/anime/ - Anime

>cool powerful villain/side character doing nothing for the majority of the plot
>main character saving all the side characters at the last minute when they’re losing
Lazy writing.
>x minutes before some big disaster hits (those minutes last multiple episodes)
>monologuing and chatting when there’s a disaster/fight going on
Lazy directing.
>exposition dumping instead of a flashback scene
Both are bad. I'm so fucking tired of flashbacks. What happened to implicitly contextualizing past events?
>fight scene that ends after one or two moves are used
Nothing wrong with this. It's not a videogame. Sometimes the villain gets shot in the head and fucking dies, that's fine.
>forced romantic subplots that go absolutely no where (god I fucking hate these in particular man)
>women being useless to the plot
>skinny ngas with glasses being comedically OP
>will they won’t they drama for several hundred fucking chapters
>chosen one schtick (man I miss when the power of friendship and teamwork was more commonly used by lazy writers)
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>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.

>>29417
>evangaylion
>code gay ass
manime chart ruined, smh

>>29418
Post yours or shut up bitch

I just now realized I haven't watched/read much animes/manga but these are some of the ones I have read/watched more than once

>>29436
>gurren lagaan
nice
I'm not familiar with the anime in the top left corner and the one in the bottom center. what are they?

>>29437
top left
ID:Invaded (it has a direct sequel in manga ID: Invaded #Brake Broken)
Psychology (Freudian psychology), mystery/detective, and crime/thriller.
Bottom center
Aku no Hana (I only read the manga)
Coming of age, romance, modern tragedy

>>6766
>if a story depicts something that means it condones it
are you sure?

Shingeki geki, gek-geki-gek-geki, no Kyojin

We've got titans pouring over the border. They eat people, they're mindless monsters, but some, I assume are good people. Nobody knows where they came from. We gotta plug up wall Maria until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

We're building 3 big beautiful walls name after king Fritz's 3 beautiful daughters, who have very nice figures by the way, and Marley is going to pay for each one of them.

We're the greatest country in the history of the planet, and we're getting a terrible deal. All the other countries have been very very nasty, very very unfair, rude and disrespectful towards us, and we've been giving them everything, and getting nothing back, but that's going to change really soon, believe me.

Sleepy Zeke wants to negotiate with me. He thinks he has the cards but he has none of the cards. He has royal blood and very very useful spinal fluid, but I think we'll be using that instead of him. He thinks he's going to sterilize Eldia, well guess what? Eldia's not getting sterilized. the founder Ymir agrees with me and has given me the power of the founding Titan. Now I am a giant hideous skeleton marching across the Earth. Eldia's going to be having billions and billions of beautiful babies far into the future, and the rest of the planet? They're getting rumbling. We're doing rumbling. It's coming, folks. They're calling it rumbling, and it will Make Eldia Great Again.

Ms. Ackerman is very upset with me, but she's still kissing me on the mouth and mourning for me for a whole decade, which i think is a very good deal. Lots of very beautiful women, like Mikasa Ackerman, and Armin Arlert in that one episode where he cross dresses, are giving sweet tender kisses to my decapitated head, and having long thoughtful conversations about the wonderful time we had committing war crimes together in The Paths with founder Ymir.

Captain Levi is very upset, he got a very bad deal. Maybe he should have thought twice before rigging a guy with explosives only a few feet from him.

At the end of the day lots of people in Eldia are very very upset with MEGA and the Jaegerists, and all the winning we've been doing. They're killing Floch, they're stealing the airship, they're saying please sir, Mr. Jaeger, we're tired of winning, but you have to ask yourself: Was winning all bad? The power of the Titans is gone, and what remains of humanity is free to rebuild without the fear of their return. Except for OnyankPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

How's the manga coming along?
Stopped two years ago when they caught some chick a year ago, and forgot to check up.

The series seems cool, it was just too slow on uploads despite feeling like a massive story that needs to be told.
Similar with Vinland Saga, but at least Vinland doesn't have a bad arc after its anime adaption.

Black Lagoon has a ton of Revy fans and fan-art. Where the fuck is the love for Balalaika? Especially here.

Black Lagoon is fire because it has both communist anime characters (Punishable by death in japan) and also big strong muscular women who can kill me

post quotes and help me find this quote from the series, something about "learning from your enemies" supposedly a Mao or Ho Chi Minh quote from the islamist faction in the series

i remember being close to another quote about the sunken cost phallacy

>>29349
code gayass is really cool, madoka magica is also on my personal canon of quintessential anime, and kino no tabi but people will disagree with me over those, i think

>>27322
>Also, what is popular does not easily seperate into generational cohorts
yes it does, you can clearly distinguish demon slayer, jujutsu kaisen, and maybe my hero academia as popular with zoomers. i think pop culture is liquid and fast enough to do these sort of distinctions

>>29349
>I keep hearing Code Geass is really based
Code Geass doesn't really map easily onto any real ideology, it's mostly just aestheticized rebellion but it's still cool. Also very stupid in an endearing way, it's about a metrosexual noble who has to balance his normal school life with wanting to depose his absurdly tyrannical imperialist family.

>>29361
And Pizza Hutt

>>27427
Being cute and precious and adorable?

>>27465
I want Ozen to beat me to death.

>>27466
Bondrewd plss

they did get 99% genocided by the soul society, so it's kinda a soul for a soul, a world for a world type of thing. they really needed more depth tbh

>>29375
World building and character building was never bleach’s strongsuit. I’m at the last arc in the manga and nearly the whole series is just one long war story of battles between spec ops. Seriously, ichigos backstory regarding his talents is not explained until the second last arc and even then that backstory is explained indirectly in a brief dialogue scene.

>>29319
it's very extra

>>29319
What do you mean you like the artstyle, its completely generic.

>>29322
It's pointy

>>29318
reading it now, it's fun, but it really does hammer the whole collectivism = bad and loaded with obvious nationalism. theres an interview by the author that does go into his mindset as to why though

>>29359
I haven't read it yet, but I wonder if the author has ever acknowledged Max Stirner at all, it feels like he came to some basic conclusions of his convergently, but didn't go all the way with it like Max did and have it wrap around to being collectivist again, i.e. union of egoists.

>>29193
Ah I was just about to check in on it. Unfortunate it turned out like that.

Unbookmarked.

>>29153
The whole basis of Higurashi is that the natural laws of development (in game as Rules X, Y and Z) can all be overcome through some great Triumph of the Will. And lest we not forget that the enactors of this Will are all a community of agricultural petty-bourgoeis whose livelihoods are threatened by human development (embodied in the Dam) and are able to reject this through some collective spiritual adherence to Ooyashiro-sama and petty violence.

>>29196
Science and enlightenment values are even demonized with Takano as something foreign and crazy, instead the old spiritualism is given value, the scene with Hanyuu being able to deflect Takano's bullet is the epitome of a reactionary scene.

>>29193
Every new imageboard is like that. I found one a year or two ago, immediately noticed the rightoid shit, and had to think about if it was worth posting on or not. Either the mods encourage that shit, or an IB get's overran with them anyway, since even on back on 8chan /pol/ that would have campaigns on taking over new sites.
Don't know why every site has to be 4chan these days, don't they get tired of it

Can your waifu be a Vtuber or is that haram