ITT: anime you don't understand

>>147101898
Why do they speak so fast? I can't understand.

>>147101898
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>>147101898
It really wasn't that hard to understand. Maybe if you picked up a book once in a while you wouldn't read at the speed of smell.

>>147102068
What is the speed of smell?

>>147102068
>not being a slow reader
Pleb.

>>147101898
boku no pico

>>147102169
I'll give you a hint, it's porn.

>>147101898
You must be 18 to post on this website.

I swear this show is so pretentious

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And you don't seem to understand

>>147101898
what do you not understand about it?

>>147102068
how fast is smell

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>>147102068
>at the speed of smell

>>147102095
It varies depending on the mass of the molecules of a gas, a gas with lower mass molecules will diffuse into the air faster.

>>147101898
The only reason to not understand Tatami Galaxy is if you are still in highschool or if you're retarded.

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>>147101898
evangelion.
I still dont get it

>>147101898
what's not to get?

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>>147106815
He didn't say he didn't like it, just that he didn't get it. To be honest, I'm not sure if anyone does. Not even Anno.

>>147101898
They spell out the message for you at least twice twice, either you're retarded or you weren't paying any attention.

>>147108476
The series is pretty shallow, it's mainly a pretty straightforward analogy for social interactions and inner turmoil that impedes or comes from it. All the rest was nonsense, more or less.

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Watched it over 20 times and I still don't understand it.

>>147108730

I know you want to be hip and cool by memeing about popular things but Eva's not particularly shallow

>>147102068
what ?

>>147108869
>I know you want to be hip and cool by memeing about popular things
Except I don't
>but Eva's not particularly shallow
Except it is

>>147108781

What's not to understand?

Some shows are hard to understand because they were meant to be weird.

Tatami Galaxy wasn't. Just watch it again, it makes total sense.

>>147108940

Except you are

Except it isn't

I'm not claiming it's 2DEEP or fucking anything but it's certainly got more complexity to it than most

You can have septh without being drowned in metaphor

>>147101898
don't judge me . i discovered that i'm very stupid after watching this

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>>147101898
don't judge me . i discovered that i'm very stupid after watching spice and wolf

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>>147108942
>What's not to understand?
why people watch shit like it in the first place.

>>147108999
I'm not saying it has no depth, I'm saying it's just very straightforward. Eva is about interpersonal relations wrapped up in Anno's Go Nagai x Ultraman fanfic with a lot of visual imagery that is 99% pointless visual flair.

I'm not saying it's devoid of depth, I'm just saying what is there is on the shallow side as long as you aren't comparing it to fotm generic trash.

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>>147108942
What's the meaning of the symbolism in the epilogue? What's up with the dancing? Why does Love go well with solitude? Did Homura do what she did solely because of her desire for Madoka to be happy, or did she also want to have Madoka all for herself?

Ergo Proxy, still enjoyed it tho.

Eva is a pretty good anime with some really innovative parts and some pretty major flaws.

>>147101898
What is even to understand?

>>147109174

It's only shallow if you're comparing it to pretty heavy shit. If you're going to cherrypick the pool you're comparing it to so that it contains only the 2deepest of animes, shallow could describe it, yeah. But in a general sense it's really not.

>>147109191

Oh

With a lot of that all I can really say is wait for the follow up, you watched half a story.

Since when is Tatami Galaxy difficult to understand? The story telling was quite straightforward.

SZS

Joshiraku

>>147101898

It's easier to understand if you've wasted your life like MC. You should probably be in at least you mid twenties to understand this show.

I usually don't like artsy shows, but this show hit me harder than even Welcome to the NHK. It's probably the only anime that's made me change my view on life. Well except Evangelion, but I watched that when I was fourteen.

I think I've gone through almost all the things MC goes through in this show. I even blog about it on /a/ sometimes.

>>147109809
It has a very high "you need to be this Japanese to understand the joke" line.

>>147103302
Weird, because I swear you're just too slow to get it

>>147108730
>All the rest was nonsense, more or less.
It wasn't, you just don't get it.

