Traditionally, Western pop genre schlock doesn’t usually tackle such emotional or personal themes which is probably partly why anime is so popular among Westerners. Wearing your emotions on your sleeve is also why other Westerners find it so deeply, offensively cringe
I was talking about the visceral reaction to Japanese anime storytelling and dialogue many people have in general, not the questionable sex stuff
Some people just want to shoot their TV when anime characters talk and I totally get it
Johah is from the bible, a much older anime than Moby Dick. If Moby Dick is Boruto, the bible is Astro Boy. :soviet-huff:
I refuse to watch any anime made after 2020 except possibly new seasons of one punch man.
okay so to really feel the full impact you kind of need a baseline experience of classic anime and in particular mecha. i recommend Gundam '79, Zeta Gundam, and Super Dimension Fortress Macross at least.
OK, as the person who would normally give this answer: OP isn’t bouncing off the show because they lack genre context, my guess is that they’re bouncing off the show because the presentation - pseudo christian imagery, sci-fi technobabble, apocalyptic world ending scenario - is somewhat unrelatable. Which it is, let’s be honest.
I dunno if recommending 100+ hours of old Japanese sci-fi cartoons here is necessarily the correct thing to do. (And I say that as someone who dearly loves all the shows you mentioned. Okay, mainly Macross, but still)
Maybe a show that strips out all the over-the-top trappings to focus more on the personal journey would be a better recommendation? Something like FLCL or Serial Experiments Lain, although those recommendations aren’t perfect either.
I was joking but actually FLCL is the perfect suggestion because there’s also a dramatic save-the-world sci-fi plot, but the whole point is that the protagonist isn’t aware of it and it’s never really explained.
