Just finished this one up as it was on the Sup Forums wiki for recommendations and put it off for a while.
Holy shit, it was phenomenal. I can't believe the amount of work that went into this. The music, animation, creativity and everything else was top fucking notch for the genre.
On the surface it seemed like a generic slice of shit, but ended up being far better than that. It's really depressing seeing how unpopular/unknown it is as well considering how many great episodes it had, and the minor romance tied in really made for a really nice ending in the bonus episodes. Also the Shinto religion shit was really interesting at times.
What else have you guys watched lately from this era?
2006-2009 was the best time to be an anime fan. I started my azumanga daioh rewatch earlier this week. I'm also finally gonna dive into Clannad.
Liam Jackson
Nice, I am yet to watch Clannad and unfortunately have been unable to avoid spoilers but I'll probably still watch it eventually.
I'd highly recommend Kamichu! if you can't already tell. I should mention also the 80s Japan setting and everything else I outlined really made for a nice show. The concept of having the MC as a "god" was used really well as well because she had a ton of personal flaws and it got handled really well throughout.
Parker Moore
I'll have to watch Kamichu, and with regards to clannad I loved it and I was also spoiled a couple of things but it didn't both me too much
Angel Fisher
I finished it recently myself. I kind of disliked alien episode, it had kind of same impact on me as seeing aliens in Indiana Jones, just didn't fit with me with whole spiritual thing going.
I also disliked that Yurie's powers is just plot convenience.
However, uniornically, somehow the best episode it had was fucking beach episode, really great shit. Overall a great SoL package you don't get to see these days, great animation, great music, for me it kind of had hit or miss episodes.
My favorite running gag is little brother clearly knowing something is fucked up with the cat but Yurie doesn't want to tell it's Poverty God. It'd be so easy to make just >cat does something unusual >Otouto sees it >pan up >"EEEEEEEH" But they played it almost exactly how siblings would deal with one sibling poorly keeping a secret from another.
Connor Price
Was Kamichu really early 00s? I thought it was late 00s around Haruhi time. Go watch Guu.
Kayden Adams
Just watched Sci-Fi Harry.
What a load of shit. And to think people complain about shitty MC these days.
Isaiah Cruz
Good to know, I've always heard good about regardless even if it's been spoiled so I'll definitely still watch it at some point.
Yeah I agree, was by far one of the best and more creative beach episodes I've seen as well.
Well 2005. I pretty much consider anything after Gurren Lagann to not be early 2000s, so around 2007 being the max. After that it seemed like the whole anime industry changed a lot (global economic collapse 2007-2009).
Bentley Taylor
Pic related. What a ride.
Hudson Reed
Kamichu is great. It had a few dull episodes but some episodes were fucking GOAT material. The one with the ship Yamato, cat fight club and the ending come to mind.
Was recommended to me, kinda dragged in some parts but overall I enjoyed the story of one guy's journey to punch his rival in the face.
Dylan Ross
Kamichuu was top comfy
Brayden Baker
I was really surprised how much work they put into the visual. Cute girls dicking around shows are usually a lot more cheaply made and bland.
Camden Lewis
I remember watching some episodes of a comfy anime about cute girls flying ships to low orbit space. The genki girl always wanting to go a bit higher and reach space. Can't remember the name, early 2000.
Now I have to search for it.
Elijah Reed
Also, I started NHK and I can't believe I teared up at the suicide pact episode, I thought this was gonna be funny all the way through.
Henry Gray
What do Early 2000s think of the ROD OVA and eventual TV series? OVA had some NICE choreography on the fight scenes, don't you think?
Leo Collins
>Early 2000s >Only stuff between 2000-2007 allowed How's that? I am one of those who consider the fourth year still early, but this is stupid.
Ethan Wright
Currently watching Inuyasha I wish I realized how bad the dub was when I was younger, it doesn't fit at all, not even remotely like cowboy bebop would
Christian Cox
Stratos 4?
