No.17436
>>17431 This seems like an interesting concept for some depressing slice of life.
No.17439
please, no
No.17440
>>17431I liked this a lot, though it's definitely not Porter's best song or the best candidate for a music video.
No.17445
It's always great when someone is too lazy to put in the effort and things like Henneko on John Stewart or Suika on ESPN happen.
No.17448
>>17445It's also great when somebody does put the effort. I should go take a few shots of Saitama drawn in one of the underpasses nearby.
No.17944
>>17942I completely forgot about this.
No.19077
>>19076The Umi reply is the best one.
No.19465
>>19463So, he understands One Punch Man better than 99.9% of the fanbase of One Punch Man.
No.19469
>>19463>you know it's like, stubbing your toe, thumbs down, Adolf Hitler, thumbs downThis is probably the best explanation I've heard of why like/dislike sucks.
No.20440
>>20439That twitter account was fake. And the second video is suppose to be an anti-video that backfired. Oh and it is made by a gook that pretends to be Japanese.
No.20556
>>20554I cannot hold my suspension of disbelief for this picture, at no point during the festival of lights is Nathan-Phillip's Square filled with people who actually know how to skate enough to not be consistently on their ass. Also the moose on a diving board that is everpresent on top top the cement pillars that form the skeleton over top the place seems entirely missing.
No.20832
>>20831>Rolling Stone dubbed it, incongruously, “Pokémon-inspired.” Fucking casuals.
>Debates have sprung up on various blogs: “Why did he choose such young characters?” wondered one viewer on Tumblr, who declared the video “creepy.”Sasuga tumblr.
>In moé, sexuality is treated indirectly; rather than showing overtly pornographic images, it focusses on “slice of life” dramas that allow consumers—mainly adult men—to observe the budding sexuality of pre-teen and teen-age girls from a discreet remove.The New Yorker article itself is mostly decent, but this part was just bizarre.
No.20833
>>20681I think they might have taken it down some years ago, it would just be on top of that concrete ribcage to the right there.
No.20857
>>20832>The New Yorker article itself is mostly decent, but this part was just bizarre.Meh, it's the usual "blame the straight white man for anything" spiel. Doesn't need to make sense, as long as it's blaming the straight white man.
No.20930
>>20929Someone's tax dollars at work.
IF SOMEONE IS TAKING TOO MUCH SPACE FUCKING TELL THEM SO IN THE FACE
No.20970
Not sure if this fits here exactly, but it has anime interacting with real life.
Grape-kun died today:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-41608350Rest in peace little guy.
No.20979
>>20970Silly humans, he just went to the 2D world to be together with his beloved one.
No.20997
>>20929The endings make these tolerable. Shame the music is so effortless.
>>20970Good night, sweet prince.
No.21342
>>19465kys
(BEHAVE OR LEAVE) No.21345
>>21342kys faggot
(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) No.22174
>>22160It hurts to know what Supernatural turned into. S1 and S2 are very enjoyable.
No.22175
>>22174Monster of the week stuff still seemed to go fine throughout, but the main plot just kept diving once lucifer showed up.
No.22177
>>22175Therein lies the problem: monster of the week should've always been the focus.
The moment they made most demons cannon fodder is the moment the show drastically dropped in quality.
Anyway, I need to check out the anime adaption. I've been procrastinating on that since its announcement.
No.22187
>>22186Whoops, didn't mean to post the link before saying anything.
I'm not familar with the original, but it infuriates me that they've changed up the name for no reason.
No.22196
>>22186Uh. I think I'm misremembering something. I would have expected Hollywood to be all up to making the story I remember all gritty with subdued colors and shit. Doesn't Hollywood fucking love gritty shit? What the fuck?
No.22207
>>22200Cause that way she's an oppressed minority.
No.22744
>>22186holy shit this looks terrible
when will anime genocide end
No.25225
>>25224Pointy knives are illegal in the UK.
Okay, it was only proposed. By a judge. Not sure what happened after that. No.25233
Ugh, most everything in this thread disgusts me. When will outsiders just leave us alone?
