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unrelated to anything I threw on Pluto tv's Sailor Moon channel because I was too lazy to hook up a dvd player

a) "Gomen ne" what the literal fuck you are professional subtitles. There's points where I can understand punting on moonspeak and just rolling with "if you're this much of a nerd you can habla it so fuck off" but "sorry, bro" isn't exactly some unknowable Japanese idiom

b) the video is really kinda jank, like, I'm pretty sure my shit-ass ADV R1 discs aren't much worse for R

c) Legal Age Villain Woman flirts with Tuxedo Mask who immediately cel-drag NOPEs the fuck out at such an over-18 girl. which made both the wife and me lol in the irls
 
It is the birthday of this VA
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> Going into hipster Japanese restaurant with my brothers.
> Ending song of Ano Hana is played.
> God damnit need to hold out the tears until its over.

I know the anime is extremely manipulative but that song hits hard.
 
Getting back into Berserk and wow, The eclipse still hit like a truck to your face.
Fuck you Griffith you cunt.
 
So, I saw this post from this account, announcing the Studi Ghibli-ish looking adaption of a manga based on a real life group of Okinawan students and some teachers who were impressed into serving as nurses by the IJA during the war, with many casualties and very few surivors, (it's the first production of a studio run by a woman who worked at Ghibli for many years) and boy howdy are the replies and quote tweets full of insane, over the top unironic "two A-bombs weren't enough!" sentiment. You'd think this TV special was about Unit 731 or something based on some of the responses.
 
Commander X said:
and boy howdy are the replies and quote tweets full of insane, over the top unironic "two A-bombs weren't enough!" sentiment. You'd think this TV special was about Unit 731 or something based on some of the responses.
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I would understand if people were legit thrown off by how bouncy and happy everything looks despite being based on an actual tragic national event (seriously, there's just something jarring about the scene of two girls covering a hole people are hiding in with a tarp, it almost looks like they're skipping doing it). I just cannot understand these people's sentiment otherwise.
 
On another topic, I've always wondered why short hair looks like absolute dogshit in Naruto/Boruto, but looks really good in One Piece and Bleach. I honestly fucking dread to imagine what characters like Zoro, Fujitora, Doflamingo, Akainu, Garp, Kizaru, Enel, Crocodile, etc. would like like in Kishimoto/Ikemoto's artstyle.
 
AnsemSoD1 said:
On another topic, I've always wondered why short hair looks like absolute dogshit in Naruto/Boruto, but looks really good in One Piece and Bleach.
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Usually it's just due to the shape of the character's face (and eyes, and eyebrows). Just like in real life, short hair doesn't always work if it makes you look bad.

Good-looking short hair:
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Bad-looking short hair:
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Sometimes hair gets saved in the anime adaptation:
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Kari Kamiya said:
Usually it's just due to the shape of the character's face (and eyes, and eyebrows). Just like in real life, short hair doesn't always work if it makes you look bad.

Good-looking short hair:
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Bad-looking short hair:
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Sometimes hair gets saved in the anime adaptation:
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Naruto legit looks like a wagey cuck in Boruto though, and there's one image from the Shippuden anime where he just looks downright derpy, I honestly do agree that it has to do with the eyes though. I think that Naruto's biggest problem is "same-face" syndrome, where everyone has that same anime pretty face, even the men who are supposed to be hardened and masculine, like Hidan, so it just comes across as the face and hair being clashing.
 
Commander X said:
So, I saw this post from this account, announcing the Studi Ghibli-ish looking adaption of a manga based on a real life group of Okinawan students and some teachers who were impressed into serving as nurses by the IJA during the war, with many casualties and very few surivors, (it's the first production of a studio run by a woman who worked at Ghibli for many years) and boy howdy are the replies and quote tweets full of insane, over the top unironic "two A-bombs weren't enough!" sentiment. You'd think this TV special was about Unit 731 or something based on some of the responses.
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Oh shit I heard of that. The nurses ended up killing themselves because the Jap propaganda convinced them they'll be literally raped by giant niggers. It's definitely a case where the art doesn't fit unless the trailer is misleading and it will be full on medical horror as schoolgirls need to work with crippled soldiers as they die horrifically one after the other, culminating in mass suicide.
Kari Kamiya said:
Usually it's just due to the shape of the character's face (and eyes, and eyebrows). Just like in real life, short hair doesn't always work if it makes you look bad.

Good-looking short hair:
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Bad-looking short hair:
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Sometimes hair gets saved in the anime adaptation:
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I don't like short hair neither in anime or irl. Even when it doesn't look bad it doesn't look as good as long hair.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
It's definitely a case where the art doesn't fit unless the trailer is misleading and it will be full on medical horror as schoolgirls need to work with crippled soldiers as they die horrifically one after the other, culminating in mass suicide.
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The manga has gore in it, so I'm assuming they will have to show the medical horror if they're not shy about adapting the manga right/showing history as it was, but I can also see them chickening out since it had to air on TV (albeit it was after midnight).
 
Kari Kamiya said:
The manga has gore in it, so I'm assuming they will have to show the medical horror if they're not shy about adapting the manga right/showing history as it was, but I can also see them chickening out since it had to air on TV (albeit it was after midnight).
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Using cutesy art to lull the viewers to think it's going to be fun only to end the first episode on horrifying note is pretty common. Plus doesn't a lot of anime on tv has extreme violence? I thought only nudity, drugs and smoking were taboo.
 
Maybe violence related to war is a little iffy, though in all honesty, I think anything with graphic violence tends to get shown late at night since by then, you expect the little kids to be in bed even on a weekend.
 
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