Michael Rogers
Decades, for style purposes, don't really line up all that great with actual calendar decades. I'd count 2000 and maybe 2001 as late 90s, for instance, since you don't start to see the oughts high-bloom digipaint look into roughly '02-'03.
Eli Young
OVA was a masterpiece TV series was a huge flop. Anita ruined ROD
Charles Bell
REC is good
Sebastian Butler
Do you guys watched Mahoraba ~Heartful Days~ ? If yes, and you didn't remember the seiyuu for Kozue and all her other personalities, try checking it out. It might surprise you.
Haruka was pretty great but holy hell was Yuu an annoying shit
Lucas Martin
I've been wanting a general like this for ages, hope this becomes popular.
Finished .hack//Sign a few days. It was pretty good, but that massive cliffhanger ending was a little bit disappointing. Been listening to the soundtrack for the past few days because it's Amazing. I think Key of the Twilight is my favourite.
Adrian Gomez
Gaiking is a vastly underrated mecha show. Aside from its probably my favorite mecha show of the decade.
I decided to make it out of the blue because I've gotten really tired of newer anime and just sticking to recommendations on the Sup Forums wiki since I don't have as much free time to waste on shitty shows anymore. Once I'm done going through the wiki I'll go back to checking out the odd new series (maybe).
Haven't watched any .hack myself, always remembered it way back though. It sounded interesting so might have to check it out eventually.
Cameron Richardson
You shouldn't have said this. Now this thread will be shitposted and deleted for being a recommendation thread in disguise, but the thread is really needed so it's a shame that it'll happen.
Jaxson Gray
Maybe. I outlined that I've been going on the Sup Forums wiki for recommendations so I'm more so just looking for general discussion of anime from this era, recommendations or not. If it gets deleted, whatever, still seeing some decent posts so far.
Thomas Bennett
I've been rereading Genshiken's original 2002-2006 run because it is my GOAT favorite manga even if I know that probably means I have both weird AND garbage taste. Did anyone else read this or watch the various OVAs that got produced (which led to its 2010s manga revival which is also pretty good too but not subject to this thread)? I feel like the only person I know who even knows this thing existed.
Jacob Taylor
I'm currently watching nagasarete airantou. I was browsing collectr's blog and liked what he had to say about it, so I gave it a shot, and it's pretty great. I'd recommend it if you're looking for something pokémon-ish that's actually a harem show. Also, Rin is best girl.
Jason Price
I've had the manga for quite a while and always heard it was really good. It seems like one of these series lots of people have heard of but never got around to. I'll have to check it out, some of these obscure and unpopular series are amazing and once you find them it feels like a real gem.
Brandon Walker
Also can't forget about this little gem.
Liam Rodriguez
Watched Daughter of 20 faces recently.
Was a pretty neat adventure/detective show, but I would have much preferred for man with 20 face to have stayed dead/missing at least until way further into the show. I just kind of felt it ruined the tone.
Cooper Nguyen
I started working on Twelve Kingdoms a long time ago, but it's simply not something that I feel the need to watch, I always need to force myself a bit even if it's objectively good. Will take me forever to be able to finish this.
By the way Kaleido Star is possiby my all time favourite anime, or at least in top 3, everyone needs to watch it, it's amazing!
Brody Baker
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Grayson Foster
Secretly the best Gainax show.
Anthony Sanders
I hate all the "serious" (Code Geass, etc) anime from this period but love the comedies and slice-of-life stuff.
Matthew Lee
>I'll have to check it out,
I'm not really an Sup Forums native, I mostly lurk on Sup Forums and /tg/ unless I just am craving a kind of loose update on anime I don't follow but want to be aware of, so I don't know the etiquette here on storytimes of any real length. I had however been toying with the idea of doing a few chapters of Genshiken a day after I get off work but before dinner. Basically share something I like and see if anyone else cares too, the usual Sup Forums obscure comic storytime thing. Would that be appropriate or is that not really how this board operates?
