/a/ - Anime

I feel that.
Poor Anon.

>>279
And the worst part is, I have a preorder every month for the next few months. And I don't know if I can take this cheap shipment again or if the return-to-sender was somehow connect to the shipping method. The difference is like paying 20€ or 50€ for shipping. Gaddeeeem

>>207
Mangos are tasty

>>207
Manga is OK, because you don't need to watch the anime to understand it.

>>196
>have to be following each single episode like a cultist going to the lodge every day
if that is your impression mabye you are trying to say you just dont like any series in general
>even the movies are tie-ins to the animu so you can't just watch them alone, you have to have seen teh enniemoo beforehand
Standalone anime movies exist

>>229
I've been getting into the subject, I think I may even be enjoying it.
Don't worry about it.

>>191

No it doesnt
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>>37
Okay the prove:
While the big movie producing industries like hollywood or the very original pajeed equivalent bollywood have very high costs for their movies, the production cost for animes is rather small in comparisson and the story (in most cases) is based on a successful manga.
What does that mean?
It means that hollywood NEEDS to make a lot of money to even go even, which means they need to rely on existing strategies that worked already, so the chance that the viewer likes the movie is maximized. They mustnt experiment because they'd lose millions.
With anime on the other hand it's the exact opposite.There are a lot of different more or less successful mangaka, who all try to be different in some way, because everything that is trendy will never really be successful or viewed as a piece of some kind of art. Mangaka need to experiment and build something new and original from their fantasy, or alternativley they just drop some moetrash that nobody watches anymore 1 year after release. Of course they exist as well, but that behavior is the norm in f.e. hollywood.
Every movie feels like a different movie just with a different skin. >90% of the new movies follow the same storyline and just have a some small adjustments.

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>>215

Example:
There's this boy who isn't really cool but he's got that one friend who isn't really cool as well. Actually his friend doesn't mean shit he's just there for the introduction, because they do something outside, probably in the nature. Then the boys (disrupted) family-conditions are introduced and shortly after he bumps into something weird/special/supernatural (what the movie is about). Anyways by that time the boy has probably already met his sidekickchick that is a pretty cool girl and she is really weird but interesting at the same time. She's not interested in him at all but always ends up in those sticky situations with the boy, so they get closer to eachother because they get twisted into this shared goal of doing something in order to prevent the big bad. In the end they either defeat the big bad and the boy nearly dies so the girl realizes she is into him or it turns out there was actually a different one the actual big bad endboss. In that case it's likely he takes the girl hostage and the boy saves her.

This pattern with small adjustments is 90% of what comes out of hollywood. And then there are some higher quality movies like Tarantino stuff, but those are the exception.
Of course anime has it's phases and trends as well, where like the majority produces f.e. isekai-animes, but the probability of some weird ass mangaka coming up with something refreshing is way higher, because he doesn't give that much of a fuck about the financial perspective when producing his piece of art, unlike hollywood that - like already mentioned - needs to be on the safe side with their concepts and productions.
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>>216

And another point is: Actors can never perfectly act and the best actors are even worse because you know them from different movies which kinda breaks the whole illusion. Anime is - think about it - way more authentical than lifeaction in that matter.

(3/3)

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>>217
You really put a lot of tought into it. Now I can prove these idiots in the chatrooms that "chinese cartoons" are pretty cool actually

>>218
You're welcome, prove 'em!

>>166
The true answer to OP's question
>steinsgate

>>173

greeting from the future

>steins;gate
picrelated, overreaction reaction image. i liked steins;gate, but have to kinda sorta disagree. yes and no. cyberpunk in it's way, but also a lot more comedy then lain. more moe. more intentionally self referential to anime as a genre unto itself. there is the john titor mythos and it's use in the story is similar to that one lain episode, layer:09, where there is the exposition on the various conspiracy theory type philosophizing that is a backdrop to sel. both riffing off of that building 90s conception of cyberpunk. where they really diverge for me is in the style and pacing. lain can be so slow, vague, and has such a weird mood to it. i've yet to see any other anime like lain that i could compare to it on those grounds. maybe if a director like david lynch directed an anime? the way sel story is told reminds me of something like a david lynch movie, where at the beginning you have no concrete idea about what is actually happening until the world that's being built explains itself somewhat and the film just seems like a vague dreamlike poem, with little narrative, made for the sake of the aesthetics. and even then, there is a lot left up in to interpretation. i do wish that i have seen more anime like that and could recommend something.

Ghost Hound

>>185
S;G and Lain are both 10/10 for me and I completely agree with you. Lain is more about transhumanism and the feeling is comparable to AKIRA or NGE. While S;G shines through the relatable characters and even though it is a /cy/-setting it's still a mixture of a lot of anime styles. Steins;Gate is a good story with brilliant characters told in the best way possible, but it doesn't really have such an actual message.

>>189
Ok if you say so. I will probably buy the complete box set.

>>190
good choice

>>193
Thanks. I did some research and look what I found. There is a magic eraser. It is gonna be great.

Just ignore me.
I am gonna leave it here.

>>210

tru

>Where does everybody get there smug anime girls from?
i think a lot are fan art and things found on booru sites also some manga but screencaps as well

Either from other anons or from safebooru. I do take plenty of screenshots while watching animu but I am too lazy to crop the smug out.

>>120
>crop the smug out
those four words could make a good song title or something. it's a cool phrase like "bro, they cropped the smug out of that shit!"

hera a smug face from FLCL season 1

Yeah I just download most of them from Google or I lurk on anime threads.

>>174
that's actually pretty nice site, thanks anon, will bookmark

maybe worth mentioning is nyaa.si
there is the literature tag for torrents there
this is good thread because sometimes i feel too reliant on mangadex. where else to go if one day it suddenly 404ed?

This site has got some popular manga
https://w11.mangafreak.net

heh

iuyouy

Is this thread spam? I just saw the exact same picture with random characters on a different imageboard.

>>171
This thread really has no point except the nice Winter.jpg image

Madoka Magica has Repeated / Multilayered References to Butterfly Monarch-Programming

Y'all should be Spooked if you know what to look for.

Also, it's been a month since the OP? How time flies when cities burn eh?

>>104
I wish time would go slower, so that things can be enjoyed even more.

I just started watching Goblin Slayer and so far I'm liking it, thanks for putting it out OP.

>>109
Same anon here, I had a lot of fun of watching this anime now we go on the next anime in the list.

>>97
I'm sure there's social commentary somewhere in dorohedoro but personally I just watch it for the fight scenes, crazy shit, and a e s t h e t i c

I don't care.

fuck dragon ball super

>>105
You tell 'em, Papi

>>106
What did he meant by this?

>>32
agreed