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I have a wish to discuss more titillating works in terms a little more in depth than "hot". Post your thoughts about the stuff here. I've got a double post from the Aiue Oka thread coming through right after this.

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>>26307
I've been becoming kind of an Ayane fanboy as of late, and I've been trying to think of what about her work tickles me. This is off the heels of binge reading the available usachanGET backlog as well, and I think an element missing from a lot of male author work is a sense of physicality in the female subject being depicted. There's a sense that things are primarily done unto her without true reciprocation that takes down how enrapturing the scene otherwise could be and I think its source is a lack of body afforded to males in the work. There's a lot of focus on the flesh of the woman that renders the male cardboard with a penis that can occasionally scratch the itch of what I believe drawn pornography's purpose is, purposeful simulacra of the psychological dimension of pornography without need to find actors that can actually Act.
This is of course coming from a distinctly non-homosexual malesub-adjacent perspective however, so maybe I'm too deep in a particular burrowto see that there's some kind of alternate position I'm missing. And of course this isn't a put down of work that I don't think lives up to this potential, it's just a note about representation of embodied experience through the depiction of sex as rendered by freaky ass Japanese uyghas. And I haven't even touched on the seeming lack of this dimension in Yuri, which I think there's a lot you can say about.

I suppose this is gonna be a reminder, but SPOILER YOUR IMAGES, I sure didn't remember to the first time I made this post.



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I think 86 is complete garbage. I started watching it because I like mecha anime and it has a good rating on My Anime List. First off I could not finish this anime, I only got four episodes in before I dropped it. I like the ideas behind it but the plot makes absolutely no sense, I know in mechas there is a suspension of disbelief to watch it but this show asks you to completely turn your brain off and I can't. And this completely gets in my way of enjoying this show, which is a bummer because I like some of the ideas of this show and want continue watching it but I can't because of the plot holes. The plot is essentially their this country who is at war with another country and because of racism chooses to have all the "Aryan" citizens stripped of their citizenship and forced to fight on the front lines. But if you think about this its incredibly stupid because whats to say these people refuse to fight and march on the capital demanding the "Aryans" also fight along side of them? They have the military training and mechs to do so and the government would have to do something or risk getting destroyed by the enemy. This makes the themes about racism feel a lot more hollow because it makes those oppressed groups look like willing participants in their oppression which is not something I should be thinking about in a story about how racism is bad. Now because this plot hole took me out the story the others which in better written one would normally not take me out started doing so. Like in the second episode it is revealed that the enemy robots are all autonomous and have gone rogue. Why does the government launch several EMP's to destroy them? I then started thinking about real life militaries and how the United States uses drones, then been controlled by a person several thousands miles away. This is way better because it saves both the pilots life and the skill he gains from experience. Which the government in this anime clearly doesn't value even though it should because they should want to win the war. Overall the guy who lite-novel this anime is based on clearly didn't give a shit about the plot and I in response don't care about this story either. If you can ignore the plot I would suggest checking it out because it has some interesting ideas. But if your like me and you demand the bare minimum when it comes to logic of the plot, avoid this show like this plague because it will hurt your brain. This anime's plot is Star Wars prequel's level of not maPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>22663
Watching Geass now its a lot better than 86. But do Japanese people have this bug of a hate boner for British people.

>>22666
Yeah just finished it. Code Geass is one my favorite animes of all time now. Lelouch Lamperouge is literally the best written character.

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>>22652
>whats to say these people refuse to fight and march on the capital
One of the few things it establishes well is the structure of the military being dictated by the current state of technology.
The Republican mechs are explicitly made for mass production above all other concerns.
The "Para-RAID link" is the centerpiece of their war communications network and their only technology equal to the empire. There is also "laser communications", which likely requires extensive infrastructure at the transmitter's side.
If an 86 force were to rebel, it would either have to rely solely on local comms or potentially improvise long-range radio, that would be vulnerable to Republican snooping.
>>22653
Agreed. S2 is obvious dogshit, although the child character actually acts like a child as opposed to a loli and is imo never sexualized beyond plain moe.


Last time I posted this leftypol server went down (and my post was not saved, sad!) but truth must be told lol


I completely disagree with all the 86 bashing!

86 is literally the current war in the Ukraine, this anime is very prophetic!

