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"Some anime recommendations, healing edition"
 
   LAST EDITED ON Dec-05-22 AT 07:16 PM (EST)
 
(Edit for clarity of what I'm doing g with these posts) Since I've been talking about a bunch of anime, and watching a lot of it to boot, I figured I'd make some suggestions for folks. I'll try to separate them via broad genres as I consider them to be, for the sake of organization. Since I'm rather poor at describing shows, I'll just be generally just taking a paragraph from wikipedia for the basic description.

Since I'm likely going to be recommending a lot of these, I've decided to break the broad genres into separate posts.

First up is the Iyashikei genre!
Also known as 'Healing Effect', these shows are generally slice of life and very calming, with low or no stakes. Often overlapping with Cute Girls Doing Cute Things, but not always. K-On yes, Girls und Panzer no.

Flying Witch
The story is about Makoto, a young witch from Yokohama, who moves to Hirosaki, Aomori to live with relatives as part of her training. What follows is Makoto's daily life as she gets used to her new environment. Her relatives and the new friends she makes there are introduced to the customs and peculiarities of witchcraft.

--Not much to say about this one, except that it's probably a little bit more comedic than some of the others in this section.

Super Cub
The series is set in the Mukawa area of Hokuto in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. The story follows Koguma, a lone, gruff girl with no hobbies or interests. After an encounter with a Honda Super Cub 50, she begins to grow and her world expands beyond herself.

--Watching Koguma learn how much bigger the world is is *amazing*.

Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater
(Wikipedia doesn't have much about the plot, so this is all my own stuff. ALso, it's about recreational fishing, which I forgot to note before) Also known as "Afterschool Embankment Journal", it's a series about a girl who moves to the boonies from the city, who gets shanghai'd into the Embankment club by an overbearing club president and a *highly* enthusiastic childhood friend, despite wanting to be in the embroidery club (a hobby she's enjoyed for years). It ends up working out. Taught me a lot about fishing that I'll literally never use! This one can be a little bit gross at times, depending on how sensitive you are to the preparation of freshly caught seafood.

Laid-Back Camp
Rin Shima, a high school-aged girl, enjoys camping on her own. One day, she meets Nadeshiko Kagamihara, who encourages her to join their school's camping club. Together, Rin, Nadeshiko, and their classmates Chiaki Ōgaki and Aoi Inuyama travel around Japan, camping together and enjoying their daily lives.

--Peter Eng and Gryphon have both talked about this one in other threads, and it is EXTREMELY good and relaxing, and has also given me information I'll never have reason to use. :) Also, don't forget Room Camp! Which is some low-camping-activity stories set in and around the school's camping club room.

Amanchu!
Futaba Ooki, a shy girl who just moved in from the city to the oceanside town of Shizuoka, meets Hikari Kohinata, an erratic girl who loves scuba diving. Together, they join their school's Diving Club and discover the joys of underwater exploration.

--Probably not a good show to watch if you have a thing about the sea or being underwater, but if you're okay with that, it's a very introspective show, with occasional whole episodes devoted almost entirely to characters inner monologues as they go through their day, or parts of it.

Restaurant To Another World
The Western Restaurant Nekoya is a restaurant situated in a mundane corner of an undisclosed Tokyo shopping district which offers a lot of Japanese versions of Western dishes. It opens during usual business hours but is closed during holidays and weekends; with its usual clientele being the working class of the city. But secretly it is also open on Saturdays, as on this particular day it creates doorways to another world inhabited by elves, dragons, beastmen and other fantastic creatures, who enter the restaurant and partake of its exotic food, with many of them becoming regular patrons. But while Nekoya mainly offers food, it is also a place where relationships are forged, inspirations made, and salvation for the needy is provided.

--WARNING: DO NOT WATCH THIS SHOW WHILE HUNGRY. This one is based a LOT on food and how it brings people together, and holy cow, the food all looks *so good*.

Sweetness and Lightning
Kōhei Inuzuka is a teacher who has been raising his daughter, Tsumugi, by himself following the death of his wife. Having mostly bought ready-made meals for his daughter since, Kōhei's encounter with one of his students, Kotori Iida, leads him to take up cooking in order to provide proper meals for Tsumugi.

--You may have seen a video clip of a little girl who's about 40% hair by mass singing a shark song while walking down the street. That's from this show. It's an emotional show, with some fairly simple recipes you can learn to make yourself!


