/anime/ - Anime

>>29486
Feminists are often patriarchal bourgeois agents, funnily enough

>>29496
that's hardly surprising since there's a thousand ideologies that call themselves "feminism" and most probably don't recognize the bourgeoisie as an enemy.

>>29498
Feminism is the prodigal daughter of patriarchy

Never forget that

What do you guys think of the references to Hitler and the Nazis in the beginning of the anime are about? Cause at first you assume its referencing Honnouji acadmedy and Satsuki but with the twist she is actually the good guy. Its supposed to critique her or her mother.

>>29484
Eh Sushio's probably an odd one out in actually supporting a hardcore racist politician; it's more that I've never seen any evidence of Nakashima being socialist. He seemed like a VERY garden variety lib when I went through his political tweets/retweets promoting stuff someone more radical never would - like a positive review of JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy from a fairly prominent Japanese liberal, basically liking him for being a NeverTrumper but the review was far more forgiving of Obama and Bush at the end. Note the "bootstraps" shit during that same line https://youshofanclub.com/2016/10/31/hillbilly-elegy/ (also this writer took selfies with Hillary lol). If he's changed since then and became more leftist, it wouldn't be very relevant to the discussion since I read this stuff post-KLK. He was normie lib enough to go "hmm very good article" at this in 2016.

If you properly analyze Gurren Lagann this is not very surprising because if you apply its core theme & message ("past and present coming together to create a path towards the future", which often led to "conservative old timers and rebellious youth should work together") to partisan politics you could very easily call it an extremely centrist show. However I think part of why GL is good is because that theme can apply to so many things, not even just politics. Like art or the history of anime & manga.
>>29513
That's cuz

1. Nakashima was making up shit as he went along. He literally said his intent was to "develop the themes as the series went along" as opposed to start with a core theme & focus around it like Gurren Lagann. AND

2. KLK is very very clearly inspired by Kakugo no Susume which was more explicitly about fighting fascism, not in a wider "CEOs are fascist" sense but literally "the final boss is the protag's WW2 war criminal grandpa who ran this thing we won't call, Unit 731 but it totally is Unit 731". It's also inspired by Otokogumi which was written by a hardcore "kill the emperor" guy. But since he didn't pick a theme to focus on and he likely ended up wanting to make a wider statement about individuality (likely because, as I said, I wouldn't say he's rePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Not even bait at this point. I'm assuming you're an 2011 anime only, because only those tards have these sort of brainworms. You're brain is so poisoned by twitter agendas, that you can't appreciate a good story (by animanga standards anyway).

Nen rules are clearly established and within those boundaries they get reasonable additions and deeper mechanics, like Nen Beasts or Nen Curses.
>we got people pulling stuff like phasing through objects
Seperating your Nen from your body and creating a Nen space with rules has been clearly established as a main strength of emitters since greed island which result in something akin to small-medium range teleportation. Knov and Leorio are emitters and they designed their hatsu around this mechanic
>turning into vehicles of all things
Clever application of a conjurer ability. Not every conjurer is a badass with chains like Kurapika.
>Then there’s the moronic decision to make the chimera ants sympathetic by giving them arbitrary arcs when the dudes were trying to kill five million people for no reason

Chimera ants are sympathetic because they inherit the traits of the species they consume, eg. eating humans backfired in the end, which is something Meruem acknowledges in his fight against Netero (saying the human ego disrupts the collective bond between ants). Sure they have no reason to kill people, but humans don't have a reason either. One of the points of the arc is to highlight the aribtrary nature of these conflicts. Chimera Ants are strong enough to kill an unarmed human, so they do that to increase the strength of their colony. An average ant with no intelligence doesn't need more reason. The problems start the more intelligent they get when they start eating humans. That I need to explain this to you on a supposedly leftist board is indicative of state of this shithole.

>I guess the audience was supposed to accept that the ants were partially human
You sound really dumb, no offence. They were partially human, that is just fact. You can choose, wether you want to feel sorry for them or not in the end. That ain't the point of the arc. Netero represented humanity at its best and worst and showed all the meathead shonentards that love to powerscale, that it means nothing when you can nuke somebody to oblivion. Chimera Ants may be the most powerfulPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>29510
> I'm assuming you're an 2011 anime only
With the exception of the election arc, I’ve largely only read the manga of this series. I think the anime is too censored to get the feel of this series done right

>>29511
>>29510
And no. I did read about the fact that chimera ants take the traits of their host via phagocytosis. That’s why some could even use nen and remember the memories of the people they ate.

