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Thanks for the insights on the background of Look Back! I enjoyed watching it overall and grew attached to the meanings behind the film in the end. In the beginning, as the scenes were playing out, I began to understand what was coming and had certain expectations given my previous experiences with his works. Which meant I got worried that my familiarity with his style in these types of storytelling would derail my enjoyment but I'm happy that didn't happen. I have a feeling that the Look Back one-shot is gonna be worth the read though.

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ps. i really don't use my discord so i don't know if i'm sharing the info right.

In an isekai cyberpunk future with no hope, the only thing that will help us survive is the angelic broadcasts

Thank you in advance for your reply.

indeed, I do agree. lately i more prefer SoL which makes me relax & reading or just take some seasonal peak anime


don't worry about late reply. enjoy your day, anw nice to meet ya.! :)

Yea, Kayoko's characterization is actually very well thought out in where she is both very endearing and relatable. She also reminds me of some people I befriended back in high school.

I'm not quite finished with MahoYoru yet, but Alice's personality and design really appealed to me a lot. She's usually calm, cool, and collected, and doesn't tend to connect with others due to how she was brought up, but her time spent with the likes of Aoko and Soujuurou (especially the latter) slowly but surely opened her up. She's also quite a badass in fighting and is very skilled, but has her own notable weaknesses that prevent her from being a flawless one-noted character.

Kayoko your new spirit animal 🙏🙏🙏

hello..! oh woaa great taste zech;

— btw have u planning to watch an modern anime from this season or later.

im really sick of recycled stories xd

Do you ever experience ''I guess I'm not a target audience anymore'' moments? I might be getting older, but stuff like konosuba used to be good for at least few chuckles, now I'm just sitting there with no expressions thinking what am I even doing with my life... might just be that show's formula getting exhausted of course, but I genuinely feel vastly burnt out with school/comedy/shounen genres and gravitating towards seinen or just old atmospheric movies when I'm not working or studying.

That's great! Looking forward to talk about some other stuff later.

I thought I might have said something that offended you, happy to see it was not the case (right?) since I'm not used to writing in English. Thanks for responding.

I might have gotten that wrong but who decides what is adult and what is not. Sometimes by adults they mean the movie is rated for adults because it has violence, gore, and sexual themes. So the movie itself doesn't really have much to say, it is just rated for adults because it has these specific scenes.
Some other times the movie claims to have mature themes and that the story is written for an adult audience but again when you watch the movie you will realize that all those claims are actually a big lie, the story is trying to sound mature, it is trying to tell a mature story but it fails at doing so. So Simply because something says that it is aimed for a mature audience, doesn't make that thing a product of higher quality. To be honest it's one of the reasons that I am cautious with western media, while there are amazing titles out there, they have some of the most pretentious stories ever. They try to pretend that they are talking about serious stuff, and mature topics only to fall flat and fail. An example from the top of my head, Avatar movie.

That's why I like anime, most of the time, if the topic is nothing that big or mature they don't try and pretend it is something big and mature; they just tell the story they want to tell, nothing more nothing less. And if they want to handle mature topics and stories they try their best. Of course there are exceptions. There are titles that try to pretend they are handling a serious and mature topic only to fail.



Well said.



They're will always be people that complain about everything, be it anime, games, movies, literature. There are always people that are unhappy with what they consume and social media is filled with these unsatisfied people. Sometimes what they say is true and sometimes it’s nothing important. Paying attention to them is just a waste of time so don’t let them bother you because at the end of the day people will move on and no one cares what they were saying. The video you sent is from a year ago and I bet there are people out there that are still complaining about Berserk but who cares, they get a couple of likes and everyone forgets. I used to watch a lot of videos from Hero Hei, to be honest I really like his content he sheds light on a lot of topics, but at a certain point I thought I want to stop that, because my mind was filled with so many unimportant messages and news, and all those news did for me was to make my day worse so I stopped. I still give him a like whenever I watch one of his videos.

Maybe what I’m saying is hilarious but I’m trying to look at the bigger picture and not to bother with petty complaints on twitter by some random person. No offense to Hero Hei for covering this sort of stuff, it’s just not for me, seeing stupid people saying stupid stuff hurts my brain, sometimes I take it too seriously. What is happening nowadays is that anime is getting more and more popular, whether we like it or not.

To be honest I think it's the matter of who you ask from, if you ask some normal people that usually follow normal trends on the internet, They probably have not much of an opinion about anime because in the first place they don't really care about it, they might have seen some popular shows like Attack on Titan or Demon Slayer, they may say how they have nostalgia with Dragon Ball Z but they do not have a solid opinion about anime since anime is like any other form of media for them, they just consume it and move on. That's why I think saying that “effortless” shows are the reason that people do not have a good opinion about anime is wrong, since your average Joe doesn't even bother to watch seasonal anime, they just watch big hits that are popular so that they can just jump on the hype train.



Can't we say the same thing about other Industries as well? For example look at Hollywood and how they are making a lot of bad movies, with a really mediocre script. The latest one is Acolyte, the Star Wars series, that everyone is clowning about on YouTube. Most games that are coming out nowadays are also really mediocre and repetitive they lack creativity and it seems like no one in the team cared about the game they were creating, good example of it is Ubisoft, They once created amazing games like Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Prince of Persia but now they have been releasing almost the same game for a long time.

I think it is something that happens whenever corporations decide to enter an industry. More and more you see that every new title that is being released has almost the same story, and same characters it is as if all of them are trying to use a certain formula and make profit out of it, they don't want to take risks, they don't want to experiment, they just want the project to be successful, so that people will pay for it, and anime is no different.



I don't live in the U.S., in fact, I don't live in any other Western countries either, but I've seen a lot of video essays and in those videos, people treat anime like any other type of media, as if it is not even an anime, like it's something completely normal and understandable. I think people came to understand and accept anime as another popular type of media like how they did with games, I mean at one point gamers were considered nerds, but now games are another popular, completely normal and accepted way of entertainment (some even argue that certain video games are art).



Regarding canceling Berserk on Twitter, I think that time is behind us, people don't treat berserk that way now. There are always controversies but they come and go, nothing to take seriously. At the end of the day people that really appreciate something real stay, and people that were just hanging around for the fun of it will leave for something else. I was once one of the people that would make fun of anime fans but at some point I started to watch anime and I liked it. It didn't feel pretentious, it felt genuine and real like no one is trying to teach you. It talks to you with honest true feelings even if it is bad, even if it doesn't have much to say it tries to be honest and that’s something I appreciate. An aspect of anime that I love is how they try to show how simplicity can be beautiful, no wonder that we have genres like CGDCT or Slice of Life, the way they focus on daily life of normal people and finding joy in simple things in life... (can't find the right word for it :) ).

With all the popularity anime has gained, I thought people get that like any type of media anime also has different aspects, but seems like I was wrong.

My face when I bought Atri 2 years ago on a steam sale and hadn't played it yet.
Is it something on a plastic memories level?

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