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Yeah I agree for the most part
but what I am certain of is that I couldn't smile watching this anime at all something was bothering me the whole time and I couldn't figure it out yet.. I thought I would like this loser x gyaru relationship but I couldn't and I don't even like what Science Saru did with devilman crybaby it's just something about this studio that pisses me off so much LOL
and the arc with this turbo granny took so long for no reason and it didn't even help them to know each other when they came back to school they're acting like they didn't fight and trained for a week or so it makes me feel like I'm wasting my time watching this sakuga bs show off

why do u hate dandadan so bad lmao
I mean i gave it a 5 bc it's so average and unserious (not in a funny way) to the point I feel that I'm wasting my time watching it
but I want to hear what u have to say

btw, if you were at all interested in that mahou shojo VN I referenced, it's called Dead End Aegis.

Here's a commentary video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_HkByxRuGc

It's basically a rapey version of Madoka Magica, but with the humans being the exploitative ones instead of Kyubey. XD

Thanks. I must have a lot of tag errors... Dangaioh is pretty much just cool mech fanservice in a way, so I guess I shouldn't expect anything like that, but that's neat (and unexpected) that they do something like that in GG. I've been meaning to get back to it, and it's very cinematic for such an old series. I'm surprised you haven't tried any Votoms yet, actually. I haven't seen much of it. Just a handful of episodes and a few OVAs. I think with the original series, there is an arc later on that is considered much better than the early episodes, and some of what I've read about late plot points sounds highly influential for later mech series.

You know, to be fair, a lot of titles on MAL that are horror or tagged as such probably deserve a comedy tag as well. If comedy tag is added, then that probably means it's a horror comedy. From what I remember of DG, it could probably use a comedy tag, and I'd say the same for Highschool of the Dead.

Oh, Mahoutsukai to Aka no Pilgrim... I was reading that a while back and kind of forgot about it... Feels like a video game made by the Space Funeral or Middens guy... eh, which isn't entirely positive or negative as a comparison...

btw, is it just me, or is this kind of a meh season? Probably even more so for you, since you don't like the big fanboy title Dan of this season and I think you're middish on Re:Zero. Usually there are smaller shows I'm somewhat interested in, but it feels kind of dead, and I'm not noticing much discussion. It's also October, and I think Uzumaki was the only notable horror title they wheeled out... oh, and that crappy text message horror thing.

I figure a lot of people shoehorn PB into thriller, with some strong nods to Lynch (he occupies an interesting space in the horror or not horror question and has a strong horror imagery element and dark atmosphere; I place a few of his into horror, though plenty of people will disagree with me; I think Lain occupies a similar adjacent territory for the intensity of its atmospherics, but I wouldn't fully embrace saying it's horror either, so that's where the adjacent comes in for me) and Hitchcock. I'd feel fine putting that into horror as well. But even with "legitimate" horror titles on here, I feel almost silly labeling them as horror because they're so cartoonish and too comedy or moe inflected, without strictly being horror comedy either. The classification is a nightmare, and I was shocked when I scrolled through the horror tag on here, seeing some of the oddities that are called horror.

I'm not sure how much of the VJ OVAs are faithful or original. They seem like decent episodic samplers of the longer series... Well, I say that having never even glimpsed at the manga, so I wouldn't know. I'd guess they probably flub the stories in favor of being more in the spirit of exploitative B-movies.

Gorefests often enter into horror imagery territory, but I feel it's a distinction based on the intensity and tone of the imagery and atmosphere. Hellsing Ultimate is pure cheese, and it is tame compared to the 80s/90s OVA period. Hell, probably even to Elfen Lied. The visual style is the spitting image of other works by that author, like the isekai Drifters (kind of reminds me of Fate because of the different time periods they're drawn from). Gonzo's Hellsing seems more distinct because of, I'd guess Konaka and the various directors (I see a similar style spilling over into some of their other works, in contrast to the style of Ultimate). Incidentally, Youta Tsuruoka was the sound designer for Boogiepop Phantom, Lain, and all of the Hellsing titles.

