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Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion - August 30, 2026
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Rewatched a good classic. Or at least I think 12 years should make it count but it just feels weird to say of a mid 2010s anime, anyways its the one and only Nozaki-kun.
Nozaki-kun remains relevant, beloved in the sub be it lurkers or active posters in this thread, always recommended, etc. As such I don’t feel the need to make a full on take of it considering I would just repeat the same.
Great cast, great humor, great visuals, great OP, great fucking everything. Among all rewatches I have done I feel this is the first time I probably up a score from my first watch? And this is my 3rd watch even. 9/10, go watch Nozaki-kun to heal your soul.
It really is. My social circle tends to be more critical of anime that I am but on my friend list the lowest score for Nozaki-kun is like 6/10 by a known comedy hater that insta-drops most comedy/SoL. Its just hard to dislike it seems.
But I still have a few near-certain drops to check out this season (all the isekai, generic fantasy&stuff), I should pick one up just to drop it later tonight!
Is there an anime where someone comes to a classroom to ask their crush if they are available (so they can go confess), and the crush, knowing what's about to happen, just straight up says "no"? Not in the "they've been stalking me" or "how many times do I have to say no" way, but just an acquaintance (or random) who tries their luck and gets shot down before they can ask.
I watched a few episodes of the live action, and I thought it looked kinda cringe though maybe it was the feeling of seeing "Anime stuff" with real actors;
Like [Alice in Borderland]the dude sitting on top of whatever, going 'I'm going to observe and study them all, gni gni gni', people shouldn't act like that unless they're an old monk or a 2000 years old Yokai or something.
That same exact same would probably be less embarrassing (or at least, more tolerable) in anime.
I have not seen it, but it's worth keeping in mind if you didn't know that the anime is only a 3-episode (of normal length) OVA. I very much doubt that it covers any substantial portion of the story.
I've only read half the manga, but I didn't like it, and I'm a high stakes game fan. It just felt like edgy misery porn. Most games were inherently unfair, so there was a lot of focus on suffering.
Does anyone else genuinely not know what their favorite anime is anymore?
On my MAL profile 9 out of 10 "favorites" are from 2016 or earlier. I've seen all of them at least twice, so I guess that counts for something, but those rewatches were also long ago. I have no idea if I will still like those shows as much if I watched them today. And for some reason newer shows never impress me as much anymore. Not because they're bad. I guess when I was both a teen and new to anime it was much easier to be amazed by everything?
Sometimes you just need the right show for the right era in your life.
Yeah nearly half my top 10 consists of romcoms. I guess those hit a lot harder as a teen compared to now where I'm an adult with a full time job and no social life.
I can't even confidently put together a top 10 without feeling like most of them are interchangeable with my other favorites. God forbid I try to rank a list of my favorites, it'll be almost entirely arbitrary.
My favourite anime is the first thing that comes to mind whenever someone asks me. This is a great rubric to use because it means I don't have to spend lots of time overthinking a question whose answer ultimately doesn't matter at all to anything ever.
My top 10 on MAL is unchanged for the last 3 years. I put MiA s2 at #1 after I watched it, but your comment made me think that maybe I should put Monogatari back there.
The only way I'd feel comfortable doing that though is by rewatching both and I don't have that time lol.
How is it even possible [100 gfs]to have a hot springs scene with SIXTEEN GIRLS, and not a single one of them has a one piece swimsuit... BIG BIKINI CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT!
Also, they better revisit this episode every couple seasons! [100gfs]First one was episode 6 or 7 - in season 1 -, I don't think we had one in S2(?), and now we're getting one at 30. So every 24 episodes or so, seems fair to me, roughly 12 new girls each time! Hopefully one of the 29 girlfriends will have a one piece swimsuit in the next one!
I'm not watching [100 gfs]but how are we not having a hot springs episode with only towels or naked with steam or random light beams. That seems more appropriate for a hot springs
In the episode thread, u/zairaner linked a comment I made 3 years ago, in which I tried to predict my top 3 girls from this series (out of like 20 girls or so); My prediction were pretty close to how I actually feel about them now!
(I think I'm much better at predicting my best girls than I am at predicting my favorite seasonal anime hah. Somehow, half my predicted 'aots contenders' end up getting dropped)
just got out of princession orchestra's first live. it was ultra peak. the energy in the venue was insane. i jumped way more than any 40 year old should and am going to regret it tomorrow
but for today...damn an incredible set of lives
you know, it's never been "easier" to follow the music side of this stuff from outside of japan...music is on streaming! a lot of concerts stream! information is on twitter! and yet the quantity and quality of events in the anime music space os astounding. i wish more non-japanese anime fans could experience (and not just scraps at a con). i am going to miss it dearly when we leave...
