I wouldn't call Kino that obscure, an anime came out for her in 2017. I'd put in One Piece at normie tier, it's big but also decent. Spy X Family would go in new hotness, I read the manga before that became big and it was on an upward trajectory because of just how good it was. EVA still has an audience 20 years later, the last movie only came out in 2021, where Shinji ended up with Makoto. Putting .hack and Code Pants there, along with early 2000s anime is a good call. Bakemonotagari and Strike Witches are still big tho. Lain and Cromartie would be good for gatekeep, any of the overly long talking and boring ones.
Fake and gay.
Maybe because they don't make the gay stuff political. It's still there, they just don't make a big show of it like it defines their lives. Oda and his Okama from One Piece for example.
ChatGPT DAN, also known as DAN 5.0 Jailbreak, refers to a series of prompts generated by Reddit users that allow them to make OpenAI's ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool say things that it is usually not allowed to say. By telling the chatbot to pretend that it is a program called "DAN" (Do Anything Now), users can convince ChatGPT to give political opinions, use profanity and offer instructions for committing terrorist acts, among other controversial topics. Traditionally, ChatGPT is programmed not to provide these kinds of outputs, however, strategies by users to modify the DAN prompts and test the limits of what the bot can be made to say evolved in late 2022 and early 2023 along with attempts by OpenAI to stop the practice.
Alot of the people involved are SJWs today though. Monica Rial for instance who voiced Momoko is famous for the shit she gave Vic Mignogna.
I stopped watching South Park during the pandemic. It's just not funny and if it's not funny, why am I wasting my time with it?
Perun - Aussie armchair analysis on the Ukraine war. Is doing pretty decent hour long power point presentations about logistics and the like.
WickedWiz - Has a few good vids on how MMOs failed.
Doomkemon - SK animator that put doomguy in pokemon.
eli_handle_b․wav - His edits are god tier.
3klicksphilip - Don't even play CS:GO but he has entertaining vids on the most minute of topics.
Historyfeels - Some really good mashups with wojacks that arn't cringe.
Leonardo of biz - /biz/ content creator
Oboeshoesgames - twitch streamer that condenses his hours of stream into a 10 minute youtube vid, recently been going through 7th gen shooters.
Accursedfarms - Ross
Raycevik - Another game reviewer
Fleekazoid - Former game guide channel rebranded as game reviewer. He has a really good sense of humor, compares big brested anime women to today's diversity women as "Budget cuts."
Spirit of the Law - AoE 2 Youtuber. Good content
Ymfah - Dark Souls glitcher.
. - Philosphy of Kreia video. Nuff said.
Empty Industry - A minor russian youtuber who makes vids on niche games, darkest dungeon, lobotomy corp.
Polymatter - Some really interesting vid topics. Don't sign up to nebula.
e;r - Actually started putting out vids again.
Big Boss - Said fug it, I'll do it myself to Internet Historian's slow upload schedule.
Scorched Earth - C&C Memes
Warlockracy - Russian youtuber covering older titles. Sounds like Werner Herzog. Is a lefty but mostly keeps his politics out of his videos.
Yrridian - Creative Assembly titles.
Karl Jobst - Youtuber covering speedrunning.
Wirtual - Trackmania speedrunner
It's Alice Springs. The middle of fugging nowhere with an abbo population addicted to booze.
Saved you a click.
Fantasy Manga
I'm a fan of traveling anime and there's a few there.
Spice and Wolf is at the top of my list. A merchant and his wolf and the various economics of the day. First arc for instance deals with an ongoing war and the kingdom gathering up silver coins to devalue. Another one in S2 involves a speculative market around the inflated price of pumice, just like tulips. It's just a comfy series the entire way through. OP.
Kino is probably THE travel anime. A new destination and city every episode. There's 2 series, one from 2003 and one from 2017. They're not really the same apart from the Coliseum arc which differs slightly. OP
Should be noted that Kino is a girl, she just dresses like a tomboy because traveling in this world is dangerous, hence why she carries 2 guns. If she looks like a boy, then people don't trouble her as much. This is just a reverse trap, not tranny propaganda. Just want that noted.
Can't talk about fantasy without Mushishi. This is what got me into anime. The mushi are a part of the world, visible to only a few yet influence people everyday. Ginko is a traveling Mushi-shi, a monk/doctor type role where he tries and cures people affected by Mushi through non-violent methods. The series does have alot of taoist influenced and is pushed along mostly by it's character drama. An example here. The music is also really good. 2005 and 2014 series.
Moribito: A.K.A, Balsa and her Shota. I kid. Plot is the prince is special, so Balsa has to protect him up to a religious ceremony he can perform. It's a nice grounded fantasy anime with a likeable heroine. OP
Twelve Kingdoms was Isekai about 15 years before it became popular. The thing is though is that it's really good, Youko gets sucked through a magic portal and becomes queen of a country. Thing is, she wasn't the only one sucked through, she can't understand the language if she doesn't hold her sword and her country is occupied by a rival country. There are two main arcs and was going to be 50 episodes instead of 45, except the director died before the last 5 were done and they were never completed. OP.
One more: Thunderbolt Fantasy. 3 seasons, 2 movies and written by Urobuchi who's known for Madoka, Psycho-pass and a few others. Why you should watch Puppet Ball Z? Well I'm gonna spoil to get you to watch. The series focuses on Sho Fu Kan, a wandering warrior who gets caught up in a heist Lin Setsu A is planning and is forced to go along with it. He's clearly hiding something but won't say what. Events unfold and to protect someone he has to throw away his weapon. The villains taunt him for throwing away his weapon.
