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File: d9bbf5aca3d2c04⋯.jpg (49.34 KB, 960x720, 4:3, mpv-shot0138.jpg)

 No.746996

Just rewatched it.

Sometimes there's magic that just can't be replicated.

Now let's whine about how they're trying to replicate it, twice.

What was your favorite aspect of the show? I loved the somber, melancholy bits and the childish, realistically punkish attitude of the characters.

 No.747000

>>746996

I liked how it wanted to be crazy, believed in it's ability to be crazy, and justified it's craziness with every action scene. It was also short.

Too bad the 2nd season is just slapping the FLCL name on it, you would think gainax would be enough of a name to bring people in. I haven't caught up with a lot of anime so I won't hold my breath and I'll be reading the comments on the thread when the 2nd season eventually comes out to see if its worth a damn.


 No.747003

>>746996

It was animated well. They picked a good band for the soundtrack. That's about all the good I can say about it.


 No.747012

File: de7d3558f410009⋯.jpg (289.65 KB, 850x531, 850:531, d587313ad6f16027095f76415f….jpg)

>>746996

I really don't have faith in the two new seasons, given it apparently not having the same people behind it, as well as the personal feeling that not much good is liable to come from it being made as an intentional collaboration with westerners (especially in the current year). In addition, there's also the fact that some series simply don't need to be further continued, be it directly or as new adventures. I suppose at the very least though more music by The Pillows is welcome, assuming it's not just going to reuse/relicense the prior music from the original OVA series.


 No.747022

>>746996

great soundtrack, animation was good because of it's short entry of episodes but everyone knows ganiax/trigger's best anime is ninja slayer

the south park scenes is also weird.


 No.747030

File: 43775c18dfdd8ca⋯.png (2.27 MB, 932x2256, 233:564, 130190213247.png)

>>746996

I liked the general art direction, they managed to make the music work with the action, it made the show feel like one long music video. I also liked the attention to detail when it came to the backgrounds.

>>747012

>In addition, there's also the fact that some series simply don't need to be further continued

Exactly, it's a self-contained story. Furthermore, there already was a continuation of sorts, a manga that came a year after the show aired which was pretty much a retelling of the show with an alternate ending. There really was no need for further continuation, expect to cash a quick buck of course.


 No.747068

File: ce78517848d0542⋯.jpg (761.64 KB, 2048x1536, 4:3, wreckingcanti.jpg)

>>746996

The really good animation, character development, the amount of symbolism they could cram into 6 episodes and the music yes, i'm still listenan to The Pillows right now. The humor is wacky but i don't think its as funny as people say, atleast if compared to golden-age era slapstick.

Also the dub is surprisingly good, hell i might say that its even better since i thought Kari Wahlgren voice (back then) really fits Haruko's crazy and hyperactive personality.

>>747012

>>747030

Holy shit i've never heard of this, i mean sure [Adult Swim] loved this series but no need bringing a follow-up to a finished story is there?


 No.747075

I watched FLCL when it came out. Didn't like it. Then my friends praised it to me with no end. So I gave it a second watch to see if I was missing something. Still didn't like it.

Tried rewatching it recently, when news of a sequel came out. Didn't make past episode 2.

Real question here: Why do people like FLCL?

It's characters are unlikeable. The plot is a uninteresting. Enemies are marginally cool, but it falls moot in the fact that all MCs are shit.

Aside from pioneering some digital animation, I can't see a single redeeming quality in this. But maybe it's me. Maybe I'm missing something. I want to know why people like this anime, so please sell it on me.


 No.747077

I swear I saw all these responses a year ago to a T. What the fuck is going on, anons?


 No.747087

Since a new season is coming, I decided to watch it for the first time. Normally I watch subs, but I heard that this one has a very good dub. So which is better, dub or sub?


 No.747088

>>747087

FLCL is one of those like Cowboy Bebop where they're equally valid. Watch whatever is more comfortable for you, I prefer subs because of some hearing issues.


 No.747090

File: 76dedff342b776d⋯.png (55.18 KB, 217x190, 217:190, 76dedff342b776dd56d0716ece….png)

>>747075

Because the horn is a cock.


