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Fundamentally, I agree with him.
Westerners will laugh at him, but the core of his message is right: The power of media to influence people, especially children, is not something we give much thought to at all or regard such people as 'fundamentalists', etc.,
Of course, the same people will tell you the importance of having 'representation' and such in media because children need rolemodels or somesuch. Or that media portrayal of women is 'harmful'. So obviously they also agree with Zad! They just refuse to admit it in a direct manner. Because, unlike Zad, they are fundamentally evil and therefore deceptive.
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"Support Japanese artists"Oyster Sauce wrote: ↑ April 19th, 2024, 13:15
the shit yall niggas make:
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Just finished rewatching Record of Lodoss War OVA with a friend who hadn't seen it before:
I can't rate it all that highly, objectively, but I appreciate its significance to nerd culture. Very flawed but very pretty. Parn is lame but Deedlit is a treasure.
Before that, watched Oshi no Ko with the same friend:
I went in totally blind. It's more serious than I initially expected. Can't really talk about it without spoilers, but I enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to S2. I hate the first 15 seconds of the OP but I like the rest of it. @GhostCow ruined the ED for me by linking me the actual music video a while back. Don't watch it.
Finally, I'm a few episodes into 08th MS Team thanks to @gerey's recommendation. Started a few weeks ago but got sidetracked by the above because of my friend. Sorry gerey! It's the only Gundam anything I've ever watched, but the setting seems cool and I like the protagonist. I feel like a protagonist who is a commanding officer but also not a power fantasy is a rare combination.
I can't rate it all that highly, objectively, but I appreciate its significance to nerd culture. Very flawed but very pretty. Parn is lame but Deedlit is a treasure.
► Deedlit
I went in totally blind. It's more serious than I initially expected. Can't really talk about it without spoilers, but I enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to S2. I hate the first 15 seconds of the OP but I like the rest of it. @GhostCow ruined the ED for me by linking me the actual music video a while back. Don't watch it.
Finally, I'm a few episodes into 08th MS Team thanks to @gerey's recommendation. Started a few weeks ago but got sidetracked by the above because of my friend. Sorry gerey! It's the only Gundam anything I've ever watched, but the setting seems cool and I like the protagonist. I feel like a protagonist who is a commanding officer but also not a power fantasy is a rare combination.
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Heh, I own the original Record of Lodoss War on disc. Watched it a few months ago and it is has some very good elements, but is way too rushed as it is an OVA. They can do so much more with the setting given theWhiteShark wrote: ↑ April 20th, 2024, 13:00Just finished rewatching Record of Lodoss War with a friend who hadn't seen it before:
I can't rate it all that highly, objectively, but I appreciate its significance to nerd culture. Very flawed but very pretty. Parn is lame but Deedlit is a treasure.
Before that, watched Oshi no Ko with the same friend:► Deedlit
I went in totally blind. It's more serious than I initially expected. Can't really talk about it without spoilers, but I enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to S2. I hate the first 15 seconds of the OP but I like the rest of it. @GhostCow ruined the ED for me by linking me the actual music video a while back. Don't watch it.
Finally, I'm a few episodes into 08th MS Team thanks to @gerey's recommendation. Started a few weeks ago but got sidetracked by the above because of my friend. Sorry gerey! It's the only Gundam anything I've ever watched, but the setting seems cool and I like the protagonist. I feel like a protagonist who is a commanding officer but also not a power fantasy is a rare combination.
story foundation with the Goddesses. Even skip time to newer protagonists with cameos of the old ones. Also props to the authors for the death of the dwarf, not many use it like this as in killing off a protagonist. And the other few twists.
There has also been another season but with a different main character while giving the original ones cameos. Can't remember the name and haven't found much about any physical release(s). They may have a DVD release but have to look that up again to verify.
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I've seen both, and tried watching the one where the Black Knight and Dark Elf sail over world's edge, looking for a new homeland, but that was bad.
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ロードス島戦記 英雄騎士伝Kowe wrote: ↑ April 20th, 2024, 13:33There has also been another season but with a different main character while giving the original ones cameos. Can't remember the name and haven't found much about any physical release(s).
No idea about a physical release, but I have it downloaded. My friend and I decided to take a break from Lodoss to watch something else but it's next on the list after that. Apparently the first part of the TV series is a summary of the original story with corrections to follow the original campaign more faithfully, and after that it follows the next generation. It's not well rated online so I don't expect it to be great, but half the fun is watching it in JP with my friend, anyway.
Yes, Oshi no Ko manages to avoid being cringe despite the subject matter, though It does feel a tad preachy at times. Without spoiling anything, I wonder if the anime is popular enough to get enough seasons to animate that scene.
If you're on the lookout for more stuff, then I can recommend Bocchi the Rock - it takes the usual "cute girls doing cute things and music" and avoids the usual pitfalls, both thanks to the source material (Bocchi is a wreck of a person that tries and manages to improve) and the sheer passion the anime team put into making the show. Pity we're unlikely to get another season.
