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How much of this actually exists? Annie-may that's so embarrassingly incompetent that you can actually sit through and laugh at ironically, like a hilariously bad movie? It's normally a lot harder to do because every bit of animation has thought and effort put into it, so it just comes off as intolerably bad when it's bad. Unlike an incompetent movie, which is much easier for someone with a handheld camera to half-ass their way through to a finished product. Pic related, Psychic Wars is fucking terrible.
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>>24980
>>24999
Last I checked otaku like the OVA fine? I don't think it has anywhere near the same reputation as it does with retro anime weebs.

https://sakuhindb.com/janime/7_Kakugo_20No_20Susume/
https://www.amazon.co.jp/s?k=%E8%A6%9A%E6%82%9F%E3%81%AE%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%A1+ova&crid=1JOFOB122IC4P&sprefix=%2Caps%2C764&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
https://www.anikore.jp/anime_review/3407/

>I think people might have hated on it because it's not "accurate" to the source material

I don't think it has anything to do with its accuracy - I've only seen that claimed as a post-hoc justification from people who earnestly like the manga but don't want to rock the boat too hard and defend the OVA too. The manga got shit on by ANN & whatnot back in the day too & even these days many refuse to see it as anything but "so-bad-it's-good". ADMITTEDLY the OVA doesn't delve much into the more serious themes, like the "Unit 731 in all but name" stuff (maybe it's because the studio didn't want something too "controversial" in there, or maybe it's just a pacing issue since they wanted to pack in all the fun battles; who knows?) but it's still really good as an action-comedy. If a bunch of old timers didn't get into the mindset of "we need to promote anime as a serious mature artistic medium and disown stuff with unashamed gore/sex/pubertal comedy" at some point in the 90s both OVA & manga would've probably been well-received now.

>they complain about shit like the low budget

Kakugo OVA has pretty damn good production values for a relatively niche post-80s-bubble OVA and I feel like being told it's "cheap" before you watch it can paint your opinion of just how solid and dynamic a lot of this stuff is. hPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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>>25096
On the other hand if the OVAs DID include the more serious stuff and got to adapt the entire story I kinda get the feeling anglophone critics would've been even more upset: "Why are you trying to make a serious point about Japanese war crimes with something so stupid? It's disrespectful to the victims & tonally inconsistent!"

>>25078
>Id rather the cucker be a hot power-bottom femboy
Ankoman fan?
I'd rather just have the power-bottom femboy and exclude whoever the cuck is supposed to be. Maybe the worst part of NTR is having to give any attention to the cookie-cutter Japanese loser protag at all

>>25099
whats Ankoman?

But yes I agree with your last sentenxe. I hate how they use ugly bastrards as the protagonist

>>2555
You just have shit tastes.



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A friend of mine(a feminist) recommend to me, In some ways I do think it's interesting insight,where it's a fascist vigilante story with a largely female audience
The series is called "Brutal: Confessions of a Homicide Investigator." It's about a police officer named Hiroki Dan who is a serial killer vigilante, the thing is unlike the vast majority of vigilante stories, the protagonist isn't a gruff middle-aged man who goes after mafia's(and maybe sometimes corrupt politicians) the hero instead is an attractive "perfect" male, whose wealthy(but still humble) and the people he murders are evil's that are a little more realistic, like a campus rape gang, a group of teenagers that harass people. a teacher who grooms a student, an abusive father but also stuff life a Journalist who harasses a family for stories and a youtuber who capitalises on tragedies, Interestingly, the implication is that the system is always too soft and inefficient and needs to be brutal.
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>>25103
Yall say morals are spooks yet you get pissy about loli and shota or furry.

Those things are fiction.

>>25131
nooo those need to be banned because of uhhhh… proletarian consciousness

>>25132
yea sure.
Proletarian consciousness is just whining about being lonely and horny or asking if ones favorite consumer product will exist under communism.

>>25044
Some days ago, my friend was talking about a series called "Girl from nowhere" it's the same shit as this but the protag has a pussy instead or whatever. Just told him it's fascist shit and bourgeoisie propaganda and his reaction: "damn, what the fuck"
yea dear, u can't enjoy stuff if ur a communist :^)

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Is Prophecy any better?



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I'm just thinking, when I was trying to watch a film I like with a non-anime fan I'd often put on Ghost in the Shell since I thought it's really highly rated and would be easy for a non-anime fan to watch. But this isn't the case, everyone I've watched it with hates it, which I find wierd since I think it's overall a really good film which is well known in normal film circles and is well regarded, and there isn't much of a reason to dislike it. I mean the artwork is 10/10, the setting is cool, the pacing is great, the action is exciting, its got good philosophical content and the ending is interesting. But non-anime fans who I watch it with hate it and I mean hate it with a passion and find it immensly boring even if they like live-action films with similar a similar tone or content.

