/a/ - Animu & Mango

Well I watched Ghibli movies with my mom but I guess that requires much less power level than TV serial animes.

>>815339

I watched Cowboy Bebop with my dad. He was quite fond of it since he likes jazz.

Not all too much. My dad was really into the anime scene in the 80's though. Showed me Robotech when I was like 6 as it's his favorite anime. Lately whenever I bring up that I'm about to watch some 80's anime he goes into detail how he watched it as a teenager on his vhs with no subtitles. For example tonight I told him I am going to watch dirty pair and he was telling me about how much he loved it. It was kinda funny because he was trying to tell me about this AMV that apparently was popular in the 80's, at least in his scene, but didn't know what the term was. Embed related, is the AMV my dad was telling me about.

Sorry if my speech is off, I don't come to /a/ ever and I saw this thread in the nerv center.

>>815346

>>815344

Both of these make me wish that I could have connected with my dad and knew his thoughts on anime.

>>815346

I wonder if there is any meaning in the fact that 80's originalfags in their 50's and 60's would probably be viewed as plebeian philistines here. I wonder if that implies anything about our future place in the community of gook cartoon enthusiasts in 30 years (assuming anime is even still around by that time).

Was quality that shit in the 80's? I can hardly see a damn thing. How did you make or access AMV's without computers or the internet?

>>815339

>Inuyasha

I would have died if my family knew how obsessed I was with IY. In my infinite foolishness and desperation for companionship I revealed my powerlevel to a couple of my friends in highschool and I regret it to this day.

>>815348

I already get criticized for watching anime in the 80s and the 90s among other people who do in my area. Then again most people in my area who watch anime are between the ages of 18 - 25 which I'm 29 and started watching anime in the mid 90s.

>How did you make or access AMV's without computers or the internet?

VCR/VHS editing.

>>815350

Well, 75% of my friendships throughout school that lasted longer than two years was thanks to meeting them through our common interest of Inuyasha. I don't regret it one bit.

Watched a bootlegged copy of Jih-Roh with an Eastern front vet. It was odd.

>>815348

The VHS's quality, if I know my /tech/ right, should deteriorate over time. These would have looked better in the 80's but not by all too much as this guy's copy of this AMV would have probably been at least a third generation copy if not later (the more you copy a VHS the shittier it looks). To access these videos, according to my dad, you would have either got a copy from a friend of a friend who got it somehow or you got a copy at an anime con and shared it with your buds by copying it.

On a side note, I found the youtube channel of the guy who originally made this AMV. Apparently he remastered it. If you're curious of what the quality of the master copy looked like, it's in the bottom corner of this video. Looks a ton better than the one I originally posted but it's still not great because it's still effectively a second generation VHS tape in terms of quality.

>>815348

>was quality that shit in the 80s

Homemade VHS recordings usually were until the late 90s or so(at least from my limited experience), legit VHS releases look alot better than some may think especially on a CRT.

>>815351

Excluding Pokemon and DBZ, I started in the early 2000's with none other than IY. I'm your age and can't say that I'm too interested in going back and watching too much stuff. Not unless it looks like there's going to be some real, compelling writing in there, which DP almost definitely lacks. Maybe it's just a matter of my not being exposed to older stuff as much as newer via the boards. I'm so sick of filler and mediocrity. I'll watch shadow puppet shows prehumans performed with their own feces if they have some genuine, engaging writing.

>>815357

>Apparently he remastered it

Meaning frame by frame?

>>815353

All of my highschool friendships originated from elementary school, or from connections gained immediately through those connections. I don't think I made friends as easily as others were able to. My circle was, with a couple exceptions, definitely too masculine-oriented to tolerate that kind of thing.

>>815365

My friends were all betas who then became chads later in life.

>>815339

My dad has excellent taste in late 80s/90s/eary 2000s anime so we used to watch a lot of scifi/fantasy anime when I was in grade school. He was always a scifi/D&D nerd in the first place though, so I think it had more to do with fitting his hobbies rather than enjoying anime specifically. My ma' used to bitch about it all the time since apparently whenever they went on a movie date, she'd want to go watch a romance or chick flick while he'd be picking out either anime or stuff like the Transformers movie which as far as I'm concerned is an honorary anime.

>>815348

They're our version of fudds. You gotta respect them for being interested in the hobby, but you wish they'd watch the new shit with you. I'll give them credit though, there's something about a VHS tape that has always been appealing. I used mostly VHS up until my teens for watching anime, and my only real experience with DVD anime before swapping to streaming and subsequently torrenting were things like the original Lodoss War and similar dubs.

Maybe I'll make an external hard drive with all my favorite anime on it for my dad so he can enjoy the shows I've enjoyed without him these last seven years. Then again he probably has shit taste and wouldn't get it.

>>815369

Anon, I've watched subs for years now, but yes, I started out with dubs because that's all I had available and outside of a few /jp/ flicks that's all my dad and onee-sans watched.

>>815370

I'm... I'm only pretending to be retarded

>>815375

Did you like Sora no Woto? I tried to get into it and I just couldn't.

>there are people who watch anime with their parents

You know they only pretend to be interested at best to and pretend to share your hobby for bonding, right?

>>815376

It's shit at the beginning. Well, not shit, but it's slow as shit. By the halfway point it turns into a masterpiece.

