Anime and Manga - The Bear and Badger

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The series follows four gypsum busts: Saint Giorgio, Medici, Hermes and Mars, who form an idol unit managed by Miki Ishimoto, a rookie art school graduate.

hylian_elf

Wtf

Brooks

That show's almost good.

regmcfly

New must see TV

Blue Swirl

Sexually explicit manga - child abuse or art?

Probably SFW, but it may raise eyebrows. Proceed with caution.

A recent UN report weighed into a debate that provokes intense controversy in Japan, by including manga in a list of content with violent pornography. The BBC's Yuko Kato went to meet one of Japan's leading female manga artists, Keiko Takemiya, seen as the woman who opened the floodgates to sexually explicit manga.

In 1976, when she was only 26 years old, Keiko Takemiya began a comic series that proved to be a ground-breaking moment for Japanese manga. Called Kaze to Kino Uta (The Poem of Wind and Trees), it opens with two naked teenage boys in a 19th Century French boarding school lying on top of each other, post-coital.

Bollockoff

Indulged a couple of nostalgia trips over the last couple of weeks.

Re-watched Samurai Champloo and it seems to have aged perfectly. Battlecry has actually grown on me now and it's something I enjoy listening to at the start of each episode when I hated it probably near a decade ago at first watch. Ending theme was always great. The anachronistic pop culture motifs work brilliantly and it's a proper good thing to manage the comedy/serious tonal shifts between episodes as much as it does. Probably better than Bebop by end of season.

In the process of re-reading Ghost in the Shell and I forgot or at least didn't realise when I was a whipper just how much dry politicking is involved. You could get rid of all the cyberpunk stuff and still have a workable political conspiracy thriller the equivalent of a dense le Carre novel. But yeah, it's a fantastic piece of work from Shirow's polymath brain and skilled hand and I've got no second thoughts of putting it on my bookshelf alongside the "proper" fiction. I'm looking forward to hopefully getting the full on gist this time around by "Ahhhh....the net is vast".

Bollockoff

Many episodes of Champloo are genuinely laugh a minute so I wonder why Dandy doesn't hit that same rate.

hylian_elf

Ive had Blu Ray edition of Shinkai's Voices... and Place Promised... since August 2013. Amazon still saying release delayed and now expected in July 2016. What's up with that??

voices

Finished watching Erased yesterday - it was very good, and I'd recommend it.

Also watched two episodes of Sekko boys (they're only 7 minutes long) and decided it was too silly.

Bollockoff

Seriously, everyone who has a passing interest or like of manga should read Shirow's original GitS. Nothing quite like it. Or if there is I'd love to devour it. Oshii's films and Stand Alone Complex don't really hold a candle to the source.

Condoning the massive benefits of re-reading stories after many years,

Spoiler:

Author's notes at the back are a great look into his head.

Shirow wrote:

AIs with prosthetic bodies probably never experience hunger, sexual desire, the desire to sleep, or even the desire for glory and honor, unless programmed to do so. If they have any desire it's probably to expand their network or create something or control something. In other words, to grow as an information system. This is something we may know in the near future, but have no way of determining now. I don't think there's an AI superior to a human in existence yet, but how should I know? I'm only a cartoonist! The definition of a human is very vague, so when an AI superior to a human is developed, the question is: will humans really be able to recognise it?

hylian_elf

Attack on Titan good? Thinking of getting series 1 boxset.

Tempy

It's either the best thing in the universe or hack pish depending on who you speak to. I can't be doing with any anime that's longer than 28 episodes, so AoT is out.

hylian_elf

I'm not keen on long series either but the setting sounds interesting and I haven't seen a series in years and years. Just like with live action stuff, I prefer feature length films or mini-series. Stopped watching stuff like Naruto and Bleach cos it was getting tiring and actually dull.

[Deleted User]

Attack on Titan is a slow burner. I had to force myself to watch the first few episodes, but then it sank its hooks into me. I really enjoyed it by the end.

In typical Japanese fashion...

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dynamiteReady

hylian_elf wrote:

Attack on Titan good? Thinking of getting series 1 boxset.

I thought it was a bit shit, but my brother loved it... The art is good.
Looks like the producers want to string it out.

Tempy wrote:

I can't be doing with any anime that's longer than 28 episodes, so AoT is out.

That effectively explains my aversion to it.

Roujin

hylian_elf wrote:

Attack on Titan good? Thinking of getting series 1 boxset.

Starts well, second half of the series is pish though. A shame.

Lord_Griff

You can see the realtime decision making process of the producers once they got picked up for another season.

Roujin

Yeah it's pretty funny how quick the switch from plot is going somewhere to everything now takes 5 episodes minimum to resolve once you hit that point in the series.

Tempy

Allegedly the writer changed his style when it got big, started making changes to the plot that people didn't seem to like, such as arbitrary deaths etc. Hearsay, but wouldn't be surprised. Always thought the art style was Boggin' too.

Brooks

Show is an open sewer, dodge.

hylian_elf

Ok opinions seem to be more negative than positive. Will avoid. My time is precious.

dynamiteReady

So we know what's shit... What's good?

I've got Psycho Pass 2 and One Punch man in the queue.
Did anyone bother with Zankyou No Terror?

Brooks

One Punch Man was completely satisfactory.

Tempy

Zankyou No Terror seemed ok but I stopped watching it due to exams a year ago.

PsychoPass 1&2 are full good, but avoid the film.

One Punch Man is amusing, I prefer the original sketchy manga to the polished one.

hylian_elf

I'ma read up on this Psycho Pass malarkey, cheers.

[Deleted User]

dynamiteReady wrote:

So we know what's shit... What's good? I've got Psycho Pass 2 and One Punch man in the queue. Did anyone bother with Zankyou No Terror?

I LOVED One Punch Man. Superb. Original. Funny.

Blue Swirl

hylian_elf wrote:

Attack on Titan good? Thinking of getting series 1 boxset.

I enjoyed what I watched, but I did give up at the point when

Spoiler:

. It didn't suddenly go bad, I just kinda lost enthusiasm.

Similar story with Gate, the show didn't do anything explicitly wrong, I just got to a certain plot point and felt no compunction to carry on.

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Roujin

Quality journalism. No wait, the other thing, shit lazy journalism.

Up next why do autistic people really love mcdonalds, followed by why do autistic people really love the internet and of course why do autistic people really love oxygen?

Bollockoff

I'm afraid your son is diagnosed with autism. Have you tried Japanese pop culture?

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