/anime/ - Anime

I was going to make fun of Netflix because of what an obvious flop this was going to be from the start but apparently the GitS live-action turned a profit so I can't even blame them for thinking this was going to work.

>>11982
GiTS Live action is pretty good TBH and the Battle Angel one is pretty decent too.

>>11980
>Whedeonspeak
As in Joss? Because yeah, people kinda don't realize that only that guy pulled it off right (and it doesn't always hit home for that matter too).

>>11981
TBH I'd like to see a Live Action Yu-Gi Oh! given how dope Detective Pikachu turned out to be.

>>11981
Are you ready, talking bike?!

>>11904
>look how fast I can read
Yet you fail to comprehend the basic gestalt of my postings, which, admittedly, weren't written in the most fashionable of manners. Try to actually read, not speed and feel free to attempt a reply at my initial postings once more.
>and so reluctance make it stretch out more
Why even have conversations if you're speedreading them? Filthy ESLs have no respect. You're projecting an emotion upon me while I simply list basic facts.
>that happens?
Yes.
>>11906
>they're for kids
If you mean Young Adults then I'd like to compare them to YA novels written in other languages. The excessiveness of words has to do with writing skill. With tension, lacking in LN translations, not with easy of reading. This excuse 'YA' or 'kids' is tired. It's not a novel argument, nor a convincing one.

>>11922
>ook how fast I can read
If that's the meaning you got from my post you are the speedreading retard and not me, capiche Kizaru?
>Filthy ESLs
And yet you're the ignoramus unable to read into a sentence, as your response to the other anon further proves.
>projecting an emotion
No, no I am not. It's a basic fucking fact that the more reluctant you are to do something, the less likely you are to do it, unless an outside motivator is pushing you. If you are not into a style of writing and its contents you are going to be far less able to read it fast, unless you skim it. THOSE are basic facts you caustic faggot. Take a chill pill and get off the internet for a day.

Okay. Feel free to respond to the contents found within my initial post any time though. I don't care how fast you can read.

>11929
>not linking to the post
>sagefagging
>ignoring the replies you got
kek

You're still allowed to respond to the contents found within my initial post. As I said before, you misconstrued the premise.

Female Comrades! To be a true revolutionary, one must realize that the height of your socks should be as high as the red banner you wish to uphold! What are you waiting for?

Don't think this has been posted yet.
Pic 2 is a Luftsturmregiment 40 der Nationalen Volksarmee der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (GDR).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftsturmregiment_40
pixiv.net/artworks/92850427

pic 1 is twitter.com/OstwindProjekt/status/1392464950212374528

Pic 5 is pixiv.net/artworks/92841173

>>11367
Ah, forgot pic 5

>>11367
>https://twitter.com/OstwindProjekt/status/1392464950212374528
ew

Baseball episode was pretty good.

BNA is mediocre; the plot is garbage, even by anime standards. Some radical liberal chick decides she wants wolf dick and finds out she can be EVEN MORE OPPRESSED THAN SHE ALREADY IS! Cue save the world montage. Barf. The characters have barely any depth to them with the exception of the wolf guy and then he's basically Vegeta and the final boss is basically a caricature of the mustache twirling supervillain. The art is okay but that's about it's only saving grace.

For such aa hyped show a few years back this thread sure is barren.

I feel that BNA failed because unlike Beastars ( >>9810 ) or even My Gym Partner's a Monk- I mean Seton Academy, they don't really embrace the animal side of their ANIMAL anime. Even Killing Bites ( >>5136 ) is better at using that shit.

BNA is just pure mediocrity rather than anything good. It had a few really good explorations of 'if a character could turn into a beast form, what would they use it for? What would it do to their social standing/normie friends?' I was hoping it'd explore that more but it went for some dumb religion/political corruption angle instead. None of its characters are that interesting, though the ones that I liked don't get the development.

