Do you have any funny manga panels?

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Best anime ever,

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>>1201942
>9fag

>>1201954
tfw I stole this from ifunny

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>>1201956
It's really not possible for my expectations of phoneposters to be any lower.

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I have so many

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I wish I knew what manga it was from.

>>1203711
sauce?

>>1201931

>>1211990
Self aggrandizing ball memes always make me cringe.

>>1211990
lol

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>>1201931

post more

I LOVE funny manga panels

post the cocksickle one

no not really

b

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This is my favorite

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Hahaha

disgusting weebs

>>1205421
Higashiyama Show's Stretch.

>>1245349
>>>/out/

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threadly reminder that many people on /mlpol/ like anime and hentai too, but not obsessive clingy weaboos who feel threatened by everything

>>1245924
>EGGPLANT
What did she mean by this?

>>1245936
Good post.

>>1245936
eternal reminder that no one outside of /pol/ likes real life activism legion garbage that keeps bringing normalfags into the site

>>1246352
Eternal virgin.

>>1246464
case in point

>>1246473
Eternal virgin.

Why do you virgins read nothing but lewd shit?

Why do you virgins read nothing but lewd shit?

>>1249234
u 1st

how about posting some non-h ones

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>>1249669
Okay bud, you asked for it

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m-more?

>>1251725
post the bread one

>>1251821
huh

you're not gonna get one lmao

no but requesting

>>1253223
rude

oky

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>>1249669

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>>1201931

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>>1252698
>tfw you don't have it

>>1257580
It's the previous one!

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>>1245464
Very belated thanks.

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whats all the posts that gets deleted

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Look at this funny picture of Calvin Broadus I found

>>1244384
manga name?

>>1278145
総合タワーリシチ (Comprehensive Tovarisch)

post more

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not much, this is the closest to "funny" I can get.

>>1285617
nice

age

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Thank you for keeping my thread alive, everyone.

>>1201931

>>1244327
who is that guy?

This thread is trash. 90% of this """""humor""""" is just panels from lewd doujins.

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>>1332577

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>>1203711
>>1205457
>>1247006
>>1306342

benantoka

>>1321738
hate to be that guy, but sauce?

>>1201931

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正義の味方

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me on the right

Do not lewd.

>>1246038
you're that out of touch with popular culture?

>>1347909
He isn't missing much.

>>1203624
source???

>>1351910
Luroko Maru

posting a classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6R_ZEu8xk8

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Happy birthday, thread.

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>>1201931

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>>1361524

>>1248084
Because we can't have it in real life, you faggot.

>>1265760
Well-played, anon. Well-played indeed.

>>1368814
yikes

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>>1201931

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Posting on the oldest thread on the board.

>>1376613
>>1376821
what the fuck is happening with this bot?

>>1245924
>Daddy be nimble
>Daddy be quick
>Daddy give me all 8 inches of your dick

Magnificent

>>1246818
>totally good

>>1248506
sauce?

>>1261648
sauce pls?

>>1381677
the legend of meme queen

上げ

age

>>1201931

あげる

>>1201931

age

>>1201931

>>1399666
hahah epic triples senpai>>1399666

lololololol

This thread is really great and informative thank you so much for these amazing contributions to American culture.

Penis is completely hard and fully rigid

Cool thread I read it

No way, I love epic manges

Can anyone post the last twelve pages of Donkey Parlour?

Me-me have funny manga panel

le panele du manga es funni

No, what's a funny manga panel?

>>1201931
What do the characters in manga mean?

>>1400588
I think it's mostly gibberish, and then people pretend like it means something.

>>1201952
I like that during all the raids we had this Shrek was just sitting in this corner undisturbed

>>1400818
lol

even though this thread is useless garbage let's keep it alive anyway lol

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>>1361189
It's not even a year old yet.

>>1404208
>>1404208

>>1404700
BIRTH MONTH NOT BIRTH YEAR YOU STUPID FUCKING WEEBS I HATE THIS BOARD AND I HATE YOU FOR RUINING IT

>>1201931

No...

