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Thanks friends, I think I'll check out mob psycho 100 this weekend!egg tats posted:
Animated? Because Batman the Animated Series, but I was told Big O might be similar? But I also liked Death Note, something about the mystery aspect that I really enjoyed.
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Stormgale posted:https://twitter.com/FreyjaErlings/status/1213114933203873792 love to Protect Trans People by harassing the trans people who dare vaguely imply they have a distaste for contrapoints
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For animechat, just wanted to mention that Mushi-shi is a very good time. It's almost a mellow sort of series, it's about a wanderer investigating various Japanese spirit-critters and each episode is somewhere between a ghost story and a BBC nature documentary. Funimation has the whole first season on YouTube.
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At this point if people tell me "oh, you can't really judge X if you haven't watched their whole hour+ long video" then I assume X is really not worth my time.
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Jan 3, 2020 16:22
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Endorph posted:lmao, this person is getting harassment in their replies literally just for saying 'im not gonna watch the video and im gonna ignore the discourse about it' Yep, this has been her for the past like 18 hours? It's why I'm not exactly happy about anyone trying to defend contra right now when her video has caused harm.
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PenguinKnight posted:the alt-right seems to really like touhou. It’s absolutely frustrating! touhou creator ZUN literally wrote a book making fun of far-right xenophobic news media, named it after a white house press conference that got endlessly mocked, and attributed a trump speech to a character to make them look like an absolute buffoon, how can you be a nazi and touhou fan and not realise the franchise endlessly mocks you lmao
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TelevisedInsanity posted:
Big O is very good and one of my favorite mecha series! I am, however, biased because some of the staff (notably the writer/director) that worked on it also worked on some of my other favorites, including the previously recommended Gatchaman crowds and one of my all time favorite series, Mononoke - a series of really beautifully animated vignettes that more often than not tend to tackle some pretty dark/heavy themes and subjects. I'd highly recommend checking out its pilot, which came out in the series "Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales" as episodes 9, 10 and 11 if that kind of thing at all interests you. But in a more batman-ey vibe; "Ergo Proxy" is a sci-fi series involving a murder mystery starring androids, and "The Skull Man" is a mystery plot following a journalist trying to get to the root of a story involving a mysterious pharmaceutical company, weird monsters, and a dangerous vigilante suddenly showing up in his home town.
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a cartoon duck posted:touhou creator ZUN literally wrote a book making fun of far-right xenophobic news media, named it after a white house press conference that got endlessly mocked, and attributed a trump speech to a character to make them look like an absolute buffoon, how can you be a nazi and touhou fan and not realise the franchise endlessly mocks you lmao ofc the bigger reality is a lot of these people aren't actually into touhou enough to see that stuff, but still
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Nuebot posted:Big O is very good and one of my favorite mecha series! I am, however, biased because some of the staff (notably the writer/director) that worked on it also worked on some of my other favorites, including the previously recommended Gatchaman crowds and one of my all time favorite series, Mononoke - a series of really beautifully animated vignettes that more often than not tend to tackle some pretty dark/heavy themes and subjects. I'd highly recommend checking out its pilot, which came out in the series "Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales" as episodes 9, 10 and 11 if that kind of thing at all interests you. Will second Mononoke, it’s probably my second favorite anime. I can also second Mushishi. Gintama is very very long but it’s also a parody of... everything that can reach some surprising depths with its character drama later on.
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a cartoon duck posted:touhou creator ZUN literally wrote a book making fun of far-right xenophobic news media, named it after a white house press conference that got endlessly mocked, and attributed a trump speech to a character to make them look like an absolute buffoon, how can you be a nazi and touhou fan and not realise the franchise endlessly mocks you lmao The same way people will take images from starship troopers (the they are afraid one), removing it from satirical context and unironically using it on Fascist message boards. People will be incredibly willfully ignorant.
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a cartoon duck posted:touhou creator ZUN literally wrote a book making fun of far-right xenophobic news media, named it after a white house press conference that got endlessly mocked, and attributed a trump speech to a character to make them look like an absolute buffoon, how can you be a nazi and touhou fan and not realise the franchise endlessly mocks you lmao the gundam fandom is very mysterious i don't think you can actually make the bad guys obviously evil/dumb enough to where neo-nazi types won't go "cool i'm ALL about this" Stormgale posted:https://twitter.com/FreyjaErlings/status/1213114933203873792 yow @ all the people furiously telling her to watch the video b/c the thing she's describing didn't happen (it did happen)
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Nuebot posted:But in a more batman-ey vibe; "Ergo Proxy" is a sci-fi series involving a murder mystery starring androids, Ergo Proxy goes some really wild places (in mostly a good way) but I absolutely love the female protagonist. Real is pretty much the complete opposite of the popular stereotype of an anime heroine. She's confident, a complete badass, not terribly sexualized and flawed in such a human way. Edit: 0 rows returned posted:i thought ergo proxy had a really strong start but then it went into what felt like nothing but filler and then had a wet fart of an ending This is also quite true. The show is more about character studies than the bigger plot. To be fair, much of Big O's first season is the same.
