General Anime Thread

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[screams in German]
I love watching this one guy just go to chair, grab a cat there and start hugging it and carrying it everywhere.
 
It’s adorable even though he’s older than me.
 
In actual news, I just watched the new ONE PUNCH MAN Special and was surprised to see very little of the gagness.
 
It was a full-blown shonen episode.
ghostfacekiller39
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I think I’m onto something here, so just let me begin shouting out insults towards people I disagree with real quick. An editorial, I guess.
 
The 1970’s and 80’s in the US saw a rise of a counterculture against the liberalism of the 60’s and early seventies. Crazy college students protesting war and inequality is cool, but when it becomes disruptive and almost “normal,” people can get annoyed. So we see the rise of the term “silent majority” with Nixon, trying to speak up for those who don’t agree with the protesters. It also gives rise to a much stronger conservative movement to go against the radical change, and keep things the same.
 
My point in saying that isn’t related to politics, though - whenever something becomes popular, there will be some kind of backlash and counterculture against it.
 
I think the same concept is being applied to things like Harem and general Moe anime - while I’m still not convinced that it makes up a flooding majority of modern anime like some complete titty babies make it out to be, to say that the genres haven’t had a surge in popularity and output during the last few years would be a retarded thing for anybody to say.
 
However, the people who like these kinds of anime - myself included - don’t tend to be more logically inclined thinkers when passing down their judgements. Not saying that people who like them are idiots, but I’m saying that we tend to be more feeling-based thinkers as opposed to the more thinking-types who come from other genres. While I personally see no issue with being a feeling based thinker in terms of entertainment, even thinking it’s the way to get the most out of your viewing experience, groups of people who don’t form opinions based around cold hard logic tend to have really vocal members who aren’t all that articulate, and will spout bullshit about the cute couples and whatnot, and focus on only the good parts while outright ignoring the bad ones. While I take no issue with that on a personal level because I come from a school of thought that dictates analytical discussion and criticism is worthless when the series itself can be something one can really enjoy, it can irritate people who sit outside of our preferred genres due to what I can really only describe as cultural differences - even though I think that’s a piss poor way to describe it, personally.
 
With more moe and harem focused anime like Haganai and K-On!‘s relatively high popularity outside of the circles who piss and moan about them like it’s going out of style, I can’t help but sit back and think - why is everybody so fucking retarded?
 
But after that, I realized something: A lot of people who constantly bitch about these kinds of anime will often be the ones who want to have at length discussions about their opinions of what they’re watching, and with my perceived quality of the majority of these people’s criticisms aside, they tend to do things like cite specific examples from what they watched and try to explain why they think it worked from a story perspective and all of that. In general, I do think good discussion is trying to be made, but then discussion amongst these folks practically become echo chambers that are just repeating the thoughts and opinions of whoever is the best orator after a while.
 
Whenever somebody who sits outside of these thoughts tries to come into a circle, they tend to spark trouble with their differing opinions, which sparks discussion amongst members where many outnumber the few, kind of like a hive mind of sorts. The people who are different will generally fold after a while because they’re generally outnumbered and not as good at presenting their thoughts as opposed to the other side.
 
That I don’t care about, though, if they want to be pussies who can’t stand by what they say they like then that’s on them. The real downside is that when they can’t really defend their argument and sound stupid, it just adds onto the other side’s narrative they’re spinning.
 
So, I guess the tl;dr version of that is that everybody’s either retarded, an asshole, or just a retarded asshole and I don’t know why I waste my time thinking of these things
 
Maybe I can try to turn these thoughts into a badass story about conflict or something
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[screams in German]
@ghostfacekiller39  
Who are you addressing this to?
 
Also, just in case, I don’t hate harem and moe anime in general. I just dislike certain themes in it. While SAO was a horrible (and I mean, horrible) anime, the harem theme in it was something I like because they were capable and not the “I love you” kind.
 
Monster Musume started off cringy and went on being more cringy, but then Miss-Beautiful Legs-Smith comes along and makes it a lot more interesting. The girls, while they fight over Darling (which is a boo for me) actually learned to be more careful and gives out that feeling where “I want Darling but it’s fine if I lost to you”.
 
And then he goes on individual dates with MON who aren’t even part of the harem. That was fun.
 
We also have Nisekoi where they do fight for him, but then reality kicks in and they know that he has to choose. But, they never force him or even try really hard. It feels really natural. Currently, the manga is about to end and he only has to pick between two people instead of the 5 earlier.
 
