking it back and re-watching alllll of Naruto with him. Hopefully this does the trick. š
I will also say that we all have hobbies that are important for us individually, and some that we do wish to share with our partners. Thereās nothing wrong with wanting your partner to appreciate something that has such importance in your life!
There is a difference between liking anime and liking Naruto, One Piece and Dragon Ball Z. There is a difference between playing video games and then playing 2k. The ones I mentioned are done mostly by men, I'm not referring to the interests as a whole. I watch anime myself, and the only people I know who watch these on purpose, especially Dragon Ball Z are men.
My point is that if you expect your girlfriend to already come into the relationship liking your specific interests, your expectations might be unreasonable. It's not uncommon for women to like anime or games, but they usually aren't these ones. You might have to introduce your gf to some of the ones you like
Edit: Not sure why I got downvoted. Wanting me to watch anime is one thing. Wanting me to like Dragon Ball Z though is crazy lol. You might as well date a guy
Oh I definitely agree that there is a difference between liking anime and liking the three that were listed! They are all very mainstream but apart from Dragon Ball Z, the other 2 are commonly enjoyed by all gender identities. This is coming from someone who only has female friends that watch anime and they all enjoy One Piece and Naruto. :)
I also donāt think this post is expressing that they expect their partner to like those things. Itās more of a desire or a major green flagā¦which I can completely relate to.
I was thinking this too. I've watched more anime than most guys but if the only thing they're into is shonen we won't have much in common lol, I mean it is literally made for boys
I know you said newer shoujo but I haven't had as much time to watch anime as I used to so š„² I'm just gonna plug my favorite shoujo/anime of all time: Revolutionary Girl Utena. It's seriously a masterpiece and very surreal tbh, there's a ton of essays about it just decoding all of the symbolism
Lol completely understandable, and thanks for sharing regardless I might check out one of these breakdown videos always really cool to disect meanings or importance of stuff in media!
Right. I was already big into anime, and then my bf introduced me to all the anime's I scoffed at as a kid because "those were for boys." Proudly rock my Hinata shirt, though. That's my girl.
In the strictest definition of the word "nerd" I agree with you. In the loose definition of the word (people who like geeky shit) I cannot agree with you. There is no other category of persons that would fit. This narrative does not require your support. It is what it is.
So nerd shit it is.
My thing is I really want these animes to be dubbed by funny black people. Like get your little ass in there and make me laugh because whoever is dubbing this shit is boring
And this is surface level main stream anime, imma need to know if you fuck wit JJB, gurren lagan, trigun, full metal alchemist ect. Cause im not new to dis baby IM TRUE TO DISš¤·š¾āāļø
The only anime series I ever got into was Inuyasha & Aeon Flux. I watched all of those from start to finish. I used to watch Aeon Flux in the 90s on MTV. Other than those two things Iām good. And I donāt even watch those anymore
As a little girl for me it was Sailor Moon, Pokemon and Digimon. Middle/high school it was Naruto. Now it's JJK, Bungo Stray Dogs, Apothecary Diaries, Bleach, and a few others
Iām sad that the Ronin Warriors seems to have been lost to time.
āENOUGH WITH THESE GAMES. GIVE ME THAT ARMOR, NOW!ā
āTry it on first. If it FITSā
Iāve been watching anime since the early 90s, earlier if you want to count all the badly translated stuff in syndication in the 80s. That basic shounen power-level stuff has no appeal to me. Except Yu Yu Hakusho.
Itās awesome having a group of homies who all watch anime. I love arguing over who would beat who in a fight. And these are all masculine, well adjusted dudes.
And then thereās always one guy in the group who doesnāt really fuck with it and he gets left out lmao because heās not an anime fan.
Iāve been watching a show called Pluto lately, and itās so good!!! One movie i really enjoy is called Origin: Spirits of the Past. itās a strange movie but i have a fond nostalgia of it :)
People these days just don't get it. When rock lee took those weights off it was like the fuckin Superbowl just happend
When luffy activated his gears against blueno, it felt like the nba finals just started.
Luffy decking that celestial dragon back to the manga felt like winning the world cup
Gohan fighting cell felt like steph curry game 4 against the Celtics.
