Chobits...

AndreiChekov · Post by **AndreiChekov** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 6:58 am

I just finished watching Chobits. It was awesome. the final two episodes took me 6 views to absorb enough detail to feel satisfied. I've also just finished watching Love Hina and now I'm working on Mahoromatic.
Anyone know of any of those drama type animes? My list is coming to an end.

icyshadowlord · Post by **icyshadowlord** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 8:07 am

Love Hina is a drama? I thought it was a rather typical harem anime.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 8:46 am

...I watched those in 2003-2004, so I feel like I've stepped through some kind of time hole.

Mahoromatic is a fan service action/comedy that has some drama elements (it could play those up a bit more) and elements of harem. Love Hina is a harem comedy with some fan service elements (after the main series finishes, really) and again, some drama elements, but not much.

Chobits I'll give you is an interesting story with comedy and drama.

Based on those ones, I might suggest:

UFO Princess Valkyrie/Walkure
Full Metal Panic! (and FMP Fumoffu? as well)
Fruits Basket

Yes, I saw them all back around the same time as Mahoro and such.

PhoneLobster · Post by **PhoneLobster** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 9:02 am

I watched chobbits about a million years ago.

I remember it essentially being made out of what might as well be lame pure filler episodes from episode 1 out to about infinity, then some time towards the end suddenly there was a story out of nowhere that may have been watchable.

But I also vaguely recall, and I swear this was in there, a motherfucking "Previously! On Chobbits..." Catch up episode that rehashed the fucking 18 or whatever episodes of going nowhere fan service shite the first 2/3rds of the series was made of RIGHT before getting to story episodes.

And frankly I felt cheated of my time. I could have watched that ONE fucking catch up episode and what was it? 2-6 episodes after that and walked a-fucking-way having drained the series of what limited value it has.

I have hated the damn series with a vengeance ever since. And the god damn panties shopping episode, how the fuck much can you ram home on the same lame ass crappy joke over and over and call it an episode? No, sorry, fucking Chobbits...

PS Now Fruits basket, that was watchable, I watched it with my sister and every episode starting with 1 we would say "And THIS is the point where the protaginist has cracked and is now totally insane forever" usually right before one of her ridiculously optimistic little speaches. Which made them a great deal more fun than if you take them seriously.

icyshadowlord · Post by **icyshadowlord** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 10:01 am

Full Metal Panic is good, I'd say.

Bihlbo · Post by **Bihlbo** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:05 am

AndreiChekov wrote:I just finished watching Chobits. It was awesome. the final two episodes took me 6 views to absorb enough detail to feel satisfied. I've also just finished watching Love Hina and now I'm working on Mahoromatic.
Anyone know of any of those drama type animes? My list is coming to an end.

Being unfamiliar I looked up some videos on youtube of chobits and love hina. I feel like punching you in the mouth for tricking me into watching that garbage. Who thought it would be a good idea to make actual humans behave like Dopey or Foghorn Leghorn? Even the three stooges made some pretense at actual people being involved in the idiocy. I've seen a stronger attempt at telling believable stories come out of a toddler with a sock puppet. Please tell me these are very unpopular.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:30 am

Very popular amongst the kind of person who describes himself as "a massive anime fan" to other people, in the West at least. They came out in a post-Evangelion world, when all sorts of anime were being released in the West on DVD (it wasn't that long after the time when everything actually was out on DVD and VHS was dead), in an attempt to figure out what people wanted. Back when the anime club at your uni had a library that was a massive stack of burned DVDs, rather than currently where I imagine it is "go to this site to get the torrents".

They haven't had any kind of special staying power in regard to re-releases or anything.

Oh right, seeing as Andrei is still in 2003 (this is the assumption with which I am working), go to the nearest uni, it doesn't matter if you're a student or not, and ask the anime club if you can look through their library. You should find some good random stuff. Check out Princess Tutu, it's magical girl ballet, with ducks involved.