Girls' Last Tour, both the anime and manga, are great mellow slice-of-life, about two girls navigating a world were humanity is doomed to extinction. Also, it features a Kettenkraftrad, which is always a delight to see.
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I liked the story of Chronicles, but the animation of the first iteration. Chronicles fleshes out the Black Knight a bit.WhiteShark wrote: ↑ April 20th, 2024, 13:40ロードス島戦記 英雄騎士伝Kowe wrote: ↑ April 20th, 2024, 13:33There has also been another season but with a different main character while giving the original ones cameos. Can't remember the name and haven't found much about any physical release(s).
No idea about a physical release, but I have it downloaded. My friend and I decided to take a break from Lodoss to watch something else but it's next on the list after that. Apparently the first part of the TV series is a summary of the original story with corrections to follow the original campaign more faithfully, and after that it follows the next generation. It's not well rated online so I don't expect it to be great, but half the fun is watching it in JP with my friend, anyway.
the best way to teach kids Christian values is to have them watch shonen anime.rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ April 19th, 2024, 13:23Fundamentally, I agree with him.
Westerners will laugh at him, but the core of his message is right: The power of media to influence people, especially children, is not something we give much thought to at all or regard such people as 'fundamentalists', etc.,
Of course, the same people will tell you the importance of having 'representation' and such in media because children need rolemodels or somesuch. Or that media portrayal of women is 'harmful'. So obviously they also agree with Zad! They just refuse to admit it in a direct manner. Because, unlike Zad, they are fundamentally evil and therefore deceptive.
timestamped to the relevant sequence. footage is from a video game but all shonen is the same:
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I thought I'd briefly come here to defend @GhostCow's high rating of Wonder Egg Project. It started out very strong and kept building on its foundation in creative ways. If it hadn't dropped the ball so hard at the end it might be a show we recommend ten years in the future. Unfortunately I do think this is a rare example of a show retroactively becoming worse just because of its ending.
Note: I didn't watch the last episode. The second to last one already lost so much goodwill from me that it made me change my mind about the show that I had quite liked until its final quarter.
Note: I didn't watch the last episode. The second to last one already lost so much goodwill from me that it made me change my mind about the show that I had quite liked until its final quarter.
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Not really, outside of Noragami, shounen aren't Christian at all.aweigh wrote: ↑ April 22nd, 2024, 14:04the best way to teach kids Christian values is to have them watch shonen anime.
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Glad Guts & co. have finally got off the boat and into fucking India
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I don't think anime will ever produce anything more complete and perfect than the first heavens feel movie.
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I saw Zero (great!) and the UBW show (not as great but still fun), and then saw the first Heaven's Feel movie in theaters. The movie did not give me any motivation to watch two sequels. There is a black thing that shows up and eats a bad guy's mansion. Great! Why should I care what happens next? As far as I'm concerned, the story ended right here.A Chinese opium den wrote: ↑ May 1st, 2024, 10:48I don't think anime will ever produce anything more complete and perfect than the first heavens feel movie.
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I don't know what to say if you can't appreciate it other than filtered. Its possibly the best adaptation of any VN ever made, and ufotable's last great infinite budget work before they got caught for tax fraud.Val the Moofia Boss wrote: ↑ May 3rd, 2024, 23:45I saw Zero (great!) and the UBW show (not as great but still fun), and then saw the first Heaven's Feel movie in theaters. The movie did not give me any motivation to watch two sequels. There is a black thing that shows up and eats a bad guy's mansion. Great! Why should I care what happens next? As far as I'm concerned, the story ended right here.A Chinese opium den wrote: ↑ May 1st, 2024, 10:48I don't think anime will ever produce anything more complete and perfect than the first heavens feel movie.
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Gundam SEED Freedom
Just came back from seeing this in theaters subtitled. There was an issue where the projector was not set up correctly, so the image was warped and the subtitles were cut off so no one could see what was being said. Ran down and told an employee and five minutes later staff came in and fix it, and asked if they should restart the movie from the beginning and we said yes. Pretty nice of them.
As for the movie itself, I feel like it would have been better served as a third season. There is too much stuff in this movie. The movie moves at a frenetic pace. There is near constant dialogue, and we are introduced to characters but given little time to actually get invested in them. On the microlevel, the movie is constantly cutting every 2 to 3 seconds. You never get a moment where the camera just rests on a cut and breathes. (Spoilers) the Archangel gets blown up for real but you never really feel loss because the movie immediately moves on. During the climatic battle, the heroes pull out of thin air a new magic laser cannon that bisect fleets of enemy battleships. In a show this would have been better set up.
The movie also performs some retcons, though these were necessary. After Destiny, it was confusing how there could possibly be a movie when ZAFT and the Earth Federation had been fought and defeated. Twice. And there were no other named factions in the setting that could become a threat. This movie retcons 1. Blue Cosmos' demise at the end of Destiny, so they are continuing to fight, and 2. retcons in another major Earth nation that accepts Coordinators besides ORB.