>>147110046
Just enjoy how cute the girls are.

>>147110416
I did, it was visual flair that people read too much into. When the creator keeps changing what meanings of shots are and says he himself doesn't know for a bunch, that means there is no more depth to it that was intended.

>>147110749
It has the meaning you give it I guess. It's like music, even if the artist meant it to mean something, you can interpret it a different way.

I really can't stand artists who say their music means that and that. They clearly don't understand art.

>>147110749

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Monogatari

It seems like every single scene in that show is a string of loosely related tangents that end in some obscure pun or reference or a character doing fanservice.

>>147111266
There's nothing to understand except for the fanservice part.
That's why I dropped it.

I don't think I understood Kaiba. It was all over the place and I'm very sure I didn't understand the symbolism. I probably need to rewatch it. Anyone have any interpretations that makes sense for me to understand the show on a second watch?

>>147111310

That's not really true

Common opinion though.

>>147110226
Fuck man, I kind of get what you mean. It really hits hard when you watch the anime when you're at the mid-way point of what the MC is going through. And it's not guaranteed that you'd learn as much as the MC did by the end.

>>147111473
Elaborate.

>>147111138
Calling EVA Readerly is hogwash considering it has its main metaphors and analogies that are expressly writerly. For it to be Readerly those "deep" images would need some framing and some interpretations intended by the writer that are left open, but Anno literally meant nothing by them and revert few years he goes "this scene meant this, No wait this means this, wait I don't know what this means".

>>147111266

I enjoy parts of it, but sometimes it's a really weeaboo show (wapanese). You'll have to know Japanese to get the jokes.

I usually get the Cultural jokes though. Since I've watched too much anime, I unwillingly know a lot about Japanese culture and traditions. Like an anti-hero, I'm kind of like an anti-weeaboo.

>>147111310
That's not true, even disregarding all the references. The problem with Nisio's themes is that he often tries to "invent" new philosophical concepts, which often ends up nonsensical.

>>147109087
She's a whore, Lawrence alright with that, not hard to understand.

>>147111513
I girl I was i love with in Uni got married two weeks ago. We never got together because I didn't pull my shit together ;_;

>>147103362
What a shame

>>147111638
The author of TG's actually wrote his debut work on that, actually. It's called Tower of the Sun but it's unfortunately not translated to english. The entire novel was basically him retelling his university life and the trials and tribulations he went through before finally getting over the breakup.

While it has a slightly different theme from TG, it felt even more 'real' and gritty while having that same beauty of human interactions. I hope it gets translated one day for everyone to enjoy, because it's one of my favourite books.

>>147111854

I've watched 5 centimeters per second a couple of times. That deal with it enough I guess.
It's happened a lot of times, this wasn't the first time I've let a girl slip by. But she was probably the "best" girl I've let go.

>>147101898
First things first, what did you think it was about?

You may understand but be looking for more to it.

>>147111554

Pretty much all the supernatural problems they deal with are metaphors for various problems in adolescent life

>>147110226
I dropped out of law school the moment I finished the series. It will forever be my favorite anime for helping me realize that was the decision for me.

>>147101898
I think we all miss more than we're comfortable admitting, as it's inevitable for non-Japanese viewers to lack certain context for many shows. Only a select few things made me feel stupid though, like Liar Game. Holy fuck that manga was confusing.

>>147112394

I more or less did the opposite. I had finished med school though. I just learned to live with that I had wasted so many years of my life doing nothing, and was grateful for the fun that I had had.
Six years ago I watched almost every anime show that aired for example. I really should've done something better. Now I just watch a couple of shows a season.
I hang a bit too much around here though, but that goes in waves.

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>>147109191
>>What's the meaning of the symbolism in the epilogue?
Homura falling off the deep end into the abyss. Most people wouldn't do it willingly or would do it in horror, she just happily pranced and let herself fall into it. It reflects her state of mind as she made the choice to become who she is.

