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wtfNeedSignUp said:
I'll second Asobi Asobase, one of the funniest anime in recent years.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vpB5kDmV8cA
Another good SOL anime is The Demon Girl Next Door.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=26HPFmjlZBg

I'm 100% sure it's just an excuse. The film takes forever to be finished and Corona is just an east excuse.
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The film's been wrapped since December/early January, they've already done staff screenings and closed up shop. Considering the delay was announced a day after Japan officially issued a state of emergency, it's pretty safe to say that it literally is just the coof.
 
Ijiranaide Nagatoro-san officially has an OP sung by the seiyuu herself, Uesaka Sumire:



Only two more months to go!

Even the recent chapter where Nagatoro helps Senpai get over his judo loss at the local gym ended on such a cliffhanger.
 
Not gonna bother spoilering the latest Higurashi Gou episode because I need to make absolutely sure Satoko was always such a vindictive, jealous. bratty hypocrite that this episode showing her reaching her breaking point at St. Lucia's Academy is true to character.

She didn't turn down Rika's offer for the two of them to go to St. Lucia's Academy, and studied alongside her so they could get in together. Rika said she doesn't like studying, but she was willing to do it for her dream, and Satoko clearly agreed. But suddenly she makes it in and thinks she doesn't have to study as hard anymore to keep her grades up? And then she gets mad at Rika for having a social life when she was invited by Rika to join them for tea but turned it down because it's not something she's interested in? Then she turns down Rika's offer to help her in her studies and blames her for having a social life without her?

And by-the-by, we don't know what Satoko has been doing after classes. We don't know what her dorm life is like with her roommate, or if she's ever attempted to socialize with the other girls at lunch or to join a club. We get one off-hand comment that her laugh is vulgar, but no other indication the other students are avoiding her or deflecting her efforts to make new friends.

If she's supposed to parallel Shion's experience at the school (which she apparently went back to to graduate btw), I'm not seeing it.
 
Atatata said:
Wasn't this because some streamer kept spamming how it was shit and getting his fans to report it off the platform?
Also, they really should've gotten someone to watch the show, nothing in this article is right, I get that its "immoral material" but its kind of your job to at least glance at the episode summaries.
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This is less an infection of 'Feminism' and more of an infection of China's fucked up value system and content policing. For example:

The Japanese animation is accused of lacking morals by many netizens in China, with some content violating mainstream values and morals and being inappropriate for underage audiences.
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I mean, a TON of manga is banned in China for 'moral' reasons. Until this comes to a civilized nation and not fucking heathens like the CCP, then we should be worried.
 
InsolentGaylord said:

Alright what about this?

Twitter Feminists are upset at a Woman's Health manga, the poster also says Japan has gotten a lot worse lately and is becoming as shitty as America.
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Third wave sex negative feminism and sjw shit are absolutely not popular in Japan. There are occasionally some attempts to AstroTurf these movements by western NGOs but they are typically ignored.

As a side note this is why many Asian and Middle Eastern countries have banned western NGOs from operating within there borders. Western secular culture has become absolutely toxic and is solely motivated to destroy established cultural norms and practices.
 
Ruin said:
Third wave sex negative feminism and sjw shit are absolutely not popular in Japan. There are occasionally some attempts to AstroTurf these movements by western NGOs but they are typically ignored.

As a side note this is why many Asian and Middle Eastern countries have banned western NGOs from operating within there borders. Western secular culture has become absolutely toxic and is solely motivated to destroy established cultural norms and practices.
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Really? Need a source on the NGO ban.
 
Ruin said:
Third wave sex negative feminism and sjw shit are absolutely not popular in Japan. There are occasionally some attempts to AstroTurf these movements by western NGOs but they are typically ignored.

As a side note this is why many Asian and Middle Eastern countries have banned western NGOs from operating within there borders. Western secular culture has become absolutely toxic and is solely motivated to destroy established cultural norms and practices.
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France is starting to feel the same way and I believe France seems to have close ties to some Asian and Middle Eastern countries
 
Octane said:
Are there any good SOLs these days? Doesn't matter if it's a comedy. Shit like Azumanga and Nichijou was great.
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For something that just aired I'd give Maou-jou de Oyasumi a spin, real fun comedy about a princess "imprisoned" by the demon king when it's really they're trapped in there with her. For some older stuff I'd recommend Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita which is a surrealist comedy about an apocalyptic world ruled by cute little fairies that follows Watashi (fan name for MC since she isn't given a name) as she spends her days dealing with the fairies.
Similar in surrealist comedy I'd recommend Arakawa under the Bridge which focuses on the daily life of a bunch of homeless(?) eccentrics living under a bridge.
InsolentGaylord said:

Alright what about this?

