/jam/ - Japan, Anime, & Manga

http://comicbook.com/2014/11/03/marvel-attack-on-titan-crossover-revealed/

…HOW IS THAT A THING

>>90102
Speaking of Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer, it finally comes out in English in Omnibus form this month.

>>90105
Was still more likely than them having another crossover with DC.

Marvel has no shame, any cheap gimmick to try and draw in new readers. AoT is pretty popular amongst the casual anime fans.

>>90110

>dat Holocaust museum joke (one of the funniest things TFS has ever written)
>dat heroic sacrifice
>dat BECAUSE IT'S FUCKIN' FUN

I get why we have to wait a full year for this and all (Youmacon you magnificent bastards), but damn, I wish they would get these out sooner.

//youtube.com/watch?v=3u-WE85ExIU

http://toonami.tumblr.com/post/102102142900/movie-time-announcement

WE'RE GETTING HELLSING 9 & 10

IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE

>>90177

THANK YOU BASED SPACE SANTA

>>90188
Typo in the pic and I can't delete it due to incorrect password. This shame is killing me already.

>>90188
Most of the manga I read are almost ways on hiatus, stopped being translated a long time ago, or have completely random update schedules. I think the only weekly I read is One Piece. For slice of life without drama, Sumire 16 is one of the best. It's about a girl who is a puppet.

>>90192
Yeah, I've got about another 30 bookmarked that haven't been updated for several years. I finished Sumire 16 a couple years ago, but it's been long enough that I've forgotten most of it.

>>90196
There's also Silver Spoon, by the same author as Fullmetal Alchemist.

>>90197
That does have some drama, though. It's scarce and pretty well done, but it's there and it's important.

Everyone knows about Team Fourstar, but I'm curious: are there any good non-TFS abridged shows out there on the Internets?

>>90240
There's an Abridged series general, go ask there.

The Mouretsu Pirates (Bodacious Space Pirates) anime had a week ending. I realize that it's supposed to be a fun lesbian space pirate romp, but they had all this build up and the final fight was so incredibly easy for the pirates. I realize it was all planned out, and Captain Mika is the chosen one or whatever, but a single Grand Cross took out like two other pirate groups already so they could have at least made someone be at risk for a bit. No tension at all. The arc where they saved Jenny Dolittle was far more enjoyable.

Also, the princess twins were worthless additions to the series.

//youtube.com/watch?v=vHbgHyYiivc

Testing the waters for an anime adaptation?

>>90273
I don't know what series this is but usually this kind of thing is what they do to advertise tank releases.

>>90247
Man I'm trying to get into this series but all I'm seeing is wasted potential. Everything starts really interesting, then quickly devolves to generic battle manga tropes and characters. Adam himself is the biggest example, but Oska changed so quickly from her great debut it's sad.

>>90273
Yes, more lesbiani-
>incest
Goddammit, Japan!

>>90275
Citrus.

First English manga release from Seven Seas is coming in December.

>>90280
Step-siblings, so it's not totally incest.

Studio Khara's third short Me!Me!Me! starts at 1:30

http://animatorexpo.com/mememe/

>>90312
>i've been reading it since i was a kid
Jesus fucking Christ, I'm so fucking old.

>>90313
Let me make it worse: I didn't start reading it until a few years after it started.

>>90303
Good, good!

>>90285
Oh, then that's totally fine!

//youtube.com/watch?v=KbN6bqkfjc8

I hate Railgun because I find the powers and scenarios interesting, but the character interaction makes me feel like a pedophile sometimes.

>>90285
>Step-siblings, so it's not totally incest.
GOD DAMN IT

>>90327

…Jesus H. tapdancing Christ, Japan.

>>90328
Unfortunately that's not even the most risque the show will go, and I haven't even seen all of S2 yet.

Psycho-Pass is like the shitty anime version of Total Recall. I'm really enjoying it.

>>90339
Japan.
I fucking hate you.

>>90366
Is that the Jojo announcer guy?

>Spirit Circle 30
HAW. That's quite the different kind of cliffhanger than the usual for this series.

>>90366
That looks promising.

Holy shit episode 9 of Seven Deadly sins, they blazed through like 8 chapters and accurately payed enough time to their events, this fucking anime is...weirdly better?

Parasyte The Maxim seems to be the same way.

>>90366
This looks one part interesting, nine parts generic bullshit.

