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ChubbyChecker posted:oh its anime Like, yes, Cowboy Bebop is technically anime, but it's not anime. My wife still occasionally calls Welsh Corgis "Ein dogs".
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Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell are the two series that people who hate anime don't hate.
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I haven't even watched Ghost in the Shell  e: I don't actually have anything against it, that just seemed like the kind of thing that would call for smugness
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GitS makes the bold assumption that in the future we'll happily give computers direct access to our brains and that they'll be as secure as IoT is today. And that societal control will be enacted by the fact that everyone is connected via a network and opinion can be manipulated by just faking hundreds of thousands of participants. You know, wild scifi.
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Oct 12, 2020 17:57
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Cowboy Bebop is way easier to consume than GitS.
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Beachcomber posted:Cowboy Bebop is way easier to consume than GitS. Stand Alone Complex predicted that under the right banner - anyone can be a terrorist
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Oct 12, 2020 19:19
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Cowboy Bebop is great except for Ed-heavy episodes.
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Cowboy Bebop is why I gave anime a chance. Most of it isn't so good, most of nothing is. Little is as good, but there's quality stuff out there. Tank! is independently good.
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Oct 12, 2020 19:20
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LIQUID SLAM!
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Some Goon posted:Cowboy Bebop is why I gave anime a chance. Most of it isn't so good, most of nothing is. Little is as good, but there's quality stuff out there. Tank! is independently good. Are you suggesting that 95% of EVERYTHING is crap?
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ikanreed posted:Are you suggesting that 95% of EVERYTHING is crap? I haven't had a meal not including hot peppers in I don't remember how long. Also lockdown means I get to eat prunes again. I love prunes.
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ikanreed posted:Are you suggesting that 95% of EVERYTHING is crap? Huge if true. Wonder what it says about folks who go out of their way to poo poo on anime specifically  
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Captain Monkey posted:Cowboy Bebop is great except for Ed-heavy episodes. I will not have Mushroom Samba slandered in this way. 
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Oct 12, 2020 19:26
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Cowboy Bebop isn't anime, because it's good.
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Antigravitas posted:Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell are the two series that people who hate anime don't hate. trap sprung about how old i am but i think legends of galatic heroes the original deserves a slot in there.
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Some Goon posted:Cowboy Bebop is why I gave anime a chance. Most of it isn't so good, most of nothing is. Little is as good, but there's quality stuff out there. Tank! is independently good. Anything that opens with hard bop tends to be insanely good.
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From Savage Dragon issue 252, every page was an homage to different comic strips. 
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snergle posted:trap sprung about how old i am but i think legends of galatic heroes the original deserves a slot in there. I used to be a massive anime nerd when i was a teen/young adult, watched hundreds of shows all over the scale of good/crap. Legend of the galactic heroes is the only anime i still feel like putting on now and then, just to watch a few favorite episodes.
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Monster is a fuckin great mystery that just happens to be animated in Japan and absolutely deserves a watch (or read)
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Like with any medium, there are a few really outstanding anime shows and films. Then there's a fair about of stuff that's just good, a lot of passable stuff, and a huge amount of rancid garbage. Think of it like a pyramid of quality, if you want. All of it is blood, though.
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Woebin posted:Like with any medium, there are a few really outstanding anime shows and films. Then there's a fair about of stuff that's just good, a lot of passable stuff, and a huge amount of rancid garbage. Think of it like a pyramid of quality, if you want. No you see it's bad because it's a cartoon from another country. It's not like good American media like *checks notes* reality tv
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Woebin posted:Like with any medium, there are a few really outstanding anime shows and films. Then there's a fair about of stuff that's just good, a lot of passable stuff, and a huge amount of rancid garbage. Think of it like a pyramid of quality, if you want. alternatively: "90% of everything is crap" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
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minato posted:alternatively: "90% of everything is crap" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law Hence 110% of crap is everything.
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Rust Martialis posted:Hence 110% of crap is everything. Closer to 111% actually.
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minato posted:alternatively: "90% of everything is crap" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law Ironically coined in defense of a marginalized and much maligned nerd hobby.
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ImpAtom posted:Monster is a fuckin great mystery that just happens to be animated in Japan and absolutely deserves a watch (or read) Monster is criminally underrated. Your description is very much on point. I'd also add Planetes and Beck as good "shows animated in japan that aren't anime".
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ImpAtom posted:Monster is a fuckin great mystery that just happens to be animated in Japan and absolutely deserves a watch (or read) I have not seen the animated version of Monster, but I read the manga a decade ago and it was great. The pacing especially was excellent and I rarely finished a chapter without instantly wanting to read the next one. It made me realize how pisspoor series that release on weekly schedule were/are. It also has one of the most  characters ever.
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sinburger posted:Monster is criminally underrated. Your description is very much on point. I got suckered in to watching planetes by this kinda talk but in the end it’s still the story of an obnoxious teenage girl who becomes an astronaut and loudly announces that she’s single to a room full of men for no reason.
