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Gravemind said:
Iron-Blooded Orphans is very contentious among mecha circles with most people usually dismissing it as total dogshit. Probably because it builds up to some very significant things over the course of two seasons and touts this sort of theme of "challenging/overthrowing the status quo", only to end up completely disregarding a major worldbuilding thread following the resolution of the story arc that introduced it in the first place, and then, ultimately, maintaining the status quo of the setting when all was said and done, albeit with a bit of a bloody nose, metaphorically speaking.

Personally, I enjoyed what was there and I had fully expected things to end as they did well before the end of Season 2. So, IBO's one of those cases where you'll either love it or hate it. More vocal people seem to have hated it than loved it, but when do mechafags ever actually enjoy any mecha they watch?
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The problem with IBO is that it was written by Mari Okada. That hack has never written ANYTHING good.
 
Moguro Fukuzou said:
-Vivy: Series has remained pretty great for me though next episode has me worried a bit if they're going to drag out Vivy moping and just the general worry about an anime original trying to stick the landing. Will say that latest episode made me sad because I had really grown to love Stacy Diva and her final scene was great, going to miss her bullying Matsumoto.
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Yeah the new personality was great, sad to see her go. I also realized that the show would probably worked way better as a VN (which it borrows inspiration from). Especially in having more background info.

Moguro Fukuzou said:
I hate both sides but I've honestly gotten more sick of the anti-sjw at this point because literally everything is cultural war to them and their constant never-ending youtube videos they pump out daily about how the sjw is ruining x or series x is dead because of sjw or sjw gets owned with a random smug anime girl as the thumbnail. People need to chill out and just enjoy some anime.
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In anime I'll agree with you, but virtually every other medium is chock full of leftist propaganda.

Edit: Sentouin, Hakenshimasu! new episode is pretty consistently funny. It might redeem itself.
 
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Anime/manga seems safe from western SJW autism, but it does seem like Japan has its own version of it sometimes. I know serval popular mangaka they seemed to have TDS (biggest one seemed to be Yusuke Murata but I think that lasted less then a year) and I know their are some shitty woke series because shitty woke scanlators go hunting for them. There isn't much but you can find a few sites like pixiv or online magazines, last one I saw was some kind of tranny hunter one shot but can't remember what it was called.
(edit: one shot was called Stripping the Flesh and it was bad
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=179601

As for western influences, all that maters is sales and based on industry reports it seems mixed
Based on a report from 2020, overseas revenue does make up a large part of the total revenue at over 1.2 trillion yen, but there are two (*)
* It groups all revenue sources from overseas, (TV, movies, streaming, merchandising, etc). into one group
* It doesn't break it down between country (best it gives is breaking it down to number of "contracts" which the US had 292)
 
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vern said:
Anime/manga seems safe from western SJW autism, but it does seem like Japan has its own version of it sometimes. I know serval popular mangaka they seemed to have TDS (biggest one seemed to be Yusuke Murata but I think that lasted less then a year) and I know their are some shitty woke series because shitty woke scanlators go hunting for them. There isn't much but you can find a few sites like pixiv or online magazines, last one I saw was some kind of tranny hunter one shot but can't remember what it was called.
As for western influences, all that maters is sales and based on industry reports it seems mixed
Based on a report from 2020, overseas revenue does make up a large part of the total revenue at over 1.2 trillion yen, but there are two (*)
* It groups all revenue sources from overseas, (TV, movies, streaming, merchandising, etc). into one group
* It doesn't break it down between country (best it gives is breaking it down to number of "contracts" which the US had 292)
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The thing is that the real money is in Blu-Ray, Manga Volumes and Merch. TV and Streaming are generally a small part of it, with the exception of movies (which are traditionally hard to find in the west). So lumping them all together is really not a good indicator. If it doesn't have the country its even less useless honestly.
 
vern said:
Anime/manga seems safe from western SJW autism, but it does seem like Japan has its own version of it sometimes. I know serval popular mangaka they seemed to have TDS (biggest one seemed to be Yusuke Murata but I think that lasted less then a year) and I know their are some shitty woke series because shitty woke scanlators go hunting for them. There isn't much but you can find a few sites like pixiv or online magazines, last one I saw was some kind of tranny hunter one shot but can't remember what it was called.
As for western influences, all that maters is sales and based on industry reports it seems mixed
Based on a report from 2020, overseas revenue does make up a large part of the total revenue at over 1.2 trillion yen, but there are two (*)
* It groups all revenue sources from overseas, (TV, movies, streaming, merchandising, etc). into one group
* It doesn't break it down between country (best it gives is breaking it down to number of "contracts" which the US had 292)
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It will go woke eventually. The manga publishing companies are almost all publicly traded companies.
 
Secret Asshole said:
The thing is that the real money is in Blu-Ray, Manga Volumes and Merch. TV and Streaming are generally a small part of it, with the exception of movies (which are traditionally hard to find in the west). So lumping them all together is really not a good indicator. If it doesn't have the country its even less useless honestly.
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Thats why I said two (*)
Although know that I look at the rest of the report it seems like streaming in japan might of overtaking blu-ray sales for revenue. Obviously merch is still top dog by a huge margin but it seems like 2017 was the last year disc sales was greater then streaming.
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KEKMUHLORD said:
Stop worrying about Japan going woke.