>>90340
>>90359
Yes. Marriage. How vile and disgusting. Those degenerate japs deserve another nuking

>>90373
Is that REALLY what you think is up with that page?

>>90380
I never fucking imagined there'd be a bigger body horror scene this season than what Parasyte has to offer, but Chaika proved me wrong.

>>90373
First the gays.
Then 8 year olds.

Its a slippery slope, anon.

>>90381
It looks like it's a manga about a married high school couple. Is that not what's happening?

>>90392
What are you greentexting for? That I took two minutes to find out what it's actually about, when all the people reacting with disgust clearly didn't?

This isn't a recommendation, in case anyone is wondering: it's super boring.

>>90392
Eh, you're just trying to be offended now.

>>90393
Yeah, considering a child's form sexual really is boring.

>>90397

Not for nothing, but that woman is pretty damn stacked for "a child's form." She's short, not prepubescent.

>>90398
But don't you get it? It's Japanese, so it's automatically gross, icky and problematic.

I'm just now catching up with the discussion. How did anyone think she's a loli from the page I posted?

http://toonami.tumblr.com/post/104441873323/new-year-new-schedule

Three things of note to kick off the new year:
Cowboy Bebop is restarting in HD.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood will be leaving (for how long is uncertain).
Deadman Wonderland and IGPX will be back in the rerun hours.

>>90402

>Cowboy Bebop is restarting in HD.

Fuck yeah. Best news about the new lineup. I hope they give it the DBZ Kai treatment and use custom pillarbox graphics to keep it 4:3 (because if they stretch that shit out I will know someone at Turner networks has no fucking clue about aspect ratios despite one of said networks producing the definitive video about aspect ratios).

>>90404

Thank fucking God.

>>90403
>custom pillarbox
Am I the only one that finds that super annoying, then?

>>90400
>It's Japanese, so it's automatically gross, icky and problematic.
Shut your SJW mouth. Seriously.

>>90407
I know sarcasm doesn't translate to the internet and all, but come on, man. I thought I was being fairly obvious about it.

>>90409
If anything, it just found its way into the mainstream. You've just been exposed to it a lot longer. And it's just as subjective as the term liberal. Someone who's being called liberal by some rednecks in the woods might be called right-wing nut by hipsters in a Portlandian Starbucks. It's politics. It's always about emotions and painting others as enemies nowadays, not about rational evaluation.

>>90406

I’ve gotten used to seeing them courtesy of WWE DVD/Blu-ray releases heavy on archival (read: pre-HD) content. I’m not a fan, but I understand why it’s done.

That said: Turner networks outside of Turner Classic Movies stretch everything 4:3, so custom pillarboxes are the only solution to their stupidity.

>>90409

This is why I prefer "Social Revenge Warrior"—it’s a tiny bit more accurate as to their motives. People actually working for social justice know it’s not a zero-sum game (‘if I win everything, you lose everything’), but one where everyone can win (if just a little).

>>90411
Personally I like to split them into two subtypes:

* The Social Revenge Warriors you just described, who think it's OK to bully and threaten people they perceive as having more privilege than them (It's not rape if it's female-on-male! Misandry or racism against white people don't exist! You don't like the OTP/headcanons I do, so I'm going to dox you! You DO like characters I don't, so I'll call them rapists/abusers and dox you! Baww, hurt cis/white/male fee fees! Interracial marriage is evil because it fetishizes POCs and contaminates them with white DNA! Internalized misogynist, white identifier! This poor hoax post is proof that X famous person is a bigot! I'm losing the argument so I'm going to accuse you of triggering me! Disregard and hate allies, they're all secretly evil or moles planted by the privilege cabal to sabotage us! #CancelColbert! Compromise, centrism, and settling for baby steps are for traitors! ).

These people are fucking terrible because they legitimize the worst elements of the radical left or revive ideas that should have remained dead and buried a long time ago, and actively obstruct the fight for true social justice in order to appease their own sense of sadism. It's pathetic. I identify as "liberal" and tick off a lot of oppression boxes myself, and even I've been targeted by these fucks way too many times because I wasn't extreme enough for them.

