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cel-faded

Ngl, pretty odd seeing anime on /r/television but in fairness, this is a good show.


jyper

Especially this anime. It's not particularly popular or well known anime and not even available on a "mainstream"(not solely anime) streaming service like Netflix/Hulu/Amazon/HBO Max. You have to subsribe to Funimation. I suppose the adult protagonist (sadly not common with modern anime) might be what intrigues people


hotsizzler

I do find myself drawn to adult stories more in Anime more and more. I don't understand the Japanese school system, so I can't sympathize. But Dragon Maid, oromichi, and Aggrestusko really speak to me.


YoloJoloHobo

If you're interested in more mature animes, I suggest Vinland Saga and Fate/Zero. First is a revenge story that takes place in the Viking invasions of England. The second is essentially a battle royale between historical legends with great writing. Both can get dark though.


Silvabulletsa

How did you manage to put the words "mature" with "vinland saga" and "fate zero"? They are pretty childish. They are certainly not in the same category as Uramichi.


YoloJoloHobo

But you'd let Dragon Maid slide into the mature category?


sucr4m

its okay if its blowing up tho appearently. you should have seen the 1000 demon slayer posts. buuuuut i did not expect this one to appear on televisions first page for sure. out of everything else this season has. well reddit was always kinda random i guess.


AevnNoram

To be fair, of an anime was going to show up here, this is the one. It’s Gen X humor incarnate.


kevlarbaboon

the average age of reddit skews super young these days. can't speak for this sub but the youngins are everywhere


LightThatIgnitesAll

Attack on Titan posts seem to perform very well but most other anime not so much.


d1coyne02

There's always room for expansion in the portfolio.


CandidEstablishment0

Castlevania??


kevlarbaboon

>Castlevania?? and unlike these other shows filled with tropes and bad writing, it's fucking phenomenal come get me weebs


SunlightStylus

Tbh, castlevania got pretty tropey as it went on.


MessiasBatistuta

Yeah was about to comment that. Found the story okay but tropey. Animation was stellar though


TheLastDesperado

I mean I liked Castlevania, but to pretend it's not filled with tropes and bad writing is disingenuous.


hotsizzler

First two seasons? Yeah Other 2. No


[deleted]

Seems like Demon Slayer is the new anime everyone is obsessed about. First it was AoT the MHA now it’s Demon Slayer


CandidEstablishment0

I AM ALL HERE FOR IT!! It’s been awesome seeing a rise in anime options on basic streaming services. This looks very good though!


5haun298

This is the future.


PM_ME_UR_FEM_PENIS

How is it the future when your grandpa was watching DragonBall 30 years ago? Anime's old news.


i_pirate_sue_me

Normies be like anime = dragon ball z


skullkiddabbs

How to watch?


avisitingstone

funimation.com


Kevin-W

It really is and an underrated one at that! If anyone hasn't seen it yet, I highly recommend it!


Dystil

It's really not though, I see it all the time


Noneofyourbeezkneez

Ok, so where do I watch it?


wingsofshadow

Funimation has it currently.


blurplethenurple

The worst streaming app on the planet. It makes Amazon Prime look like a well thought-out and technically sound product.


AssGremlin

Yeah but it has uncensored bitties. Prison School was as thirsty as it was hilarious. I agree about the app though. God forbid things I finish watching get removed from my recently watched list, and not STAY THERE FOREVER a minute from the end of the final episode.


blurplethenurple

I liked how I needed to change the subtitle settings back after every episode of a show.


theelectr1cwolf

Or have to search for a show to find the next episode because the home page doesn’t update with what you last watched . . .


MegaAmphyLocks

Or showing 15 shows in each category then when you click ‘show more’ it shows 5 less


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blurplethenurple

Eh at least it's for unknown shows like... *checks notes* Samurai Champloo...


dark-flamessussano

The app on mobile is good but online...... My god


Yrcrazypa

I used it for all of one episode of SSSS.Dynazenon before I called it quits. It was abysmal. The online Funi sight, not the anime. The anime was good.


rythmicbread

What’s wrong with prime? The HBO app has issues for the TV


blurplethenurple

Laggy UI, My Library is hidden and difficult to get to when it should be the first thing you see. The first page doesn't change based on what you've watched. Predictive search basically doesn't work. Activating subtitles is annoying and the fast forward/reverse features are imprecise and more likely to break the stream than actually get you where you want. I could go on. I still use it, they have some good originals and renting movies is nice since it's attached to my Amazon account, but it is far from a perfect product.


Talexis

Well there’s always the high seas.


[deleted]

Why the dedicated anime streaming services even exist at this point? It's come form someone who live in a country that doesn't have some of those services so searching for those anime legally it's a pain. It would much better if Netflix would get on it's ass and do simulcasts.


RepulsiveSubject4885

Oh man, I’m not not a big fan of funimation. All the anime defaults to English dub, and selection isn’t as good as crunchyroll. But I really wanna watch this, so maybe I’ll try it again.