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TelevisedInsanity posted:Thanks friends, I think I'll check out mob psycho 100 this weekend! JoJo is a good bet for 'campy, ridiculously heightened battles of wits' (don't let that episode count intimidate you, it's actually a series of somewhat interlinked stories rather than one single narrative), and if the idea of Death Note as a rom-com tickles your fancy, Kaguya Wants To Be Confessed To is good silly fun. If you want a weird, dark police procedural, Psycho-Pass is a good shout (go for the 'special edition' with double-length episodes and improved animation and ignore the sequels).
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Absurd Alhazred posted:At this point if people tell me "oh, you can't really judge X if you haven't watched their whole hour+ long video" then I assume X is really not worth my time. That's my contra story. It's not great. E. Anime chat: Fist of the North Star is still a fun watch if you play it at 1.5-2x speed. MelvinBison fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Jan 3, 2020 |
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Jan 3, 2020 16:37
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MelvinBison posted:Yesterday my sister (still a big contra fan) tried to provide me timestamps for the "important parts" / responses to some of the tweets I shared with her that I found in this thread. I still refuse to look because that's cherrypicking information and theoretically I should be watching the whole video for context (because she's not worth a full length movie of my time), and if those were the important bits anyway, then why did the video need to be 107 minutes long in the first place? I was told "I thought were better than that" and she hasn't spoken to me since. Parasocial relationships seem real bad, maybe. Sorry you're going through that.
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To shitpost maybe a tiny bit less, i just wanna say I also really enjoyed Calico Heart's video on Blazing Saddles. Putting it into the greater context of American tv/movie culture regarding cowboys was especially helpful for me as a non-American. The wobbly distortion footage started to get a bit hard on my eyes though when it just kept going for several minutes. The algorithm being an uncaring hellbeast I'm not sure if there's better solutions when you already edited your video and you only get told after the fact that your footage ain't okay.
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Jan 3, 2020 16:52
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There's people demanding that Kat Blaque and Mia Mulder denounce ContraPoints, despite them not being involved. It's a real bad look for those doing it. I've only watched the first half-hour of the new video, and a lot of what's been said about essentialism, exageration, and associativeness seems to be spot on. The news story of that Instagram guy seemed really strange to me when it happened.
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Jan 3, 2020 16:57
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Keep in mind, none of this actually matters, not giving a poo poo is always possible.
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0 rows returned posted:i thought ergo proxy had a really strong start but then it went into what felt like nothing but filler and then had a wet fart of an ending
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Did Adult Swim air Big O in a weird way? Because I remember liking it, but I also felt like every time I watched an episode I was in the middle of a story arc that had like 7 episodes of set up (and I watched frequently enough to know that couldn’t always be the case).
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Jan 3, 2020 17:35
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Bug Squash posted:I think it's fine to associate with a character in anime, and it's fine to have a twitter picture that isn't your real face. The problem is that people include picrew avatars from that one really popular generator in that and there's a reason the thing is popular
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dirksteadfast posted:Did Adult Swim air Big O in a weird way? Because I remember liking it, but I also felt like every time I watched an episode I was in the middle of a story arc that had like 7 episodes of set up (and I watched frequently enough to know that couldn’t always be the case).
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dirksteadfast posted:Did Adult Swim air Big O in a weird way? Because I remember liking it, but I also felt like every time I watched an episode I was in the middle of a story arc that had like 7 episodes of set up (and I watched frequently enough to know that couldn’t always be the case). i think the show's writers just sought to confuse the audience
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Bug Squash posted:There's people demanding that Kat Blaque and Mia Mulder denounce ContraPoints, despite them not being involved. It's a real bad look for those doing it. The internet or celebrity culture or whatever turns people into objects of scorn or adoration in a way that dehumanizes them to their “fans” and renders them objects that become the site for working out strong emotions better left to a psychiatrist or a social worker. It seems horrible and would honestly make me insane after five minutes.
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:The problem is that people include picrew avatars from that one really popular generator in that and there's a reason the thing is popular I mean there’s a reason for many bad things being popular
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:The internet or celebrity culture or whatever turns people into objects of scorn or adoration in a way that dehumanizes them to their fans and renders them objects that become the site for working out strong emotions better left to a psychiatrist or a social worker. It seems horrible and would honestly make me insane after five minutes. Parasocial relationships, especially on Twitter, are hosed both ways. I'm kinda soured on Contra but it's basically rule of thumb that if (when) you slip up, you're gonna both have people making unreasonable demands of you AND people giving you complete and total reassurance that you could do no wrong.
