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Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Fangz posted:

I'm not really super sure why we care about one Japanese twitter person's wrong opinion on anime.
I mean, he's not just some Japanese twitter person, he's a fairly well-respected artist and professor. The thing is his art is kind of outsider pop art focused on really weird depictions of pop culture so naturally he has weird thoughts on pop culture itself. There's a reason Yuasa refers to him as someone that's actually inside the 'circle' of Japanese artists, and someone he's familiar with.

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Motto
Aug 3, 2013

sites are just incredibly bad across the board about handling foreign news or media when it comes to contextualizing, researching, or even just properly translating stuff. This isn't anime but I remember when PCgamer was reporting on European lootbox stuff and their source was literally Google translate (surprise: they got the story wrong).

ViggyNash
Oct 9, 2012

VostokProgram posted:

It sounds like the problem is that at least for some people that's not what they want to make, but they're told to by producers/executives/whoever has money.

That actually makes a lot of sense, I didn't think about that.

Are there know cases of this happening?

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

I'm professor anime

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Namtab posted:

I'm professor anime

im the anime wizard

Kashuno
Oct 9, 2012

Where the hell is my SWORD?
Grimey Drawer
the anime anime

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Endorph posted:

im the anime wizard

We're all wizards here.

DisDisDis
Dec 22, 2013
I bet chumbler fucks

Yaoi Gagarin
Feb 20, 2014

DisDisDis posted:

I bet chumbler fucks

Only in his robe and wizard hat

Expect My Mom
Nov 18, 2013

by Smythe
some people affectionately refer to me as the Anime Prof

Xinder
Apr 27, 2013

i want to be a prince
crybaby owned

GorfZaplen
Jan 20, 2012

DisDisDis posted:

I bet chumbler fucks

I'm convinced he's the head of a multi-billion dollar tech company and that's why he's working all of the time

Armor-Piercing
Sep 22, 2009

Nightly dance
of bleeding swords


Gakuen Babysitters started off well enough, but episode three introduces a character who gets nosebleeds when interacting with or thinking about kids, and whose friend pulls him away, calls him a deviant, and says to stay away from his little brother.

At least that's one less show to keep up with this season. :(

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!

Armor-Piercing posted:

Gakuen Babysitters started off well enough, but episode three introduces a character who gets nosebleeds when interacting with or thinking about kids, and whose friend pulls him away, calls him a deviant, and says to stay away from his little brother.

:eyepop:

Liver Disaster
Mar 31, 2012

no more tears

Three episode rule still strong, effective.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

The Pop Team Epic dub...

is powerful.

C.M. Kruger
Oct 28, 2013

Armor-Piercing posted:

Gakuen Babysitters started off well enough, but episode three introduces a character who gets nosebleeds when interacting with or thinking about kids, and whose friend pulls him away, calls him a deviant, and says to stay away from his little brother.

At least that's one less show to keep up with this season. :(

a far more realistic reaction to the main character in Working.

ViggyNash
Oct 9, 2012
If you're into Kokkoku's premise but haven't checked it out yet, you should. It's really good.

tsob
Sep 26, 2006

Chalalala~

The Colonel posted:

symphogear axz loving owns and has one of the best villain teams in the entire show, especially cags

I decided after GX that I was done with Symphogear, both because nothing in the season was all that great past the first five minutes and because I had reached saturation point with Hibiki's melodrama. I liked that she tries to appeal to people to not do what they're doing, and to talk and hold hands instead. I even like that she kept trying repeatedly throughout the original and G despite it not working until she had beaten the subject in question in to silence in some manner. I got sick of it by GX though. It didn't help that Carol's motive was idiotic and literally every moment she was on screen I kept thinking "yea, that's obviously not what your dad wanted". I know she had some kind of memory deficiency, but that doesn't make my internal monologue go away. She acted as though she had a 12 years olds understanding of the world, which would be fine if she was 12, but the show kept reminding me she's actually a nigh-immortal magician who only looks 12 but can morph in to an adult when and as she pleases. That GX ended with Hibiki crying in to a sink because she felt useless did not bode well for it's sequel and I decided I was done with it.

