/a/ - Animu & Mango

I APPLAUDED IT FOR BEING DIFFERENT!

Is stopmotion the future of anime?

I unironically want those wool dolls on my fig shelf.

>>786507

Wacky Races and Initial D one after the other. I was hoping really hard for a Speed Racer reference too but it never came... Wasted opportunity if you ask me.

>>786436

But what were they referencing in that music video? Nothing?

>>786512

The song itself sounded like a spoof of "Let's Groove" by Earth, Wind, and Fire.

>>786296

See you next week.

>>786531

I don't think I should be expected to know anything besides anime on an anime imageboard.

I was very insulted when I found out they were referencing a music video from 40 years ago, and that knowing that was necessary to understand the joke.

Now the comments that appear on the video make even more sense to me.

>>786436

This is just Japans version of Aqua Teen Hunger Force right?

>>786555

More like the nip version of space ghost coast to coast.

>>786559

More like the Eleven version of Metalocalypse.

>>786559

Imagine Japan using some old anime and doing what adult swim used to do

>>786542

It's one of the best/most popular funk songs of all time and the video is iconic in its experimental weirdness with visual effects. It's not required reading for /a/, but it should be common knowledge for people with decent musical taste. Are you unaware of the Money for Nothing video too? Tons of stuff (not necessarily anime) has parodied that.

Mary sounded really cute

I would've let her in and fucked her.

>>786590

>decent musical taste

Silly pop music from the 70s is still silly pop music. But it still is fun to listen to and a hell of a lot better than most modern pop, I'll give you that much.

>>786497

Basically they brought back great duos in anime history? That's actually pretty neat.

Guessing the episode 3 Female voices are real life best friends or something.

>>786577

>Eleven version of Metalocalypse.

But that's Detroit Metal City

>>786740

Now mash up male and female versions together, changing the voice track every line.

God, I hope we get new puppet songs at least every other episode

>>786740

How the fuck did they manage to make the male version sound better?

>>786590

I knew let's groove very well, but had never watched the music video. Of course I watched it after recognizing the song in the OP.

>>786630

Also I meant to ask, why is it hell southern cross? This clearly references an attack of the Zable Fahr boss from seiken densetsu 3 but as far as I know that attack was called just Hell Cross.

>>786751

The song they were parodying was originally sung by men.

>>786590

I was exaggerating and trying to be funny in that comment. And it's the same with Money for Nothing, I know the song but I had never watched the video.

>>786515

Nice catch on the hook used in this song. For the past week I was thinking it was like early 80's Kool and the Gang, but I think you nailed it.

I apologize for going off topic, but I wonder if anyone else caught the OP from Yuru Camp being straight out of the Jackson 5 sound of the early 70's-before Michael went solo.

Play "ABC", then listen to YC's op.

>>786512

Looked like 2000's euro pop to me, until I saw >>786515 .

I'm very happy to see they're opting for more long form original sketches. Even the 4koma adaptations are changing it up. I wonder how far ahead they are on production with these stop-motion portions.

>>786751

It was that way last time, too.

I think it comes down to the magic of shitposting, like YMO shitposting with Kimi ni Mune Kyun can't wait for them to parody it. It's not meant to be taken serious, and the video was part of the joke. Three unshaven skinny men doing a shitty shuffle dance singing a cutesy love song with deadpan faces and voices. They wanted to see if they could get #1 as a joke, and they got up to #2.

Afterwards, whenever someone tries to cover it, playing it straight with a moe voice like the Maria Holic ED, it doesn't work as well. It's like turning Pop Team Epic into a character-driven story. You can't play shitposts straight.

The only time a cover of Kimi ni Mune Kyun somewhat worked to my knowledge was Miku's version because the robotic voice is like the deadpan nature of the original. Also, just the fact that it's Miku gives it a tongue in cheek edge. It's not played seriously at all.

>>786764

It's that attack Souther pulls off in Fist of the North Star- think it's referenced many times in anime and maga aloike, over and over, because that's just how anime works, it's all a big fat cultural echo chamber based on references.

