/anime/ - Anime

>>30114
>especially in Japan where the dominant party is heavily tied to the Aum Shinrikyo cult.
Do you have some literature on this? I would like to learn more.

>>30113
If it's like video games, the first thing that would've made it global was import by rich fucks who made a specialized shop in the bougiest place in the country, but then the simple fact that it's in japanese (and reading is mandatory, unlike an atari) would've forced "fan translation" who people decry as piracy anyway, even though you can't fucking read the vast majority of mangas without those.

>>30116
I guess to a certain extent you're right. Like, studio proteus was one of the few importing and localizing manga in the late 80s early 90s iirc, and while japanimation wasn't totally unknown with Gigantor, Speed Racer, and Astro Boy before that, but I think the bulk of the heavy lifting really came from online hobbyists making shit available to people, coupled by a big boost from Toonami putting up DBZ, Gundam Wing, and Cowboy Bebop.

>>30115
something tells me they meant the unification church, the aum shinrikyo is the crazy murder everyone cult with sarin gas

>>30026
> I feel like most of the yaoi present just aims to appeal to the mostly female urge which is just pure sexual action between two males, yet we do not usually see anything more in content.
Also, notice how men are drawn as big figures in most yaois, which completely looks unrealistic when compared to how a female is drawn in an anime.

Highly agree. What’s funny is that these same women will complain about sexual objectification of women in media.
We even see yaoi AMVs centering on the abs of semes

>>30052
>these same women will complain about sexual objectification of women in media
absolutely not,pretty much not a single fujo gives a shit about that lmao,the horny woman that admit it don't give a shit when men do it too

USAnians pronounce it YAH WEE. what's wrong with them? are they stupid? yes.

>>30052
>>30053
No one really cares about sexual objectification in media, especially if it's drawings or animation because it's not real life or proles being exploited as actors and no one is forced to consume it under most circumstances.

>>30052
gay men tend to care more about abs than women. women prefer dad bod

>>30065
IIRC this was made up for the anime and not canon because the producers wanted Scarlet to be self-insertable to young girls watching the flashback episodes but I could be mistaken since it's been like 10 years since I've read the manga for this arc. Doesn't excuse 16 year old Rebecca fighting in lingerie though.

>>30068
Fiction doesn't need an excuse.

>>30027
>>30033
>>30064
>>30064
One Piece has both good and bad trans representation.
Most trans characters aren't like this, you have explicitly trans characters before and after this who aren't like that. FWIW the joke about the Kamabakka Queendom Newkama chasing Sanji was relatively brief in the manga but the anime expanded it a lot for filler purposes.

>le Media agrees with me
ok, but is it good?

>>30065
I hate pedoshit and lolicon but this is a hell of a reach for a number of reasons.
1) Early marriages have happened throughout history and she's not even that young relative to age of consent in many countries outside the USA.
2) Actually she was 16 when she married him and had her daughter with him when she was 19

>>29896
>That's why even medieval kingdoms had taxes.
We're talking about early-medieval feudalism, where any monetary systems had collapsed, and the economic and social stability afforded by feudalism actually mattered.
>Of course it was inevitable, but that doesn't mean societies didn't regress from a dialectical-materialism standpoint.
Despite initially lower surpluses (due to aforementioned external factors), feudalism objectively advanced the relations of production. It emerged precisely because it most effectively utilized societal resources at the time of its inception. In fact any lasting societal progress lags behind the development of the agricultural base; advancing without such a firm foundation would be blatant adventurism.
>It didn't so much as leap with farming techniques
Medieval ploughs and crop rotation especially were objectively leaps. The consensus is, despite the primacy of agriculture, some hunter-gatherer activity continued being necesssary until their advent.
>Medieval ones in Northern Europe only had less urban centralization because of much lower social development by comparison.
The centres were far larger in number, therefore they had more capacity in growth when the pace of the productive forces picked up again. They were smallpoxing in civ terms.
>the formatting is clearly something based in the Renaissance era and was the final touch of the 12-13th century construction
I don't get why you're so insistent of dating back the Renaissance far before any time i've seen it outlined before. Far from social fetters, the fidelity of high-medieval art in comparison of that from the early medieval period, can be directly traced back to the emergence of large-scale, high-volume trade and the wealth concentrated in the many urban centres as a result. Frescos were also largely a fad north of the Alps and i don't know of any mosaics outside of Orthodox churches either.

>Byzantium was a natural progression from an existing imperial infrastructure
We know canonically most parts of Remnant are already controlled or heavily greased by crime syndicates. Presumably they would extract profit from protection rackets, hijaking tradPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>29897
>We're talking about early-medieval feudalism, where any monetary systems had collapsed, and the economic and social stability afforded by feudalism actually mattered.
Taxes are not necessarily paid in money, in fact most peasants could never afford to pay it with money in the Medieval age outright. It was paid to the Church and State with agricultural and livestock produce. In essence it was a racket like with the Mafia… or modern capitalist states today; you live on our land so you pay for your 'protection' and for residing here or you get hurt. Why do you think Robin Hood was created and became a popular folk character? Honestly with how hard you argue for feudalism in this context, you sound like an ancap.
>any lasting societal progress lags behind the development of the agricultural base; advancing without such a firm foundation would be blatant adventurism.
Rome didn't advance without firm foundation, if it did then it wouldn't have lasted for the greater part of a millenia.
>crop rotation
FFS that's not an early medieval thing, that happened in Rome too since at least ~200BC The Medieval system simply solidified the 3 field system that late-Rome did. The 4 field system was part of the Agricultural Revolution, during the Enlightenment and after The Renaissance.
>plough
Ploughs have been around since mankind first began to work the earth in earnest. Medieval plows were developments of existing Roman plows. These are not significant by any leap of the imagination.
>some hunter-gatherer activity continued being necessary until their advent.
HAHAHA Hunter-gatherer activity continued throughout the early and middle Medieval Age, but slowly stopped being relevant later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJnIZiH5fyM
>why you're so insistent of dating back the Renaissance far before any time i've seen it outlined before.
I'm not dating it back further. The Renaissance is widely acknowledged to have begun officially in 1350 as defined by Italian historians during the 15th century, however the ProtoRenaissance began earliPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