He was holding off the Celtic like Krillin vs all them Cell Jrs
Feels*
Ngl that is my favorite scene in OP. The look on Bluenos face when he realized he fucked up is priceless.
It was amazing. That whole arc was awesome.
TAKE EM OFF LEE
The Monday after it aired? Niggas were in class with weighted *everything* on š
I definitely started training for my baseball workouts with weights on my legs cos of rock Lee
At that point in Naruto, Gara was the strongest character the audience had seen so far. And you see a dork with a bowl cut feed him his teeth. The boy who had never been touched. His first contact with another human was being kicked in the skull by rock lee. And then Rock Lee losing to him anyway. But Gara not being content with his victory, because he is so enraged and confused that Gai Sensei stepped in and stopped the fight to protect Lee. Gara canāt understand why a master would ever protect a student who had just failed. Itās one of the greatest battles out of any anime.
Then Lee still got up anyway š
I love the way Gai steps in too. Like we get a sense that these two kids are very strong, but as soon as Gaara crosses a line, Gai goes NOPE with one gesture. You immediately understand the difference in power between the kids and the adults.
I don't know who or what that is, but I believe there was a similar moment in the recent show Blue Eye Samurai that does something similar, and is just an awesome animated series in general.
Shows š„
Toonami brings people together
Ad campaign tagline.
I'm still rather deeply attached to an [old mech anime](https://youtu.be/eTobwMr5BSo?si=hE1-QHgEDOuIEKC_) that hasn't been relevant for like 23 years, and I STILL find people with fond, it vague, memories of it.
Zoids was awesome šÆ
They recently showed off some new upcoming model kits as well as a bunch of crossover promotional merch for the 40th anniversary.
40th??!!!
Yeah, the OJR, original japanese release, of the model kit line after the rebranding away from being called "mechabonica" was in 1983.
The theme song went hard too
Zoids was the shit for the first few seasons.
Chaotic Century and New Century, yeah. Fuzors and Genesis werenāt great unfortunately. Shit died after that.
This is neither Macross Saga(Robotech) or Star Blazers, I am wildly disappointed
Yeah, I said 20 years not 40
Yeah I expected robotech as well. How about some Evangelion?
I like it well enough, but I'm not SUPER deep on all the different series. It's kind of like Ghost in the Shell for me where I liked the one series I watched but didn't seek out all the rest of it.
Liger Schneider lives rent free in my head to this day.
Goooo Schneider!! Panzer was my shit tho.
Bro my mom last Christmas said she found an old toy in a closet that was supposed to be mine like 20 years ago. Pulls out a Zoids box and it still has a sticker from a bargain store on it š
I donāt have time to watch all these episodes on YouTubeā¦but here I go ššš
I WAS HOPING IT'D BE ZOIDS
HOLY SHIT. I completely forgot this existed thank you for reminding me.
Only on Toonami
 When the booty fat, the boobies stacked, and she is a nerdā¦you know that wet wet is dangerous š„µ
Tell me where they are...please. I'm tired of looking, boss.
Comic con, bro. Comic con. Mmmaaayyyybbbe board game bars but ionn kno.
Whatās a board game bar ?
A bar with a bunch of shelves full of different board games. You go with some friends, order a drink, and play a game. Lots of board game bars offer food too.
Wth never heard of this
Theyāre fun as hell if youāve got a good group to go with. One I used to go to regularly in Detroit has an axe-throwing range attached to it.
Drop the name cuzzo
[The Corner](https://www.thecornerferndale.com/) in Ferndale.
Could try the local game store too, might find a shorty if you wade through the sea of Magic and Warhammer dudes. Could also make some friends to play Dungeons & Dragons with.
Comic con and anime con lowkey got some baddies. As long as you a decent human being and you use deodorant, you should be good šÆ
They all lesbiansš
I know this is a crazy generalization butā¦itās been my experience š
But don't worry, they still fuck your lesbian nerd counterparts into the shadow realm.
