Because people in the Pre-2000s thread wouldn't stop complaining about how this doesn't exist, yet refuses to make one anyway. What are you watching/have watched recently between the years 2000 and 2010? Won't you expose some gems from the early digital-age that have been buried beneath 480p encodes?
2000-2010 Thread
Ryder Jenkins
Luke Fisher
Heat Guy J was pretty good. I love that Escaflowne style.
Brayden Carter
People like to hate on it, but I thought it was decent enough. I'll have to rewatch some to get a better idea.
Brayden Nelson
One of my favourite anime of all time.
Tyler King
What kind of complaints are there to have about it? I mean, I'm sure there were some things but I feel like it was just pretty good in general.
Samuel Reyes
we are all in agreement that Gungrave is the greatest 00s anime correct?
Dylan Taylor
Dororo has really good backgrounds
Grayson Cruz
I posted about GGG in the pre-2000 thread, so I guess watching Final after the main series goes in this one.
Carter Mitchell
Finished Texhnolyze a few weeks ago. Good shit.
Liam Parker
Heat Guy J has been sitting in my backlog for a while now. What is it like?
Ethan Cooper
Why did this show never catch on? You would think the amazing plot twist/genre-shift would make it high profile, but I never see anyone talking about it.
Adam Rodriguez
this is one of those shows that isn't bad enough to drop but feels painfully mediocre in every single way
Luke White
Finally got into Mujin Wakusei Survive, but then they met the alien and then I stopped watching again. It may still be good, but I expect it to change and things to happen now. We'll see, I'll probably continue some time.
Austin Butler
>Final
Luke Moore
I think I've rewatched it like 7 times. Usually once every year.
It's my go-to comfy anime. Besides I like the world building. It might not be the most original one, but it's rarely used so it was refreshing.
Benjamin Brown
If you haven't seen it, Romeo x Juliet felt similar to SP, though they obviously very different.
Ian Jenkins
About to rewatch Noein, this Blu-Ray upscale looks pretty good.
Kinda worried I'm not gonna like it as much as I did when I first watched it. Everyone seems to have forgotten this show exists nowadays
Christian Reyes
also started watching Brigadoon and this show is darker than I was expecting, I like it
Caleb Torres
Yugioh's fillers wasn't that bad.
Julian Robinson
Oh man, there's so much goddamn anime between these years. Anyone else remember pic related? I remember being so confused during the second part due to the whole Wil stuff.
Kayden Diaz
Halfway through watching this. One of the cutest SoL anime I've seen since Non Non Biyori. Humor is pretty decent too.
Connor Kelly
Is this actually worth watching? Been sitting in my archive for ages
Michael Carter
Godannar was great. Lot of giant robot action some fat tiddies. what more could anyone ask for,
William Baker
Man Wil was a retard. You finally settle down with your waifu and the first thing you do is go off and become a secret agent which required him to fake his own death. It made the start of the second cour jarring when they tell us that Wil died and now Allison was meeting with some new guy. But the guy was actually Wil who had to date his own wife in secret since she and only a select few people knew the truth. They didn't even tell their own daughter.
Depends. It's from the same author of Kino's Journey and it's a fairly nice anime. It follows two generations. Episode 1-12 Follows Wil and Allison, and 13-26 follow their daughter Lillia and her love interest.
Gabriel Young
last decade was pretty bad. lets just forget about it
Aaron Flores
People recommend me Scrapped Princess all the time because I like fantasy, but it's just """too anime""" for me to get into. I did recently manage to stomach Tower of Druaga long enough to finish it so maybe I'll go back and give it another go. I don't really see why people think I'd like it because I like stuff like Lodoss/Lemnear/Arslan though
Nolan Edwards
Pic related was a solid fantasy adventure. Ironic that it turned out to be vastly more enjoyable than the game it was supposed to be promoting.
Christian Hughes
Romeo x Juliet starts out really strong but I'm in the second half and it's really starting to drag with this prison arc. Juliet's a great character but Romeo feels kinda meh.
Fantastic dub
God-tier music. Like seriously holy shit listen to this: youtube.com
Gavin Baker
scrapped princess is scifi, no fantasy
Angel Morgan
>5d's is gonna turn a decade old next month
Noah Roberts
Wait are there canon Godanner nipples
I watched this show a couple of years ago when I was sick and ended up adoring it, I haven't watched much in the way of Super Robot shows though so I might just be liking genre tropes. Love that OP.
