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kill la kill had some great fights and animation but there was no reason that it HAD to be in a highschool setting, or contain THAT scene. they're obvs very creative folks so they could've found a way to tell the same story without the usual  anime problems
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Nov 15, 2017 19:44
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jesus is moe, buddha is tsundere
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Yossarian-22 posted:jesus is moe, buddha is tsundere 
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Little Witch Academia's entire plot is an allegory for Marxism. i thought this point was a bit overblown by goons until i got to the reveal that the main character's growth had been stunted because her surplus magical labor had been appropriated by a magical bourgeoisie
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Nov 15, 2017 20:27
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the bitcoin of weed posted:i thought this point was a bit overblown by goons until i got to the reveal that the main character's growth had been stunted because her surplus magical labor had been appropriated by a magical bourgeoisie The new source of dark technological magic is a metaphor for industrial capital supplanting traditional modes of power and production.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I thought Turn A Gundam was the best one, but it's been a while since I've seen it so I'm not sure if it's aged that well. The best part about Gundam Thunderbolt I think is the fact that it's a side-story, but one that simultaneously recognizes the events of the original series and carries most of the same themes while never directly referencing it. It doesn't shy away from the child soldier or "Newtype" ideologies that other side-stories tend to skip over. The idea of the Federation using children in a vain attempt to recreate the White Base miracle, only to have dozens of untrained kids get mowed down by disabled Zeon veterans. The Pyrrhic Victory at the end of December Sky is probably one of my favorite bits, though. Was it worth it, sacrificing your body to the Machine? History will tell us no, since while the Zeon were able to hold onto the Thunderbolt sector, they were immediately pulled out for the final defense of A Baoa Qu, where Zeon ultimately loses the war. Oh, and Zeon had already perfected a mind-control interface without the need to directly tap into a person's nervous system.
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redline owns and everyone should watch it with the sound turned right up
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nopantsjack posted:also jojo isnt very good and I don't understand its popularity other than its wacky meme potential  Watch Little Witch Academy, Planetes, and Durarara.
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Jose posted:redline owns and everyone should watch it with the sound turned right up Redline is one of the best animated features ever made, and it's criminally unrecognized. Mecha Gojira posted:The idea of the Federation using children in a vain attempt to recreate the White Base miracle, only to have dozens of untrained kids get mowed down by disabled Zeon veterans. I thought they were resorting to child soldiers because something like 1/3 of the Earth's population had already been wiped out in the colony drops and the war, but if they're trying to recreate White Base then lmao.
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It's both. The mechanic notes that's why the kids arrived with state of the art Gundam prototypes.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Redline is one of the best animated features ever made, and it's criminally unrecognized. Operation British alone killed half of the earth's population https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFQW_yzAChs
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Feranon posted:without the usual what you call a problem is actually an anime blessing
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https://twitter.com/BAKKOOONN/status/930500032389791744Guy Goodbody posted:Operation British alone killed half of the earth's population Universal Century is pretty hardcore. Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 21:32 on Nov 15, 2017 |
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I have an impossible time keeping track of which Gundams are good because there's about a thousand of them but the original is excellent as a serious war series and G Gundam is excellent as an incredibly wacky racist-super-robot-of-the-week shonen seed is bad and wing is braindead and 08th MS team is basically Rogue One with big robots (in a good way, imo)
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i've only seen gundam wing when it was on toonami and i was 13
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the bitcoin of weed posted:I have an impossible time keeping track of which Gundams are good because there's about a thousand of them but the original is excellent as a serious war series and G Gundam is excellent as an incredibly wacky racist-super-robot-of-the-week shonen turn a is the best gundam
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Putting 08th MS Team in the same sentence as Wing and Seed is a really weird way to frame it, because Seed & Wing are trash and 08th is one of the best.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Putting 08th MS Team in the same sentence as Wing and Seed is a really weird way to frame it, because Seed & Wing are trash and 08th is one of the best. Not a fan of the Romeo and Juliette main plot clashing with the supposedly grounded aesthetics. At least it ain't 0083, where no one is likeable, everyone is an idiot rear end in a top hat. But it ain't no 0080 either. Wing is a sheer camp, though, and it still holds a special place in my heart. SEED is just trash.
