/anime/ - Anime

>>20066
stay on twitter please

Somewhat ironic that there are now whites who want to be Asian all while there were many nonwhites who hate themselves and try to become whites, and it's probably capitalism's fault.

>>10614
Speaking of Edo Japan >>>/edu/1855 is the Samurai/Japan thread so feel free to explore this, it's got a lot of effort posts on the subject.

Is this for real?

>>20889
I don't know son, what's the context?

>>20891
after-office karaoke I guess

>>20889
>>20894
That's very depressing… but honestly not much different to corporative's in the USA or anywhere else, just more pedantic.

Not worth it's own thread, but here's the poster for the Cuban/Japanese co-produced 2017 movie, Ernesto.

The artist is Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Mobile Suit Gundam's character designer (among other things).

>>20899
That's more for the Communist Anime Thread, but thanks anon! >>1417

>>20901
Unfortunately only the poster is anime, before anyone gets excited.

Japanese girls don't like boys that are anime fans?

>>20956
huh its almost like nerds get bullied

>>20956
Damn, what's wrong with triathlon and maraton guys?

>>20956
Soyver

i was looking up info about the hiyama saya incident and it's easy to shit on "virgins" and "incels" but why would you be surprised that fans react badly when you have an industry that specifically targets mentally unhealthy men? this word is great because that's what it is
when you have these kind of parasocial relationships there are three actors: the "idol", the fans and the businesses that create this environment to profit from it. the first two are aware this is not healthy; to my eyes they're both victims & perpetrators
but the latter, the businesses, are the only ones who aren't victims cause they will always find a way to profit from everything; preying on lonely men and attention-seeking women (both unhealthy groups) is profitable and they will keep this cycle going

vid

>>18450
7 months later and we get a Japanese guy on the other side too.

>>21584
the anime drawing really adds the cringe cherry on top

>>21645
It's an edit of pic rel,

Is there an urban dictionary like site for weebspeak?

>>21714
it's called a japanese textbook

>>21741
NTA But I'm not sure I get the reference

Thought this was interesting - Japanese don't appreciate Western Pro-translators inserting their own interpretations.

>>22814
/v/-tier commentary about muh woke translators inserting trans people and normal vernacular everyone under 50 has encountered before into my animes. in other words, cancer by people too stupid to learn japanese and too belligerent to simply fuck off or ignore the word that bothers them and wait for a fan translation. when you try to hear out their grievances, it's all just bigotry and endless bitching. i fucking despise every single gamergater, they're the most annoying people on the planet. total consoomer death.

>22839
Reading your post I can only conclude you're a mentally ill reddit-lib, or a particularly skilled /pol/-troll (so a retard either way). Congrats, you almost got me to do a serious reply, but the very fact that you clearly didn't watch the video being about Japanese comments about translators, was the first sign in your disingenuous intent.

Recently learned about nagashi soumen, which is like, ramen sliding down a half bamboo with a gentle stream of water pushing it along.

>>4715
There is no Japanese culture. Most of what exists is a construct created to keep the citizens hikkimorized, supine servants of western hegemony. It's so successful it was exported to Korea and now it's come home to the metropole.

How much is a normal price for sushi? The local grocery store sells like, 3 rolls for 10 USD and a plate for 15, and 10 bucks seems rediculous for just one meal where the main ingredient is rice.

>>10550
"Social Credit", contrary to the hysteria and slander, is largely about business regulation. The claims of sinister social psyops or social manipulation are yet once more the projection of Western societies. The irony is that now, as the system is under genuine trouble, policies of liberal governments outright clamp down on the counter-liberal and counterhegemonic positions more harshly and skillfully than their opponents, despite all the talk of openness.
https://rtsg.substack.com/p/corporate-governance-in-the-peoples

An issue that rarely gets talked about in relation to /jp/ is Toyoko Kids. It seems to be a replacement for Delinquent and Sukeban subculture ( >>7655 ), although much less flashy and 'cool' looking. I think it's a reflection of Japan's repressive capitalism that seeks to hide everything that appears bad while refusing to fix endemic issues.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/02/05/japan/society/toyoko-kids-tokyo-subculture/

>>23957
none of this is new tbh

>>23958
Didn't say it was new, just that it's a more recent thing and that it's not very talked about in a lot of weeb and japanophile forums.

Snowden is a weeb and cryptobro??

In case of Embed Death

>>21579
>Japan's Ridiculous Weatherwoman Fiasco
>Japanalysis
<"Hiyama Saya experienced massive blowback last month after a major revelation"
TL;DR: Cute weather woman who played a single, young girl as a role for her job got idolized by Japanese men. When she was revealed to have a relationship and a personal life, immediately was attacked by these incels for ruining the immersion of their escapist obsession.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7QG9owYEUY

>>22738
mp4 file 1

>>22814
>Japanese Fans FURIOUS About Woke Translators Ruining Their Animes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5coh8UoYqvA

>>23222
>nagashi soumen, which is like, ramen sliding down a half bamboo with a gentle stream of water pushing it along.
>222
What cursed trips, the fuck?
<[Eng sub on] Extremely Fast Nagashi Soumen
>つかれた犬のアニメ

>>23969
Weeb? Probably. I think he's just commenting on crypto panic, IDK though.

