/jp/ - Japan/Anime

saw the first episode and wasnt into it, maybe itll get better

I was going to read SBR in 2019 but back then I couldn't find it with all the chapters in full color so ended up dropping it early. Assuming the full color version must be somewhere out there right now, is it really that good as people say? I did read Stone Ocean before they animated it and from what I remember it was one of my favorite mangas, I also didn't like that they rebooted the universe after it so I didn't give part 7 much of an opportunity.

>>24616
>Welcome to the NHK
This is a series that cannot be discussed without the complications of wizchan.

>>24616
There's actually a huge lack of anime series with 30+ y/o protagonists

>>44403
Kurosawa would make an amazing anime, but in the tranime era it seems no one wants to produce it. We came close with Smoking With You Behind the Supermarket.

>>24816
While I find plenty of manga/anime with oucasts quite relatable, the endings are always really grim.

They just wind up doing some shit dead end job that isn't fulfilling at all or meet someone and things fail, but hey at least they tried right?

It just reminds of how hopeless my situation is if that's the conclusion in a fucking anime.

>>44408
Since Japan has some sort of hivemind mentality where shame plays a big role and no one wants to be the odd one out, I imagine from the Japanese point of view finally getting a job and becoming a member of society is the happy ending there, whatever job you do should be fulfilling enough because you're contributing to society. I can kind of understand the mentality, Japan is a functioning society kept by harmony and social cohesion so you'd feel bad if your existence was a nuisance to everyone else, the West is pure individualism and since it no longer has any values or a sense of community the moment the economic incentive disappears you just quit the race without shame.

>>44377
Honestly, my continued residence here is done purely out of stubbornness and pride.
Logically I know it's not where I should be, but I've done and given up so much to be here and get gud at the language and customs that going back now feels like a waste.
Pros are simply that it's safe, homogeneous, and easy to navigate physically. Life is stable, no upheavalor anything like that, and the employee protection laws are strong as hell and will keep you employed, even if you don't deserve it. It's stable, though in my case I'm the unstable element and just have to hold it together.
Cons are… harder to list. A lot of it is little things that add up, and for fellow wizzies they would likely mostly be insurmountable (language, social skills, general life and job skills, etc.) being of massive importance. Stigmatization and ostracization from our own native societies makes life for our types more difficult than need be, so imagine it x100. I'm isolated, and there is next to no support. Only reason I'm still standing despite it all is because I was born under a lucky star and am an idiot savant in my field (language, art and design). Most people like the ones on this website wouldn't last a year due to how crushing the adjustment period is. I've known gaijin who were otherwise healthy completely spiral into addiction and psychosis their first couple years and never recover.
I do plan to stay indefinitely, mostly because like I said, I'm stubborn and prideful. I feel like… at some point, it has to pay off. My hard work and sacrifice can't be for nothing. There HAS to be something at the end of it. I don't know what I'm looking for in all honesty however.
Not sure about the ESL stuff. Like I said, lucky star and an idiot savant, I managed to skip that grind and work in a more specialized field. I don't even use English very much, just some interpreter stuff for my company occasionally.
You say you have no degree, which means… basically you can't even get a CoE or Working visa. Unless you're from like Vietnam or SEA and get a technical intern or specialized worker visa you've got to be a college grad or have 10 years in a single field of work experience.
Sorry, it's strict, but them's the rules.

>>44376
Language-wise, what would you say has been the hardest to get better at (Grammar, kanji memorization, listening comprehension…)?

>>44376
Is this a true story or schizo ramblings? Post some proofs… Anyway I have read that any foreigner can go to Japan as a student to a Japanese language school and take part time jobs and while at it search for an employer that is willing to give a work visa, apparently they have a shortage of workers in nursing homes and other crap jobs as such

>>44401
that is, if enough money is available for enrollment, visa and living expenses, this what keeps me from trying it out

>>44401
NTA but he mentioned you could get non-qualified work if you're from SEA. Pretty sure he's referring to the Specific Skilled Worker (SSW) program. I read a bit about it and those exams are usually done in poor Asian countries but exceptionally you can also travel to Japan to do them there if you're from any other place. I've read on plebbit that working conditions for those jobs are bad but honestly I'm starting to get increasingly desperate about leaving Europistan and Japan is what's come to mind, the future of their economy is not looking good according to some people though… Also read to get those student or work visas you need to prove you have enough money in your bank account to cover your expenses, all this information obtained from the comfort of my bed so take it with a pinch of salt.

I just want to say I hate animeman

>>44382
Bro is married at this point. He can fuck off for all I care.

