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Everything Burrito posted:I mean, that's kind of the central gag: this high-spec guy who basically has always gotten everything he's ever wanted is getting shut down at every turn by a high school girl who looks at him like he's dirt on her shoe. And then the romance part of it is her slowly warming up to him while he learns to chill out a bit and meet her more on her level.
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# ¿ Apr 2, 2021 21:13 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 11:43 |
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Endorph posted:agegap romance stuff is a pretty standard female fantasy, where they are the younger one and the guy is the older one. its not woke or anything but its hardly the first or last series to explore that feeling Usually the older guy isn't presented as a stalker, though? I thought the normal convention was for the older guy to be at least somewhat reluctant at first.
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# ¿ Apr 2, 2021 21:32 |
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Endorph posted:lmfao. wokely saying 'women who i disagree with about a cartoon have never been harassed in their lives.' wokely laughing at someone who is obviously describing her own experience with harassment.
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# ¿ Apr 2, 2021 22:32 |
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chiasaur11 posted:Which, in turn, would make everyone else worse. So, in a way, Mineta serves a useful purpose, even if he still sucks. The funny thing is that Horikoshi has said he knows a lot of people don't like characters like Mineta, which is why he deliberately limits Mineta's panel time. I suspect that actually makes people hate him more, though, because he doesn't really have room for character traits other than being a horndog.
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# ¿ Apr 9, 2021 02:01 |
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Isekai WNs are copies of copies of Familiar of Zero and Sword Art Online fanfiction. It feels weird to criticize specific isekai WNs for copying from each other.
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# ¿ Apr 12, 2021 03:50 |
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Raenir Salazar posted:Was it Golden Compass where a different author kinda wanted to write series that acted as a rebuttal to the bullshit in Lewis's work? More or less. I think they both end up being narrative failures for much the same reasons in the end, though.
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# ¿ Apr 12, 2021 21:54 |
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I'm still enjoying JORAN THE PRINCESS OF SNOW AND BLOOD, but it's more convoluted than ever. Bunch of things I wasn't sure I understood:
The reason I consider Joran a good show is that I genuinely want to know the answers to these questions and am asking them non-rhetorically, as opposed to a bad story where I don't care about the plot points that confuse me. Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Apr 14, 2021 |
# ¿ Apr 14, 2021 03:58 |
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Silver2195 posted:I'm still enjoying JORAN THE PRINCESS OF SNOW AND BLOOD, but it's more convoluted than ever. Bunch of things I wasn't sure I understood: Incidentally, a look at what people on other sites are saying shows that I am not the only one who is confused about the first two bullet points, at least. Consensus seems to be that yes, Asahi's parents were about to rent her out to a pedophile. Ick.. Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Apr 14, 2021 |
# ¿ Apr 14, 2021 04:20 |
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dogsicle posted:Asahi's parents were pimping her out, in addition to whatever else they did that ran afoul of Yoshinobu's regime (don't remember a specific reason since it doesn't seem as important as the former). Thanks. It's good to know that other people are a bit confused too and I'm not just being an idiot.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2021 04:35 |
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Raenir Salazar posted:The Confederacy during the Civil War tried to use slaves as soldiers, that's actually probably closest along with Osttruppen during WW2. Only at the very end of the war; the idea never got far enough for any slaves to actually fight for the Confederacy.
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2021 00:59 |
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Maybe it's Japan after a few decades of climate change...
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2021 04:56 |
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Otherkin stuff predated Tumblr, anyway; it started in the 90s. The aspect of it that started on Tumblr, as far as I can tell, is the "political" framing of it, especially the appropriation of the rhetoric of the trans rights movement. I suspect Endorph was correct that much of that stuff was deliberate trolling by bigots, but I do think some actual teenagers with chuunibyou bought into it to a degree.
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2021 21:19 |
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Yeah, Joran had a cool episode. Although Janome's cliched villain dialogue brought it down a bit, and I still don't really understand Makoto's motivations.
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# ¿ Apr 21, 2021 04:34 |
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Endorph posted:and yet id still take this source over ann We get it, you hate ANN.
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# ¿ May 12, 2021 13:25 |
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Willo567 posted:Sorry for sounding ignorant, but what happened with ann? Endorph has some sort of grudge against them.
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# ¿ May 12, 2021 14:39 |
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Endorph posted:its just a joke about them reposting jp tabloids that they ran through google translate, something that observably happened, guy who accused me of being a nazi last time i made a joke at a website's expense I do admit I overreacted to your posts in the past, but I did not call you a Nazi.
