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Thermae Romae is pretty great if you're into naked Roman dudes and facts about bathhouses.
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a kitten posted:The best anime is Turning Girls which is about some perfectly normal office workers. I showed my sister-in-law this and she loves it.
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Seconding Ghost in the Shell, and if you like that, you might end up liking Psycho-Pass too.
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Also Mushi-shi is fantastic.
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VOTOMS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8hwDQJRU7E It's the best.
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a kitten posted:The best anime is Turning Girls which is about some perfectly normal office workers. CONTENT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2UBtSwkpac In a shocking reversal of anime expectations, the baby dick is merely implied 
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a kitten posted:The best anime is Turning Girls which is about some perfectly normal office workers. second episode involves sexualized children, idiot, way to go
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Nov 4, 2014 15:38
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I was gonna post a gif but the sound makes this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exwXwyCFkbk&t=741s The sound and music in HnK was ridiculously good
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ALFbrot posted:second episode involves sexualized children, idiot, way to go 
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Nov 4, 2014 19:15
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Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
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Nov 4, 2014 21:48
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Yakitate Japan is pretty good, it's basically like extreme loving bread baking. Here's a clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_srPS_HbWg
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Nov 4, 2014 22:42
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yeah i really wantto watch gay rear end anime about baking bread
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Nov 4, 2014 22:53
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wolf children: yuki and ame
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Nov 5, 2014 10:26
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Kikka posted:The sound and music in HnK was ridiculously good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GmLnvkl0v8
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October Revolution posted:wolf children: yuki and ame 
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Nov 5, 2014 18:36
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I tried watching welcome to the NHK because it supposedly involved depression and social isolation. Then in the third episode the protagonist turns into a literal child porn watching pedophile. 
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Nov 5, 2014 18:59
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Kikka posted:I was gonna post a gif but the sound makes this one Goddamn that one-liner at the end from Ken is the most badass thing 
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Nov 5, 2014 20:59
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No but seriously Yakitate Japan is actually ludicrously funny. There's a baking guy in it who has a sweet afro and it's really funny.
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Planetes is great. Lots of action and drama and no creepy sexualization of minors.
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Mushishi Trinity Blood
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The dub of the HnK movie is bizarre. For some reason they decided to remove all of the great music and change the story. Although hearing those glorious ring modulated sfx in action is pretty nice
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Kikka posted:The dub of the HnK movie is bizarre. For some reason they decided to remove all of the great music and change the story. Although hearing those glorious ring modulated sfx in action is pretty nice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbbCkWgJ6_0
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What, no serious posts of Attack on Titan yet? No sexualized underage girls, no sexualized male or female characters period, and female characters who are intelligent and competent without overcompensating or being dumbed down enough to make them palatable for insecure manbabies. Because of it I'm going to be watching anime after my birhday, as a 30-year-old woman, even though I thought I was too finally too old and tired of the pedophile pandering, creepy juvenile sexualizing bullshit to care about the genre any more.  
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Catalina posted:What, no serious posts of Attack on Titan yet? I was going to mention it, but the gratuitous amount of titan-nudity might turn some people off of the show.
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Catalina posted:No sexualized underage girls, no sexualized male or female characters period, and female characters who are intelligent and competent without overcompensating or being dumbed down enough to make them palatable for insecure manbabies.
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RabbitWizard posted:And no story that leads somewhere. I seriously regretted watching this one. Sorry that happened to you! The season ended where it did because the manga's still going. There's been approximately 30 more chapters of story since the end point of the anime, that will be made into a second season, probably starting production some time next year. Though if a person doesn't like the "one question answered, 5 more appear" kind of storytelling, well, they won't like the rest of what's out so far. We're laughing in the manga thread because (spoilers about a resolution of a plotline from the first season) they still haven't gotten to the basement yet, nor do they have any clue what's in there, though maybe, just MAYBE, one of the latest developments might lead to the characters getting indirect access. 
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I was going to say the Persona 4 animation but then I remembered about Rise. Let's be real though the entire concept of Japanese idols is super creepy.
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And besides gender equality, Attack on Titan is a really solid horror-themed action story mixed with kaiju scale battles. It's a really engaging and downright disturbing show with a really great cast and good action/special effects for the animation.