That didnt suddenly change my opinion over how I felt they should’ve been handled by the midpoint of the arc. I *don’t feel any remorse for these creatures*. Plenty were fucked up and evil even before being reborn as ants and the manga explicitly outlines this. No I don’t care for Togashis messages on humans somehow being worse than ants because that message is the easiest example of false equivalence one can point out.

The chimera ants were objective villains. They run around eating whatever makes them stronger, predate on the weak, and have a rugged hierarchy built on physicality and combat prowess over intention and reason. They murdered people often without any intention of growing their own colonies but out of malice and sadistic pleasure. You really wanna go and compare that to people starting wars with each other over resource scarcity, long running cycles of hatred based on unresolved tensions surrounding oppressive regimes and inequality, or even just for the sake of liberation from a worse entity? That part of the arc (it was around the point when meruem started opening up to kugomi I think) in particular made me feel even less sympathy for these creatures than their initial opening just for the fact that I felt being gaslit by the author.

No. The ants are straight villains and there’s no reason not to believe so. Nothing in the chapters redeems the majority of them no matter how many excuses you want to make up for them and nothing will. Their presence alone has created five thousand major threats to known world and 400k+ people were murdered anyways within weeks of their arrival in the ngl even with the hunter association on their asses.

Maturity is often not morally grey.

>>29422
We need an ass thread tbh

>>29427
blue hair good

>>29468
Honestly the idea that the [supernaturally/technologically, depending on the setting] beings cannot possibly be held to the same moral (god, I hate that word) standards as "mere" mortals smells lovecraftianism. And I am almost sure that Lovecraft had subconsciously birthed that idea to rationalise his own KKK-tier racism. You know, "Columbus' fleet was Ctulhu for the Taino people".

I would kill the worldwide bourgeoisie in a single day

>>29489
Same. My BF says I'm an idiot because the root message of Death Note is 'don't use the Death Note' like that one tweet, but Light was just a reactionary narcissistic retard. You could actually make the world good with the Death Note (or at least a lot better).

>>29489
I would make them confess on live tv all their heinous shit first, then make them apologize to the proletariat and the human race before making them commit suicide by guillotine

>>24661
Man, the dismemberment fetish is just weird to me. It's not guro necessarily but still. I don't get it.

>>24661
>The Nomu alone have a lot to 'play' with
Ehehe they sure do.

Final season currently ongoing, and nobody seems to talk about it. I guess knowing how it all ends crashed all the hype remaining.

>>24726
It's a more extreme version of bandage, making explicit the implicit disability of restraints.

>Tomura isnt result of abusive family, uncaring society and random destructive mutation, but All For One's manipulation
>Endevour/Dabi storyline about abusive father who drives his son to insanity getting retconned, and All For One is involved, because of course
>All For One's origin is being literally born evil and all evil in the world seemingly comes from him like he is the Devil, neutering any societal critique the manga had
>Himiko's completely unprompted redemption
I applaud Hirokoshi's talent to retroactively ruin even the good parts of BNHA writing.

>>29402
Volume 4 Part II will be happening this Sunday, same time, same cytube link. See ya there!

>>29428
That is where I dropped the series, how does it evolve from there? Does it improve, get worse, secret third thing?

>>29430
It kinda varies, there's parts that worsen, but there's still plenty of good. The worst Volumes are 5 and 8 and even then there's fun to be had. Come join in and see for yourself

>>29428
Volume 5 may be split in two Streams given it's length. Additionally…

STREAM DAY CHANGE
Hello Folks, due to some Real Life scheduling, I will be changing the Stream day to Saturday for the foreseeable future! This starts with the next stream. Spread the news please.

Ergo Volume 5 stream will be Saturday at 9AM with regular restreams.

>>29445
SATURDAY STREAM
Stream for VOLUME 6 will be tomorrow 9AM East Coast USA Time!

See ya lads there!

