Dude. I understand, but at the same time... you keep writing the same things here again and again. It feels like we are being used as hostages to keep reading your extended suicide note, or captive therapist.
You are not helping yourself by going around and around in circles, ruminating on the same things and feeling sorry for yourself.
It's the... wherever you are from (would say Israeli if I was trying to be cheeky) version of The Devil Went Down to Georgia. You can't play the fiddle very well, so this was the compromise.
The lore of KiA2 is growing every day.
Why not both? Obscure, weird historic stuff and also anime.
(There is an anime about people during the Russo-Japanese war. The creator is oddly and endearingly obsessed with Ainu cuisine.)
There is nothing wrong with enjoying multiple different things. If anything, I find it refreshing to go from one topic or medium to the next.
I think you have a contract with Satan that says that if you call others stormfags less than 100 times a day, he gets your soul.
You just keep repeating that word like a toddler.
But every Arab terrorist or African drug dealer who already raped/murdered back home can go to Germany and they are welcome.
But the moment Germans, who will support themselves in Paraguay, instead of committing crime and being leaches of normal local people's taxes, decide to leave? OH NO, suddenly free migration is evil Nazi.
Same as when lefties suddenly started caring about borders when Kyle Rittenhouse travelled 20 minutes, but Juan the gang member can just march in with a child he bought for 200 bucks. No borders my ass.
Natsume is so sweet. I used to have a keychain with the cat.
Erased scares me so much. Would I cry my eyes out? Most probable, though i love thrillers and true crime .
Not gonna lie, Christmas hit me hard, lol. Too much eating, drinking and napping.
I blast the Death Parade op in my car all the time, even though I have not seen it. But man, is that song good.
I don't like the Clamp art style and I really disliked Code Geass. If xxxHolic is not fujo bait, I can try. Again, I like that op song.
I'm so reading JJK next year. The anime was so good for someone like me, who used to be into all the old 00s shounen shit. Like all that nostalgia, but it is actually good. :D
Watched the first couple AoT seasons, I just feel the answers were a lot lamer than the questions we started out with.
Made in Abyss looks so very good. Pedos can fuck off, they see something like that in everything.
That's so cute, she sounds like a good kid. Back in school I was thretened by some other girl for being a weeb shit (she wanted to "kick my ass"), so I guess it's good at least the merch is less cringe now.
My friend saw some kid on a beach wearing a shirt that had the main dude's pattern. It was cool, weirdo took a sneaky photo too. :D
Chainsaw Man has... odd scenes too. Not sure what do you mean by degenerate, but yeah. Sexual and weird.
I keep googling stuff and I am realising how much of it I have seen before without context.
Space Dandy was made by the Bebop/Champloo dude, right?
Yeah, I am reading Chainsaw Man now, that could potentially lead into Dorohedoro when it comes to weird and just... ugh.
Girls und Panzer is one of those things people mention when it comes to weird anime concepts. For the longest time I thought it was the same as Tanya the evil.
I love Tiger & Bunny, which nobody fucking knows, but hey. FMA is pretty much perfect storytelling to me, Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, I really really liked Xam'd: Lost Memories, liked Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei (even though the end resolution was fucking dumb), Mushishi is beautiful, Natsume Yuujinchou too, Gintama was hilariously dumb (stopped watching anime while it was still going, so nowhere near caught up), I did like Ouran High School Host Club as a teen, Baccano is fucking amazing.
I dislike Clamp's stuff (yes, that includes Codea Geass), Stein's Gate, TTGL and I cry VERY easily, so I am scared of trying Violet Evergarden, even though it looks so beautiful.
There are some I am already interested in, like Made in Abyss, Golden Kamuy, The Tatami Galaxy (one of my all time fave illustrators did the original character designs for it), etc.
I just realised Dororo =/= Dorohedoro.
Which also looks fun as fuck, but yeah.
That's what I especially hate, they're not even creative enough to come up with a metaphor that's accessible to all audiences, they just pull out some "durrrr police brutality" shit over and over and it's tiring.