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Does anyone know the reason why Japanese animators and artists feel the need to put scantily clad totally-not-minors-guys-wink-wink in so many different works? As contribution for the thread: Jiro Taniguchi makes very relaxing, very low-key manga series. His most popular is The Walking Man, which is very beautifully illustrated and is literally just about a guy enjoying walks around his town. But I personally prefer Kodoku no Gourmet, a guy who eats in various restaurants and comments on the food he eats and people he meets there.
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paradoxGentleman posted:Does anyone know the reason why Japanese animators and artists feel the need to put scantily clad totally-not-minors-guys-wink-wink in so many different works? Usually audience pandering. However, a surprising number of manga artists start out doing what amounts to bootleg anime porn, so the same content can often end up leaking into products even after that phase (see: Hellsing, where almost every character is from his earlier porn work). Tiberius Thyben has a new favorite as of 23:19 on Nov 17, 2014 |
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Tiberius Thyben posted:Usually audience pandering. However, a surprising number of manga artists start out doing what amounts to bootleg anime porn, so the same content can often end up leaking into products even after that phase (see: Hellsing, where The guy who writes hellsing is p weird, there's author's notes in the manga talking about how he once got really aroused watching a detergent ad.
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I think I framed the question wrongly. What I meant to say is: how is it possible that it is a sound business decision to include sexualization of minors in someone's work? I sincerely doubt that Japan just happens to have so many more pedophiles than the average nation.
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As someone who is not from Japan and has never been there I think the place is just full of pedophiles.
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Space Dandy.
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paradoxGentleman posted:I think I framed the question wrongly. They don't give as much of a gently caress, because it's cartoons.
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BottledBodhisvata posted:And besides gender equality, Attack on Titan is a really solid horror-themed action story mixed with kaiju scale battles. It's a really engaging and downright disturbing show with a really great cast and good action/special effects for the animation. Yeah, being female, I'm sensitive to portrayal of female characters in fiction*, so even a sub-decent story with a good portrayal of female characters is a big deal when it shows up. It was almost unbelievable to me that a mainstream anime show could be really good and have well done female characters. What BottledBodhisvata said is the better description of why Attack on Titan is awesome. *i.e. "tired of the repetitive poo poo by now" paradoxGentleman posted:I think I framed the question wrongly. The conclusion I've come to is that the majority of the anime/manga industry has stories aimed at a child to preadolescent to college age demographic, and financially, the stories aimed at the teenage males do the best. Nudity and sexuality depicted in a sex-fantasy way are something that is permissible to do and have people look away or try not to notice, much like ultra power fantasy violence in media is ignored in United States.
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Catalina posted:The conclusion I've come to is that the majority of the anime/manga industry has stories aimed at a child to preadolescent to college age demographic, and financially, the stories aimed at the teenage males do the best. Nudity and sexuality depicted in a sex-fantasy way are something that is permissible to do and have people look away or try not to notice, much like ultra power fantasy violence in media is ignored in United States. This is a big part of the puzzle. Also, Japan has a huge cultural fetish for youth (high school in particular) since adult working life in Japan is incredibly miserable and demanding, with so many companies demanding insanely long work hours. People look back on their high school years as the last chance they had to unwind, do things in their free time, and make friends before they ventured into the corporate meat grinder. I suspect that so many Japanese shows feature teenage protagonists or are set in high schools because a large amount of the audience is using them to vicariously relive opportunities they missed during high school. As for the sexualization of youth? Pederasty (wakashudo) was ingrained into the samurai tradition. This doesn't justify the sheer volume of creepy poo poo that comes out of anime, or why lolicon became a thing, but it's worth noting that it was a common practice up until the mid-1850s. ...I remember a post on a thread on SA somewhere which was a way, way better explanation of the Japanese obsession with youth but I can't find it.
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Gamma Nerd posted:This is a big part of the puzzle. You might mean this from grognards.txt: OTSPIII posted:
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Nah it was specifically about the nightmare that is having a job in Japan. No idea what thread I found it in though. I think it could have been Senran Kagura but that thread is loving long so I don't want to search it all.
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