ILF Anime Thread OK321LETSJAMBADABADABADABADABAAAAH!!!!!!!

[Twangasaurus]

i have weird taste so by all means it could make you angry i just pick a bunch of shows at the start of the season and keep the ones that i find myself enjoying, often the stuff that fits my tastes ends up being disappointing because it's not as good as a similar show in the same vein so it can be good to branch out a bit.

I honestly don't know if I have weird taste, I'm not around "anime" people enough to know. My comment was mostly in reference to the fact that I find Harem stuff disagreeable on a mechanical level in regards to what I want out of a romance. I used to watch a lot of them but mostly avoid them now unless they are specifically recommended to me. I think it's a horribly artificial way of creating tension between characters and because the protagonist usually has to be generic enough that he can be something for all these different women they usually come off kind of samey with *insert tropey or gimmicky background here*. Also, because there ends up being quite a few female characters they also seem kind of shallow and designed to fill some particular niche which always makes me question why exactly I would ever care for them as "people". This is sometimes resolved by having only two women be the real competition for affection and have the rest be moe or fanservice fodder but that's annoying too. I really hate the whole idea that there should never be any sort of resolution regarding the romance ever because you the viewer are supposed to choose for yourself but I would much rather have some real drama and heartbreak. I want all the sappy shit and I want the jealousy and I want the characters getting rejected and heartbroken and have revelations about their feelings and why they need someone. All that really powerful shit that only works if you can empathise with a character properly and Harems are an inhertently safe and teenage focused mechanic. You don't want to be isolating the audience by hurting the feelings of some groups chosen waifu or whatever.

The lack of resolution thing is also a big problem I have with a lot of rom-com style stuff. The characters are so pure and innocent and it would take 15 volumes worth of the manga material to even admit they have feels for each other let alone date or lip bang and the show is only getting one twelve episode season so fuck you, you just have to take comfort in the fact that they will end up eventually. Probably. Ugh. I need closure.

Sorry for another text wall. I overthink these things too much .

[Eivind August]

Watched The Tale of Princess Kaguya (or whatever it's called in english) the other night. What a beautiful movie. Go watch it now, you'll enjoy it.

[backwardsvoyager]

I honestly don't know if I have weird taste, I'm not around "anime" people enough to know. My comment was mostly in reference to the fact that I find Harem stuff disagreeable on a mechanical level in regards to what I want out of a romance. I used to watch a lot of them but mostly avoid them now unless they are specifically recommended to me. I think it's a horribly artificial way of creating tension between characters and because the protagonist usually has to be generic enough that he can be something for all these different women they usually come off kind of samey with *insert tropey or gimmicky background here*. Also, because there ends up being quite a few female characters they also seem kind of shallow and designed to fill some particular niche which always makes me question why exactly I would ever care for them as "people". This is sometimes resolved by having only two women be the real competition for affection and have the rest be moe or fanservice fodder but that's annoying too. I really hate the whole idea that there should never be any sort of resolution regarding the romance ever because you the viewer are supposed to choose for yourself but I would much rather have some real drama and heartbreak. I want all the sappy shit and I want the jealousy and I want the characters getting rejected and heartbroken and have revelations about their feelings and why they need someone. All that really powerful shit that only works if you can empathise with a character properly and Harems are an inhertently safe and teenage focused mechanic. You don't want to be isolating the audience by hurting the feelings of some groups chosen waifu or whatever.

The lack of resolution thing is also a big problem I have with a lot of rom-com style stuff. The characters are so pure and innocent and it would take 15 volumes worth of the manga material to even admit they have feels for each other let alone date or lip bang and the show is only getting one twelve episode season so fuck you, you just have to take comfort in the fact that they will end up eventually. Probably. Ugh. I need closure.

Sorry for another text wall. I overthink these things too much .

haha it's cool, i totally agree for the most part i just probably put a bit less conscious thought into it. i will generally still give new things a chance because even though such strong genre stereotypes exist there are still unique exceptions that pop up every now and then when a studio adapts something decent without dumbing it down too much. generally every season most of the shows i like at first end up going way downhill and getting dropped but i think it's still fun to follow it all (and then when the season is over you can read what people thought of the stuff you didn't pick up because it looked shit and actually turned out being really cool).

in japan most people just eat up the shitty harem stuff and other overplayed genre formats though, i didn't meet a single casual anime fan that knew what bakemonogatari or FLCL or ghost in the shell was i would talk to someone and try and list stuff i thought was great and they would not have a clue. like 80% of people just watch naruto/one piece/youkai watch/attack on titan/idolmaster/love live.. etc.

[Moustache_Bash]

in japan most people just eat up the shitty harem stuff and other overplayed genre formats though, i didn't meet a single casual anime fan that knew what bakemonogatari or FLCL or ghost in the shell was i would talk to someone and try and list stuff i thought was great and they would not have a clue. like 80% of people just watch naruto/one piece/youkai watch/attack on titan/idolmaster/love live.. etc.

WAT. That's fucking burnt as hell. I still don't really get Love Live. I've seen about 8 episodes, and some of it is fun but most of it is j-just.... : |

I finally got around to watching Nisemonogatari, I thought it was gonna suck with fanservice/incest but I loved it all. Monogatari is super rad.

