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Join us in the [Anime] thread to end all [Anime] threads

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    You should post angry comments under the videos, that'll show 'em.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Hit the not interested button on all anime and manga related videos until youtube figures out you hate anime

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Doron Dororon got a color page, and Ayashimon has an unexpected absence. Not what I thought would happen with those two series.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I don't hate Doron Dororon

    But it feels like a series that will get axed shortly

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Maddoc wrote: »
    I don't hate Doron Dororon

    But it feels like a series that will get axed shortly

    That was my take, too, but color pages mean it'll probably stick around.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    As for Ayashimon it feels kind of like a gag manga that shifts gears to a battle manga, except it forgot to do the gag part so it started in a weird transitional space

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  • Andy JoeAndy Joe We claim the land for the highlord! The AdirondacksRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    That shot of the marching Wall Titans with the sunset at their back from today's Attack on Titan episode was, I suspect, perhaps a deliberate homage to that famous shot of the God-Warriors in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    ooh new chapter of Spy X Family is out

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Thanks again to Reynolds and Bluedude152 for recommending I watch Deca-Dence without knowing anything about it.

    When Episode 2 happened, I honestly had to rewind and make sure I understood what happened correctly. The gears in my brain just came to a complete stop when it happened.

    It's been a long time since a piece of media has pulled that off with me, so it was a nice experience.

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  • IsornIsorn Registered User regular
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    Rather unexpected news but Classroom of the Elite is getting a second season.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited April 14
    Tonight on AniMenagerie I watched One Punch Man for the first time.

    He fought the king of the seafolk??

    It was good! I liked everything I saw...

    EXCEPT FOR PURI-PURI PRISONER!!

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Like five of us remembered at the exact same moment that he was in that episode.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    oh yeah one punch man, great comic, great anime!

    except the asterisk of the offensive gay predator stereotype because of course there is something like that god damn it anime

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  • J-bobJ-bob J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Tonight on Animenagerie we had a sampler of One Punch Man where we met the greatest hero.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    There's also "Superalloy Darkshine" who... is worrisome. Others might feel that character is completely over the line, it's certainly another asterisk at the very least.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I wish there weren't good reasons why "this anime is great (please ignore the sexual predator/pedophile/offensive racist caricature/offensive gay or trans stereotype)" keeps coming up

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    It sucks too because sometimes the characters are otherwise fine, just drawn in a horrible style. Android 009 comes to mind, they draw the black androids horribly but they're treated the same as other characters.
    So then why is Pyunma drawn like Sambo? Ishinomori writes that he wanted the comical darky style to contrast with Pyunma’s overly grave character. This would be fine if Pyunma’s image was not the image that many cultures simultaneously used as the conclusive image of blackness. Ishinomori clearly had anti-racist intentions with the development of Pyunma’s character, and the story in general. This is why intention is irrelevant, because regardless of Ishinomori’s inspirational motivations, he chose the stereotypical black image; even as he tried to subvert Western racialized discourse, Ishinomori still could not find an alternative to the deep-rooted visual signifier of Sambo. A smart negro, a likeable negro, a serious negro – all are still confined by the image of the negro. Ishinomori added adjectives, but what was really needed was a new noun. Consequently, Cyborg 009 represents an incomplete attempt to eradicate black caricature.

    Sambo’s Shadow: The Representation of Black Characters in Japanese Visual Media

    It should be noted a provisional name for 008 was also “Sambo”, and such a character appears in Genma Taisen. Unfortunately Ishinomori’s early manga, 009 included, aren’t the best for black characters drawn in non-caricatured manners.

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  • notyanotya Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    There's also "Superalloy Darkshine" who... is worrisome. Others might feel that character is completely over the line, it's certainly another asterisk at the very least.

    At least that character isnt supposed to be a black man though. It's a caricature of body bodybuilders that put on that really dark tanning oil (and just get really tan). As long as you get that it seems fine. It's just viewing it though an American lense that reminds us of racist American media.

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  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    That bottom right hand photo is just disturbing.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Yeah if you do a Google search for Japanese bodybuilders

    You will see some very bronzed people

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Also on AniMenagerie last night, Iskander began his quest for pants, and--as always--everyone on Kill la Kill lost their pants.

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  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    he's got those weird Abobo neck muscles... It's like a meat neck pillow.

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Ronnie Coleman is one of the biggest, baddest motherfuckers alive right now.

