Finished Ergo Proxy. It's certainly a unique anime; has a lot of philosophical mind fuckery going on similar to Evangelion, though I would argue Ergo is a bit easier to digest. The start is pretty slow and I get why some consider it boring, but it's worth checking out if you like cyberpunk and post-apocalyptic stuff.
Okay what was the deal with Golden Boy? I saw a few of the OVAs and thought it was just the usual oversexed and overperverted Japanese cartoon but I’m hearing how there was a cult and a cycling storyline? What’s up with that?
Okay what was the deal with Golden Boy? I saw a few of the OVAs and thought it was just the usual oversexed and overperverted Japanese cartoon but I’m hearing how there was a cult and a cycling storyline? What’s up with that?
What if I were to tell you that for the last three and half to almost four days, I read 100 chapters online of Beastars and then honestly thought that I was going to have brain damage because of it?
Not because the manga is bad, but because of the fact that I forget that Paru Itagaki is the real life daughter of the man that made Baki? The love for Disney and animals is just too much, even for me.
If there’s anyone on here that has read or watched the anime of this, I’d love to hear your opinions on what you thought of this creation. I have 65 more chapters of this to read until I’m finished, but I’m cornered on whether or not I want to finish it. The part that I was on where I think it reached its peak was when Legosi and the polar bear Riz were getting to a full on fight outside after it was confirmed that Riz ate and killed the alpaca, Tem. After the second fight, Riz stopped and surrendered and Legosi was later arrested. He was then turned into a juvenile delinquent who was told he were to not marry or fornicate with a herbivore; in this case being the female rabbit, Haru.
To think that I have not finished watching Patlabor or the other good anime series that I had on the back burner, yet somehow I managed to waste time reading this for almost an entire week.
Makes me wonder what it says about me.
I have nothing against female mangaka artists, since a couple of the popular ones helped bring Full Metal Alchemist and Sailor Moon to the world, but I do believe that Beastars could never have been made by a male mangaka artist. It’s not shoujo by any means, but it’s also not made for girls. If anything, I think Paru was smart to make these animals, because if this did turn into a story made with humans, it honestly would have reached Domestic Girlfriend storyline levels, and I just can not have those kinds of flashbacks again after reading that manga in full.
Okay what was the deal with Golden Boy? I saw a few of the OVAs and thought it was just the usual oversexed and overperverted Japanese cartoon but I’m hearing how there was a cult and a cycling storyline? What’s up with that?
What I wonder, is how do people think that Golden Boy is related to another similarly named anime called Junk Boy, and even saying that one ripped off the other, despite the two not being related.
Re: Beastars, I liked it, but the ending felt very rushed and the final arc as a whole is where it dips in quality. Several plot points get dropped and there's a lot of wasted potential with the villain. Haven't read the spin-off.
I started watching the second season Jujutsu Kaisen, I actually liked it more than the first season so far, and kinda got disappointed once it returned to the current timeline.
I'll probably watch Jujutsu Kaisen 0 while waiting for more episodes.
What if I were to tell you that for the last three and half to almost four days, I read 100 chapters online of Beastars and then honestly thought that I was going to have brain damage because of it?
Trust me, I couldn’t tell whether or not to laugh or be shocked that a manga dared show two adorable mice as nurses aiding in having a croc tied and shackled up, while then being used as a test subject to get castrated. I kept questioning if this were a manga about animals being involevdd in high school drama, or just the fantasies of what it’s like to be an animal as a person.
This mind you was just 70 or 80+ chapters in. (I lost count after everything that happened.)
Trust me, I couldn’t tell whether or not to laugh or be shocked that a manga dared show two adorable mice as nurses aiding in having a croc tied and shackled up, while then being used as a test subject to get castrated. I kept questioning if this were a manag about animals being involevdd in high school drama, or just the fantasies of what it’s like to be an animal as a person.
This mind you was just 70 or 80+ chapters in. (I lost count after everything that happened.)
Don't worry, that's just the start! Honestly it's a bit of both. Clearly it was a immense passion project that kinda crashed at the end, but you don't really care because the journey was so batshit.
I watched both seasons of Beastars and... eh....
