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Pixel--Dude wrote: ↑

November 15th, 2022, 3:13 am

@Tsar, @Outcast9428 and @WanderingProtagonist. Wondered if any of you guys fancied a nice chilled conversation about different animes. If memory serves you three mentioned you like anime, right?

Which anime do you guys like? Any worth watching? Any to avoid? I started watching Death Note as the first anime I ever watched and really enjoyed it. I liked the psychological warfare between Light and L and I thought the way they thought outside the box to outsmart and outplay each other was written very well!

WanderingProtagonist wrote: ↑

November 15th, 2022, 3:19 am

I don't even like the stuff anymore, I watched it a lot in my teens and some of it in my 20s but it was all mostly 1990s anime before it got all gay as hell. I use to watch Toonami a lot in those days. Now I just stick to Western animations like Goof Troop lol, Pete is funny as hell I just hate how his wife is always kicking his ass though. I like to watch loony tunes, all the things I grew up on really. The nostalgia hits me really hard, I don't feel that way about any of the anime's I watched from back in the day. Anime feels a lot more nerdier than American cartoons for some reason, not sure why that is. I mean you can watch something like Ed, Edd, N Eddy and not feel nerdy at all. But on some Pokemon lol you will

In this 2013 feature-length animated Brazilian film, an immortal hero fights and loves his way through four different time periods stretching from the jungles of precolonial Brazil to Rio de Janeiro in the year 2096.

Each time he meets and falls in love with the same head strong woman. Each time he engages with revolutionary movements that pit a small band of resisters against the powers that be. Sometimes the powers are the easy-to-recognize “rich and powerful” and their military. In the future the battle is over access to water in an ultramodern but socially and economically divided Rio De Janeiro.

Stylistically the film combines hand drawn human characters with richly colored lush backgrounds and almost abstract CGI. Color palettes are vibrant and shift from scene to scene. It’s a mesmerizing combination that emphasizes nature and its contrasts. In the final future sequence we also see grandiose Blade-Runner-esque urban angularities.

English subtitles are sparse but serviceable. It’s pretty easy to tell what’s going on. Love interests, good guys, and bad guys are clearly defined.

If I had any complaints it’s the overall simplicity of the constantly repeated “us versus them” story. It’s a dialectic that’s easy to display but one which students of history may recognize as overly simplistic. Strong contrasts in virtue make it easy for us to identify with one side or the other. Not every film can successfully explore cultural complexity especially one that attempts to bridge the ages like this one. Rio 2096 is nevertheless an imaginative and admirable entry.

Given the sophistication of Rio 2096, I wonder what a good animated version of George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia would look like. Back in 1936 Orwell threw himself headlong as a volunteer into the Spanish Civil War. He discovered and in his book documented the evil that existed on both sides of the fence separating communists and fascists. Orwell, as idealistic as he was, realized the struggle then was less about freedom and independence than about naked grasps for power. To some extent that message comes through as well in Rio 2096. It’s a message that deserves a wide audience.

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November 15th, 2022, 4:41 pm

WanderingProtagonist wrote: ↑

November 15th, 2022, 3:19 am

I don't even like the stuff anymore, I watched it a lot in my teens and some of it in my 20s but it was all mostly 1990s anime before it got all gay as hell. I use to watch Toonami a lot in those days. Now I just stick to Western animations like Goof Troop lol, Pete is funny as hell I just hate how his wife is always kicking his ass though. I like to watch loony tunes, all the things I grew up on really. The nostalgia hits me really hard, I don't feel that way about any of the anime's I watched from back in the day. Anime feels a lot more nerdier than American cartoons for some reason, not sure why that is. I mean you can watch something like Ed, Edd, N Eddy and not feel nerdy at all. But on some Pokemon lol you will

Japanese pop culture is indeed nerdier than its American or European counterparts and has been way ahead on nerdiness for decades now. That's why so many Western nerds obsessively dickride the country and everything about it and make out that it's some sort of perfect utopia that can do no wrong. I told you in another thread that, despite having lived in Japan and speaking Japanese, I can no longer stand what I call the "Nippon vibe". The Nippon vibe (Nippon is the Japanese name for Japan) is the hyper-nerdy quality which seems to characterize much of the Japanese cultural content of the modern age and which more often than not expresses a certain level of effeminacy and "gayness". Japan wasn't always like that. Prior to WW2, Japanese society embraced masculinity and the likes of Bushido culture and didn't glorify nerdiness at all.

