#also I wanted TRC syaoran in 'adventure'

[landofanimes]

CLAMP EXHIBITION

Key visuals showcase different works and the 5 themes of the 2024 exhibition:

C for COLOR. CLAMP colors the world.

L for LOVE. CLAMP draws the forms of love.

A for ADVENTURE. CLAMP weaves the stories of adventure.

M for MAGIC. CLAMP casts its magic.

P for Phrase. CLAMP spins the phrases.

2nd set: [x]

[icharchivist]

What other anime would you recommend aside from HunterxHunter?

Heyyy!!

Ooooh my. I’m not really an anime person and mostly a manga person tbh, and my favorite manga had been badly adapted at times :/ But i’ll still make a quick rec:

-One of my fav manga ever is D. Gray Man. It’s been an important part of my life for years and I love to follow it so much. It’s really important to me.

It’s a story that is really hard to sum up because its strengths are on how the story twists itself and you really can’t take the begining of the story for granted - but as a result it’s impossible to mention why this story is sooo interesting without spoiling it. Let’s say it’s a story of a holy war with things going... extremely wrong. It’s a story talking a lot about identity and abuse, about war, and a lot of others things. 

Sadly I wouldn’t recommand either of the anime adaptation per se :/ The 2006 anime covers up to vol 16 I think, it has about 108 episodes, but it has so much fillers.............. And often stuff that are ooc.

 Also I really don’t think they managed the pacing all that well, not only on the story (the events are supposed to happen really closely in the manga, and the anime kinda screw over the timeline to squeeze fillers) but also sometimes the pacing of the jokes or dramatic moments. But that might be only me :/ Otherwise the voice acting and the music is A+. I’m not too found of the art though but that’s because the manga’s art gets stunning.

The second anime, Hallow, is more of a new season, covering from the end of volume 17 too volume 22 I think??? And it has like 12 episodes to do so. Also there’s a full volume that wasn’t adapted. Hallow was... not so good tbh, it was really rushed, which kills me bc one of my fav arc happens in that time. 

I suppose the 2006 anime is still watchable, but i really can’t recommand Hallow. So if you can and want to try, try to read the manga!

-One of my other all time favorite is Fullmetal Alchemist.I’ve followed it for years and it was one of my first manga so i’m super involved in it.

The pitch of the two series is, two brothers looking for a Philosopher stone for.... reasons I don’t want to reveal if you’re interested in looking it up for yourself ;O It’s really a story about siblings, about war, about human tragedy ect...

Again, I prefer the manga, but for different reasons. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood adapts the manga rather faithfully but it rushes a little in the begining and deleted some scenes i loved, and especially a whole volume of backstory, which I found odd. But the anime stands well on its own.

The 2003 version of Fullmetal Alchemist happened when the manga wasnt finished yet (only 7 volumes were out), so instead it’s an original story, which only have the begining in common with the manga/brotherhood, even if it takes it to a lot of different directions. I personally like the 2003 version of the anime, even if it has nothing to do with the manga. The author of the manga actually wrote the alternative storyline, so this is how to watch it, thinking it’s an alternative storyline. It’s good enough, but i’d still recommand you to either read the manga and/or watch Brotherhood while you can.

Okay, next ones should be quicker:

-Lately I end up really liking Boku No Hero Academia, even though I didn’t finish it just yet *sweats*. It has great characters and story!  The story is simple enough, a school for superhero, and our main character wants to join it even though he has no powers allowing him in. I didn’t read the manga yet and just watched part of the anime so i’m unbiased kdjhfkjdf so I can recommand it as an anime!

-Death Note is probably one of the Classics I would always kinda recommand.The story of a guy finding a Death Note: if you write the name of someone in the Death Note, they die. And the guy finding the Death Note will take his own uses for it. Again I personally prefer the manga, especially because there’s a lot of talks and I needed it to pause and read, but I’ve watched the begining of the anime recently and it really holds up and follows the storyline pretty well. I think the only difference is the epilogue? But ye, Death Note is a good anime too.

-Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki Kun, this time i completely mean the anime since i didn’t read the manga, and it’s one of my favorite cheer up stories. It’s a short shoujo where the characters are truly likeable and fun, it’s honestly such a feel-good anime, I would definitly recommand it! It’s... really a slice of life anime about a Shoujo mangaka’s inspirations and it’s really fun.

-Ouran High School Host Club is always a classic but i admit i didn’t watch the anime, just read the manga. I know the anime stops around vol 10 I think and that the manga has about 18 vols so it could feel uncomplete :/  But otherwise I think the anime is kinda faithful for all i know? It’s a shoujo, and it’s ridiculously good, it’s fun. Although i don’t even know how to summarize it..

-Bakuman is really an interesting manga, idk about the anime. It’s by the authors of Death Note and it explores the world of Mangaka and how it works for mangaka to work. It’s honestly super interesting and informative! I kinda dropped it at some point because lack of time, I should catch up one day, but ye, it really has an interesting narrative and dynamic all while learning a lot about the manga industry.

-Haikyuu!! is probably my favorite sport anime out there. It’s fun and enjoyable and the cast is really likable. It’s about volleyball, which honestly I didn’t care about before watching the show. But I think the anime is great. I kinda dropped it after season 2 and I read the manga only to drop it at some point bc i was lazy, but I remember really loving it. For once though, I think the anime is really faithful to the manga, and the dynamic of the sport are more enjoyable to watch in an anime!

-Card Captor Sakura is one of my all time favorite anime. It’s a Magical Girl Anime by CLAMP, I’ve read the manga and watched the anime and I like both a lot, I have a soft spot for the anime because I watched it as a kid. It’s fun and sweet and it has wonderful characters and storyline, I definitly recommand!Also it’s really a simple story. I mention it because......

-CLAMP has its own universe of manga, and two of my favorite of them are Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle and xxxHolic. I hadn’t watched the anime of those and I’m a little puzzled because I think TRC is mostly made of OAV and xxxHolic has a movie??  anyway - Both series are amazing and interesting to read at least, and I would recommand you to read them both if you feel like it because.... slight issue...... The two series are inter-connected. 

At first it’s not too bothering, it’s mostly the TRC characters who contacts the xxxHolic characters from a different dimension, and so if you read both manga at once you can kinda see the POVs of the different characters, but I think around vol 22 of TRC and vol 17 of xxxHolic, if you hadn’t read the other serie as well, you’re completely lost about what is happening.

I read TRC up to vol 22 when I was 14 I think and I was completely lost, so I dropped it. A few years later I started xxxHolic which i loved, but around vol 17  when it merges with TRC, I forgot everything that was happening in TRC so I dropped xxxHolic. 

One day I should try to go back to it because both stories were super interesting (TRC is an adventure of people going through different alternative universe, which happens to be for some of them, different works of Clamp or with double of people you meet in the Clamp story. Hell the two main characters, Sakura and Syaoran, are both the versions in an alternative universe of the two mains of CCS. xxxHolic is a story of the Witch of Dimension, who among other things, help the TRC group to travel between dimension, but she especially takes care of Ghosts stories and folklore in her shop, which is suuper interesting.)

You don’t have to know the rest of CLAMP works to follow those two series (although if you do, it becomes really fun to see the alternative versions of some of the characters), but TRC and xxxHolic are better to read together, which makes it impossible for me to recommand it properly.

Those are all kinda the manga/anime that I got really invested in in the course of the years, or that I remember enough to recommand it. There’s maybe a few others series I remember liking (like Yugioh Duel Monsters, but i hadn’t watched it ever since i’ve been a kid) but otherwise, this seems like a good summary of the stuff i really liked.

Hope you find something to enjoy in there!

Take care!