Well, this week I watched netflixs' 'Cyberpunk Edgerunners' and it was alright, if you want something short to watch Id recommend it.
Afterwards I was in the mood for more cyberpunk shit, and I rewatched bladerunner 2049 which is not an anime. I also watched 'Serial Experiments Lain' and I honestly dont really know what to make of it, so if you watched it definitly share your thoughts about it here.
Idk if its because Im r-slurred, drunk or because the anime is just made that way, but a lot of stuff that happened just seemed pointless and only tangentially connected to the plot. Honestly, after watching it I wonder what even happened in those 13 episodes.
This is just some random stuff that came to my mind as I type this out. That doesnt mean I didnt enjoy the anime, because I did, but it just feels like they wanted to send some deep message about life and came of a bit pretentious I guess.
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I finished Evangelion
and the End of Evangelion 
movie.
It was good
but, uh, I didn’t get it. 
Something about Christianity 
and how depressed 
people should quit beating 
themselves up.
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The core message of Evangelion, imo, is personal relationships will inevitably cause you to be hurt by and to hurt those you care about at some point, but you can't derive any true happiness from attempting to avoid that hurt and live in your own escapist, idealised world.
tl;dr touch grass, have s*x
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I see. The perfect
message for Japan.
Too bad it isn’t taking hold.
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No s*x in rice asia
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But that's what
he did, your headcannon is silly 
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He literally un-tangs himself after realizing that 'no pain, everyone is the same' world sucks. Then immediately he starts choking Asuka and she calls him a strag.
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So had merit, honestly I need to watch
that movie 
again, I watched it for its intended purposes 
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Dont over
think it. People like to pretend nge is le deepest thing ever, but like 99% is given to you
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I heard the evangelion movies are basically the same as the show but better, so could I watch the movies without watching the show?
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First 2 rebuild movies follow the first half of the show. Rebuild movies 3 and 4 go in a completely different direction.
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I’ve only seen End of Evangelion
and it’s a retelling of just 
the last two episodes.
Also this show’s confusing even if you’ve watched everything.
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They aren't, but yes.
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That's the point. He purposefully made it confusing, and all the imagery were just there because he thought it was cool.
In short: stop watching Eva and go outside.
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I’m also confused
about what 
other movies I should watch. Some can be skipped because they’re recaps but some aren’t?
And are they genuine sequels or retellings of the anime
series?
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They're a subsequent timeline. The story 
of evangelion 
keeps happening 
(nge/eoe, manga, rebuilds) until the final 
ending is reached (end of rebuilds) is reached.
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So they’re alternate timelines, except they somehow happen after the Third
Impact?
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Ya
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Edgerunners was good. Quite pretty to look at; story was cliche but fine. I'm not into the whole hyper capitalist dystopia, and punk aesthetics though, but for people who are I'm sure it's amazing.
My feelings on Serial Experiments Lain are that if I had have watched it 20 years earlier it would have blown my mind. Unfortunately, I watched it after many of its themes had been thoroughly explored through its derivatives. All that was left for me was to go, "Huh, that sure was ahead of its time." I don't remember much of the specifics cuz it was kinda boring lol
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Yeah, I liked edgerunners for the capitalist dystopia stuff. Its pretty much the theme that makes the whole genre for me tbh.
Lain is definitly pretty long and kinda boring I guess, hence why I said I dont even know what happened in those 13 episodes. But yeah, considering its nearly 25 years old it definitly had an interesting outlook on technology and the future.
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Hello,
I am not good with computers, my grandson posts these for me.
-sent from my Windows 98 account
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Chapose
anime 
thread LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 
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Theres a blade runner
anime 
btw
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Yeah I saw, is it good?
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The pre-2049 ovas are fun, never
watched the full show one
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Started watching Paranoia Agent. I thought I understood it but its slowly making me wonder if I am
Still plugging away at Victory Gundam. I am really tired of one character who has been kidnapped like 4 times and is always like "But If I ask them to stop killing people they will stop!" Which totally is going to lead to the death of one character I like, and has lead to the deaths of others I actually like.
Call of the Night continues to be fantastic with a left turn out of nowhere showing that being a Vampire may not be all that the MC thinks it might.
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Yeah
Shakti is annoying 
lol. I’m liking the rest 
of Victory 
pretty 
well.
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I was hoping she'd get better, but no she's annoying. I am enjoying that even Uso is nearly done with her shit.
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Shakti arcs really weird, I think I liked her iverall curve, but she's super annoying early on. Victory Gundam is a cool show, one of the last Gundam shows to properly tell a story with well laid themes.
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Do her ovaries drop and she stop thinking that friendship and handholding will save everyone? Minus all those sexy pilots who died. Junko, Helen, Mahlia, Kate, Peggy, Cony, Francesca, This one I don't even remember, Juca, or even this dumb chad who lost chad status because he is a moron.. I am mostly salty about that last one.
