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Gasaraki was an interesting 90's anime, clearly taking influence from GITS, but perhaps also influencing GITS:SAC after it. I don't remember much about the story, aside from it being a somewhat impenetrable near-future political drama with mechs. The aesthetic was sort of dark and gritty, with lot of references to noh theater and Japanese religion. Watching the opening really brings me back to that late 90's zeitgeist. I wish current anime was more like this. It was prolly super fash tho. thotsky has issued a correction as of 00:39 on Jan 11, 2021 |
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Jan 11, 2021 00:32
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Judge Dredd Scott posted:the original ghost in the shell movie (pls dont watch 2.0 it adds horribly ugly cgi), The CGI I can live with, the real crime is redoing all of the SFX. Like, I get why they did it, they wanted to replace the dated 80's anime sounding shooting and explosions with a more modern/western aesthetic so they got a skilled dude from Lucasfilm to do it, but it ends up ruining some of truly amazing interactions between industrial noises and Kenji Kawai's soundtrack. I would argue that the whine of the tanks legs moving in harmony with the strings during the tank scene is integral to the scene and they just ripped that out. Let's compare: Original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-IsysrqUlU&t=22s 2.0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6fQ4umUW4Y&t=160s
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Jan 12, 2021 17:57
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Augus posted:but there's the obvious elephant in the room that the skeevy aesthetic can be very off-putting and is basically impossible to ignore. you couldn't tell whether it wanted to mock fanservice anime or was just genuinely presenting itself as a fanservice anime. and I remember it kinda losing me a lot in the second half as it leaned into being more self-serious and edgy. Sometime after the mid-2000s it was decided that anime should only cater to children and people who should be kept far away from children. A few years later shows like Haruhi, Bakemonogatari and KLK were like "lets try to hide good shows underneath all the horny", but it was doomed from the start and anime never recovered.
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Jan 14, 2021 23:50
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I was promised a cooking show, but it's mostly small girls being molested by octopus or given orgasms by chicken stock.
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Jan 26, 2021 18:27
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Ghost Hound is another show that mixes horror, psychological and sort-of-sci-fi. It's really good.
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Jan 27, 2021 13:47
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The Voice of Labor posted:it's not necessarily woke or anything bit all this oshii talk is amking me want to endure watching angel's egg again. What's problematic about it?
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Feb 20, 2021 22:16
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I saw it when I was a teenager. There's a lot of imagery that has stuck with me, but I really want to watch it again and see if I can follow more of the plot now.
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Mar 5, 2021 02:13
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The Japanese miracle thing in GITS makes no sense. I get that it gave Japan leverage after the war, but now that nuclear weapons are less of a deterrent you would expect some of the countries to be nuking the poo poo out of each other.
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Mar 11, 2021 05:04
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redsniper posted:They did. They had a nuclear WW3 and then non nuclear WW4 in the sac continuity at least. I think the Japanese Miracle came about in the aftermath of WW3. As in, apparently the world overcame their fear of nuclear weapons and had a firefight with them, and only Japan had the technology to clean up the mess. Then they had a WW4 with no nuclear weapons... Seems backwards. Makes more sense for the technology to arrive and then have a nuclear exchange.
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a lot of the recent mass protest and maybe some of the events from the Arab spring seem to fit the bill
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Mar 13, 2021 15:57
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Mar 16, 2021 19:00
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S2 of geass is confusing and grimdark, but the ending is great. I never got into Gundam, but the over the top magnificent bastard stuff of Code Geass appealed to teenage me.
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Apr 11, 2021 14:11
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more like general deviated septum
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Apr 13, 2021 10:28
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It can be somewhat annoying when the Netflix subtitles do not even remotely match what is being said, especially if it's a common enough idiom that a causal anime watcher like me can tell. To be fair, sometimes closed captions of english shows don't even match up, so maybe that's just Netflix.
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Apr 26, 2021 02:32
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Watched the Netflix GITS, and while I agree with a lot of the criticism, seeing the band back together with proper character design after the ARISE pilot figuratively made me throw my computer across the room felt really good. It coasts on nostalgia for SAC, but that's better than nothing.
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Nov 8, 2021 03:03
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I am enjoying blue period quite a bit.
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Nov 10, 2021 01:59
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christmas boots posted:So that's Stardust Crusaders (part 3) and it's probably the most famous part - especially in the west. Like nowadays that's not especially true especially since the anime helped make it mainstream but back in the day (when the manga wasn't even getting translated over here) it was the part that got some exposure. It was also neat when it came out because it introduced Stands and instead of doing a traditional tournament arc like everyone was it did a whole globe-trottingt thing. Compared to the parts of season 1 I managed to sit through it's great because it's so over the top yet self aware. Season 1 just reads like a bad show, but Stardust Crusaders or whatever is cleary bad on purpose.
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Dec 4, 2021 22:59
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how dare they deprive us of children whose breasts are larger than their head
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Dec 19, 2021 17:28
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christmas boots posted:people got real mad about nagotoro but I watched it and it seemed pretty inoffensive. like the bullying really falls off hard after the first episode It's a cute slice of life anime with some light romance thrown in. I think one can criticize how it pretty much immediately abandons any pretense of humanizing or informing about social anxiety. The first episode also seems to imply the show would tackle bullying and a variety of mental health issues, but by episode 2 it's clear the show is about celebrating the attractive main character, and severe social anxiety is simply an adorable quirk that allows the normal dude to get close to her.
