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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

>>24661
Man, the dismemberment fetish is just weird to me. It's not guro necessarily but still. I don't get it.

>>24661
>The Nomu alone have a lot to 'play' with
Ehehe they sure do.

Final season currently ongoing, and nobody seems to talk about it. I guess knowing how it all ends crashed all the hype remaining.

>>24726
It's a more extreme version of bandage, making explicit the implicit disability of restraints.

>Tomura isnt result of abusive family, uncaring society and random destructive mutation, but All For One's manipulation
>Endevour/Dabi storyline about abusive father who drives his son to insanity getting retconned, and All For One is involved, because of course
>All For One's origin is being literally born evil and all evil in the world seemingly comes from him like he is the Devil, neutering any societal critique the manga had
>Himiko's completely unprompted redemption
I applaud Hirokoshi's talent to retroactively ruin even the good parts of BNHA writing.

>>29495
>watching childrens cartoons
I found your problem.

sounds like something an entire community of autists would have built the entire lore of humans post apocalypse turning into demi-humans to the point they are the real humanity or some shit
and make 2h videos about it on youtube

>>29495
>which greatly harmed my ability to take the plot seriously even as a 13 years old
I have the inverse problem where humans being present in a sci-fi setting just seems silly but understandable for keeping familiar elements in a story / not having to go full animated every time. As I get less pessimistic about space travel this has eased up somewhat.
>meant to be set on Earth, uses real countries and historical events as a backdrop, and characters call each other "humans"
Alternate earth, different evolution without much bearing on how history played out. They just didn't speciate or define human differently.
>Why are western animators like this?
Character design. Eastern artists do this too, sometimes.
>>29500
It's dutch, they don't use burger content rating systems.

>>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.

Anyone know where the drawing here is from? I found this edited panel at the start of a hentai doujin for some reason and reverse image search didn't turn anything up. I'm pretty sure someone edited a bunch of shit together but Ispecifically I'm interested in the drawing of the guy bear-hugging someone into exploding

>>29490
Google found this:
https://hentaipaw.com/viewer?articleId=2414263&page=14

>>23146
Sauce and original file
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/54153676/

Neko Arc and Katyusha have the same energy

Is this worth watching or is this going to propagandize me into fascism?

>>29461
Its not bad, not really much propaganda or anything

>>1269
Katyusha is best girl.

>>24615
Can you kill yourself instead of being nothing but an annoyance to others? Pretty please with sugar on top

>>24662
Yall do that to yourselves already when you dont get the idyllic young adult romance you wanted.

>>24593
>>24640
>she suddenly transforms to a good girl
did you watch the show? she acts the way she acts because for all her life she is led to believe that she is a monster that kills people only by opening up does she slowly change into a good person.

>>24824
What do you mean, "slowly"?

She is one person in episode 15 and an entirely different person in episode 16. She doesn't merely lose her tendency to push people away, she loses all aspects of her former personality and becomes your typical anime waifu good girl.

I didn't read a single post of this thread(including OP). Just here to blow off the dust.

>cool powerful villain/side character doing nothing for the majority of the plot
>main character saving all the side characters at the last minute when they’re losing
Lazy writing.
>x minutes before some big disaster hits (those minutes last multiple episodes)
>monologuing and chatting when there’s a disaster/fight going on
Lazy directing.
>exposition dumping instead of a flashback scene
Both are bad. I'm so fucking tired of flashbacks. What happened to implicitly contextualizing past events?
>fight scene that ends after one or two moves are used
Nothing wrong with this. It's not a videogame. Sometimes the villain gets shot in the head and fucking dies, that's fine.
>forced romantic subplots that go absolutely no where (god I fucking hate these in particular man)
>women being useless to the plot
>skinny ngas with glasses being comedically OP
>will they won’t they drama for several hundred fucking chapters
>chosen one schtick (man I miss when the power of friendship and teamwork was more commonly used by lazy writers)
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>Nothing wrong with this. It's not a videogame. Sometimes the villain gets shot in the head and fucking dies, that's fine

Not to me it’s not. I’m not waiting 30+ episodes of having a major antagonist get glazed and hyped up by the author just for them to get offscreen or taken down by some contrived ass trick. Makes the conclusion feel like a total waste of fucking time waiting to reach.

Personal opinion aside, from a writing perspective, finishing off a major antagonist too quickly is often a shitty way to conclude a story off the fact that doing so usually fails to provide any narrative closure in the sense that the audience or readers won’t see the villain putting up any actual resistance to whatever the fuck killed them. In application, this also means that writers can end up with copout deaths or unclear endings if audiences cannot entirely trust that the villain in question died in a way they genuinely couldn’t get out of.

>Sometimes you guys forget shonen manga is written for 13 year old horny Japanese boys. The authors have to make a living, so they pander to that audience.
If the guys that wrote made in abyss and rent a girlfriend are indicators for anything, youre placing way too much optimism in the sense of discipline manga authors carry.

>>29453
>I’m not waiting 30+ episodes of having a major antagonist get glazed and hyped up by the author just for them to get offscreen or taken down by some contrived ass trick
There are many ways to show conflict that would give a satisfying resolution through a quick death. More realistic media does this all the time. I myself hate dragged out fights. The opposite is having every conflict resolved with a bloated-hp videogame fight and having every antagonist also be a powerful fighter or whatever.
>youre placing way too much optimism in the sense of discipline manga authors carry
It depends on the magazine. WSJ is a dog-eat-dog world. But even the authors you describe have to pander to certain audiences, intentionally or not.

>>29454
I phrased myself very poorly. What I meant to say is that what you miss is not a fight, but a proper cycle of tension -> ramping up -> release.

>>29454
Dude, I get what angle youre coming from, but it is rare and I mean RARE for major antagonists to have rushed deaths that don’t feel entirely contrived or forced compared to just having characters organically duke things out until someone drops. What’s worse is that rushed deaths are far more common in media mainly in the romance, drama, and comedy than understandably in action based media. 90% of those deaths usually fall into either the result of the authors laziness to stick with a consistent narrative about their characters or author bias towards their favourite characters with no in between. I don’t care what you have to say on that specific idea. I don’t want to have to sit through an entire season just to watch the main antagonist die before the author can insert their preachy garbage on to me the next scene about how the protagonist is righteous or free or whatever despite literally doing next to nothing. Just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.