I feel like watching an anime series once every decade or so and I always pick the most known or hyped one of the moment so I’ve almost seen every episode of Attack on Titan and I’m pretty sure they just revealed that all the titans that have been terrorizing and eating humanity are actually the jews and I’m like “Bad anime! No!” although it isn’t fair to hold it against the entire medium.
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I care very much about and am invested in anime. It took me a long time to admit that it’s what I really wanted to study in grad school. I wanted to do something more, ahem, serious. But I ended up embracing it and writing my thesis about Gundam. I watch a half dozen new shows every year from all genres.
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It is too bad that it is often embarrassing to view websites like Anime News Network because they’ve been sponsored by some terribly horny series with huge ads framing every page.
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Attack on Titan is so inexplicable to me because it seemed like obvious nazi propaganda from ep 1 and yet people were surprised at where the series went
I think AoT was more popular in america than in japan
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Lately I’ve noticed a few manga adaptation of what appears to be an offshoot of the overpowered fantasy protagonist light novel genre where the protagonists are in their late 30s and for various and sundry reasons decide They’re Too Old For This Shit and give up the adventuring shtick and try and take it easy. I figure one is bound to get turned into an anime at some point.
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I just binged Tonegawa - Middle Management Blues and give it four out of five nazi boat girls.
I mean this could’ve been worse.
And I appreciate me some food porn in my animus.
I won’t!
AoT had a peculiar amount of breakthrough mainstream popularity in America but it was crazy popular in Japan too.
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I think Attack on Titan has a fairly solid hook for an action cartoon as it is basically a post-apocalyptic world where mankind has been decimated by giant monsters that eat them yet can only fight back via spidermaning around via wires and attacking with swords. Add in the whole early “misery porn” angle that has been in vogue at times over the past several years and I think there are non-nefarious reasons for it to have gained a following.
That said it does definitely go in some… unfortunate directions.
Of course the previous time I decided to watch an anime series it was Full Metal Alchemist and the leader in that series was called führer by everyone, so perhaps I need to re-examine my selection process.
Spoilers for FMA:
I mean he’s an an expansionist military leader working for the big bad in both versions of FMA.
So you’re supposed to go, “oh, that’s probably not great.”
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Okay, yes, it is very much time for “anime” to become “cartoons” in our language:
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I’m never not surprised by how much press release language is capable of shaping news writeups.
It makes me very angry.
Kevin Smith’s He-Man being on the same service as Noelle Stevenson’s She-Ra is wild to me
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I’m a big fan of American eiga. I’m a little bit like an audiophile, but for eiga… some kind of “movietaku”
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well that took long enough
the writing in it is like 10x as good as the movie writing
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It’s maybe my favorite police procedural; if you’re not into it by the time of “Interceptors in my eyes!” maybe it won’t do it for you. Maybe try the One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest pastiche as a one-off before dropping it.
If you grabbed the oversaturated rip where you can see the Major’s lip gloss in every scene, go back and find the original-colored one. It’ll look much nicer and the noise will soften the art.
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if you find a rip in which the Major wears her jeans more often tell me
You’d have to watch Arise for that which is never recommended.
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