What's the most original story you've come across in an anime or manga...

What's the most original story you've come across in an anime or manga? One that genuinely left you flabbergasted from the creativity.

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made in abyss

Boku no Pico, still saying YO~! to this day.

Kemono Friends

Gintama

this screenshot is interesting. where's this from?

>This Intro
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>screenshot

Garzey's Wing

K-on.

Legend of the Blue Wolves.

Nausicaä

Kino's Journey (2003). Maybe Texhnolyze too.

K-ON
literally cute girls
doing cute things

how the fuck did they come up with that?

True. I felt genuinely impressed after watching it.

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Xam'd. It didn't make sense, but it was original.

Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha

Samurai Flamenco. No one had any idea where the fuck the plot was going when it was airing.

Shinsekai Yori and Kill la Kill

Keijo!!! I'm not even kidding.

Wow! There's an undying anime? Where? I want to watch!

Shiori Experience

Well, Utena, really.

Blame maybe

That's a very comfy picture broseph

Has anyone else gotten to the point where they can't even appreciate a story if it isn't largely original?
I recently watched Made in Abyss and I loved it, but I couldn't really enjoy Kyoukai no Kanata.
It's just too much of the same. Highschool setting, monster/demon hunting, magic powers, fanservice every other episode...
I've seen it so many times I simply can't enjoy that kind of stuff anymore, it's gotten stale for me.
Hell I'm not likely to pick up any new series that feature a school setting even.

I want to watch an anime based on that picture

Teagure! is definitely one of the most original things out there.
>smug and troublesome.avi

It goes away when you turn 18

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literally cave story

Explain the plot to me

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Nothing is original. Everything is a copy by something else. The idea pool has an ending to the generic society brains.

But how did the first idea come to life when there was nothing to copy from?

Except James Joyce. But he was mentally ill.

Last really original anime I watched was Sagrada Reset

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

Other mammals and nature disasters

Re:Zero

Keit-ai comes to mind

it's hard to come up with an original story in anime/manga when other forms of media can represent it much better and easily. they got to compete with games, l/w/vnovels, etc all while dealing with a compressed format to fit in a timeslot.

A lot of these aren't that original, nothings really creating new genres or something.
Utena is just a bunch of shoujo tropes mixed in with fairytales, and Samurai Flamenco takes everything from Toku shows. Kill la Kill is LITERALLY Blazing Transfer Student until it becomes a normal shounen featuring Lavos and Shadow the Edgehog momentarily.
I mean there are elements art are original, but it's a far cry from the whole show being original.

Delicious in Dungeon isn't super creative but it is very clever using established fantasy tropes.

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more like this

Honestly, Eva/EoE. It fucking floored me the first time I watched it, and I've never really recovered.

Don't be down, the thread said the most original speed you've seen which is subjective and relative so all responses are valid.

Anime: Penguindrum.
Manga: Something from either Nickelodeon or Sexual Instinct and the Hydrogen Bomb War.

Dorohedoro
Nice rec thread btw

but this is clever rec thread

including your post

accept futility, user

Casshern Sins, and while the idea of exploring a post-apocalyptic world with the scraps of life futilely fighting\searching for purpose\trying to hold on their morals and wishes is not something new, the way to tell it as an amnesia\revenge story of an immortal being seeking salvation that furthermore gets the job of emotionally hitting the viewer done, is, in a way, jarring.

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Golden Kamui I guess? World is filled with a bunch of crazy motherfuckers, the protagonists are looking for stolen gold that was stolen for the use of funding a Russian rebellion, the destruction of Ainu culture is happening in the background, a plot to revive the old Shogunate using the gold is happening alongside the main plot, a rogue battalion of the Japanese military embittered by the Russo-Japanese war ending with shitty conditions because of the stalemate so they plot to get the gold for their own rebellion, and there is the large destruction of wildlife signifying the turning point of an age. I mean, sure, it's engrossed in Japanese history but fuck dude.

Genius. Go kill yourself. No one needs unnecessary people like you without creativity.

Accepting that everything's been done before and will be done again has nothing to do with creativity.

On topic; I read Blame! recently and I was pretty impressed.

Nah, subtle rec thread. But im bored.

