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Real talk: Most anime is better than 99% of American TV shows
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:05 AM Author: tan bonkers headpube I didnt get into anime until my late 20s, but seriously - anime produces some of the highest quality shows I have ever seen. Many are adult-themed with serious, complex plotlines. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35871972) |
Date: April 19th, 2018 12:11 AM Author: fishy goyim trust fund Which is one that involves space and fascism? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35872019) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:17 AM Author: Multi-colored lemon center marketing idea legend of the galactic heroes. i couldn't get into it honestly because it's too humorless, but lots of people love that shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35872053) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:32 AM Author: Glittery citrine yarmulke legend of the galactic heroes is fucking awesome (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35872110) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:12 PM Author: fishy goyim trust fund Is the 2018 adaptation worthy of the original? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35877526) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:23 AM Author: tan bonkers headpube Not fascism or space, but
You should watch Avatar: The Last Airbender Death Note |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:24 AM Author: Bespoke Avocado Lodge Knife avatar isn't anime, kill yourself (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35872085) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:25 AM Author: Multi-colored lemon center marketing idea (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35872088) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:13 PM Author: Cerebral red stead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35877532) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:13 AM Author: Very Tactful Location Crotch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35872033) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:15 AM Author: Multi-colored lemon center marketing idea there are a few animes i think are great, but weirdly i think some of the best american tv too is mostly animated, but just satire rather than drama. wonder what that says about the medium. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35872049) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:19 AM Author: free-loading ladyboy There are some great anime out there. But most of the newer stuff is shitty. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35872062) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:23 AM Author: tan bonkers headpube B the Beginning is OK
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:29 AM Author: Very Tactful Location Crotch Rec some serious anime drama that doesn't involve giant robots and shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35872101) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:30 AM Author: Confused Bull Headed Windowlicker Hajime no ippo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35872102) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:30 AM Author: tan bonkers headpube Death Note - this is probably my favorite (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35872104) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:31 AM Author: misunderstood mind-boggling national security agency elastic band grave of the fireflies (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35872107) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:32 AM Author: tan bonkers headpube Also, Monster (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35872112) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:32 AM Author: Multi-colored lemon center marketing idea honestly some of the anime movies are a pretty good way to get into them: berserk (specifically the golden age ark movies) akira original ghost in the shell |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:11 PM Author: navy cuckold TITCR (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35878587) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:33 AM Author: free-loading ladyboy Hajime no Ippo Erased Hunter x Hunter Food Wars Steins;Gate |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:33 AM Author: tan bonkers headpube If you're looking for a movie, Your Name (Kimi no Na wa) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35872120) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:35 AM Author: Confused Bull Headed Windowlicker This is great
Also In this corner of the world |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:36 AM Author: irradiated canary personal credit line Serial Experiments Lain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35872129) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:45 AM Author: black state affirmative action Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Boku no Pico |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:38 AM Author: fishy goyim trust fund What are Japanese cultural norms seen in anime that are strange to Americans? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35872140) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 12:42 AM Author: Multi-colored lemon center marketing idea there was some discussion of this in the hajime no ippo threading a few months back. the main character's guilt over filial piety is hard to understand, especially compared to takamura, who is sort of a japanese mike tyson (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35872158) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 10:32 AM Author: tan bonkers headpube pedophilia (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35873533) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 7:50 AM Author: Confused Bull Headed Windowlicker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35872813) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:14 PM Author: Poppy vigorous trump supporter LOL. It seems retarded. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35877536) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:14 PM Author: Cerebral red stead Well yeah American TV is pretty much unwatchable at this point (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35877545) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:14 PM Author: Bronze locale i thought they were just for pedos (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35877539) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:15 PM Author: aqua base is there any american show that doesn't reflect a (((certain))) agenda of goy degeneracy?
literally one show that doesn't promote white women being disgusting sluts? |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:18 PM Author: Multi-colored lemon center marketing idea probably none, hence the benedict option (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35877571) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:29 PM Author: Charismatic twinkling kitchen 99% of anime is children's shows and harem anime, so no. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35877629) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:32 PM Author: fishy goyim trust fund animeboi rejects anime unironically (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35877633) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:37 PM Author: Charismatic twinkling kitchen I accept anime but only a fraction of a percent is any good. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35877649) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:54 PM Author: fishy goyim trust fund what are top 5 series everyone must watch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35877754) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 10:31 PM Author: Charismatic twinkling kitchen Just watch Miyazaki films. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35878335) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 10:32 PM Author: fishy goyim trust fund what's something that has a lot of gore but still intellectual plot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35878340) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 10:35 PM Author: Charismatic twinkling kitchen Scanners. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35878360) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 10:40 PM Author: free-loading ladyboy Watch Pscho Pass
might be missing a few referenced, but from what I can recall from skimming through the series again (in no particular order):
Midnight Plus One by Gavin Lyall Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Toward a Philosophy of History by José Ortega y Gasset Economy and Society by Max Weber Various works by William Shakespeare, such as Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Titus Andronicus, and Hamlet Carmilla and In a Glass Darkly by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Various William Gibson works, such as Johnny Mnemonic and the The Sprawl Trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive) Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling Pensées (Thoughts) by Blaise Pascal The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham The Republic by Plato Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche Violence: A New Approach by Michel Wieviorka The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell The Red and the Black by Stendhal Oathbreakers by Mercedes Lackey (in reference to the subtitle of Ep. 16) Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Principles of Philosophy by René Descartes Crossroads: The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson by Tom Graves (in reference to the subtitle for Ep. 12) There are references to works of Project Itoh (Genocidal Organ?) and Kierkegaard (The Sickness Unto Death?), but no works are specifically named. As mentioned before by others:
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell A Revolution Sabotaged Before it Began (あらかじめ裏切られた革命) by Iwakami Yasumi Swann's Way by Marcel Proust The Bible (New and Old Testament; e.g., Matthew 13:24-30, Book of Genesis) Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault Justine by Marquis de Sade Certain movies are referenced as well:
The Man Who Stole the Sun (in Ep. 5) The Deer Hunter (in Ep. 11) Shuuji Terayama's theater drama play "Saraba, eiga yo (さらば、映画よ)." In Psycho Pass the movie:
Peau noire, masques blancs and The wretched of the Earth both by Frantz FanonWatch Psycho Pass.
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Date: April 19th, 2018 10:44 PM Author: 180 Site I once was mystified by its appeal but lately I’ve come to appreciate it and Japanese culture in general. I still feel that much is lost in translation and that the English language dubs tend to be corny and overwrought. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35878413) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 10:46 PM Author: free-loading ladyboy Yea, 99% of dubs are horrible. Only ones I’ve likes are Cowboy Bebop, Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood and Yu Yu Hakusho. Parasite was pretty good too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35878428) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:06 PM Author: fishy goyim trust fund Why hasn't native American anime taken off? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35878553) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:27 PM Author: 180 Site I didn’t know there was such a thing. Or do you just mean adult-oriented animated films made by Americans? I think the American consciousness just automatically associates animation with childishsness. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35878673) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:59 PM Author: fishy goyim trust fund But we have family guy, Simpson’s, rick and morty for adults. I meant American based manga ya. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35878861) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:28 PM Author: Cerebral red stead poverty, alcoholism (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35878680) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:24 PM Author: Cerebral red stead dubs are unwatchable. the voice acting is terrible (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35878664) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 11:13 PM Author: fishy goyim trust fund Seems like ~1988 was the cultural peak of anime. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953490&forum_id=2#35878597) |