They are a nationalistic, rightwing, homogenous country of Asian people with the strictest Immigration policies in the world.

They do not give a shit what we think.

They are going to be fine.

Worry about the west. We are fucked.
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Yeah, you're probably right.

Has anyone read "This Village Sim NPC Could Only Be Human?" This shit has been amazing so far.

The basic plot is that a 30-year-old guy who is a NEET mainly due to some past trauma one day gets an "extremely realistic game" that makes him a "god" of a group of villagers. He doesn't really have direct control of anything but can influence things around the characters. The responsibility he's given starts to change his life in his world in many ways.

Ngl I cried a little bit when MC starts rebuilding his relationship with his father.

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Fair warning though, this has been incredibly slow to update.
 
mr.moon1488 said:
Has anyone read "This Village Sim NPC Could Only Be Human?" This shit has been amazing so far.
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It's like an isekai without technically being an isekai. Any time I think it's about to turn into an isekai, it refrains from doing so. (There was that one splash page with the characters from the "game" helping him mop at his job but I don't think that was meant to be taken as canon.)
 
sasazuka said:
It's like an isekai without technically being an isekai. Any time I think it's about to turn into an isekai, it refrains from doing so. (There was that one splash page with the characters from the "game" helping him mop at his job but I don't think that was meant to be taken as canon.)
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I kind of suspect that his new coworker friend is playing the same game, but on the other team.
 
i was reading some trash cheesecake comedy series, when, in the scanlation notes, I came across an amusing story in 4 parts:
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I usually hate scan group stuff because they’ve gotten so obnoxious with their turf wars and promoting their patreons (I’ve done fansubbing, I know it’s a lot of work, but it still seems wrong to me to beg for $ for it.). But this one was mildly amusing.
 
Screw Danlon said:
i was reading some trash cheesecake comedy series, when, in the scanlation notes, I came across an amusing story in 4 parts:
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I usually hate scan group stuff because they’ve gotten so obnoxious with their turf wars and promoting their patreons (I’ve done fansubbing, I know it’s a lot of work, but it still seems wrong to me to beg for $ for it.). But this one was mildly amusing.
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you scared me for a second there, I thought koolio and his goons were back to making awful reddit translations based on westernized conceptions of japanese culture instead of just translating the fucking text.
 
I remembered a manga with a fun twist on the isekai genre where the protagonist was a truck driver who's "holy task" was to isekai japanese schoolkids. If anyone remembers the name I'd like to know.
 
You ever decide to read an entire manga based off of one out of context page you saw online? Because this was that manga for me.
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Gravemind said:
That's actually one of the best summaries of IBO I've heard in a while. Although, like I said, I saw the ending coming well before Season 2 ended (I think maybe a few episodes in I immediately got the underlying vibe of "hubris is going to come back and bite everyone in the ass", and I was following along with it when it had just premiered/was still airing. Orga slowly sperging harder and harder on his ambitions for Tekkadan is the thing that pretty much convinced me nothing was going to end well), so I wasn't exactly smacked in the face when everything started falling apart. More that I was able to appreciate the tragedy and bittersweet nature of it all as it was occurring.
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I thought that helped make the show a mess. The villains are a loathsome bunch and the setting is extremely bleak. I mean the villain faction is basically straight out of QAnon fantasies about the global elite are what with all the child sex trafficking and ignoring child slavery and all sorts of organized crime on the fringes. The heroes are people who strike a blow at that and are people you want to root for, since they're trying to end all the slavery, corruption, and oppression. To me, the "hubris" thing didn't really make sense (at least when it aired) because why just stop where they did? Why not just keep going and make a difference? I mean, it's what every other Gundam show does and this show sure loves to indulge in its Gundam tropes like having a blond guy with a red mobile suit who wears a mask and enjoys lolis and backstabbing his allies.

Basically, I never had the feeling that what Orga was doing was wrong because the show makes it abundantly clear that the villains and the society the characters are in are far, far worse than a bunch of upjumped child soldiers with delusions of grandeur. Other Gundam shows like G Gundam or Gundam 00 pull off the "what if the heroes are wrong and the villains are more right than they think far, far better. What's the show trying to say? "Hey, enjoy your friends and stop trying to change the world and getting involved with dangerous people because that will get them killed?" Maybe it does, but the show doesn't present it well. In basically every way it's following the usual playbook of Gundam tropes until it declares "what sort of idiot thinks a bunch of child soldiers, smugglers, and rebels following a blond-haired sociopath using a 200 year old mobile suit can overthrow the 200 year old world government with vastly greater resources?" and everyone dies.

Whatever message IBO had, it didn't present it well. And the epilogue (Sunrise-demanded IIRC because the ending was too bleak) just makes things cross over into the realm of stupid. It's too bad too, since it could've been an incredible tragedy. Maybe I'm wrong. I watched every episode on release after all, maybe it would flow better if I watched it straight through like I'd watch any older Gundam series.
 
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