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Never got to post in the anime hot takes thread, so I'll post it here:
Berserk sucks until Guts gets raped

Before here's no reason to give a shit about anything other than the art.
After, we get to see a story that's the edgy metal stuff, while also his life time experience of dealing with the trauma, even in the most subtle of ways.

>>26838
Guts shows classic signs of that trauma from the first volume.

Guts & Griffith were in love in the Golden Age arc.

>>26839
Yeah fair, but it takes a back seat to the edgyness, plus it's hard to care when you don't have any connection to this world.

>>7669
looks like Filthy Frank in this pic lol

>>28640
Isekai is measurably the laziest and most derivative genre of anime. Wasn't there also one isekai that just straight-up reused a background from an entirely different one?
I would be embarrassed to like shit like this, the people who make them clearly just do not give a single fuck and have zero respect for the audience, in fact they work on the assumption that the audience consists only of trash goblins who'll eat anything they're fed. What does it say about you if you can be entertained this easily?

>>28640
Because the mc is a vehicle for the viewer to self insert as. Its why they have to be generic but also handsome

>>28684
Maybe for the west. But when I talk to Japanese people, at least the one's I've met. They could care less about anime.

They do read Manga tho.

>>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

>>28607
>Homura vs Mami in Madoka Rebellion.
fuck yeah

>>28607
Here’s my list:
Goku vs maijin vegeta
Kakashi vs obito
Every fight in sword of the stranger
Rock lee vs shira
Goku vs cell
Goku vs jiren (this section specifically: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lzk5q4OA01I&pp=ygUhZ29rdSBpcyBmb2N1c2VkIG9ubHkgb24gamlyZW4gbm93)
Io Fleming vs Daryl Lorenz (gundam thunderbolt)
And that’s it

The rest is genuine dogshit

>>28607
>>28611

Kaneda vs. Tetsuo and the opening bike fight (Akira)

Motoko vs. Tank and Motoko vs. Shitty Uzi Guy (Ghost in the Shell)

Sewer Fight (Patlabor 2)

Pretty much any fight in Ninja Scroll (the movie, not the show), just pick one

Saitama beats the living hell out of that alien guy (One Punch Man)

Basically any time Char gets in the Gundam (GQuuuuuuX)

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Not really judging the OP with this since >>28565 mostly talks about stuff like elaborate systems of techniques & not just the fights being too visually extravagant, but when it comes to the purely visual aspect I think "unreadable nonsensical shit" when applied to anime battles is mostly a contrarian meme in reaction to over-the-top flashy battles catching on to the extent that they did in recent years with stuff like Kimetsu no Yaiba and modern One Piece (of course, such series being hugely popular enforces the idea that such execution is for "lamestream posers"). Sometimes there ARE issues with readability in such fights, yes, but those can occur just as easily in more down-to-earth "traditional" battles. most of the fights championed by people who criticize "flashiness over substance" are still over-the-top and not realistic (cartoons are rarely "down to earth" to begin with) but I think what it really boils down to is the age-old idea that showmanship & exaggeration (essentially stuff that's fun to "the turd-chucking masses, ugh") are worse than perceived subtlety. Here's the pope essentially saying "shounenshit is shit, watch slice of life" in 1323.

Then you have even sillier comments like "Naruto ninjas aren't real ninjas, they're practically wizards!" coming from westerners whose idea of ninjas was formed by anglophone media and have no idea that, yes, ninjas in Japanese folklore use supernatural techniques and ride giant frogs. Or the claim that flashiness is being used to "hide bad animation" being applied to stuff that's obviously extremely well animated under the effects (I saw someone Takeshi Koike's Iron Man trailer back when it was new https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_ej7ZlS2oQ&ab_channel=ComicHeroNews)

I showed that one Luffy vs Kizaru scene by Vincent Chansard, the one everyone shits on for being THE perfect embodiment of unreadable degenerate excesses in modern anime fights https://x.com/v2TokyoGhost/status/1916530135555002416, to a friend who's mainly into western cartoons and cartoony anime/manga like 60s-80s Lupin (Dragon Ball being the only shonen he's intimately familiar with) and he just went "yeah itPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

nakashima is definitely not a "real leftist" by this board's standards at all >>25271

lord genome became an ally. he used to be a spiral warrior but changed his mind after finding out about the spiral nemesis; he had a point that being gung-ho about human evolution isn't the answer, but went for the cowardly opposite-extreme authoritarian solution & got drunk with power

the theme of the show, "past and present coming together to create a path towards the future", can be applied to many things, but if applied to partisan politics (and it very easily could given the antagonists' approach being literally conservative) it's a rather centrist one. Lord Genome & the Anti-Spiral having a point that should not be ignored is clear-as-day an integral part of the show's message. it's basically saying conservative old-timers & rebellious youth need to work together.

