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Sourced from Pixiv. Absolutely adore how good she looks but upon closer inspection you can see nips so I didn’t think it would fly over on sh.itjust.works/c/rwby (but please come join for more RWBY fanart & discussion <3 )
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Sourced from artist’s Bluesky. I had been looking for their RWBY Syndicate series but I came across this and there’s so little Taiyang fanart I figured it was worth posting.
Love Judgement’s design the most but IMO it loses something without the tonfas.
Question: How many episodes have I missed already? Whatever brand of neurodivergence I have would be itching at me if I jumped in somewhere in the middle.
A surprise to see Land of the Lustrous fanart, to be sure, but a welcome one.
Pre-post edit: I apologize for going full autistic here but I like talking about biology &c.
Interesting that you had those ready to go, tho I’ve done a bit of a deep dive of the topic myself to try and understand it (IIRC I was spurred by an unfortunate series of back-to-back viewings of Elfen Lied, Attack on Titan, and Sword Art Online, which turned me off of anime for a year) so I kinda get it. I think maybe saying “siblings get purposefully disgusted” sounds more intentional than you meant, tho.
Interestingly enough, incest in general is not quite so damaging across the animal kingdom (or plants, but plants are a whole other discussion) as many people think. A healthy population should have enough genetic diversity and lack of those garbage genes which cause defects that an incest pairing won’t affect most offspring. Humans are just much more closely related to each other than would be usual for a population our size – we’ve gone through at least one (possibly more than one) population bottleneck that left us less genetically diverse than we should be – so it’s a lot easier for genetic diseases to be passed on through incest.
In some cases, incest has allowed animals to colonize environments they’d otherwise not be able to. Komodo dragons might be one such example, as they use ZW chromosomes instead of XY – females are ZW while males are ZZ – and are capable of parthenogenesis. That means a singular female can, separated from any male, lay a clutch of “clone” eggs which will all hatch male and thus have a mate to continue the species. This may have been how Komodo dragons colonized the islands they call home.
A counterpart to “Shinji, get thyself in thy golem”
Some communities that would probably welcome this:
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I love it so much. I always love seeing art that re-interprets famous mecha.
I have a huge soft spot for Slime Time because while I recognize it’s trashy and extremely heavy on the power fantasy, there’s a sense of altruism – that is, the main goal of the MC is just wanting to make life better for the monsters whether they’re his subjects or not – that makes it more enjoyable than other isekai I’ve been introduced to. The early arcs around Shizu and then the Orc Disaster Geld were so touching that they made me cry.
Well, there is that but I was thinking more like the world of The Weakest Tamer where everyone has a magical “skill” dictated by how many “stars” they have and the MC has a voice in their head that tells them things they may not know (which goes unheard by the audience but seems to chime in like a player through a screen (or maybe just a ghost)), but otherwise has no obvious tells of being a video game world. Unless you count the MC doing inventory management on the regular.
I keep thinking there’s a secret third option because of the ambiguous way the question was phrased – something like how seemingly half of all isekai have gaming-inspired abilities despite not being set in nor based on a video game world.
I’m not entirely sure I understand the question being asked, but I want to say that the first season of Higurashi No Naka Koro Ni (AKA When They Cry AKA When Cicadas Cry) perfectly sets the tone and pacing of a mystery thriller where every answer the viewer gets to their questions comes with two or three NEW questions until you’re left with more questions than answers by the end of that first season.
That said, I have to cop to the aggressive animé-ness of the show, from dressing up its underage cast in fanservice-y clothing to the extreme mood whiplash between arcs, not to mention the entire weird premise (which I can’t really blurt out without major spoilers). Also large portions of the second season are dedicated to actions which I do not understand. My point is, it kinda fumbles in places.
My friends are having me watch Shangri-La Frontier at the moment (we take turns suggesting anime to watch together) and while I’m not really enthused by the story, I will absolutely recognize how very… let’s call it true-to-life it is wrt games and gaming culture. A LOT of little details in the fictional games and how the players interact with them (like the whole kuso gaming community) really proves how well the author knows their stuff.
Also the dub is top-fucking-notch, using terms I’m intimately familiar with from the gaming sphere but have never heard from localized anime before.
Higurashi No Naka Koro Ni… [/jk, in case it’s necessary]
There’s a lot that can go over your head when you’re young. For me it was FLCL and its themes of grooming and abuse along with Mimi being homeless.
I’d never actually watched CCS as a kid and thought “maybe I should introduce my nieces” but then read the first volume of the manga and WOAH, NELLY. [Bullhorn]Step away from the child.
