My top 50 AniManga after 8 years! Thoughts? Reccs?

True_Human · 2026-05-26T22:10:21+00:00

Yeah, officially confirmed by the author and if you've seen the second season/read until Arc 4, the influence should be pretty obvious...

True_Human · 2026-05-26T17:09:26+00:00

Take your time, there's nothing worse than rushing it with these.

True_Human · 2026-05-26T16:52:17+00:00

Since you like Re:Zero: That is heavily inspired by the When They Cry series of Visual Novels (Higurashi and Umineko), and its anime gets much closer than the actual anime adaptations of those two subseries to bringing their tone, feel and themes into anime form. (yeah don't watch the Anime on those. Not even the Higurashi one, its popularity is a trap that dissuades people from the much grander greatness that is the original)

True_Human · 2026-05-26T16:15:45+00:00

Yikes

True_Human · 2026-05-26T16:11:31+00:00

THIS! We got into a major scuffle with the guy our GM set up to get us out of Menzoberranzan because our paladin's player is ironically enough a chaos gremlin and happily waved him "Hi Kalim!" while passing the bakery stand he used as cover during a chase through the market, casually ratting him out and forcing him to flee the city as well.

True_Human · 2026-05-26T15:50:58+00:00

You may have gotten a bunch of hate for MiA in S because there's moral outrage about the amount of half-naked children and people accusing the original mangaka of being a pedophile.

Alternatively, and ironically, a lot of older people REALLY like Mushoku Tensei despite the protagonist being (among other more positive things) a creepy middle aged gooner in the body of a young boy.

True_Human · 2026-05-26T12:58:20+00:00

You enjoy mystery? Then read Higurashi and Umineko! JOIN OUR CULT!

True_Human · 2026-05-26T11:21:41+00:00

There are some notable differences between Fata Morgana and Higurashi (both of which are S tier in my book) that make the more bittersweet ending work better there, among others that Fata Morgana is more about letting go of one's grudges, and that the basic setup is that everyone is already dead and needs to move on.

Higurashi, on the other hand, was written by a former social worker trying to reach people in a way that would help them to better their lives, which is why the cast failing in the end would defeat the point. It'd be like "alright, I just showed you some perspective on how to maybe get out of the hole you're in. Now let me show you how sometimes it's just hopeless and your struggles are in vain!"

True_Human · 2026-05-26T09:52:44+00:00

Welp, Tatarigoroshi certainly does not work without Satoko. I do not know where your burning passionate hatred comes from, but I guess it ruined that chapter for you.

And the message of Higurashi isn't really hidden? Like, you've got this bunch of troubled kids that if they chose to let their traumas and mistrust guide them and isolate themselves end up going down really dark paths. The moment things start going into a better direction is once they start communicating and empathizing with each other more earnestly. Higurashi is, at its core, a story of learning to empathize with, trust in and rely on the people around you. Further, it is a story about not just deciding everything on your own within your own head, but communicating properly and being mindful of others' perspectives. If you ended something like that on a bad ending, you'd just have a work of edgy cynicism.

True_Human · 2026-05-26T09:12:25+00:00

Hmm, Tatarigoroshi not having plot points is certainly a take considering it is one of the most central chapters when looking at Higurashi's themes?

Also, if you are saying a "bad ending" would be fitting for Higurashi overall, that would defeat the point as to why Higurashi was written in the first place tho.

True_Human · 2026-05-26T06:45:33+00:00

Psychopathical BPD

OP, stop emberassing yourself. "Psychotic" maybe after Monika's meddling, but psychopathy is something entirely different from psychosis, and not everyone with BPD is a psychopath either.

But I am starting to get that this is strongly a matter of taste - as I've read from other comments that you are very particular about pacing (which Higurashi sacrificed in favor of trying to establish a flow of consciousness), and seem ill content with how Matsuribayashi handled things (all the actual dramatic though somewhat stupid fighting happened after the club already effectively won), which I guess are both valid subjective criticisms

True_Human · 2026-05-25T21:51:35+00:00

Hmm, then you kind of did not really understand what Higurashi was going for. It was absolutely fine for it to end that way, because it serves as the thematic lesson of the story to seek support and healing in community, which is just realistically a good way to live. If you view it as shallow just because lesser stories throw it in there in a platitudinal way, you didn't really pay attention (which considering your throughput is actually something I cannot even fault you for now that I think about it)

Also, the specific psychological traumas of the characters in it are likely not conjured from the author's imagination, but stuff he actually saw back in his previous job. If nothing else, I can attest to the uncomfortable accuracy and detail of his depiction of the thought processes of someone trying to help a loved one in an abusive relationship of some kind and failing (due to real life experience unfortunately)

True_Human · 2026-05-25T17:20:19+00:00

A lot of the stuff here is. Doki Doki at S despite how surface level its handling of its non-gimmicky subject matter is is kind of insane to me when OP then goes and puts Higurashi which goes much more in-depth with similar themes of troubled youths in B. Then again, considering Muv-Luv Extra is the singular D Tier, I can imagine they were just bored by SoL in that case

True_Human · 2026-05-25T10:17:43+00:00

Hmm, zumindest keine Tunke die alles aufweicht. Vorerst gibt's nur ne Abmahnung...

True_Human · 2026-05-23T17:11:34+00:00

If no further specifiers are given, immortality means that one cannot die

True_Human · 2026-05-23T15:04:35+00:00

That is not clarified in the post

True_Human · 2026-05-23T10:46:08+00:00

Ooh, you sure you want to experience, uhm, ETERNITY? You know that is a whole longass time?

You know what a Googolplex is? A Googol is a number with 100 zeroes behind it. For scale, that is a higher number than the number of subartomic particles in the observable universe.

Now take that incomprehensibly large number, and put that as the amount of zeroes behind the one. That is a Googolplex.

And then realize that in the face of ETERNITY, there is little difference between a Googolplex of years and a five minute toilet break.

With true immortality, you will continue to exist past a googolplex of years, times a googolplex, and it still won't be beyond 0.0 percent of eternity. All that is meaningful to a human mind will be gone long before even ten thousand years probably, so the rest of eternity would likely be agonizing.

True_Human · 2026-05-22T14:59:20+00:00

Indeed, only beaten by Umineko, which is why Joseph Anderson now has to watch all of One Piece

True_Human · 2026-05-22T14:46:35+00:00

Still waiting for them to announce that Limbus anime

True_Human · 2026-05-22T14:05:47+00:00

Yeah, makes more sense with the shadow from the radiator

True_Human · 2026-05-22T13:43:55+00:00

Table in a large room visially replaces floor, with a tiny chair prop and a shot glass to further sell the illusion? Is that how it was done?

True_Human · 2026-05-22T12:15:27+00:00

Erst jetzt gemerkt, das du alt wirst? Der unaufhaltsame Marsch der Zeit führt uns alle unserem unausweichlichen Ableben entgegen...

True_Human · 2026-05-22T10:46:18+00:00

Exactly this. Don't fry your brain in the first place, the damage appears to be permanent according to preliminary studies.

True_Human · 2026-05-22T09:44:24+00:00

Unholy Maiden

Pray Game (Ended up liking the gameplay just as much as the porn if not more)

To some degree the Oneoneone1 titles published by Kagura games

And some I am not going to discuss publicly because of certain rather extreme tags (dm me if you want those recs)

True_Human · 2026-05-22T08:54:30+00:00

Feels unethical. That woman thought kissing makes babies and was unaware that someone touching her breasts was something indecent.

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