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  RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition drakensis Nov-27-22 1
     RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition Kendra Kirai Nov-27-22 2
  RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition Gryphonadmin Nov-28-22 3
     RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition Kendra Kirai Nov-28-22 4
         RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition Gryphonadmin Nov-28-22 5
             RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition Peter Eng Nov-28-22 6
                 RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition Gryphonadmin Nov-28-22 7
                     RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition Kendra Kirai Nov-28-22 8
                         RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition Peter Eng Nov-28-22 9
                             RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition Gryphonadmin Nov-28-22 11
                         RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition Gryphonadmin Nov-28-22 10
     Laid-Back Camp/Room Camp Gryphonadmin Dec-01-22 13
         RE: Laid-Back Camp/Room Camp Gryphonadmin Dec-03-22 20
             RE: Laid-Back Camp/Room Camp Kendra Kirai Dec-03-22 21
                 RE: Laid-Back Camp/Room Camp Gryphonadmin Dec-03-22 22
  Super Cub Gryphonadmin Dec-01-22 12
     RE: Super Cub Kendra Kirai Dec-01-22 14
     RE: Super Cub Gryphonadmin Dec-02-22 15
         RE: Super Cub Kendra Kirai Dec-02-22 16
             RE: Super Cub Gryphonadmin Dec-02-22 17
                 RE: Super Cub Gryphonadmin Dec-02-22 18
                     RE: Super Cub Kendra Kirai Dec-02-22 19
  RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition Meagen Dec-10-22 23
     RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition Kendra Kirai Dec-10-22 24
         RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition Meagen Dec-11-22 25
             RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition Kendra Kirai Dec-11-22 26

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1. "RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition"
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   >Restaurant To Another World
>The Western Restaurant Nekoya is a restaurant situated in a mundane
>corner of an undisclosed Tokyo shopping district which offers a lot of
>Japanese versions of Western dishes. It opens during usual business
>hours but is closed during holidays and weekends; with its usual
>clientele being the working class of the city. But secretly it is also
>open on Saturdays, as on this particular day it creates doorways to
>another world inhabited by elves, dragons, beastmen and other
>fantastic creatures, who enter the restaurant and partake of its
>exotic food, with many of them becoming regular patrons. But while
>Nekoya mainly offers food, it is also a place where relationships are
>forged, inspirations made, and salvation for the needy is provided.
>
>WARNING: DO NOT WATCH THIS SHOW WHILE HUNGRY. This one is based a LOT
>on food and how it brings people together, and holy cow, the food all
>looks *so good*.


There's a similar show called Isekai Izakaya: Japanese Food From Another World where the front door is always on a street of a quasi-medieval world, for no reason the chef and his one waitress know. It's less fantastical in the customers, but it's also means there's more character-building as the little japanese restaurant has to adjust to interacting with their only customer base and has positive local impacts. For example, they're serving Japanese lager... but there's a local monopoly on lager, so they have legal challenges to face. Given the nature of the show, goodwill and honesty backed by excellent food wins out in the end.

The episodes are half length but then add on a real life segment of a food critic visiting small restaurants that serve the trademark food of that particular episode.

D.


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2. "RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition"
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   I was gonna mention that one too, but I haven’t finished it, and I don’t think it’s quite as good as the other so far? :) but yeah, that’s one, too!


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3. "RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition"
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   LAST EDITED ON Nov-28-22 AT 00:49 AM (EST)
 
>Laid-Back Camp
>
>Peter Eng and Gryphon have both talked about this one in other
>threads, and it is EXTREMELY good and relaxing, and has also given me
>information I'll never have reason to use. :) Also, don't forget Room
>Camp! Which is some low-camping-activity stories set in and around the
>school's camping club room.

NOTE: Room Camp is set between seasons 1 and 2 of Laid-Back Camp, not that it really matters all that much, but still. There is also a movie, which just dropped on CR on the third of this month, and evidently a third TV series is in production. So that's nice!

--G.
I haven't watched the movie yet...
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4. "RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition"
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   OOOOOOooooo, I didn't know the movie was out yet! That's gonna get the HECK watched out of it this week!


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5. "RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition"
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   >OOOOOOooooo, I didn't know the movie was out yet! That's gonna get the
>HECK watched out of it this week!


I didn't know either, until I got to the end of season 2 and it rolled over to the movie automatically. (For some reason, presumably to make it fit the sort order, they have it tagged in the series list as "season 20".)