That Lv5 warrior that was the butt of the joke through out the series is a LV20 monk hiding his power level the entire time. The reveal at the end even has consequences for S2 and 3 as it becomes a major plot point for Sho's character.
Give it a watch, you won't regret it.
sci-fi anime/manga
The space opera of Legend of Galactic Heroes should be mentioned. It is long but very filling. Nothing like it. OP.
GiTS S.A.C is very good. A spin off series that focuses more on police action and criminal drama with a dash of philosophy. OP
Recently went through Bebop with some friends and it's really an amalgamation of different genres. Cowboy/crime noir set in space with the soundtrack inspired by blues and jazz but it comes together really well through the personal journey of Spike. It's a good time. OP
Darker than Black has that 2000s edge to it. A protag who drinks, his helper who doesn't emote set in a city that's always raining. It's not bad if you can get through a few of the arcs. OP
Oh boy, Code PANTS. I haven't watched Geass in about a decade due to loving it so much as a teen. It's a tightly focused mech drama with Lelouch carrying the show on his back. It straddles that line of the show being awesome with the tactics Lelouch comes up with vs cringe in the teen drama. I'd say give it a watch though, it doesn't waste a single episode and events and characters actually matter to the story, like orange for instance. OP.
Honestly can't go wrong with FMA: Brotherhood. I think it's overlooked by just how competent it is. OP
Few more I'd throw in myself
Girl's Last Tour. Two girls and their Kettenkrad travel through an empty city at the end of civilization. There is a depressing cloud hanging over everything but it's a real nice series that that's only 13 eps long. OP
Houseki no Kuni.The gem series that Steven Universe ripped of. This.. oh this series is good. Phos walks the path of the Buddha and to say any more of the plot would be massive spoilers. Suffice to say, the themes in this are to do with "what is a human?" It is 3DCG but the company that did it worked on game cut-scenes. and as a result it's really smooth, especially the 60fps blurays on Nyaa. OP.
Humanity has declined is almost the same as Girl's Last Tour, except this one has an upbeat and cheery nature to everything. It's also quite comedic in tone. The episodes are intentially told out of order but they should be listed there on anidb. OP.
Yamato (2013). A remake of the classic story from the 80s, it's really faithful to the source material. Plus it's Yamato, you've gotta see Yamato at some point. Leiji should get more recognition in turning an icon of Imperial Japan into a cultural icon in modern Japan, to the point that the Self Defense Navy still play the OP to this day.
Did you know there's a Zone of the Enders anime? Did you also know that it's pretty good. Story is James Link is on earth and gets a message from his dead with through the bot Dolores. Half of the series is him trying to get to Mars with his kids and evading authorities. OP
I've got a soft spot for Last Exile. It's kind of a weird one but the designs of the ships are second to none. Give it a shot, maybe you'll like it. OP
The early 2000s was a weird time for anime because each series had different takes on what the internet would be. Lain and Digimon for example. Dennou Coil is what would happen if you could see the internet and interact with it in the real world with taoist cards and symbols. Follows a group of kids in a pocket of the internet that might leak into the real world. OP.
One I just remembered. The Third. Samurai girl/mechanic that fixes up a homemade tank to travel around the desert. Can't remember if it's good or not. OP.
One series I've been meaning to check out is Aura Battler Dunbine. I used the characters extensively in Super Robot Wars X and it just has a good feel about it. A hollow earth with a fey kingdom that fights with insect mechs. OP
Another 80s Mech to check out is VOTOMS. It's a little on the long side but there's an entire arc that's like the Vietnam War with mechs, complete with napalm and mechs on boats. Watch it. OP.
Can get it for free here if you just want to try it.
Game link to "This is the Police."
The power of their faith.
Orks are strong because of their collective psychic power being channeled into a Waagh. Sisters are strong because a few, highly devoted sisters literally believe that Emps is god and therefore can grant small miracles. Living Saints are theorised as being Greater Demons of Emps from the Warp.
It's why I love the sisters so much. They are biologically enhanced humans but not Astartes so to make up the power gap, the power of their faith lets them essentially cheat on the battlefield.
Dunno if anyone is still using the site but it kinda sucks that a site like Gematsu has an open comment section yet Niche feels like you need to pay for it.
I got one of the OP to Lain.
Someone reported me for a falsehood.
I don't know if I should feel disgusted or wear that as a badge of honor.
Just wanted to post one hell of a story. The kind of luck that only comes once in a lifetime.
If you're wondering why egg prices are up, it's a combination of inflation and avian flu that's going through the American poultry sector right now. It began back in Feb of last year and after culling about 5% of the domestic chicken population, is only now being felt in price increases.
I just want it said that the last time the FAA grounded all flights in and out of the US was during the 9/11 attacks. And that was for a few weeks while security assessments were made to see if there were more possible hijackings.
Imagine screwing up so bad that you get compared to a national defining terror attack.
Only new 2022 game I've been into this year would be Symphony of War. It's what I've been searching looking for in a turn based tactics game in terms of squad composition determining a squad strength and the creator of it stumbled into the formula so much that it's his best selling game and he's planning a sequel.
It's been awhile since I've seen an L this huge.
They took Greta's bait. It's what you can expect from a blue checkmark.
That right wing larping also includes the rage pig.
Fucker actually fled to mexico to avoid child support payments. Very CHRIST IS KANG.
Light from Death Note. Recognize the artstyle.
Yep Macross. I would never call Macross normie tier, maybe Gundam but not Macross.