>What's up with the dancing?
In general? Leaving aside the fact they're magical girls and so dancing's within their repertoire of pointlessly elaborate moves, there's a shitton of references to the Nutcracker throughout the Rebellion movie, mostly centered around Homura and her Witch form.

>Why does Love go well with solitude?
Because the story is about sacrificial love, both Homura and Madoka are martyr-complexed toward an individual and the collective respectively and that leads to solitary desires which don't meet in practice. Loving someone who gives herself away for something is a lonely love.
>Did Homura do what she did solely because of her desire for Madoka to be happy, or did she also want to have Madoka all for herself?
She doesn't have Madoka to herself since they don't have a close personal relationship anymore and she was willingly becoming her enemy going against Madoka's principles for the sake of saving her from absolute lonelyness and endless servitude. Homura's sacrifice's purpose is for Madoka to obtain at least a modicum of happyness back in a mortal coil.

>>147112324
Don't say stuff like that anon, you might make me rewatch it.

>>147112844

I've just watched the first season, cat ovas and Nisemonogatari, oh and the really bad movie. I just quit at the first episode of season 2.

I just got really tired of Shaft being Shaft. I've watched so many of their shows, and I really get tired of their one-trick-ponies. It was kind of funny in Natsu no Arashi!, but now it's getting stale.

>>147113050
>I've just watched the first board, /v/ and /g/, oh and the really /b/ad board. I just quit at the first post of page 2.

>I just got really tired of Anon being Anon. I've watched so many of their posts, and I really get tired of their one-trick-ponies. It was kind of funny in /pol/, but now it's getting stale.

>>147113050
The only shaft show I have really enjoyed was Arakawa, and that's likely due to its source material being so stellar.

>>147113180
Only boards I frequent are /a/ and /fit/ though. I've been here for almost 10 years.

>>147104454

I got you m8

There were aliens called the First Ancestral Race. They were gods. They realized they were fucked. Why were they fucked? We don't know, it doesn't matter.

They launched out 7 Seeds of Life. Each Seed was, well, supposed to "seed life", and each Seed possessed "Doors of Guf" from which souls came. These souls were donated by the FAR.

Each Seed has a Fruit of Life or Knowledge. Fruits of Life grant Immortality and Infinite Power. It is the S2 Engine. Fruits of Knowledge grants science or something.

It doesn't really matter what each fruit is. What does matter is no two seeds are supposed to land on the same planet.

But they did. Adam and Lilith, the 1st and 2nd angels, both landed on Earth. This would have been okay, but Adam had a Fruit of Life, and Lilith a Fruit of Knowledge. And when a form of life gets both Fruits, they become gods like the FARs. Which is why this union is forbidden. Anyway, Adam arrived in the White Moon, and Lilith in the Black Moon. White Moon landed in Antarctica, Black Moon where Tokyo-3 and NERV HQ would (intentionally) be built.

That was First Impact.

Adam stayed inert. Lilith bled a shit-load of LCL (her blood), the primordial soup of life. All life on Earth was derived from LCL, including Humans as we think of them. We are Lilin, the children of Lilith. Collectively, we are the 18th angel. Angels are also human, but in different forms.

1/3

>>147113266
The first two seasons are considered the best anyway. (bake and ss)
Nise is the author's fanfiction he didn't want to publish and was convinced by friends into doing it. The rest are ovas and whatnot.

>>147112844

It's true. It's pretty blatabtly true, really.

If you don't like the characters/presentation/visuals already though I doubt it's enough to save the show for you.

I was actually really impressed with Black Hanakawa, because it made it seem like it was going to be a metaphor like the others, but the twist is that having a second magic personality wasn't a metaphor for having to bottle up who you are and play a part different from how you really feel, it was actually what was happening and the supernatural element was just her excuse. That solidified it as one of my favorite shows.

But you do have to sit though a bunch of langauge gags you might not understand and legitimately pointless fanservice in places (particularly in Nise) to get to it. Like I said, of you've seen a bunch already and you don't already like it, that's unlikely to change.

