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Finished Lucky Star. Man, that is just a good anime. It's got this self-aware humour which I've yet to see in another anime that makes it so much more enjoyable. The countless anime references, self-deprecating yet loving jokes about anime culture such as otaku/weaboo/lollicon or cons or cosplay, the credit songs always consist of characters singing other anime intros and outros, and it's pretty much the essence of all anime compressed into an anime.

Despite it being slice-of-life and comedy there's character development, plot arcs, timeline consistency between episodes, and solid touching emotional moments too, which never lose the up-beat and witty comedy vibe that the show constantly has going for it. It's got all the feels to feel.

Good character design, animation, writing, it's great. All around solid in everything. Ten out of ten, would watch again (possibly again and again), would recommend to friends, would totally high-five the creator if I met them. I'd call it a must watch anime experience.

There are at least five people reading this and grinding their teeth while doing acrobatic backflips.

Franken Fran does spring to mind as a manga with legitimately disturbing artwork sometimes, but it's a weird sort of dark comedy series. Definitely NSFW, but also potentially traumatizing for small children.

Claymore also counts, but is a fantasy series. The monsters get progressively more bizarre as it goes along.

Dorohedoro? The main character is a lizardman with a face inside his mouth who goes around biting people's heads and asking them questions.

Parasyte, about aliens taking over people's bodies.

In terms of anime, Mononoke, but it may be a bit too offbeat, strangely styled, and each chapter has a long startup time before it gets going. The last three episodes of Ayakashi: Japanese Classic Horror are technically the beginning of the series and are where to start.


It's a sadly sparse and disregarded genre in manga and anime in general, instead most artists deciding to create yet another school centered romantic comedy.

Are the Steam keys separate or do you have to redeem them all at once? I would rather not have Medal of Honor stuck to my account.

Nier, Umineko no Naku Koro ni, Okami, Shadow of the Colossus, Tales of Vesperia, The Last Blade, Etrian Odyssey, and finally Ys.

Holy shit I overdid that didn't I?

It only places floor tiles, not walls or anything else, so you still need to properly map it all.

Should I watch original series Fullmetal Alchemist or skip straight to Brotherhood?
 I feel like I've asked this before.

Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 1-2
Strategy RPG mecha series with a distinct combat system involving multiple weapons of various ranges and effects mounted on each unit. Very dramatic and cinematic plotlines.

Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars
Another SRPG, with a Gundam-esque plot and a unique and slightly bizarre first person combat system where you manually dodge or aim attacks.

Metroid: Zero Mission
Probably doesn't need to be mentioned, but one of the finest of the series and in my opinion better than Fusion.

Monster Rancher Advance 1-2
The forgotten monster training series, with a more literal take on it. Feeding, training, disciplining, entering in tournaments and keeping your monsters well. Going bankrupt is a distinct possibility if you fail to win tournaments and earn prize money. The battle system takes time to get used to, as it is based on distance and positioning to determine attacks so a level of personal skill with the controls is necessary. Gets sad when monsters get too old and need to be retired.

Wario Land 4
Surprisingly good platformer with interesting mechanics and frankly nightmarish enemy and boss designs.


Games previously mentioned or that likely don't need a writeup;

Final Fantasy 1-6
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
Mega Man Battle Network
Fire Emblem / Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones(♥)
Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis
Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon
Advance Wars
Golden Sun
Tales of Phantasia (Though I prefer the SNES version)
Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland


Games that may interest you but I have limited personal experience with, or are divisive;

Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hands
Yggdra Union: We'll Never Fight Alone
Summon Knight: Swordcraft Story 1-2
Rebelstar: Tactical Command (Simplified, linear X-COM)
Scurge: Hive
Robopon (Pokemon-like monster collecting)
Astro Boy: Omega Factor (Yeah, trust me)

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Not to interupt the 999 discussion, but I've been poking around Netflix and found Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne. Quite short, but it was certainly interesting. Also bloody and the first episode was really gross at one point, but the rest were relatively fine. Has anyone else seen it?

Yes. I liked it.
The way it portrays immortality in a bad light, as a negative thing, was interesting.

As I recall the picture convinced me it was some attempting-to-be-deep softcore porn thing. Any non-spoilery details on what it was actually about or made it good?

It's about two immortals who work as private investigators, and the events surrounding the Tree of Yggdrasil which occasionally emits spores that have a very small chance of contacting people. The spores change them in various ways, often for the worse. The story is told through a series of jumps in time periods that, uniquely for shows I've seen, show the other characters who are not immortal growing old and passing on.
It generally portrays the ability to not die as a curse instead of a blessing, and contains some frankly disturbing scenes regarding this. There is a lot of nudity, sex, and gore that reaches Elfen Lied levels but I still feel the base idea of the show makes it interesting enough to watch for people willing to deal with those caveats.