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Pierson
Oct 31, 2004



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I had hoped for a Marvel Disc Wars-style fanfiction trainwreck but-

Clarste posted:

Unfortunately, this show is a bit too disgusting to watch for humor value.
-alas, it was not to be. Creepy garbage do not watch.

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Pierson
Oct 31, 2004



College Slice
This poo poo seems to sprout up almost single comic that takes place even within the general vicinity of any kind of school or work recently, is it the new editorially-mandated hip and trendy plot or something?

Pierson
Oct 31, 2004



College Slice
トラップバネ上.

Pierson
Oct 31, 2004



College Slice

Namtab posted:

This is the lamest loving power fantasy in that the main dude seems content to fly under the radar about being wizard god instead of owning everyone all the time.
You want to be reading AIKI then because in that series the main character is a ludicrous unbeatable martial-arts master and a colossal rear end in a top hat and it rules. It's a bit porny sometimes (as in straight up fuckin') but when the author finds his groove it's great.

Pierson
Oct 31, 2004



College Slice
The show might be bad but a thread about the historical and sociological origins of a lot of anime tropes and trends from WW2-present day might be pretty cool, so long as we made a big effort for it not to degenerate into casual racism and tvtropes.txt-style shitposting.

Pierson
Oct 31, 2004



College Slice
tvtropes.txt isn't really just single lines of awful loving opinions like gamers.txt or bitoins.txt is (although it certainly has that too). It's a dude proudly showing off twenty paragraphs outlining a novel - nay, a whole quadrilogy - of their space-opera epic including cosmology, character breakdowns from prologue to finale, loving descriptions of technology and entire reams of 'world-building', without ever putting down a single chapter of the actual story, because writing is really loving hard you guys.

There's a great quote from Larry Niven I like to whip out that used to be about amateur sci-fi authors but applies to TVT just as well; they don't want to be writers, they want to have written. The PYF thread is a little long in the tooth but there's some amazing examples there of people who can spend months writing thousands of words without writing anything at all.

Pierson
Oct 31, 2004



College Slice
Well on the whole so far this century Japan definitely has the funniest version of "things get worse > swing hard right" compared to, say, Russia or Greece.

Pierson
Oct 31, 2004



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How bad were the Gate light novels exactly? The comic is amazing because it is seriously Tom Clancy crossed with four or five major anime tropes played totally straight and badly. If it gets any worse someone should try a Book Barn-style readalong.

Pierson
Oct 31, 2004



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That's some TVTropes-level poo poo right there.

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Pierson
Oct 31, 2004



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thread redeemed, no-one is truly beyond help, anime is bad, rename thread to 'the oniishank redemption', goldmine

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