Anime/Manga - Discuss Japanese cartoons and comics here; NO CULTURE WAR DOOMPOSTING!

[PS1gamenwatch]

In a video I posted a month ago which had School Rumble mangaka Jin Kobayashi and T Fox talking

Around 33:35, and according to one of the comments, he said he is already working hard on his next manga. Anyone that can understand and speak Japanese maybe you could confirm if this is right? And maybe you could know what that manga might be about.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

anyone watch shirobako? theres a scene where Oi mentions sunrise (as sunup) and a few other animation studios by their characters but all the characters are mosiaced out. doremon and gundam are the most obvious but there are others that cant be sussed because of the censorship. is that in the original air/blurays or an american streaming license issue?

I literally just bought the bluray. There is something that was removed. The subject of an all female version of Waiting for Godot was removed because Samuel Beckett estate would have sued. He's a dead sexist asshole though but still

 

[Islamic Heisenberg]

Any Ajin: Demi-Human enjoyer? it's one of the more good looking/bearable CG anime, albeit a little jank sometimes. Interesting story, compelling characters. Wanted to get into the manga but since i have the attention span of a fucking fruit flies im still hoping for a season 3.

 

[Moguro Fukuzou]

My issues my stem from what I expected from the film. I expected it to be a relatively wholesome story showing an unusual protaganist with a disability, and maybe sharing some insight into how deaf people experience things. I know Japan does have a serious bullying problem, but the entire thing just felt manipulative because while I get the main character is a bully who feels guilty about what he did, I expected it to go further exploring the victim, and fleshing them out as a person, not just leaving them as "cute deaf girl". I'm sure you will disagree but I feel Katawa Shoujo atleast tried to show peoples disabilities didn't define them, even though the writing quality varied and some was bad, an attempt was madem and it jsut sucks a 4chan project did a better job dealing with the issue. I think it's a missed opportunity to give exposure to the issue, especially in Japan wich supposedly has some stigma around disabilites, if ther character is there and they are a prominent part of the story, they should be fleshed out and not just a prop to advance the story. Unless it's a really good story.

That's understandable, though I feel its a problem brought over from its source material and them needing to change/cut a bunch to make it coherent. The film gives small ideas of what Shoko goes through like feelings of isolation, social alienation, and similar but we very rarely as an audience have Shoko as the focus. I chalk it up to it being from Ishia's perspective and him just not noticing the problems due to not really understanding being deaf because it would never occur to him (though by the end he does get better at this).

Think it's more the fault of Japanese media in general shying away from discussions on mental illness and physical disabilities, a lot of them don't go to in depth about it because it often shows how terrible Japan is regarding those issues. It's for a similar reason that I can't enjoy that chuuni Kyoani series after watching something like Aura: maryuuin kouga saigo no tatakai which deals with the whole Chuuni thing in a pretty brutal fashion.

If you don't mind shoujo there's a currently releasing romance series called A Sign of Affection where the main character is a deaf girl that's pretty wholesome while also touching on some of the issues she faces.

 

[murdered meat bag]

I literally just bought the bluray. There is something that was removed. The subject of an all female version of Waiting for Godot was removed because Samuel Beckett estate would have sued. He's a dead sexist asshole though but still

ah thats lame as hell.

I guess i have to track down the originals.

 

[The Token Ethnic]

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Let us point and laugh at this person. "I changed my mind, but only because I realized the use of "incels" was wrong for the character, not because I was wrong to use it or anything, the flak I've gotten had NOTHING to do with it, I swear!"

She went protected lmao.

I wonder if she would translate "晒し" correctly, especially in this context:

Dox:
Sarah Henshaw
DOB: 06/01/1981
2340 Hurley Way, APT 2;
Sacramento, CA 95825-3548
Email: sarahktranslate@yahoo.com, sarahkhenshaw@gmail.com

Previous Address:
845 Fulton Ave. #2050,
Sacramento, CA 95825



Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SarahKTranslate (https://archive.ph/wip/QFkvB)
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ahhboom42
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahktranslate (protected mode)

Oddly enough, she worked on Lovely Complex, Shimoneta and Hackadoll amongst other projects. THEM Anime Reviews critiqued her work on Love Com:

She used to do choreography and still works for ComedySportz. Her youtube channel is all about the localization process and rants against the weebs that hate it. This includes the "tsundere" mishap in The House of Fata Morgana. You can tell she's an improv comedy vet. Just look at her WaCkY fAcEs! Wouldn't one of these pictures be considered cultural appropriation, Sarah?

Spoiler: Visual Cringe

 

[GhostButt]

I'm sure everyone is over it already, but when kurt cobain is revealed in the jimi hendrix standu manga I couldn't stop laughing.

