/jp/ - Japan/Anime

>>41220
tldr; enemy is normalfag, there's no salvation, if you want a safe haven with high resistance towards the enemy make it arbitrarily complicated

>>41219
Some of the most popular anime both in the West and the East fit what would be your kept anime, such as GitS, Evangelion, Lain and the Patlabor movies. I even believe that much of what ruined anime communities in the West was the leaning towards "meaningful", "intellectual" or "mature" anime, since people could join without being "losers", or at least being the cool losers. Any doubt will be resolved by a few youtube video essays that will arbitrarily set a standard for any requirement of thought, explanation, or reference to be understood. In the end Sazae-san, Chibi Maruko-chan, Ninja Hattori-kun, etc, are much safer, and even old shounen that didn't become particularly popular in the West will do. I think the "Japanese only" may be the closest to actually keeping people out.

>>41223
Pretty much.
>>41224
Thank you for the response.
The issue with arbitrary standards -and with them, arbitrary conclusions- is problematic but only provided the subject of interest is initially allowing them to be so: this means that the work in question was never really intellectual and that any interpretation of it being as, is accomplished thanks to a number of guises or references woven here and there to create a pretty convincing illusion.
So, in short, if the anime in question can allow for a possibility of an interpretation besides what the man behind it truly intends, then it was never worth considering in any titling of 'filtering machines': naturally, proceeding with this, nothing you've listed qualifies: A meaningful message, a discernible -but not so easily done- theme, a continuous motif –all of these, even when put together as they were in Evangelion, do not necessarily result in qualification.
If all it takes is a Youtuber pinning down every reference and connecting dots to curate an explanation, then, the work is not at all intellectual. No. It can't possibly be, provided the connotation I'm associating intellectual with: not accessible.

Most people, even in a literal dumbed down step by step guide into a Navier-Stokes equation, won't ever develop a means to wrap their heads around it.
Someone can go through the most careful, one to one explanation, giving an abstract of an abstract of an abstract, condensing all that matters into a few equations, shed some historical context and still, it wouldn't make sense
Here, this does the job pretty well: https://www.claymath.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/navierstokes.pdf but about nearly everyone would just ignore it entirely. That's what you need: something that inherently rouses the urge to ignore and this is only producible through complication.

Look at the other anime you've listed:
https://myanimelist.net/anime/951/Chibi_Maruko-chan
Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>41225
It seems you are creating a circular argument:
>it has to be complicated to keep normies out
>if normies are in the reason is that it's not complicated
The term "complicated" is inherently requiring "absence of normies".

Outside of anime, do you think the fact that there are videos on youtube explaining in detail tool assisted speedruns, and also that some of them have millions of views, mean it's not something complicated enough?

Unless I musunderstood and what you really mean something to the sense of "the only place free of normalfags is in your personal perception of the object".

>>41226
The whole normies bullshit will always be circular because it's a boogeyman that doesn't exist.

>>40748
Let's gooooooo

she ghost

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This could be us if you were Lumia and I was a Japanese man employed as an English knight to pay for my family's tea trading company

in the Bleach anime in one of the last arcs, Sado reveals to Ichigo that what made him capable of fully activating his Fullbring is finding the source of his pride and that was none other than him being of mexican and japanese descent, so a mestizo.
He said that him taking pride in being a dark skinned mestizo is what awakened his Fullbring to its fullest potential, and asked Ichigo to find the source of his pride.
Tite Kubo must really love hispanic culture, not only did he use spanish for the entire arrancar arc but had a character's power have its source in being proud of his hispanic roots.

ಠ_ಠ
NO!
Creating something that even resembles it FOR FREE warrants nothing but wholesome memories, eternal healing and a longing to be like positive people who are on the RIGHT side of history like fucking Alexandra David Neel

>>41173
No person even vaguely associated with theosophy is on the right side of anything in any sense.

>>39005
what's the name of last manga please ?

>>41169
well I guess a 2way tricot of yukikaze doesn't exist…I wish I had the best quality.
damn it I had a website with japanese websits where tons of dakimakura were selling and I don't remember it anymore fuck it

>>41176
I'm sorry I worded that wrong. You just search for "character name dakimakura" and then you choose size and material in the listing. I found at least three listings with her. Can't post links here though.

>>41180
why can't you post the link? you'll get banned?

>>41181
It wouldn't let me post earlier, said the post looked automated
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005532005400.html

>>41182
Guess it worked now

>>41084
I live in america and the bad whites i was referring to were not just trailer trash or skin heads. Rich white kids are utterly vile human beings. The stacys are the worst and the chads are no joke either. they are incredibally arrogant and it killed my faith in the idea that the white race was somehow more pure than the rest. Not. the only N word to be concerned about is Normies. Normies are savages.