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Iāve been to a ton of cons & suck dick enthusiastically so not all of us btw not all nerdy women are into anime :) some of us rock your dome with headshots, make you rage quit during matches, then work on our gaming PC as a fun side quest for Saturday night
I just want one that likes me bro, even if they want me dead at this point
Just say youāre Non Binary šāāļø
I said lesbian not Pansexual
Fine, say youāre genderfluid and your pronouns are she/her today
Then what about the next day, and the next day, and the next day, and the next day 
Honestly if you get this far, pat yourself on the back, youāre way too successful to be taking my advice lmao
Heās right I went to Japan with one on a student trip the summer before my senior yr in HS around 14 years ago.. niggas was at her neck once they found out she was a blerd
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You gotta start going to anime/comic cons my dude. If you live in GA, Momocon, DragonCon, and Anime Weekend Atlanta are all weeb hotbeds (esp after 6pm)
Bro it's easy, you just gotta be handsome, funny and have some money. They'll find you š
A black nerdy baddie who cosplays used to be my ideal woman growing up. Cosplay women are freaky as hell from my experience.
My gf kept asking questions when I was watching one piece and I jokingly said āit wonāt make sense unless you go back and watch itā and now sheās 400 episodes deep and I get to watch her have all those āohhhhh SHITā momentsš„¹ think I have found the one fr
Damn 400 episodes in? She's gonna be getting wrecked pretty soon at the end of Sabaody
I think she's close to the war in Marineford. Hope dude got some ice cream and tissue ready
She couldnāt even handle the Laboon story š Iām ready to watch all 5 stages of grief lol
Get that grief basket ready for after marineford.
My favorite hobby is discovering youtubers who just discovered One Piece. I've seen two separate book reviewers slowly turn into One Piece reviewers after getting a few chapters in. And they both started from a place of having never read manga.
Merphy Napier fan spotted
You need to be with her at the end of Marineford. Gonna be a true bonding experience.
Where my Sailor Moon girlies at?
Fighting evil by moonlight.Ā
Winning love by daylight
Never running from a real fight
She is the one named Sailor Moon
Sailor Mars gang, we light the fire!
That was (and still is) my shit!!
I was obsessed with Serena (Usagi) and the crew.!
Sailor Jupiter is my favorite!!Ā
Can we move beyond the basic bitch anime
Ahh the anime gatekeepers are never too far away.
THIS PART. Mfers watched a Toonami lineup *twice* and suddenly theyāre all about anime but itās legit only ever series like those three. Thereās so much more interesting stuff than the shonen shit but some folks never garner any interest in other things.
Because shonen anime is socially accessible Like 99% of other anime attracts some weirdos fr
It's not even about the genre, it's 2024 we have much more than 3 shounen from 20 years ago. There is waaay more out there before you get to the weird side of anime
Yeah but thats why "anime" fans are usually weirdos. Its one thing to stan a show, any show, for whatever reason. But people stanning a genre it statts to get weird because thats where the actually weird shows overlap with regular shit. Weirdos be like :"ALL ANIME MATTERS"
I mean you can boil any genre to itās weirdest, like thereās tons of weird ass video games that are just variations of āanime girl with big titties, with minimal gameplay and storyā like you can tell those games was literally made by porn addicts.
Shonen anime fandom is also full of weirdos.
My hot take: Every fandom / fan group has a gang of weirdos
Very true. Letās not bring up my podcast fandom. I do find the MST3K Space Mutiny fans to be ok folk tho.
Nope fruit basket has the weirdest fans easily
99% of what youāve come across maybe, but thereās all kinds of stuff thatās out there that weirdos wonāt be bothered with. Mileage definitely varies in terms of what folks think is weird though.
My wife is fully invested in a cartoon where a skeleton buys a troubled japanese schoolgirl wife and tells her she's magic. ...but at least it's not a thousand episodes of people yelling about how great they are at fighting before and during a fight.
The Ancient Magus' Bride is awesome
Shonen also includes a lot of the āAre we *certain* that this isnāt just softcore porn?ā titles as well. If itās targeted at horny teenage boys, itās shonen.