The show had multiple other problems between antagonists not appearing (the big sister who attacked the sub off screen), antagonists not having much in the way of character (all the dolls to some degree), antagonists all telegraphing that they wanted the main cast to upgrade to new forms and commit death by song after they did so that it never felt like the cast earned any win and I didn't even like the upgraded black forms they got. I vaguely recall feeling like Carol got off scott free for essentially nuking a city as well. And finding the finale to be a weaker version of GX's, with everyone standing around and lending Hibiki their "energy" while she shoots a single big fist instead of the previous seasons two big fists doing a Heaven & Hell. Hibiki herself was the main issue in the season to me though. Unless Hibiki realized that it's fine to try and reach the people doing bad things or change their minds, but that if they're not listening it's worth stopping them and then talking to them afterwards instead I don't have any interest in AXZ. And she might, I never checked.

Oh, and Ver can go gently caress himself. I realize most people love him, and I did to. In G. I got sick of him when he popped up for no real reason in GX though, and I hear he pops up again in AZX and I'm tired of him.

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
ver pops up for literally two seconds as a figment of someone's mind. he gets two lines and then he disappears for the rest of the season

RottenK
Feb 17, 2011

Sexy bad choices

FAILED NOJOE

Armor-Piercing posted:

Gakuen Babysitters started off well enough, but episode three introduces a character who gets nosebleeds when interacting with or thinking about kids, and whose friend pulls him away, calls him a deviant, and says to stay away from his little brother.

what the gently caress, who thought that this is a good idea

Spiritus Nox
Sep 2, 2011

I will continue to watch Symphogear as long as it continues to allow me to listen to Aoi Yuuki do her best Goku impression in-between belting out awesome shout choruses.

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

Hibiki’s the coolest and is always correct and the best and she continues to empathise with everyone and wants to come to an understanding with her enemies without having to punch them and it’s cool and good. Also the scene of her being consoled by Miku at the end of GX is very good and is followed by a scene showing she was successful after all and did save Carol which leads to Elfnein being saved as well, reaffirming that Hibiki’s got the right idea of things.

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

E: double post.

Expect My Mom
Nov 18, 2013

by Smythe
i started watching love live this year so i can probably start watching symphogear too

Xinder
Apr 27, 2013

i want to be a prince

Expect My Mom posted:

i started watching love live this year so i can probably start watching symphogear too

same actually

all the girls are good except the one who grabs the other girls' boobs because that's still super funny and not at all unsettling.

tsob
Sep 26, 2006

Chalalala~

SyntheticPolygon posted:

Hibiki’s the coolest and is always correct and the best and she continues to empathise with everyone and wants to come to an understanding with her enemies without having to punch them and it’s cool and good.

Disagree. Her continuing to stall on fighting someone because she doesn't want to hurt people means that she enables things like a city getting nuked through inaction. It's fine to empathize with villains and to want to talk to them and help them and understand them, it's even laudable to try to do so without fighting, but if they show a desire to continue to do bad things despite you and your intentions then not acting is bad too.

SyntheticPolygon posted:

Also the scene of her being consoled by Miku at the end of GX is very good and is followed by a scene showing she was successful after all and did save Carol which leads to Elfnein being saved as well, reaffirming that Hibiki’s got the right idea of things.

Which doesn't change that she felt that she was nothing but a weapon and showed that she was probably going to be angsty past that point regardless of evidence to the contrary or what her friends and support circle did, at least for a while.

Mo_Steel
Mar 7, 2008

Let's Clock Into The Sunset Together

Fun Shoe

Knorth posted:

https://files.catbox.moe/j207kl.webm
:kimchi: Just a tiny monster, helping chop some cucumber

Well I'm sold, my heart isn't ice.