>>1201931

When he was a young child, apprentice Hunter's Guild member Elk's village was razed, his parents murdered before his eyes, and their village's sacred statue stolen

Besides having to witness those horrors, he was kidnapped and taken a mysterious scientific research facility, White House, where children were experimented on to produce artificial monsters called chimera

Years after his escape from White House, a chance encounter during a mission may provide the clues he needs to carry out his long held desire for vengeance against White House

Soon he will find himself entangled in a conspiracy that may threaten the entire world

If you have played any number of Japanese console role-playing games, then you are probably already generally familiar with the general type of world that is the basis of the setting for Arc the Lad

It is quasi-modern, though filled with somewhat retro airship designs, just a touch of magic, and of course some dark and ancient battle that occurred far in the past

Now since I happen to find those types of settings somewhat interesting, I didn't really hold it against the show, but at the same time from the very beginning it seemed like nothing about the plot or setting was going to really make this show stand out

That being said the plot, overall, is generally well paced

Arc the Lad avoids the folly of some other recent Sony RPG adaptations (such as Wild Arms) of wasting too much time with opening filler and instead goes a bit more directly into the plot

However, the show still does manage a few somewhat unnecessary story arcs (no pun intended) that perhaps didn't seem as intrusive in the original video game versions

Some of these are used to try and allude to epic events and civilizations in the distant past of the world, but they never significantly developed that aspect of the storyline

Even as the show closed in toward its conclusion, I was a bit dissapointed that they didn't reveal a bit more about the ancient battles that they were alluding to earlier in the show

In terms of character development, this title is a mixed bag

A good job was done of developing Elk

They flesh out his background, gradually but not too slowly to let us have greater insight into his motivations and his rather haunted past

In particularly, he is at the center of the show's emotional climax around episode 13 and at the center of several scenes that I felt generated rather solid (if sometimes depressing) dramatic intensity

I cannot say that the "young man with a special power haunted by his dark past"is exactly a particularly unusual type of character in anime, but they did a good job of keeping him from being too flat

Most of the other characters were a bit more flat

They all seemed to mainly exist to fill various archetypical roles for this type of adventure

I suppose most of the characters are fairly likable but I thought they could have done a better job with most of them

Most of the villains of this show were extremely generic and a bit disappointing with the notable exception of the frighteningly polite and mysterious Clive

There were a few elements toward the end of this show that I felt could have used a bit of expansion in regards to him, especially since he ends up being an important element of the plot

I think it would have only strengthened the show to show a bit more of his background and clarify why he ended up the way he did

Despite being the character the show is named after, Arc himself is rather uninteresting

One problem is that they make him so ridiculously overpowered that there is very little dramatic tension involved in any scene where he shows up

Though there are certain themes of "tragic destiny"that they toy with in relation to his character, whenever the show moves its focus off of Elk to focus on Arc, it begins to drag a bit

I suppose I just found it more interesting to follow Elk's journey from being an apprentice Hunter who is somewhat unsure of himself to a confident champion

Arc is a much more static and unfortunately somewhat less interesting character

This is one of the issues I had with the show

The dramatic and emotional climax occurred a bit too early and was focused solidly on Elk

Though the events in the second half of the show are more important in terms of scope, they just don't seem to generate the dramatic impact of the first half and almost seemingly to justify the change of focus, a number of plot elements more related to Arc's role in events beginning popping up a bit too quickly and without the explanation they should have

I thought I had a pretty good handle on what was going on and what the world was like in the second half, but as I entered the second half, it just felt the plots points were just being brought up and not significantly explained

A bit tighter plot integration could have helped things flow a bit better

On the technical side the show again is competent but not outstanding

I had no particular qualms with the design work or the animation in and of itself

Though for a show where there are so many battles most of these end up being rather sterile affairs that seemed to suggest more than they actually show

Various animation short cuts (flashing backgrounds, a blackened background and sword (Binstead of actually animating it) were used

Some of the battles involving airships and vehicles later on in the show were done a bit better done, but I thought the personal battles were, for the most part, a bit disappointing

In addition, the music is for the most part rather average

A lot of it even sounded like old console music at times

There are a few notable exceptions and I suppose it did a decent enough job of setting mood for certain scenes

just after World War I, a lone pilot, Phantom F

Harlock II, is flying his biplane Arcadia through the treacherous skies of New Guinea, trying to find a way to cross the Owen Stanley Mountains

With ten minutes worth of fuel left, he must find a way to conquer the Stanley Witch, but as he races up the side of the mountain, he hears someone laughing

the voice of the mountain, perhaps

as he struggles to survive in the thin, frosty air and make it across

1000 years later, his distant descendant, having been defeated by the alien Illumidus Empire, must decide whether to be content as a subordinate of the aliens, or to find his own freedom, no matter what the cost in the lives of his friends and the pain he must endure