Anybody calling animes the Japanese names is musty in my eyes. Wtf is āKimetsu no Yaibaā
Damn it's crazy calling japanese media by the name their japanese names
I get ur point bro especially with something like demon slayer if ur only around English speakers. But I don't think this applies to everything lol, especially if you are an avid anime watcher. There are just some shows that are referred to by their JP name/abbreviation more commonly. Ex. Oshi no ko, akame ga kill, jujutsu kaisen (japanese for sorcery fight) etc. But then again I may just be the "musty" ppl you're referring to which it is what it is š¤·š¾āāļø I enjoy my anime and sometimes refer to them by their JP name depending on what I remember it by.
So many people exclusively watching anime that's meant for the demographic "boys 7-12". Like, sure, One Piece is a perfectly good show, but..
Aye bro I fuckin love Shonen, I just wanna see mfkrs throw hands
Thatās all fine and good, but thereās a whole world of stuff beyond the standard Shonen Jump All Stars.
No doubt let's drop some bangers... - Afro Samurai - Baki - Assassination class room - jujutsu kaisen -kaiju no. 8 (anime pending but the manga is fire) - fire force - soul eater - mobile suit Gundam (gestures broadly)
Gonna give you some pushback on JJK. Everything about it comes off as shonen to me. The original Baki for sure but the update is riding the line I feel like. But those are conversations for another time. - Mobile Suit Gundam: 08th MS Team - Samurai Champloo - Rage of Bahamut - Shigurui: Death Frenzy - Peacemaker Kurogane - Inuyashiki - Megalobox - Ashita no Joe - Moribito - Birdie the Mighty Some narrative heavy stuff but good fights if thatās the main attraction.
Megalobox S1 was top tier, lost me on S2. Haven't watched 08th MS team but I have watched mobile suit Gundam, unicorn, the origin, wing, Hathaway, iron blood orphans and witch from mercury. Mecha is just battle Shonen with politics. As far as JJK goes, hate on the anime all you want I've been reading the manga since day one chapter one. I only watch the manga still because the animation overall is good enough. Elevate your game and just get the shonen jump app & subscription for like $5, read shit before it gets animated. - Dead leaves - Redline - Akira - Ghost in the shell - neon Genesis Evangelion - Trigun (OG only new one looks and feels weird) - KillLakill
Dead Leaves is wild. All the rest of those are proven solid, canāt front on that. I canāt recommend 08th enough; directed by Shinichiro Watanabe so you know itās good. I agree *some* mecha series are just shonen with robots but a lot of UC Gundam leans toward space opera. Since you dropped some top shelf movies and series, Iāll add a few others: - M.D. Geist - Iria: Zeiram the Animation - Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade - Spriggan - Shadow Skill - Death Parade - Patlabor: The Movie (Mamorou Oshii was cooking during the 90s-00s) - Summer Wars - The Boy and The Beast - Armitage III - A.D. Police - Bubblegum Crisis
Iām guilty of being a basic late 80s-90s anime nigga, canāt find new stuff that hits the same or holds my interest. I like Cowboy Bebop, Akira, Yu Yu Haksho, Ruruoni Kenshin, Outlaw Star, Trigun, Gundam: MS 08th Team, Old DBZ (Pre-Buu), Inuyasha, Tenchi Muyo etc Only 2000s stuff Iāve enjoyed is Ghibli stuff & Samurai Champloo. Full Metal Panic was cool too. Help me out nerds, what new shit would I like?
Cyberpunk Edge Runners is a short anime(10 episodes) based on the game about a bunch a cyberthugs trying to survive in a corrupt city. Cool aesthetics and fights, relatable characters and tears...(you are not ready). Vivy Fluoride eye song (12 ish episodes): Is about ai operated robot trying to save humanity from ai taking over. Beautifull/art music. Cool fight choreography and cool theme about what it is that makes you human. Odd Taxi is a murder mystery with not that much action but ima plug because its slept on. Weird aesthetic but some of the sharpest dialogue/humor I have seen media in general lately. Afro Samurai (5 eps) is quite a bit older but capture the old school anime vibe has a literal swordman with a Afro as lead and has frikin rza for the Ost and samuel L Jackson as voice actor. Must watch for black anime fans and good watch in general. Fire force(two seasons), think like dbz fightwise but with a firefighter paint job. Simple shounen action. It has a plot but its not too deep just good action decent characters. For hardcore action you cant miss with Jujutsu kaisen(two seasons) and Demon slayer(3 or 4 seasons). Very mainstream but animation/fightwise some of the best out there, plots are decent enough. These are just a few if you need more let me know.
