I started disengaging from anime around the middle of the season before this one, so there's a lot in my theoretical backlog if I ever decide to go back. I started noticing anime trends going in directions I'm not that big of a fan of. Villainess anime started becoming the 'next thing' and I really don't like that sort of thing. And faggot anime, yaoi, and even yuri anime started becoming a lot more common as well. I've enjoyed a few yuri anime here and there because I'm a guy who likes hot chicks, but they've been really pushing that stuff into a place of primacy over the past few seasons and it's irritating. Anime goes in cycles of what's popular or marketed heavily, and the stuff they're starting to push isn't stuff I like really.
I also agree with OP that Angel Next Door was a nice change of pace from the usual romcom fare. I vastly prefer romcoms where the couple actually is couple over the constant will they won't they shit.
I feel like I'm just growing out of anime in some ways. Anime, and a lot of Japanese cultural stuff, is heavily reliant on static tropes and rigid archetypes. Yes, all media is to some degree, but Japan does it on a whole different level. They're the ones who come up with specific names for types of characters based on their personality and assign them standardized hair colors to denote what sort of character this is. A vast amount of anime is assembly line content built from prefab characters and plots.
This comes from the fact that most of it is based on LNs and manga from authors who are always looking for the next series to become a long term running serial so they have an indefinite paycheck. There isn't as much of a culture of 'Here's the story I want to tell, here's the beginning, middle, and end. I told it and now it's over' over there like there can be here. It's why you end up with manga series that lasts decades or light novels with 23 volumes that haven't actually moved anything forward since volume 4. I would love a return to the days when there were big anime series that were 50 episodes that told one complete story from start to finish and then it's over. Just enough to really tell it fully, but not dragging it out over and over to keep the money flowing in.
And I personally have started to find a lot of it boring and repetitive. Like I've had just about my life's fill of it and I don't think I need anymore. Every so often you get one or two shows a season that are trying something new, but even they still end up mostly just trying to do something new with the same tropes. A lot of anime is just the Mexican food of animated entertainment. Same ingredients combined in different ways, and at some point you've tried them all.
I think I've seen enough combinations of the same things were I can predict just about everything that is going to happen in an anime just from the first episode and seeing what archetypes are in the show. Like I watched Smoking Behind the Supermarket last week just to check it out, and while it was fine, a little better than fine, and I know a few years ago I would have really loved it, I could tell exactly what it was from the first 5 minutes. As soon as the first episode was done, I immediately though 'ah, this will be one where they constantly dance around the relationship and think of ways to delay them confronting their feelings and moving the central relationship forward so the author can get as many issues out of the gimmick for as many years as possible'. Then I looked up where the source material is and yep, that's exactly what it is. I don't like being able to call the entire plotline of an anime from the first episode based off seeing the same things done in slightly different ways so many times.
And I know it's easy to say 'just try things you weren't into before'. Except I didn't try them before because I already didn't like it. I don't go for brutal edgelord anime for instance. It just doesn't appeal to me. And getting tired of stuff I used to enjoy does not magically create enjoyment out of other things I used to not like. I still don't like the stuff I used to not like too. I think I'm just moving past anime as a medium at this point, at least for a long while until there are some real changes or if it's been long enough that I forget why I got tired of it.
If the games and movies that are being made today are the stuff that would be in there, no.
Different topic from the usually political deluge. A brand new letter from JRR Tolkien written to a fan has been found and it confirms that Ents were indeed in the Shire prior to the Fellowship starting off, as reported by Sam's cousin Hal, as well as Treebeard already knowing a good deal about the Shire, Hobbits, and was putting one over on Pippin and Merry.
While the known facts about Epstein clearly demonstrate he was an absolutely evil person, checking the rest of the videos that channel has made, Taylor McMahon, shows that he believes and makes a ton of content about some absolutely bonkers nonsense. So take it with a bulk cargo freighter's worth of salt.
An Ian Carroll link? Really? We gonna start taking TYT seriously next?
I've always thought Tulsi was a snake, and women don't belong in politics at all. But posting that leftist whackjob Carroll as the source is certainly a choice.
Notice how much of a big deal the Catholic Church makes about Mary as Jesus' mother, despite how much He was referred to by Himself and others as "Son of David" and "Son of Man", and Mary is almost exclusively only referenced when talking about Christ's early life. The Gospel of John doesn't even mention her by name.
Mike Portnoy has been one of my all time favorite drummers for going on 25 years now, ever since I was a drumline nerd. He's probably right behind Neil Peart for me. Dream Theater CDs kept me company on so many drum corps bus rides.
I have to confess something. Despite hearing the name numerous times over the past few years, I still have no idea who Dave Portnoy is.
