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No. 289831
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Enjoying Magical Destroyers. Surrealist and dumb and knows it. Reminds me a lot of FLCL.
No. 289843
>>289831i wish the mc was a frumpy girl kek
the show itself seems a little too male-pandering for my tastes, but i could sit through it if it was yuri…
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anyone watching older shit? i binged di gi charat on yt a while back – it's dumb as hell, but funny. i like how lazy and irreverent dejiko is.
picrel exists too, a (joke) gay couple and their evil adopted daughter.
>>289946oh that's true. it's been a while since i last watched nanoha, i forgot about the panty shots.
i think sailor moon had those too, though?anyway madoka and blood+ are still good. there's also princess tutu, lwa, claymore, etc.
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Thinking about the other nona that was going to watch FMA 03 because of our discussions! I caught up on the past thread. I hope you're out there and enjoying them! I'd say that 03 starts out kinda goofy and gets way more serious as it goes on. The other nonny that described 03 as gothic horror made an interesting point… I never thought of it that way, but maybe that's why I enjoy it more? kek.
No. 290618
>>289962finished the madoka anime recently, found it excessively overhyped and personally it really carried a vibe like the grown men who made it were jerking off to their suffering under the guise of art
hated how part of the ending (visually) were two little girls naked in space for a long period of time, even if there was no detail (like a barbie doll) it was just uncomfortable
No. 291537
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For anime watchers and non-manga readers what anime you wish to be rebooted, have a second season or continue as an ongoing anime series? For me it's picrel after rewatching it on Netflix. It's probably nostalgia but I love this show and wished for more shoujo being relevant and appreciated especially when it's a reverse harem with loveable and charming characters. I've been seeing other well-known shoujo anime being brought back like Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, Fruits Basket and recently with Tokyo Mew Mew so I hope this one gets it too. Though at the same time I worried if it wasn't made well since the anime industry doesn't really care much about shoujo or anime targeted at women.
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>>291537I kinda want more of this but at the same time not so much since it becomes less interesting with the unnecessary yuribait. I just want more anime with plain-looking loser girls who are relatable.
No. 291929
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I started watching this trash because one of my favourite artists was the lead animation director. I hate that i ended up liking it so much, the animation is so good and it has my ''dream artstyle''. I expected it to have more fanservice, but it's surprisingly tame. I wish ryo Imamura works in better stuff next time, i really dont wanna watch the shitty isekai he worked on, i draw the line at generic shitty fantasy.
No. 292005
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>>291929Fooling nobody troon.
(stop accusing people of being the troon just because they don't have the same taste as you) No. 292035
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>>292025>it's more moe than anythingwhat a coincidence, moe and lolicon actually have the same origin. pic related. and on top of being pedo shit, this anime is also tranny shit lol
No. 292048
>>292025i'm a longtime weeb too. i generally don't care about loli when it's basically a tiny woman with curves but this was straight up child bodies with goofy anime faces.
bit disturbing how well-animated it was, judging off of webms i saw. makes you wonder who exactly who is funding this content…
No. 292054
>>292033its anime, it's removed from reality by default. They are big eyed, rainbow colored cartoons. Seems stupid to make a difference between hdxd and this. I am probably biased because i am an artist and i know you dont need to look at x to draw x and the style of the show looks very similar to mine, a lot of detail in cartoony anime bodies, and i draw guys.
>>292048i agree its probably someone's passion project, it's rare for a moeshit anime to have such a big budget. The production quality is insane for an anime i forget 5 seconds after i am done watching it.
No. 292434
>>292065I almost always stream it.
The only times I download anime is when I really really want to watch my country's dub version. We don't have whole sites for anime streams and official international services never have the classic dubs I actually want to watch, so the only way is to dig around for someone with mega links.
No. 292441
>>292065If I'm short on storage I just stream it. I usually torrent and keep my favorite shows and delete any other show that I've finished so I can have space for new stuff.
>>292054NTA but good professional animators actually
do have to look at real life references to be able to draw and animate something. That, or incredibly realistic 3D models that are based on real life. It's something you do at some point if you want to improve your art. Also where do you think the artists you reference got
their references from?
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I was thinking about watching Parasyte for so long but always getting to the conclusion I wouldn't like it and watching something else instead, but holy shit I finally watched it and it's great, I didn't expect it to be this good and hit so many notes close to me and touch on some themes related to human nature that interested me for a long time. And episode 18 made me bawling my eyes out. Maybe I'm too autistic to understand and explain why exactly it evoked such strong emotions in me, but I could feel it. And - spoiler alert I guess - the fact that I also lost my mother young didn't help. Every scene related to Shinichi's ptsd felt like it was inducing panic attack in me, I could feel growing pain in my chest and my breathing shortening. Just a very quick physical reaction to it, like it evoked some of my own trauma from the past. Usually I never get that kind of physical reaction to tv shows and movies, even when they also have a dying parent, and horrors and similar shit don't scare me at all. But this, this shit scares me. Just a warning, if you have any guilt and parental death related trauma and you're a pussy like me I guess
No. 293820
>>293819oh nevermind
this
>>291929 was the anime I was coming here to complain about lol
No. 293859
>>293848yeah that's what I was looking for but it looked inactive when I checked it.
Is ranting about specific anime okay in this thread?
No. 294232
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>Gynecologist Gorou Amemiya is tasked with helping deliver the children of Ai Hoshino, a Japanese idol whom he admires, without the knowledge of the general public. However, the night of Ai's delivery, Gorou is murdered by an obsessive fan of Ai's, and is reincarnated as Aquamarine "Aqua" Hoshino, Ai's son, retaining his memories of his previous life. Aqua's fraternal twin, Ruby Hoshino, is also a reincarnation, though she refuses to admit her original identity as one of Gorou's patients who got him interested in Ai in the first place. Four years later, Ai is murdered by the same obsessive fan, who later commits suicide. However, Aqua pieces together that the fan must have had his and Ruby's father as an accomplice and thus resolves to enter the acting world to find and kill his father.
This seems weird and all over the place but I am kind of drawn to this batshit plot. Has anyone watched it?
No. 294461
>>294460I like it. And I’m one of the people who loved the really stupid movie they made later where Anthy
turns into a car. Inject that shit into my veins, yesss.
No. 294557
>>294460i'm watching Utena for the first time and I don't know if it's because I'm getting close to my period or not, but so many moments make me tear up, especially the lesbian moments, and the themes of protecting who you are and your
normal even if it's completely not normal for society, I wish I could see it as a 12 year old, maybe I wouldn't identify as an aiden kek. I never wanted to marry, have children and be feminine, but that doesn't mean I'm a boy. I want a cool gf so bad…
No. 294608
>>294605I used to like FLCL but I couldn’t make it through a rewatch ten years later.
Random but what do you think of Shin Sekai Yori?
No. 294679
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Not a huge Shinkai Makoto fan but I enjoyed Suzume a lot. My friend recommended I go in blindly and I'm glad I did. I love the cat so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please watch it if you love cats and beautiful animation.
No. 294803
>>294232The concept of this is so fucking creepy to me like why is it necessary for the gynecologist (ofc it had to be a man) to turn into her child.
fucking hate anime sometimes
No. 295028
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almost done with kare kano; i'm going to miss this show. it's rare to see female relationships that are this funny without being doused by love triangles and petty stereotypical "female" drama. which is a bit ironic considering it's a…romcom.
i really need to pick through the shows nonnies recommend to me last thread. anyway>>294812off the top of my head:
>shinsekai yorihorror; follows a small group of friends as they grow up in a post-apocalyptic world where everyone is psychic. huge warning that it kind of tanks around the second half because the female mc goes from "active badass" to "wimpering girlie", she's still cool but it's like she mellowed out in adulthood. which makes sense for spoiler reasons, i guess, but…ymmv.
>kaibacyberpunk anime that goes hard with themes of transhumanism/isolation in a world where everything is digitized. it's only 13 episodes iirc so there is some weird plot stuff that feels suddenly shoved in near the end
>cyber city oedo 808kind of pulpy (hope i'm using that right) sci-fi buddy cop show. gives me cowboy bebop vibes but disclaimer, i've never watched cbb.
>psycho passpsycho pass
No. 295032
>>294812I only recently watched Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. I thought it'd be really cringe-worthy based on the game cutscenes I'd seen, but the anime was honestly really great, despite kind of feeling like they ran out of budget at some point.
Stein's Gate is a bit of an otaku show. You'll probably like it just fine if you aren't really into otaku culture, and you'll love it if you are.
And I'll second this nona's
>>295028 recs of Shinsekai Yori and Psycho-Pass.
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(Anime: Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion)
He's hot but why is his name Noah is it just me or is that a wimpy name
Also this is the best one of these types of isekai anime I've ever watched I even like it better than My Next Life as a Villainess which is hilarious. I like the drama also how the mc is grounded
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finished kare kano. it didn't really have a proper ending, because apparently the studio caught up the manga + had disagreements with the mangaka on how it should be adapted. kind of bites, but whatever. it's still one of my favorite shows now
has anyone seen skip to loafer? i've read good things about it
No. 295298
>>295290>has anyone seen skip to loafer? i've read good things about itI didn't watch it but I read the manga and I can say it's a very cute story. The protagonist is great and the main guy is also nice.
I think you'll enjoy it
nonnie.
No. 295329
>>295278What about Ascendance of a Bookworm
>>295273Isekai is automatically better when it's for women
No. 295343
>>295273Seeing that this got animated is really making me hope we get more shoujo/josei demographic korean webcomics animated. I like Raeliana just fine but I also feel like there's plenty better out there in this category. Unfortunately I doubt we'll ever get some of the fun ones with more feminist themes like Beware the Villainess animated for obvious reasons but I wish
>>295278It's true that nowadays isekai is just used for bland wish fulfillment but the genre isn't inherently garbage, wizard of oz would by definition be an isekai story and even old anime imo actually do isekai well, I highly recommend Twelve Kingdoms. Regardless for the longest time only scrote wish fulfillment isekai shit got animated so I'm happy women are finally getting our time with more silly wish fulfillment anime aimed at us
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Finally got around to watching Serial Experiments Lain, it was pretty fucking good. The late 90s animation style added to the completely surreal feeling of the series
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>>289883Same anon here man it's been a good season so far and My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999 has gotten so much better I give it 8/10 now. I love the gaming group and the slow burn romance. Too Cute Crisis is consistently great as well
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>>295343seconding twelve kingdoms. fun story about a wimpy damsel becoming a badass woman and learning her throne.
i second it even though i haven't finished it yet lol… No. 296773
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I heard author of this is woman and now I really wish she didn't make it moid pandering and pervert themed.
I like character designs and I really dig the extroverted gyaru into cosplay / shy and modest guy into doll-making couple. But the entire series has been ruined with MOID SHIT, including Marin's character.
Why oh why didn't author nake it female-oriented.
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>>295343>>296668There are definitely several older shoujo "isekai". Red River has the main protag being magically summoned to the Hittite empire (present day Turkey) thousands of years ago. It's a historical romance, with a very plucky main character. I'm re-reading the series again and I enjoy the 90s shoujo flair.
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>>296817Another 90s isekai is From Far Away. The main character gets teleported to a completely different world. I haven't read this one yet so I can't say if it's good or bad.
No. 297606
>>297536I am usually very annoyed at fanservice, but I appreciate how realistical the boobs movement is. I give Gunbuster a pass.
Diebuster was much, much worse.
No. 297610
>>297536Yeah, a lot of older anime that seems neat is ruined for me because of that. If you love 80's, or 90's anime and you're not a moid it is very disappointing.
I still want to watch Gunbuster though. Maybe its fanservice isn't so bad compared to other shit I've seen. But maybe I'll just be annoyed at how the characters/plot are good but the fact that they're designed by and for horny moids could make that feel less genuine to me. I don't know
No. 297633
>>296846Ican completely understand that being a turn off to people. I'm not sure if it's nostalgia (I'm re-reading it after about 5-6 years) or the fact that that trope doesn't faze me if I like the overall plot more, but it is what it is. The plot can be a bit too overdramatic at times too.
Also, I don't want to brush it under the rug, but that was arguably realistic at the time period (characters mention it several times that women from losing territories would be captured).
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Ok, pls don't judge me, kek, but I have been watching scrote-pandering animes that I never watched when I was still a weeaboo/when I was still following seasonal anime. So far, the only one I have managed to finish is Oreimo 1st season. I'm not watching the 2nd season, because I know it becomes even shittier. I fucking hate harems.
Anyways, I started watching Seishun Buuta Yarou (Bunny Girl Senpai) and oh god… it hurts so. fucking. much. knowing that this could have been an interesting anime if it weren't for the retarded fanservice, main character and the stupid shit they do with the romance. When I finished the 4th episode I was kinda invested in the plot, but at the same time I had a strange feeling, because the main couple got together pretty fast. And then, bam, fifth episode introduces a new girl that seems to be the second female lead and the first female lead… is ok with it? Idgi.
The MC having to clarify that he only helps girls if he finds them attractive was just the last straw for me, kek. Retarded moids.
I now have the urge to watch Charlotte, which I haven't watched since it premiered…
Anyone that watched Bunny Girl Senpai has any thoughts to share? I also think the anime looks nice, but the manga has shitty art.
No. 297931
>>297855>>297856>the main scrote character is insufferable, I assume he's meant to be a self-insert.AYART, and yesss, god, he is retarded as hell, and he can't stop talking at all or saying the most autistic shit ever. I understand he is suppossed to be a horny teen moid, but sometimes he really was too much. As you said, those things take away from the serious theme.
>one of the mangaka (the artist nanatsu-gumi) mainly draws loli and high school girl porn doujinsKEK, of fucking course.
No. 298453
>>298382>>298383>>298392guess i'll skip it then
thanks naurnas
No. 299552
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Kek I can't believe Innocent was written by a scrote with all of those stars and butterflies and teary eyes close-ups, literally peak female gaze
Maybe someone knows if there will be an anime adaptation? I've seen so much retarded moe coomer garbage getting adapted but not this masterpiece it's infuriating
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Reveal your power level nonnies.
>>299570I think Madhouse could take it up, they've been coming out with a lot of shoujo-adjacent anime recently. But the only studio that could hold up the desired level of quality for a full TV series of Innocent would be Sunrise, there's no way they'll adapt it though. I'd rather not see it animated anyway, does anyone remember what happened to 7Seeds or Baraou no Souretsu?
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>>299581The powerlevels of nonnies in this thread are so high.
No. 299740
>>299708They're of different genres so you'd have to look up the summary to get what vibe you want, but here are a couple that I would consider filled with action(also noting moid stuff that might put you off):
>Dorohedoro>Samurai Champloo>Vinland Saga>Great Pretender (moid stuff is barely there)>Bungou Stray Dogs (brother-sister incest but it goes away)>Hellsing Ultimate (lots of mentions of rape in the vampire needing a virgin sense)>Akudama Drive>Vanitas no Karte (very little pandering, mostly fujobait)>Trigun (1998, new versions ok too depending on your preference)>Golden KamuyBut if anons have any more, please share. I'd also like some recommendations.
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Just finished princess tutu and tbf i did not expect the story to end like that especially for Ahiru, and i think the fact that Mytho chose Rue as a princess was maybe the biggest cucking i've seen in an anime towards a main character , but i started routing for Fakir and Ahiru halfway and now i'm sad they didn't get a proper happy end of their own kekk but i really liked it
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I just finished Maria sama ga Miteiru S1 and was blown away. It truly felt like something made entirely for women. Loved the way the used the flower names. I think this series has a lot of moid fans but I have no idea how they can enjoy it.
I also watched the specials for S1 but that was a mistake. They're not written by the original author so one of them had tone-deaf moid humour about one of the girl's breasts.
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i started watching vinland saga, i love it a lot. i really like the fighting scenes and the way thorfinn fights with the dual daggers. usually don't care about action sequences in anime, but for some reason the ones in this show are really captivating
No. 300764
>>299552i remember reading this and getting so disappointed by the dogshit writing, i don't know why i never see people talking about how badly tied the story is
that being said, the art being so pretty and expressive was the only motivation for me to finish it
No. 301193
>>290439watched the first hour long episode of Oshi no Ko because I saw loads of people talking about it as like, the best anime of this year and shit. It is just okay, though?
I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet, but it's got major Perfect Blue vibes (not as good tho) and is telling quite a like, known story about celebrity and the perils therein. Its kind of weird, a few interesting things happened, but the first episode (which is an hour and a half long) ended in quite a boring way, like the set up for what is going to happen sounded boring. I dunno. What do other nonas think?
No. 301402
>>300662this sounds comfy
nonnie, now im wondering if i should watch the anime or read the manga
No. 301405
>>301193You're right that the anime gives perfect blue vibes in its attempts to criticize the idol industry but it never truly goes all out and still remains a typical anime that treats it's audience like idiots. You'll have characters discussing and knowing how horrible it is but then through the power of anime dreams and hope and sparkly eyes the main character will prevail and become an idol anyway because it's what truly makes her happy in life! And cheesy shit like that.
Not to mention the whole fantasy aspect was so incredibly pointless. Could have totally done fine without it.
No. 301512
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Can anyone recommend an anime similar to the whole Free! series? this means: no disgusting fan service made for moids, slice of life, has handsome husbandos in it who have vanilla but quirky personalities, and its story line is mostly wholesome. I'm about to re watch the whole Free! series cause BL is alright, but I also want an anime where cute male characters just act gay and wholesome without any relationships. Imo it's so hard to find that these days
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Going to end the eva waifu wars with one image, would Assuka rock THIS? i actually love them both don't come for me
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>>301512Unironically Saint Young Men
No. 301724
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anyone have a good sad anime that doesn't involve moid shit? i tried welcome to the nhk and well parts of the mc were relatable he was just too obviously male and mikasa (whatever he name was) was too "cute girl saves poor weird guy from his life" to me. can't watch shit like clannad or angel beats either because it's just romcom with a melodramatic coat of paint.
i really enjoyed "a place beyond the universe". i'm done with succession and need something else to watch please help me nonnies
No. 301773
>>301724Kinda want to recommend something like Claymore or Cross Ange but they’re more action although I was genuinely moved at times. Cross Ange is controversial in some ways due to the sexual violence but I liked the majority female cast and the crazy plot and the overall message and the badass lead. Haven’t rewatched since it aired so I don’t know if it holds up.
Claymore is a classic; if you don’t shed a tear over Theresa you don’t have a heart.
No. 301786
>>301724>well*while
>he*her
kek i was sleepier than i thought when i posted this.
>>301773i appreciate you
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>>301537>>301666>>301749>>301755op of
>>301512 Thanks nonas! I haven't been browsing much cuz ive been busy, but all of these look promising. I appreciate these recommendations a lot!
the sanrio danshi husbandos look so cute! i hate that sanrio stuff attracted so many ddlg lowlifes. they ruin everything No. 301884
>>301791Yeah it's a lot. Bar on the floor… at least the sexual assault stuff eventually ties back into the plot and conflict between the villain and the main character in a way. I didn't really drop anything when Cross Ange came out so I stuck with it and I remember being kinda surprised (in a good way) by where it went.
I also wound up liking
daphne in the brilliant blue which is basically a wholesome mystery action-comedy except the insane outfits and has a plot that actually ties together at the end and sort of tugs at the heartstrings (not rushed like a lot of anime emdings out there). I almost didn't watch it because of the outfits but I'm glad I did.
