Post Your Favorite Anime/Cartoons

What show is that?

 

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. Highly recommend!

 

Is it on anything besides crunchyroll?

 

It’s on Hulu!

 

I've been watching it and yeah its pretty good!

 

Love to hear that! How far in are you?

 

I've finished the first 4 episodes. He's basically fighting a vampire but they haven't explicitly called it that

 

Keep watching if you’re enjoying. Part 1 is great but part 2 is even better. Part 1 is only 9 episodes.

 

I finished the first part. It was pretty cool, I'll be starting the second part soon.

Do you have funimation?

 

Glad you liked it!

I don’t, that’s a streaming service right? I use Hulu because it came with my Spotify premium account.

 

DEATH NOTE
THE BREAKER
ELFEN LIED
FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST
GANTZ
PSYCHO PASS
NARUTO
FLCL
INUYASHA

In no order besides death note.

 

Vampire Hunter D (1985)
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Tekkonkinkreet
Sword of The Stranger
Ghost in The Shell: Innocence

 

lit taste

 

Gundam (wing, seed, seed destiny, 00, MS 8th team, unicorn)
Sword art online

 

Golden Boy is pretty funny.

 

I've never liked the term "anime".

I was preparing to study Japanese and Chinese at university prior to my GAME OVER moment (in 2009), and even then, "weebs'" (whom I commonly encountered) use of the word "anime" used to irritate me.

It's a f*cking cartoon. That's what we call these things in English speaking countries.

The Japanese word for a film/movie is "eiga". So what, do we call any film/movie produced in Japan an "eiga" now?

Why not? What's the exception here?

If your car is a Mercedes, do you call it an "auto"? If your suitcase was a Louis Vuitton would you call it a "valise"?

Where does it end? (and why hasn't it started?)

Conclusion

I have big respect for, and tip my fedora to, @threefirefour, for his inclusive use of the terms cartoon and anime in his post title; acknowledging that they are both in fact, the exact same thing.



Rant out of the way, I will now proceed to contribute (some of my favourite cartoons) to this thread.

 

Re:CREATORS (2017)

If you like Japanese cartoons, this is the platinum standard.

 

Nice Rant lol. How’s your Japanese anyway? I learned Japanese while taking classes in high school and college. I was decent with Hiragana and Katakana, but when it came time for Kanji... Man that was the biggest roadblock for me. You need some serious dedication to learn the stroke order and memorize the meaning behind each character.

P.S. I’m a Death Note guy btw. Mob Psycho 100 too.

 

It's as though I never studied it.

Took classes for 2 years in order to gain entry to my university of choice; last class I took was about 7 months after severe development (December 2009), and I struggled through it.

Absolutely. This is the biggest hurdle for any Chinese and/or Japanese learner.

I remember when we first started learning them (hanzi and kanji), both my Chinese and Japanese teachers tried to convince us (the students) that there was some affinity between how they looked and what they meant, and both times I remember all of us just looking at each other and collectively shaking our heads.

Death Note is amazing, and is up there amongst my favourite comic books/cartoons of all time.

I initially watched the entire animated series on YouTube in the space of 2 days (that was pre-tinnitus).

Then after I developed tinnitus (same year), I spent about 4 days on the floor of my local bookstore reading the entire comic book series.

I'd say I have a slight bias in favour of the comic (because it got me through a - needless to say - rough time), but I can't really remember the differences, or if there even were any, now... hence "slight".

 

Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress (2016)

The best Japanese cartoon series I've watched so far (or in other words my favourite).

 

The King of Pigs (2011)

Pretty much my favourite (non-Disney/Ghibli) animated film of all time.

The graphics are crude and the subject matter is dark, so I think you have to be a serious fan of animation, and have a good understanding of the obsession with status and social hierarchy in South Korea, to appreciate it.

 

Years later and I stumble upon this epic potential copyasta. Ranting about Japanese words or culture being used "incorrectly" by non Japanese is one of most epic things you can do on the internet. Thank you for your contribution.