>>786808

Is that really an attack Souther uses? Ever since the original strip came out i only heard about the seiken densetsu reference and I thought it was just that.

>>786782

Man, i'd love to see a puppet song version of this or I am the Anti-Pope.

>>786803

Long before I knew anything about moonrunes or what the song was about, I would listen to it and enjoy it whole-heartedly because at the end of the day it's just a really damn good song. Shitposting can truly be beautiful at times.

>>786531

>why don't all of these kids know my favorite bands from the 1970s????

>>786808

You're confusing with the city that Shin builds called Southern Cross.

>>786833

>Do you think they'll make the Volcanoes into allies later down the line? I really like them as rivals, so I hope not.

>>786855

>>786833

They did a pretty decent job animating not!Ratel there. She is best character.

>>786795

Alright, so the fan translation for SD3 just removed the southern for some reason. Maybe because they were unsure what sazan was supposed to mean? I'm pretty damn sure it doesn't refer to anything in the game at any rate.

>>786808

You are mistaken. The reference is Seiken Densetsu 3.

>>786902

>Maybe because they were unsure what sazan was supposed to mean?

Some katakana names gets really hard to translate if you don't have the official romaji for it. Going back to HNK, if it were being translated as it came out back in the day, Souther's name could very well have been translated as "Saucer" or "Souza" or "Sauzaa".

>>786904

Wait, I fucked up, what I mean is, without an official translation it's hard to know how things translate properly. Just having the romaji isn't enough. For example, Isidro and Schierke in Berserk had completely different names in fan translations until Miura finally released their official English names.

>>786921

Rivaille

>>786507

I don't know how accurate this is nowadays, but them referencing Wacky Races isn't all too surprising, because apparently the show is or was surprisingly popular in Japan, being one of only two American shows to appear in TV Asahi's 2006 list of Top 100 Anime (at #99, the other being Tom and Jerry at #53). It having an actual stand-in for Dick Dastardly himself surprised me, though.

http://archive.fo/W9Meg

>>786510

I was almost expecting that racer at the end to be a parody of Racer X.

>>786833

Babymetal Vibes from this group. Maybe they are really trying to reinvent that industry.

>>786542

Apart from Let's Groove having 79 million views and September having 167 million views on Vevo's YouTube channel, the EW&F's videos have probably been seen repeatedly by anyone exposed to MTV or its japanese equivalents. American mass market pop culture isn't exactly obscure.

>>786618

She's a (sex)doll and belongs in the garbage.

http://www.scaryforkids.com/mary-san/

>>787345

Something I like is that Daichi never seems to give a single shit about anything. He clearly thinks everyone around him is a whore, and isn't having any of this shit. Best harem protag ever, I'd say.

>>786822

>buy the Poputepipikku BD

>it's full episodes of Hoshiiro Girl Drop with Poputepipikku previews.

>>787347

At the very least, I hope the BD opening and menus make it look like you bought Hoshiiro Girl Drop instead.

>>786740

>>787422

The new ptppk version is actually 10x better.

>>786763

>wow, they both have the totally original undead-undead joke therefore they're the same.

athf has this gay 90s edgylord gritty style because the writers are drug-addled white guys whove succumbed to addition and apathy as a result of the state of affairs in the world.

There's nothing particularly enjoyable or inspiring in raunchy, gritty works like this or Bevis or Postal 2. They're all quite bad.

>>787369

>>787347

You know this really possible. If a show would spend money to do this kind shitposting would be this show.

>>787369

Knowing they are making a manga out of the anime thay they fronted... might be possible.

>>787426

I agree, just marvelling at how much the animators matched it with the original song.

>>787679

I stream within my home network. It's perfect quality but i'm still '"streaming"'.

>>786436

Most of the humor is just "lol so random XD" why do people like this show so much?

Which one would you rather hug, Popuko or Pipimi? Let's break it down

>Popuko pros

Energetic and yet lazy

Small, so good for hugging

The closest thing to a protagonist we have

>Popuko cons

May beat the crap out of you with a spiked bat

>Pipimi pros

Big, so there's a lot to hug

Calm

Cute bow on the head

>Pipimi cons

Weird head

>>787720

Pipimi of course.