So is it that the film has a lot of small anime quirks that throw non-weebs off? I mean I can't notice any but it might be the case. Maybe people don't like the dialogue but again this isn't something I understand. What do you think? Do you have similar experiences? I think its really interesting and I want to know more. I mean I'll put it out there that I love films in general but HATE stuff like Breaking Bad. Maybe I'm looking for different stuff or maybe its because I grew up with anime and I don't get thrown off with it.

Also, do you watch anime with random friends? I'm thinking of watching Patlabor 2 with my parents at Christmas since I think its right up their alley, but they didn't really like GitS so idk.
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>>22445
Don't forget UY: Beautiful Dreamer. Perfectly surrealistic while still being comical at times.

>>24641
>the spiderverse disney got is pretty huge
In which demographics? No, families don't count.

>>24666
>blockbusters today have far more advanced technical visuals than indie films in the 70s, but that doesn't make them "look nicer". they look sterile
They look sterile because the CGI doesn't blend in very well. Practical effects blend in better while CGI that blends in better is more expensive to make and is just as difficult to implement I imagine.

>>24667
Yeah. Oshii’s always been really good at making movies that take a very “arthouse” approach but are still more accessible than most movies that get slapped with that label. Even Angel’s Egg I would argue is more accessible than most similarly abstract movies due to its brevity and being relatively straightforward in how it presents its themes

>>24666
People always hate on current films for looking "sterile" but will praise older films for being high quality graphics



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When you experience "more than the average person" you get a bit pretentious, and as you experience more you start losing that and enjoying way more things. Like look at peoples top anime. Lots of people at 50 series watched will talk to you about the beauty of Tatami Galaxy and what it says about our lives, and it's all true. But then you watch more and you can appreciate the simple cartoonish comedy of Milky Holmes.

>Teenager, afraid to look uncool

<I like Monogatari a lot haha, except for the, you know…
>Adult, stopped caring years ago
<Strike Witches is the greatest series in existence.
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>>22764
he might be referring to the mayoi snail episodes i think

>>22664
Irony is, most of our pop culture gatekeeping is mostly adults mocking teens for liking any current thing

>>22754
New wave artists started that

"Pretentious" "elitists" who only like "high-brow" stuff are always the perpetual boogeyman for people who cannot defend their own tastes. The actual anime industry continues to be dominated by shonen and LN/romcom pandering trash and artsy stuff has never remotely threatened that status quo or any status quo before it. You already live in the garbage heap you sought to create, stop being an annoying bitch and at least owe up to it.

>>22800
mayoi is an adult (and also best girl)



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Thread for Questions and Answers that don't really belong in other threads as well as source requests.
Post
- Questions
- Answers
- Anime/Manga sauce

https://saucenao.com/
Anime related series and character search site:
http://animeperson.com/
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>>24963
I don't know the exact details but it doesn't sound true? At least for traditional animation (so anything pre-00s roughly) where you draw on paper and capture it on film, you don't have "resolution" in the conventional sense, so it doesn't make sense to say that it caps out at 720p.

>>24249
>Confucianism
*cumfucianism
>Legalism
*ligmalism

>>24981
I mean if it airs as 720p on Japanese live TV are they really going to render it at 1080p or just upscale it for the losers streaming?

>>24963
Even if that was true, they'd upscale it with a better algorithm then whatever your video player is doing.

>>24990
I was thinking more of BD releases, streaming is a crapshoot yeah. It really depends on where the download is sourcing from, I'd guess it probably is upscales of a broadcast version in most cases. I just don't think it's *always* gonna be the case.



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Just finished this show and it has become one of my favorites. On the surface this anime appears to be trash anime packed full of fan service, but on watching it the so called "trash anime" is brimming with substance. excellent character design, badass soundtrack, and one of the satisfying endings I have seen in a long time. This show can make a scene of a butt naked woman running around killing enemy's with nothing but her toe nail feel empowering and not at all exploitative and fan servicey. What are your guys opinion on the show?
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I'm gonna be honest, I remember when this show was praised by leftypol years back and all sorts of analyses were made about how it's leftist and whatever. I never got that vibe, it just felt like the story was just a generic imitation of Yuri-Action anime from decades before as an excuse to show off skin. The animation style wasn't my thing either. People love to mock the fight of Pain vs the Nine Tails, yet a lot of the fights in Kill la Kill are literally the same kind of animation, except with some seizure inducing colors flashing.

>>24310
I think a good chunk of it is that it's nominally anti-fascist – as in the bad guys are literally fascists – but that aspect of it gets a bit muddled once the Elite Four are revealed to not be actual bad guys.
The "deconstruction of fanservice" aspect people talk about is dumb, KLK is quite literally the opposite, it's a show about being shameless about sex. That said this aspect of it is also muddled by the fact that the show oftentimes can't quite discern between "Ryuko shouldn't be ashamed of her body" and "Ryuko shouldn't care about all these people who keep touching her inappropriately".
I think comparing the fights with the Pain fight is a huge stretch but I do overall agree that they're very much in the generic "people stand around throwing big attacks with exaggerated animation" mold for the most part, they're actually my least favorite part of the show.
Overall KLK is just a beloved phenomenon so people want to feel like it's on their side. All political groups do this but leftists seem especially prone to it.

