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Oh yeah Diebuster is one of my favorites of all time, and the way it goes absolutely wild at the end is crazy in a good way I think
Just, Franxx tries to clone some of that story beat and visual motif and doesn't quite stick the landing where Diebuster did
Occultic;Nine is a really weird outlier within SciADV, partly because it's actually the only entry for which the source material is not a VN but an incomplete series of light novels written by the main series planner (Chiyomaru Shikura). The first ~9 episodes of the anime adapt the LNs that exist and then the final three wrap up the story. A VN was made afterwards but from what I've heard (I've never read it as it was never translated to English and most likely never will be) the story it tells is pretty much a slightly worse version of the LNs/anime. Therefore, this is the one entry for which the consensus (at least amongst the people within the Western SciADV fanbase who can read Japanese) seems to be the opposite of all the other entries; this time the anime is better than the VN.
In any case, I'm not sure to what extent (if any) Hayashi was involved with O;9, but he most definitely was not the main writer for any version of the story like he was for the VNs of Chaos;Head, Steins;Gate and Robotics;Notes.
Whenever I do, I just uninstall, uninstall.
Acquaintance of mine once described the plot of this show, and I knew I'd never watch it.
Absolute banger of an OP though.
man that show had some great design ideas, like what if Jotaro Kujo was a stand, and what if instead of a normal stand he was a giant Mecha
As far as I can tell it is just a meme, but, there is a "there" there WRT anime and manga industry production/editorial staff clearly craving something deeply and problematically heteronormative
Like, the fact that World's End Harem, which got mentioned earlier up thread, isn't even the grossest "Y: The Last Man but make it a trash-tier ecchi/harem" series I know of...
also the fact that he can be summoned using the FLCL forehead portal is very fun
really gives Diebuster a mild "Turn A Gundam but for Gainax OVAs" vibe
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This uplifting message brought to you by Clamp.
Not so sure that's a Clamp thing considering how much gay subtext there was in Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle between Fai and Kurogane to the point even I noticed it
And it's like, the guy's like "sure, it sucks, I would very much love to be able to have sex with my girlfriend, but we'll manage".
1 - A non-binary main character
2 - Two female main characters in an open and loving relationship
3 - A major part of the lore involves two male characters having sex in exchange for making a deal
The anime and manga have extremely different endings. The manga explicitly states:
Answering the question: "Can you love a machine even though it's a machine?" with yes, I don't have an issue with. Framing the question as "We will never be able to have vaginal sex or have a biological child, so we will forever be anguished. Do you love me anyway?" That is the issue. That if you're not a heteronormative nuclear family, then your relationship is innately lesser/something that you must struggle with.
Probably don't need the "in Korea" part
May I say that I was very disappointed when I finally saw Jojo (though I haven't seen seasons 3 and 4) that it was not nearly as homoerotic as I was hoping it'd be.
Reminder that Card Captor Sakura has not one, not two, not three but four different student-teacher relationships.
Just a smart setup for the sequel series, To Card Capture a Predator.
Oh, the American military occupation actively encouraged/propped up anti-communist parties and helped suppress and defang any of the Japanese political parties deemed too left-wing for a few decades, too.
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Narrator: It was actually Clamp's evil clone, Clomp, raised in secret to hate all that Clamp holds dear.
Narrator (*adding hastily*): While Clomp was always queerphobic, they were also known to fight against all forms of romantic relationships with an overt power imbalance between the partners back in the early oughts. Their current stance on this issue is unknown.
The story gets extraordinarily nonsensical in the last six or so episodes, and the ending is a doozy.
At this point, the lizard people reveal that they secretly launched a warp gate back at the start of the war decades ago towards the aliens' home world, so the two main characters jump into their super robot, pick up a planet destroying bomb, and go through the warp gate. Except oops, it's nowhere near the alien's planet yet, so they drift through space for a few years. When they finally reach the planet, they're drained of energy, so everybody on Earth prays for them to be strong, which gives them the energy to literally kamikaze the alien's planet, completely obliterating it and 'saving' the uploaded souls (to death) while the aliens yell "We'll get you next time, Gadget! Next time!" And then the protagonists are reincarnated a thousand years later. The end.
Started Megalobox season 2. Holy shit, I was in no way prepared for this shift.
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I didn't understand any of that in the spoiler, but it sounds like nobody watching it did either.
Also I ran out of eps at episode 20 as I said before I stopped watching so this confirms that I should just make up my own ending. I was wondering if there was something wrong with the entire show from the start writing wise because it wasn't actually doing anything to be doing anything wrong. It hadn't reached the point of attempting to cash in on anything.
Megalobox is a great example of: "Why would you make a season 2? This is perfectly self contained don't be dumb!" -> "Oh shit you've got a story to tell let's do this"
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The fact of the matter is, now that people don't need kids and you can enjoy life simply by spending money on yourself and you'll probably end up in a care home either way... Most people aren't going to bother.
Japan is just ahead of the curve.
As for anime stuff... I was hanging out with my mom and she saw a Promised Neverland poster and thought it looked cool. So I bought her the first manga volume. Now she's asking me for the second one because she needs to know what happens next. Aww yeah, onboarding my 62 year old mother into the fold.
Unlike most industrialized nations however, Japan has known this was coming since the 70's and they have been working on ways to handle the issue. Some of the best public healthcare and childcare of the world, subsidized housing if you are willing to live outside the major cities*, mass investment on automatization and being willing to move their industrial footprint to countries with better demographics, and so on and so on. So, their birthrate actually went up a bit, is still bad, but is something, and they are doing better than most countries on East Asia.
*Which is fighting against the facts that the jobs are on Tokyo, poor Internet access outside the large cities and boomer execs fighting tooth and nail againstg WFH, but hey.