/a/ - Animu & Mango

Not as good as Hinoue.

I only read Alien 9 and emulators, but I plan on reading more. I like his style and the character design on Alien 9.

>>907827

Why is Alien 9 seen as a psychological horror?

>>907890

Yes, you mongoloid.

Sci-Fi is a silly term. It should be understood as fantasy rather than pretending that it is fundamentally different. Genre should be broken down into four categories: Biopic, Fantasy, Horror, and Mystery. A pure Biopic is anything meant to portray historical events, figures, or document real events and nature, with the intent of informing or memorializing. A pure Fantasy is anything meant to portray a fictional world, to varying degrees of realism and plausibility, with the intent of exciting or entertaining. A pure Horror is anything meant to frighten, startle, or haunt, while a pure Mystery is anything meant to intrigue, question, or cause reflection. These four overarching genres form a compass that all other subgenres can form rough clusters, while allowing individual works to move freely.

On-topic, I've yet to watch Alien 9 or any of his other works. His art-style is a weird combination of CLAMP, Pokémon, and Digimon. Not really the most appealing, but at least it's not Key or Makura.

One of most common themes he has throughout almost all of his works is the idea of transformation, one deeper than just turning into a superhero or becoming a monster. The characters all irrecoverably change as a result of the circumstances they go through as a process of survival. In Alien 9 there's the obvious symbiotic relationship with the borg, revealed to be a far more invasive process designed to physically convert them into borg-type humans, a plan foiled by the characters becoming other aliens or failed conversions. . Milk Closet largely repeats the process, but with some characters changing far more than others. The others all approach from different angles, but almost all of them have themes of children forced into alien change and growth.

I highly recommend reading all of his works if you enjoyed one of them, since the greater themes of adaption and loss of humanity is a fascinating concept to repeatedly approach. You'll rarely find a satisfying ending in any one of his works but together it all forms a continuous pattern. Puberty is an obvious metaphor but I think he goes much deeper, questioning not only how long we can stay in the form we are, but if becoming something else entirely is exactly what we need. There's unquestionably an element in horror about just how radical those changes might be. It goes together really well with "All Tomorrows". Also, he released several untranslated doujins that he included with Radiohead futa porn of Alien 9.

>>907944

Have you read much actual classical SF? It's a pretty clear distinction and does not purely aim to "excite or entertain" but rather express points of human nature or ponder on life's mysteries.

Calling SF a Fantasy is like calling Mystery a Fantasy because it's not real historical events and Sherlock can know all the types of soil in London and a man's trade by a casual look at his hands.

His original work Treasure Hunter Jubei is pretty good. You guys should check it out.

>>908084

Good post. For example, not all mecha is SF just because it has giant robots. Gundam, Ideon, Macross, Eva and the like are actual SF where stuff like Rayearth and Escaflowne is obviously Fantasy.

Replacing magic with technology does nothing to change a genre. It's a sad state where people don't understand the difference, but that's just the world we live in now. Media has been pushing to make everything with laser beams and spaceships into "Sci-Fi" and this is the result.

You wanna know why the "Otaku" phenomenon in Japan started in university SF clubs? It's because, as Toshio "Otaking" Okada said, an Otaku is someone who can look at a kids cartoon and think of the actual implications of the points therein and make it into something more. The Umi no Triton, Devilman, Yamato, and Zambot 3 anime were seen as the start of Otaku anime because it's the first time a kid's cartoon really pulled off something that felt like it had real implications kids could sit and think about for days. Afterwards, Gundam really finalized the phenomenon. The College SF clubs were made to discuss children's cartoons like they were actual SF literature and their influence created the industry we have today.

Anyone here read "Tokumu Houkoukan Yumihari? It honestly doesn't make any sense. All I've managed to understand is that past and future timelines somehow got merged into somewhere around the 1950s, other than that there is a lot of weird stuff that goes unexplained.

>>908109

Hard and Soft doesn't work for me. The truth is SF is supposed to be what's considered "Hard" and everything else is not SF. In any case, while I agree that most super robot shows are in fact "Soft", Godzilla is definitely "Hard" SF. I don't know what you're on about calling it "Soft". And Galaxy Express 999 is definitely "Hard".

This is why I think those terms don't work. SF is not only about exploring the technology and it's connotations, but it's a genre that doesn't even have to have technology at all. What SF does is explore a point of human nature or one of life's mysteries. Gundam is SF not only because of Minovsky Particles explaining away robots, but because it explores the human drama of a future where Minovsky Particles and Newtypes influence war and all of society. In the same way, Godzilla films explores what something like the creature itself does to the world and what it means as a reflection of humanity. Not just because it's a fantastical story of a giant monster waking up due to technology.

Who does child torture best? Who is the best at drawing bad faces?

>>908118

Hinoue and KEY remains the reigning champs in both fields.

>>908110

Yeah, I have, but I'm also the one translating it. Tomizawa always has heavy themes in his works and in Yumihari, it's the massive clash between the present and the future and the choice between clinging to the past or pushing forward to the future.

That's why the factions from all times are attempting to eliminate one another. Granted, I haven't finished translating it, but even with the first two volumes, there's enough to tell what he's trying to get across.

>>908505

>paint.net

Too baka to use Photoshop? 分かる。

Also, not the Anon you're replying to but by "machine translation" I hope you don't mean google translate or whatever. If there's something you don't know, plug it into a dictionary, drawing any kanji you might need into google translate for recognition if you have to and figure it out the human way. If that fails, you can usually just look up something you don't know followed by 意味 or とはand you'll usually come across some Yahoo answers page where someone already asked and got answered. It'll be in Japanese, but usually not in very difficult Japanese and you can sic the same translation methods on that if you need to.

こがまさにアホの翻訳方だ

これこそが

ア翻訳ッ!!

Propeller Heaven is good, but confusing if you don't understand its meaning.

>>908505

Not really, but I check up here every now and then. Mostly for threads I post like this one.

As for translating, learning actual Japanese is best or at the very least to an extent and always falling back on a dictionary or another person when things get confusing. Never actually use Google or Bing since it messes most things up given situation context and whatnot. Then again, infoseek (a japanese site) does provide better results.

>>908133

It's intentional, but it worked best in Alien 9. Not so much in his BR2 manga which isn't as bad as people make it out to be.