 No.747114

>>747012

>collaboration with westerners

I thought my animu was going to be safe from this shit. I thought it there was no way Japan would capitulate for some fuck faces half way across the world.

Just the other day I saw some guy talking about how great it was that a tranny was represented in a anime in which he wasn't just a gag.

Sorry for a unrelated post but i'm scared. Anime is the only thing I have left in my life.


 No.747118

>>747075

The characters are more dynamic in the first episode then most anime characters are in a full 24 episodes. I don't really see how you thought the characters were unlikable. Except for maybe the father except i've always assumed that was just what the MC thought of his father.

I also found the plot very interesting. Maybe its just because they don't actually tell you what the plot is they just give you hints to what its about. Kind of like seeing the world through the eyes of a 12 year old.

The enemies don't matter. This isn't a shounen action anime.


 No.747221

File: 5d7c479aeabc723⋯.jpg (65.4 KB, 539x423, 539:423, 0025.jpg)

>>747114

> I thought it there was no way Japan would capitulate for some fuck faces half way across the world.

Anon I...


 No.747224

>>747114

Keep calm and remember how Rapelay played out: lots of talk about setting up committees and fixing things, business as usual once the ADHD gaijin found something new to be oppressed about.


 No.747231

File: b673de8598d83f1⋯.jpg (58.68 KB, 960x720, 4:3, mpv-shot0144.jpg)

File: 1e35b6f9065ec81⋯.jpg (55.02 KB, 960x720, 4:3, mpv-shot0145.jpg)

Every character was childish. There was that scene where Haruko refers to humanity as a bunch of monkeys. I feel like while it berated the childishness, it also endorsed it. As if you need to be childish to throw your passion out there and do what needed to be done, but it also showed what bad things that childishness can do, among other characters, in Mamimi until she also swung the bat at the end and became a photographer.

It was that childish wild abandon of a melancholy teenager that pushed the characters into doing brave things while also leading to terrible consequences.

Even though eyebrows was so against Medical Mechanica, in the end he was more like them than anybody, trying to smooth out Naota, who stood out and did those reckless things

>>747075

>It's characters are unlikeable. The plot is a uninteresting. Enemies are marginally cool, but it falls moot in the fact that all MCs are shit.

All MCs being shit is a meme. This is Naota's Hero's Journey about puberty and animu references. It's not a battle shounen, mecha, romance, or comedy, though it has aspects of these. Actually, I think the enemies, though not bad, were probably the weakest part of the show, only there to show some cool action scenes, give a foil to Naota in Eyebrows, and show off some animation. It wrapped things up in a neat unique package, that's for sure.


 No.747243

>>747114

>I thought my animu was going to be safe from this shit.

EVERY FUCKING TIME


 No.747408

>>747231

I wish I was smart enough when I saw it the first time to actually understand it, but I was a mere underage back then who just thought it was a lot of wacky nonsense with intermissions of somber reflection that went over my head.


 No.747517

File: 308e6d4ca2ce08f⋯.jpg (395.76 KB, 1280x1183, 1280:1183, e36d6a3c7db8159a66e5166eac….jpg)

>>747408

Don't feel bad. I recently introduced it to a 26 year old and after watching he said he liked it for "How out-of-this-world crazy it is, like Kill la Kill!"

He referred to it as "wacky" and a "feel-good anime".

This experience reminded me why I never consort with normalfags.


 No.747523

>>747012

Them making a new season with The Pillows doing the music while completing misunderstanding why the show was so short in the first place makes me think of... Neo Yokio. A show that wants to be a wuirky, wacky weeb show, but it has none of the elements right, but forces as many of the trappings as possible onto itself. So there's robots and magic and they apparently even mention Hikkis, but what the fuck do they really know about anime? Clearly not very much, considering their perception of anime is on a tier lower than all those French knock-off anime style shows like Total Spies.


 No.747708

File: 965ce3493b5afb2⋯.png (1.87 MB, 1044x3072, 87:256, 100 Acre FLCL.png)

>>747075

When watching FLCL, it's best to remember that it came after Neon Genesis Evangelion, and that most of the people who saw it originally did so right after slogging through NGE.

