/anime/ - Anime

>>29015
I dont think many people expected the absolute manga takeover thought. I am not even from USA, but even here in eastern europe In reacent years in bookstores manga went from a single half-shelf somewhere in comic/graphic novel section to completely devouring it and expanding even further.

>>29015
They've probably been in decline since the 50s. That's when American comics begun to narrow down and focused entirely on the pre-teen demographic. Anime and manga have always had more variety and the art was generally better. Sure, most anime visuals sucked compared to what Disney were doing, but they consistently told better stories.

>>29016
I miss the days when you could only get stuff from fan translations, bootleg VHS, and a small number of niche distributors. It felt more community orientated than an anonymous mass of people buying corporate published translations from stores stocked with the stuff. Its probably had a negative effect on anime/manga in general because so much of it is now made to cater to Western audiences you get an Americanization of anime. It begins to loose its distinctiveness and gets sloppier and sloppier, approximating the same soulless low quality as American pop culture.

>>29017
>That's when American comics begun to narrow down and focused entirely on the pre-teen demographic
Not really accurate, explicitly adult-oriented comics stared in the 60s underground and sold millions of issues. I'd argue the real decline for comics in both quality and popularity was in the late 80s when the industry reorganized itself around the collector's market which led to a crash in less than a decade. This left only the geeks who have no vision for the form other than their personal fanfics of Big 2 superheroes and now it's an insular medium with bad art and no ambition.

>>29010
What's the causation? Did anime help make America more fascist, or did America embrace anime because it became more fascist? I know someone who believes bronies were the tipping point. Once you had hordes of troubled young men admitting something so embarassing en masse, it moved the Overton window. He also believed a lot of bronies were ancap/libertarian types who became fascist with the right nudge.

>>29019
It is an example of how low it has fallen

Anyone acquired anything recently?
Or anything interesting you may have seen or remembered?

>>28855
https://www.goodsmile.com/en/product/46675/Nendoroid+Takanashi+Kiara
I'm too lazy to take a picture of her right now

>>28862
This is nice, I like the little chicken that's included

Latest haul
I got the table and the little dude from some blind boxes and the bon scott fig is a gift from my friend. Bought everything from some hipster thrift store

new zundamon up for preoder

I have no idea what you're talking about, but sounds about right

She has massive tits.

>>28977
theyre normal in the actual manga

>>28978
Can you post them? I wnat to see.

Maybe it's just me, but it feels like Jojo has, well not quite lost, but reduced in popularity on the internet. It feels like 2 or 3 years back you'd constantly get shit like "wuz dat a jojo reference" or any other meme and reaction images with the characters, and now it's just not as common. They still crop up from time to time, but not like before.

>>24262
Isn't that a good thing?

>>24263
I mean for me personally yes as I only liked the old OVA from a long time ago, and found the meme obsession boring.

I’m at the end of part 5 right now. It’s been a very fun turn my brain off show. I love the aesthetic. I love the soundtrack. Knowing where all the memes are from has been fun. Part 2 was probably my favorite. Johnathan was the most interesting and unique character after the absolute stiffness of part 1. Nothing has surpassed his ability to predict exactly what someone is going to say. As a gag, it never got old. It is the pinnacle of “WHILE YOU WERENT LOOKING I TIED YOUR SHOE LACES TOGETHER, ITS OVER!” that runs through the whole show. I get how they probably couldn’t make hammon interesting for more than 2 seasons, so stands make sense. So far my least favorite has been part 3. It was an absolute slog. I like the vibes but nothing happens. Shonen villain of the week shit doesn’t hit the same as when I’d get home after school to watch dbz and yuyuhakusho. Part 4’s style and color palette was so striking and the characters actually had a little depth, it made up for the slice of life slog of the first half. Part 5 has been pretty fun and engaging. Probably the most average of them all.

just finished part 8
i dont get it

A few more panels ?

>>28945
Would post but most of them would be pose shots of one guy punching and the other guy either showing off proper defensive techniques (high guard, step back, slips etc) or getting decked (this is rare, most attacks including clever ones are usually defended against in the manga)

>>28946
Wait I got this

>>21746
>>21746
>Thinking that discovering how everything interacts with everything else is incompatible with Materialism when they really just haven't read Marx and Engels, so they resort to the stupidest celebrations of incoherence.
Wait until they find about Deleuze.

Honestly Lain and .Hack bored me after a while, not because it's terrible, but because it's pacing is so disjointed it throws me off and I can never make it past the first few episodes.

>>21026
>I am ballin i am faded
name for anyone if the Embed dies.

>>21752
>.Hack
The disjointedness and so on is reminiscent of a lot of anime adaptations of Light Novels, where they skip or cut material leading to broken up story telling. The only thing is that .Hack wasn't based on a light novel so I guess it was just how they made it.

>>23197
>big sister
That implies they aren't all equal in their roles.

I suggest they be an adventurer guild of pretty girls in an isekai that are constantly bitching amongst each other and failing every mission because of that. Then Max Stirner comes along, makes a harem (including the tsundere Marx), defeats all the spooks and wins, the end.

>years of lead
Would you watch Accidental Death of an Anarchist anime adaptation?

>>24681
Yes, of course!

we need an anime about this

>>28766
Communist Wuxia adventure of the bolsheviks fighting and defeating the heavens.

>>28693
>Wasn't there also one isekai that just straight-up reused a background from an entirely different one?

I wouldn't be surprised. I read a lot of isekai slop and more than a few seem to have digital elements from whatever program they're using. There's probably a background plugin that fills in whatever you need for a scene. I see it a lot with obviously digital european style palaces and junk like that.

You see we really need more buff guys in anime. Kirito, Naruto, and ichigo are losers while buff guys like guts, Goku, and luffy (just by principle) are legends in my heart

>>28699
I half-agree but I instead think every anime guy should be either a macho hunk or ethereally androgynous. Weebs don't settle for less with female characters so we shouldn't with males either. Down with all these plain-looking guys.

>>28783
>my daughter has anemia and an eating disorder because of unrealistic bodies in media?
>that's problematic, my son should also have eating disorders and issues with his body image
man gym culture is going to get a lot crazier than it already is because of this shit, just like how "beauty practices" for women have been getting increasingly insane since the 80s. expect an epidemic of young men with renal issues because of whey protein and similar supplements. the solution to foot binding is abolishing foot binding, not popularizing male foot binding

>>28784
Sorry, but your analysis is misguided. I've been repeatedly told by anime fans, including luminaries like Mamoru Oshii, that anime is just entertainment and should reflect an ideal reality. Kirito is not anyone's ideal man, so anime needs to start giving us hotter and cooler guys or it's a failure.

A random selection of paired girls including 420Chan

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>>22114
Also of possible interest to y'all is the futa thread >>>/siberia/528164

>>28754


I am going to have sex with this female Flame Atronach from Oblivion. I find the female Atronaches in The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion sexy. However, their body is made up of 87% fire, and 100% fire surrounds them. That could kill me if I tried to have sex with one. To remedy this, the Flame Atronach casts a spell on me making me resistant to fire. Keep in mind, resistant is not the same as immune. I still take damage. It is either 1 point or 0 points of damage each second I am having sex with her. Just because a particular second caused 0 points of damage, does not mean that I did not feel anything, It just means that I took no damage. I am not going to rush through having sex with this Flame Atronach, I make sure I pleasure anything I have sex with, especially non-humans! I'd rather take damage than not pleasure the Flame Atronach.

The Flame Atronach and I go to the Planes of Oblivion to have sex. When having sex with non-humans, it is ALWAYS sexier to have sex in their natural habitat rather than a human's natural habitat.

Before we went into the Planes of Oblivion, the Flame Atronach let all the Daedra know that we are just here for sex. The Daedra will not attack us because they know I am here at the Planes of Oblivion on sexual business. This includes the Dremora. However, the Dremora Marknyaz thinks that I am going to be an easy recruit for becoming a follower of Mehrunes Dagon considering that I am having sex with a Flame Atronach. However, I have no interest in becoming a Daedra.

>>28755
Crassius Curio if he was in Oblivion