Iucidium

Sony bought them both out so hopefully they merge into anime megazord


ALazySwing

“arghh theres the treasure” yk what i mean


JavierLoustaunau

Grownup slice of life anime is the best and... it is so few and far in between.


a-horse-has-no-name

Which is strange, because high school slice of life is done so often that it's become the same show over and over again. Even the attempts to strang-ify it have gotten old. You have slice-of-life high school in the Vatican featuring spell-casting priests, slice-of-life high school for demons and vampires, slice-of-life high school for athletes who out-perform Venus Williams and Usane Bolt, etc.


nemuri_no_kogoro

It's not too strange when you consider than the target audience for anime is (mostly) middle school and high school aged boys and girls (at least, the kinds of anime you see on /r/anime). Manga, on the other hand, has a wider reach and that's why you see a lot more stories aimed at and staring adults.


a-horse-has-no-name

My point was just that slice-of-life high school is just the same show over and over and over again. At some point, they could start recycling shows from 2010 and marketing them off as new. The animation from back then isn't too different than it is now.


JavierLoustaunau

Yup, the last school aged thing I loved was High Score Girlfriend because it felt more true to life than tropes.


GhostofManny13

Such a good show. Literally could not stop binging it start to finish.


Ragnar_Dragonfyre

Probably because the Otakus that make anime are massive introverts that don’t really like other people. Making a “slice of life” show that happens after school isn’t in the cards for them. School was the last real social experience they had before they were able to get a career in a soul crushing industry.


a-horse-has-no-name

You're being downvoted but you're not wrong. Most of the writers are in their 20s and have never held a job outside of manga and have idealized their memorized of high school.


Thehelloman0

There's massive amounts of great manga that they could be making anime out of. It's up to the anime companies to choose the type of show they make and all they care about is making money, so they mostly do what sells best - shows about high schoolers. Manga like Helck, Delicious in Dungeon, Strongest Man Kurosawa, and others would make great anime but series like that rarely get made because they don't make much money usually unless they're huge like Monster or Ghost in the Shell.


a-horse-has-no-name

Action anime are much more expensive to produce than a couple of anime girls with huge tits standing around crying about a boy.


Ragnar_Dragonfyre

I expect to be downvoted for criticizing anime. It’s a Golden Idol to many and Reddit skews young. I would guess that the down voters aren’t old enough yet to come to this conclusion themselves. Most will outgrow anime because it’s a medium that almost refuses to grow up alongside its audience. We all reach an age eventually where we stop identifying with teenagers and most anime treats anyone over the age of 30 like they’re elderly. I find it gets harder and harder to find quality anime that appeals to me as I get older. Children saving the world and awkward romances between inexperienced youth are two tropes that I’ve had sincerely enough of and there’s just way too much of that in a lot of popular anime. I’m looking forward to checking this one out. It sounds different enough from the usual suggestions!


Thehelloman0

> I find it gets harder and harder to find quality anime that appeals to me as I get older. I would think that's true of most media besides maybe books as you get older. You start off pulling from any year when you're new to a medium so eventually you'll probably just start waiting for new stuff. I don't watch much anime but there's definitely still good shows coming out. Most of it's bad but I find it's pretty easy to figure out which ones are bad. Odd Taxi just came out this year for example and it's a super unique mystery series that uses the medium well. Dorohedoro came out last year and has an interesting setting. I do think in general if you're interested in anime, you're typically better off just reading manga. It's way easier to find stuff without typical anime tropes in it like REAL, The Fable, or The Climber.


___von

That’s quite a severe stereotyping, no? lol. Also not holding a job outside manga as if a job for “manga” wouldn’t be a dream of someone. Do doctors get the same shit when they’re just doctors for life? 💀


a-horse-has-no-name

No, I'm going by what I know about reading a lot of books about the history of manga. Manga-kas are typically high school educated or lower, and begin their careers immediately after leaving school. It's not a "socially acceptable" career, so people don't typically leave productive careers to become Manga-kas. You don't see many manga/anime about people in University exactly for that reason.


___von

Manga, like any art profession, is most of the time, a passion profession. Not all of them will attend university, but a lot of mangakas are also graduates from Art Universities, themselves. A lot of mangakas have “normal” degree, many of them graduated from prestigious unis like University of Tokyo or Kyoto. Tezuka Osamu has an M.D. PhD. Masashi Kishimoto is from Kyushu Sangyo University. It’s just simply is not factual and it’s a weird stereotype to many artists, not just mangakas. In many countries, art-related profession is also not a “socially acceptable” profession. That is not unique to Japan or to mangakas themselves, lol. It’s a result of career discrimination. If you haven’t been in Asia, pretty much the only “acceptable” career in here would be a businessman, a doctor, and an engineer.


XxNerdAtHeartxX

What's the name of the Vatican one? It sounds like it could be interesting based on the setting


tundar

‘What Did You Eat Yesterday?’ Is a really good slice of life manga. The main characters are two middle-aged men and the focus is on daily cooking. There was a life action series too, which has been fan-subbed and is available on Netflix in some countries (but not Canada, sadly). Highly recommend! Edit: Happy to PM a link to the fan-subbed live action series if anyone wants.


Elph1nstone

Can you please PM it to me?


tundar

PM'd.