>>815377

My dad brought me into the hobby, not the other way around. That's some mighty fine "pretending" to pull a kid into the hobby you've been watching for years.

I watched all of DBZ with my father while it aired when I was in middle school.

I miss that feeling of having to be there to watch something at the right time or else you'd miss it. Downloading and watching whenever is convenient but turning on toonami every day and watch all the anime I liked on sequence was special.

>>815376

Not that guy, but Sora no woto is one of my favourite anime.

I've watched a bunch of anime when visiting my parents over the past couple of years. My dad seems largely indifferent to it, but I've found a few which my mom says she enjoys: Ghibli movies, Non Non Biyori, Kino no Tabi, Miracle Girls, and Ichigo Mashimaro.

>>815377

I admit it's hard to know for sure, but my mom has definitely asked me to put anime on the TV before and has asked me to download more Ghibli movies. I can say with reasonable confidence she enjoys those and Ichigo Mashimaro.

>>815377

>You know they only pretend to be interested at best to and pretend to share your hobby for bonding, right?

How old are you?

Most people that have kids in their 20's had them in the 90's when they were in their 20's.

Meaning they were in their teens in late 80's early 90's.

People in their 40's in 2018 have a high chance of having played vidya all their life and watched anime on TV growing up.

>>815389

>mom enjoys ichigo mashimaro

Did she ever say anything about onee-san the rorikon?

>>815376

It's moe-cute, has a thoroughly, well developed setting and a solid and consistent, if slow and not riveting, plot. It's miles above most anime. In an ideal world SnW would be the standard for "a typical" anime. A solid 7. But unfortunately, the world is full of shit, and this is a masterpiece by comparison.

>>815339

Oh anon I've lost quite a bit of dental mass interacting with my parents, and being a retarded teenager and figuring out introducing my parents and brother to anime was a good idea was one of the dumbest things I did in life.

Both of my parents are baby boomers though, the average anon probably has 80s kids as their parents nowadays who are likely to have watched anime before any of us.

>>815375

VEG is a good one to throw on there. It doesn't get any less offensive than that. Even I showed a trailer to my mom recently. Not really interested.

>>815395

>iguring out introducing my parents and brother to anime was a good idea was one of the dumbest things I did in life.

Why's that?

>>815392

She doesn't have a problem with that sort of thing. I think Nobue onee-san might have even been her favorite character.

>>815400

It unleashed a storm of retarded comments that make me want to buy a katana to carve a better weapon out of a wooden stick with and stab through my heart, a storm which has lasted for 15 odd years.

It went worse when my father got a netflix subscription and started watching Shimoneta. I thought it was over, but then he revived the horrors.

>>815396

>Not really interested

To be fair nobody is really interested in that one.

>>815403

You definitely brought this one on yourself Anon.

>It went worse when my father got a netflix subscription and started watching Shimoneta

I liked that show, and am myself more than old enough to be a father, yet I still find this hilarious.

My older brother watching Azumanga Daioh and RahXephon and stuff instead of going to university was responsible for at least one of my dad's drinking binges.

>>815405

Yeah liking the show is fine, it was a guilty pleasure for me. But it amplified the comments, which my father has an annoying custom of relaying to me.

The internet ruined my entire family, my mother wants me to get in the family whatsapp group so she can send me bailey jay gifs, my grandmother discusses some shitty movie named Dirty Grandpa with my father.

I have a far off cousin who I don't remember the exact link she has with me, she's 92, she tasked me with buying an "american pie tape" at blockbuster. I had to explain to her what's a DVD and I got really embarrassed when I handed the qt nurse who takes care of my cousin what's essentially a porn movie so that a 92 year old can watch it. I'm an unattractive neet who hasn't talked to women outside his own family, the nurse didn't know my cousin asked for the movie. She gave me a look that broke me when she took the DVD.

>>815375

Honestly, scrap the list and just give him GuP. If he doesn't bite, then he's a lost cause anyway and just give up.

Not that any of this is a good idea to begin with, mind you.

>>815357

>>815362

He remastered it by finding parts of the show and splicing them in over the video. The parts he couldn't find are still incredibly low quality.

I watched Dragon Ball + Z with my parents.

That's about it.

I think my dad once watched the Evangelion reboots when they aired on tv

I think the only time I have watched anime in full view of my parents is Spirited Away, which they actually said they liked. My brother who is a complete normalfag apparently didn't give a shit would read shonen on scan sites on the family computer. I remember he once left the computer on and on the screen was a full page of a particular lolicon bait character.

>all these make-believe stories

Your parents don't watch anime. The most they might do is watch part of an episode with you, then say they're not interested.

Anyone saying their parents watch anime is a liar.

I rewatched Death note with my mom.

>>815430

I'm not really sure what anyone would gain from making up a story like the ones in this thread. If I was going to write fiction, I'd at least make it something I could fap to.

>>815339

My father and I used to watch Speed Racer. It was one of his favorite shows as a kid.

I only told my parents I watch anime because they threatened to cut off my internet unless I told them what I had been torrenting.

From time to time they would ask me to stop watching "that foreign child-porn garbage" and come through to watch Game of Thrones with them instead.

>>815462

I came here for, "ya watchin yer girly cartoons son?" Not for feels.

