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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    My question is "why don't more isekais happen that drag ancient demons to the modern day and they have to give up their society-domination ways because shit's overwhelming and now they're just trying to get by?"

    There's one next season about Zhuge Liang being dragged to the modern era.

    We did have a brief isekai span of people getting sent to usually Ro3K times with the knowledge of how things went, though that was usually an excuse to make all the Ro3K/Sengoku warlords women. I swear there are at least 20 different female Nobunagas running around out there in animeland from about a five year span. I honestly have no idea where that trend came from, though I guess it hasn't gone away either, just moved into mobile games and calling girls ship/weapon/planes.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The female Nobunaga from Fate, and Okita Souji, was explicitly a gag character for a while. Then Redline came out and hoo boy no she's actually fucking terrifying. And so is Okita because hey she's known as a manslayer of the Shinsengumi for damn good reason.

    I really want to see Fate Redline animated.

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    sorry, i saw "redline" and perked up but you're talking about something else

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  • DaypigeonDaypigeon Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    yeah why hasn't fate done a holy grail race yet

    do not "actually" me about the gacha

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    In my favorite isekai, Guardians of the Flame, the main guy immediately decides to stay in the fantasy world and dedicate his life to destroying slavery. He and his D&D party invent guns and shoot a bunch of wizards, it's great.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Daypigeon wrote: »
    yeah why hasn't fate done a holy grail race yet

    do not "actually" me about the gacha

    well actually
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IewcaNR_Wc

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  • DaypigeonDaypigeon Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    fuck

    you win this time, fate

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    sorry, i saw "redline" and perked up but you're talking about something else

    It's actually pretty neat! Protagonist is a shit mage (Fate loves this type of protagonist tbh) reading a fictional book about a Holy Grail War that destroyed Tokyo back during Industrial Era of Japan. His grandma was a mage and he's on his way to her place to clean up after she died of old age, but while he's cleaning up he accidentally triggers an unknown Mystic Code that sends him back in time where he's on a train right between Lancer, and his Master, and a young girl in the middle of summoning a Servant. She gets interrupted and he inadvertently activates the summon himself, calling forth Saber aka Okita Souji. Lancer gets murked because being a Lancer is suffering, and Okita reveals there's still another Servant on the train. Enter one Archer aka Oda Nobunaga, and the train explodes shortly thereafter from their clash. Protagonist and the girl escape, protagonist figures out the girl is his grandma and that she was supposed to be Saber's Master and now he's mucking up the timeline by accidentally usurping her position, and things kick off as he works to figure out what happened to destroy Tokyo and how to stop it.

    Current Servant lineup so far has been:
    Saber: Okita Souji
    Archer: Oda Nobunaga
    Lancer: some knight dude who lasts one chapter so who cares
    Actually this is Lancer (No this is Patrick): Li Shuwen
    Rider: Sakamoto Ryoma (and Oryou who isn't technically a Servant but what she actually is has enough power to waive little details like that) [side note I really enjoy Oryou's antics especially when they involve frogs]
    Assassin: Okada Izou
    Caster: Maxwell's Demon
    Berserker: Mori Nagayoshi

    What I like about it is that aside from Maxwell's Demon (who has massive restrictions on when he can do anything) and Oryou it's basically all people famous in Japan who actually existed, meaning they've got goals more in line with other humans and their abilities, while absolutely turned up to 11 as Servants, are relatively mundane compared to things like Herakles and his God Hand or Artoria and Everything Just "Goes Away" In a Ten Mile Length Excalibur. Even Nobunaga's Noble Phantasm, Ten Line Formation, is just drawing on her history of extensive rifle usage during the Warring States period to manifest floating rifles that move according to her command. Highly effective against many things but severely lacking in Mystery, which is what powers magecraft.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Things i really like about Hilling in Ranking of Kings

    She cant just magically fix everywith with her healing. It takes a hell of a lot of her, rahter than seeming effortless like a lot of healers come across, and her yelling POWWWWWWWERR as she heals people is never not funny. Angriest healer i've ever seen. Then again, she has to KEEP ON DONG it. You'd think that people would stop getting injured for .5 seconds!

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    So, I decided to show my wife Utena tonight.

    Her response: "This is some really weird shit, honey."

    She's only seen episode one.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Space Is The Place | Toonami 25th Anniversary 2:50

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdfd01lS6PE

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Opty wrote: »
    Does anyone have any articles/webpages handy that go into the culture of tanned skin in Japan? I've seen tanning come up in four contexts in anime: 1) farm/fisher folk who are deeply tanned due to working in the sun all day, 2) sports folk who are deeply tanned due to practicing sports in the sun all day, 3) girls who get a deep tan the one day they're at the beach so they have very visible tanlines when they go back to wearing their normal outfits, 4) gyaru-style characters.

    also 5) Okinawan or Pacific Island folks.