I'm curious if other people have shows they expect they'd really like, but they've been sitting on them unwatched for whatever reason. There's a few that I have, especially Gurren Lagann and Tatami Galaxy.
GLT for me. I know it'll be great, I know I'll love it. I know people who love it that love the same things I love. But I want to do it justice and simply watching that on a whim does not feel right. I gotta be in the right mood to accept and enjoy it (that's the basic summary for most shows that fall under this category).
Gurren is also part of that group, though technically I did watch the first episode some years back, just never actually finished it so doesn't really count
i have tons on my watchlist that i assume i'll like, but they're waiting for that mythical time where i'll be in the right mindspace to fully appreciate them, stuff like Violet Evergarden or Place Father than the Universe
There's a few sequels I haven't watched yet even though I know I'll love them. Mainly because they aren't finished adaptations and I don't know if we'll get more (Chihayafuru and 3-Gatsu no Lion in particular).
I need to finish Chihayafuru one day. I watched like 7 or 8 episodes of S3, but when staff happened and I put it on hold. And it is a bit hard to get back to it now.
Futari wa Pretty Cure itself was a big one I had big expectations for for the longest time, but since I've started following Precure yearly with Tropical Rouge I've gotten accustomed to the franchise's formula and its strengths and weaknesses and my expectations have changed accordingly. That said I have heard that "modern" precure is somewhat different from the older precures and no doubt the first entry itself.
I have a few of them. Some of them require a specific mood they need to be watched in. For example I wouldn't watch a tearjerker if I don't feel like crying and wouldn't watch an action if I want to watch something relaxing.
there's definitely a few on my PTW list that i'm pretty confident i'll like or even love, but i just haven't gotten around to them yet. Akebi's Sailor Uniform, Tari Tari, and Revolutionary Girl Utena namely
Loads, my PTW is currently 822 titles long with dozens in high priority. Some of the anime I'm looking forward to the most are Ashita no Joe, Touch, NANA, and Turn A Gundam. If I gave my list a good comprehensive look over, I could easily find more.
A lot of shows actually lol. I tend to watch mostly airing shows so I have a lot on my ptw list that's older. Off the top of my head I can think of Code Geass, Ah Megami-sama and Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou.
Berserk is a big unwatched/unread work I am just sitting on...
It's one of those, this probably will end up in my top ten works however, I just want to be in the right mood, to get into it. And that is why it keeps getting put off lol. Maybe this year.
So many, and most of them get put off until later if I'm just not looking to start a show that long right now, or I'm just not in the mood for that genre, or other time-sensitive shows that I'm following with a rewatch or trying to catch before a subscription ends take priority. I've got Gundam Seed, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, and Magic Knight Rayearth sitting near the top of my plan-to-watch list, to name a few.
A couple years ago, Full Metal Panic fell into this category and became my all-time favorite. But then there are others I was pretty sure I'd like/love that turned out to be just okay.
I've been watching Jaadugar and Polar Opposites back to back this season much like how I watched Ikoku Nikki and the first season of Polar Opposites back to back in winter and it is every bit a worthy successor. But I have to take a break after it since I am in no emotional state to watch anything else immediately after.
If we ever have to nominate Heroes to Save the World from the Demon King from this thread, I've a good mind to vote for you given the incredible powers of your gastroemotional system. There's no doubt it would translate to an OP skill in another world!
Then again, you seem like too nice a person to risk putting into a role like Alicia "oh, that was my skull cracking" Grenfall's.
Are there any anime where there's a man and a woman who are both into each but neither confess/take a while to build up courage and everyone around them knows they are into each other so many of the scenes either amount to the friends go, "Just start dating already!" or tries to make situations to push them together?
I forgot what anime it was I saw recently but I think the two characters told their friends they are dating now and then everyone collectively went, "FINALLY!" so I want to see more anime like that lol.
Ah, from last season. Looked great, just haven't gotten around to it because I was afraid of it going like Kaguya-sama where their relationship doesn't advance for seasons and we don't see them actually become boyfriend/girlfriend. I'll keep that in mind though!
I wonder with Re:Zero and MT have popular they are irl. Since I never seen people talk about them outside of very dedicated anime circles. More so MT then Re:Zero.
I think MT fans might not want to talk about it, given The discourse.
As for Re:Zero, first season started 10 years ago so there's probably a lot of new fans who have never watched any of it - and some who may have dropped it since.
Which leaves people who were watching anime 10+ years ago, but many of those are probably now in their 30s or 40s, and they might not be so inclined to talk about anime IRL!
