/animu/ - Anime & Otaku Culture

There's been so much shit the past few years, I can't bother watching anything. I only watched Jojo last year because hype for it has sustained for so long, so I knew it was actually good. Currently people get hyped for a show and talk about how great it is because it's one of the only worthwhile ones of the whole year.

>>10232

No, but I'm a borderline NEET whose life hasn't changed at all since 2006, with the exception of how others perceive me.

I'm saying you may be better off

>>10255

This

I can not stomach the high school setting. I'll still watch a sol if it's not in that setting. I love Yuru Camp this season for example, definitely AOTS for me, but I can't stomach the high school setting in the slightest.

The weeb normalfags love animes like Detective Conan, fullmetal alchemist, pokemon, haruhi, and apparently one punch man which became the new entry level normalfag anime. I'll never understand why they get so obsessed with those ordinary animes.

>>10269

I'm a weeb normalfag and I love all of these animes.

>>10269

>Detective Conan

Those 8 gorillion episodes would be too much for the an entry level normalfag to follow though.

>>10326

You didn't get it anon…

>>10264

This. Same with VNs, for me. It comes and goes in phases. I can concentrate for a month to get through a 50 hour VN but then I can't even get through a short one next month as I want to play some vidya instead.

>>10349

>deliberately shitty fansubbing full of one-sided political garbage

You mean official subs? Nobody in fansubbing gives two shits.

>>10350

I'm not just referring to official subs, anon They also include the shitty fansubbing groups as well.

>>10351

Like which ones? Basically there aren't any fansub groups of any note left. You've got Asenshi and Vivid, HorribleSubs (which is just Crunchyroll) and UTW when something Fate rolls around (and even then, they couldn't be bothered for Fate/SHAFT so I'm not counting on them).

As far as Asenshi goes, I've got literally zero complaints about them. They do good work.

As far as Vivid goes, one of their translators is an SJW fag, but that was years ago. No idea if he's even still on their team.

>>10352

The ones you mentioned are bretty gud guys, now HS on the other hand….

>Vivid

It's safe to assume that sjwfag got the boot since it was years ago like you said, so hopefully they're in the green

>>10356

>now HS on the other hand

What's the problem with them?

>>10358

>>10356

It doesn't matter what the problems with HS are, because all they do is literally rip subs from Crunchyroll.

And as we've established, official subs are indeed ridden with SJW and political faggotry, but that's true for the entire localization market.

Unless your argument is that HS rips subs and releases them so their speedsubs kill all need for dedicated fansubbing, this making it so you have no choice but to consume shit CR lefty subs. But I don't think that was the goal here.

>>10363

I meant, I don't think HS was trying to kill fansubbing because of a lefty agenda. They're just a bunch of shitters that wanted speedsubs on the cheap distributed, and they didn't give a damn about the ramifications that would have on fansubbing.

But hey, stranger things have happened these last few years. Honestly if you showed me proof HS was indeed a lefty den of villainy killing fansubbing so we'd all have to use shitty CR subs, I'd believe it.

>>10366

>They're just a bunch of shitters that wanted speedsubs on the cheap distributed, and they didn't give a damn about the ramifications that would have on fansubbing

It's not impossible for them to be deliberate about NOT knowing what they're doing brings bad mojos on the scene, plausible deniability is a thing for these kinds of faggots.

>Honestly if you showed me proof HS was indeed a lefty den of villainy killing fansubbing so we'd all have to use shitty CR subs, I'd believe it.

SJWeebs are a bit more level headed than their not so enlightened brethren shitting up other boards, so finding proof they really are as such is near impossible, but that doesn't make them (((innocent))) in any stretch.

>>10363

> (e.g. literally making up engrish words with leftist undertones on the fly, etc.)

Do you have some examples?

>>10368

>SJWeebs are a bit more level headed than their not so enlightened brethren shitting up other boards, so finding proof they really are as such is near impossible, but that doesn't make them (((innocent))) in any stretch.

That's bullshit. SJWs are cancer and loudly proclaim it, regardless of medium.

That one Vivid staffer didn't hide his asinine. Neither do people working in the "official" localization companies like Funimation.

The fact is HS is just shit. It's not lefty shit, it's just the regular type.

I have almost completely stopped watching seasonal shows and mainly watch stuff from the 2000s and 90s. Occasionally I will watch seasonal stuff when it either looks original and creative (Kemono Friends, Poputepipikku ) or is a CGDCT show and looks like it caters to my niches. The latter barely ever happens anymore because even those kind of shows can't be bothered with putting a bit of effort anymore, Hinako Note and New Game for example were boring pieces of shit. Last of those type of show that I watched that was actually enjoyable was Anne Happy.

