I'm fine with anyone splintering off into a new thread about a specific anime/manga that gets discussed in thread.
If it isn't obvious this thread is for the discussion of everything cyberpunk, even loosely classified kind of technophiliac stuff like Serial Experiments Lain is fine.
Cyber City Oedo 808 was incredible. Everything was kind of morally dubious so you couldn't exactly trust anyone but at the same time you had to really feel sorry for the protagonists and circumstances they got caught up in, i mean you KNOW they'll never be freed. I dig how they played with several genres, especially horror. The visuals are fucking incredible, it has a washed out feel and then all of the blaring neon in your face with the lights and then the way thd lights sometimes gets smeared with movement, really neat stuff.
A cyberpunk manga i read a while back was Blame! and what was cool is no exposition dump, you are totally thrown into a world even the main characters have no real clue about. There's hardly much dialoge at all and a ton of movement and action and it really worked because there's this deep mystery that's begging to be solved and as you read puzzle pieces are slowly assembled to explaim the hg giger teir apocalyptic world the characters are running around in.
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After finishing stand alone complex i had the urge to read the original manga again, and a few others. Protip, appleseed is out fucking standing holy shit and i've heard it over and over and i just ignored the damn thing. The original ghost in the shell manga is nice but i feel it was focused on the concepts, and as the manga goes on to the sequel it actually peters out.
The original manga is nice although the authors laziness and directors comments is apparant. I thought it was gay that The major had a boyfriend who was no more then a side character that never got mentioned again.
1.5 is nice because you also have other characters who where only barely used in the story, well in 1.5 they really get to shine. It was also pretty neat how SAC used bits and pieces from the manga. Maybe it's just me but i kind how the major behaved the anime, she was more reserved where in the manga she was kind of a bratty teenager, it made no sense for the role she had in section nine, atleast in my eyes. Still like the manga though. I'm curious about the original anime adaption though, i think it had a darker, more artistic tone and i"m curious to see how it handles the source material.
So about appleseed, Every flaw you might see in the ghost in the shell franchise is absent from the appleseed story. Decent character development, perfect amount of exposition, it's all there. Favorite character? Briareos, Appreciate the detail where he's warning Deunan that olympia is a CA, I also like how on the leasure time he's wearing like jeans and a shirt dispite being a large, bulky android, the contrast is really something, like dispite his disfigurment his humanity is still there.
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On old 22chan there was a thread for various anime and manga recommendations, and I decided to "revive" it
You may think of it as a book club
Wether old or new does not matter
Simply post what you read/watch or did so in the past
My contribution is a manga I found through the aforementioned previous thread.
If by chance the one who posted this there reads this; thank you very much, it really stuck with me.
I hope you guys will enjoy it as much as I did
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G fighter gundam is under rated. It was given bad reviews from normalniggers and people at the time who must have wanted it to be the exact same as regular mobile suit gundam. Dispite appearing "campy" it actually does take itself quite seriously. If you enjoyed watching saturday morning cartoons then you might like it, because at times you'll get similar vibes. When it comes down to the dub, i'm 50-50 because it does contain iconic voice acting at times but also somewhat terrible at others, also there's heavy localisation.
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the foxy pirate arc is skippable. shit quality animation, tons of added bloat that only exists in the anime version, and content was cut that makes zero sense.
Recently stumbled upon a super cool and kind of spooky surreal manga recently. It's called The Wizard and the Red Pilgrim, and I really like it. The art is absolutely superb and the characters are fun and cool. I'd definitely recommend it.
https://bato.to/series/155211
Actually got to watching Stand Alone Complex.
It's one of those animes that you have to see before you die, it's important and both the animation and the way they handle the story and dialoge is outstanding. I'm not trying to overhype it like a redditor with a marvel movie, it was apparent to me in the 11 or so episodes i watched so far that it's revelant to our modern era.
The only downsides i've noticed are some logical errors, like The Major getting choked even though her "millitary grade" body should had handled the attack with no issue.
If you are curious, either before watching or after, here are books used in development or mentioned in the story. Please don't take this as "you must do research before watching this anime" Infact you can watch it blindly and still enjoy SAC. All they do is explain the more esoteric aspects of the show, and add to your enjoyment, you might notice things that might not have been obvious.
