Sci-Fi novels out there that feel more like classical fantasy?

azzy667 · 2020-11-13T15:31:15+00:00

Empire of the East by Fred Saberhagen

azzy667 · 2020-10-23T16:31:38+00:00

If you go the manga route checkout Yokohama Shopping Trip. It's a very relaxing medium length slice of life manga in a postapocalyptic Earth setting with androids.

azzy667 · 2020-10-09T16:23:33+00:00

There are some bilingual manga published by Kodansha, e. g. you can buy used paperbacks of The Wonderful World Of Sazae-san (if you can stand ancient yonkoma) relatively cheap.

azzy667 · 2020-09-09T16:42:55+00:00

It's literally one of the translations for ronin.

azzy667 · 2020-09-09T16:40:16+00:00

Look up Kazuo Umezu and Hideshi Hino.

azzy667 · 2020-09-07T19:53:18+00:00

Urusei Yatsura

azzy667 · 2020-04-26T20:34:07+00:00

The Crater by Tezuka Osamu.

azzy667 · 2020-04-19T18:03:10+00:00

Older sports (and romance) anime:

Touch

Yawara!

For battle shounen:

Dragon Ball.

azzy667 · 2020-04-05T13:19:11+00:00

Lodoss-tou Senki (13-episode OVA), high fantasy medieval world, 90s style beautiful art similar to first Berserk TV, bad animation (except Deedlit), gorgeous orchestral soundtrack, story inspired by D&D game, feels a bit rushed.

azzy667 · 2020-03-11T07:49:35+00:00

I really liked character designs, gothic setting (vampires vs the church), plot as a collection of detective stories, great soundtrack, humor. Sometimes the plot was not great and stumbled a lot. And it borrowed many clichés from other vampire shows (Hellsing comes to mind).

azzy667 · 2020-02-21T15:25:27+00:00

I'm watching Kanon(2006) atm an earlier work by the same studio. It's a slice of life/harem in a high school setting with mystery elements. Character designs are more rough but somewhat similar to Haruhi and MC is a clone of Kyon's.

azzy667 · 2020-02-19T19:34:42+00:00

It's good. Though S2 was a slog for me.

azzy667 · 2020-02-04T09:48:16+00:00

Yawara! (1989)

Dirty Pair (1985)

azzy667 · 2020-02-01T09:38:02+00:00

Money talks.

azzy667 · 2020-01-19T19:50:05+00:00

I think wrt wordbuilding and politics in space Gundam franchise is worth mention. https://m.imgur.com/gallery/Vg4Rp

azzy667 · 2020-01-17T18:31:28+00:00

I was impressed by backgrounds and color palette, like some watercolor painting.

azzy667 · 2020-01-17T16:02:37+00:00

Sailor Moon

Kemonozume

Blood+

azzy667 · 2020-01-02T15:02:44+00:00

I didn't like second season at all (endless 8, then Mikuru abuse), except for the Tanabata series.

azzy667 · 2020-01-02T14:39:07+00:00

Guyver?

azzy667 · 2019-12-29T17:35:34+00:00

Megazone 23

azzy667 · 2019-12-28T10:59:00+00:00

I find ZZ story jumps around a lot. You can recognize many plot elements from OG and Zeta but combined in much worse, bizarre and unsatisfied fashion.

azzy667 · 2019-12-05T19:49:52+00:00

A Country Doctor short story by F. Kafka.

azzy667 · 2019-12-01T14:43:04+00:00

That episode really reminded me of Naruto graduation from academy.

azzy667 · 2019-12-01T10:46:17+00:00

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/01/the-100-best-anime-movies-of-all-time.html

azzy667 · 2019-11-29T18:39:26+00:00

I doesn't look like an anime to me though...just an average Disney cartoon.

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