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Atatata said:
Eh, personally I found that this was much more the case back in the 80s and 90s especially in the era of the mech boom where it was always a hot blooded brown haired and red color schemed teenager with killer sideburns and Silvester Stallone clones.

While there are definitely "defeat the elder team of evil gimmick bad guys then go on to defeat the superior team of evil gimmick bad guys" its not a new phenomenon.
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I think it's important to remember I'm speaking as an American. One who got into anime basically as a result of stuff like Ranma 1/2, Devil Hunter Yohko, and the other early video works of Viz Video, AD Vision, US Manga Corp (which I think was a division of Central Park Media), AnimEigo and so on.

I've never been to Japan, I certainly didn't grow up there, so stuff like the 1980s mecha boom I only know about in an academic sense, not as something I lived and personally experienced.

Thing is I basically agree with your point... but that's part of what I'm saying... for awhile anime seemed to be more "curated" so we tended to get stuff that was more interesting (or if it sucked, it was at least mercifully short). But nowadays we get everything that Japan makes. It seriously is like Toto pulling back the curtain and revealing the Wizard is just some bald dude with a gizmo.
 
Johnny Eastwood cash said:
princess mononoke is better then most environmentalist films I seen
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Ironically just watched it for the first time in probably 10 years the other night. Had the exact same thought, personally I think its because(at least at the time of production) there was still a sense of paganism lingering in the culture that lent itself to being expressed in such a film. Not the type of manufactured pagan nonsense you get in the west today, but a genuine sense of the mystical in nature that you might have seen in antiquity. Ironically you also get a sense of the folly of pride in the face of god from the film, but I think this was more happenstance than anything as I don't know that evangelism has ever been very successful in japan.
 
Johnny Eastwood cash said:
princess mononoke is better then most environmentalist films I seen
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unfortunately Miyazaki gets a bad rap of repeating nature good, technology bad, almost every film which while I'll admit to have only watching 3 of his films so far (mononoke being one of them), I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt it isn't the majority of his filmography and just some people trying to poke fun of him.
 
skykiii said:
I said this before too, but.... seriously I will never understand how there's an evergreen fanbase for shonen fighting shows when they all literally have the same characters and plot beats and themes over and over. You could literally replicate the experience of any given one by just loading up MUGEN, recording a series of matches, then making up a story about what happened before and after every fight.
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because it's something familiar but not the same (although I've seen a tendency the older people get they just go back watching old stuff they've already seen a dozen of times). it's also a genre that has intergenerational appeal, so it works for some literal boomer and some 12yo, and thus you constantly get new consumers.

The tired cat said:
I mean, the only murder mystery/thriller I can think of off the top of my brain is ID Invaded if you want to watch that, there's also Demon Detective Nuogami Neuro, but I'd suggest reading the manga because the anime kind of goes off the rails (which is saying something)
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haven't thought of id:invaded in ages. but that reminded me of erased, might fit the bill. also grabbed summertime render recently, haven't watched it yet tho.

WelperHelper99 said:
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Watched the Kaguya Sama movie last night. Both bookings were fucking packed. Theater was howling at every joke, many of which arent tv friendly. I kept my head in the sand about this arc for years, but from what I know, it exceeded expectations. All I know is it made a shit ton of money, and when u guys can watch it, do, they dumped their hearts into it.
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have you seen the OVA? they know exactly what they're doing.

was hesitant to give the movie a watch since S3 ended on the perfect note and didn't want to retroactively ruined, but seems I should check it out.
 
Inafune Fanfiction said:
Why do so many nips want to draw nothing but hentai? Fuck if I know. Bugmen really must only exist to reproduce and die shortly after if anime is anything to go by.
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It's as Miyazaki said. The old talent left and were replaced by otaku who cannibalize and regurgitate the stuff they grew up watching. Sane people don't go into the anime industry because the working conditions and pay are atrocious.


Kujo Jotaro said:
What's the preferred way to watch anime now? Is torrenting still the best option for quality, or is there a streaming site that's halfway decent. Haven't watched anime in like 2 years so I'm a bit out of the loop.
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Having the actual files will always give you better visual quality than streaming compressed footage over the internet. That being said, if you like to watch anime on your Roku TV while sitting in your lazyboy chair, then using a streaming service like Crunchyroll is the easiest way to watch. Otherwise you have to open a laptop and steam from your laptop to the TV, and then every 20 minutes get out of your chair and go to the laptop to put on the next episode.
 
Golfing on the Moon 1971 said:
It's as Miyazaki said. The old talent left and were replaced by otaku who cannibalize and regurgitate the stuff they grew up watching. Sane people don't go into the anime industry because the working conditions and pay are atrocious.




Having the actual files will always give you better visual quality than streaming compressed footage over the internet. That being said, if you like to watch anime on your Roku TV while sitting in your lazyboy chair, then using a streaming service like Crunchyroll is the easiest way to watch. Otherwise you have to open a laptop and steam from your laptop to the TV, and then every 20 minutes get out of your chair and go to the laptop to put on the next episode.
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Say I was willing it slink out of my chair every 20 minutes, what would be the best site(s) to do this on? I went to 9 anime to start, and some of their stuff was serviceable, but when I tried to watch the 3rd season of mob psycho anytime there was a sign or some other writing in the show instead of just shoving the translation into the top portion of the screen they would cram it in just above or below the normal subs. Made it basically unwatchable.
 
