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Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Rurouni kenshin guy was a huge pedo guy right?

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Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


naruto is actually pretty good at the beginning, you can see why it took off

i do think akira toriyama is a master of the art though so watch or read dragonball

even super is pretty good and shows he's still got it imo.
i love that nerds spent decades working out power level lists and rankings and he comes in and goes "no the most powerful thing is a dog that shoots ki blasts from his feet" or "super saiyan god vegeta is being owned by a tellytubby woman powered by love"

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


the invincible guy was posting on deviantart when i was a kid on there

i remember even as a kid i thought his art was good but the comic was boring, just superheros punching eachother but then blood comes out

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Tiler Kiwi posted:

people have been posting art in places from berserk so i wanna post one of the pages that stuck out to me real strong

one of the few times ive seen an indian style army presented in fantasy media and they look cool



yeah that was my fav bit, demonic indian army really loving rules

sucks that hes dead

on castlevania, i also thought its a bit boring. good fight animations but who really cares when all the main characters talk in the same voice, and alucard and belmont both have terminally bored old men sounding VAs and nothing has really happened in the series since dracula bites it

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


People get weird about anime coz it's surrounded by pedo stuff and weird poo poo in a way that batman or marvelboy aren't

I don't ask for manga reccomendations anymore coz adtrw was talking about a psychological thriller and it turned out to involve the main character eating his own cum and raping a minor to fix her mental problems

And every time I run out of Baki on a manga site I'm dumped out into walls of horny isekai trash like I'm in some weird comic store steam store hybrid hell dimension

I'll still read that garbage but there's a reason people are still cautious about it all.
There's a lot of good manga or anime where you gotta go "yeah ignore that bit"

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


aot has bad art at the start, though i think the artist always captures motion well which is basically what im after in manga and animations
i think by the end the art is really good. it very vaguely reminds me of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen which is one of my fav drawn comics

the entire plot is quite bad though and whenever anyone goes into a multipage dialogue its gonna be extremely dumb. its one of those mangas where any time they start to explain whats going on it makes it worse than if it was just left up to intepretation

i like the whole arc where you see things from the bad guys side though and find out that it wasn't really a plan or anything its a comedy of errors by brainwashed child soldiers

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


baki is probably my favourite ongoing manga but theres so much of it and it changes tone a few times before finding its stride as goofy as poo poo and almost untranslateable since the author is constantly making up words and using pidgin english

theres also the bit where yujiro threatens to rape hillary clinton and she's into it but it is a manga after all

e

Hanma Baki is where it became my fav, during the Pickle arc.
scientists have revived a beautiful caveman who used to fist fight dinosaurs, so naturally all the best fighters are being magnetically drawn to fight him and are sneaking in






whereas yujiro is the strongest creature on earth and just walks up to the front gate and this happens





Communist Thoughts has issued a correction as of 12:59 on Jun 17, 2021

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


yeah watch the originals then end of evangelion
then if you still want more go watch the rebuild movies

i dont really get why people didnt like EoE, it pays off pretty much everything that is set up in the series

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Has Eva 4 been translated and pirated yet?

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


AoT is a pretty good manga but the lore is real bad and every time theres a page with loads of dialogue you know the story is about to make less sense

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


This all sounds god awful

Anime threads always start out as robots and laser fights (cool!)
Then devolve rapidly into discussions about the threads favourite softcore show about bullied children

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


we started watching the OG series of eva again after 4.0 and holy poo poo the OG series is *so* much better than rebuild

i much prefer the plot of the OG show to whatever ended up being the plot of rebuild, the factions at play and character motivations are much more clear, and theres a lot more time for nice little moments, lots of great shots and character work

plus its also way more cynical and i miss the old radical cynicism of 90s and 80s anime, where you got the sense the authors had some experience or opinions on the real world

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


I preferred the battles in the new show but the story is really simplified and suffers for it imo

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


What's the deal with the Berserk guy and his pedo mangas?

I hadn't heard of this but it got brought up elsewhere in the forums that he's got at least two really dodgy mangas. I thought he only did berserk

Sad! If so coz I really like berserk but now I'm like... That little witch girl who fancies Guts... What's that about

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Aw man...

Well at least he's dead now and I feel way less bad about it!

Whats the bad one if the piss one isn't it?

Whatshisface the Blame! guy seems to be into piss too, the main character has to drink a girls piss in sidonia and that doll one.
And the little blush people do in sidonia when their suit goes up their urethra, there's something goin on there

I don't think it happens in Blame though and I didn't read biomega

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

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lol someone is a blame fan then

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


i used to love rurouni kenshin as a kid

but didnt the author get arrested as a pedophile and confessed to it?
it seems like since then theres been loads more adaptations than ever before lol

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Judge Dredd Scott posted:

i'm usually very tolerant of 'weird' art styles but i cant stand to look at baki

i ended up really liking it, its pretty idiosyncratic but the guy can draw some great impact and motion which is all im really after

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Augus posted:

end of eva > rebuild

yeah its not even close

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


early anime was either full fash or has this real interesting radical pacifist anti-war approach where the goodguys fight to end fighting and it was extremely anti-government and anti-imperial.
i miss that era tbh.

for a while i noticed every recent anime i saw had some point where a character would say "thats the law of nature, the weak die and the strong survive"
whereas i feel like the early era had people who had some knowledge of actual politics or philosophy or what have you, now its all regurgitated from other animes

thank god Baki is politically immaculate, nothing wrong there

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

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OI... Spikeu!