Nine Stories and The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Notes from undergound appears related due to several themes popping up but thats a personal opinion.
Victor hugo's the Man Who Laughs was only used in the development of catcher and the laughing man and i haven't noticed any apparent themes similar to SAC
You also don't need to watch or read other Ghost in the Shell content, you can actually watch it as a stand alone thing without really knowing the characters history or background.
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From Hanaukyou Maid-tai: La Verite by studio Daume (same studio as Ichigo Mashimaro) from Episode 5 which caught me rather off-guard. Seeing another Nurse Witch Kogumi-chan reference makes me really happy.
I'm a bit confused by La Verite since its a remake of the original taking a different tone that doesn't really fit this show.
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Does anyone read Nekojiru? It's literally one of my favorite manga series ever and highly recommend it!! （◉ω◉)つ☆Edit
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Did anyone watch the TV show that aired in japan? It was somewhat lighter then the movie and the manga but still pretty funny.
The anime is crude and irreverent, but honestly, the OVA, as a metaphorical grieving of the author's suicide, is truly notable in that regard.
It'd be kind of hard to acknowledge the series as a whole without bringing it up. The series seemed short-lived anyways... It's all just really unfortunate and depressing so I can't watch any nekojiru stuff without that being in the back of my mind.
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found a sound mad of nekojiru there's also a bunch of other mads
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm14932364 [Play]
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm30921199 [Play]
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm15797495 [Play]
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm12685741 [Play]
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6307646 [Play]
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm325431 [Play]
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm431923 [Play]
you can also watch a bunch of the episodes with english sub on there
https://www.nicovideo.jp/search/ねこぢる劇場
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This thread is for the discussion for Mobile Suit Gundam, and other content that exists inside the Universal Century timeline. I would also include any gundam novels by Yoshiyuki Tomino as an example and other stuff like the Origins manga series as "alt takes" of the gundam series. Also stuff by other authors like Harutoshi Fuku's Gundam unicorn novel which for what i understand was "made canon" by sunrise.6 replies omitted. Click here to view. (Bump Limit: 250)
go ahead and laugh at me since i haven't watched the anime in ages and i might get things wrong. also i'm personally going to watch stuff soon in chronological order, its a bucket list thing. also i missed out on watching zz and zeta gundam with you guys and i have been itching to watch them ever since.
now i will talk about the trilogy movies. on one hand an effort was made to have it conform to the real robot genre, which is great. no more g-part upgrade nonsense which was personally fucking tiresome to watch. on the other hand things got cut which in my opinion is retarded like why remove the black tri-stars? why cut doans island? if the quality was so fucking bad why not cut all the other sequences that sometimes had more low quality then the two abformentioned episodes? i could be wrong with this but also it felt like it was a freak of the week situation wih zeon's mobile suit, that they came up with stuff to combat the rx-78-2 instead of being pre existing weapons of war, most of them don't make a second appearance. only later in other shows they show previously introduced mobile suits in battle. also something that came to mind recently lol was the similarities of gundam and battlestar galactica. both are kind of survival stories of a rag tag group vs an oppresive force, they both have space magic by the evolution of mankind in space leading to psionic powers, also there is a civilian class in thd lower decks who are taking refuge and are a pain in the ass. commander cains outfit reminds me of chars uniform, but the similarities stop there.
requim for vengance is offputting as fuck. i don't understand the perspective of the writers and bandai amd what their intentions and design choices. one of the characters is a straight up tumblr art hoe alt-girl, tatted up with peircings and i wasn't exactly expecting to see that in a japanese production. the visuals are weird, like they wanted to go realistic where you can see pores on skin but at the same time have graphics similar to halo 3 /2008 dead space. (also like the fucking fox engine if you know what i mean) i dont know if they used mocap or whatever animation but its off as fuck, like if they didn't bother even syncing the mouths and motion to the audio
the story allegedly takes place in 0079 early on but i thought amuros gundam was the first and only prototype and they couldnt even mass produce that shit (even shit like the guncannon) till the end of the war and yet the gundam EX is another prototype thats unstoppable.
the story is fine i guess and the protag is also fine i guess and she's not a mary sue dispite being a newtype. its the same newtype fuckery amuro had early on that made him look like he was insane instead of being like space magic. mech fights are cool i guess and the gundam EX is potrayed as a monster/serial killer and i fucking love that perspective.
