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All things anime.
Anime reviews, recommendations, videos or art,
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All of it.
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I rewatched an episode of black lagoon (kino), looked at the past years catalogue (terrible), then shut off my pc to go for a walk outside (kino).
I've completely grown out of the target audience of nu /a/nime
I hope one day people will use adult writing with adult characters again but I fear that won't happen for a long time. If anyone has recommendations I am interested.
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It's over for us, I've completely grown out of most if it aswell, I haven't watched nu-anime in years at this point and the japanese would just continue to make stagnant Highschool romcoms till the heat death of the unviverse.
Over convuluted Chinese gachas are my only connection to anime left.
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Finished Shiki. They get past the slow intro and into the meat of the series remarkably well, and by episode 10 everything is building up nicely leaving a full 12 episodes for the tension to work itself out. It's really good and doesn't shirk from showing the consequences of extreme situations. The only annoying things are Seishun being such an absolute failure of a man andtrying to make you empathize with the vampires when they're unrepentant monsters . Apparently the manga includes a lot more info about backstories and includes things the anime only glossed over, and it's only 41 chapters so should be quick.
Finished Armor Hunter Mellowlink. If you enjoyed VOTOMS, it's a spinoff so it's more of the same. Though it doesn't cross over with VOTOMS, some of the locations will be familiar which is nice.
Watched Kill la Kill which is breddy gud. Absolutely insane, but you can tell Trigger were having fun animating it. It absolutely oozes style which is good because there's zero substance, which is fine because that's not why you're watching it. Some parts are great, like Nui interacting with the name cards and Mataro breaking the fourth wall, and some bits (like the no-lates day) overstay their welcome slightly but overall it's not worth complaining about. The sheer number of references to other anime Trigger put in it is fantastic. I'm just disappointed that Takarada doesn't sound like this in the show:
Started watching the TV series of Wish Upon the Pleiades. As good as the 4-episode OVA was, giving the story more room to breathe is nice, and we get to see more of Best Girl Nanako which is always good.
Started watching Heavy Object too. The sound design is fantastic, even if the premise is kind of a ripoff of Robot Jox. Now I wanna watch Robot Jox again.
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Mellowlink was the best of all the OVAs and side content. Even if you aren't into VOTOMs its worth a watch.
Was a fun story. It was nice to see a mecha less focused on the pilots. That part of the premise is something I'd want to watch.
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Why?
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Because Robot Jox is frickin' awesome
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GATE sucks. I just want to see Cobras mowing down dragons, not watch some cute twink otaku
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Yeah, there was way too much "hey otaku watching this, join the
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If you haven't seen golden boy (1995) that shit was super good.
It's fun to go back and checkout classics
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Is it just me, or does 1995 seems to have been the peak year of anime, before the medium started to decline in quality?, I mean seriously:
1. 1995 releases includes kino classics like Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell (second biggest kino in anime history after Akira), Slayers (including Slayers the Motion Picture), Golden Boy, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Gunsmith Cats, and Tenchi Muyo, also as the year of the debut of the Playstation, and a year after the release of blue LEDs which gave Japs the Nobel Prize in Physics
2. 1995 was arguably the last year in the prominence and popularity of adult and mature anime catered towards "otakus" and other niche audiences, given the Japanese economic crisis that started in 1991, over the years many anime studios closed or became financially destitute, and tranime and manga was slowly changed from a more mature and niche-focused medium, into becoming a first and foremost commercialized normie-friendly and kid-friendly medium, made to sell merch and generate quick and fast profits - Pokémon would be created a year later.
3. 1995 was the peak year in the popularity and circulation of manga magazines, especially Shounen Jump, which had 6.53 million copies per week, compared to 2021 where it only had it had an average circulation of 1.3 million copies per week, Shounen Jump never reached the same numbers again, not even the One Piece-Naruto-Bleach big three era of the early-mid 2000s was enough to make them get close to having the same numbers that they had in 1995.
4. 1995 was the last hurrah of the "golden era" of 20th century anime, this year had the best of 70s, 80s, and 90s anime, manga, live-action films, music, and pop culture all still going strong, the best of all worlds ending the 20th century with a blast, before the release of the first One Piece prototype in 1996, and new series that would start the 2000s.
5. Related to the above, by 1995, there were still a lot of new and old IPs being animated in the traditional medium and with absolutely gorgeous and authentic-looking frames and animation, starting in the late 1990s, the majority of anime started to ditch traditional paper animation with digital animation, which was cheaper, easier, and faster to produce, there is a reason why the "90s anime" aesthetics are popular til this day - they were the last instance of traditional animation still being the default method of anime production.
!anime !weebs !kino !oldstrags !asians !effortposters !commenters discuss, what are your thoughts and opinions on this?, also Golden Boy is much better dubbed:
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You can kinda compare this to the death of B movies, a lot of extremely creative small projects never bot made, and It all started to happen in the 90s.
A24 is the counter example, they basically will give any semi decent director 8 million dollars to make crazy original Ideas.
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Law of diminishing returns strikes again. The jump you had in quality in the 1990s in relation to whatever came before has never been achieved since and the leaps keep slowing down until every year you are just getting the same slop but 10% better. At 10% you are going to go"yeah that is better I suppose" but you aren't going to
unless you leave the hobby for 20 years entirely then jump back in.
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I don't bother reading or watching anything new by Japs any more. It's just become incestuously otakufied, with sperg authors writing stories about spergs for sperg readers.
Works in the early 2000s and 90s regularly had characters with relationships and mannerisms that were more understandable by normies from other cultures. Apart from the rampant unabashed sexualization of underaged females (yes it still exists today but it was way worse back then), almost everything about the writing was on average better back then from the emotional depth and quality of writing. Modern seinen works are embarrassing in comparison to the older classics of the genre. The best you'll get is slice-of-life slop which never has to take writing risks or go anywhere.
