Please suggest anime, and where to buy it on DVD

[Tinwhistler]

So, my anime collection on my Plex server could use some love. I have a few more popular things--Attack on Titan, Death Note, Fullmetal Alchemist, Hellsing (and Ultimate), Inuyasha, Keijo, One Punch Man, Parasyte, Avatar, Legend of Korra.

I'd like to pull all of that stuff and put it in its own Anime category, rather than lumping it in the TV Shows tab. But if I'm going to do that, I'd like to expand the collection dramatically.

To that end, I would welcome suggestions on what to get, and where I might buy it. I have no interest in downloading stuff--I've never put a downloaded video on my sever, and I'm not gonna start now. At the risk of sounding pervy and gross, I'm especially interested in tentacle stuff like La Blue Girl, but I'm by no means limiting my interest to that.

 

[Dei]

So besides the obvious, do you have a genre preference?

 

[Tinwhistler]

So besides the obvious, do you have a genre preference?

I don't know that I know enough to say. Looking at my 'already owned' list (which has no real hentai to speak of) shows what kinds of things I've liked in the past.

 

[PatrThom]

How do you feel about gore?

--Patrick

 

[Frank]

I fucking adored Cyberpunk 2077 but it's a Netflix thing so I literally doubt there will be a physical release.

Redline is literally the best looking anime movie ever made and the plot is violent even more insane F-Zero.

Amazon product

Here, it's 10 bucks.

 

[GasBandit]

If '90s era tentacle hentai is something you like, you got to get Urotsukidoji.

As for other anime, hang on I have a list. But I'm on my phone right now, it'll take me a second

 

[GasBandit]

Oh and pinging @Bones for where to buy physical media

 

[Bones]

If '90s era tentacle hentai is something you like, you got to get Urotsukidoji.

Massively out of print afaik. I got the compelet collection for about 600 last year.

I'll have more to say when I'm not at work.

 

[GasBandit]

Each category is alphabetical order because that's how I'm browsing through my collection

HIGHLY recommended Anime:
Black Lagoon
Cowboy Bebop
Ghost In the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Overlord

Very Good Anime:
Code Geass (the series, not the movies)
Cop Craft
Ghost Stories (english dub only)
Kaguya-sama: Love is War
Komi Can't Communicate
KonoSuba
Mushoku Tensei
Re:Zero
Vinland Saga

Other worthwhile anime:
Another
Astra: Lost in Space
Babylon
Beastars
Big O
Cells at Work
Domestic Girlfriend (it's so trash but so addicting)
Dr. Stone
Faraway Paladin
GATE
Goblin Slayer
How Heavy are the Dumbbells that you Lift?
Log Horizon
No Gun's Life
O Maidens in your Savage Season
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
My Dress-Up Darling
Paranoia Agent
Promised Neverland (Season 1 only)
Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
Rising of the Shield Hero
Samurai Champloo
Spice and Wolf
Spy x FAMILY
Stein's Gate
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Anime I like but nobody else I know seems to:
Initial D
Cautious Hero
Daily Lives of High School Boys
FLCL
Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash
Kemono Michi: Rise Up!
Maoyu
ReLIFE
S-CRY-Ed
Toradora!
Trapped in a Dating Sim
Tsuredure Children

Obligatory anime everybody recommends that you might want to watch for no other reason than to catch when they're referenced:
Azumanga Daioh
Death Note (I'd also recommend stopping after the first season)
Gurren Lagann
Fire Force
Kill la Kill
Hunter X Hunter
Love Hina
Lucky Star
My Hero Academia
Ninja Scroll
Sword Art Online (First Season only)
Trigun

Anime for when you want to punish your brain:
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Monogatari
Pop Team Epic
Re:Creators


Now then... on to the other stuff...


