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I need animators for fight scenes they need to have watched both jjk and one piece cus its a show about if jjk and onepiece characters went to school together i only want the fight scenes to last about 2-3 minutes we can negotiate prices in my dms

I watched arcane and I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed the different type of animation and the different characters with different skills. I also tried death note which was good to start with but I struggled to watch all of it. Can someone help to suggest any other ones that are similar and that I might enjoy ?

Thank you

The anime had to do with a boy and i remember he’s being watched by an organization that then i think takes him underground or he stumbles upon their place and in this world there are monster or creatures kind of like Pokémon or Digimon and the boy bonds and touches with the animal most likely a bird or something but him touching it was seen as rare or extraordinary but after that the organization makes him take a choice to adopt the animal or his memory would be erased and thats it most of what i can remember i can tell you that this was most likely episode 1 i watched this show as a kid and my brothers remember it with me and are much older so i know I’m not mixing things up but please help 5 years I’ve been wanting to watch it again if it helps i watched it in 2012-2013 in Dominican Republic i also used to watch a-lot of Cartoon Network i gave this task to many and many have failed its a chance this was just deleted out of existence

Hi, I’m a 26 year old male, and this is my first time posting on Reddit, so I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this. If not, I apologize.

I recently finished watching My Hero Academia, and after seeing Eri and the little baby version of All For One, I realized something. Whenever I see a child in an anime who isn’t overly obnoxious or annoying, my brain immediately goes, “I’d like a kid now.”
I know that’s a weird thing to say, and I don’t mean it in a creepy way at all. It’s kind of like how some people get baby fever from seeing real babies and kids, but for some reason, I get that feeling from manga and anime babies instead.

Maybe it’s because of the way they’re illustrated? Or is that kind of the point of babies in manga and anime, to make readers and viewers think, “Aww, they’re so cute?” I honestly don’t know.
Anyway, that’s all I wanted to say.

I love thinking about anime as much as I love watching it. And at some point I started noticing something I couldn’t quite explain. 😌
Anime characters feel really close to me. Like a friend. I hear their voices in certain situations, encouraging me, telling me “daijobou”. I find myself thinking what any character would do in a given situation.

And I always found this fascinating because on one side you have hand drawn 2D characters, and on the other you have real actors, real humans, real places. And somehow the drawn ones feel more real in my inner world…

A few things kept coming up while I kept thinking “Why did I never felt so close to a “real actor/actress” before?”:

When you watch a film you never fully leave the actor behind. Their other roles, their real life, their face. Sometimes their scandals overshadow our relationship with them. But an anime character has none of that. They belong entirely to their story and they stay that way.

Then there’s the visual language. Called “Manpu”. The symbolic system manga developed to show what’s happening inside a character before anime even had sound or color. Spiral eyes for overwhelm. A dark aura when anger goes quiet. The highlight disappearing from someone’s eyes the moment they shut down inside. Our brains already know this language.

But the part that stands out for me most is that anime characters are allowed to be “weak”, to be “flawed”. There’s “emotional realism” in anime.
Nanami gets frustrated about working overtime. Frieren can’t get out of bed. Zenitsu’s fear is louder than his power. Fern gets quietly jealous. Usagi worries about her weight. Kana Arima tears herself apart from the inside.
These are the small embarrassing human things we carry around, too. And anime shows them without judgment and without rushing to fix them. So characters become relatable.

There’s also the inner monologue. In anime the inner world is the story. You don’t watch a character from outside. You live in their head. Which is actually how we experience our own lives, from the inside, narrating, doubting, replaying. So we see them as a “whole”, not their “polished, public faces”.

And of course, there comes in the cultural factor. In Japanese culture negative emotions aren’t a detour. All emotions belong to the human experience itself. Even the hard and harsh parts. That’s then reflected to the stories that are told there, I believe.

Do anime characters feel more alive in your inner world than real people,too?
I’m genuinely curious about other people’s experience of this. 🦊

I’m thinking about the plot being a boy who cross-dresses as a girl and there’s a girl who cross_dresses as a boy,They meet at some place becoming close due to their similarities and eventually get over the hate for cross dressers thus getting in a relationship.

That’s basically what I’m really looking for asked ChatGPT and a few other AI,s said that the plot or story seemed unusual and thought it might be original from me
I’d actually love to see if this exists in manga or anime

Is it just me or auraraka didn’t really have a big role she was created for being in love with deku and seriously the hole thing about wanting to help a monster and even sacrificing her self nahh and don’t justify togas action by her parent didn’t she was a psycho guys please i want fans answering me or just someone who watched because I don’t really understand

I know this might be a hot take, but for me it was Dragon Ball, and Dragon Ball Z. I respect what it did for anime and how much influence it had, but I could never fully get hooked. The pacing, constant power scaling, and long stretches of training and fights just didn’t click with me.

This has been driving me crazy for the past few days.

I'm looking for an anime I watched on Indian TV around the same time as Dinosaur King and Idaten Jump (roughly early 2010s).

Here's everything I remember:

\- Modern-day Japan/Tokyo setting.

\- Characters were mostly young adults/high school age, not little kids.

\- One of the main characters looked very similar to Light Yagami from Death Note (same serious face, hairstyle, white shirt, etc.).

\- Every important character (at least from what I remember) had their own grimoire/spell book.

\- During fights they would hold the grimoire in one hand, point at the target with their index and middle finger, and read spells from the book.

\- I remember the spell text glowing while it was being read.

\- I distinctly remember the main character having a red grimoire.

\- After one fight, I remember him unlocking a new spell in the grimoire.

The obvious answer everyone gives is Zatch Bell, and I understand why because some details match perfectly:

\- Red spellbook.

\- Reading spells from the book.

\- Finger-pointing while casting.

\- Unlocking new spells.

But here's the problem: I have absolutely no memory of the kid protagonist or the human-demon partner system. In my memory, it was just young adults fighting each other using grimoires.

I'm completely open to the possibility that my childhood memory has changed over time, but before I accept that, I wanted to ask:

Does anyone know another anime that fits this description, especially one that aired on Indian TV around that time? Or am I actually remembering a heavily distorted version of Zatch Bell?

Any suggestions are appreciated, even obscure ones. This mystery has genuinely been bothering me.

I am in bed and randomly got smashed in the head with vague memories of an anime I watched as a kid and was momentarily obsessed with but for some reason the name and general plot of the anime eludes me. I watched it maybe 12 years ago on Netflix. All I can remember is the protagonist had long black hair usually in a pony tail with a red robe he usually had around his waist and a magical sword. I can’t remember fully but I have the feeling the character had amnesia but was chosen by this sword to fight the antagonist who was a big burly man(possibly related to protagonist since in my head they look very similar) who also has black hair in a ponytail but a goatee. It takes place in a feudal like world of course with Japanese influence. I think I also remember a sister to the protagonist but I’m really unsure. I remember the anime having a generic name like “hero quest” or “legendary” something. But looking up the names I thought it was got me no where. But I’m struggling to sleep until I can find this anime so I decided to ask Reddit for something for the first time in my life. I’m hoping there’s one goober out here that watches this anime and it’s their favorite so they can realize exactly what I’m talking about cus that would be lit but here’s to hoping I find it before I pass out or end up searching until the sun rises. If I remember anymore detail I’ll try to add in the comments and maybe if you guys have any questions about it I can try to answer to the best of my ability to answer but know I’m likely warping my own memory.

I understand there’s more to any given manga that can be adapted, but why stop and make a Part 2?

Is it a scheduling thing or what?