And yeah the 90s animation styles when done properly were superior to the current styles which feel much more simplified and exaggerated at this point. I think the overall skill floor of artists has improved because of new technology and learning materials but peak anime aesthetics definitely came from the 90s.
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Yawn neighbor
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it was peak japan in general. also the year sony playstation launched for export, representing the commercial and technical peak of japan.
blue LEDs the year before as well, they won a nobel prize for that. and there was that subway sarin attack that ushered in their new era of decline.
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Good points!, added these to my list!
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Only seven more years until Naruto
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Nope, only four years, the first Spicruto chapter came out on 24 October 1999, and if we are stretching it, it was only two years apart, because the Naru
prototype came out in 1997! 
https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Naruto_Manga_Pilot
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I'm confused. All the video games have copyright 2002 in their opening text
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This is because first Naruto anime episode aired on 3 October 2002 (its English dub on 10 September 2005), but the manga itself debuted on 24 October 1999, and its prototype debuted in 1997 (but I could not find the precise day and month of 1997):
https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Enter:_Naruto_Uzumaki! !weebs !anime
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It's wild how the series peaked with the first Land of Waves arc and then went downhill.
As a kid that arc fricking blew my mind and the minds of most of other kids in my class. It felt way more "adult" despite the characters being at their youngest in the series.
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You're a fricking nerd
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Yes I watched Golden Boy last week english dubbed and it was kino the protagonist is a peak dramatard
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In The Elder Scrolls lore, there's a theory that Yakuda is the past, Tameriel is the present, and Akavir is the future. Japan is like that, they're spiritually in the future, so like they felt the spiritual effects of 9/11 in like 98 or something. 95 was the year before the towers fell for them. Spiritually I mean.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_(Japanese_cult)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoko_Asahara
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_and_the_Cult_Leader
!historychads !asians any other good and serious !kino related to Aum Shinrikyo that is not "DUUUUDE JAPAN IS SO CRAAAZY BRO!
" redditor cute twinkry?
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STUDYSTUDYSTUDYSTUDY
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I'm rewatching Sora No Woto his week. Surprisingly still holds up. Cheerful post-apocalypse settings need more love
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old ranma or remake , is the remake any good ?
im watching rezero
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Read the manga. It's the best version of Ranma by far.
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Watched the remake first, now the old show. To me, the remake seemed fine, even after watching through the old stuff now.
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Again? It feels like last one was yesterday.
Nothing new for me, I'm really slacking.
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Yea me too tbh
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I finished Full Metal Panic Fumoffu which is the comedy spin off. Its 12 episodes of just jokes, several were really good.
L-Gaim is ok, it definitely sufferers from that older anime style of gags. Where even serious moments are undercut by people comedically falling out of mechs in fights, and other over exaugurated gags in otherwise serious scenes. Its interesting as SRW30 makes the show serious because it doesn't show all that. I definitely think it would benefit from a better separation of serious and gag moments.
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I liked that Fumoffu was a comedy spinoff, but also could totally have been completely canon.
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Parts of it were canon. In Season 3 Tessa looks at a picture they took the episode she took her vacation at school.
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I rewatched Azumanga Daioh with a group of friends! Its low energy but absolutely chaotic nature is extremely entertaining. Osaka is literally me.
I then watched Golden Boy, a 6 episode OVA about a guy who drops out of college to become a traveling worker studying everything. In a lot of ways, the story parallels the life of Leonardo DaVinci. A genius who dedicates himself to all crafts. It's an inspiring, motivational story that I would recommend for all ages.
I also watched the 1980s Transformers movie with was pretty kino. I loved all of the explosions and how Megatron gets bossed around by a giant floating butthole. It's really impressive that all of it was done with only cel animation. That counts as anime because it was produced by Toei.
Finally, here's a Tewi Inaba for good luck!
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'86 Transformers is pure kino
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That's not an anime
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You're right. Transformers is too good to be considered anime.
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That's one of the first animes I watched (downloaded of course). Doesn't he meet some hot chick on a motorcycle?
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Curious
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I don't know about every show, actually. I only have something to say about <10% of shows mentioned in these threads. Ranma is THE tranime, it's pretty well known.
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Either a massive masochist, or the biggest hatewatcher in the world.
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Everything I know about anime is from involuntary cultural osmosis.
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we call that hentai
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Except all those you watchdd
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1. Pokemon (incomplete and inconsistently on Cartoon Network growing up)
2. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
3. Tokyo Ghoul (season 3 only)
4. Konosuba (seasons 1 & 2 only)
5. Monster Musume
6. My Hero Academia (season 1 only)
7. Steins;Gate
8. Neon Genesis Evangelion
9. Cowboy Bebop
Single digits, b-word.
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Yes, and?
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1. Yu-Gi-Oh!
2. Attack on Titan(incomplete)
weeb
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Also
3. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
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im a straight viril young man(and im an addicted incel chud)
Trvditional and VVestern
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More than me
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Shyyt I forgot I watched One Punch Man S1, I guess I am double digits
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Neighbor are you even an adult?
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No one's forcing you to watch that shit neighbor, gawd.
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by not turning on anime. you can ask me for more tips.
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Its called 'tsundere'
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I want to nibble her ears.
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I hate anime so much it's unreal.
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did you really
out?
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She detransitioned
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male to woman and back to male or female to man and back to female?
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What makes you ask that?
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my transvestigation turned up some concerning results
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experts agree
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I hate you so much it's real.
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is she 9000 years old too
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