>>815462

My grandmother is really depressed about being old and feeble. 90 as of January. Bad eyes, bad ears, bad joints. My carpal tunnel really gets to me sometimes, but at least my eyes haven't left me yet.

>>815481

What does your mom think about all the banal fanservice in anime?

I showed my parents Cowboy Bebop and they both enjoyed that more or less, its similarity to firefly probably helped because we watched that as a family too. I showed my dad the first two episodes of Berserk the '89 version, not the dread CGI during a brief visit back home this year. Also my mom read some of the Yotsuba manga but mainly just thought Yotsuba was weird kid, which is fair I guess.

I'm kind of jealous of their ignorance because they still have the possibility (just the possibility) of living incredible moments like reading Berserk or watching EoE and wondering what the fuck is happening while the beautiful animation rends your mind for the first time. You must live these, and you only get them once.

Am I alone?

>>815339

I guess they might have enjoyed some some Ghibli movies we watched. Everything else doesn't really count. Like taking me to see the Pokemon movies and stuff like that.

My mom doesn't care at all about any 2D media but my father used to read tons of comics. He's mainly into french/european comics and older american comics like Prince Valiant. Though he avoids super hero comics like the plague. That's also how I got into manga. One of the random comics he bought was Appleseed and the art was love at the first sight for me. Since that was before Iwas in gradeschool, I wasn't even able to read it back then but I still knew it was something special. Too bad I'll never get a good adaptation or even an ending for the manga. It was the only manga I had for years. He didn't read many other manga but he did enjoy reading my Berserk volumes. Maybe he'd read more, if it wasn't for the fact that they are mainly released as those small paperbacks, a format that he just can't enjoy due to it's small size.

He doesn't care much for animated movies in general but I lost count of how many times we re-watched the "Astérix le Gaulois" movies. Not much anime though, except Ghibli.

My dad was watching Monster girls on TV the other day with german dubs while I was laying in bed trying to sleep in the same room. Also some other time there was some yuri hotspring scene of some anime I wasn't able to identify.

>>815375

>H-hey dad, I made you this list of anime you should watch...

<What's anime?

>U-uh... It's like... Japanese cartoons...?

<Ok Son i'll give it a shot. I raised you so why should I doubt you.

1 week later

>So dad what do you think?

<Well I watched the first episodes of Mitsubishi colours, Log Horizon, Girls und Panzer, and Kemono Friends.

>What do you think dad?

<Are you gay son?

Honestly, look at the situation objectively. You have a form of media that probably took you three or four shows to understand the cultural quirks of Japan. And you're recommending shit like Kemono friends to your probably 50+ year old father. From having a Dad who's in the HA, that just seems like familial suicide.

>>815339

I moved back home for a year before moving out again. While I was there I showed my mom Little Witch Academia with subs. She really enjoyed it.

Her general reaction was that she wondered why (western) "cartoons" weren't like this. I didn't tell her that LWA was unique for a lot of reasons even as far as anime goes. She said she, "Really enjoyed the message of the show." I told her that the "message" was a recurring theme in anime, and she approved that as something that should be repeated for kids.

She's an elementary school counselor and finds it important to pay attention to what kids are being shown on TV and in movies. Needless to say, what's on there worries her.

>>815502

It probably has to do with how the "fanservice" is delivered, a term I personally hate. But I digress, it's all about the delivery applies not just to telling a joke but how fanservice occurs in a show or manga. Seikon No Qwaser turns fanservice into a major plot device and has to top itself every time. Meanwhile a Ken Akamatsu series features a fanservice moment always in a comedic context and rarely goes beyond nudity. Akamatsu is the guy who got away with Mokoto getting lesbo-raped by Kanako and no one found it horrifying. The tone is usually what lets you get away with things but it still has to balance out the level of sexual content.

On that note I wonder what would happen if a studio made a Seikon No Qwaser type of show with a comedic overtone.

>>815348

The anime that was revered on /a/ 15 years ago is now considered absolute plebian stuff. It's all about alternative, status-quo breaking anime and retro-punk.

This thread is the biggest cringe-fest I've seen in a long time.

Watching moe anime with your parents is like having them watch you masturbate: It's sick, and it's wrong.

The finer, intimate things in life need to exclude family, you fucking fucks.

>>815396

>VEG is a good one to throw on there.

Yeah, if you have shit tastes and want to make sure your relatives hate anime for all time.

No. If I ever tried to do that my brothers would've mocked me to no end.

>>815546

This. In fact, watching any anime with your parents is cringey. Just don't do it. This extends to most hobbies. Just don't share hobbies with your parents aside from at most one or two generic hobbies like reading or maybe something outdoorsy with your dad.

>>815546

>He doesn't want a working relationship with his parents

What are you, 20? Having your parents interested in your hobbies is great. You'll get it when you become older and have nothing to share with your parents/very little reason to talk to them.

>>815562

>I don't like sharing my hobbies with other people. I don't even buy anime merchandise in my room because I don't like displaying my interests to other people. Outside of my job, I never talk to anyone, I can't relate to anyone, even my own parents

The only way I'm different from you in this is that I have no qualms about merch in my room, because nobody would ever see it anyway. The only reason I don't is money.

>>815346

That's a pretty damn good AMV, anon.

Your dad has good taste.

