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Kuwabara from Yu Yu Hakusho and Yokoshima from Ghost Sweeper Mikami (who even surpasses the main character in popularity polls).
Both anime ended before that happened, by the way.

>>12752
>who even surpasses the main character in popularity polls
You love to see it.

>>12775
i never could get past the beginning because i find medaka to be annoying as fuck, is it worth reading the whole thing?

>>12611
Seeing the thumbnail it looks like he's holding a fishing rod, kek

praxis
https://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=2538

>>4182
The manga is centered the Sanrizuka peasantry's struggle against the erection of an airport on their land and therefore echoes many of the themes discussed on this site. Anyways, you can download the first two chapters here: https://berndscans.blogspot.com/

>>15203
How is this relevant?

>>12777
i think it looks cool. there's something ostensibly cringe about it but somehow my head still registers it as based because of how free and pretty it seems

My only real complaint is Vicious looks like Knock off Dante from DMC

should have got Tarantino to direct it

I don't care about sticking to canon unless its really important to the characterization of a story. Netflix Bebop is just poorly done as a stand-alone, it being an adaptation only makes it worse. The Resident Evil movies aren't great and are very divorced in areas from the game, but as standalone films still have decent story-telling and plot and the 'bad' parts are part of the cheesy charm, this is just boring.

>>12779
Mmm no, not older anime.

>>9345
>How's that good in any way if you don't want softcore porn getting in the way?
agreed, fuck coomers

>>9368
I'll whack you if you call me a coomer
I have hitmen around the world

>>9367
>I don't know man, I haven't been to High School in ages
>If I see any High School Boys, I'll make sure to ask them
Fucking kek

>>9323
RIP

>>9323
I think this is one of the most popular non-shonen anime in Japan today.

I wound up watching it from all the seething over it and it actually was really cute. Nagatoro was terrible horrible in the first episode how she acted and I really wish they would better explain why she went so far at first. But later just got into sexual teasing and her being protective and considerate and the dork actually has character development which is more than what you usually see in these type of shows.

>>13332
Any petite girl can pull a cuter voice. They don't necessarily have to be Japanese. For example I've heard Russians that can do voices pretty similar to how Japanese VAs sound.

>>13642
>>13639
You're both taking extreme points of view. Dubs are generally considered worse because of the legacy of old dubbing being lack-luster narration type shit or inanely lazy mouth-voice sync. Today Dubs are usually much higher quality than they used to be, even for mediocre, single-season isekai-of-the-month shit. Japanese VAs are good, but ironically the quality control has dropped, leading to really poor and annoying performances.

>>13646
>later just got into sexual teasing and her being protective and considerate and the dork actually has character development
Anime filler, unironically, because the original manga and especially the Web Novel are outright toxic in many areas.

>>13646
>Russians that can do voices pretty similar to how Japanese VAs sound.
NTAA but yes it is true
-t.РусьАнон

>>13648
I didn't even know it had a webnovel and oddly first I heard of webnovels outside of fanfics back in the day. Maybe I will check either out some time to see how cruel she gets in those.

>>13223
>Sus
You're not incorrect but see >>9443

>My philosophical ramblings on (disjointed parts of) Lain / SEL.


>The philosophical point of the wired.
The wired is basically the cultural / superstructure sphere given a type of Pseudo-'Form' in the context of the internet.
Lain's dad points out to her at the very start of the anime in very blunt terms [paraphrasing haven't watched it in a while]
<"The wired is just a medium of transferring information and communicating with other people - dont confuse it for reality"
But very tellingly. The entire rest of the anime STOMPS all over this idea.
Throughout the series we see hints and have it eventually confirmed to us that the wired IS capable of having a effect on material reality. And even in the way the show is fleshed out, the audience is left constantly confused half the time whether something is really happening or is just happening in the 'wired'.