Jason Turner
Also in case you guys for whatever reason can't find the Sup Forums wiki I am referring to this is the link:
It used to be a sticky here on Sup Forums I think but seems like the mods got rid of it for whatever reason.
Every show I've watched on this list has been really good and well worth the time.
Charles Wright
>storytimes Sup Forums does not do this unless its a scanslator dropping a new chapter
Ethan Hill
What to expect from this?
Blake Butler
>Twelve kingdoms Some of the story arcs I would recommend skipping, pretty much anything that has ZERO relation to Youko's journey.
Nathan Jenkins
I wish we had more of Kami world in Kamichu, it looks awesome.
Brayden Ramirez
What anime better incarantes thosd mid 2000s vibes?
Julian Perez
You'd probably be best of just making a thread about it. Usually if it's manga based thread the discussion will include a similar flow to what you're suggesting, or people will just discuss the story.
I don't think I've ever seen a thread on Sup Forums about it, but it'd be worth a try. Usually less popular stuff just doesn't get talked about much unfortunately.
Connor Anderson
Unironically had it on hold for 5 months now because Howard has got to be the most obnoxious and annoying character Ive ever watched on screen.
Ian Barnes
Yeah, I really loved the show. So many frames were amazingly with excellent colour variation and no garbage modern day CGI anywhere. Just hand drawn beauty with a ton of effort throughout.
Samuel Phillips
Oh also, yes totally read it. It is what completely turned my opinion on SoL around, it has a miracle of seeing a character go from worst girl to contender for best girl, and generally is a surprisingly emotionally nuanced series for a comedy about a bunch of insufferable otaku.
Kasukabe's slow shift from antagonistic normie asshole to actually being friends with them, without anyone having to explicitly acknowledge or call it out, is weirdly emotionally nuanced and subtle for a comedy series.
Levi Jones
Best anime in 2004
Debate me faggots
James Edwards
Early 2000s were great. Seldom there are shows with that much atmosphere nowadays.
Jason Phillips
That's what I figured. I'm kind of surprised though, you'd think they'd flourish here for the same reason indie or old comic storytimes do on Sup Forums. There's a huge backlog of stuff that's worth at least a look at.
Yeah, I might do that sometime. It'd be nice to actually discuss it at least, none of my friends have or plan to read it.
Ian Johnson
The early 00s need more love, such a magical time for anime despite the limitations.
Nicholas Turner
For me when I think of 2005 and earlier I think of Fullmetal Alchemist or Kino no Tabi with their potato faces and Alchemist's yellow tint.
Kamichu is high quality early 00's.
Elfen Lied is that anime that edgelords refered to to distinguish anime from cartoons and to have reason to call it "more mature".
Also, Rozen Maiden, I think desu is first time I've learnt of these memes.
Nolan Garcia
I've had this on my hard drive for so long, I should really get around to watching it considering how much I like Tomino's other series.
Anthony James
New Mai Hime series when?
William James
This one's great.
Nolan Butler
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Adrian Thompson
Not an anime and not 2009 but Ryuushika Ryuushika feels heavily early 2000s. Probably because of Abe stuff like
Camden Harris
I can hear the guitar riff
Landon Miller
That sounds like they at least made the story worthwhile then. A lot of people shit on SoL since a lot of them do usually follow a very standard/repetitive format, but some are actually really good if you give them a chance.
Kamichu was probably the most unconventional SoL I've seen so far which is why I loved it.
I know this is an early 00s thread but for other SoL I loved would be Usagi Drop and the ending to K-ON!, both series I found really sad/emotional at times despite the endless memes here on Sup Forums.
Dominic Scott
>not 2009 Whoops. Not early 2000s, it came out in 2009*
Ian Bell
One of my favourite shows; and so underrated.
Pic related had awesome nature backgrounds. Should visit Hokkaido some day.
