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Samurai Champloo, Gintama, Odd Taxi, Made in Abyss, Ouran High School Host Club, Soul Eater, Assassination Classroom, Chainsaw Man, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Baki, Cromartie High School, Azumanga Daioh, um...that's all I can think of without googling
I came here to suggest that as a joke, with a link to my breathless rant about why Made in Abyss is the worst thing ever made. It's a revolting show with terrible pacing, worse themes, and absolutely nothing going for it except the background surreal fantasy aesthetic, written by a pedophile who includes loli porn in the manga version.
I still have avoided that show thanks to your post.
Ouran shows un_mask_me has good taste though (it's a cute classic)
Fair enough
It is wild that the art is soo good but the show is so bad. The production value is amazing. The world building is really intresting as well. It was one of the first dungeon cultivation shows to get big. It is just amazing that there are multiple story arcs about extreme and sexual violence being used on children and people signed off on it.
One of the songs was super popular on tiktok a while back. It was jarring.
Yeah, like those soft surreal fantasy landscapes are absolutely on point, and then it's like the story does everything it can to just skip past it so it can revel in this consequence-free torture and exploitation of Riko, or get hyper focused on revolting ancap frenworld monsters for an entire season. The basic concept isn't unsalvageable, but imo it would have required fixing the pacing, aging up all the characters, giving the characters actual progression both good and bad, and cutting a lot of the grossest and most clearly-the-author-is-getting-off-on-this shit.
Although even aesthetically I can't shake the feeling that it's really derivative and generic, but I can't point to what it's drawing on. Maybe just the general sort of surreal fantasy art that would make it into stuff like Heavy Metal or get used as pulp covers in the 70s and 80s.
I think it is encapsulating the early ps2 era vibes pretty perfectly. There is a specific era of cozy adventure type stuff I am picturing.
Thanks comrade! Chainsaw Man and Samurai Champloo are the only ones I recognize lol, definitely will give a look at the others.
I like these threads, I always add things to my watch list too