And I don't mean "It's slow in the beginning but it picks up" I mean "I'm so sorry this needs like a TW heads up immediately but i swear it's good"

anyway brought to you by Dandadan cuz gawd I loved this anime but jfc lmao

every abyss fan piling in this plurk--

-oh not quite that
i was going to say hatoful boyfriend is genuinely one of the best visual novels i've ever played and made me cry at multiple points

but that's less a tw situation and more a pigeon dating sim situation

IT'S NOT EVEN THAT BAD COMPARED TO OTHER SHIT I WATCH but with it being more main stream i'm like 'uh oh'

wheel of time. asoiaf.

Misheard: no Pigeon game absolutely counts

that def counts as Here Me Out lmao

Hear*

psycho pass

places head in hands over Jojos

ESPECIALLY if its the manga ngl

wholeass fuckin sexual assault in ep 1

ar tonelico

acts of caine

like there are def things the anime did worse

but early jjba manga is dated as hell in a Bad Bad Way

Brutal Legend. Genuinely a good game, but, the fact its heavy metal real time strategy game that is EXTREMELY 2009 era. Not really TW heavy, unless you're freaked out by body horror BDSM demons.

i can't say i love made in abyss but it applies

umineko

jojo also. i did manage to forget stroheim exists for a few blissful months

apothecary diaries too i guess lol

not to mention Every Other TW for JJBA...

and JFHFHFJFJFJ OH NO RE: STROHEIM...

acts of caine has every tw under the sun but god are the character voices good

ar tonelico is genuinely so moving and beautiful and let me tell you all about its rich and intense lore and OH MY GOD I TRIPPED AND ALL MY PICTURES OF ANIME GIRLS IN SKIMPY OUTFITS FELL OUT I PROMISE THEY'RE REALLY SYMBOLIC AND SIGNIFICANT OH NO

rainpuddles: I have not heard of anything for AD what happens in there. I thought it was about maomao makes poison for her himbo lord or something

also project moon because recommending something where you have to say "AND ALSO, THE ALLEGATIONS WERE LATER PROVEN TO BE FALSE" is just always not a good feeling

it's set in ancient fantasy china, maomao was raised in a brothel and lives in the rear palace surrounded by all the emperor's consorts

so misogyny and sexism are just normalized in the setting

Misheard: UsagiSquared: when ur fave is Joseph Joestar but his series is just so [stroheim exists],

like it’s offscreen and the rapist dies and it is an important moment for the worldbuild bc you are supposed to go “this is fucked up” the way the protag does but

Death Parade needs TWs for sure but it's very good. I'm not sure it totally counts because it's not something I think of as "hear me out" and more just...... it needs TWs, it gets heavy

I don't have a single canon I like that doesn't need multiple

woof

Less necessarily very good (though some are), more "I have nostalgia bcs I grew up watching them and sometimes wanna share them with people" but old soviet cartoons. which are also less TW exactly and more....... Old Cartoons In General are full of aged-badly landmines

I'm trash

project moon like 'they did definitely fire that poor artist because of incels though.'

and it's actually a very feminist canon bc it's full of commentary on all that shit, but at the end of the day the setting is what it is

Though GANTZ and air gear probably win on the HEAR ME OUT scale. Though actually it's more DON'T LISTEN TO ME

I definitely have at least one other example that probably fits better but I am completely blanking on it, wheeze

we will all judge the previous emperor for being a pedophile while still letting the current emperor have a consort who is a child, but look he's good and he ain't touching her

goodluckmodes: series were SA makes sense but it's still like [SWEATS DON'T LIKE THIS]

goodluckmodes: Good. thats why you're the most powerful of us all.

