/jp/ - Japan/Anime

Check out Eve no Jikan, it's very comfy and slow paced. Baccano is fun to watch, has many colorful charactes, but I found the plot a bit confusing at times. Ergo Proxy is also a good one, but it needs a lot of paying attention to fully enjoy it >.<

>>42643
Thanks I had vaguely heard of these but never gave them much of a chance, I will check them out!

>>42644
watch durarara

>>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?

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.

>>42499
what is bothering me is now every cartoon with a japanese 'traditional' anime art will be consider an anime (either a japanese person contribute or not to the project who isn't a drawer), right?

>>42493
>>42492
https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/
11 million people use this reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/Animesuggest
1million more asking for daily suggestions

Doesn't matter your backwater shithole in Moldova doesn't watch anime. Anime has been pozzed by normalfags since at least 2010 but it wasn't as evident back then. 2015+ was the point of no return when all the zoomer posers started watching anime

>>42501
>2010 but it wasn't as evident back then. 2015+ was the point of no return when all the zoomer posers started watching anime
I agree with it

>>38853
You can't control people behavior in /jp/ people here thread spells and wisdoms not to cry and complain, if you don't like this place go back to Instagram lmao

>>42501
Reddit is not proof for anything, it's botted to hell and there are reddits with millions of subscribers for everything.

look at this trailer https://youtu.be/0XJxfbN36Uw?si=SxkC_RjNFLw7nOcv its made by sciencesaru (made by a japanese and korean with foreigners animators) thats why the trailer you're watching looks like a cartoon mostly and not a anime. japan and japanese animation is truley lost

Modern Japanese art and animation were heavily inspired by the Western art anyway. Who cares, everything changes.

>>42334
>Click on a thread full of people talking caringly about something that hundreds of millions of people care about
>type "Who cares"
>jump out the window of a highrise
Any reason females do this?

>>42295
I don't mind the look of some early digital anime especially with how washed out the color palette is for some but I don't think anime will ever look as sloppy and lazy again as it was in the middle and late 2000s.

look at this level of drawing design of that japanese game, astonish

>more japan to visit!
Japan doesn't need - or want - visitors.

>>42320
Or you could just visit Sakhalin by yourself now, or maybe you only care for the >thing
>Thing but in Japan meme

>>42333
japan better

>>42365
just do it yourself
why cant somebody else do it for me

the only manga that i read that appealed to me was sekai oni it had great character design for the monsters as well good lore and king was super evil

>>42367
thought for it forever ruined because the author ruined her

>>42347
>>42351
>>42358
Why are you generalizing over a medium when you clearly haven't even experienced 1% of it you tranny

>>42372
>Why are you generalizing over a medium
because most manga is like this sadly
>you clearly haven't even experienced 1% of it you tranny
no need to i know most of it garbage and shit

>>42316
becaude it's nazi is supremacy

>>42318
So true!

>>42316
It's a common ESLism.

>>42322
I don't believe someone who speaks neither English nor Japanese has any business discussion Japan on an English board, especially if they're inclined to bring their mud-hut political education with them.

>>42319
I heard in Japanese schools they don't mention that Japan was allied with the Nazis. They just say the Nazis were very bad and leave it at that.