/anime/ - Anime

The new Gundam is out and it's very okay/10.

>Pros
Animation is generally good
Fights generally good
Some people have likened it to a Gundam themed horror/slasher which it does kinda pull off
Universal Century Best Century
Surprise appearance by that guy from 08th team
Classic Gundam anti war themes

<Cons
Too short to really develop those themes or characters.
Animation on humans looks kinda wonky sometimes
There's little interaction between the zeon pilot and the Gundam pilot which makes the ending kind of weird and forced.
Overall doesn't really add anything to the Gundam universe and doesn't really feel like it's a story that needed telling
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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.

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.

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?

You did it. You beat me.
You really are the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.

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?

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?

are any of you powerscalers by any chance?

which protagonist from which anime can beat goku?

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?

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?