The AT Field is the boundary of the soul. The soul is actually real in NGE, the science of Metaphysics is based around it and it's study. All life possesses an AT Field, whether a Seed, Adam-Based like the Angels, or Lilith-Based, like the Lilin.

Second Impact was when SEELE initiated a Contact Experiment to transplant Adam's soul into a Lilin vessel. This would produce a Lilin/Seed hybrid, like how Rei is Lilith's soul in clones of Yui Ikari. The hybrids possess traits of albinism, weird anime hair, red eyes, and extreme AT Field manipulation abilities. This hybrid would come to be known as Kaworu Nagisa.

They also used the Spear of Longinus to de-age Adam to an embryo. This caused the Second Impact, which SEELE knew would happen, but was preferable. Here's why:

The Spear of Longinus is a device meant to "reboot the system", so to speak, in the case of a glitch.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are the instruction manual, like a README file.

Due to the Scrolls, SEELE knew the Angels would come in 2015.

If they reverted Adam to an embryo, they could move him to the Geofront, to protect him.

>>147113697
I hope you're not typing this out yourself because this shit is available on 5000 different websites and the fact that he hasn't bothered checking any of them shows that he's a lazy piece of shit who will not appreciate the effort you're putting into this.

>>147113858
Im just copy pasting

>>147113748
>The first two seasons are considered the best anyway

That doesn't surprise me. I think it took a pretty good nosedive in keeping my interest. I like ecchi moments like the next pig, but you can't keep me interested with just that.

>>147113918
thank god

>>147113821
Why? Because if an Adam-based Angel comes in contact with a Seed of Life, it causes one of two things:

The Seed is Adam, he is awakened, and releases an Anti-AT Field.
The Seed is Lilith, and the Angel takes her Fruit of Knowledge, becomes a god, and releases an Anti-AT Field. This reverts all Lilith-based life to LCL, letting the Adam-based life take control.
While SEELE did want Instrumentality, they didn't want it controlled by the Angels. So they saw Second Impact as a necessary sacrifice.

After that, GEHIRN (the precursor to NERV) created the Evangelions. All Units are "cloned" from Adam, except Unit-01, a "clone" of Lilith. They're not really clones in the technical term, but we'll run with that since it's the show terminology.

Unit-01 absorbed Yui Ikari into it as it's resident soul. Unit-02 absorbed part of Kyoko Soryu's soul, psychologically breaking her. Once she killed herself, the rest was absorbed. Unit-00 contained the soul of Rei I.

The Pilots are mentally fucked up. This makes them instinctively reach out for their mommy inside the Evangelion. Yes, all of Class-2A has dead moms, since they're all pilot candidates.

They need the emotional connection with their mom, so if they start to come to terms with their issues, they start to suck at piloting.

>>147114110
Hence why Asuka starts to suck especially after the incident with Arael.

They don't have therapists on staff at NERV, because that would lower the pilot's abilities. But once they realize their mom is there and connect with her consciously, their sync ratio rises dramatically. So they could let the pilots see therapists AND tell them their mother is inside the Evangelion, but that would require revealing pretty much everything to a 14 year old child, who would probably go mad from the revelation.

In the end, SEELE gets the JSSDF to assault NERV, so they can make their play for Third Impact. Rei III, who will now be referred to as Lilith, refuses Gendo. Gendo has been plotting Instrumentality not as an end goal, but as a means to recover his precious Yui.

Lilith merges back with her body, and now merged with Adam, becomes Giant Naked Rei, a god like the FAR. GNR decides "fuck all of you, Shinji is the only guy here who isn't an asshole, so he gets to decide your fate." Except he's so fucked in the head at this point that he asks Lilith to kill everyone, because he's that far gone.

And since Instrumentality is the death of self, everybody reverts to TANG! But in Instrumentality, he realizes this is not true happiness. In the world without AT Fields, there is no pain or rejection, but that means there is no true happiness or acceptance either.