Let's be brutally honest for a second. Nerd culture is massively gay and has a certain unmasculine weak boy quality. I could have ended up being a nerd in school because I was unpopular and had certain eccentric interests, but nerd culture never appealed to me at all due to its celebration of physical weakness and pussydom and its lack of all masculine virtue and also struck me as being totally lame and cringeworthy. Everything nerdy sucks ass.

Since Japanese pop culture is now characterized by nerdiness more than ever before, most things that come out of Japan just don't interest me at all and even produce in me a certain feeling of revulsion. Most Japanese anime is just nerdy and gay as hell, Japanese TV entertainment is just one big vacuous cringefest, Japanese videogames are not what they used to be in the 90s and early 2000s and now usually have to have a certain nerdy vibe to them, and things like hentai are just contemptible. I'm in the same boat as you are, WanderingProtagonist. Nowadays I'd much rather watch non-nerdy Western cartoons which were totally cool back in the day, play a baddass American video game for men like GTA, watch a Hollywood movie from the 80s or 90s or even a nice Italian movie, and watch Latin American telenovelas that have men who actually look like men as well as hot chicks with sexiness. So much Japanese content is overrated as hell but so many weebs bum off it just because it's Japanese!

Unfortunately, effeminate nerd culture is now being pushed in the mainstream throughout the West too. I suspect that this is part of the elite's plan to demasculinize men and turn them into weak low-test pussies who are easy to control. Japan is simply ahead of the curve but the West is certainly catching up. Today nerd culture seems to be invading everything. It has even invaded wrestling and now we have companies like AEW which cater to a predominantly nerd fanbase and wrestling has just become totally gay as a result. Wrestlers today are nerdy weabo gamer faggots like Kenny Omega. Back in the day there were real baddass wrestlers like The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin and then other real men like Brock Lesnar, Dave Batista, and even John Cena in his original "doctor of thugganomics" incarnation. I used to love wrestling back in the day before it turned gay and nerdy. Keep that nerd shit out of wrestling! Wrestling is for real masculine men and should never be invaded by nerd faggotry! At least nerd culture will never take over the UFC.

But back to anime, I can't stand most of it precisely because of the nerdy gay-ass Nippon vibe. My favorite animated movie is actually a Brazilian one with a Western artistic style called Rio 2096 - A Story of Love and Fury (original title: Uma História de Amor e Fúria) which recounts the story of soulmates Immortal Warrior and Janaína and their struggle against the evil force of Anhangá (the NWO according to my own interpretation) across four different incarnations from the time of pre-Columbian America through the slave rebellion known as the Balaiada and Brazil's military dictatorship of the 1960s all the way into a dystopian corporatocratic future in the year 2096. I prefer the movie's occidental aesthetic. It has no Nippon vibe nerdy gayness whatsoever.

Man, I feel like ranting today!

Pixel--Dude wrote: ↑

November 15th, 2022, 5:53 am

WanderingProtagonist wrote: ↑

November 15th, 2022, 3:19 am

Pixel--Dude wrote: ↑

November 15th, 2022, 3:13 am

@Tsar, @Outcast9428 and @WanderingProtagonist. Wondered if any of you guys fancied a nice chilled conversation about different animes. If memory serves you three mentioned you like anime, right?

Which anime do you guys like? Any worth watching? Any to avoid? I started watching Death Note as the first anime I ever watched and really enjoyed it. I liked the psychological warfare between Light and L and I thought the way they thought outside the box to outsmart and outplay each other was written very well!

I don't even like the stuff anymore, I watched it a lot in my teens and some of it in my 20s but it was all mostly 1990s anime before it got all gay as hell. I use to watch Toonami a lot in those days. Now I just stick to Western animations like Goof Troop lol, Pete is funny as hell I just hate how his wife is always kicking his ass though. I like to watch loony tunes, all the things I grew up on really. The nostalgia hits me really hard, I don't feel that way about any of the anime's I watched from back in the day. Anime feels a lot more nerdier than American cartoons for some reason, not sure why that is. I mean you can watch something like Ed, Edd, N Eddy and not feel nerdy at all. But on some Pokemon lol you will
I don't know, anime is really boring to me. Every now and then I'll watch one of the old films like Demon City or Wicked City.

