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Sleazy Car Salesman dijo:
But anime literally just means "cartoon".
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It specifically means "animation" it's why the Japanese call any American cartoon they watch anime.

Western fans are the only ones pedantic and autistic enough to screech about "it's not real anime because it's not from Japan"
 
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DocAwe dijo:
Reminds me of the debate between PC and Mac.
They are both PCs...
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I can understand where the debate comes from, most cartoons aren't made with older kids in mind and even if they are, they're still generally very childish. Shows like Courage the Cowardly Dog, Teen Titans, Justice League, Batman the animated series, Samurai Jack and so on, were made with the idea that kids aren't retarded and can handle darker shit.

Most cartoons though don't act that way, and treat all children, regardless of age range, like baby's and the writing shows, especially after 2016 where leftists really started pushing their ideology into shows.

The Japanese have always seen animation as an all age range thing, it's why you get shows for babys like Hamtaro and then you get more mature shows like Cowboy Bebop.

American cartoons are trying to go that route, they've been trying for a while but most writers see "mature" as just cussing, gratuitous violence and sex. They forget that good writing can make something mature.

It's why shit like Avatar the Last Airbender can be seen as "mature" and teach lasting messages to kids or even adults, while a show that's meant to be mature like Hazbin Hotel is more immature than most "kids" cartoons
 
Professor Donger dijo:
I can understand where the debate comes from, most cartoons aren't made with older kids in mind and even if they are, they're still generally very childish. Shows like Courage the Cowardly Dog, Teen Titans, Justice League, Batman the animated series, Samurai Jack and so on, were made with the idea that kids aren't retarded and can handle darker shit.

Most cartoons though don't act that way, and treat all children, regardless of age range, like baby's and the writing shows, especially after 2016 where leftists really started pushing their ideology into shows.

The Japanese have always seen animation as an all age range thing, it's why you get shows for babys like Hamtaro and then you get more mature shows like Cowboy Bebop.

American cartoons are trying to go that route, they've been trying for a while but most writers see "mature" as just cussing, gratuitous violence and sex. They forget that good writing can make something mature.

It's why shit like Avatar the Last Airbender can be seen as "mature" and teach lasting messages to kids or even adults, while a show that's meant to be mature like Hazbin Hotel is more immature than most "kids" cartoons
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A good chunk of western animation was made in Korean sweatshops from either side of the fence. Should have kept with it since they are infinitely better than whatever the fuck both anime and modern cartoons use.
 
Ganbare! Nakamura-kun!! and Kirio Fanclub just ended, thought I'd compare my initial impressions with my final thoughts on both shows:
Wild Wild Wisteria dijo:
Ganbare! Nakamura-kun!! I hate faggots and this screams "tumblr anime" but I've enjoyed it so far due to lack of blatant faggotry. Sure, Nakamura has a massive crush on Hirose but all I've seen is innocent slapstick romcom bullshit, no butt-fucking fantasies or degen shit in sight. The anime itself looks fantastic with cute designs and seems to be tailor-made to emulate aesthetically pleasing 90's nostalgia even down to the selection of ending songs used.
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Pretty much this plus I liked how it's a self-contained story with Nakamura & Hirose ending up as bros instead of lovers. It was nice seeing Nakamura come to terms with Hirose not reciprocating his feelings after the latter started dating a girl "his happiness is my happiness" (insert penis joke here); that scene made him (Nakamura) seem emotionally mature and skyrocketed his likability so bravo, you got me rooting for a fag!

Side note: This little anime was a fascinating character study and it got me thinking of how gay characters are written by Japs vs. how Western media writes fags. At no point did Nakamura attempt a coming out scene or talk about PRIDE! or flash a rainbow-colored item in my face or disparage those dang dirty straights! The gayness was like any other internal trait - it was invisible. This might not represent how gays are written in Japanese media overall, but as someone who's straight with zero irl interactions with gays it activated my almonds.

