/animu/ - Anime & Otaku Culture

>>89283

To be honest it was trail and error for me.

>>89285

This isn't a rec thread. It's a discovery strategy thread.

>>89283

Current season: Read the descriptions of everything, watch first episode of those that sound good, drop if very shit, otherwise watch second episode, drop if meh.

Past seasons: Pick the tags I like, then proceed as above

Note that this may take some time. Plan an afternoon so you can really read everything. Also works for manga and LN.

One way is to start by revisiting anything you saw in the past, figuring out what from among that you liked the most, then branching out based on that. You can also just dive into new seasons by picking up anything that looks even the tiniest bit interesting, and drop anything that doesn't stick as the season goes on. A few seasons of doing that with 20+ shows at the start cut down to 5 or so you actually like enough to finish should give you a pretty good sense of what you want out of a show. Don't completely neglect older stuff you haven't heard of before but don't feel obligated to watch/like everything people say is good.

Once you get to the point you've advanced beyond these methods or rec charts, using individual series/creators you've come to like as a method of discovery works really well. This is just an example, since you mentioned GitS, you could watch other things in the series like Standalone Complex, other Shirou Masamune stuff, or other Mamoru Oshii stuff. Another method is digging into a genre directly. For isekai harems for instance you'll pretty much find one or two per season on average for the last few years. Just the last few seasons there's Shield Hero, Slime, How Not to Summon a Demon Lord, and probably something else.

Unique art direction or a good OP usually makes me curious enough to give something a look.

>>89283

I've grown up with animu broadcasted on tv, all kinds of stuff from giant robots to magical girls etc. As long as you're a kid, you're willing to watch everything. But when you're adult, you neither have the time or the disposition to just absorb everything and viewing requires selection.

But there's a limit, which most people here have already hit: eventually you've seen everything best Japan had to offer and you're left munching the seasonal crap, looking desperately for something new. That's your cue for passing on your knowledge to others and move on. Having a thread on this might be a first and beneficial.

Want something fun and old style? Ranma, Lupin.

Want something stylish and older? Harlock, Galaxy Express.

Want the absolute masterpieces? Nausicaa, Berserk, Alita and Ghost in the Shell mangos.

>>89286

>It's a discovery strategy thread.

Word of mouth is the only way to discover the good works. You can't seriously ask for a device that lets you mine the best books from the walls of a library, as if they were minerals.

What's different is that the guy is evidently not a kid anymore, but just suggesting the Top 10 Anime of All Time is not the right way to learn anime (just like watching art movies and never an action flick). Most likely banned from /a/ due to asking for recommendations. I don't think it can be done without doing so, I interpret the real need of OP as 'recommending anime to adults'.

>>89310

>I couldn't watch Robot Carnival, because everything was simply crafted to be ugly, much like western media.

Are you a nigger who only watched the opening or something? It has like 7 different directors and nothing even close to resembling a consistent art style. I would readily agree though that Otomo at least is a westaboo hack obsessed with making everything as ugly as possible and only ever made good anime because he had 50% of the animators in the industry and infinite budget backing him up.

Sage for off-topic.

>>89316

Your premise is retarded especially since were talking about finding something that fits your personal tastes rather than an objective best. You absolutely can utilize resources and data to help refine your search.

OP here.

>>89321

>>89316

I gave up on looking for recommendations when I saw the charts. There's too much anime and it's too diverse for any objective list. Instead, I want to know how anons decide what to watch.

>>89311

>It is capeshit shounen and it panders to normalfag manchildren.

I have verified you're correct. I am on ep. 5 of Boku no Hero Academia and the stupid kid won't stop crying.

I'm also on ep. 4 of Death Parade (looking lik e it might get interesting) and am planning to watch Girls und Panzer.

>>89321

Don't sperg like a kid whenever you see something you disagree with. It makes you the petulant weeb of the board, sorely sticking out in all threads (and don't reply).

Our friend wants an education in anime, and my point is he should receive one that is both academic and popular. It can only be done through word of mouth, as to say the guidance of a teacher: the job of teaching is more than just reading the masterpieces (the recommended lists) until they rub off on you. You have to pick a path according to the person, and pass on the experience of the layman as well.

I gather a list of anime that seem interesting, number them, and roll a die to determine which I'll watch. If it passes the three episode test, I'll watch to completion. Shounenshit is automatically disqualified because I don't care to watch anime spanning hundreds of episodes.