...also fgo. you should not spend money on it and gacha is a scam, but also.

these are fascinating but I think Made in Abyss and Jojos take the cake right now

franken fran, parasyte

everyone beat me to jojos

the thing is i would never recommend this canon to anyone

because of the CWs

good ol body horrors

but when I was playing from The Moon Is Beautiful Tonight, But First, Die

also fate/zero

if anyone wanted to know about it i had to be like

'the first like... 2/3 of this canon is a dude fantasizing about murdering his crush in increasingly gory and sometimes sexualized ways. there is just no way around this'

also 1000% fear and hunger lmfjdjshdb

lmao I assume the powerful comment was mis-pinged lol

alkdkajsf look i'm tired but yes

YourOverlord is the most powerful

god fate/zero. that’s one that i like …. idk if enjoyed is the word, I don’t regret watching it but I couldn’t in good conscience recommend it to anyone else

right now dandadan

brightwinged: okay fear and hunger is just a weird eldritch thing in of itself

kaiba comes w some wild tws for episode 1 right outta the gate but it melted my brain

as u well know and understand

i'm not like Deep into it these days like i was before, but raildex was that series for me. cool premise cool concepts neat ideas... alongside nonstop anime booby and endless fanservice, even with characters who are minors, weep.

fear and hunger is just a unique beast covered in dongs

wheeze

made in abyss im sorry im one of them

goodluckmodes: one simply suffers through the rest if one wants to watch the waver and rider + iri and saber sections

oh i guess i will aslo say dangan ronpa. It's just. So.

I love it but I can't blame anyone for judging me. It's deserved.

i can't even say "but it's good i swear" all you can get out of me is "i still enjoyed it" and it's aquarion\

also as the gods will. i. i dont know if its GOOD. i love it a lot because its SO insane. but. its. every tw.

i think i watched the live action of that not knowing it was a manga and was just like

OH I thought of another one
Otoyomegatari/A Bride's Story
Gorgeous manga, author clearly put a lot of effort into historical research, characters are a delight
But also. The main characters it opens on are the 20 year old woman and 12 year old boy that are getting married

rileyboi: YEA SO U BRIEFLY UNDERSTAND A LITTLE. i read the whole thing. i. yep.

stocke: HOOBOY LMAO dont u just. don't u just love that

We've all been in the anime and manga mines So Long

nephew: Okay what do you reccommend.

me:

me: nothing i don't watch much,

[i must protect him]

so... many

BoJack obviously

OH. YEAH. okay yea Bojack goes up there with Jojos

IT'S HONESTLY NOT AS BAD AS IT SOUNDS bcs it's very much. This is a historical manga discussing historical standards and it's not particularly explicit. It's not here For that, it's here to explore women's lives in various cultures of the time
But like. It's definitely a thing u gotta warn for...............

acutally i'd put it higher cuz it's so damn good

it's SO GOOD

Yeah like, I WANT EVERYONE TO WATCH IT

But also....

BoJack

but I can't willfully hope people watch it they will get depression

The ones I think of are like, not for CW reasons, just because they're bad

fortheloveofgodmontresso...: Gotham.

See

Which XL and I were just talking about this week

wheeze

It's bad

But in the BEST way

Slightly lower on my list: Go with the Clouds, North by Northwest
Plot is okay, there's some interesting stuff going on. Art is absolutely beautiful, PLEASE look at the art in this manga.

Please ignore the extremely generic "boy who doesn't know how girls work" manga romance and fanservice
(Which are honestly really not that bad either, I've seen SO much worse, it's just that usually that kind of stuff makes me instantly lose patience these days)
(so even the hint of it is a thing I have to "hear me out" about)

Yes

Jada Pinkett Smith pretends to be Eartha Kitt and eventually gets fish DNA like come on you just gotta roll with that

weirdly I see dandadan and I'm just like, oh this is tame, compared to so many other things these days

and also some Regency/Georgian period romcom books about the idle rich where it's like this book is good but they are cousins

but for real how do u just. draw that??? nonsense

for a long time it was Negima because like, yeah... it starts out and looks like it's a middle school harem, but I swear it's a magic shounen... mostly. I don't have this enthusiasm much anymore now that I'm even older but. for a time