>>24984
>Elite Four
*Student Council but w/e

>>24984
>it's nominally anti-fascist – as in the bad guys are literally fascists – but that aspect of it gets a bit muddled once the Elite Four are revealed to not be actual bad guys
It can be interpreted as the rebels raising class consciousness in the military.
>leftists seem especially prone to it
/leftypol/ users do be like that.



 

Share your favourite ones preferably with Karaoke style subtitles to sing along with
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what is the best anime opening, and why is it naruto blue bird

Enough with good openings, lets change the subject to bad ones. The kind that immediately telegraphs the show is going to be garbage, thus sparing you wasting time watching it.

Almost every Naruto OP and ED was a banger

Closest thread for this I could find
>8-bit Music Theory
>How Cynthia's Theme Terrorized a Generation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERWkjuX86YM




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Favourite anime related Youtubers? Why especially do you like them? Is there even a point in watching one of them?

Picrel and Pause and Select are definitely on of the better ones out there
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>>24296
There's a lot of those 2010s Comicvine rejects that do crap like Seth.

Any recommended anishitters for 2024? I only follow zhoniin now for some one piece recaps

>>24465
Craftsdwarf is the goat channel.

Honestly I love finding obscure channels that upload old anime movies and clips:
For example TCD Blazer https://www.youtube.com/@coledenny40/videos

Trash Taste is fun, Anime Man seems… fine (his takes are pretty generic though, CDawgVA has much more based takes but I don't think he has an anime channel), Mother's Basement is mega-cringe and Gigguk is mid. Honestly, I just search for anime myself, I don't need a YouTuber to hand it to me.



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Delinquents/yankii/banchou/sukeban are so fucking cool.

I wanted to get into delinquent manga from the 70s-80s starting with Sakigake!! Otokojuku. I torrented the whole manga's raws to practice my Japanese, as well, but I could never get around to reading it.
Likewise, even though it's not 2D (but it is adapted from manga) I torrented all of Sukeban Deka and could never watch more than 1 episode.
Unfortunately, I lost them both when my laptop broke.

Could you please recommend more delinquent stuff? Even if it's just one character in a series that's not about delinquents. If there's something like a rec chart that'd be pretty cool. If, not, we could make one.
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Sukeban to Tenkousei is a small Slice of Life manga about a Transfer Student and Delinquent girl.
https://mangakakalot.com/manga/bi934380

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>>23752
>>23836
Honestly I think there may be more Sukeban works than Delinquent works and most of either are live action such as Sukeban: Taiman Shobu (1974).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1900990/

It seems most of those stories also tended to come out in the 70s and 80s, with them being relegated to background stereotypes in later works as the subcultures died out.

>>10665
>>10657
The anime is better than the source material, because it actually has an ending that doesn't drag out. As a side note, considering how strange a concept it is, I'm extremely surprised at the lack of real R34, it's massive /d/-bait.

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>The Shocking Reality of a Loan Shark Collecting Money
Main character is an adult, but the aesthetic has big delinquent
https://mangadex.org/title/607151d3-ff0f-4233-ab4e-e4d4d83c6a59/the-shocking-reality-of-a-loan-shark-collecting-money

>>7655
Tokyo Revengers is about this sorta. I thought it sucked even though its pretty popular.



 

THREAD FOR MANIME

no moe allowed
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Rereading Goblin Slayer again and I think he's the one mc that all the girls being hot for him is justified for. Sure he's an autistic weirdo obsessed with KILLING ALL THE GOBLINS but at least as far as the standards of the setting are concerned that's really not all that bad.

If you know you know

>>13772
>>16696
the Violence Jack manga gets even more extreme than the OVA but 1. Nagai's simpler style makes it less disturbing 2. it's way more thoughtful than the OVAs. just in Evil Town alone it feels like Itano & whoever scripted it missed a lot of the subtext of the manga or intentionally threw it away. for some brief examples:

-in the manga the big conflict was caused by a coward playing to both sides (and giving them false info) save his ass

-the rape gangs metaphorically morphing into beasts and the really inventive drawings used when Jack slaughtered them were gotten rid of to have a more straightforward hentai rape scene and more straightforward & realistic "xxxtreme gore" after it

-the arc villain cannibalizing his dead trans gf was meant to be fucked up & pathetic: he completely lost his mind under extreme anger & desperation, so he did something completely unhinged, animalistic and nonsensical. in the OVA it looks like he legit gains a demonic transformation & super powers from it which makes no sense. you could say that was metaphorical too but given they didn't adapt the earlier nonliteral beastly transformations it doesn't read that way + even as a metaphor it doesn't make sense since he was more of a pathetic desperate cornered animal than a badass demon.

>>13796
This is also called GAR
https://www.lurkmore.com/view/GAR
For anyone that doesn't know

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obvious Golden Kamuy is obvious



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