>>815348

>How did you make or access AMV's without computers or the internet?

How sad, you don't know how amazing dedication it took to make something like that. VHS editing was a talent.

People would pass the tape around college and friends.

>>815355

Did he tell you any cool stories about the war?

Did he cried?

>>815358

> legit VHS releases look alot better than some may think especially on a CRT.

Oh boy, I still remember my Lain VHS. It's priceless watching like that.

>>815368

>the Transformers movie

Anon, Toei animated it. It's straight anime.

In fact, Toei animated all of the original Transformers. It's fucking anime.

>>815442

That other kid got a hell of a deal.

>>815394

I always saw it as the anti-theses to defeatism, with the moe actually helping to drive the point home rather than just be cute for cute's sake Which I don't mind either way because cute things are cute.

>>815504

<spolier>The Berserk anime is from 1997 not 1989</spoiler>

>>815375

Give him a simple description of some of the more normalfag accessible shows,eg:

>LotGH (Anime Star Wars/Trek), Cowboy Bebop (It's like a scifi western), Gunsmith Cats etc.

It's fine putting some of the more ecchi shit to show you're not a homo, just don't overdo it, and beware around lolis or they'll kidnap and bully your parents.

>>815589

Pretty comfy. We only watched a few episodes though. It's not the kind of show you can really marathon.

It would be better if I had a cute imouto to watch it with.

>watching anime with your parents or any family member

>watching anime with anyone else

Anime is something you're only supposed to enjoy by yourself, then talk about it online. Also, this thread is full of bullshit. Nobody has parents that legitimately like anime. Stop pretending otherwise.

>>815580

Everything from shooting Commissars and saddest tale of all, where the tide rolled back at Prokhorovka

No. He related to how the two security agencies were at one another throats much like the Heer/SS were for equipment. Also he got a kick out of those red bastards getting gunned down at the start.

>>815603

>It would be better if I had a cute imouto to watch it with.

I did.

She wouldn't admit it because she was trying so hard to be a tomboy, but she enjoyed it.

She's a huge Dragonball fan, the biggest I've ever known, and I feel proud setting her on that path.

A few years ago I tried watching Futari wa Precure with her alongside Miracle Girls and Dragonball Super, which was just starting to air, to get her more in tune with her girly side, and she didn't like it at first, but eventually fell in love with Precure. She was the one who noticed the grandma is Goku's VA between the two of us.

>>815510

>Am I alone?

There are things people must experience before they die, but somehow no one knows or wants to watch Eva anymore. I don't get it. It was all the rage back then and still is to an extent. Have you experienced this? That the new generation just doesn't watch Eva anymore?

Sorry for off-topic.

>>815513

>a format that he just can't enjoy due to it's small size.

Just buy Omnibuses.

>>815620

You heard me.

>>815613

>>815603

I've tried multiple times to watch anime with my sister. She didn't like it and thinks anything Japanese is just weird. Now that she's 16 when we visit each other she's like, "why do you obsess over all of that Jap shit for?". I thought about trying to watch Oreimo, Yosuga no Sora, or Koi Kaze with her just to see her reaction since my family isn't much of anything these days so if we never see each other again. It's probably for the best.

>>815626

You should be extremely careful about letting anime and manga lead you into becoming too comfortable with incest, and various other such things. You don't want to become so detached from the people around you that you end up causing yourself, or others, completely needless problems, and drama, and complications. It's easy for anime to make light of these things. And regardless of their actual harmfulness, the taboo itself can cause alot of problems if clumsily tripped. Furthermore, if you're saying things like "I don't care if I never see my sister again," then you really shouldn't be seriously considering attempting to prompt her for anything. That's just bad. That's not how it works.

>>815415

I see. Does that mean, at some point in time, the initial VHS file was required to be digitally or manually altered in some way to create the digital file that was used to remaster the crappy VHS version?

>>815357

It's amazing how good this stuff can be made to look in promos. But it always turns out to be the same mealy slop.

>>815591

It certainly could be. I seem to not have an above average talent for interpreting subtleties in actually well written anime.

>>815619

In the 90's it almost seems like there was a deliberate, institutionalized effort to make all children's animation as hideous and grotesque as fucking humanly possible without inciting riots and bloodshed. The people who let shit like Ren and Stimpy air at 6 pm to five year olds need to be dismembered by a mob.

>>815568

My parents come into my room a lot to speak to me, they don't believe in knocking so I have to go incognito for practical reasons.

>>815639

I've been told that the animators for Ren and Stimpy and a lot of other Nickopldeon shows from that era, all came from the eastern bloc countries and started their animation careers by making Soviet propaganda films.

I watched dubbed Wolf Children with my parents, they liked it.

>>815350

>Inuyasha autism

I hope you weren't the guy in one of my highschool classes who wanted to grow out his hair and nails just to authentically cosplay Inuyasha. That guy was a fucking autismo supreme

I watch anime with my brother. We just finished Mirai Nikki yesterday.

>>815585

It might have been animated by Toei, but the original voices were all a bunch of filthy gaijin so as far as I'm concerned it's an honorary anime rather than an original anime. Full vid for all the youngfags, just slow it down to 0.75 speed.

>>815669

No, I was not like that. I was usually very uncomfortable with anybody knowing about it at all. Even to this day my family really has no idea how much or how long I've been into anime. My powerlevel has been slipping over the last couple of years, but it's time to remind myself that nothing good will ever come from anyone knowing. Anime is garbage

>>815717

I guess it's hard to keep your hobbies a secret in bong island where you have to live in up ended breadboxes

>>815724

Might like Redline

>>815730

Think I've actually showed them that one, good taste tho; I've been meaning to get them to sit down and watch Psycho Pass S1 but haven't been arsed to recently, is S2 really as bad as people say?

>>815735

Never seen either

>>815706

Maybe it's because I'm younger (I'm 21), but I feel like with crunchyroll anime has become much more mainstream. Just yesterday I was talking with this bona fide normalfag and I noticed the crunchyroll icon on his cellphone and asked him about it. He said "yeah I've been watching so much anime lately". I also asked if he was watching Gun Gale.

And I have overheard people talking about DB Super on college.

I obviously won't tell anyone I watched Mitsuboshi Colors, but other stuff os fine.

>>815749

Fuck. Yea I suppose that's the developing trend. God damn programmed livestock. We can only hope the redpill on the jp comes with the general package. I don't dare to hope.

I don't, but I don't hide my powerlevel at all. I have a beautiful Miia daki on my bed and I don't give a single fuck.

>Thats the weird shit so and so likes, right?

Thats about the only time I have ever talked about anime with my parents.

>>815560

Nice ad hominem.

>>815884

Oh don't give me that rat shit, he started it with the shitting on other anons.

I watch anime with my sister. My parents don't really like it.

>>815899

Oh stop teasing us

>>815899

I watch some anime with my sister, and she forces my mum to watch some anime.

I watched Cowboy Bebop with my dad. He fell asleep. Never again.

>>816087

This is pretty wise in all honesty, if they didn't care about your interests beforehand they won't if you show them it and god forbid you make the mistake of revealing a passion when you are too young to be able to take care of yourself or that person might use that passion against you or just crush it for some frivolous reason. Never be honest with anyone ever when it concerns things you actually care about, even if its family and actual friends you can never be completly honest or it will come back to bite you in the ass. People have so many bullshit preconceptions like having you hate them for something = you would want to kill them in their sleep if you could no matter how many years they spent as a sibling/relative/friend to them and it doesn't have anything to do with the fact that the thing they hate might be effecting their health negatively heavily. And people with no clear motivations after getting to know them for a while means, 9 times out of 8,9 that they only hold Greed, selfishness, vanity, hubris and/or comfort as their major motivation. Don't trust people.

My father was in prison until I was seven or eight. He watched pokemon and Gundam wing with me when he got out. He had a large collection of old lupine the third manga, in japanese, translated into English with sticky note. Why did he go to prison? Armed robbery.

It was actually really interesting talking to my father about older animation and realizing that we are basically the same despite him being some 40 years older than me. Besides Speed Racer, he watched Astro Boy and Tobor the 8th Man, even singing the themes. He's pretty casual about it though, grouping it with the Hanna Barbera and Warner Bros. stuff. I'm just as much of a casual about it as well.

>>816193

Who/what did your father rob?

>>816193

>>816193

Getting pretty off topic.

>>816234

see. I misquoted. That was for you as well

>>816236

My mom likes Yokai Watch and Hunter x Hunter.

She can name 1 character from Yokai Watch and almost name one from Hunter x Hunter.

Been a while since she watched Yokai Watch but she is in the Chimera Ant arc and has been enjoying it, despite all the violence.

>>816234

A few savings and loans places, a couple of banks, and the local sheriff office.

>>815626

>wanting to watch Oreimo with your sister

Are you sure you don't have any ulterior motives, anon?

>>815408

Have you informed your mother that traps are gay? Maybe she knows

One of my fondest memories is when me and my mom got the swine flu at the same time and spent a day watching studio ghibli movies and drinking tea. My sister is pretty much the one most into anime in our family though and my parents don't really watch any of it. My father got her into anime because some turboweeb at his work talked to him about anime and gave a suggestion for us to watch, it was Read or Die which was pretty cool and kickstarted my sisters transformation into a weeb. I sometimes watch anime with her but she had pretty shit tastes and worst of all she turned into a fujoshit. It's still fun to tease her about her shit tastes, but she has given me some good recommendations.

I watched the English dub of FMA:B with my dad and uncle. Also The Devil is a Part Timer.

They enjoyed both, but don't watch anime.

>>815348

That looks like that because of generation loss, it's a problem with VHS tapes that happens over time. Generation loss happens in two forms, one way is over time, the images and sound on the tape deteriorate and the quality worsens. This is amplified when played back. Another way that generation loss happens is when you record a tape and then record that tape and then that tape ad infinitum. Details are completely lost on the 16th copy or "generation" of tapes. Alphamaxx had it to a much lesser extent but few bought it because VHS was higher quantity while Alphamaxx was higher quality.

Also, the first AMV was made in the 80's. You did what everyone else did and spliced film to make a tape. Obviously it was much more expensive then because you had to have several tapes and if you actually wanted to keep them, record them (which slightly loss quality due to the reasons stated above) and splice it that way.

>>818112

>her watching the greatest story never told

You could have told her that Japan was a good old ally of Germany and that their anime is sometimes pretty traditional.

