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Betonhaus said:
they repeatedly use female pronouns to refer to the male villian and male pronouns for the woman. Every chapter up to this one used to right pronouns, just like other manga where most chapters are fine and then a few guess wrong.
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That's common in crabstick/MTL translations (the Dendoh subs did this too). The pronouns are implied based on context, so translators who don't know what they're doing and MTLs can mix them up.
 
Lone MacReady II said:
I don't remember any of those filler. If it's Naruto saying "I like people like you" to her that still ain't really doing it for me. He takes a long time to stop simping after Sakura and actually think about liking Hinata "in that way".
Dude won in the end though (unlike Deku).
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It was some filler in the Hundred episodes before the original ended. Was a fun teamup of Naruto joining Kiba, Hina and Bug guy. Had a part of him finding her training hard.

The fillers had some bangers. With modern anime you don't get the fun of characters from different groups joining together rather than plot plot plot.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Don't listen to the naysayers, just enjoy it for what it is while Oda cooks. Egghead is finally wrapping up and we're getting some juicy stuff.
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Yeah, I wanted to say something earlier but was too tired. But I don't think Oda's going for the whole "chosen one" subplot as much as people think. I think Luffy is driving the story forward more than it's driving him. Time will tell.
Lone MacReady II said:
We really didn't get much of Naruto seemingly WANTING Hinata though, so it felt forced. Hinata has the track record of always crushing on him so it genuinely works for her, but except for that rushed movie to try and build a relationship between the two I never got the feeling Naruto gave much of a shit about her, Naruto was consistently after Sakura. Don't get me wrong, I was one of the kids who was shipping Naruhina from the start, but that was because Hinata was so clearly dedicated to it and frankly deserved it after almost dying for him. It really surprised me when she actually got what she wanted.
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That's just because Naruto always had that chad asexual shonen energy. He never was interested in pussy that much. He liked Sakura because she was the popular girl. He got over any interest he had in the thot after becoming an adult like most respectable men do. It's like people being surprised if Luffy ends up getting with anyone at the end because he never showed interest in anyone. Not everything has to be like a romcom where there's 5,071 pages of hijinks and stuttering puppy love before someone gets their love interest.
If I'm being honest, I think that's the best message any incel could get from anime anyways. If you fall in love with accomplishing a good goal, a good girl will come around as a result.
VeePeeN said:
I can only imagine how much they prob despise the weebs that emulate the mannerisms of their favorite characters.
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You'd be surprised. I think the whole "Japanese salaryman hating weeb gaijin" is vastly overplayed. Yeah, if you're walking around with a katana, they'll look at you weird (but they'd do that to anyone else too). But if you're respectful and say you appreciate their culture and even talk about your love of anime without being super over the top about it, I think most will be pretty chill.
Pretty much this.
 
BananaSplit² said:
Because Japanese comics are fictions, which mean they can depict and romanticize otherwise questionable things. And I argue to say as a french myself, I'm flabbergasted by the amount of Internet English-speaking users genuinely struggling to accept the separation between fiction & reality and not virtue-signal.
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God of Nothing said:
we have this extreme value dissonance where we can portray gore and brutality yet sexuality is another thing entirely
our kids media is either baby shit or groomer shit.
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^Essentially this.
I'll basically say that I think a lot of it is that the Japanese are just "behind us" (thank god, in a good way) in the progressive march by 40 years.
I think people forget about how half the comedies from the 80s were about teens (played by adults) fucking around and how normal that was. The same people on either extreme of politics who get mad at anime for being degenerate or problematic are probably the same ones who jerked off to Pheobe Cates in Fast Times or called foul on the idea of Hollywood being run by a bunch of grooming pederasts for years despite all the signs.
I think in certain ways the west has a much worse culture than we'd like to think when it comes to child abuse.
Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of anime that's hard to watch with the areas it goes to but I think a lot of it's a pressure valve for the kind of culture they're in.

I do miss when fanservice was less autistic/gross, though. I don't know if I'm just memory holing shit but it seems like there was a lot LESS catering to nonces in the 80s-2000s and the fanservice consisted of just occasionally seeing some of the women nude and wasn't "Let's make fifty jokes this episode about the characters' tits". I look at stuff like City Hunter, Outlaw Star and compare it to what's on now and there is a definite difference.
 
Just a reminder to everyone that this is the best thing that's come out in half a decade. You can disagree. It's okay to be wrong.
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It's ruined my expectations for anything else as I know nothing will reach the heights of childlike happiness I had waiting sometimes months to watch a single episode of this.
I'm not interested in anything else coming out other than another season of this.
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Freiren and Apothecarry loyalists get fucked.
Your shows didn't have a guy dressed as a super sentai punch a shark in the face.
 
