Anime suggestions for someone who dislikes most anime?

GovernorSilver · 2025-07-28T18:57:47.962Z

watching this in the theater soon

mleaf · 2025-07-28T19:20:11.139Z

A few lesser known things I haven’t seen mentioned:

WXIII : Patlabor The Movie 3

It’s a very good anime movie from back in the day. Hard-boiled kinda thing - Kenji Kawai soundtrack (GITS)

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WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3

WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3 (WXIII 機動警察パトレイバー, Weisuteddo Sātīn Kidō Keisatsu Patoreibā) is a 2002 Japanese animated science fiction thriller film directed by Fumihiko Takayama and written by Miki Tori. The third and final installment of the Patlabor film trilogy, it takes place in between Patlabor: The Movie and Patlabor 2: The Movie and serves as a side story, focusing on two police detectives and SV2 as they investigate a series of mysterious acts of deadly destruction occurring in and arou In...

Blood: The Last Vampire - a very well done short film

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Blood: The Last Vampire

Blood: The Last Vampire (stylized in all caps) is a 2000 Japanese animated action horror film directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo and written by Kenji Kamiyama; the film is created by Production I.G, whom also produced the film alongside their IG Plus division. Distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a girl named Saya (Youki Kudoh), who hunts the hematophagous-bat-like creatures called Chiropterans, is tasked to eliminate the creatures at Yokota Air Base by her handlers. Blood: The Last Vampire...

‘The Animatrix’ (prob more well known than the others in this list) is worth a look as it’s 9 different animation studios riffing on Matrix concepts.

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The Animatrix

The Animatrix (Japanese: アニマトリックス, Hepburn: Animatorikkusu) is a 2003 adult animated science fiction anthology film produced by the Wachowskis. The anime compiles nine animated short films, detailing the backstory of The Matrix film series, in addition to providing side stories that expand the universe and tie into the film series. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and fans. Captain Thadeus and Jue engage in a blindfolded sword fight in a virtual reality dojo. They do ...

‘Memories’ anime - 3 short films by 3 different directors.

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Memories (1995 film)

Memories is a 1995 Japanese animated science fiction anthology film with Katsuhiro Otomo as executive producer, and based on three of his manga short stories. The film is composed of three shorts: Magnetic Rose (彼女の想いで, Kanojo no Omoide), directed by Studio 4°C co-founder Kōji Morimoto and written by Satoshi Kon; Stink Bomb (最臭兵器, Saishū-heiki), directed by Tensai Okamura and written by Otomo, and Cannon Fodder (大砲の街, Taihō no Machi), written and directed by Otomo himself. Originally released on...

Holon · 2025-07-28T20:25:38.571Z

That’s an incredibly odd mix of styles. Probably most favored and my most unfavored. Do you know if they have said anything about the apparent CGI vs drawn style and why they chose it?

obscurerobot · 2025-07-28T20:27:07.724Z

If you’ve spent any time reading about the Sengoku era, then Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga is hilarious.

If not, then it probably reads as yet another Japanese Teen Girl Drama. The difference is that these teen girls all have dogs that are each the reincarnation of a Snegoku-era warlord. It also makes a compelling argument that it’s much better to be a dog today than a powerful warlord only a few hundred years ago.

(if you aren’t into the history of warfare, the Sengoku era isn’t a great place to start. The level of brutality during the Sengoku conflicts is up there with the worst abuses of the 20th century, which is implicitly juxtaposed with the peace and luxury of a dog’s life in modern suburban Japan)

GovernorSilver · 2025-07-28T20:34:51.315Z

I don’t know what Hosoda said about about mixing CG and hand drawn animation in Summer Wars, specifically but I do recall he had some things to say about Mirai, which I had seen before - another good Hosoda film imo

https://www.awn.com/animationworld/merging-hand-drawn-tradition-cg-artistry-mamoru-hosodas-mirai

He used CG in Belle for the cyberspace scenes and the traditional hand drawn look for the real world scenes. Haven’t seen Summer Wars yet but the preview seems to indicate it follows that pattern too.

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‘Belle’ creator Mamoru Hosoda on global collaboration, Japanese cinema and...

"I always liked the underlying story of Beauty And The Beast," says Hosoda about the fairy tale on which Belle is loosely based.

Holon · 2025-07-28T21:27:04.419Z

Thanks for the info. It sounds good on paper. Belle is great so this feels like a gut punch right in my expectations.

Habit_Reform · 2025-07-29T00:46:54.725Z

Really enjoying a new series from the current Summer Season - Dekin no Mogura (The Earthbound Mole).

PentalagusMusic · 2025-07-29T03:02:09.250Z

I watched the new Kimetsu no Yaiba / Demon Slayer movie with my family this weekend.
It was very pretty animation with some super impressive action, but dang if this isn’t another series that’s getting stretched so thin.

richie · 2025-07-29T08:17:16.543Z

m0ld:

Gundam: Witch from Mercury

is Gundam: Witch from Mercury a good starting point for someone that knows nothing about gundam?

Holon · 2025-07-29T08:44:46.324Z

I knew nothing and found it pretty awesome. Seems self contained.

m0ld · 2025-07-29T13:42:07.959Z

richie:

is Gundam: Witch from Mercury a good starting point for someone that knows nothing about gundam?

I’d say so! It’s a little different from some of the other Gundam series I’ve seen, but it’s more or less entirely self-contained. I’m sure there are probably references the past events I missed, but it didn’t impact my understanding or enjoyment of the show at all.

obscurerobot · 2025-07-29T16:25:16.164Z

Highly condensed Gundam for people just getting into it:

spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on3RlaowAtc

Holon · 2025-07-29T17:10:09.310Z

And how do we feel about spolers? That’s supposed to be an epic story and now it’s all spoiled.

obscurerobot · 2025-07-29T18:35:24.524Z

Fixed.

Holon · 2025-07-29T18:55:03.066Z

That was irony all the way. I didn’t understand a single frame of that video and thought that it’s probably funny for someone who has seen it all, I didn’t get it at all.

obscurerobot · 2025-07-29T20:25:20.520Z

Holon:

That was irony all the way

now it should be at least twice as perplexing.

GovernorSilver · 2025-07-29T20:29:58.821Z

Summer Wars is now tied with Wolf Children as favorite Mamoru Hosoda film.

All the Hosoda films are worth a look - just saying those 2 are now my faves.

Hosoda AMA from a few years back. He didn’t get to all the questions but answered enough to make it an interesting read
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/s43d9i/i_am_mamoru_hosoda_director_of_summer_wars_wolf/

sjl2025 · 2025-08-03T00:36:52.285Z

I’ve yet to watch anime properly personally. But two titles strike me:

Kimi No Na Wa - deals with gender (something that matters to me)
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure - I like its rather unique aesthetic

GovernorSilver · 2025-08-08T22:55:22.409Z

Finished Apocalypse Hotel.

The description led me to believe it would be an updated Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou. It turned out quite differently. Quite a few surprises in this show including some action scenes.

Highly recommended scifi show if you don’t mind some absurdity here and there.

For those who curious, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou/Yokohama Shopping Log was only partly adapted from manga to anime - this OVA is pretty much it. The manga was only recently released in English translated volumes - lovely art imo.

richie · 2025-09-08T17:56:13.596Z

2 episodes into Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor heard its the an inspiration and better version of squid games.

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Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor

After one of his coworkers fails to repay a debt, apathetic bum Kaiji Itou is pressured by loan sharks to settle the large sum of cash. Since Kaiji has little money and no future prospects of his own, he is unable to return what his colleague...