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 No.955099

Is there any anime/manga series that created a world as length and in depth lore as Discworld, Dune or Wheel of Time?

I'm not looking for a series that just keeps pumping out content but high amounts of world building as well.

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 No.955100

>>955099

How is light fantastic and color of magic regarded? I started reading the series and really didn't like any of those and it put me off the series for a long time. I did read equal rites and mort not long ago, and I enjoyed those quite a bit. Is those first two generally regarded as poor know quality or something?

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 No.955105

>>955100

Color of Magic/Light Fantastic are not very good starting entries into Discworld since they read like you should already know what the Disc is like. The guide OP posted recommends Sourcery and that makes sense, since it plays off the idea of mages and inherited magic that anyone who's read fantasy before can easily work with. All of the "Starter Novel" books in the guide (besides Color of Magic, of course) are actually good starter novels depending on what you want to read about: "Watch Novels" mark the start of the Night Watch guard/police series, "Industrial Revolution" is about scientific inventions being introduced into a fantasy-style world, "Death" is about the bony scythe guy and his problems, and the others are self-explanatory.

One final note: the Tiffany Aching novels are listed as "Young Adult" and they mean it, they're written very differently and I didn't like them very much.

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 No.955107

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>>955099

>lore

>wanting irrelevant details that only serve mechanical purposes in a story be explained upon ad nauseam,

Anime that is pumped out by the dozen won't have much of time dedicated to fleshing out things needed to flesh out.

Only long anime that I had seen that pumped out large amounts of content while handling a semi consistent world well was LOGH while remaining in good quality.

Though that's mostly due to history being looked into depth and "realistic" looks into overwhelming corruption.Arguably with some entire episodes are dedicated to history of the world and the focus being on how things generally are. It occasionally breaks scenes to explain things in the same way a historian would.

Manga-wise ,while not competing with your examples,I remember some of them having decent world-building, or just being throughout with themselves.

Dungeon Meshi goes into detail how Dungeons affect people, how professional behavior and economies.

Pluto manages to look into a not-War-on-Terror and it's after effects, as well as how robots are treated, even if simplistically, while having strong drama.

Heterogenia Linguistico basically tries to teach the viewer about a world through the eyes of a scholar learning the language of various monster people,explaining things through their language or their interpreted activities.It's also insanely comfy.

Quite a few recent fantasy manga that are glorified scrapped DnD campaigns, background included.They spend time menially explaining things for the setting that aren't that interesting and it's usually on the first few chapters.

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 No.955115

>>955099

I don't know if there's anything that's quite as in-depth as those series but honestly I think the series that would be most satisfying to a fan of western sff novels would be One Piece (if the anime is boring try reading through the manga instead- if you haven't already). There's plenty of world-building, the main characters travel through a lot of varied settings but what sets it apart from the other long running series is the compelling and well-thought out overarching plot. It has Tower-of-Ghenjei-type foreshadowing where details from hundreds of episodes/chapters earlier are setting things up way down the line.

Also it's short but Grancrest Senki had some cool world-building.

>>955100

I've read maybe 10 discworld books now, and I think all of the starting novels, and I just don't care for the series in general. That said the first couple Rincewind books were particularly not-enjoyable but were also short and conveyed a lot of basic info. The Witches and Death novels were probably the best of what I read.

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 No.955139

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>>955100

Not well.

If you liked Mort and Equal Rites then the rest of the series is closer to them than the first two. That being said, Mort remains my favorite and some of the later ones never quite hit that peak... but the tone is the same and the humor is generally worthwhile.

Best Rincewind book to start is probably Eric.

Death series is solid, although I didn't much care for Reaper Man. Still my favorite of the bunch.

Guards! Guards! was also pretty meh, but it establishes the characters of The Watch and everything afterwards is great, especially Feet of Clay and Jingo.

Pyramids and Small Gods are both standalone and are excellent.

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 No.955271

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Watch A Certain Scientific Railgun seasons 1 & 2. Then watch Index and prepare to have your mind blown by the deep lore. It's best to start with Railgun because it deals more with the side of things the in-universe average joe is going is to see.

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 No.955372

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>>955271

Don''t forget A Certain Scientific Accelerator

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 No.955373

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>>955115

>Grancrest Senki had some cool world-building.

Try Lodoss War

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 No.955382

>>955373

I've been meaning to watch this for a while now.

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