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Gravityqueen4life said:
huh, never thought they would reach that point. are romance manga getting more ballsy with characters hooking up in recent years?
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Xenomorphs Are Cute said:
After Nagatoro won the romcom manga bowl last chapter, Uzaki has topped it even harder in the latest chapter.
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Yoshiyuki Tomino won so fucking hard. Below is a real quote about Shinkai movies and romcoms in general.
He then went on to describe Shinkai's works as "stories about a boy and a girl who are always stretching out their hands towards each other," and said, "And yet the boy's hand never reaches the girl's crotch."

"Why do they never go any further?" Tomino went on. "I want him to make a story where they aren't just satisfied with no physicality. Well, Shinkai is still a young director, so I suppose he can make films like that."
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Yeah, Tomino is a notoriously horny dude. He developed his female characters with "pussy feel" in mind.

I'm glad romcoms are getting a bit bolder. Was never a fan of "they finally get together and the end" way a lot of romcom stories would end. I mean, I don't even need sex -- just a few of arcs showing how the characters work as an actual couple is good enough.
 
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I stopped reading Uzaki around the time when the two got together. Sakurai was just too pathetic with the fainting shit and the story was hard for me to enjoy at that point.

Compared to Sakurai, Hachiouji is just a better romcom character. He starts out pathetic but gradually finds his confidence and actively trys to better his outlook. That uplifting nature is what makes Nagatoro the superior manga.
 
Focken Kiwi said:
I stopped reading Uzaki around the time when the two got together. Sakurai was just too pathetic with the fainting shit and the story was hard for me to enjoy at that point.
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They do give a good reason for it, eventually. But it takes time to get there and the execution could have been better.
 
Black Skin Shitty Gyaru: Sees her man with another woman, thinks the worst of him, gets jealous, makes a scene, dumps him.
Lily White Yuki Gyaru: Sees her man with another woman, wants to know who she is so all three of them can be friends together.
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This show just keeps on breaking stereotypes.

Gravityqueen4life said:
huh, never thought they would reach that point. are romance manga getting more ballsy with characters hooking up in recent years?
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More like our degenerated generation is simply getting tired of nothing but teasing and blue balls, imo.
 
ANN had an interesting interview with a veteran animator in the anime industry.

Veteran Animator Terumi Nishii on the Problems and Future Facing the Anime Industry​

Recently, I was able to sit down and chat with Terumi Nishii, a veteran animator and character designer with credits ranging from Rurouni Kenshin and PENGUINDRUM to Jujutsu Kaisen and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. But rather than talk about her work, we discussed the current state of the Japanese anime industry, its future, and how she's doing her part to improve it.

Nishii has recently been involved with NAFCA, The Nippon Anime & Film Culture Association. Founded in 2023, NAFCA aims to combat the adverse working conditions prevalent in the Japanese anime industry. The association comprises people throughout the industry—including animators and animation technicians to voice actors, former executives, and producers. As Nishii puts it, “They would like to have as many people as possible participate, including people from other countries, so that they can first investigate the overall problems and then make proposals to the government on how to improve things.”

While Nishii is not a member of NAFCA, she has recently been working with them to create an industry survey to measure the extent of the problems animators are facing. “It's well known that newbie animators have trouble putting food on the table,” Nishii explained, “but we're also asking about what kinds of other situations both those who work at animation studios and outside of them are facing with this survey—like, we don't fully know the stories of these freelancers and full-time workers.” She hopes the concrete data gathered from this survey will help the government understand the true scope of the issue.

The other large project coming out of NAFCA right now is the creation of the “Animator Skill Test.” Currently, the anime industry is facing a workforce shortage, leading to underqualified animators entering the workforce. This has created a bit of a mess as more senior animators are forced to redo the work of newbies in addition to their work. “At vocational schools, you're supposed to learn the specialized skills needed to act as a professional, but they only teach the general aspects of anime production. Take students who have not been able to acquire the skills specific to being an animator, for example. Just because they graduate doesn't mean they can become a professional-level animator. They should have had more specialized learning.” By having a standardized test, Nishii hopes these schools will improve their curriculum to have their students pass it.

Of course, being underqualified is only the start of the problems facing workers in the anime industry today. “In general, overtime hours are extremely long, or there are strange quotas that you can never hit—and, therefore, you never get to go home,” Nishii said of the worst companies in the industry. “Japanese companies have existed in an environment where those who become full-time employees have been forced to work hard for the past 20 or 30 years—but it seems that instead of becoming 'full-time employees,' it's more like they are 'slaves.'”

Worse yet, she thinks the problem is endemic rather than malicious: “It has grown into a state where people are perpetuating it because it's all they know rather than doing it out of malice. It's only in the last five years that people have started to say that something is wrong with the structure of this industry where, if you're low on money, your more senior coworkers are expected to take care of you. It seems like people within these companies are finally starting to realize this situation seems strange to the general public and are now trying to figure out what to do. My impression is that they are currently searching for ways to maintain quality [in their anime] while changing the structure of how it's been done in the past.”

With all the issues facing the anime industry, it's no surprise that Nishii strongly supports unions. “I think you're at a disadvantage if you're not in one,” she began. “After all, unless you negotiate as a group, you can't win. And even if one person does manage to get [a raise or other compensation], just because one person's situation improves a little doesn't necessarily mean everyone's will. Some people think it's fine to negotiate one-on-one, but I think it's tough on newcomers or those who have a quiet personality. […] When you think about those people, I think the only real option is to negotiate as a group.” Unfortunately, unions are rare in Japan—especially in the anime industry. While some studios like Toei have an in-house union for their employees, there is no such union for freelancers, despite how prevalent they are in the industry at this time. Nishii hopes that this will change soon.