>>147114186
So GNR let's him go back, since he is the ruler of Lilin's fate. But since everyone going back wouldn't solve the problems that people have, there is one caveat. You can only come back if you can imagine yourself in your heart. You can only come back if you have the will to live.

And ironically, of all people, only Shinji and Asuka could. And he was terrified. Here was the girl he loved so much, yet kept abusing him time and time again. He needs to know that she can still hurt him in this world, so he starts to choke her. He's trying to provoke a reaction, anything to confirm that she can reject him.

But she doesn't reject him again, like he was trying to confirm. She caresses him, lovingly. She finally understands him. And he breaks down.

And she says "How Disgusting".

>>147112844
In case you didn't know FLCL is the same thing, except with puberty specifically

So what was the point/message?

Seemed like just more "don't be a hikki" propaganda.

>>147114237

That last bit with the choking and the disgusting I never got and still don't get

>>147109809
You sure are having an easy life anon. With some hard life anyone could understand the message from the series.
Meanwhile >>147110046 is much harder to shallow makes me wonder what the fuck is Kumeta thinking upon finishing SZS.

>>147102068
what did he mean by this

>>147101898

Tatami Galaxy makes perfect sense, honestly. It depends on how you took it, but what I gathered is that Watashi never actually did any of the club stuff that we see in the episodes. He spends the entire time fantasizing about doing it, but doesn't because he's scared to associate with people. That's why the clock turns back at the end of each episode, and why it doesn't turn back when he finally does escape the endless tatami rooms and go to be with Akashi and Ozu. That's also the first time we see Ozu as a normal person, which I think is because Watashi is finally seeing the world for how it is. Simple shit.

And their talking wasn't even that fast. I understood them perfectly. Keep up boi

>>147117484
It's only the first episode he narrates really fast. It's symbolic, so it's rather important, but afaik the fast narration was immensely unpopular and they speeded down.
You can interpret it like that instead of as supernatural I guess. Art should be up to interpretation.

>>147117687
>but afaik the fast narration was immensely unpopular and they speeded down.
Slow readers should kill themselves.

>>147117687

Agreed, and I think the supernatural aspect is a perfectly acceptable interpretation too. I just like the psychological one better. Either way I think the show is brilliant and one of Yuasa's best, and I don't get how people are confused by it/don't enjoy it.

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>>147117773
I think he meant the fast talking for Japanese viewers was unpopular. Remember that the target audience is rarely going to read subs when they can understand the dialogue.

>>147117859
rapid subs are a pain too, your gaze is glued to the bottom of the screen and you can't take in the entire picture.

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What the fuck is the point of K-On!

I'm not trolling I legitimately don't understand the point of the show. I don't know if it's a good show or a bad show, I just don't understand why it got made, I've only seen three episodes but I seriously don't understand why/how people watch that show.

I understood it but I didn't enjoy it. I think it had to do with people on here and IRL hyping it up to me. First few episodes were cool but the constant repetition bored me to tears, longest 11 episodes ever. I know the repetition was the whole point and how he should have exited the cycle and done more fulfilling things with his time but like I said the repetition got really old really fast for me. Animation was interesting and the OP is god tier

>>147118001
It's a meme anime. If you didn't watch it when it aired you won't like it

Kind of like code geass and TTGL but those are actually kind of good

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>>147118001
Cute girls doing cute things as they become more social with each other and grow personality wise and learn to enjoy life as it happens.
Watch the show then rewatch it again so that you notice how different the girls are from their starting point to the end point.

If you're asking what is the point of a show when you haven't completed the show in question, then you shouldn't be asking any sorts of explanation.

>>147118000

Inb4 someone claims they read entirely in their peripheral

No anime is hard to understand
puerile trash

>>147118483
Is Kaguya good?

>>147118610
You'd be surprised by how many people can't even understand the ending of Monster.