Yeah, I like those. Although a lot of what gets labeled as horror is either dark or strange and feels kind of outside of the genre camp in a way. Sometimes I feel like they're sort of adjacent. Shinreigari doesn't have a horror tag on here as well (though I wouldn't object at seeing it on a horror list from what I remember). Horror imagery is also much more common than actual horror in anime. I used to love the genre, but I don't pay much attention to it nowadays because it's too difficult to find anything new and I'm looking for specific things that many don't care about. I think it really sucks anime doesn't have more decent horror, though. The 80s and 90s OVA market seemed the perfect opportunity, but those are mostly gorey and grimy and stuff like Violence Jack (which I actually like, lol, but it's not usually what I have in mind when I think of horror). I actually feel anime has a better aesthetic for it than most anything else but it's not well utilized. I don't know if you would call it "gorefest shit," but maybe you should try the original Hellsing anime. Konaka scripted it, and It's much better audiovisually than I remembered. Though I don't recall how the ending holds up. Much more my style than Hellsing Ultimate, anyway...

Probably kind of out of luck with horror then, aren't you? That seems to be the main trend nowadays for horror. I'm not actually sure what horror you like, since anime is sort of a limited representative of the genre. Where he really differs from Lovecraft, though, is Ito's stuff deviates so much from reality... and I primarily mean character motivation and psychology, that it's an embrace of dream logic, like you'll see in the most nonsensical horror. That's probably even more apparent with his compilations.

Maybe see what you think of this one, since it's his most well known, and it's very short.

https://junjiitomanga.fandom.com/wiki/The_Enigma_of_Amigara_Fault

Consistent art without the animation problems and less messy because of no cut content or the insane rush job of episode 3. It's definitely better as a whole, but if you rate it higher, I doubt it would be a positive appraisal and only for consistency, perhaps. Yeah, the snail eating dark humor, the goofy tornado gang, jack in the box, hair battle, etc. I view it as partly dependent on comedy. Ito is of that school of horror that takes some specific theme or idea and pushes it to absolute absurdity, much like Shintaro Kago or something. So I'd hardly view any of it as "pure" horror.

lol, I hardly remember Asuka and Gendo even being in the same room in the series. XD

So are you going to avoid the Uzu manga? tbh, though a lot of people are thinking the manga is way better, and while it is a more complete package without the kind of hiccups the adaptation had, it actually has the same problem when it comes to "segments." Which is why I've always been fairly lukewarm toward Ito; psychologically, his series are possibly even more dated than Lovecraft and the old cosmicists, and he wins people over fully through mood and aesthetic. I would say the manga is possibly even more segmented... there just isn't strong buildup, and it feels like the characters' minds are wiped clean with each segment. I felt like they improved upon that aspect in the adaptation at times (though wrecking it with fast pacing issues and trimmed scenes that sort of provided quasi-development, like Shuuichi's descent into madness or whatever), but it's still there. Frankly, even though Ito's "straight horror" titles aren't marked as horror comedy, I feel that's how they are to be appreciated. :S

lmfao, I was thinking the name Tony Takezaki sounded familiar. The author of the aborted Genocyber manga! He has a weird selection of manga, from the looks of it... I wonder if the AD Police manga is any good. Don't even want to know how bad his Eva parody is. XD

nothing special bro, just wanna direct the attack to the deserving person

I'll see if I can find the title later. What kind of bums me out about it is that the tentacles seem like they get repetitive, and I kind of wish there was some sort of progression, with Evangelion being a good example, since the angels get quite odd and even abstract as they go.

I tried AMS but didn't like it. Someone was raving about it and said I should watch it, and he stopped talking to me around the time I gave it a low rating, though I'm not positive there's a correlation, lol. It definitely seems to be more of a "cult classic."

lol, tbh, what it immediately made me think of was this one mahou shojo eroge VN (I don't really play VNs, so I don't recall the name) someone was raving about, and it sounded so odd that I watched a commentary video. Magical girls were woven into the economy and people would bet on them or something. And so they farm them to fight tentacle monsters in space. And sexuality is somehow linked to their magical powers, so I think they molest them or something to power them up. I don't know. LMAO. I think Lumiere might be something like an innocent version of that, I guess... XD

Only thing I liked about Magical Destroyers was the OP, I think. It seemed to have a small cult following gravitating around it at the time, but no one ever talks about it now. I skipped those other ones too.

Do you think Lumiere is worthwhile at all? I'm not too into mahou shoujo generally, but It kind of felt like it had an "alternative" energy to it, kind of like Magical Destroyers (kind of surprised you skipped it entirely, not that I'd recommend it) from a few seasons back. Also, lmao, Studio Moe. XD