I don't hate it. It's just not for me. It felt like it was taking itself a bit too seriously. Usually comedy relief in modern anime annoys me but it feels like that could've actually helped here. I did like the fact that it's pretty straight forward as a show about animals and not just using the animals as allegories for races/types of human beings.
Also at a certain point the main conflict of the series can be resolved by... calling the fucking police. I know there's thematic reasons for not doing that but it felt hard to care about the resolution knowing how the problem was a non-problem at a certain point.
Overall, not bad but not my thing.
What if I were to tell you that for the last three and half to almost four days, I read 100 chapters online of Beastars and then honestly thought that I was going to have brain damage because of it?
It was alright for the most part, only the last arc where I have problem/suffer with most long running shounen manga, I somewhat stop caring about plot holes-silly ideas and just "well, that happens". Still I think some people feel last arc isn't as good.
The author also said something like she has problems with drawing human characters (face, facial expression and body proportion/height), so having anthromorophh animal character like this help her. Which I guess how the whole manga turns out, but it's still all about Legosi accepting-learning his carnivore nature in relationship with Haru (at least it doesn't go hardcore like ghoul and human in Tokyo Ghoul) and admiring-friendship with Louis.
Still I feel like author really likes Louis or deer animal, because her later work, Sanda, has this short moment.
Not an edit, just "hallucinating".
If you see her other works, they are all wacky someway, bloody, nudity and sex. Self-tortured as training?
Her human drawing at least somewhat improves, although character heights are probably still wack.
Your last spoiler part, at this point you shouldn't be surprised with whole female mangaka and the kind of story - art style they can go for. Whether it is gore (Dorohedoro), drama relationship bullshit dragging and fanservice (most embracing this I feel).
Comic girls kinda making fun about the last one, girl gets moved into a different kind of manga publisher.
I'm sure even 100% Strawberry mangaka, Mizuki Kawashita, makes fun at herself with her manga G-Maru edition.
Then you have like Konbu Wakame (aconbwakame), Iida Pochi, 5mm Nishizawa and Tsukudani Norio, all of these have youtube channels and most being vtubers.
Norio Sakurai, before her My heart is in danger, has Mitsudomoe which I'm sure is a no go zone for most people here and normies. Imagine having bunch of elementary school kids and adult jokes.
I'll be more amused if male mangaka do BL-yaoi like Patalliro!, Okane ga Nai (author is man, artist is a woman. Also explaining why this is kinda rapey). Ishida Sui - Tokyo Ghoul writes and does character design for an otome game, Jack Jeanne, before recently Choujin X.
I started watching the second season Jujutsu Kaisen, I actually liked it more than the first season so far, and kinda got disappointed once it returned to the current timeline.
I'll probably watch Jujutsu Kaisen 0 while waiting for more episodes.
Don't even get me started on City Hunter. I haven't even gotten halfway through it but I love the show with a passion. I'm looking forward to the Angel Dust film a lot.
It's so unbelievably comfortable. And while most people now probably wouldn't get into the episodic nature, it really does have character progression every single episode if you notice it. The soundtrack, animation style and general vibe are like a time-capsule for a type of anime that just would not be made today.
Also it's kind of nice to reminded of a time where shows used to have an actual alpha-male perving on grown ass women, rather than the modern equivalent of a scrawny NEET committing sex crimes against 12 year olds.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cRA5gsdCf4cStill one of the best opening intros of all time, regardless of how people feel towards FMA in general the brotherhood series has some of the best openings to any anime I think I’ve ever seen.
Don't just ignore the original 2003 series, they have some bangers and probably some of my favorite endings in anime. They really gotta bring back R&B for openings and endings, the last anime I can think of that did it was To Your Eternity and that's because it was Hikaru fucking Utada on the OP for that show. There really isn't a bad opening or ending in the series (except 2003 op 3 that shit sucks ass). https://youtube.com/watch?v=BH_RnffYjiA
Not as over the top and/or slapstick like Nichijou and Asobi Asobase, so comedy parts may not as memorable and funny. Comedy is relying on character archetype - trope. But in turns, you get to see character and friendship development between the girls.
An anime for war nerds and history nerds, with great characters and great fights. The love the makers have for the show really comes through, so much so that even if you're not into tanks or military history when you start watching it, you'll at least understand why people are into them before you're done.
