so to start this is an edit of a comic by stan kelly, the in house political cartoonist at the onion. he does stuff that's a parody of conservative boomer political cartoons, very "ahhh i hate my wife and kids these days don't know respect." he always has a little cut-in of himself making a pithy comment or pun related to the topic. we have the emoji for that reason. here he's saying "this eyesore can't be helped" which i believe is a reference to a scene in the visual novel tsukihime, where the main character repeatedly calls a chair in front of him an eyesore and chops it up. idk what's up with that tbh.
this edit is taking that kind of mindset and applying it to anime. the guy in the alley has several visual novels, fate/stay night (fate), tsukihime (moon princess), mahoyo, and saya no uta (song of saya). 3 of those 4 are by kinoko nasu and type-moon, because tumblr user toskarin is a big fan of type-moon. he also has h-scenes, ero, and nrvnqsr in there. h-scenes and ero are referring to the fact that these visual novels were eroge, or porn games, and had sex scenes that are often taken out of rereleases (and are also infamously terrible a lot of the time). nrvnqsr is one of the main villains in tsukihime, as well as the namesake of a forum dedicated mostly to type-moon that i don't have any real experience with. so he's a fan translator of visual novels who is finding his efforts unappreciated by the modern anime fan
the poster has a picture of neko arc (joke character from a spinoff of tsukihime) labeled "nervous nelly 12 episode series* in effect" (with * connecting to "latest fad"), "neko aren't", and "kino illegal". kino is german for cinema, and is often used as slang for peak fiction. "neko aren't" is just a dumb mutation of neko arc's name (something kelly likes to do a lot). the 12 episode series thing is referring to how mainstream anime fandom is now basically entirely dedicated to whatever the current seasonal anime (almost never more than 12, maybe 13 episodes) are. "todays useless teens" are also only watching them instead of appreciating the wares of the back alley fan translator
so basically the cartoon is saying "anime fans these days don't appreciate the efforts of fan translators bringing over 50 hour visual novels with bad sex scenes and would rather watch seasonal anime," and includes a bunch of in jokes to specifically type moon vns. the level of irony it's on is open to your interpretation
Thank you!! This is fascinating. I feel like I know about as much about anime as I do surgery, and that there's probably just as much breath and depth of information and relationships in each subject.
to expand on lagg_3's comment, visual novels can have variable amounts of gameplay. some people consider things like ace attorney or 999 visual novels and those have elaborate puzzles you need to solve to advance the story. on the opposite end of the spectrum there's something like umineko (probably my personal favorite visual novel) where there's nothing. not even any choices, just words and pictures and music.
if you're curious about visual novels as a medium my recommendation is we know the devil, which is short enough you can finish it in like 2 hours. it's about a group of queer teens at a christian summer camp and it's incredible. standard gameplay, where at set points you make choices that determine what the next scene looks like, and these choices add up to determine which of 4 endings you get. very simple, easy to see everything, doesn't take any time at all. it's 6.66$ on steam but is often on sale for like 1$
Just in case anyone isn't familiar with what a Visual Novel is - it's roughly a video game version of a Choose Your Own Adventure novel, often with anime-inspired illustrations.
I don't understand this one at all. Neko Aren't? Fanlators? 12 episode series vs seasonals? Any of the stuff in dude's jacket? The artist quip?
If any of you feel like it, I'd love to know what the fuck is going on here.
sure!
so to start this is an edit of a comic by stan kelly, the in house political cartoonist at the onion. he does stuff that's a parody of conservative boomer political cartoons, very "ahhh i hate my wife and kids these days don't know respect." he always has a little cut-in of himself making a pithy comment or pun related to the topic. we have the emoji
for that reason. here he's saying "this eyesore can't be helped" which i believe is a reference to a scene in the visual novel tsukihime, where the main character repeatedly calls a chair in front of him an eyesore and chops it up. idk what's up with that tbh.
this edit is taking that kind of mindset and applying it to anime. the guy in the alley has several visual novels, fate/stay night (fate), tsukihime (moon princess), mahoyo, and saya no uta (song of saya). 3 of those 4 are by kinoko nasu and type-moon, because tumblr user toskarin is a big fan of type-moon. he also has h-scenes, ero, and nrvnqsr in there. h-scenes and ero are referring to the fact that these visual novels were eroge, or porn games, and had sex scenes that are often taken out of rereleases (and are also infamously terrible a lot of the time). nrvnqsr is one of the main villains in tsukihime, as well as the namesake of a forum dedicated mostly to type-moon that i don't have any real experience with. so he's a fan translator of visual novels who is finding his efforts unappreciated by the modern anime fan
the poster has a picture of neko arc (joke character from a spinoff of tsukihime) labeled "nervous nelly 12 episode series* in effect" (with * connecting to "latest fad"), "neko aren't", and "kino illegal". kino is german for cinema, and is often used as slang for peak fiction. "neko aren't" is just a dumb mutation of neko arc's name (something kelly likes to do a lot). the 12 episode series thing is referring to how mainstream anime fandom is now basically entirely dedicated to whatever the current seasonal anime (almost never more than 12, maybe 13 episodes) are. "todays useless teens" are also only watching them instead of appreciating the wares of the back alley fan translator
so basically the cartoon is saying "anime fans these days don't appreciate the efforts of fan translators bringing over 50 hour visual novels with bad sex scenes and would rather watch seasonal anime," and includes a bunch of in jokes to specifically type moon vns. the level of irony it's on is open to your interpretation
This was worthwhile to be writing while the news broke of Kissinger dying, I understood maybe 1/3rd of this on my own so it's greatly appreciated.
Thank you!! This is fascinating. I feel like I know about as much about anime as I do surgery, and that there's probably just as much breath and depth of information and relationships in each subject.
to expand on lagg_3's comment, visual novels can have variable amounts of gameplay. some people consider things like ace attorney or 999 visual novels and those have elaborate puzzles you need to solve to advance the story. on the opposite end of the spectrum there's something like umineko (probably my personal favorite visual novel) where there's nothing. not even any choices, just words and pictures and music.
if you're curious about visual novels as a medium my recommendation is we know the devil, which is short enough you can finish it in like 2 hours. it's about a group of queer teens at a christian summer camp and it's incredible. standard gameplay, where at set points you make choices that determine what the next scene looks like, and these choices add up to determine which of 4 endings you get. very simple, easy to see everything, doesn't take any time at all. it's 6.66$ on steam but is often on sale for like 1$
Just in case anyone isn't familiar with what a Visual Novel is - it's roughly a video game version of a Choose Your Own Adventure novel, often with anime-inspired illustrations.