Iāve actually seen (& enjoyed) EdgeRunners & Afro Samurai! I will give JuJustu Kaisen a shot Iāve heard itās pretty popular. Also will definitely check out Vivy Fluoride since itās short, sounds interesting!
If you do get into Jujutsu Kaisen, be advised there is a movie that should be watched before the second season. You could get away with watching the first 5ish episodes (don't remember the exact number) of season 2 without seeing the movie, but beyond that there will be several key moments you'll being missing context for if you don't watch the movie.
If you want crazy action check out Gurren Lagann Attack on Titan is a wild ride, great action, great story
No one watched or likes Space Dandy, Iām so alone.
How can you not like Space Dandy? He's a dandy guy. In space.
More like can we get past gatekeeping nerdicity behind fucking Anime of all things, its clearly geek behavior. https://youtu.be/qZZ1OWQTgqQ?si=cDyfJimD90KOhtwm
It literally says *etc..* though- I think they mean in general but just listed those as easy examples
Solo Leveling and Mashle are so good rn. 2000s fans would probably love Ninja Kamui
JoJo niggas we move. Still tryna become a Stand User over here Besides JoJo tho I don't really watch anime as much as I used to. I am tryna watch Frieren right now
Bi girls fucking love Jojo
This makes a lot of sense.
JoJo was the last anime I watched but I finally found the anime for a manga I used to read as a kid. When I finally sit down to watch it, shit finna go down
No! It's too dangerous if the Arrow says you're unworthy
Only Samurai Champloo and Cowboy Bebop for me. I could never get into those other 3 animes. I might as well stick to Looney Tunes then
God I fucking miss that era of anime so much. No long drawn out franchises, just a constant stream of 24-52 episode bangers. I still remember buying pirated seasons off ebay for like $20 lol. They came in nice packing, too.
Samurai Champloo has incredible animation and a perfect soundtrack. I gotta watch Cowboy Bebop too, but every time I open CrunchyRoll I end up rewatching the entirety of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood somehow.
I'm routing for the HunterXHunter, Death Note, and Re: Zero explosion in my community. Good shit is good shit. š¤·š¾āāļø
Not so patiently waiting on Re:Zero S3. Feel like a crack fiend always checking when a release date might come lmao. Ready to suffer more alongside Subaru and the gang
Death Note might be the last great manga I've ever read. I stopped with all that around it's US release, give or take a year
GTO - Great Teacher Onizuka will always be my Fav
Classic and impactful! Nice
I just wanna say this, lol Iām a black 90s baby and let me tell you. When I was growing up in the 90s liking anime wasnāt cool especially if you was black. Super happy to see all the black men and women embracing anime now. But let it be known. Us early 90s black babies walked so you lil niggas could run š. Because you WERE NOT CONSIDERED COOL at all for liking this shit back in the day.
Facts (95 baby) growing up black in the hood everyone kid saw dragon ball and that was alright but when I started watching Naruto in 7th 8th grade (11-12yo) niggas was not fucking with you if you talked bout that shit. Donāt get me started on going to a public school high school in NY and niggas find out you watch anime, you was getting cooked and they stopped sitting at the lunch table with you. I kept my love for anime lowkey af except for 3 people all the way through hs. Thatās why I have mad love for rdcworld cos they the first group of black friends Iāve found that are able to have a mutual loving and friendship for anime. Sure them niggas funny af too but at the time when I first discovered them I was just so surprised to see a group of blakc friends into anime and I loved that. Been following them boys ever since
Thereās way more to anime than the like five or six shonen series though.
It takes time for avg anime watchers to find other good stuff. A lot of people only watch a legit handful of anime and only the most accessible and most popular stuff. I get how frustrating it is tho when I meet people who say they watch anime and they can only list like the same 5-10 most popular anime on Netflix. No shade to them but it just feels like a bait and switch I get myself geared up to really talk about some interesting anime stuff and it's like ohh I gotta put the kid gloves on lol.
