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I had a thought. Do you think that maybe, because Toru was voicing characters that were younger well into his elderly age, that maybe it had some kind of effect on him or his psyche? I'm not saying it excuses what happened with him. But its just something I noticed looking at his body of work.
 
Scarlett Johansson said:
I had a thought. Do you think that maybe, because Toru was voicing characters that were younger well into his elderly age, that maybe it had some kind of effect on him or his psyche? I'm not saying it excuses what happened with him. But its just something I noticed looking at his body of work.
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I mean it can't be healthy
 
Scarlett Johansson said:
I had a thought. Do you think that maybe, because Toru was voicing characters that were younger well into his elderly age, that maybe it had some kind of effect on him or his psyche? I'm not saying it excuses what happened with him. But its just something I noticed looking at his body of work.
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What do you mean?
 
Commander X said:
"Anime fans" who are into "media literacy" and insist that Kill La Kill was some sort of feminist work or something: "KLK was making fun of "fanservice" and was about how it's actually bad and you nerds too stupid and media illiterate to grasp that"

The creators of KLK:
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Projecting your own views onto a work and deciding that it was the creator's intent (with anime it's usually to justify your own consumption of it because you'd be embarrassed to watch it otherwise) is the opposite of media literacy. It's closer to narcissism. "this show is about MEEEE and things that validate my worldview and absolutely nothing else!!!"
It says more about the person making the analysis of the work than the work itself. Many such cases! And yes, it's still very common, I see this constantly on anime sites. Usually with shows that are popular but also have a lot of fanservice or feature controversial things like loli. I always just wonder why they're even watching a show if they have to perform mental gymnastics to like it. Seems like a chore.
 
Scarlett Johansson said:
I had a thought. Do you think that maybe, because Toru was voicing characters that were younger well into his elderly age, that maybe it had some kind of effect on him or his psyche? I'm not saying it excuses what happened with him. But its just something I noticed looking at his body of work.
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Pigeonholing can put a strain on one's psyche, yes, but only if you're a self-absorbed cunt.
 
Commander X said:
"Anime fans" who are into "media literacy" and insist that Kill La Kill was some sort of feminist work or something: "KLK was making fun of "fanservice" and was about how it's actually bad and you nerds too stupid and media illiterate to grasp that"

The creators of KLK:
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Speaking of KLK, did the creators of it get inspiration from Go Nagai's The Abashiri Family? With all of the similarities it has to KLK, it could have passed off as a prototype-version of KLK, if you didn't know who the original creator of it was. It reminded me of how Rumiko Takahashi's Fire Tripper ended up being pretty much the prototype version of Inuyasha.
 
斯尼 德之王 said:
You know I've heard that managoka's, especially the ones from Shueshia, barely own anything from their creations. They don't get paid nearly the amount their series are worth.
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iirc Shueshia pays its mangakas's in 3 ways
  • 10,000-30,000 yen per page in the magazine (60 to 190ish usd)
  • 10% of all volume sales (so about 4 yen or 2 to 3 cents a volume)
  • flat 1 time payment for any adaptation
might seem like a decent amount but most mangaka working under the major publishers like Shueshia, Kodansha, etc. are listed as a subcontractor so they have to pay for assistants, materials to make the series, etc. which might explain why some make their own manga studios like Araki with Lucky Land or Miura with Studio Gaga and why some refuse to take any help what so ever.
 
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Thiletonomics said:
Speaking of KLK, did the creators of it get inspiration from Go Nagai's The Abashiri Family? With all of the similarities it has to KLK, it could have passed off as a prototype-version of KLK, if you didn't know who the original creator of it was. It reminded me of how Rumiko Takahashi's Fire Tripper ended up being pretty much the prototype version of Inuyasha.
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It was mainly inspired by Sukeban Deka, right down to the yo-yo.
 
Furuya’s whole scandal all sounds like shit Amuro Ray would have done in real life so I am standing by him and against this zeonic plot
 
Gorillion others said:
You know, Jujutsu Kaisen really doesn't have much in the way of worldbuilding. I get that a lot of power systems go out of control, but the franchise (if we can even call it that), seems to be suffering from it in reverse. What I'm talking about is that there aren't other spells besides barriers or even Shikigami. Like they don't add in any more.
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JJK is literally just rule of cool the setting. It lifted some of the Nen flavor from Hunter X Hunter for it's power system and added Reality Marbles from Fate and ran with it and the plot is just stopping inexplicably powerful spooks that want to destroy civilization either because they hate humanity or because it would be a funny prank. It's one of those setting that seems to have begun in episode 1 and then the facts that lead to ep1 were backfilled as needed.

It somehow makes Demon Slayer look competent when it's just JoJo: Battle Tendency with katana set in 1800s Japan.
 
Well, it's happening.
Sakamoto Days is finally getting its own anime, and I am absolutely excited about it.

It will come out in January 2025, so if you are curious about what this series is about, read the manga to see why it's worth the wait.

 
Jormungand said:
Well, it's happening.
Sakamoto Days is finally getting its own anime, and I am absolutely excited about it.

It will come out in January 2025, so if you are curious about what this series is about, read the manga to see why it's worth the wait.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XA4jmyg3rhY
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We got the best moment of the series last week, this is cherry on top honestly. I wish the series is done justice, it deserves it for it's creativity alone (ironically adapted in unofficial live-action before anime).
 
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