Spoiler: images

I hope the thumbnails properly saved bandwidth I added quite a few

 

[Erika Furudo]

That's understandable, though I feel its a problem brought over from its source material and them needing to change/cut a bunch to make it coherent. The film gives small ideas of what Shoko goes through like feelings of isolation, social alienation, and similar but we very rarely as an audience have Shoko as the focus. I chalk it up to it being from Ishia's perspective and him just not noticing the problems due to not really understanding being deaf because it would never occur to him (though by the end he does get better at this).

Think it's more the fault of Japanese media in general shying away from discussions on mental illness and physical disabilities, a lot of them don't go to in depth about it because it often shows how terrible Japan is regarding those issues. It's for a similar reason that I can't enjoy that chuuni Kyoani series after watching something like Aura: maryuuin kouga saigo no tatakai which deals with the whole Chuuni thing in a pretty brutal fashion.

If you don't mind shoujo there's a currently releasing romance series called A Sign of Affection where the main character is a deaf girl that's pretty wholesome while also touching on some of the issues she faces.

Honestly I haven't really read manga since the last site I used ended up getting shut down. I also tend to avoid unfinished things. The only thing worse than following a manga that gets dropped, or ruined at the end (Claymore) is the Berserk fandom. Remember lads, you need to watch them return from the island via boat.
I will make a note of it though. Shoujo stuff doesn't bother me, sometimes it can be a nice change and it tends to be more wholesome.

 

[Trashfire Garbagefuck]

Any Ajin: Demi-Human enjoyer? it's one of the more good looking/bearable CG anime, albeit a little jank sometimes. Interesting story, compelling characters. Wanted to get into the manga but since i have the attention span of a fucking fruit flies im still hoping for a season 3.

The same studio won't make Knights of Sidonia season 3 so you're pretty much restricted to the manga. It's incredible though I highly recommend it. If you were reading it month to month you probably would have zoned out but it just ended, and it lends itself to binge reading in chunks more than serial reading. It's so good, I can honestly say it has some of the best action sequences of any manga, and one of the most fun villains. I can't think of any villains that were more fun than Sato within manga and anime actually. It doesn't cut out Shimomura's backstory either. I'm not sure why the anime cut so much of it I loved that part. Golden Kamuy did that too with Sugimoto idgi. Season 2 cuts a lot of things iirc I didn't finish it.

Also the manga art is clean as shit



Fun fact: the original writer left after the first volume or so but it got better as a result. The art just kept improving. Makes me wish we could have seen it in 2D but they did an admirable job with the budget and technology they had. Damn fine voice acting on the Japanese side too Sato was perfect.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

I wonder if she would translate "晒し" correctly, especially in this context:

Dox:
Sarah Henshaw
DOB: 06/01/1981
2340 Hurley Way, APT 2;
Sacramento, CA 95825-3548
Email: sarahktranslate@yahoo.com, sarahkhenshaw@gmail.com

Previous Address:
845 Fulton Ave. #2050,
Sacramento, CA 95825

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SarahKTranslate (https://archive.ph/wip/QFkvB)
Translator's Cafe resume: https://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/member362698.htm (https://archive.ph/zSnxP)
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ahhboom42
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahktranslate (protected mode)

Oddly enough, she worked on Lovely Complex, Shimoneta and Hackadoll amongst other projects. THEM Anime Reviews critiqued her work on Love Com:
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She used to do choreography and still works for ComedySportz. Her youtube channel is all about the localization process and rants against the weebs that hate it. This includes the "tsundere" mishap in The House of Fata Morgana. You can tell she's an improv comedy vet. Just look at her WaCkY fAcEs! Wouldn't one of these pictures be considered cultural appropriation, Sarah?

Spoiler: Visual Cringe

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DOX FOR THE DOX GODS!!!!!

But seriously, this bitch is the type who provokes you to hit her, & then bitches about why you thought so.

 

[Islamic Heisenberg]

The same studio won't make Knights of Sidonia season 3 so you're pretty much restricted to the manga. It's incredible though I highly recommend it. If you were reading it month to month you probably would have zoned out but it just ended, and it lends itself to binge reading in chunks more than serial reading. It's so good, I can honestly say it has some of the best action sequences of any manga, and one of the most fun villains. I can't think of any villains that were more fun than Sato within manga and anime actually. It doesn't cut out Shimomura's backstory either. I'm not sure why the anime cut so much of it I loved that part. Golden Kamuy did that too with Sugimoto idgi. Season 2 cuts a lot of things iirc I didn't finish it.

Also the manga art is clean as shit

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Damn, figured as much. Well, looks like i have to check out the manga then now that it's finished, at least the good artwork can subtitute for the lack of animation. Gotta agree though, no villain came close to the baller that is Sato-san and yeah, Houchuu Ootsuka did a pretty fucking good job bringing him to life (as he normally does with any old man character he's ever voiced).

Fun fact: the original writer left after the first volume or so but it got better as a result. The art just kept improving.

Holy shit, is it another case of ONE with Yuusuke Murata where he picked up OPM and improved the art? if so that's pretty fucking based.