Her head is not a problem.

>>787751

Interesting.

What about Popuku? What's the meaning of her name?

>>787773

it means popcorn and that's why her two little pigtails look like kernels

>>786443

>reddit letter media

>>>/plebbit/

>>787720

The increased size of forehead allows me to aim and shoot my load better.

>>787803

>knowing that it's from RLM

>hating it

Hey /tv/.

Rent free.

>>787773

ポプ子 the ko is the character for child and is sometimes replaced with the character for small since they share the same reading.

Yukiko (snow kid), Satoko (sugar kid), all similar. It probably is popcorn joke.

>>787751

>>787773

>>787836

Should also mention how both 子 and 美 are commonly used at the end of girls' names to the point where it's sort of a joke.

>>787427

>I can't enjoy this, there aren't any moe girls.

>>787847

Yeah but the short moe one is ko and the tall beautiful is mi so it still adheres to the types.

>>787830

>hey /tv/

I want /co/ to leave

>>788098

Ganbaru zoi!

>>787342

She just thinks she's a yuri. The next episode is going to be her realizing that she only idolizes the main girl and that she really wants the MC for herself.

>>789063

What's Yusuke doing among all those contemporary characters?

Is YYH getting something new?

>>789091

Well, it was voted as 15th best anime in 2006. I am surprised that the show has turned giving the finger into a meme.

>>788131

<Popuko drinks ES and becomes a then thinks she's Gengis Khan.

We both know that it won't be that lame. The most likely Finnlan thing is going to be a skit based on this.

>>789091

Wikipedia says it's getting a new OVA.

>>789063

>PTPPK isn't popula-

This episode got the most out of me, simply because of the part where male VAs couldn't do the moaning part.

Also was Popuko's female VA Hana Ichigo's? I don't hear her these days.

The voice actors on both sides where great this time around.

>>789488

Most laughs*

Also the boat was funny.

>>789469

>>789468

>they fucking referenced the forbidden game in that scene

>>789516

Someone should give a cup of coffee for that guy. He always half sleeping.

>>789583

The most hilarious thing about this scene is that I have no idea if this is a shitpost, or genuine censorship.

>>789623

>cecored

censored*

fuck, what the hell is wrong with me.

Who were the female VA this time ? They had very particuliar voices

Even the ED is better when sung by male voices.

I can't wait for Sugita to voice an episode.

>>789628

It says that the staff ate the sushi rolls. It's to ensure the viewer that they didn't waste the food.

>>789643

Popuko: Tomoko Kaneda

Pipimi: Yuu Kobayashi

>>789643

Pipimi is Kobayashi Yuu, I'm certain of that because I love her autistic screeching noises.

The other one could be Yuuki Aoi, this is just plain guesswork because I noticed she has voiced an episode and she probably would sound like this when shitposting.

>>789682

Wait, one of the males were Sugita this episode? I just posted this. >>789652

It can't be true. I didn't recognize his voice, and his is very recognizable since he has only the one voice.

>>789684

Are you kidding me?

>>789692

His eyecatch "poputepipikku" versions were great.

He has a knack for shitposting. I remember him in Mahou Shoujo? Naria Girls as a monster, and it was one of the best parts of that anime.

His "misemono ramen" ending bit for this episode was great. I wish we could get more of him.

>ctrl+f shitpost

>14 matches

Have I accidentally ended up on reddit?

>>789601

No, you are in ylilauta.

>>789659

>>789618

I'm trying to place that muffled voice from this game. I can just about remember some sort of song. But no matter how much I shake it, my memory isn't surrendering any more information.

>>789719

The robotic voice? I think it's just a generic text-to-speech bot. I've heard it used in nip streams before.

>>789710

>/v/ reference.

...you really think westerners noticed how funny this stupidly hard Winnie the Pooh baseball flash game was but not nips?

Come on, man...

>>789583

Relax-O-Vision

>>789723

It's Yukkuri voice.

>>789736

Thank you. You connected the dots for me.

