/jp/ - Japan/Anime

>>40563
>ad hominem
Do you not know the meaning of words or how to infer from texts?

I'll be kind because you are retarded for free apparently. Right now the most popular pieces of entertainment are kids shows and dumbed down adult shows that may as well be kids shows. Fun, dumb entertainment with simplistic messages keep the populace down with escapism. I don't know how retarded you are to think otherwise.

>>40567
He doesn't think.

>>40562
This show only makes me think of you know who…

Sonic X in Japanese hits different.

Wonderful Pretty Cure!

>>42574
i am not sure maybe drawing is just not made for me
i play minecraft and can craft good houses and been thinking about making animations similar to I ARE TECH
also i could make pixel art using minecraft instead since that easier for me

>>42575
also i absolutely will never use AI Art shit ever in my life no matter that shit just plain out terrible

>>39161
My fucking OCD prevents me from having a waifu. Everytime I take a liking to a imaginary succubus my mind floods me with unwanted perversion mental images with her, it brings lots of anxiety, I become guarded and in the end just quit having a waifu. I feel lonely as hell and can't do shit about it.

>>42602
that's pretty common and you shouldn't feel guilty about it (for example, religious people having intrusive thoughts about religious figures).

>>42602
i feel bad for you
maybe take OCD medication
>>42611
also this

>>40361
Hideaki Anno is the Terry Gilliam of Japan..

>>40318
Hope your still around. Anime

>>35459
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>>35462
I just finished it, it was kinda funny and shocking to begin with, but it got old fast. Mid all around.

traditional animation is better than analogue computer animation is better than digital computer animation. analogue radio/television/audio/video is better than digital radio/television/audio/video.

t. geriatric senior old wizard

>>42629
Cel animation is so much nicer and way cozier.

Meiling is bestest succubus

>>42289
delightfully pregnable

>>42246
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>>42249
Based.

Fartbraptor Cacara.

>gen z has discovered ccs through tiktok and youtube shorts
it's over

>>41174
love

>>42109
oi, that's cheeky
>>42336
aw

>>42109
Impressive line work brother! But I'd work on understanding of anime heads form a bit more though.

:<

>>40735
I like your drawing style, would be good for a video game

>>41718
Not that damn old.

>>41702
Didn't weep but i'm surprised that i got a little misty eyed for a moment. The only "celeb" that has or ever will get that kind of reaction from me. Figure DB is too 'normie' most wiz's here but i've always been a fan of Tori's art and silly story telling. Truly the end of an era.

>>41707
>I remember the 4-5 times I tried earnestly watching the show as a boy

Not trying to sell you on it because it's probably just not for you but i've always thought the best way to get into DB is reading the manga. For a show that is notorious for it's padding the comic is maybe one of the most breeziest things ever made in the medium.

>>41701
Toriyama said that he was often sleep deprived when working on it.
Maybe explains why large parts of the story feels repetitive.
>Alien kills Goku, was the greatest threat yet
>Alien's buddies came to earth, kills almost everyone, all the survivors are barely alive, greatest threat yet
>We go to an alien planet to find dragon balls 2.0, then meet a stronger alien that kills nearly everyone.
>Bunch of androids sweeps the floor with the cast, get absorbed by a roach that almost destroyed the entire planet.
>A bubblegum kills basically everyone, defeated when Goku get everyone's energy for massive ball to throw at him.
It kind of kills the suspense when every villain is this ultimate end boss where the heroes almost die fighting or straight up dies.

Is Tien finally going to become relevant?

>>42182
>10% of the country is REJECTED BY SOCIETY
Fuck off lmao. This romantic fetishization of being a sad wittle NEETy boi has been a disaster for imageboards. The stats are there and they don't lie; Japan isn't harboring anywhere close to 30 million reclusive, sad, unemployed, anime-addicted young men who would get beat up if they dared to go outside.

