No.90943
>>90927I own none of those things
No.91556
Oh, meant to compare it to Gungrave more than GITS and Psycho-Pass.
No.92502
One-Outs is an interesting anime.
No.93225
One Outs wore off on me the more I watched it. It's a baseball anime, but it's very much like Kaiji too. A very inferior version of Kaiji with no real stakes because the protagonist is a genius Mary Sue whom always accounts for every single variable and wins at everything. What made Kaiji good was how often he had his soul crushed. Seeing him crawl out of the pits of despair made his victories more enjoyable. One Outs doesn't have any emotional impact because you figure out pretty quickly that the main character can just pull infinite tricks out of his ass. It reminded me that there is another anime I've been hesitant to start called Kakegurui because I suspect it also won't approach Kaiji in quality. My first thought when I saw the characters was people probably only like it because it's Kaiji but with schoolgirls. Wonder if Ten and Akagi are well-written.
No.93230
>>93225>My first thought when I saw the characters was people probably only like it because it's Kaiji but with schoolgirlsI only watched the first few episodes, but pretty much.
No.93255
>>93230Damn. All-girl casts aren't a deal-breaker, but I don't like when they're used as a crutch.
No.93256
>>93255I don't even want to see women in media.
So I watch dragonball z heh.
No.93368
Hell's Paradise is pretty good so far (despite the main character being physically incapable of death in many situations, though still vulnerable in quite a few).
No.93395
I gave in, I downloaded D2R.
No.93409
>>93395It's looking kinda dead, despite claims of 40k concurrent players. I am regretting it so far.
No.93429
>>93395>>93409E-erm, wrong thread...!!1 But anyway, I could install it and try playing with you sometime if you want, though I'm typically asleep or outside being autistic.
No.94022
>>94021This would be like if Light died at first half of Death Note and we got a few ending chapters of a retired L reminiscing, with no further drama or exploration. I feel totally cucked.
No.94581
It has come to my attention that a manga artist going by "Shiro Usazaki" is making a new manga at Jump, despite getting arrested for doing "indecent things with a middle-school girl" a few years ago. It got me thinking about how that would never happen in the West, unless you were maybe a member of certain protected classes. With that in mind, it strikes me that said artist claims to be a girl. A lot of mangaka will use a pseudonym and an avatar to represent themselves to maintain their privacy, but I genuinely wonder if this is a troon.
No.94582
>>94581Unlikely. Not many troons in japan.
No.94584
>>94582>>94581Never mind, I'm a tard and it was the writer that got arrested. Deleted a previous post that was also incorrect, but I blame these shitty MAL articles for wording things strangely.
No.94585
>>94584To be fair to you, they didn't cancel the creator of Rurouni Kenshin (caught with a huge amount of CP, paid ~2000USD fine, no time behind bars), so it's sensible to assume the industry would happily welcome another pedo back.
No.94586
>>94581I'm so sick of the western culture of moral panic over age gaps/pedophilia and corporate driven neopuritanism. I don't support doing "indecent things with middle school girls", whatever that extremely euphemistic statement implies, but I'm glad at least one country doesn't have a collective spergout over it constantly.
No.94587
>>94585I was aware of that, and the guy who made Toriko too. It seems this guy, Tatsuya Matsuki, only got probation.
>>94586I've talked about this before, but it's never been that strange to me, because it was pretty common where I grew up in the 90s. People got together because their parents knew each other and such. My father was 23 and my mom was 15 when they started dating, and there was never any drama about this. Just about everyone in the city immigrated from rural Portugal around that time, so they didn't really have Anglo sensibilities. There's a major difference between "underage" and actual pedophilia, and I'm not going to change my stance just because the year is different. People like to pretend that society came to a consensus about a variety of topics after our greatest minds spent years having a philosophical debate in a grand amphitheatre or something, but that never happened.
No.94590
>>94587I think the current outrage against consenting adults in "age gap" relationships being pedophilia is part of a slow creep toward demonizing all sex. That particular thing started with the #metoo movement and liberals deciding that sex between people of different ages had a "power gap" and is therefore amoral. The next logical conclusion to draw is that sex between a man and a woman has a similar power gap, and is thus "pedophilia".
It's absolutely absurd and does nothing but trivialize real sex abuse, and it is barely even the tip of the iceburg when it comes to the absurd moral panic around pedos. But, it's such a taboo thing that you can't even talk about it, which is why they get away with it. Calling someone a pedo is like a magical spell that makes them untouchable.
No.94591
>>94587>because it was pretty common where I grew up in the 90sMy highschool years were in the 2000s and I completely avoided even looking at younger females because I thought it was pedophilia. Wouldn't date freshman in my senior year for example. Society had me completely brainwashed for some time
No.94592
>>94591My highschool years were also in the 2000s, but it wasn't that taboo at least where I was. If a teenage girl went out with some 40 something guy it was considered weird (le sugar daddy) but between grades wasn't even really something I thought about.