pbdigital I feel like we had a whole conversation about the Ranma 1/2 reboot and this, that you just gotta accept that it's a goofy sex comedy and not discourse about it

stares at seven deadly sins

oh right, I totally blanked on Ranma because it's just Ranma

OH, the anime, and even moreso the manga, Golden Boy

many people would know it better as 'that anime where the dude can't swim and is animated hella goofy'

like it's not at the level as many of these are at but I gotta always warn people, look the protag grabs her boobs a lot, i swear it's good aside from that

and bride's story:

pbdigital: ari and I had a friend when we were kids who saw the manga (raw japanese) at mitsuwa and picked it up because she thought the guy was hot

ahhahahahah

her staring at it later: this was not what i expected

Otoyomegatari is so fuckin good

fortheloveofgodmontresso...: handshakes

I haven't played the remake, but Tsukihime falls into this too

just murder and sex and monsters and horror

and that's just events, not even the plot

Shut Hell

IT'S VERY GOOD BUT UH THE CWS

CLAMP in general probably falls under this most times

Not that I LOVE Chainsaw Man, but Chainsaw man

Dandadan isn't even that bad but yeah the fact it's in the realm of mainstream anime is like oooops

OH BRUTAL IS ALSO ... uh. actually brutal LMAO

made in abyss but also 100 girlfriends

oh

kill la kill, also

Centaur World,

No but uhhhh

Kojima Everything

cavalier of the abyss lol

sword art online. also...

CENTAURWORLD AS WELL FOR ME

not exactly for heavy cw reasons but I feel like Adventure Time should qualify anyway.

I also can't say Citrus is necessarily THAT GOOD but I have, at this point, become a high level Citrus apologist just bc I'm really sad about the way the early cliche stuff gets bashed on so bad that ppl don't actually read further to the parts of the series that are really heartfelt and personal and raw

like it ran for so many years and the creator clearly dramatically improved as a writer and refined what she actually wanted to do with the story over time

somarysueme: oh right. MGSV specifically... so many CWs needed for that one

sacae: conversely i would never warn shit or fuck for adventure time because i want that sweet sweet "hey what the fuck" reaction from people who Don't Know

I don't want to warn for specifics but it is very much a "trust me bro it's worth it to keep going" kind of situation for at least a couple seasons.

oh for something that does fit the plurk brief to a T. House in Fata Morgana. except I also don't want to tell anyone shit about fuck going in if I can help it

I try to work around this by asking people what kind of content they would like to have warnings for beforehand if I rec it to them.

or just say "please assume it has all cws"

HxH.....

Utena. Because even when I warned for incest, the people I showed it to were like "this is okay" in season one and then season two they were going "technically you warned me but I still feel like this is So Much More"

fata morgana yeah, in terms of like

Just Brace Yourself, I Truly Cannot Explain Shit

Kill la Kill

it's so good and you have to get through the uncomfortable part to get to the good stuff. but the good stuff is so good

Angels of Death is a good one, due to it having a cast full of serial killers with problems they really need to work out.

sacae: “really sad about the way the early cliche stuff gets bashed on so bad that ppl don't actually read further to the parts of the series that are really heartfelt and personal and raw” man this is how I feel about rwby

which also counts for this plurk in terms of “sigh there’s an awkwardly done fantasy racism arc and it sucks but it’s self contained” as my okay hear me out lmao

I don't really think of Mother Horse Eyes as a "canon" per se, it is what it is but . . . look it's incredibly powerful writing in its own twisted way but not only do you have to get over the format of what it is you also have to [UNROLLS GIGANTIC SCROLL OF CW]

it's very very hard to explain "no but the ending made me cry legit"

it's not even like "you have to get past all this xxxtreme edgelord shit to get to the good part" that shit IS THE WHOLE THING

it just also has purpose okay,

[stares at this plurk from the perspective of being the cinematic equivalent of an extremophile] [puts my face in my hands]

"hey tara tell me your favorite movies" oh sure that's easy. "oh cool, i'm gonna use this a recs list" GET BACK HERE I NEED YOU TO STOP IMMEDIATELY UNTIL I CAN HAND YOU AN ITEMIZED LIST OF ALL THE CONTENT WARNINGS YOU NEED BEFORE YOU TOUCH ANY OF THIS

I feel like if I like it, it's automatically a hear me out canon. Either for absurd medium reasons or it's just not good or there are so many content warnings.