 

[Bread Fetishist]

I wonder if she would translate "晒し" correctly, especially in this context:

Dox:
Sarah Henshaw
DOB: 06/01/1981
2340 Hurley Way, APT 2;
Sacramento, CA 95825-3548
Email: sarahktranslate@yahoo.com, sarahkhenshaw@gmail.com

Previous Address:
845 Fulton Ave. #2050,
Sacramento, CA 95825

View attachment 1960098

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SarahKTranslate (https://archive.ph/wip/QFkvB)
Translator's Cafe resume: https://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/member362698.htm (https://archive.ph/zSnxP)
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ahhboom42
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahktranslate (protected mode)

Oddly enough, she worked on Lovely Complex, Shimoneta and Hackadoll amongst other projects. THEM Anime Reviews critiqued her work on Love Com:
View attachment 1960105

She used to do choreography and still works for ComedySportz. Her youtube channel is all about the localization process and rants against the weebs that hate it. This includes the "tsundere" mishap in The House of Fata Morgana. You can tell she's an improv comedy vet. Just look at her WaCkY fAcEs! Wouldn't one of these pictures be considered cultural appropriation, Sarah?

Spoiler: Visual Cringe

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Damn, she's butt-ugly.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

A Silent Voice was a film that felt a little over the place since it was based on a manga rather than a story with an established beginning and an end. The hero reconciling with the mute girl should have been the climax but it happens around the third of the story so there is nothing much to do afterwards rather than skipping around with the manga plot lines until there is a climax worthy moment.
The mute girl kinda felt like she lacked any character, she is basically cute and that's it. I also think having the main character becoming a pariah immediately after the girl left the school kinda undermines what's the problem with bullying (as the message become that if you are a bully you'll be bullied back). I think it would have been stronger if he had remembered doing it but not feeling bad and then met the girl later and realized he fucked her up.

 

[Secret Asshole]

Damn, she's butt-ugly.

They all are.

 

[BScCollateral]

I know Fairy Tail is sort of a posterchild for pointlessly drawn-out stories, but this is a problem endemic to serialized storytelling.

Agreed. Varney the Vampire. Published 1845-47. Over six hundred thousand words. And it is pointlessly drawn out.

Once in a while, a chapter will be a character reading a completely different story. This happens at least three times.

Predates Dracula, though.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

I still need to watch it.

If you want true mood whiplash, watch Your Lie in April in between watching seasons of March Comes in Like a Lion.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Fuck you for ruining this, Netflix. Fuck you.

 

[Oh Shit I'm Sorry]

The same studio won't make Knights of Sidonia season 3 so you're pretty much restricted to the manga. It's incredible though I highly recommend it. If you were reading it month to month you probably would have zoned out but it just ended, and it lends itself to binge reading in chunks more than serial reading. It's so good, I can honestly say it has some of the best action sequences of any manga, and one of the most fun villains. I can't think of any villains that were more fun than Sato within manga and anime actually. It doesn't cut out Shimomura's backstory either. I'm not sure why the anime cut so much of it I loved that part. Golden Kamuy did that too with Sugimoto idgi. Season 2 cuts a lot of things iirc I didn't finish it.

Also the manga art is clean as shit

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Fun fact: the original writer left after the first volume or so but it got better as a result. The art just kept improving. Makes me wish we could have seen it in 2D but they did an admirable job with the budget and technology they had. Damn fine voice acting on the Japanese side too Sato was perfect.

Sato's great because he literally just does not give a shit and just wants to have fun with his invincibility. He has no problems killing anything in his way but he never goes out of his way to murder innocents, like he won't open fire on a crowd of unarmed civilians at random but he'll gladly hijack a passenger plane and aloha snackbar it into a building killing thousands. He doesn't care in the end whether he wins or loses he just wants to have as much fun as possible. He reminds me of Malvo from the first season of Fargo. No lofty goals or plans, just cause as much chaos as possible because you enjoy it, it makes him a really fun villain.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

Fuck you for ruining this, Netflix. Fuck you.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cvZ9thKolOA

They got fucking J.C. Staff for this, FFS Netflix.

YKW? Fine, if they put the live action show (yes it exists, it's pretty good from what I've heard) on Netflix too then I don't mind this that much. But damn, that looks cheaply made.

 

[Screw Danlon]

I watched the first 2 episodes of “After School Dice Club”. (Houkago Saikoro)

As a fan of board games, I enjoyed pausing a couple times and seeing how many of the games I could recognize in the various wide & establishing shots, esp without text (or with Japanese text).

The series itself seems pretty bleh. I find the main character unpleasant, the side characters are cute and perky but pretty typical, and they keep trying to make games feel more melodramatic than they need to be. In Saki or Chihayafuru, I could understand why the characters were frustrated to lose a game they spent months practicing for... but to have a character break down sobbing over basic analysis paralysis in a game - outside of one friend my group no longer plays with, that just doesn’t happen.

It’s cute, so I’ll probably save it for a sick day, but not super excited to keep going.