FLCL was made not so much as a parody of NGE, but is more just a decompression project for the studio. It's a stylistic nonsensical brainless comedy, exactly what NGE was not.

It was an anime perfect for the tastes of the high school students pirating it on limewire on a warm summer's night. There's nothing deeper to it, and it's not meant to be compelling, so you are perfectly justified in not finding much of value if you wanted something more.

I enjoyed it for what it was, but probably won't bother with the sequel myself.


 No.747727

>>747517

well, it is pretty wacky and feel-good, if in a sense of Naoto's maturation and acceptance can make a person feel good. There's a lot of complicated bullshit, of course, but I felt that FLCL's ending was very optimistic.


 No.748069

>>747727

Sure, he wasn't wrong on those fronts, but that's all he got from it. He thought it was just "lol so randum". This is the attitude that I cannot stand.


 No.748254

>>748069

Besides "boy becomes man" that you've seen MANY times before, what else would you say there is to the series?

Personally i never liked it that much,(save for the presentation) mostly because i feel like there is stuff there that i'm not really picking up on.


 No.749372

>>747075

you have been already consumed by moeshit anon


 No.749526

File: 54e3874df2e56df⋯.png (596.83 KB, 740x740, 1:1, new_vomit_chan.png)

>>746996

Watched it for the first time just now, complete shit.

>unfunny

>tries to hard

>blink 182 the anime

>le randum unfunny

Had that 90s "I just wanna be kid but i'm almost in college" school-shooter vibe. In general, it was Chruchroll-core, artsy, and everything I hate.


 No.749584


 No.749617

>>749526

>le randum unfunny

This is precisely what I mean when I say "people don't get it", who thinks it's just "lol so randumb".

>Had that 90s "I just wanna be kid but i'm almost in college" school-shooter vibe.

Nigger, what are you even trying to say? If anything, it's about a kid who wants to be an adult, not an adult who wants to be a kid. Did you even watch it?

I accept that not everyone likes it, but at least have some valid criticisms.

>>748254

Well, it's not really "boy becomes man", is it? It's a tretise on puberty, and is full of the emotions one goes through at that age. Where other shows just show a coming-of-age story where a kid doesn't want to do something, but in the end discovers what it means to be a man by doing it (Gundam, Eva), this is more in-depth of all the feelings, doubts, and such of that age. He changes a little each episode, until he realizes how much of a kid he is which, granted, makes him more mature in the end. Naota doesn't become a man, but it's interesting watching him go through the stages of this age. In the end, he makes those mistakes as I put it here >>747231 like falling for an intergalactic space criminal and kissing her, but the kid had to swing the bat.


 No.749881

>>749634

The old art was sloppier than mine. DDLC's only redeeming factor was the girls, otherwise it's basically the same as Undertale.

In this regard, it's the same as all SoL series.


 No.749890

>>747517

That's the biggest problem with FLCL's misplaced popularity. Normalfags and casuals see some obvious boner imagery and they think

>HAHA IT'S A DICK JOKE

and not

>Oh, I get it. The whole thing is a puberty/coming-of-age story!


 No.749933

File: 32fe405cdedfa7b⋯.png (92.3 KB, 430x430, 1:1, tosmart.png)

>>747408

Literally this. I didn't have the IQ points to understand the show. I understood Lain well enough though. I don't think it's HIGH IQ like that Pickle meme show but it's not bad either.

Show reminds me a lot of MDE but from a culture that I didn't understand.


 No.750094

>>747408

I never really fully understand it every time I watch it. I always need to essentially look up the plot after watching


 No.750101

>>750094

The director commentary is great if you haven't seen it with that yet.


 No.750102

>The name Naota means "thick honesty"

Fitting.


 No.750841

File: f1058708947c7c9⋯.webm (992.41 KB, 1440x1080, 4:3, FLCL - Creditless Ending ….webm)

>There was a thread already

Oh well, have the webm I did.