The ep where Michiru leaves the city and just uses her rare time as a human enjoying being a regular girl with a friend of hers was a rare well written ep and showed what they could've done if they tried harder. The baseball ep was wild fun but could've been in any Trigger show. It being in this seemed especially weird cuz why would their weird death baseball be a popular sport in a world which seems relatively peaceful other than crime? I assume regular people are like the mom and pop Michiru lives with, and I don't see them enjoying televised murder.

The writing is extremely uneven. The fourth (or sixth? can't remember) episode, the one where Michiru hangs out with her dolphin friend on the mainland, stands out as utter dogshit and gets shockingly bad. Both the writers and to some extent the animators seem to have given up on that one.

The show never knows whether it wants to be slice of life or ridiculous action, and for that one ep it calmed down and you thought hey, maybe beastpeople CAN live outside the city providing they can keep it a secret. The story obviously goes straight back to the city after and the usual dumb shit, with Nazuna I thought the show could go back there but nahhh enjoy more HEY WE'RE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BAWWW. Then the bullshit revelations with the wolf guy and wow fuck this show.

First few episodes and the tower episode made me expect a subtle Marxist theme but we didn't get that

Sounds too much like soy boy

I think it's worth watching for permise alone but it'll blue ball you with what it could've been

Could have been better. I respect it though

>>11847
>>11849
>>11941
OP here. Yeah, I was really disappointed with the ending. I'm still confused on how much I really dislike the show. From an episode to episode experience, it captivated me. Overall, though, it just didn't land for me. I think my main point of contention is the main character turning into a wage slave and going "this is fine!" after experiencing complete freedom in the other world. A rewatch might make be better appreciate it but I'll wait a few years if not longer before doing that.

An overview of Asterisk War

>>11331
>live action mobile suit gundam
I CAME

>>11331
Impossible because no competent director works on this shit. Just look at cowboy bebop and how amateurish it looks.

Totally Not Mark got 155 videos Copyright Claimed by Toei recently, due to Japanse copyright law lacking real Fair Use legislation.

Not really a Hot Take but commentators like Hero Hiei are parasites, sucking off social media drama and bringing it out onto Youtube and other sites, they don't actually bring anything new or nuanced, just mediocre snark.

Damn OP there's already a Donghua thread

>>11835
It was on Page 25 at the time of posting; I didn't wanna necrobump.

>>424

1. Gotta disagree re: GitS1. I've always seen it as one of the best animated examples of less-is-more storytelling. It's barely 80 minutes long, but honestly, it manages to impart so much information about its characters and setting in its short runtime just through subtle visual cues and framing. The example that sticks out in memory off the top of my head is the short scene with Aramaki and the diplomat in the elevator near the beginning. Framing, dialogue, colors, everything tells you exactly what you need to know about these two.

2. Innocence is good, has parts that are great, but I think is weakened by A. some datedly ambitious CG, and B. the second half honestly just feels "off" in terms of pacing and tone. We go to the big cyberpunk slum, we have the obligatory Oshii montage and then we enter corpse guy's magical mansion of practical jokes, and then all of a sudden it's the climax, which honestly feels overblown given the stakes. Then Motoko shows up, gets a sad "goodbye" moment after she decides to peace out back to go play minecraft with skynet and wintermute, and the scene's attempt at pathos falls flat - the audience at this point, in the time frame of both movies, hasn't spent enough time with the movie timeline's version of Motoko to really give any more than a shrug once you get to the shot of the deactivated fuckdoll with the folk choir belting out one last line. It feels like they just sort of banked on people watching SAC and going "OHHHH MMMMYYY GGGOOOODDD IT'S MAJOR TITS."

