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 No.17413[Reply]

A thread about evrything relating to Soul Eater.

Soul Eater is the first anime i ever saw and it's the reason why i am adicted to anime so ia m pretty buiest if you ask me

 No.17553

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haven't read/seen a lot of fire force but soul eater is good. could see it being dismissed as a random "it's ok I guess" fighting shonen by people who've read/seen boatloads of historical stuff but I think there's some really good qualities. anime-original stuff does mess with the themes and story but nothing is stopping you from watching the anime & switching to the manga when it starts deviating, especially given Okubo's early art could be very wonky (esp the faces) and the Bones visuals are amazing. just keep in mind (iirc) the "kishin egg" concept is anime-only but it's not a huge thing. visually it's peak 2000s mallgoth aesthetic (not an insult, it's very charming if done well) and Okubo improves immensely throughout the run. thematically there's some great stuff about fighting with your flaws/mental illnesses/neuroses and finding the right person to "resonate" with - Black Star isn't just a "Naruto parody" but an interesting exploration of how the brains of characters like that & their real-world counterparts work and Tsubaki is a perfect partner for him. Maka as someone who takes everything very seriously & worries a lot fights WITH her fear & her partner is an encouraging dude who doesn't take everything very seriously. Death the Kid's obsessed with symmetry so his partners are twins with very different looks and personalities. his OCD at first felt like a lame running joke but the way it was incorporated into the themes of "balance vs harmony" and how past generations saw it as purely "balance vs chaos" was great. tezca & justin stuff was really good and again very observant of how people think.

now the elephant in the room re: okubo is fire force's "woke 8 year old owns feminist" scene and sure, it's far from flawless (switching from "accidental undressing" fanservice to self-sexualization on the spot to help his point, the very concept of "woke 8yo") but I don't really care because:

1. if you check the people who attack him for fanservice on japanese social media, they aren't the japanese equivalent of your sex positive leftist friends - they're loony #istandwithjkrowling types who actually do shame irl women for self-sexualizing. it's literally not a fabricated strawman if you know that crowd!

2. it's cool seeing a guy who's not a partisan right winger call out "fanservice is evil" stuff without going off an ideological deep end, instead keeping his personal outlook. it's great how his series are jPost too long. Click here to view the full text.



 No.17132[Reply]

this motherfucker's been around for 50 years and nobody can agree on what exactly his hair is supposed to be

 No.17178

It's a toupee

 No.17261

>>17178
honestly the more I think about this the more in-character it is



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 No.17243[Reply]

In what order do I watch this?

Is there a common sense order in anime? show->movie->ova?

which usually gets made first?
do all of them have lori fanservice

 No.17245

Always go with release order, no matter the type of media.



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 No.15679[Reply]

What a let down. First Sonny Boy… now this… why are the japes so bad at finishing up a story?

 No.15685

The japanese seem to be mired in a cultural incapability of breaking away from their own tropes without it being heavy handed and then going back on it.
The only recent examples that aren't overdosed on tropes is hayashida q's, fukumoto nobuyuki, togashi yoshiro and fujimoto tatsuki

 No.15686

>>15685
If it's merely a trope, that means they should understand it conceptually, and capable of proper execution.

 No.17216

>>15685
chicken is bad if it tastes like chicken. a sign should shoot out of it that says "meat is murder" for chicken to be an intellectual experience



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 No.17137[Reply]

Most criticism of weaboos is either thinly-veiled racism (when done by westerners) or self-hatred (when done by diasporoids)
Well-adjusted humans are flattered when foreigners display good faith interest in their culture. People like talking about things they enjoy.
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 No.17181

The problem is that most of the time super weebs aren't interested in much more than fetishistic and consumeristic parody of Japanese culture. The adulation becomes Orientalist and disrespectful. It's similar to how interracial fetish porn like Blacked is in reality very racist and even how Western leftoids unintentionally disrespect historical communists when they claim that those people were like wokeist radlibs or whatever.

 No.17204

More like cultural imperialism. They want Japan to be a more "woke" Burgerstan.

 No.17205

>>17204
deranged take

 No.17206

>>17204
opposite typically.

 No.17218

>>17137
>weaboos
weaboos are not an ethnicity you ignorant liberal, you're thinking of Otaku.
>display good faith interest in their culture.
<weebs
Nice bait



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 No.17097[Reply]

Everyone's favorite conglomerate Crunchyroll/Funimation is back at it again with not wanting to pay their VAs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHYWLTrBVlk
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 No.17121

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>do a bunch of advertising telling people "support the studios"
>refuses to pay their employees

 No.17122


>>17121
How are you surprised by this shit at this point? Who tf still uses streaming services these days beyond retards that don’t know what kissanime and the pirate bay are

 No.17123

If you aren't pirating anime you're not a real fan

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 No.17177

>>17160
>B-but it was a voluntary contract!



 No.17148[Reply]

>So, uh, how did it happen?
<You ever seen Detective Conan? Yeah, that.
>Really? Even the mafia part?
<Yes. *Head Explodes*

 No.17158

dropped all sexual thoughts as soon as i saw the tattoos, it's like warning coloration

>twitter.com/tlc/status/1468973994481229827



 No.16956[Reply]

The setup of the world is original, the lore is interesting as fuck, the uncensored brutality showcases an interesting take on violence that feels genuine to what something like this in real life could occur and the plot is overall entertaining

But fuck the amount of other garbage in this pretty much “makes a perfectly baked caked bathed in the shittiest frosting you could’ve gotten”. Child nudity that only exists to satisfy the authors god awful fetishes, crying and death when it isn’t needed or doesn’t do anything to contribute to any form of character development, major figures like bondrewd, wazukyan and his crew or just reg and his origin in general either gets sidelined completely or just flat out abondoned after less than a single episode and it fucking sucks and makes trying to be entertained or even gain any cool ideas like how ethics are considered when the promise of discovery is near or how people respond and develop tools to new threats or just how nature itself adapts to the geography that surrounds it doesn’t truly feel like it got the attention it deserved in a series that felt like it was made for it
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 No.17116

>>17115
No I’m not assuming anything about you as a person
But you think people finding child nudity and gore discomforting is a byproduct of social conditioning??)