--G.
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6. "RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition"
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   >>OOOOOOooooo, I didn't know the movie was out yet! That's gonna get the
>>HECK watched out of it this week!
>
>
>I didn't know either, until I got to the end of season 2 and it rolled
>over to the movie automatically. (For some reason, presumably to make
>it fit the sort order, they have it tagged in the series list as
>"season 20".)
>

Considering that it's set several years after season 2, they may have tagged it that way just in case season 3 is still the Outclub in high school.

Peter Eng
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7. "RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition"
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   >Considering that it's set several years after season 2

Yeah, I... don't know quite how I feel about that. I mean, it doesn't land with as dull a thud for me as the K-On! manga volume where the Original Four are in college, but...

--G.
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8. "RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition"
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   At the very least, having seen much of the lead up material for it, everybody seems to look much the same.


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9. "RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition"
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   >At the very least, having seen much of the lead up material for it,
>everybody seems to look much the same.

Near as I can tell, they used the same character designs they made for the imaginary future that took the first few minutes of S1-E12, including Chiaki becoming Miss Chug v.2.

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11. "RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition"
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   >Near as I can tell, they used the same character designs they made for
>the imaginary future that took the first few minutes of S1-E12,
>including Chiaki becoming Miss Chug v.2.

But Nadeshiko didn't get her international business empire, dang it!

--G.
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10. "RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition"
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   >At the very least, having seen much of the lead up material for it,
>everybody seems to look much the same.

Yeah, no, no one's been radically redesigned (well... almost no one). It's more the vibe of the thing than anything visual that I have Complex Feels about.

--G.
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13. "Laid-Back Camp/Room Camp"
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   I just realized that the ending titles theme of Room Camp literally has the sentence "let's chill out, it's comfy time" in its lyrics.

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20. "RE: Laid-Back Camp/Room Camp"
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   >I just realized that the ending titles theme of Room Camp
>literally has the sentence "let's chill out, it's comfy time" in its
>lyrics.

Another thing I just realized is that Laid-Back Camp and Super Cub are set in almost the same place. Nadeshiko and her crew live in and around Minobu in Yamanashi Prefecture, and Koguma lives in Hokuto, which is less than 30 miles north of them. (That's not even as far as I had to go for pandemic groceries before the supermarket here in town started offering curbside pickup earlier this year.) That other school where Koguma goes on her summer courier job is in Kofu, the prefectural capital, about halfway in between the two.

--G.
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21. "RE: Laid-Back Camp/Room Camp"
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   I joked about the two casts running into each other with my friend when we were watching them. :)

I think my next post will be the comedies, because there's this other show about motorcycles called Bakuon...A show that I suspect you'd either find hilarious or infuriating. Right now I'm about 55/45 of you liking it. We'll see how that goes when you check out the opening and wiki clip.


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22. "RE: Laid-Back Camp/Room Camp"
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   >I joked about the two casts running into each other with my friend
>when we were watching them. :)

There are a few artworks on danbooru showing Rin and Koguma riding past each other on the street, usually taking no notice--although in at least one, Koguma notices Rin, presumably because of all her camping gear strapped on the back of her Vino. Or maybe she's just surprised to see someone riding something that is not a Honda. :)

--G.
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12. "Super Cub"
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   >Super Cub
>The series is set in the Mukawa area of Hokuto in Yamanashi
>Prefecture, Japan. The story follows Koguma, a lone, gruff girl with
>no hobbies or interests. After an encounter with a Honda Super Cub 50,
>she begins to grow and her world expands beyond herself.
>
>--Watching Koguma learn how much bigger the world is is *amazing*.

I'm midway through the series now, and I love how she's developing into a low-key Hannibal Smith figure. (She loves it when a plan comes together.) She and Reiko are slowly but surely forming a tiny gang, and Koguma is absolutely the brains of the operation. The point where she became confident enough to boss Reiko around whenever she started to go off-mission was delightful.

Also, did you notice that they turn the color saturation up a bit every time Koguma levels up?

--G.
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14. "RE: Super Cub"
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>Also, did you notice that they turn the color saturation up a bit
>every time Koguma levels up?

You know, I don’t remember if I consciously did or not!


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15. "RE: Super Cub"
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   Awright, I gotta be straight with you: episode 11 is pretty weak. I mean, I get why they did it that way from a writing perspective. If Koguma had handled that situation in anything like the way that kind of thing should be handled, there would have been little point in including the incident in the narrative in the first place. But in order to get to the outcome they wanted, they had to take so much dramatic license that the whole thing really doesn't work.