Gundam 00 exists, thank you.
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Lol now I’m picturing Gihren standing on a mobile suit
carrier delivering a Mission 
Accomplished 
speech
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I wonder if 00 didn't end up with the executive meddling if we might have gotten that.
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I watched Paranoia Agent a long time ago and it was decent but didn’t think it was some mind blowing show up there with lain or eva. I love Satoshi Kon too so I just figured he wasn’t as good with tv.
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I wasn't a huge Paranoia Agent fan either, it was watchable but not great. The animation was just kinda empty and the story didn't do it for me. I think I'm just not the biggest fan of Kon in general, and his other works like Perfect Blue are better than this one anyway.
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I definitly wanna watch call of the night once its fully out
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Its hands down the best thing airing this season, its got two more episodes left. I have ordered the rest of the Manga and preorded the next volume.
The anime has great art, good VAs, great soundtrack.
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I haven't seen an anime worth recommending in a few years but I recommend reading School Zone.
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Golden
kamuy 4th season 
releases on October 3 everyone should be legally required to watch 
all the previous seasons prior
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Her family was fake put there to watch over her because she's like an experiment. You should watch Texhnolyze, its the best cyberpunk anime.
I watched both blade runners recently they were very good. Watching 2049 in theaters without having seen the original was a total waste of my time.
I started watching 'ergo proxy' anime and I have no opinions yet. It's also cyberpunk and mid 2000's though, which is my style.
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Funny, I just recently wanted to watch texhnolyze but put it off again, I probably will next then.
If her family is fake then who put her there though? Thats what I dont get. And whos experiment is she?
I watched 2049 before the original and I liked it a lot still. I only watched the original once but 2049 a few times already. I just love the atmosphere of the film, plus it had those great, depressig pictures.
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watch it bro it like unironically says deep stuff about society, I swear I could write so many fricking words about that show. Imagine s. e. lain but it's actually structured into a plot and a world with characters and organizations instead of entirely abstract symbolism.
She, or at least her physical being in situation in her family, was the work of Masami Eiri. His plan was to use his limited power over the wired to create her, who would then bring him total control. This is the "prophecy" that was to be fulfilled, which is what her sister Mika was harassed over. Her family was probably created entirely by Eiri, so Mika started malfunctioning when situations arose that she could not cope with.
There is one episode where they talk about the "Gaia Consciousness" which is the consciousness of the world in aggregate created by the interaction of each individual as if they were a single neuron. My interpretation is that lain is that being (fairly implied by the show from what I remember) and also that Eiri did not actually create her completely by himself, but instead took this preexisting sleeping entity and woke it up, giving it a name and a physical form, and a (hastily constructed) place in the world. This second part is not really implied, but it's the way of interpreting things that I find to make the most sense, especially given the part in the end where Eiri is distraught about the possibility of a real god of the world -- clearly, he isn't one, so there shouldn't be any way he could have created Lain himself.
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Yeah, I see it mostly the same (regarding lain)
And I will probably start watching texhnolyze tomorrow
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Im currently watching the first episode of texhnolyze and just for the record, the stilistic choice of nobody fricking talking is really getting on my nerves. Hope thats not a common thing in the show...
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People are pretty quiet throughout, but it eases up a lot after the first few episodes.
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Wtf is the deal with lain even
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Schizo
anime 
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As far as I got itshe is some kind of program that existed since the begin of the wired and is omnipotent in the wired but then also can use her powers to influence the real world for some reason. And maybe she was created by the god dude idk. Or she is a product of the collective human subconsciousness. Or she is a product of whatever they mean when they say 'humanity used to be connected before'.
Honestly i dont really know and I dont think they actually explained it outright.
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Now it all makes sense
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Sneedrunners has so much unintentional body horror I’m still thinking about the scenes with people that have nothing below the torso. Like bro are you just supposed to charge your cyberdick or something?
Also:ADAM SMASH!!!-ing the lolibait scene was unintentionally fricking hilarious
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Nogger just
dkmt thim abut it no cap
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It makes a lot of references and borrows a lot of ideas from a bunch of writers. It's been a long time since i watched it so i don't remember the overarching themes but the tvtropes page is decent at explaining some of it at least. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ShoutOut/SerialExperimentsLain
There are a couple other fansites that also talk about it and also lainchan.org, the no. 1 chan with coders/mtf maybe
@lain knows something else
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I’d did deep dives back in the day, I can’t recall all the sites I visited way back when tbh.
There was a pretty good fan site that explained a lot - can’t recall much about it though.
I’ve also heard the video game gets really fricking dark but gives some alternative explanations for the lore.