No.94593
>>94592Yeah, these days they think it's weird if a junior dates a freshman, but when I was in high school that was not uncommon. When I think about it, it kind of stands to reason. Boys mature slower and girls probably find a guy who can drive and make some money more appealing generally. If you're a first or second year student and you live in a suburban area that's not easily traversed by foot, as is common in the US, where the hell do you take a girl? You gonna ask your mom for rides?
No.95907
>>95887Magnetic Rose is by far the best segment in Memories imho, but the others are pretty good too. I wonder if there's ever been another auteur anthology film of its kind sinc,e or if all of the directors worth a salt over there have fuckin' died or something. The two anthologies I'm most familiar with is Robot Carnival (first anime I'd ever seen, irrc) and Memories which was spectacular but which I'd only seen for the first time about 2 years ago but I swear there's at least one or two more.
No.95910
Just finished Dungeon Meshi. One of the best animes I've ever watched.
No.95915
>>95910Yeah, it's really great. You should read it too. It's not terribly long.
No.95916
>>95907Not really what you asked for, but Mind Game and Dead Leaves are pretty good artsy-fartsy movies.
No.95918
>>95915Yeah, I finished off the manga after watching the anime. It did not disappoint. Extremely good, unpretentious story.
No.95919
>>95915Are there any other animes/mangas that have the same vibe as Dungeon Meshi? I mean like, small group of heroes going down into a dark dungeon, like a dnd quest I guess.
I was thinking log horizon but it has this strange isekai/video game premise which is a bit offputting. I enjoyed that dungeon meshi was just a normal fantasy world with elves and hobbits and stuff.
No.95924
>>95919Obvious ones off the top of my head are Sword World, though not necessarily about dungeoneering. Part of Grimgar kinda falls under that. Made in Abyss sorta does as well and I like it, but at the same time it feels kinda like an evil show. There's a lot of bad stuff that happens to cute things, especially as the series progresses. Slayers is another obvious DND-style setting. El-Hazard sort of, too. Only really obscure one I can think of that might fit the bill at the moment is Ozanari Dungeon.
No.95925
>>95924Good suggestions. Never even heard of most of these but I'll check them all out. I did watch a bit of made in abyss but as you say it feels kind of icky. It's too brutal and I didn't like the shotacon fanservice.
Isn't sword world a japanese tabletop game?
No.95927
>>95925Yes. Can't remember all the names, but it's basically Record of Lodoss War and a couple other self-contained series in the same continuity. Think one is called Rune Soldier/Knight and another is Crystania.
No.95929
>>95927Ah I see. Thanks anon.
No.95930
>>95919I think Dungeon Meshi is a unique groundbreaker I expect will inspire much in the future. No shows are comparable at present
No.96017
>>78548azumanga is definitely not as favorable as Yotsubato. Which I really liked reading, only read it recently because I am binge crap like that and don't do anything until I know it's finished, kek.
BEM is very good show, especailly old one, combined with Mushishi perhaps and Monster which I have recently rewatched AGAIN! In fact, due to my mental issues for some reason the stupid music when Lunge is being strangled by Roberto keeps playing in my head since today's morning. I want to also mention another old classic from 2012 that came to my mind, Mirai Nikki is now completely forgotten show! Crazy, since it was popular back when it came out, oh and also Noucume, because I've been planing to read the light novel famous for its own season released.
No.96018
VINLAND SAGA
i cried a lot
No.96038
>>96018Turns to shit after the timeskip. Most disappointing manga I ever read.
No.96076
>Getting deep on ANIME directing – LEGENDARY Director of Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor 2 and Urusei Yatsura, Mamoru Oshii – released his 4.5-hour master course on Anime and Film Directing.Mamoru Oshii - Anime & Film Directing - Session (1.5 hrs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7HquRppz7UMamoru Oshii - Anime & Film Directing - Lecture (3 hrs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJFrCxm2LroInterview with Akira Toriyama's editor Kazuhiko Torishima (9 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd0ocHDfYgg
>Akira Toriyama is really good at making up stuff on the spot while writing, he’s the kind of writer that does not plan for anything that happens and lets the story evolve “by itself”, often making choices based on a whim (the Super Saiyan transformation was created to not have to draw the black in the hair).>Now, what is the best point of Toriyama’s manga? Definitely not the story or the characters, since both are rather standard as a shonen story (one could argue it is standard since he set the standard but let’s move on), his strong point is how he shows a fight.>With Toriyama’s work fighting became a moving event in the page, characters were fluidly fighting while leading the reader’s eye to the right point in time. Let’s see why.>The action is always clear and there isn’t a single moment where you need to reread the page to know what is going on and what the characters are doing.>This is Toriyama’s gift: being able to tell the story of a fight in a really clean and interesting way.https://www.quora.com/Is-Akira-Toriyama-a-great-storyteller/answer/Matteo-Arbia (included images to demonstrate the argument)
There's worldbuilding, and then there's this... (Made in Abyss) (31 mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuqSAGqofaE