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I take it back, actual hot garbage and not worth watching.
I was thinking recently on if amuro should have saved the circut his dad made him. I get he was brain damaged but at the same time you have to wonder if it actually could have been something important or useful. Atleast i'm wondering what would have happened if amuro kept it, like if he would have tossed it away on the ship and someone either realised it was junk, but got in inspiration from it or realised outwardly it was junk but in reality it was some next level shit from a retarded genius.
From what i heard they wanted to get Timothée Chalamet in the live action gundam show and honestly i hope not because it sounds retarded as fuck.
I think we're reaching the point where they are really taking the piss with the gundam franchise and i think thats really the last thing they need to do lol.
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This thread is for content and discussion centered around the Nijiura maids.
The Nijiura maids are a tradition of net characters originating from the Nijiura boards of Futaba Channel, the oldest being born circa 2004.
Shaped by anyone willing to depict them, their personalities and designs are not codified under any central piece of media. Nijiura Maid content is scattered around the net in a similar way to Touhou; many of the accepted characterizations have no root in any source material and were produced memetically. Still, some have made efforts to categorize and order the maids. This is because autism is a universal constant.
https://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php/Nijiura_and_Futaba_Characters#The_Nijiura_Maids
There is no real metric for what it takes to make a Nijiura maid. Some may argue that Nijiura maids can only come from 2ch, probably because autism is a universal constant. Some patterns can be seen in the most well-established maids:
>name ends with an i
>uses the -san honorific
>name has some double meaning or wordplay which defines their character. Nemui-san (nemui: sleepy) is narcoleptic. Shitai-san is dead (shitai: corpse) and erotic (shitai: "I want to do it"). Medoi-san is the typical maid (meido: maid) and is easily annoyed (medoi: troublesome).5 replies (and 10 file replies) omitted. Click here to view. (Bump Limit: 250)
My personal favorite maid is Yakui-san. She is a popular maid these days. She's the biggest face in a genre of music called maidcore, where musicians produce music under the name of one of the maids. Her character trait is that she is addicted to OTC pharmaceuticals (Yakuji: Medicine). You will find her constantly fucked up on something and often totally passed out. She spends her life in a haze of delirious illusion. On the bright side, if you're sick, she'll know just what to offer to make you feel better. Just be aware that she'll probably overdo it. I think it's important that she abuses pharmaceuticals: a lot of art shows her as a garden variety stoner. In my mind she doesn't smoke weed or do any cool kid drugs. She just goes to a drug store and fills a shopping cart with whatever she can get without a license and drinks so much Pedialyte and swallows so many antihystamines that she gets high against all logic. That's what her name means, and that's the image I like: she's not a party girl she's an unapologetic mess and I think that's awesome.
Here's Yakui in action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QS-Efk2HmQ [Play]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1mIDh7a2d4 [Play]
Here's some of my favorite Yakui maidcore music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qyQCzb0hhs [Play]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0594gQG36kc [Play]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgKxYnTEN5Y [Play]
That last one is the most prolific Yakui the Maid artist, a Russian musician that used to produce music under the name Scythe of Luna. They have strong post-punk influence and it's great music that keeps me coming back, but sometimes I feel like the current scene is getting a little dominated by that sound compared to older stuff which was a lot more eclectic and weird.
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You should read some of the Japanese articles on Nijiura maids from at.wiki or dic.nico as they elaborate a lot more on the maids than the linked english article as I'm sure if you really like a maid you would want to know their entire origin and not just small excerpts from western articles.
https://dic.pixiv.net/en/a/Nijiura (Pixiv has english articles on them)
https://w.atwiki.jp/2jiwiki/pages/30.html list of maid characters working in Nijiura (Just ctrl + f and write the maids name)
https://w.atwiki.jp/2jiwiki/pages/468.html Article on Yakui-san:
Nicknames: ヤッキー (Yakky) or (ヤクちゃん) Yaku-chan.
A maid who loves medicine. She is the younger sister of ちょうざいさん (Chouzai-san -> "pharmacy" or "dispensing (medication)" (unofficial). She is also very popular overseas.