No.25234
>>25233We're the outsiders now.
No.25242
>>25235I've despised almost everything about this fandom for at least 5 years, so whatever. I can't even care anymore.
No.25247
>>25242Things were better then, that's true. But the fact that places like this, like fufufu, can exist is proof that the old guard of otaku, lolicons, and outcasts never truly went away.
No.25251
I just hope normalfags would find some other medium to ruin. Some individuals have moved on to K-drama and Chinese novels and stuff like that but I hope there will be something more solid.
No.25266
>>25251Frankly, I never saw the problem. People with less than 200 watched series were always cringey. Now they are straight-out normalfags. Who the fuck cares. Give it a few years, and those few normalfags who still watch anime would have learned a thing or two about the medium, and will be a part of us.
No.25272
>>25251>>25266I think the worst of them are just edgy memers who came out of the gaming community, so ideally they at least will move on at some point.
No.25285
>>25266>>25272I think that the amount of these normalfags has been growing on a rate that every unfitting individual leaving will be replaced by ten or more. And they are not into the medium because they like it, they are just following the normalfag hivemind that in my books makes them permanently outsiders. Unfortunately games becoming popular made the concept of a "loser" (as in "Oh I am such a geek") acceptable, and now through that connection between games and anime they have reached the bottom of the barrel and are imitating the "anime fans" they were bullying 5-10 years prior, just like with capeshit a few years earlier.
No.25289
>>25285Again, doesn't matter. It's been like this since the origin of the term "summerfags". Which was more than a decade ago, if I remember correctly.
It just means there will be more mainstream spaces for "anime fans", like 9gag or whatever other shit they have; and less mainstream spaces that have actual quality discussions and actual anime fans, like fufufu. And the larger the mainstream appeal, the more people will eventually become actual fans.
No.25290
>>25289It is almost 25 years since the beginning of the September that never ended.
No.25293
>>20554I'm happy to see other leafs.
No.25300
>>25293A horrible metal prison of towering glass paint-by-number condos replacing the interesting and practical and charming brick industry and commercial landscape, unique and self-run food and supplies shops giving way to boutiques, less grocers and markets and more whole foods'. No, I say Toronto is a tragedy of modern man, let us leave it for the charm it holds in memories.
I haven't been there in years but I hear Vancouver is the same.
No.25349
>>25348These aren't that bad. Several dozens more completed series, and old /a/ wouldn't even be telling them to gtfo for watching too few anime.
No.25370
>>25349But doesn't that shitplace count individual seasons as series. And OVA episodes too.
Also
>MAL No.25384
>>25370Yes, usually that will inflate the count by 1.5-2x, but we can't exactly check the details of each list anymore because they now default to being private. Which is why "episodes" and "days" are more telling measures of how much of their life they've wasted on anime.
The person with the VEG avatar only has 2000 episodes to 172 completed entries, while the guy with no avatar has 4,107 episodes to 144 completed entries. Likely, VEG-kun has seen a lot of OVAs that bloat their list, and no avatar-kun has seen a bunch of long-running shounenshit.
No.25385
>>25384>OVAsMost probably films. For example he's probably seen all of Ghibli. Also, as he's been watching for like an year tops, he's probably seen mostly recent one cour stuff.
No.25713
>>25712Huh, the artstyle seemed similar to that of Brianne Drouhard. She could have made this project actually good. But, well, with such a staff? It will be a dumpster fire. Only the guy from Animaniacs has any credibility.
No.25714
>>25712One of the worst parts of it being Western is that there won't be quality porn of it.
Luckily this will probably be DOA, and most of the attention it will get with be shitposting.
No.25717
>>25712I don't see a problem with them doing this, it's not like they are working with a Japanese IP. Western animation has been seeing a bit of a revival in the past few years, anyway, and maybe this project will pave the way for others to create their own. I can see it ending up pretty average.
Can't be much worse than the LWA TV series that it's not-so-subtly ripping off.
