Perfection
The Great Head.
Animaniacs
Yes, the adventures of Sataka Kintoki!
Oooh, that triggers something. Mononoke, the anime. Twelve episodes. Nothing else needed.
I see a remarkable coincidence there.
Good choice, sir.Animaniacs
Not amazing. Just a simple medicine seller.Agree, Mononoke sans Princess is actually a great anime, too. The art style is amazing.
Animaniacs
Ooooh no, trust me, I can't emphasize enough just how NOT "cute and harmless" either is.^May be interesting, but the drawing style of both is indeed very much on the 'cute' style, which never is good news ^^
Ooooh no, trust me, I can't emphasize enough just how NOT "cute and harmless" either is.
Yeah, well, wait a bit.Well, i saw the first 3 episodes. Not sure how you call this horror or disturbing. The setting is very good, but how is this not 'cute'? (as in an adolescent/teen anime). I mean... it is a story with 10-12 year olds as protagonists :/
Next to this even Miyazaki is death-grim.
Serial Experiments: Lain
Seems like far too much effort when I could just turn my brain off and watch people having foodgasms in Shokugeki no Soma....
(I have actually watched Lain, albeit probably the best part of 15 years ago, and while I did quite like it, it didn't blow me away and I certainly didn't have an urge to watch it again.)
Food Wars is pretty mediocre, seen it. It's funny occasionally, but really offers little insight on actual cooking/recipes and the foodgasms are the only consistently funny thing about the show. To be honest, Food Wars is just a worse version of Yakitate! Japan, which did everything better. Also Food Wars just has too much big titty bullfeathers. I don't **** with that.
I mean why even compare one of the most cerebral anime ever made with some braindead show that is good for a few laughs? They have nothing in common. Or are you saying that anime in general is something to watch when you want to turn your brain off?
Yakitate does have some really good animation though. And the recipe in the very first episode is actually superb, ended up cooking that at home.
Saw the first episode of Aku no Hana. Really MY kind of show
My post was somewhat tongue in cheek (I often can't resist having a little dig when people use the kind of language in your post on Lain to describe...well, anything ), but at the same time I do really appreciate stuff that I can enjoy with my brain turned off - not just anime, this goes for films, western TV shows, books, video games and so on. I get to use my brain plenty at work, evenings and weekends are the time for it to have a rest. And I consider the stuff that entertains me when I'm in this mood to be every bit as good as the complex thought provoking stuff I watch when I'm in the mood for that kind of thing.
I picked Shokugeki No Soma as it's the best currently running example of "great fun when you don't have to think". Yeah, it's stupid, yeah if you're watching it to get ideas for things to cook, you'll be disappointing, but I find it great fun to watch. And yes, I would say it's better than Lain. As I said before, I don't dislike the latter, but I've got more enjoyment from Soma, and given that I watch anime (or films, or play games, or read books etc.) primarily to be entertained, I consider the ones that entertain me most to be best.
I didn't enjoy Yakitate much, gave it half a dozen episodes but found it rather boring.
Lain is so, so much more than Primer.. And I liked that movie. Have you watched it once? I think Lain is one of those shows that you absolutely have to rewatch to get most out of it. It's the Twin Peaks of anime. I get, for example, warpus criticism that it feels pretentious at times. The aesthetic, sound design especially, dialogue, can sometimes seem purposefully obscure like some french post-structuralist writing, but it really isn't obscure for the sake of being obscure. Lain is a show you first have to experience empirically, you have to open yourself up, then, after you've seen it, you can come back to it and attempt to understand its subtleties.