Yoru no Kuni

A list of anime that have aesthetic appeal or have particularly distinctive art styles...

This is a part of a series of stacks that are about artistic tendencies in anime (and that border the fine line between sophisticated and pretentious).

This stack is a work in progress.

Bibliography:
Bingham, Adam. “Distant Voices, Still Lives: Love, Loss, and Longing in the work of Makoto Shinkai.” Asian Cinema. 20:2 (2009): 217-225.
Griffin, Blake. “Cowboy Bebop: The Acceptance of Loss.” Medium.com. 26 June 2020.
Lack, Jonathan R. “Elegy for a Lost Tomorrow: Representations of Loss in the Works of Isao Takahata.” 2015. University of Colorado, Master’s Thesis. 25-30.
Napier, Susan J. “Elegies.” Anime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 275-278.

Featuring little to no dialogue and/or characters and the experience is carried by the music and/or visual atmosphere.

Part 1 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/311
Part 2 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/5128
Part 3 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/8036
Part 4 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/8173
Part 5 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9135
Part 6 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9240
Part 7 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9448
Part 8 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9461
Part 9 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/20874

Moe Nagata - https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2076686

This collection of series, movies and shorts represent a specific mood, expressed within the anime media. Their pace is most likely slow, and are usually focused at the complex emotional web that surrounds the worlds and characters that are within them.

In each of them the feelings which are translated onto the viewer are those of comfort, but also anxiety, affection, as well as sorrow. The balance and the depth in which they are presented varies from show to show as well as from the personal perception and worldview that each viewer has. Their main unity point is that they tuck on our heartstrings and provokes our empathy towards the unwinding chaos and turmoil.

These selected series presents us relatable, even if based on fiction stories - which even within it's bleakness and darkness, holds a silver of hope and warmth or which conceals within their bright and vivid colors sublime, gentle, but ever present feelings of despair and sadness.

Part 3: Music Trilogy


Title says it all.

Hope this stack helps. I personally had a hard time looking for music videos in this site, so that's why I'm creating this.

My only basis for music videos is if I've seen it and it's a...music video.

Pretty chill, ye?


Update #1: The music videos are arranged alphabetically. I'll update the stacks as long as I can and if still willing / interested to do so. You can see the rest of MAL's animated music videos if you search their database through the themes category. It's under music. Thank you for checking my interest stack out!!

beautiful, hypnotic, otherworldly, dangerous, eerie, and stunning.

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part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/37073
part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/37074
part 4: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/37144

Mostly fantasy/Supernatural using the concept of Ma

It's so comfy
You just watch it and forget about the passage of time


Short version, all listed titles has less than 3 seasons worth of episodes (or equivalent)

Long series version : https://myanimelist.net/stacks/57463

Rules:
1. Comfy ambiance
1. No drama
2. No blood
3. No nsfw fan service
4. No complex plot
5. Less than 3 seasons or equivalent