Sickest Shonen I Watched In 2024

Sovran Nila · Jan 1, 2025

In 2024, I watched the following shows:

1) Vinland Saga
2) Jujutsu Kaisen
3) Demon Slayer

All three were top tier shows and I would highly recommend every anime fan watch. Animation was stellar. Music was phenomenal. Overall awe was next level. I haven't been so excited about anime in a very long time.

If I weren't blinded by nostalgia with DBZ, I believe Jujutsu Kaisen would be my favorite anime of all time. Demon Slayer is a close second.

Warmmedown · Jan 1, 2025

VS S1 was very good, though I prefer a little more realism to the combat, which it lost occasionally. I stopped season 2, found it edgy. It's no longer my kind of thing, same for these shounen in general (though I didn't mind Chainsaw Man. Some great bands doing the ending songs made me excited to watch it). It was cool to see a real world, non-Japanese setting.

Kaisen I saw one episode. It's definitely popular.

My cousin had a bunch of Demon Slayer stuff at her 7th birthday. I watched an ep.

sei'taer · Jan 1, 2025

Demon slayer didn't reinvent the wheel or anything, but it's a short shonen and the series has amazing animation.

I love chainsaw man, and the series just gets better in later arcs.

JJK I enjoyed a lot until after the current anime arc. Kind of ended in a disappointing manner

Sovran Nila · Jan 3, 2025

I also watched Solo Leveling, however, the above mentioned shows were better, in my opinion. Chainsaw Man is on my queue.

Yoshi · Jan 4, 2025

Vinland Saga is the best mainstream Anime except for the 1997 Berserk Anime.

Jujutsu Kaisen is the best new Shonen series.

I hated Demon Slayer however.

Sovran Nila · Jan 11, 2025

Warmmedown said:
VS S1 was very good, though I prefer a little more realism to the combat, which it lost occasionally. I stopped season 2, found it edgy. It's no longer my kind of thing, same for these shounen in general (though I didn't mind Chainsaw Man. Some great bands doing the ending songs made me excited to watch it). It was cool to see a real world, non-Japanese setting.

Kaisen I saw one episode. It's definitely popular.

My cousin had a bunch of Demon Slayer stuff at her 7th birthday. I watched an ep.

Add Chainsaw Man to the list. Please recommend more anime shows like these.

sei'taer said:
Demon slayer didn't reinvent the wheel or anything, but it's a short shonen and the series has amazing animation.

I love chainsaw man, and the series just gets better in later arcs.

JJK I enjoyed a lot until after the current anime arc. Kind of ended in a disappointing manner

Do you have any recommendations as what other show to watch if I also liked Chainsaw Man?

Edit: I haven't watched Attack On Titan yet. It seems MAPPA and Hiroshi Seko were on the team, so this will become a must watch eventually.

Sovran Nila · Jan 11, 2025

I really like the intro song:

Sovran Nila · Jan 17, 2025

I started watching Mob Psycho 100. It's also hysterical.

The animation is lower tier, and reminds me a lot of how Home Movies looked.

Symbiote · Jan 28, 2025

I watched the first season of Mob. I need to watch the rest eventually.

sei'taer · Jan 28, 2025

Mob goes into ridiculous animation out of nowhere though.

Sovran Nila · Jan 28, 2025

I should be finishing season 3 on Friday. Then, we'll find out what the next show that I will watch is.

Symbiote · Jan 29, 2025

Sovran Nila said:
I should be finishing season 3 on Friday. Then, we'll find out what the next show that I will watch is.

If you're into sports anime then Haikyuu, Ace of Diamond & Kuroko's Basketball are all fun and should keep you busy for a while.

Sovran Nila · Jan 31, 2025

I finished season 3. While the animation wasn't top tier, the show was still enjoyable.

Warmmedown · Jan 31, 2025

The animation and colours were great during some of the action.

Reigen's special attacks are the best.

IMO one of the big themed of the show is humility. Obviously general kindness and community too, to put it simply. Probably the only non-movie anime I've rewatched in full, in 15 years of watching anime.

Sovran Nila · Jan 31, 2025

Warmmedown said:
The animation and colours were great during some of the action.

Reigen's special attacks are the best.

IMO one of the big themed of the show is humility. Obviously general kindness and community too, to put it simply. Probably the only non-movie anime I've rewatched in full, in 15 years of watching anime.

Are you my friend? Do you accept me for who I am?

Warmmedown · Feb 4, 2025

Dandadan https://dbzeta.net/threads/what-have-you-been-watching-in-the-past-7-days.13520/page-16#post-543411

Add it to your list. If you thought Chainsaw Man was crazy, it has nothing on Dandadan in that regard.
@Kyo you gonna watch dandadan--dandadan--dandadan--dandadan-dandadan

Kyo · Feb 4, 2025

Warmmedown said:
Add it to your list. If you thought Chainsaw Man was crazy, it has nothing on Dandadan in that regard.
@Kyo you gonna watch dandadan--dandadan--dandadan--dandadan-dandadan

I started reading it a while back but then stopped. It's pretty cool.

Symbiote · Feb 4, 2025

Warmmedown said:
Dandadan https://dbzeta.net/threads/what-have-you-been-watching-in-the-past-7-days.13520/page-16#post-543411

Add it to your list. If you thought Chainsaw Man was crazy, it has nothing on Dandadan in that regard.
@Kyo you gonna watch dandadan--dandadan--dandadan--dandadan-dandadan

Watched this a few weeks ago and it's pretty cool.

Sovran Nila · Feb 14, 2025

I've started watching Dorohedoro, and since it's only one season, I should be finishing it next Friday.

SSJ2 · Feb 15, 2025

Nice. I'll probably rewatch it before season 2.

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