The beginnings of the epic saga of the space pirate Captain Harlock are told in this melodramatic 1982 movie, how he meets his friends- including Ooyama Tochiro, the master engineer who is the very soul of his ship, the intrepid Queen Emeraldas, and his love, Maya, who sacrifices herself for the freedom that Earth doesn't seem to want anymore- and how his code of honor and his way of sailing the Sea of Stars comes to pass

Do you remember seeing Captain Harlock on TV back when you were a kid? Okay, maybe you're like me, and rediscovering the anime classics after joining in on anime fandom at a later date

But that doesn't mean we should ignore the anime of the 70s and 80s, with its now-dated animation and now-oft-copied storylines

Arcadia of My Youth is definitely a good watch, in a genre that no longer purely exists, that of the melodramatic space opera

Yes, it's *very* melodramatic, with plenty of self-sacrifice and "manly tears", the ones shed when good friends are lost in battle, yada yada yada

You really have to be in the mood for this kind of thing to enjoy it to its full potential

Don't expect sudden bits of humor to jump in out of the blue (or black, as it may be)

You won't find them

However, Harlock and company put on a good show

Never mind the rather strange ties to generations past (genetic memory?!?) and the numerous references to the Stanley Witch

(For that matter, what's a glacier doing in New Guinea anyway?) If you've watched or read any of Leiji Matsumoto's work, you know what to expect: heavy war drama, with great space battleships taking the place of armored samurai on the field

The sense of pure Honor is the spirit that imbues this film - you get to admire even the Illumidus Commander Zeda, despite his being obviously one of the "bad guys"

It's something you just don't find whenever you think of today's utterly impersonal wars, waged by madmen and technocrats

It's all utter fantasy

But it's still interesting to watch, with all the angst on the screen running like tears down the faces of Harlock and his men

The animation itself is pretty dated by today's standards, but it's still on par with the features of its time

The sweeping orchestral melodies only enhance the sense of pure melodrama this movie exudes, swelling at all the high moments, just like the space opera it truly is

It's a cry for a sense of justice, a yearning for freedom, and it's a good show to boot

Arcadia of My Youth is escapist fantasy, to a place beyond the corrupt little world we live in

And as such, it succeeds, if only for a while, before we return to our relatively boring lives

For just a moment, by the end of the movie, you can just imagine sailing through the Sea of Stars, living a life of a pirate

Sure, it's impractical, but sometimes, we just can't be practical all of the time Right?

One thing that most non-Japanese find difficult to understand is the Japanese people's love for sugary cuteness

We've seen it all, from Hello Kitty to SD Gundams - anything small, colorful and usually helium-filled draws crowds of fans dressed in tacky designs and wearing "I LOVE ENDLESS TOGETHER OF SUMMER" bags

It's certainly something worthy of scientific research; and if this was the subject, Digi Charat would be the thesis

Broccoli tossed that Overlord of insane-cute onto the loving masses and its immense popularity baffled many to no end (including our own Editor-in-Chief)

Enter Galaxy Angel

Probably realizing that too much random insanity would cripple the future leaders of Japan (in the same way that Animaniacs has done us irreversible damage), Broccoli came up with something more subdued - kinda like Digi Charat after years of medication and psychotherapy

The Angels are made up of five girls, each with a distinct personality

We have the oh-so-innocent Milfeulle, who has a heart of gold and incredibly good luck

Then there's Forte, the veteran markswoman; Mint, the cute Digi Charat clone; Ranpha, the beauty-obsessed athlete; and Vanilla, the silent servant of religion

This unusual band of characters take up special missions for the military, and these are shown in short 10-minute segments (2 per episode)

There isn't any relation between the segments, and the plots range from comedy, serious to the mindnumbingly insane

Usually, the missions start off in a straightforward way, like the Angels stopping by an island with Mint going to the top to see the view

She gets her head stuck in a cardboard picture, and not wanting to be made fun of by her fellow team members, she tries to keep them away from the top by guiding them all over the place as the island starts to sink

This, of course, being one of the saner episodes in the line-up

The randomness of the segments' plots is proven by the length of this review's synopsis, and the fact that AXN-Asia couldn't pin a story on it for their ads, making up something about "protecting the hidden temples" which is obviously a gross summation of the title

Think of it as a fiendish product of Murphy's Law and Digi Charat: "Anything that *can* go wrong-nyo, *will* go wrong-nyo"

Even the visuals are bright, colorful and happysugarydiabetic, but surprisingly don't lack in quality

I've seen titles with the animation budget wasted on buying more pastel colors for the art guys, but for a randomly insane title like this the animation is generally consistent