>Just look at this manga >>42176 on any other country writing or reading this would probably get you in prison the second you tried to do it in public
More baseless assumptions based on your own notions of common sense. No, fiction is still considered fiction in most of the world and reading pornography in public isn't a felony. Can you even cite a law that would be violated by owning this doujin or reading it on the sidewalk?

>yet in Japan is relatively normal to engage with this kind of material
It is fucking not
>I will never forget when I was in surugaya in akiba on the floor full of eroge and the customers were buying those things and the employeers were ordering these massive posters of lewd character as if it was perfectly normal, because there it probably is.
Yeah, it is normal "there" - In one of about three stores that deal in this media, in the one small street dedicated to contain this type of thing, in the one small district where fans of this sort of thing gather. Newsflash, dumbass: Japan has about 3 major comic market conventions each year. Less than a quarter of the works in these conventions is pornographic. A significantly small amount of that hentai is LolisSho. Meanwhile, California alone hosts several competing anime, R34, furry, pony, BSDM, and infantilism fetish conventions each year. Sexual deviancy, degeneracy, and yes even celibacy is celebrated much more in America than in Japan. The USA and other Western nations have "pride parades" for fuck's sake. But is this indicative that these porn addictions, child rape art books, and public fisting sessions are "normal" and "accepted" here? Of course not. Every country has its share of perverts and by all metrics, Japan has a much smaller density of those who engage in the collection of pornographic worksPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

do you have a pdf of hikikomori/outsiders/ otaku in japan?

>>42540
its already a problem how much media they produces about hikkos
it implants the manifestation into the youth's minds. they will cast the role of hikko upon others or themselves.
>you are what you eat
you should take sun wukong's lesson and assume that you are also what media you consume

>>42559
I'm a apprentice in a virgin boy website, I am hollow on the inside and I am what I eat:internet

>>42559
>it implants the manifestation into the youth's minds. they will cast the role of hikko upon others or themselves.
lol wat? That role is bestowed upon outcasts by others whether they like it or not irrespective of what tv says.

Now I'm exploring my 10-year-old external hard drive that I used to back up anime in ages past. I rewatch something; I vaguely remember it but it's basically brand new to me! But then it's over and I get that familiar empty feeling again, but worse than the first time, because I get reminded of how the story is done forever, nobody cares about it anymore, etc.

The entire hard drive is a melancholy graveyard of sorrowful times that were still better times compared to today.

With anime, I experience a unique depression when I finish something, since I never watch new things. Something I don't experience with games or TV shows:
I'll search 4chan archives and forums in general to see if anyone else likes the anime I just finished, and 99% of ANY mentions of the title are just lists of anime that someone likes. Like I'll just see it mentioned in "stuff I've watched" lists and such. Or one post in a million will have a one-sentence comparison of its story with another anime's story. And of course, the post in question will have no replies or anything else of value.

>>42548
what anime?

>>42548
>10-year-old external hard drive
>2014
Were you collecting new anime or old classic animes? Cos it was somewhere in the 10s anime became this soulless digitally animated husk of itself.

>>42551
This is clearly a nostalgia thread. And everything new does suck immensely.

>>42381
A lot of people unironically like it and no matter how much you dislike it you can't escape how extremely influential it was, so it's worth watching for it's cultural impact that reverberates to this day alone.

>>41787
>neurotypicals
you aren't special for being docile and coddled by Semitic, late-Western values and overscience

>>42390
Truly we must reject modernity, Science, and their concealing of the true nature of the plight of retard-kin: the oppression of changelings by the race of humanity. So-called "autism" is nothing but the erasure of magical creatures (e.g. elves, trolls, nymphs, fae, etc.) who live in the enchanted woods by psychiatry and positivism. If we kill the humans we will save the forest!

