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Now that's one anime crossover I didn't expect
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>stares at pages of people sperging about Japan having ambivalent depictions of the US, most can't even make arguments and state facts with weight behind them
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aylmao, what a lot of you don't know could fill the ocean

Japan being paranoid of outsiders gauges way far back, but in terms of Westerners and the US, it all began with the Portuguese and when power shifted to Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Sengoku, along with the expeditions to the Vatican that Date Masamune officially sponsored. Ieyasu heard about what the Spaniards did to Atahualpa in Peru and the Aztecs in Mexico, and that's when Ieyasu was convinced to force them all out and kill anyone who turned to Christianity. Later upon the end of the Tokugawa regime, Abraham Lincoln allowed Matthew C. Perry to use gunboat diplomacy on Japan to expand the US's trade routes and GNP. The Night of the Black Ships literally got Japan scared shitless of invasion and takeovers by foreign powers, enough to have them kill each other crazy by massive civil war over direction of the nation's future and even follow western Fascism to try to keep the west off of their tails. Of course, this didn't help the public, who still were paranoid and agitated as shit. A lot of them were freaked out by western technologies, and some of them harbored massive conspiracies that westerners would make them slaves to being farmed for their blood. I honestly can't blame them.

So if you wonder why there's plots about how the US military controls the JSDF or how there's massive political influence to American/western factions in anime and manga, there you go.
 
Chainsaw Man OP is pretty good. So far there seems to be a lot of good shows this Fall and Winter with Mob Psycho, SpyxFamily, and a few others.

Also, stop culture warring. Japan hates and loves the US for a lot of reasons. The military base shit with niggers doing abduction, rape, and murder them biases nips against US military personnel beyond nukes. Happens like every other decade and Chinese fund protest groups to stir shit up.
 
Jonah Hill poster said:
Heard some new and positive things regarding the new installment for Bleach. Honestly, it makes me think that this is 2006 again and is making me want to read the manga from the beginning.
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I reread it all for the new season. There really was something special about those early chapters. It gets worse as it goes on, but you can’t really deny that Kubo had a lot of talent.
 
Lester Jones said:
For Iruma fans out there, the author went all in with the gender nonsense... :(
Volume 23 Chapter 204.5:
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They're demons, though, right? Gender might legit be just a construct with them.

But either way lol. And fans get miffed whenever I say modern series aren't all that appealing and that there's a giant backlog I prefer going through instead of keeping up with what's current.
 
Lester Jones said:
For Iruma fans out there, the author went all in with the gender nonsense... :(
Volume 23 Chapter 204.5:
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Kari Kamiya said:
They're demons, though, right? Gender might legit be just a construct with them.
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Yes, this has been the case from the start, suprised that it could've caught anyone off guard. This character was androgynous from the get go, you'd have to be blind to not notice.

They also specifically point it out that demons don't have the same moral concept as man and that it used to be a lot more extreme before a lot of shit changed.
 

Glasgow-Based Anime Limited Confirms Acquisition by PLAION PICTURES​

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An official press release confirms the Glasgow-based anime company Anime Limited (also known as All the Anime) has been acquired by Germany's PLAION PICTURES. The acquisition was reported earlier in German film magazine Blickpunkt:Film.

“We are looking forward to joining the team of PLAION, with whom we have already successfully collaborated via both
our French and Scottish offices," said Andrew Partridge, MD and co-founder of Anime Ltd. in the press release. "Together, we are in a unique position to deliver a bespoke and streamlined approach for our business in each of the core territories in Europe. I am excited about the opportunities for growth that this deal represents."

Anime Ltd co-founder and member of the board Cedric Littardi voices a similar excitement for the prospects presented by this acquisition. "I am happy to see that Anime Ltd. takes the next step in its development and becomes part of a strong entertainment group with a clear vision and a promising strategy. I look forward to being able to further build up our business and unfold Anime Ltd.’s full potential to make Japanese pop culture content even more popular in Europe and the world."

The Anime Ltd distribution company was launched in 2012, and specializes in distributing anime and related music and merchandise in France, the U.K., and the U.S. Related ventures include the Cloud Matsuri anime conventions and theatrical screenings of anime films.

PLAION PICTURES CEO Stefan Kapelari welcomed the Anime Ltd team to the group, adding that they "look forward to join forces in strengthening our positon as a key player in the marketing and distribution of Japanese pop art content. Together, we become a pan-European publisher with the ability to deliver a 360-degree marketing & distribution service to our Japanese partners."

Source: Press Release, All the Anime blog
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So there’s this “anime” called Exception that I thought was going to be pure dogsit, but was pretty decent, but I have to ask why it’s being called “anime” despite looking very, very Western.
 
Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed said:
So there’s this “anime” called Exception that I thought was going to be pure dogsit, but was pretty decent, but I have to ask why it’s being called “anime” despite looking very, very Western.
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The only English names I can see in the staff are with like foley and sound design, and a little SFX. This is still a Japanese production.
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Oh sweet, it's got Laura Bailey!
 
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