In fact, they even had the cash leftover for some CG, but it was usually wasted on unimportant stuff in most of the scenes

One disadvantage of having a bunch of filler episodes strung together to make an anime is that plot development is almost non-existent

There are episodes that focus on individual characters' pasts, but usually there's nothing to entice you to watch the next segment unless you're hopelessly low on blood sugar

Some segments also make absolutely no sense (like say, half of End of Evangelion), but in this case I seriously doubt there's some implied philosophical meaning behind it all (barring some alien conspiracy to cripple Japan's youth)

It actually started out quite fun for me, and the way they played on Milfeulle's incredible luck was highly amusing

As the show soldiered on, I slowly began to lose interest as the random insanity somehow began to seem

normal (subliminal desensitization, I suppose)

The introduction of Nomad, the wandering missile AI (please, don't ask) first seemed like a good idea, but later its voice, actions and mere EXISTENCE began to drive me to screams of frustration (as it did to Forte)

The greatest surprise of all was not the animation or the plot, but the music

You would expect a title like this to have a squeaky hyper opening song and an equally annoying one to end with, but *surprise* - the song "Galaxy Bang! Bang!" is actually quite fun and the seiyuu who sing it aren't too screechy or helium-powered

It contains the randomness of Excel Saga's OP, the fun of Full Moon o Sagashite's OP, but the happyhappycute of Hand Maid May's OP

Galaxy Angel-related music CDs continue to sell in Japan (especially with the introduction of the recent PS2 game) and that shows that this combination of seiyuu is a good one for the music

I've considered myself an anime fan for some time but have rarely, if ever, referred to myself as an "otaku

" I feel that this has less to do with negative associations with the term, and more to do with the fact that I entered the anime world out of an interest in animation in general rather than as part of an immersion in what I think of as "complementary" interests: video games, model-building, role-playing, and the like

Thus, Genshiken is of interest to me for several reasons, firstly as one of the better (if still flawed) anime or manga series that examines its own fandom, and secondly as a look into a subculture that parallels my own hobbies but in which I don't quite fit into

It has aged poorly in some ways and it isn't especially pleasing on the eyes, but it's worth watching as one of the more even-handed treatments of otakudom, in contrast to, say, Welcome to the NHK's greater focus on its negative aspects

Now, Genshiken isn't a show that I exactly found easy to fall in love with

For one thing, although it sounds good thanks to solid performances on the part of its seiyu and a nice, upbeat opening theme that suits it well, it just isn't very nice-looking

The art and animation are ugly, to be frank, while the character design is typical of those from early 2000's manga (prior to the arrival of the moe era) and just a bit drab

It's just cheap-looking and ineffective on the whole, and while this isn't always a key component of comedy, the overall ungainliness of the show and its character design didn't exactly improve my opinion of it

Speaking of the characters, I'm not especially fond of any of them, with two exceptions, and that also made Genshiken a bit of a hard sell

Part of the problem is that while Genshiken's basic structure is that of an outsider's take on otaku culture, it can't seem to decide which character should actually be granted that perspective

The purported protagonist, Kanji Sasahara, is frankly one of the most bland and uninspiring leads I've ever come across

Initially present as a prospective new member of the club, it soon seems as if he's already been in the club for quite some time, but as opposed to, say, Makoto Kosaka's obsession with video games, he has no one interest within otakudom that makes him stick out, and in some episodes I could count the number of his lines on one hand

It's a bit sad that the most entertaining aspects of his character turn out to be some arguments with his bratty (and distinctly non-otaku) younger sister

Of greater interest is Genshiken's female lead, Kasukabe Saki, though she's also quite difficult to like, honestly

Kasukabe downright verbally (and sometimes physically) abuses the members of Genshiken much of the time, and while she complains about "having to deal" with its members, it's not easy to empathize with her when one considers that it's odd that she spends so much time with the club, given that you'd think she'd find other friends at a university this large

Even if the characters aren't easy to like, however, they at least largely serve their purposes, Sasuhara aside

Though Genshiken is laden with references to anime such as Laputa and Record of Lodoss War, it isn't completely impossible to approach if one isn't familiar inside-and-out with its trail of allusions, and as much as I don't care for her, Kasukabe does assist with that, in part

When watching this show, I was reminded of a friend's experience with her high-school "friend group," in which said people spent almost all of their free time playing games and essentially spoke exclusively using anime and gaming references

Huh?!