No.25719
>>25717You have to question their integrity and capabilities to write a good story when half of the trailer is about how their career was the struggle to reach 50% female staff, 100% female writers, a show about "a diverse cast of characters" and what "it represents". The number of ugly dikes is also impossible to not notice. Modern western cartoons are garbage to begin with, there is no reason to believe those people are going to produce anything above that. I doubt they will be able to even impress with their animation technology and skills.
Also it wasn't long ago when Crunchyroll released their first translation of a Japanese mobile game - Danmachi's. Their censored it, were proud of it and the western released flopped. I think people at least used the translation to port it into the Japanese version.
No.25721
>>25719>Modern western cartoons are garbage to begin withI can think of a few series to dispute this point, but the audience for adult-oriented animation is much smaller here compared to in Japan so there is a smaller amount of it in general. Most western cartoons are uninspired kiddieshit, which shouldn't even be considered when we are talking about shows like this that are meant to appeal to the late-night anime demographic.
If there is incentive for the industry to grow then I'm certain that they will start to produce more interesting things, and I think that this is at the very least a step in the right direction. In any case, there's no reason to get all up in arms about it.
No.25724
>>25721>>25721Well what are you examples?
And "kiddshit" is not an excuse. It is hardly even true. Because of my smaller brother I still see a lot of cartoon netwoork in the background. Is it technically for children? Sure. But it is made of faggots that are constantly tipping their hats to the "adults" that are watching it. It is a big part of their shtick. Western cartoons are full of shit like that and it never adds anything meaningful. It just makes them that more awkward and absolutely unfunny to watch. That is without getting into the other shit they are full of. Their try to have their badly written, shitty messaging. They can never dream of beating in fun the simple cartoons of old, such as Tom & Jerry.
No.25729
>>25721>and I think that this is at the very least a step in the right direction.It's not though. If anything, it's the exact opposite of the right direction for things to be headed in.
If it somehow succeeds, it leads to more "diverse" shows which focuses more on virtue signaling, and other tumblr topics, rather than having the main focus being a good story/characters/etc.
If it fails, which it 'very' likely will, all of the staff, and everyone involved will make a big stink about it claiming it failed because of sexists or anime nerds being losers.
See: Ghostbusters, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
No.25730
Let's not forget the most important fact. Crunchyroll is producing a shitty cartoon using the money of the deluded people that think they are supporting the anime industry. This being a wake up call to many of them would be the part. But it is highly possible it will just be ignored, "A-As long as the subtitles are not suffering!" will be said and it won't have a big effect.
No.25731
>>25730I have no evidence of this, but I'm sure a big part of CR's success is that a lot of people are either too stupid or too lazy to torrent, use XDCC, FTP, etc. So they wouldn't care how CR spends their money as long as they can watch anime on their phone.
No.25733
>>25714There would have to be quality character designs first to want porn of it at all.
>>25721>In any case, there's no reason to get all up in arms about it.The biggest reason is that CR has spent years saying how people's subscriptions all go back to the companies in Japan and help pay for all the series they watch, and instead we now see that they're using that money to fund this social justice garbage that not even CR subscribers want; see the comments on CR's own article about it.
No.25735
>>25733We have known for years that CR barely supports the industry. I am so far past caring about their involvement, there is nothing they could do to possibly make me give a shit.
If you don't want to watch their cartoon then don't watch it. Just stop deluding yourself into thinking that they are a bunch of nefarious evildoers.
Like
>>25731 says, the vast majority of their subscribers don't give a shit, and there's no reason that you should either. Go to Japan and support the industry instead of whining about how Crunchyroll doesn't.
No.27298
>>27297Ask him who is he quoting and then deport him.
No.29058
I am so glad for that High Guardian Spice shit having been completely buried. I haven't even thought about it since it was introduced.
No.29060
>>29058Got delayed by a whole year. So incompetent that they can't even shit it out yet.
No.29065
>>29060I'd love to hear their excuses for continuing to drain subscription money which is meant to go to supporting Japanese publishers.