3. Interesting you bring up the point about Patlabor 2, because there's an interview on the old limited edition set in which Oshii explicitly states that he saw GitS and P2 as companion pieces

>>844

And just to elaborate, that's the thing about Innocence - yeah, I get that it's a film of ideas, and I get that a major component of the movie's emotional arc is Batou grieving now that the Major is basically a minor cyber-deity and has to funnel all his affection into his dog just to cope, but again, this isn't a version of the Major the audience really has spent that much time with to get that kind of invested in. We see her for the duration of the first movie, in which she's very much depicted at arm's length compared to the manga and the show (which is fine, because GitS is a very cold movie by design, as Oshii often do), but Innocence's attempts to heighten the emotional stakes while building off of that foundation comes off as odd - not to mention, like I said earlier, the climax feels weirdly miscalculated. The ultimate stakes aren't much different from a random filler episode of the show, and yet Kenji Kawai's score is going absolutely apeshit as if Batou were about to get into a kickboxing match with the anti-christ or something. And yes, I get the movie is doing some weird meta thing where it's trying to explicitly tie its narrative arc to the progression of its themes and ideas, but honestly, that's something Oshii himself has done better elsewhere

>>844
Sure, Ghost in the Shell did a lot to emulate cinematic convention and certainly helped "elevate" animation as a medium for film (as if it ever needed to be), but as far as I'm concerned Mamoru Oshii has always been rather ambivalent to that kind of perception of his work. You might recall his qualms with Studio Ghibli when they really started to brand themselves as such at the height of Hayao Miyazaki's initial international success in the late 1990s and early 2000s, criticizing them for distancing themselves from the word "anime" and its associated adult-oriented, not-so-cinematic connotations. A lot of Japanese animators at the time were contemplating what exactly made animation distinct from film, when in actuality, and as Oshii once put it: "all film is becoming animation." I think it's tragic that so much of the "bad" CG composited anime from this period have yet to receive blu-ray releases. In my opinion, visually, they've aged much better than people think. It would be interesting to compare them all with the slew of cel-shaded anime we got in the 2010s but that's a different discussion.
>>962
Where would you say Oshii has done better? Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer was my first thought, but that was twenty years ago up until that point. When it comes to Innocence, I think the Donna Haraway cameo that occurs fifteen minutes in should tell you everything you need to know about the film from thereon. That is to say, Innocence was never meant to be a direct sequel. In fact, it's much easier (and more interesting!) to talk about it as a standalone feature situated in the GITS franchise than one explicitly connected to the original 1995 film.

Lol, they weren't even depicted as good cops in the show. Still love them though.

bump because I'm gonna watch it

People are going to use fifth-industrial rev gene-therapy / CRISPR to 'MaKe AnIme HeCkIN rEal *Soyface*" and in the process create horrors beyond our imagination which will then infect the general gene pool resulting in the end of the concept of collective 'humanity' as we understand it.

Deleuzeans are such fucking faggots, holy fuck.

It's fake, do you really think Land would mention GNU Social? He's a Twitter user.

>>11824
the fact that this has a (presumably genuine) ifunny watermark is terrifying to me

>>11324
>specially meal
>superior person
Jajajajajaja
>universidad
>cajero de Walmart
>libre mercado

Soy bastante privilegiado, de familia "bien", etc. . tengo algunos amigos menos privilegiados y que batallan más con su trabajo y aun así hacen el meme de "los pobres son pobres porque quieren". Ya sé que está medio cruel, pero me burlo de ellos diciéndoles que son más pobres que yo a pesar de que no hice nada especial para merecerlo. "Algun día podrás tener un jale como el mio, trabajar desde casa, con hueva, y ganar el triple de lo que ganas ahorita. El día que dejes de querer ser pobre, verás."

Me da asco esa actitud. La raza pobre jala mucho más que yo y gana miseria. Creo que estoy justificado en burlarme… no sé. Si conociera a tu amigo, le diría que según su ideologia, el mercado decidió que era un perdedor, y yo un ganador mucho más inteligente y capaz que él. Ponerle limón a la herida, a ver si se le quita lo pendejo.

No me gusta hablar español sinceramente.

>>11235
>Además de que muchos de esos cabrones son de derecha.
Cierto. No tengo idea de por qué.
>>11453
Umm why not?

>>11647
>Amogus and UwU memes in public
Dios mio, fashistas estan putas de capitalismo.