Here, Kasukabe is in a similar situation; even if she isn't ultimately very nice, her skepticism is sometimes a welcome touch and she's more effective than Sasuhara is as an "outsider" point of view

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It's also pretty funny, in a dark and sardonic way, when her moments of hypocrisy are pointed out, such as her criticizing the club for being obsessed with fluff while falling for Kohsaka for the shallowest of reasons, that of his looks, or her finding fault with their hobbies while not finding much productive for herself to do

Speaking of Kohsaka, he's more than a bit of a milquetoast and thus a bit irritating, but it's amusing if somewhat depressing to see someone who otherwise would seem at home in a host club completely neglect his purported girlfriend in favor of gaming; it's an understatement to say that he and most of the other characters aren't especially mature, though it's a believable degree of immaturity for college freshmen, I suppose

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Of the other club members, Harunobu Madarame is perhaps the closest to the negative stereotype of otaku owing to the the possibly unhealthy degree of his obsessions, to the point at which he spends virtually all of his money on doujinshi and, in one episode, even neglects a potentially serious hand injury in order to not lose his place in line at a convention

On the other hand, however he's at least the most honest about his intentions, which gives me a bit more sympathy for him

Tester

*BRAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP*

I'd say that the only characters I actually liked were resident costume designer Souichiro Tanaka, who (luckily) seems to have a strong understanding of the "cosplay-does-not-equal-consent" concept (which Haruhi Suzumiya could take a page from), and Kanako Ohno, the group's only female member and a cosplay fanatic herself

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There's one other member who's mainly notable for his stuttering, and not much else

New thread soon!

Now, in the introduction to this review, I say that Genshiken comes across as dated, in some ways, and Ohno's being the only female member of the club is probably the best evidence I have for this

That's not to say that the show isn't amusing anymore, for I think there's humor to be had for anybody whose interests have so strongly clashed with the apathy of outsiders; as much as I don't especially like either Kasukabe or Madarame, watching them squabble over her misunderstandings can be hilarious, to a point (the physical abuse goes too far, I think)

Furthermore, Genshiken handles its references well

The show-within-a-show, Kujibiki Unbalance (which later became its own, real-life anime) cleverly combines many of the most recognizable tropes of anime, such as the childhood friends, bizarre outfits, and ridiculous vocal tics, in order to make a genuinely god-awful piece of silliness that works perfectly as Genshiken's resident obsession

It spares the audience from necessarily having had to see, say, Kiddy Grade or some other random early '00s anime in order to find this funny, while still letting us laugh at the over-seriousness of the club members' conversations about each episode, which definitely parallel some conversations I've had

The references to real series, smartly, stick to the 90s series that escaped the pits of obscurity in which the majority of anime eventually find themselves and avoid anything that aired while the manga was published (excepting Kujibiki, of course)

As a result of all of this, Genshiken is surprisingly easy to enjoy considering how old it is

But Genshiken has aged badly in the sense that the fandom portrayed, at least in this season, is both extremely male-centric and very specific to a particular personality type

While there's some diversity in personality among the members, the majority of them are portrayed as extremely socially awkward, nerdy, physically unattractive, and overweight, which, I'd say, neatly fits the most common negative stereotypes regarding otaku on both sides of the Pacific, and which ultimately puts anime fandom (or at least otakudom) in rather simplistic terms

Indeed, when Kohsaka joins the club Saki is baffled that someone as attractive as he would be so interested in video games, doujinshi, and animated pornography; when Ohno joins the club, furthermore, almost nobody even believes that she's actually in the right place

Now, it's difficult for me to make comments on anime fandom in Japan, given that my experience has, of course, been entirely within the United States, but I'm under the impression that women have become a much more visible portion of the fanbase there, as they have here, even though issues of sexism continue to plague the scene unabated

In Genshiken, Ohno is treated as something of a novelty for being a woman within the club, and at times as something of a mascot rather than a full member, and while I'll give the show credit for at least treating her with some respect, I have to give it a strike for still constantly pointing out how "odd" she is for being into anime, cosplay, and model-building, not to mention for frequently making note of her "not taking care of her appearance

"Perhaps the show's mistake is that it almost seems hesitant to acknowledge that a female fandom even exists, honestly, for works targeted at non-male demographics are rarely (if ever) referenced, and while at a convention, Sasahara snarks at another attendee for "bringing a girl along

"It's a horridly antiquated comment, considering that the gender ratio was at least 50-50 the last time I went to a convention

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I think this was the last one from April. Times moves ever forward.