>>90418
* And Windmill Crusaders, who don't target their ire at any specific group but go out of their way to find offense in everything (The word "crowbar" is racist! White people eating sushi and wearing kimonos is cultural appropriation! Frozen is racist because the Saami people are black, regardless of what geneticists, anthropologists, and people who know what they're talking about say! Dr. Strange and Captain America are whitewashed POCs! Naoto and Chihiro are definitely trans! Shinji Ikari is white! Ymir and Marco Bodt are black! Everyone in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is trans! The Last of Us is misogynistic! Zoe Washburne and Ellen Ripley are tools of the patriarchy to shame femininity! The Far Cry 4 cover is racist and homophobic! Inu x Boku is anti-miscegenation propaganda! Whatever bullshit Nangbaby is saying!)

These people make up the majority of said SJW and they're less dangerous in comparison, but they're also way more common and obnoxious than the above so I don't blame people for getting annoyed. However on occasion some people are stupid enough to listen to them and give them some legitimacy, in which case sane social justice people can just try to counter it on a case-to-case basis. And sadly none of the stuff I just mentioned here is made up.

I think using these two terms helps because bigots no longer have the excuse of using the "social justice" part of SJW to attack people who are engaging in social justice advocacy without the hateful elements, and likewise the people being called these terms no longer can conveniently hide behind the "social justice" part of SJW as an excuse for their shitty behavior.

Cool essay man

>>90421
Based on his tirade, I imagine he doesn't have any friends to go out for drinks with.

Oh man, the No Game No Life anime is awesome. I hope they adapt more of the light novel to anime. I'd like less loli, but I'll accept it that would somehow lower the interest of the production staff.

>>90419
>Dr. Strange and Captain America are whitewashed POCs!
Wait what?

>>90422
>I imagine he doesn't have any friends to go out for drinks with.
Takes one to know one.

>>90424
Take it to /co/, please.

>>90424
No idea about Strange but I've seen lots of people claim the Irish are POCs now.

>>90427
POX? Or people with a history of oppression?

I hate to encourage this discussion, but it's always seemed to me that lumping every non-white into one group is itself racist. I don't call my Lenape best friend a POC, I call him Lenape.

Well actually I usually call him "shitbag" but I don't think that should be the basis for race relations in general.

Then again I've yet to even consider killing him and stealing his land so maybe the system works.

>>90432

Makes sense, and frankly, I’m fine with it leaving. (I’d kinda hope they would re-run the original series for the hell of it, but I ain’t holdin’ my breath.)

What series do you think they’ll acquire next?

>>90430
I agree, especially considering the long and sordid history around the world of white-on-white and nonwhite-on-nonwhite racism (the latter of which my family went through), which these people tend to ignore, deny, or try to blame whitey for instead of the assholes who actually committed it. Not to mention what is and isn't PoC is mega arbitrary and usually boils down to whatever is more convenient for the argument self-righteous people want to bullshit through. Internet social justice as a whole needs to be less goddamn Americentric.

>>90432
Now if they could just do that for Inuyasha. Do people even enjoy that show unironically anymore?

>>90434

The original InuYasha is long gone. Final Act is probably going to get a couple of re-runs after it airs in full, though.

>>90433
Hunter x Hunter, maybe? I have not a clue.
>>90435
>>90434
Final Act's GOTTA GO FAST pacing caught me off guard. The original was far too slow, but this is almost comical.

>>90436
Doesn't the first episode burn through like 10 chapters or something.

//youtube.com/watch?v=Mv3eiorvNo4

>>90467
Is that a single page? I can't tell what's going on.

Why are you reading the manga version of Shield Hero and not the novel?

>>90473
He just said he loves the art.

Oh my god a good Log Horizon ;_;

>>90499
This is wonderful. I love the artstyle. I ususally have an issue with those background tracing programmes on sale but this looks okay.
Is this a webcomic? Where could one keep up with this apart from that blog?

Also, should this really be on /jam/ given its not japanese?

//youtube.com/watch?v=dSGAt6ZAJTM

>>90105
Did anything ever come of this? I haven't heard anything else about it.

>>90526
Far as I can understand, it was basically just a cameo to begin with.

Not sure if I like Senran Kagura or not; it's silly, but very basic. The narrator is hilarious, though.

>>90550
ffs, I have to buy me some new kicks.
2010 adidas look good for only so long.

its related cos look at them - they're fashionable!

>>90545
>>Goddamn, Yamada is too pure.
I liked Chapter 9....

http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=638455


My internet is unfortunately being shitty so you'll have to settle for the torrent.

>>90597

>Ghibli
>on Steam

Like Disney would ever allow that. Unless…oh dear God no…

Just get a crunchy sub at that point, it's like, 5 bucks and they send their sub money to the studios based on what shows your account watches.