PhoneLobster · Post by **PhoneLobster** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:48 am

I will admit I kinda liked Princess Tutu, well outside my usual tastes, well, except for melodrama and fairytales, but I was basically sold on watching it by this AMV.

Well, sold on watching the first season, I really should get around to watching the rest of the second one one of these years...

nockermensch · Post by **nockermensch** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 2:37 pm

AndreiChekov wrote:I just finished watching Chobits. It was awesome. the final two episodes took me 6 views to absorb enough detail to feel satisfied. I've also just finished watching Love Hina and now I'm working on Mahoromatic.
Anyone know of any of those drama type animes? My list is coming to an end.

You want drama?

Air
Canon
School Days
Kimi ga Nozomu Eien

But what if you're asking is "more anime in the vein of Chobits, Love Hina and Mahoromatic", try, Video Girl AI, Tenchi Muyo, He Is My Master, Please Teacher! or Negima!

I'm pretty sure the "hapless male lead surrounded by hot women that for some bizarre reason all want to get into his pants" genre still produces series to this day, but I don't watch anime regularly anymore, so these are the ones I could remember.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 4:54 pm

Well, a bit more recent:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiyore!_Nyaruko-san
seasons 1 and 2.
the male protagonist is not really hapless, but cthulhu in school girl form wants to get into his pants . .
he doesn't want that to happen because he is not hapless.
and you don't usually want to stick your dick into cthulhu.

Leress · Post by **Leress** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 5:16 pm

I second Tenchi Muyo! (Not GXP though), Please Teacher!, and add Ai Yori Aoshi (Bluer than Indigo).

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 5:21 pm

Slight correction on my part:
It's Nyarlathothep not Cthulhu who wants into his pants.
Same difference really.

Tenchi Muyo! wasn't really bad and is kinda considered a classic.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 12:54 am

For comedy + drama (in... varying amounts from one episode to the next), I would also recommend "His & Her Circumstances" (Karekano if you're looking for fansubs online). It's a Gainax production, which really just means "they were so loaded on cash from Eva that it has high production values".

It also has a hilarious AMV for "Friday I'm in Love", if you can navigate through the ten thousand Naruto ones on youtube to find it.

AndreiChekov · Post by **AndreiChekov** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 3:18 am

Thanks everyone.
The reason I called Love Hina and Mahoromatic dramas, is because the drama parts are the parts that make those shows for me.
I have seen a few things that aren't from 2003, but I've only been watching animu for about 4 months. I don't even pay attention to the year. And I won't watch anything current, because I hate waiting for episodes to come out.
Um... based on the artwork, I think queen's blade, and burst angel are newer than 2003?

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 3:24 am

Queen's Blade, depending on the season, is pretty damn new. It's also not worth the time spent downloading it for free, that's how bad it is.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 8:36 am

Yeah, it's just a bad excuse for boobs.

nockermensch · Post by **nockermensch** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 12:24 pm

Koumei wrote:For comedy + drama (in... varying amounts from one episode to the next), I would also recommend "His & Her Circumstances" (Karekano if you're looking for fansubs online). It's a Gainax production, which really just means "they were so loaded on cash from Eva that it has high production values".

WHAT? Karekano episode 1 has some decent animation, but by the later episodes Gainax is showing a power point presentation of the storyboard for like 90% of time, and they get away with it because the voice acting is great, the static pictures are pretty and whatever minimal animation show is very well done.

Seriously, I work with animators, and I recommend Karekano to them as a class on "how to sell a 22-min anime with 1 minute of animation per episode". For "Gainax with high production values" try FLCL or Gurren Lagann.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 2:41 am

Ah, I only really remember the earlier episodes. As I said, we're actually talking about a time portal here.

AndreiChekov · Post by **AndreiChekov** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 5:22 am

Generally, I just watch anime for the artwork. I don't care all that much about the storyline. When I watched Shikabane Hime, I found the way that hokuto moved to be way more interesting that anything else in it.

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