Can’t a child understand that? An animation about a hard-boiled life
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The term “hard-boiled” is often used to describe works for adults.
Originally, it was a genre that was popularized as an antithesis to detectives with inhuman powers of deduction and mysteries with tricks that were unrealistic.
Nowadays, it might be said that the protests against the popularity of the “narou-kei” genre have led to the popularity of otherworldly stories where the main character is not a warrior and lives a solid life.
Regardless of his background, hard-boiled protagonists are associated with “cold-heartedness”, “reticence”, “composure”, and “perfectionism”.
It’s a bit like Golgo 13.
If you can relate to those protagonists, you may feel like you’ve grown up.
For example, if you watched “Cowboy Bebop” when you were a kid and didn’t really get used to it, I’d recommend watching it again now that you’re an adult.
The same goes for Mushishi and Red Pig.
In recent years, “No Guns Life” also falls into this category.
The protagonist is quite different with a gun in his head, but the protagonist has an astringent taste.
If you want to sympathize with cool women, you can’t miss BLACK LAGOON.
The Levy in this film is the opposite of the hard-boiled image because she is short-tempered and fussy about money, but she is a female character who makes you feel mature in her life.
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Complicated? Philosophy? Anime with a difficult storyline
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Many anime fans have at one time or another had the experience of watching an anime that was well-received but didn’t have a good storyline and wasn’t very interesting to watch.
There are a few of them that were popular with die-hard fans but have lost their appreciation over the years, but there are many others that are not.
A typical example of this is “Dennou Coil”, which received high praise but was also considered to be complicated and difficult to understand.
While it wasn’t a blockbuster, many people still regard it as a masterpiece today.
If you watch it again as an adult, you might be able to see a story that you couldn’t understand at the time.
On the other hand, the one that seems to be difficult to understand even as an adult is “Wirruping Drum”.
The director Kunihiko Ikuhara’s unusual sense of humor is a filter, and it’s hard to grasp the theme of the film.
However, Ikuhara continued to release new works such as “Yuri Kumarashi” and “Sarazanmai” after that, and some people may have come to understand his work as they watched those works.
If you watch Pindora again now, there is a good chance that you will be able to get a completely different feel for the show than you did back then.
If that happens, you’ll feel like an adult, even if you don’t like it.
A socially conscious anime that will stick with you for the first time as an adult
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It’s not that you can’t be comfortable with social anime now that you’re a member of society.
It’s just that the stories and settings don’t become familiar to us until we’ve grown up with anime that doesn’t pretend to be socially conscious, but actually deals with social issues in a way that is entertaining.
Because the story of “Planetses”, which is about space debris, was not difficult to follow, many people may have watched it without paying much attention to the background of the story.
With the cooperation of JAXA, the original author, Mr. Yukimura Makoto, and Mr. Ogura Shinya, who was in charge of the setting of this work, have done a great job of investigating the details of this work, so it is the type of anime that you can make new discoveries by re-watching it.
The “Ghost in the Shell” series is also in this category, although it has already gained a global reputation.
Because it’s famous, many people must have watched it for a reason.
The recent series of films with beautiful visuals are worth watching, but “Ghost in the Shell” released in 1995 is still a masterpiece that hasn’t faded away.
C” is about money and desire, but if you watch it after you’ve become a working adult, you’ll see the story from a different angle.
Summary
In the past, people used to say that you should graduate from anime when you grow up, but nowadays, it’s more of a time when you feel like you’ve grown up through anime.
I am very happy that there are so many anime like that out there.
