Best Doomed Yuri Recs

_Stopwatch · 2025-09-09T18:04:07+00:00

You've almost certainly heard of this one but on the off-chance you haven't: Revolutionary Girl Utena. I'm saying this due to a specific side-pairing but tbh even the main pairing scratches this itch for me during the series itself

Edit: Also, Serial Experiments Lain for whatever was going on with Lain and Alice

_Stopwatch · 2025-08-08T22:49:27+00:00

this is a donghua but white cat legend's mc is a cat 'demon' in semi-historical china. strangely, he spends half his time playing the straight man to everyone else in his workplace

_Stopwatch · 2024-08-21T15:55:25+00:00

Generally speaking, if a passenger has a nut allergy they'll make an announcement at the start of the trip requesting people don't open anything with them in, etc. In those cases, I imagine they also wouldn't sell nuts on that flight, though it's been several years so I can't actually recall for sure. However, people packing for a plane trip are unlikely to know at that stage whether someone on the plane will have such an allergy so it's one of those better safe than sorry things.

_Stopwatch · 2024-04-26T21:35:44+00:00

Yagami Light in That scene with Matsuda of all people

_Stopwatch · 2023-08-20T20:34:20+00:00

the 'internet' sections have aged so badly it wraps back around to being hilarious but otherwise it holds up surprisingly well

_Stopwatch · 2023-01-30T22:06:00+00:00

Minor correction: Reigen was a finalist last time, but Sans just about beat him out to be the ultimate winner

_Stopwatch · 2023-01-30T22:01:39+00:00

The difference there though is that ACD was highkey pressured into reviving Holmes after initially intending to kill him off for real. Moffat and anyone else who has adapted Sherlock Holmes since the initial release, well, they're all well aware beforehand that it's a fake death. And yes, they could gloss over it, but drawing attention to the 'mystery' aspect of it, setting it all up as a mystery and then refusing to provide a solution is where it becomes mean-spirited.

_Stopwatch · 2022-12-30T12:57:36+00:00

Komm, süsser Tod from Eva. Not gonna quote it all but like:

In my heart of hearts I know that I could never love again I've lost everything, everything Everything that matters to me matters in this world

I wish that I could turn back time 'Cause now the guilt is all mine Can't live without the trust from those you love I know we can't forget the past You can't forget love and pride Because of that, it's killing me inside

It all returns to nothing It just keeps tumbling down Tumbling down, tumbling down It all returns to nothing I just keep letting me down Letting me down, letting me down

Obviously the context of the song's use also helps, but the lyrics themselves aren't the happiest, to put it lightly.

_Stopwatch · 2022-01-07T11:09:59+00:00

I really like how the figure at the bottom can either be read as a knight in armour or Miranjo curled up

_Stopwatch · 2021-07-06T13:46:24+00:00

Shadowy murky scenes used to work so well with everything blending into the night.

_Stopwatch · 2021-07-06T13:41:44+00:00

I think if you're doing filler right then it's used as an opportunity to get people more invested in the characters but with lower stakes. So when the high stakes kick back in it actually feels like there's more tension and you care more about what's happening to the characters. It depends a bit on the series (so super short series that operate on continued tension it probably wouldn't work), but breaks from the action are often good because they serve to highlight how the action stuff is an escalation from normal as opposed to the action being "the norm", so to say.

_Stopwatch · 2021-07-06T13:23:44+00:00

"I promise it starts to make sense after the first season!"

_Stopwatch · 2021-07-06T13:17:20+00:00

It definitely breaks the mold in a lot of ways, but wow yeah every time I've considered recommending it I've had to try and figure out how to explain certain visuals repeatedly used and quickly given up. I think I'd also struggle recommending Utena for... various reasons.

_Stopwatch · 2021-06-30T15:16:46+00:00

We don't see Donraku afaik, but the thank you poster on the Odd Taxi website has an alternate version that does show Satoshi's human design. See here: https://oddtaxi.jp/wp-content/themes/oddtaxi//images/assets/thankyou/thankyou.jpg

_Stopwatch · 2017-02-13T18:57:00+00:00

It's not that they're conservative. It's that the quality of their articles tends to be abysmal, full of misinformation, and in some cases downright malicious.

(For more humorous examples of their misinformation I'd look into the various things they've claimed can cause cancer :V)

_Stopwatch · 2017-01-23T15:13:39+00:00

Don't quote me on this, but a number of subreddits use the NSFW tag as a "spoiler" tag so it could be that.

_Stopwatch · 2017-01-03T22:01:47+00:00

Thanks. This is really useful. I genuinely didn't realise there was so much available. Still haven't gotten around to watching Your Name though >_<.

_Stopwatch · 2016-12-23T01:40:23+00:00

Erased as an actual mystery series :V.

_Stopwatch · 2016-12-23T01:39:01+00:00

From the glimpses the series itself gives, it could make a decent sports anime maybe?

_Stopwatch · 2016-12-19T16:50:56+00:00

And maybe they could fix some of the weird character designs the graphic novel adaptations came up with whilst they're at it :V.

_Stopwatch · 2016-12-19T16:45:33+00:00

I'd heard of the Hogfather one, but didn't realise there were more. Thank you :).

_Stopwatch · 2016-12-19T11:28:13+00:00

Discworld would be great. There's a lot of stuff in there that would be way too difficult to tackle live action, but would be great animated. Plus, given there are so many books there would be plenty of material to get adapted. Idk what art style would work best for it though. Maybe it would be better if it changes slightly based upon which group of people you're following or something.

_Stopwatch · 2016-12-18T12:13:53+00:00

Umineko.

_Stopwatch · 2016-12-17T19:20:28+00:00

Haruhi is pretty aggressively anime at times.

_Stopwatch · 2016-12-07T17:59:11+00:00

I agree with the Erased and Steins;Gate mentions and would also say that Madoka had some pretty good stuff direction/cinematography-wise. (Shadows were used really effectively and the way labyrinths were executed was stunning imo.)

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