But I don't watch any of those shows that gets "hyped", when I look at seasonal charts for any season of the last 5 years it all looks like generic LN trash, I actually have a hard time seeing differences between the cover art of several shows from previous seasons and current seasons. You have to have braindamage to watch any of it and I wonder what happened to the Japs in the last decade that they suddenly got such shit taste because there has to be some sort of audience for these things.

>>10365

And this of course. There are lots of normalfags that watch seasonal shows based on a schedule just to be able to be part of "the conversation" online which is fucking gay of course.

>>10232

I have a slight aversion to getting into any new series because the emotional investment into new characters takes its toll on me whether I like the show or not, so I have to be sure that I'll like it. I can't keep up with seasonal stuff anymore (I tried and lasted 3 seasons) but that's not so bad, I think.

>>10373

>And this of course. There are lots of normalfags that watch seasonal shows based on a schedule just to be able to be part of "the conversation" online which is fucking gay of course.

Everytime I've tried doing that I've hated myself. I just don't fucking like watching anime seasonally and waiting week to week for episodes. I always end up having something happen and forget that I'm even watching shows. HeroAca and Life of an Ara-Neet are the only two I've ever watched seasonally successfully, and Ara-Neet is because I absolutely forced myself to keep going despite no longer cared by episode 5.

>>10436

Fuck shaman king. All that build up for nothing. No ending, no climax, no meaning. Bad guy won, there was no consequences. You don't see the fight. Everything flash forwarded 20 fucking years.

Fuck that gay ass shit.

>>10443

>no fight

If you're talking about the manga, there was literally no way they would have beaten Hao. Hao was God at that point, the rules of the show wouldn't have allowed it. The goal of the final mission was always to convince Hao to back the fuck down. At least, that's how it always seemed like to me.

Shaman King was a gorgeous manga. Probably has some of the best art in battle shounen along with Soul Eater.

>>10502

But they didn't even try to show it. He walks up the ramp towards Hao and the next fucking chapter is Anna's kid riding along with someone talking about what happened to the other characters. It was a great big fucking nothing build up. No conflict or resolution what so ever. All you got was Hao wins lol. No coragous moment standing against the impossible. No moment of empathy and understanding. No deeper character exploration, just lol Hao wins.

Fuck that gay as shit forever and ever. I just remember turning back and rereading the entire tank. Looking online to see if there was another volume. Just fucking nothing. Manga's over hope you enjoyed. I just wanted to kick the editorial staff in the teeth.

>>10371

>That's bullshit. SJWs are cancer and loudly proclaim it, regardless of medium.

that's just the 'average' SJW, these ones are a bit different, the kind you can of course ridicule to high heaven, but unlike the 'regular' SJWs, they're the kind you should NOT underestimate, ever

>The fact is HS is just shit. It's not lefty shit, it's just the regular type.

They may be a regular shithole group like you said, but that doesn't mean (((they))) can't utilize them for their own purposes.

>>10509

>didn't even try to show it

What? Wait, have you not read the Kanzen-Ban? Anon, the author quit close to the end because of fatigue with the series (or so he claimed), but years later he returned and concluded it. You did see the parts where they went down into Mu and even fought Hao directly while inside the Great Spirit right?

>>10513

>They may be a regular shithole group like you said, but that doesn't mean (((they))) can't utilize them for their own purposes.

But the discussion is if the fansub groups themselves are tainted. And really, nothing indicates they're not. At most they're the "keep /pol/ in /pol/" types.

>>10442

>When I came back I found I missed winter 17 which is a solid season loaded with quality shows.

I count myself fortunate that I started really getting into seasonal anime around that time.

>>10517

Fuck that gay shit. Just because you leave me with blue balls doesn't mean I am going to come back for nothing. Fuck it. I don't want to see it. It is a shitty series and he is a faggot. Like Togashi and all these other queers. Plan your manga better if you can't hang. None of that shit ever showed up when it mattered so I am not going to care about it now.

>>10518

Winter 2013 had some pretty good stuff in it too. Shame there is a bunch of trash spinkled everywhere.

>>10365

>Forcing yourself to watch anime on some type of schedule, just for the sake of it, is reddit.

Good, then, since that's what I don't do. Most of the time I pick from from my backlog. Even when a seasonal show catches my interest, I usually wait for it to finish and then watch the entire cour at whatever pace I want.