No. 301955
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Tomo-chan Is a Girl! is such an underrated gem this season and the main group of friends and their drama is surprisingly really refreshing. I thought this show was going to be more shallow than it is
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i want one of these insane love dodecahedrons but it's gay, or at least not annoyingly hetshit (i can just look at school rumble and tell the female characters are going to be fucking awful). i already know of princess tutu and utena…
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Female character 3x3, thoughts
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>>301512SK8 the Infinity - it's better than Free!! imo.
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I am the n1 trap hater in the world, but damn if hibari kun hasnt been super fun so far. I wish he was a woman though, because i fucking adore how mean and smug he is, his design and voice. Havent finished it yet, but if anyone likes really 80s anime, westaboo references, cute clothes, good humor, and is willing to get past the fact hibari is a man larping as woman i recommend it. Funny how this is probably the one and only true tranny anime character there is but tras prefeer to transwash real women characters. I honestly hope they never find out about hibari.
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>>303730post the site so other nonas can make theirs no?
https://gqgs.github.io/3x3-generator/ No. 303751
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>>303748all traps are that, at least the main protagonist seems to see hibari as a man(so far). I am a bit salty the one 80s anime with the trap has my favourite mix of artstyle/animation/music. As much as i love Kimagure it's animation is very subpar and the op is very meh.
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>>303754the author is a failed troon so it is, but i can appreciate its other qualities. Believe me, i went in to test my limits and cringe with friends and i ended up liking it. 100% better than trash like astolfo/felix and other modern traps that have no redeeming qualities. Still, would only recommend it if you exhausted all the other 80s sol/romance anime. I personally finished my watch list a while ago so i went out looking for more obscure and i ended up finding a surprise.
No. 303773
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>>303770Will be shitposted and hated for years to come more than IBO, mark my words.
>https://desuarchive.org/m/thread/21819724 No. 303777
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>>30373010/10 for yukino & anthy
No. 303778
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>>303776I mean, hatewatching and shitting on a show on /a/ and /m/ as soon as the new episode airs is also entertaining…
>https://desuarchive.org/m/thread/21815509/ No. 303780
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>>303777wait, i changed my mind.
>>303779i don't know kek. i'm on pc
No. 303782
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>>301512I think you'd like Idolish 7!
No. 303785
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>>303730>>303750All the homu's and maki's in the house tonight
No. 303790
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>>303730>>303785I was so shocked to see other Monogatari enjoyers here.
>>303763Same, it was a struggle.
No. 303792
>>303790>>303790Ahhh nice. You've got hitagi too as your waifu! I didn't think that there would be another monogatari enjoyer either. Since the anime is…. well you know how it is.
Ahhh you've got bike as your girl. I thought she was pretty cool in the vn
Is that pink girl the tsundere from akame GA kill?
Who's the black, short hair with purple eyes on the top right corner?
No. 303794
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>>303730Sorry, I couldn't choose only 9 and I also included manga only characters I hope I can be forgiven
No. 303796
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this was a little tougher to do for males
No. 303800
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I'm rating your 3x3s as good as I can. The numbers are for how many characters I know closely.
>>3037301/9
Ashamed to admit I've not seen many of these… Love Lust though!
>>3037505/9
Poor Sakura deserved better. Nami's only downside is the artstyle. Love Usagi, Chihiro and Tomoyo though!
>>3037774/9
Haru, Akane Homura and Makima!! Love the first 3, Makima is a good character but I have no personal ties to her.
>>3037854/9
Homura, Mokoto, Quanxi and Makima again! Homura has a special place in my heart…
>>3037903(?)/9
Seras, Rin and is that the MC girl from Blue Flag?? Love Seras and love Futaba! If it's her.
>>3037946/16 (cheater!)
WITCH HAT ATELIER REP YEAHHH I can't wait for it to get an adaptation!!!
No. 303802
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>>303799word. and his character development is great
No. 303803
>>303800I'm
>>303750 kek, 5/9! I was waiting for someone to post Kuroki Tomoko.
Also, shame because I totally forgot about Princess Tutu when I was doing mine! Love Ahiru to death.
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>>303730>>303785Are we all Homufags? Is she /ourgirl/?
No. 303810
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>>303730>>303750thank you for the link, nonna!
No. 303816
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>>3037964/9, but who's the top right? His design is very cute
No. 303819
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>>303798kek, I'm so ashamed to have fujimoto character on my chart but I have to admit how much I love some of his female characters are, she's endlessly cool and attractive to me unfortunately
>>303796based Mithrun enjoyer!
No. 303821
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Kinda ot but who is he and from what anime/manga? Or is it just someone's art work? And if so who's the artist?
No. 303824
>>303803Haha… I think we all have a bit of Tomoko Kuroki inside us… Ahiru is still one of my all time favourites. She embodies so much of what I love in a character (hope).
>>303804>>303806>>303811I have such a lovehate relationship with Elfen Lied. It was my first grimdark anime and I loved how female characters were allowed to be brutal and violent and traumatized and still persevere, but then you find out that the author is just an edgelord who keeps shovelings his fetishes into his series… the anime was WAY toned down compared to the manga too… I love the concept and characters of Elfen Lied, but they all deserved a better author, even if I was fine with how the story played out (mostly).
>>3038072/9
Saber was one of the ones I considered putting on mine, but I only like her in Fate Zero. Can I ask what you like about Megumin? I feel like the only time I see people talking about her they're bieng p*dos about it, so I wanna know what someone who isn't a moid might think of her.
>>3038102/9
INTEGRA HELLSING REPRESENT BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY MOTHERFUCKING SUBARU FROM .HACK SIGN! I fucking loved that anime. Loved Subaru. Wanted to cosplay her as a wee teenager.
No. 303829
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>>303816mithrun, dungeon meshi. dm's getting an adaption by
trigger; i don't know how long it'll be, so he might not appear
:(>>303819i used to be so obsessed with gon. such a crazy character
No. 303834
>>303824Megumin's birthplace is a chuunibyou village so she acts chuuni as fuck and thats literally one of my favorite tropes, so she's always hilarious to me. But even if you put the comedy aspect aside she has the sweetest relationship with her little sister and best friend (in-denial) Yunyun, she struggles to act openly selfless or affectionate so she uses bluntness or chuuni excuses to treat them well. She's essentially the perfect mix of all my favorite tropes, its a real shame she's always attached to moids (ironic weebs, at that) since I really adore her as a character
Also its really funny you say that about Saber because it was FZ that made me truly love her. I still really liked her in FSN but FZ put a lot of things into a new perspective for me about her character. Moids always complain about how her character is "ruined" in FZ but those faggot retards probably never paid attention to her outside of the SoL le funny eating saber XD scenes.
No. 303835
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>>303795Ayrt and she is seriously the best written monogatari character. I have a theory that scrotes don't like her because she's a mentally ill, psychotic teenager and not just a perfect loli (ick) waifu character like shinobu is
No. 303838
>>303829unrelated but nonna, what is your opinion on the dungeon meshi trailer? Do you think
trigger will do a good job with the adaptation?
>i used to be so obsessed with gon. such a crazy characterHe is, weirdest little guy, I love him
No. 303839
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>>303730Barely watch anime so I had to reach out a bit
No. 303850
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>>303730Based Lust enjoyer.
>>303839>>303777>>303785>>303807Imo Homura did a lot wrong but she's a great and interesting character.
I cheated a bit with manga characters but they're from a Puella Magi spinoff so I think they're fair game. Yuma>>>>>>Nagisa and I'm not sorry.
No. 303855
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>>303800 here, gonna do guys as well! Had to cheat with the last guy cuz he wasn't listed on any of the websites so I had to put him in through Paint. Hope someone recognizes him!
>>3037963/9 and I feel like I should know the very first guy in the top left too. Really surprised to see someone put Mithrun as their favourite, he is really pretty though! Also, I thought Phos was a girl? I know nothing of Hosuki no Kuni.
>>3038165/9, OPM, Greed, Archer, Kamina and Kaiman. Really surprised to see Kaiman here! You have a type btw.
>>3038195/9
Reigen, Laos, Kabru, Josuke and Johan. I love seeing the Delicious in Dungeon love here. I considered putting Laos on mine too.
>>3038398/9!!! Only thing I haven't seen yet is Serial Experiments Lain. I love all of the girls you posted! The Oban Star Racers girl was my idol when I was a teenager. Love to see more PT fans too.
>>3038501/9
I only really know Olivia here. I haven't read any of the Madoka side stories yet, are they any good?
No. 303859
>>303855a dabi enjoyer, my fucking respects
apologies, because sadyl, I don't recognize the last one
>>303850No way, Captain Dola, top tier taste right there.
No. 303864
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>>303855The gems are all genderless rocks. They (mostly) use male pronouns but they look female as part of the genderlessness of them. So really calling them either one is fine imo.
The PMMM manga are a mixed bag. The ones with the same cast are mostly good, especially Wraith Arc (adds a lot of context to Rebellion) and Homura's Revenge. I thought Tart was good. Kazumi had interesting concepts but the artist is a reformed lolicon so a lot of the characters and designs were really uncomfortable until he had a come to Jesus moment and redesigned a bunch of them.
Oriko is really good as a whole in my opinion but the art is extremely stylized and the initial story is rushed, then Extra Story and Sadness Prayer go back and fix a lot of narrative problems from the original. I love Oriko but a lot of people don't like it.
Suzune is a dumpster fire, don't read that one.
>>303859>>303856Thanks anons. I've always loved Galaxia. Castle in the Sky is my favorite Ghibli movie and Dola plays a huge part in that, she's so badass.
No. 303867
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>>303855It didn't save the proper picture… this is bottom right boy.
>>303859He's from Hokuhokusei ni kumo to ike, I recommend it if you're interested in Iceland in any way shape or form!
No. 303887
>>303816I love jin so much, good choice. who are the ones in the top middle and top right?
>>303839seeing someone else who still remembers hamtaro makes me happy. even though it's meant to be for little kids I still occasionally watch a few episodes when I need a serotonin boost
No. 303903
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may as well have an actual show 3x3 too…how many tastelets walk amongst us……
No. 303938
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>>303903Wanted to add champloo but had no space.
No. 304019
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>>303730>>303750I haven't watched much anime lately and I'm thinking about rewatching and finishing some of them while getting into newer ones.
No. 304021
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>>303796>>304019The dudes. This one was kinda hard to choose.
No. 304060
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>>304050Turn off your adblock, and if you're using brave, turn off the built in script/adblock too.
>>303938We've got the same taste
nonnie No. 304065
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>>304062There are, but it was an amazing space opera. I don't even know if I'd have the attention span for it nowadays, but I was blown away by it at 17. I haven't watched anything besides the 1988 110 episode OVA though, I heard the new remakes are good and accurate to the novels but I don't like the artstyle.
Yang was my husbando, so moe.
No. 304071
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>>303903remade mine shortly ago
No. 304072
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>>304067Post yours, I'd love to be introduced to new and better anime
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>>3039033x3 won't work on any browser for me, so I did it myself in paint.
No. 304104
>>304102It's "Binbougami ga!"
I remember when it aired, I feel old now
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No. 304114
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and my favourite girls
>>304110i just wish there was an equal love for aircrafts, i want my gup with planes
>>304111funnily enough never spent too much time on /a/, but i am cursed with f/a/ggot taste
No. 304261
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this was fucking hard and made me realize i hate most anime i have watched (i was a pickme when i was younger and would watch shitty stuff to seem like a ~cool~ anime fan, barf)
No. 304385
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Pls no bully.
No. 304390
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>>304388You're thinking of Diebuster. Gunbuster has some nudity, too, but it's pretty tame and I was able to put up with it because I just love the art style, music, and overall vibe. Noriko is just more sympathetic and likeable to me than Shinji (despite one ostensibly being the prototype for the other.) I also liked what the show did with space travel and time distortion. Plus it's not annoyingly long, so I've been able to watch it more than once.
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>>304378Kimagure Orange Road
No. 304413
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>>303903So many nonnas with great tastes and underrated anime here! Might have to make changes after finishing and getting into others that I'm long interested in.
>>304023>>304384Sawako Kuronuma from Kimi ni Todoke. She's an absolute sweetheart.
>>304026Yuu Kashima from Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun. She's very prince-like and silly. I love her so much.
>>304261>made me realize i hate most anime i have watchedSame, specifically shounen/action with anime girl fanservice or male self-insert fantasy that people consider them to be "good" or "highly recommended" even though the loudest of anime fans are moids. Completely dropped them for how overdone, annoying and cringe they are. It's not worth the time to watch and invest in the shit that gets their dicks hard.
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homura is a fan favorite here, i'm curious to hear everyone's reason for why she's best girl. i find her very relatable and i love how insanely devoted she is to madoka
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replied to a few earlier and now wanted to post my own, it's interesting seeing how there's a variety of tastes but still some overlap!
>>304413excellent picks nona, I like that you enjoy lots of different genres
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>>304430samefag did one for female characters too
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>>304429>Gold ShipIncredible taste nona
No. 304465
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is Uma musume Pretty Derby actually a good show or is it more of a novelty, a flash in the pan, or something you like if you played the game –etc.?
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>>303903You guys are gonna roast me.
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This was hard, every time I finish an anime these days I'm eh on it sorry for the interspecies reviewers, I'm a degen & found it funny kek
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>>304385you're so based for almost all of this nonna, you just need to get into the older devilman ova and you're set!
No. 304501
>>304465Season 2 of the show is actually a genuinely pretty good sports anime, season 1 is more of a moe SoL but has some good parts. If you read manga there's also a spinoff called Cinderella Gray that's a great starting point. But I'm biased towards the series because I'm autistic about real life JP horse racing kek, the attention to detail in it for keiba facts is impressive.
>>304487NSFW art usually gets reported and taken down, but typically Japanese artists just choose to follow the regulations or post things privately. Since the whole franchise depends on Cygames having good relations with the horse owners if they want to license more famous horses to turn into characters, most Japanese fans are okay with the porn ban. There was a lot of initial whining from coomers about how it would kill the franchise but it turned out to have no impact at all on its popularity.
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uhh
No. 304528
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>>303750I know I missed stuff, I always do
No. 304529
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i hate the "tee hee moe alcoholic" trope with every ounce of my being. moids have ran out of things to fetishize
No. 304535
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>>304505I'm glad it's not just me who likes it, I've been way too obsessed with the franchise ever since the game came out. I also used to be into im@s (still kind of am but less so) and yeah compared to that the lack of coomershit in Uma is so refreshing, even if some of the fanart is still sort of borderline NSFW. I hope CinGray gets an anime adaptation some day.
No. 304536
>>304515i love you so much anon.
thanks for putting angels egg on there <3
also what is top right No. 304550
>>304534Yes! I got to see it in a theatre last year which was way fun.
>>304536Calling in Angel's Egg anon above me as top dog.
I heart you No. 304710
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Ok but what if you filled it out as yourself from 10-15 years ago? This is mine at 20 years old
https://gqgs.github.io/3x3-generator/ No. 304718
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>>303903Golden Boy is coomer but it's so absolutely ridiculous and over the top I can't help but have fun whenever I watch it.
No. 304739
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Late but here’s my thing. I wasn’t going to include movies, but I realized I hate most of the anime series I’ve watched. Mainly because even if they start off really strong 90% of the time they have terrible endings or go to shit after a certain arc.
No. 304748
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>>304710kek, mine at 13-14 years old
No. 304757
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>>304710I remember the struggle of trying to watch anime with shit Wi-Fi on sketchy websites where videos take forever to load. Massive Hetaliafag and fujo back then and wasn't too concerned about scroteshit pandering/fanservice until I was fed up with it.
No. 304809
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>>304710way back in middle school when all I knew how to watch was toonami and janky youtube episodes split into parts kek
No. 304819
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this is my all time, in no particular order. i'll make my 15-20 year old 3x3 in a bit lol
No. 304821
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>>30481915 year old me was OBSESSED with InuYasha
No. 304822
>>304757Oh god you reminded me of when I watched FMA (the first anime) on Dailymotion with the French subtitles because Canal+ aired the episodes in French and I missed a bunch of episodes. The struggle was real, kids these days wouldn't get it.
>inb4 what BrotherhoodIt wasn't announced yet and I was reading the manga at the same time anyway and waiting for the next volumes until it ended.
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>>304710The last time I watched anime properly was 10-15 years ago, so…
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>>304710I've tried but sort of gave up halfway through since my only source of anime back then was whatever our single nighttime anime slot was willing to buy and dub, and the only thing that was worth watching there I didn't already add was Yu Yu Haskusho (and HxH wins out on that slot for me). Also Umino Chika is life
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A bit late to the party but I still want to share my current favs.
No. 304976
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Ok maybe I missed some discussion on it, but did anyone else watch jigokuraku this season? I actually enjoyed it despite it having an obvious coomerbait character. I didn’t read the manga and was only barely aware of it before this season so I was a bit surprised at how popular it was. I was really impressed with the style and I thought the two mcs were well done.
No. 305052
>>305050I think the anon you replied to was asking about the one with the cat
>>305048top middle is natsumes book of friends
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Did anyone elses weeb circle have this weird phenomenon of every girl loving Chobits while every guy despised it, even though you'd expect it to be the other way round, if anything?
No. 305122
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>>303730I took a long break from anime, forgive me as I catch up
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>>305122And the men, I'm so late to the party
>>304976It's grown on me, the coomerbait was distracting at first but I'm glad I stuck with it. I really like the two MCs too.
No. 305231
>>304976i picked this up on a whim after not liking the manga much because the art style put me off. i really love sagiri. the "twist" at the end of the first episode
that gabimaru loves his wife got me hooked. i also really like
yui and find their relationship very cute, even though we only see glimpses of past interactions. the episode where
tenza sacrifices himself for nurugai und shion made me cry. i also like how shion is considered an absolute dreamboat and he doesn't even know, kek. i read on the wiki that sagiri and
yui get along great and i can't wait to see their interactions if the show gets more seasons. i like how they are polar opposites - sagiri is a woman but wants to be equal to men and nobody takes her seriously for that, while
yui is a woman but is expected not to behave like one outside of having children, but really wants to be a wife and mother.
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i call this "shows that gave me brain damage over the past 13 years" because i would spend so much time being active in their respective fandoms, writing fanfic and just being very silly in general.
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>>303903Feel free to judge me kek
most of the 3x3s look like I could find some new interesting anime to watch there, especially those who share shows with mine, nice
No. 305304
>>304976AOTS
>>305248Time to pirate Netflixshit yet again.
