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In terms of physical strength and speed, saiyans aren’t really that impressive. Just look at any fight in the dragon ball series compared to what you’d get out of any other shonen or even superhero series. Saiyans need to hit each other or anything else a comically high number of times before any meaningful damage becomes visible. Their speed also caps out near or at light speed among the strongest saiyans too.

Kid goku failed to manage to do so little as scratch Yamaha each blow during their first fight. Freiza was straight up one shotting some of goku’s friends and the saiyan race pretty openly. You don’t see saiyans like vegeta or gohan performing feats like destroying entire mountains or planets as often as the viltrumites or kryptonians do in their universes. Finally, it’s known that most of the power the saiyans have don’t even come off their raw strength and speed anyways. They get their power from Ki and wishes while every other alien trains their fundamentals like crazy. The saiyans are anime’s biggest frauds to me. All that talk about power and I rarely see them use any of it.

What is quintessential /leftypol/core anime/manga? I DON'T mean "which anime are anti-capitalist/left-wing" like we're always talking about, but stuff that's kinda /leftypol/-coded even if it's not left-wing.
I propose
>Kaiji
<loser desperately fighting for his life against the whims of the wealthy
>Code Geass
<class traitor megalomaniac playing out his fantasies of violent revolution
>Welcome to the NHK and Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei
<NO EXPLANATION NEEDED

I'm a bitter asshole who complains about anime cliches, do you know any anime that mockingly subverts anime tropes? I already know about Konosuba and One-Punch Man but I need more suggestions.

Post them

Any fans here?

I read:
An Uncivilized Planet
Tropical Citron
Freesia

years ago.

Loved them all. Be warned of adult themes.

His artstyle is so unique and amazing. I'm reading Joshi Kouhei right now. It's about some Evangelion-ish future where men pilot these giant robots from another dimension that look like Japanese schoolgirls but eventually they get psychotic and think they're actually schoolgirls.

Who wins?

Glorious April 17th

The Kampuchean People's Representative Assembly shall be made up of 250 members, representing the people, the workers, peasants, and all other Kampuchean labourers and the Kampuchean Revolutionary Army. Of these 250

What has caused the harem to almost become the default relationship in anime?

Not a fan. Even with all the crazy shit I can accept in anime, this is generally a level of blatant wish fulfillment nonsense that just fully takes me out of it.

Do not read Welcome to the NHK, No Longer Human, all of Haruki Murakami, etc. Worst mistake of my life.

has anybody else played LMR? i feel like im the only english speaker who did, or at least the only one that liked it going off the polarized reviews.

made by the same team as Everlasting Summer, it feels like an early 1900s russian novel in anime form. the protagonist is the quintessential antisocial superfluous man forced to confront his own pathetic shadow after his comfortable life of monotony is stolen from him, replaced by the threat of death at the hands of a political/corporate conspiracy looming over his shoulder 24/7.

my favorite theme of the story was its emphasis on the material conditions of the main characters. as the "Money" in the name implies, the wealth/class positions and divisions between them are constantly stressed. One heroines route delves into full on class warfare in which you kidnap the heiress to a company, another abuses drugs and frequently overdoses to cope with her lack of efficacy, etc.

all in all its a pretty solid story, though its clear they used a ton of russian words/phrases that don't translate properly so at times the dialogue can feel a bit choppy. the worst for me was a certain heroine who, while basically having no relevance/screentime if you dont go down her route, is a focal obsession of the main character regardless and the constant references to her get pretty grating at times. theres also sex if youre into that.
8/10