>>147118619
it's fucking glorious
I was well on my way to become a wizard but this surge of vanilla rejuvenated my shriveled heart
I wish I could buy physical copies here

>>147118001

Cute girls doing well animated cute things

>>147118610
I didn't get Mawaru Penguimdrum, but then again I guess I'm not really supposed to. I haven't watched Utena, but afaik that show has even more symbolism.

>>147118001
It's a shallow basic show about cute girls being cute, there's little to no substance. It's either a kind of fun you enjoy or its boring tripe, there really isn't any in-between. The issue is usually K-on fans, and KyoAni diehards, refuse to believe this show isn't some amazing show with a lot of complexity. There's nothing wrong with enjoying it for what it is, but claiming it's something more than the visuals is pretty much bullshit.

And yes, quite a few seriously attempt to argue there is more to K-On than what's at the surface and that the character interactions are some amazing feat. The fanbase is mostly rabid and delusional.

>>147118661
You can tell people who didn't understand the ending because they think it was good/fulfilling instead of series ruining crap. That ending and the reveal of Johan's motivations really just violently shit the bed.

I can understand people literally not understanding what happened during the end of Monster because Johan's motivations are so incredibly retarded.

>>147118855
okay that makes a lot more sense then

>>147118975
His motives make sense. He wants the world to see as he does.

>>147118737
>I was well on my way to become a wizard but this surge of vanilla rejuvenated my shriveled heart
Are you suggesting that reading Kaguya got you laid somehow? Excuse me?

>>147118975
Honestly, it seems that you also didn't understand the ending of Monster.
What a shame.

>>147110226
I only fully got the point after it was too late for me.

To be fair to myself, though, there was also an aspect of simply not listening to the point in addition to the not fully getting it.
Getting over extreme social anxiety isn't as easy as saying "oh, I guess I should go do more stuff".


Plus, I have a tendency to take stories at face value, or misinterpret the point.
For instance, I was pissed off at Evangelion 3.0 until I rewatched it and realized that the point wasn't "lol fuck you, everything sucks and success is impossible", but instead "you may suddenly fail when you thought things were going alright, you can't undo failures, and moving forward is tough, but you can move forward".

>>147118847
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack
Also penguins are weird because they are birds that don't fly and look like aliens. Ikuhara said something like that.

>>147119200

Yeah I know all that, and I followed some of the threads. All the sexual references etc. Broiler being society or something like that. But I still didn't get the whole gist of it.

I should probably rewatch it, I would probably understand it better if I watched it in one go instead of when it was airing.

>>147119289
It's the type of shit where it's so wild that you can interpret it any way you want, or just forget about interpreting it at all and just enjoy the wild ride

>>147114878

he's choking her to confirm he's not in instrumentality. recall that in his mind earlier he lashed out and choked asuka because she rejected him. he's now trying to do the reverse: trying to provoke her rejection by choking her. because in instrumentality there's no rejection, so if she rejected him, he'd know it was the real world.

but she doesn't do that. she caresses him because she finally understands him, and this shocks him and causes him to break down because it's the first time someone has shown genuine understanding and care for him. this is doubly important from someone like asuka, since he thought she actively hated him.

she says "how disgusting" because she knows he jacked off to her in her coma and she's resorting to her standard BAKA SHINJI self. this confirms this is the "real" asuka and her affection towards him was genuinely hers and not a construct of instrumentality.

>>147119289
I interpreted it as the broiler and whatnot being conditions that allowed Japan to be fucked up enough to have that type of cult form. If people weren't abandoned like that then they'd be less likely to murder or more likely to stop it from happening.

>>147114878
my interpretation of that is quite different than what that guy said. I always thought that in instrumentality, it was a state in which all minds were connected, in which everybody knew everybody's innermost thoughts and feelings. When Shinji wakes up to find Asuka next to him, he wants to choke her because he realizes that she knows how fucked up he is inside. Asuka ends up caressing Shinji because she's able to understand him, and Shinji ends up breaking down into tears because of it.

She says "気持ち悪い" at the end because she is still pretty disturbed by being in instrumentality and getting a glimpse at everyone's innermost thoughts, even though she is able to understand them better.

