Jymmybob posted:

Princess Tutu

pillsburysoldier posted:

Isnt ping pong good?
Not punpun. Dont read that

BeckySucrose posted:

I'm Jewish so I'm allowed to watch it subbed.

atelier morgan posted:

i can't care about a gundam game until they raise gihren's greed zeonic front from the dead

pillsburysoldier posted:

Isnt ping pong good?
Not punpun. Dont read that

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Even if you dont expect to watch Kings Ranking but are a fan of sakuga in general then I recommend you watch episode 21, its basically sakuga from start to finish.

Holy poo poo what an amazing episode.

Retromancer posted:

I may watch this I loved those Naruto episodes where you can tell they just put the A team on the entire episode and gave them as much money as they wanted to animate the sickest fight.

Bro Dad posted:

power arc is the only good part of shippuden because they just gave the animators an unlimited budget as an apology for having to do the rest of the show

Bro Dad posted:

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The ultraman, superman, or "higher-being" among other ideas is a staple of nearly all of Tomino's works. In the Universal Century, Newtypes are directly called the next evolution of humanity, or even the result of mankind's need to adapt to life in space.

In another work directed by Tomino, Aura Battler Dunbine, there is a division between two worlds: a world called Byston well and our Earth, which are divided by both magic and the ocean (stay with me here if you haven't seen Dunbine). In Dunbine, an idea they refer to as a "Hyper mode" comes into play, where a person can become so charged with emotion that they seem to grow in size and power, and can even result in the person exploding.

This Earth/Space, Byston Well/Earth dichotomy fuels the idea that the souls of those who are held down by the "gravity of Earth" either don't understand or aren't capable of understanding what's important for humanity.

Lastly, I can't help but mention Tomino's early-2000's TV show called Overman King Gainer, which explored the idea of an almost religious or supernatural "Overman" and it's abilities being amplified by people of greater skill. Honestly though, Overman King Gainer didn't seem to have enough time to truly explore the ideas it presented of the mecha itself being The Übermensch.

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If the Übermensch acts to create new values within the moral vacuum of nihilism, there is nothing that this creative act would not justify. Alternatively, in the absence of this creation, there are no grounds upon which to criticize nor justify any action, including the particular values created and the means by which they are promulgated.

According to Rüdiger Safranski, some commentators associate the Übermensch with a program of eugenics.[10] This is most pronounced when considered in the aspect of a goal that humanity sets for itself. The reduction of all psychology to physiology implies, to some, that human beings can be bred for cultural traits. This interpretation of Nietzsche's doctrine focuses more on the future of humanity than on a single cataclysmic individual. There is no consensus regarding how this aspect of the Übermensch relates to the creation of new values.

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In simple terms, the core values of humanism are: people are the center of the world, and all doctrines and morals should be people-oriented. When it was first developed, it was to oppose Christian oppression, that is, God is not the center of human life, but humans.

British scholar Tony Davies pointed out that the development of humanism and imperialism are of the same origin. The rise of humanism was in the 16th century, which coincided with the beginning of the West’s colonization of the world; the 19th century was when humanism was at its peak in academia and it coincided with the strongest and bloodiest period of Western powers’ colonization efforts; anti-humanism emerged after World War II, which was also the time period when the colonies gained their independence.

Humanism gradually spread into Germany and France around the 17th and 18th centuries. Afterwards, it was roughly divided into two branches, one of which was the Anglo-French branch (this includes the United States). Another branch spread to Germany. Phrases that we often hear such as humanitarianism, freedom, equality and fraternity, the United States Declaration of Independence, and various other “politically correct” slogans are mostly from the branch of humanism rooted in Britain and France.

The Anglo-French school of humanism is full of hypocrisy and imperialism-serving characteristics. For example, in “Utopia” written by the early British humanist Thomas More (which is also where the word “utopia” originated from), the ideal paradise that early humanists conceived of is actually a piece of land in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South America that’s stolen by colonizers, a place where the indigenous people of the island were treated as slaves.

