Japanese cartoons

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i have basically come to terms with / resigned myself to being incapable of making a critical evaluation of eva because it spoke to me and my experience of being a broken human so profoundly and directly on first watch that i have come to take most treatment of it as merely “deconstructed collection of ultraman tropes + horny anime psychodrama etc” a little personally

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watched the 1984 film Birth with a friend today.

it sure was pretty to look at, and uh, yeah

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same studio that did Leda: the Fantastic Adventure of Yohko, and Windaria!

If I were to rank them, it’d be Leda > Windaria > Birth but I find them all delightful

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lol i love eva now the show only gets better as it goes on and the original ending is one side of the same trauma fucking coin as end of eva because NOTHING is complete in this show without depending on something else to hold it up! its thematic! here are my thoughts

  1. its hilarious how shinji literally takes twice as long to process as the women in the episode previous, toxic masculinity baby!
  2. HOLY SHIT OF COURSE ANIME FANS HATED THIS BECAUSE THEY TOO WANTED THE FIRST EPISODE OF SAILOR MOON WITH REI
  3. i love how TIRESOME shinjis processing gets, and the second i couldn’t take it anymore asuka shows up to tell him and finally

YES IM SO GLAD I GOT TWO WHOLE EPISODES OF ACTUAL PROCESSING UNINTERRUPTED BY A FUCKING ANGEL INVASION! the whole show is over and over hammering it into you that no one gets a single second to think to themselves about what is going on and its always ALARMS AWOOOGA NO TIME FOR THERAPY

the show is good i will be taking no further questions and yes im going to watch the rebuild movies so there. hmph.

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lol hell yeah I got daphny into evangelion, I rest my case

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the worst thing of all time is that the most asuka thing i could do is think im completely above anything eva has to offer until my mid thirties

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I think my main memory of watching Eva in high school was my sister seeming to personally blame me for the ending

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important news
https://www.rightstufanime.com/Symphogear-Season-1-Blu-ray

wow la blue girl returns fucking SUCKS! maybe i wouldn’t be as disappointed if i knew it was by the overfiend guy but all i could think of the whole time was man tentacle rape really fell off didnt it

i dunno overfiend has a lot of weird style stuff that sticks out, even the weird underwater scenes that are just dark blobs of censorship and muffled audio are better than like, nes sprite frame levels of tentacle movement. AH WELL. gonna see if the first LA BLUE GIRL is any less bullshit

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the los angeles bluegirls

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if i lived in socal id start a softball team called the LA Blue Girls

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la blue girl returns is 75% thinking to yourself “how long has it been since the last fucking rape?”, 15% awful ninja anime plot bullshit, and like 5% what you actually want to see because you’re traumatized. Japanese guys will sit through literally anything to see boobs. I didn’t want to be the la blue girl even once. Pathetic.

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I remember one day hanging with a group of friends and someone brought over a show for us all to watch together and it was La Blue Girl. On the rare occasion I am reminded of it I still wonder what his thought process was.

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As a story, Birth is almost nothing. As a stunning work of animation, it is a triumph. And as a love letter to Kanada Yoshinori’s wife’s ass, it’s a rousing success.

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Holy crap do not google anime birth.

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Can anyone recommend Aggretsuko? I’ve been on the fence for ages.

The first season was deeply charming and relatable, didn’t care so much for season 2. It’s not essential viewing but I found it very fun and memorable.

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it wasn’t that bad