General Anime Thread

I just finished watching a pretty old anime from the 80s. Ginga Nagareboshi Gin.
 
It sucks that I was never able to find episodes that had decent subtitling, but I quite enjoyed the show itself. It’s basically a battle shonen, but about talking dogs that fight bears.
 
The dogs don’t actually start talking until episode 7 either, which is quite a turn for the show to make that far in (the season has 21 episodes). There are some early scenes that can be pretty rough to watch. Training from Hell looks even more awful than it normally does when it takes the form of a tiny puppy being beaten by an old man wielding a stick. The whole show is shockingly violent in places, and includes probably the most suicide I’ve ever seen in this type of anime (and not the “I’m rushing into battle knowing I’m going to die” type of suicide. I mean straight up jumping into fire or leaping into pits full of spikes on purpose).
 
There’s probably a bit too much glorification of what it means to be a “real man” in it for me, (being a real man involves abandoning your children when they’re only a few days old so you can fight a hideously powerful bear, even though your eyesight is currently failing, and you could go blind at any time during the fight), but it’s got that overall 80s charm to it, and the soundtrack is excellent.

I’m really loving Dr Stone. I really wish more anime nowadays have the same feeling. It reminds me so much of how I would watch Naruto and One Piece.
 
Instead, all I get are cute girls doing cute things, sexy harem nobodies and edgy shows for edgy teens.

@Scrabbleman  
I need to get back to watching it. But my mind’s been occupied with Fairy Tail and MHA.

Welp, Azur Lane ep 11 and 12 delayed until March. Yeah. March.
 
First anime by the studio. Hopefully, they’ll learn the right lessons.

 
The Chinese Twitter of Dr. Stone seems to have leaked the S2 announcement. No official announcement from the studio yet, as far as I know.

@Scrabbleman  
I mean, maybe anime is not for you? Maybe anime was never what you thought it was, and probably never will be.
 
Maybe. Just a thought.

Something I’ve complained about multiple time before, but I’ll happily complain about again because I love complaining.
 
Normies have this idea of anime in their mind, and nothing will change their mind. Nothing. I could tell Scrabbleman I was watching CGDCT and harem shit since before Naruto aired, he won’t believe me. I could tell people here anime has been doing “SJW” shit since the 90s, no one believes me. I could tell Holo there is more to anime than memes and waifus, he won’t believe me.
 
This is why I’m angry all the time. :D

Since I’m still angry, I’ll just bitch about nothing some more.
 
As someone who watches CGDCT, who specifically looks for CGDCT, holy shit do I wish CGDCT was as prominent as people who hate it act like it is. Holy shit, do I wish to Akane that was what this industry was actually like. (I tried 5 of them this season, 3 of them I dropped.) Holy god, do I wish that there were actually dozens of them I could choose from each season.

@dt  

 
Some people have narrow tastes, some people have broad tastes.

I wish that anime would be ruined by SJWs and CGDCT like people say it is. I really, deeply, truly wish that was actually happening.

@dt  
Why?

@Random-Rambling  

 
I understand that. My point of contention is the idea that these things don’t exist, or never existed in the past.
 
Like, people watch a handful of shows (or just one), and just decide that’s all of anime. Whether it’s action, or porn, or Ghibli, or whatever. And then years later, they get a peek into what the industry is really like and they think anime has “changed.” No, you’re only just now finding out what anime is actually like.

@WyrmSpawN  
Simply put, because I like those shows better.
 
Longer answer: I’ve always like girl’s cartoons, but thanks to socials pressures, I watched more cartoons that boys are “supposed” to watch, even though I didn’t like them that much. (To be fair, I did like Naruto.) The turning point for me was K-On. That was the point where I was like “Fuck it, this is all I’m watching.”
 
I watch more boy’s show now (even yaoi) because it would be hypocritical of me to say people need to be more open to watching girl’s cartoons if I didn’t at least try some boy’s shows. And I do like some of them, watching Dr. Stone and MHA this season.
 