>>818112

>consume a metric shit-ton of media featuring cute girls because you like looking at cute girls

>people think you're homosexual

I have never understood this. It defies logic.

>>818171

Too late, fag.

>>815611

That hurt to read. Your dad needs to stay away from 3D, they can only ruin what they don't understand.

My brother likes Echi stuff and when he's not under the influence of a 3D relationship he binges through anime and gives me tons of recommendations for my backlog.

My oldest sister got me more into anime in the first place by bringing a massive binder of anime back from her first year at college that I watched all summer long. That's how I watched Excel Saga, Shamen Princess, and a bunch of other shows. I was already into it before because when I was young I stumbled onto the encore episodes of Steel Angel Kurumi and fell in love with the bright colors and OP.

My other sister also likes anime though doesn't watch as much and mainly goes for the serious stuff.

My dad will watch some with me but he can't do the subtitle + video at the same time thing due to his age so that's unfortunate.

I showed my mom Gabriel Dropout and besides Raphael's feet worshiping part she liked it because the characters were cute and she likes the comedy.

>>818171

Are you quite sure about that?

>>818112

>homosexual

>little girl that likes other girls

Your parents are spot on

Sharing the existential experience of watching anime or reading manga in a casual manner with others is ethically, morally and intellectually bankrupt. These are things man must experience alone to properly engage with the material. Discussing the content after the fact is acceptable because it is acknowledging the experience we have in a sense of similtude but the connection between the audience and creator isn't tainted by others sharing the personal space. This is primarily why libraries are quiet and movie theatres are dark; these are steps taken to disassociate the outside elements from ruining the experince for the viewer or reader.

Watching anime with others is like insisting on barging in on a man while he masturbates in private, you just don't fucking do it. If you find that sort of thing amusing, you belong in front of firing squad.

I watched Spice and Wolf with my dad. He really liked it. We've also watched Yuru Yuri before and he got a lot of laughs out of it.

My dad is a really cool guy.

Watched stuff like the original Kino's kino, Mushishi, Nichijou, and NNB with my mom. My dad and her were sci-fi convention people back in the 70s and before he died my dad used to do stupid shit like drive across the state with me and my mom to see Akira in the one theater is was showing in during it's original run. After my dad died she sort of avoided that stuff for a long time but gradually I got her back into it with stuff like the aforementioned series and now she watches it with me and comments on whether my dad would like it and sakuga scenes.

>>815339

I mean when I was a kid like 5-6 years old when anime like pokemon/dbz came out and was on tv, but not now, they occasionally sit down at the couch if I'm watching anime on the family tv but I don't ask them to

>>818995

I agree completely. You're a cool guy. I'd watch anime with you.

Doesn't apply to all of them. Some enjoy the same stuff without any issues.

>>820812

Afraid they'll buy tons of merch for you?

>>820812

Tell them that you like guns.

>>815513

I watched those Asterix movies all the time, french comics was what people would think of if you said the word here.

Anime wasn't very easy to get, someone I knew had Silver Fang and Cobra on VHS but that was about it. I don't think anyone thought of it as special except for the factor of something scarce becoming more interesting.

There was Sailor Moon and Moomin on tv and we watched some classic movies on DVD when those became available.

>>820812

If you're American I wouldn't be shocked. The tea most easily available in the States is almost all Brown Label stuff.

>>820812

I wish my mother would do this sort of stuff. Instead she tells lies about me being incompetent to everyone she meets, or she'll say something and I'll explain it to her properly, and then she'll turn around and say that I asked her the question to other people condescendingly. I'm pretty sure I'll come to visit one day to find out I've become the evil dumb man who said horrible abusive things to his mother.

>>820820

Stop trying to get anon arrested on suspected school shooter charges, anon.

>>815562

Do you think you'll ever stop caring and just indulge in it fully? I was like this through high school but I got sick of keeping up appearances pretty soon after I got out. Now if I want weebshit I just buy it, only time I ever second guess myself is when it has to go through customs.

>>821066

You mean tonsiloliths? Tonsil stones?

Did the tea really help? What type of tea?

I have those every other day, some of them get huge, and when I asked my otolaryngologist friend about it the only sure fire way he knew how to get rid of them was a tonsillectomy, which I thought was a bit too much for what's just an annoyance.

>>821067

My brother got his removed. I don't think they do a damn thing. I've been considering removing mine too.

>>821066

>>820812

Whenever I think of someone drinking tea, all I imagine is a faggot.

>>821026

You have a point about kids trying too hard to be mature. My younger brother and I watched DBZ growing up. He absolutely loved DBZ - what kind of boy didn't? I got him to meet the english dub actor for Goku and he was so nervous he didn't say a word because he was so starstruck.

Fast forward quite a few years later, he brought friends over and I walked into the living room and incidentally joined in their conversation. I don't know how but we got to talking about anime. During said conversation I was listing shows most people watched growing up (I don't remember why) and mentioned DBZ.

My brother quickly cut me off and disclaimed he was never into DBZ because, "All cartoons are for kids." His attempt to sound mature backfired because a friend he was trying to impress immediately unleashed his inner sperg and went off about how DBZ is not for kids, is an "ah-neey-mee," etc. I don't know if he later tried to take that back and admit he lied because I made my exit and stole a few slices of pizza. I ate them with a smile.