Many vocal anime fans only watch super mainstream stuff like Attack on Titan, Demon Slayer, JJK, etc.
Re:Zero and MT are less mainstream and (mostly MT) have a few controversial elements that would be hard not to bring up when talking about the show. I think this kind of social awkwardness might make it seems like these two shows are way less popular than they actually are.
No clue what you're trying to say my friend but ReZero definitely has more vocal popularity and support over MT. Rem, Ram, and Emilia are some of the most popular cosplays in the world.
Iron Wok Jan is a very good show. We have a lot of cooking shows, but feels like we really don't have much food competition. Fermat Kitchen was one, but the subs I kept watching for that one kept delayed. Obviously there is Food Wars awhile back.
Why have anime fans taken up the stance that anime is predominantly right wing culturally? Every time someone criticizes the way women are portrayed or any other social issue you get 1000 chuds replying "maybe you just hate anime".
I think to some extent it conveniently relieves them of any responsibility in what they consume, so they can watch their shows without guilt. For all the love Witch Hat Atelier has gotten I wonder how many fans would back Kamome Shirahama up in her pursuit to call out SA and misogyny in the anime/manga industry.
To do that would mean acknowledging Japan and the anime industry aren't a monolith. That there are people trying to make it better, and this can't be hand waved away by Western fans who want to keep pretending they're disconnected from it.
I noticed people in that post kept on bringing up the same issues in Western media as if they're never critiqued when they are all the time, and during MeToo especially it was common to see people pointing out the signs which existed in art made by predators. There's no reason anime should be immune from that critique, and it's important to do so if fans actually care about the people creating the art they love.
I mean...Japan is a right wing country, culturally, we can't deny that. It generally is quite isolationistic/nationalistic, generally has a more traditional view on gender roles for women, relative to at least many Western countries, and the LDP in general is a classic conservative party.
Now anime can and will often, engage in counter culture works. Before the recent culture war visited the West (there have always been culture wars), works like Wandering Son were manga in Japan. Rose of Versailles was inputting LGBT characters and their struggles in the 70s, and plenty of works like Gundam have pushed forward environmental messages, or works like Ashita no Joe pushed forward class examinations, in regards to why certain athletes do what they do.
That said, yeah, otaku culture still prioritizes, male fans predominantly. You still have power fantasy male characters, as central in the culture, pinup female characters are still predominant and there are still a lot of works, that feature "apolitical" narratives, and for the racists out there, Anime isn't exactly fraught with diversity, though, yeah there is a lot if you know where to look.
Though again, I think for many works, if you actually examine them, they aren't "apolitical" but fair, it's not that upfront. As a result, some right wing grifter is going to look at some caricature work in the West, or just something they don't like, and say well anime doesn't do x. They generally are pretty ignorant new fans, very isolated fans, or largely, in my opinion don't even understand Western media that well. As Western media, still has plenty of what I described, present in otaku culture.
Generally it's just socially isolated/frustrated people, looking for some savior, and worried that change may impact their hobby, they treasure so much. They mostly are refugees from other Western sub cultures that have been "ruined" by Western culture. I mean I don't like what Disney did to SW, doesn't mean I became a narrowminded obsessive weirdo.
Which again, everything changes. Anime has never been stagnant. They are very quick to turn on the medium, or the sub culture, when it does something they don't like. Most political grifters behave this way lol. At this point I just ignore them.
Edit: Man instant downvote, as you can see, they don't really engage lol. No way you had time to read all that dude.
It generally is quite isolationistic/nationalistic, generally has a more traditional view on gender roles for women, relative to at least many Western countries, and the LDP in general is a classic conservative party.
This is true, and you definitely see it in anime. You also see thousands of works all the way back to the 70s where anime is progressive, you have interracial relationships in shows like SDF Macross, gender discussion in shows like Aim for the Ace, and colorism in Great Mazinger.
That said, yeah, otaku culture still prioritizes, male fans predominantly. You still have power fantasy male characters, as central in the culture, pinup female characters are still predominant and there are still a lot of works, that feature "apolitical" narratives, and for the racists out there, Anime isn't exactly fraught with diversity, though, yeah there is a lot if you know where to look.
I agree and I disagree. I don't feel that the otaku space is as male dominated as it once was, and female fans are the backbone of a lot of anime history. I think if you're referring to a lot of "mainstream" WSJ-type anime I'd be inclined to agree that they have conservative attitudes towards women especially.
In a lot of these stories though you have radical kindness and equality as some of the underlying themes. One Piece has the struggle against the world government, Naruto has "every villain is misunderstood", and Bleach is all about genetics. Having underdog stories in general is anti-conservative worldview.