So yeah I guess if you were forced at gunpoint to watch something for faggot month and you absolutely must pick something or die, then check this out.

Wild Wild Wisteria dijo:
Kirio Fanclub: Has its cringe moments but otherwise mostly whacky fun shenanigans. I like the OP's visuals.
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Overall very wholesome if you don't get filtered by cringey jokes & faces, but it took an unexpectedly dark as fuck turn outta nowhere during the last few episodes. I was watching this on a random streaming site and I couldn't stand how the cucked translators added a fucking trigger warning at the start & end of the final episode. This isn't your Tumblr blog shithead!
Oh no 41% xisters!! Not my heccin suicideirino!!!
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Professor Donger dijo:
I can understand where the debate comes from, most cartoons aren't made with older kids in mind and even if they are, they're still generally very childish. Shows like Courage the Cowardly Dog, Teen Titans, Justice League, Batman the animated series, Samurai Jack and so on, were made with the idea that kids aren't retarded and can handle darker shit.

Most cartoons though don't act that way, and treat all children, regardless of age range, like baby's and the writing shows, especially after 2016 where leftists really started pushing their ideology into shows.

The Japanese have always seen animation as an all age range thing, it's why you get shows for babys like Hamtaro and then you get more mature shows like Cowboy Bebop.

American cartoons are trying to go that route, they've been trying for a while but most writers see "mature" as just cussing, gratuitous violence and sex. They forget that good writing can make something mature.

It's why shit like Avatar the Last Airbender can be seen as "mature" and teach lasting messages to kids or even adults, while a show that's meant to be mature like Hazbin Hotel is more immature than most "kids" cartoons
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Speaking of, I wonder what happened to FreshTV's cartoons. They were on the teen-to-adult side with shows like 6Teen and Total Drama, with jokes clearly targeted to an older audience while keeping immaturity with fart jokes. Then DramaRama happened, where they tried the same type of jokes with toddlers, which comes off as creepy. And then now there was the Total Drama reboot, which is just lame because Christian Potenza got canned from his voice role as Chris McLean due to a later shown to be bogus accusation against him.
 
Wild Wild Wisteria dijo:
I couldn't stand how the cucked translators added a fucking trigger warning at the start & end of the final episode. This isn't your Tumblr blog shithead!
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They've been doing that as of late for some ungodly reason. I just bought the Mars 30th anniversary omnibus and it has a stupid "suicide is not the answer" trigger warning as soon as you open up the book, so I whited it out lol. It's a fucking '90s shoujo aimed at high schoolers, I know what kind of melodrama I'm getting into. Most of the intended audience knows what they're getting into. Stop treating these older titles with kid gloves.
 
Professor Donger dijo:
You say this but the Japs have had arguments about wether watching the anime in English "subbed" is better or watching it in Japanese is better just like we do with anime.

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Now all of the sudden bringing the show back after it was off the air for a decade and a half abd having the same woman voicing Bobby makes so much sense.
 
I don't care but I think the qualifiers for anime in most peoples mind are:
Japanese animators, in so far as that's a thing anymore
and
Active Japanese production staff

So made for hire stuff like G.I. Joe do not count because it's made for Hasbro to sell toys to round eye children but stuff like Animatrix or Cyberpunk are anime because the Japanese production staff got a much bigger say.

The people who say that Gooks and Chinks are allowed to make "anime" are retarded btw and no one listens to them
 
Wow, looks like Sunrise and Shaft might actually be doing a Fool's Night anime adaptation.

I don't know how I would describe it other than being a seinen psychological drama with an interesting premise. Since the sunlight has gone away the earth has kind of gone to shit and people facing impending death are basically given incentive in the form of cash payment to turn themselves into plants for the survival of the human race. Out of desperation one of the main characters has the procedure done and something unexpected happens. Not going to really spoil or say much more than that but if this is what it ends up being then this could be awesome.
 
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