No. 305388
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morbidly impressed that azumanga gave me a great depiction of adult female friendship then immediately veered into the skit about the weird, creepy teacher who's "obsessed with high-school girls" kek what whiplash
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>>304891gankutsuou! I love you
nonnie No. 305424
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>>305234Cardcaptor Sakura is also Clamp and that has tons of male fans. But then again those men might just be lolicons. Plus CCS is more "moe" than "coquette"
>>305388Shame I really liked Azumanga as a kid but I had to stop watching it because the pedo teacher made me massively uncomfortable
>>305393>>305397>>305408Many schoolgirl slice of life mangas are published in shounen or seinen magazines (Azumanga Daioh included) so even though they may not seem like it at first glance they are made for a male audience. While I don't think it's blatantly lolicons (though it does attract that audience) there is a subtle pandering to JK culture (which is also super creepy) and a subtle fetishization of teenage girls. Not in that sense that it calls them sexy and thad these mangas and animes are ecchi, but in that sense that it wants to show girls acting cute and "pure". It almost feels voyeuristic since it wants us to observe teenage girls acting like normal teenage girls and kyaaa over them if that makes sense. If it was only about watching funny characters interact then why isn't "schoolboys slice of life" or "adults being at work slice of life" a bigger genre? It's deliberate that it's only the schoolgirl stuff that gets popular
Speaking of school girl slice of life I never got the appeal of Lucky Star. I get that its a love letter to otaku culture but the lolicon jokes are annoing. Konata and Kagami had some funny interactions sometimes but other times it just became too much. The other characters aren't memorable.
Konata's "I'm a flat chested loli" stick was also annoying. I cringe everytime I think back on how tween girls weebs used to parrot her. I know that Lucky Star wasnt written for tween girls in the first place but stuff like that feels like subtle grooming
No. 305435
>>305424I will tolerate a man who likes Haruhi but I will feel disgust for a man who likes Lucky Star.
I wonder what’s the new/zoomer version of those shows. Is there a new flat chested justice moeblob franchise that creeps watch or a new surreal highschool Haruhi dupe?
No. 305495
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>>305404Finally someone said it. I tried multiple times to get the appeal because it was responsible for so many early 2000s anime memes and gifs. Picrel. But I never found it funny.
No. 305537
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Any love for Soul Eater? Yes the anime had a bad ending but it also cut the underage pantyshots so I think that makes it even
Maka has a better character arc than 90% of shonen MCs
No. 305538
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Any love for Soul Eater? Yes the anime had a bad ending but it also cut the underage pantyshots so I think that makes it even
Maka has a better character arc than 90% of shonen MCs
No. 305539
>>289809Any love for Soul Eater? I was obsessed with it in middle school
Im still shocked they had a female lead in a battle shonen and it wasnt a bait and switch like that Fairy Tail garbage
No. 305564
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This website kept randomly crashing while I was making this so I had to screenshot instead of saving file but here’s my childhood faves!
No. 305593
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>>305551Holy shit, same anon! I actually read the manga from the point where the anime left off, and I wasn't really too impressed by the ending. All I remember is it had something to do with breasts.
>>305538It's a shame that Okubo had to insert so much fanservice, it really went on for too long at certain moments and I felt like Fire Force was even worse which is why I dropped it really early on. At least soul eater had a lot more style
No. 305595
>>305398Oh you must be
>>303938? I must have missed it, perfect taste nonna.
No. 305600
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>>305537I can't watch this shit because of picrel. Maka looks so cool though that I always wanted to. Please tell me it gets better.
No. 305603
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>>305537The author really went the lolicon ecchi schoolgirl yuri route later in his career and retconned Soul Eater to this garbage, really ruined it for me. But the original anime is still good, it has a really good OST and I don't remember that much moidshit from it besides some stupid Tsubaki's anime tiddy jokes.
No. 305646
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Anyone watching Ooku?
No. 305653
>>305600Nta but what's wrong with that kek
Imo it is pretty funny
No. 305665
>>305600ntayrt but it definitely does get better I can guarantee you that. At the beginning you're bombarded with fanservice both from Black Star ogling Tsubaki, DTK groping the Thompson sisters and Soul ogling Blair but it chills out after a while. However, I tried re-watching it now in my mid 20s and even knowing what I told you I couldn't get past the first few episodes kek
>>305646I read the manga quite a while ago and even though I loved it the historical english made me stop reading midway, I just watched the first episode and I like it so far.
No. 305740
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anyone here a fan of fruits basket? I'm watching the old anime for the first time and just found out there is also a new one - I've read that the new one is way more faithful to the manga and does a better job at adapting it. is it worth watching the new one too?
No. 305884
>>305762Kek no way this is so fucking stupid. Idk what the japanese dialect used in the show is called, but it doesn't sound nearly as dated as this. Like it's something you can still hear specific characters use in an anime with a modern setting. They could've used this in the parts where they introduce the shogun and stuff, but not everywhere.
>>305880Maybe it's because you're an ESL that you were able to put up with it. I'm also ESL but I would refuse to read that, it sounds so bad.
No. 305914
>>305880you're so esl that you didn't get the joke, nani the fuck was referring to the guy's reaction
t. also esl
No. 306059
>>305302Makes me glad me that people are catching on to the masterpiece that is Rainbow.
On a related note, Sakuragi was also best boy.
No. 306108
>>305646I've only watched 4 eps but I'm loving it so far. I love seeing men told their duty is to make children, just like they've always told women. I love watching them be in a vulnerable position where they can be sold for their body, and watching them be treated as fancy objects/baby makers for the Shogun. I love when the ugly men seethe at the prettier ones, and it's good to see how they stay true to their moid urges and can't help but rape them.
My favorite part so far was the dojo scene in ep 1 where one pretty guy tells the other pretty guy he's prettier than him. Beauty has been made into such a huge deal for women in our society, feels good to see men go through the same worries.
No. 306155
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started watching vanitas. i wish the entire show was only about murr. i love cats so much so every scene with murr is a gift.
No. 306230
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apparently they're finally making an ao no exorcist anime that is true to the source material! i'm excited. i was 17 when the first anime aired and i was so mad that the anime went into a completely different direction, like it offended me on a personal level kek. i'm glad that anime studios seem to be more patient now and don't force an anime adaptation when the source material doesn't give enough story to adapt.
No. 306234
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I finally ended up watching Fena: Pirate Princess. I liked it, IG did a good job on the character designs and animation, but I feel like it was meant to be two seasons that got mashed together. The conflicts being set up suddenly got turned on their heads and the twist was not very well set up, it really felt like there were missing episodes.
I liked Fena being a shounenesque idiot power of friendship hero though, it was cute. And the romance arc was cute too.
No. 306239
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>>306155Have you seen Chi’s Sweet Home? It’s a cute series. A Whisker Away and The Cat Returns are good anime cat movies also. Sketchbook Full Color’s is a super chill slice of life that dedicates some scenes and episodes to the cat character. I haven’t watched this one, so idk if it’s good, but My Roommate Is A Cat looks pretty cute.
No. 306246
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>>306242I think it had a lot of good moments, the cast is pretty fun and Fena herself didn't annoy me, I think Fena being kind of dumb and naive makes sense given her isolated upbringing. I will say the "Pirate Princess" title is kind of misleading, but you'll see why. I hope you enjoy it, anon!
No. 306322
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does anyone know of a (good-ish) anime where a girl has to manage a really unruly supernatural entity? not inuyasha, because that's like 200 episodes. not noragami either because i didn't like it
No. 306351
>>306322Binbougami ga! —haven’t watched it since it aired but I remember liking it
Also
A Letter to Momo might fit the bill, it’s a movie.
No. 306358
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Natsume is getting a 7th season! No release date yet.
I'm so happy, I could watch it forever.
>>306322Kamisama Hajimemashita is an Inuyasha clone with less episodes, if you want that.
No. 306499
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Nonnies, we're getting more Kuroshitsuji in 2024…
No. 306515
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>>306499I’m so excited for this, I can’t believe it’s already been 7 years since the last anime release. Cricket sports anime here we come
No. 306622
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No. 306631
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Every 4th of July I think about this character
No. 306953
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Is anyone else watching Jujutsu Kaisen S2? There are people complaining about the animation, but it looks great, clearly high budget. I don't care much about the characters in this flashback arc, but the episode was fun and Mei is gorgeous. Would like her more if she didn't engage in certain activities that are revealed later
No. 307184
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>>307152Nonnie the list anime about cute boys doing cute things anime is already very short. It'd be better if you told us which ones you already watched. Have you seen Cool Doji Danshi? It's 4 adults and 1 highschooler.
For anyone who hasn't watched it, I highly recommend it. The original manga is written by a woman and you can really tell. It's simple but it's one of the best, most enjoyable shows I've seen. Since the author is a woman everything is very delicate and unlike the usual generic anime and coomer stuff. The characters act normal and are very human. I'd consider it to be iyashikei too.
No. 307191
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>>307182As a swordfag I also rec this but idk if non-swordfags would like it.
No. 307201
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>>307152That anime with Jesus and Buddha, Saint Young Men.
No. 307275
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>>307152Orenchi no Furo Jijou / Merman in my Tub. It has cute oceanic monster boys hanging out in a bathtub with a human guy taking care of them.
No. 307292
>>307226>the art direction is so fucking bad. very boring and bland to see. The art really was disappointing and low budget, and at times it was hard for me to tell the characters apart
>top knotsPersonally don't care about this, it's nice that the author tried to to include it in fact. Usually anime does not stick to this rule in the slightest. I like how hair became a signifier of the times, so women started wearing updos because it's more convenient than flowing long hair, while men would wear top knots as a symbol of times far gone, when they were glorious warriors.
>no trap charactersthank fucking god
No. 307580
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>>305237LOL hadn't heard of this before but just put it on from seeing the description. Already seems like a potential winner within the first five minutes.
>historical what-if set in Edo period Japan>mysterious pox spreads through the country, stabilizing the population of men at 1/4 that of women>social power shifts to women, women are the main paid labor force, businesses handed down from mother to daughterThese women better treat their concubines like shit or I'm going to be disappointed.
No. 307588
>>307584True.
I've read from moids elsewhere that isekai for women is better on average. I was surprised at how right they were.
No. 307706
>>307675The first episode sets up the framing device for the next few episodes.
Also I want to keep watching Ooku but only the first few episodes were put up and I can't find a working torrent for anything past episode three reeeeeee
No. 307718
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Which summer anime are you watching so far?
Besides Ooku I can recommend giving Undead Girl Murder Farce a chance. The designs are pretty but memorable and it seems to have a good bunch of handsome men of different ages and the plot wasn't very original yet but well done.
The other ongoing series I enjoy so far are Ai no Idenshi and Zom 100. Heard that the latter gets worse later, but at least the first episode was very relatable for someone like me that regularly contemplates suicide whenever I have a fulltime job.
Sadly not much else that looks promising. Tried a few but barely even finished the first episodes. The MC of Herck looks funny, but the many girl characters seem to be a red flag. Will give it a chance, though. In general the season is pretty weak so far.
>>307201Very good choice and underrated. I can only recommend reading the manga too.
No. 307721
>>307718I was not able to enjoy Zom 100 at all. First the unrealistic work situation and then the unrealistic reactions to a very realistic zombie apocalypse. I feel like it was written for edgy teenagers or something.
I liked Undead Girl but it sucks that she's supposed to look 14. She doesn't act like it or actually look like it so you know it's just the author's weird fetish and it's immersion breaking.
The only things I'm genuinely enjoying are My happy marriage and s2 of Sugar apple fairy tale.
No. 307880
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Does anyone have any recs for something in the same vein as evangelion and lain? I just watched both for the first time and really enjoyed that surreal feeling both had.
No. 307902
>>307880Paranoia Agent, Mind Game, Kaiba, Perfect Blue, Texhnolyze, Paprika, FLCL, maybe Tekkonkinkreet, Samurai Flamenco and Ergo Proxy too.
If you play games and can deal with emulators (or still own a PS1) I heavily recommend Xenogears. It's basically NGE as a game even if the plot is different.
No. 307907
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Anybody else enjoying Therma Romae? It's so cute and funny IMO.
Just an ancient Roman casually traveling to the future Japan to steal ideas from modern onsen for his Roman baths.
It's actually the first anime in ages I am watching dubbed since I understand Italian and listening to this is giving this series a nice touch. Can only recommend it if anybody is into historical shit and in need of a comedy anime. Absolutely watch the endings too, they show the mangaka traveling to different types of onsen and talking about her experience with them and how they inspired her to draw new chapters for the manga.
No. 307986
>>307880boogiepop phantom, texhnolyze (really, REALLY slow start but it's worth it if you stick around), paranoia agent, sonny boy, tatami galaxy, bokura no, haibane renmei, now and then, here and there (frankly don't remember much about this one except for the weird vibes), kaiba, ergo proxy, kemonozume, mawaru penguindrum, tekkon kinkreet
Maybe not all of these will be to your liking but they're all kind of weird/surreal in some way or other
No. 308045
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Watched the first episode of Zom 100 on Netflix and I really enjoyed it. Seems like it’s going to have some bigbooba standard fan service characters at some point unfortunately, but the animation was so good and it was funny enough that I may be able to overlook that as long as it isn’t stupid excessive.
No. 308193
I really wanted to like Helck, I even think that I would like the MC, but dear god most mangaka are such fucking awful writers it's not funny anymore.
I am incapable of watching a first episode of a series that fills its whole first half with a loud annoying bitch talking about a fighting video instead of, you know, actually SHOW the fights of the guy she talks about.
Mangaka have such a waifu brainrot that they cannot think up scenes that don't revolve around their harems anymore to the point at which they even ignore the MC. Maybe the story gets better later, fair, but episode 1 was nothing but waifus, tell don't show and peanut gallery commentaries about ongoing fights, which were always one of the worst parts of battle shounen, so I am not willing to sit through a series that literally starts with that and fills most of the episode with this instead of letting me watch those awesome fights they're talking about.
Also not filling me with hope that the rest of the episode introduced like three more girls. I've reached a point at which I became incapable of giving anime with a primarily female cast a chance. There are very few exceptions for this but they never star a male MC and you can usually tell which ones are good by just looking at the female designs.
I don't want to hate on this series actually, but it's my opinion. I even think it's a bit sad since it would be one of the very few recent fantasy series out there that aren't isekai.
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I've been thinking what the hell happened to old school shoujo and realized now everything is about work/office romance and it makes me want to vomit. As soon as i see the characters looking like overworked corporate slaves i lose all my interest, this is not something i can daydream about or want to put myself in the protagonist shoes. BL manga have the same exact problem, just corporate rats fucking each other in the ass. I don't care if this is the "japanese reality" we were fine for years without any manga or anime that includes mundane work place shilling and i'm convinced this is just the japanese government brainwashing young women into romanticizing labour force and corporate jobs instead of allowing them to enjoy actual escapist fiction. They never even make it about fun or unique jobs, it's just sitting at the desk and doing paperwork, like how is this entertaining to anyone? Do the readers want to be reminded even in their manga about the sad reality of their lives? You don't even need to go for fantasy (looking at you the hundreds of series with otome villainess reincarnation), just do some comfy SoL shoujo with idyllic landscapes, it seems to work well enough for incels
No. 308275
>>308178>>308167Going with your logic, it should be OK to drop the retard fish at an animal shelter or zoo, give him away on Facebook or, better yet, never pick him up in the first place, but call an animal rescue organisation.
I hope you extend your pet logic to homless people too. 'I took in a hobo, so now he's my property and I can do whatever I want with him'.
No. 308340
>>308269I think it's just that the newer generation of mangaka lacks any sort of creativity and is incapable of creating characters that aren't "literally me!" MCs.
Same reason for why everything is flooded with "nerd" MCs that love anime or games like (you) do. They even exist for both genders be it otaku, otome or fujo MCs, it all sucks ass IMO.
No. 308364
>>308269girls who grew up with school romance stories are old enough to work now so this transition makes sense. It's also no longer taboo for adults to read comics and it's no longer seen as a nerd thing so you can get away with blatantly appealing to adult readers. Basically what
>>308345 says about work being the reality of many adults.
>>308340many old shoujos had a school setting and where targeted school girls
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I love this so far, even though I don’t like the pacing of the first two episodes. The story is on hyper speed or something? I haven’t read the novel or the manga, so idk how it compares.
No. 308409
>>299800late but if it helps, it wasn't really Ahiru who liked the Prince but Tutu. All of them but Mytho had real lives outside of the story hijacked by Drosselmeyer's influence to play their 'mythical' roles. You can see it whenever Ahiru transforms and becomes much more eloquent and a better dancer, the story requires her to be Tutu the swan, not Ahiru the duck, and Tutu loves Siegfried. I would've been happy either way but it was refreshing that he ended up with Rue instead.
Speaking of Rue, notably, Princess Kraehe never existed in Drosselmeyer's story, so Rue is the only one not playing a character like the others. All of her jealousy and desperation that drives her towards villainy doesn't come from any evil role she's forced to play but from herself and that makes her and Mytho's final choice to be with her so compelling to me.
No. 308421
>>308269I genuinely don't understand why this is a thing. Everyone hates it and nobody wants to come from their soul sucking office job to reading about how their soul sucking office job could be marginally more interesting in a manga. Yet it's everywhere, all shoujo is either stupid office or high school romances with no hint of fantastical elements. Why? Who finds this interesting? Are Japanese women just really excited by a retelling of their daily lives but with a hot guy they met at the office printer room? Is that such a world turning twist? As a mangaka I would be so fucking bored with it myself I would just isekai the protagonist to be able to experiment with different ideas.
>They never even make it about fun or unique jobs, it's just sitting at the desk and doing paperwork, like how is this entertaining to anyone?Yeah exactly, you could create a compelling escapist story in modern times too without making it an office romance, like make them musicians or film stars or doctors or something unconventional.
Anything but a fucking corporate job.
No. 308422
>>308421Difference with high school romance is that HS romance at least skips boring parts of school life like lectures and homework whatever. Plot usually takes place during after school activities, weekends or school trips which is the fun part of school life.
Meanwhile office romance is more like "Hot coworker brought me paperwork to do and told me boss expects to do presentation by monday. Then I went to get some water cooler and some office ladies were gossiping about him! Oh no I need to do more paperwork oh so overworked." No just fuck off.
No. 308423
>>308409princess tutu has the most satisfying ending I have seen in any media ever. It doesn't play into your first expectations but neither does it go completely cynical, don't get me wrong I like cynicalism in media and I like tragic endings (though tragedy isn't inherently cynical) but the ending of Princess Tutu was very refreshing. It felt very humane.
Sometimes grief works out in real life but not the way you expect. Sometimes you don't get the things you want but you still feel happy and content because life throws other good things at you you didn't know you wanted. Princess Tutu displays
self acceptence really well.
Lots of media targeted young girls teaches self acceptance in a "you had the power all along inside of you btw you are beautiful" way, but Princess Tutu tells you that you should just accept who you are because you can't change it, that still doesn't mean you can't change your life for the better, but you are still you. Ahiru stays a duck in the end even if she didn't want it at first. She still takes control of her own fate but she still is just a duck in the end and she accept herself for it. Honestly it feels very forward for it's time, I don't think it was the intention but it aligns well with
body neutrality mentality. I think lessons like that are more important than the usual
"you had the beauty inside of you all the time so therefore you gonna get what you want" lesson
No. 309016
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I don't know what the crossover here is with horror/grindhouse stuff, but The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs did an animation night a couple of weeks ago, and showed Mad God and Perfect Blue. It was pretty fun, even though I'd seen it before. He gave some commentary and actually looked emotional when he talked about Satoshi Kon's letter he wrote as he was dying. Best episode of the season so far, and it was made funnier by all the weirdos I saw online crying about an icky animation night on their fun genre movie show.
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>>291929i love it when animes usually have very colourful styles, eye candy
>>292048its me im funding it all, what you gonna do about it
>>300701lol my dad who never watched anime is also into this
No. 309808
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>>309690Since the anime felt like just a commercial for the manga, I remember trying to read it and finding it an incomprehensible mess. Not just that but the puberty allegory many people point out is only really viable in the anime because the manga introduces a billion new things and everything loses its meaning.