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# ¿ May 12, 2021 17:06 |
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What's the best "review the older anime you just watched" thread? I think there was one a while back, but if so it seems to be inactive now. I'm watching s-CRY-ed right now, and I think I'll make a big post about it when I finish. Should I use the recommendation thread (despite my review not being entirely positive)? Or will I have to use the general chat thread? I'm actually tempted to post it in the General Mecha Thread, since one of the things that most strikes me about it is how heavily it uses mecha anime tropes despite not containing actual mecha (it's a Sunrise anime). I feel like there should be a general review-posting thread. We used to have the ADTRWiki for posting reviews, but I'm pretty sure that's dead or mostly dead now.
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# ¿ May 16, 2021 01:29 |
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Raenir Salazar posted:it isn't in particular the job of the heroes to solved complex sociological or socio-economic issues. Deku cannot punch into being a solution to poverty. Solving poverty is the job of functioning government ministries and politicians. This is fair enough, but I feel like MHA never really acknowledges this as directly as it should. The characters do sometimes use rhetoric that implies that all problems anyone in Japan has are somehow heroes' responsibility (e.g., All Might "failed to save" Shigaraki from non-Quirk-related child abuse). And this makes MHA feel kind of frustrating, because there's this sense that problems Deku and his friends can't possibly solve, and will never be explored more than superficially anyway, are somehow within the scope of the story. I guess in a way this actually makes MHA's politics less authoritarian (and more realistic) than those of most shonen manga. But this seems accidental. Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 04:45 on May 17, 2021 |
# ¿ May 17, 2021 04:37 |
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Endorph posted:other stuff that wasnt true pre timeskip The "impossible to gauge what any given attack achieves" part was pretty much always a problem for One Piece, with Luffy vs. Foxy probably being the worst pre-time skip offender.
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# ¿ May 18, 2021 19:36 |
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kater posted:There’s a Eureka Seven movie? Let that corpse lie dammit. Isn't that basically all mecha anime, especially the Real Robot kind? I'm sure mecha anime that don't have evil authority figures exist, but I can't think of any.
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# ¿ May 21, 2021 22:30 |
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The Colonel posted:go watch some classic anime from before 2011 Don't actually watch Kannazuki no Miko, though.
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# ¿ May 21, 2021 22:32 |
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Shinjobi posted:Hottest take: Am I the only one who thinks that song sounds oddly similar to Billy Joel's A Matter of Trust in places?
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# ¿ Jun 7, 2021 14:40 |
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Endorph posted:shield hero was crunchyroll-driven, it just predates the branding, yeah. crunchyroll approached the author and the license holders about an anime. the novels nor the show aren't that popular in japan - for reference i looked up their sales and both do about as well as the misfit in demon king academy, and if you've never heard of misfit in demon king academy, exactly - but the fantranslations of the novel were extremely popular on reddit/4chan in the west, so crunchyroll was looking to capitalize. Ugh. I should have known.
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# ¿ Jun 19, 2021 03:06 |
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Endorph posted:this isnt as funny as i thought itd be but i assure you i could keep going There's a lot of anime with well-written endings, but there's also a lot of anime, especially very hyped ones, that had a promising start but failed to stick the landing. Darling in the Franxx Kuma Miko The Pilot's Love Song Apparently Attack on Titan? I haven't finished it, but The Discourse appears to be upset about the ending for some reason. As GorfZaplen mentions, Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers is widely considered an an example, although I don't think it was really that bad. OK, that's not actually that many, but that was just off the top of my head. Give me a few minutes and I could come up with more.
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# ¿ Jun 20, 2021 02:35 |
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Endorph posted:3 of those are adaptations that directly adapted plot points from the original, and franxx had writing issues well before its ending I assumed we were talking about all anime endings (not just anime-original ones) and comparing the endings to the beginnings (not the middles). Come to think of it, there's a lot of anime with a promising beginning that the middle doesn't really live up to, but has a decent enough ending in the context of the middle. Aldnoah Zero, for instance. Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Jun 20, 2021 |
# ¿ Jun 20, 2021 02:58 |
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Other anime with bad (but faithful to the manga) endings: Golden Wind Banana Fish
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# ¿ Jun 20, 2021 03:26 |
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:I would argue it makes perfect sense from a Fourierian perspective, especially regarding the lemonade. Wait, there's utopian socialism and lemonade seas in this show? I gotta watch this.
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# ¿ Jun 27, 2021 00:13 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 11:43 |
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mdct posted:Anime-original endings are pretty rare nowadays and there's literally no way To Your Eternity is going to even reach entry into the actual second part of the story at this rate. Pretty rare, yeah. The anime listed at https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GeckoEnding are almost all prior to 2010 or so. The most prominent (though not in a good way) more recent example is probably Kuma Miko.
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# ¿ Jun 29, 2021 02:49 |