/jp/ - Japan/Anime

>>43045
There's no blackpill. I'm a bleeding heart, a lover of my interests, just as you and anyone else. Why the misanthropy? I love Japan too.
What differentiates us is the fact that I've lived there, indeed live here presently, Fukuoka prefecture, and have been in and off the country at large for over 7 years now, giving me an understanding of the approaching event horizon.

The sustainment of its culture and its foundation rests on an establishment too thoroughly intertwined with the support of its aging male population; those old men whose youth has been exhausted, whose predilections are, by and large, globally looked upon with reproach, whose communal support of and with one another is dependent on a network accessible only to them, and whose time has past. Once they're cut, it's game over.

You think Nagaru Tanigawa's gonna finish Haruhi? or Nasu will be ready to create something else for Type Moon? or 47 year old ZUN the likes of which speaks about Touhou's end. Really? These men with families entering their 50s or 60s have had enough, and their protégé are soon following, retiring to a halcyon life as their country spins a new tale. Who even buys anything except for those old men, of clear heart, wanting for more so they refrain from pirating.

Z-kun doesn't care for that, in all parts of the world.

Just as Takao Saito died, Akira Toriyama died, Kentaro Miura died, the remaining old guard will collapse, and thereafter nothing similar shall beget, for today's stage is a globalist type, and none no longer possess the steely mind necessary to resist its flare as they chase for money unavailable in their shamble of an economy.

Passion is dead, Z-kun exhibiting it still lesser somehow.

That's why high school settings are being banned. That's why 'underage' depictions are being annihilated. That's why anything libertine is being equated to things licentious and grossly perverted. That's why gore is rampant, because it's better to show a man being shot sixty times than seeing a flash of panties.

I always feel a stab of guilt when I read a JP comment and they complaining that creators they've always been following have begun lessening the intensity of their content to appear agreeable in western -in your- eyes, and express a powerless dismay against this. Just a mellow feeling
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so japan is over and the fatest it dies the better, am I right?

>>43056
Partially.
Japan is over, yes, but not altogether so, and accordingly, to put that struggling remain out of its strangled misery, it is only best to deliver a swifter and faster death, lest it survives and transforms into a resisting bastardized amorphus blob, a shell of its former self, a willing carrier of disease, a thing which anyway will surely rapidly die… but not before taking the salvageable with it following a repulsive reign it will construct where flagellating all its prior merit will be commonplace. Yes, a faster death is better. Letting it live in a direction which normalizes shit is no good.

Accelerationism is an interesting policy.

Owing to natural phenomena, once everything resets and returns to nothing, the ensuing reconstruction will again recreate divisions of 'Good' and 'Bad' with the former of greater strength than the latter, more plentiful, allowing for a period of repose, until again the refuse is large enough that circumstances call for another reset.

All cabals in the world, all conspiracies, all machinations, all malevolency and good, creation entirely, from plant to insect to dog to man, good, bad, operates with that policy in mind, pushing for their own respective time of victory, and Japan's period must once more arrive, 62,530 days after Perry forced them to open up.

In the other thread, I'm sure you're the Penguindrum poster, yes? the show is good. Nothing like it 14 years later. It was especially interesting before Kanba's fallout.
The central theme in the whole thing is a merciless unveiling of the inability to truly overcome fate. Everyone was playing to the seductive tune of Sanetoshi Watase, even he himself. Bittersweet was not the ending, it was horrifying. Unlike Madoka, even if Kyubey always wins, the succubi can at least evade misfortune, but not so here. Actually, I wonder how that'll go in the next movie. Maybe it'll be worse for them, and Homura's rouse will collapse inward into itself, and as she despairs and weeps with no way to fix, Kyubey will be off with that Cheshire grin of his, a fresh pile of misery behind him.

But Urobuchi's a pretty happy guy these days, and after 2014, I think some ban was placed on animated media suggesting depressing themes. The stuff that's bleak is consigned to literary mediums now.

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>>43057
>I'm sure you're the Penguindrum poster, yes?
yes I am. you're pretty clever. apparently the movie don't add so much to the story. thats what I read on internet

>>43043
ugh


even anime like Gundam GQuuuuuuX features smartphones as something mundane.

I still have the same 97 Red DOHC VTEC del sol I had in college in one of my discinnected garages. Just like that. It was fun. I went to college in the early 2000s

I just have a shitty old Toyota that doesn't even run right now. I could have it towed and repaired or just replace it altogether, but I don't care enough about cars to sort it out. I just walk to my parents' place and give them money to buy me groceries when I need some. I'll probably get it fixed eventually. What I really want for a car is a '67 Stingray, but those are expensive as hell nowadays. Probably a bitch to maintain and a keying magnet, too.

