| vivster said: Sorry shouldn't have called them real. Of course Death Note and co are real too but they just feel like the forefront that are all geared towards the same audience and they all use the same themes and tropes. You have to dig past the first charge to get to the animes that will not appeal to newbies because they're a bit more creative and fall into niche categories. I mean try to sell a newcomer to Gurren Lagann. It's an absolutely awesome anime and all but a few anime fans love it. But it' still weird and full of uncomfortable fanservice. I tried to recommend it few times and it was always shot down for not being serious enough. That's why newbies who maybe watched 20 animes are still full of misconceptions and stereotypes because the first wave on animes are pretty much all the same. Try to sell them Higurashi and they will say it's full of kids and moe with bad character design. Because they have yet to know what actually is possible with anime and that not all animes are what they look like. I think for the next recommendations I will just choose the weirdest shit I know just for the lulz. |
I was watching a video by IGN called something like "Eight Anime Worth Watching", and they recommended a few of the things you would expect (Death Note, Code Geass etc). Then they recommended Baccano! making me forgive any short comings of the video (although they called it "more slow paced" and light on action...I disagree with that assertion).
Then they recommended School Days.
Don't go too crazy with your recommendations or you may scar someone for life.
PS: You mentioned that your first anime was Ergo Proxy a few posts ago. Damn good show. I started off with Casshern Sins (which is still one of my favorites) because I wanted to get hyped for Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. Its no coincedence that I main Casshern (and Roll).