(((I am NOT a jew))) said:
You'd be surprised. I think the whole "Japanese salaryman hating weeb gaijin" is vastly overplayed. Yeah, if you're walking around with a katana, they'll look at you weird (but they'd do that to anyone else too). But if you're respectful and say you appreciate their culture and even talk about your love of anime without being super over the top about it, I think most will be pretty chill.
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No doubt. The "super over the top" are the ones Im referring to.
(((I am NOT a jew))) said:
Just a reminder to everyone that this is the best thing that's come out in half a decade. You can disagree. It's okay to be wrong.
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I'm not as well-versed as most anyone in this thread, but is that Bucket List, about the guy using a zombie apocalypse as an excuse to do crazy shit?

I must admit, that still-frame of the shark with the water droplets is an interesting image that makes me want to see more.
 
(((I am NOT a jew))) said:
You'd be surprised. I think the whole "Japanese salaryman hating weeb gaijin" is vastly overplayed. Yeah, if you're walking around with a katana, they'll look at you weird (but they'd do that to anyone else too). But if you're respectful and say you appreciate their culture and even talk about your love of anime without being super over the top about it, I think most will be pretty chill.
Pretty much this.
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The idea is about 3 decades old by now. I could understand it being in the 2000's where media wasn't as inescapable and you had old farts that thought anime was gay, but nowadays I doubt there are a lot of middle aged guys that didn't have a good chunk of their childhood invested in anime, and are more likely to find it heartwarming the media is popular outside of Japan.
 
PS1gamenwatch said:
Will recent events like stocks crash affect any series?
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I saw that Our Last Crusade season two has been put on indefinite hiatus, but that was because they want to maintain its "production quality", so it might be a coincidence for all I know.
 
So I've been slowly looking to get back into anime and I wanted to give Gundam a chance. I have admittingly never watched a Gundam show despite being very familiar with it.

So I wanted to ask people here and not people elsewhere because it'd just be normie shit based on political biases;
What Gundam show do you recommend and what to avoid?

I have already written off Mercury because people are being annoying about it for MUH LESBIANS and I hear tell from sane people that it's garbage otherwise.

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DenseDeerFather said:
So I've been slowly looking to get back into anime and I wanted to give Gundam a chance. I have admittingly never watched a Gundam show despite being very familiar with it.

So I wanted to ask people here and not people here because it'd just be normie shit based on political biases;
What Gundam show do you recommend and what to avoid?

I have already written off Mercury because people are being annoying about it for MUH LESBIANS and I hear tell from sane people that it's garbage otherwise.
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Try War in the Pocket. It's a good one.
 
DenseDeerFather said:
So I've been slowly looking to get back into anime and I wanted to give Gundam a chance. I have admittingly never watched a Gundam show despite being very familiar with it.

So I wanted to ask people here and not people here because it'd just be normie shit based on political biases;
What Gundam show do you recommend and what to avoid?

I have already written off Mercury because people are being annoying about it for MUH LESBIANS and I hear tell from sane people that it's garbage otherwise.
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You can't go wrong with the original 1979 TV anime. Don't watch the compilation movies.
 
DenseDeerFather said:
So I've been slowly looking to get back into anime and I wanted to give Gundam a chance. I have admittingly never watched a Gundam show despite being very familiar with it.

So I wanted to ask people here and not people here because it'd just be normie shit based on political biases;
What Gundam show do you recommend and what to avoid?

I have already written off Mercury because people are being annoying about it for MUH LESBIANS and I hear tell from sane people that it's garbage otherwise.
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Second vote for Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket. In my terrible opinion, it's still the high-water mark for the entire franchise.

Gundam 08th MS Team: Romeo and Juliet romance aside, it's one of the best at trying to tell a more down-to-earth war story. The main characters are normal adult soldiers riding in glorified tanks, not teenage ace pilots with psychic powers flying around in invincible robotic samurai. Plus it's relatively short, and the action set pieces are great. There's one fight in the back half of the series that people still rank as one of the best in mecha anime.

G Gundam is retarded, but it's retarded in a fun way.

Gundam Wing was one of the shows that got a lot of people into anime in the early 2000s. Not saying it's the best, but it's a proven gateway drug. Recommended if you really love melodrama.

I'd avoid Gundam Unicorn. It looks beautiful, but it expects the audience to go into it already well-versed in 30 years of Gundam lore.
 
DenseDeerFather said:
So I've been slowly looking to get back into anime and I wanted to give Gundam a chance. I have admittingly never watched a Gundam show despite being very familiar with it.

So I wanted to ask people here and not people elsewhere because it'd just be normie shit based on political biases;
What Gundam show do you recommend and what to avoid?

I have already written off Mercury because people are being annoying about it for MUH LESBIANS and I hear tell from sane people that it's garbage otherwise.

edit: wording
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I'd say start with Gundam: The Origin. It's an OVA released in the last decade, and although pretty much everything in it is wrong, it's still very pretty and has fun character drama. Then move on to watching the entire franchise in strict release order.
 
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