I think it’s because girl’s cartoons and “SJW” shows tend to (not always) challenge the viewer, challenge social norms and ideas. And I like art that challenges me, so I gravitate towards those shows, even if I consider myself a cishet male. _{[spoiler](Honestly, if my upbringing was different, I might not be. But no one wants to hear that.)}[/spoiler]
 
Not to say that boy’s shows never do that, but they tend to just show the viewer what they want to hear, which isn’t that interesting to me. The typical sort of male power fantasy just doesn’t resonate me.
 
 
There is this narrative that CGDCT and SJW shit is all over the anime industry, but as someone who actively looks for those things, there is so little of it. Like, I’ll look at the list of shows in a given season and go “Hey, 6 of them look like they have a female-lead cast, that’s way more than usual!” And then half of them will be bad. People act like that shit is ruining anime, and as someone who likes that shit, I really wish that was true.

@dt  

 
S2 confirmed.

Finished Wagnaria!! (all three seasons and the special), WWW.WAGNARIA!!, episode 8 of MHA S4 and episode 8 of Demon Slayer.
 
Wagnaria and WWW.Wagnaria were both really good. I preferred the first one, mainly because it had three seasons, so I got to spend more time with the characters, but I liked both casts. The romance in both was pretty great (and, unlike in some other shows I’ve seen recently, had a satisfying conclusion).
 
Both shows had pacing issues though. In Wagnaria’s case, the pacing was a little too slow (it took waaaay too long for some plots to get resolved). WWW.Wagnaria had the opposite problem - the pacing was too fast, which led to the main romance feeling a bit rushed.
 
Overall though, both shows were great.
 
MHA was as amazing as always. I’ve been hoping for Tamaki to get more screentime, and the episode definitely did not disappoint in that regard. I especially loved how, in the end, the hero used the villains’ friendship against them.
 
Demon Slayer is still getting better and better. The episode introduced more heroic demon characters, which is something that I hoped would happen. Hopefully they won’t die in the next episode.
 
Next up is Hitoribocchi no Marumaruseikatsu.

@DarklordYuri  
Hitoribocchi is excellent, look forward to it.

Saying there are SJW anime is as much accurate like saying there is AltRight anime

@DeathCloud  
Makes sense there might be one or two nazi anime people overlook.

I’m pretty sure there more than “6 female led shows” this season

@WyrmSpawN  
I see stuff called that way or similar (by both SJW claiming and saying its it and altrighters wanting to posses these shows plus shitposters) - Youjo Senki, SNK or Goblin Slayer buts just trying to hard or actually missing point of these hard. I know there also Dies Irae with Reinhard Heydrich but its not nazi anime just closer to Wolfstein, Man In High Casstle or Hellsing crap

Wait, DID Tamaki use the villains’ friendship against them? It more just came off like he knew how to disrupt their teamwork. He didn’t turn them against each other or trick them into attacking their allies. He just kept one from looking at him and used another as a bludgeon.
 
Exploiting a friendship would be like Armin from Attack on Titan provoking Bertolt into making a mistake by saying that Annie is being tortured.

@DarklordYuri  
Hitoribotchi is a great anime and I’m certain you’ll find it enjoyable.

@gingerninja666  
He used it in the way:  
|| The guy wouldn’t risk biting into his own friend. If the villains just wanted to slow down/kill the heroes, he would have been able to just bite through the crystal guy and continue onto Tamaki. And the villains had already establish they were willing to completely lay down their lives and die for it. They were self-proclaimed “trash”. But, even though they were willing to be sacrificed, they weren’t willing to hurt eachother. So Tamaki took one hostage and used him as a human shield.
 
Which they then reinforced with his line “You wouldn’t eat your friend.” ||

Its weird seeing lion Yakuza arc in Beastars anime after all this time in manga and how much Leo Group turned out to be dorks