Is The Pilot's Love Song worth watching? I watched the first two episodes and it doesn't seem like a bad series, but there's nothing I find interesting. So far it seems like Attack on Clouds, what with all the schooling and isolation. But no Titan counterpart, far more human-relationship centric.

>>90604
Does crunchyroll ever use the BD version of series, or only the TV versions?

//youtube.com/watch?v=64AbgBKTUGQ

Utena and Penguindrum aren't good, Yuri Bear probably won't be either, but damned if Ikuhara isn't a memorable director.

>>90629
//youtube.com/watch?v=Bd-LdXk7h4Y

Thanks, /a/.

What the hell Netflix, why only 52 episodes of fma brotherhood when there's 64 of them?

Is "Cowboy Bebop + FLCL" a reasonable description of Space Dandy?

>>90644
>>90645
Your ships are all wrong, Tsukimi X Kuranosuke and Shū X Shōko (which is also double great because it's her redemption and his freedom from past traumas through being forced to address them.)

>>90646
Fuck no, Shoko sucks (And isn't really relevant in the manga anymore anyway, since the Signapore stuff has taken off)

>>90647
Damn, guess I need to catch up, still though, damn, I liked Shoko's becoming a human for the first time story line.

>>90648
I don't think that whole thing is in the manga (the anime definitely had some original content), not sure though since I skipped what was covered by the anime (and then promptly forgot about it long enough for 30 chapters to stack up).

>>90649
I read the manga from chapter one and I'm pretty sure I recall it as part of her arch.

Consider this: An anime or live action Japanese adaptation of The Addams Family where they use giant robots to protect monsters from humanity.

>>90683
Is there some sort of connection I'm missing here?

>>90683
SOMEONE GIVE THIS MAN A RAISE.

Earth Defense is rad watch it.

>>90694
Especially funny since the show is obvious fujoshi bait like Free, its target audience is women, not men.

Especially funny since one of the earliest magical girl manga/anime was Cutey Honey, targeted at boys.

The show shares a director with Nichibros and writers with Gintama.

>>90696
>
>Especially funny since the show is obvious fujoshi bait like Free, its target audience is women, not men.
>
>Especially funny since one of the earliest magical girl manga/anime was Cutey Honey, targeted at boys.
Your points are kind of irrelevant, and also kind of wrong--Cutey Honey had many of the tropes that we now recognize as being associated with the transforming magical girl warrior genre, but it was a science fiction superhero show that *inspired* those sorts of shows, not an entry itself.

I think the "gender appropriation" thing is overstated, but the fact of the matter is that the Magical Girl genre has always been about little girls becoming young women (this is most obvious with the Transforming magical girls, of course, but it's even true with the old school Cute Witch / Magical Idol genres that spawned them), and about traits and symbols traditionally seen as feminine becoming symbols of strength rather than symbols of fragility. This has been true even when it's aimed at boys like it was with Nanoha. A "magical boys" show is not so much a commentary on gender norms as it is just a standard superhero or sentai show with more fanciful trappings.

I don't think there's any reason to be up in arms about it. But yes, I think it's fair to say that an appropriation of something intended to give strength to a group of people who traditionally feel weak and putting it in the hands of a group of people who have always been taught to think of themselves as strong. The target audience is irrelevant to the what message it's sending, and the fact that it's fap-bait doesn't change the fact that it's doing it. There's no reason to be offended by it or to campaign against it, but that's a thing that is happening.

>>90698
>traits and symbols traditionally seen as feminine becoming symbols of strength rather than symbols of fragility.

You want to be careful about jumping to that conclusion because that's only true from a Westerner-centric viewpoint, and it's an attitude I've seen native Japanese feminists get extremely annoyed by. To them the female empowerment themes of the magical girl genre are overtaken by the continued reinforcement of traditionally "feminine" iconography that limits women's gender expression to this day. Characters like Makoto from Sailor Moon who are insecure in their femininity are an example of that struggle.

>>90698
It's like a more comical Billy Elliot. I don't see why that would be stepping on feminists' toes. If anything, as long as it's not a minstrel show then all but the most rabid misandrists should be embracing that kind of thing as a two-pronged assault on gender barriers, not treating it as yet another attempt by men to actively rub it in the face of women like the crazies are convinced it is.

>>90698
Earth Defense episode two revealed the "magic" was super science, like Cutey Honey. In fiction, super science is basically magic; Cutey Honey is as much "magical warrior girl" as it is "sci fi superhero", seeing as how it helped start and popularize many of the tropes associated with it.