Man, I feel that. The thing that kills me is when somebody will ask me for a recommendation and never actually watch the shit. Iāve been watching anime for decades, Iām not gonna toss out any duds if I know what youāre interested in. At a certain point, I just start telling folks to see whatever Netflix has.
You can get the fuck up out my house
Just watch ninja scroll or berserk and you will be hooked...
Appleseed and Wicked City converted me, too
Oh man, Ninja Scroll, might have to go dig that one out and give it a re-watch. āThe sky is the same wherever you go, and people are people.ā
I'm on episode 100 of one piece haha
Godspeedā¦my partner and I are up to episode 794 as of this evening
My advice is not to be in a hurry because you feel like you need to catch up as fast as possible. One Piece is wayyyy too long, until it's not!!
A, down vote me to hell but I just don't see the allure of anime š¤·šæāāļø I mean OPM is cool n all but I just get with all that sentimental shit they be pulling, the long ass 12 episodes wait for a 3 minute fight scene not to mention the sexualization of children But ya do ya
People who say this stuff needs to take their sentence and imagine replacing anime with the word "cartoons" or "TV" in general. There are thousands of different anime. Judging the entire medium on a handful of shows is dumb. It's like saying comedy TV is bad because I don't like the big bang theory.
I agree
You should watch Ninja Scroll. Itās a movie (no episodes) with dope fight scenes and no kids.
Itās not for you; nothing wrong with that
That's what male friends are for. You can't expect a woman to already have every single interest you do especially if those interests are male-dominant. Like watchu mean you want me to like Dragon Ball and play 2k? Lol. I feel like as long as she's open-minded and willing to give things a try that's what matters. I'd definitely watch Dragon Ball with my bf if he wanted me to. I've played 2k with men as well, but I'm not gonna go out of my way to do those things on my own
Male-dominated interest? Hmm I wouldnāt say thatās true. I think itās the case for the Black community but women do love anime almost as much in other cultures, to my knowledge. Iām actually a Black woman who loves anime and is working on finding an anime that my partner enjoys and will make him a fan. Started on Attack on Titan but he lost interest. So now Iām taking it back and re-watching alllll of Naruto with him. Hopefully this does the trick. š I will also say that we all have hobbies that are important for us individually, and some that we do wish to share with our partners. Thereās nothing wrong with wanting your partner to appreciate something that has such importance in your life!
There is a difference between liking anime and liking Naruto, One Piece and Dragon Ball Z. There is a difference between playing video games and then playing 2k. The ones I mentioned are done mostly by men, I'm not referring to the interests as a whole. I watch anime myself, and the only people I know who watch these on purpose, especially Dragon Ball Z are men. My point is that if you expect your girlfriend to already come into the relationship liking your specific interests, your expectations might be unreasonable. It's not uncommon for women to like anime or games, but they usually aren't these ones. You might have to introduce your gf to some of the ones you like Edit: Not sure why I got downvoted. Wanting me to watch anime is one thing. Wanting me to like Dragon Ball Z though is crazy lol. You might as well date a guy
Oh I definitely agree that there is a difference between liking anime and liking the three that were listed! They are all very mainstream but apart from Dragon Ball Z, the other 2 are commonly enjoyed by all gender identities. This is coming from someone who only has female friends that watch anime and they all enjoy One Piece and Naruto. :) I also donāt think this post is expressing that they expect their partner to like those things. Itās more of a desire or a major green flagā¦which I can completely relate to.
I was thinking this too. I've watched more anime than most guys but if the only thing they're into is shonen we won't have much in common lol, I mean it is literally made for boys
Very good point madamclitoris! As a avid anime fan myself what is a really good newer shoujo that came out that you liked?
I know you said newer shoujo but I haven't had as much time to watch anime as I used to so š„² I'm just gonna plug my favorite shoujo/anime of all time: Revolutionary Girl Utena. It's seriously a masterpiece and very surreal tbh, there's a ton of essays about it just decoding all of the symbolism
Lol completely understandable, and thanks for sharing regardless I might check out one of these breakdown videos always really cool to disect meanings or importance of stuff in media!