It plays out in effectively a similar paradigm as the Marxist 'Base and Superstructure' except instead of a strictly economic base effecting culture which can then in turn lead to changes in the base in a closed loop, this is applicable to 'reality in general' instead of a pure economics talking point

From the first time Lain goes onto the wired we see the same pattern unfold either at her hands or as the story develops the alter/copycat/deformed Lains. This pattern emerges…

<A. Lain goes onto and performs some sort of task or interaction on the wired.
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>Masami's plan / Dimensional merge / The V.R goggles guy.
Masami who is basically the main antagonist of the series, entire plan revolves around him first 'dying' in the real world which is revealed to actually have been him digitizing and uploading his consciousness into the wired using Sci-Fi I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE level bullshittery.
From this point he intends to 'bring the wired and the real world together'
<What does that mean?
The world becomes a deleuzians paradise.
A completely imminent world with no observable or real separation between the perceived base and its culture/superstructure or in this scenario the 'real world' and the 'virtual world'. Obviously we dont get a chance to see what this would have functionally looked like. but from some of the events we see in the later episodes, I doubt it would have ended well for most people.

The V.R goggles sex pest guy we see about halfway through the series is actually one of the most similar to Masami in terms of their goals, Both of them initially want some sort of Liberation from the 'real world' and existence inside the wired. Though Masami succeeds (And to put it once more in Deleuzean terms - by literally abandoning or destroying his physical body so that his consciousness could continue to exist infinitely and unfettered by biological needs inside the wired) while the V.R goggles guy clearly fails. simply living a NEET lifestyle with a Meta.TM headset glued to his face all day. While still ultimately having to deal with the automatic reactions and requirements of his body in the real world.

Despite Masami's plans failure being the climax of series and us obviously never getting to see it's consequences, One character obviously does 'transcend' their physical limitations in an obvious way.
Lain herself seemingly becomes capable of 'living' inside the wired much the same way that Masami did. But is also able to quite clearly 'make themselves' physical in the real world whenever and wherever they want. Effectively becoming Omnipresent at every discernible individual point of time and space both within the virtual and real worlds

So basically Lain succeds where both Masami and V.R failed and ends up somewhat achieving the 'merge' that Masami desired. at least on a personal level.
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>>13602
>>13601
From left to right. The main Lain is her ego, the Lain of the Wired who is often seen as Cyberia is her superego, and the devious Lain is her id. This is why there is multiple Lains because they represent different aspects of herself. Except for the people on the wired who took on a distorted form of Lain they probably represented something else.

SHE JUST LIKE ME FR FR

>>15440
Was this supposed to be a soyjak post?

>>15316
>The AI should actually be sapient.
Stop trying to make "humans but we don't actually know how our brains function so we pretend we made a human" REEEEE
if you want to make a human,go fuck a woman,making sentient robots is the stupidest shit I swear.

>>15391
if a robot brain works like a human it is a human for all practical purposes, unless you want to go down the rabbit hole of essentialism and some people being more human than others

>>15392
yes,but we're incapable (currently) of doing that,and my point is that even if we could,we shouldn't do it because it's a waste of time and ressources to basically just make another human.

>>15391
>making sentient robots is the stupidest shit I swear
but what if i want to try being godlike?
>>15393
>it's a waste of time and ressources to basically just make another human
>it's a waste of time make a dummy to experiment conditions lethal for humans to avoid unneeded human deaths
get a load of this comrade

>>15393
>we shouldn't do it because it's a waste of time and ressources to basically just make another human
So you're just an extreme antinatalist.

>>15462
Who raped your asshole this morning?

>>15462
>It just means that TG failed as an animated movie
Damn anon that's a pretty retarded take, thanks for contributing.

>make a down to earth movie
>In ANIMATION
Sounds like a failure to me.

>>15466
Bro it was better off animated

Not even have to be in anime style. This shit couldn’t be communicated aswell in live action as it could be through an artists tools considering getting shit like the schizophrenic mind right within the main characters would look weird as shit in live action in cgi than with normal animation

>>15430
>>15462
>>15466
this is the only anime board i know where posts like this are a good chunk of it

Think of spiders. All their eyes do different things. Logically a kemonomimi has different ears that do different things like they are for different frequencies or to better differentiate the direction of a sound source. With our two ears we can't easily differenciate front versus back easily without visual cues. Though yeah a bit goofy like result of a random character generator.