Early 2000s were a dark time when budgets plummeted and digital color seemed to lead people to think they could half-ass things, but that doesn't mean that we didn't get some fantastic shows in there, and by the end of the decade the industry really pulled itself back up
Julian Garcia
I'm only further confused by the rec then
Whatever, I'll give it a watch
Jacob Rivera
>Wait are there canon Godanner nipples
In the actual show? Sadly no. Not even on the BD which is just an upscale. HOWEVER! In order to help fund and promote the second season the staff commissioned and sold a full color, hard core pornographic, doujin. It's easy to find if you look for it.
youtube.com
>dat ba dum ba dum da duuuuuum
Blake Wilson
Nostalgia wave from that OST, holy shit.
Yeah, the prison arc was the weakest part of the show, but it'll pick up again soon.
I was surprised how much I ended up liking Romeo by the end, but I agree that Juliet is a far stronger character.
Hunter Parker
I enjoyed the fuck out of pic related. Also it's probably the only anime that the brown tomboy wins the MCbowl. A lot of the animation holds up too for a 2005 anime.
I find the 2000's pretty interesting when it comes to anime. A lot of studios took risks because the could afford it and produced a lot of originals. Now most of those originals were indeed garbage, but you'll find a few gems scattered along the way. Nowadays the risk is simply too great and it's just easier to adapt LNs and whatnot.
Zachary James
Huh, turns out that was just some weird amv and not the actual OP. How very odd.
Nathaniel Scott
>Nowadays the risk is simply too great and it's just easier to adapt LNs and whatnot.
At least back then when something WAS adapted it was actually, you know, adapted. If something like Scrapped Princess was adapted today it would get 13 episodes and end on a cliffhanger telling us to go buy a book instead of an enjoyable show we can enjoy on it's own that creates interest in the larger brand because of that.
Jayden Butler
Thats Heat Guy J? for years i thought heat guy j was about the dude who ate guns and could spit bullets. what the hell am i thinking of? this seems like a case of mislabeled vhs tape.
Grayson Miller
My lord, this fucking music. How did I forget about these amazing tracks?
Carter Martin
chaika was written by the same dude, you know?
Xavier Mitchell
Hitoshi Sakimoto is a fucking hero
I flipped out when people talked shit about FFXII's OST
Eli Garcia
Don't remind me about that fucking ending. They seriously couldn't have gotten one more episode? They had the money for a shitty OVA to bundle with the BDs, but they couldn't afford to have a proper ending? I'm still fucking pissed.
I never realized that Chaika was from the same guy, though. I guess that explains a weird but interesting setting.
Cameron Wright
I'm watching it now for the first time. I wouldn't say it's forgotten, I saw it mentioned quite a bit a few years back when Arc-V was airing. But there does seem to be a small cohort of well-regarded but rarely discussed SF anime from the 2000s. I would put Noein alongside shows like Fantastic Children, Tweeny Witches, Now and Then Here and There, and with Dennou Coil being the swan song of strikingly unique and fully realized sci-fi concepts that are hard to get into, but rewarding when you do.
I think I tried and gave up watching Fantastic Children at least four times before I finally made it through the first few episodes. I had a false start on Noein previously as well, but I'm up to episode 7 now and I'm hooked. Sometimes it's hard to get hooked right off the bat because they throw some really weird concepts at you and take their time explaining what's really going on. That's part of the fun, but I think it throws a lot of people off, and complex, pensive stories are hard to meme about.
Evan Lee
I always associate Noein/Fantastic Children/Dennou Coil with eachother too, even though I don't actually like Fantastic Children. NTHT is from a different era and I associate it with old-school isekai. I'd rather forget Tweeny Witches exists, from an animation standpoint it has to be one of the most disappointing shows I've watched, I expected so much more from 4C
Lincoln Thomas
>then they met the alien and then I stopped watching again.
Same. I was into the comfy survival hijinks and now it's all telepathy and size warps and stuff.
