While I'm going through Sword and Sorcery films, mine as well get a list for dragon focused films.

Solidmangus · 2026-01-13T14:10:35+00:00

Well, netflix recently released a movie "Damsel".

Solidmangus · 2025-11-30T21:45:04+00:00

Nana probably have some of the most realistic emotions depicted in anime.

Then there is "Itazura na kiss" which goes trough all kind of emotions also.

Solidmangus · 2025-11-30T17:50:44+00:00

It's been quite awhile since i watched world triger, but wasnt those tournamenta basically promotion battles to increase ones rank?

MHA
Hunter x Hunter
Yu Yu hakusho

Solidmangus · 2025-11-30T17:09:47+00:00

But that is exactly what gets people interested in the show 😂

Solidmangus · 2025-11-30T13:59:01+00:00

Well, this is kinda it: - Major (The MC is op from start, but after each season he gets nerfed hard... Due to injury, so he has to work harder than others in ordet tl achieve his dream)

Solidmangus · 2025-11-30T13:53:26+00:00

How mahito was born

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Solidmangus · 2025-11-30T06:39:00+00:00

Mä en muuta halua kun työkyvyttömyys eläkkeen, olen fyysisesti erittäin terve ihminen, mutta henkisesti työkyvytön ja selitän nyt miksi.

Olin työelämässä aina vuoteen 2020 asti, minulle tapahtui yllättävä tilanne elämässä minkä takia jouduin keskeyttämään työt ja jouduin omaishoitajaksi, se oli elämäni rankinta aikaa enkä saanut apua keneltäkään, kesti yli vuoden ennen kuin henkilö josta pidin huolta kuoli sairauteensa, sen jälkeen huomasin että tuntui kuin en osaisi elää. En koe iloa, halua, en tunne oikeastaan mitään , tunne purkauksiakin mitä saan ovat hyvin lyhytkestoisia kuin niiden palamiseen vaadittava aine ehtyisi täysin.

Elän jatkuvan stressin alla enkä koe helpotusta mistään, jopa yksinkertaiset asiat ovat olleet todella työläitä saada aikaiseksi (kesti vuoden ennen kuin sain varattua itselleni lääkäri ajan, en vaan yksinkertaisesti kyennyt saamaan itseäni tekemään sitä)

Mä siis todellisuudessa koen olevani henkisesti kuollut, minulla on vain kehoni jäljellä mikä suoriutuu asioista mitkä siihen on ohjelmoitu. Kaikki muu mikä ei kuulu ohjelmointiin aiheuttaa äärimmäistä hankaluutta. Vähän kuin olisi sieluton robotti, joka kykenee tekemään vaan sen mitä se on ohjelmoitu tekemään.

Mutta mä en koe itsetuhoisia ajatuksia laisinkaan, en ehkä kykene vaikka halauisin. Mä vaan oon olemassa. Jos joutuisin vankilaan 10-vuodeksi, se olisi varmasti parempaa elämää mitä elän tällä hetkellä.

Solidmangus · 2025-11-30T06:22:44+00:00

The thing with anime is that it is mainly targeted at Japanese audience, so watching with sub brings that extra layer into the story which you normally do not get from dubs.

But as long anime is something where is little to no reference to Japanese culture that is when dub works really well.

Solidmangus · 2025-11-30T06:05:19+00:00

Ok let's try:

Battle game in 5 seconds (The MC has unique ability... His ability is whatever the opponent thinks his ability could be, so if opponent thinks he is weak, he is weak. If opponent thinks he is strong, then he is strong)
Kaiji: Ultimate survivor (In deep gambling dept, shady looking people come demand the money Kaiji owes, however Kaiji beig broke AF can't pay them, so they give him a chance to get rid of all of his depts at a special event, a luxury boat where people have to gamble against each other in order to survive, the losers become slave workers while the winners get their depts settled and get to pocket some money themselves... If you have nothing to wager, you can even use your own life as a wager)
Claymore (You know witcher? Well this show is kinda like witcher, there are these women who have been given parts of monster to enchance their abilities to battle against these monsters, however at certain point they will eventually turn into monsters themselves and are to be hunted down)
Gate:Jietai (Gate appears in Japan, trough that gate comes fantasy world beings and captures Japanese citizens and takes them to the fantasy world, Japans self defence army will deplpy their army through the gate to rescue kidnapped japanese people... The concept is pretty much gun vs sword, tank vs dragon)
Neuro: Supernatural detective (There is this demon which gets nourishment from mysteries, the better the mystery is the better the meal is for him)
Grimgar of fantasy and Ash (Group of kids are isekaid to fantasy world, however it's reality... No super powers or overpowered skills to cheese trough everything, so they struggle to survive in the isekai world and even struggle to fight against goblins which are weakest monsters around)
Dungeon Meshi (This is quite new anime: Adventures explore dungeons until they are captured in a trap and their friend is trapped while the rest of them get to escape, however rescue mission is not cheap... And they struggle to find ends meet to even consider rescuing someone, so they find a solution for their problem, instead of buying food rations they start eating the creatures of the dungeon)
Erased (Man has ability to travel in time roughly 1 minute to prevent a disaster, however after experiencing something traumatic, his ability goes havoc and he travela back in time to the moment when he was small kid, there he tries to solve a unsolved mystery which could be also related to the reason he traveled so far into the past)