 No.751039

>>747075

I feel you, buddy. FLCL is the only show that left me feeling like utter shit afterwards, which I think has to do with how everyone I've heard talk about it built it up like it's the second coming of jesus in anime form, when in actuality it's just some dumb mary sue acting like a bitch to everyone, remorselessly tormenting a young child and nearly destroying the whole world over a special glowy thing, and getting away with it all in the end. Not to mention that the only character who rightfully sees her as a menace is revealed to be an angry child who was just SO DANG JEALOUS that he wasn't getting macked on by her.

>Why do people like FLCL?

To run down the list in no particular order...

>They want to fuck Haruka.

>They are pretentious fucks a la the reddit and memey copypasta, extolling the virtues of this show like it's somehow really hard to miss the DEEP, PHILOSOPHICAL THEMES. "HEY, DID YOU KNOW THE SERIES IS A METAPHOR FOR PUBERTY?" Yes, you have an IQ barely high enough to reach the triple digits, do you want a fucking cookie or something?! Basically what >>749890 said.

>They like shitty J-Rock. I have no fucking idea why people love The Pillows' music so much, it all sounds like utter garbage, and this is coming from a guy who unironically likes Death Note's 2nd OP.

>They like the animation. Probably the only legit reason to like this trash, as it IS well animated at the very least.

>They're Nihongophiles who like how japanese it is. Fuck these people in particular.

>They actually find the shitty manga joke funny, I dunno, I'm mostly in the same boat as you.

>>747118

>Dynamic characters

>Haruka

I especially loved how she transformed from a power-hungry bitch into a power-hungry bitch. So dynamic!~

>I also found the plot very interesting. Maybe its just because they don't actually tell you what the plot is they just give you hints to what its about.

wew

>>747517

I think your friend has more problems aside from just being a normalfag.


 No.751044

>>746996

Pales in comparison to Abenobashi.


 No.751261

File: 3a1e14a940b797e⋯.gif (1.89 MB, 500x450, 10:9, 500.gif)

>>747075

>Why do people like FLCL?

It's a coming-of-age story. The protagonist learn an admittedly vague lesson every episode. At the beginning the protagonist was a mislead faggot that had no interest in life, progression and in bad company, that was pretty much at the edge of suicide, from how monotonous life was. Then a strange girl came out to his life and turned everything weird, making him face situations he otherwise wouldn't, and not only him, but the characters around him. Then there's the music, the animation, and how short it is. It's a complete story.

>It's characters are unlikeable

Bullshit. The only unlikable character would be Haruka and that's supposed to be a fact because she is somewhat an antagonist from the very beginning, and the dynamic works great.

>Haruka is the character that steers shit for her own selfish desires, forcing people to adapt

>Naota is an aimless fag that becomes more and more mature as the episodes go on, going from the aimless kid, from an upbeat kid, to a dick, to an actual regular person

>Minami is a piece of shit that uses Naota as a replacement of his brother, her former boyfriend, and end up getting over it, appreciating Naota on his own, and wanting to do something with her life, distancing herself from Naota to not hurt him further

And those are pretty much the main characters without conting characters like Ninamori or Naota's brother. FLCL actually helped me to get over myself and try to do something in life

>>751039

>I especially loved how she transformed from a power-hungry bitch into a power-hungry bitch. So dynamic!~

Haruka wasn't supposed to change. She is more like a natural disaster that the other characters have to face. The only moment she was fooled was at the very end and that made her get mad at Naota, which in turn made Naota grow further. One of the things I actually don't get is if at the end she actually saw worth at Naota or not.


 No.751285

File: 1687ac7a6f615a7⋯.gif (901.74 KB, 425x319, 425:319, 1687ac7a6f615a72b95cb660d5….gif)

>>751261

What's up with that contrast?


 No.751287

File: 9f2eff68944d7cc⋯.png (798.55 KB, 1014x756, 169:126, golddigging.png)

>>751261

>One of the things I actually don't get is if at the end she actually saw worth at Naota or not.

Haruko and the other adults in the show never truly grew up especially Amarao who was spiteful to Haruko over being rejected by her which made him forever broken. He broke down when his eyebrows, the thing that made him feel mature, were taken off and he becomes neurotic and desperate for Haruko to love her back.

