galagazombie posted:

It's a common recurrence in a lot of speculative fiction where the writers understand Liberalism just isn't going to work and is responsible for the Space, Elf, or Space-Elf Fascists gaining traction, but because we've all been indoctrinated to reject anything left-wing out of hand, all the story can do is shrug its shoulders and embrace this kind of nihilism about what to do about it. Like UC Gundam can never really have a protagonist who's part of a Left-Wing movement that wants to overthrow both the Federation and the current iteration of Neo-Neo-Neo Zeon.

Mecha Gojira posted:

It rules that Turn A Gundam exists and undercuts Wing's "and there was never a war fought by a giant robot ever again" ending. Corrin Nander's archetype of the Evil Gundam is the Wing Zero.

Bro Dad posted:

there is only one proper way to watch gundam wing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_-aWNONz84

REZORZEZZ

Flavius Aetass posted:

I always feel bad for the hapless regular mobile suit pilots trying to fight a gundam. It would be better if the main characters weren't literally invincible from their weapons.

net work error posted:

https://twitter.com/SUNRISEINC7/status/1438072167820763137
https://twitter.com/SUNRISEINC7/status/1438072237051965441

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Men will literally rule as a telekinetic god before going to therapy.

Kit Walker posted:

Watched the first episode of Sasaki and Peeps. It’s really good. If you’re into fantasy-type stuff I’d recommend checking it out and it’s even better if you go into it blind. Worth noting that the first episode is double-length

Buck Wildman posted:

I'm enjoying the dungeon food show

Kit Walker posted:

Hm, yeah, that does suck. The premise is great so it’s a real letdown if that’s the trend the rest of the show takes

Kitfox88 posted:

Apparently the 'reincarnated as a sword' anime cuts a fair chunk of the creepy underage fan service poo poo out so I'm tempted to watch it, can anyone c/d that

January 6 Survivor posted:

There are much better things to watch but there's also much worse. Which means I watched all of it but I'm pretty open about having trash taste anyway.

Can confirm that as far as I recall there wasn't any creepy fanservice of the underage protagonist which already puts it above like 90% of isekai, sadly enough. They need to make one where a true enlightenment era American scientist, writer and patriot gets sent to another world after a misshap during a kite and lightning storm experiment and proceeds to abolish the monarchy and bang all the ara ara milfs in sight.

Kit Walker posted:

Because I hadn’t watched beyond the first episode at the time. And now that I have I feel like it’s a mischaracterization of the show. Like, yeah, there are underage characters in the show (the neighbor, the coworker, the viscount’s daughter), but none of them are sexualized at all and there is exactly zero romantic subplot going on with any of them. The only characters that show him (mild) affection are the neighbor (because he chats with her sometimes and gives her food) and the coworker (because he looks out for her on the job) and the protagonist intentionally keeps them at a distance because he thinks it would be creepy if they were any closer to him

Maybe I’m missing something but nothing in the show seems to cross the line of platonic. I dunno if the manga goes into gross pervert territory at some point but the show seems fine so far

Kit Walker posted:

The scene in the screenshots is shot to make her look like a psycho and the protagonist is weirded out. He’s also weirded out when he finds out his coworker is 16. Them going to dinner isn’t depicted as a romantic thing but again him being invited out for food with a coworker as thanks for helping her out in a spot of trouble. Literally the next time he talks to his boss he asks if he can be assigned to work with someone else. I can see how you can read it the way you are but it’s really a stretch

Captian Kil posted:

Watched the first 4 or so episodes and they have a total of 5-6 young girls all interested in the main character in one way or another. It is garbage. You have a guy maneuvering an other world fantasy conflict and a underground psychic war. Why is that not interesting enough? Why add this creep poo poo into it?

Kit Walker posted:

The extent of his involvement with the viscount’s daughter is that she tries and enjoys some curry at a restaurant he owns, and also is grateful he helped her dad out

Then there’s the magical girl who kills psychics and spares him because he claims he’s a magical man and she wants to know what’s up with that

There’s also the other psychic lady who isn’t underage and wants to work with him because she knows more of his secrets and thinks it would be fun

Like, this show is on the level of Little Witch Academia in terms of sexualizing any of these characters (which is to say, not at all). I dunno what to say, bud. None of the characters seem romantically interested in him. Even his neighbor being weirdly jealous of his coworker is implied to be an unhealthy attachment because of her own lovely home life

Ohtori Akio posted:

there are programs which are so important or good that navigating problematic content is worth it. but why do so for seasonal isekai slop

tokin opposition posted:

Homeless Friend posted:

Holy Crap Laios

Kitfox88 posted:

huh

wait it's legit i thought you were just razzing about a premise by comparing it but it's actually this stuff what

Ohtori Akio posted:

you watched it and touched yourself

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Straight women must be stopped.

starkebn posted:

yes, the part of localisation I don't want is changing concepts to more "relatable" things from the country you're localising it to. I have no problem with making sentences make sense grammatically.

Different groups of people are talking about different parts of the concept of localisation.

If you change a character's skin tone or sexual orientation because you think it's going to offend someone in the country you're localising for it's changing the original artists intent.

sb hermit posted:

the dungeon meshi anime is the only anime that I've watched strictly in dubbed English for the past gosh knows how long

probably since the last ghibli movie I've seen, which is likely When Marnie was There

Casey Finnigan posted:

https://peing.net/en/q/7b376a00-a281-45c6-b6b7-196f74628379

tokin opposition posted:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanojo_ga_Suki_na_Mono_wa_Homo_de_Atte_Boku_de_wa_Nai