Ecchi (pervy but not quite X-rated)
High School DxD
Keijo!!!!!!!! (I think you said you already had this but just in case)
Golden Boy
High School of the Dead
Monster Musume
Shimoneta

Hentai (full on porn)
Urotsukidoji
Kuroinu Kedakaki Seijo wa Hakudaku ni Somaru
Bible Black
Taimanin Asagi
Makai Kishi Ingrid
Kuro Ai
Ogenki Clinic
Mashou no Nie

Massively out of print afaik. I got the compelet collection for about 600 last year.

Damn. I still have them on VHS somewhere.

 

[Tinwhistler]

How do you feel about gore?

--Patrick

I don't mind it so much. I have Parasyte, which is pretty gory. And Attack on Titan and the Hellsings..and Akira had some as well (though I didn't list it in my anime, because I was only looking in the tv shows section). I guess I should list the movies I have as well:

• Akira
• Castle in the Sky
• Ghost in the Shell
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Kiki's Delivery Service
• My Neighbor Totoro
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• Origin: Spirits of the Past
• Princess Mononoke
• Spirited Away
• Vampire Hunter D (and Bloodlust)

 

[Tinwhistler]

Each category is alphabetical order because that's how I'm browsing through my collection
...
Damn. I still have them on VHS somewhere.

That's a big list, thanks! And I wish I still had them on VHS :'(

 

[Tinwhistler]

Massively out of print afaik. I got the compelet collection for about 600 last year.

I'll have more to say when I'm not at work.

Yeah, this is what I was running into when I was trying to find some of the old stuff I'd rented from Blockbuster and Hollywood Video back in the day

 

[GasBandit]

Went digging in some boxes and found my old stash of '90s hentai VHS. I seem to have lost the box for Urotsukidoji 1 but it's that black space in the middle. The three-part volume on the right is Urotsukidoji 4: Inferno Road

Also found something considerably older...

 

[GasBandit]

Incidentally if you want to "try before you buy" anything that was up on my list, I can share my plex libraries with you.

 

[Dei]

I don't know that I know enough to say. Looking at my 'already owned' list (which has no real hentai to speak of) shows what kinds of things I've liked in the past.

I mean, anime comes in every genre like anything else. Really more a question of what kinds of shows and movies you like to consume.

 

[GasBandit]

I did not expect to learn that Wal-Mart is selling the complete Black Lagoon. They've come along way from only carrying albums with radio edits.

 

[Bones]

ok, as for physical media online you have 2 major choices new: Rightstufanime.com (now a sony/crunchyroll company) and Amazon. you may also want to keep an eye on sentaifilmworks.com the website for sentai entertainment the other big american liscensor. used I generally use ebay and private listings via reddit/facebook groups.

as far as animes i personally enjoyed, let me open up my database!

Spoiler: everything I loved

Ah! My Goddess TV Series
ARIA
Armored Trooper Votoms
Assassination Classroom
The Big O
Black Lagoon
Blood+
Bubblegum Crisis
Burn-UP Scramble/W/Excess
Cardcaptor Sakura
A Certain Magical Index
A Certain Scientific Railgun
Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion
Cowboy Bebop
Coyote Ragtime Show
Dagashi Kashi
Desert Punk
Demon Slayer
Dirty Pair(its being redone on blu-ray by rightstuf as we speak)
Dragon Ball/Z/Super
Eden of the East
El-Hazard
Emma: A Victorian Romance
Ergo Proxy
Escaflowne
Eureka Seven
Excel Saga
FLCL
Food Wars!
Fruits Basket
Full Metal Panic
Fullmetal Alchemist
Future GPX Cyber Formula
GATE
Ghost in the Shell Arise/SAC
Girls & Panzer
Girl's Last Tour
Goblin Slayer
Golden Boy
GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka
GunBuster
Gurren Lagann
Hellsing Ultimate
High School DxD
Himouto! Umaru-chan
Infinite Stratos
Interviews With Monster Girls
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick up Girls in a Dungeon?
Kill La Kill
Kimagure Orange Road
K-On!
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!
A Lull in the Sea
Lucky Star
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi
Martian Successor Nadesico
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
Gundam (i love 0079/G/Wing)
Mushi-Shi
My Hero Academia
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Nerima Daikon Brothers
Nichijou
No Game No Life
One-Punch Man
Outlaw Star
Overlord
Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn (this is about the first full body cybernetic human in the GITS universe, also where my icon is from)
Panty & Stocking With Garterbelt
Paradise Kiss
Paranoia Agent
Patlabor
Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Time
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Record of Lodoss War
The Rising of the Shield Hero
Rurouni Kenshin
Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist
Slayers
Speed Grapher
Spice and Wolf
Steins;Gate
Tenchi
Trigun
Trinity Blood
YOU'RE UNDER ARREST! ( OC got me to watch this and its awesome!)
Yu Yu Hakusho Ghost Files