I'm not as salty about it as a lot of the commenters on CR, because (it appears) unlike most of them I do understand what dramatic license is, but I have to concede that the writer(s) overstretched it.

--G.
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16. "RE: Super Cub"
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   Ahhhh. It's been a bit and I forgot that happened.

Well....Koguma has been shown to not handle things the same way as many would...buuut yeah. That was a bit much for the story as given to that point, I think.


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17. "RE: Super Cub"
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   LAST EDITED ON Dec-02-22 AT 03:44 PM (EST)
 
>Well....Koguma has been shown to not handle things the same way as
>many would...

True, though I feel like in that case, she shouldn't have acknowledged that she knew there was another way to handle it. She comes right out and says a couple of times that she's not calling the cops or EMS, which suggests she's deliberately acting out some kind of hero complex that really doesn't fit with the rest of what we know about her. If they wanted to convey that she was handling the situation differently because She's Not Like Other People, then I feel like the right way to play that would be for the alternative to just never occur to her (possibly until Reiko says "why didn't you call an ambulance, you maniac").

I mean, it didn't make me ragequit the series an episode and a half before the end like some people I could mention, but still...

>That was a bit much for the story as given to that point, I think.

... yeah. It's a false note.

--G.
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18. "RE: Super Cub"
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   All that said, the finale brought things back down to an appropriate level, and overall I think the series can be forgiven for the misstep. Koguma's sentiments are a bit corny (and it's slightly odd that at the end, in her internal monologue, she still says she has no friends or interests), but who doesn't love a road trip?

I now have a whole outline kicking around in my head for a Super Cub movie in the vein of the K-On! and Laid-Back Camp ones. It's three or four years later, and Reiko has decided to quit her job as Yamanashi's slackest traffic cop and attempt the Isle of Man TT with a Sports Cub set up as a café racer. Koguma (who has by now taken over old man Shino's bike shop) and Shii (Japan's only Italian biker bistro owner) naturally get dragged along to be her support crew, although in practice, as always, Koguma ends up being the mastermind who manages all of the logistics and makes sure Reiko doesn't get a) distracted by a shiny object or b) arrested. Hijinks ensue. Artful camera angles in the passport control scene at Isle of Man Airport ensure that we still don't know what Koguma's first name is.

--G.
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19. "RE: Super Cub"
In response to message #18
 
   Minor hiccup aside, I'm glad you enjoyed it! It felt like something that would tickle your fancy, with what I've seen you get into. I hope some of these others tick some boxes, too~


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Meagen
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Dec-10-22, 05:43 PM (EST)
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23. "RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition"
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   Slipping in two slice-of-life shows I quite enjoyed and that made me cry (mind you, a lot of things make me cry).

A Place Further Than The Universe

One of your "K-on but with X" type shows, and the X is equal to "traveling to Antarctica". Pretty grounded and depicts the challenges and dangers of Antarctic exploration in a realistic way, even if it avoids certain topics to remain appropriate for all ages.

My Roommate Is A Cat

Just a totally cute and relaxing anime about a reclusive writer who adopts a stray kitten. Half of each episode is from the kitten's point of view, and is written with obvious thought put into how a cat might think.

Why does the writer live entirely alone and avoids contact with people, even though he seems barely capable of taking care of himself? Don't worry about it. :) I'm sure it won't come up. :) Don't worry about how the kitten became a stray in the first place, either. :) It's all very cute and stuff. :)

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Kendra Kirai
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Dec-10-22, 07:05 PM (EST)
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24. "RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition"
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   Further than the universe is on my “To Watch” list, but I haven’t had the opportunity to yet for various reasons. I really wanna!


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Meagen
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Dec-11-22, 07:52 AM (EST)
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25. "RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition"
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   >Further than the universe is on my “To Watch” list, but I
>haven’t had the opportunity to yet for various reasons. I really
>wanna!

Highly recommended! It really benefits from being an anime original, and made entirely with actual direction and camera work in mind, instead of having to work in key manga panels/Light Novel illustrations.

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Kendra Kirai
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Dec-11-22, 08:48 AM (EST)
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26. "RE: Some anime recommendations, healing edition"
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   Alas, it's not entirely up to me, as I want to watch it with a friend, and schedules are lining up very poorly. :) It'll happen, but I know not when it will.


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