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Jan 22, 2022 10:41
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a cyberpunk goose posted:I’m finally watching LOGH and holy poo poo what a show What's so good about it? I watched like 10 episodes and while the 80s aesthetic is fun something like Crest of the Stars has much better action. Feels like schlubby but clever captain and pretty aristocratic antihero captain have both been done to death.
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Feb 16, 2022 09:55
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Good soup! posted:The only thing I remember about Crest of the Stars is it having a dub that was so bad I honestly thought it was one of those "joke" productions It does a great job of the whole space ships are submarines thing, although there's also huge fleets of them. Sort of a Honor Harrington vibe. It's got the same Humans VS Empire of Snooty Space People thing going on that most space opera space anime do, but we follow a fish out of water human recruit on the space people side, which adds some novelty. Never saw the dub.
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Feb 16, 2022 17:14
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I mean, it was fine. I just wanted to hear what you liked about it.
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Feb 16, 2022 18:55
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Nah, pretty much. There's probably always been an undercurrent of that stuff in anime, but in the mid-2000s it became the dominant trend in the industry.
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Feb 19, 2022 23:44
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I just watched a Korean movie about femdom on Netflix and this seems the most appropriate place to say that while it was pretty awkward, that's a thing I kind of did not expect to ever see, and at times it was kind of cool.
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Feb 23, 2022 00:09
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Where can I find Dogcatcher Inutaro subs? This dub is atrocious.
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Mar 4, 2022 08:58
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people who cater to freaks are better than the freaks, but not by much
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Apr 18, 2022 10:16
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I am pro-thotism.
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Good soup! posted:Beyond one piece being 8 million episodes long, I could just never get into it, something about the art style just throws me off of it the boobs are not big and round enough
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Apr 30, 2022 09:14
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sb hermit posted:Thanks to that show, I absolutely want a japanese hatchet to cut firewood. It does not seem particularly good at its job, compared to an axe.
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May 8, 2022 12:35
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wolfs posted:the first episode is interesting and the studio is production i.g. i remember when this was a mark of quality
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May 19, 2022 00:13
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Darth Walrus posted:I mean, it still generally means that you'll be getting a pretty-looking show that's unlikely to melt and catch fire halfway through. That's not been true since they pivoted from delivering nice shows with bits of revolutionary CG to a studio that provides CG as a cost-saving measure. thotsky has issued a correction as of 08:01 on May 19, 2022 |
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The Vampire in the Garden show was just fine. Soviet aesthetics are kind of fun, and Pripyat shows up. Don't really understand the politics of it; there's a lot of both-siding between the bolsheviks and the bourgeoisie, but they don't get into the consequences of the conflict to the degree that it reads like a simplistic anti-war thing. There is a definite gay thing going on, and broader references to forbidden/doomed relationships. Maybe some sort of reference to LGBT people not feeling well done by the class/culture war? That's a stretch though. thotsky has issued a correction as of 15:21 on May 24, 2022 |
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wolfs posted:stand alone complex 2045 season 2 came out - another production i.g. joint! they put out an ova that just edits s1 to catch you up for s2 i have not seen it but I would guess that they edit out all the good parts no real interest in the post-human plot the sustainable war idea is alright, it's just an exaggeration of the the endless proxy wars we have today; but if they toned it down a little and added more of a climate change angle it would seem less cartoony
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May 24, 2022 22:48
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sb hermit posted:To be clear, sustainable war is the ova that is a supercut of season 1 I meant sustainable war as a concept.
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May 25, 2022 11:31
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Popy posted:GITS:SAC is one of the few animes were i have a hard time picking a fav episode. Well-Fed Me might be it i dunno but that episode stuck with me. Every episode where they play velveteen.
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May 25, 2022 11:33
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It's just the intro, they go back to Japan in episode 2 I believe.
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May 25, 2022 15:00
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Somebody who worked on Gits 2045 s2e2 liked the new XCOM games
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May 26, 2022 20:48
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S2 of GITS 2045 was really dumb. There are no cool stand-alone episodes like in S1, and the post-human plot is so messy. At least the final episode introduces some interesting ideas; if only the rest of the show had actually done a better job of setting that up it might have been kind of cool. However, I don't see that the baddies plan in any way addresses actual material concerns. So people just walk around in the real world but living at least half inside their own personal fantasy. How are resources divided in the real world? Who feeds people? If half the country is dreaming that they are the prime minister, who actually makes decisions that affect the real world? How do people meaningfully interact with one another? It seems to me doublethink would have to work very hard to keep peoples personal fantasies from being in conflict with another, so much so that cooperating on a complex project would be practically impossible. It looked for a little while like they were implying that people would just literally live dream lives in boxes that saw to their needs, similar to the one Makoto wakes up in, a pretty famous philosophical concept, but then they abandon that in the very next sentence and I think the implication is that they were just shelters from the smart gas. Good thing they thought of preparing 3 million of those since the AE used gas and not a nuke of their own.
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HootTheOwl posted:I never watched SAC all the way through sequentially as a kid but man did I forget how horny this show is for the major. There's a lot of gratuitous rear end shots in S1, especially in the first few episodes, but they kind of get over it as the show goes on. I don't think they ever really explain why she's a barbie doll. In a world where cyborgs exists I doubt people would underestimate her based on her looks so it's hard to see any tactical advantage in that configuration. It does make for a good beauty and the beast aesthetic with Motoko and Batou, but it does not appear that their differing body shapes translate into any particular field specialities; if anything The Major can outdo anyone on her team. I guess the point has mainly been to emphasize that her body is literally just an object by objectifying it as much as possible.
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