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Space Police said:
Any good sci-fi light novel recommendations? No romance faggotry is preferred, and good worldbuilding is a must. Maou 2099, Heavy Object, and Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere seem interesting.
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I've never actually read the light novels themselves so take this with a grain of salt, but the first thing that came to mind are Crest/Banner of the Stars which is basically Anime Star Trek if it was about a human integrating himself into autistic Vulcan Space Elf spacer-human society as a noble after his dad negotiated a peerage out of them and getting involved in a shooting war with normie humans.
 
Oddjob OTP said:
I've never actually read the light novels themselves so take this with a grain of salt, but the first thing that came to mind are Crest/Banner of the Stars which is basically Anime Star Trek if it was about a human integrating himself into autistic Vulcan Space Elf spacer-human society as a noble after his dad negotiated a peerage out of them and getting involved in a shooting war with normie humans.
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I've read that; it was pretty good ev&oe the romance was cringeworthy, as expected.
 
斯尼 德之王 said:
Dandadan is just a really shitty happy Maddison- tier "comedy". It's only being successful because its the flavor of the month and weeaboos are retarded coomers.
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TSMT, why can't anyone see that it's just a FOTM Shonen Jump adaptation that has a large, Netflix-funded astroturfing campaign behind it? It will probably fall apart in a couple of years and become a total trainwreck. It's another datapoint in battle shonen and Code Geass being two of the worst things to happen to anime.
 
Here's that new LOTR anime movie. Apparently it comes out in December:

IDK. It has gem potential, but all characters should be asking "Where's Eowyn" whenever Eowyn isn't on screen.
 
Space Police said:
Here's that new LOTR anime movie. Apparently it comes out in December:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gCUg6Td5fgQ
IDK. It has gem potential, but all characters should be asking "Where's Eowyn" whenever Eowyn isn't on screen.
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> Jump to a random frame
> There's a nigger in it.

It doesn't help that every other frame is the red headed writer waifu does SLAY QUEEN shit. Also in another frame it apes Ghibli style for nature/corruption fighting.

Basically it looks like the usual Netflix style "anime" that at best will be watchable due to being the writer's coom bait
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
> Jump to a random frame
> There's a nigger in it.
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At least it's the lore accurate darkies who are being depicted as stupid and deceitful (and with glass jaws) instead of NigAragorn or black elves or other stupid bullshit.

I agree that it's probably going to be 6/10 at best unless you share the writer's ginger fetish.
 
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I watched Ghost in the Shell. Got the 4k disc, had it all set up in surround sound, 4k tv, lights off, the works. Watched it dubbed, its a movie, wanted to enjoy the experience, and i knew it was supposed to be trippy, so i didn't want to miss things. I didn't get it all that well, ngl. Not the story, i got that, really it was the hype around it. Don't get me wrong, the animation was gorgeous, top tier. But in 2024, the story of a machine coming to life is a bit... dull. Now in 1995 this would have knocked your socks off. It just didn't capture me as hard because... we have AI and stuff like that now. Not exactly like the Puppet Master, but close at this point.

That said i feel there was nuance i was missing because of the dub. The dub was ok. I liked the guy detective with the glasses, his acting was good. The MC though, her voice actress was stiff as a board, which was kind of the point... but she went a bit too far, kinda took me out of it. I feel on a second watch i might "get it" better. I will say i am surprised at the runtime. Only 83 minutes, so a Hour and 23. Its not long. It honestly could have benefited from a bit more fleshing out, though i guess that was what Stand Alone Complex was for. Overall, i give it a 8 out of 10. Would watch again, but i don't think its perfect.
 
A couple of interesting things:
The new Molcar movie came out today. It's a battle against AI cars. I'm skeptical -- it seems to have lost a lot of the charm of the original.
The original Slam Dunk localization would have been about T-Mac commanding an arsenal of futuristic vehicles (including a car with a jet that pops out, a hot rod whose hood becomes a robot, a moving van with a super-engine hidden in its back, and a mobile command truck). All these vehicles were designed by PLEX (the design studio behind Machine Robo and every Sentai and Metal Hero vehicle), so it would have been good. A shame that if it was made, weebs would have cried about their heckin' precious character-driven slow burn bone-chilling sports anime getting Roboteched into a "toy commercial".
 
WelperHelper99 said:
It honestly could have benefited from a bit more fleshing out, though i guess that was what Stand Alone Complex was for. Overall, i give it a 8 out of 10. Would watch again, but i don't think its perfect.
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Yeah, SAC is basically fleshed out versions of the non-Puppetmaster parts of the GitS manga combined with a few new stories mostly having to do with a hacker called The Laughing Man in S1 and a group known as The Individual Eleven in season 2. Season 2 also gives the closest thing the GitS has to an origin story for Motoko. Well, the newer series might go over some of that too but I watched enough to immediately nope out.

