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The oxymoronic European said:
Why do anime fans have the lowest standards out of any group of media?
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I don't get it myself.

Like, the low standards made sense in the 1990s when anime was harder to come by and literally anything was better than nothing. But nowadays we're so inundated with anime that you'd think people would have gotten more picky just out of time preference, if nothing else.

It might literally be that many anime fans are young, and when you're young its easy for Generic Shonen #8574398673076 to seem like the greatest thing ever. Again as an anime fan from the 1990s I've been through this: Devil Hunter Yohko was one of my gateway drugs, but if I somehow had avoided it and seen it for the first time just yesterday, I wouldn't have been impressed.

To be fair its not just anime. Fantasy novels also have fandoms that seem to just eat up garbage.

To me that's even less understandible because reading takes more mental involvement, whereas watching anime is just sitting on your ass and staring at a screen.

As for the discussion of Western animation vs anime.... if this were the 1980s or the first half of the 1990s I would prefer the home-grown stuff, but in 2024 I side with anime, though only because western animation is that dire, not because anime is particularly great.

Space Police said:
No, it doesn't. The original toku or the manga are way better. 2003 Astro Boy is an adaptation of a few arcs from the manga, but stretched out -- you'd be better off reading the manga.
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I've actually read a lot of Astro Boy already, so I guess I'll continue that.

I've also read Pluto and I'm curious how well the Netflix adaptation holds up (I suspect it's shit, but I want Kiwi opinions).

Main reason I was interested in AB2003 at all is because the GBA game Astro Boy: the Omega Factor apparently is partially based on that interpretation, and that game is fucking awesome so I wondered how much of the anime it follows. From what I've seen though, it apparently takes a few scenes but otherwise tells its own story.
 
skykiii said:
I've also read Pluto and I'm curious how well the Netflix adaptation holds up (I suspect it's shit, but I want Kiwi opinions).
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Granted, I haven't read Pluto but I did watch the adaptation and enjoyed every second of it. Each part was around an hour or so in length and I was hooked from the beginning. Once again, I didn't read it so I have no point of comparison, but I binged through the anime with minimal breaks. Take from that what you will I guess.
 
Abbadon's Gate said:
There are a couple of us reading the manga still.

I'm not saying its good or we haven't spent the last several weeks mocking it, but we're still reading it.
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Last time I remember about the series was finding out on /a/ that on Chapter 109 that Aqua was directing a film. After that, I only checked during the S2 announcement & found out that Ruby might have found out the truth, ending the chapter with Aqua finding out that she found out, & that Ruby's OG mother might have abandoned her & had another family, I think?.

I made a (autistically lengthy & I fucked up a Arc explanation spoiler, so there's a spoiler in another spoiler now) write-up once just to make sure people knew what bullshit they were getting into with this series, I just wanna know 2 things from someone who reads this.

1: Am I wrong about anything I said in that write-up before? Because even I am mainly anime-only, & I turned out to be somewhat right about Theater Namek (the anime legit made it feel like the Namek Saga of the series).

2: IIRC, the Private Arc starts from S2 ending, where they fucked the murderer reveal pacing a bit (the whole bar conversation probably got shifted to S3). Does it get worse from now on?
 
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TNF said:
Tbf many of those people in those fandoms are teenagers. They are also the intended target audience.
It gets pathetic when adults eat the garbage up though and hype those stories up.
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As the internet has shown, sadly many people just continue liking the same kind of thing they liked as children, well into adulthood.

I mean, its one thing to like things you actually liked as a kid, where they have some sort of nostalgia value. But I'm always a little weirded out by people who talk about how they watch brand new kids cartoons well into their forties.
 
Trollblade69 said:
I just got told somebody liked Frieren because the characters "interact just like real people".
Fucking stab out my mind's eye so I never remember this.
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the world is filled with retards
so is this gossip forum
best not get too hung up about it

remember you're not retarded and try not to be retarded
 
Xenomorphs Are Cute said:
2: IIRC, the Private Arc starts from S2 ending, where they fucked the murderer reveal pacing a bit (the whole bar conversation probably got shifted to S3). Does it get worse from now on?
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I'm not current with the anime, so I can't really answer that. I was also at a pirate festival all day and do not have the focus to give you a good response, sorry!
 
Here's a weird show that's the tranime equivalent to Sealab 2021: Earth Special Investigation Team Dybastar (地球特捜隊ダイバスター). It's a parody of those old live-action/animation combo shows like Tsuburaya's Dinosaur Trilogy and Tansor 5, except here, instead of fighting monsters, the defense team deals with aliens by collecting data about everyday life on earth. The live action parts sadly don't use the models in the OP very often; they use real actors talking to the cartoon characters, so it's not as sci-fi as one would hope. Despite that, the model robot has appeared in a few hypothetical SRW crossover drawings. Apparently there's an English dub of the first episode when they tried importing it to the US market, but I can't find it.
 
skykiii said:
As the internet has shown, sadly many people just continue liking the same kind of thing they liked as children, well into adulthood.

I mean, its one thing to like things you actually liked as a kid, where they have some sort of nostalgia value. But I'm always a little weirded out by people who talk about how they watch brand new kids cartoons well into their forties.
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I know a guy who gushes over Steven Universe in his forties lol

Trollblade69 said:
I just got told somebody liked Frieren because the characters "interact just like real people".
Fucking stab out my mind's eye so I never remember this.
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The main hero who died is probably the least "real" character in any anime I can remember off the top of my head. Every line he utters is a little poetic speech.
 
Trollblade69 said:
I just got told somebody liked Frieren because the characters "interact just like real people".
Fucking stab out my mind's eye so I never remember this.
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Maybe a group of real people on heavy dose of Valium. The characters are just too fucking calm all the time.
 
SSj_Ness said:
The main hero who died is probably the least "real" character in any anime I can remember off the top of my head. Every line he utters is a little poetic speech.
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In Himmel's defense, the only time we ever really see him speak is when Frieren is remembering him, so of course the only time we ever see him is when he did or said something Frieren found memorable.

Clearly, Frieren has a thing for men who use sappy prose.
 
Trollblade69 said:
Finished the Death Note manga and anime. Pretty fun for most of the way, though yeah it gets a whole lot less interesting in the second half like most people criticize it to be.
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I agree but the ending is still really well done, especially in the anime version. Well, I would've liked if it included the epilogue stuff too though.

Mysterious Girlfriend X said:
In Himmel's defense, the only time we ever really see him speak is when Frieren is remembering him, so of course the only time we ever see him is when he did or said something Frieren found memorable.

Clearly, Frieren has a thing for men who use sappy prose.
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Eh, decent enough excuse I guess lol
 
Well, it appears the Aniwavepocalypse has rid us of streamable rips of God Sigma and Albegas . . . and since I can't find Tetsujin FX on Nyaa, now's the time to enjoy that show unless you want to buy an overpriced Blu-Ray (which I will at some point in the future; Tetsujin FX is high-quality television and I want to get Discotek to license more Braves) :(
 
If you want to say that the humans or dwarves in Frieren act like real people yeah maybe close enough. If you want to include the elves and the demons in that then pfft no. Real people don't wander off for 70 years and look for spells to clean blouse buttons while they sort through their feelings for a hunky guy.
 
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