Looking for an anime with some fast and highly stylized combat scenes.

I just finished K, and both seasons had nice combat scenes, mostly weapon based. Hope this helps in some way. If not, hope you have a eodnerful day

 

Yaaay! Someone else that loved Unlimited Blade Works! It was great (now that kageshiro is gone there is no one left to contradict me :badgrin

Check out Kill La Kill and One Punch Man.

As far as Kill La Kill goes, it's a 24 episode anime, completely original and one of the most overtop things I've ever seen (that applies to both of these, actually). It's a satire of the Magical Girl sub-genre, and the whole thing revolves around lampooning tropes of nudity and sexualization in anime, so don't take everything you see at face value. The animation is top-notch, the action is very fluid, and since the theme of the series is clothing and fashion everything has sort of a "glamorous" motif. The story drags at some points, but overall the anime remains so entertaining the episodes will mostly fly by.

There is a caveat tho, since there are a handful of episode (around 4-6) in which the quality of the animation (as well as the plot, to a degree) take a nosedive for what I can only imagine were budgetary reasons. The most egregious case is one of the earlier episodes, in which the animation was so stiff and just bad that I decided to skip it altogether mid-way through. Nevertheless, those are the exception, and the rule is pretty slick animation, so push through the duds and thou shall be rewarded with eyecandy.

One Punch Man is a much easier sell, because, needless to say, the whole time I was just gaping and wondering aloud "how the fuck did they managed to produce a season in which all 12 episodes have movie-level of quality?!" It's insane how good the animation is here. I still can't make sense of how they got away with it, budget or time-wise (had they been secretly making this anime for years?).

The story is another satire (this time, lampooning tropes from shounens) and it's very thin, but I assure you this one broke through last year as the internet's darling almost solely due to the ridiculously good animation. Over the top doesn't even begin to describe how bombastic the action in this anime is. So, if good animation is what you are looking for, you can't go wrong with One Punch Man.

There. I'm done gushing lol.

 

I'm both happy that more people have watched them, and frustrated that I didn't get to introduce someone to them :lol:

Right now I'm watching Psycho Pass, I'll let you know how that turns out. Alternatively, have you seen Fate/Zero? It's not as good as Unlimited Blade Works in terms of animation, but the story is way better.

 

Way ahead of you there, sista. I've rewatched that scene countless times already A masterpiece of animation.