Penguindrum is an interesting suggestion. It's definitely creative, but that doesn't always lead to quality storytelling. If you want something that is both artistically distinct, yet also a quality story that isn't simply avant garde animation, I would say Evangelion or Kenmonozume. Those are just two examples from my personal favorites. I think being 'creative' doesnt mean 'doing something entirely unique that has no influences from anything else'. I think being creative means telling a story in a way no one else could. Just off the top of my head, those are two creative anime that are accessible to a wide audience, but also have certain elements that distinguish them from your average entry.

This song kinda fitted pic

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Every Haruki Murakami novel, plus a documentary about the Tokyo sarin attacks, thrown in a blender.

I feel betrayed.

I wouldn't say it blew me away, but if I had to pick what I thought was the most unusual thing I'd read, it'd probably be Ressentiment, if just because of how falliable the MC is, and how it's portrayed.

Like there's plenty of other stuff where the MC is morally reprehensible, but the portrayal is usually like "heheh, he's so sly" or "He's arrogant! How funny that he's blind to his failings!" or at least he tries to do better and changes.

In Ressentiment the MC is a realistically self-centered dick. Not all the time, but often enough that it's difficult to root for him and in fact, he doesn't end up on top. His failings aren't treated as a comedy beat, they're just part of who the character is. The only other thing that's given me the same vine even a little was Irredeemable Ant-Man, and maybe a little bit the beginning of Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge.

>mfw

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What faggotry. Read OP's question again and don't interpret it to however you want to come up with an answer so you can share your interest/s with other faggots, who don't even care.

What? Not even that user, but what? I genuinely have no idea what youre even trying to shit on here.

That goes away when you gain enough self-awareness to know that something's not original just because you personally have never seen anything like it before and that something's not automatically the same as other things just for surface-level similarities since execution is ultimately what matters and not ideas that could've easily been heavily inspired by or outright stolen from somewhere else but since you don't know of that original thing, you think it's original.

Heavily takes from Ideon and plenty of other shows, movies, and books.

Hinamatsuri

>Yakuza
>Espers
>Bartender turn successful business girl
>Ramen cart seller
Fraud martial artist
Fucking most diverse cast of something that I have read

Yeah me too. But shitting on society in and of itself could be a nice interpretation.

All anime is just a rip off of Astro Boy.

Hokago no Charisma.

>Bropoleon
>Daughteru Marie Curie
>Cute Hitlerkun

I'm going to a goddamn library today to finish it because the scans stop at ch24.

Came here to post this.

You'd feel better after reading the manga. It's insane.

gits managed that several times.

What happened with that new gits project by production IG?

>heavily inspired by blade runner and sci-fi in general
Creativity=/=originality.

Qualia the purple. That was like the thinking man's keit-ai.

Jinrui was pretty nice

Yeah c'mon man none of these shows invented the concept of animation or storytelling, how can they be original? Pffft.

bits like kuzes/motokos backstory were pretty original

Alright, you're right. Can't remember anything that actually baffled me with how creative or original it was.

>if it isn't largely original?
>I recently watched Made in Abyss and I loved it,
You're a sad sack of shit if you think Abyss is original. You've never touched a book in your life?

So you mean to tell me that you believe that you've consumed enough media overall from across centuries and across all mediums to know that those haven't been done before?

no, all i'm saying that in the relatively small amount of media from all around the world i've consumed this one still managed to seem somewhat unique. If it's plagiarized from somewhere point it out because i don't know.

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You say that like it's a bad thing, and not the main appeal.

We're talking about the originality though

I thought so too at first but right afterwards I started playing Etrian Odyssey 3 and thought the setting was largely similar.

well, if user first saw mia and then played cave story, then the first encounter with such story would be mia

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>Made in Abyss

Funny as a long time eo fan I got those vibes too, glad to see I'm not crazy for thinking so.

Idk about the new one but the original kino no tabi felt pretty creative, though I guess the source material is the creative media there.

>kino

Already a thing.

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It's lightyears ahead of whatever reddit:zero garbage you watch.

Can u explain this meme to me?

reddit:zero is the same shit made in reddit is.

>come up with interesting enviroment and setting
>skip through it with minimal exploration or showing setting to get to generic bad guy because you're a stupid pedophile mangaka