Holy shit nice

>>28480
Lmao they know what they are doing

>>28480
LMao, the ending was peak comedy tbh.

Posted this in the teto thread but I'll put it here too

Would add the goated Hunter X Hunter in left wing anime. While twitterers go like "haha liberals are sympathizing with murderous bugs again", hxh literally humanizes a bunch of ants and dehumanize humans. There's the abstract NK dictator country knock-off which the capital's called "Peijing" but honestly it's just the aesthetic, it doesn't even go as far as to try pointing out some kind of political hypocrisy

>>27052
BHA is just fash slop

>>28488
I've talked about this before in this board. Togashi is a turbo anti-politicians liberal. At least he also hates rich people so he's almost based.
>hxh literally humanizes a bunch of ants and dehumanize humans
Meruem, even at his best, becomes a caricature of le evil Orwellian dictator who "lets the best humans live in a special zone". Meanwhile he pushes the "humans are le bad but can be le good" trope which is just nonsense, it doesn't mean anything. CA arc is great but not for its politics.

>>28547
Honestly I doubt its author even has the cognitive ability to think about social issues and politics.

>>28570
Perhaps, but all his main assistants have been super right-wing guys. Go look at Kunio Ajino's entire follow list, it's like January 6 all over again lmao

>>27052
>mha
>left wing
dude what
Why is eoe left wing? and why is eva show right wing? Oh wait I read the thing. Sexualization of kids is right wing? I'd say eva is tactful in its handling of depression

>>28421
Damn the civil rights episode was hilarious too.

>>28420
"The Itis" is a heavy handed metaphor for drugs being pushed into black communities.

Yeah I enjoyed the show too, and saw a video break down and provide context for a segment of the comic that made it sound pretty interesting.

>>28163
lmao
>>28401
I understood it when I was 13

>>28401
Bruh what are you talking about about?
There's nothing inherently esoteric about that show.
The messages from that show were as clear as day

>>28597
> (let’s be real, he barely trains throughout the whole franchise compared to most generic Shinobi). Never liked that show for how much of a cartoonish self contradicting power fantasy it always was. “Hard work and dedication” my ass. Fucker was born privileged and barely worked a day in his life.

Naruto was not born privileged. But I kinda agree that his training is overestimated.
What I really hate about Naruto is how they make the main character an absolute goofball.

I ironically like the Infinite Tsukyomi version of Naruto much more.

I also hate the constant flashbacks within flashbacks of the Shippuden arc.
And the fight against Madara was like the Vietnam War. A long meaningless bloodbath.

My brother had to skip episodes and I don't even really know how Naruto amd Sasuke broke free and managed to save the day.

Shippuden's saving grace was that the characters were all good looking and had some cool powers.

Speaking of which, I dont know if you noticed but in Naruto,the villians are sexier than the heroes.

>>28598
Everyone noticed man. They also have better reasons for their actions than naruto

>>28600
Nagato(Pein) is the most justified

His painted toes also are erotic

>>28600
I refer to Shippuden as ShitPuddin

dragon ball has fallen, millions must be sent to the other world

part 2 was peak
part 1 was good
i feel like they just get worse from there
part 3 felt like pokemon or yokai watch for adults with the same lazy formula and shallow writing. it had some moments but 99% of it was a slog.
part 4 lost me entirely

Parts 4 and 7

7 > 2 > 3 (Egypt) > 4 > 5 > 1 > 6 > 3 (pre-Egypt)

JoJolion is great because its a bunch of fashion models, Araki turned his beautiful style of aesthetic from ripping off classical art into copying postmodern drag queen aesthetic.

So extremely based how Gappy is a cute sailor twink who brutally crushes the bodies of health industry capitalists like he's Luigi Mangione doing a Vogue photoshoot

>>28587
I made a meme about them (minor spoilers for the final antagonist)
#FreeGappy