/anime/ - Anime

>>29506
I mean yes that was the message, but you don't have to agree with a story's message, especially if the story is stupid (and Death Note is quite stupid)

>>29465
My friend and I once argued about the death note. I told him I'd do what light'd have done if I got the death note. He told me my type of thinking was "evil". I see his point, but some people, especially politicians have caused more harm to ordinary people than most could imagine. People like them shouldn't be on the top.

>>29597
Light was quite petty with the Death Note and did more than just kill obviously evil powerful people.

>>29597
>I told him I'd do what light'd have done if I got the death note.
i mean it depends what do you mean by that, but killing people who you know have been arrested is probably the stupidest way you could use the death note, anyone else would have put it to better use

>>29489
Depending on how fast you can write, you could probably get rid of most of the worst offenders in under an hour.

>>29145
>(well my dad sat in the room with us but refused to even look at the telly and instead scrolled football forums instead on his laptop)
Based

Did she see the Shinji cum to that sleeping girl? Did she approve? Did she ask you to do the same to her?

>>29219
There is no anime in the forests.

Also a pedo ….

I see this with shonen in general. They keep introducing villains to keep the series going but since the author cant juggle with that much characters they just kill them off left and right

>>29572
Yet another issue togashi and oda got past

>>29574
Girls in suits are toppest of tiers

JJK is for braindead gen z
Avoid at all costs

>>23851
I wanted to make a note about the recent Ark Survival animated series. The animation aesthetic is very similar, as is the monster-island jungle environment. But I found the Ark Survival series to be a lot flatter and less interesting. I really don't get the hate that Annie gets by Godzilla / Kong fans, and I'm kinda disappointed that it's unlikely Season 2 will get made and released, let alone an S3.
https://archive.is/JllDk
As a side note I'm kinda surprised there is 0 Rule-34 for this show

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patlabor 2 directed by oshii is a good movie. although, in typical japanese media fashion, it frustratingly avoids like the plague taking any sort of ideological stance, it does make an accurate assessment of the nature of the prosperity of the USA sphere of influence nations

Frog looking mf

>>27365
Spy family rom comming secret police wasn't on my bingo card

weird how liberals have no problem noticing and critiquing militarism when it comes with armies shooting each other, but spying and sabotage are somehow non-ideological even though there were millions of people killed by capitalism during the Cold War

watching the latest season and another Karl Marx drop

>>27390
How is My Number Card right wing? It is just like an identification card meant to make it easier rather than using a large number of other cards and while encouraged to it is not the only option people in Japan have. I watched something about it on NHK World before.

>>29561
It's about an amendment to my number cards, which put all your medical records on it. No one trusts the LDP to keep your medical details safe. It's also right-wing cause it was a very partisan bill and only supported by right-wing parties, no lefty touched this shit bill.

https://x.com/gaku_ito/status/1660908596429983744

I find it interesting that there are Ganguro guys

MIsato Gyaru by an AI (sorry couldn't find a watermarkless version)

I have this Konata gyaru gif

>>29081
Cute

oooooo im gonna nuttt

>>29545
If it helps, nen wasn’t meant to be central to combat in the first place. Hunter x hunter isn’t written to be a world where things that would make magic less convenient including guns, ambushing tactics, stealth, poisoning, disguises, obviously underhanded tricks, otherworld bladed and long ranged weapons, massive military vehicles, and more just don’t exist for narrative convenience—like a certain genre of anime that revolve around people getting transported to various fantasy worlds. Rather nen was meant to be an addition to the world to make it more rich in lore and the story in general less predictable so every fight wouldn’t devolve into a firepower/numbers contest.

>>29547
It's also really weird how nen is both something seemingly anyone can do and potentially insanely powerful, like imbuing something with the properties of both rubber AND gum, but it isn't common knowledge. Especially since it's not even kept a secret at all. You've got shit like the battle tower or greed island where to even begin to compete you've got to have a command of nen, but when Gon and friends are starting out it's treated like this obscure, mysterious thing. And like, that's crazy. Everyone should know about nen. Kids should be taught about nen in schools. There should be national programs to identify and train talented nen users because it's basically a doorway to incredible magic powers any one of which has the power to totally destabilize society, like that guy that can turn people into remote bombs just by touching them. Nen knowledge and nen users have to be integrated into all parts of society from the leadership on down because otherwise you've got superhumans running around with reality bending powers like the ability to harness the powers of both rubber AND gum and no real way to stop them. I guess it's just a lucky break that everyone with nen is also stricken with an intense, overpowering autism and they're too caught up in their hyperfixations to take over the world.