The absolute climax where Haruko is about to be destroyed by Naota she's ready for it but when he stops and says 'I love you' she's taken aback because he let go of the the biggest strength in the universe for her despite knowing she won't return that feeling. After the battle she gave him advice he didn't need because both realize that she's the one who needs to grow up. On top of this she trades guitars which must mean something.


 No.751427

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>751039

Haruka is supposed to be a self-centered bitch, which is why it's dangerous for Naota to go on and fall for her, something Amarao warned him about. But the kid has to make mistakes and be true to himself, which is something Amarao can't do because he hides his frail child-like self behind those eyebrows.

Basically, it's telling you to not pretend to be an adult, but be one and confess your feelings even if it won't do any good. If Naota kept the eyebrows AKA fedora he would have killed Haruko then, or just not been able to channel Atomsk in the first place and save Earth from Medical Mechanica. Killing Haruko might have been the better alternative, but this show isn't about what's right. It's about acting your age, making mistakes, and growing up. In the end, everyone is a little childish, and that's okay, even needed, as youthful energy helps push the world forward.

Mamimi is another character who wouldn't be true to herself, using everything and anything as a replacement for aniki in her desperation to live a fantasy.

In the end, both Mamimi and Naota accepted how old they were and moved on.

What really makes it for me is the blend of themes making it more than a straight comedy, the great musical cues such as in this scene (and yes, I love The Pillows), and the general atmosphere of the town that feels somewhat dirty and frustrating which meshes well with the feelings of the characters. This last is relatable for a lot of people in today's age.

Also, you forgot, >animu references

>>751261

This guy gets it. Haruka saw the worth he had as a self-realizing person, which is why she could use him. "Naota's is bigger" and all that. I think that she was slightly impressed with the kid for saving Earth from her wanton selfishness. I don't think she thought us "monkeys" had it in us. If the kid didn't, she would have done nothing, as it's no loss to her. She would just let Earth get flattened out and ride on to find Atomsk elsewhere without a care.

FLCL helped me, too.

>>751287

What do you mean about Haruko needing to grow up?


 No.751429

>>751039

>>They're Nihongophiles who like how japanese it is. Fuck these people in particular.

What?


 No.751481

>>751427

Haruko can't accept attachment to anything but Atomsk because then emotions would enter her life and she'd have to go through what everyone else is going through in the show whether it's puberty or coming to terms with how you're stunted because you are. The look on Naota's face when she says he's just a kid after the climax said that he already knew that and Haruko's advice was projection or trying to remain superior/snarky like she's always been because she can't accept changing herself or else she'll be weak because she's just as vulnerable as anyone else.


 No.751507

>>751261

>One of the things I actually don't get is if at the end she actually saw worth at Naota or not.

Given that she assaults him, insults him, moves into his house, fucks his dad, manipulates him into summoning the thing she really wants and, in the manga, leaves her bike for him before she leaves for him to try to start 'til his hands bleed, I would be astonished if she gave any sort of a shit about him.

>>751429

You heard me.


 No.751529

>>746996

FLCL is a perfect metaphor for boyhood and adolescence.

There's no way they can recapture that magic.


 No.751531

File: e05aea6f34d94af⋯.jpg (62.39 KB, 369x304, 369:304, 1214570486333.jpg)

I thought the manga was okay.


 No.751532

>>751507

>fucks his dad

She doesn't. She is actually disgusted by the dad to the point that she locks him in the closet and replace him with a robot, and then proceeds to tease Naota with it and pushed him to the edge. That episode was really fucked up and I almost dropped there. All the implications until Naota found his dad in the closet, the scenery, the music and her cynicism made my blood boil.

>I would be astonished if she gave any sort of a shit about him.

See >>751427

She ends up giving a shit, she realizes he is better than she ever will be, to the point that he easily did what she always wanted to and let it go for something HE wanted. So yeah, at the end, even after all the shit she did, she end up giving a shit about him, because Naota changed, but she didn't.

>You heard me.

Please explain. FLCL is as japanese as any other anime. It doesn't particularly force the "IT'S REALLY JAPANESE" thing, it just is, like the eye browns becoming a symbol of masculinity.


 No.751783

>>751532

>She doesn't.

Even if she didn't actually take sausage from Naota's dada the effect was still the same, perhaps even MORE fucked up.

