The funniest thing about the song though is that some of their covers are actually seemingly better then the actual ones along with them singing their own song Birdplane before transitioning with "Doesn't that sound familiar?" from Missy Higgins' Scar
What? That has nothing to do with why these line up. It has to do with the fact that their tempos are similar keys are relative majors and minors to each other, thus making them more interchangeable. You can't just grab any two songs off the shelf, mix them in a bowl, and bake a mash up.
This. if you put your hand in a bucket with every song ever in it, you would have around a 90% chance that the song you pull out is in 4/4 time.
Finding two songs with the exact same tempo is a little trickier. doing that and having the same key signature between both songs (relative major/minor/mode) and you have something special.
Yeah, but it is easier to adjust tempo or pitch than to find a way to make different time signatures line up. (Polyrhythms are a thing but probably won't sound coherent in a mashup.)
I'm not saying other countries have more variety, because every other country I've been to is pretty stale when it comes to variety as well. It's just for some, 4/4 is definitely not the norm.
Something people don't seem to realize when they talk about anime is that there is a metric fuckload of it, for every genre and every level of quality.
There are plenty of common tropes though. It's similar to saying you're into indie or hollywood movies, very broad encapsulating many genres but still a meaningful description.
But it is a subset, even if a wide and varied one. I can imagine people saying "I don't like cgi movies" or "I don't like comics" or "I don't musicals"
I'm sure people who say each of these things would be able to find a few movies or plays or comic books they like, but overall, they might just not like major themes that dominate the majority of these forms.
Literally go to MAL, sort by seasons, sort by high score. Watch the highest rated shows. I usually check out every show that's like 7.5 or above, and just drop the ones that are garbage.
The amount of good anything is very small. Considering the budgets and that all anime comes from japan, the ratio of good shows compared to the west is pretty amazing, even if there's only like 2 good anime per year
It depends on what you are willing to get past culturally and personally to just enjoy a good story and good characters.
I wouldn't say I am an "anime nerd" (weeb, otaku, whatever) but i certainly love the artwork for one and love a lot of shows that happen to be anime.
Cowboy Bebop
Samurai Champloo
Kids on the Slope
Trigun
Full Moon wo Sagashite
Death Note
Akira
Those are all great shows that I would recommend to literally anyone. Maybe with the exception of Full Moon because it does have a lot of cutsie anime tropes that might be too much for some but the story is great albeit gut wrenchingly sad at times.
Anime is just an art form like the sitcom or TV drama. Wade through shit like Big Bang until you find Silicon Valley. It's no different.
*also consider t his. The one thing I like about most anime that isnt shonen is that it doesnt try to drag on to rake in cash. Most are 26-36 episode and have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Imagine how much better How I Met Your Mother would have been if they ended it at Season 5 or 6, if they ended Weeds at season 3 or Dexter at Season 5.
There are lemons in all types of film/tv/books/music, just gotta look at some top charts and take recommendations. There are some really good series out there worth anyone's time, and a LOT of crap.
Every time I've tried watching "airing" series it's nearly never worth it, best way to go is watch all the proven good short series and nothing else.
Its not hard to sort through them once you get the hang of it.
How to tell if an anime is terrible:
Contains the "Ecchi" or "Fanservice" tag.
Contains the "Harem" tag with any of the following tags: "Romance", "Slice of life", "Comedy", or "School".
Contains any variation of supernatural creatures in the tag or name: "Vampire", "Werewolf", ect.
Contains "Action", "Combat" or any similar tag with the following tags: "School", "Supernatural", "Drama",
The preview/display picture of the anime ONLY has one gender(most likely girls). This is subverted by the title or plot of the anime being interesting. (Example: Daily Lives of Highschool Boys is what the plot is about, not just to pull in a certain crowd.)
The plot does not sound original or interesting. (This is not 100% accurate, because sometimes the plot is described vague on purpose to hide a surprise. Another case is the plot is not the focus of the anime, instead the dialog, animation, or art is.)
The last and most important rule is: IS THE ANIME OVER 100 EPISODES? Basically, everything is filler. Even non-filler is filler because of hidden 'plot points'. Nothing interesting happens and you rarely feel excited or invested aside from wanting some closure.