Is that an order, or can I stick to eating chicken & mushrooms?
My memory is a little hazy on the details, but I think there was more to the original story (probably a light novel?) that never got adapted, which is why it kind of peters out at the end. It probably doesn’t get much attention the same way Mushi-shi doesn’t – it’s a slow-going show without a clear-cut plot, and that doesn’t appeal to a lot of the folks who watch anime (esp. here in the West).
If I’d ever finished Mushi-shi I’d have probably included that, too, but I’ve had the worst luck watching it just as sites get taken down or I lose internet for a few days and lose all momentum.
Six of one, half a dozen of the other. It’s like the fact that you cannot create a category that includes all “fish” that doesn’t also include humans (or, if you want to exclude humans by way of things like body plan or living on land, then you have to include cetaceans and start excluding things like lungfish).
To use your example, most people would probably say there are actually pretty clear expectations of tone & pacing between “a Netflix show” vs. “an HBO show” vs. “a syndicated television show (from before streaming services)” despite them all being the same on the surface.
I can hear this gif.
I have a hard time conceptualizing PSG as an ecchi anime. Between the majority Tom & Jerry style animation and the much larger emphasis on toilet humor over leering at the girls, it just slides under my mental gate for it.
I have to distinguish “classic” big three because I’m more of an oldtaku and the young’ins these days consider the “big three” to be One Piece, Naruto, and BLEACH. I don’t necessarily mean “classic” here in terms of absolute quality but more “these were the three everyone at the time knew about” – which I know is also subject to region/culture when things like Knights of the Zodiac AKA Caballeros Del Zodiaco would have been THE anime of LatAm around the same time but virtually unknown in the U.S.
The way I see it, Hosoda’s films are a natural progression for anyone who likes Ghibli films, which I probably should have included in the post but it was already growing overly long. Low-key agree with you on Mirai and Belle but I’d say they’re still worth a watch. Also Summer Wars makes a lot more sense if you’re familiar with Digimon, as it’s just the Our War Game OVA extended out to a full movie.
Kinda fair wrt Perfect Blue, I’m used to its reputation preceding it. Generally all of Kon’s works are “kinda fucked up” tho; actual adult material (and not just gritty or overly-sexualized) that draws people to them.
I haven’t seen OPM yet, it’s been on my radar but I’ve been working on clearing things off my old personal list before adding more to it.
CITY I’ve only recently heard of but I keep seeing it brought up in relation to Nichijou so I’ll need to check it out eventually.
Oh, no, I’m aware that DBZ jumped the shark from the word “go”, and also vaguely aware of the original Dragon Ball being a retelling of Journey to the West. Truthfully, I expect I will actually enjoy Dragon Ball more than DBZ because while I hold a lot of nostalgia for DBZ, in rewatching it I realized how much it’s very much like a modern mythology story, where you already know the outcome (Goku wins) so there’s not the same kind of narrative weight we’re used to (not to mention some absolute bullshit maneuvers from time to time), but a lot of the fun is just getting to see the big, unbelievable battles and how they keep getting bigger and unbelievable-er. Dragon Ball being just an adventure story is probably going to be closer to my tastes nowadays.
Okay, I see where the confusion lies: fanservice is what that T&A in most anime is called. Ecchi is when that’s the main focus of the show. Again, it’s like how in a PG-13 movie they’re allowed a certain level of “suggestive themes” like an implied sex scene, but if they’re too blatant/obvious/frequent they’ve got to go up to an R rating.
So, like,
The anime community (especially in the West) has had a bad reputation about making the fanservice front-and-center (for various reasons I won’t get into here) but I think one should make a clear separation between what you see at fan meetups and what the actual content of the anime is.
I have never heard of Saiki at all. I’m also reasonably certain that I’ve only ever heard of Gintama by name, never seen a scrap of it in all my time. I’m also a certified hater of AoT, so there’s that.
As much as I do like Yu Yu Hakusho, I don’t think I’d call it particularly rewatchable. I will agree that FMA/FMA:B deserves it’s spot on the list, tho.
I do not think I like this list, but I don’t think I’ve cared for top X lists since I was a tween some two decades ago.
I’d like to hear your thoughts on Dragon Ball, though. I’ve been meaning to watch it for real and have been putting it off since I got gifted the entirety of DBZ and revisited my childhood.