I have always loved hatchbacks, they look the best in my opinion. it fits my personality too. I like practicality and will never need to use 4 doors or need backseats. an automobile, just like a house is to me a private sanctuary. 3 door cars represent the idea that a vehicle crafted for personal use the best in my opinion.

Is Lexus LFA allowed here?

>>40028
I am quite saddened to realize AvtoVAZ was not too eager to create a compact three-door for a small car lovers

Another /dep/ thread that OP found out he could put on /jp/ if he mentioned something about anime in it.

>>43453
2012-2014
Those were the last years.

>>43454
>Faggot youngling that is okay with anime slowly but being santised and bent towards the will of the normalfags.

>>43453
Let's just hope AI assistants will free us from FOMO-oriented, hype-oriented "recommendations"

>>43542
I don't want to spend money on figurines because I live with my family and they'll go apeshit because of my otaku penchant

>>43543
I think it's because you are a homosexual and by having a figurine of a cute anime succubus you feel as though you are repressing your gay desires. And so you do not.

>>43544
am not gay

>>39816
Anyone know the best way to buy and clean used figurines? I wanted to pick up some late 2000s figmas I used to own, but I don't want my figurines to be guilded with the encrusted decade old cum of someone else

>>43543
my mother is good with voicing her concerns in stern manner; I wouldn't risk receiving a scorning from her too.

>>39574
I Have! I did enjoy it.

>>39194
serial experiments lain
akira
ghost in the shell (the original)
parasyte
pokemon orange island

Jujutsu Kaisen

>>39194
I've often wondered if Fredrick Brennan's dog Hitomi's namesake is the Witch Hunter Robin character

>>43595
>cripplekike
that poor dog

>>42920
a hiki*

It is about different type of over 30 year old virgins, i can only find it translated in french on ehentai but google image translator can translate it to english decent enough to understand it

>>43589
Too close to home.

>>43589
do you have the link please?

>>43593
I have all of it. It's pretty easy to find in the usual places.

>>43237
It's funny and charming. I'm not sure where you can read the manga.

>>43259
Mangadex has some chapters, not sure if it's complete though.

>>43260
It seems hard to find, obscure even. But I hope one day more will be discovered and translated.

It really is great! Thank (You), OP!

https://youtu.be/J8RTNvXVduE?si=Q0KJ26gCYi96ngH9
They're probably unrelated but this OVA reminded me of this Doujin game

>Everything ever made was directly inspired by [vaguely similar thing] that came before it.
The belief of someone who himself can't possibly create something new.

Anime = japan

That's it, maybe just maybe anime could be considered made by korean and china man, because they close culturally to Japan.

>>43484
>because they close culturally to Japan.
Japan is not at all culturally close to Korea and China, you narrow-minded ESL.

>>43485
That's only something a weeaboo or a Jap would say. Japan are culturally closer to them than any other country and from a normie non-weeb foreign perspective they are part of the same autistic, collectivist slant eye cultural sphere with the funny traditional roofs and colorful robes.

>>43486
>from a normie non-weeb foreign perspective they are part of the same autistic, collectivist slant eye cultural sphere with the funny traditional roofs and colorful robes.
Glad we agree that it is a stupid opinion that only someone who doesn't know what the word "culture" means.

Uncle from another world fits what you are looking for.

>>43553
right I completiily forgot about that one. it would still be nice to see this concept in other settings i guess but thanks

also I would prefer it if the mc would actively avoid the succubi and make it so they never appear anymore for the rest of the manga

>>43556
Domesticated Yapoo: The Human Cattle
Technically an adaptation based on a novel written by a veteran of both the Manchurian Occupation and the Imperial Japanese Navy. The adaptation was largely done by Shotaro Ishinomori, a man more famous for having created Kamen Rider and the Super Sentai than for his manga works.
You can feel the early to mid 20th century flavor to the horror seeping through the whole manga. The book seems to have been something of an underground classic in Japan, kind of like the works of The Marquis de Sade or von Sacher-Masoch in much of the European continent. So far as I know the book is untranslated, but the manga have English versions thanks largely to Ishinomori's fame.

Fair warning, if you found something on the level of Superconductive Brains Parataxis distasteful then you should stay far, far away from this one.

>>43557
It is worth emphasizing that the books were considered pillars of literature. Yukio Mishima praised them as the greatest literature Japan had produced since 1945. They're still subject to serious academic analysis, including by westoids such as this:
https://www.academia.edu/5347860/Empire_through_the_Eyes_of_a_Yapoo_Male_Abjection_in_the_Cult_Classic_Beast_Yapoo
But all of the social issues they comment on are very distinctly 20th century, and the manner of their most scathing commentaries take the form of sexual brutalities that generally are not receivable when used in a visual medium such as manga. So none of the manga adaptations have gained the cultural ground held by the books, and there will hopefully never be an anime adaptation despite the prestige names incl. Mishima associated at various points in history.