MY DUDE HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT SYMPHO-
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 22:51 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 13:28 |
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I just watched Land of the Lustrous, and it was fantastic. What are some other good anime that deal with Buddhist themes and philosophy?
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 22:52 |
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Watch k-on!
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 22:53 |
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Lesbian as all hell, though, so it fits that end at least. If Xun's willing to step out of their comfort zone a bit they might dig watching it with their gf. No worries! We have actually already watched it together and really enjoyed it. Will definitely check out some of the recommendations though! Also legend of galactic heroes caus it has to be in the thread title for some reason
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 23:03 |
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Hiro Protagonist posted:I just watched Land of the Lustrous, and it was fantastic. What are some other good anime that deal with Buddhist themes and philosophy? Hunter x Hunter has some pretty heavy elements of it in the Chimera Ant Arc, but that's the second-to-last arc of the 2011 TV series and it's mostly absent from the rest of the show, since most of it's tied into characters who either aren't relevant or aren't introduced until that arc. It's also like 150 episodes long. A lot of anime deal really heavily with reincarnation in a way that's clearly buddhist-influenced, but anime that outright discuss it or based a lot of their plot on it feel a lot rarer. I'm no expert on buddhism though, so maybe there are people out there who saw it in other shows.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 23:08 |
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I just imagined LotGH with Reinhard replaced by Oscar François de Jarjayes and this seems like a very good idea
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 23:11 |
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Hiro Protagonist posted:I just watched Land of the Lustrous, and it was fantastic. What are some other good anime that deal with Buddhist themes and philosophy? How much are you looking for just Buddhism as opposed to Japanese syncretism that has Buddhism, Shinto, ancestor worship, and sometimes a touch of Christianity thrown in?
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 23:15 |
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Xun posted:No worries! We have actually already watched it together and really enjoyed it. Will definitely check out some of the recommendations though! Also legend of galactic heroes caus it has to be in the thread title for some reason It's not a bad show, mind, it goes in some pretty interesting directions and it's so dry that it winds up semi-unintentionally hilarious when the characters do or say something weird, but unless you and your girlfriend are sci-fi buffs iunno if you'd get much out of it.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 23:16 |
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Cake Attack posted:if you replace lesbian with a cast of almost entirely men and fighting with space ship battles and political intrigue legend of the galactic heroes is exactly what you're looking for Some of the BL people draw of it kinda makes them look like a femme and butch girl respectively
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 23:28 |
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Legend of galactic heroes is a good show but the thread title is what it is as a joking reference to the fact that there used to be people who would basically disregard whatever a person said and just blindly recommend it a lot
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 23:28 |
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the last rec thread died because a guy recommended legend of the galactic heroes to someone who said they liked kyousougiga
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 23:39 |
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Well yeah a lot of times rec threads become a way for people to try to fulfill their own desires and not really help others find poo poo they would like.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 23:46 |
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CharlestheHammer posted:Well yeah a lot of times rec threads become a way for people to try to fulfill their own desires and not really help others find poo poo they would like.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 23:49 |
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Paracelsus posted:How much are you looking for just Buddhism as opposed to Japanese syncretism that has Buddhism, Shinto, ancestor worship, and sometimes a touch of Christianity thrown in?
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 00:01 |
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CharlestheHammer posted:Well yeah a lot of times rec threads become a way for people to try to fulfill their own desires and not really help others find poo poo they would like. I sincerely believe everyone will love k-on
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 00:22 |
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Hiro Protagonist posted:Eh, its not ideal, but I'd take it. Read Osamu Tezuka's Buddha manga if you haven't yet
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 00:35 |
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the person that wanted lesbian fighting anime was ages ago (read: yesterday) and the show isnt lesbian but i just remembered soul eater existed, and its like the one shonen action anime with a female protagonist that ran in an actual shonen magazine and just follows pretty normal shonen storytelling without really being weird or fanservicey beyond how shonen normally is. so if your gf likes shows with female protagonists in general that's a good pull. also i guess if you read crona as a girl you can say its kinda gay
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 04:25 |
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Madlax is sort of a lesbian fighting anime but it's also pretty slow and the plot is wonky as gently caress so ymmv. The lesbian couple has two really good leifmotifs and eat pasta together though so that makes up for a lot.