I hated the Ending to Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust because D punked out and didn't kill that vampire lord like a Belmont would have done regardless if he found love lol. He was suppose to bring the daughter back to the father that recruited him to find her. Then he let her escape on a rocket ship with that vampire and became all virtues about it...I was like "man for a Vampire Hunter D you suck!" He could have at least brought the girl back like he was suppose to do if he didn't want to kill the Vampire Lord, but he just let them escape together so they could have some lame happy ending. I don't know they took a shit on that film, it's like okay the girl left on her own, she made the decision to become a vampire. Then kill them both you fuckin idiot!

I remember seeing only half of Blood The Last Vampire but I hated the protagonist, she was a goddamn asshole and a bitch too. I wanted her to die so bad in that movie. She would treat innocent people like dog shit, I couldn't stand that goddamn movie. That's why I turned it off.
Most of the anime's I've seen were movies, I rarely watched any actual shows of anime except for in my early teens back when Toonami was starting out. My cousin and her ex use to come over to the house every day, and I'd record DBZ for him. I seen some parts of Akira, Ghost in The Shell, and Ghost in the Shell Innocence.

I always thought a lot of those films were highly overrated as hell though and painfully boring too especially Akira and
Ghost in The Shell, those two are the most overrated of all time. I was big into Mobile Suit Gundam, Outlaw Star, and Cowboy Beebop. If I tried watching any of that stuff now I most likely couldn't. But I can easily enjoy me some Beavis And Butthead because I love watching the music videos on there even if some of them I hated. Those American shows is what create a lot of nostalgia for me where I'm feeling "I wish the 90s or early 2000s could come back." A lot of people my age really do miss the 90s and early 2000s... Hell I get teary all the time thinking about it sometimes sitting up late, watching the international channel. That channel had a lot of good stuff on it too if you sat up really late, they use to air mostly Asian programming. I found out a lot of other anime stuff from that channel when it use to be around.

I'm the opposite to you in the sense that most of the anime I've watched has been a series rather than a movie. Though I have watched a couple of movies I thought most of them were shit. I also watched Blood: The Last Vampire and to be honest I found it boring as f**k. The protagonist, as you pointed out, is just fundamentally unlikeable.

I watched Dead Space the anime movie, which I thought was pretty good. It served as a prelude to the computer game Dead Space, which is still one of the last decent horror games that I played. Calysto Protocol is made by the same dude that created Dead Space, so I have high expectations for the upcoming game. I talked about it in my gaming thread. But anyway, here's the trailer for Dead Space:



I intended to post the trailer, but the full movie is all I could find funnily enough so anyone intrigued here is the full movie.

Another movie I enjoyed was Animatrix, but only certain segments interested me. Some of them were boring. The Second Renaissance was an interesting chapter and was split into two parts. I posted them before in my thread about A.I. technology. Here is the Second Renaissance:



I don't like slice of life anime and all the gay shit. Never really been into things like Pokemon or anything like that. I prefer darker anime or something with a good story. You should have a look at Death Note. That anime is really good once it gets going.

Pixel--Dude wrote: ↑

November 16th, 2022, 1:07 am

@WanderingProtagonist I've never even heard of Wicked City. What's it about? I've got a few anime I think are pretty cool and fans of anime should check out.

Pixel--Dude wrote: ↑

October 26th, 2023, 8:27 am

@Lucas88
@WanderingProtagonist
@Outcast9428
@fschmidt

Another thing related to Death Note you guys. Back in the day I was a massive fan of the anime. Being a fan of the anime and also someone who enjoys writing I actually started writing my own fanfiction story taking place after the anime.

In my story, which is based on a dream I had about Death Note, two shinigami make a bet and select two humans. They give these humans a Death Note and tell them they have 23 days to find and write down the name of the other human chosen by the other shinigami otherwise in the case of a tie both shinigami write their chosen humans names down and kill both of them.

The shinigami made rules between themselves for the bet, such as they are only allowed to spectate and not be directly involved beyond explaining how the notebook works, the rules of the game and shinigami eyes deal.

So the fanfiction was about these two guys in a certain region of Japan trying to hunt each other down by Amy means necessary in 23 days or they both died. What do you guys think? Does it sound interesting and do you think I should still write it?

If @Tsar is still around I'd like his feedback on this too.