Basically;  
SAO (action-y harem)  
Monster Musume (“It’s OK if I lose, even if I don’t want to” harem)  
Nisekoi (reality harem)
 
I hate SAO but I like the harem in it. Though, Kirito is still shit.
ghostfacekiller39
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@HJSDGCE  
It’s not really addressed at anybody in particular, I was reading discussions on MAL and it lead me to think this up. I just didn’t say this on MAL because nothing would come of it, because like I said, opinions on anime are way too echo chamber-y in most places, and it’s particularly bad there.
ghostfacekiller39
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@HJSDGCE  
I didn’t respond to the rest of your post because I don’t see how your personal thoughts on a few harem anime has anything to do with the at-large mentality I’m talking about, if you want me to be honest ._. Sorry you typed that up and it got ignored and all.
 
I was more trying to figure out the psychology of both people who enjoy the genres and people who hate them as opposed to one guy’s personal opinions. Maybe it’s just because it’s 7 am and I didn’t go to sleep that made it hard to think of something, though.
 
Also, I like Kirito so far, 13 episodes into first season :V
 
In fact, I’ve liked what I’ve been watching of SAO since I picked it back up. It seems to have finally settled down on something, and while I don’t think it’s something insanely great or anything, I’m enjoying myself watching it.
 
The episode where I’m at right now has this battle with this skull-scorpion-lizard-thing, though, and it has some of the ugliest CGI I’ve ever seen .-.
ghostfacekiller39
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I mean, really, SAO isn’t anything super awful when I think of it. I dig it so far.
 
My biggest complaint is that the first few episodes were so shit in setting everything up that it made it difficult to not question a lot of things, even for somebody like me, who doesn’t do a whole lot of questioning like that. It went too fast and made it hard to even follow what was happening.
 
Starting in episode 5, things slowed down and started focusing on Kirito and Asuna’s relationship and I feel like it got a lot better after that. Although, my favorite episode was episode 8 when it introduced Lisbeth and she went with Kirito to go find the dragon excrement stone thing to make a badass sword, because I thought Lisbeth was a pretty likable character and I felt kind of bad for her when she had her reason for falling for Kirito and yet Asuna was around and everything, which she tried to accept and all.
 
Even though it’s not a bastion of beautiful storytelling, it’s not anything offensive so far and I feel like it had plenty of enjoyable moments. Just a pretty average action harem with a cool setting compared to most super removed from reality action harems, and I can appreciate as much. My biggest praise is that I don’t lose sight of the fact that they’re still people with bodies stuck in the real world instead of ultra-badass warriors wearing weird armor and using magical powers. I still prefer my harems more down to earth and SoL, though, like Haganai or Nagasarete Airantou.
 
I think it’s really just an issue with counterculture, like I said. People walked into it expecting something it wasn’t, and what it ended up being was basically a part of the genre people complain about the most as opposed to some dark, high stakes psychological thriller. The first episode didn’t do a whole lot to make people think it wouldn’t be that, admittedly.
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[screams in German]
Madoka Kaname.
 
full
 
She’s kinda the saddest character I know in anime. Sure, we have;
 
Mami (has crippling loneliness problems due to traumatic childhood event, she wants people to look up to her and is afraid of being alone)  
Sayaka (hero disorder, she literally breaks down when she realised that she ignored the people in front of her so she could focus on her senpai)  
Red haired girl (dun know much about her but I do know she has problems)  
Homura (she repeated the same month multiple times using her time travelling powers, only to fail repeatedly and watch her friend die over and over again)
 
But Madoka just hurts me more, ya know?
 
She has no problems like the ones above. She’s cute, honest and pure. She just wants to make the world a better place. She was stubborn on this till the very end. She hunted witches, helped people and saved lives. She was the symbol of virtue and morals.
 
And then, she died and became the one thing she didn’t want to be. A witch.
 
The most powerful witch, Kriemhild Gretchen, with enough power to destroy the world in 10 days. Surprisingly enough, the witch does not kill people. No, it carries those trapped in her world into “salvation”, ripping their souls out and putting them in an disturbing, endless paradise.
 
You know, kinda like God.
 
So basically, she died a hero, but came back as a villainous God who’s sole purpose is to forcefully integrate the world in “salvation” by destroying it. She brings the meaning of the End of everything and all people could do was watch.
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Did you know that there was a three episode OVA called Cyborg 009 vs. Devilman?  
Now here’s a history lesson boys and girls. Both of these characters, Cyborg 009 AND Devilman, owe their creation to two different men who have become a pinnacle of Japanese pop culture and media. I am speaking of course about Shotaro Ishinomori and Go Nagai. Ishinomori is responsible for some of the most prolific franchises in Japanese history. The two most well-known are of course the Super Sentai and Kamen Rider franchises. Go Nagai likewise has created works that have embedded themselves in Japan’s culture. He is responsible for the popularization of the ENTIRE mecha genre. So seeing these two lesser known characters of two Japanese pop-culture icons together on one screen is fucking surreal.
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