>>789732

The entire reason it was a meme on /v/ was because we were playing the as of the time only version of the game, which was in nip. Which meant we couldn't read the UI, which meant we had no idea that in the game you earned points which were used to level up your stats. That's where the difficulty meme came from.

Or it could be coincidental and they're referencing it for some other reason.

>>789749

Even with upgrades, Christopher Robin is bullshit and you know it.

Upgrades just make the impossible possible as long as your third eye opens and you become one with Winnie the Pooh.

I just noticed that opening lists Bkub as "College dropout" instead of "Original creator"

>>789749

My point was that it's also a well known game in Japanese boards. No need to get your panties in a bunch over a "/v/ reference" in your anime.

Like Episode 1, the male voices were much much better in this episode.

In this episode Popuko was Toki and Pipimi was Tsuchinoko.

Didn't find anything particularly interesting the male VAs worked together in.

>>789664

>Both had parts in kemono friends

>>789804

The male VAs are always better

We truly are blessed. We get to enjoy shitposting memery from all over the world. From Nip and Finn high energy absurdity, to Slav depression, to German autism, we have access to all the shitty memes one could ever want.

I'm only really lacking South American and Middle Eastern memes.

>>789901

>what is hispanochan

>what is memri TV

>>789787

Why are you responding to him as if he's me?

>>789913

Have you tried not being him?

>>789692

I kept thinking that too, for whatever reason I couldn't connect that it actually was Sugita, but it's stupidly obvious on a rewatch.

>>790043

When I realized one of them was Gintoki I checked if the other VA did something interesting in Gintama. Guess I missed it.

Wish there was a way to check everything both actors worked together in, instead of just looking at pages with their roles and comparing.

Previous thread title mentioned something about awaiting for the soundtrack.

>>790112

Wait nevermind, that might just be a single.

But are they crazy enough to reanimate the entire BD in the style of the "BD Version" 4koma?

>>790141

It wouldn't surprise me if they use that for the final episode.

>>789505

w-whats the forbidden game?

>>790155

Overstory, I'd guess.

>>790155

S i L l Y O l D BEAR

>>789641

Cowboy bebop?

>>789613

I thought it was a joke about masturbation.

>>790496

It's nice how giving the old English insult can bring a people together.

>>789063

ive seen this before. By my calculations this will become japanese rick and morty in 4 months

>>790185

Fuck, why did you do this to me again?

Why are there 2 cours of the same episode? The first one is useless. Its all much better with just the old men voices.

>>790584

If you're gonna shitpost, you might as well do it with conviction.

>>790585

>it's not one of the cyclical 3 arguments being repeated at nauseam, so it's shitposting

If you watch the male cour first, the female delivered lines fall completely flat.

>>790586

I wasn't accusing you of shitposting, retard. I said the show is a shitpost. As such, it might as well work hard at it.

>>790084

>Basically giving us the hints on what all episodes are gonna involve.

Those cheeky fucks.

>>789641

Apparently, it's based on some Japanese Detective Show named "Furuhata Ninzaburo"

>>790584

Gotta fit that time slot on budget somehow.

>>789646

>Even the ED is better when sung by male voices.

Is there a female voice version of the ED? I thought it was always male.

>>790688

Ah scratch that, just rewatched ep1 ED and it sounds like it's female voices.

>>790920

Aren't the first episode voices Whis and Vegeta? I thought it worked well.

>>790931

The dubs are horrible mostly because they don't go all out on it as the original did. they just dub for the dub sake.

>>790962

Would that really make you happy?

>>790966

>series is too popular, imageboards are going to hate it soon

>TRIGGERED

The faster the ban, the greater the truth

>>790931

Sounds like done fat thots and distinctly asperger switchbois reading lines I to their headset microphones.

Surprised Funamation paid them money.

>>790971

That is an axiom that often holds true, though not always. The greater problem is that the manga was ostensibly shitposting and wasn't really meant to attract the audience it's currently attracting. The anime went too far in the random/references aspect. Normalfags love that shit.

>>791002

How do you counter this trend without executing autists? Also we should have a handy list of all VAs per episode.