I can't watch shit like that. I haven't watched cable news or read an MSM article in probably over a decade. I've even been cutting back on my watching of right-leaning political Youtubers. I mostly read headlines on PDW to get an approximation of whether anything major and real is going on, like when the Iran war started or the earthquake, but I generally don't seek out and consume political content much anymore. Actually watching an ultra-cucked Canadian gay race communism segment would feel like eating McDonald's at 2am after a year of nothing but home raised chicken and vegetables. The sheer nausea and queasiness is a genuine physical response.
That should at least thrill the muslims on this sub.
The black female physique is utterly repulsive to me on such a visceral level that I cannot even describe it. I don't even like White women who are 'thicc' because it reminds me of a negress. "How many of your body features look like they'd fit on someone named Lashaunda" is literally one of the ways I use to evaluate whether a White woman is attractive or not. The further away from that standard she is, the hotter she is.
Long straight naturally blonde or red hair, blue or green eyes, and the body of a Japanese woman but with White skin is basically my peak and has been since about the early 90s when I stopped thinking girls have cooties.
I'm not sure it's intentional well-poisoning. I think OP is just a fucking moron. It is a fallacy to believe that because our side is correct politically, this means we are all intelligent, and the enemy is incorrect therefore they are all stupid. Over time one comes to learn that despite having arrived at mostly correct political positions via one road or another, there are in fact an absolute ton of people on the Right who are blindingly stupid and incompetent.
Someone can have the same views as me on whether or not we should get rid of all the immigrants or whether we should be allowed to own whatever guns we want and all the rest, but if they start talking about the earth being hollow or space not being real or any of that other nonsense, I'm going to correctly identify them as a useful retard. Thanks for voting the right way dawg, but shut the fuck up on everything else. I think OP falls firmly into that category.
So there's a funny thing about air. It moves around.
The white and red combination on YouTube is almost as exhausting as yellow paint in video games.
Well pimpin ain't easy, and it is not only no longer necessary, but entirely unwanted.
What's interesting is that there is already an established legal precedent for the idea that if one films a specific sort of crime and distributes the footage to others, watching that footage increases the likelihood that more such crimes will take place, so simply being in possession of the footage itself is also a crime. And yet, there is demonstrable proof that filming and streaming the 'knock out game' does exactly that, and that viewers of that footage are more likely to go out and do it themselves so they can also gain viewers of their own, and yet watching or possessing the footage is not a crime.
Makes one wonder if the 'knock out game' was done predominantly by young White men, whether there would already be a Possession of Violent Assault Material felony on the books.
*White people. Canada's not lining up their jeets, spics, negros, mohammedans, or local flavor of brown savages for the gas chamber. Only Whites.
And vice versa especially. As evidenced in this very thread in fact.
Cool story mullah.
Cool story imam. Fucking strange that a thread about Tucker and Islam got you so riled up and made you try to smokescreen and deflect to something else that isn't what the thread is about. Fucking odd. I wonder what would cause someone to get so angry so quickly as soon as someone criticizes Islam? Hell of a head scratcher.
Oh I'm sure here's the part where you come in and say you hate both side, glass em all and all that. But you know what's funny about that? When the thread is about Jews and not Islam, I notice you sort never come in and say 'and Islam too'. If it's a thread about Islam, you always gotta shoulder in and make sure it's about Jews as well. But when it's already about Jews, it never goes the other way. Reeeeeaal fucking interesting.
You're gonna shit yourself when you find out what clouds are made out of.
You can say whatever you want. The clip though is Tucker Carlson retracting prior statements about whether Islam is an enemy or 'suicide cult' and now stating that he doesn't think it is.
Any bets on how long til he comes out as having converted to Islam? I'd imagine his sweatheart house deal in Qatar back in December probably came with some strings attached.
I don't begrudge his baby games. It's quite refreshing for a non-pozzed game reviewer to openly like games like that instead of posturing as 'ultra hardcore difficulty pro-gamer sadist' for the internet toughguy points. There tends to be a kneejerk reaction to signal in-group allegiance by being as opposite of the other side as one can be. Since faggot game reviewers can't finish a tutorial level without yellow paint and a hint every 8 seconds, some based reviewers feel like they need to present this sort of 'I play nothing but Dark Souls on hardcore for 28 hours straight' personality. I find that 'the difficulty of the entertainment on a screen is an expression of my self worth' sort of attitude nauseating. I appreciate Synth doesn't really give a shit about that and just likes his Kirby and Donkey Kong. I just don't really care for those games myself.
Fuck off dude. I didn't 'support' shit. I've been the one posting about the encroachment of faggot shit in anime numerous times for over a year. And I pirate everything anyways, so not once cent has been spent on shit that supports faggot stuff. I'd tell you to get off your high horse, but you probably enjoy the dildo you mounted to it too much.
Here's me over two week ago already talking about this exact problem. https://scored.co/c/KotakuInAction2/p/1ASswYLoe8/anime-tourist-create-a-new-termh/c/4ed370ezSrO
You swaggering in here like you're scoring some kind of point no one else has thought of lol