Got to episode 21 of Argento Soma after so much time and desinterest. I'VE NEVER SEEN A PROTAGONIST SEETH SO MUCH AS RYU SOMA!

There isnt s single episode where he wasnt seething at the same stuff. The reveal of the last two episodes was something that I didnt expected but holy shit this is boring sometimes.
 
Dig this crazy manga
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Heroic Complex

Is he the heroine? Is she the hero? A romantic comedy about the secret identities of a high school boy who's been transformed into a battle girl and a high school girl who transforms into a super warrior! Романтическая комедия о супергероях с сюрпризом.
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Is he the heroine? Is she the hero? A romantic comedy about the secret identities of a high school boy who's been transformed into a battle girl and a high school girl who transforms into a super warrior!
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Started watching Bocchi the Rock last night. Wanted something different to stop me from rewatching a random Gundam series and I had heard good things.

Only seen the first 3 episodes so far but I really enjoyed it. Character felt very relatable to some situations I had experienced. Animation is also really well done, very surprising considering they probably could have gotten away with a lot less because its just some moe show.

Besides WfM part 2 I am really looking forward to Gridman Universe. Dynazenon was a highlight for me and I cant wait to see those characters again.
 
a recommendation: Death Toll just finished translating

Souboutei Must Be Destroyed
by Fujita Kazuhiro (of Ushio and Tora)
shonen, 25 volumes, 250 chapters

Haunted house mystery / horror. Souboutei is the name of the house in which traditional haunted house stuff is happening. It's completely unwoke and has no faggots, troons, lolis, or other coomer shit. The women are beautiful.
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pictured: an average woman

Content warning:
- kids die, a lot
- an underage schoolgirl gets her bob (and implicitly vagene) out a lot

Otherwise, it's crazy enough to be best experienced completely unspoiled, so go read it.

If you're unconvinced (e.g. don't like horror)
I fucking lied, it isn't horror at all (although plenty of horrific shit happens). The "action/horror" tag doesn't begin to do it justice.

It's a shonen manga about shonen manga. It sounds pretentious but the author is badass enough to pull it off.

The cast of characters is appropriately bizarre. Some of the characters, right to left:
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- completely normal Japanese schoolboy
- alien cultural exchange ambassador
- Japanese spirit summoning witch sisters
- European pyrokineticist
- her husband, a tech billionnaire
- American paranormal researcher
- JSDF officer
- 1930s Imperial Japanese officer
- 1930s shrine maiden / saint
- manga artist (author's self-insert but with hair)

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- ninja schoolgirl, here seen getting culturally enriched with a drill to the face

The main protagonists are a hapless manga artist who keeps getting rejected by publishers, and a schoolboy who nevertheless looks up to him. Neither of them has much in the way of special talents:
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However, in a manga about manga, drawing is sometimes useful:
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It's a wholesome 70s story that fell into a time tunnel and ended up 45 years later in the year 2023. Go read it.
 
Safir said:
a recommendation: Death Toll just finished translating

Souboutei Must Be Destroyed
by Fujita Kazuhiro (of Ushio and Tora)
shonen, 25 volumes, 250 chapters

Haunted house mystery / horror. Souboutei is the name of the house in which traditional haunted house stuff is happening. It's completely unwoke and has no faggots, troons, lolis, or other coomer shit. The women are beautiful.
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pictured: an average woman

Content warning:
- kids die, a lot
- an underage schoolgirl gets her bob (and implicitly vagene) out a lot

Otherwise, it's crazy enough to be best experienced completely unspoiled, so go read it.

If you're unconvinced (e.g. don't like horror)
I fucking lied, it isn't horror at all (although plenty of horrific shit happens). The "action/horror" tag doesn't begin to do it justice.

It's a shonen manga about shonen manga. It sounds pretentious but the author is badass enough to pull it off.

The cast of characters is appropriately bizarre. Some of the characters, right to left:
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- completely normal Japanese schoolboy
- alien cultural exchange ambassador
- Japanese spirit summoning witch sisters
- European pyrokineticist
- her husband, a tech billionnaire
- American paranormal researcher
- JSDF officer
- 1930s Imperial Japanese officer
- 1930s shrine maiden / saint
- manga artist (author's self-insert but with hair)

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- ninja schoolgirl, here seen getting culturally enriched with a drill to the face

The main protagonists are a hapless manga artist who keeps getting rejected by publishers, and a schoolboy who nevertheless looks up to him. Neither of them has much in the way of special talents:
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However, in a manga about manga, drawing is sometimes useful:
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It's a wholesome 70s story that fell into a time tunnel and ended up 45 years later in the year 2023. Go read it.
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I wish more of Fujita's works was brought over if only to get people to read them at the very least. iirc the only series that got an official release wasn't Ushio and Tora or even Karakuri Circus, but Ghost and Lady, a two volume short series from his Black Museum anthology manga.
 
I'd be all over an Ushio & Tora official release. I think had ADV not gone under, they could've potentially gotten the manga. Sucks that Sentai Filmworks hasn't considered returning to the manga industry, but I can understand their hesitance.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
I'd be all over an Ushio & Tora official release. I think had ADV not gone under, they could've potentially gotten the manga. Sucks that Sentai Filmworks hasn't considered returning to the manga industry, but I can understand their hesitance.
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I think viz has the rights to the manga (caused there partly owned by Shogakukan) and are just sitting on it as well as a lot of manga that isn't the 10 most popular currently running sunday series and or from a extremely well known author.
 
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