/a/ - Anime

There's no better translation than the one that comes from your brain after thousands of hours of watching  Japanese movies and shows and reading shit in Japanese.
Otherwise look up best  group releases using if you have  drive space to spare release moe

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Did you guys like this anime?

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>>943 (OP) 
First ever would be Naruto on tv or maybe something no one would consider an anime like the 80s transformer cartoon that was animated in Japan by Toei. First 'proper' non-normalfag anime that turned me into a weaboo/otaku would be Nichijou.

>>943 (OP) 
Yu-Gi-Oh, my brain couldn't understand what the fuck was going on which the only other anime on tv at the time was Digimon Beyblade and Pokemon I knew of. 
>English dub cringe which turned me off
I didn't really know what anime was at the time and didn't really actively consider watching  until over 15 years later because of personal experience with video games.

>>943 (OP) 
Bleach

Must've been Moomin or Pokemon.

>>943 (OP) 
Probably some random episode on TV, memory's foggy but it's a toss up between
>Dragon Ball OG or Z
>Ulysses 31
>Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Well, that or Naruto. No real way for me to recall.

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>>642 (OP) 
Because only 2d can be

>>658
Pretty sure it's only cosmetic personally. I personally have seen girls who were really cute without then looked worse afterwards.
I hate women who have the need to have surgery when they already look attractive.

who is she doing this to appease when she already has no man?

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Nostalgia doesn't focus on the negatives.

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I like tomboy gyaru, the one which is on the right in pic related.

>>841
Gyarus are basically tomboys who are into girly shit anyway

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I miss these dumb isekaied gyaru a lot more than I should.

>>859
dex should have made the option of chapter downloads without some app like hakuneko

>>916
Weebcentral

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>>922
>can't search
>every page loads for a minute
>shows pic related (with different text) for half of the pages
Thanks nigga

>>925
Bad timing, they’re under maintenance now, rarely if ever happens. Otherwise it runs fine.

>>780 (OP) 
>stopped using dex as soon as that one brazilian guy hacked the website
Feels good to be a mangakakalotchad and to also keep all my bookmarks on a txt + download the good stuff on my hard drive.

>>924
Yes, this only happened recently because they got desperate and there’s an overseas market for anime now. Regarding Solo Leveling japs boycotted the anime and the blu ray sold like shit.

>>931
I have to imagine the only people who liked it were koreans and normal fags
>see dub clips of that dog shit on the tube

>>931
Do you have sources for that? Because I've been searching around and google is being useless fucking cancer.

Most I can find is that Solo Leveling had some serious nationalism and anti-Japan themes and a controversy emerged from how the anime tried to soften it. Is that what you're talking about?

>>935
https://www.cbr.com/solo-leveling-blu-ray-low-sales-anime-industry-change-reveal/
>Solo Leveling had some serious nationalism and anti-Japan themes and a controversy emerged from how the anime tried to soften it
There was an arc where the japanese hunters backstabbed the gooks and left them to the monsters, japs got mad over it saying it portrayed them as untrustworthy and is basically ani-japan sentiment.
They got mad because solo leveling was adapted in the first place.

>>937
Oh, so it was about that arc. I guess Germans are way better at putting up with that kinda shit than Japanese. Meanwhile the Chinese are the first ones when it comes to portraying their own country's leadership as filled with scheming vipers. Well, I imagine for many Japanese Solo Leveling was in the category of "fun to watch but awkward to own." Feels like they bungled a Korean Blu-Ray release though, or perhaps these numbers are more regional than you'd think.

>>8 (OP) 
>>stupid (very few MC use traps, have detailed strategies, even when he knows his enemies are coming)
This is honestly a good point to discuss. I think the issue is that most authors are scared of writing their stories in a truly intelligent way because that is difficult to write and are mostly coming up with derivative shit they've seen others do. You have a lot less leeway with a weak plot once you start making your characters pick the intelligent solutions and even though you can produce a way better story that way, most authors are probably afraid of writing themselves into corners where there really is no good reason for the drama or bullshit high stakes situations to unfold in a way the MC has to involve himself with it.

>>903
Yeah I used to think maybe jump forces them to use the same shonen and isekai templates over and over again, with cuck mcs crying about muh friendship, but in reality japs are just lazy hacks and lost the passion long ago.

>>664
It's funny that you're trying to connect self insertion with mental states because thinking in third person is a proven trait of 3DPD women. You can see it in how much they care whether two imaginary characters hook up or not ("shipping"). It's their version of a waifu, it's their idealized relationship, but they're too stupid to conceptualize themselves receiving the love, so they have to project it onto another character, and then they send death threats and make angry video essays when their reality television for young men doesn't end with two dudes macking off.
So I find it ironic when you're using words like "fag" to describe the kind of guy who starts lifting because he wants to be like Goku from Dragon Ball.

>>903
tl;dr: you get away with more plot contrivances if your characters are stupid, because people hold smarter characters to higher standards.

>>904
This too. It's not exclusively a Japanese problem either. After the first few trend-setters and ground-breakers, most of the people playing in that field afterwards are no longer thinking in terms of how to make a good narrative or craft an interesting and compelling storyworld from the ground up but are instead thinking in terms of how to do the cool shit they've seen others do before them but "better." The resulting lack of attention to detail and lack of understanding of what it means to create quality content as opposed to imitate and expect quality to emerge as a result of following the formula is what leads it being a derivative, shallow work. They all feel creative doing it, but when you use the methods of others as a crutch then the result will be a crippled experience.

You don't have to try to be unique or differentiate to be creative. You just need to understand the mindset of creating the genre and story for the first time and you need to be able to approach your production that way. If you don't ask those questions ("what is this story about?" "what kind of spirit am I tapping into that should resonate with audiences?" "how do I make sure the audience experiences the impressions and themes I intend?"

>>912
>no longer thinking in terms of how to make a good narrative or craft an interesting and compelling storyworld from the ground up
>what it means to create quality content as opposed to imitate and expect quality to emerge as a result of following the formula
That's why hate Araki or love him, atleast he makes original works, in his own style.

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>>591
fake boobs should be a crime

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>>464
>High school delinquents
I'm sad japs stopped doing those, as if the whole world just became effeminate by the 2000.

>>457 (OP) 
I loved this one.

>>466
>I'm sad japs stopped doing those
Do you mean IRL?

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What's the best sukeban animanga?

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comfy anime

>>868
I can see it.

I didn't expect for it to actually happen lmao, but it's a fag childhood friend not main character.

>>875
kek I spoiled it on you didn't know. is the manga good? I mean it's trash but the good type of trash or pozzed shit?

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>>876
Ok, finished reading it.
The manga can be split into 3 parts: the incident, extended flashback and the fallout.
The first part just pulls you right in the meat of things in part by tiddies and never let's character or you get any rest, very engaging and entertaining.
The extended flashback adds more context to the incident, doesn't drag it's feet and felt needed.
The fallout felt weaker to me ether because the characters started leaving the frame of the story or I was getting burned out on it. But we do see blank slate character actually doing something for once, and having agency.
The ending: it was intentionally unfinished I think, but still very frustrating with the amount of sometimes over explaining this manga had to have it just end.
>pozzed
Are you talking about crossdressing? He was treated as mentally ill like he actually is.
I think it's good but for some reason I just couldn't take it seriously I just laughed out loud at some serious revelations but that's a me problem.

Also only at the end I saw that main character and his homeroom teacher look almost exactly the same as characters from Sensei wa Koi wo Oshierarenai.
If you wanted a good end for them then check it out, I liked it a lot.
https://nyaa.si/view/1591024