>>23957
>Several things mark out the Toyoko Kids as being different to the homeless people who have historically occupied the area. For one, they’re much younger. And secondly, contrary to popular belief, they’re not all homeless — while some are, others who are from Tokyo, Chiba or Saitama prefectures go back home after staying in the area for a long time to escape their home environment.
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>Then there is the fashion: For girls, there is the “dark kawaii” aesthetic of frilly blouses and short skirts or oversized hoodies with anime-style makeup, and for boys an emo-influenced look of black, baggy clothes with dangling chains. The overall style has been dubbed “jirai-kei” (literally “landmine type”).
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>Toyoko Kids have also become influencers and fashion icons on TikTok, X and other social media platforms, further drawing neglected youths to the area — for example, those being abused at home or bullied at school. Hierarchies partially linked to social media clout exist within the community, with individuals given titles like “God,” “King” and “Empress” depending on their popularity and influence in the area.
Wait, that's where jirai-kei allegedly (hadn't bothered to research yet) comes from???
Also:
>“Someone will offer them a place to stay, with one person booking a single bedroom[…] and smuggling around six people in one room,[…]But[…], they would eventually have to pay for their share too and so they have to go ‘work’ — as in street prostitution.”
Yooo what the fuck? And society is okay with this?!?
That's like the-real-shit sort of lumpenproletarian activity, not merely delinquent/sukeban behavior, which is much more petty with its orientation and is fairly tempered in the actual level of "criminal" activity involved.

>>14984
>>14983
>>14981
This conversation was revived recently on /siberia/ so I'm reposting an amalgamation of the best takes plus my own.

>What's up with chinlets doing this "we wuz annie may n sheiiit" stuff?
Main character syndrome but on a “racial basis”, as in
<thing non-european is popular… so it must be because the cartoon characters are secretly white with their aryan features like blue hair and gigantic eyes
Then comes the question why darker skinned anime character still have the same gigantic eyes and non-natural hair colors and the cope goes into overdrive. Plus most characters in anime are either black-haired youths or otherwise have distinct hair that isn't just blonde aryan. Many Japanese anime make fun of that actually or have them as antagonists, or both; for example, Riser Phoenix in High School DxD is an asshole antagonist, Darkness from Konosuba is a fucking masochistic joke and Dragon Ball's General Blue is both an antagonist and a source of some humor. Ironically the character of Naruto and Edward Elric are among the few mainstream anime characters that most casual anime viewers know of and who are blonde and blue-eyed. Luffy and Goku are black haired with black irises and Ichigo was ginger with brown eyes.

There are exceptions to this, but generally that's in older anime or anime that has a style of more normal (or excessive) proportions, such as Ninja Scroll, Naruto or One Piece. The First is pretty realistic in physical depictions, with the only grotesqueness being characters that are obviously abnormal monstrous humans. Naruto has fairly normal proportions of the body, so Black people from The Hidden Cloud such as the Raikage are fairly normal humans but still obviously black. One Piece has a massive variety of absurd character designs, (like tiny legs for massive bodies or weird faces or whatever) so it obviously breaks the mold here.

Frankly speaking however it's just a massive, *Disney type exaggeration of traditional conceptions of young female beauty; big eyes, smol nose, round yet shapely face etc. It got so exaggerated at times that it became a common meme among weebs since at least the early 2000s about "animu face" wherein the eyes were so large that it was like a Roswell Gray alien's head. Only terminally online escapists actually associate this with real women.

Japanese people aren't clones of each other and there is some variation in appearance within their population. And like pretty much everywhere, most artists draw character who match some beauty standards rather than ugly people.

*Osamu Tezuka loved Carl Barks' works making the Donald Duck comics, having been introduced to them as a child by a US soldier after the end of WW-II. He even sent cards of thanks for the former. So in essence the big-eye anime style was originally an emulation of early Disney style, and later it came around full circle in the early 2000s when Western cartoons like ATLA or Ben 10 began to emulate the big eye Japanimation style. Ironically during the 80s and 90s both Japan and the USA focused on smaller-eyed characters, which is why characters like She-Ra (She-Ra) and Yuria (Fist of the North-Star) have fairly normal looking faces.

As a side note modern Disney-face edits with more 'normal' eyes: https://www.eonline.com/news/663484/here-s-what-disney-princesses-would-look-like-with-realistic-eyes

>>24287
snowden used to post on anime forums when young

>>24644
>44
Checked Addendum about Self hating japs (pic 1 rel)
>Wide nose Japanese
>Eyes extremely far apart
>Purposefully slouched over with wide waist and malformed/bowed legs
>Eyes placed too high up on the face compared to real life
>Ears placed too high
>Head deliberately squashed to look oblong
>Shorter height despite it supposed to be a 1:1 comparison
This is what Japancel otaku escapists actually believe.

>>24644
>cards of thanks for the former
LOL, forgot to post it.

>>24646
24 46 46
Damn, those are some solid dubs for a pretty decent post. nicu.

>>24646
If Tokyo's boomers' complaints are as petty as getting annoyed at based Kansai people then I'm not even surprised. One nuke was enough but Hiroshima was the wrong target.

Could Sovietist Japan prevent this?

It feels like the nipponese animation industry will never get back to 2005-2010 level quality. Looking through seasons from back then, it seems as though most anime were held to a much higher standard of creative quality compared to the past 2 years at least. There were 20-30 anime released per season, instead of literally fucking 50. And the worst of otaku slop was relegated to a few shows per season, instead of having like 40% of shows be the most boring romcom you can imagine or some variant of narou-style litrpg fantasy. The kind of decent premise and execution we see in the best anime today was normal for the time. And I'm not sure if this is a recent trend, but original anime and adaptations tend to do terribly in terms of audience reception, the otaku slop actually works in capturing fots audiences.
The worst part is, all of this is happening against the backdrop of the extreme exploitation faced by japanese animators. They're being made to release 50 anime per season, and most of it won't become something that will be remembered past the end of its run time.