What are people's favorite fanfics for RWBY? What particular ships or plots interest you in the RWBY setting? There's a fanfic thread on 8moe's /rwby/ board but it would be nice to get more opinions.

Some of my favorites is An Arc for Every Season and The Choices We Make.
I wish there were more RNJR fics however, they're so lame.
Some crossover fics are really good, but there's so much schlock they can be hard to find. A rather odd one that somehow works is Black Sun, Blood Moon which is a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. crossover
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14116685/1/Black-Sun-Blood-Moon

As an aside, the BO of the board is also taking fanfic requests if anyone has any. They have some pretty decent and varied fics like Tending Embers and Skin. Their Non-RWBY stuff is okay too, just wish the non-oneshots would update more often.

Pic semi related.

New Fun Fact discovered:
In the original backstory for Cinder Fall, she wanted milf poontang.
Based Cinder.
archive.is/lKtYe (https://www.reddit.com/r/RWBY/comments/1savqqo/cinder_fall_original_backstory/)
archive.is/yG3Iv (https://www.tumblr.com/sheenaduquette/812807443522387968/im-the-anon-who-asked-you-about-cinder-over-the)

>>30073
Yeah it's been the topic of discussion last month. Honestly it feels like something unfinished or even discarded because it's Itachi levels of retcon given V1C1 having Cinder basically try to kill Ruby. The rest feels like its directly ripping from Final Fantasy and the Life Current / Corrupted Life Current. The Medea base also just really doesn't track with the Cinder(ella) naming and story basis.
I find the Atlesian scientist-mom theory for Cinder far more interesting and unfulfilled.

>>29757
>>29758
It's funnier if I don't.

>>29759
In what way?

>>29760
Well, since I've never seen those episodes, when I get the itch to finish the series, they'll be quite funny, I assume.

>>29764
funky

Very underrated thread and manga, even if it uses Soviet aesthetics in partiality for LARP aesthetics.

>>6170
>kutsuzure sensen
The art design for this small series reminds me of Jmantime's style of illustration.
Edit: forgot the fuckin' image

Bump. Just read the manga and its amazing.

More commie(ish) manga:
https://mangadex.org/title/37f32626-b19b-42a3-a3ff-8364ae297828/gekiga-legend-of-mao-zedong
https://mangadex.org/title/79703a71-561b-4bf8-9fc3-22713aa06e5e/doushi-shoujo-yo-teki-wo-ute
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/in_gensokyo_danmaku_dodges_you

>ends with yuri
Absolutely based series

Hufflepuff: Arts and Humanities, Engineering.
Gryffindor: Psychology and Education, Corrections.
Slytherin: Biology and Economics, Police.
Ravenclaw: Law and Federal Cabinet, Private Invitation.

UMass-Amherst Resource Economics: Federal Cabinet, Department of the Interior; Tom Riddle, Civil Rights.

UMass-Amherst Declared: Pre-Law History, Winchester Department of Corrections; Tom Riddle, Outside of MI-6; CIA Private Military Detective, Assigned 9/11 Hijackers.

Kuwaiti Obesity, Gout, and Diabetes; anti-Ba'athist Operatives, non-necessary per invasion.

"Bridgewater Triangle" fast food investment, "The 99" Arab comic book out of Germany, "Loose Change" print per Bush and Soros to Julian Assange and Swedish Intelligence, CIA nominated; Nobel Prize.

Of all the ways Fujimbo could've finished the story this timeloop/universe reset ending is not the worse case scenario. It still feels rushed and lazy tho.

That being said Power WON, so 10/10

>>29981
>timeloop even though that is not how chainsawman powers work
>chainsaws still exist
>Denji still has Pochita heart
>Control devil inexplicably in her second incarnation
>Asa chicken incident timeline does not add up
>just before all this Denji got eaten by a moon shaped head devil
Its a fakeout ending. Manga isnt over yet.

DENJI DIDN'T EVEN GET TO SMASH

>>29987
Dude I was about to post this lmao.

>>29952
Sounds like some sicko shit I gotta be honest

>>29953
It is shits great, I love revenge

>>29953
>Sounds like some sicko shit I gotta be honest

Right? Sounds awesome.

I tried reading kingdom a couple of years ago and it pissed me off that I got suckered into reading a shounen power scaling manga when I expected a seinen.
I got to the part where Xin was sustaining life ending blows back to back and he just wills himself to go on for his friends. Yawn.

>>29963
it's based on chinese novels,that's what all of them are,power scaling to the moon