Right now I'm thinking All-Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku, maybe finish off Sailor Moon (1992), but the other options are
Paused
- ARIA the NATURAL
- Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)
- Hetalia Axis Powers
- Maison Ikkoku
- Futari wa Precure
- Sword Art Online
- Tokyo Mew Mew
- Urusei Yatsura
- You're Under Arrest
- Angelic Layer
- Smile Precure
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Battle Tendency)
- Stop!! Hibari-kun
Dropped
- A-Channel
- Ghost Stories
- Kimba the White Lion
- Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
- Are You Lost?
- Hinako Note
- Mitsudomoe
- Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out
Planning
- 'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess
- A Centaur's Life
- A Certain Scientific Railgun
- A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics
- Aharen-san wa Hakarenai
- Akebi’s Sailor Uniform
- All Saints Street
- Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian
- Bakemonogatari
- Bakuon!!
- Bloom Into You
- BNA
- COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing
- Comic Girls
- Corrector Yui
- DAN DA DAN
- Delicious in Dungeon
- Dinosaur King
- Dragon Ball
- ENDRO!
- Fancy Lala
- Flying Witch
- Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
- From the New World
- Girlish Number
- Girls Band Cry
- GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka
- Gugure! Kokkuri-san
- Gunsmith Cats
- Hai Step Jun
- Heaven’s Design Team
- Hi Score Girl
- HINAMATSURI
- Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable!
- Humanity Has Declined
- ID: INVADED
- Interviews with Monster Girls
- InuYasha
- Jarinko Chie
- Joshi Kausei
- Keijo!!!!!!!!
- Kimagure Orange☆Road
- KochiKame
- Kodocha
- Kokoro Connect
- Kumamiko -Girl Meets Bear
- Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan
- Love Lab
- Macross: Do You Remember Love?
- Magical Play
- Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.
- Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!
- Medalist
- Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch
- Miss Shachiku and the Little Baby Ghost
- Mobile Suit Gundam
- Monster Musume: Everyday Life With Monster Girls
- Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun
- My Dress-Up Darling
- My Wife Has No Emotion
- Mysterious Thief Saint Tail
- Naruto
- NEW GAME!
- No-Rin
- Nyaruko-san: Another Crawling Chaos W
- ONE PIECE
- ONIMAI: I'm Now Your Sister!
- Paranoia Agent
- PaRappa The Rapper
- Plastic Elder Sister
- Pon no Michi
- Princess Connect! Re:Dive
- Project A-ko
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- Revolutionary Girl Utena
- Roujin Z
- Rozen Maiden
- Sailor Moon Crystal
- Seitokai Yakuindomo
- Senpai is an Otokonoko
- Sheng Shi Zhuang Niang
- SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary
- Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju
- Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included
- Sweetness & Lightning
- Tanaka-kun is Always Listless
- The Devil is a Part-Timer!
- The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated!
- The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again Today
- The Pet Girl of Sakurasou
- The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson
- Thermae Romae Novae
- Tokimeki Tonight
- Tropical-Rouge! Precure
- Trouble Chocolate
- Urara Meirocho
- Wagnaria!!
- Wasteful Days of High School Girls
- Wedding Peach
- Welcome to the N-H-K
- Windy Tales
- WITCH WATCH
- Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku
- ZatsuTabi -That's Journey-
Friggin half of the things in the 100+-item-long planning list I don't even remember why I added them, a handful of the things even look like "dead dove" shows (shows where the tin indicates it's probably insufferable goonbait, then it turns out to in fact be insufferable goonbait)
So I dunno maybe this thread can just as easily be used for pruning my planning list, if there's anything where there's an absolute consensus it isn't worth my time.
Or hell, maybe there's something you think my diseased self should experience that isn't on the planning list already. I'm not going to stop you from making recommendations.
In any case, time to grab some vegan ice cream and enjoy my catgirl who is both cultural and all-purpose and named Nuku Nuku, see you on the other side
Edit: I'm gonna say I'm done with binging anime for today. Between 2:15 and 10:15 PM I ended up watching, in order,
- All-Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku (OVA) ep 2
- Frieren ep 1
- Land of the Lustrous ep 1
- Odd Taxi ep 1
- March Comes in Like a Lion ep 1
- Shoshimin ep 1
- Makeine ep 1
- Mobile Suit Gundam ep 1
- Tis Time for Torture, Princess ep 1
- Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei ep 1
- Bakemonogatari ep 1
- The Twelve Kingdoms ep 1
This is to say that 288/480 minutes, or ~5/8 hours, was spent on watching anime today. Depending on how I feel tomorrow, I may watch some of the suggestions in this thread that I didn't get to.
My overall favorite of the anime I watched today has to be Makeine. The others each had their own strong points, too, and might've beaten Makeine if I were in better health, but with my currently fried brain Makeine was the one that I think hit the best.
Anyways, Torture Princess was fun, but I wonder how they can make a full 12 episodes out of this premise?
Also, I was struck by the name Gabriel Ugbodaga in the end credits of Torture Princess: although non-Japanese names aren't that rare in anime end credits, I can't recall ever seeing a West or Central African name before specifically. So I looked up the name, and it turns out that Gabriel Ugbodaga is apparently an "Atlanta based Nigerian 2D Key and Rough Animator, Director and Action Consultant", and he worked on the key animation for the first and tenth episodes of Torture Princess. He also did key animation for Dandadan and Frieren among other things, and, lo, he has a YouTube channel, albeit one without any new uploads for two years.
So yeah. That's neat.
Torture Princess is literally going to be variations on a theme. If you don't like the same joke(s) to infinity, you're going to tap out quickly.
Then that doesn't necessarily bode well for it...
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei had a nice aesthetic (what's with the face, though?), and was decently entertaining. There were a lot of background gags that I didn't catch and wasn't going to rewind for, too.
The aesthetic is the Shinbo style though, it's really like the origin of everything in Monogatari and Madoka. SZS is truly it's peak. RIP to Fujoshi-chan though (and Yoshinoya-sensei) - the voice actress died a few years back.
Also, the OPs get progressively better and more unhinged. I don't know if they kept the progression/unfinished from back when it was broadcast. For instance, RUMBA had several versions.
(CW - there's body parts, anatomical diagrams, and a lot going on. I can't think of everything but figured I should note this is not necessarily "nice" - especially the third one)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6WC_6x7YOg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAjNa6ZzCsM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxE-cl5A5Wc
SHAFT had a tendency to do incomplete OPs back then -- they'd finish the animation midway thru the broadcast of the show. It happened with a season of Hidamari Sketch too. But with Zetsubou Sensei, it was part of the experience. The style of the OPs is amazing, and eventually returned as the witches in Madoka.
I think I heard about that, yeah. Ten years already, though, sheesh. Anilist's page for Miyu Matsuki says,
...So, there's nothing so bad it isn't good for something, I guess.
Edit: Bakemonogatari was nice enough, by the way. The video thumbnail being a panty shot was maybe a bit of a turnoff, but the episode still managed to get me interested in where the story was going.
If Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei's fanservice is always ironic and spiteful towards the audience (and knowing) the Monogatari fanservice is uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Sadly, more horny and closer to say, Gainax in its ethos.
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