Anthony Lopez
>not one person has brought up that mushishi is the greatest thing to made in the 00's
John Morales
Looks like a prequel to Kiss X Sis
Luke Russell
Everyone knows Mushishi, Haibane, Monster and such. That's not the point of the thread.
Why don't we talk about Pokemon while we are at it.
Hunter Murphy
Make way for the best show of the decade
Ryan Hernandez
>mushishi It was really good but early 00s has tons of good shit desu. Monster, Black Lagoon, Stand Alone Complex, Samurai Champloo, Kino's Journey, Princess Tutu, the list goes on.
Benjamin Hill
Out of nostalgia, I began a rewatch of Eureka Seven and I can't help to revere the first episode.
It really encapsulate the series and the structure throughout it is great, when it come to first episodes I often rewatch it.
It explore the mundanity and uneventfulness of Renton's existence and give breathability into the Gekkostate own existence into their lives and you can capture their personality and attitudes from the way they speak and act. It don't thrust all these charactere at you nor try to cram alot of information either, you can understand the core of the premise. And the ending, where Renton is mired in the fray of events that is about to unfold gives it a nice exit.
Evan Butler
Also how the fuck can anyone forget about Planetes. God damn this shit was amazing. The plot on the surface sounds boring but it was a really nice and unconventional series as well. I couldn't stop thinking about the ending for a while either, really made you think about the dangers and fucked up shit that comes with space exploration and human greed.
Christopher Brooks
I'm watching this right now. I've heard people comparing it to alien 9 and made in abyss, so I'm taking it slow and being careful not to sympathize with the main character too much, as she will probably suffer a lot later on.
Is black lagoon really considered to be one of the better 00s shows? I liked the action, but I couldn't stand the mc when he got philosophical, which happened a lot during the last 3 episodes. Also, engrish.
David Rodriguez
Pretty dumb show, but really likeable somehow As someone who didn't like the way character designs were evolving, it's always nice to find an 00s show that "looks 90s" if you know what I mean
Benjamin White
>TV series was a huge flop Nope. It was great in its own way, it's just that people wanted more of the OVA and didn't get that. Had some flaws, true. For once, I don't remember a thing about the ending which probably means I wasn't impressed. But the atmosphere was super comfy, especially in the first half of the show.
Kayden Roberts
I really liked the first half of Eureka 7 but the second half got too weird for me.
Brayden Butler
No one forgot about it dipshit, it's just that everything that could be said about it has been said.
Nicholas Fisher
black lagoon is a 9/10 anime that outshines the manga its also one of the few anime thats better dubbed
Zachary Baker
Black Lagoon is definitely a bit more on the edgy side but it was still a fun show. Season 2 was best overall. It just serves the itch for a John Woo type anime.
Carson Ward
>I've heard people comparing it to alien 9 and made in abyss These people are retards, Figure 17 is incomparable to both of them. To be honest, banding MiA and Alien 9 together would already be a sign of retardation. I love both, but they're very different behind the superficial "suffering"
Elijah Nguyen
Can you sauce me, user?
Justin Mitchell
>thats better dubbed Impossible, you newfag retard.
Nathan Russell
I cannot spoon feed. Sorry...
Brody King
To add, Figure 17 is serious, not "dark". It has a very finely crafted, almost mellow tone.
Adrian Phillips
no
Landon Collins
That's alright, I found it.
Angel Howard
A wild ride from 2005
Jaxon Sullivan
"Teach a man to fish..."
Nolan Scott
>... Fuck off.
Nathan Rogers
Rue is, in my eyes, a great example of a dark magical girl.
Number one is forever Hotaru.
Nolan Sanders
...you seem to be upset, user...
Charles Reyes
I mean, to be honest it has to be hard to make an SoL that maintains true to its essential genre core while also providing worthwhile comedy or drama, as appropriate to the series, to keep people emotionally invested.
There needs to be stakes and story, which in an SoL is hard to make seem natural