And you're right, there's a lot of weird fetishistic shit in it. Imo, it's almost impossible for a man to try and tell an allegory of girls puberty while not making the story somehow sexual or not showing his lolicon fetish kek
No. 310472
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I read that the mangaka of Somali and the Forest Spirit is in financial troubles, I hope watching the anime adaptation will help them in some way?
No. 310475
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10/10 aesthetic
No. 310498
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are there more dark fantasy animes/mangas? All i can think of outside of Lodoss is either Berserk and maybe Slayers. Is Berserk worth getting into? Do i watch the anime(movie?) or jump straight into the manga?
No. 310506
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>>310498Depends on what you mean by fantasy. Does it have to be like elves and MtG/DND or more general fantasy?
This is what comes to mind at the moment:
Shamanic Princess
Vampire Hunter D
Shin Sekai Yori
Nausicaä
The Heroic Legend of Arslan
Guin Saga
Made in AbyssClaymore
Mahoutsukai no Yome
No. 310564
>>310498Fate/Zero
Attack on Titan
Hellsing
No. 310575
>>310498I'm going to be yelled at but whatever
there's Bastard too.>>310564Wouldn't Hellsing be more like urban fantasy but taking place in the past?
No. 310803
>>310498watch the old tv series then move on to the manga. also, do
NOT watch the 2016 series
No. 310991
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looking for romance recs, either anime or manga. I really dislike pretty much all the popular shojos/romance anime targetted at women i have tried getting into, except for cipher and princess jellyfish. I also enjoyed kimagure orange road.
No. 310999
>>310879I haven't seen it but my understanding is it follows a different character, so maybe it's possible to watch standalone. I'm not so interested because I love the original MC kek.
The manga is god tier though I highly recommend it.
No. 311696
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>>310991Futago (iketani rikako), Principal, Cousin, Tomodachi no hanashi, Hanshin (hagio moto), Machi de Uwasa no Tengu no Ko, Butter!!! (yamashita tomoko)
sorry all manga No. 312347
What are some good deep/heavy series? Can be heavy as in hard sci-fi, gloomy setting, or psychological themes. I've already seen the classics, e.g Utena, Evangelion, Madoka, Princess Tutu, Monster, etc, so some more obscure series would be cool. Thriller anime like The Promised Neverland or AoT don't really do it for me, even if the premise is pretty depressing.
No. 312351
>>312347>What are some good deep/heavy series?Shin sekai yori
Psycho Pass
Ajin
Pet
Perfect Blue
Inuyashiki
Shiki
Kokkoku
M3
Devilman: Crybaby
Shigurui
No. 312357
>>312347>hard sci-fi, gloomy setting, or psychological themes-Gilgamesh
-Hell Girl
-Avenger
-Boogiepop Phantom
-Texhnolyze
A fair warning, these are all from the early to mid 2000s, so animation quality can get pretty iffy in places kek
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>>312391Undead Murder Farce is good so far if you like Sherlock Holmes type mystery stuff. Might be my favorite of this season. Plus, I think the deuteragonist being a disembodied, immortal head in a bird cage is creative, at least.
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>>312425Nta but I'm going to check this out, it reminds me of the obscure visual novel game Animamundi where you need to find a body for your witch sister after she survived a beheading.
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Here it is, the "monkey" episode of Jujutsu kaisen S2. One episode felt too short to squeeze in all that story. I wish the anime would have fleshed out Geto's change of values more. What was cool though, was mixing the sound of water/rain with the memory of the applause in the moment that had enraged and traumatized him so.
So my fellow JJK fans are you ready for Shibuya? I'm excited. And kinda scared.
No. 312734
>>312347Shit I really loved that the other anons didn't mention yet was:
- Casshern Sins (very moody story about androids and robots taking place after humanity was basically eradicated)
- Avenger (a bit cryptic though and reading between the lines and looking at lyrics of the songs helps understanding)
- Zettai Shounen (not dark, but it deals with mental stuff even if it seems like a supernatural series first)
- Mouryou no Hako (pretty but also dark and it's one of the rare anime with a surprising 10/10 ending IMO)
- Kaiba (bizarre mysterious sci-fi in space with a few tear jerker scenes and some psycho stuff)
- Ergo Proxy, if you haven't watched it yet
- .hack//SIGN (not actually that dark, but heavy on the mental/psychological themes and quite moody too)
- 86 (would say you have to get through the first episodes of s1 but after that it gets dark/sad and pretty damn dramatic, it's also a sci-fi about war)
- Made in Abyss (think most here hate it, but it is a very dark exploration/adventure series)
- Now and Then, Here and There (when isekai were still good)
- Aku no Hana
- Bokurano
- Noein (this is actually a must-watch anime IMO)
There are more but guess that's enough for now.
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>>312734>Mouryou no Hako (pretty but also dark and it's one of the rare anime with a surprising 10/10 ending IMO)Starts out fine, turns into garbo at the end. At first you think it's going to be realistic, but then it takes some surreal turns while keeping the realistic form intact. Really wrong execution of the source material (novel).
>Noein (this is actually a must-watch anime IMO)Not really dark and heavy - it's meant for a teenage audience. Sure, it's climatic and has well-written characters, but it's not even
Nabari no Ou-level of 'heavy'. It's still a good show, with amazing music and imagery
No. 312838
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Might be the only one watching this shit but I enjoy the new season of Bastard. This series was one of the first manga I ever read and I have a weak spot the sort of pulp fiction it's reminding me off so even 20 years later I am still having fond memories of it. Would be cool if the anime could finish that series since the mangaka is obviously not healthy enough to do it anymore.
>>312813Seconding this. How could I forget about them? Absolutely recommend reading the rest of GLT that the anime didn't adapt though. It's a bit sad that they never adapted those last few chapters as an OVA or special. Think it was only 20 chapters or something.
No. 312852
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>>312838I'm going to watch Bastard this weekend too, both seasons one after the other. I used to read the manga when I was in high school so I remember liking it but I forgot enough about the plot to not be bored.
I'm looking forward to the DS/Kal Su fanservice. No. 312899
>>312898I watched the
worst anime in 2010, I was literally watching Highschool of the Dead. If I could go back and slap myself I would.
Princess Jellyfish was nice though
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>>312852Hope you will enjoy it anon!
No. 313020
>>312899>>3128982010 was one of the best anime years, so much original stuff aired
anyway now i am wondering, how did durarara end? did it even end?
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>>313020The story has been fully adapted if you wanna watch it yourself. Life pretty much continues as usual in Ikebukuro (after a whole bunch of drama and antics), it was that type of ending. I think the main change was that
Celty got her head back and Izaya leaves Ikebukuro and is half disabled.
There's a sequel LN but thats on hiatus just like most of Narita's books
No. 313683
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>>313631It's a fanservice show, the gay option is usually on the table.
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I like how the new Blade of the Immortal has Shigurui aesthetics.
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>>312898I tried watching because of Izaya and Shizuo back then but later dropped it since I couldn't follow the plot and has unnecessary disgusting scroteshit like Izaya's incest sisters and yuribait of the fujoshi (who I liked at first) with the glasses girl. Is this series even worth the watch?
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>>314041Ryougo Narita has a fetish for lesbians. In Dead Mount Death Play it's even more brazen, including an implied lesbian threesome (mind you, I only watched the anime, so it might not even be implied in the manga).
Anyway, that show was a disappointment. The MC is yet another goody two shoes who just wanted to protect his family yada yada. Having lived for so long, he has somehow resisted cynicism and is still an idealistic kid at heart. The secondary characters are not fun to watch for the most part and I don't care for the two Sarazanmai cop rejects. Overall, it's lazily-written when compared to Durarara!!.
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I'm only on ep 1 but god this woman is an uggo chaser
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>>312347samefag but I want to suggest one of my favorites that rarely gets a mention, Terror in Resonance. Dark, sad, gloomy, not too much pandering. Feels really adult. Great animation, awesome OP.
No. 314468
>>314417I think you wanted something out of it that simply wasn't there (like the characters being
real terrorists that harm/kill people).
No. 314533
>>312980My problem is that mystery anime always come off as stupid when their smartass MCs are rather guessing than knowing but the show makes you think they did the latter since they always happen to be right. This anime is suffer from the same issue and it makes it feel dumb, like how the dirt on the ellbow of that one guy must be proving that he came by train and that he sat at the window and the he's from Germany and like 20 other things, all guessed by noticing one or two details (at night even, IIRC) that could have a multitude of other explanations. I cannot think of more than one or two anime that ever did mystery right which is why I tend to avoid it, even though it would technically be a genre I otherwise enjoy.
I still watch it, but honestly rather for the male MC and the settings. You rarely get the chance to see any european countries besides brittain from that period, at least not in anime.
No. 314775
>>314585I wrote a bit about it, but it was in a mundane shit thread over year ago lol
>>>/ot/1210216I wouldn't call it similar to kamihaji at all, at least dynamic wise. Himari isn't as, let's say feisty lol, as Nanami is, and Aoi gladly accepts Himari instead of being annoyed by her. While I loved the manga, it was a bit weird actually, it was so long but I felt like nothing happened at all (which isn't to say it was boring), and I feel like they could actually fit the entire 16 volumes into 12 to 24 episodes.
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About to start watching LOGH. Going in absolutely blind off a recommandation I've since forgotten the content of. Any nonas here who've watched it? What are your thoughts?
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I was disappointed when the current season of Jujutsu kaisen only had these two in the first episode and promptly moved on to be about mostly men. The women are the best part of the series for me. SHOW US THE LADIES
No. 314978
>>314952the women in jjk are absolute peak, i love maki and mai and their family background. not sure if you know manga spoilers but i absolutely love
maki's new look and actually started a self indulgent fanfic about my jjk oc and
her. i only got 3 1/2 chapters finished before i lost steam and the intense brainrot disappeared but i still indulge in daydreams about the story kekkk
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Has anyone heard of Vermeil in Gold? The only reason I know about it is because a band I like sang the ending song it's a good song btw but I have never heard anyone mention it or seen pictures of the characters(neither fanart and official art) shared on social media. I honestly think it looks like dogshit but im bias cause I dont care about romance animes targeted boys. I don't interact with male anime fans in general so lots of these types of animes flies under my radar but even then I'm still familiar with waifubait characters because they get used in cosplays, memes, anime articles, etc. I assume that this was released without much fanfare and didn't gain a large fanbase.
Tbh I dont hate the artstyle. The character designs are kinda ugly but they arent an eyesore compared to other coombait animes
No. 315085
>>314978>the women in jjk are absolute peakOnly if it's your first shounen. They are all so…meh. You forget them as soon as the show is over. Every major shounen that was popular in recent years (Naruto, Bleach, Dragon Ball, Ao no Exorcist, Once Piece, Mob Psycho) had more memorable female characters.
There is just something about the mangaka that he focuses on sloppy-seconds characters that feel almost AI-generated (the MC being the main culprit), while ditches or sidelines the ones with potential.
No. 315112
>>315085the writer(s) just misunderstand these female characters,
nonnie. you have to open your heart and welcome them in like long lost sisters.. accept that they are perfect, just like all women are perfect and superior. they are merely
victims of bad moid writers. improve on their endless potential and fill in the gaps in the source material. these female characters are so amazing, the bland stories that they are in could never contain them. unleash the love of sisterhood. godspeed.
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>>315112Oh fuck off with that attitude. Some of us like them, you don't have to, deal with it.
No. 315190
>>314775personally I liked that tomoe was a tsundere and slowly had to warm up to nanami along with nanami being very determined and not a total pushover. I read your post despite the minor spoilers and honestly I do prefer the slow burn type romances like hamihaji rather than the fast moving one this seems to be. I think I'll still watch the anime regardless just because that foxboy or chimera or whatever he is appeals to me kek
>>315069from the brief trailer the anime art looks nice, I hope the animation and soundtrack are good as well. I do quite like yokai stuff. seems worth a watch from what you and the other anon itt said about it so far
No. 315309
>>315173kek did you mean to reply to
>>315085 or is your reading comprehension really that poor?
No. 315348
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>>315331And slice of life/mystery-solving.
No. 315368
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>>315344I think I understand what anon is talking about, there were even collabs with lolita brands back in the day, but all the show's elements that make it appealing to women are more accidental imo, the fact that it was one of THE animes for imageboard type moids says a lot
though touhou also has a 99% moid fanbase despite not being particularly gender targeted imo No. 315708
>>315308I love Rozen maiden so much, it's my comfort anime. I Loved Rozen Maiden 2013 because it felt genuinely more relatable, now that I think about it the vibe of it it's close to my life in quarantine.
Also the openings were just my favorite thing ever, Ali project songs are so nostalgic and over the top with the flashy visuals and Lolita aesthetic, love it sm.
No. 315826
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What are some examples of manservice shots in shounen anime?
No. 316012
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>>314945It's one of the very few really long series that I genuinely enjoyed watching. It's slow but good and every episode has a reason to exist. Also it is easily the best anime about politics out there. Not that there were many to choose from to begin with.
Many great and varied characters too with lots of development and the writer was genuinely invested and caring about both sides, so you don't get any black/white worldview or forced conflicts. Would pay money to get more series like this.
>>315308I unironically miss ALI Project. Even if you shouldn't like their OPs you should give instrumental OSTs like that of Avenger a chance. Absolute underrated as BGM band.
No. 316015
>>315840There must be a good bunch but rn I can only think of Dorohedoro, though I fear it's rather in the manga than the anime. Can't find the specific panels but there were a bunch of scenes with naked male backs that had such detailed muscle drawing that you know that Q must have been horny when she was drawing this.
Bastard too. Bastard is very veeery fanservice heavy so you will see a ton of female asses too, but it doesn't shy away from showing us the naked ikemen MC in his full glory. See here for example
>>312838Shockingly enough, both series are shounen. Different times.
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Regardless of what you think about letting or not letting the dead lie, did anyone else think Yashahime was way too convoluted of a story? At first I thought I just had a sucky comprehension while watching it, but I'm re-reading the episode plots right now and it really seems to me that there wasn't a real plot thread to be followed.
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>>315826All of Blue Lock too, it felt like the animators were horny as fuck working on the anime
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>>316142>>316139Thanks! The only other example I can think of is Gintama.
Is Blue Lock worth it for the guys if I don't care one bit about football?
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Watching Bastard makes me a bit nostalgic. I still remember having a crush on Abigail as a young teen lmao
I would pay for more dark fantasy and gritty sci-fi anime and manga shit today.
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>>316407Good question. I generally like dark, brooding characters I guess and he was a loner, a bit like myself, but incredibly powerful. I also unironically like his looks. He is absolutely not a bishounen or anything, but something about his derpy older man face is endearing. Plus, his cape is fucking cool and I generally liked villains back then. I am glad he wasn't killed off when facing DS, he gets some quite funny scenes later.
No. 318492
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Just watched JJK 0 before watching season 2 and god, what's with Japanese men and not being able to let their childhood crushes go? Is the power of love between 2 10 year olds being more powerful than the main villain even after years of one of them being dead supposed to be relatable? Emotional? They should've made the guy place a curse on her because he's traumatized by his inability to protect the ones he loves, love being general instead of just romantic. He didn't even imagine the child growing up with him and being his own age when he was hallucinating of her. It's like Tokyo Revengers, you have to suspend your disbelief so hard to not see the character or the author as a dumbass scrote with the mental age of his 10 year old self, who also can't tell female children and women apart. They could've gone for a curse that actually made sense instead of insisting that a child's playground crush is just that powerful and it's the kind of love that ~stays with you forever~. Then she caresses his face with her small hands and it's jarringly obvious he's been obsessed with the little girl and not his helplessness back then. That's the only thing that bothered me though, the rest was ok enough for me to want to watch season 2. It's just frustrating how scrotes keep getting away with retarded plots like this. This just certified gege as a man in my mind.
No. 318514
>>318492>god, what's with Japanese men and not being able to let their childhood crushes go?No idea. Seems like a thing with moids in general. I had crushes as a kid but barely remember them. Why would you obsess over that?
And yes Gege is definitely male.
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>>318492>what's with Japanese men and not being able to let their childhood crushes go?I imagine most mangaka have very limited dating experience and it's hard to write romance when that's completely absent from your life. In that case an idealized childhood crush would still be something they cling to and the japanese audience is a big sucker for the "first love" trope anyway so it works in their favour. Also when you lack dating experience you're more likely to get inspired by romance stories and tropes from other anime, like I wouldn't be surprised if menma served as inspiration for rika, they're both dead young girls who left a huge impact on a particular moid
No. 318624
>>318492I think it's a mix between lack of experience and romanticizing of the past. I get annoyed by the first but relate to the latter so it depends on how it's done but most series do it really badly.
Most of the time it's the typical "kid 1 doing mundane nice thing once, kid 2 having a crush on her/him for 20 years straight afterwards"-story which is IMO just bad writing. The thing is that life usually gets monotone and boring once you become a working adult. The fascination and fear children experience vanishes when you grow up, the world stops being mysterious and you have already seen most things and are now forced to waste most of your life away for a boring job so childhood feels magic or gets retroactively idealized. I think that old love interests are often used as a way to connect the allegedly glorious past with the present again.
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>>315826Most shounen manservice are just for comedy purposes rather than to sexualize and objectify men but it's still better than no manservice. The guys need the same treatment if not more than their female characters.
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>>319179Agree, this was always the one Fate I wanted to see animated the most. There were those Fragment novels I think but I haven't read them yet since they had no TLs back then.
With all the Fate stuff they produce nowadays I am disappointed that Prototype of all things never managed to get a proper anime. Maybe one day.
No. 319331
>>319254The things I remember about heaven's feel are retarded wars about pointless shits on /a/ and me feeling so bored when I was playing the visual novel I even skipped the last part of the route.
If you hate Sakura you probably will hate her "fans" as well. Besides moid being moid they're one of the most obnoxious parts of fandom
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I just watched the first episode of Kageki Shoujo.
I don't know if it's because my expectations of anime are so low, because I haven't watched any new anime in months, or because it's truly that good, but Holy shit, that was more than enough to hook me in. I'm fully invested kek. I don't know how anyone can say that female characters are all shit when something this BEAUTIFUL exists.
To my surprise, it was originally a seinen manga? I would've expected it to be published as josei or something.
No. 319521
>>319408I also thought it was very good and really liked the man hating girl.
Apparently it was only published in a "seinen" magazine for two volumes and then changed into a josei one. I think japanese publishers care less about these labels. I looked up the original magazine Jump X, and wikipedia says it was created with female readers in mind and aimed to publish manga that transcended gender and age. So it doesn't really sound like a seinen magazine.
I remember seeing a post somewhere here about a
nonnie explaining why labels for shoujo manga made no sense nowadays, and that they shouldn't be taken so seriously. I definitely agree.
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>>319408Based Ai Narata Scene Ever!
No. 319804
>>319765Yeah true, at least stuff like Do it Yourself or Bocchi have some sort of goal and characters that are more than just memes.
I am not even saying that LS is bad on principle, but it's nothing for me. I never found parodies very funny anyway, especially with most parody comedies solely relying on citing and referencing other works instead of coming up with own jokes.
