Thread 283715422

Let's have a thread for one of anime's more stylistically and thematically interesting periods, particularly the steady stream of bleak, atmospheric, often experimental psychological/supernatural/sci-fi anime that came out in this era. Is there a name for this style/movement? It's not quite noir, even though the influence is obvious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8qZPYv100M

stealth rec thread

>>283715466
We can't even fucking have general anime discussion threads about genres or periods on /a/ anymore because unless the OP is about a specific anime it gets called a fucking recc thread.

>>283715504
generals are also against the rules

>>283715504
anyone going "omg is there a name for this" is just asking for recommendations

>>283715599
The "general" in ""general anime discussion threads" doesn't have the same meaning as "general in a "General thread" you retarded ESL. Stop pretending to be a backseat janitor.

Not every thread needs to be about a specific show. People are allowed to talk about aesthetics, genres, styles, periods and trends.
Go derail another thread.

This period has a name, it's called post-evangelion. Doesn't matter if you hate it, use shit already labeled.

>>283715466
Are these threads made all by bots/jeets? I still don't understand the point of doing this every day.

>>283715660
Can it really be called post-Evangelion if this kind of anime arguably started with Key the Metal Idol, which predates Evangelion by a few months?

>>283715685
don't take this bait thread seriously.

>>283715674
>every day
I've only made this thread once (right now). Literally this once.

>>283715717
This is an honest thread though. No baiting to be found here.

>>283715717
>bait thread
But this is my thread, and it isn't bait, besides you people showing up and wanting to fucking derail and argue a discussion thread.

It's not even a recommendation thread because I've probably watched everything that will or could eventually be posted.

>>283715718
Check the catalog before making a thread.

>>283715736
I do, but that one's a poorly worded OLD GOOD NEW BAD bait thread. Look at the way it's fucking worded man. This thread isn't about that.

>>283715734
How old are (You)?

Hey guys just here to confirm that this is indeed a troll bait rec thread made by a sino-indian AI group trying to sabotage our glorious board dedicated to intellectual discussions on anime and manga. Please stop replying to it! Thank you.

>>283715776
Good morning sr

>/a/'s so fucking poisoned by constant OLD GOOD NEW BAD bait threads that serious threads about older anime get mistaken as bait threads now

I'll make this thread on 8/a/ then.

>>283715776
This was actually supposed to be a fucking serious thread because I've been going through this stuff during seasons where there's not a lot of interesting anime to watch and I have more time to go through my backlog.
If this were a recommendation thread I'd have asked for recommendations. If this were a bait thread I would have asked "why don't they make anime like this anymore?" or some stupid shit.

This is why we can't have good things on /a/ anymore.
Saging this dumpsterfire of a thread unfortunately.

>>283715953
Who are (You) quoting?

>>283716003
Stop bumping my thread, let it die.

>>283716021
If this really isn't a troll thread this is both hilarious and unfortunate

>>283716021
(You) forgot to day pls.

>>283716057
This isn't funny, there are already several threads discussing the same thing. This just feels robotic in a bad way.

>>283716095
It's too bad threads are limited and we're going to run out of them.

>>283716095
The only other thread in the catalog like this is a cheap bait thread and not even about the same thing I want to discuss in the OP
Truthfully I made this this thread because I just stumbled across Sci-Fi Harry, somehow an anime that completely fucking slipped under my radar that I've never seen mentioned, not even in old /a/ charts, just when I felt like I've exhausted almost everything in this 90s/2000s psycholigical anime period. And I figured that if I just made a Sci-Fi Harry thread it'd get 3 replies at max.

>>283716187
>psycholigical
psychological*
Brainfart.

>>283716021
I’m sorry op, I liked your thread idea.

>>283716187
There is another one with Steins Gate in the OP.
>Sci-Fi Harry
Okay, I'll play along, is it worth it or are we talking about generic OVAs that don't even adapt a half of the manga they're based on?

>>283716187
I watched that anime just because I wanted to fuck Harry

>>283716284
>is it worth it
I don't know, probably? Admittedly I'm only halfway through episode 2 and picked it up literally an hour before making this thread. It's very much in the realm of "weird sci-fi", closest thing I can really compare it to is Boogiepop.

>I'm only halfway through episode 2
Man, this thread keeps getting weirder.

>>283716420
>closest thing I can really compare it to is Boogiepop
Bad comparison, if memory serves me right, that anime is episodic, unfinished episodic OVAs don't seem very appealing to be honest.

>>283716486
That's another reason why I made this thread about the general psychological/supernatural anime trend of the late 90s and early 2000s my man, I'm down to discuss other things from the same period.

>>283716486
Yes, OP is watching that anime with Ita subs. I still think this thread is a disguised bait thread.

>>283716556
English subs, actually. The english subs come as a separate aegisub file.

>>283716556
>I still think this thread is a disguised bait thread
This genuinely isn't a bait thread and I'm not sure how to convince you otherwise, the thread immediately derailed right away because of shitposting and shitflinging.

>>283716609
Next time make a better OP

>>283716629
There's nothing wrong with the OP. Just because someone else is making bait threads doesn't mean we can't have serious discussions about a period of anime in another thread
But anyways I'm just going to let this dumpsterfire of a thread die and go to bed.

>>283716581
>he was actually serious

>>283715422 (OP)
Boogiepop has a fun atmosphere, I'm always on the lookout for more stuff like it. Watched Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku a few months ago and hated the story all the way through but stuck around for the pretty art. The plot and the resolution was so bleak that in the end I was wishing they scrapped the whole idea and focused on the few occasional bits of mechs and grimy industrial buildings instead.

>>283716851
>Soko ni Iru Boku
The only good part about that show where the rape scenes.

>>283716889
>>283716851
I'm probably the only person that loved this show
I did watch it as an edgy teenager and probably wouldn't be able to stomach it now though, but I still have "fond" memories of it

>>283716924
I too loved Soko ni Iru Boku. Shu sucks but the setting is pure soul.

>this comes up on shuffle while on this thread
I am being programmed...

>>283717011
Really cool setting, I wanted to see more of that wasteland and its strange creatures. But watching the emperor act like a gay baby and Abelia putting up with his shit when she could've stopped 99% of the events of the story at any point took the immersion out of me. Just didn't make sense.

>>283716851
I dunno how to describe it but that sort of run down industrial landscape with orange sunset triggers this weird nostalgic feeling, sometimes I get it when I'm driving in the evening through warehouse/factory areas in my city. Sorta depressing and peaceful at the same time.

>>283717196
Hamdo is a retard but he's an entertaining retard. He wasn't some brilliant military tyrant, he was an insane pathetic man trying to rule over the scraps of a long dead dead world.

>>283717275
It's Abelia that confused me the most. Her behavior is the most villainous of the cast. Hamdo was the village idiot but she both commanded the troops and essentially was the brains of the operation. At any point in time she could've wrested control but instead she followed him off the cliff into the most obvious downfall imaginable. Worse yet, I'm pretty sure after the collapse she ends up being forgiven for all of it too.

>>283717474
You could say the same thing about the soldiers not revolting. Everything on the Hellywood was running purely on routine. Shu was the element (literally) from another time that finally shook things up and brought about change. But yeah Abelia being forgiven was odd.

I don't know if it counts as "psychological" but I fucking love Black Lagoon and I fell there's no other anime/manga similar to it.

>>283715734

I have seen this show mentioned thruout the years but never watched it.
Sell me on it.