/anime/ - Anime

>>29246
clumsy female lead that keeps showing the audience her underwear on accident

>>29246
The black dude cucks the skinny dude

Shredded androgyne who relies on speed and technique for fighting is a peak character design.

>>29254
Orochimaru is peak?

Which ever one has the smallest cock

>>29232
That's a fair defense of Kishimoto's intentions, and I agree that he clearly values diplomacy and cultural unity. But I still don't think it's accurate to say Naruto’s stance on fascism is "necessarily" about ignoring structural causes—that implies a deliberate or inherent blindness, when I’d argue the story actually engages with those structures, just in a reformist rather than revolutionary way.

Take the Five Kage Summit: it’s literally a gathering where leaders confront systemic failings—distrust, historical grievances, and the very infrastructure of shinobi society that incentivizes conflict. They don’t dismantle the village system, but they do reshape its rules and alliances. That’s not ignoring structure; it’s attempting to change it from within. Even Naruto’s own role—breaking the cycle of hatred through understanding rather than force—is presented as a structural shift in how power is exercised. He doesn’t just defeat the enemy; he redefines the terms of engagement.

And while the story doesn’t advocate for abolishing villages or the shinobi system altogether, it does criticize their flaws—like the corruption in the feudal lords’ governance or the exploitation of jinchuriki. The fact that the system evolves (e.g., the Allied Shinobi Forces, Boruto-era tech and cooperation) shows that Kishimoto is interested in structural progress, even if it’s incremental. So it’s less that he ignores structure, and more that he believes in reforming it rather than tearing it down—which is a different political stance, but not a fascist one. Fascism glorifies the state, suppresses dissent, and seeks expansion through purity and force. Naruto’s world moves toward collaboration, forgiveness, and shared governance. That’s arguably the opposite.

Itachi genociding his clan for the village secret services was a great plot development. What sucks is that the author used this to display Itachi as a hero.
Kishimoto is a master at creating interesting characters in an interesting world, start great plot points, only to fuck it all up in royal fashion in the cringiest way possible.
Pain should have been the final villain, the whole but its actually Tobi, who's actually Obito, oh no its actually Madara, its actually white zetsu, Black zetsu BAAM its KAGUYA is the worst trainwreck in the history of fiction. I will never forgive kishimoto for ruining my favourite childhood cartoon. Fuck you Kishitmoto

>>29240
>Kishimoto is a master at creating interesting characters in an interesting world
As long as they're not female

>>29241
Tenten, Ino, Temari, Kurenai were all good character concepts. TOO bad Kishitmoto never did anything with them smh

>>29250
Konan <3 too

>>10805
I just realized this was reposted from 8ch.net/rwby/ lol

Update from 8chan.moe/rwby/

We're (hopefully) going to be streaming all of RWBY starting from October on the Weekend mornings (US East Coast Time)

Further Updates on this will be posted.

Here's a headcanon of Team RWBY's politics, because why the fuck not at this point in the thread:
While none of them are really explicitly political:
Ruby: probably a Humanist philosophy-wise.
Weiss:Racism for that first bit, but eventually something like an Anti-authoritarian or at least an anti-plutocrat
Blake: Progressivism? Liberalism? Reformism? something not very revolutionary
Yang: Not sure

>>29237
>Yang: Not sure
Political lesbian/transhumanism

>>29242
Nah, Yang's a libertarian through and through.

>>29163
That shit is a myth made up in western circles because anime fans are too plebeian to understand deliberate simplicity for artistic reasons and still believe in retard shit such as objectivity in art.

>>29162
It's not a subversion of the mecha genre at all… why do people say this. It's a great mecha show. But the second half is the best, I don't know why you'd try to debate this. It has the best action, the most exciting pacing and stakes and has great character moments.

>>29163
The last two episodes are but 18-24 are like the best run of episodes in anime ever.