Yeah, and as a matter of fact I think most ecchi anime don’t even show nipples (tho panty shots are often frequent). The furthest most ecchi anime will ever go is showing nipples, but generally you’re going to see things that are purposefully towing the line (barely-there swimsuits, groping, shirts/towels/hair just conveniently hanging down to cover important bits, references to sex toys and/or BDSM, et cetera.). The point of an ecchi is to be sexually arousing first, rather than just having a naked dark-skinned cat girl in an otherwise fairly serious action show about soul people with sentient swords. Most ecchi anime tends to be comedy as a result.
Not sure how you managed to watch only two of the classic big three but you absolutely need to go back and watch the original Trigun if you liked both Cowboy Bebop and Eva. (my rec: dubbed)
Similarly, you’d probably dig both Samurai Champloo and Space Dandy. Both are made by the same guy behind Cowboy Bebop and can kind of be seen as a thematic trilogy of sorts. Do be warned that Space Dandy is a little bit heavier on both the fanservice and nonsensical comedy, tho. (my rec for both: dubbed)
You’d probably enjoy Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit based on your other series. It’s a very down-to-earth tale of a prince saved from a prophecy by a swordsmistress, and it’s a bit of a slow burn but it’s well worth it. (my rec: dubbed)
Kino’s Journey is another one you might like. Similar to Cowboy Bebop it’s so episodic it’s practically slice-of-life but with a throughline of this character and their talking motorcycle going on an adventure through this dark and whimsical world. It’s kind of hard to properly explain without going into the entire plot. (my rec: dubbed)
I’ve never seen Food Wars, but I’ll cautiously recommend Interspecies Reviewers as a raunchy comedy with some actual thought put behind the world. Like, you can absolutely go in just thinking your in for brainless sexy monster girls but you’ll be presented with a world more fully-fleshed out than a vast majority of fantasy anime. (only 1 episode was ever dubbed b/c Funimation are COWARDS)
If I’m reading between the lines correctly and you’re a bit of an older fan who’s had to endure their share of unrewarding jobs, check out Aggretsuko. It’s kinda like if Hello Kitty and The Office had a baby. Aggretsuko is my spirit animal. (my rec: subbed).
Den-no Coil (I think there’s been multiple romanizations of this title). It’s a supernatural mystery/thriller with a very-near-future cyberpunk coat of paint, aesthetically it’s kind of like a cyber-Mushi-shi, but it shares a lot of the same themes of connection as NGE (my rec: subbed)
Gurren Lagann probably a Gainax classic, full-blown machismo cranked up not just to 11 but to 20, but somehow the plot ramps up in an appreciable way so that when they throw entire galaxies as shurikens by the end it’s not just complete bullshit. (my rec: dubbed)
Interviews with Monster Girls AKA Demi-chan wa Katatirai On the opposite end of the spectrum from Interspecies Reviewers, come for the idea of fun escapades with monster girls in the modern day and instead get some of the kindest, most poignant messages about people with disabilities, neurodivergence, special needs, and PTSD. (my rec: dubbed)
Nichijou Probably THE most well-known gag anime out there, it has an impeccable sense of comedic timing and some of the most well-animated gag shots in anime history. (my rec: subbed)
You need to go check out Mamoru Hosoda’s films:
All of them have great dubs.
Also Satoshi Kon’s works:
I don’t think any of them have dubs
Also watch Redline because it’s fucking gorgeous (dub is good). Also The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl because it’s gorgeously animated* in another way (subbed unless you can keep up with the breakneck pace of the dub).
If you like Ghibli in general then check out both Miss Hokusai and In This Corner of the World. I think two different studios did the both of them but they’re both high-quality in terms of both animation and story.
It can be both
This is probably going to sound like the most milquetoast take but my favorite has probably got to go to Interspecies Reviewers. I went in expecting the stupidest raunchy antics and instead got some of the best worldbuilding I’ve ever seen for a fantasy anime. It also directly led to me checking out one of my favorite anime (for entirely different reasons), Interviews with Monster Girls AKA Demi-chan Kataritai.
Some honorable mentions, tho:
Ecchi comes from the romanization of how the Japanese pronounce H, which is used to denote more-or-less explicitly sexual tones and themes – I cannot say with certainty the cultural context of the word in Japan but generally I think it would be equivalent to an MPAA R-rating (where most anime would fall under PG-13 equivalent ratings), as actual hentai/porn is considered a step or three above ecchi.
As a side-note, I think you mean isekai, not izakie. Isekai is also a direct romanization of the Japanese word meaning “another world”, so if you ever come across pedantic arguments over what “counts” as isekai, it’s because of that.