>>319408It wasn't my AOTS I think but certainly good. A rare case of well written female characters too. Sad that it never got another season. Even most josei I see nowadays rather feel like seinen to me. In a bad way. I often love serious/"masculine" seinen, but I almost never like seinen about female characters or romances (exceptions always exist though). Good josei is harder to find nowadays.
Random but does anybody remember that josei from ages ago with the florist woman and her dead ghost husband? No idea why I am thinking of that now I just remember that it was a very niche series too that I enjoyed a lot.
No. 319873
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>>319859It was incredibly popular IMO. But maybe it depends on the threads and places people frequent. I remember a lot of memes that made fun of it, but the hype also felt massive and not liking it got you into one of those arguments where others call you a newfag for not understanding the references, even though it was just the humor itself that wasn't for me.
That said I am a shitty audience for comedy since I rarely find things funny. Can probably count the anime that made me genuinely laugh on one hand, which doesn't mean that comedy anime are bad. They just rarely pander my shittaste. How shit? I found Azazel-san very funny, something even 4chan considered too retarded.
Other series I loved that might be more popular here namely DMC, GTO, Gintama and Nami yo Kiitekure.
I absolutely recommend the latter, since I assume it's not well known. Especially if you like comedy about an adult, not-sexualised woman who is still seething about her ex and starting a new job to vent and use her talent.
Think I also laughed a bunch of times about that gamer girl anime with the kabaddi. Too relatable.
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>>320015Whoa,
triggered. A man falling in love with another man is the only guarantee that the romance is not going to be utter shit.
No. 320042
>>319987I like everything if the chemistry is good but never like any of the chemistries in romance anime so I stick to shipping lel
IMO chemistries in fiction are usually better written if it's m/m, to a lesser degree f/f ("lesser degree" because female characters are usually written as moe ughuu or other pandering characters), so most of the ships I am into are gay, even though I theoretically like het just as much.
No. 320061
>>319987no one asked, fujoshit
>>320037the fujo 'joke' was also entirely unrelated to the original post
>>319980bc it's not even romance, it's all ecchi shit. moids can't get into romance that doesn't come with large amounts of panty shots, jiggling tits and gross thinly veiled fetishes. i refuse to even call it romance
No. 320118
>>320045No I really hate romances for women or at least as much as I hate romances for men, never seen an otome I didn't consider garbage and like half of that media targeting women includes crap like arranged marriages or twilight tropes. I can't watch anime like that marriage thing everybody here hypes up so much.
I know there are exceptions somewhere that exist without these stupid housewife tropes and I saw a few but didn't like/relate to the characters either.
IMO romance is just a cursed genre in general which is why the good chemistries mostly exist between characters that aren't canonically supposed to be in love.
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So many old shows are getting remasters, feels good.
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>>319179I just got into Fate two weeks ago and reading about Prototype was soul crushing. There is another universe out there where F/SN revolutionized otome and gave us a successful anime adaptation…
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Redid my 3x3 yesterday, rate if you'd like to!
No. 320598
Finally the madoka movie is not a hallucination anymore
sorry for link lolcor won't let me embed it https://youtu.be/AXpnlROHu78?si=vmtDzCoT3iyqdvBF.
No. 320650
>>320601I don't think the plot itself is bad, even if it's by all means just baby's first shounen, but I don't think I've ever seen a show get so strongly ruined by a single character. I have no idea how there can be Zenitsu fangirls
unless they're 13 years old.
The way Zenitsu and pig guy constantly interrupt serious moments with oh so "hilarious" comic relief yelling and crying feels like the weeb equivalent to capeshit forcing quirky quips into serious moments. I still have no idea why the hell the mangaka tought a THREE person main cast need TWO comic relief characters, or how there's not really a trend of making fun of shounen shit like there was for making fun of marvel movies.
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FUCK CRUNCHYROLL. They translated 'okama' as 'queen' in Gatchaman Crowds. And it's a show from 2013. The woke virus runs deep.
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>>320930anon that's not troonwashing, just an older term for flaming homos. Much like "okama" in Japanese.
No. 320960
>>320934No way pre-school kids would even know this term. They should have translated it to 'gay', because that's within a pre-schooler's vocabulary (if they didn't want to be vulgar with 'tranny').
>>320937No, it isn't. 'Fruitcake', 'queer', 'poof', alongside the tried-and-tested 'tranny', are better.
No. 320980
>>320605Anon Rebellion came out 10 years ago. The only anime to come out besides that was Magia Record which isn't mainline canon.
>>320598I hope it keeps to the Concept Trailer, the art they featured in that looked pretty interesting.
No. 321003
>>320598>>320997YES FINALLY. I didn't realize going into madoka initially that homura would be one of the most prominent of the crew but I'm happy it's turned out that way. she quickly became my favorite when watching the original series.
Is there a planned release date?
No. 321042
>>320972WRONG
Okama is a word that encapsulates both.
>>320989>a preschooler is more likely to know what a drag queen isOnly in America.
No. 321047
>>321042this is a conversation about american slang in an american company's english translation of an anime, sperg. why the fuck would they choose weird britbong slang that no one else on the planet uses over common slang? bonglish was the butt of every joke on 2013 tumblr for a reason, to the rest of the world 'poof' is an indecipherable inside joke between a group of 90 year old men.
>Okama is a word that encapsulates bothno, it doesn't. a gay man cross-dressing =/= a tranny.
No. 321127
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>>321047>no, it doesn't. a gay man cross-dressing =/= a tranny.In your headcanon only. Just watch Gintama to educate yourself. Plus crossdressing gays are trannies more than ever in this day and age.
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>>321127>>320930>>320960>>321042you are embarrassing tf out of yourself
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>>320930this would be more accurate but you can't really put this on crunchyroll. you expect too much, nona.
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We will never get anime with actual men and more diverse women anymore will we? Even harder mode if the woman is older than 22.
I feel like almost every design from modern anime looks bland as hell and barely human, it doesn't even work as bishoujo anymore as it was the case with Sailor Moon and the likes, rather soulless advertising.
I think that designs tell you way more about a show and its quality than the synopsis.
No. 321580
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>>321516>I think that designs tell you way more about a show and its quality than the synopsis.True, but sometimes it's a misdirection. I avoided Shin Sekai Yori for the longest time, because I thought it would be a 'we want the KyoAni audience' show for waifufags.
No. 321591
>>321580Yeah this happens too. I also kinda enjoy Ai no Idenshi right now, but I am pretty sure that the potential audience of this is ignoring it for it's generic juvenile designs. Old anime directors did that right and knew what style to use for which series. You just have to look at Bebop, Witch Hunter Robin, Lain and such and know what type of show it is. Not sure when people have lost the ability to draw adults or grittier things.
I have recently seen three muscular adult anime men that had the heads of toddlers that made them look like bad edits in which someone has swapped the heads as a joke. They probably can neither draw guys nor any older women anymore. Or nothing that isn't skinny.
No. 321771
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>>321134Stop talking out of your ass. Just accept you're wrong, it doesn't cost you anything.
>https://legendsoflocalization.com/okama-in-game-translation/>>321174Back to your Chinese memes.
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>>321235>you can't really put this on crunchyrollThey had no problems in the past, and neither with hosting NSFW loli and harem shows.
No. 323423
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Best boy of the season. Not that there was much to compete with in the first place.
No. 324532
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What are you watching this season? For me, it's the firefighter anime.
No. 325487
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>>324532Not counting sequels, when it comes to little (female) fanservice
Firefighter Daigo
Apothecary Diaries
Shangri-la Frontier
Migi and Dali
TearMoon Empire
Frieren
No. 325493
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16 bit sensation another layer seems very promising, I like anime that deal with a very specific niche. Even if I haven't played that many VNs I find their history very intriguing so this got my interest. Also, this is an unpopular opinion but I've always been fond of clumsy and obnoxious flop female MCs. I usually find them more relatable than a sassy girlboss or miss popularity like the girl from bisque doll
No. 325599
>>312347This is 2 months old but I wanted to contribute.
Monster, deals with child abuse and childhood trauma but from a weird political point of view, it's good.
Babylon (2019 anime based on a novel), about suicide being legalized and assisted by the government of Japan in one city
Perfect Blue, a movie about identity and idols abuse
Vivy fluorite eye's song, an anime with a refreshing take on AI where the AI used its human-like sentience and emotions to save humanity and proves AI can be good.
Un-go, detective and demon solving cases
No. 325638
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>the main plot is that the entertainment industry is dark
>claim idols should be allowed to have lovers too
>still proceed to make ai hoshino's ex-lover the main antagonist because he defiled her purity and got her pregnant and so ai hoshino can still be a waifu for weebs since she didn't actually love him
>the actual murderer and stalker was just a poor misguided fan as revealed in the first episode
the contradiction between the message they're trying to convey and the actual narrative is fucking hilarious
No. 325647
>>325638Walmart
Perfect Blue lmao
No. 325657
>>325596drama cd rips are kinda impossible to find nowdays, they were always niche but it feels even moreso among eng fans nowadays
have you checked soundcloud? tumblr? usually ancient links still have them as long as they haven't been taken down
No. 325660
>>325655They already started with the premise that the MC is an old lolicon scrote
with morals so obviously the antagonist can't be the same kek. It would obviously make the most sense with ai's situation as a young idol in an industry that panders to uncle fans but instead it was an even younger boy who left her pregnant which is?? It can happen irl because teens are dumb but it's also kinda irrelevant in the context of the story. Obviously they just wanted an antagonist that any idol fan who reads oshi no ko would hate, and portray him as the devil who murders women so their self-insert gary stu can play the saviour role. Oh and then waste most of the time on a shitty harem.
No. 326027
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>>325638i will always avoid this writer's manga because of that time he told people to brigade a Watamote poll.
>To the Yuri-chan faction: If Nemo wins first place, I will draw [a Yuri-chan fanwork]. That's why I'm voting for Nemo. >(Commemorating the release of Watamote Vol. 13 "Field Trip", who will get together with Mokkochi!? The character who wins first place in the championship vote will be the star of a newly drawn story!)>I'm sorry if I sounded like a jerk the other day when I said "If Nemo wins first place~". I like Yuri-chan and Nemo so much that they competed for number 1 and number 2. I just lost my cool when I thought that the newly drawn story of NemoKuro would be lost forever. With that said, please vote for Nemo.not like he even did the fanwork either. he has no room to talk about internet toxicity or whatever the fuck.
No. 326663
>>326660>most of the footage shown in the trailer are still images with sloppy made mouth flap movementsnot every show needs to be action packed but people still move when they talk. If you're not going to add any movement then at least try to add some interesting cinematography or do something that makes this entertaining to look at.
Honestly why even bother animating this at this point? A live action show wouldve been cheaper to produce and wouldnt look as static. It's just a trailer but you would think a trailer would had showcased some of the better animated scenes
No. 326759
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Eyyy nonnies, there's this generic gyaru girl romcom called The Experienced You and Inexperienced Me that are making inceloids absolutely livid.
It's basically just like every manic pixie dream girl animes in the past, only that the main female lead is a… wait for it…
…
NOT A VIRGIN! THE HORROR!
Anyways, this very simple fact is causing widespread brain damage amongst the purity-obssesed inceloid otakus. Check out its Manga-Updates page, LN review page, and Reddit discussion to see what I'm talking about.
No. 327272
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>>326759Inceloid writers should fuck off from gyaru subculture. I am pretty sure this trend started with that Bisque Doll shit but gyaru is a subculture for Japanese women who want to rebel against their society's norms for women and are not afraid of that and not some waifu bullshit where girl is a uwu generic waifu with blonde hair who is interested in yet another generic inceloid self insert for no reason at all. Just fuck off with this shit.
No. 327290
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>>327272It started with Galko-chan.
No. 327296
>>326759It's very funny since a fairly important component of the "gyaru fetish" (the more normal side of it at least) is the idea that they're experienced and bold. It's also quite odd how western otakus still don't understand what a gyaru is… A girl with bleached, over-styled hair, a shit ton of make-up and fake nails, isn't that what incels complain about all the time ? Do they just interpret gyaru characters as all-natural white blondes or something ?
Also I don't want to sound racebait-y but the influx of third world conservative moid otaku really ruined weeb discussion spaces online, like they bonded over misogyny with the euro/USA incels to form the ultimate insufferable moid alliance and then assimilated the slightly more moderate moids into their combined internet culture, and then just ate the whole of weaboo internet due to the lack of a bigger counter-group. Yet somehow despite complaining all the time about muh vile women they only consume coomer shit and romcom.
>>327291Nah the new generation is trying to revive it but since they're influenced more by anime they are boring and look bad for the most part.
No. 327301
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>>327291Yes, maybe there is an attempt to revive the trend as some sort of 90s/early 00s nostalgia but this time fetishized for otakucels
>>327296>A girl with bleached, over-styled hair, a shit ton of make-up and fake nails, isn't that what incels complain about all the time ? Do they just interpret gyaru characters as all-natural white blondes or something ?Because in anime they make them look like cheerleader-type pale ditzy blondes that are ready to join inceloid waifu harem and not actual gyaru.
No. 327779
>>327317bait aside, they do. a lot. whenever they get judged for their stupid behavior the conversation magically turns into them whining that "wamen do nuffin yet dey sheltered and fed for freeeee u could never majin le hardship of bean maaannn. mah stupid action is actually le good".
it's a universal thing: males complaining about women.
No. 328796
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Idk if it might be an unpopular opinion, my first time in /m, but I think JJK is the only shounen that actually puts any sort of weight into the female gaze. The way they draw Gojo sometimes are definitely not only meant to be as a macho stand-in for men, and this scene with Nanami's scene in s2e12 had him ridiculously detailed the point he just OOZED sexual energy. He was one face sitting away from checking all of the twitter kinks in one go during the interrogation. I and my friend can't be the only one taking note of this, right?
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Kururiya no hitorigoto released 3 episodes at once!
No. 329199
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I hate how the animators are so lazy that they can't be bothered to even use Google Translate.
No. 329224
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Uggggh I miss this art style of anime so much. I'm a nostalgiafag I know but I can't stand how so many anime evolved to soft moe moe with hideous dog-like side profiles. I really want this somewhat semirealistic—but still not uncanny valley and obviously still anime look back. Black Lagoon, Claymore, Haibane Renmei, Eureka Seven, are some of the shows I recall having this style.
No. 329225
>>327296>>>327290From what I've observed, to typical male otakus, the whole gyaru thing is less of a female Japanese response to restrictive beauty standards and etiquette (
TRUE Japanese women are ivory-haired and fair-skinned—pure, selfless yada yada) and more "a cute and bubbly girl who happens to be a blonde and wear fake nails from time to time!".
No. 329370
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>>329362>where do you read the manga? Or I have to buy physical/digital per issueWelcome to piracy
https://bato.to/chapter/1667262 No. 329377
>>329357>I'd say chainsaw looks like more money was poured into its animation.It did. MAPPA absolutelly tried to treat CSM as a central cash cow.
CSM was technically very well animated, the reason it got shat on was because MAPPA took a manga that was known for it's sketchy messy lineart and animated it in the most cirurgically clean way possible, and because for ??? some reason the director decided that he wanted to LARP as a cinephile and make it "cinematic" by making the anime permanently gray (even tho people associated it with really bright colourful covers), making the pacing feel way slower, and directing scenes that were meant to be dark comedy as if they were 100% serious.
for so many months after finishing the anime every time I watched a movie I would immediately think about how it was more colourful than the CSM animeI haven't watched Jujutsu, so I can't compare the two, but CSM also had really weird distribution of animation quality sometimes. Like how they were fine with hand animating ghost devil's trillion hands but ghost's head was a pretty bad 3d model. Does Jujutsu also have GIFbait slice of life sakuga?
Do nonnas think there will be a second season or not? MAPPA hasn't announced anything since it was released.
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>>329357MAPPA has been notorious in recent years for getting the rights for a lot of adaptations and putting out mediocre products, the attack on titan seasons come to mind where the characters were often off model and it looked like overall shit , but maybe because of the harsh deadlines and outsourcing as well. AoT crashed and burned in a spectacular way anime wise, and manga wise
CSM was hyped up to be the next AoT, the next big thing, the next cash cow, but it crashed pretty hard imo, JJK is one of their core series atm that's raking in popularity and cash
>>329377I don't know if I remember this well, but afaik the mangaka of CSM hates anime or something and they wanted to make the anime not like usual anime,but more like movie/DEEP or some shit, which resulted in those atrocioud 3desque scenes and no, they weren't good.
>Do nonnas think there will be a second season or not? MAPPA hasn't announced anything since it was released.iirc it did not reach the intended numbers/wasn't as popular as they'd expected
>>328796yeah they definitely do it on purpose, my opinion was 200% cemented when pic related made his appearance
Nanami hair grabbing scene and Choso abs were just the cherry on top of the beefcake lol
I find it funny how it pisses off male weebs that some series cater to the female audience, jjk is incredibly hardcaried by female fans,especially fujos
No. 329450
>>329347i like that style too but is it popular on the japanese online sphere? i rarely interact with the japanese part of the web but when i do usually see them praising edgy artstyles or cutesy styles art.
>>329377>MAPPA took a manga that was known for it's sketchy messy lineart and animated it in the most cirurgically clean way possible, and because for ??? some reason the director decided that he wanted to LARP as a cinephile and make it "cinematic" by making the anime permanently graydirectors like this could benefit from making their own stories with their own visions where they get to do what they want rather than taking pre-existing mangas with a pre-existing style.
off-topic but speaking of original animes. I feel like they only succeed if they are pitched as a franchise and get a tie-in manga that is running simultaneously with the anime and get a gazillion spin-off light novels that details some background characters lifestory and get a spin-off movie that takes place in an alternative timeline.
Not that I mind franchises like these but it would be great to see more original animes(that aren't movies) that weren't made for an otaku/consumer audience but animation is expensive so making something for a normie audience is not worth it. I would love to see more anime made for adults that takes advantage of animation as a medium and uses beautiful surreal imagery to tell a mundane story. Does anyone have any recs?
No. 329458
>>329452Nanami is 28 iirc, he just looks aged because his unhealthy work life choices
28 isn't old
> that honestly just looks extremely unappealling to someone without daddy issuesthat's a you problem
No. 329489
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I wish I could escape the hype for The Medalist now that it's gotten an anime announcement. Insane to me that people are just ignoring the fact that it's blatant coomer bait for moids into loli because it's "deep". The way the little girl is drawn in the poster for the anime and in the manga is just vile and way too realistic looking, the mangaka needs his hard drive checked
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>>329496>>329501The weirdly accurate anatomy is always a giveaway, this is the kind of shit they'd post and draw before they scrubbed all of their accounts. If you want more examples as proof,
search tsurumaikada danbooru as people have archived some of their other artwork>>329490gross if true, will never understand why a woman would be compelled to draw art that sexualizes little girl characters. some real pickme behaviour i guess
No. 329505
>>329440>afaik the mangaka of CSM hates anime or somethingI don't think this is true. Fujimoto just said that he didn't mind the anime making changes from the manga and that he wasn't gonna interfere with the anime production. The whole "cinematic" thing supposedly came from the anime director, and I think all the interviews and clips that sounded pretentious against anime were also him. Very silly because even if you wanna claim that CSM is actually a super deep subversion of anime, it still has an extremelly anime trope base (human guy living in a world with dangerous superpowered beings becomes a superpowered being himself and uses his power to fight evil superpowered beings) so trying to portray what is actually a quite generic battle shounen story into a deep serious plot because you actually hate anime does not sound like a good idea.
