/jp/ - Japan/Anime

I'm looking for a new animu to watch, I've listed some of the stuff I highly rated, maybe there will be something others may be interested in listed below, but I would greatly appreciate any recommendations based on what you think I might love.

Animus: Serial Experiments Lain, Akagi, Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, Psychiatrist Irabu, FMA:brotherhood, neongenesisevangerion, steins gate (prob gonna watch steins gate: zero if nothing seems better), Gilgamesh, Death Note, Ping Pong the animation, Baccano! , NHK…

Those are the best I can think of at the moment.

I want to discuss something that has been bothering me about anime. There is a certain subset of anime that is essentially a way for losers to fantasize about being popular and powerful normalfags who get all the succubi. The typical format is a fantasy harem show where the MC is some loser with a typical self-sacrificing nice guy routine. He saves some succubus from X danger and kills himself so he gets isekaied as a noble with overpowered magic powers and his memories intact. In the show he keeps up his usual nice guy act, often being quite milquetoast and useless, but he gets plot armored into all the succubi liking him and other positive things so his nice guy routine is rewarded to the max. The other thing is that the succubi are usually underage for some reason.

I think there is something vaguely fucked up about this whole situation. First off, these corporations are targeting people who are clearly mentally unwell and lack confidence in life and they are catering to their fantasies in ways that are pretty fucked up. I mean if you have no confidence and are attracted to little succubi, that should not be encouraged or normalized because it's fucked up. Men who lack confidence seem to view little succubi as less threatening because they share their ignorance about social customs and the world, even to a greater extent than the man in question, depending upon how low he goes in age. The more fucked up they are mentally, the younger they seem to want. It betrays a desire to be able to control the situations and perceptions of the succubus and not be humiliated.

But let's set aside the pedo aspect for a second, even without that, this shit is fucked up. The whole point of the show is for weak and broken people to self insert as the MC so they can fantasize about a situation that compensates for all their inherent weaknesses (which the MC is shown to share in spades) and delivers to them the perfect normalfag life where they are at the top of the social pyramid. They are the most powerful, most popular, with the harem of the most attractive succubi. Is this really something that wizards should be watching and fantasizing about? Isn't is just kind of, pathetic? Real life will never plot armor you into any of that shit, if your fantasies revolve around things that you will never have in real life (but which do exist in real life, ie power, wealth, hot succubi etc), won't you just end up wanting to fucking kill yourself?

On this livejournal (https://pieta-au-lait.livejournal.com/1542.html) it says:
>Ingwaz - In the Elder Futhark, this rune is named after Ing, the god who is consort of Mother Earth (Nerthus) in Norse mythology. This rune appears in episode 17 when the little succubus Minori is making her "mud dumpling" and Robin realizes that the succubus is going to become a Witch.
But this rune was also being drawn as a square with four strokes, and in Japanese the pronunciation of "four" and "death" are the same ("shi"). What do you think? Also the mud dumpling is called a dorodango and people make them on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1-DZwdOp1g

The way Aiko and Punpun’s story ends left me empty. I knew it wouldn’t be happy, but I still hoped. Guess that makes me stupidly optimistic. Reading it reminded me that people like me don’t get redemption arcs—we just keep stumbling through the same mistakes until it all burns out.

In this thread we say we love our waifus.

Today is Lynne-chan's birthday! She hopes everyone is doing their best!

Last thread from 2017 >>>/jp/22727

Everyone knows about this anime. It's basic, practically normie tier. But you know, sometimes you got to go back to basics. Besides, DBZ is nearly 30 years old now, so it's pretty old anime.

What was your favorite part of DBZ?
Why do you think DBZ got so popular?
What made it have the staying power it had?

There are so many stupid scenes that stick with me nearly two decades later. Piccolo and then Vegeta's redemption arc. The concept of 'super saiyan.' Krillin trying to do whatever he could even though he was insanely outclassed nearly all the time. Tien's last stand against Cell. All the goddam yelling, grunting, and charging up for 90% of every single episode. All of the "this isn't even my final form" tropes. It seems so campy and tropetastic now, but in retrospect, I think it was because this was the anime that set into stone most of those tropes.

It was a pretty solid part of my childhood, so I just found myself remembering it, I guess.

I had convenience store onigiri today. You can't tell by just looking at it, but the rice and seaweed are separated by a layer of plastic. You pull down the tab at the top, and then pull the pieces of plastic off from the side and it puts the rice and seaweed together

Newfag to the medium, I’ve seen the normie stuff like cowboy bebop and evangelion, tbh I’ve never been much of a TV show guy, the only shows I really like are the sopranos, breaking bad/bcs and the venture bros

Recommend me some kino please

Maybe this belongs more on /hob/ and if the mods agree I would hold no ill will for them for moving or deleting it but I recently got around to watching Serial Experiments Lain and wanted to find some other wizzards with good reccomendations for /dep/ anime. The ones of course given are succubi last tour and Lain. I would personally not count Watamote as it seems quite shallow and everything turns out fine in the end and whatnot. So what are some other anime, manga or light novels dealing with actual depression or schizophrenia and not in the mainstream boohoo am so sad way.

I really like the economy part of the story. The lifestyle of merchants and such and all Im learning, even though when I was still reading part 3 and 4 I was kind of pissed about how dramatic the story is, because lawrence is constantly taking risks but I keep coming back to it. Now Im reading part 6 and the romance aspect is becoming more and more glaring. It might just be the start but lawrence and holo are kind of like a husband and wife pair now. While their on their boat they are hugging and flirting with each other and I mostly skim through it but then the author decides to reveal a completily new facet to holo as a children loving mother kind of person. She forces lawrence to pay for some random 12 yo boy's fare that got himself scammed so thats the current state of the lightnovel and Im currently pissed and unmotivated to continue reading this shit.
If you read spice and wolf feel free to share your opinons on it.