Michael Perry
>It made the start of the second cour jarring when they tell us that Wil died and now Allison was meeting with some new guy. But the guy was actually Wil who had to date his own wife in secret since she and only a select few people knew the truth. They didn't even tell their own daughter.
I haven't been able to finish it because of that. I think I got through the arc with the floatplane hostage taking but I haven't been back in years.
Aiden Campbell
Any Bamboo Bladebros in here? It feels like a weird hybrid between SOLs and teen dramas, good balance on developing the big cast while still going in-depth on a couple of characters, and everybody was really cute except Dan, screw that guy
Wyatt Thomas
Dan was the Man
Ethan Hall
I remember this dude more for his work on fm chips.
Angel Bailey
Rocket Girls was a reaction image goldmine.
Landon King
Wait I dont get it. So many shows had low budgets yet many studios still had the freedom and left over cash to make tons of original anime?
I don't know much about this decade aside from it being wacky even compared to 90s anime; despite looking like streamlined, softer versions of 90s artstyles.
And also how this decade was where they began to produce fuckloads of anime.
Gabriel Turner
I can confirm what youre thinkibg of exists but I cant fucking remember either
Sebastian Reyes
Going to start watching BL and Mushishi now. Are they as good as people say they are?
Cameron Thompson
Budgets dropped but so did costs. The WN/LN/anime ecology wasn't well-developed pre-Haruhi and they still thought of anime as something that had to break even, so they threw resources at it to try.
Mushishi yes BL no holy crap those digits.
Eli Hall
Ill bet digital animation helped get alot more anime out of the door. Sorta sucks they figured out what shows sold better by the end of the decade; oversaturation is worse than just having a lot of hit or miss shows.
Colton Foster
It was neat when the industry was in peril and everyone was putting their all into it. There's neat things about the industry now, though, like having a more-or-less steady stream of throwaways for good, unknown directors to shine in (Oda Nobuna, Toji no Miko).
James Wright
>tfw early 2000s anime is forever doomed to stuck in 360/480p hell
Lincoln Allen
Eat-man? Don't know, I'm only vaguely aware of it.
Animation studios having money has never been a thing, it's what production committees are willing to fund.
Josiah Adams
True. Old stuff can get refilmed, and new stuff is being mastered at higher resolutions, but early digital is just fucked.
Carson Thomas
Thats the one! You can imagine how one gets it mixed up with hEat guy.
And damn why were producers more free with funding back then? I miss ovas.
Landon Clark
REMEMBER!
Connor Gonzalez
At a guess? Production costs dropping with the move to digital paint and animation, probably an increase in the adult "otaku" market due to the success of shows like Eva, and moving from OVAs to late night TV shows. And no big LN market to draw from yet.
Jose Rogers
Heatguy J has one of the best soundtracks that no one knows about.
Angel Diaz
KING KING
Michael Thomas
>tfw early 2000s anime is forever doomed to stuck in 360/480p hell
This is the main reason why I rarely watch old 2000s stuff.
Caleb Lee
Kingu Gaaaaainer
John Perez
I hated Final, it was so unnecesserily edgy compared to the original series. Also that fucking depressing ending.
The opening was GOAT though, shame it's impossible to find in any decent quality.
Wyatt Long
Wrong.
Jayden Kelly
>tfw no ahmey gf
why did she have to die?
Alexander Cook
Height of anime
Mason Adams
Hey, boys.
Sebastian Wright
Loving every minute of this so far.
Lincoln Mitchell
I like this show a lot. People shit on it for the slow pacing and lack of blood but the atmosphere was great, not something I would marathon though.
Blake Green
I finished Full Moon wo Sagashite yesterday. I tried to make a thread, but only like 5 anons cared. I highly recommend this show to anyone with a heart. I cried like a little bitch.
Carter Phillips
>Old stuff can get refilmed
No it can't, that's not how it works moron.
Blake Stewart
Black Lagoon is self-insert trash.
Jackson Nelson
Matthew Roberts
Hey.
Benjamin Cooper
For a Bones series, it wasn't as well animated as their other series, feels like it was done by an average studio. The story is good but the animation didn't help to get people's attention.
Jonathan Young
This is one of the first shows I remember downloading from the internet. Back when I started getting into fansubed anime.