>>89333

I haven't even bother with Boku no Hero cuz it just looks shitty, and shounen shit, save for a few, is usually like that anon described, catered to normalfag manchildren. But definitely keep watching Death Parade, I enjoyed it quite a bit, a movie was just put out too, so check that out if you like the show.

And as for your thread, like other anons said, it's just trial and error, just go through, pick a genre(s) and read a bunch of anime descriptions, if the artwork intrigues you, see what the anime is about, and if you like the sound of it, start watching it, I've done this for the past year, and it's worked plenty well for me. I've found over a hundred animes that I've loved doing this. Good luck, and happy hunting.

>>89483

I used to love bleach, but I gave up after 120-ish episodes because I realized shit was never going to end.

>>89283

>I'm a beginner when it comes to anime & manga

How did you even get here?

>>89498

Sitewide, I frequent /v/, and have seen people complain about /a/ and offer /animu/ as an alternative.

Ask me

>>89283

Give it at least 3 episodes.

If it doesn't pique your interest by then you can safely throw it in the trash.

>>89283

Firstly, if I first hear about it from Anons discussing it on 8chan, I know there's a pretty good chance I'll like it. We all have pretty similar tastes for the most part. Then, I read the synopsis. I don't do this as a gauge of quality, but rather to check for red flags. For example, I can't stand yurishit, so if I see that it's got yuri in it I don't watch it. That's pretty much my entire selection process. I'll drop it after the first two eps or so if I dislike them, but that's only happened to me two or three times.

>>89284

Basically my process too.

About half of the stuff I've have on my watch list came up as search results because one of the words in the title was the same to another series I was looking for, found out about the series via stills or merchandise taken from them, or just saw the series available at an actual store and looked it up later on.

>>89326

Ah /tg/. Where being fat and ugly is how you start fitting in.

>>89727

Intersperse the longer 52 to 1000 episode long shows with nice 12 episode series which have a different style from the long shows. I don't recommend taking breaks from longer shows to come back to because you never will.

>>89733

>Trying to fling shit at /tg/ when /tg/ has a recurring manga thread

>>89741

The three day intestinal blockage of cheetos, chicken tendies, and pepperoni hot pockets all soaked in mountain dew came this direction first. Why are Warhammer 40k fans such nerds?

>>89333

Girls und Panzer is very good. Be sure to check out all the OVAs/specials and movies, too. They're super fun.

>>89283

You need to set your goals first. So you want to watch shows you're likely to enjoy? Or are you looking to try new things?

If it's the former, think about what you liked about what you liked. Is it the genre, the direction, the tone, etc? Then you can seek out more movies like that in the rec thread.

If it's the latter, watch every show in a season for at least 1-3 episodes to see what you like. Most seasons have at least 1 show in almost every genre.

>>89283

I have read some of the other responses here, and they are quite frankly shite, so I will try and give you some GOOD rec's.

Note: the following are not that intense or psychological (though some have some deeper elements) but most are FUN shows that will make you LAUGH (SoL/Harem/RomCom etc.):

Kannagi

Lucky Star

Tamayura Hitotose (+ Aggressive)

Hyakko

Tantei Opera Milky Holmes

Seitokai no Ichizon

Kill Me Baby!

Sky Girls

Strike Witches

Sakurasou

Chuunibyou

Kami Nomi Zo Shiru Sekai

Nagasarete Airantou

Ika Musume

The Idolm@ster (2011)

Working!!

Hayate no Gotoku

Kore ga Watashin no Goshujin-sama

MM!

…if you don't like at least some of these, you seriously need to get some TASTE, kid.

>>89283

Unpopular opinion

(that might have worked better before (((Netflix/Hulu/Crunchyroll/Funimation))) destroyed fansubbing, although GJM and Kaleido might be making a comback):

1. CHOOSE A FANSUB GROUP THAT YOU LIKE TO FOLLOW

2. IF THEY SUB SOMETHING THAT LOOKS GOOD, PICK IT UP

Advantages:

- Support the community

- Don't watch shit releases

- Don't build a huge backlog

- Influence taste positively

- Motivated to learn Japanese faster

>>90734

I'm not the one to deny reality, I'm just asking self-identified weebs what they think. Wouldn't it be offensive for complete casual to consider himself weeb? I'm not OP btw.

>>89942

>CHOOSE A FANSUB GROUP THAT YOU LIKE TO FOLLOW

You have any recommendations i currently just watch on steaming sites.

>>90782

MTBB, Vivid, Nauti

>>90741

>>90737

It's a usually self-deprecating buzzword. Westerners who identify as "otaku" on the otherhand are cringe incarnate.