I kind of wonder how the GitS series would have ended up if Masamune Shirow hadn't gotten a massive setback when his office got destroyed in the Kobe earthquake in 95. Between that, health problems, and taking care of his aging dad there's a huge rift in his work that went from finishing up GitS 1.5 and 2 to just making an endless amount of CG anime titty artbooks for the past 25 years.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
I watched Ghost in the Shell. Got the 4k disc, had it all set up in surround sound, 4k tv, lights off, the works. Watched it dubbed, its a movie, wanted to enjoy the experience, and i knew it was supposed to be trippy, so i didn't want to miss things. I didn't get it all that well, ngl. Not the story, i got that, really it was the hype around it. Don't get me wrong, the animation was gorgeous, top tier. But in 2024, the story of a machine coming to life is a bit... dull. Now in 1995 this would have knocked your socks off. It just didn't capture me as hard because... we have AI and stuff like that now. Not exactly like the Puppet Master, but close at this point.

That said i feel there was nuance i was missing because of the dub. The dub was ok. I liked the guy detective with the glasses, his acting was good. The MC though, her voice actress was stiff as a board, which was kind of the point... but she went a bit too far, kinda took me out of it. I feel on a second watch i might "get it" better. I will say i am surprised at the runtime. Only 83 minutes, so a Hour and 23. Its not long. It honestly could have benefited from a bit more fleshing out, though i guess that was what Stand Alone Complex was for. Overall, i give it a 8 out of 10. Would watch again, but i don't think its perfect.
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I actually watched this two weeks ago and have been rewatching Stand Alone Complex.

The thing that got me, is I knew that GITS was extremely inspirational for a lot of other cyberpunk, and the sheer amount of references to this stuff in games like Cyberpunk 2077 continued to baffle and surprise me.

Also fun fact about Motoko Kusanagi's voice actress in the GITS movie, the only person I've ever heard comment about whatever happened to that lady is the current voice actress of Motoko Kusanagi in all the other fiction since then.
 
Abbadon's Gate said:
and the sheer amount of references to this stuff in games like Cyberpunk 2077 continued to baffle and surprise me.
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Incidentally this season Maou 2099 has a supporting character who's a hacker whose best hacker program is called The Laughing Man. (And just in case anyone is interested, it's a isekai with a cyberpunk setting, so don't expect much in the way of cyberpunk-ness, guy is just asspulling his power as needed)
 
Oddjob OTP said:
Incidentally this season Maou 2099 has a supporting character who's a hacker whose best hacker program is called The Laughing Man. (And just in case anyone is interested, it's a isekai with a cyberpunk setting, so don't expect much in the way of cyberpunk-ness, guy is just asspulling his power as needed)
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For the longest time in the world my default Wifi Password was "Individual11"
 
Space Police said:
The original Slam Dunk localization would have been about T-Mac commanding an arsenal of futuristic vehicles (including a car with a jet that pops out, a hot rod whose hood becomes a robot, a moving van with a super-engine hidden in its back, and a mobile command truck). All these vehicles were designed by PLEX (the design studio behind Machine Robo and every Sentai and Metal Hero vehicle), so it would have been good. A shame that if it was made, weebs would have cried about their heckin' precious character-driven slow burn bone-chilling sports anime getting Roboteched into a "toy commercial".
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I watched video, she says the localized anime would not be about basketball but a superhero with gadgets instead. The only basketball thing about it is protag being based on Tracy McGrady. That's it, the ONLY THING about basketball. So saying it being localized or adaptation isn't even a good description.

Slam Dunk is about basketball and its cast, about some high school kids stop being delinquents and put some proper effort into playing sport. Doing something that's good for themselves and stop being some fuckwits to society. Rivalry between a beginner and gifted one. The rivalry between the school students to become better player. The camaraderie builds up between players on same team despite their differences. The one manga carries basketball interest in Japan, actually inspires and encourages people to play the damn sport. Imagine comparing weebs to those people. Yeah, "muh toys".

Oh wow, the protagonist is even better than any superhero ever. Oh wait, how do you gonna built conflict and character growth? Never mind, it's a kid show, who cares. Wow so unique, so original for a superhero show ever.
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The character isn't even humble. One of traits should be default to every superhero ever, so they can be a good role model for kids. Oh wait, it's a black guy. Black guy has to be show off, it's totally not stereotypical and racist about that right?
Don't forget about your "world building" and not just because it has X in it. In this case, X being tech stuffs. If you don't like sport anime about sport, you can kindly fuck off.
 
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