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Len posted:No you see it's bad because it's a cartoon from another country. It's not like good American media like *checks notes* reality tv Hey everyone! I don't wanna yell at anyone while I'm all tired and about to lay down for bed, so now I'm rested and ready to type. My guess is that all of you pretty much think I don't spend any time thinking about the kind of probations I hand out, but I really actually really really do. I've been your moderator for about 22 months now, and this entire time I've been working on this post I'm posting right now, sort of like a state of the address or something, or like a supreme court opinion on adtrw. Anyway, onto the meat of the matter, I feel that alot of you are being too hard on Japan, the writing doesn't deserve the constant derision it receives because it's not terrible, it's just mediocre. If you're being too hard on shows for being just medocore then you're sort of going to be driving away our main clientele, which as a moderator is my top priority to protect. I know tokyo ghoul or tomo-chan or franxx or whatever is mediocre to all of you but people coming here from crunchyroll and reddit are not going to enjoy a wall of "It's terrible" if they're here to discuss their new favorite anime or manga. On the point of being too hard on japan, all of you know that japan has been through alot in the past century, and if satoshi kon's work is any indication into the goings on inside japan and specifically the anime industry, then japan was pretty much like a sea of porcupines before the 2011 tsunami. I see such a dramatic change in the soul of anime because of the tsunami and I feel that kill la kill was an embodiement of that change. Love hina was filled with hope and ambition and stayed focused around those themes well into negima, but now anime is so filled with anger, and I think all of you need to relax a little with the negativity towards what is an isolated island nation trying to reach out to the world just because you thought their writing was lackluster. They were just annilihated by the most powerful tsunami we've ever seen and there wasn't a country in the world 1/10th as prepared for tsunamis as japan was, and then a nuclear meltdown followed and it's like an infected wound in the soul of japan. There is hope in anime still, but it's a nation in mourning, and in recovery, so just take it easy. There doesn't need to be a massive ban storm for you guys to get the picture because I know how much smarter all of you are than the rest of the forums and as an aside if you hadn't realized it yet, I'm not going to be flinging insults at anyone, ever, it's not who I want to be.
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LibCrusher posted:I got suckered in to watching planetes by this kinda talk but in the end it’s still the story of an obnoxious teenage girl who becomes an astronaut and loudly announces that she’s single to a room full of men for no reason. there is a reason
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Speaking of Satoshi Kon, the Paranoia Agent blu-ray drops in the US today
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I actually have this one posted up in the office of the academic library I work at. gently caress it, let's have some Nedroid.    
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ChubbyChecker posted:Hey everyone! I don't wanna yell at anyone while I'm all tired and about to lay down for bed, so now I'm rested and ready to type. My guess is that all of you pretty much think I don't spend any time thinking about the kind of probations I hand out, but I really actually really really do. I've been your moderator for about 22 months now, and this entire time I've been working on this post I'm posting right now, sort of like a state of the address or something, or like a supreme court opinion on adtrw. Anyway, onto the meat of the matter, I feel that alot of you are being too hard on Japan, the writing doesn't deserve the constant derision it receives because it's not terrible, it's just mediocre. If you're being too hard on shows for being just medocore then you're sort of going to be driving away our main clientele, which as a moderator is my top priority to protect. I know tokyo ghoul or tomo-chan or franxx or whatever is mediocre to all of you but people coming here from crunchyroll and reddit are not going to enjoy a wall of "It's terrible" if they're here to discuss their new favorite anime or manga. On the point of being too hard on japan, all of you know that japan has been through alot in the past century, and if satoshi kon's work is any indication into the goings on inside japan and specifically the anime industry, then japan was pretty much like a sea of porcupines before the 2011 tsunami. I see such a dramatic change in the soul of anime because of the tsunami and I feel that kill la kill was an embodiement of that change. Love hina was filled with hope and ambition and stayed focused around those themes well into negima, but now anime is so filled with anger, and I think all of you need to relax a little with the negativity towards what is an isolated island nation trying to reach out to the world just because you thought their writing was lackluster. They were just annilihated by the most powerful tsunami we've ever seen and there wasn't a country in the world 1/10th as prepared for tsunamis as japan was, and then a nuclear meltdown followed and it's like an infected wound in the soul of japan. There is hope in anime still, but it's a nation in mourning, and in recovery, so just take it easy. There doesn't need to be a massive ban storm for you guys to get the picture because I know how much smarter all of you are than the rest of the forums and as an aside if you hadn't realized it yet, I'm not going to be flinging insults at anyone, ever, it's not who I want to be. Eh? What is happening? Why is ADTRW happening outside. More over what does the Tsunami changing the soul of anime have to do with comics? Wait I'm on mobile, has the thread been moved to ADTRW?
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Aramoro posted:Eh? What is happening? Why is ADTRW happening outside. More over what does the Tsunami changing the soul of anime have to do with comics? It's a copy/paste from one of the actual ADTRW mods.
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