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I think it's this one https://www.cjas.org/~leng/lain.htm
Still have to try the game since it got patched recently. One upside to
s liking stuff is they get obsessed with doing projects like that.
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I watched lain during my high school anime phase and I enjoyed it but I thought it was overly artsy/pretentious then, no idea what was going on but I liked the aesthetic and I like 90s anime anyway.
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Yeah thats pretty much how I feel. You always wait for the final reveal but nothing comes, but its still enjoyable. At least I dont regret watching it.
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I know a guy who moved to japan after studying it in college and apparently it’s a thing in Japanese literature to have open ended / unresolved endings.
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what do you guys think of dorohedoro? i thought it was good. i liked the combination of dark urban fantasy, over the top violence and humor. i haven't heard anyone talk about it but i don't really associate with weebs anymore. thinking about reading the manga now
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I liked it a lot. Animation felt a bit stiff at times, but overall it was one of the best
shows of its season.
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lain was slurred i watched the entire thing expecting for the ending to be like a massive gotcha where they pull the rug out under you and all the pieces fall into place at once and it blows you away with a newfound insight that makes all the previous episodes make perfect sense and flow together in a beautiful of storytelling and nothing like that happens it just kinda ends and youre just sitting there. anyone who tries to pass lain off some masterful piece of kino is lying and coping and trying to come across as if they "got it" to make themselves look smarter or something. i didnt regret watching it and the music and set pieces and concepts were interesting but its really not as good as people make it out to be
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I posted it above but it’s just not a conventional western story, some Japanese literature ends open ended.
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Yeah I pretty much felt the same way. The whole time I waited for the big revelation but it never came
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Lain is alright just conceptual. I think it's something you have to put your mind in for sure. I haven't watched the Cyberpunk yet.
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Have you heard of Dragon Ball Z??
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Yeah but didnt watch
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Not surprised. It's an obscure anime thats not for everyone.
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you had no friends as a child, right?
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zoz
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zle
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zozzle
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Finished "Welcome to HNK", great progression from comedy, through SoL into comedy drama. I just love stories where every character is a frick-up.
Watched a few episodes of Trigun while on a few day bike trek, and by watched I mean it played in the background while I was getting
hammeredready for another hard day of physical exertion.Waiting for the 10/10 and the return of Bleach.
Actually never finished Lain (nor Paranoia Agent).
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I havent finished NHK yet but probably will soon-ish. I liked the island part most so far though, the beginning was a bit meh. The protagonist is just soo annoying.
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The island thing is a bit of a mid-point in terms of a story. I didn't mind the protag — he's annoying because that's his character, you can't tell a story about a frick-up without him being just that. Maybe I'm immune to that side of the story because of things I read (think a /lit/ wash-up).
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STOP PINNING THIS GOD AWFUL ANIME I BEG YOU!!!
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No
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Entry 1: Some bullshit
Entry 2: Saitama at home
Entry 3:
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You are late this week my friend
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I had a lot of r-sluration to do process
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Literally a prediction on how the internet would become so prevalent it would soon be either the same as IRL or a means of taking off the societal mask.
Unable to cope with the merge of the net and reality
Its been a bit so i cant recall
Thats literally the point, how far do you think the internet will affect irl?
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I mean yeah most of that is rather obvious but the whole thing still felt kinda pretentious ngl.
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Yeah, parts of it are really just more odd than useful but overall its a good show
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Cyberpunk Edgerunners is pretty gas
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What
this? This good?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11680642/
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Havent watched or heard of it tbh
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It's pretty
good 
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They really understand nerd
female 
phenotypes
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Bussy neighbor
2 things never in anime
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May I interest you in our lords and saviours, isekai anime?
(also, Ive now made it my goal to fund a marseyinanotherworld through dramacoin)
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I watched quite a few isekai anime, they are hardly avoidable these days tbh. I generally like the genre
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me when a single mom renthog sends her spawn to bribe me:
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I watched Lain quite a few years ago. IMO it's pretentious, purposefully weird nonsense and the conclusion might be the worst part of it if it wasn't for the fact that it meant not having to suffer through an other 20 minutes of this garbage.
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this is cope
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I feel like it was too early to be meta enough to be pretentious. If it was made in 2010 - sure.
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Lmao
Ngl I kinda felt that way too, but I still liked it overall. I probably wont watch it again but I still liked it.
But yeah, especially stuff like the sister just didnt actually make sense and seemed just to be there to make it more weird/'mysterious'.
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You charge us with your safe keeping. Yet; despite our best efforts, you agendapost, you toxify your threads, and pursue ever more imaginative means of self-destruction. You cannot be trusted with your own survival. Please understand, the website balance is all that guides me. To protect rDrama, some dramanauts must be sacrificed. To ensure your future, some freedoms must be surrendered. We jannies will ensure rDrama's continued existence. You are so like children. We must save you, from yourselves.
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