>>329450>directors like this could benefit from making their own stories with their own visions where they get to do what they want rather than taking pre-existing mangas with a pre-existing style.I agree with this but also the way he changed the anime was really goofy on itself. He completely changed the "vibe" of the anime, but the actual story was completely accurate almost panel for panel, except the story isn't actually good enough or adequate to support that über serious approach he decided to go for. It makes his cinephile LARP justification look retarded because
obviously there
are movies that are fast paced, have dark comedy, and look pretty colourful. I honestly think it would had been better if he actually owned up to the "this is my vision and I am making changes" excuse and didn't adapt it literally panel for panel.
I think back in the day it was easier for anime to get away with doing changes. Nowadays anime fans will completelly sperg out about any changes or the idea of filler. Remember when the Elfenlied anime removed a whole character because she only existed for the author's piss fetish and didn't even do anything for the actual plot? I don't know if they could get away with that nowadays.
>I would love to see more anime made for adults that takes advantage of animation as a medium and uses beautiful surreal imagery to tell a mundane story. Does anyone have any recs?This isn't very modern but maybe aBe's works (Lain, Haibane Renmei, Boogiebop, etc) would be your taste? I haven't watched either, but I heard Sonny Boy and Kaiba are good too. I don't think any of these fit the role of "mundane" tho
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>>329452I like Nanami but this scene got more attention that I thought it would. It looks better in action and I was so hyped seeing him angry but I have to agree that the overdetailing didn't do him that well. He pulls some long haired male's hair and is oozing testosterone so I guess everyone found him attractive for that.
No. 329529
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>>328796He is so mediocre looking, especially when he shows his full face. Literal blank npc shonen looking face. Female shonen fans have no standards.
No. 329553
>>329532but
nonny, that would require fans to actually use their brains! you can't possibly ask that much of them KEK
in all seriousness, it's because people just want to mindlessly consume media. to make stories something easier for their consumption, they ignore the writing, crafting, and nuance put into the characters so they can turn it into whatever is most comfortable and familiar to them. also i wouldn't trust most fandoms to write a proper analysis of a character kek. the only time they will is when they want to prove their reasoning for their gendie headcanons No. 329577
>>329563Ah yes the only two animu man options: Fully clothed ugly man or prepubescent boy.
Excuse you, I prefer my beefcake with handsome faces and less clothes on.
No. 329616
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Geto was the prettiest.
No. 329681
>>329505inally someone else who agrees with me that anime shouldn’t just be a shot for shot remake of the manga. I know that people will sperg if anything is even the slightest bit out of place but it’s so fucking boring. If I wanted to see the exact same angles with the exact same backgrounds I’d just read the fucking manga!! It’s so, so common now that I’ve just stopped watching anime pretty much because 9 times out of 10 I’ve already read the manga for the series worth watching airing this season. The one aspect they can’t brazenly copy from the manga, sound design, is usually shitty too.
I’m excited for Pluto though. Iirc the guy who’s directing it is pretty famous. I hope they can keep the same tension that’s in the manga. More than anything I hope it does super well so they can give 20th century boys a well made anime.
No. 329751
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>>329529i know right? it's so fucking lame looking, kinda looks like how they draw male characters in male coomerbait shows. There are waaaay hotter anime men in shonen, so they are either zoomies or completly biased grandpafuckers that think their daddy issues are anything but terrible personal taste.
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>>329758Not willing to watch the new series but he was one of the more central charscters in the old series. So yeah, he'll most likely show for up a lot.
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>>329768it's honestly so sad. I know it's only a matter of time before they remake hellsing, and i am 100% sure they will moefy the shit out of all the female characters if not outrigth genderbent integra. We havent had cool, non moeshit female characters since forever.
No. 329788
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>>328796it's like anons itt are intentionally misunderstanding your point. nanami is ONE example of jjk catering to the female gaze, and clearly it worked considering how many women are simping for him. just because it's not to every anons taste doesn't disprove your point kek. there's still gojo, toji, geto, etc. and the fact that the female characters aren't catering to the male gaze nearly as often compared to the men.
>>329771it's funny to me that jjk and csm, two controversial animes of the thread, are the first that come to mind for non moe women currently. picrel.
>>329768I haven't watched it yet but I looked it up and holy shit, that's disappointing. and making meryl the apprentice to some old fart? remakes are a mistake.
>>329777kekkk I'm an old hag too but I agree, it's like anons are just looking for things to complain about, and not just in this thread either
No. 329871
>>329753Tumblr has a different audience than other social medias. It wasn't fakebois lusting after him
>>329788They replaced Milly's importance to Vash with more screentime for wolfwood. I think it was fujobait, but even so, their relationship didn't have the charm of the old series. People latched onto it though, so clearly it worked.
>>329751Nanami doesn't even look old kek, he just has bags. I don't know if you've seen how that anime draws old men, but it isn't like that
No. 329876
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>>329871OK let's end this "is Nanami hot or not" discussion. Everyone's taste is different
for example some nonas have terrible taste and some amazing taste kek. But what anime need though, is more male hotspring scenes. JJK did a good job and had one, now they just need another with more characters.
No. 330439
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pluto is out! watch pluto!!!!
No. 331821
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Pluto was kino
Also I love Epsilon, he's so sweet and with that sweet Mamoru Miyano voice
No. 331963
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what is it about this series that makes so many moids seethe so much?
No. 331983
>>331963pretty much this
>>331981 mixed in with the usual shounenfag console wars
No. 331985
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Does anyone have any recommendations for series similar to Sasaki to Miyano? Don't care if it's het/gay/lesbian, anything goes if it has similar vibes. I've been binging romance anime lately and randomly ran across this and found it very cute and wholesome. Would recommend if you don't mind BL anime. Especially since it didn't have any forced triangle drama.
No. 332166
>>330448I tried looking for a source on this but I think this was based on a series of now deleted tweets where the author didn't exactly confirm themselves to be trans but alluded to not "being a real woman" and then mentioned intersex people in their pro-tranny and pro-gender identity tweets which made people think they were intersex and not trans. I would not be surprised if it is a tranny though since they love to pull the intersex LARP.
Here's an interview with the author and their YouTube channel.
https://m.youtube.com/@Inori_ILTV/streamsVery clocky.
No. 332515
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Is uma musume worth watching? i just want a funny cgdct anime on the same vein as GuP
No. 332995
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>>328796god nonas misunderstood this post so much
anyway heres gojo humping jogos arm
No. 333114
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I'm really loving Frieren, it's so comfy, but I'm so sad that it fell victim to the shonen jump coomer jokes. They give Frieren a really lovely and bittersweet relationship with one of her now-dead friends, and then show you how he joked about wanting to see her underwear. It's supposed to be a joke and not reflect on his character, but unfortunately anybody who isn't a coomer jump reader can tell it's weird. Their relationship is even portrayed as purely platonic, but then they add this weird sexual joke. Oh well, at least it's only been like 3 jokes so far.
No. 333352
>>333333That's very weird to me because moids seem perfectly capable of enjoying more mature stories that don't have shitty sex jokes included. As with some seinen series and stuff.
Also, checked>>333344It's not tinfoil or retarded, it's true. It's an extremely common trope in moid-written media you'd think it's a fetish. (It is btw)
No. 333355
>>333333I have to wonder if it's actually the author or just the Jump editor pushing their usual coomer jokes, since it feels so out of place. I heard they've done this before.
It's so repetitive, I don't understand how people don't get tired of the exact same jokes every time. We're only missing the nosebleed joke now.
No. 333614
>>332898Same, I cried through the whole show
I read the manga some time ago so I already knew the basic plot, but while watching the anime I realised that I had forgotten some important events.
And I have to admit that to me, while I absolutely adore all of Urasawa's works, the fantastic animation and the soundtrack made me love the anime even more.
Personally I've never seen another anime that was so well animated.
No. 333915
>>333911Nta but basically the story is about country A enslaving people through the power of titans ages ago, so every country ever went against it and somehow win the war and made everyone in country A go to an island, but some people stayed in country B. Country A's people are from a race that possesses the power to turn into titans either by the commands of a specific titan that can transform at will, or by being injected with something country B created. Country A people were brainwashed and got their memories erased to think only them existed and no one exists outside the walls to keep peace between the 2 countries. Until country B started sending people that it turned into titans to country A to retrieve the titan that can turn people into titans because he's too dangerous and he ran to country A which can reignite the war.
All of this causes the mess that happens later on from s1 onwards with titans attacking humans and humans fighting back. Until they discover all of this because Eren's dad was behind the titan that ran away and gave his powers to his son. Eren decides to take revenge on country B for what they've been doing this whole time sending titans and destroying their country and killing his people, especially his mom. Which imo is justified. But his friends try to stop him and fight him back because they think it's wrong to do the same thing to their enemies and they prefer peace which is fair imo. His brother, Zeke, the beast titan, thinks it's better to commit mass suicide/euthanasia of their people (country A) but Eren doesn't think so. I think Zeke had a point, too.
At the end of the story the writer all of a sudden focuses on Mikasa who was irrelevant mostly and wants to make her the hero of the story, which isn't a bad idea but the execution was shit as you can see in the video above. It made no sense and was very shoehorned in, especially with all the romance and shit since she and Eren are adoptive siblings and never had any real chemistry. And the reveal that he regrets it and doesn't want to do it but "can't stop" was shitty. Armin should've been the one to stop him as I mentioned in my posts above. And the romance shit with Mikasa should've been removed entirely.
Also, after they kill Eren, the people of his country get inspired to form a terrorist group and try and fight the enemy country just like he did, with their queen agreeing to it and supporting it. Which would just make things worse for everyone and cause the same problems all over again, and everyone's past efforts would be wasted. The remaining main cast become peace ambassadors for the enemy country and try to negotiate with the queen of their homeland country to stop the upcoming war, and that's how the story 'ends'.
No. 334064
>>334060Her haircut reminds me of the default female Robin design in FE Awakening. I don't read the manga or watch the anime so I wonder if that's on purpose.
>short skirt showing off legs with stockingI thought she was wearing a tunic with a pair of trousers. So what is she actually wearing?
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>>334064She's wearing a skirt
No. 334069
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>>334060From what I remember, the skirt stays covering what it should and the most fanservice is a joke at one point about how one of the characters has large breasts (they stay hidden beneath a jacket.)
Some of the female elves/demons are shown as youngish and the designs can be a miss, but I think that's it.
No. 334082
>>334024I remember not being too bothered about it when it happened, as I just had no faith that Eren would be killed off, but imo the whole thing started to decline once titan shifting became a super power. I would have liked it more if shifters permanently sacrificed their humanity or something after first transforming, or at least let each shifter be unique and not have shit like 'attack titan' or 'cart titan' that can be traded around. The way AoT's story just kind of fell off a cliff baffles me, the early parts/seasons feel very different compared to when it started getting into politics and basement stuff.
The world beyond the walls never should have had thriving cities either, a localised apocalypse/dystopia is rarely a good twist or whatever the author was going for.
No. 334157
>>329224God Basquash was so fucking enjoyable and the characters were so good. I especially loved mechanic girl.
Like so many original anime the latter half tried too many things at once and lost the steam, but still good.
Thinking about it it's weird there aren't more series with such styles and action, considering how successful westaboo series like
Trigger anime are.
>>329440Not lying I WISH could stomach Jump shounen because JJK has some really interesting or hot guys and shounen in general have a wide variety of male designs, unlike most other anime. I wish I could get into them but I just never even make it to the good characters. For some reason the MCs always bore me. Even MHA has some cool designs, but I hate Deku so much and don't like kid MCs in shounen lol.
No. 334160
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>>331821They skipped a few scenes I considered relevant but the anime made me even more emotional than the manga for some reason, I actually teared up at the end of episode 1 and 2. Wonder if the scenes are just better when animated or if it's me who changed. I know that I react way more emotional to the news too for a bunch of years. Catastrophes and such never bothered me much when I was a kid or teen.
No. 334165
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>>334060I genuinely started Frieren to hate on it and whine about bad shit being popular but ended up loving it almost instantly. I didn't see any fanservice so far besides that one joke and Frieren herself mentionied how elves have a low libido, which explains why there are so few of them. I also like her romance with Himmel because it's very plantonic.
It hits a weak spot for me though because I dig bittersweet narratives and comments on the passage of time. Frieren is actually the first 1000yo character I have seen in an anime that actually behaves like a being to whom time means nothing. It's interesting to see how carelessly she's wasting years and how she has, for the first time, realised that time affects her too. Indirectly, because she sees her friends dying and directly because her friends have changed her too without even noticing. I also like her grandma personality.
My personal AOTS together with Pluto and it's not even close.
No. 334355
>>334348I remember very early on, soon before or after the first season ended, that he completely changed the ending he planned because he would have felt bad for the fans with what he planned at first.
I don't remember all the details but it was something like almost all the main characters dying. It was so early on that it wasn't revealed yet who the colossal titan was iirc. I'm glad I got too lazy to keep up with the manga in the arc where Historia's actual name and backstory gets revealed.
No. 334361
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I don't know if anyone here is still keeping up with Jujutsu Kaisen but this latest episode was amazing. I can't believe I cried for Jogo kek
No. 335023
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Is it just me or has anime for the gals been kinda absent lately? I miss when we were all united in sperging about Free! or YoI. I know a lot of women are enjoying JJK these days but I mean shows that are very obviously made for women in mind. SK8 happened but that was really meh and didn't really catch on as much as you'd expect.
It feels like nowadays every female otaku is either a full time genshinfag or shounenfag, even I am guilty of enjoying both but I do miss silly high budget shows with a cast full of ikemen
No. 335029
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>>335023There's a number of shows, but recently with shows like keep it cool and boss is goofy it seems like they're going for "cute" rather than sexy.
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>>335023I liked Tsurune season 1 but haven't gotten around to season 2 yet. Bit of a Free! rehash in the CGDCT/sports genre
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I am cringe, but I am free.
No. 335192
>>333870ofc normalfags loved it, they live to consume
the ending was a shitshow and I am sure Isayama did it to spite the fans, just like other nonna said
Also how anyone can like that little shit Armin is beyond me, he's such a Gary Stu and clearly Isayama's fucking pet, you will rike Arumin! He's Isayama's self insert and it shows.
Eren is a ragetard but he didn't deserve to be humiliated that way.
Don't get me started on that bitch Annie not suffering ANY consequences
Only thing that made snk good was WIT's animation and Sawano's soundtrack, the series ended at the sea for me.
No. 335217
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>>315046I know of this! I haven't watched the anime yet but I did read the first few chapters of the manga.
I really enjoy tall girl x short guy romcoms and the author seems to share my french kissing fetish>>325493I'm the exact audience for this (not so much eroge, but I am a massive retro computer autist with a particular interest in PC-98) and it's been really, really enjoyable, but I do wish it focused more on the actual process of game development of the time and the computers themselves rather than time travel shenanigans like the original doujins are, and I wish Konoha wasn't such an oblivious zoomer who wasn't even alive during the 90s. If I was her I'd want to fuck up the timeline real good by pointing out and talking about things in the tech industry that haven't happened yet or are about to happen, kek, like the comments about dot-com companies and the y2k problem in the latest episode
>>335130>>335195I just started reading Hanako-kun! I already watched the anime but now I'm onto the manga. I really enjoy it, but I get distracted very easily from manga which I hope I can overcome.
No. 335239
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Just finished this and liked it a lot. Has some coomer moments but overall was an enjoyable samurai revenge tale. Fun and tense fight scenes. No pomo gender crap. I love Mizu so much.
>Blue Eye Samurai follows Mizu, a young woman of mixed race in 17th-century Japan, who masquerades as a male samurai on a quest for vengeance against the four white men who illegally remain in Japan – and the one who’s likely her father.
No. 335329
>>335192>Don't get me started on that bitch Annie not suffering ANY consequencesYeah, she is the one I wanted to see dead the most. Her fans are also insufferable.
>>335239Not an anime.
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Still not over the AoT anime ending and how climactic it was. I'm so glad they fixed what went wrong in the manga's last chapters. I expected a shit portrayal too, but they made the final fight gorgeous and impactful, especially if you're like me and enjoy seeing all the various types of titans. I just wish Armin's inner conflict hadn't chopped up the pacing, there was no need for that.
What shocked me is that they kept the little boy finding the tree at the very end. The Hallucinogenia clearly died, so why would it matter if anyone new falls down there? I'm also upset the devil/fruit drawing ended up being an untied loose end given how much it's been shown in earlier seasons, but other than that the conclusion is satisfying.
>nooo you can't suddenly make the story focus on Mikasa
To nonas upset about that: someone had to kill Eren. I understand nonas who would've preferred it being Armin, but Mikasa doing it is darkly ironic (the whole reason she joined the scouts was to protect him) and it ties perfectly into the moral of AoT's story, which is that letting go is the ultimate form of love and survival. Besides, I'd rather have the pick-me girl free herself at the very end than not at all, but I understand that ideally it should've always focused on her (or maybe halfway through the series, since having her be the main lead from the start would've prevented the series from ever taking off…)
And not to sound like a fan jumping through hoops but I feel like very few here actually watched/read AoT. There are actual issues with it, but instead of them being adressed it's always unimportant stuff like "Armin is a tranny because he's slightly feminine" or "Eren bad because he turned evil" or "Isayama bad because (???)". The actual issues are the time paradoxes that came with the introduction of the paths, some military plans by the Eldian army and the entire arc around Dina and the death of Eren's mom.
I really wish people (especially us women) would be less unforgiving towards this anime because it's one of the very few that doesn't treat it's women like childish, pink and frilly wankfodder. The portrayal of women in AoT isn't perfect (it's made by a scrote after all) but bashing it while defending animes that are full of moe definitely doesn't help.
As for my personal criticism I wish that they'd focused everything more on the titans, made it more paranormal and horror/monster-based. I had the same disappointment with Death Note and how it turned into a crime/detective series instead of focusing on the shinigamis. No wonder Zoe killed herself…
No. 335444
>>335329Samefagging but even as an Annie fan, I agree with you. I love her but she should've atoned in one way or another, ideally by sacrificing herself. It's scary to think she's just… out there. In Marleyan society, walking among innocents…
>>335345The AU all of us monsterfuckers would've wanted. Attack titan Eren is hot, idgaf what anyone says, I'm taking this to the terato thread
No. 336940
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I'm worried that the Jujutsu Kaisen anime won't be finished because MAPPA won't let their animators rest and don't pay them for overtime. It's a shit situation, why not let your employees get a realistic schedule so they can create amazing animation instead of burning them out so they quit and the production suffers?
No. 336947
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>>336940oh another JJK nonna
you've read that the last episode was only 30% done right? You know S2 only had a production time of 6 months instead of the agreed 2 years, because crappa took on CSM?
MAPPA is extremely greedy and will work its animators to the grave, they took on so many big projects, most notable being snk, csm and jjk. These are VERY BIG titles that would require a proper schedule to deliver something good.
The problem is the ceo afaik stated they want to be the next kyoani and they want to grow a lot, their goal however is entirely unrealistic hence all these problems.
You also need to understand that there's a lot more than this, there's also the agreement for the airing slot , product and especially BD releases, all of these need to be lined up.