>>147118855
Don't invent arguments, I have never heard anyone praise K-On! as anything but cute, light, and entertaining.

>>147119591
Maybe. I'm probably not intelligent enough to understand. I can't even join MENSA, I lack ten points.

>>147120067
Shit, never mind, they have changed the poins you need to have in my country to get in. I can join now, even barely.

>>147119591

The broiler was the one thing that I didn't really get

Eventually I settled on the idea that it represents an unspecified sin of society that puts pressure on children in their position, and the reason that it can't make any canonical sense is because Ikuhara wanted it communicated as an abstract, so it not fitting or making sense forces the viewer to accept it as "a thing that happened" and nothing more if they're viewing at the shallowest level

But fuck, I dunno.

>>147119950
I've seen it argued plenty of times that there is more going on with k-on's characters and themes then what most people give it credit for. But it's always in comparison to other CGDCT shows and SOLs. That anon just took what kyoanuslickers are memeing too seriously.

>>147120067
>>147120142
MENSA is a scam for narcissists, don't bother

>>147114865
I don't recall all the details but from I what I got the message is to not conform to what is considered the rosy way of life and instead just do what you truly want to do now. And don't be afraid for being who you are because that's how you can form genuine relationships.

It's anti hikki because it argues that if you open up and be confident, you can find acceptance and happiness outside. But at the same time it's also about avoiding getting carried away by social norms and collectivism.

>>147120716
I'm probably only going to be kicked out if they raise their point requirements. Though I'm a bit astounded that they have lowered it by 10 points in 15 years. Has my country gotten real dumb or something?

>>147117484
The Tatami Galaxy is just about a whiny grumpy student who wants to take the easy way and is constantly dissatisfied with his life and keeps pushing the blame on the others, especially on Ozu only to realize that actually the real problem is him.
I also think that most of the paranormal and strange stuff is just a literary device and actually hasn't any meaning or explanation

>>147120942
Actually, IQ is graphed on a normed curve, where a score of 100 is always the median score for the tested population. Taken as a whole, IQ test updates have shown that the general world population's scores at IQ tests have steadily risen at an estimated rate of 3 points per decade at least, since around the 1930s. Of course, whether or not this indicates that anyone's "intelligence" is actually increasing over generations is anybody's guess, because nobody's really sure if IQ tests can accurately quantify intelligence anyway. Or what "intelligence" actually is in the first place," but that's really another question.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect for a better explanation and citations.

TL;DR: Because of how IQ works, the median score is adjusted every time they come out with a new version of the test. Mensa may have not raised their standards at all, just gotten a new test with the 100 at a higher place (which would mean that even lower scores would be harder to get than before).
Alternatively, because as far as I'm aware Mensa is a society that exists only to ensure its own continued existence, it may have just arbitrarily lowered their standards because they weren't getting enough people to sign up.

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>>147121710
You TL;DR was as long as your original text mate.

>>147110749
>interpreting for authorial intent

You're supposed to be 18 to post here.

>>147122004
It was only two lines, I did a hard return after. It just looks as long. Mea culpa.

>>147119067
>>147119131
The problem is he did everything because his mom saved him but he couldn't get over "but what if she meant to save Nina not me!"

>>147122051
>interpreting for authorial intent
Considering Anno keeps changing the meaning and often has no idea what a scene means kinda proves there isn't something more there and people are reading too much into it

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I'm too pleb for Ikuhara.
I understand the surface plot and all, but the lingering themes are 2deep4me.
If anyone has some blog or webpage that explains the symbolism and themes I would appreciate it.

>>147125108
I haven't watched it, but pretty certain I wouldn't understand it either. I hardly understood Penguin.

>>147110749
You're reading too little into it.

>>147101898
>There is no such thing as that rose-colored campus life. Why? Because there is nothing rose-colored in this world. Everything is a bunch of colors mixed up, you see.

damn

>>147126269
cringe