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Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 42] (ani.social)

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[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Btw folks a question from someone who watches barely any anime. Probably about 10 shows. I hate anime humour, the comedy always destroys the mood of the show and I cant take it seriously anymore.

I liked berserk which was serious throughout, what great anime's are there that avoid any comedy?

Do Vinland saga or steins gate do it? I might start one of those

[–] HetareKing@piefed.social 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Steins;Gate gets quite dark and serious, but it starts out pretty goofy, so if you're trying to avoid comedy it would leave a pretty bad first impression. I don't think I would recommend pushing yourself through the earlier parts to get to the later parts either, because you do need a certain attachment to the characters to appreciate the latter.

Vinland Saga, from what you've written, seems more up your alley. In a similar vein (bloody serious historical fiction) I also recommend Orb.

Other than that, Pluto and Monster, both thrillers based on manga by Urasawa Naoki, are very straight-laced.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

Great. Thanks for that

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Steins;Gate has a particular kind of humor. My gut feeling is that if you're bothered by anime humor in general in other shows you probably won't like it, but I don't know your specific tastes.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

That's disappointing. It generally sounded interesting but i dont want any humour at this point.

Thanks

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I can't think of any other shows that deal with time travel off the top of my head, but if you want some more serious sci-fi flavored shows, maybe try Ghost in the Shell?

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

Alrighty thanks.

[–] Endmaker@ani.social 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

what great anime's are there that avoid any comedy?

+1 for Vinland Saga

I am still going through Steins;Gate so I shall reserve judgement on it.

I think most of the anime in these lists would suit your taste (if you see comedy among an anime's genre, or it looks too cute / non-serious for you, skip it):

Here's a few war anime to save you a click: