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Why is the school setting liked so much in anime? It cannot just be that the target audience is mostly children, because there are a lot of anime of this sort oriented to older otaku also. Do anime ever make more than passing attempts at portraying so called "adulthood" as a future to be excited about?
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>>20668
Its not like you have a choice. Adults make you take it seriously. Yet, when you graduate, they just shrug you off. All that acdemic bulkshit you go through and they say "meh you dont know shit" even though they crininalize kids for skipping school.

I really think adults underestimate the treachery of school largely because theyve been away from it for so long.
Thats the beauty of childhood nostalgia and marketing.

>>14930
It could be a cultural difference
From what i can tell japanese schools are usually better than ones overseas
In america unless you went to a good school you're lucky to get one that has clubs and shit to hang out in

>>7837
What i find funny about the school setting is that a lot of these anime don't even take place in the school itself
It's just there to remind you that these characters are in fact teenagers that go to school, but then they just stop having them attend school at some point

>>15622
>explanations for this quasi-Orientalism
It's probably largely due to this sentiment.

The factors that seem to contribute would be:
1. The alternative modernity that Japan represents to the people from more Western parts of the West, as opposed to the still quite culturally hegemonic— in the imperial core that the Western nations comprise— American ilk of modernity, has offered some sort of avenue of escapism that is exotic, convenient, and amassed as @Orikron aforementioned has said basically, yet not actually Other to the empire, as
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2. To paraphrase someone, stagnation fuels novelty, and the popular culture industry and the subcultural niches in Japan, as other researchers have noted, have enormously flourished, while the Japanese society itself has suffered the malaises of the bust— this phenomenon is probably noticeable incidentally in the content of some anime; furthermore, Japan was also one of the first countries to venture into that postmodernity, into the sort of societal impasse that now afflicts numerous nations elsewhere in the West, too, with the failure of the old narratives and similar (go check out Utena also), and plus further Japan was one of the first countries in Asia to modernize, so the Orientalistic stereotypes about the aesthetic of Asian modernity and the alterity of it took heavy influence likely from their course, the early impressions and later fetishization of Shibuya to raise one example.

3. The sovereignty of Japan is also as vassal state quite subjugated to the American empire, and many people in the imperial core likely consider the place to be their wacky, "thing, Japan" being sort of the demonstration of this mentality, tourist spot, and the Japanese govt. encourages this sort of almost self exoticization, because of geopolitical cuckoldry or glowie shit.

>>7837
Japs spend like half of their life there and stay there from 6am to 9pm, no wonder they’re obsessed



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>mfw I keep convincing friends that anime and coomer art are inherently capitalistic
>tell them how coomerism fuels patreon bucks which impose an unrealistic and unobtainable image for women and males because of the rate of porn consumed created by comissions
>tfw only leftypol will be the only anime friendly lefty place, eventually
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>>14077
frogot to link to
>>8868

>>8868
And that's a good thing.

>>8868
thanks for the twitter recs

>>8868
>POV: No father figure.




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The most communist anime there ever was
And it’s not close

>>23522
There's a thread for this, that being said, I agree. I wish we saw Kaiji organize against capital in a non-death game context as much as that wouldn't really fit the tone of the series

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>>23522
Post left wing anime

>>23522
name?

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>>23590
Gambling apocalypse Kaiji
(wow back when I used vlc)



 

I wish there was more of it honestly. All we get is cheesy J-pop and other extremely light music other than an occasional EDM track or two, so boring. It doesn't make me truly excited, a good metal track makes me more interested in the anime itself.

Post some good metal anime tracks btw.

Forgot to mention that there seems to be more metal tracks now than we had before, and now we have a metal anime too. I wonder if this is a trend.



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>Reincarnated as Louis XVI, I want to stop the French Revolution with all my might and live happily ever after with Antoinette
this is a manga that exists
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>>23380
I always knew Japanese web design was terrible, but the fact that it goes so far as to affect their art and marketing is hilarious

>>23399
I unironically love this, it's so amateur that it has this "stylistic suck" feel to it. You don't see that in overly polished American TV shows.

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>>23397
>>23398
I'm reminded of Louis the Whatever's fanfic writer. "The" something. He wrote an isekai adaptation. Nicole and I saw it when we pirated Crunchyroll. It even outshone The Rose of Versailles. In the end, Louis clapped him in irons.

>>23360
>>23382
just don't Invade the Soviets and allow them into the Axis.

>>23382
Based response to my post, gave me a chuckle or two.



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CHARGING GOOOOOOOOO



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I want to live the peaceful and serene life of the girls on the Comic LO covers.
How do you even crank your hog after seeing this, I just feel an odd sense of nostalgic longing for a childhood that I never actually experienced.
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>>22579
Lolicon is a spectrum that ranges from wants to be the little girl to wants the little girl, sometimes both.

you can be respected as an SA survivor as long as you're nice and aren't too emotional and don't talk about it too much and get over it and aren't horny ever again and don't engage with kink and don't be too weird and don't be too traumatized and don't create art about it

>>22579
>I don't know, don't they?
I meant "sexually explicit subject matter." Because those could've easily been covers of a very well-made shoujo mag.

>>22578
Do your 20s right now.

If you don't, you will regret it in your 30s.

>>23249
what does that even involve



 

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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>>13411
A lot of that is a holdover from the 90s/00s/early 10s. Back then most western animation was either family stuff or edgy sitcoms. As trashy as anime as a whole has always been, at the time, it was one of the few places where you actually occasionally saw animated movies and showed geared at adults that took themselves seriously. You didn't see a whole lot of western stuff doing the equivalent of something like Perfect Blue or Angel's Egg

That said, the situations has been changing as more mainstream western animation is exploring dramatic stories intended for older audiences. Probably the most famous example I can think of is stuff like "Love, Death and Robots"

>>23264
>when a character is a different ethnicity, boy howdy does it let you know
It's still not necessarily exaggerated or even a difference in facial features. In the case of black people they just dye their skin nowadays and that's it (plus they may have darker/gray/albino hair color because black albinos look cool, no idea why black dudes don't dye their hair white). In the case of Americans their skin and facial features are exactly the same as non-moe/non-genki characters plus a weird obsession with the AMERICAN flag and AMERICA in general, like some American nationalist Republicans. They also tend to often be blonde for some reason, like they're Swedish or something.

>>13411
What are you talking about? The Japs and the French are fucken CHADS. And a lot of American animation is also fantastic.

Granted, I don't look at Japan with rose-colored glasses or like Japanese corporate capitalism so…

>>23269 (me)
Also, don't the chinlets uncritically worship the 50s too? They have such tendency towards fanaticism already, they are unable to engage any country or period critically if they love certain aspects of it.

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The bigger question, is why so many are little girls or have very childish appearances. And why is it that the magazines targeted towards the mature audience are so crammed with the like. There's some sus.jpg that's occurred over there. Very sus shit indeed‗



 

I start:
>Bonnouji
Adult romance with good pace. Doesn't end when they start dating.
>Do Chokkyuu Kareshi x Kanojo
Funny
>Pseudo Harem
If you like slow ones.
>Joshikousei to Seishokusha
Fraternal love between male teacher and female students. Trust me.
>Oyasumi Punpun
Edgy but grounded.
>Shinigami Bocchan to Kuro Maid
Guilty pleasure. Not too good but whatever.
>Shishunki renaissance! David-kun
Original.
Post too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>16817
>bait
yes :^)

I am going to ask it here since I dont want to make a new thread, and they look romance I guess, but can someone help me identify the bottom middle and right manga?

>>23228
Kuchi ga Saketemo Kimi ni wa
Takopī no Genzai

I don't know anything about them, I just iqdb'd them

>>23228
It's written on the image dude
>口が裂けても君には
>タコピーの原罪

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>>23229
>>23230
Thanks guys.



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Always a peculiar feeling when I'm checking a mangaka's twitter and it's filled with retweets of Amerikan political bullshit. Most recent one even had Joe Rogan's clips about the covid vaccine.
It doesn't happen often but ideally it wouldn't happen at all.
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>>23175
<you read books expecting it to be mentally stimulating
Yes. Otherwise I get bored.
>real book
<stirner.jxl
It's paginated (optional) rectangles (optional) inscribed in some way with a contrasting color (preferable, but optional) conveying information.

>>23179
then don't read manga you absolute retard. you are asking why you can't find the sport results for last week in the new england journal of medicine

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>>23182
>Manga that isn't mentally stimulating bores me
>I read manga, and am not bored by the manga I read
Do you lack object permanence?

>>23185
>manga
>mentally stimulating
>Do you lack object permanence?
lmao what a dork



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