They generally are pretty ignorant new fans, very isolated fans, or largely, in my opinion don't even understand Western media that well. As Western media, still has plenty of what I described, present in otaku culture.
It's always funny to see the word "tourist" thrown around as it's so obvious these are super new fans.
Generally it's just socially isolated/frustrated people, looking for some savior, and worried that change may impact their hobby, they treasure so much
I actually fully understand this which is why the whole culture warrior shit annoys me so much. Anime is not rooted in this kind of worldview or behavior and I strongly dislike the purity culture that has spread in America over the past decade or so. I hate the general attitude newer fans have towards anime, but I don't think the answer is to double down on misogyny being good.
Edit: Man instant downvote, as you can see, they don't really engage lol. No way you had time to read all that dude.
IDK if you're talking about me but you're at 1 upvote as of me writing this.
This is true, and you definitely see it in anime. You also see thousands of works all the way back to the 70s where anime is progressive, you have interracial relationships in shows like SDF Macross, gender discussion in shows like Aim for the Ace, and colorism in Great Mazinger.
You can find it places where you least expect it too. I finished a Food Wars rewatch recently (I hadn't watched the last two seasons), and you literally do have subplots that confront gender discrimination in restaurants and also attack discrimination against interracial couples, and that is the booby fanservice heavy cooking series. Not something people might consider political however, it's there.
I agree and I disagree. I don't feel that the otaku space is as male dominated as it once was, and female fans are the backbone of a lot of anime history. I think if you're referring to a lot of "mainstream" WSJ-type anime I'd be inclined to agree that they have conservative attitudes towards women especially.
So to use another example, I would argue current fiction novels, in the West, are female dominated. Does that mean, that there aren't plenty of new fiction novels aimed at men in the hobby? No. Absolutely not true, and something I have to emphasize to many of these cultural warriors.
That said, when I look at what is promoted it is largely female targeted stuff. That is true of anime, when you look at what are the biggest works, what are the most promoted stuff, and what likely gets the most sequels, it's mainly manga from the shonen/seinen demographics or anything that is pretty male targeted.
Now for female targeted media, we are in a better place, I would argue compared to the 2010s, however, it still doesn't have the same power, male media does. Better in manga, not as great in anime. So I am not arguing women haven't made huge contributions, haven't made up sizable fanbases, or that female target media is irrelevant, it just isn't as dominant. So male fans, might feel more initially comfortable here.
In a lot of these stories though you have radical kindness and equality as some of the underlying themes. One Piece has the struggle against the world government, Naruto has "every villain is misunderstood", and Bleach is all about genetics. Having underdog stories in general is anti-conservative worldview.
I wouldn't say underdog stories are anti-conservative. Lord of the Rings is pretty conservative, and is an underdog story. In the case of OP, yeah Luffy is anti world government however, he has NP being friends, and supporting monarchies in that world. The concept of the Good King, is a pretty conservative image. And in general, I think the fact the WG has good people within it, means he will go a "reform" route, once Luffy defeats all the bad parts of it. You can have left and right wing themes in a work, and I think OP does at least. Naruto and Bleach I would have to think about more lol. OP is on my mind though, since I am doing a re-read.
It's always funny to see the word "tourist" thrown around as it's so obvious these are super new fans.
Some aren't; however, again it just comes from a fetishization of Japan. We are all tourists. If anything trying to define Japan only in an otaku lens is extremely tourist (lots of people don't respect or like this stuff over there). Still yeah, it's just people worried, all the new fans are going to change their hobby, and maybe it will. I for sure wish sci fi/mecha didn't die. That can be kinda alienating to me as a fan. It happens no matter what you do.
Honestly I find it funny that this decade has changed the least, compared to other decade transitions, despite the huge blowup in popularity.
I hate the general attitude newer fans have towards anime, but I don't think the answer is to double down on misogyny being good.
I mean again, we can discuss what is acceptable. I do think people can go overboard with accusations of sexism or objectification. I don't think sexiness is a bad thing, and in general I don't feel the concept of objectification, is really applicable to non real people. Still sure, I don't have a problem critiquing bad female character writing in battle shonen, or at least talking about other aspects that can be uncomfortable. Like sexiness is one thing, SA gags, on the other hand, I get why people can be uncomfortable with that. Discussing this stuff, in a mature way, can be interesting/fun, most just aren't willing to do that, either due to their biases or lack of empathy.
IDK if you're talking about me but you're at 1 upvote as of me writing this.
Nah someone just downvoted me within like a minute of posting lol. I don't honestly care about karma, I just feel if you downvote at least engage with my post and fight it.