After getting caught sampling her family’s pharmacy products, she was kicked out of her home. Her knowledge of pharmaceuticals is top-tier, ranging from "happy powder" to experimental clinical drugs. She has access to both legal and illegal supply routes and can even create her own custom formulations. For example, the preservatives used by 死体 (Shitai-san -> dead body) and her peers are homemade by Yakui-san.
Once a month, she is restrained and forced to detox, during which she becomes calm. The handcuffs on her arm are remnants from these sessions, not because she is a criminal (though it is curious, given her involvement in illegal drugs, that she is not treated as a criminal within the threads).
When she is off drugs, she is relatively sensible. However, when she is high, she becomes exceptionally quirky and competent, but if she overdoses even slightly, she becomes completely useless—a highly temperamental state. When high, she can see and hear things others cannot. Due to the drugs, her growth has been stunted, leaving her short in stature. Despite her reckless use of drugs, she strictly avoids using them to manipulate people's emotions.
She is the origin of numerous color-variant derivative maids, including ヘルシィさん (literally Healthy-san) (unofficial).
[Origin of the Name]
Named after the Japanese word for “medicine” (ヤク, yaku -> dope, narcotic, drug)
[Activity on Nijiura]
In the early days, she often wet herself and was recommended by 雪さん (Yuki-san -> Snow) as a legitimate successor. However, this idea was opposed by other teachers in the "Maid Academy" and eventually shelved.
She is a peer of Shitai-san and Dorei-san (どれいさん -> Slave), and together the three are often referred to as the 「不謹慎メイド」 -> “Inappropriate Maids.” Along with ティッシュメイド (literally Tissue Maid), they are considered part of the second graduating class of the Maid Academy.
Yakui-san has been subjected to incidents such as being assaulted by オゾいさん (Ozoi-san -> frightening or dreadful) (unofficial) or celebrating her birthday with くどいさん (Kudoi-san -> chatterbox) due to their shared birth date.
Since her creation, she has consistently maintained a steady level of popularity and has never "fallen into the graveyard" (a metaphor for forgotten characters). Perhaps due to her association with drug-related themes, she is also frequently discussed on 4chan.
Speech:
She refers to her master as → Danna (旦那) or Goshujin (ご主人) both meaning “master.” Her first-person pronoun is → Asshi (あっし) a humble, archaic form of “I”. She ends her sentences with → ~ssu (～ッス).
https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/ヤクいさん
"For your health, let’s take lots of medicine, Goshujin! It feels great, ~ssu!"
Overview, Goshujin!
She is one of the Nijiura Maids created on Nijiura. Her defining features include short purple hair, a maid uniform, striped knee-high socks, unhealthy-looking skin, dark circles under her eyes, and unfocused pupils. She is a severe drug addict who always carries capsules and syringes, frequently succumbing to strange hallucinations or experiencing seizures. She speaks in a distinctive manner, often ending her sentences with "~ssu yo."
Due to her strong impact as a character, she is frequently seen on platforms like PIXIV. She forms a trio with two other Nijiura Maids, Shitai-san and Dorei-san.
Additionally, she belongs to the same "yandere" category of Nijiura Maids as other characters, such as:
Ozoi-san, a J-horror-inspired creature.
ヤバいさん (Yabai-san -> dangerous), a gijinka (anthropomorphized) character based on Minerva from The Wicked Eyes Fly to the Full Moon (邪眼は月輪に飛ぶ)
あ、先輩ッスよ！-> "Ah, it’s Senpai, ~ssu!"
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Also I see that you linked a bunch of youtube videos from Yakui-san so I am wondering if you checked out the nico nico tag of yakui-san? (If you dont have a VPN and are worried of the restrictions put on foreigners on the website do not worry: https://www.vpngate.net/en/howto_softether.aspx make sure it is always on when browsing nico nico or you'll skip out on tons of videos.)
https://www.nicovideo.jp/search/虹裏
https://www.nicovideo.jp/search/ヤクいさん
there's really not a lot for Nijiura maids but its still worth checking out. Try to search for Nijiura maid names individually as they might not be tagged properly but it might also be a case where stuff was directly posted to futaba-channel and so it is kind of lost to time. Maybe its worth to look into Japanese flash archives on archive.org and see if there's any flash videos created with Nijiura maids.
