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Why doesn't Subaru just kill himself whenever something goes wrong?

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Friendly reminder that Umaru is a cute little orange nugget.

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Is there any anime/manga that you dropped because you just can't seem to bring yourself to finish it?

>pic related

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Fuck one, kiss one, ignore one.

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Urumi or Miyabi?

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Biggest time-skip troll I have ever seen.

Fuck this author, he really managed to trick me until the very last page.

And in the fucking last page, you can see the face of the damn person reflected in the damn manga at that very scene.

Must admit, this was genius.

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Sentai released Higurashi on Blu-Ray, without a proper 1080p upscale done by the nips. What we recieved is a shitty blurry, soft, washed out, aliased and interlaced mess. Who the fuck thought this was acceptable. They literally just upscaled it to 1080i and slapped it on a disc. Why.

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Why is Matsuri the best Mashimaro?

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Best kissing scene in anime?

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***,*18位/***,*17位 (**3,165 pt) [*,**5予約] Love Live! Sunshine
***,*35位/***,*35位 (**4,565 pt) [*,*12予約] 【Amazon.co.jp限定】 Love Live! Sunshine
***,170位/***,143位 (***,227 pt) [*,**4予約] 【Amazon.co.jp限定】 Tales of Zestiria X
***,261位/***,262位 (***,564 pt) [*,**0予約] B-PROJECT DVD
***,429位/***,428位 (***,297 pt)) [*,**0予約] New Game!
***,472位/***,473位 (***,310 pt) [*,**0予約] B-PROJECT Blu-ray
***,522位/***,631位 (***,266 pt) [*,**0予約] Servamp
***,527位/***,544位 (***,260 pt) [*,**0予約] 【Amazon.co.jp限定】 Masou Gakuen HxH
***,689位/***,633位 (***,630 pt) [*,**1予約] 2016/09/28 [*,**1予約] 【Amazon.co.jp限定】 Amanchu
***,789位/***,882位 (***,527 pt) [*,**3予約] Fate/kaleid liner Prisma 3rei
***,823位/***,913位 (***,374 pt) [*,**1予約] Arslan 2
***,844位/***,933位 (***,122 pt) [*,**0予約 Thunderbolt Fantasy

Let's be real. Everything past this point is lower than 1000 and kill

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the best autismfu you cannot even compete

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A sizeable portion of anime fans seems to be prejudiced against a certain kind of anime which they consider to "take itself too seriously" in their own words (some even go as far as labelling some of it as 'anime for people who do not like anime'). For them, it seems that anime is but mere entertainment and that it needs little artistic justification beyond the established canons of the genre and its popularity.

As a non-Japanese individual who only got well acquainted with Japanese animation at a relatively late stage in his life (early twenties), I can only reject and disagree with the aforementioned stance.

I am well aware of the target audience of said industry in Japan and how it translates to the rest of the world, but I think nonetheless that mature, intelligent anime should prevail and be recognised as the quality product it is in contrast with the more juvenile over-the-top stuff that seems to inundate the market. Animation, be it Japanese or "Western", is an awesome channel to communicate and tell a story, it shouldn't be regarded as inherently inferior respect to live-action cinema nor should it be a straight-up ripoff of manga or comics both formally and thematically speaking (don't get me wrong, the latter are two amazing formats in their own right).

Miyazaki and the Ghibli studio shone a light on the huge possibiliies anime had to carry some symbolism without necessarily resorting to complicated plots or long TV series. Satoshi Kon taught us that surrealism and the oneiric were not incompatible with anime. Ishiguro proved that one can create an excellent long anime from a series of novels, without the sempiternal manga as the reference.

Well-crafted Japanese animation can be awesome and has not much to envy to "serious" films with real actors and deep plots, the problem is the constant catering to the mindless, low-rewarding escapist stuff in the industry.

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Why is this show so popular? I was so god damn bored watching this, I couldn't care about the characters at all.

Am I just not mature enough to see past the nudity and gore? Is it too deep for me?

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ITT: Blonde Girl thread