>Forcing yourself to watch modern anime so that you could "recognize the characters and references" is reddit and beyond retarded.

I guess a bigger reason for why I try to at least skim over summaries of anime seasons from time to time is so I don't let shows that turn out to be really good yet underrated or slip through the cracks. There is one from about five years ago that I only found out about a few months back that I would easily put on my list of favorite anime. It involves an interesting–albeit disturbing in some ways–depiction of a far future in which psychic abilities have become commonplace. I'll admit I almost dropped it after one particular episode, but that one, distasteful as it was, was somewhat explained by the world building

>If to you all anime is just anime and you can't differentiate between genres, demographics and intents - guess fucking what.

>The non-faggot way is to have a backlog of stuff that you're actually interested in and watch it when you feel like it.

I have a lot of interests, though. Sometimes I watch anime because I want to visit an exotic world with fantastical magic and/or technology. Sometimes I want a glimpse of a mundane world without all of the problems and insanity of our own. Sometimes I watch an anime for the thoughtful perspectives and observations it presents on some aspect of life. At times, I just want to take a break and spend a half hour or so mindlessly watching people with super powers and/or giant robots shooting lasers at each other. And then sometimes there are animes where I really don't care much about anything in them except for a few characters and their interactions.

>I don't watch anime because it's "hip"

Neither do I. In addition to the other reasons I posted, I watch it because the medium as a whole still retains a spark of creativity and maintains a degree of resistance to the cancer that has devoured practically all western media. If I chose my activities and interests based on how "hip" they were, I promise you I would have a better social life right now.

>>10517

>At most they're the "keep /pol/ in /pol/" types.

They're also they types who quietly insert libtard shit on their subs as well, in LWA's case that one snippet in that protest episode reeks of commie bullshit.

>>10524

>Fuck that gay shit. Just because you leave me with blue balls doesn't mean I am going to come back for nothing. Fuck it. I don't want to see it. It is a shitty series and he is a faggot. Like Togashi and all these other queers. Plan your manga better if you can't hang. None of that shit ever showed up when it mattered so I am not going to care about it now.

So you're giving an opinion and criticism based entirely on something you never finished, and your criticism is almost entirely geared towards the ending?

Sorry anon but I think you might need to get off the cocks a bit, your faggotry's getting too much.

>>10534

>that protest episode reeks of commie bullshit

I think that was the goal, you never seen protestors in Japan? Also don't be a fag, LWA had nothing political about it. I already posted this same shit in the meta thread I think it was, but it got purged. If anything, LWA was pro-tradition.

>>10536

>LWA was pro-tradition.

It was pro tradition but it also was about not being stagnant about the new world either.

>>10536

>LWA had nothing political about it.

Sure it doesn't but (((certain fansub groups))) would love to 'prove you wrong' with their fansubbing skills, If you get the meaning.

> I already posted this same shit in the meta thread I think it was, but it got purged.

Why do you think it got purged? kirito deleted that post for a reason, and one of those reasons is doing it for free.

>>10540

>Why do you think it got purged?

He was trying to delete the entire board you retard. He even deleted the "rules" thread

>>10542

>He was trying to delete the entire board

When he deleted threads at the time, what he deleted were threads he didn't like, even the 'rules' thread because it's not (((/a/))), but i'm sure he's not about to tell us about that now would he?

>retard

Better watch where you run your mouth anon, collateral is a thing around these parts.

>>10538

>It was pro tradition but it also was about not being stagnant about the new world either.

One of the words of the rod was straight up about reviving tradition through fresh perspectives.

Diana represented everything that was ancient, noble and established about the world of magic and she was never shown in anything but a positive light. Even in the OVA where she's a stuck up bitch (far more than in the TV show), she's still diligent and honorable and just dislikes Akko because she perceives her as a Shiny Chariot groupie (a bit of projection on her part) and not honest about her efforts.

>>10540

Asenshi never once inserted anything that made me think LWA was political in any way. If CR did, well your fault for watching a show using their subs when you had a perfectly good fansubbing group handling it .

Also the entire thread got purged, not just my post.

>>10536

It was finished. You don't get to come back years later to redo the ending. He fucked the dog and that is it.

Evangelion a shit too, fanboy.

>>10551

>Evangelion a shit too

So you just have terribly shit taste. I guess it can't be helped.

>>10550

> a perfectly good fansubbing group handling

Yea those are a bit hard to find with how cancerous subbers are recently.

>>10553

I just told you LWA had Asenshi.

>>10327

get what