Expect My Mom
Nov 18, 2013

by Smythe

Xinder posted:

same actually

all the girls are good except the one who grabs the other girls' boobs because that's still super funny and not at all unsettling.
is that nozomi? i like nozomi

i dont have much reason to other than her and her gf are cute

Xinder
Apr 27, 2013

i want to be a prince

Expect My Mom posted:

is that nozomi? i like nozomi

i dont have much reason to other than her and her gf are cute

honestly, other than the boob grabbing she's also good. that one thing just bothers me whenever it happens and i wish it would stop happening.

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

tsob posted:

Disagree. Her continuing to stall on fighting someone because she doesn't want to hurt people means that she enables things like a city getting nuked through inaction. It's fine to empathize with villains and to want to talk to them and help them and understand them, it's even laudable to try to do so without fighting, but if they show a desire to continue to do bad things despite you and your intentions then not acting is bad too.


Which doesn't change that she felt that she was nothing but a weapon and showed that she was probably going to be angsty past that point regardless of evidence to the contrary or what her friends and support circle did, at least for a while.

She only really stalls when fighting in like episode 2 once she finds her singing voice again she doesn’t half rear end her punches. She just doesn’t let that stop her from empathising while fighting.

Also she doesn’t really do much angsting in AXZ so that’s not a problem.

Spiritus Nox
Sep 2, 2011

Yeah, AXZ Hibiki is like the most proactive and badass she's ever been, lol

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Hibiki tries to reason with the AXZ antagonists but she never actually fails to fight them at any point, they mostly have arguments while punching each other. It's the antagonists who stand down the couple of times a fight breaks down, if anything. AXZ is definitely better than GX though it still has problems with needing to force in a fight every episode and a couple of character arcs having weird resolutions, but it's at least better than GX about making the protagonists just completely incapable of doing anything, and it especially doesn't have the dumb plot point of the minor villains wanting to die thus rendering the entire first ten episodes pointless. Up to you if you wanna watch it or not, though.

Also, the weirdest part of the Love Live Lore is the early novels and stuff where Maki is the one that randomly gropes boobs.

Xinder
Apr 27, 2013

i want to be a prince

Endorph posted:


Also, the weirdest part of the Love Live Lore is the early novels and stuff where Maki is the one that randomly gropes boobs.

oh no! this is upsetting because Maki is my favorite girl

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

the early novels and magazines and stuff exist in some bizarro world that basically has nothing to do with the anime proper.

Calvin Coolposts
Jun 22, 2004

Fun Shoe
I watched all four seasons of Symphogear over the course of like three days a couple months ago when I had the flu, and it is the best anime and AZX is absolutely the best season.

Also, after watching two episodes of Killing Bites nothing will convince me it wasn't made in 1988 as an OVA and just sealed up in a time capsule for 30 years.

DisDisDis
Dec 22, 2013
I'd watch Maki The Shy Groper

ViggyNash
Oct 9, 2012
Three Young Girls Defeat Gang Members In Deadly Banana Turf War



In a separate incident, an old woman and a police officer are assaulted by child-sized claw monsters.

Edit: Is there really no Mitsuboshi Colors thread yet? I guess not as many ppl are watching it because it's not streaming in the normal places.

ViggyNash fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Jan 23, 2018

Eela6
May 25, 2007
Shredded Hen

Calvin Coolposts posted:

I watched all four seasons of Symphogear over the course of like three days a couple months ago when I had the flu, and it is the best anime and AZX is absolutely the best season.

Also, after watching two episodes of Killing Bites nothing will convince me it wasn't made in 1988 as an OVA and just sealed up in a time capsule for 30 years.

:agreed:, but G is the best :c00lbert:

Not sure how I feel about Killing Bites. It is really sleazy. It feels like a bootleg dvd a dude sells you in the back room of a semi-legal casino. Sometimes that works in it's favor, but I dunno if I want to stick it out through the whole thing.

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dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

they covered the porcupine's nipples, the cowards

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