>Using the Big 5 model of personality traits
stopped reading. That pop psychology bullshit isn't valid. Though east asians are supposedly genetically inclined to take less risks and be more reserved. I made another post on here talking about why its the only way their societies could be so orderly.

>>41084
Americans are psychotic and retarded because it's where the trash of Europe was sent. In Quebec there were so little succubi for the colonists that the French government had to send some because they were all criminals. In Norway and Sweden they sent all lunatics and drunkards on a boat. The first settlers of the country were religious extremists (as drastic as that term may be). Look at the mafia. The further west you go the more mentally odd or introverted the people become as it's where the antisocial, outcasts, ill-fitting puzzle pieces and psychopaths went to escape society.

population decline is a meme and only the concern of boomer govt and their taxes
less people = more resources to go around

>>41171
i see you've found another thread in which to interject your "evil boomers" nothingburgers again

>>41020
Because most countries have this retarded economic system where there must be constant growth, in population and gdp, to fuel ever-increasing taxes and debt. You can't stop the growth or it will all collapse, which is inevitable because constant growth is impossible, but the public, politicians and rich demand it anyway because they care more about short-term profits than long-term stability. So the beatings will continue until morale improves.

i d rather hav money

>>41127
did you draw this!?!??!

>>41127
cute butt 🍑

Shaman King has characters that are English and Irish, though the Irish one is not that relevant.

Britain is relevant in all installments of Read or Die/Read or Dream, just don't expect a positive representation. Also Code Geass.

Diana Cavendish from Little Witch Academia is British.

Clow Reed from Cardcaptor Sakura had an English father, I'm not sure it's said where he is born.

I think L from Death Note is English, or at least the orphanage he was raised in is in England.

I'm sure there are tons more of minor characters that are from the UK.

>>40854
I suppose every Fate series has at least one character from the UK.

I'd prefer to see Anglo dubs more than I would Anglo or Celtic characters, it doesn't matter what ethnicity the character is they will still act like an anime character.

Why would you want to see mangled attempts at a British character?

In Gundam ZZ they go to Dublin and some intense shit happens there.

>>41054
I am always amused by Japan's American characters.
I wouldn't be surprised if other countries feel the same.

>>34723
Heresy. No one in japan likes dilbert

>>33368
my room is worse than most of these but there no tech just trash
>>34882
lol

>>34908
"Depressing as hell" doesn't cut it as a term for me but there is a melancholic not-quite-sadness underneath the nostalgia I've developed for it because at the time I thought it sucked, and preferred the mood and aesthetics of the 90s. I remember the moods the 2000s gave me though even if I went back in time there's nothing much I could've done to take full advantage of it.

>>41062
>Seems like forced marketing bullshit
I mean how can you tell what's genuine and what isn't these days? People don't seem to have their own opinions anymore.

>>41062
I've watched teasers and trailers and didn't feel like watching the show at all, but the reaction to it does seem excessively and artificially positive.

I watched the live action and it was decent. I mean, it's corny and goofy as fuck, but what else can you expect from One Piece. Apparently the mangaka had some say in the creative direction so they couldn't flip race/gender/sexuality of the characters like you usually expect from Jewflix.

>>41065
>they couldn't flip race/gender/sexuality
But they did, without informing Oda until after the fact. Then he complained, and they called him a racist.
>as fuck
You must be at least 81 to post here

>>41065
People say shit about Western adaptations of anime and manga, but truth is most of the Japanese ones are very bad as well, it is something that doesn't really translate well into live action.

>>40788
>it doesn't really matter.
Yes it does. You killed a thread with images and conversation to ask a vague question about something you're not even interested in enough to post the title of. Your thread will die because harly anybody is going to other to click an nondescript Youtube link and then post their opinions about it when you yourself haven't even done that.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2019-04-16/armies-sand-past-present-and-future-arab-military-effectiveness

I read this book, and he had some interesting ideas on why Soviet, 3rd world, and corrupt armies do bad.

But his favorite final answer was because of the unique aspects of Arab, shame-based, authoritian, conformist culture. And I was thinking this could have been written about Japan. And yet Arab and Japanese culture are so far apart.

So if you compare nonwestern cultures to the west, everything different is going to appear strange and exotic.

I think you really only get a sense of what is unique when you compare nonwestern cultures to other nonwestern cultures, and see what is different between them.

>>40789
wizards are such snobs.

>>41031
You can fuck off then.
Bye.

>>40790
You don't want your palace guards to be able to coup you.