I guess I thought of it as people needing to actively be anime fans specifically, rather than just occassionally watching some anime and having fun with it. I suppose it’s similar to movies in that sense, where there’s quite a difference between a cinephile and someone who likes to put on Netflix to unwind.
Yeah, I think that’s a good way to phrase it. There is also a generational element, as I mentioned with the Gen Z statistic (probably more pronounced with anime because it is animation and a lot of the anglosphere still treats animation as “for kids”).
Also I want to apologize for probably coming across too brusquely before. I jumped to respond and then rushed to actually complete the response before I had to go to work. My bad.
I especially don’t know where anime (or, I guess more specfically, J-Pop) stacks up on the music/radio stage. AFAIK foreign-language songs just don’t crack the American music scene, but I’m no audiophile and I haven’t listened to the radio for close to two decades so
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In terms of blockbuster: how about Demon Slayer’s Mugen Train movie being the highest grossing movie of 2020 worldwide? Infinity Castle was also the seventh-highest grossing movie of 2025 (and was the highest-grossing international film in the U.S.). That’s beyond Disney making Ghibli a household name.
Yes, my views are going to be U.S-centric, I’ll admit that, and I’m sure what counts as “everyday conversations” is going to vary by region – however for me “mainstream” means things like the above, that anime movies like Chainsaw Man and One Piece see theatrical releases outside of Japan and get placed on lists of highest-grossing movies worldwide. Pokémon is also partly anime and it is literally THE most profitable IP in the world. Big companies like Sony and Disney have anime as part of their regular catalogue. It’s not some niche little thing that only scrappy companies like Tokyopop will touch anymore. Goku is in the Macy’s Day Parade (which is a major national event in the U.S., I am completely unaware how well-known it is outside the country).
I’m sure you can argue that there are a lot of anime that no one outside those really entrenched in the greater anime fandom have heard of, but to discount anime as a whole being some niche form of media only known to those in the hobby is, IMO, misguided at best.
Oh, and something else to back up my claims: a 2025 global research report by Dentsu found around 30% of “global consumers” (which I’m reading as those with disposable income, probably 16 and up) watch anime at least once a week, and another 2023 report for the U.S. specifically found that 1 in 3 adults 18-54 watched “viral anime titles” with that number going up to 44% for Gen Z aged 18-24 at the time.
Metamorphosis is a very grounded story about a girl whose life took a nose dive after being introduced to drugs, and as implied by DundaStation has a downer ending in the original version.
The common joke is that gooners looking for a doujin to fap to end up being emotionally broken – which personally I didn’t get but to each their own – but because it’s so grounded in reality it can set some people off, especially if they’ve had past trauma.
You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!
In all seriousness Metamorphosis (AKA 177013) should probably come with some content warnings. Just wanted to give you a heads up in case you’re being completely genuine.
( ≧▽≦) Oh sweet baby Dionysus
Calling bullshit that anime only became “mainstream” by the time of AoT’s final season. That was literally only 2020, anime had been mainstream for years at that point (I’d argue close to two decades). Also I remember watching those Bleach episodes as they premiered, the 3am claim is hyperbole, Toonami may have been part of the Adult Swim block by then but there was plenty of anime airing at primetime (as she herself mentioned earlier in the vid). I’m definitely being pedantic but these youngin’s actin’ like they had it so bad while vastly overselling the experience irks me.
Also I find it a little weird how she mentioned “anime stigma” like a dozen times and never once brought up the way a lot of parents used to associate late-night anime with hentai? That may be because of youtube, tho.
Obliviousness aside, I’m glad to see the general vibe here is not Lawful Stupid. Whatever team is working on this is clearly putting a lot of work in in addition to the AI and I’m very much looking forward to it, but of course because AI is even mentioned it has to be embroiled in the latest culture war. Le sigh.
Oh, damn, my mistake. You’re definitely a rarity in the anime fandom, then. I only know of Twinkle Nora Rock Me!, Chargeman Ken, and other similarly notorious anime from the 70s and 80s because of this one youtuber Kenny Lauderdale who covers old anime like that. It may have been from him that I even learned of YKK.
I would never be able to get into collecting LaserDiscs for various reasons but I tip my hat to you for being able to and helping with preservation, however small.
Kenny Lauderdale fan spotted ☆(*^o^)乂(^.^*)☆
Personally, my favorite parts of it have always been the themes of connecting with people and the hedgehog’s dilemma, rather than all the action-y bits or the heavy-handed religious symbolism. Between it, Eureka Seven, and The Big O, and comparing them to the likes of Code Geass and whichever-actual-Gundam-series-I-watched, I learned I don’t really care for mecha being mecha, but I enjoy when mecha are metaphor.
