Recommend some non-perverted anime - Blu-ray Forum

EricJ · 12-04-2013, 04:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Infernal King

Most of what I've seen - which promptly caused me to lose interest - is basically soft-core porn. From what I understand, this constitutes the majority of the genre. I'm no prude by any means but cartoon boobs and butts just don't do it for me.

Also, please no Studio Ghibli suggestions. Thanks.

(Yeah, I remember when we got these uninformed semi-troll posts back in the 90's, but they all ended with "None of that Sailor Moon and Pokemon crap, though."

And yeah, they all were besieged with fanboys trying to make the poor victim subject himself to Evangelion, Kite and Cowboy Bebop back then, too. Lord, it's like being in a time loop.)

Fortunately, Funi seems to be bringing back most of the 90's mainstream classics, like Slayers

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and Tenchi Universe

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(no, not the OAV, that would just be encouraging him)--and even Viz is bringing back Ranma 1/2

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(to disk soon and currently via Neon Alley)--so there's some hope for the current generation.
In the meantime, Sword Art Online

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has finally gotten a US dub--Mostly for the cool first half of the series, before the dopey second half jumps the shark.

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Originally Posted by KillerJuan77

Might as well throw Night Shift Nurses in there which was actually made by ARMS, the team behind Elfen Lied, Queens Blade, Ikki Tousen & more and it's way worse than any other troll title we mentioned.

(What, you mean, like Ghost In the Shell 2: Innocence?...Oh, wait, you were serious with that one.

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Originally Posted by Infernal King

I've seen Akira (that got really trippy toward the end) but in regards to Ghost in the Shell and Neon Genesis Evangelion, should I check out the "new" versions available on Blu-ray first?

No. You shouldn't. It's 2013. There is no longer any reason to watch Ghost in the Shell 1 OR 2 (the latter of which even the Japanese hated), Grave of the Fireflies (does it sound cheery?...), Akira, or anything Sony ever released in US arthouse theaters, against your will.
Fans have been in their own plastic bubble of auto-recommending those since 1999, and for FOUR-TEEN YEARS we've had the Plastic-Bubbled Leading the Plastic-Bubbled. Break the cycle of tragedy.

(C'mon, if we're going to run through all the 90's fanboy-recommendation cliche's, can we at least do the one about getting him to watch Princess Tutu, even though he's dreading what he thinks the show is from the title? That old trope's always fun, it's more up to date, and a little more constructive.)

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Originally Posted by jala12

If you're looking for minimal to no fanservice I'd suggest these titles:
6. Nadia: Secret of Blue Water (older show with an amazing first 22 episodes and finale, bogged down by middle island/Africa episodes)

(Y'know, seriously, I was that close to making some 90's-relic joke about your list, when...darnit, they just put Nadia back out on disk again, after all these nearly twenty years. So you're off the hook--Be grateful you dodged a bullet with that one.

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Maybe I'm the strange one for tuning to HuluPlus or Crunchyroll every month or so and finding a nice series that's been released since 1998--Shame that Netflix doesn't have the funny, spooky xxxHolic anymore, but some of the other streaming sites still do.
Oh, and do this right now, Fernie: I want you--yes YOU. Get up from your seat, right now...DO IT!!...go on Crackle.com (it's got its own PS3 app), and watch their English dub of Nodame Cantabile, come back, stand in front of the class, and tell us all how you feel about your first post.

(And if you want to watch Valkyria Chronicles or Galaxy Express 999 while you're there, that's fine too, but let's keep this simple.)

On second thought, never mind, you apologized earlier--Here you go, on the house:

As for me, I've been around long enough to know, hey...maybe a little fan-perversion's not so bad after all, now and then, if it's Outbreak Company.

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