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Torquemadras posted:On entirely unrelated matters: can anybody explain to me what the gently caress is going on with the Monogatari series? I decided to check out the first two episodes, since it's by the Madoka director, and holy poo poo is this gorgeous. And tits. Those are good. (Re: Cutie Honey is cool and good) So far, it seems to be cool dialogue in super-stylish environments + fanservice overload. I might watch it for the style alone, but to be honest, I'm not confident where this show might go, since I usually have a strong dislike for harem tropes and a NOPEI'MTHEFUCKOUTOFHERE reaction to things bordering/consisting of pedo stuff. I'd ask in the Monogatari thread, but it looks like every single poster there has a Monogatari avatar, which does not convince me of their impartial advice there's much worse stuff out there in the wide, scary world of anime IMO, but the bolded in monogatari is more than I'm willing to tolerate Torquemadras posted:...oh no there literally ends up being like 5 elementary/middle school children plus his sisters in the harem
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This thread is very informative, so any opinions on this? (Note: I will judge you by your avatar)
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Anonymous Robot posted:There are very characteristic styles of writing, characterization, and physical gags that are unique to anime that I find repellent. They are not present in every anime, but in lots of them, and I find it deleterious to my ability to enjoy them. i don't actually know what this means. like, i guess your parents were shanked in a dark alley before your eyes by giant sweat drops and chibi faces, but other than that? the word 'anime' as an insult doesn't seem to actually mean anything beyond 1.made in japan and 2.i don't like it not even trying to be hostile, i'd legitimately like to know what exactly you mean by this. do you mean shows being made for children? melodrama? bad exposition? is it literally just "I'm really loving mad about chibi faces and sweat drops"? a lot of those things i think most normal people would just call 'bad', or describe what specifically they don't like instead of rolling it all into a boogie man golem of "ANIME!!!!!!!!!!!  ", and i don't agree that they're not present in lots of other media, except maybe the chibi faces and sweat drops. worse in anime maybe, but this thing where people throw a fit over mildly obnoxious tropes in anime is absolutely as unique to the medium as the tropes themselves are
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Pavlov posted:Only if you can stand 50 episodes of japanese slapjack. who let this guy into the thread?
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Pavlov posted:But wouldn't the people watching K-ON have to stop touching their little things in order to reflect on them? 
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Nipponophile posted:Early 2000s anime is kind of an odd duck. You have to take into account external circumstances to get the full picture. Animation has always been a tedious and expensive process. Back in the 80s and 90s, the Japanese economy was riding the bubble, and luxury expenditures like anime were having money thrown at them hand over fist. It was more common for a TV series to run 50+ episodes, or for an OVA to have a budget that translated directly into higher quality. early 2000s gainax anime is IMO the best looking animation in anime? i guess 2004 isn't really early 2000s maybe but diebuster is what i mean no, i don't think the bubble had anything to do with animation quality except in the most general sense of there not being a market for huge disney-like feature films, and by the way the bubble burst in 1992, not 'the late 90s'. declining budgets in some kind of vague linkage with GDP is commonly cited by people with vague, poorly sourced just-so explanations of why anime is bad but i don't think it's actually a thing. certainly i've never seen any hard numbers on budgets over time ever and i don't believe that the average direct-to-video TV anime in 1994 had a meaningfully bigger animation budget than today part of the problem is how flooded with shows/productions the industry is. but that doesn't have anything directly to do with the size of the market or Japan's GDP or whatever icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Jan 19, 2016 |
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female characters being impossibly stupid shounen protagonists is a step forwards for gender equality
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DrSunshine posted:I'm looking for a fantasy show that has a witch girl with short hair and glasses. I swear I've seen it somewhere before, in passing (either that or that character archetype is rather popular). the grimgar show from last season? it was bad, but really well animated
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Xinder posted:But who is Lum? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urusei_Yatsura
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What are other edit: Not sure why to restrict to shonen, never mind that icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Oct 14, 2018 |
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The wiki is down, though that’s probably been posted already
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What's a good shounen romcom/harem series that is relatively un-creepy? I read a little of Nisekoi and that seemed pretty inoffensive, something like that. This is more for manga than anime, but there's no manga recommendation thread
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Fun Times! posted:Is there a rehost of ADTRWiki? The original says the domain has been sold. adtrw.nulani.net I asked about it in the ask the mod thread
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Also, Quintuplets is great, thanks
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So I gave my copy of Spirit Circle to someone to read and they loved it and now want more recommendations. They’re not really anime/manga fans but also not anime haters, they seem to have tried various series over the years and not enjoyed them all that much but kept an admirably impartial attitude towards the medium. So what are the best shonen manga similar to that? I sort of feel like I spoiled them by giving them literally the best one first, but oh well. Besides the standard shonen jump stuff are there any hidden gems with a similar tone in either shonen or seinen?
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The Colonel posted:tell them to watch planet with I heard that was more juvenile than Spirit Circle, is that accurate?
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Also, how about instead of “just like Spirit Circle” change the request to “short, complete series”. Maybe 10 volumes or less
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Julias posted:Is it being action oriented mandatory? No Nipponophile posted:Do you have any specifics as to why they loved Spirit Circle and why they didn't like the other things they watched? It sounded like they had read cyberpunk stuff like GITS and also historical fiction stuff like Otoyomegatari, recommended by other people. I think they just turn out to like shonen melodrama actually, so I’m looking for shonen series that are of a finite length basically. I also told them to read MHA, but they also mentioned at one point finding the unending type of series intimidating, hence trying to find short ones icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Sep 24, 2019 |
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What are the best historical shonen series? Rurouni Kenshin and Golden Kamui are what I know of off the top of my head
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There’s a seinen/shonen adventure series from the late 70s/early 80s about like a blonde guy, with a fairly weird/old looking art style, that is famous but I can’t remember the name at all and can’t find it through google and MAL and stuff. What is it, or am I just insane?
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Endorph posted:space adventure cobra? Yep, that's it. Thanks
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