>>90701
By that logic, Bewitched is a Magical Girl show.

>>90702
It kinda is, isn't it?

>>90703
>>90702
Considering Sally the Witch was inspired by Bewitched, it really is.

ITT: The Hidden Fortress was a Space Opera since it inspired Star Wars.

>>90705
//youtube.com/watch?v=4g8r0LhpMzk
//youtube.com/watch?v=U4_RPshvo5M

What is sex ed like in japan? because damn near ever manga I read lately makes it seem like male and female genders aren't sure if the others are even fucking human.

>>90709
Tiki, these are written for otaku. They're like that with all other people.

>>90710
Fine, but it has me curious what they're sex ed is like.

It's sex ed in a first world country, what do you think it's like?

>>90712
>It's sex ed in a first world country, what do you think it's like?
A lot of us on this board are Americans, so we wouldn't know.

>>90713
Yeah, I'm Canadian and our is based on yours so it's just as shitty so I'm not sure how I'm supposed to take his comment any other way than "extremely poor."

>>90715

I’m left wondering how much is going to be edited because DAMN that’s not a series meant for American TV (let alone that sweet, sweet 11:30 spot).

>>90709

I don't think sex education is itself the issue (although if Kodomo no Kodomo is any indication that's pretty sorry too), I think it's mostly about what they learn about gender relationships culturally, a cultural pressure to succeed in every way, and a collectivist culture with a strong face-consciousness which makes public humiliation unbearable.

>>90716
//youtube.com/watch?v=k0u21uL2QMU

I don't think they'll censor too much.

>>90720
How is the dub on that anyway? Based on the preview snippets I heard about half the voices were incredible but the half that wasn't was clearly phoning it in super hard.

Why the hell is there so much watchable shit this season? Is this seriously Winter? I'm watching Jojo, Aldnoah, Rolling Girls, Log Horizon, Maria, Death Parade, and Parasyte. I might start watching Yatterman soon, and... well Yurikuma MIGHT turn out good but I'm holding off until it's over and I can be assured that Ikuhara has made something watchable this time. I refuse to eat shit like I did with Penguindrum.

Now granted those are not all on the same level of quality and I'm watching them for different reasons but I can't remember the last time I picked up this much.

I was left utterly disappointed by Durarara, why am I even considering watching the second season?

>>90724
Good will from Baccano?

If Rolling Girls doesn't complete fall to shit on episode three it'll be a good series.

UQ Holder just confirmed that Ken is going to deal with the Life Maker properly, which is awesome.

I've never watched any Tatsunoko stuff but Yatterman Night is great. Gonna punish those shitty Yattermen!

Earth Defense is still my favorite new thing this season though, even if objectively Death Parade and Yatterman are better. So is Rolling Girls, but that could turn to shit next episode since the prologue is over now.

//youtube.com/watch?v=DTMgbOQvEOk

This is gonna turn out horribly, isn't it?

The only Sentai dub I've watched was Kill Me Baby and that... was not good.

>>90739
Are you familiar with the source material?
Because it is pure fucking garbage. And I say that as a self-proclaimed moefag. I felt insulted watching it.

A heartwarming episode from Death Parade of all things isn't what I expected, but it IS welcome!

>Kakukaku Shikajika 28
You know it's coming from the very start, you just don't know when and how, and FUCK it's worse than I thought it would be, like, I'm crying irl. And you know she's not going to go, because if she did go this series probably wouldn't exist.

Also this is the Kuragehime lady's autobiography manga if you don't know. It covers a lot of stuff, college lethargy, industry troubles, but it's mainly been about her relationship with her art tutor, who apparently walked right out of Great Teacher Onizuka and inhabited our reality.

DouchebagChocolat/DEMOLITION D+ is back.
//youtube.com/watch?v=i-tQ1qwCrN4
I'm glad he wasn't permanently pulled down. Good for him.

FUCK. Toonami gets cut down by a half-hour this week, then loses the 5-6AM hour for good starting next week.

>>90754
>television

>>90754
I'm trying to get angry for you, but 5-6 AM? Who could possibly give a shit about that timeslot ever

>>90756
Jim Lee is such a shit artist I can't believe they let him basically redesign the whole DC universe.

>>90760
I can't believe they actually had a vanity for Jim Lee's cover... on the cover.