>Capital resembles Moscow's boulevards

>Most of the population is unaware of what is going on and regard it as some minor far away conflict
>Claims of 0 casualites, painting alternative reality of events
>Other ridiculous, militarily inept propagandistic statements
>In reality the regime uses poor and "undesirable people" (Russia has mobilized a lot of people from Donbass much before the first very weak partial mobilization was announced, basically treating locals there as second class citizens who must be mobilized first - not to mention using local population to fight for themselves with limited assistance since 2014 to not upset precious American pardners)
>Military leadership is absolutely incompetent and is incapable of achieving decisive victory, relying on aimlessly wasting human lives instead

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>>26123
I agree with your point, but I don’t think this only applies to russia. The whole “sending second class citizens to war” is a common part of societies in the age of capitalism, minority groups are over represented in US military for example.



 

I'm not trying to start anything or get into any kid of idpol argument.

I'm just wondering why so many anime, many of which never receives a release outside of Japan, and takes place in Japan, is filled with characters who are obviously not Japanese.

Picrel, with a redhaired green-eyed character and a blue-eyed blonde, in the anime, both are native Japanese. They also have big noses like Caucasians.

What's going on here?
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>>26207
euro race scientists thought it would be funny if we call white people caucasian since at the time they figures europeans come from the caucasus, hence caucasian.

this is the same stuff that makes jews and arabs technically able to call each other anti-semetic. it's old race science bullshit lingo that's still alive for some reason

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>>26208
lol wtf, this isn't me

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Because a lot of people would look the same. Read claymore if you want an example of this being a problem, all the girls have the same hair color and general look and it can get confusing. I don't think it's really meant to be caucasian but more so just japanese people with nordic hair/eyes. They still have japanese names and shit

>>23265
this. Nost Western aination celebrates awkwardnes and snark far too much.
Anime allows characters to be funny and quirky without being compleely toxc and over-comical.


Imagine if Naruto was written by Western authors.
It would be more South Park with ninja aesthetics.

>>26222
>Nost Western aination celebrates awkwardnes and snark far too much.

We have Brian Micheal Bendis and Joss Whedon to thank for writing being stuck up its own ass.



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You did it. You beat me.
You really are the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
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>>25859
>>25862
FRACTIONALLY METAL ALCHEMIST

Great show, watched it as a teenager. I've really been wanting to go back and rewatch it over the last month. I haven't watched that many shows, the only one I can think of that I might have liked more than FMA:B is Violet Evergarden, that shit made me a sobbing mess. But this has great action, I remember loving the story.

>>25856
Holy moly they killed stalin!!

>>25859
I mean, Alphonse is fullmetal, and he's a alchemist. Maybe he's the protag

>>25859
LOOOL

>>25859
most brutal post on this board



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Anyone else is disturbed much when burger media (well, or Jap media) vindicates purported good guys commiting war crimes/crimes against humanity? For me personally the first thing that cames to memory is the infamous scene where Optimus Prime executes Sentinel Prime with a shotgun as wounded and defenseless Sentinel screams for mercy, accompanied by heroic music and followed by "le epic badass" shot of Optimus standing.

Now, in theory Sentienel surely deserved that by virtue of being a traitor, a backstabbing murderer, a Transformer supremacist imperialist who planned to genocide humanity and massacred human civillians, someone who is himself okay with slaughtering begging for mercy POWs, and an absolutely horrible father figure to boot, but, like…

At that moment, Autobots had already won, and there were no urgent need for violence. And Optimus did not gave Sentinel even WW2-USSR style военно-полевой суд trial! Like… aren't good guys good because they do NOT unlawfully murder in cold blood?

But the actual worst thing is the real-world implications of that. Bayformers were literally made as an USAmerican army propaganda movies, and continue to blast USAmerican vision of the world to people watching them to this day.

I cannot shake off the feeling that is not statistically improbable that this very scene had directly inspired at least one case of NATO invaders killing surrendering Lybian troops, or Ukronazis killing surrendering Russian/Eastern Ukrainian troops.

Or am I being an idealist again and freaking out about superstructure when I need to freak out about the basis?

No, you're right to feel that it's fucked up. Personally I think it's a disturbing trend also.

Pretty emblematic of the American ruling class mindset. No mercy for the defeated, no compromise with the enemy, and a "hero" that's willing to do "whatever it takes."

>>26211
I’ve also seen a trend of characters recalling fucked up stuff they did, because showing instead of telling would force them to produce a fictional gore vid, and then afterwards people don’t act shocked or disgusted because the perpetrator did their duty for le country or felt bad about it.



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This movie:
>literally promotes a divine right of kings
>justifies literal predation of the lower classes by the higher ones
>its narrative in relation to Hyenas is both racist and near-perfectly aligns with a fascist vision of the world
>becames a worldwide sensation, cult classic, most sucessful animated movie in the world for two decades, is uncritically consumed by millions of people, including some queer prople and left-leaing liberals, while substantionally less reactionary Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter face increasing scrunity even from centrists.

