[Filed under: anime, life, ranttime]

I never knew “psychological” was a genre of anime o.o after going through some of them though, I’d say this is my favorite genre of anime now. Anime that makes you think about life. Huh, that’s new.

This one that I’m still reading is called Gantz. It’s a few years old, but the manga’s still going. I watched the anime first, but don’t even try with it, it completely screws up the story after the Buddha arc =___= it’s roughly about how people die, but instead of really dying, they get transported to this room where a black ball orders them around to go alien hunting. You really have to read it to get the full experience, it’s amazing :D there’s a lot of gore though so be careful of that o.o

And just to be fangirly, I loveeee Nishi :DD I know he’s a complete jerk, but there’s something about his expression that I really~ like x]] too bad he’s a middle schooler whose track of mind = social darwinism

What I got from it: if you help people, they don’t give anything back; no matter what you kill, murder is murder; don’t trust the government EVER

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Next up is my favorite anime/manga of all time, Bokurano. If you can see that mecha there, that’s the robot these poor kids have to use to fight with. The ground rules of this “game” are basically that each child must pilot this mecha and defeat an enemy. When the enemy is defeated, the pilot will automatically die. But if either the pilot loses or there is no winner within 48 hours, then that pilot’s earth will go BOOM. It gets a lot more complicated as the story goes on, but it’s like either way, the kids are gonna die and there’s no way out. So the question is rather “will I die and take the earth with me, or do I die saving everyone?” and in the middle of all this, all these children are kind of rushed and forced into finding a reason to fight and accept death.

Oh, and the OP and ED songs are AWESOME. They really grasp the anime’s essence well :DDD and Jun is my favorite character~!! He was a jerk as well, but you see his back story around the end and then you just go like “NOOO JUN DON’T GOOOO” XD [Uninstall and Vermillion, both by Chiaki Ishikawa]

What I got from it: each person is of the same value; there should be something to live for, or at least something worth dying for; the selfless survive

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Saikano is an anime I just finished like a few days ago. It’s one big psychological love story T_T I usually don’t go for love stories, but this one takes the cliche idea of a love story and turns it into a whole thing about the loss of humanity…in many ways T^T basically, that girl there is Chise. Chise is human, but the military turned her into a living weapon (it’s not mentioned how) and has to go off to fight wars whenever they call her (what the war exactly is isn’t really explained either). And while she continues to give into her weapon side, love is the last shred of evidence that she is still human.

What I got from it: when you kill to protect, your victims are no less important than your loved ones/comrades, you are simply exchanging those victims in order to save the people YOU think are important; humans suck

Huh, now that I think about it, Death Note was also a psychological anime. Well, it was listed like that O.o it is though, it makes you wonder what justice really is and if Light should really be labeled as a murderer even when he was killing only the criminals.

Either way, psychological anime has a tendency to show things as they are. It’s the reason why a lot of them are hard to watch. It gets really bloody and eww, but that’s the reality they’re trying to show. That’s why I like it. It doesn’t try to work itself around “taboo” things, it just puts it all out there like “this is what the world is like, suck it up” XD they also tend to take regular-sounding plots (like saving the world with robots or love squares) and turn it into a whole mind roller coaster thingy xD I don’t know, I find that to be mad awesome xD

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