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Mecha Gojira posted:Not a fan of the Romeo and Juliette main plot clashing with the supposedly grounded aesthetics. That part is cliched, sure, but almost no other Gundam show directly showcases the marginally unimportant grunt work on the sidelines of the epic narrative - especially not when it was released.
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i like that when they remade seed, they were upset that gundam jesus ever did a bad by killing someone, so they changed it to the guy jumping on gundam jesus' sword instead
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felicity jones looks pretty anime imo but rogue 1 was loving poo poo
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08th MS Team has nothing in common with Rogue 1. It has more in common with Vietnam movies.Condiv posted:i like that when they remade seed, they were upset that gundam jesus ever did a bad by killing someone, so they changed it to the guy jumping on gundam jesus' sword instead Seed 2 was so loving bad it killed any interest I had in watching another Gundam show ever again, until I just saw Thunderbolt a month ago. Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 22:08 on Nov 15, 2017 |
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Wish they'd do more Later UC stuff. People hate Unicorn but I appreciate that it recognizes Anaheim Electronics is part of the problem and explains why you don't hear much from them after around UC 0120 (though they are technically still around by Victory Gundam in 0150, building the Victory 2 on Von Braun).
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The problem with later UC stuff is that it just gets a little too esoteric, and has only tenuous ties to the original Zeon conflicts - so at that point you might as well do an alternate universe story that's easier for new viewers to get into.
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Mecha Gojira posted:Wish they'd do more Later UC stuff. People hate Unicorn but I appreciate that it recognizes Anaheim Electronics is part of the problem and explains why you don't hear much from them after around UC 0120 (though they are technically still around by Victory Gundam in 0150, building the Victory 2 on Von Braun). that'd be great if the big reveal in unicorn wasn't such a huge wet fart
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Condiv posted:that'd be great if the big reveal in unicorn wasn't such a huge wet fart It was hilariously obvious what Laplace's ultimately contained, though the TV series spoils it the same way all anime handles spoilers: making it extremely obvious what happens either during the opening or closing credits.
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I think Tsutomu Nihei's work is very CSPAM in several ways. 
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Putting 08th MS Team in the same sentence as Wing and Seed is a really weird way to frame it, because Seed & Wing are trash and 08th is one of the best. i forgot about it until the end of that post since i watched it 10 years ago and barely remember it but I'm pretty sure it was in fact very good and the rogue one comparison mostly comes from the overall plot of "small team of weird misfits on a suicide mission as part of a larger war effort" rather than anything to do with the other 80% of rogue one that sucked
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Angels egg is good and it's free on youtube So is Ringing Bell which is Sanrio doing a bloody tale warning against non conformity
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Anything junji ito is rad especially his version of Frankenstein
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Uncle Wemus posted:Anything junji ito is rad especially his version of Frankenstein What's the name of the Frankenstein story? I loved Uzumaki and The Enigma of Amigara Fault.
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It's just called Frankenstein here it is http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Itou-Junji-Kyoufu-Manga-Collection/Vol-016-Ch-000--Frankenstein?id=103140
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I prefer the anime commissioned by that cult where Frankenstein's monster becomes a Christian.
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Jose posted:i've only seen gundam wing when it was on toonami and i was 13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lvJ6eFcCJE
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Gundam Wing owns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7OSeEMxDKE
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I prefer the anime commissioned by that cult where Frankenstein's monster becomes a Christian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVnscHsPfR4
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succ posted:someone recommend a political anime like LOGH, im about to finish it GITS stand alone complex second season is all about a refugee crisis paralyzing a neo-liberal Japan. There's a che guevara guy with a katana and a deep state fascist weirdo too the entire show is worth watching, though don't expect anything revelatory - it's competent throughout but never great imo.
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KaptainKrunk posted:GITS stand alone complex second season is all about a refugee crisis paralyzing a neo-liberal Japan. There's a che guevara guy with a katana and a deep state fascist weirdo too Is it as good as the scarjo live action?
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