Let's try out a thread to cover the whole weekend.
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Major shows airing this Friday:
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Fire Force Season 2 [Ep6] - MAL
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Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! [Ep5] - MAL
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A Certain Scientific Railgun T [Ep18] - MAL
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Appare Ranman! [Ep6] - MAL
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Food Wars The Fifth Plate [Ep6] - MAL
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Rent-A-Girlfriend [Ep5] - MAL
Major shows airing this Saturday:
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Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld Part 2 [Ep5] - MAL
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The Misfit of Demon King Academy [Ep6] - MAL
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Lapis Re:LiGHTs [Ep6] - MAL
Major shows airing this Sunday:
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(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)
Feel free to also discuss anything else random/casual you want to discuss here too. Chat, get to know each other. Whatever! It's all welcome.
Previous 6 threads:
Haha I skipped over it because I thought it's probably not on anyone's radar, but who knows? Do you think we should be comprehensive?
What's the consensus on Berserk? Individualist anticommunist rhetoric or proactive anti-savior complex narrative? Can we get a dialectical analysis going?
So I dunno if you're fully caught up, but based on the most recent developments, (actual spoilers ahead)
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Griffith is basically creating a sort of socialist utopia which is the only safe haven for humans, existing solely thanks to the precarious balancing act of keeping domesticated demons that need to constantly be slaughtering something, and I wondered if this was tying into the sort of individualism that series presents.
In the Conviction arc, when Guts and the crew fight first-hand against the evils of the corrupt church it had strong anti-clerical vibes, but it also portrayed the people worshipping god expecting a divine savior to rescue them as foolish, and they then died for it. I'm wondering if a similar theme might not arise; people flock to Falconia as a safe haven, but, either by deliberate disaster engineered by Griffith or because of the whims of chaos, the system collapses and thousands more people are slaughtered in the end, as a sort of lesson that you can only rely on your own strength.
My initial takeaway is that it can be seen as reactionary, but then again, expecting a savior to come and solve your problems is also ill advised. Just like seizing the reins of state power as a revolutionary will not magically happen by themselves, someone must step forth and put that effort in on their own initiative instead of waiting patiently for the next Lenin to arise.
I have seen people make anarchist anti-authority takes on this. I have not seen people look at it from a marxist perspective, probably because it's quite difficult to interpret anything that happens in terms of class struggle created by contradictions between the productive forces. The takes I've seen have always been anarchist while quite shallow along the lines of his battle being that of a battle against all authority included that of fate itself.
I think some issues arise with even that take because ultimately even anarchism requires collaboration, and Guts fights by himself because he's special. This ties in with typical tropes surrounding power fantasies in media and I believe power fantasies in general are very right-wing.
It has been such a very very long time since I read the material or looked into this topic and my views have definitely developed a lot since my original reading, perhaps someone more up to date could get into more depth about it.
Will we continue these longer megathreads, what about just having a weekly one?
I don't know at the moment. I think the dailies were working ok, averaging like 10-20 responses or up to 30 on the good days.
My concern with these longer threads is that the site currently doesn't have a notification to tell you that a thread has new comments in it since your last visit. This I think is likely to get people to visit the longer thread less than they otherwise would visit a pop up daily thread. I made a post requesting this feature today actually for that very reason.
Soo, perhaps we can try continuing the dailies this week and see what happens. Another format I've considered is the Monday/Wednesday/Weekend format, Monday/Wednesday/Friday/Saturday are the major release days for anime, so it fits.
What I'm also interested in testing the water on is where activity of the site is heading now that we've probably exited the initial hype phase.
I'm not too worried if activity is quieter on some days compared to others, at the end of the day it won't hurt. The community is a marathon not a sprint and we will grow through sheer persistence.
So I watched Paprika last night with others and it was an experience to say the least. I'm still processing it and will definitely need multiple watches to really digest it properly.
I think what I really love about it the most is that watching it almost feels like it was a dream. The experience itself, the memory of the movie, its directing style creates this dream-like experience that's difficult to process yet pleasant at the same time. Processing the memory of it is equally as hard as having watched a dream. Very interesting experience to say the least.
Should def check out the rest of Kon's work like Perfect Blue- all his shows have that very surreal feeling, and he really showed what was possible with animation.
I have actually seen Perfect Blue but it has been so long I've lost almost all memory of it, I was a much less mature viewer back then as well which absolutely influences your ability to parse and take in any really good work. I will definitely be looking more closely at everything he has done though.
It definitely did. Watching the movie there are scenes throughout it that Inception completely lifted. The entire concept of entering dreams via a machine and influencing people is lifted too.
Struggling to find slice of life anime that isn’t perverted. Sigh. Just want to bang my head on a rock and rewatch Toradora.
Sweetness and Lightning - Adorable father/daughter SoL
Barakamon - Adorable adult/child SoL but with comedy
Aria the Animation - Defined the iyashekei "healing anime" genre where nothing at all happens but you feel good and cozy from it.
Flying Witch - Witch living in small town does gardening and drinks tea a lot. Very cozy. Iyashekei.
Tanaka-kun is always listless. SoL school anime with comedy. Maybe a couple of small things about relationships in there but nothing perverted as far as I remember.
Few suggestions. Not sure if they're going to already be things you've seen though!
How do we shape /r/animemes to be just straight better brainstorming thread. Go!
The only way this happens is by purging the reactionaries into making a new subreddit. It will only occur through the will of the moderators and they seem entirely uninterested in actually using their ban button. They have this disease that permeates reddit communities where they think moderation is hitting the remove button on comments and calling it a day, completely blind to the fact that does nothing to address the problem of user behaviour itself or attempt to re-shape user habits into something better.
It paralyses them into doing nothing at all. Modteams on reddit are the worst kind of do-nothing no-action spaces imaginable. They're either dictatorships of one top mod that eventually quit because they get too stressed over the community getting mad or they're mixed teams of mostly clueless individuals that naively try to operate on "consensus" in the mod teams that literally never ever gets reached because of sandbaggers.
I have said the words "Ok but what can we do that's actually actionable?" so many times in reddit modteams I'm sick of the phrase.
Anyone want to share their MAL? Mine is : https://myanimelist.net/profile/Nextgenalchemist
