Frieren is not bad, but it's normie shit. Sorry.

>>1208 Sony buys kadokawa for the world to grovel before

Otaku culture sucks. Otakus are like domesticated cattle. Sure, I love anime, manga, and otaku media, its an addiction that like herpes never goes away. Its just slavery for mass produced garbage. So no I don't miss it at all or like the aesthetic. Some of the shows and games were better back then and that's all.

I feel bad to bring up Frieren again (it was a discussion from last year, after all), but I feel like it/my feelings towards up sum up current otaku culture well. It's not a bad show, Frieren is cute and relatable, the cast is generally likeable, the animation is spectacular, the OST had some cool tracks here and there... But as an affront to all of this, it's so empty. It's watchable, though I did drop it myself kek, but that to me is not good enough. The show starts heavy with it's philosophy and attitudes towards friendships, love, life itself and what it means to both live and die. And what does it turn into? A hollow shonen-slop shell of what it could've been. There's nothing wrong with mindless action, especially when that action is accompanied by some glorious animation. But sacrificing what could've been AOTY, at the very least in terms of themes, for it? Sacrilege, bordering on evil. Things weren't always like this. Things don't have to be like this. But because so many anime watchers are either normies or accept whatever companies throw at them, things are and will continue to be like this >TLDR; Anime nowadays isn't hell-spawn tier Netflix garbage, but it's empty, lifeless. This is bad and I don't personally like it desu

>>1157 >i kinda get the vibe that Akihabara is losing some of its charm now that anime is popular and normal. anime was clearly always big enough of a thing in japan if it warranted taking over part of a city lol i think the problem there is that (foreign) gacha is taking over, which reminds me... >>1233 i think it's silly to imply that one anime speaks for the quality of literally everything on the market, but frieren does make me think, i think the biggest problem with otaku culture currently (and this probably isn't specific to the english-speaking side of things, i don't know for sure, nihongo dekinai) is just that a lot of it is so based on trends and fads. everyone's into the same handful of shows, some current, most of them older because 90s/2000s/2010s nostalgia is what's accepted now, all of them "safe" because english speakers have the dumbest attitude towards fanservice everyone has to have some justification as to why they like something instead of just enjoying it, and this justification leads people to automatically writing off everything that's not within their already narrow view of the medium as "trash" everyone's into the same handful of games, all of them chinese and korean gacha because they all already have big fanbases and have very low barriers to entry because nobody can be arsed to give actual games that have time and effort put into them their time, let alone their money my problem isn't with anime as a medium, some of my favorite anime ever have aired relatively recently, it's that most anime fans outside of japan are stupid, and the ones in japan seem to really like blue archive for some reason. everyone's so ingenuine these days. how do we fix this? idk lol

The original one was great vibes and quit eerie and mysterious. When they brought it back reboot an adaptation it lacked that great atmosphere and art style unfortunately even though it has more of actually properly telling the story.

>>417 No, they mean pics that encapsulate the nostalgic parts of 2000s otaku culture and are "aesthetic" Unfortunately, although it sounds bad

what the hell is webcore? i don't get it.

oh you were all born in like 09 or something

>>1225 in simple terms, "webcore" is the aesthetic of 2000's and arguably early 2010's internet. it's nostalgia for late millenials and early zoomers. >>1226 no. i was born in 2001 and feel nostalgic for webcore.

Pancreas was bad enough.

i see. so it's basically like Gushing Over Magical Girls but wholesome instead of lewd. 面白い、ひかりんちゃま。見続けます。

>>1207 thats the most wonderful thing. thank you friend for giving this show a chance. kuroma is my favorite too. his actor poured his soul into him. >>1204 m-maybe... >>1203 the fact alone that some hikarins are aware of the show makes me happy

>>1207 oh that sounds pretty interesting :D

>>1207 >I see. so it's basically like Gushing Over Magical Girls but without any of the original appeal

>>1216 acro trip was created before gushing. and its just a comedy for all ages

Chiruno! She's the strongest!

i love marisa so much

Marisa is such a cutie!

Let's all love Marisa.

>>737 one of my old favorites.. I love pino. \ >>739 there was pretty constant action. maybe you would like psychopass. completely different anime. but more action and faster pace, story isn't a mess. I forget what ergo was going for and what the creator said about it. I think it was an eva situation where there wasn't really a point to any of it and the symbolism was just cool. at the same time I'm not sure about that because ergo's symbolism I remember making sense to me when you look up all the names of the deities being referenced. I'd put it somewhere between a 7-8/10. I also recall that the ending got botched or somewhere in between was. I could be remembering a different anime from back then though.

I remember it being praised a lot a decade ago by my old otaku friends, but when I tried to watch it, I struggled to finish the first episode out of sheer boredom and never looked back. By no means do I find dialogue heavy anime to be boring (big fan of the monogatari series), but this one was worse than frieren.

Yes I have. It wasn't bad, but I didn't understand half of it and the ending wasn't very consistent with what happened before and failed to create enough tension to be satisfactory. It's a very atmospheric show, though, there are very few that could match it, so it is understandable it gets recommended.

>>1149 Follow up to this post, all my memories about Ergo Proxy are positive. There were some very queer (in the good sense) moments to it that I liked very much. It is really very unique.

>>742 >I think it was an eva situation where there wasn't really a point to any of it and the symbolism was just cool I remember reading an explanation after I finished watching it and it had a solid story with everything making sense and actually being straightforward if told chronologically. It was just told in a very complicated manner, explaining things in a roundabout way or not at all. Do you remember that episode (or was it 2 episodes?) somewhere in the middle of the series that felt like filler and seemed like it had no connection to the original timeline or even the whole plot itself, a game show or something like that. Yeah, there they explained some of the most crucial parts of the story. That's just an example. This is different from something like eva, where firstly the story itself is complicated, the characters' emotions have heavy impact on the plot, almost nothing is explicitly stated and only like 80% of the actual story is present in the anime. The rest you could only speculate, or some of it was revealed through other means (nge2, interviews). Ergo proxy just told a relatively straightforward story in a complicated manner, adding psychological elements and symbolism along the way. Not saying that's bad.

>>1194 Would either of them pick you?

>>1199 Perhaps not, but that's why everyday we should strive to be better than the last.

>>1189 Post about it politely on smuglo.li /a/'s writing thread, some really good writefags there I will sit this one out personally tbqdesu

Wow 4channers are at it again. I won't be surprised if it ends up being some political sjw whatever this time. It ain't 2007 anymore

That anon demoralized them , I guess it is destined to fail because 2hu is 2 mainstream for anybody autistic to care enough to bear the responsibility

>>1177 >hikari3 is the only board i actively post on >the way you speak Dont worry I got the kind of person you are, this is the last reply you are getting, beg for more like a dog.

from this person in the physical world at least.

>>1178 thank god finally. goodbye now.

anyway, frieren and fern eating burger

fern got MAD but that's a good thing because now I can see her POUT also really liked last chapter of the manga