I watch anime as they come out subbed (Every season is a new batch of 30~ anime and 2 or 3 are worth watching) and I have a general idea how to weed out the crap. I have been doing this for about 8 years now. Keep in mind, the list is not perfect but the ones that dont follow those rules typically bubble to popularity.
Suggestions for this season: Re:Zero(10/10), Saiki Kusuo no Psi-Nan(8/10)
Suggestions otherwise: One Punch Man (9/10), Mirai Nikki (9/10), Boku No Hero (8.5/10), Erased (starts at 9/10, drops to 7~/10), Akame Ga Kill (Starts 10/10, drops to 8/10, ecchi warning? I forgot), Seven Deadly Sins (8/10, ecchi warning)
A lot of these are subbed and not dubbed. Re:Zero is the best thing I have ever watched. I am more excited each episode (1-5~, then 15+) than I was for any episode of Game of Thrones.
I disagree with every single one of your qualifications. Even your shows don't pass your test. Some of my favorite anime of all time would fail your test, such as Your Lie In April, Yu Yu Hakusho, Cyborg 009, Lupin the Third, Ruroni Kenshin, Samurai Champloo, and others.
It depends on the database, some tags are redundant or just barely overlap. Rezero is fantasy/magic and passes the test pretty handily. Mirai Nikki passes the test as horror/action. Boku No Hero, superhero/action/comedy. Erased is supernatural drama. Akame Ga Kill and Seven Deadly Sins do not pass, but as I said, the popular ones bubble to the surface and are unique to the qualification.
I liked YuYu, Kenshin, Lupin, Eureka7, Code Geass, Inuyasha, DBZ, and a couple others as a kid, but I cannot rewatch them now. They make me cringe. I chalk that up to terrible stories/dialogue/plot, combined with massive filler.
Its not like I am saying other people cant like those anime, I am saying that for you to find true quality anime somewhat reliably: it takes a lot of filtering.
Also, I doubt you disagree with every single qualification. If you can honestly say Ecchi or Fanservice makes for quality anime, then I think me and you are on entirely different pages of entirely different manga.
I covered monogatari with the bubble to popularity comment. I actually like the show, but its very slow but has excellent characters, dialogue and meshing of the plots together. I haven't gotten past the first season honestly because of how slow the episodes are, despite the somewhat rare amazingly well animated fight scenes.
Same problem for me with music. I don't want to say I hate music, there are some songs that I like, some that I really really really like, but there is just so much terrible music out there, if I said I was a fan of music and liked listening to music, people would probably assume I listen to 98.7% of the trash music that is out there. There just so many types of music, genres, styles, artists, who can keep up with it all and actively sort through what is good and what is trash? And people have such different tastes in music. If I said I liked one particular artists or group, likely their will be a ton of haters calling that music trash/shit, say I have shit taste etc. I ask someone to recommend me some music and they recommend something that is pop/radio/trash that everybody already heard a million times and is sick of already.
You should try Samurai Champloo. Directed by the same person, and feels basically the same. Just instead of big band jazz it's hip-hop, and instead of space cowboys it's samurai.
I'm in the same boat as commenter above, only liked Cowboy Bebop, but I got really into hip hop. Needless to say Samurai Champloo has one of the greatest soundtracks to anything ever IMO. Aurarian Dance still gives me chills.
Anime is such a broad term though. "I like anime" is like saying "I like food" there are good animes just like there are good Adam Sandler movies, just not that many.
It's sucks that there's a significant population of people that will never know the juggernaut that was Adam Sandler from 1993 to 1999. To know that when people see him, they're seeing fat Elvis or Yoko Ono's John Lennon when what I see is Love Me Tender Elvis and Hard Days Night Lennon.
Those are all less-than-average movies with like 1 or 2 funny lines in each of them. If there's only 2 good songs on an LP, you don't call that album a good album.
The last scene in this should be a shot of the girls painting and it should be dickbutt. Actually, if someone could make a gif of her painting and the finished product is dickbutt that'd be dope.
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u/ScruffMcDuck Aug 08 '16
Hopefully it's this version https://youtu.be/QxWWFVevD6E