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God of Nothing said:
are petite women really that rare or is this just that woman thing of hating anyone more appealing than them?
because i have them in my family and i've met them so i really don't get this retarded short = child nonsense people even here say
you have to have be some kind of retard or autistic to not see the obvious physiological differences between a short adult and a teenager, which are often given in anime to distinguish them because it'd be weird otherwise
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I think the rationale on the twitter hot-takes was really just left-twitter purposely conflating "loli" with "genki" to perform the ancient internet rite of "everyone I don't like are pedophiles" in response to people with K-On w/ Make America Great Again hat avatars being positive about an anime character.
 
sneedem&feedem said:
ANN had an absolutely embarrassing interview with the author of Dungeon Meshi. She shut down all the stupid dogshit takes and headcanon in the western fandom that popped up as the anime started airing.

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Based. We desperately need more authors like her, Rumiko "I don't think about it and neither should you" Takahashi, and Stan Lee to shut down autistic "fan" theories poisoning the well.
 
Why are there so many school animes? It's like Japan's version of cape shit here in the west
 
ShitLurker said:
Any proposal on how to start? Something tells me I can't depend on fansubs to protect my kiseki experience much longer.
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Imabi (website focused on Japanese grammar - written by a dude with a linguistic degree)
Kanjidamage (focused on Kanji radicals - has an appendix for ill pairs and dupes as extra reference)
Jisho.org (online dictionary)
Takoboto (phone app as an offline dictionary - don't forget to enable Japanese keyboard too)
At least these four have been my main resources, then it was just consuming more and more media as practice.

Google Translation is ass for actual TL but it has the best handwriting recognition tool if you want to look up a kanji but don't know how it is spelled on the keyboard. There is the DJT guide too for extra stuff.

Oddjob OTP said:
The particular brand of youth fetishism in Japan really pulls everyone in anime towards High School proportions unless it is specially trying to depict them younger then that for fetish reasons like loli/shota. This was less true 30-40 years ago
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Media targeted at Japanese youngsters have good-looking youthful characters? Who would have thought it huh.

And this has been a thing for like forever, including old classics that everyone here more or less knows. Sometimes I wonder if people making these kind of statements have either a selected memory or just a strongly limited experience of the medium.
 
sneedem&feedem said:
ANN had an absolutely embarrassing interview with the author of Dungeon Meshi. She shut down all the stupid dogshit takes and headcanon in the western fandom that popped up as the anime started airing.

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Imagine having a platform to interview mangaka and you use it to try and bait them into inane fandom discourse and the sort of spite-driven mentally ill screeching about "representation"

"Laios is you doing Very Important Representation of the Neurodivergent Community and helping them feel so seen, right? I mean, our media-literate reading of 'Dungeon' is obviously correct, so please confirm."

ANN stinks, of course. The worst platform for anime news and commentary. Plus many of their useless reviewers/commentators have gotten jobs in anime licensing.
 
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God of Nothing said:
First of all, learn Hiragana and Katakana. You can spend your entire life learning kanji. There are a few people on youtube who break down grammar structure. It's really not that complicated. Something that ends in に at the beginning of a sentence is the ultimately affected thing or when something took place. は, means in relation to something and is almost ways at the beginning if に isn't present. が marks the subject (try not to confuse it with は, they mean two completely different things). を designates the object of the sentence. Participles will likely be your first real challenge and where Japanese's jigsaw/lego like qualities are apparent.
たすけて: Help
たすけたい: Want to help
たすけない: There is no help
たすけさせる: Let help, made to help
たすけられる: Can get help
there are even more

From here on, it's learning the smaller, lesser used grammar. Phrases, words, and the start of learning kanji (fuck the Chinese so much).
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Out of curiosity, how the hell is the word for help so fucking long?
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Out of curiosity, how the hell is the word for help so fucking long?
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This
TenMilesWide said:
you only voice 3 of the syllables, it's not that bad
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also, たすけて can be spelled in hiragana and kanji 助けて
An entire sentence of japanese will look like a lot while the people saying it will go through it in, like, a second
 
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¡Órale! ¡Vamos a Japón!
i am fucking dying right now
 
Is "JJK" season 1 worth it?

Finished "Yamibo:The Hat, the Witch and the Travelers of Books". Mediocre 2007 anime lesbian fan service crap. :I
 
BananaSplit² said:
Media targeted at Japanese youngsters have good-looking youthful characters? Who would have thought it huh.

And this has been a thing for like forever, including old classics that everyone here more or less knows. Sometimes I wonder if people making these kind of statements have either a selected memory or just a strongly limited experience of the medium.
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Flattening characters into one set of proportions is a newish phenomenon. Take Mobile Suit Gundam, Char clearly looks like an adult to Amuro's teenager when they are both in civilian clothes, but he's only about 4 years older then Amuro. Keeping the other side of the example in Sunrise, compare Lelouch and Lloyd in Code Geass and tell me that they look 12 years apart. You can play this game all day, when you get back to the 70s-80s they used very different proportions for children, teenagers, and adults but that's been out of style a long time.
 
Oddjob OTP said:
youth fetishism
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"Fetishism" is such a Current Year sounding phrase. I think it's far simpler: the Japanese find young adulthood as being the most attractive, which of course may not be that unique to Japan. Also, outright "lolicon" is controversial in Japan, or so I've read.

Thomas Talus said:
Most western "high school" shows use actors in their 20s or even early 30s if they have good genetics, so that's not unique to Japan.
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the virgin actual teen

the Chad adult playing a teen
 
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Oddjob OTP said:
Flattening characters into one set of proportions is a newish phenomenon. Take Mobile Suit Gundam, Char clearly looks like an adult to Amuro's teenager when they are both in civilian clothes, but he's only about 4 years older then Amuro.
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My favourite example of this is Mueller from Vifam only being 23 years old.
 
Fool Night is kinda okay. Very much that “brink civilization/ dystopia” mixed with a cynical mystery novel shit. I expect dissatisfaction in the ending.

I’ve also stumbled upon the “Female Groomer/ Raising Your Husband/ Hey Little Boy want Big Sis to teach you Sword and Mage Craft” genre.
You’d think that it’d just be
But I know in my heart that weird Japanese housewives are the audience to this shit.
 
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