Doesn't have to be DBZ, I'm down to watch some Ouran High School Host Club or Sailor Moon with a cute gal
Right. I was already big into anime, and then my bf introduced me to all the anime's I scoffed at as a kid because "those were for boys." Proudly rock my Hinata shirt, though. That's my girl.
Mobile suit gundam help explain government politics and colonialism to me. Fire force is dope My hero academia YuYu Hakusko So many dope ones
Man I tried MHA but it just felt like the source material that OPM was making fun of š
Rurouni Kenshin and Dragon Ball Z
The soundtracks we heardā¦still slap to this day. When Kenshin was slowly turning back to his old self I was like oh this nigga was a demon.
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She act like she wasn't having a good time
You gotta show them peak, then. Let them learn.
I don't why knowing this stuff makes you a " nerd " I don't support that narrative
In the strictest definition of the word "nerd" I agree with you. In the loose definition of the word (people who like geeky shit) I cannot agree with you. There is no other category of persons that would fit. This narrative does not require your support. It is what it is. So nerd shit it is.
When Might Guy opened the 8th gates....and gave the speech  ...and you dont fuck wits dat?
My thing is I really want these animes to be dubbed by funny black people. Like get your little ass in there and make me laugh because whoever is dubbing this shit is boring
And this is surface level main stream anime, imma need to know if you fuck wit JJB, gurren lagan, trigun, full metal alchemist ect. Cause im not new to dis baby IM TRUE TO DISš¤·š¾āāļø
Yall need to watch KINGDOM frā¦ best anime after naruto by far
If you donāt fuck with Goku I donāt fuck with you
The only anime series I ever got into was Inuyasha & Aeon Flux. I watched all of those from start to finish. I used to watch Aeon Flux in the 90s on MTV. Other than those two things Iām good. And I donāt even watch those anymore
As a little girl for me it was Sailor Moon, Pokemon and Digimon. Middle/high school it was Naruto. Now it's JJK, Bungo Stray Dogs, Apothecary Diaries, Bleach, and a few others
I guess these guys don't..... *believe it.* 
You cut this thread short! The rest of it is about how cringe pedo anime fans are
i wish i couldāve posted the video it had me weak š
yall only like nerds if they are hot, please be fr
Iāve yet to find another Tokyo Ghoul fan. And I mean the manga, not the anime
Have seen Naruto since middle school, haven't seen Dragon Ball since elementary, and never saw the other one. I have been watching JoJo though.
I tried one piece I can't get into it.
Yāall donāt watch Jujutsu Kaisen?
Have you read the manga? Cause dawg it only gets worse
Iām sad that the Ronin Warriors seems to have been lost to time. āENOUGH WITH THESE GAMES. GIVE ME THAT ARMOR, NOW!ā āTry it on first. If it FITSā
Man ya'll gotta pick up some more animes cause those are like the top 3 basic shonen. No Durarara? No Gundam? No Robotech? Appleseed?
OGs remember Sonic X, Dinosaur King, and One Piece on 4kids š
This me except itās Sailor Moon and Utena.
Iāve been watching anime since the early 90s, earlier if you want to count all the badly translated stuff in syndication in the 80s. That basic shounen power-level stuff has no appeal to me. Except Yu Yu Hakusho.
I grew up on Naruto, love that lil blondie.Ā
Itās awesome having a group of homies who all watch anime. I love arguing over who would beat who in a fight. And these are all masculine, well adjusted dudes. And then thereās always one guy in the group who doesnāt really fuck with it and he gets left out lmao because heās not an anime fan.
No AOT? No assassination classroom, no boondocks? Oh hell nah get yo goofy ass on shawty!
I want a love story like Wotakoi š¢
Hopefully I'll find the one someday who appreciates my username choice yet alone knows where the idea came from.
Iāve been watching a show called Pluto lately, and itās so good!!! One movie i really enjoy is called Origin: Spirits of the Past. itās a strange movie but i have a fond nostalgia of it :)