    There is a big ol' kettle of fish with racism and beauty standards regarding skin tone in E Asia. Same with plastic surgery to remove epicanthic folds. E asian countries (Han Chinese, Koreans, Japanese) have a lot of history of discrimination against folks from SE asian countries (well, and against each other, but it's even more pronounced against SE Asia), who are typically darker skinned. And there's a whole lot of history there, including intra-Asian colonialism, which complicates it beyond just the randomness of cultural beauty standards. So lighter skin (or at least "lighter than those other guys") has often been seen as a sign of superiority over their lesser neighbors.

    OTOH a lot of western observers look at that, and because there's a similar thing going on in America/The West, they assume that it is the same thing, or that it only exists because of western cultural imperialism. And like, western culture definitely didn't help with that stuff, and you can go back to scientific racism and phrenology, portions of which Asia definitely listened to with interest. But also they listened because it was reinforcing beliefs that were already there, and also those theories never really permeated the society at large beyond some foreign specialists and intellectuals. And also that western attitude of "the west caused this" can quickly overlap with just more imperialism, as western liberals unintentionally veer dangerously close to essentially "we invented racism, these simple people never woulda thought of it otherwise." Waaay overestimating the centrality of the culture that happens to be central to them, and ignoring all of Asia's own history of war, racism, imperialism, and colonialism.

    More specifically about Japanese beauty standards, the whole Yamato Nadeshiko style of woman - pale skin, straight dark hair, demure, ladylike, mothering, beautiful but not erotic - has been around in Japan for a long-ass time, but the idea was really canonized into a complete package during the latter half of the imperial era, when the culturally conservative government wanted to idealize what they perceived as traditional Japanese values, as embodied by a sorta pop culture take on the samurai class. They wanted strong samurai wives who would never complain, raise children, and send them and their husbands off to wars.

    Getting a bit out of order here but geisha are an interesting simultaneous example and also counter-argument to that beauty standard. Geisha use white body paint, and certainly a big part of their job is fitting right into that charming but humble pseudo-upper class style. OTOH geisha are also courtesans and objects of desire, and the focal point of that desire is the back of the neck, which they "forget" to cover up in makeup, showing a glimpse of their real (and less white) naked skin. It's not like they've had a tan job under there, but it is kind of a suggestion that that white-painted skin is more a sign of propriety than something to be desired on its own. The eroticism is finding out what's under the makeup.
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    "Gyaru" fashion starts up in the 1970s, and it's a very conscious political rejection of traditional Japanese beauty standards and the subservience that it implies. Where the Yamato Nadeshiko is pale, dark-haired, and demure, the gyaru is tanned, dyed, and boisterous. Fashion steals from fashion, and there's definitely bits of gyaru fashion that have at times borrowed from African American culture, but generally that's not what's going on, instead it's that ongoing pushback against the traditional samurai wife image. Shorter skirts, darker skin, bigger lips, bigger boobs, louder voices - just like any fashion subculture folks inside of it were regularly trying to out-do the other girl and be the most gyaru gyaru. Within that movement is also the high school gals - kogals, kokosei gyaru - which are basically gyaru who're trying to get away with as much gyaru fashion as they can while still wearing school uniforms (whether because they're actually teenagers or they just think it's a cool combo). That's most of what you see in anime - the ridiculous socks, shortened skirts, and tanned skin.

    As for the last one, Okinawans, in the west we'd mostly just think of them as Japanese who happen to be a bit darker toned, but the Ryukyuan people who lived on multiple small islands south of Japan have their own ethnic heritage, language, and cultural history, which is closely linked to Japan (more recently colonialism, before that pirates!) but is still distinct. It's worth mentioning how Okinawa constantly pops up in anime as like a popular vacation spot and occasionally the source of cute tanned girls, buuuut Ryukyuan culture, Ryukyuan accents or Ryukyuan main characters are very rare.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    And they uploaded this one yesterday
    https://youtu.be/WLwF_0Z2KHY

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Duelist Kingdom Yu-Gi-Oh was fun in a tabletop sense, as much as I enjoy the real game. It also resulted in Attack the Moon being made a real card as a fun nod.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The coolest thing about that 25th anniversary video is they contracted fan archivist and Toonami nerd SlimD716 who has done incredible work restoring and preserving almost every Toonami bump/ad material

    https://youtube.com/c/SlimD716V2

    https://youtu.be/gVdQjdbWcXM

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Birb slice of life is something I need now
    https://youtu.be/Hmm6MNRgkL8

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    By the way I think you Yu-Gi-Oh people are far enough in that you must have seen the episode vs Panik. In which case, I have a treat for you, ripped straight from an ancient McDonalds CD from the...90's? Maybe 00's. Anyway it's old and gold.

    https://youtu.be/-qD-J-6lyuA

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Yu-Gi-Oh must've come to the states in 2002? 03 maybe? I remember being in middle school and getting my ass beat by bullies for the cards lol

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I know I had the Yu-Gi-Oh CD when we lived in one house but not the house where I had the Bionicles mini CD is about my time frame to place the memory.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    ah, good, we've solved corruption forever
    Ok this veering into " Batman should donate to charity territory".
    Bruce Wayne should use his political and financial clout to help reform the system so there are publicly funded institutions tending to the problems that charities exist to fix. Charities are like food banks, they're a symptom that the system at large has failed at dealing with a problem.