>Please explain.

Yeah, most anime use the small town japan setting, but it's more than that. FLCL is the only show i've seen that really makes it apparent, specifically with the dub that uses japanese honorifics even though it makes no sense in the language used. Also I just hate otaku.


 No.751833

File: 026f20904deaa92⋯.jpg (62.23 KB, 799x590, 799:590, 026f20904deaa9246196e9251f….jpg)

>>751783

>FLCL is the only show i've seen that really makes it apparent

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Joshiraku, Hoozuki no Reitetsu, Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju, Kannagi are all much more apparently Japanese, as in you actually have to know some Japanese culture to understand a lot of it. FLCL is actually much more Western in a lot of ways because the creators are somewhat westaboos.

I have a feeling you don't actually watch much anime.

>Also I just hate otaku.

Well, you could have said that instead. FLCL is made by a bunch of the Original Otaku, thus all the animu references and the Survival Game scene. If you didn't get any of the references, that's a lot of the comedy in some scenes. I assume you didn't get a lot of the references.

>specifically with the dub

Yeah, FLCL has an above-average dub, but seriously, anon? That's your gripe?

I'm convinced now that you're just a raving newfag.


 No.751875

File: 0fb178a04318904⋯.jpg (72.52 KB, 850x400, 17:8, csLewis.jpg)

Show's underlying deep message is a sham and full of hypocrisy consider it overly relies on flashy composition to attract viewers.

Nips thinks being grown up is big deal because most of them are childish faggots.


 No.752173

>>751833

>I have a feeling you don't actually watch much anime.

I've watched plenty, but I don't as much anymore, and you wanna know why? Because most of it, specifically every new season, is the same damn shit. It's either about generically cute girls doing generically cute things, SoL shows centered around school (because it's ALWAYS set at school, and yeah I get WHY they do it, but it's still fucking everywhere), or it's some edgy as fuck death game/sci-fi/SAO ripoff. (Dunno why people would rip off a shit show like SAO anyhow, but whatever) And sure, they can be good, and I can even find one that I like, but it's hard to pick one when they all present themselves, and most times even are, the same.

>I assume you didn't get a lot of the references.

Correct, I haven't watched Eva or Battle Royale, but even if I did, would it have been any more funny? A good comedy show can satirize something and still be funny to people who haven't spent 100+ hours watching what they're referencing, like One Punch Man. You don't have to be big into capeshit, but you can still get the jokes and find them funny, or at the very least amusing.

>Yeah, FLCL has an above-average dub, but seriously, anon? That's your gripe?

No, that's but ONE of my gripes with this show.

>I'm convinced now that you're just a raving newfag.

Not everyone who doesn't like what you like is a newfag, anon, and if you ask me, nobody who posts smug K-On girls has any right to be calling anyone a newfag... not that you ARE one, of course.


 No.752752

File: 2aca2f05e3aae3f⋯.gif (479.05 KB, 500x455, 100:91, 2b1b9c60fb6429ac47553fe955….gif)

>>752173

>That shitty typing style

>hasn't seen Eva

>The anime, Battle Royale

>The 1999 novel, Battle Royale is where all 80's Otaku got the passion for military replicas and survival games.

>references One Punch Man, one of the most normalfag of all modern animu.

>asserts he is NOT a newfag

>has a problem with k-on and SoL in general

>That projection

wew. You're such a fucking newfag, anon. Holy shit. It's no wonder you can't grasp what the hell is even going on in the show. I should have taken the hint when you implied you watched the dub and had a problem with the translation choices in the dub in particular.


 No.752805

>>752752

>That shitty typing style

Sorry, you're right, I SHOULD be calling everyone I disagree with a newfag. My bad.

>hasn't seen Eva

And neither have a lot of people, that doesn't make them newfags.

>The anime, Battle Royale

>The 1999 novel, Battle Royale is where all 80's Otaku got the passion for military replicas and survival games.

How fucking pedantic can you be? Holy shit.

>references One Punch Man, one of the most normalfag of all modern animu.

Would you have liked me to mention Inferno Cop instead?