>>29495
>watching childrens cartoons
I found your problem.

sounds like something an entire community of autists would have built the entire lore of humans post apocalypse turning into demi-humans to the point they are the real humanity or some shit
and make 2h videos about it on youtube

>>29495
>which greatly harmed my ability to take the plot seriously even as a 13 years old
I have the inverse problem where humans being present in a sci-fi setting just seems silly but understandable for keeping familiar elements in a story / not having to go full animated every time. As I get less pessimistic about space travel this has eased up somewhat.
>meant to be set on Earth, uses real countries and historical events as a backdrop, and characters call each other "humans"
Alternate earth, different evolution without much bearing on how history played out. They just didn't speciate or define human differently.
>Why are western animators like this?
Character design. Eastern artists do this too, sometimes.
>>29500
It's dutch, they don't use burger content rating systems.

>Nothing wrong with this. It's not a videogame. Sometimes the villain gets shot in the head and fucking dies, that's fine

Not to me it’s not. I’m not waiting 30+ episodes of having a major antagonist get glazed and hyped up by the author just for them to get offscreen or taken down by some contrived ass trick. Makes the conclusion feel like a total waste of fucking time waiting to reach.

Personal opinion aside, from a writing perspective, finishing off a major antagonist too quickly is often a shitty way to conclude a story off the fact that doing so usually fails to provide any narrative closure in the sense that the audience or readers won’t see the villain putting up any actual resistance to whatever the fuck killed them. In application, this also means that writers can end up with copout deaths or unclear endings if audiences cannot entirely trust that the villain in question died in a way they genuinely couldn’t get out of.

>Sometimes you guys forget shonen manga is written for 13 year old horny Japanese boys. The authors have to make a living, so they pander to that audience.
If the guys that wrote made in abyss and rent a girlfriend are indicators for anything, youre placing way too much optimism in the sense of discipline manga authors carry.

>>29453
>I’m not waiting 30+ episodes of having a major antagonist get glazed and hyped up by the author just for them to get offscreen or taken down by some contrived ass trick
There are many ways to show conflict that would give a satisfying resolution through a quick death. More realistic media does this all the time. I myself hate dragged out fights. The opposite is having every conflict resolved with a bloated-hp videogame fight and having every antagonist also be a powerful fighter or whatever.
>youre placing way too much optimism in the sense of discipline manga authors carry
It depends on the magazine. WSJ is a dog-eat-dog world. But even the authors you describe have to pander to certain audiences, intentionally or not.

>>29454
I phrased myself very poorly. What I meant to say is that what you miss is not a fight, but a proper cycle of tension -> ramping up -> release.

>>29454
Dude, I get what angle youre coming from, but it is rare and I mean RARE for major antagonists to have rushed deaths that don’t feel entirely contrived or forced compared to just having characters organically duke things out until someone drops. What’s worse is that rushed deaths are far more common in media mainly in the romance, drama, and comedy than understandably in action based media. 90% of those deaths usually fall into either the result of the authors laziness to stick with a consistent narrative about their characters or author bias towards their favourite characters with no in between. I don’t care what you have to say on that specific idea. I don’t want to have to sit through an entire season just to watch the main antagonist die before the author can insert their preachy garbage on to me the next scene about how the protagonist is righteous or free or whatever despite literally doing next to nothing. Just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

>>29451
Shonen manga is written for teenage boys doesn’t mean it’s bad.
Usually it’s the television adaptation that’s fucking up the franchise.

>>29456
What’s even more fucked up is that main antagonists usually get a redemption arc.

>>24981
I mean if it airs as 720p on Japanese live TV are they really going to render it at 1080p or just upscale it for the losers streaming?

>>24963
Even if that was true, they'd upscale it with a better algorithm then whatever your video player is doing.

>>24990
I was thinking more of BD releases, streaming is a crapshoot yeah. It really depends on where the download is sourcing from, I'd guess it probably is upscales of a broadcast version in most cases. I just don't think it's *always* gonna be the case.

Anyone know where the drawing here is from? I found this edited panel at the start of a hentai doujin for some reason and reverse image search didn't turn anything up. I'm pretty sure someone edited a bunch of shit together but Ispecifically I'm interested in the drawing of the guy bear-hugging someone into exploding

>>29490
Google found this:
https://hentaipaw.com/viewer?articleId=2414263&page=14