 

[Tinwhistler]

I did not expect to learn that Wal-Mart is selling the complete Black Lagoon. They've come along way from only carrying albums with radio edits.

yup..stopped at the big W to get garlic bread for my spaghetti tonight, and had to pass through the electronics section, so I looked at all of their movies. Got the complete series of Cowboy Bebop, Black Lagoon, Ghost in the Shell Standalone Complex and The Ancient Magus Bride. They had others as well..a whole half-aisle devoted to them, but some of them were the well known stuff I already have, some of them were stuff I'd heard of, but weren't recommended (Evangelion) and a lot of them weren't complete sets, so I passed them up.

 

[PatrThom]

Oh and pinging @Bones for where to buy physical media

I already did.

—Patrick

 

[Dei]

Evangelion is one of those things that everyone has seen, but no one really talks about other than to meme on Gainax for being bad at endings.

 

[Bones]

There is likely more I could add or even i have forgotten(WHAT A SHOCK!) but I have been working for almost a month straight so my mind, she is not so good, at the moment.
also other than the obvious reasons you might expect, my "TO WATCH" pile is a bit crazy at the moment due to untimely promotion to department head last year at work.

Spoiler: yeah no free time

I already did.

—Patrick

yeah and I almost fell off a ladder when the alert came in.....

Evangelion is one of those things that everyone has seen, but no one really talks about other than to meme on Gainax for being bad at endings.

and selling super over priced "ULTIMATE EDITIONS" to suckers like me.

I havent taken a new collection picture since before covid but here is one from 2019 to put in perspective my insanity in collecting physical anime.

 

[GasBandit]

Bumping this thread and tagging @Tinwhistler because I'm curious what developments have happened over the last 3 months.

 

[Tinwhistler]

slowed down a lot the last few weeks because I've been busy with other interests, but...

 

[GasBandit]

Oh my.

Well, be sure to let us know which ones you end up liking!

 

[Tinwhistler]

Oh my.

Well, be sure to let us know which ones you end up liking!

The "watch count" isn't accurate, because I had to rebuild my Plex server and refresh all the metadata when I upgraded the drives.
So far I've watched:
---- TV Shows ----

• Attack on Titan: Got bored about halfway through
• All of Avatar: I liked it through the run, though there were slowish bits.
• All of FullMetal Alchemist: Which I liked a lot
• Ghost in the Shell (TV show, not the movie), I liked.
• The Hellsings, all the way through, and while there were slow bits, I enjoyed them overall.
• Legend of Korra, only a few episodes and I couldn't get into it at the time.
• Inuyasha, grew bored after it started feeling very Dragonball Z-ish in it's repetitiveness.
• One-Punch Man: Was totally awesome. I've watched the whole series 3 times now.
• Parasyte: Interesting take on the whole body horror genre, and I liked it.
• Shinobi Seduction: Nonsensical and ridiculous. Porn is ubiquitous and free, so I'd prefer my anime to have a little more story to it. If I just wanted to watch a bunch of random fucking for barely any reason, I could pick from any number of xHamsters, PornHubs, etc.