 No.17124

>>17116
Nudity is a neutral thing and very natural. Before the 80s in the US, no one thought anything about parents letting their very young children play naked outside, or parents taking naked pictures of their children. The stigmatization of nudity in general and child nudity specifically is a very recent, very American thing.

It's not normal or good to look at child nudity and feel disgust, any more than it's normal or good to feel lust.

 No.17125

>>17124
>in the 80s and 90s parents wouldn’t care about letting their children go outside in public naked in the USA
I’m not from burgerstan but even by their dumbass standards that’s hard to believe they’d do something like that considering the 90s had a massive fucking wave against pedastry of all forms with the internet thing and gays

 No.17126

>>17124
Oh no no no no
This ngga genuinely believes this shit. Seeing family members naked is a lot different than shoving a naked child in public for everyone to see ahahahahah no way this fucking nonce is that creepy and retarded simultaneously ahahahahhaahhahahhahahahhahaha

 No.17129

>>17125
>>17126

Anon was obviously talking about very young kids at the beach or at the park when it's hot or whatever. Not parents sending kids out naked to walk down the street. Anons seem to be over reacting.

edit: ofuck this is an anime thread. 95% of it shouldn't exist.



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 No.17031[Reply]

Interesting article and a nice reminder that the modern manga was pretty much invented by "commies", especially the circle around Tezuka.
https://blog.omaera.org/toei-in-betweening-tezuka-labor-movements-and-rintaro/
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 No.17063

>>17038
Akasegawa drew the poster for it https://leftypol.org/anime/res/5156.html

 No.17070

>>17062
They were tricked but I wouldn't call them pawns.

 No.17086

>>17070
I mean they were definitely humanized and their actions were understandable, but not justifiable. the leader's "this is how we humans are, all we can do is embrace it and march forward" (or something to that effect) speech runs contrary to the hippie ideals Tezuka stood for but he understood why people were that way still. if you look at Phoenix volume 2 Tezuka acknowledged the human traits that make bad shit happen and was deeply frustrated at how inherent they appear. I think Rintaro & Otomo understood him well. given stuff like the Lod Airport massacre it's imo clear what was being said about regular people dehumanizing one another in the name of "revolution" while the true oppressors just go "lol, lmao". it's part of why I hate it when dedicated anime fans tend to nitpick the Metropolis movie so hard in both Japan & America (though regular filmgoers tend to like it more). the revolutionaries clearly did something horrible but didn't come off as mustache-twirling villains or cartoony idiots; it's great writing. I often feel exactly the way their leader did and justify my own shit behavior that way. it's great cuz it makes you second guess yourself instead of going "UGH" from a safe distance.

 No.17094

There's been a lot of whitewashing of prominent anime and manga authors' involvement on left-wing movements.

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>>17094
imo the "fuck US influence" people should look positively towards the time when the new left had an impact on anime cuz 1. it wasn't modern trendy "leftism" and, more importantly, 2. that was when creators, while appreciating stuff like disney & fleischer artistically, were politically critical of america instead of tending to lean US-friendly liberal like far too many do now. there was a legit feeling of "they want us to be their imperialism puppets, fuck that"

Tezuka for example fought against the insane restrictions US companies wanted to put on Kimba & Astro Boy's pre-chapter mini-comics are full of "lol these people thought my cartoons were too violent when the Vietnam war was still seen as a good thing, fuck off". now the attitude to localizers seems to be more just "oh well, whatever sells"

(pics are from Fujiko F Fujio and Akatsuka Fujio tho)



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 No.16821[Reply]

Which do you think is better?
Is there a silent appreciation in the black and white

I love the vibrancy of the color ones, but also think there's something lost in the enjoyment of the anime then

The colorless ones can have a certain, afternoon reading vibe to it and help enjoy the anime and manga in separate ways. I don't know much anymore, tell me your insights
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 No.16876

>>16832
i wish we colored manga is the states

 No.16877

Something about color in comics really bothers me. I find it a bit irritating. One of the few exceptions is Akira (despite, as >>16832 said, it was originally published in black and white).

 No.16893

>>16835
>Did they fully do the series?
Not only did they do the full series, but they serialized it issue by issue just like a western comic. Those 38 floppies sell for a pretty penny. Trade paperback versions also exist from Marvel's (now defunct) Epic Comics imprint as we as Kodansha so that might be cheaper if you wanna collect.

 No.16986

I'm a sicko, I think I ONLY liked color manga now,

>>16893
Nice, Gonna read it in colour then
I've always wondered the colouring process for digital manga

It sounds easy but you'd also have to remember all the colours for each existing item for them to not have to clash

Still no excuse how DBZ is only painted upto the Freeza Saga

 No.17089

>>16832
this; if the author is involved it can be cool but generally it's just mass produced which results in pure trash, or mediocrity at best. dragon ball for example is so huge and yet the official colorization just uses default "on-model" tones along with darker & lighter versions of the same color for lighting & shading (a surefire way to make stuff look like boring cold garbage).



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