QUICKEDIT: I realize I’m sounding like I’m trying to convince you to like it and it’s not my intention here, more just trying to explain my side and make conversation.
Yeah I still remember like a dozen years ago watching a Digibro video that was trying to proclaim “your tastes should always be changing!” and I was literally within 2-3 years of their age at the time and was like, “how fucking young are you that you think this is a revolutionary thing to say?”
Like, my love for FMA has only grown over the years as I’ve matured and am better able to appreciate its themes, and meanwhile I can no longer stand even a single minute of Hetalia. Similarly, I grew up on all the long-running shounen battle anime like DBZ, Naruto, Bleach, etc., but I couldn’t bring myself to like Fire Force because I’m not 15 years old anymore (though I will admit HeroAca is a guilty pleasure of mine).
There’s dozens of us! Dozens!
My condolences. Haibane Renmei is one of my favorites.
I think on the one hand it is fair to say NGE is one of the greats from its time and arguably one of the most influential anime ever made (to the point where it’s now part of Japan’s cultural identity – you can hear Cruel Angel’s Thesis just causally as waiting room music for instance).
On the other hand, even as a fan myself I recognize how many brain-dead evangelical (heh) supporters try to tout it as the end-all-and-be-all of anime when it’s really just an unorthodox entry into a very specific type of genre.
I’m an idiot it took me so long to realize the dude on the left is eating his own food and not sneakily trying to steal from purple hair’s plate (I haven’t seen Frieren only a handful of memes and r34).
While I’m not sure I understand the premise, the only thing I’ve ever had a ♠ romance with has been Attack on Titan. I hated that first season with a fiery passion even on my first watch, despite being absolutely captivated by the first episode. Like, I will give it props for having such a marvelous set-up that you immediately want to know where it all goes, but I was constantly enraged by almost every plot beat. It kills off characters you don’t know or care about and yells at you to feel something. The MC maybe goes through some struggles before it was revealed that no, he’s a genius and people were just bullying him. Then it has the gall to make him God’s specialist little boy. The only character I even liked was General Pixis, tho Armin has his moments.
I’ll refrain from talking about spoilers in subsequent seasons, but those also pissed me off. The main reason I haven’t actually finished hate-watching the entire show is because it took so damn long to come out, and quite frankly I needed my spoons and straws to survive the politics and plague of the last ten years. Funnily enough, all my friends save one are of the same mind that AoT sucks, but AFAIK it’s popular among the greater anime community.
intense all the way through
I think I’ll just quote Shinji on this one “You ran out of ink, too, didn’t you, you bastards?”
I’m just a rando online but I would say give Abridged a shot. It’s clear that they understood the show and while they do poke fun, it’s not just constantly shitting on it like I’ve seen from some abridged series. That said, Abridged Kirito is portrayed kinda like Donald Duck in that he’s deliberately insufferable so that you laugh when he gets his comeuppance (which is frequent), so if you think that would be too much to power thru, just give it a pass then.
I’m not a certified SAO hater but I did sour on it by myself after the Alfheim arc started so I loved what Abridged did to “fix” some of my issues with it, and it has a hella memorable ending to the Aincrad arc that actually uses the OP (This Is War by Thirty Seconds to Mars) for the climax.
I get where you’re coming from but bruh I have piss-poor hearing (probably genetic, too). I’ve always watched anime with subtitles even in English because I WILL miss things otherwise. Hell, half the reason I tend towards subs isn’t for the dumb notions of purity of translation but because 90% of the time the English audio balancing sucks so bad that I literally can’t hear things even will the volume turned ALL the way up. I swear those Blu-rays I got have English audio tracks at half the volume of the Japanese.
I’ve never made the switch over to Blu-ray (and every Blu-ray I have been gifted has been a terrible experience for me – WHY AM I NOT ALLOWED TO PUT SUBTITLES ON WITH THE ENGLISH AUDIO‽‽‽ IF YOU’RE NOT GOING TO PROVIDE CAPTIONS I NEED SOMETHING) so I was involuntarily placed into case 4 some years ago because anime seems to have stopped releasing on DVD at all.
I also used to love buying from RightStuf, as well, but I’m not wanted apparently.
Very surprised to see a full youtube playlist of an anime in this day and age. Does that mean that so far you’ve only watched 1 episode of that Orange Road anime?