>>41780
Anon, be careful with the pseudo-intellectuals recommending anime that are DEEP PHILOSOPHICAL MASTERPIECES or whatever, which I'm seeing a lot of in this thread (especially ignore those /a/ chart images!!!). Nothing wrong with liking those, but they don't really represent the majority of anime, and people recommending them are implying that said majority of anime is trash not worth bothering with. There's no problem with watching "generic" or "moeshit" anime or however they would describe it and if anything that's what makes you a true anime fan.
Anyway, I would recommend you to stop treating recommendations as gospel and just watch anything that catches your interest. If you like a particular type of anime (eg. more action focused, more romance focused, more slice-of-life focused…) you can keep watching similar anime.
Personally, my favorite anime are Clannad and Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. Both are based on visual novels.
The former starts like a normal high school harem, but in the second season the characters become adults. It has a lot of sad and emotional moments and may make you cry. By visual novel adaptation standards it's pretty good, but the visual novel is still a better experience.
The latter is basically about a guy that moves into a small village with a dark history, and the crazy and tragic stuff that happens there. It mixes cute and funny slice-of-life with intriguing mystery-horror in a nice way. Though the second season has a thematic shift from horror to tragedy, and has more drama than violence. To be honest the ending ends up feeling like a Saturday morning cartoon, but it doesn't completely ruin the story. Be ware that the anime cuts a lot of stuff and the visual novel is a much better experience, but as an anime it's still pretty good even if you don't read the visual novel. Also recently there was a sequel (erroneously marketed as a reboot), Higurashi Gou and Higurashi Sotsu. It does a lot of bizarre things to say the least, so you may skip that one, but there's no problem with watching if you're curious as long as you already watched the original anime.

>>42520
>using translated title
Opinion discarded.

Nihongo wa totemo ozukshii (no Genki to Genki janai desu)
Ima mate kudasai! ;_;

>>40541
duolingo doesnt always use words in the right context, or misses the nuance of asian languages. it also doesnt really make transitive vs intransitive verb usage and their accompanying particles very clear, which is an important thing in a lot of other languages, but not that important in english. i would say maybe use it as an aide to a textbook, but not as the main tool.

明かりを消す - (somebody) turns off a light
明かりが消げる - a light turns off

おもちゃを壊す - (somebody) breaks a toy
おもちゃが壊れる - a toy breaks

there is a different verb and particle to use if the verb is transitive vs intransitive. duolingo hardly teaches that matter other than just throwing a bunch of verbs at you and hoping you notice the difference.

I gave up on learning Chinese, but I find hanzi very aesthetic. I just take notes like this 价 芥 阶 疥 界 尬 every day or use them in real contexts. For example, a flower 花 on the green grass 青草 - 花 化 华 哗 桦 货 靴 人 匕 - 草 朝 障 章 日 十 。 Any ideas from your mangas/anime? I'd like to see something like the Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den (Shī shì shí shī shǐ) poem made with similar characters, not phonetics. Surely you MUST have some ideas. The last time I was watching anime, literally ten years ago, I remember how the fourth WataMote episode begins with Tomoko's dream turning into characters in real time, surreal, reminding of old school rpgs with ASCII graphics

In Japanese, people sometimes like using numbers in place of normal characters, kind of like in English when people write "2 hot 4 you" or something.

You often see this in Japanese online usernames. Sometimes a username that seems like nonsensical numbers might actually be spelling out a word.

Here is a list of numbers and the sounds they're often used to make:
>0 お
>1 い
>2 に つ
>3 み さ
>4 し
>5 こ ご
>7 な
>8 は ば ぱ はち ばち ぱち
>9 く
>10 と

Here are some examples of how they're used:
>8888 ぱちぱちぱち (pachipachi, clapping onomotopea)
>072 オナニー (onani, word for masturbation)
>3150 さいこう 最高 (Saikou, meaning best or great)
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>>42515
I know about it, I like I find it cool like in the exemple yu-3 (3=san) and 'yume 2kki' (2=ni)
great exemple is pagers