>>29548
Not necessarily. Gon and killua were and still are very young and nen is common knowledge in the world of 40k. Remember, the reader was introduced to nen from the perspective of gon and killua but we saw the use of it as early as the hunter exams very explicitly. That’s why nen felt mysterious.

But why isn’t it more common? Well it is among most hunters (pretty much all in fact) and many elite militias/mercenary units in this universe too so much that even nameless/one off fodder characters have shown to have access to it like in the chimera ant and greed island arcs. Besides that, nen requires a lot of training that most people in this world won’t commit too, similar to how effective real martial arts are and continue to be for real combat scenarios despite most people not being committed or mentally apt to train and register learning to fight as something important to their lives.

>>29549
I said 40k when I meant to say hunter x hunter sorry

>>29548
>You've got shit like the battle tower or greed island where to even begin to compete you've got to have a command of nen
Only at the higher levels. Killua and Gon pushed through the lower stages with ease and they were without Nen.
>Everyone should know about nen.
Who has the time to learn Nen? Hunters can gatekeep it because they basically can do whatever they want with their time without worrying about money too much and even then it takes years for most people to even open their aura nodes unless you open it forcefully. I think its safe to say that Togashi changed the trajectory of Nen from being that power that very few even know exists to something that is likely to exist but very few have the time and ressources to confirm it, so its treated as sort of a myth. Not the first time that proles grt to miss out on knowledge, physical enhancement etc. In that sense Nen is more of a metaphor while simultanously being a power system.
>There should be national programs to identify and train talented nen users because it's basically a doorway to incredible magic powers any one of which has the power to totally destabilize society, like that guy that can turn people into remote bombs just by touching them.
Can't do man. The dirty peasants of the hunter world are not allowed to have these means at their disposal. Do you think the catholic church whould have financed a continent wide program to teach every peasant in europe how read latin?
>Nen knowledge and nen users have to be integrated into all parts of society from the leadership on down because otherwise you've got superhumans running around with reality bending powers like the ability to harness the powers of both rubber AND gum and no real way to stop them.
Hunter has its own communist revolutionary figure (not really but she is a sleeper commie imo) in Morena who via her own nen power, makes others awaken their nen by helping her in her ambtion to destroy kakin and playing her "game". The bourgeoisie and aristocracy gatekeep it so they face less overwhelming resistance. Hunters are literally described to male 60% of the top 100 richest people.
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>>29484
Being a pervert and being a feminist actually goes hand in hand. You cant fight against patriarchy while enforcing bourgeois sexual morality.

>>29496
that's hardly surprising since there's a thousand ideologies that call themselves "feminism" and most probably don't recognize the bourgeoisie as an enemy.

>>29498
Feminism is the prodigal daughter of patriarchy

Never forget that

What do you guys think of the references to Hitler and the Nazis in the beginning of the anime are about? Cause at first you assume its referencing Honnouji acadmedy and Satsuki but with the twist she is actually the good guy. Its supposed to critique her or her mother.

>>29484
Eh Sushio's probably an odd one out in actually supporting a hardcore racist politician; it's more that I've never seen any evidence of Nakashima being socialist. He seemed like a VERY garden variety lib when I went through his political tweets/retweets promoting stuff someone more radical never would - like a positive review of JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy from a fairly prominent Japanese liberal, basically liking him for being a NeverTrumper but the review was far more forgiving of Obama and Bush at the end. Note the "bootstraps" shit during that same line https://youshofanclub.com/2016/10/31/hillbilly-elegy/ (also this writer took selfies with Hillary lol). If he's changed since then and became more leftist, it wouldn't be very relevant to the discussion since I read this stuff post-KLK. He was normie lib enough to go "hmm very good article" at this in 2016.

If you properly analyze Gurren Lagann this is not very surprising because if you apply its core theme & message ("past and present coming together to create a path towards the future", which often led to "conservative old timers and rebellious youth should work together") to partisan politics you could very easily call it an extremely centrist show. However I think part of why GL is good is because that theme can apply to so many things, not even just politics. Like art or the history of anime & manga.
>>29513
That's cuz

1. Nakashima was making up shit as he went along. He literally said his intent was to "develop the themes as the series went along" as opposed to start with a core theme & focus around it like Gurren Lagann. AND

2. KLK is very very clearly inspired by Kakugo no Susume which was more explicitly about fighting fascism, not in a wider "CEOs are fascist" sense but literally "the final boss is the protag's WW2 war criminal grandpa who ran this thing we won't call, Unit 731 but it totally is Unit 731". It's also inspired by Otokogumi which was written by a hardcore "kill the emperor" guy. But since he didn't pick a theme to focus on and he likely ended up wanting to make a wider statement about individuality (likely because, as I said, I wouldn't say he's rePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>29422
We need an ass thread tbh

>>29427
blue hair good