>>791027

I think you just have to ride out the storm.

After this stops airing the normalfags will probably forget about it and jump on another bandwagon.

>>791028

Tell that to JoJo fans, or OPM fans, or Boku no Hero fans, or any other series that ends up getting horrendously popular with normalfags

>>791073

Hating on Jojo was fairly common for normalfags a while ago

>>791110

A lot of them still hate on JoJo.

>>791073

But those are still ongoing series.

>>791121

Like Pop Team Epic, you mean?

Now I'm not saying that this series will get very popular with normalfags, but for a different reason:

The enjoyment is different to JoJo or OPM or BnH. Those are all action manga/anime with real story lines and protagonists that go through actual trials to win challenges (with an asterisk for OPM, but you get my point).

Pop Team Epic doesn't have that. I don't think that it'll have long term success with normalfags. Its predecessor (honking) Chen is still a welcome joke when it is brought up. But it doesn't really excite crowds, does it?

>>791134

>bandwagoners

I've been reading bkub's shit for 5 years or so now, you can eat my dick if you think this thread is just bandwagoners.

>>791138

>replying to bait

>>791028

>I think you just have to ride out the storm.

There's 2 storms. Normalfags who don't get it and turn everything into cancer. And autists who get triggered by anything gaining popularity.

>>791139

But he's right, isn't he? Can you explain what you like about the show?

>>791197

Probably because it's the 4koma but slightly longer. The skits that directly mimic the 4koma don't work, but the ones that do their own thing are fucking hilarious.

>>791197

Fun things are fun, now fuck off.

>>789618

>Gave up at 1 homerun

Was probably fighting piglet as well.

>>791470

Then offer more accurate translations. Be the change you want to see.

>>791455

There's a gigantic difference between "I don't like this because of X Y and Z" and "Wow fucking meme series with memer fans fucking reddit trash".

>>791491

>>791477

Getting mad about honorifics getting translated is rather weeb.

>>791509

There is a difference between enjoying Japanese media and glorifying Japan beyond measure.

But if that's how you want to roll, I'm not going to stop you.

>>791491

Not sure whether this was just changed but I looked the GuP 4koma up and it says aho, not a ho.

>>791477

>>791489

>>791491

It's the same shit that happens in wikis. If you show up first and is autistic enough to keep tabs on everything you do then the stuff you've done will never be changed.

They have the audacity to pretend they have a system where anyone can edit anything so mistakes shouldn't be a thing while letting people do shit like this.

>>791514

>There's a difference between conveying and expecting

You don't say.

But besides nitpicking your grammar, I have trouble making much of your post. You seem to be too agitated to make your point. Your incorrect assumptions about me don't help either.

Maybe calm down?

>>791531

That's the definition of weeaboo.

The claim that you are responding to is >>791504, which comes with the qualifier "rather".

>>791631

Importing a minor part of the Japanese language (honorifics are far from the only thing that's difficult to translate) does not give you a good understanding of what the characters actually said. If you want that, you'd better learn Japanese. It's the same problem that makes philosophers and theologians study ancient Greek. The bible doesn't say that "in the beginning there was the λόγος", with a TL note saying "If you knew ancient Greek you would know what this means."

It says "In the beginning was the Word," and anyone who's actually interested in what the bible really says learns ancient Greek.

Japanese is the only language where translators don't commonly follow the rule of translating things. Again, it's far from the only thing you lose in a translation. It's just the only thing that people care about. But for example whenever somebody gets confused and thinks people are about them in an anime, that would be the perfect opportunity for people to rise up and demand that translators stop adding subjects and objects all willy-nilly. No one ever does. So it's not really about a better understanding of what's going on. It's about a) what you are comfortable with, and b) about the feeling of Japaneseness, that comes with sprinkling English text with dumb honorifics.

>>791766

>people are about them

*people are talking about them

fixed

>>791771

>the only 2 choices

The only 2 sensible choices.

>learning a couple of new terms

That barely contribute anything to the actual understanding.