Twitter Feminists are upset at a Woman's Health manga, the poster also says Japan has gotten a lot worse lately and is becoming as shitty as America.
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I don't really understand why you're posting that Romly guy again when the last tweet you posted from them was also dubious at best. What makes this one more believable? Seems like just some random person off twitter that's ranting with little to back his claims that likes to act like the sky is falling over everything.

Looking at (what I believe) to be the announcement tweet there's signs of some kind of upset over the spelling simply based on the amount of people defending the decision of using Hiragana over Kanji with things like being more accessible to all ages or just the typeface being harder to read if it was in Kanji. It seems to be mainly positive comments. Sure, there were negative comments but that says nothing that backs the absolute doomer take of:
Japan is turning into a shitty country like America, and it's getting rapidly lately.
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Just because a small sample size of negativity can be found by random literal who twitter users doesn't mean that the whole of Japan is doomed.
 
Jimo-Ai Dash said:
So I finally sat my ADHD ass down and watched an anime I've been wanting to watch for about a decade, Attack on Titan. I'm completely caught up and am watching the new episodes as they air on Funimation. Here's the thing...I liked it enough to keep watching it, it kept me intrigued...but I don't see it as God tier like I was sworn it was. Should I try the manga or has the unbelievable hype just jaded me? 3rd option is I'm a faggot.
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Attack on Titan in my opinion is a pretty great show but it does have a lot of problems, most of which are more in the manga because the anime really is the definitive experience to enjoy it as the anime fixes up many of the issues in the manga such as having better art, better pacing, and a better structure (especially with the first few arcs and the Uprising Arc). They also add things in the anime that foreshadow twists that were in the manga much better since the anime did a better job at foreshadowing that there was a world outside the walls much better than the manga did.
 
Ive watched like 15 episodes of darling in the franXX and I have to say that I have no idea why people call this show really bad
The first 6 episodes are boring, but I would say adter that it gets good, I would even call a couple of episodes great, so Im I just stupid or is the ending so bad that people hate the show retroactively?
 
Becomemysoulreaver said:
Ive watched like 15 episodes of darling in the franXX and I have to say that I have no idea why people call this show really bad
The first 6 episodes are boring, but I would say adter that it gets good, I would even call a couple of episodes great, so Im I just stupid or is the ending so bad that people hate the show retroactively?
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You have watched the best parts of the series, drop it now or face disappointment.
 
Becomemysoulreaver said:
Ive watched like 15 episodes of darling in the franXX and I have to say that I have no idea why people call this show really bad
The first 6 episodes are boring, but I would say adter that it gets good, I would even call a couple of episodes great, so Im I just stupid or is the ending so bad that people hate the show retroactively?
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DitF is actually generally considered to be pretty decent... up until the last few episodes. The amount of hate it gets is likely because it was leading up to something pretty good before shitting the bed with the ending. The lost potential hurts more than if the show were just mediocre through-and-through.
 
Becomemysoulreaver said:
Ive watched like 15 episodes of darling in the franXX and I have to say that I have no idea why people call this show really bad
The first 6 episodes are boring, but I would say adter that it gets good, I would even call a couple of episodes great, so Im I just stupid or is the ending so bad that people hate the show retroactively?
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I watched the last episode live as it aired with /a/ and the amount of sheer rage I felt has made me never touch the subbed version. If you're someone that cares about Hiro and 02, which I did a lot more than any of the other characters, then the ending actively ruins the series for you. I had thought that if I held out till the end whatever ending they'd give Hiro and 02 would make up for all the garbage of the last 3rd, but it didn't. It's one of the few series where the ending retroactively ruins the rest of the series in its awfulness. Had the show not had such a garbage ending I believe it might have ended up as a well remembered fan favorite simply going on how much hype and fanart (mainly of HiroX02) was produced while it aired, yet now barely anyone talks about it besides voicing their disappointment.