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm4507762 [Play]
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1083562 [Play]
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1172932 [Play]
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2719803 [Play]
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Habibi. When I made this thread, I was hopeful that 22chan would be the place that would help me find more about the Nijiura maids. And you have delivered, my own resources drew short. You are the light of my evening sky and for you I would seize the moon and grasp it until the night drew dark as the godless sea.
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There's a few videos of Medoi-san https://www.nicovideo.jp/tag/めどいさん and I really like this particular one which I've seen many years ago from the dic.nico article https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm127956 [Play]
https://dic.pixiv.net/en/a/Medoi-san
https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/めどいさん
https://w.atwiki.jp/2jiwiki/pages/271.html
Medoi-san is a first-generation graduate of the Maid Academy (A fictional academy located in Nijiura Town said to be the alma mater of most Nijiura Maids. Commonly abbreviated as Me-Gaku メ(Maid)学(School)). She is said to be the younger sister of だりぃさん (Darii-san -> Bothersome) and datめどいさん (Dame-Medoi-san -> Useless Medoi) though their sibling relationship is subject to various interpretations.
[Origin of the Character]
Medoi-san originated from a self-drawn illustration of a maid with a tired expression and the caption "Medoi-san" This initial drawing inspired various settings and further character development, solidifying her as a distinct personality. This later became the origin of the "〇〇-i" naming convention for Nijiura Maids.
[Activity on Nijiura]
Medoi-san is considered the origin of the category now referred to as "Nijiura Maids." Without her, the current Nijiura Maids would not exist. She is truly the starting point for all Nijiura Maids (虹メ). (Although there were maid characters before her, Medoi-san was the first whose personality traits were expressed through her name. Additionally, the practice of adding "-san" to names originates from her.) As such, even with the overwhelming number of Nijiura Maids that exist today, she retains an immovable presence, and it can be said that no Nijiura Maid is unaware of her.
As her name and her catchphrase "Medoi" (meaning "bothersome" or "lazy") suggest, she is extremely lazy. In the early days, she would often avoid work and accomplish very little. However, in an effort to avoid trouble, she began to adopt the most efficient methods, and despite her lethargic appearance, she became known as a maid who completes her tasks quickly and reliably.
Because of this, she is considered particularly skilled as a maid, handling tasks like cooking (with a wide variety of recipes), household chores, driving (she holds a gold driver’s license), and even growing her own vegetables..
Over time, as more maids appeared who not only avoided work but even questioned their status as maids, Medoi-san’s reputation for diligence and competence has only continued to grow.
She is also known to be a heavy drinker, and on her birthday, while her other peers were passed out drunk, she was seen drinking one-on-one at a red lantern bar. She is often seen riding a ダブルマッスル (literally "Double Muscle") for shopping and frequently works alongside ちこいさん (Chikoi-san -> tiny)
i'll leave it at that for now since this thread will just turn into translating wiki articles, but if you have access to it translate using ChatGPT but make sure it gives you everything as it is and doesn't try to mess with the TL. Knowing some Japanese will help in spotting mistakes.
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I guess it's kind of interesting to me that there's a lot of documentation on Japanese internet culture on 22chan but we are not really seen as having anything to do with /jp/ by outsiders...? I also think it's really easy to find information on this stuff too but for some reason people fail to go past English search terms into Japanese ones. Most of everything on the Japanese internet is documented through at.wiki, dic.nico, dic.pixiv, and a few personal blog websites, and now with ChatGPT and other transcribe/translation tools like whisper its hard to struggle with translation as much as before.
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I am currently only 10 episodes in and I think I am falling in love with this show the more episodes I watch of it. The show aired back in 1986 and as far as I know it's still going strong. It's about a little girl who lives with her parents named Maruko-chan who shares a room with her sister in rural Japan going about her daily life.
The show is meant for children and each episode tries to teach you some kind of lesson but I am quite sure that even now older folks in Japan to this day watch it from time to time. What really got me hooked initially was how fluid the animation was despite being drawn in a very simple format.
I will try to describe a single episode in the hopes of getting some people interested in it.
Episode 3 "Today is Sensei's Home Visit"
Maru-chan walks home with her friend who complains to her about home visits that teachers tend to do and upon arriving back at her house she noticed that her mother came very prepared for this day making sure to straighten out the house before the teachers visits and asks Maru-chan to go back to her room and clean it up because he will be also inspecting her room.
