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Re: Anime Thread
« Reply #1800 on: Thu, 18 March 2021, 02:28:35 »
idk what yall on about, personally I dig the hell outta that Bebop Champloo vibe

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« Reply #1801 on: Sun, 21 March 2021, 14:23:39 »
Am I the only one who thinks Evangelion is super boring, and all the characters are really dislikeable and annoying? Really some of the most annoying characters ever.
Evangelion is... something that makes more sense in context. Anno has struggled with lifelong depression, and the desire to run away from his problems - fears and struggles he places on Shinji. Coupled with a distaste of the state of the mecha genre on the whole at the time, you end up with what is largely commentary on how ridiculous the idea is that you would ever put adolescents in giant robots to save the world. And if you were to do so, it could only be done at the hands of deeply flawed and damaged people, which then pass on those flaws and damages to the adolescents, on top of the trauma they receive from being forced into combat in life or death situations.

There's not really any characters in it that are supposed to be "good" - even the most likeable adults are objectively pretty horrible people when you step back and look at it, and the kids are a product of an awful environment that could not have been better designed to leave them dysfunctional. You're largely supposed to feel sympathy and pity for Shinji and Asuka, and perhaps a little bit of admiration for when they can overcome their circumstances and show some measure of triumph and human connection.

But none of them are intended to be likable.

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« Reply #1802 on: Sun, 04 April 2021, 15:48:13 »
I've been getting really into One Piece lately. Fun characters and premise, let's see if it doesn't wear thin after 1000 episodes.
It does do that thing I hate where an anime pads out scenes and recaps previous events incessantly, I hate that lazy ****. They always recap the previous ep at the beginning, and there was one early episode where they did that, then twice more in the middle of the show recapped the same exact ****. Come on man. Or when Luffy spent 3 episodes underwater drowning, it does that Jojo thing where short time is drawn out crazy long and huge gaps in time are just skipped over.
But mostly the characters are fun and diverse, it's easy to leave on and half pay attention while working. IDK how the creator has done 1000 manga issues and approaching 1000 episodes and 17 movies in like 22 years. That's a lot of work.

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Re: Anime Thread
« Reply #1803 on: Mon, 05 April 2021, 16:46:48 »
did someone say evangelion


my fav youtuber, always has some very interesting points (even if like 60% of the comments are just calling him wrong lol)
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« Reply #1804 on: Wed, 07 April 2021, 18:17:19 »
did someone say evangelion


my fav youtuber, always has some very interesting points (even if like 60% of the comments are just calling him wrong lol)
Interesting video! There's a few problems with it, however:

The "death threats" and graffiti at the Gainax offices occurred after Death and Rebirth, not the original series. By this point, End of Evangelion was pretty much finished - Death & Rebirth were released in March 97, and EoE came out 4 months later in July - it would have been well into the post production phase at that point. In fact, Rebirth is largely just the 25 minutes of EoE. As for the death threats themselves, in an interview with the Tokyo International Film Festival, Anno said that the letters and emails sent were written by Gainax staff, as they didn't believe they legally could use real fan mail. They've also all been translated, and the majority of what was written in the letters and emails were actually positive, though there were a few that were decidedly negative. It hasn't been said anywhere if the ratio of the "faked" letters matched what they really got.

Another problem is that Anno has repeatedly stated in interviews, even after EoE, that Shinji is a surrogate for himself. If EoE is Anno's way of taking revenge against anyone, it's not his audience.

The other issue is that EoE is at least in part based off of the original scripts written for the series. In the 'Red Cross Book' given to theatergoers for EoE, it explains that the first part of the movie is based off of the original script for episode 25 that they had to scrap.

I do think his overall characterization of Shinji and Asuka is spot on, though.

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Re: Anime Thread
« Reply #1805 on: Wed, 07 April 2021, 22:01:03 »
I will never not post this when someone mentions that ungrateful ***** ass Shinji

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« Reply #1806 on: Tue, 13 April 2021, 23:57:25 »
Currently watching Vivy, animated by the same studio that made the first three seasons of AOT. Highly recommend!

Here's a trailer if you're interested:


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Re: Anime Thread
« Reply #1807 on: Sat, 14 August 2021, 18:40:54 »
OMG, you guys gotta watch this.

Super Cub,    it's a slice of life anime about an orphan girl who buys a Honda Super Cub, (motor scooter).

She discovers new life and friendship which evolves from the motorized freedom.