Good ending: I know they watched DBS together because they're now in a college dorm with shit internet so I downloaded every 1080p subbed episode and uploaded it elsewhere where it's not blocked. So I guess they're still friends.

>>821067

Tea and orange juice help drastically. I used to have massive stones on my tonsils, one which deafened me in my right ear until it was dislodged. I tried scoops, water picks, gargling salt water, and even special anti-bacterial mouthwash, but nothing worked. After being told that I had to have my tonsils removed, I opted to drink a glass of orange juice (which I hated because I'm a picky eater) in the morning and a cup of green tea in the afternoon. I haven't had a buildup since. Once every few months, I notice a small stone, but that would only happen if I went on a trip and didn't drink them. The orange juice is acidic, breaking down buildups and killing bacteria, and hot tea relaxes the throat so the folds and tunnels of your tonsils don't hide bacteria and food particles. Most conditions I find can be easily fixed with diet and exercise rather than procedures and drugs.

>>821074

> Most conditions I find can be easily fixed with diet and exercise rather than procedures and drugs.

I feel like the more people know, the less health problems people have.

>>821074

>>821079

Thanks, will try. I also tried all that stuff you did too with no improvements. I also hate orange juice, last time I tried drinking some I literally threw up, it's the one food I can't stand and I've eaten fish eyes ans chicken feet before.

>>821119

Absolutely. I talk about stuff I prescribe people in threads here and there and some paranoid fuck always shows up to call me a big pharma shill. Fact is some people do need drugs or procedures to get better, unfortunately, and a lot of people simply are not willing to make lifestyle changes that would help them more than a pill would. I jump through so many fucking hoops to try to reduce dosages and get people out of benzos and other meds like that but some people just want a magic cure.

>>821068

Faggot detected, tea is amazing so long as you don't let it anywhere it in sugar or cream.

>>821248

It's good to know there are still people with taste. Tea should be tea, not some Starbucks 40% cream, 40% sugar, 10% tea abomination. And I say that as someone who loves ice cream which is basically just milk, sugar, and various flavorings.

That being said, I was intrigued by some anon a while back who said green tea with steamed milk was pretty good, and I've been contemplating trying it.

>>821248

When did I say that tea wasn't good?

>>820812

I was thinking about your post again while at work, and a thought came through my head. I was thinking about which was sadder: that your parents thought that because you said you liked tea that you intensely loved it or that they know so little about you that they fixated on the tea as compensation?

>>818152

Because in modern society its gay to want cute girls. As a man you're supposed to want sexy girls ripping their shirts off. Anything less then ecchi harems is considered gay shit.

>>821476

>sexy girls ripping their shirts off.

This part of normalfaggotry has never made sense. Setting aside the obvious 3DPD point, their definition of sexy is at times totally barbaric. Wearing tight fitting pants, cosmetics, ripped clothes, hilarious amounts of cleavage and etc. just looks uncomfortable and unpleasant.

>>821489

It's more of the exception than the norm. Beauty is subjective.

>>821476

>Because in modern society its gay to want cute girls.

It has nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with how animation is considered to be for children—a cartoon—and a cartoon featuring girls as main characters is considered to be aimed at girls. How is it that anons can get so many things right, but miss obvious things like this?

>>821489

It gets worse.

I've known people who genuinely find horrible fake breasts attractive even though they know they're fake, and now of course you have the friendly merchants pushing hard for the idea that niggers are attractive.

>>821494

>Beauty is subjective

Yeah, I guess if you're trying to compare the value of shitting on a canvas, and the Mona Lisa, you can't really know because it's all subjective.

>>821637

>shitting on a canvas

Anon, that is actually a form of art. Using shit instead of paint and smearing it around or using shit instead of clay to make a sculpture or just leaving it as it fell out of the person and decorating it. I dont like it anymore than you do

>>821079

If it's hot tea, then you shouldn't put honey in it, not only does the high temperature destroy any beneficial properties honey might have, it even releases a slightly toxic gas that damages your body if you inhale it. You are better off putting sugar in it.

>>821637

We know that certain colours are perceived to "clash" with one another. If you had a painting making excellent use of form, but which contained clashing colours, you might call it less beautiful than a painting making slightly worse use of form, but with a better use of colour.

But human colour perception depends on the cone cells in our eyes (ignoring the brain's own processes). To an observer with different eye structure, the first painting's colours may not clash at all, while the second painting's do. This observer therefore would decide that the first painting was more beautiful. If the other observer is some other species (and not a colour-blind human, for example, where one observer can be considered defective and therefore wrong) then how can one say that either observer has a stronger claim to being "right"? The same thing can be done with any combination of colour schemes and eye structures, all apparently equally valid. Since colour perception depends on the observer, either beauty is independent of colour, or beauty is not independent of the observer.

>>821716

She probably was trying to keep her power level hidden

>>821717

I doubt it, she had a Yuri on Ice messenger bag, I've got a Megumin and Yunyun key chains but I don't have those on display like a bag.

>>821721

See >>821718 pretty sure she is a fujoshi if anything.

>>821716

It takes balls to reveal your power level in public like she did. I appreciate that kind of autism.