Jackson Murphy
based atmospheric direction
Xavier Green
Post lesser known 2000s shows
Gallery Fake
>Fujita Reiji is the owner of an art gallery, Gallery Fake. He deals with fake items, and is also familiar with the black market. However, he has a special talent for art, and used to work for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as a curator.
Carson Campbell
Isekai done right.
Brayden Jones
Watchinf Kemono Souja Erin, loving it after 30+ eps watched, really well paced, well directed adaptation.
Also watching Astro Fighter Sunred, comedy is such a hit or miss genre, this one has potential.
Gonna watch Princess Tutu, Flag, Phantom Memory, Yomigaeru Sora and Thermae Romae soon.
Ryder Brown
Kurau Phantom Memory
>It is the year 2100, and on the colonized Moon, a project is under way to explore new aspects of energy. Amami Kurau is the daughter of the chief scientist on the project, and on her 12th birthday, she accompanies her father to the lab to observe the experiments. Then something goes awry, and Kurau is struck by twin bolts of light. In the aftermath, her father is dismayed to find that his daughter is no longer his daughter. Rather, her body is now home to two energy entities with fantastic powers.
Joshua Jackson
Sell it to me.
Ryan Jackson
Project ARMS
>A boy gets involved in an accident when in kindergarten, horribly damaging his arm, but the doctors somehow manage to save it. Now, several years later, his arm seems to be becoming the focus of strange events as it turns out to be more than a normal arm. Meanwhile, a secret organizations is out to get hold of him and the power he possess.
Michael Evans
The only good WMT type show post-2000, right?
David Jones
Hi no Tori, Hataraki Man, Jyu Oh Sei, Yuugo: Koushounin
and pic related
Henry Barnes
discotek has bluray licence for this one iirc.
Hunter Johnson
Gate Keepers
>It is Tokyo, 1969. Earth is under the attack of the "Invaders." Fortunately, though, the public is unaware of this. But to the secret orginazation, A.E.G.I.S., the threat is very real, and it is up them to stop this invasion. One day on his route to high school, Ukiya Shun observes a battle between a young girl and a group of Invaders. He ends up helping her and discovers that much like the girl, he possesses the ability to generate a "gate" of special power that only a few other people are gifted with. As a result, Ukiya then joins A.E.G.I.S. in an effort to recruit other Gate Keepers in order to protect the city, all while doing his best not to imitate his late father, whom he dispises.
Austin Myers
>2000-2010 Thread
This whole concept is underrated. There are frequently 'retro' threads for pre-2000 anime, but I don't think anime fandom in general has done enough to digest the volume of interesting shit that came out of the 2000's when most fans were actually starting to get into it as a hobby and the west started paying attention, yet where things weren't as extensively cataloged as they are now.
Parker Sanders
Mermaid Forest
>According to an ancient legend, mermaid's flesh can grant immortality if eaten. 500 years ago, Yuta unknowingly ate a piece of mermaid's flesh. For centuries, he travels across Japan, hoping to find a mermaid, thinking she may be able to make him a normal human again. When he finally finds one, he discovers that she and her companions have been raising a girl to be their food so they can eat her and take on her youthful looks. That is how mermaids stay young. Yuta kills the mermaids and rescues her, but she has already eaten some of the mermaid's flesh. Although he had to kill the mermaids, Yuta isn't too disappointed. Yuta's once lonely existence is now over, as he has found a companion in Mana. And Mana, who had been trapped in a small hut her whole life, finds delight in even the simplest of things. Together, Yuta and Mana attempt to seek out more mermaids, trying to become normal humans again.
Jackson Collins
I'm disappointed that they didn't start off the first episode with maid rape jokes. I don't expect a perfectly accurate adaptation, but come on, that's a no brainer.
Angel Allen
It was pretty underrated. Had a lot of interesting ideas too. Like the animal head people.
Aaron Thomas
I dropped all of these lmao
this one I read the manga for
ashita no nadja, also heard good things about kaze no shoujo emily but havent seen it
Jonathan Cruz
yeah, from what I can think of in terms of no. of episodes.
Les Misérables: Shoujo Cosette is another one that comes to mind.
Camden Garcia
Still need to finish this series.
Isaiah Cook
Kaleido Star maybe?
Connor Barnes
this is a mahou shoujo-like that isnt actually mahou shoujo