>>791766

So, say, a Jizo statue should be "translated" into a lucky wanderer statue or whatever? You can't stop at honorifics with such an awful point of view.

>>791776

That's a false equivalence. Just because a proper name for something is made up of words that mean different things does not mean that you should translate every single particle individually. Names are always special.

Of course, if it were a generic lucky wanderer statue, it would be a different story.

>>791775

>The only 2 sensible choices.

I really hope you're not a translator.

>>791766

Anon, if you don't understand honorifics, you need to go back to wherever you came from.

Expecting the viewer to understand basic nuances of the culture from where media comes from is not new.

>>791775

In Princess Jellyfish, how are you going to "translate" the fact that the guy keeps saying "boku"? A translators note that says he's speaking in a manly tone?

>>791803

Are you saying that on top of leaving in honorifics we should replace all English personal pronouns with Japanese ones?

I think you've gone off the deep end.

If the boku is relevant to the story and the masculine mannerisms can't be translated otherwise, I'd use a TL note, yes.

>>791802

>Expecting the viewer to understand basic nuances of the culture from where media comes from is not new.

And yet most translations don't come across as multilingual Frankenstein monsters.

When you open a book translated to English from German, you won't see "Du," "Sie" and "Ihr" instead of You, despite what >>791803 seems to consider a good translation. It'll just be "You", because that's an English word and it works just fine.

>>791807

And you don't seem to have any arguments.

>>791808

Arguments aren't worth formulating one you're talking out of your ass.

>>791766

Honorifics are essentially a form of titles, and convention with titles has generally always been to leave things completely in their native tongue, or to only translate what has a direct and clear translation. Translating ouji to prince is perfectly sensible, in fact it's something I'd personally prefer, though leaving it ouji wouldn't break tradition, whereas translating san to mister or miss is fucking retarded.

>>791814

Since it doesn't address the preservation or discarding of nuanced meaning in the translation in this particular instance, no. It's not an argument. I find it strange that you would even think otherwise. >>791810 is an actual argument and after some googling I have little to reply to anon's point. I concede.

>>791836

> So, with USSR gone and "Comrade" phased out, the way Russians address one another in respectful manner is via saying the first name + the patronim.

This was how Russians addressed each other before the USSR as well, it really isn't anything particularly new.

I don't understand why you're going into cultural habits, I suppose it could be relevant for the discussion of localization versus translation, but that discussion was not really taking place.

>While westerners greet each other by praising one another,

何?

>Japanese greet by bowing (which is basically exposing a neck for a blow in a show of fear/submission/loyalty)

Bowing is lowering yourself, putting yourself beneath someone, its a height thing, as far as I'm aware it has absolutely no relation to beheading. In the past it was also a very common greeting in the west, a place with no real culture of beheading.

>So, I believe that using "-san" "-sama" and other honorifics in English translation is a cheap and dirty method, but it is the only one that realistically works.

It really isn't, it's perfectly standard. Not much different from retaining, say, mademoiselle, rather than writing miss, or calling the Russian emperor czar. Matter of fact, keeping san is more appropriate, as English and Japanese are distant from each other, and there is no clear translation, a good parallel would be the Slavic boyar. Any translation of Russian text you'll find will also refer to the characters by whichever names they're being referred to as in the original text, likewise it is utterly absurd when "translators" butcher manga by disregarding what's written and using a characters first name instead of the last one, or writing "Kyouko Toshino" instead of "Toshino Kyouko". Of course this is all from the perspective of translation, following very established norms. Localization is an entirely different matter, but if your aim is localization you might as well drink the whole bucket of diarrhea and translate "Satou-kun" to "Sam".

>>791863

Manga reader here. She's a fun-hating bitch and she will ruin the entire series.

>>791863

I suspect the Girldrop previews will get super dark with Sosogu going yandere and killing Yuhi. Sounds like something Bkub would do.

>>792509

Read more manga.

>>792669

Excuse me for not being fucking blind.

>>791805

>When you open a book translated to English from German

What an awful example you stupid nigger, German to English translations often retain the "Herr" which is an artifact of German

>>786455

>1st image

Is that fucking DKC2?