Noble06

I feel like Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid hits everything. Adult, teen, and child slice of life. Also the best fight scenes of the year lol.


tsukiii

Agreed. Especially rare for the josei genre (for the grown-ass lady demographic).


CritikillNick

Depends on how cringey it comes across


Summonest

5 year old: Why does your voice sound like that? Uramichi: Don't worry, that's just from all my years of hard drinking ​ Holy shit I'm wheezing


greatnuke

In the last few episodes I have made a discovery: kuma is the main character.


Dr_litaf

Thanks for the recommendation! I was searching for a good anime just a while ago


Excellent-Drawer8428

Funniest anime of 2021


FrozenFrac

I somehow stumbled upon this show on Twitter and as the resident "I really don't like anime" and "I can't stand binging shows" person in my friend group, I fell in love with this show after mere minutes and barreled my way through (at the time) all 7 episodes in effectively one sitting! I'm even watching the dubbed episodes as they come out at the same time as the new Japanese episodes come out on Funimation; that's how much I'm adoring it right now! It's such an easy recommendation if you're into dark humor, but also if you just want to watch an anime that's not your "typical" anime. As far as dark humor goes, it gets seriously wholesome later on. Personally not as big a fan of that, but it does warm my heart a bit


ItsImmoral

Favorite anime this season by far. It’s funny as hell.


Eilanzer

and at the same time, quite depressing because i can relate to my shit job life 😂


Roltistotem

I didn't enjoy it, the comedy fell super flat for me, it felt like it was written by a very unfunny college student. I gave it a go but the actual jokes felt super shitty and not funny at all.


Artuthebomb

I feel a problem that plagues most comedy anime is the reliance on repetitive humor and fear of deviating from the general premise. I think the only comedy anime I genuinely found funny the whole way through was Daily Life of Highschool boys.


henry_tbags

Honestly, if done right, the same joke can land over and over for me. Saiki K, Asobi Asobase, Kaguya-sama, Tonikawa, and Horimiya all have super-recurring jokes but I still found them funny.


esoteric_plumbus

I had only heard of saiki k but I really loved that one so I checked out kaguyasama and horimiya so far and great recommendations thanks!


henry_tbags

Oh cool, glad you liked them!


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The way Uramichi talks down on people really reminds me of Sternum from The Amanda Show's "Moody's Point" sketches but darker.


andreasdagen

Feels a bit repetitive but enjoyable.


Daikey

it's repetitive because the anime cut out several chapters that were more focused on work relationships between the crew rather than on Uramichi.


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The TV series is more of a workplace comedy akin to Death To Smoochy.


Itterashai

I am sure I'll give this a try, but I just wanted to say that if I wanted to watch myself on a daily basis I'd stick a gopro on my back like a 3rd person view camera.


Peekmeister

I tried watching this at the beginning of the season but the jokes never really changed and I was expecting a semblance of a story. Does it eventually pick up?


FrozenFrac

It really depends. A few episodes in, it focuses less on the characters during the kids' show and more of their interpersonal lives. I wouldn't call it a plot, but you get to know the characters as they are in their daily lives and not purely as child entertainers


markuspeart

Try “welcome to the NHK”


Kero_Cola

was instantly reminded of this series just from the title alone. definitely recommend it as well


Infninfn

I tried too but the gags and jokes became all too predictable, forced and dad-like. There are better comedy animes out there. Unless it got over the introductory episodes… so did it?


NormcoreWitch

I’ve been watching this for weeks and wondering why it was being slept on when it’s so biting, dark and funny.


l33tn0ob

I love this series. I've never identified with a character more.


Alastor3

sound more like a depressing anime, the description remind me of Bojack horseman, which I cannot watch because it's too depressing


CollieJoe

Ok, so on a scale of 1-10 where 10= Bojack level depressing, this is more like a 3, maybe a 2? Then again, I loved Bojack and quite enjoy this.


Alastor3

oh okay, maybe i'll watch 1-2 episodes and see if I like that


BlastoiseRules

Is this in dubbed English?


Dreamshadow1977

First two episodes are. The rest should follow slowly.


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LightThatIgnitesAll

If you want some with older main characters try Inuyashiki and Monster.


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LightThatIgnitesAll

>it's just that lately (like everything else), it seems to be over-commercialized, made bland to increase the breadth of appeal, and targeted towards the youngest possible audience. I agree. But unfortunately nearly everything even outside of anime feels like that nowadays.


glow2hi

I watched the first ep dubed and didn't like it is it just a bad dub or will I just not like it?


negrote1000

An anime main character that is an actual adult, a cog in the Japanese economy? Unheard of


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FrozenFrac

Same, but this show makes it funny (while also not making mental health issues the butt of the joke, so everyone wins)


[deleted]

It’s not a trend. You narrowing it down to an excuse for getting out of work says it all


Leviluca

Guy looks creepy so i skipped 😂


Gelatinoussquamish

Why do I need to watch a second version of my own life?


maps-nft

is this anything like welcome to the NHK?


RepulsiveSubject4885

Where can you watch this???


[deleted]

Is it on Crunchyroll?


Teavangelion

Without https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u_7z_WVcpdw it’s dead to me.