>>821677

>humans are flawed and have trouble distinguishing things that are very close in appearance

>all opinions on value are valid

>this means objective quality doesn't exist

You must be college educated, it takes a lot of training to say that in good faith.

>>821677

>>821730

No matter how right one of you may be, this isn't the place to argue about it. Nobody ever changed their mind due to insult-slinging on the internet. This is /a/, so can we go back to talking about anime please?

>>821730

>>humans are flawed and have trouble distinguishing things that are very close in appearance

That has nothing to do with what was said. The point was that beauty is necessarily based on perception.

And not that I expect you to have noticed, my post implicitly assumed that all observers with a given perception agreed on what was good use of colour or form. The meaning of the post was not that all opinions are equally valid, but that the correct opinion was subject to other factors. There are an infinite number of values for x and y that satisfy y=x, but that does not mean every combination of x and y is valid, and you can even say that one invalid combination is more or less wrong than another.

But >>821731 is right; this debate probably isn't going to go anywhere.

>>820812

That is the sign of a caring, but lazy, parent. They latch onto things you say you like because they can't be bothered figuring out your personality and interests for real. When you admit to enjoying something, it's like a beacon on a dark sea for them. They normally have no clue what's going on with you and you just gave them a clue on a silver platter.

My mom and sister do this shit. My family has always exchanged Christmas gifts every year. I put a ton of thought into mine, making sure they're something that the person will enjoy that's also useful, and researching the different products to make sure I'm buying something quality and not chinese trash. My sister has gotten me shitty as-seen-on-TV tools for the past 4 years, because all she cares to know about me is that I work on my cars. My mom is a little better and asks what I'm into this year (it never changes, she doesn't remember) and then gets me the most normalfaggot thing possible in that genre.

My dad watched devilman crybaby

He thought it was ok

>>815424

So that's what cassette girl was referencing.

>>815339

My mother is a degenerate who watched goldenboy, countdown stories and urotsukidoji with me.

>>821777

It's the same mindset that follows a logical fallacy of, "If you don't like specific things, you don't like the associated subject it is umbrella'd under." You mostly see this in political discussions which I won't get into but it's where normalfags believe that if you don't like an aspect of someone or a subject, you don't like that entire someone or are against that subject.

How it applies here is that because you like reading you're now the embodiment of what it means to read. Normalfags can't perceive people having dimensions. They only see people in archetypes and sides of an issue being a for or against situation.

I tried this as a kid but I think they tolerated it for my sake. My mom refuses to believe they're not western cartoons while my dad thinks anime is for faggots.

>>821995

People of low intelligence have to categorize in order to understand things.

People of poor education categorize poorly.

You can fix normalfags with education so they categorize differently and the "categories" are more encompassing of the individual rather than merely pigeonholing someone in a negative manner.

People of higher intelligence can continue to look at individuals on a case-by-case basis.

My mom, who's in her late 50s, loves Ghibli movies, but also enjoys things like Mob Psycho 100, One Punch Man, FMA, and Slayers. Dad couldn't give less of a shit about anime, but I bond with him over guns and exercises instead.

>>821999

>case-by-case basis

Some people get frustrated with that since they never get a "straight answer" and instead get an answer specifically catered to that case. Never let normalfags pigeonhole you with anything 2D. Their delusions of what 2D is may get you in nasty positions. Its worse when its family who does it to you

I remember watching one on adult swim when I was a younger with my father. I can't remember it all, but I do remember that some characters basically had superpowers where they basically summoned things. The MC basically summoned a turbo arm if I remember, and punched shit hard. That series got wild near the end, where the big bad could basically copy powers and tried to become a god or something before getting punched super hard.

Does this sound familiar to anyone or was it just a fever dream?

>>822359

s-CRY-d

It's fucking awesome

>>815339

Did this in High School

I wold plug my laptop into the HDMI port on the TV in order to watch anime on a bigger screen

Of course I would limit what I would watch in the living room to nothing my parents would complain about (harem shit, sexual themes, extreme gore/violence) and ended up watching mecha

Finally got around to watching MS Gundam in high school and my Mom didn't "get" it so she stopped paying attention after seeing nothing wrong with it after a few episodes in, dad would stick around and constantly ask/complain why I was watching old anime with the same animations for fight scenes

The only thing that my Dad was right about (besides the use of the same animation multiple times) was that I should learn Japanese instead of watching it in Japanese with subtitles, of course I didn't care then and now in the present still kicking myself over the fact that I didn't start learning sooner

>>822393

It's been a while since I've watched s-CRY-ed but I don't remember that being the plot.

Also there was a movie?

>>824537

S-cry-ed fan here. That's definitely the plot.

There were two recap movies with extra scenes that I never saw because I could never find a working torrent.

>>822359

I watched some of it with my dad, too. He liked it, but he was more into FMA.

My brother and I used to watch a bunch of anime and cartoons when I was nine up until I turned thirteen and my life got a whole lot worse (thanks dad for drunkenly crashing the fucking car birthday night).

>>822393

You never mess with a man's loli.

>>821541

Explain Steven Universe then, are you seriously telling me that shit is aimed at young boys?

>>826097

Young jewish boys maybe.

>>826097

It's made by a mentally-ill Jew, so it focuses more on its "message" and "themes" T/N: propaganda.

My dad watched Dirty Pair with me in the 80s while he was on a business trip.