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 07:18 |
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Talk to me about Steins;Gate for a bit. I see a lot of people losing their poo poo over how good it is, but I have a few questions 1) How good is it actually? I haven't seen much discussion of it in the time I've been lurking here, and broadly speaking I trust you guys more than I trust, say, a sky-high MAL score 2) I've heard some vague stuff about how there's a trans character whose arc can be pretty uncomfortable or upsetting to watch. Without getting into outright spoilers, could I get a sense of what we're talking about here? Outright offensive? Well-meaning but kinda ignorant? Sensitively handled but just depressing/tragic? Something that's just in the VN, not the show? Problematic stuff definitely isn't a deal-breaker, but I want to get at least some sense of what to be ready for if I do end up watching the show
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# ? Jan 28, 2018 02:50 |
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Jenny Angel posted:Talk to me about Steins;Gate for a bit. I see a lot of people losing their poo poo over how good it is, but I have a few questions 1. it's a pretty good character-driven sci-fi story, it didn't blow me away but i had a really fun time watching it 2. ruka is kinda eh. i'd say it's pretty well-meaning but the way she's handled is just sort of bizarre and okabe has some weird bits with her. it's not super awful, it's just kinda weird
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# ? Jan 28, 2018 02:58 |
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Jenny Angel posted:Talk to me about Steins;Gate for a bit. I see a lot of people losing their poo poo over how good it is, but I have a few questions 2) ruka's shtick is that they want to be a girl partly because the main character, okabe, is straight, and they're into okabe. projection like that isnt uncommon for trans people but ruka is kind of a weirdly written half-and-half character where they don't really write them as a gay guy who presents femininely because that's what the person they're into seems to find most attractive but they don't really write them as a trans character anyway. it's not like, the worst thing ever but there's a couple of dumb jokes of okabe reminding themselves they're a 'guy', or perving on them and then going 'wait this shouldn't be a big deal!' okabe never comes across as a huge shithead, more an insecure nerd, partly because ruka never really articulates what they're going for or how they feel so it's hard to blame him for being kind of confused. and ruka's only a side character so it never really gets resolved in the anime (and the vn's resolution of it is also pretty mudled). overall id say there are ways you can read it that are better than others and the authorial intent is pretty clearly just mostly harmless gags that at their worst are mildly gay panic-y. iunno, it's kind of one of those things thats in the gray area enough that you have to judge it for yourself.
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# ? Jan 28, 2018 03:07 |
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One of the few positives of the sorta sequel Steins;Gate 0 is that I felt they used Ruka's character a lot more effectively.
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# ? Jan 28, 2018 03:11 |
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Endorph posted:2) ruka's shtick is that they want to be a girl partly because the main character, okabe, is straight, and they're into okabe. projection like that isnt uncommon for trans people but ruka is kind of a weirdly written half-and-half character where they don't really write them as a gay guy who presents femininely because that's what the person they're into seems to find most attractive but they don't really write them as a trans character anyway. it's not like, the worst thing ever but there's a couple of dumb jokes of okabe reminding themselves they're a 'guy', or perving on them and then going 'wait this shouldn't be a big deal!' okabe never comes across as a huge shithead, more an insecure nerd, partly because ruka never really articulates what they're going for or how they feel so it's hard to blame him for being kind of confused. and ruka's only a side character so it never really gets resolved in the anime (and the vn's resolution of it is also pretty mudled). overall id say there are ways you can read it that are better than others and the authorial intent is pretty clearly just mostly harmless gags that at their worst are mildly gay panic-y. iunno, it's kind of one of those things thats in the gray area enough that you have to judge it for yourself. This is a great and thoughtful summary - I really appreciate it. Sounds like Steins;Gate might be worth checking out at some point, but probably not for a good while. For now, I'm focusing on the real Jukki Hanada-penned masterpiece... A Place Further than the Universe
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# ? Jan 28, 2018 03:19 |
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Steins gate is real good and you should check out out asap
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# ? Jan 28, 2018 03:22 |
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Jenny Angel posted:This is a great and thoughtful summary - I really appreciate it. Sounds like Steins;Gate might be worth checking out at some point, but probably not for a good while. For now, I'm focusing on the real Jukki Hanada-penned masterpiece... A Place Further than the Universe
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# ? Jan 28, 2018 03:58 |
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Jenny Angel posted:This is a great and thoughtful summary - I really appreciate it. Sounds like Steins;Gate might be worth checking out at some point, but probably not for a good while. For now, I'm focusing on the real Jukki Hanada-penned masterpiece... A Place Further than the Universe The key to Steins;Gate is that it's about the protagonist who's an oblivious jerk with this fanciful delusion of being a great man, and then he's called on his poo poo and has to actually become that person. It really rides the line between being a nerdy dude's fantasy and being a critique, and I think it handles the two gracefully (and I really like the series) but it's not nearly as harsh about it as, say, Welcome to the NHK.