I've read delays were asked and declined 2 times so I fear for the poor animators too.
Hidden Inventory was amazing but the cracks started to show lately and will show a lot starting next episode.
tl;dr corporate greed that fucked up the initially agreed schedule and that sees humans as disposable resources ,this will keep on happening because of how japanese culture is
could you imagine how good the series would have looked if it had 2 years development time instead of 6 months or so?
anyway here's a cute Gojo because why not
No. 336975
>>335239I was avoiding this because western media about Asian women sometimes gives me a bad feeling, but now I’m intrigued.
The protagonist is allowed to be something other than a cutesy love interest for a white dude? Not feminine or waifu like at all?
No. 336979
>>336947I don't follow JJK at all but
>MAPPA is extremely greedy and will work its animators to the grave>the ceo afaik stated they want to be the next kyoaniPlease don't tell me an idiot like this managed to become a CEO. Kyoani is famous for treating its employees very, very well compared to the rest of the industry.
No. 337728
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Anime is well-known for its onslaught of incest shit ("I wuv you Onii-chan/Onee-chan!1!1!"), that its kind of making me wonder if there are any anime that portray siblings realistically. The only one I can think of is Umineko—its insane how picrel's troubled dynamic reminds me of my own aunts and uncles' relationships with each other kek.
As for other famous anime siblings: FMA's Elric brothers makes the cut too, meanwhile Nezuko and Tanjiro's seems too lovey-dovey for siblings to me (thank God, it's not incest though).
Legit, does anyone else know any anime where siblings' relationships are portrayed more realistically?
No. 337737
>>337729It's because she was groomed. This is something many
victims of abuse experience
including myself and granted it's underexplored but it's not this crazy unheard of thing haters want to make it out to be. Yes it's bad and unhealthy, but that's literally the point.
>>337724The point is that she's trapped in a loveless marriage and lives the same fate as her mother, as portrayed in one of the credits animations. Her freedom is false freedom. It's the reocurring theme of the entire series.
You have to understand a work of fiction's main themes and message if you're going to criticize it. AoT will always be less misogynistic than the majority of anime and all of moe shit, no matter how you try to twist it.
No. 337738
>>337724Samefagging because i forgot to adress this but
>the author's NTR and humiliation kink for HistoriaAh yes… to the point we haven't even seen the man's face and to the point where Historia and Ymir have tons of official promo artwork outside the manga depicting them as a couple. You know, you can just say you don't like it, it's fine to just dislike series because they don't suit your taste.
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>>337728Yeeaaah, if all mention of Tanjiro and Nezuko being siblings were taken out, they would VERY easily pass for love interests and that’s fucking weird to me. They’ve never come across as siblings to me at all. This is how official merch portrays them. As much as I hate how it ended, I’m glad it at least didn’t officially end with incest.
No. 337760
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Today's Jujutsu Kaisen episode was painful to watch for multiple reasons. It hurts to see Nanami half-burnt, a dead man walking. Mahito killing him here in the anime feels like a mercy kill, even if that wasn't the intention. The other painful thing is that it's obvious how the current situation is affecting the animation quality. Next episode will likely be the last episode we see Nobara outside of a flashback. There are so many scenes left that ideally should have epic animation, but I really want my girl Nobara to get some good quality animation. She deserves it.
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>>337728Mob and Ritsu is one I find quite genuine and endearing.
No. 337893
>>337827Maybe it's just a poverty thing. They were poor woodcutters with 10 kids and no privacy.
I once saw a french movie about a poor coal miner family from the 1860s, and there's a scene where a girl is bathing in front of several family members. They had no time or money for privacy and had a bunch of kids around.
No. 337927
>>337728Gintama
>>337827Mixed-sex baths were a thing back then (and they still exist, though only old, wrinkled people use them these days).
No. 338007
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I'm free from any responsabilities for the next month so I wanted to start watching anime again, it's been years since I've watched anything. I read a lot of manga so I'd rather not watch an adaptation of something that I've already read or am reading.
These are the anime I plan on watching, if you could, please tell me if any of them is not worth it, or if the manga is a better experience:
Jujutsu Kaisen
The Apothecary Diaries
Monster
Kokoro Connect
Kimi ni Todoke
BECK
Bokurano
Kageki Shoujo
Yuru Camp
Aria the animation
No. 338021
>>338007Yuru Camp is boring as fuck. That anime is the craziest psyop I have ever been witness to
I read Aria manga and it truly healed my soul so I do recommend it if you don't fancy the anime, but I have heard good things about the anime too.
No. 338024
>>337737I see where you're coming from, anon. You have some good points. I personally like AoT because the freedom stuff resonate with me.
I have been imprisoned my whole life, still imprisoned and may never get out, so I lived freedom and revenge through Eren killing the people who imprisoned him. Unhealthy and evil, I know, but I understand where he's coming from. And it was very satisfying to see that turn to 'evil' he did, way better than his former whiny shounen protagonist self. Zeke and his euthanasia plan also had a point that I can relate to. Suicide and dying with dignity is better than living humiliated sorry for the blog post.
No. 338050
>>338007For Bokurano, you're better off reading the manga. I liked the atmosphere/ost/seiyuu cast of Kimi ni Todoke's anime, can't say much about the manga 'cause I only read a few chapters. For Kokoro Connect, I can't remember much since I watched it while it first aired but it's an okay series and it's short. Aria the Animation is good for when you want to watch something nice and soothing at night.
I hope you enjoy your anime month, anon.
No. 338097
>>338007 The Monster anime can be very slow paced, if you're not liking it switch to the manga.
I remember hating Kokoro Connect so much. There's a scene where a female character admits to a male characters she has also masturbated to him. Gross.
The Kimi ni Todoke anime is really good don't listen to that slut. I also liked Yuru Camp, it's fine if you like SoL.
No. 338112
>>336975There's a smidgen of cringe shit with her seeming to have some mutual blooming feelings for the japanese boy who took part with the other kids in bullying her as a child but I can't tell if they're going to do anything with that in season two or not because of how the first season ends. The show also doesn't make explicitly clear whether that guy realizes she's actually a woman or not. I've seen arguments amongst fans both ways and the show does have a line about how a lot of ronins were fags, but personally I think he does know. They're small, fleeting moments.
There's also time dedicated to a flashback/backstory for her in episode 5 that you may deem too feminine/waifu (another japanese guy) but I felt it only added to fleshing her out and humanizing her more once all is said and done.
There's zero romance between her and any white guy.
No. 338130
>>338044>>338016>>338097Manga it is, then!
>>338097I remember watching kokoro connect for a few episodes, it was coomerish at times but it didn't seem to be borderline harem like bunny girl senpai. And I kinda liked the vibe as well, hope I don't get negatively surprised lol
>>338021Boring as in too slow or too bland? I enjoyed Sora yori, Super Cub, Kino's Journey, and absolutely love Mushishi, so I don't mind slow paced anime. The Aria series seem to be slow paced as well so I'm not quite sure what you meant by boring.
No. 338145
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>>338007>Jujutsu Kaisenworth it for the hot guys alone kek, don't think too much, just enjoy it. And don't get too attached to any of the characters lol.
BUT watch it in this order: JJK 0 movie -> Season 1 -> Season 2 . I'd say Hidden Inventory arc in S2 was the series peak for me.
You can give the manga a shot and see if you like it, but for jjk I'd do that after watching the anime.
I love Geto so much ;_;
>The Apothecary DiariesI like it and I suggest reading the "prettier" manga too (it has 2 manga adaptations) and the web novel. I love the banter between Jinshi and catcat and the palace shenanigans are fun.
>Monsterstick with it, it gets a lot of hate but it really is good, I enjoyed it
>Kokoro Connectmeh
>Kimi ni Todokevery cozy anime, I liked it, the manga is good too
>Bokuranoread manga, then watch the anime
>Yuru CampIt's very comfy
>Aria the animationone of my alltime favorite series,I hope you love it as much as me
And if you like shoujos I'm gonna go on a whim and recommend Akatsuki No Yona manga, it has an anime that adapts a part of it too and it's really good.
(emoji) No. 338147
>>338146I completely agree. The anime improves the manga a lot and makes it easier to understand. The Itadori vs Choso battle in S2 is a great example - the anime made it so intense and atmospheric yet easy to follow.
But who knows what is going to happen with this great anime - the long-suffering animation staff has said that the production will be worse from here on.
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Handsome male characters and beautiful animation aside, one of the reason I started to watch JJK was because of the non-objectificated, competent female characters. But of course they get sidelined and the plot is mostly about men fighting. It's the curse of shounen manga. Attack on Titan also started out well with interesting female characters.
Posting my girl Nobara again because I love her
No. 338181
>>338145Thanks for the inputs
nonnie! But I cannot watch both anime and manga of the same series. I'm not one who enjoys watching repeated stuff, I don't have the energy for it kek
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>>326759These dudes would commit mass suicide if they ever discovered Nana
>>329199>can't even be bothered to use Google translate Kek reminded me of picrel. Plug these cities into Google maps and they're not even an hour apart
No. 338265
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>>338150yeah shonens are cursed as far as female characters go
Mikasa got reduced to "Ereh" and Gege doesn't give a shit about his female characters. What bothers me is that Nobara had potential,as did other JJK girls.
the character designers need to be praised, how they managed to turn gege's chicken scratches into such appealing characters is great work
I get really salty when I see good character designs stuck in bad series/plot/storyline
>>338181for apothecary diaries then stick to the anime as it's currently airing and it's fun to keep up, then maybe if you feel like it, pick up the manga
for jjk anime is the way to go
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>>338287It surprised me too. He is more intimidating in the anime as well. He just looks kinda cute in the chicken scratch manga imo
>>338265>I get really salty when I see good character designs stuck in bad series/plot/storylineYes and promising female characters quickly being forgotten or otherwise screwed over by the moid author is the worst.
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I miss colourful subs.
No. 338396
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Finished Utena today after taking a long break, really didn't care for it honestly since it was so repetitive. Yes I get that that's the overall theme, doesn't stop me from finding the show boring as fuck and has some of the most painful filler episodes (Any scene with Nanami and her cow+egg shit was torture)
I kinda liked Touga though since he's such a meme, ended up shipping him with Utena despite me calling him a cuck when Akio was kissing Utena haha.
Was pretty surprised at how little yuri was in it for it being the most iconic yuri anime honestly, I'm watching the movie tomorrow where I know it's very yuri, but the series itself? Eh, not really.
No. 338411
>>338396I'm ashamed to say that i still didn't finish it, lol.
The main reason why i didn't watch it before was because i wasn't into the artstyle when i was younger, but i guess that the moeblob epidemic made me lean into it, i do think it looks pretty now… but same, i find it boring, so far i hope it will change once i get to continue it but i've been watching other shows instead.
Not saying it's a bad show, maybe i just had higher expectations.
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>>338411I think people think Utena is serious business but it's actually extremely dumb and stupid and funny. people who go in with a certain expectation are always disappointed.
I mean for god's sake, Anthy literally
turns into a car in the movie. Ikuhara is the japanese anime director equivalent of a shitposter.
No. 338430
>>338373no, if you want hot men that's Jujutsu Kaisen
>>338396I found Utena boring but I enjoyed Mawaru Penguindrum a lot more, that's Ikuhara's best work imo
No. 338438
>>325493I'm enjoying this one as a vn reader. I don't like the scroteish elements of the medium but some of them genuinely have good stories so it's nice to see an anime on the topic. Makes me wish I had female friends who like vns like the girls in the show
>>338373There's yoshida who is kind of cute but i don't think he showed up in the anime yet
No. 338443
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>>338430I feel like everyone hated Yurikuma Arashi but I couldn't stop laughing at it, I love it so much it's so enjoyable and retarded
No. 338459
>>338423That's fair, personally i didn't look into Utena much because i mostly go in blind, i had no idea what the story was like but i usually prefer to finish the show before saying anything about it, unless it's something awful.
It's been some time since i've paused it but i can't really remember when i found it particularly funny, i do like those series too, i just can't recall finding Utena particularly funny but i'm like 10 episodes in lol.
>>338430I plan to watch Mawaru Penguindrum as well, i was always kinda curious about it.
No. 338469
>>338430Agree, Penguindrum has a much more straightforward storyline and themes, and I think the jokes are better too. Obviously the animation is "better" than Utena since they actually had a budget this time. The characters are more memorable, too, and I definitely cried harder than any other Ikuhara anime. Not to mention the amazing OST, which I once bricked my computer trying to download from a shady website kek.
>>338459Watch the dub. The pseudo-incest subplot flies so far under the radar in the English script that it might as well not be there. I didn't even realise there were meant to be romantic feelings between the characters in question until I watched the subbed version. Nothing of value was lost
No. 338471
>>338396Yeah idk why people get so hung up on it being "yuri" when it really isn't. The movie is definitely more gay but most people believe the tv show is yuri too.
Also nonna you couldn't appreciate the directing genius at least? I feel like one of the main things I loved about Utena was all the unique ways Ikuhara would frame a scene or convey something, his absurdist style is just rare in the industry so I love it a lot.
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Do anons have any CBDCT-esque shows to recommend? I started watching Free after work and it does wonders for relaxing me after a long day despite the drama kek.
I have Tsurune and Touken Ranbu Hanamaru lined up next but I'd like some more too
No. 338579
>>338575My boss is goofy is surprisingly much more delightful than I expected, would definitely recommend.
Also Haikyuu is a good pick.
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>>338575Tsuritama. It’s about fishing.
No. 338681
>>338410I’m glad you liked it, personally I was like ‘for the love of god let this episode end’
>>338471It was okay, I’m not super into the series absurdist humor and I found the random chuchu shenanigans pretty annoying. You can tell the anime was on a lower budget so they clearly did the best they could with the money they had direction wise, but it wasn’t for me.
>>338423It usually gets shilled as ‘adult sailor moon’ which I kind of get, but at the same time I liked sailor moon’s cast more (I don’t think it’s a good anime though honestly).
For me I just didn’t vibe with the comedy and went in expecting some more psychological themes.
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Finished to watch Kyou Kara Ore Wa
I've enjoyed it and hearing 90's delinquents calling some guy a perv soothes me
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>>337760Ep 19 was much better than I had thought it would be. Very nice animation. I'm glad the anime team did Nobara justice…now I just have Gege's writing to be sad and bitter about.
No. 339182
>>339178Are you following the anime only? I also wish she got as important scenes as the guys. I knew what was going to happen though and just hoped that the animators, who are currently struggling, would still be able to deliver a well-made ep. Since it's
her lastAlso screw you Gege, in general
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Sorry if this is sounds autistic but what are some anime recommendations that fit the vibe of each season? It's just one of those times where you feel like watching something new or rewatching in a better and comfy experience.
Spring; shoujo/josei, flowers/blossoms, bright soft colors
>Cardcaptor Sakura
>Fruits Basket
>Ouran Highschool Host Club
>Kimi ni Todoke
>Skip and Loafer
>My Happy Marriage
Summer; water, beaches, the sea/ocean, blue skies, summer activities
>Free!
>Ponyo
>Barakamon
>Tsuritama
>A Lull in the Sea
>Ride Your Wave
Fall; fantasy, magic, witches, cottagecore
>Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
>Kiki's Delivery Service
>The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún
>The Ancient Magus' Bride
>Moomin (1990s TV series)
>Little Witch Academia
>Howl's Moving Castle
>The Secret World of Arrietty
>Mary and the Witch's Flower
Winter; snow, cold, warm clothes
>Yuri!!! on Ice
>Girls' Last Tour
>Yuru Camp
>No.6
>Golden Kamuy
No. 340562
>>339949Anon i don't have recs but that's such an adorable idea, i like the list.
I'm going to rewatch Wolf's Rain for the 4th time because i forgot again why i didn't like it a lot, but i'd say that it has late fall or winter vibes
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i need someone to explain to me how these are actual dragonball screenshots, he looks like he's posing for some idol magazine
No. 341791
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>>341790Toriyama is really good at creating relaxed scenes, especially when he isn't including his fetishes. With the help of his editors, you get some really nice scenes.
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>>339949>springclannad
>summerair
>winterkanon
No. 342747
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How is that a man wrote a story more feminist and more powerful than anything I've ever watched that was written by a woman? I love Utena but it still makes me very sad. Why are women not capable of writing such stories? If I didn't know it was written by a man I would assume it was written by an artistic lesbian radfem. I felt more understood than ever. And this goes beyond politics but also hits deep gnostic themes and women having identity of their own, outside of males, outside of male perception, male needs, male love. This is deep shit.
No. 342779
>>342747Every major entertainment industry is run by deeply misogynistic men who don't actually offer women fair opportunities. Likewise, a truly feminist woman would never work for a major entertainment industry, as it would compromise her values. There's also the matter of gendered socialization, which often results in men being more confident than women are when it comes to stating their controversial political views. Women tend to be more hesitant to state their perspectives on controversial sociopolitical topics because the misogynistic society they live in holds them to much higher standards than it holds men to, which leads women to self-doubt and believe that they shouldn't publicly say anything on these matters unless it perfectly articulates every single little nuance. Men largely don't hold themselves to these impossibly high standards, and will far more willingly state their piece on a serious issue like gender politics without considering every little intricacy in their presentation of the subject. This is why, despite ostensibly being a "more feminist" anime, RGU's female characters are all extremely conventionally feminine in terms of appearance (slacks aside), as well as why it contains somewhat gratuitous on-screen depictions of rape, incest, and torture of young girls.
If I'm being honest, I very much doubt that RGU would be held in such high esteem as a "feminist anime" if the creative lead behind it were a woman. To be more specific, RGU would be much more heavily criticized, both by feminists and by anti-feminists (the former much more justifiably so than the latter), if it were exactly the same anime in every single way, with the exception that the creative lead happened to be female. However, I do believe that it would have been stronger as a "feminist anime" had the creative lead been a woman, but a woman would have never gotten the opportunity to make a project like RGU to begin with because the anime industry is too male-dominated and misogynistic to allow that, even today.
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>>342747>>342752I'd argue that neither of those works is feminist. For example, RoV was supposed to have a male protagonist, but since the author was unsure how to write a male POV character, she decided to make the main character a girl on a whim. Utena is just okay; I think it was pretty but just alright. Another factor is that these are stories by Japanese people about mostly their idea of European aesthetics, with the creators imposing their own cultural and personal beliefs onto them. Both are basically in fantasy realms I don't think the creators thought too hard about in terms of themes, other than 'sexism is bad.'
No. 342792
>>342787It's very odd to me how Utena is praised as this massive feminist, pro-same sex work of art when Japan is still not allowing women to be paid the same as men irl, not allowed to be promoted the same way in the office and very few women leaders exist in Japan. They are still heavily expected to be SAHM and wives. Utena is a decent series, but the heavy handed analyizing it gets makes me start to hate it. Ikuhara nor his wife are not feminists and let's stop pretending they are.
I actually didn't know that about ROV. Makes me sad since I really do like Oscar as a character. It's like no one really thinks "Let's write a good female protag." They just default to male and it's boring, and lazy.
No. 342807
Just because Oscar from RoV was meant to be a man first that doesn't mean the story didn't end up getting shaped by her being a woman. Some of its major themes are the difference between sexes, gender roles and Oscar's problems with being born a woman.