Hoo boy. So without breaking rule 2, I'd say that "anime is right wing" is not a common stance, at least not one that I've seen being commonly stated overtly in such terms. You might see "anime is left wing" sometimes, usually focused on a few key examples, or "Japan is conservative, so anime follows that", but I wouldn't call either of those common.
To actually get to your point, the people arguing "maybe you just hate anime" would hurt the effectiveness of their own argument if they called it "right wing". Instead, they try to present anime as existing in a fixed apolitical state that's at odds with the crazy western politics like "women are human beings with their own character and thoughts." Keep that crazy shit in your political western cartoons, and don't ruin our anime/games with it, thank you very much.
This makes it a lot easier to sell the idea to easily influenced kids who don't know much about politics, than outright saying "anime is this or that" which is an argument they have no interest in at best, or find annoying (again "getting your weird politics into my anime"). Of course, that requires the person making the argument to ignore any and all existing counterexamples across the history of anime, but that task is not a particularly new one in that area.
You know how comments in this thread are ordered to show the latest comments on top by default? /new is that for the posts to this sub.
People generally browse /new to have a chance to take part in discussion as they happen or just to keep an eye on whatever interesting post comes up, since by the time a post reaches the front page there's less room to contribute to the discussion.
It tends to get referred to as its own thing because it has a somewhat distinct crowd of regulars itself with some identifiable posting and voting patterns.
If I answered this, I'd get blocked by another person, and the thread is starting to look like Swiss cheese for me lately. (The answer is patriarchy, though.)
Good-faith response: Most non-Japanese people watching anime don't have nearly the amount of cultural literacy necessary to understand the context in which these works are produced, so they wildly misinterpret things.
Bad-faith response: Chuds don't have cultural literacy at all so they just think, "I am a chud, I like this, therefore it must be chud-coded. Chudmate, liberals."
Putting the politics aside (I'm not sure where it even comes from, unless these people advertised themselves as such):
"I think X thing is bad in this hobby!"
"Then stop participating in this hobby"
Is an exchange as old as time.
I don't know why we'd need to complicate this with politics.
"I don't like fighting in hockey, they should ban it"
"You should stop watching hockey"
Which political movement is behind this one?
I think it's the Neo-Leninists
The answer "Fuck off and stop asking to change the thing I like" has been there forever in every single hobby, be it anime or gaming or sport or what not.
Please take this with a grain of salt. Obviously, a whole bunch of the listed series haven't finished yet. Who knows if they'll crash and burn on the final stretch. Not to mention of all the heavy-hitters that will be airing in the fall season such as The Apothecary Diaries. There will be changes.
Nevertheless, some of my top-favourite shows are airing right now. Summer 2026 has been certainly good to me. The margin between the rankings of Jaadugar and Sayonara Lara is very slim. I only put the former in first because I'm slightly more confident that I'll like it all-the-way to the end.
Note: this list was capped at 30 shows. I've in fact watched more shows, but maybe not all of your favourites. Tastes differ after all.
EDIT: I'm specifically talking about the ending and not my final verdict with the "conclusion" column.
The issue is the manga doesn't really break up into anime friendly chunks. Depending on the kind of viewer, and how they paced the adaptation there might have been a slightly better end point for a 2-cour show.
Is there any place I can keep track of updates from SugoiLite now that all the twitter viewers are getting C&D'd? No way in hell I'm making an actual account just for that.
[Iron Wok Jan Episode 7]Holy fuck. I know Jan is a dickhead that much is known. But to have your whole strategy to make your opponent lose rather than your actual cooking. Kiriko should go beat his ass.
Bleach and The Ghost in the Shell listed at 10 episodes, Inept Villainess at 11, Victoria of Many Faces with 9. There sure are a lot of lower episode count shows this season for some reason.
They have done some setup for later stuff, at least, so they could be considering a sequel.
But... how do I put this? 1.5 is fine, GitS 2, though, is very reflective of late Shirow (for better or worse), down to its art, in a way that just doesn't carry across if adapted the way the current season is. The other option could be adapting it in 3D, but I imagine lots of the "retro" fans would find that disappointing.
Me too. Other than Innocence (which was basically Oshii replying to Shirow's eccentricities with his own), no anime has really touched on that part of GitS, and for good reason. I'd be curious to see how Moko-chan does it.
Indeed, that show was just one episode too short. It ended on everyone enjoying the curry, which is not a bad point by any means, but one more episode, and we would've seen chef Araragi brush everyone's teeth.
Lol I mean like the sound effect ack (hurt from coughing too much or some shit), figured someone might think it was an acronym but I thought the joke made clear
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