>>44386
His wife is so ugly I feel 0 sense of jealousy, he is still a virgin in my books, it is like feeling bad about someone whose girlfriend is a pig or a donkey and he shags it 2-3 times a week

>>44394
try emulator neko project II, I guess. I don't know if it helps

There was some Chinese forum for it but sadly I forget what it is now. You can try a DHT crawler, like https://cilimo.com/en. Sometimes it can find stuff, although often with no seeds.

I do, OP!

>>41440
shut up

The show was better as "slice of life but with magical talking dolls." the alice game absolutely held it back.

>>44205
Shut up

Obligatory Desu post.

The show was boring both whether it does sol or serious plot. There was a lot of promise in the setting that was never delivered. Like who the fuck was rozen really? Maybe I'll read the manga one day.

Oshi no Ko
Deconstuctivist thriller isekai featuring idol succubi and love triangles. Surprisingly refreshing and grounded in reality despite where it draws its foundations from.

>>43954
You are going to be so disappointed when Season 3 starts.

One Punch succubus
(May I Ask for One Final Thing?)

Watching the new GitS series, which is closer to the manga….does anyone remember the thread where some wizards where lamenting that even /d/-level hentai was being co-opted by normalfaggots?

I'm trying to understand who this particular version is aimed at. I read the manga, a bit, after I saw GitS '95 film and it wasn't to my taste, too fucking goofy, too fanservice-y, and IIRC it had like bits of fucking "world building" in between the panels of the manga. But it had an obvious target audience of nerdy otaku guys into succubi and guns and mechs. It's why most of the adaptations stripped the premise down into something that wasn't so obviously written by a hentai artist who loves drawing greasy succubi being fucked by horses.

This version retains that stupid goofy style, fanservice and dialogue from the manga so much so that it is bizarre watching it in motion in 2026. Like when a normalfaggot watches this version, what goes through their minds when they hear fully translated dubbed dialogue that STILL sounds like it was "sexy" dialogue written by a sexless otaku? What goes through their minds when they see fanservice clearly designed for sexless otaku?

Normalfags aren't shy about sex, so when the japanese do their weird "coy" fanservice stuff how do they process it? Or do they just consume it without a second thought because it's the current trend, like actually co-opting even this kind of stuff?

If it came out in the 90s, I probably wouldn't be squinting so hard at it.

>>44389
>….does anyone remember the thread where some wizards where lamenting that even /d/-level hentai was being co-opted by normalfaggots?
The end of the wizards thread from a few year back?

Yeah, GitS was one of anime series you tried to show normies to get them to see the genre is deeper than DBZ and the handful of anime series they used to air on normal tv back then. I don't think it really ever worked, it was still cartoons to them until it became trendy. And then when it became trendy, I don't think they cared what the actual content was.

I mean, it's funny that the GitS is (or was?) touted as one of the "strong female leads" in japanese but if you know the source material (and the rest of his work) it's clearly wankbait.

So this new series that is basically the manga version….is strange. I guess when they adapt Bible Black for netflix, we probably shouldn't be surprised.

>>39726
Good grief, Yukari was supposed to be the "running this whole house" sage.


Now, there are 4 sages tho


>>40322
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Thanks to Zenerat, I find Sekibanki t b rather interesting to watch

>>40322
Sekibanki is kawaii :3

TouHou fan material makes up like less than 10% of anything at Comic Market now. Reiteisai is still 99.99% TouHou.

>>26874
>the series like I do?
how do you do this?

Hold on but what about anime and manga that aren't just depressing but also try to convey something important? I mean, lain isn't pure depression, it's also trying to relay some ideas to you. Granted, I may still have no frickin clue whatsoever what the hell it is that it's trying to tell you, but there's definitely a message in there.
So yeah, what about anime or manga that both fits the atmosphere and the symbolism?

>>44172
what changed?

Happy birthday, Lain!

(First aired on 06.07.1998, although past midnight though)

>>44195
Yeah I couldn't get into lain either and got bored of it, not enough titties and skirts

I'm watching freezing now, it's got a great balance of story and titties

>>44357
For me, Lain's story was a bit "too normal" to treat it as a proper existential horror movie.

The guy in VR helmet from layer 07 was spooky, though. Hadn't it been for him, i would have forgotten the very fact I, in fact, did watch some pieces of S.E.Lain back in late 2000s.

Did a jeet write this?

>>44374
Look into how the Japanese were able to prevail in the Russo-Japanese War i.e. British support and Jewish loans.

>>44370
Serves them right then lol

>>44369
That explains why the Imperial Palace was not sold when Tojo died in 1989 (when the price of the land was TO THE MOON high)