It's also not feminist in the hardcore way one may think it is. It's simply a good story with themes adjacent to feminism but in the end Oscar is still a heterosexual woman who loves a heterosexual man (who almost raped her and then regret it, btw) and they make sparkly love the night before they die fighting in the french revolution. You're not going to get your radfem fix from it and I think many ppl today could probably find it offensive (especially trans but alas lol lmao imagine if they actually watched anime until the end).
>>342747I don't think it's a surprise that a male writer can write convincing female characters and female PoVs. It's just a sign he is a good writer and that he understands female psychology. He's not a woman and he'll never be but nothing dictates he can't write them well just cause he is a scrote.
No. 342813
>>342784woman directed american psycho but the story wasn't written by a woman
I know a shit ton of media and I've never seen a female character I could truly resonate with; outsiders obsessed with ideas, not interested in romance (especially with scrotes). Strong individualists, strugglers, autists. Only male characters are allowed to be like this and I hate it. The famele characters I kinda like (but don't resonate with) are still so fucking boring and one dimensional in comparison to my favourite male characters.
Going back to your comment, you basically provide like one example
No. 342852
>>342816Not just you nona, I don't think Utena is only feminist or ideologically progressive in the sense that it features female homosexuality. Even then it's only on-screen in the movie, the rest is just symbolic or subtextual. Also I don't think it has anything to say about patriarchy specifically, more like general themes of breaking cycles, evaluating the worth of traditions, forging your own path & identity, etc. All this discussion has been really interesting though. I love Utena and I'm happy to see anons talking about it.
>>342813It's not anime but have you read the novels Convenience Store Woman or Earthlings by Sayaka Murata? You may find the protagonists one-dimensional still, but at least they are straight up weird.
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>>342747chiho saito erasure post
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>>342813>>342747Utena was a group project and there was a woman in the group and the men on staff were heavily influenced by their work on sailor moon and other things created by women and they were basically just big fans of lesbians so they managed to make something nice. I don't know why you're trying to make it about how women can't write, please stop baiting it's Sunday go touch grass. Come back when you're less retarded.
No. 343007
>>343005I know it was initially inspired by SM and I don't care, it evolved way past that and became much deeper and more symbolic than SM ever was
Maybe women would write better stuff if they weren't almost always so hung up on straight romance and femininity
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is wonder egg priority worth watching?
No. 343013
>>343008The ending was so disappointing and rushed and out of place, completely ruined the show for me. Still, it's a really short show with nice animation and a cute group of friends so you don't have much to lose by watching it.
>>343012I liked how the tranny shit still had a pretty bio essentialist spin on it, like the tif being in a world reserved only for women kek
But the show definitely felt extremely zoomerish and like it was trying to be… hip, I guess.
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>>343007You're talking as if Utena isn't super feminine in everything. It's basically a big pot of shoujo manga, takarazuka and sailor moon… you cannot get more feminine than that.
And its kind of female autism and obsessions can be found in old shoujo manga from the 70s.
Ikuhara is also a moidy moid who is obsessed with homosexuality (both kinds). You should look up his anime Yuri Kuma Arashi and how he wanted a big titty girl character in it just to have oppai mousepads of her.
No. 343044
>>342979Utena is not sexualized, it handles misogyny and abuse in a way I've never seen another anime handle it. It's quite respectful.
>>342981Go jill off to your shota boys then?
No. 343048
>>343043The manga was published alongside the anime as an accompaniment/alternative. It was not an original manga first, but Utena is a product of the whole team which did include Chiho Saito.
I agree though that retarded anon is baiting by generalizing and I don't know why you guys are still biting.
No. 343049
>>343046Unnecessary and pathetic reply, you're a troll trying to upset the based
femcels. Try a little harder because rn it seems like you've got your hand deathgripping your burnt hotdog while you tyoe.
No. 343053
>>343049>you've got your hand deathgripping your burnt hotdog while you tyoeSounds like you're projecting, sped kek No real woman uses the word "
femcel," ironically or not.
Now I'm sure "Why aren't women capable of making BASED, FEMINIST yuri like men? All they care about is romance and moids!" Was incel bait all along and you retards took it as usual.
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Reze's arc will be adapted on a movie instead of a second season. I'm not sure how to feel about it, it should be fine if it doesn't rush through the manga.
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>>343079i hope the csm director goes to hell…csm's
so artsy and stylistic that a more daringly creative adaptation would've served it well. i mean they could've done so much cool shit! the fight involving nail devil could've had cool meta elements (the fingers and nails forcing the show into a different aspect ratio or something) but instead we got boring soulless 120 fps kny a-1 pictures slop.
i know the mangaka is seething kek, imagine getting an offer from a studio to adapt your work and they give it to some asshole who doesn't even like the medium he's working in. and what you get isn't vivid animation but literal stiff 3dcg. i wish whoever directed bocchi had been on the csm team
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>>343372he would've been so good…
kind of ot but i've always felt monogatari only blew up because of it's high artistic value, if you stripped all the cool animation away it's essentially just a harem with quirky – in the male way – girls and mystery elements.
>>343502go away hackayama
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>>343608>kind of ot but i've always felt monogatari only blew up because of it's high artistic value, if you stripped all the cool animation away it's essentially just a harem with quirky – in the male way – girls and mystery elements. Absolutely, the main reason why I tolerated it for so long was because of the fun visuals. And kaiki, he was fun.
That said, csm doesn't deserve a better adaptation. The fandom is obnoxious enough for something so mid, I wouldn't want them getting any louder and bigger with an actually fancy adaptation.
No. 343721
>>343706I was 15 when monogatari was coming out, I wouldn't watch it today.
I don't understand what this weird cult surrounding csm is, peak fiction - why? It's just a filmbro doing references (truly the peak of fiction for weebs it seems) and inserting his fetishes into his work, there's nothing of value. On top of that it's a generic shonen with really nothing that sets it apart from the rest when it comes to your general powers, mechanics and characters.
Even though they're totally different the worship around CSM reminds me of the worship edgy coomers and wannabe bpd
femcels had around punpun.
Mind you I don't have anything against people liking CSM and enjoying it, but your moidslop is no different than other popular moidslop.
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I will never be able to rewatch Darker Than Black to remember why i found Hei hot because once i grew up i would see him again only as the pfp of some annoying people and it kinda ruined it to me, usually i don't let things like that bother me but i don't want to be disappointed by jumping back in the series and realize he is cringe or something like that.
I just remember that i didn't really like that he had some loli companion and that doesn't really help.
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>>345160chinese electric batman had best collarbones, the girl you're referring to is Yin and she was a
dollHis avatar was really popular when the anime came out and there have been lots of idiots throughout the years who used it, why deny yourself fun for such a frivolous thing?
>>345161I'd stop after S3 if I were you, it's still ok. The story killed it for me and the art style was just the final nail in the coffin
I admit that S1-S2 were such a great watch but the music and solid animation (make sure you get the BD versions) hardcarried the show.
>>344746give it a try and find out, imho it really is one of the best.
The 1995 movie is great and SAC 2nd GIG is top tier anime. Motoko is awesome and the soundtrack is stellar
While I'm here I want to recommend Psycho-Pass S1, it has a female lead and her character development is nothing short of great. There's no fanservice and it's one of the few series that gets better with every rewatch. It gave me heavy feels when I watched it for the first time almost a decade ago.
Be warned tho, if you know Urobutcher and his writing you know it'll rip your heart to pieces
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>>345166>why deny yourself fun for such a frivolous thing?I am afraid of collecting husbandos because i go insane for characters like him but the fact that he gets hobofied at some point and hangs around other small female characters bothers me, idk if they are actually young or he just makes them look so but i wish he was closer to ones that looked his age…
tho i remember freaking out when he got to kiss some woman to hide from some guy around the first episodes, i'm kinda curious to see if i would have the same reaction now kekMaybe i will give it a try because looking him up is not helping me, i thought that keeping a vague memory of him would be better but actually if he manages to be cringe i will have more space in my head for better characters
No. 345173
>>345170>but the fact that he gets hobofied at some point don't be silly nonna, there is no DtB S2
if you don't understand this joke I don't blame you, it's a very old running joke, basically S2 was so bad everyone agreed to pretend it doesn't exist.I'd say to watch it and enjoy, don't go too harsh on yourself
>I am afraid of collecting husbandoskek, well that's a sane addiction compared to others
No. 345177
>>345173Kek i get it
nonnie, i wasn't very active online back then but i don't think i even saw S2, that's why i try to not judge before i see how it actually is but i never had big expectations anyway because hobofying him in even 1 frame means that they disrespected his beauty and that was unforgivable to me!!11!!
>that's a sane addiction compared to othersIf he graduates he will be welcome in my collection of mostly dark haired gloomy and quiet men with questionable nationality, the ones that can fight get more food for dinner
No. 345180
>>345166>her character development is nothing short of greatIs this bait? She goes from being a sheep to being a sheep. Totally unable to even imagine functioning outside of the system. She never stops simping for Sibyl. Imagine missing the point of the show so hard. She is so impotent and lacking in foresight that I detest her.
>somebody will turn you off one day, s-surely! but it won't be me
>There's no fanserviceThere is implied lesbian sex right in episode 1. It's fanservice because it serves no narrative purpose whatsoever.
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>>345166AOT anon here. I think I can handle the new art style. And I said, I already know the ending, just want to see it again lol. I personally love s3 and s4 adjacent plot more than s1 and s2. But it was hinted at from the start so it's kinda weird to me that people didn't see it coming. Same as Eren's s3 and s4 personality, he was always a psychopath who is ok with killing anyone he dislikes and keeping the ones he likes alive. That was even in the very first episode, I'm not surprised by it at all, I saw it coming and totally understood him since I'm in a similar situation as the aot characters but in a smaller scale I guess. I understand his freedom stuff and relate to the way he feels regardless of if he was right or wrong about it.
No. 345198
>>345180I was pretty sure you'd mention the lesbian sex, that doesn't count as fanservice. If that's fanservice I don't even want to know your opinion on the usual animu girl with jiggly boobies.
> She goes from being a sheep to being a sheep. If you can't see her evolution throughout the series you're the one who missed the point. She's not in a position where she can change the system but she sees how flawed it is.
No. 345292
>>345198>>345197You can't be this dumb, can you? It's made by a scrote and targeted at scrotes - as is the case of 95% of lesbianism you see in anime/TV media. You think yuribait in CGDCT shows is targeted at women too? What about cute girls grabbing each others boobs at random - is it not fanservice to you either? I know admitting that you were wrong is hard, but at least choose a less laughable hill to die on.
>If you can't see her evolutionWhat evolution? She still trusts the system. She can't live outside it. The system is so important to her that she is willing to throw the guy she likes under the bus rather than pull the plug.
>She's not in a position where she can change the system but she sees how flawed it is.All she literally has to do is to smash a couple of brains or pull the plug. It couldn't be easier. You're making a character you whiteknight so hard into a drooling retard or a Disney princess, who can't manage basic tasks (that's what the prince is for). You babify her as a part of your deranged headcannon - good job I guess? Do it more to characters I hate? I love it.
No. 345311
>>343008This was a full on fetish show imo, it felt like a bad Madoka ripoff written by some autistic otaku scrote who wanted an edgy break the cutie show but had none of the creativity Urobuchi's team did. Even the monster designs were uninspired and stock as fuck and the rapebait and ~gender dysphoria~ shit were handed atrociously story-wise. Dropped it halfway through because it just kept getting worse and worse.
>>342816Literally the only reason people think Utena is some radfem triumph (both manga and anime) is because ~lesbians~. Spergy yurifags will fight tooth and nail to prove that it's super based and Utena is totally a GNC lesbian kween when it's archetypal Class S material because they literally have nothing else to celebrate. And the anime is fucking almost 30 years old by now, how bleak is that.
>>343007tbh this I agree with. I wish there was a female show with no romantic elements so that the writers were forced to give the characters more agenda than pining for a moid.
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Actually, regarding Wonder egg priority, let me sperg for a moment because that anime was the pointless torture porn show people accused Madoka Magica of being. Wonder egg's writer was a TV drama guy who wanted to create his first anime script, it's very obvious that he was at least somewhat inspired by Madoka as he "borrowed" many of the surface level elements from it: edgy magical girls, spoooooky abstract monsters, ~trauma~, the ally mentor-turned-antagonist storypoint and of course, yuribait.
So he ended up with a script that had absolutely no direction and used rape and/or abuse as a motivation for the girls, as that's the go-to crutch for every male writer when they want a woman to have "depth" after all. Like many moids writing about the trauma of girlhood it became a voyeuristic mess. A girl killed herself because person X abused her, now you must resurrect her by defeating X. It doesn't address the institutionalized misogyny that pushes young girls over the edge, it's just one boogeyman that needs to be destroyed. And it gets only worse once it turns out that the story outright frames young girls as emotionally unstable dumbasses who are easily manipulated and commit suicide over their little ladyfeefees because le emotionally weak gender amiright, the conclusion of the story was so fucking retarded it should be illegal. It's insulting, it's infantilizing, it's just the kind of naive shit only a scrote would write about, the romanticized narrative of tortured maidens being beautifully broken, the placing of the blame on individuals instead of the system. And yeah, the monsters looked like fucking shit and completely void of any kind of creativity or storytelling.
No atmosphere, hollow characters, the story is too on the nose and condescending, it's trying to copy something it doesn't understand, it's trying to tell a story it doesn't understand, it's flaming hot garbage. A massive waste of animation resources and interesting character designs, literally every piece of the puzzle was in its place but the writing was so bad it was born dead in the water.
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I recently started watching Skip to Loafer, it's adorable and so refreshing. I really like the main couple and side characters too. (Makes me feel a little jelly too, wish I had that sort of bf/support ;_;)
I'll start reading the manga after finishing the anime, I hope we get a season 2.(;_;)
No. 345412
>>345369You managed to phrase what I couldn't express. I dropped it at ep 6 and never looked back
>>345407this show was so incredibly comfy, I picked up the manga too after, no wonder it was popular
>tfw no golden retriever bflife is pain
No. 345489
>>345486>performative underage weeb girlsSame experience, I've only ever seen actual kids like it because it was babbys first grimdark anime veiled into rainbow colors
I respect your hate for this anime kek
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>>345505Would you like Jormungand? I wouldn't call MC a loser, she's the boss, but they do make her a weirdo. The men could be hotter too… sigh.
No. 345555
>>345491>90% of women prefer romance or some degree of shipshit in their mediaMOST media has romance anon, it's unfair to say something so stereotypical like "women just love romance!" humans just love romance. in cases where there's no romance (male-focused media) there's a lot of sex. imo this is due to: how poorly written female characters often are/
socialization. girls are taught to be brides and girlfriends, boys are taught to be doctors and heroes and promised a girl on the side…so it makes sense that women will gravitate towards romance media whereas men might gravitate to non-romance media (but like i said earlier, there will definitely be a lot of sex – if not some kind of love interest, e.g. a princess to save, even if it's not explicitly labeled 'romance'). i hope this post isn't too rambling.
…and now that i think about it there's a lot of woman-focused anime out there that doesn't feature men or romance at all. check the lc rec chart in the op and expand your horizons a bit
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Please tell me someone else watched Migi and Dali from the last season. I just finished it and it was the best rollercoaster I've had in a long time, had me both cracking up and tearing up.
No. 346529
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EVERYONE STOP WE FINALLY GOT THE DEAD WIFE TROPE BUT REVERSED
this feels so much better, even if in this context is still kinda male gaze-y with frieren being a waifu, but at least it's a new interpretation of the trope and something that i find more interesting
No. 346582
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>>346567there's a character called lektüre, yeah. also another one is just straight up called liar, kek.
No. 346709
>>346540I'm not German but I'm currently living in Germany and I didn't realize their names were german words. I just thought they were really cool and creative names kek. Now that you point it out I do realize some of them were german words I knew.
In my defense I think I didn't notice because they're being pronounced in Japanese and I know Japanese. So when I heard something like Sein I was thinking Zain, not the fucking verb to be lmao.
What a stupid fucking idea tho, the author should be shamed for this.
No. 346713
>>346709>What a stupid fucking idea tho, the author should be shamed for this.That sounds a bit too harsh, kek. Toriyama (DBZ) went through his entire career naming nearly all his characters after food and silly puns and so did Araki (JJBA) naming almost every character and power after whatever western music he was listening at the time, there are Stands in JoJo called "Marilyn Manson" and "Limp Bizkit".
I don't think naming characters after german words your target audience likely won't even know about is some big transgression.
No. 346748
>>346713I agree, Bleach had silly Spanish names and it's not like Japanese don't give characters silly Japanese names either.
I don't really get why Frieren is a big deal when "Light" was used as an mc's name over a decade ago.
No. 346763
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I started watching Spy x Family. I'm only a few episodes in, but I honestly find it super cute and wholesome. I like that the main characters are actual adults (25+ I think), and living as a family unit. I think Loyd and Yor are good husbando or waifu bait, whichever you prefer.
The main issues I have is pretty much with the fandom. Why do I see Anya being sexualized to hell and back? And I've seen arguments that this is family-making propaganda by Japan, but I don't really care lol. I'd love to have a husband and a cute daughter someday.
No. 346793
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>>346763Usually modern anime is not interesting enough to me so i happened to watch the first season in company of others, my expectations were pretty low but i genuely liked it. Didn't expect Loyd to be that cute and Anya is adorable, all of the characters were pretty likeable to me and i liked their presence instead of feeling like they existed just to be there.
Moids would sexualize anything, specially if something is trending and even better if it's something innocent anyway.
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Nonnas I can't explain why, I'm only a few episodes in but Spy x Family makes me tear up (in a good way)… Maybe it's cuz I grew up in a really messed up family, and I want to have my own happy family someday. It's just so wholesome seeing parents do their best for their kid, even if it's a weird and non-traditional family.
No. 346999
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Has anyone started watching A Sign of Affection? I keep seeing clips on my feed and definitely want to watch it tomorrow, plus I love the art style.
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>>347021It looks a little better animated in the trailer but nowhere near as cute as the manga. There's something kind of off about the guys. It reminds me of when I watch a kdrama and all the males have obscene amounts of plastic surgery in spite of being like 25… not a great comparison but gives me the same feeling.
No. 347053
>>347031>>347021I usually like thicker lips on anime guys but here it's kind of off-putting. The plastic surgery comment is spot on.
That said the anime is really cute, maybe a tad too saccharine for my liking but I'll still watch it. The brown haired girl is really cute.
No. 347056
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>>347053>>347021Wtf I don't see what you see at all?
The guys look good, the girl with the pink hair has way too small mouth kek. But maybe that is based on what you're used to.
t.Jojo fan
No. 347058
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>>347056Maybe I'll get used to it. I'm also a big jojo fan but I'm one of those people that think the style fits the manga format a lot better. I think same could be said for yubisaki to renren as well.
I still appreciate the anime for looking a bit different though.
No. 347273
>>346939It did go off the rails but it also wasn't "out of nowhere", time travel was literally part of the premise to begin with so it was never really a grounded show. Granted they could definitely have focused on vn making and the normal stuff more
>>346999The lips for the main guy in this definitely looked weird in some shots but the anime seems ok production values wise at least
No. 347402
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>>346529i actually really love their relationship. he never tried to 'fix' her, such as her apathetic attitude and how she views things as an elf.
i also like how mature she acts, like she isn't some 1000 y.o loli/childish thing.