The only part I still look back to fondly is following the threads on /a/ because they were a blast with loads of original content created that reminded me of when stuff like Psycho-pass aired. So much creativity and some great theory crafting on where the plot would go after each episode dropped.

You can finish it if you're that dead set on it, but just know you've been fair warned.
 
Moguro Fukuzou said:
I watched the last episode live as it aired with /a/ and the amount of sheer rage I felt has made me never touch the subbed version. If you're someone that cares about Hiro and 02, which I did a lot more than any of the other characters, then the ending actively ruins the series for you. I had thought that if I held out till the end whatever ending they'd give Hiro and 02 would make up for all the garbage of the last 3rd, but it didn't. It's one of the few series where the ending retroactively ruins the rest of the series in its awfulness. Had the show not had such a garbage ending I believe it might have ended up as a well remembered fan favorite simply going on how much hype and fanart (mainly of HiroX02) was produced while it aired, yet now barely anyone talks about it besides voicing their disappointment.

The only part I still look back to fondly is following the threads on /a/ because they were a blast with loads of original content created that reminded me of when stuff like Psycho-pass aired. So much creativity and some great theory crafting on where the plot would go after each episode dropped.

You can finish it if you're that dead set on it, but just know you've been fair warned.
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Yeah, it is an...experience. Its implied they get reincarnated and fall in love in the future but bleh.

God, Psychopass. I need to watch that again.
 
Mushoten was peak comfy this week, and they actually adapted a bunch of stuff that the manga completely glossed over like ghyslaine being forced to eat shit because she had no money and had been wandering in a desert for ten days, the segment with Rudeus teaching Eris why math is important if you don't want to get scammed, the bookstore segment and the Chaos Breaker showing up in the skies above Fittoa. This was probably the bit of the story I was most worried about how they were going to adapt after the demon continent shenanigans so this was a nice surprise.
 
I want to recommend Kemono Jihen. It's a story of 4 child youkai working at a detective agency designed to keep the masquarade. It looks stunning, I really like the characters and it manages to be very optimistic despite having some very dark themes.
 
Ok, I finished DitF, am I missing something because I actually liked the ending, I think it is as good as the story as was going allowed.
My biggest problem with the show is mostly everything from episoed 20 to 23.
 
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Becomemysoulreaver said:
Ok, I finished DitF, am I missing something because I actually liked the ending, I think it is as good as the story as was going allowed.
My biggest problem with the show is mostly everything from episoed 20 to 23.
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For me, besides the sudden aliens the ending for Hiro and 02 was insultingly poor and went against a lot of the relationship struggles they'd had and overcome over the series. A large part of the series was them overcoming the problems inherent in their relationship with her being a monster and him a human (even if by the end he isn't truly) and them deciding that their differences didn't matter even if everyone else objected. After so much struggle they decided they'd rewrite their destinies so they could remain together and that was their major motivation for their actions. Hiro literally fucked off of earth because he could sense 02 even while all his friends pleaded him to stay, by that point in the story they could have just scrapped everyone on earth. It didn't help that by the end I really only cared for Hiro, 02, and Goro among the main cast yet they wasted a bunch of time on everyone else besides the main two, they really failed at developing the cast outside Hiro/02. A lot of the fan desires near the end was for Hiro and 02 to save the day then fuck off into space, get married, and make a bunch of dino babies far from the judgement of others. Hell, most people were hoping that the series would end with a revolution against their society lead by Hiro and 02 since it seemed to be trying to hint at it and not fucking aliens.

The whole reincarnation ending is shit because they aren't the same person, sure it might be the same souls, but they aren't the same persons built through their own lived experience. It's also bullshit because they're both human, which makes all the drama previously mentioned mean nothing if the writer was just going to make the problem go away in the end by making them both human. The whole ending felt like a major cop out. I saved a rant from right after the last episode aired off /a/ that basically sums up the problems I had (for some reason images aren't working for me so I'll see if sticking it as an attachment works, just don't click if you don't want spoilers).

Even if this show was a collab I still blame Trigger for the series squandering its potential more over A1. Darling shitting the bed and learning about the literal 1:1 ripoff of the Kamen Rider 000's ending in KLK has made me stop getting excited for anything new Trigger puts out.
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