Instead of cleaning her room Maru-chan decides to bag up all of the mess in her room and asks for her grandpa to look after the stuff until the teacher is gone but when the teacher arrives he doesn't go past the entrance of the house saying that this is enough for him and quickly leaves after a short talk with Maru-chan and her mother.
After leaving Maruko-chan goes to the kitchen and sees sweets that her mother prepared for the teacher that was coming but since he already left she couldn't let them really go to waste, could she, and instead gobbles all of them up with some tea. Then she goes back to grandpa to grab all of her stuff that she took out of her room and returns it back into place making a mess of the room again.
Then it turns out that there is another visitor at the door which was the teacher of Maru-chan's sister which goes past the entrance way into her room and sees the mess that her room is and everyone looks completely shocked with a complete freakout from Maru-chan's sister, her mother quickly takes the teacher to the kitchen for the snacks that she had prepared but as Maru-chan ate it there was none left for her.
The episode ends with Maru-chan thinking she can escape this situation by repeating "I don't know" to her mother.
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I really hate how awful some of the episodes were 100 episodes in it felt like everything had become completely static in the sense that you'd basically see one cookie-cutter episode after another where nothing of interest happens you'd see the same background, same shots just with mouth movements changed which honestly it felt unwatchable. I think the Nagasawa house burning down episodes were absolutely unwatchable, cringe you could even say, the bad type, that made me quit watching for two months at least. Seriously what were they thinking? Kind of glad I got to episode 121 which finally felt like the dynamic slice of life again that I fell in love with.
This episode I particularly loved the shots of the town that they show that Maruko-chan goes to explore to because she wanted to take a solo trip somewhere nearby and meet a kind stranger.
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There's something about the 100 yen line in this ED that makes me extremely happy.
I spent an hour looking for this god damn ED which isn't available basically fucking anywhere (most likely due to copyright strikes) only a shitty low quality nicovideo reupload. I finally found it by going to Indonesian Youtube and manually finding the episodes where it aired. You might notice the characters are drawn differently it's because of the awful style they went to for season 2 of the series (which still makes me wanna puke when looking at).
The song is called "Arara's Spell" and apparently this year Momoko Sakura's VA (Tarako) died and there was a special aired (https://nyaa.si/view/1805629) where this song was used to close her last performance (March 24, 2024). This ED ran from episode 481 (July 4, 2004) to episode 850 (March 25, 2012) and was renewed in 2010.
there's only 1 more episode left to sub from the first season apparently. 141 was released on the 4th with 142 probably being released in the next few days: https://www.maruchansubs.com/
This is a thread dedicated solely to cool retro anime or manga. Anime that feature action, violence, philosophy, sadness, and are from the year 2000 or earlier.
Screw anime filled with generic anime babes and slice-of-life nonsense! I don't want Isekai, I don't want school romance! I don't want feel-good otaku-pandering nonsense! I don't want comedy! I want men at war, I want real drama, I want high stakes, I want COOL anime!
Shows and movies from this era include: Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Akira, Vampire Hunter D, Darkside Blues, Midnight Eye Goku, Ninja Scroll, and countless others
All of us already know about the legendary shows and manga that formed the foundation of modern media, but a lot of relatively unknown films and shows also inspired many modern creators, so this is a good place to share more obscure yet still well crafted media from ye olden times, while also discussing anything retro or "old" you're watching.11 replies (and 5 file replies) omitted. Click here to view. (Bump Limit: 250)
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It depends on what you mean by "fantasy" (like sword and sorcery or in general?)
Ushio & Tora comes to mind, Buddy comedy of a demon and a kid (who where supposed to kill eachother) and end up uniting together to fight yokai.
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trigun and vampire hunter d have been on my need to watch list for a while, ninja scroll sounds cool because i really like historical settings. might start with trigun because 25 episodes don't sound as bad to watch vs like two hours of vampire hunter d although i heard there was cool genre mixing involved. might checkout the original manga for trigun because it was the original format and it might be interesting to watch the anime later and spot the diffrences, if any.
>>539
In my opinion, the Trigun anime is better than the manga, because it has better pacing and the process by which the watcher learns more about Vash and the world is much more interesting.