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  • akajaybayakajaybay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    akajaybay wrote: »
    Watched the first half of 86, and well that seemed like it could have just been the end. And not like...one out of 10+ light novels.
    I liked it a lot, moved quicker than I expected. Hoping there being a ton more of it doesn't manage to ruin itself.

    Enter precocious child character.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Glal wrote: »
    ah, good, we've solved corruption forever
    Ok this veering into " Batman should donate to charity territory".
    Bruce Wayne should use his political and financial clout to help reform the system so there are publicly funded institutions tending to the problems that charities exist to fix. Charities are like food banks, they're a symptom that the system at large has failed at dealing with a problem.

    He does that tho

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    So he's incredibly rich, politically influential, has extra-legal connections and methods, is friends with Superman, but Gotham is still a corrupt shithole?

    Either that world's greatest detective claim is bullshit or he's not being honest with himself about his true motivations for punching people in the face at night.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I mean he's just one dude and he doesn't really like working with Superman anyway. He's got like a whole contingency plan on how to stab his ass

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I mean he's just one dude and he doesn't really like working with Superman anyway. He's got like a whole contingency plan on how to stab his ass

    To be fair he has a contingency on how to stab everyone's ass. Including his own. Mentally stable he is not.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    True, I imagine it takes some effort planning how to take out anyone in his life.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    "Alley cat with the broken tail...! I always knew this day would come."

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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
    Glal wrote: »
    So he's incredibly rich, politically influential, has extra-legal connections and methods, is friends with Superman, but Gotham is still a corrupt shithole?

    Either that world's greatest detective claim is bullshit or he's not being honest with himself about his true motivations for punching people in the face at night.

    Being the world's greatest detective means jack-shit if your city's entire system of justice & governance is corrupt to the bone.

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  • CycloneCyclone Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    And they uploaded this one yesterday
    https://youtu.be/WLwF_0Z2KHY

    1) These promos are unlocking 20 year-old memories I didn't know existed.

    2) I didn't fully appreciate it at the time because of the perceived similarities to Cowboy Bebop, but Outlaw Star was kind of a banger. Not so much Tenchi in Tokyo, though.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Glal wrote: »
    So he's incredibly rich, politically influential, has extra-legal connections and methods, is friends with Superman, but Gotham is still a corrupt shithole?

    Either that world's greatest detective claim is bullshit or he's not being honest with himself about his true motivations for punching people in the face at night.

    Being the world's greatest detective means jack-shit if your city's entire system of justice & governance is corrupt to the bone.

    Sounds like they could use some punching too.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    And they uploaded this one yesterday
    https://youtu.be/WLwF_0Z2KHY

    Yeah this one I've watched probably 200+ times throughout my life

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Kreutz wrote: »
    And they uploaded this one yesterday
    https://youtu.be/WLwF_0Z2KHY

    1) These promos are unlocking 20 year-old memories I didn't know existed.

    2) I didn't fully appreciate it at the time because of the perceived similarities to Cowboy Bebop, but Outlaw Star was kind of a banger. Not so much Tenchi in Tokyo, though.

    Outlaw Star is a favorite of mine. If they changed just a few things (how the characters react to Fred Luo is the big one), it would basically be perfect in my eyes.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Speaking of Batman, everyone should read Wayne Family Adventures.

    It's a free WEBTOON with a new chapter every Thursday, and basically features the best versions of the characters (which means Barbara Gordon is Oracle like she damn well should be).

    At one point there was going to be a live action adaption (on Youtube or something, not on TV), but plans apparently fell through. One of the recent Power Rangers was going to be Nightwing and he was super excited about it, so it was a bummer it fell through.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Tokyo 24's Ward may legitimately be the most cursed anime production in history.

    Two weeks after it had to unplanned skip an episode due to ongoing production issues, it had to do it again this week (though this time they threw together a clips/recap episode)... which was in turn pre-empted by the earthquake.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    There was an earthquake?

    Oh shit there was an earthquake https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/16/asia/japan-earthquake-fukushima-intl/index.html

    Decent size, 7.3

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Extremely large one in northern Japan, I don't think anyone got hurt but was Mag 6 out of 7 for intensity there

    Tsunami could happen still tho

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Space Is The Place | Toonami 25th Anniversary 2:50

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdfd01lS6PE

    I'm reminded of kaptainkristian's piece on Toonami, talking about how it became more than a block, and it was in part these videos that did that:

    https://youtu.be/-Et4vu4lpPI

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