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NIghthawkPL
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Hello fellow anime lovers!
I wanted to ask you a question. Recently I became kinda bored with the slice-of-life genre, the protagonist living his life without a purpose until he finds it and... that's pretty much it, not exactly thrilling after the first 20 or so. Had a thought though, is there any anime/manga that mixes it up with a disaster genre? I'm not talking about finding love in the wake of a disaster, rebuilding love AFTER a disaster. No. Is there an anime where people live without a purpose because there is none? Because soon, there will be a disaster that will eradicate everyone and there is nothing that can be done to stop it. There's tons of anime/films/manga where people find the strength to live because whatever bad happened, there is still hope for rebirth, but how about the opposite? That despite having no hope for any future, the protagonist still manages to find a purpose, love and happiness in life until his/her inevitable end? |
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Gatherum
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Air is really the only one that comes to mind. Inevitability written all over it.
Lock in 3...2...1... |
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Key
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No, I'll let this one go, because I think it's a pretty unique question as recommendation requests go. And, frankly, I'm interested to see what suggestions get thrown out.
I can't think of anything which strictly fits this definition, but I don't want to absolutely say that there isn't anything out there like that. I'm thinking that there might have been an '80s or early '90s OVA that was close. |
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lesterf1020
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Isn't this pretty much the plot of "Humanity has declined"? I also think there is a large dose of this in "Sunday Without God".
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Saffire
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Does it have to be slice-of-life? SaiKano fits almost perfectly aside from not really being slice-of-life.
Sora no Woto (Sound of the Sky) kinda fits, I think. It's a dying world setting juxtaposed against chipper moe girls. I liked it a lot. There's no obvious impending end, but it's basically people hoping that things will eventually be okay against a world that appears to be saying "nope". Kino's Journey is also close but not quite right since the main character witnesses the destruction of nations but isn't personally affected by it, so she doesn't have to look for new meaning or anything. The people she comes into contact with, however...It's a fascinating series and kinda hard to describe, maybe give that a look. |
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Key
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Yeah, Sound of the Sky is probably one of the closest fits you'll find. I wouldn't, even by a stretch, call Sunday Without God or Saikano slice-of-life series.
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Tuor_of_Gondolin
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Well, since Key is being rather merciful today...
I'd recommend Noein. It combines slice-of-life stuff and... well, not strictly disaster, but something kind of close to it. I think it's a fairly unvalued gem, but that's my opinion. |
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FenixFiesta
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Tokyo 8.0 comes to mind as the cast is mainly focused on a pair of siblings on a day trip and are caught up in the titled disaster as they make there way home of a disaster struck city.
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Spastic Minnow
 Bargain HunterExempt from Grammar Rules  Posts: 4609 Location: Gainesville, FL |
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We should all beg Lars Van Trier to make an anime out of Melancholia
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Raftina
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Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou: Some kind of unspecified disaster--possibly melting of the polar caps--destroyed much of modern society. It is described as the twilight of humankind, with the remaining humans content to live out their days in quiet decline. The protagonist is a robot of the immortal persuasion who witnesses the passage of time around her while running a cafe.
In a sense, the setting is an informed attribute, because there is no despair or sense of hopelessness--merely complacency. But the setting does make for some excellent scenery of submerged metropolises and ruins. No impending disaster, unfortunately, merely the aftermath and the slow decline and decay that follows. |
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Clodus
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Out of the 800+ titles I've seen and assuming Disaster is a metaphor and not literal then a few titles come to mind. Particularly School Days because of the ending. Another would Higurashi in which is done purposely because of the way each arc is set up and is meant to be seen along with the second season for it to make any sense.
In both titles, its an ordinary slice of life where they spend each day worrying about mundane things then all of a suddenspoiler[Everybody or the main character dies a gruesome death for seemingly pointless reasons. In Higurashi, theres an arc where thousands are residents are killed along with the entire cast. (Higurashi)] |
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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If there's enough suggestions maybe turn the thread into an official recommendation thread? Spruce up the title a tad perhaps. |
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Night fox
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He is clearly talking about an actual impending apocalyptic disaster. I thought of A Lull in the Sea at first, but it doesn't really qualify as apocalyptic... Last edited by Night fox on Fri Jul 17, 2015 4:38 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Animegomaniac
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I saw that movie and that's all I'll say about that. But everyday life contrasted against an impending or post apocalypse? It's common enough as an episode breather or even several episode sequence, it comes up in shows diverse as Evangelion to The Melody of Oblivion but used for an entire "slice of life" series, it would either focus on the cast's powerless to prevent or eventual acceptance of their fate/situation; The show would either have an entirely, well, melancholic tone or one of ironic amusement. Wolf's Rain is the most obvious melancholic example as the best the cast can hope for is spoiler[to die and be reborn in another world which may happen or not; I always thought that last bit looked like it was a world in the past which doesn't change much of anything.] Ha, take that hope. Humanity Has Declined went the comedic route... and a reverse episode order taking the entire show away from the inevitable ending. Not surprisingly, Japan doesn't find end of the world scenarios as funny as the western world does. As for the serious ones, they can get a little too serious at times and I'm not much of a fan of those shows. |
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DuskyPredator
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Living on while the world has fallen apart, I am sure that there are some.
Shangri-la, anyone remember if that would fit? I mostly remember feeling disappointed that there was not more tank destroying boomerange scenes. I remember Sound of the SKy (Sora no Woto) was pretty much about girls posted to a military branch after some devastating war. And I think that there is totally one this season, although only one episode so far. |
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