With all this in mind, Niishi has some predictions about anime's future in Japan. “As things stand now, I expect budgets to go up,” Nishii explained. “But the money received doesn't necessarily reflect on the quality of the work. As I mentioned before, the number of amateur-level animators is increasing rapidly—and no matter how much money you give to amateur-level animators, they're still amateur-level animators.”

“We're getting to the point where no matter how much money you have for people who are good at the job, you won't be able to find them—and once that happens, the number of skilled people won't increase unless you develop them and this is why we are creating the Animator Skill Test,” Nishii continued. “[If we don't,] we will probably be overtaken by other countries soon. In that case, I think the original creators would probably think that anime adaptations of their work don't need to be made in Japan.

If you're interested in supporting NAFCA and their goal of improving the working conditions within the anime industry, they will run a Kickstarter in the coming months. More information on this will be posted as it becomes available.
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The Motogatari series is very confusing as each season is it's own name. Luckily Sonarr presents it as a single show with five seasons, but I still have to rely on the Wikipedia page to correctly import it as the download arranges the videos differently and doesn't use episode names

Granted, I had to merge the Ougi Formula parts one and two into a single file and when I tested it I got enough of a peek to realize the plot itself is needlessly complicated so complex naming must be par for the course
 
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I started Shangri-La Frontier and it's honestly the most fun thing I've seen in a while, the best "Dude plays video game" anime I've seen at least so far and it's confident enough in its ability to entertain that there hasn't been any "Die in the game, you die in real life" hooks or anything about anyone being trapped inside at all. It's just people having fun with a video game they enjoy playing and I like that it's just light hearted fun instead of life or death.

This might piss people off but I also really like the dub, I've liked the voice actor Eric Vale since I was a teen. A lot of people know him as Trunks and Sanji but for those, he basically just uses his normal voice and he might be deepening it to make himself sound more dramatic but for his lesser-known and more comedic roles, he'll do a more cartoony, squeaky voice which I fucking love and haven't really heard in anything since he voiced America in Hetalia. That is until now because he's using the squeaky voice for the main character in Shangri-La Frontier and I love it, 10/10 performance.
 
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Betonhaus said:
The Motogatari series is very confusing as each season is it's own name. Luckily Sonarr presents it as a single show with five seasons, but I still have to rely on the Wikipedia page to correctly import it as the download arranges the videos differently and doesn't use episode names

Granted, I had to merge the Ougi Formula parts one and two into a single file and when I tested it I got enough of a peek to realize the plot itself is needlessly complicated so complex naming must be par for the course
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If you're using Plex there's a handy guide to how to go about naming that series in particular. It ends up seperating them into the actual different show names (Bakemonogatari, Nisemonogatari, etc.) and is in total about 10 seasons. This solved most of the issues I had when ordering the series on there.
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HexFag said:
If you're using Plex there's a handy guide to how to go about naming that series in particular. It ends up seperating them into the actual different show names (Bakemonogatari, Nisemonogatari, etc.) and is in total about 10 seasons. This solved most of the issues I had when ordering the series on there.
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Generally I just used wikipedia to look up the episode titles and was able to use that to get the episodes matched up. Jellyfin automatically interspaces the specials with the regular shows based on watch order I guess
 
The Ghost Of George Floyd said:
I started Shangri-La Frontier and it's honestly the most fun thing I've seen in a while, the best "Dude plays video game" anime I've seen at least so far and it's confident enough in its ability to entertain that there hasn't been any "Die in the game, you die in real life" hooks or anything about anyone being trapped inside at all. It's just people having fun with a video game they enjoy playing and I like that it's just light hearted fun instead of life or death.

This might piss people off but I also really like the dub, I've liked the voice actor Eric Vale since I was a teen. A lot of people know him as Trunks and Sanji but for those, he basically just uses his normal voice and he might be deepening it to make himself sound more dramatic but for his lesser-known and more comedic roles, he'll do a more cartoony, squeaky voice which I fucking love and haven't really heard in anything since he voiced America in Hetalia. That is until now because he's using the squeaky voice for the main character in Shangri-La Frontier and I love it, 10/10 performance.
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Unironically the best thing I've seen last season & even this season. I don't know if you reached there yet, but there's a peak fiction moment with Akio Otsuka utilised to his peak in it.
 
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Wut.

EDIT: Alright I checked it out. Zoomer humor, of course, but the dude actually attempted to make a serious look at Akira in the first half (gives me hope knowing younger people still watch Akira and like it) before going into silly Zoomer stuff at the latter half. Although, while it sounds cringe, it's makes for uncomfortable laughter because he pointed out in 2019, Belle Delphine rose to popularity thanks to Tik Tok to make gooners explode into how we see them today. And Akira takes place in 2019 where Tetsuo gains power and then explodes into a new universe thanks to Akira. Also all that... white fluid imagery. Was the fluid leaking out of the giant teddy bear milk or...?

It's stupid, the guy's clearly looking too deep into things that aren't there, but the Internet has made things into reality never thought possible 30 years ago, and I know people were making jokes about Akira being more real than assumed around 2019/2020 simply because "lel meme magic". So honestly don't know what to think anymore, but I'm not sticking around his channel past this, personally. Needs to tighten things up a bit in his reviews and not to try to force in jokes or referential humor.
 
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Betonhaus said:
The Motogatari series is very confusing as each season is it's own name. Luckily Sonarr presents it as a single show with five seasons, but I still have to rely on the Wikipedia page to correctly import it as the download arranges the videos differently and doesn't use episode names

Granted, I had to merge the Ougi Formula parts one and two into a single file and when I tested it I got enough of a peek to realize the plot itself is needlessly complicated so complex naming must be par for the course
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I want to say it's not complicated, but remembered I just watched as it came out so I didn't need to mess with the different arc names.
 
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