As for the German school, they begun having discussions on the restrictive ethics and morals limiting people’s freedoms as no longer being necessary as the world is centered around humans. People have the ability to break through their limitations and evolve into new humans through extraordinary will. The logical conclusion they reach following this line of thought is that new humans with superb willpower will have the right to wipe away old humans that hinder human progress.

huhwhat posted:

newtypes in gundam r ubermensch, ubermensch is a fascistic nietzschean concept, ergo gundam is fascist apologia despite antiwar overtones

this is not some fully fleshed out or firmly held belief of mine, this was mostly sparked by war thread where liberals r falling over themselves defending nazis and also the covid thread doggo + brick ~scandal~

space colonies can be thought of as lebensraum without the icky genocide required to free up the space. the evil earth federation sought to impose control over the clearly superior breed of humanity, spacenoids, who hold the potential of transforming into newtypes. spacenoids were only driven to commit warcrimes like colony drops cuz of those goddang inferior human beings trapped on planet earth holding human progress back. the endgoal is for ubermensch newtypes to lead ignorant humans to a utopian new age (see the last quote block below for what "utopia" really means)

the space colonies were portrayed as victims, slaving away to send resources back to earth, much like how nazism is defended as it arose partly due to the onerous war reparations imposed upon germany post ww1 - germany was internally colonized by europe, boohoo

"In the future, should the emergence of a new space-adapted human race be confirmed, the Earth Federation shall give priority to involving them in the administration of the government." https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Laplace%27s_Box boohoo, why r fascists bullied and excluded from government, clearly ubermensch knows whats best for humanity, ubermensch are entitled to (prioritized for) seats in the government

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gundam/comments/2rdwxm/discussion_understanding_newtype_theory_what_is_a/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch

https://medium.com/@ultrahuhwhat/universal-values-imperialism-the-debasement-of-leftism-of-humanism-and-of-hope-9386b1210036 (explaining why liberals r revolted by doggo + brick, how western vs chinese minds separate humans n animals, how fascism n liberalism r both derived from humanism)

Understanding Human Need 2010
Dean, Hartley



i dont read this thread and most likely wont in the future, sorry 4 ruining the vibes in here, feel free to disregard everything as the ramblings of a madman with a contrarian streak

huhwhat posted:

newtypes in gundam r ubermensch, ubermensch is a fascistic nietzschean concept, ergo gundam is fascist apologia despite antiwar overtones

this is not some fully fleshed out or firmly held belief of mine, this was mostly sparked by war thread where liberals r falling over themselves defending nazis and also the covid thread doggo + brick ~scandal~

space colonies can be thought of as lebensraum without the icky genocide required to free up the space. the evil earth federation sought to impose control over the clearly superior breed of humanity, spacenoids, who hold the potential of transforming into newtypes. spacenoids were only driven to commit warcrimes like colony drops cuz of those goddang inferior human beings trapped on planet earth holding human progress back. the endgoal is for ubermensch newtypes to lead ignorant humans to a utopian new age (see the last quote block below for what "utopia" really means)

the space colonies were portrayed as victims, slaving away to send resources back to earth, much like how nazism is defended as it arose partly due to the onerous war reparations imposed upon germany post ww1 - germany was internally colonized by europe, boohoo

"In the future, should the emergence of a new space-adapted human race be confirmed, the Earth Federation shall give priority to involving them in the administration of the government." https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Laplace%27s_Box boohoo, why r fascists bullied and excluded from government, clearly ubermensch knows whats best for humanity, ubermensch are entitled to (prioritized for) seats in the government

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gundam/comments/2rdwxm/discussion_understanding_newtype_theory_what_is_a/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch

https://medium.com/@ultrahuhwhat/universal-values-imperialism-the-debasement-of-leftism-of-humanism-and-of-hope-9386b1210036 (explaining why liberals r revolted by doggo + brick, how western vs chinese minds separate humans n animals, how fascism n liberalism r both derived from humanism)

Understanding Human Need 2010
Dean, Hartley



i dont read this thread and most likely wont in the future, sorry 4 ruining the vibes in here, feel free to disregard everything as the ramblings of a madman with a contrarian streak

christmas boots posted:

east coast vs west coast Gundams

atelier morgan posted:

newtypes don't actually change anything at any point and can never resolve the contradictions in the way the irl fascists or in-fiction theorists posited they would and every attempt to bring about ubermensch/newtype dominance to 'usher in a new age' is carried out in the form of massive, cataclysmic atrocities

this happens over and over again until so much infrastructure is destroyed and so much environmental devastation has occurred industrial capitalism simply ceases to exist

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

NewTypes could never be Overmen because they're not creating new values, they're inheriting the existing values of morality and nationality. Char Aznable is primarily motivated by revenge, and then instrumentalizes himself as an agent of history in the name of Spacenoids. Amuro is a punk kid who reactively allows himself to be swept up in the war, and then reflexively becomes a champion of the corrupt empire that turned him into a child soldier by the time of Char's Counterattack. None of them are capable of looking beyond the narrow constraints of world politics.

Homeless Friend posted:

i watched like 6 eps of that fantasy knockout anime. actual jokes/punchline/timing on visual media? mother of god…

Stairmaster posted:

BONGHITZ posted:

wow, cool robot!

tokin opposition posted:

dunno what anime you mean but watch ranking of kings