Really been meaning to get to that anime. You like it a lot?
I am asking if there is any NEW stuff like last year or two. Its getting increasingly pozzed, with your tranny/trap characters and increasingly effeminate males.
Yeah, I saw your stuff. Those older series look cool. I am asking if there is any NEW stuff like last year or two. Its getting increasingly pozzed, with your tranny/trap characters and increasingly effeminate males.
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Saw the my hero academia movie a few days ago... was pretty disappointed. It had tons of problems, but the thing that got me was the obvious meta-plot where the 'bad guys' were the pure humans that 'feared conspiracy theories of super powered mutants taking over'. It was funny because the entire movie literally proved the 'conspiracy theory' because regular humans with guns were plowed over like nothing by the 'heroes' with quirks. The bad guys were white, spiritual, based in europe, and had guns, so there you go.
I am not a fan of Japanese animation in general, but Kaiji is one of those rare works that appears maybe once every 100 years regardless of the underlying medium.
Besides having a fantastic storyline, Kaiji delves pretty deeply into certain life and risk psychologies that I had previously thought were rather difficult to explain to others unless they had also lived through them. The author must have tried and succeeded at being a professional gambler or some variation of such at some point in his life, otherwise he would not have understood some of these themes.
I want to highlight a post by RVF top-gambler Mr. Accuride:
From: https://www.rooshvforum.com/threads/works-that-you-consider-to-be-genius.27417/page-2#post-960806
The rough plot of Kaiji is that debt-ridden players sign up for high-stakes gambles to clear their debt. Winners can make off with a lot of money, but losers are sent to do hard labour, constructing an underground mega-bunker for an ultra-wealthy financier.
The gambles are simple, but have a devious twist. As an example, the first game is Rock Paper Scissors, but each player only has a limited # of cards representing each option. Unthinking players choose randomly, but smart players start card counting, forming groups to con other members, selling cards & then selling the info about those cards to others, etc. It gets fairly complicated.
Anyway, I've watched Kaiji a couple of times now, after first seeing it in 2014. It's a deep show, but also really entertaining. I'll often pause & think about what a character said, especially in the later episodes after the rock paper scissors arc.
One downside for some people could be the art style. Most characters are conventionally ugly. Most shots are still frames. None of this bothers me, but good to mention as this is the Good Animation thread.
Kaiji is great. Second season is not as good, but still fun.
I started watching Jojo recently (Currently on 3rd season). The first season was great, interesting, and fun. It has a mysterious vibe too. However, starting in season two, you get a completely new show which has little (It's still connected to story of S1) to do with what you get in the first season. Almost all episodes of S2 and S3 has the same structure: A new bad guy shows up which has a special power (in the show the special power is called "Stands"), gets defeated, then a new shows up and the cycle continues, and you have to wait 44 episodes until our heroes finally faced the main villain.As for Jojo, that anime has always put me off, the characters look gay, is the show that good?
I started watching Jojo recently (Currently on 3rd season). The first season was great, interesting, and fun. It has a mysterious vibe too. However, starting in season two, you get a completely new show which has little (It's still connected to story of S1) to do with what you get in the first season. Almost all episodes of S2 and S3 has the same structure: A new bad guy shows up which has a special power (in the show the special power is called "Stands"), gets defeated, then a new shows up and the cycle continues, and you have to wait 44 episodes until our heroes finally faced the main villain.
That's why I won't be watching it beyond S3. Seasons 4 and 5 don't look appealing to me, and I wouldn't say they look gay, but they look metrosexual and the animation looks worse the first three seasons.
I started watching Jojo recently (Currently on 3rd season). The first season was great, interesting, and fun. It has a mysterious vibe too. However, starting in season two, you get a completely new show which has little (It's still connected to story of S1) to do with what you get in the first season. Almost all episodes of S2 and S3 has the same structure: A new bad guy shows up which has a special power (in the show the special power is called "Stands"), gets defeated, then a new shows up and the cycle continues, and you have to wait 44 episodes until our heroes finally faced the main villain.
That's why I won't be watching it beyond S3. Seasons 4 and 5 don't look appealing to me, and I wouldn't say they look gay, but they look metrosexual and the animation looks worse the first three seasons.
Yeah, Berserk is great. As for "Fist of the North Star", I've only watched the movie and a some clips from the series, and I thought it was great. When I have some extra time, I'll check out the original series too.The reason I have gravitated more towards the Seinen(Young Man) Genre is the retention of styles that are closer to how people actually look whilst at the same time idealized perfected forms of said real humans.
Platonic ideals as God intended them to be in the first place before the fall of Man. As I posted earlier both Berserk and Fist of the North Star which is the picture my avatar is derived from has this type of art style.
I started watching Jojo recently (Currently on 3rd season). The first season was great, interesting, and fun. It has a mysterious vibe too. However, starting in season two, you get a completely new show which has little (It's still connected to story of S1) to do with what you get in the first season. Almost all episodes of S2 and S3 has the same structure: A new bad guy shows up which has a special power (in the show the special power is called "Stands"), gets defeated, then a new shows up and the cycle continues, and you have to wait 44 episodes until our heroes finally faced the main villain.
That's why I won't be watching it beyond S3. Seasons 4 and 5 don't look appealing to me, and I wouldn't say they look gay, but they look metrosexual and the animation looks worse the first three seasons.