---- Movies ----

• A couple of the Bible Blacks, though I wish there was more story. These feel like American porn--barely any story there at all to string together the fucking scenes.
• Akira I watched like 20 years ago. It's a classic
• Other classics I've watched and liked: Totoro, Howl's, Mononoki, Kiki's.
• Vampire Hunter D, both movies. Similar to the Hellsing shows: Some slower bits, but more manageable because these were movies and not tv shows with fluffer episodes. Overall, enjoyed enough to watch the sequel.

So, for all my complaining about Bible Black, Shinobi, etc, I'm not against porn-ish anime. But I really miss things like La Blue Girl, where there was more actual story surrounding the tentacle porn.

 

[PatrThom]

That looks ambitious.
When are you going to find time to date?

--Patrick

 

[Tinwhistler]

That looks ambitious.
When are you going to find time to date?

--Patrick

You may have noticed in my last dinner thread, there were TWO plates made

 

[GasBandit]

As I said in the Anime thread, Rumiko Takahashi (Inuyasha) series all have the same problem - Status Quo is God, and the only plot advancement is "this power is now obsolete, I need to master a new fighting move." Same thing went for Ranma 1/2 too.

If you want porn with a story, try Urotsukidoji.

If you want some of the best (non-porn) Anime out there, try Black Lagoon. Also recommended, Cowboy Bebop. If you get around to it, I'd also be curious to know what you think of Code Geass, which is not "the best anime out there" but is one of my favorites, warts and all.

And apropos of nothing, I found "Redo of Healer" to be a little too squicky to really enjoy.

 

[Cheesy1]

It's been suggested earlier, but Konosuba is a hilarious take on the Isekai genre.

 

[Tinwhistler]

As I said in the Anime thread, Rumiko Takahashi (Inuyasha) series all have the same problem - Status Quo is God, and the only plot advancement is "this power is now obsolete, I need to master a new fighting move." Same thing went for Ranma 1/2 too.

If you want porn with a story, try Urotsukidoji.

If you want some of the best (non-porn) Anime out there, try Black Lagoon. Also recommended, Cowboy Bebop. If you get around to it, I'd also be curious to know what you think of Code Geass, which is not "the best anime out there" but is one of my favorites, warts and all.

And apropos of nothing, I found "Redo of Healer" to be a little too squicky to really enjoy.

I have both Black Lagoon and Cowboy Bebop on the server waiting to be watched. Urotsukidoji wasn't as easy to come by via legitimate sources.

 

[GasBandit]

I have both Black Lagoon and Cowboy Bebop on the server waiting to be watched. Urotsukidoji wasn't as easy to come by via legitimate sources.

Ahhh yeah, I guess it would be. I mean, I have them... on VHS, as you know >_< .... let me check a few of the mustier corners of the web...

It's been suggested earlier, but Konosuba is a hilarious take on the Isekai genre.

While I agree, I would recommend watching an actual isekai or two, to really feel the lampooning of the common crutches they use.
And really, Tin doesn't sound like he has the time to spend on mediocre anime >_< I mean, Overlord is a REALLY good isekai but it's not really what Konosuba is making fun of - more along the lines of Sword Art Online or Log Horizon.

 

[GasBandit]

let me check a few of the mustier corners of the web...

I've found a few copies of it, but so far they're all censored.

Almost makes me mad enough to do an actual VHS encode of my normal, uncensored tape and seed it myself

 

[GasBandit]

Well, found it. Kinda. Check your PMs.

 

[Bones]

Urotsukidoji wasn't as easy to come by via legitimate sources.

I...uhhh...own the entire thing on disc if someone wants me to say uhhh share it....
you want it @GasBandit @Tinwhistler ?

 

[GasBandit]

I...uhhh...own the entire thing on disc if someone wants me to say uhhh share it....
you want it @GasBandit @Tinwhistler ?

Well, I already found a "de-censored" version of the first movie, do you have Demon Womb, Return of the Overfiend, and Inferno Road?

I have them all on VHS but would the digitization of a 30 year old VHS even be worth it? The only thing that they seem to have going for them is they predate the censorship, which is not a thing I knew about until I tried to torrent it.