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GulagDolls posted:jenny's been suffused with abuse from people calling her racist for saying she was disappointed with john boyega for making what she perceived to be a misogynist joke. she made a post about it on her tumblr and then deleted it. regardless of your view on what boyega said, that reading is prett yfucking wild Yeah to save people the time of looking up wtf happened, Jenny retweeted someone critical of Boyega’s statement (“it’s not about who she kisses but who eventually lays the pipe”), and people popped off about her being racist for a couple tenuous reasons: 1. “‘Laying pipe’ is AAVE and Jenny’s a white girl clutching pearls at non-white language” (is it AAVE? I thought it was just a generic frat bro term). 2. “Jenny’s a Reylo that’s being critical of an inter-racial relationship”. Their evidence of this is that she did a video on the Reylo romance novel (ignoring that she skipped over all the smutty parts and was clearly discomforted by them) or that she made Reylo her bingo sheet’s free space (obviously a joke). 3. She talks about killing Poe in one of her videos or something and Oscar Isaac is Guatemalan. Nobody really mentions how Boyega’s statements aren’t misogynistic, either. They either downplay it or just ignore it, even though it’s the entire reason this happened. Pigbuster fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Jan 3, 2020 |
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Being a popular Youtuber is basically starting a cult where you somehow are the one being lovebombed.
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dirksteadfast posted:Did Adult Swim air Big O in a weird way? Because I remember liking it, but I also felt like every time I watched an episode I was in the middle of a story arc that had like 7 episodes of set up (and I watched frequently enough to know that couldn’t always be the case). That might just be Big O. IIRC, it was originally supposed to be 26 episodes long, but then it got slashed to 13. Then AS funded season 2, with a plan for 26 more episodes...which then got cut down to 13. Again. The short of it is that season 1 is more episodic, monster of the week with brief swerves into lore episodes and feels a bit abbreviated. Then season 2 is this strange mix of ideas probably originally meant for season 1 that were cut and an inverted ratio of standalone episodes to lore episodes. So if you walked in as season 2 was airing again, that could be the culprit right there.
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Dias posted:Being a popular Youtuber is basically starting a cult where you somehow are the one being lovebombed. It is genuinely cultish; mention any sort of criticism, no matter how minor or mild and her sycophantic melts throw themselves at you in a desperate attempt to you No humanity in they eyes
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Don't worry, Trump just declared war with Iran. Soon none of this will matter.
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Also there was some level of calculation on timing that video right when Magfest was about to start, and thus there being way, way less online programing so there would be a guarantee of way more eyes on that video.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Don't worry, Trump just declared war with Iran. Soon none of this will matter. It's a hosed up indictment of the world we live in, where I hope this is a joke but genuinely cannot tell if it is or not.
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I just wish anime would stop having 80% of all scenes include grunts or internal monologues. That's my main bugbear with the way anime is presented, in broad terms. Doesn't matter if it's a dub or a sub people making excessive grunting noises annoys the hell out of me. You're not Link from Zelda you can be quiet for a moment, please.
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TelevisedInsanity posted:Which leads me into my question - i didn't really care much for that FLCL revival, I thought it was going to be so good, and was disappointed, and haven't really watched any anime in a while, except for an episode of "Pop Team Epic" (which was "fine") and "Cells at Work" (it was also "fine"), I don't know if you have any recommendations for shows with a proper beginning, middle and end - and I think it's too late for me to get into JoJo. I've avoided the FLCL revival because I liked the original and it had a beginning, middle and end, and don't want that ruined. I like endings. In a similar vein, I'd recommend the original Madoka Magika for having a 12 episode arc that stands as its own arc and you don't need to watch anything else. Go in unspoiled if you can, but it's a good, if kinda depressing watch. Just pretend the rest didn't happen and you're fine.
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Eugene V. Dubstep posted:any member of a privileged group defending one of the most successful trans activists of the last decade gives me some 'white knight' vibes too op I didn't realize we were talking about Chelsea, I thought this was contra chat
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I actually really like rebellion. It's debatable if what happens is a bad thing or not. People who watch the original should at least form their own opinions on it. I've heard outlines of magia record stories though and it sounds edgy in a way the material had a reputation for being but kind of wasn't.
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Vinland Saga is the best concurrent anime. I mean it's got vikings and really what does one need more than that. Extremely similar to the tv-show Last Kingdom if anyone liked that.
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