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God of Nothing said:
Adults fucking teenagers has always been a weird thing. Like, it was normal for most of human history and has only recently become a legal issue because back then a teenager was already an adult. This was one of those tribe/village things where it really depended. I'm pretty sure most people don't care much about young men scoring with a woman older than him because that drive is just a male thing. When it's a girl with an older man, it's the issue of the day because we naturally want to protect women, even if we say they're responsible for their own choices.

Denji is a young man who grew up in poverty and literally sold his organs for cash. Shinji is an emotionally vulnerable teenager on the verge of a mental breakdown most of the time. This kind of context is also important. If the former scores with a grown woman (not elderly or especially unnatractive), I'm absolutely certain almost all of us would feel happy for him. If the latter does, I'm sure we'd all be concerned because he probably cried during it.

But enough of my autistic thoughts about this subject brought about by a relatively low-effort meme
my boy denji needs some fucking love, man
enough with the abusive bitches, please
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The former kisses Denji because she’s drunk and kisses anybody. The latter kisses Shinji because she’s been shot, doesn’t know how long she has to live, and is desperately trying to motivate Shinji into what she believes will prevent the deaths of billions while he is having a panic attack. This meme is more dead-on than I thought.
 
Haruhi Suzumiyah was a Game of Thrones level case of the writers huffing their farts so much they killed an insanely popular show that was considered a cornerstone of Otaku culture.

You had a huge hype for a new season only for the writers to make the same episode 8 times, and I mean literally reanimate the episode bar few changes, with the expectations that people will the Blue Ray for them just see another angle of Haruhi's swimsuit. It could all be a single episode and the show would have had at least two more seasons.
 
Scarlett Johansson said:
I know lol she's the time traveler.

Why the broadcast order over the chronological one?
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You got an answer above but chronological has the silver lining of letting you see the character development more clearly than the non chronological order, while still giving you a climax to end on (the movie, which comes after the anime, no matter which order you go for)

So while I still say broadcast is a better experience, chronological is alright too. You can get the order from here
My main issue with chronological is moving episode 00 from the start to the end. A pretty bad choice imo.

wtfNeedSignUp said:
Haruhi Suzumiyah was a Game of Thrones level case of the writers huffing their farts so much they killed an insanely popular show that was considered a cornerstone of Otaku culture.

You had a huge hype for a new season only for the writers to make the same episode 8 times, and I mean literally reanimate the episode bar few changes, with the expectations that people will the Blue Ray for them just see another angle of Haruhi's swimsuit. It could all be a single episode and the show would have had at least two more seasons.
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From what I heard they were planning to make the movie in season 2 but got the green light for a separate movie, so they had a few episodes to fill and not much to do with. So Endless Eight it was. I like it for what it is and the directing but I bet it was hell to watch weekly.
 
Human Institute Director said:
From what I heard they were planning to make the movie in season 2 but got the green light for a separate movie, so they had a few episodes to fill and not much to do with. So Endless Eight it was. I like it for what it is and the directing but I bet it was hell to watch weekly.
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It doesn't explain why they reanimated entire scenes over and over, they could have had used the same amount of effort for half a season of the cast doing different things during summertime, and considering the popularity of the franchise they absolutely weren't strapped for cash.
As for watching it live, the answer is that no one did, they just waited for the last episode two episodes in. That killed the hype, which was already iffy with the second season appearing as a surprise during a rerun of the first season.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
It doesn't explain why they reanimated entire scenes over and over, they could have had used the same amount of effort for half a season of the cast doing different things during summertime, and considering the popularity of the franchise they absolutely weren't strapped for cash.
As for watching it live, the answer is that no one did, they just waited for the last episode two episodes in. That killed the hype, which was already iffy with the second season appearing as a surprise during a rerun of the first season.
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If they just aired the same episode 8 times they wouldn't have 8 episodes but 1 episode re-aired 8 times. So they made 8 episodes with the same outline, a few small differences in script and they gave it to multiple directors so they could all put a different spin on it, with some episodes being a bit more spooky, other episodes insisting on visual symbolism for loops or entrapment, some episodes insisting more on Nagato losing her mind... With the added benefit of turning this into training for the 8 directors.

Now could they have done something different? Probably but they'd have needed filler episodes for that. And they'd need them to happen before the movie too to prevent spoilers. Not impossible, but a long shot. The studio was always pretty faithful in its adaptation, the only filler episode (that heater episode from season 1) was actually written by the author, so I don't think they'd have tried their hand at making new stories on their own.

And most importantly the franchise gained back a lot of traction with the movie, both critically and commercially. It dominated the charts when it came out. What killed the franchise was a 10 year hiatus from the author, multiple season 3 fakeouts (one of them that ended being an adaptation of this shit nobody asked for) and really nothing going on. I heard Kadokawa wouldn't green light a 3rd season without a new light novel to promote alongside, so the author's hiatus seems to be the main issue here.

On the bright side the author actually wrote a sequel 2 years ago so maybe it's not entirely dead, but it's still a relic of another, simpler time. The 00s were based.
 
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Yesterday may have been a holiday, but for me, it marked two years for when I got around to watching Girls und Panzer for the first time. Between going back and forth with Strike Witches around this time, I don’t think I have to speak the obvious and say that this is the best anime of the 2010’s. That and plus, I just found out that the fourth part of the Girls und Panzer das Finale was introduced as a teaser a few days ago.

This one was an entertaining gem, and to no one’s surprise, the theme song and ending song is still stuck in my head:


 
Endless Eight sounds interesting as a premise tbh. Same episode done 8 times differently because shenanigans
 
I started reading HxH a while back because I really liked YYH, just got through the Greed island arc, it has been extremely enjoyable so far.
Little to no pasing issues (refreshing after how bad one piece has gotten), great characters, awesome art.
Obviously I am just around half way through the current chapters, but so far it has been nothing but getting better and better
 
Human Institute Director said:
Now could they have done something different? Probably but they'd have needed filler episodes for that. And they'd need them to happen before the movie too to prevent spoilers. Not impossible, but a long shot. The studio was always pretty faithful in its adaptation, the only filler episode (that heater episode from season 1) was actually written by the author, so I don't think they'd have tried their hand at making new stories on their own.
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filler doesn't mean you gotta repeat the same shit 8 times to make a point, you can still get creative with that while doing with it. not even a different swimsuit each time could save it.

the most retarded part about endless eight is that there is absolutely NOTHING happening for almost 8 episodes. usually when you deal with a timeloop story, and what makes it interesting, is how people are gonna try breaking out of it - instead that fuckface kyon doesn't even try, and then you're back with another episode with the exact same reaction. THAT's why it's so fucking bad, not that they repeated the same episode almost exactly 8 times wasting everyone's time.
sure, you could say "well, know you know how yuki feels seeing that shit almost 16 thousand times", but I'm not a fucking anime character (otherwise I'd have smashed that tsundere cuntmuffin groundhog day style, end of the world or not).
 
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