I pity the dub watchers

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

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Steve Blum lol

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

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Pretty much every side character in cowboy bebop is bankrupt

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


reading rhe manga i totally didnt realise the wounded veteran was erin so when he reveals that then eats the prime minister or whoever i thought that was cool

the art improves massively as it goes on, but whenever you see a whole page of text you know the story is about to get stupider or worse somehow

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Yeah it was pretty confused, I think I may have finished reading it before the very last issue so I didn't see them thanking eren for being Hitler. Mikasa cutting his head off then kissing it was an OK ending.
I did like the villains flashback where its shown that instead of being cunning masterminds they basically failed their mission in the first 10 minutes and were flying by the seat of their pants and having a terrible time.
I like that kind of thing.

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Ed isn't non binary though, her name is just Edward and she repeatedly says she's a girl iirc

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

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methinks the girls und panzer fans doth protest too much

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Never got into jojo, I got to whichever season had the younger dude, jotaro I think. It was pretty lame that his mum was so weak as a woman her jojo superpowers were killing her
The best part of it was Roundabout

I'm reading thru Alita 2 and 3 and it kinda owns?
The most recent series is hilariously grimdark and features so many kids being killed at the start but it's super inventive and every few pages something completely insane and cool happens and then is forgotten about forever.

I really like all the weird cyborg technology it's like warhammer 40k but pushed much further into the absurd and comical which is very much my poo poo.
I love the crazy space marines whose heads they screw into their bodies like light bulbs

Communist Thoughts has issued a correction as of 00:58 on Dec 3, 2021

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


wow the new run of alita sure is something! lots of grimdarkness and body horror in a pretty hilarious change of tone from the rest.

the reveal of alita's backstory 24 years into her manga is pretty hilarious
shes the excised tumour of a woman who got hit by a trap from a treasure chest, inhaling a gas that causes heads and faces to be grown all over your body, alita is one of those tumours attached to a robot body made doubly funny by the fact that current alita has basically nothing to do with OG alita biologically so it has absolutely no bearing on the story

also christ he's been writing it since 2014 and its barely gone anywhere, this is gonna take til 2030 at least

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Just read the manga imo. If it's an anime only thing those tend to have good pacing anyway

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


thanks for reminding me about chainsaw man

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


drat caught up with chainsaw man and alita

Anyone got any good violent crazy mangas to recommend?

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Orb Crabmelt posted:

Chainsaw Man is great and remains the only shounen series I've read that I've really enjoyed, but like a lot of series I kind of felt the last arc was really convoluted and contrived.

Yeah the earlier bits are better where its demon fights then the downtime is the MC and Power being absolute trash people and annoying the straight man cool guy.

I also kinda liked how the MC was a horndog but also he's learning about relationships like a real teen.
Not to have drunken sex with someone you don't actually like, that it's OK to not be into every hot girl you have a friendship with, that you can fancy two people at once etc.
It wasn't mind blowing but I feel like there's a lot of incels for whom this is good info

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


I feel bad for the actor who played Ed, that's gotta smart

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Wondering how this thread will feel about the female characters in Chainsaw Man. :thunk:

The demon girl was great until she got turned into a child who needed to be taken care of

Then they did it again at the end

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


an anime that involves children... but isnt horny for them...

have you tried nickolodeon shows instead?

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Pulcinella posted:

I checked and was surprised that it doesn’t seem like he worked on Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust just because the style seems so similar. (Amani did the cover art of the light novels, but the moves aren’t exactly that style, even if pretty much every interpretation of D is basically just Amani’s D).

Though speaking of VHD, I’m surprised there haven’t been more animated adaptations. The setting is basically sci-fi horror western, so you can do pretty much anything with it.

Edit:

Probably for the best. Steven King also had a near miss and rushed to finish the Dark Tower novels and there is a very noticeable, very huge drop in quality afterwards.

I've been rereading them and imo other than the boring new england shenanigans the weird final dark tower books are pretty great.

Book 2 and 3 are still probably best but holy poo poo Susannah Dean does not hold up in 2022.
Black rights activist champagne socialist who is secretly an evil minstrel show stereotype who tries to trick white men into trying to rape her.
That's anime levels of problematic

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Seems like that Goon watches the sexy baby channels

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


The kids ain't gonna be alright, a single cartoon fox was enough to destroy like 30% of my generation

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Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


skipmyseashells posted:

a mangaka whining about censorship gives off the exact same alarms in my brain as a libertarian complaining about age of consent laws

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