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# ? Jan 28, 2018 06:19 |
I want to cry (of heartwarming), what 2017 anime should I watch?
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# ? Jan 31, 2018 02:46 |
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gmq posted:I want to cry (of heartwarming), what 2017 anime should I watch? Work your way up to season six of Natsume Yuujinchou.
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# ? Jan 31, 2018 03:02 |
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I'm looking for an anime from 2006 and it has an albino jazzman, and a dude with vice grips for hands, and a monkey that plays video games and theres a scene where the dude goes "yuka" and "rie" a whole loving ton, and it's trippy as poo poo.
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# ? Jan 31, 2018 04:42 |
gmq posted:I want to cry (of heartwarming), what 2017 anime should I watch? demi-chan is very sweet
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# ? Jan 31, 2018 04:46 |
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Turtlicious posted:I'm looking for an anime from 2006 and it has an albino jazzman, and a dude with vice grips for hands, and a monkey that plays video games and theres a scene where the dude goes "yuka" and "rie" a whole loving ton, and it's trippy as poo poo. Sounds like Kemonozume. Aired in 2006, has characters named Yuka and Rie, there's a monkey and playing videogames wouldn't be the strangest thing it did, and while it's been some years since I saw it I think the mechs they use have vice grip hands.
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# ? Jan 31, 2018 04:57 |
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Can anyone recommend a good anime for young kids, something with a narrative and lots of episodes? We're trying to avoid Pokemon.
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# ? Feb 2, 2018 02:41 |
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there wolf posted:Can anyone recommend a good anime for young kids, something with a narrative and lots of episodes? We're trying to avoid Pokemon. digimon tamers
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# ? Feb 2, 2018 03:13 |
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there wolf posted:Can anyone recommend a good anime for young kids, something with a narrative and lots of episodes? We're trying to avoid Pokemon. Card Captor Sakura, if their reading is at a point where they can read subs. My understanding is that Glitter Force is kind of a butchering of whichever Precure it's a localization of, but otoh I know young girls who love it, so Actually, I guess that same "who cares if it's butchered if kids like it" logic would apply to the Cardcaptors dub.
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# ? Feb 2, 2018 03:18 |
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there wolf posted:Can anyone recommend a good anime for young kids, something with a narrative and lots of episodes? We're trying to avoid Pokemon. Princess Tutu
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# ? Feb 2, 2018 03:31 |
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there wolf posted:Can anyone recommend a good anime for young kids, something with a narrative and lots of episodes? We're trying to avoid Pokemon. depending on how young and also how tetchy you get about sex jokes, Dragon Ball
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# ? Feb 2, 2018 03:49 |
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there wolf posted:Can anyone recommend a good anime for young kids, something with a narrative and lots of episodes? We're trying to avoid Pokemon. If they are maybe age 9+ then I think Little Witch Academia is pretty great. Kids younger than that might have trouble following the plot. It's PG rated, 25 episodes, on Netflix, has an English dub although I've heard the dub translation makes some hefty departures from the original Japanese dialogue (I've only watched it with fairly literal fansubs so I'm not certain how much is changed). It has a main narrative that's kinda in the background for most of the show's run while the main cast have wacky episodic adventures, and then the plot comes to a climax over the last 4-5 episodes.
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# ? Feb 2, 2018 03:59 |
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there wolf posted:Can anyone recommend a good anime for young kids, something with a narrative and lots of episodes? We're trying to avoid Pokemon. Digimon and Precure would be my go-to for long children's anime with narrative. Astro Boy would be a solid pick too, just know that that hong kong subs covers the 2nd half of it since no one ever fansubbed it fully.
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# ? Feb 2, 2018 04:09 |
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there wolf posted:Can anyone recommend a good anime for young kids, something with a narrative and lots of episodes? We're trying to avoid Pokemon. One Piece
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# ? Feb 2, 2018 06:17 |
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Sakurazuka posted:One Piece 4kids dub
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# ? Feb 2, 2018 07:39 |