Sometimes all three.

Ensemble Stars, want to have an extremely difficult time finding translations scattered across the internet of a story told in a non-linear fashion with an ensemble cast of forty. Yeah its a same-face idol series. There's almost no action tags it's mostly dialogue and monologues. I don't feel like it really needs cw at least?

Like stuff happens but it's discussion of rather than graphic on screen happens. Yes mob violence occurs and madara and kohaku kill a man on stage but all we hear is their dialogue as they tell the dude what will happen to him sort of thing.

But then I also have like A Cruel God Reigns and it's like this is really good but due to content I will rec it to no one. The Happy Sugar Life anime goes here too.

skip beat

OH WAIT NO "The Witch's Servant And The Demon Lords Horns"
I love this manga with all of my heart, but I can never rec it to a person because there are just too many Mineta-level jokes and bullshit in the first volume. But it's also some of the most loving and interesting trans portrayal I've ever seen! But Mineta-level humor uuugh.

drakengard but the hear me out is immensely easier in the modern day than when I used to be mentioning I liked it, not due to anything changing abt drakengard but due to yoko taro's popularity boom

pathologic but again, the hear me out got easy with news exposure

Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, because for all the [grand gesticulating] it can be, I do really love the slice of life aspects

oh god yeah dragon maid

gaisce: i had the opposite with my wife. "the first season seems like goofy 90s anime but just stick with it to the second season"

I've been reading some Agatha Christie and they're good murder mysteries but you definitely have to warn for "written by an English white woman from a wealthy family in the early 20th century", especially the earlier books

also: dragon ball. if you just know dbz as the adventures of adult goku on toonami then experiencing the early stuff needs a bit of warning

I feel like FFXIV has to go here... like ARR is rough, Heavensward is rough, and each expansion is visibly improving but it's not until Stormblood that I feel like it sort of...gets over the early growing pains part. and the earlier fights/dungeons were so much weird and confusing in design (though this has been ameliorated by the reworks)

also the earlier parts are just. uglier. not as aesthetically pleasing. u gotta stick with it to get to the stuff that really starts to look amazing and makes your character look cool.

I guess this isn't quite content warnings in terms of story content but in terms of the gameplay content

also +1 to Hatoful Boyfriend tho... pigeon dating my beloved...

and... Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights by Mitsuse Ryu (translated by Alexander O. Smith). it's a novel that I love a lot, but it's hard to describe it properly because "there's a scene where robot Buddha fights Jesus with a laser gun" is a factual statement

but that makes it sound a lot wackier than it really is, and as a novel the ending is really like...very existential and depressing... it's a very melancholic experience to read, but it's really beautiful and moving and strange, and it has a special place in my heart.

it's very unfortunate that Onani Master Kurosawa gets so good because the title alone is a hear me out

stares at symphogear
sighs deeply

this isn't even a "hear me out" so much as a "if you can't deal with the T&A that's totally fair"

I recommend dungeon Meshi and mob psycho 100 to some favorite clients with no asterisks, and next appointment the husband said they loved them so much and they wanted to check out Hunter x Hunter next because I said it was one of my favorites and I think I made the Excalibur face

listen, it's probable that you'll start liking the pedophile. sorry

get ready for ants

capybarasona: i just wholesale forgot about hisoka

i remembered the other stuff (like ants)

but now im like “oh yeah”

yeah it's hisoka. hisoka is the problem

hisoka is frankly the whole reason i haven't touched hxh

would I enjoy it, probably. but I simply do not desire to experience That Fucking Clown

he is simply not of the lord

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