It's slow paced and very well made.   Yeaaaa it's a chic flic, but if masculinity isn't a problem, quite watchable for all.


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Re: Anime Thread
« Reply #1808 on: Mon, 16 August 2021, 18:42:41 »
I will never not post this when someone mentions that ungrateful ***** ass Shinji
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LMAO, I never thought about Shinj’s relationship to his Dad this way.

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Re: Anime Thread
« Reply #1809 on: Wed, 25 August 2021, 11:19:48 »
What does vegeta need with money ?

So, 1st appearance, vegeta and nappa claimed saiyans were conquering planets and selling them.

But that doesn't make any sense,  What would they need with money, when they're powerful enough to just take things.   

Also, let's say a planet is worth alot of money.   What exactly would someone like vegeta even buy ? It's not going to be food/ gasoline/   Anything that's usable by him personally he could just take, and he'd already have um at that point.   Since vegeta can't ever consume a planet's worth of resources,  it makes no sense that he'd bother selling a planet,  what would he do with that sum of money.


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« Reply #1810 on: Wed, 25 August 2021, 11:36:34 »
What does vegeta need with money ?

So, 1st appearance, vegeta and nappa claimed saiyans were conquering planets and selling them.

But that doesn't make any sense,  What would they need with money, when they're powerful enough to just take things.   

Also, let's say a planet is worth alot of money.   What exactly would someone like vegeta even buy ? It's not going to be food/ gasoline/   Anything that's usable by him personally he could just take, and he'd already have um at that point.   Since vegeta can't ever consume a planet's worth of resources,  it makes no sense that he'd bother selling a planet,  what would he do with that sum of money.


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They are doing that because they are forced to act as a slave army for the Frieza race/King Cold, not for the money at all. They say that prior to being enslaved they would take resources from other planets that planet Vegeta didn't have a lot of, so that was their main motivation per-enslavement and destruction.

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Re: Anime Thread
« Reply #1811 on: Wed, 25 August 2021, 13:36:13 »

They are doing that because they are forced to act as a slave army for the Frieza race/King Cold, not for the money at all. They say that prior to being enslaved they would take resources from other planets that planet Vegeta didn't have a lot of, so that was their main motivation per-enslavement and destruction.

again, the same plot hole remains even if frieza was in the picture, why would THEY bother doing what they're doing given their already god lvl powers.

a god has no need for all the activity they were engaged in.

For example, beerus, makes sense.  he's mostly solo,  and just sleeps alot.

Frieza, even vegeta is basically the same relative to their own intellect and the average power lvl of their respective universes..

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« Reply #1812 on: Wed, 25 August 2021, 14:46:04 »
Only the direct King Cold family have those extreme powers, like Cooler and Frieza are stated to be 'mutants' of their race. That's their thing though, they own planets and either sell or enslave them after conquering them. I think they just get off on being like that, since they've been doing it for hundreds of years. Once Freiza goes gold he kinda stops caring about being a conqueror and focuses on just getting stronger than Goku.

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« Reply #1813 on: Wed, 25 August 2021, 15:50:26 »
Only the direct King Cold family have those extreme powers, like Cooler and Frieza are stated to be 'mutants' of their race. That's their thing though, they own planets and either sell or enslave them after conquering them. I think they just get off on being like that, since they've been doing it for hundreds of years. Once Freiza goes gold he kinda stops caring about being a conqueror and focuses on just getting stronger than Goku.

The economic system is a problem throughout the dbz universe, their motivations made sense at the god level, but once you get closer to the ground interactions with lower mortals, none of it is reasonable.

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Re: Anime Thread
« Reply #1814 on: Tue, 31 August 2021, 14:55:29 »
Dat last evangelion..

Do they take alot of droogs to write these plots.  ?

I mean, yea it's by design abstract and relies on the audience's own experience to extrapolate,  but why is this format necessary.


At times, an abstraction may be more digestible than explicit truth, but when you're dealing cataclysm, nothing can be more obvious at this point, it comes off as redundant and wordy.

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Re: Anime Thread
« Reply #1815 on: Fri, 10 December 2021, 03:04:52 »
Cowboy Bebop live action gets canceled, and One Piece live action announces $10 million per episode budget 🤔

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« Reply #1816 on: Fri, 10 December 2021, 09:26:16 »
Cowboy Bebop live action gets canceled, and One Piece live action announces $10 million per episode budget 🤔

I'm glad they canceled it before they embarrassed themselves further...

One piece, sigh... it's almost certainly going to be bad.