/jam/ - Japan, Anime, & Manga

>>88801

>tsundere.gif

>>88907

God, I miss cel animation.

>>88909
I've read the series had some QUALITY moments.

>>90585
Show flirted with becoming Kick-Ass for a bit there.

I will tolerate no reality without the FUJI DROP.

>>90768
Preach it, bro-sama.

>>90768
He's not wrong, but he's being a little hyperbolic.

>>90775
Look. The man's a fantastic auteur and has made some of the greatest films the medium has ever seen. But Hayao Miyazaki has *always* been a crotchety old man. He was *born* a crotchety old man.

It's fake you turbo nerdlords

>>90775
I'm... pretty sure he means otaku culture in japan.
Its different from what nerd culture is here in the west.

What Japan knows as an otaku is more like... a combination between /a/, /jp/ and /e/, plus a loli shitposter shamelessly acting like that in real life.

>>90775
Except he's completely righit? Japan's Otaku culture is disgusting.

>>90768
>>90775
>http://bepsifucker9000.tumblr.com/post/109219706163/zuky-those-who-identify-as-otaku-i-e-anime
>Attack on Titan, Ouran, even just the mere notion of the rising sun is imperialism propaganda

top kek

>>90786
Who cares, it's still funny?

>>90791
Actually you could make a fairly convincing argument for Attack on Titan, especially as of late. It's no High School of the Dead, but the author is known for his vocal rightwing views and there's some Japanese supremacist undercurrents rising to the forefront. Though that stuff about Ouran is definitely making a big deal out of nothing, and a lot of the complaints about the rising sun imagery misses the fact that it's been around since Sengoku times.

Even if they're overreacting I am at least glad though that they're willing to call out Japan for its nationalistic bullshit when a huge swathe of Tumblr would prefer to sweep that under the rug or pretend they're the victims of white people who forced them into it because "muh POC solidarity".

>>90791

Haha holy shit that got steadily more insane as it went on.

>>90791

I'm not going to say that Japan doesn't have a nationalism problem because it does, but that Hitler's Birthday March they're so upset about was literally forty people. That's not exactly a mainstream movement. You can throw a rock anywhere in Europe and hit more literal Nazis than that.

Also the part about 'Weebs' is fucking insanity, nothing they say in that section follows from anything at ALL.

>>90794
Ehhh, it's one crazy person on tumblr, waddya gonna do, amirite?

The mindset on display here is one that I think is common amongst humanities-student types when they reach the cusp of adulthood and get face-blatted by the realisation that All Culture Is Political. Usually (such as with yours truly) this is followed by For The Sake Of Your Blood Pressure Pretend That It Isn't a few years later, and when that doesn't happen you get one of those insufferably worthy types like John Pilger complaining about cinemagoers seeing some indie flick instead of a fifty-year-old documentary about the Algerian Independence War. Considering how much weeb stuff is plastered all over this poster's blog, preeetty sure this person hasn't reached that stage yet. They'll grow out of it, I'm fairly positive.

Still, speaking personally, much as being a contrarian killjoy makes you feel like a crazy person there does come a point where you can't help putting your foot down and saying "now HANG ON, general public!" Like with that American Sniper movie that's inexplicably making a bazillion dollars.

>>90795
Going by the crazy number of reblogs, it's probably not just one person. I mean, I kind of agree with the base sentiment to a degree, but the problem is Tumblr loves to spin things waaaaaaaaay out of proportion to the point that very good messages usually become twisted into distorted caricatures of themselves. and it's usually these louder and toxic variations that catch on over the more beneficial ones, often spreading harmful misinformation in the process (see: the big Frozen Sami POC debate, the argument that the atomic bomb and the entire Pacific theater were one big hate campaign waged by whites fearful of POCs becoming too powerful, etc).

>>90796
One of the most recent reblogs I saw of this post was by a user called "female-anti-feminist", so I'd wager a significant chunk of the reblogs were more "haha look at this crazy asshole" than "I Am Kim Jong Un And I Approve This Message". Not to mention the post itself is a reblog of a far saner post, so they may be liking/reblogging the original post rather than this one. That's a separate problem with tumblr, it's very difficult to gauge support or opposition to posts since all the likes of all the reblogs collate together regardless of whether the reblogs consist of a storming argument. The only reliable metric you can get is of a post's exposure.

Anyway, this isn't really the thread for these kinds of discussions, and this post is not gifs, for which I deeply apologise.

>>90824

Jesus Christ, how time flies. ;_;

STILL WANT SEASON TWO, YOU FATHERFUCKAHS.

>>90825
There's never gonna be one. All the major people who made the first season have long since left Gainax.

>>90827

Anno left Gainax before making Rebuild, didn’t he?

>>90830
Yes. The more significant problem is that PSG wasn't very financially successful.

>>90830
Getting one person back to work on a project is one thing, but at this point they would basically have to subcontract the work to Studio Trigger for it to be the same show.

>>90830
Shockingly there were more employees than just him.

>>90835

>Eight-Fifty-Two.gif

>>91078
Fuck you and your reference.

>>91078
Mayo in moderation is pretty great though, to be honest.

>>92139

When did Studio Trigger start working on that show?

>>92140
Or David Production for that matter.

>>88535
Okay, I bloody give up. It's been over a year, but what the hell is this from?

>>92339
Dekamori Senran Kagura opening. Character on the right is Daidouji.

>>92985

[shitposting intensifies]

>>93373
Oh yeah, Kizumonogatari is out. What subs did anybody use?

>>93420
Contextualizing the cat themed Danbo the cardboard robot show as Yotsuba's imagination is a bit too on the nose. I think most people would prefer a Yotsuba adaptation instead.

>>93565

K-On Wing?!

>>93567

Anything’s possible, I suppose.

>>93567
Rainbows are straighter than Gundam Wing.

>>93708

Mako da best.

>>88535
What anime is this in the OP?
Pretty sure I played as the big delinquent chick in a beat-em-up game I bought recently, but she wasn't as girly in that as she is in this one gif.

>>417605
old skool

Loituma-Ievan Polkka leek spin.

>>90792
So, do the later developments of AoT made after this post was posted detract or enhance the ability to make convincing arguments of that nature?

>>417846
Its beyond the point of self-parody, and yet the reveals are played straight as 'hype' moments that the pleb fans go nuts over.