WEEKLY MEGATHREAD (yes I'm late but let's get these started weekly now and go from here)
Feel free to discuss anything random/casual you want to discuss here. Chat, get to know each other, talk about the weekly shows. Whatever! It's all welcome.
Please use spoiler tags for show content.
Monday shows:
Tuesday shows:
- Houkago Teibou Nisshi [Ep7] MAL
Wednesday shows:
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Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World- 2nd Season Part 1 [Ep7] - MAL
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Deca-Dence [Ep7] - MAL
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Great Pretender [Ep7] - MAL
Thursday shows:
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My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax [Ep7] - MAL
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The Millionaire Detective – Balance: UNLIMITED [Ep6] - MAL
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No Guns Life 2nd Season [Ep7] - MAL
Friday shows:
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Fire Force Season 2 [Ep8] - MAL
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Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! [Ep7] - MAL
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A Certain Scientific Railgun T [Ep20] - MAL
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Appare Ranman! [Ep8] - MAL
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Food Wars The Fifth Plate [Ep8] - MAL
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Rent-A-Girlfriend [Ep7] - MAL
Saturday shows:
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Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld Part 2 [Ep7] - MAL
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The Misfit of Demon King Academy [Ep8] - MAL
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Lapis Re:LiGHTs [Ep8] - MAL
Sunday shows:
- Digimon Adventure: [Ep12] - MAL
(if you think I missed something, please tell me and I'll add it in, absence of something in this list doesn't mean you can't talk about it here)
Previous 6 threads:
wow, Penguindrum is exactly as weird and fucked up as Utena and I'm only 6 episodes in. I have absolutely zero clue what's happening, everything is just absurd enough to be hilarious and unsettling/creepy at the same time, and there's a surreal quality that punctures straight through it all. Ringo is such a deeply fucked up character and yet she's like a living trainwreck: you can't look away, even if you wanted to.
fuck, this is good. like Utena, I think it's going to take a couple of watches to get past the surface elements to any kind of deeper understanding of the work. even if I didn't know going into this that the two shows were made by the same director, I'd be convinced of the fact by sheer similarity in the motifs, aesthetic, tone, presentation, and style. even the themes are deeply similar so far, with the central characters fixated on the past and trying to recreate it. I guess they're both kind of, sort of magical girl shows, but I think in reality they constitute their own genre, like Lovecraft, more similar to each other than anything else.
Yesss Penguindrum is cool and good.
I think the big thing to be aware of when doing a critical reading is that Ikuhara drew heavily from Haruki Murakami's non-fiction book Underground, which was about the Aum Shinrikyo sarin gas attack. A lot of Penguindrum's symbolism should become clear with that background.
I had a rough couple days and could get round to consolidating the list T_T sorry the thread is late all.
I finished the Spice and Wolf manga. Now I can go back to missing these characters again.
I tried to get into it, but stopped because I got busy. It felt like reading Capital sometimes though, with all the economics thrown around
Tfw the romantic drama with light fantasy elements has diagrams explaining currency speculation
For anyone interested: Kaiba is the community rewatch pick. Threads will start on Monday. Hope to see you all there. Serial Experiments Lain came in a close second and may take it next round.
Is there a reason you're not throwing this in its own thread? It would probably get it in front of more eyes until we get a notification for "new comments" on existing threads.
I kind of felt like I was cluttering the front page a bit. Perhaps I should take your advice though.
Man, I really wish I had the willpower to wait until this Re:Zero season was finished to watch it all in one go. The week long wait after every episode has a cliffhanger is fucking brutal.
Fucking brilliant episode. Definitely best episode of the season, if not the show so far
Olympia Kyklos has some great reaction faces. I think this could work as a meme template, but I'm not good enough at computers to do anything.
I've been watching this(probably because you or someone else here told me to?) and highly recommend. I'm finding it as memeable and entertaining as Luluco was.
I think it was me lol. I did a search, and it looks like I'm the only person that's mentioned the anime, unless there's another name for it. I'm loving the claymation. It really gives the show a unique tone
By unique tone do you mean batshit insane? Because that's just about the only way I can describe the show.