Amazing what the power of the furry does, isn't it?
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>>26218
The empire immediately fell into disorder after he took over + he's homofash

>>26219
>The empire immediately fell into disorder after he took over
No one said making a revolution would be easy, especially dealing with so many saboteurs. Scar turned the most reactionary animal kingdom into a modern equality zootopia and killed the royal family. He even spared the children, big mistake.
>he's homofash
That is what the liberals always say to justify bourgeoisie morality.

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It's impossible for animal allegories to be anything but reactionary because the most fundamental thing about them is that they split "society" into a taxonomy of immutable categories.

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>>26223
>immutable
So what about monster girls?

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>>26223
it is impossible to do comparisons or metaphors, because A is always different than B.



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are any of you powerscalers by any chance?

which protagonist from which anime can beat goku?
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>>26174
I think powerscalers usually measure characters in "no items, Fox only, Final Destination" kind of scenario. Obviously a certain character who doesn't require food can wait for the other one to starve to death but that wouldn't be a "fight" now would it?

>>26175
It's more that the judgement of how the abilities scale ignores context. Like the meme is that Batman can beat anybody with prep time, but Batman doesn't prep in a vacuum. Batman's prep is powerful because of the resources he has at his disposal by virtue of his status in his universe. Drop Batman into some other verse and he doesn't have the connections or the technology in the Batcave. But aren't those things part of what makes Batman Batman? Yeah. And that's the more fundamental issue with powerscaling arguments - characters don't really make sense outside of their own settings. They're not actually existing people, but narrative devices serving a purpose within a story. From a narrative perspective One Punch Man can beat anybody because that's the point of the character. In fiction, characters usually aren't "balanced" according to some consistent power scale. They exist to win or lose conflicts according to what is dramatic, and often what is dramatic is for the weaker character to win. The entire concept of powerscaling is reducible to media illiteracy.

>>26176
You have a point, but it's still fun. Why can't people have fun with the lore? Fanfic writers are given a pass, why not powerscalers?

And can Batman really beat anyone with prep time? Is he like Saitama or something? Or does he rely on the JLA to do all the work?

>>26171
because if i see some fuck saying a character is massively faster than light because they dodged a lazer i'm gonna have a aneurysm.

>>26178
"Lazers" in fiction are garbage. It's like the writers don't know what a lazer is.



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i always wanted to make a /co/ thread for leftist discussion, but i have no idea where to put it? most people would shove it off as "cape-shit" or "not Japanese" how ever i think that's the problem, viewing manga as separate from other comics. I consider myself a comics fan but love alot of manga too. and would really enjoy if people didn't segregate just because it's right to left. and if you really don't want a /co/ thread then were go?

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>>25277
Anon, Comics and manga are separated because the way they developed is massively different and impacted by the cultures of America and Japan. While they have common roots, they are different things.
As to where
There are plenty of /co/ threads on >>>/hobby/
>>>/hobby/1328
>>>/hobby/15233 (the old thread)
Also Western animation and capeshit threads too.

I frequent both there and here, but /anime/ was formed because people WANTED there to be separation.

>>25277
Manga is very different. Smaller size leads to less panels per page and more creative panelling, 60+ pages and a weekly format lead to better page flow, more dynamic fight scenes and less compression, anthology magazines and creator ownership lead to more stand-alone series that never change authors, the black-and-white printing leads to faster drawing, sharper shadows and more detailed art, etc., etc. Manga is so much different in fact that it influences Western comic book authors too, Daniel Warren Johnson and Bryan Lee O'Melly are prime examples.



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I didnt want to ask this for 20 years because its stupid question. But what culture is Popo's look supposed to be inspired by?
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Tvrk b*ll

>>26081
Racism culture

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He is culturally appropriating traditional Namekian outfit.

>>26082
That would be Semi-perfect Cell.

argentinian

>>26081
Indo-Arabian. His clothes are those of jinns and his }ody resembles that of Mahakala. Also, he was planned to have a design of a yogi early on.

I mean, sure, blackface wasn't frowned upon in Japan back then but maybe his design is just an unfortunate coincidence.



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My personal idiotic yet hilarious headcanon is that Redwall and Squirrel and Hedgehog happen in the same world, just at different points in history - one at dawn of feudalism, other in the late days of the imperialist order. It actually makes an absurd amount of sense if you think about it lol. Hope if DPRK ever makes a remake, they add in a character from Flower Hill off-pawly mentioning Cluny the Scourge as the legendary person from distant past, or something like this.

Cool

>>26118
Somehow I don't think the dprk would do that lol. But your headcanon is cool

DPRK animators are bretty gud, Kim Jong Un needs to drop some new 🔥🔥 fire prolekino 🚨🚨



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