It also assumes some kind of a universal "fate" where no matter the setting, the exact same shit happens. Like black-ish looking people are always victims. Women are always victims.
Like you can build up a whole planet from 0 and it still ends up with the exact same people getting the exact same outcome. Does that mean they are destined to suck?
Holy shit, HP is almost isekai, I just understood this and you blew my mind a bit. :D
I'm a person who really cares about characters. So to me, Western superhero comics are no go, specifically because they just reboot and rework and rewrite the same fucking characters.
Like UWU, this one is still Wolverine, but now he is a high school girl who acts nothing like Wolverine. So why would I care? I cared about the person he was, not the costume.
Mieruko-chan looks interesting. I already feel for the poor girl lol.
Ms Marvel from a couple years back, I don't remember the exact issue. Basically she started some commie police with other young people and they arrested some boy who, through some magic technology, they knew was a future potential school shooter or some such.
That's just so sad. They don't want to be conflicted or really think about their morals and where they exactly stand.
I love fantasy the most. Action-focused things, steampunk is always a plus. Not really into romance and harem and such.
I also generally love stories about historical/semi-historical people and events that are just odd and lesser known. I'm really excited about starting Golden Kamuy, if that makes it clearer what I mean.
Right? I absolutely love how in that story, the love between the boy and his sister is a central point. it's so adorable how he interacts with his little sister, who is basically "sick".
Funny enough, that should be a message normally SJW type scream about supporting; supportive and loving relationships and understanding towards people who are disabled/ill/have issues.
Also, it's so pretty. No noodle limbs, no intentionally repulsive art style.
The patterns and colours of the clothes are so gorgeous. All the characters have their personal pattern/colour combos. I totally get why it appeals to young girls.
(it's also marketing genius, so much room for subtle and everyday-life-compatible merch)
Any anime you would recommend?
I used to be majorly into anime, but then shit happened and I'm out of the loop with current stuff.
Right? In the West, every single piece has to appeal to everyone. Meanwhile in Japan they seem to be content with reaching a more limited audience, in exchange for creating an authentic piece of a story.
Your last point is interesting, especially when it comes to how communal and societal duties are valued higher in Asia than in the West, but they still have an industry that is far more individualistic than Western media. It's fucked, I tell you.
I actually think a huge reason why Jujutsu Kaisen is so successful is because it knows its own bounds. It's super competently done when it comes to everything is does, but it also doesn't try to be more than what it is. It's not mean-spirited and doesn't try to insult anyone. Yes, it is self-aware when it comes to shounen as a genre, but in a friendly and loving way.
Which is why I think it's awesome.
Only seen like 15 eps of Demon Slayer, so I don't know much about it, but I suspect it's something similar.
Also, with both, I just love how the main characters are such good kids. Simple, nice, not bratty or conceited. Most of my entertainment is books, I am a literature slut, but the way Western authors write teenagers is fucking awful. They are such nasty little shits and they have no consequences coming.
So that's why I find Yuuji Itadori to be hugely refreshing. Kid is such a little brother type, it's insane.
Okay, explain to me how going on and on and on is solving it. I am not saying his family is not retarded or whatever.
But doing this is not helping him. Everyone just going "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" and him talking in circles here is NOT helping. Not a single positive step or idea is fucking happening, just collective moaning and panicking and everyone spiralling into depression.
He is not doing anything to better his own health (mental or otherwise), nor is he doing anything about the situation. Nothing done personally, nothing done politically.
Okay, panic if you want. You do you. But turning yourself even more miserable than the shitty situation necessitates is not helping, you will just make yourself sick and insane. No progress was made, you ruined yourself. Congrats.
Repeating the SAME FUCKING THINGS about his parents and girlfriend or whatever and whomever and whatever did not make him take a single step forward.
We just can't have a "Merry Christmas y'all cunts here" post without suicidenote-ing.