Yep. I love it so much. And the endings are always so good too
For anyone else stuck in vtuber hell: Fubuki did a 4 hour livestream of the waiting room for Marine and Shion's stream because they overslept and got the whole situation to #6 on the worldwide Twitter trends and I love it
Hmmmm just about to jump in bed but I'll do a number count with a spreadsheet tomorrow for a clear picture.
I'm tempted to say that a daily is good just for the sake of existing as a daily poke to people to post. Content is content and each piece of it nudges people over. Some days will probably be dead, big days might not be....
But... Best to actually run the numbers.
Hows decadance for heat? I am super loving it but ai wonder if it is gonna catch on cause I havent seen much lose talk about it
I cant tell if it is muddling the themes or if it is building to something. So far everytime infelt like the show was going someplace stale it changed up the direction to something intresting.
I just binged it and caught up in one night its honestly the best seasonal anime ive seen since forever
Yeah, it looks like it might be about to do a politics and I am excited
I watched Steamboy tonight and it just got added to my list of recommended leftist movies. It was absolutely excellent, displays industrial class struggle brilliantly, and was the kind of wild adventure I have not had in a long long time.
Extremely enjoyable. Strongly recommend if anyone wants a fusion of steampunk and leftist anti capitalism mixed with very conscious depictions of the industrial proletariat vs the bourgeoisie. It doesn't fly the red flag, but it doesn't have to. Just a fun movie all round.
Absolutely underrated. Ignore MAL's 7/10 rating and watch it. Leftists will absolutely love it.
Steamboy won the 2004 Best Animated Feature Film at the Catalonian International Film Festival.
There's a very clear reason the Catalonian Film Festival (being a location with such a strong left-bias) loved it significantly more than anyone else and that's the messages and politics it very unambiguously depicts for anyone that understands it.
I watched it when I was way younger, and honestly didn't pick up on any of that. The only thing that was going through my mind at the time was 'this isn't Akira'. I really need to be more conscious about how I enjoy things. Maybe I should give it another shot, since I liked Otomo's other side projects. I remember it's very pretty though.
I'm wondering what the venn diagram of people who say "its symbolism was ham-fisted" and people who are abject liberals is, because it really seems like people just don't like political statements in anime. Although I have my own criticisms of the film, the negativity with which people talk about to the point where they seem to dissuade people from viewing it is bizarre. It's like one of the biggest anime films ever in terms of animation, spectacle, technology, etc. and would be worth watching for just that, but people get hung up by a lot in it. It's not even that out there or unique to be causing such a reaction.
I don't think it's hamfisted about its depictions, I felt it was just very much made for a left audience. At one point I expected grandpa to pull out a red flag and start waving it around but alas it was not to be.
I think liberals just like to be political ignorant. It has been drummed into them that "politics" in anything at all is somehow rude or to be seen negatively... Especially politics that so very clearly advocate the problem with capitalists.
I also think that for some (the politically ignorant) it has a rather unsatisfying ending because
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literally none of the capitalists get any come uppance and the events of the movie prevent none of the cogs of history from turning. The point is "but that didn't stop the capitalists and it never will"
People like their good vs bad and bad guy loses endings. These people who will be completely ignorant to the political messages being sent by the movie will still be unhappy about the way it goes. Never mind though, great movie for anyone actually switched-on.
Don't sleep on Deca-Dence. It's as if someone watched Mortal Engines, Elysium and Gurren Lagann and decided that mashing them together would be a good idea. Which it is.
It's got some real commentary on class conflict and labour going on in there too if you go digging for it. Kaburagi is
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basically a class traitor, the good kind. They united the workers this ep finding a collective benefit to their cooperative use of labour, and they're looking to organise the prisoners into a fighting force, this is heading towards real revolution.
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Kaburagi isn't bourgeoisie, he was a first-world worker placed in charge of exploiting third-worlder's and the job alienated him to the point of suicide until Natsume came along and gave him hope for a better world. His labour was being exploited as well by the corporation, but I suppose you could make the argument that he's labour aristocracy. Strong anti-colonial messaging.
That's a fair re-assessment. @BioWarfarePosadist might enjoy this as he watched it with me.
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We could consider it a labour-aristocracy perhaps? They are VASTLY better off than the deca dence people and actively keep their existence a secret in order to exploit them, not even for their labour but merely for entertainment.
Edit: Oh duhhhh I should read entire comments before I start my replies. You literally said that.