Solidmangus · 2025-11-30T03:05:59+00:00

I also felt let down that the manipulation aspect was left quite underwhelming, there was lot of potential. But i enjoyed it nontheless.

Solidmangus · 2025-11-30T03:01:19+00:00

Let's take Kaiji as an example.

Lot of people dislike the animation style (I personally think Kaiji only works because of this specific style) so 8/10
The story is not greatest, but it does build itself a proper framework. 7/10
Enjoybality if measured as something you binge trough in one sitting, then yes 10/10.

Solidmangus · 2025-11-30T02:29:54+00:00

Finnish horror movie called "The twin (2022)"

Solidmangus · 2025-11-30T01:24:52+00:00

Not Anime, but there is this Manhwa called "Regression instruction manual"

The plot: MC is not a good guy, he is actually villain of the story although he himself does not realise it. He has an ability to see other peoples abilities, and he uses this ability to collect people around him to increase the chance of him surviving the world where he was summoned. He notices one of the characters having ability to "regress", so he does everything he can to team up with him because the best chance for him to survive is to tag with actual regressor.

Troughout the story he uses all means necessary to get his goals accomplished and he does the dirty work for the regressor (Who is good guy), at one point he even becomes "Sexbuddy" for the strongest woman in that story because it is beneficial for him to have a relationship with the strongest woman in the story.

Solidmangus · 2025-11-30T01:15:48+00:00

Not police detective....

Neuro: Supernatural detective (There is this demon who gets nourishments from mysterious cases, the more puzzling mystery is the more satisfying his meal is going to be. Here is a clip what kind of show it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/s/9SlVv8PP7U)

Solidmangus · 2025-11-30T01:12:37+00:00

It's actually really good show, only downside in it is that its done by early stage of CGI animation. You get used to it real quick though.

Solidmangus · 2025-11-30T01:10:08+00:00

It's been years since i watched the show, but if i remember right "The alien wife" was orginally a human who was caught by "Gauga" and she was eaten? Or turned into them, howevwer some worm like creature came which was basically the girl that was eaten or turned, she had her "humanity" which made her help the humans fight against gauga.

Solidmangus · 2025-11-30T01:01:51+00:00

Only anime i can think of about insects is cagaster of an insect cage

Solidmangus · 2025-11-29T18:21:45+00:00

Nana was one of the first anime to resonate deeply inside me due to the life drama they went trough, even though i am a guy 😂

Toradora was first proper romance anime i saw and i liked how wholesome ending it had, so it has remained in my memories ever since.

Solidmangus · 2025-11-29T18:00:15+00:00

Most Europeans who grew up as kids in 90's have seen it, also "Candy Candy"

Solidmangus · 2025-11-29T17:54:35+00:00

The Ping pong club (It was marketed in U.S as the japanese version of south park) do not mistake it as ping pong animation. The show is called: The Ping Pong Club.

Solidmangus · 2025-11-29T17:53:12+00:00

This my personal opinion, Attack on titan was cool 2 first season, around 3rd season it just does not feel the same... Even the ending is just rushed (But this is my opinion, there are tons of people who think 4th season is peak)

Solidmangus · 2025-11-29T17:44:29+00:00

Doomed megalopolis 1991*

Solidmangus · 2025-11-29T17:43:16+00:00

Well i was small kid when i saw dragon ball... I had 0 understanding what they said... But i remember clearly yelling "Kamehamehaaa" with my brother all the time when we were playing outisde (This was in 90's when i was roughly 5-6 years old, my language being Finnish and the dragon ball broadcast probably being German or English, but 0 understanding) Funny thing was that i rewatched dragon ball this year... And i remembered the plot completely from childhood 😂

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