>asserts he is NOT a newfag

Let's be real here, do you HONESTLY think anyone would admit to being a newfag when it's more easy to call others newfags over petty disagreements?

>has a problem with k-on and SoL in general

First off, i've never seen K-On, though I know the general gist of it. Second, I never said I hate SoL anime, I was just pointing out the fact that most anime released today is SoL. I'd be a bit of a hypocrite if I said I hated the genre given that I've watched and enjoyed shows like Little Witch Academia which, despite having an overarching narrative, is mostly about cute animu witches living their lives.

>That projection

I'm not the one calling someone a newfag for not liking my favorite pretentious anime. I'm not the one mocking someone for liking popular anime whilst boasting about my watching one of the single most mainstream anime series in history, a series SO mainstream that pedophilic bisexual idiots feel obligated to rip wholesale scenes from it and plop into their shitty show. If anyone's projecting here anon, it's you.

Nice numbers, though.


 No.753161

>>752805

I'm not calling you a newfag for not liking what I like. If that were the issue, I'd just call you a plebian with shit taste. The thing is, though, that you simply don't have the foundation necessary to assert your own taste at this point.

No, I don't claim all oldfags have seen Eva, or that only normalfags watch One Punch Man, though these are indicators. Coupled with your calling me pedantic for knowing basic facts and claiming LWA TV counts as SoL CDGCT like K-On (By the way, casualfags love Trigger), it's pretty obvious. Yes, I can tell you're a newfag, despite your claims to the contrary. I don't call you one because I disagree with you, but because you're acting like one. If you don't understand what I mean, lurk for two more years before posting, please.

By the way, your tirade claiming all modern anime is the same gave me signs that point to /v/ or somewhere thereabouts. If you don't know how to pick anime yet, you seriously need to go back to lurking.

I'm sorry my FLCL thread turned into this, but that's what you get when you make one about one of the most popular shows for Westerners.


 No.753164

>>752805

Also, I'm sure you don't know this, but we generally don't talk about post numbers here.


 No.753352

File: 7fdff7e1c972313⋯.jpg (102.17 KB, 900x975, 12:13, mamimi.jpg)

I just finished watching the show, and I have only one question, was she autistic?


 No.753355

File: 86ee4191df24823⋯.jpg (27.81 KB, 720x480, 3:2, flcl_mamimi0033.jpg)

>>753352

Not really, she had a rough background and some dependency issues, but she outgrows them by the end of show. An autistic person wouldn't have such a rapid progression.


 No.753607

>>753352

She was a heartbroken teenager that wanted to escape from reality and be a kid with Nii-chan again. So she acted like that instead of a girl who's about to finish high school and go off into the adult world without a plan for her life.


 No.754242

>>753352

What did you think of it, anon?


 No.754248

>>754242

I liked it, I am not an American or Japanese, so I didn't see this when it aired. I can see how it is a metaphor for growing up, but let's be honest it also had a lot of goofy moments that weren't a metaphor for anything and were simply lol so random jokes(like when Haruka dressed like Elvis or the manga moments). The animation was nice, but the story and characters didn't really click with me, as after an episode, I didn't really feel like watching the next one. In the end I can see why many people liked it, it also probably helps if you watch it at a certain age, or immediately after NGE as another anon ITT said, but I wouldn't really put it into my top 10 best anime that I have ever watched(don't ask me for the list), but it's still a good show.

>tl;dr it's short but sweet


 No.754365

>>753355

>>753352

>dependency issues

Nice headcanon but the story was flimsy at best.

Animation was 1/3 good, 1/3 manga subs, 1/3 live footage.


 No.754809

>>754365

How did she not have a dependency issue? She wasn't over her former boyfriend and used his little brother as a crutch to cope, and in episode 5 she calls out his name when in danger. She is still relying on him and is unable to stand on her own feet.


 No.754817

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

This is what I hear in my head every time I'm reminded that this show exists.

Fuck you. You shall now suffer as I have suffered!


 No.754818

>>754365

>Even after her boyfriend left for america she can't get over it

>Uses his boyfriend's little brother as emotional replacement

>Not dependency issues

>>754809

>she calls out his name when in danger

That part pissed me off for so many reasons...

>>754817

Never.




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