Things that were big mysteries with little hints and foreshadowing placed in the show are just sort of dumped on the reader in the manga without any ceremony and it just felt kind of weird.
I also love Vampire Hunter D, and I think that both of the movies are absolutely spectacular watches with very good and interesting animation and a cool world, but Bloodlust is by far the better of the two and it makes me wish for more.
I'm 40 chapters in grappler baki and it's great.
The potrayal of movement and action is realistic, flowing and dynamic and it's incredible. The artstyle is perfect too, i get a retro feeling from it, it reminds me of an anime or manga i must have seen before. The story? They jump into the action with little to no details about the protagonist and it's what i needed. You don't know how many stories i've read where they give a long rambling history of the main character and for baki they did something diffrent. Hell, they introduce the father but they obscure his face and details of his body, and only hint at all the terrible shit he did, turning him into a horrible monster and a legend. I like how batshit moments in the story goes down and instead of taking it ironically they play it straight and pretend everything is normal, they also exaggerate various things and it leave you guessing if that thing is real like "was that move that guy used real?" "is that a real science fact? i need to google this"
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I saw Vampire Hunter D a few weeks ago. The narrative is simple. I'd call it disappointing, but that's thanks to preconceived notions. Fable-like is probably more appropriate. The main theme is kinda neat. The film asserts that the beauty/purpose of life is in its briefness. It keeps this from being trite by offering a protagonist that's been robbed of mortality. The movie slowly reveals his novel solution to this existential plight: he becomes an enforcer of death, hunting down those that try to cheat it (Carmella). He handles the hypocrisy of being immortal by leaning into the idea of radical change, that when the day comes that he succumbs to his corrupt vampire self there will be a hunter to strike him down. In short, he has made himself both a supporter and example of the absolute nature of time. His foil demonstrates a loophole: not everything that lasts forever is evil, namely love. Somehow I fell a little pic related about it though.
The main character has a Parasyte hand that was supremely annoying. His role was to say "woah D you are damn cool but this shit am pretty danger, you are going to die" and then D doesn't say anything and is cool and doesn't die. The nature of the Parasyte hand is never elaborated on. It seems like there are hints about every part of the world of Vampire Hunter D but the hand is literally just there to be a nerd. You could clip out all of its audio and screentime and the movie would be categorically improved. I'm aware that there's a manga that may clear up some confusion regarding worldbuilding but the film is pretty compelling as a standalone window into the home of a storied postapocalypse where remains are strewn through every nook and cranny. Sort of like Tolkien's fantasy, sometimes stuff happens that clearly plays a role in the history of the world but remains temptingly unexplained because it just isn't consequential to the hero's errand. Most of the meat is in the action and scenery, which is not a bad thing.
7/10
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Thoughts on this anime? Personally, every time I watch lain, I notice something new. I realized that the humming of the telephone pole represents collective unconsciousness. That's all I got because I haven't watched it for like 2 years. I am still curious to see what 22chan thinks about Lain.19 replies (and 17 file replies) omitted. Click here to view. (Bump Limit: 250)
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I think it's important that the resolution of SEL comes with Lain talking to a couple consisting of a teacher and alice, now a teacher-in-training. Modern homes and the modern family are alienated from reality, but the love of a schoolfriend or the genuine care of a good teacher still offers salvation.
Let's all love Lain
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for some reason that flew over my head, holy shit. thats a good take.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dtJO1V4OqG8 [Play]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dtJO1V4OqG8 [Play]
http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/cyberia/
One of the book that was used in devlopment is availible online, via text or audio both of which i have linked.
Also if you haven't watch the anime Cyberia Café & Club is a location Lain visits.
Here are more influences on lain, as cited from the creators.
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Collective unconscious is used storywise although i don't know which is the best work to cite on the matter.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dP3XI4M5cOQ [Play]
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRgKVQWFBrWRNPQneIadvjCzU-7KgO3nx
https://books.google.com/books?id=_NbHNj7KJecC&pg=PA114#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://archive.org/details/as-we-may-think
https://archive.org/details/programming-the-huma...-by-john-c.-lilly-z-lib.org/mode/1up
https://archive.org/details/neurologic-transmitted-by-joanna-and-timothy-leary/Neurologic-TransmittedByJoannaAndTimothyLearyCorrectRotation/mode/1up
