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El Porko Fako said:
Going to be wrapping up Clannad pretty soon and moving on to After Story right after. Wanted to give slice of lifes another try, so here I am. So far, nothing magic, nothing tragic.

Pray tell fellow Kiwis. Is After Story truly all it's cracked up to be or is it overhyped as fuck? I'm going to commit to watching it either way. Want to form my own opinion.
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After Story is much better than Clannad. The stories are far more relatable than whatever Fuuko's problem was and the focus is shifted from the boring girls to Tomoya, a far more convincing and interesting character. Also the opening is dope.

On another subject I wouldn't call Clannad slice of life (although there are some slice of life bits in AS), it's more focused on comedy and drama overall.
 
Just found the official English dub of Shimoneta's infamous "Love Nectar Cookies" scene, and I honestly can't bring myself to listen to that happen in a language I can understand.

 
Is Shimoneta basically Future Diary but without the killing?

Yuno Gasai recast as a girl who, instead of being full on yandere "kill them all" is just weird and creepy and obsessive about a dude?
 
Varg Did Nothing Wrong said:
Is Shimoneta basically Future Diary but without the killing?

Yuno Gasai recast as a girl who, instead of being full on yandere "kill them all" is just weird and creepy and obsessive about a dude?
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It's a anime where Japan banned any and all forms of "lewd" material/discussion(they literally are forced to wear collars that detect if they say any "forbidden words") about a decade prior to the start of the series, to the point that teenagers don't even know what their junk is called, how babies are made, etc. So when that girl gets an anime accidental kiss, she basically gets awakened to sexual feelings, only with no damn idea what they are, how they work, what they're called, or how to properly deal with them. So essentially believes that feelings of lust are actually "true love" and, with no clear outlet to deal with said feelings, goes a bit yandere.

Honestly, as fun is the show is, the setting is kinda dark in that aspect. I actually started to feel really sorry for the girl as the show went on.

Full series is actually free on YouTube legally.
 
I've found myself missing reading a weekly series as of late. I can't remember where I dropped Detective Conan. Naruto is done and while I do look fondly back on it, it's only because I started reading it when it just came out and continued to do so out of habit. It was a part of my adolescence even if I never watched the anime and thought long parts of it were bad. It was mostly out of habit. Then there's Bleach, which I got to the end of the Rescue Rukia arc and swore off that shit entirely. Also can't remember where I left off on Eyeshield 21.

So, I'm going to give One Piece a shot. I did enjoy it when I used to buy Shonen Jump, and the only reason I picked up Naruto later on was because my high school had a number of volumes in the library.
 
I've been enjoying Super Eyepatch Wolf's look into anime (he does it better than Digibro ever will despite similar-length videos), and this one about the Dragon Ball manga is no exception.
 
So I've been seeing a few articles about how Your Name was snubbed for an Oscar nomination since it's apparently one of the greatest anime movies ever. Is it genuinely good, or are people just overhyping it cause of the progressive genderswap thing and it's pretty meh in reality?
 
I haven't been keeping up on it after I watched the movie because I'm tired of hearing about Your Name being the "best movie evar!!1!" when it was "okay" at best, while also making me think it was "fixing" 5 Centimeters Per Second's "problems". Makoto Shinkai should just stick to the status quo. But if it got "snubbed" by the Oscars, I can live with that. :story:

Meanwhile, Miyazaki's out of retirement for the umpteenth time. Maybe Your Name triggered him just as much as the CG zombies.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
I haven't been keeping up on it after I watched the movie because I'm tired of hearing about Your Name being the "best movie evar!!1!" when it was "okay" at best, while also making me think it was "fixing" 5 Centimeters Per Second's "problems". Makoto Shinkai should just stick to the status quo. But if it got "snubbed" by the Oscars, I can live with that. :story:

Meanwhile, Miyazaki's out of retirement for the umpteenth time. Maybe Your Name triggered him just as much as the CG zombies.
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The manga version of 5 Centimeters is decent, if only because it ends on a happy note.
 
I'm feeling nostalgic for old anime OPs at the moment. Gonna share some of my favs while they're still on YouTube.

(couldn't find the OP, here's the song instead)





(I didn't care for the anime, but that song's pretty good.)

 
Steamboat_Bill said:
At what point will the world realize Miyazaki simply hasn't been good since Sherlock Hound?
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Miyazaki's films are just those shitty environmental kids film they showed in school with more money and a bit more effort.

I never really cared all that much for the dudes films but lately I've pretty much realized he's a bitter old retard who's gonna end up dead in a few years.
 
Miyazaki films are like the sort of novels that win the Man Booker Prize. They've got lots of different themes and get rave reviews from critics, but they're also incredibly pretentious and normal people hardly ever buy them. Yes, Mononoke might have "the soul of a romantic epic", but if you made me pick between it and a Man Booker winner or Fate/Zero and a Tom Clancy novel, I'd immediately choose the latter two.
 
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samuraicrack said:
He's a household name in Japan, though.
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True that, and he has made some good films, it's just that they're largely kinda inaccessible to the general viewer. There are pretty large fan communities for stuff like Jojo and Fate and whatnot, whereas you don't tend to see that with Miyazaki's stuff.
 
NotAKitty said:
True that, and he has made some good films, it's just that they're largely kinda inaccessible to the general viewer. There are pretty large fan communities for stuff like Jojo and Fate and whatnot, whereas you don't tend to see that with Miyazaki's stuff.
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because most of the time miyazaki's films are shit we saw as kids but no one wants to admit that they're mediocre due to nostalgia

i tried watching nausicaa a while back again and it was embarrassing how much of a mary sue the MC is
 
samuraicrack said:
i tried watching nausicaa a while back again and it was embarrassing how much of a mary sue the MC is
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I find the villain to be more interesting. Unfortunately, there wasn't a lot of time to build her up, but I've heard the manga handles this a lot better. I've only read the first volume, which the first... third or half of the film was practically a shot-by-shot adaptation of, and I've been meaning to get back into reading it. Thing is, the manga's really detailed (don't get me wrong, though, Miyazaki's a talented artist), and it's a little hard to read at times since it gets talky, and the word bubbles almost blend in with the panels. And the manga's released in large hardcovers, too, so you can't exactly hold it or readily flip through it.

But it does make me wonder how much of a perfectionist/control freak Miyazaki is, at least when it came to Nausicaä.
 
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