    He could beat any anime

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  • CycloneCyclone Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    But how long does Anime have to prepare for Ronnie Coleman?

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    However long is not long enough.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    That bottom right hand photo is just disturbing.

    Bodybuilders deliberately dehydrate themselves before a showing so their muscles are extra emphasized. It results in some muscles that really should never be seen making an appearance as the skin stretches taut.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Also on AniMenagerie last night, best Mako made an apperance.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Also on AniMenagerie last night, best Mako made an apperance.

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    That's not Jojo Mako

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    That's kinda like the earlier Kill la Kill discussion about best versus coolest. Uniform Mako is cooler, but she's not the best.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited April 14
    Anime thread, here's something to consider & discuss, what are some great stand-alone (or can be viewed relatively free of mass context/lore) episodes of shows?

    Like, if you were filling out your own VHS tape of anime, with each show getting one single episode, what gets in there?

    I'm thinking of this as last night during AniMenagerie some folks commented that the bougie episode of Kill la Kill is considered by many to be the best episode of the series.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    - Haruhi Suzumiya Ep 1, the movie. The series as a whole has aged pretty badly I think, but that first episode is an all-time great intro to a series
    - Ergo Proxy Episode 16, Busy Doing Nothing. A wonderfully directed bottle episode as the gang are stuck halfway through their journey in the middle of nowhere, trying to find ways to deal with being stuck alone with their thoughts. I'm not sure this would work without context, but it's a pretty great ep.
    - Mushishi is episodic so almost every episode would work, but my favorite is ep 20, A Sea of Ink. It might suffer as a standalone because it relies a lot on knowing Ginko's personality and how differently he acts around Tanyu, but it's a really lovely, quiet episode and for my money one of the most romantic episodes in any anime ever made, even though it's not a romance series and the show never openly says it's any such thing.
    - Monster, Episode 9, The Girl and the Soldier. Dr Tenma has decided he's gonna kill Johan himself, and enrolls himself in a training program with a grizzled old army vet and his adopted daughter - who he adopted after killing her mother in a warzone.
    - Samurai Champloo - Episode 22, the one where the gang eats wild mushrooms, gets high as fuck, fight zombies, die to an asteroid, and then sober up. There's better episodes of Champloo, but I'd really enjoy just throwing someone into this one blind.
    - Bakemonogatari - Episode 12, the one where Senjougahara and Koyomi go on a date. A weirdly heartfelt episode where the two of them reveal themselves as absolute fucking lunatics (which we already knew), but also that they genuinely care about each other. It's also the episode where you kinda finally realize that Gahara isn't fucking with him by constantly rephrasing things, she's really struggling to express her own feelings.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Toys in the Attic episode of cowboy bebop
    baseball episode of JJK
    mononoke tells self-contained stories over 2-3 episodes but they're very worth it

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I don't think I could just pick one episode and be happy watching it. To me that'd be akin to ripping a chapter out of a book and only reading that. I already know the story and all that, but I'm not gonna just jump into the middle on a rewatch if I ever decide to do one, it's gonna be beginning to end.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Anime thread, here's something to consider & discuss, what are some great stand-alone (or can be viewed relatively free of mass context/lore) episodes of shows?

    Like, if you were filling out your own VHS tape of anime, with each show getting one single episode, what gets in there?

    I'm thinking of this as last night during AniMenagerie some folks commented that the bougie episode of Kill la Kill is considered by many to be the best episode of the series.

    That's a toughie because episodes you would consider a good fit to this category (because you know and are fond of the characters) would not necessarily play well to someone coming in cold. For example, the Evangelion episode where Shinji and Asuka have to practice dancing together Silver Linings Playbook style (and also otherwise living in harmony) is a treasure. But is that the case if you don't know what the Angels are, who these kids are, what the stakes are, etc? I don't know about that.

    With that said, here's my best attempt at a few:
    - The baseball episode of Samurai Champloo
    - The "Swing the bat" episode of FLCL
    - The Alien homage episode of Bebop
    - Mushroom Samba from Bebop
    - Cowboy Andy from Bebop (depending on the audience I would suggest one of the three)
    - The final episode of season 2 of Castlevania (obviously you're missing the build up, but as an animated representation of the games, top of the pile, easily)
    - Gundam 08th Team, the episode where they fight the Gouf piloting Ace

    I can't think of episodes for many of my favorites that would suffice without the lead in episodes, unfortunately.

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    First episode of that eternity show

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