 

Appreciate the kudos.

I agree, one of the most superior ways to be superior on the internet, is to know more about a foreign culture (especially Japanese, or currently, Korean) than your opponent(s); second only to demonstrating a greater scientific knowledge.

The more jargon and/or specialist terms you can litter your post with, forcing your opponent(s) to have to look up them up and identify their meaning(s), the more you are winning.

(Though this can be countered by revealing that you have a "friend" who is an expert (on said subject matter), as demonstrated by @Ed209, here and @linearb, here; which trumps any opponents argument, ends the debate, and cannot be outdone).

The thing is, while I take full credit for this "epic potential copypasta", it was something of a fluke that it came to exist.

It was initially one-half of a rant about duplicate threads and miscategorization on Tinnitus Talk, spiking my OCD, which our friendly neighbourhood @erik then rectified in an attempt to extinguish the imminent panic attack I was about to suffer, leaving me to water down the original rant to just this.

So yes, I am proud of this, and definitely feel I have won, as it has gone (as yet) unchallenged.

That said, it was my "anti-vax" rants that were the thing that really catapulted me to infamy in such a short space of time. (I like to think I broke some sort of record for being added to the most ignore lists within 2 months of having become a member here).

Ironically, after having spent many years watching debates, discussions and arguments from the sidelines on Tinnitus Talk, I thought it would be @Michael Leigh's ignore list that I would first be added to on my participation -7 months later, he can still see my messages, and I've received nothing but a warning from him, that I may be added, should I cross the line of appropriate banter (https://www.tinnitustalk.com/posts/631415) - but it was instead @linearb's ignore list I was first introduced to (someone I thought I might get on with, viewing from the outside). So there you go.

Anyway, digressing.

For the record, I don't consider "anime" to be an "incorrect" term, just a nonsensical one; in the same way "google" used as a verb is nonsensical. I'd like to make an "epic potential copypasta" on that also, but at this point in time can't justify it, given the lack of threads possessing even a tenuous link to the topic.

 

Yeah I was going say, people just say anime because it's less words / typing than Japanese animation / cartoons lol. Like how people say manwha even though it just means Korean comic book / graphic novel. I'm too lazy to write all that shit. Most of us are

 

I think all the Studio Ghibli films are great for kids. My little girl loves Howl's Moving Castle, Laputa, Totoro. So much better than Peppa Pig and the like.

I like:
Death Note
Attack on Titan
Seven Deadly Sins
Persepolis
Grave of the Fireflies
Mary & Max
Xavier Renegade Angle
Bob's Burgers

 

People are going to think I'm trolling here, but I am in fact deadly serious:



Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids (2000-2013)

This was a cartoon (for children) based on a book series (for children), that aired between 2000-2013, narrated by Nigel Planer (from The Young Ones), and it is dark as f*ck.



It falls into those category of kids shows (and films) that never should have been targeted at kids, but somehow got labelled as a children's show, purely based on the fact that it was animated. A bit like The Nightmare Before Christmas.

I would seriously suggest, if you're a fan of horror, despite it's appearance, you give this one a go.

 

Due to recent turn of events, I'll just put this here.







Me when having a severe spike lol:



~Stacken

 

I watched/read so many decent Japanese cartoons and comic books during the early years of my tinnitus that I can't, unfortunately, remember the titles of.

But one cartoon I was watching prior to tinnitus, that I loved, and can remember the title of, was:



Minami-ke (2007- )

"Slice of life" comedy (based on a comic book of the same name) depicting the lives of three sisters living and going to school together.

Sounds boring but is highly addictive and extremely funny.

 

Smiling Friends (2020- )

Just finished this show on All 4 and liked it.

If you're already familiar with Adult Swim content, then you'll know what to expect from this.

If you're not, then the best way I can sum it up is to call it Arthur meets Ren & Stimpy meets South Park.

Small warning though: got my ears blasted badly in the first 30 seconds of episode 6.

No spoilers as to what happens, but watch out for that and keep the sound low.