My favs are
The og Trigun ( I’ve yet to watch the newer show but it doesn’t look bad. I just have a giant soft spot for how “dirty” anime used to look back then )
Devilman both the OVAs and Crybaby
Delicious in Dungeon currently
And to the shock of absolutely no one. Jojos Bizarre Adventure
Dungeon Meshi or Delicious in Dungeon is great if you want fantasy anime without the cringey isekai stuff. The world building is just as delicious as the monsters and the food. The dub is also very funny
Totally agree. It’s a rude discovery to realize I’ve the one that’s been being rude all these years dismissing anime and not understanding all the nuances to it’s (genre? - somebody said not to use that to describe it).
After Arcane I was suddenly a woman on a mission! My husband came home to find me watching Arcane and looked at me like, “what the hell, woman?!” Then after awhile of watching started asking so many questions I had to back it up to rewatch some of it. (Luckily not too far.) Then he comes home another day and I’ve got DOTA: Dragon’s Blood on - one raised eyebrow, then questions, then me backing up again!!! lol Now I’ve got Attack on Titan going and both he and I are starting to discuss the merits & differences of animation, world-building directing, voice acting, and story. (and how he prefers dubbed and don’t on some of them, & discussions why!)
I honestly don’t know what the hell I’m doing when I’m googling shows now - which ones lean kid-wise (made that mistake with one I won’t mention) - it’s going to be hit and miss for awhile until I settle in, but then again so are tv series and movies: some have the depth and scope and hit the bullseye, some are just fun, some meh, and some…oops, bad one! lol) So, we’ll see. For now it’s an interesting and surprising medium.
see, words to describe or whatever I don’t know… yet! But it’s helping to hear some of you use them so I can get a better idea of what I’m watching and how to describe it.
My 30 something kids keep telling me to watch Castlevania. What’s that described as? Does Blood Zeus count as what?
I just discovered The Far Away Paladin. It’s an Isekai, but leans more towards hard fantasy, with some Tolkien-esque themes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faraway_Paladin
If you watched Arcane, I assume you have Netflix. I highly encourage you to watch that the first run of Castlevania with Trevor and Sypha (but avoid the follow up series with Richter). You can also watch Cyberpunk Edgerunners. Both shows (barring the follow to Castlevania) were very well received by fans and critics.
I’ll give them a look, thanks for the suggestions
Anime to me brings back those late-childhood memories of staying up late watching Cartoon Network/Toonami. Staying up til like 1 AM to catch the latest episode of such and such anime, those were the days 
Seems like it’s fairly popular in the teenage years, but drops off in adulthood. Some guys keep watching it post-high school, but from what I’ve observed it’s mostly a younger guy thing (seems to be well-remembered from the teenage years in particular)
That’s quite the berth. Might as well say Among Us and Doom are the same cause they both have death animations. For accuracy, Ninja Scroll never got a bad dub or was Westernized/Whitewashed like Dragonball. Or most daytime anime.[quote=“Moondoggíe-faerlina, post:40, topic:1855778, full:true”]
old anime good
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Painting with broom sized brush strokes, are we?
While you’re on Netflix, I heartily recommend Delicious in Dungeon. Great world building, fun concept and characters, and the author is a huge D&D nerd. She even posted about how hyped she was to play BG3 on day one. After finishing the manga/comic book, she published a “bible” to further explain the world and it’s cultures. She also didn’t want it adapted into animation until she had finished writing it.
The stop-motion you’re referring to is trademark anime style, and where it stems from is actually really interesting. Traditionally (and mainly Disney), animation is developed on a 24 FPS standard where movies are animated on 1s, but this is actually painstakingly difficult to achieve, and back in the day, it cost TONS of money to do (still does, technically). Japan had a lot of animation talent due to companies like Disney outsourcing things like Pinocchio to studios in Japan, but post-WW2, they didn’t have the money to create their own products at the same level of fluid animation. The closest they ever got was what is considered to be the first-ever anime, Panda and the Magic Serpent, which is an adaptation of a Chinese myth that Toei Entertainment made as an unofficial apology to China for what Japan did during WW2.
After this, Osamu Tezuka, who helped make Panda and the Magic Serpent, broke off from Toei to create Mushi Production, which is where he’d go on to make Astro Boy.
Astro Boy is considered the first anime to exist in the style we associate anime with today. Mushi didn’t have any money, though, and they couldn’t afford to make 20 minute long episodes with the same level of fluid animation as Disney or Panda and the Magic Serpent, so they opted for a 12 FPS standard instead. This meant they animate on 2s rather than 1s, thereby halving the amount of FPS. This cut costs and made it possible for them to push out episodes faster. This became a repeated theme throughout all anime produced in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, and after a certain point, it just became tradition.
That’s why anime looks the way it does. It’s technically a stylistic choice today, but its roots are based in necessity.
I think a lot of people who stand by this rule would be surprised to know that many of their favorite childhood shows were likely animated in Japan and don’t outwardly appear as “anime.”
Those old, claymation Christmas movies like Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph were made almost exclusively in Japan.
Some of it I like, some I don’t care for. I like Japanese with subtitles better than dubbed. Sometimes the dubbing has me rolling in the floor laughing though. Same with dubbed samurai and yakuza movies.
see I just discovered is a genre of anime
Also I liked Spirited Away before I knew what it was - though I’m not sure which category Kubo & the Two Strings falls under. And how the heck do you tell how *not to watch one for kids?
There’s a massive oversaturation of isekai trash right now. And harem trash continues to be put out.
Frieren is such good fantasy. Outside of a few cases I’ve always been skeptical of anime fantasy, but that’s a show that’s genuinely amazing.
Another great suggestion if you like DnD and raunchy humor with a good story is Vox Machina on Amazon Prime. It is a very well done animated series (not Japanese anime, but very similar in style.) This series is based on the Matt Mercer Critical Role DnD podcast and features a huuuuuge cast of amazing and prolific voice talent. Not the least of which is Matt Mercer (Rexxar, Fyrakk, etc) himself and Liam O’Brien (Illidan Stormrage)!
Scooby Doo on Zombie Island was animated by a Japanese studio.
Terrible genre.
I’ve heard really good things about that series.
That true fantasy or isekai? I’m honestly skeptical of fantasy anime lately.
He’ll forever be Lloyd Asplund to me.
Only anime i like is DBZ all other ones are meh
Fist bump on that bro.
True fantasy, luckily.