[Twangasaurus]

haha it's cool, i totally agree for the most part i just probably put a bit less conscious thought into it. i will generally still give new things a chance because even though such strong genre stereotypes exist there are still unique exceptions that pop up every now and then when a studio adapts something decent without dumbing it down too much. generally every season most of the shows i like at first end up going way downhill and getting dropped but i think it's still fun to follow it all (and then when the season is over you can read what people thought of the stuff you didn't pick up because it looked shit and actually turned out being really cool).

in japan most people just eat up the shitty harem stuff and other overplayed genre formats though, i didn't meet a single casual anime fan that knew what bakemonogatari or FLCL or ghost in the shell was i would talk to someone and try and list stuff i thought was great and they would not have a clue. like 80% of people just watch naruto/one piece/youkai watch/attack on titan/idolmaster/love live.. etc.

Yeah man I do try to keep an open mind because when you are surprised it really is fantastic. I think one of the reasons I didn't follow shows as much when they were coming out during the second half of last year was because I was ok with other people doing the leg work haha. It does have it's disadvantage though because you are basing what you are watching on other peoples opinions instead of just watching and finding out for yourself and you might give something slightly less well recived less of a chance than you might otherwise. I will probably be downloading Kuroko week to week so I might as well give some other stuff a show while I'm at it.

I think because anime is kind of a niche thing over here and very much part of the whole nerd culture phenomenon most people naturally take to the internet to discuss it both because they already do it with other passions in their life and because there are less people irl to talk to about it. I think that means we are lucky in that we get exposed to a lot more stuff than your average japanese guy/gal because it's all mainstream over there and you probably just watch what your friends watch. Also might have something to do with some shows being sort of more "otaku" and thus less social acceptable than others? Mostly in the west if you like anime it's in for a penny in for a pound but maybe over there are more lines between crossing demographics? Dunno.

I finally got around to watching Nisemonogatari, I thought it was gonna suck with fanservice/incest but I loved it all. Monogatari is super rad.

Yeah man, Monogatari is one of the few shows I truely enjoyed the fanservice for. One because it's fucking hilarious and two because it's super self aware almost to the point of being satirical. It also really plays into the tone of the show and the overly dramatic sort of "filmic" exhibitionist (in the sense they are putting on a show) poses the characters use, which is also very self aware but in a different sense.

[Twangasaurus]

Absolute Duo does look likes it's going to be fun and the ecchi stuff, well, whatever. Also watched that Shaft thing and man, so creepy. Eating and food aren't sexy.

...and kuroKOOHMAHGAWDSOEXCITED YAYAYAYAYAYAYA!!!!!

[backwardsvoyager]

Absolute Duo does look likes it's going to be fun and the ecchi stuff, well, whatever. Also watched that Shaft thing and man, so creepy. Eating and food aren't sexy.

the second Absolute Duo episode was an expected downhill turn i thought, but i'm keeping it for now cos everything else is making it seem good in comparison.
and yeah i agree, i want to like Koufuku because it's SHAFT, but i just don't think this one has much going for it

Yurikuma Arashi definitely winning in the 'most fucked up/difficult to comprehend anime of the season'.
I don't know if i love it or absolutely hate it. It's completely ridiculous. One second its nonsensical shit the next it's like forceful sexual contact and murder.

[Twangasaurus]

Yurikuma Arashi definitely winning in the 'most fucked up/difficult to comprehend anime of the season'.
I don't know if i love it or absolutely hate it. It's completely ridiculous. One second its nonsensical shit the next it's like forceful sexual contact and murder.

Well now I HAVE to watch it haha.

EDIT: Also, ugh, that bunny teacher in Absolute Duo. So bbbaaaaaaadddddd. Worst character 2015. I'm calling it.

[jfrey]

Been watching Reborn. It's fun. Pretty ridiculous.

[Andrew]

Waiting for GiTS pt2 to come out on dvd. I've rewatched Borders 1 & 2 a few times.

I've seen people bitch about the Windows Surface adverts throughout the films. But seriously, I can easily see Tablets like the surface being incredibly mainsteam by 2027 - even now they're insanely hi-tech by today's standards. I honestly think that by 2027, Tablets will be a very realistic day to day tool and would probably replace every other form of tech. Blatant advertising aside ofcause.

/nerdstatement

[Spiteface]

This Denkou Choujin Gridman short made me nostalgic for Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad

The only other anime thing that is getting my attention still is Garo. It's not quite as awesome as the live-action shows (Gold Storm starts in March!), nor does it have the batshit insanity of Keita Amemiya's work on those shows, but it's rolling along rather well. Leon's white coat in this poster has me excited though:



Vintage Garo. Now all we need is for him to be able to summon the magic horse Gouten, and we're in business!

[Mudfuzz]

this made me think of this thread.

[jfrey]

So Tokyo Ghoul came back a while ago and I didn't hear anything about it.

[backwardsvoyager]

So Tokyo Ghoul came back a while ago and I didn't hear anything about it.

yeah airing this season, i was pretty surprised.
it's been okay so far

Durarara X2 tho, AOTS by a mile.

[Twangasaurus]

People keep on telling me Death Parade is good but I don't believe 'em. Also, I rewatched Kyoukai No Kanata recently and I remember that I originally thought that the show was poorly paced? I might have even expressed that here. Anyways, I don't know why I thought that, it's a pretty solid series I think and I'm looking forward to the release of the movie.