The movie overall looks okay. The 3D CGI mechs I was dreading were there, but didn't look quite as bad as in the Hathaway Movie or in Unicorn. Also, the mechs are drawn as 2D most of the time. I only really remember the 3D CGI mechs appearing in the opening battle, and during the runway takeoff sequences.
This movie is the highest grossing Gundam movie ever in Japan, so I went in expecting it to be comparable to CCA or F91, but it doesn't live up to either in terms of production values or timeless aesthetic value.
The movie echoes the same despair of Japanese popculture. As usual, the antagonists point out the evil nature of the world and try coming up with pragmatic solutions to it. As usual, the designated protagonists oppose them, and espouse empty platitudes that fail to give a convincing justification. "Sure, the world sucks, and no matter how hard we try to stamp out evil and build good civilizations, people will continue being evil and the civilizations we build will crumble. But we must keep trying! Just because!". It feels hollow without the promise of an ultimate, final vindication and restoration by an almighty God who will stamp out sin forever and build a civilization that will never need to be avenged.
Movie was overall fun enough. I would rather wash dishes than watch a new movie coming out of the West, but this was fun enough.
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I thought SEED was the worst version of Gundam, or am I wrong?. I watched it a long time ago but remember very little.Val the Moofia Boss wrote: ↑ May 8th, 2024, 06:05
Gundam SEED Freedom
Just came back from seeing this in theaters subtitled. There was an issue where the projector was not set up correctly, so the image was warped and the subtitles were cut off so no one could see what was being said. Ran down and told an employee and five minutes later staff came in and fix it, and asked if they should restart the movie from the beginning and we said yes. Pretty nice of them.
As for the movie itself, I feel like it would have been better served as a third season. There is too much stuff in this movie. The movie moves at a frenetic pace. There is near constant dialogue, and we are introduced to characters but given little time to actually get invested in them. On the microlevel, the movie is constantly cutting every 2 to 3 seconds. You never get a moment where the camera just rests on a cut and breathes. (Spoilers) the Archangel gets blown up for real but you never really feel loss because the movie immediately moves on. During the climatic battle, the heroes pull out of thin air a new magic laser cannon that bisect fleets of enemy battleships. In a show this would have been better set up.
The movie also performs some retcons, though these were necessary. After Destiny, it was confusing how there could possibly be a movie when ZAFT and the Earth Federation had been fought and defeated. Twice. And there were no other named factions in the setting that could become a threat. This movie retcons 1. Blue Cosmos' demise at the end of Destiny, so they are continuing to fight, and 2. retcons in another major Earth nation that accepts Coordinators besides ORB.
The movie overall looks okay. The 3D CGI mechs I was dreading were there, but didn't look quite as bad as in the Hathaway Movie or in Unicorn. Also, the mechs are drawn as 2D most of the time. I only really remember the 3D CGI mechs appearing in the opening battle, and during the runway takeoff sequences.
This movie is the highest grossing Gundam movie ever in Japan, so I went in expecting it to be comparable to CCA or F91, but it doesn't live up to either in terms of production values or timeless aesthetic value.
The movie echoes the same despair of Japanese popculture. As usual, the antagonists point out the evil nature of the world and try coming up with pragmatic solutions to it. As usual, the designated protagonists oppose them, and espouse empty platitudes that fail to give a convincing justification. "Sure, the world sucks, and no matter how hard we try to stamp out evil and build good civilizations, people will continue being evil and the civilizations we build will crumble. But we must keep trying! Just because!". It feels hollow without the promise of an ultimate, final vindication and restoration by an almighty God who will stamp out sin forever and build a civilization that will never need to be avenged.
Movie was overall fun enough. I would rather wash dishes than watch a new movie coming out of the West, but this was fun enough.
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Not the worst Gundam. I found the characters to be likeable and the story engaging enough all the way through across both 50 episode shows. Wing however was only kinda okay for the first 20 episodes and then became boring, and I didn't like most of the cast. 00 had a fantastic first 14 episodes and then becomes a boring slog after that, and again lots of dull characters. The definitively worst Gundam show though is Witch from Mercury. The team that made G-Witch didn't want to make Gundam; they wanted to make a high school battle royale show about lesbian romance. I watched a few episodes and it was awful. None of the characters were likeable. There is no tension because the girl uses her fin funnels to curbstomp every fight. There is no interesting fight choreography because - again - she uses fin funnel spam. And the show looked bad compared to prior Gundams.KnightoftheWind wrote: ↑ May 10th, 2024, 19:22I thought SEED was the worst version of Gundam, or am I wrong?. I watched it a long time ago but remember very little.
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Muslims and their haram.
God I hate these sand niggers.
I just heard ano do a death metal scream and it was awesome. Here's a clip
Full song is here
Full song is here