>>29203
Oh, the giant robot anime where the giant robots aren’t actually giant robots and the pilot has a completely different attitude toward piloting said not-robot giant robot that ends in the destruction of the world isn’t a subversion of fucking EVERY OTHER GIANT ROBOT SHOW BEFORE IT??? DO YOU KNOW WHAT A SUBVERSION IS??? HAVE YOU WATCHED ANY FUCKING GUNDAM SHOW??? GIGANTOR??? MAZINGER??? GETTER ROBO???

>>29218
Have… you watched Gundam? Watched Ideon? Read Getter? Watch Ultra Seven? Like actually go and watch them if you liked Evangelion. It seems to me like you are baiting.

If Evangelion was a deconstruction it would be deconstructing like what? Early 70s mecha? It wasn't deconstructing Gundam or Getter Robo. Maybe Evangelion was a subversion but like serious mecha were the thing at the time. The real subversion / deconstruction of super robot mecha was Zambot 3.

>>29203
I would say 16-24. Just incredible

Just got current on Telomere. It's a zombie manga, but while it's set 10 years after the zompoc, the zombies themselves are mostly a background element. It follows a brother and sister pair that the zombies show no interest in, and in fact they can kinda sorta interact with.

Only 15 chapters out by this point, but I'm enjoying it. There's some mysterious elements set up, a couple of which the latest chapter elaborates on but doesn't resolve. The art is really good, and I'm liking the main characters. Subverts expectations in a good way imo.

Astro Baby is good if you liked Parasyte

I'm reading Alive: The Final Evolution
Its a fun battle shounen manga that have great characters. The manga has a complete official translation to English.

Just got caught up on Chainsaw Man, botht the manga and anime. Tbh I havent laughed so hard at an anime since shin-chan or ghost stories. I cant wait for the Reze Arc movie to come out. Kinda dissapointed that we never got to see Denji and Power scrapping copper wiring for food money or someshit.

Waiting for more chapters of Plaything, this shit is great. Chaebol boss' daughter dies from bullying and he 'adopts' a north korean girl to get revenge.

I liked seitokai yakuindomo,the manga goes nowhere and is a boring slog that only does japanese stand up comedy for the entire lqtter half(AKA the mere mention of something being incorrect mentioned by someone else is somehow humor)
D-frag is also obsessed with tsukomis,but I dare you to try to predict anything that happens,that shit is a rollercoaster of nonsense.

Not sure if they count but the Crayon Shin-Chan dub is absolutely hilarious. I stg it gets funnier everytime I watch it

>>29221
I want to like Gintama but it's loaded with topical references which you wont understand

>>29221
azumanga daioh and nichijou
maybe excel saga if you are of a certain age and grew up consuming 90s seinen anime
asobi asobase if you're not

if and only if you are n3 or above:
joshiraku
kakushigoto
sayonara zetsubou sensei
poputepipikku

there has been a lot of action-comedies and romantic-comedies in the last ~15 years with the industry tirelessly trying to replicate konosuba. the problem with that type of media is that sooner or later it drops the comedy to focus on the action or romantic part because that's easier to streamline than comedy.

"pure" comedy anime and manga either die after a couple years when the author runs out of juice or become something like dril tweets but in japanese

ok i just got this idea for a dark comadey ware the MC and comrades sert in middle school and ends after they sert college

>>29191
Ill do you one better

The line between Sexuality Fetishes and Creativity is entirely arbitrary as our creative drive is innately tied to Libido in many ways

>>29192
I think I'd generally agree with that yeah

>>29187
Clearly you're not familiar with Akihito's interviews and Twitter shenanigans

>>29212
I have never been on twitter in my life.

>>16956
And?

>>29204
>Read this back to yourself and still tell me no one is hurt when you support an industry that exploits kids.

What makes what he did any worse than buying a smart phone? That cadmium used in whatever device you happen to be using to post was probably scratched out of the ground by the bare hands of some African child that is at least being brutally physically exploited, and most likely sexually too.

>>29208
Surely you can do better than that

>>29210
Not an argument.

>>29213
Im not arguing

>>29214
I accept your concession.