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[Branduil]

Define "well-done." Then chuck it out the fucking window because Glass Fleet transcends quality itself and I like my steaks rare, thankyouverymuch.

I like that. Glass Fleet is the blue rare steak of anime.

 

[Uchip]

Invasion! Squid Girl: An endearing classic that takes an intellectual but accommodating look into the socioeconomic factors surrounding the erosion of environmentalist ideals in developing countries like Japan by following the life and struggles of one of Earth's most enduring and capable denizens of the natural world.

should have been a whale maybe
and then greenpeace could be the creepy stalker girl

 

[zeroshiki]

I'm probably the most hipster in that; I literally look down on everyone else here intellectuality because you don't share the same general taste as me..

Wouldn't that just make you snooty? And wrong?

 

[cajunator]

A deep unrequited love for moe is not hipster by any definition.

I never said WHAT KIND of hipster.

 

[Jex]

All the clouds of a shinkai movie without the actual movie. Really he should just make thirty-second cloud montages.

It's like you don't need it stretched out to a whole movie anyway!

Why not just film the outdoors at that point?

Why make anime?

 

[Regulus Tera]

This is how to be an anime hipster: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=32313127&postcount=115

But... Ookami-kun watches Digimon.

 

[wonzo]

kaiji: a modern day allegory for class warfare told through the eye's of a man's struggle against the decadent and oppressive bourgeois and their debt ridden society #occupyfukumoto

 

[jman2050]

But... Ookami-kun watches Digimon.

As expected from a man of fine taste.

 

[firehawk12]

It's like you don't need it stretched out to a whole movie anyway!
Why make anime?

Good question!

 

[Branduil]

I prefer Tantami Galaxy to Detective Conant, personally.

But that sucked. What's so great about a show where a bunch of weirdos take a bunch of tatami mats to the beach so they can get tans? It's the Jersey Shore of anime.

 

[Jex]

I still watch everything and have low standards.
It is the best way to enjoy anime.

No, that's the best way to enjoy 'anything'. To have a deep, cultured understanding of anything you need taste and standards, so that you can separate the average from bad, the excellent from the good and so forth.

Without being able to tell why works are better than each other you can't detect why The Wire is different from Law and Order and are therefore missing out on the ability to refine your tastes.

 

[zeroshiki]

Strike Witches: A sobering look at a war torn and poverty stricken future Japan where the country is beset by war and famine so much so that little girls are unable to purchase pants. Truly the anime of our generation.

 

[Regulus Tera]

This can still work. You look up at him as he looks down upon you.

A good role model isn't so full of himself.

 

[Jex]

kaiji: a modern day allegory for class warfare told through the eye's of a man's struggle against the decadent and oppressive bourgeois and their debt ridden society #occupyfukumoto

Yeah but, that's what the show is actually about! It's not even subtle about it!

 

[Crash Station]

No, that's the best way to enjoy 'anything'. To have a deep, cultured understanding of anything you need taste and standards, so that you can separate the average from bad, the excellent from the good and so forth.

hipster

 

[darkside31337]

No, that's the best way to enjoy 'anything'. To have a deep, cultured understanding of anything you need taste and standards, so that you can separate the average from bad, the excellent from the good and so forth.

Glad you've staked your claim as the hipster.

cajunator keep being yourself. You're the best kind of anime fan.

 

[Instro]

Strike Witches: A sobering look at a war torn and poverty stricken future Japan where the country is beset by war and famine so much so that little girls are unable to purchase pants. Truly the anime of our generation.

Alternate dimension Europe would be more accurate.

 

[zeroshiki]

Alternate dimension Europe would be more accurate.

They speak Japanese.

:O

 

[Jex]

It's like you've never head of sarcasm. I guess 'deep, cultured' wasn't enough for anyone to notice it?

 

[jman2050]

Alternate dimension Europe would be more accurate.

It's anime, everywhere is Japan.

It's like you've never head of sarcasm. I guess 'deep, cultured' wasn't enough for anyone to notice it?

Sarcasm doesn't work when it appears as a post that people actually think you would make!

 

[Branduil]

No, that's the best way to enjoy 'anything'. To have a deep, cultured understanding of anything you need taste and standards, so that you can separate the average from bad, the excellent from the good and so forth.

But mindless enjoyment is the bland foothill that all anime

Spoiler

suki

fanboys strive for with mediocre effort.

 

[Hellsing321]

But... Ookami-kun watches Digimon.

Back in the day Digimon was the cartoon of choice for hipster kids. Everyone else watched Pokemon.

 

[Dresden]

They speak Japanese.

:O

We all speak Japanese, we just don't notice it de gozaru.

 

[jman2050]

Back in the day Digimon was the cartoon of choice for hipster kids. Everyone else watched Pokemon.

Digimon Tamers > Digimon Adventure > Pre-Orange Islands Pokemon > other Digimon series > rest of Pokemon

 

[Branduil]

Everyone with taste always knew Digimon had a better narrative than Pokemon.

 

[Jex]

Man, what's with all the recent Shinkai hating? Is it because of the recent Hoshi o Ou Kodomo disc release?

All his movies were the same, so people accused him of falling into an easy pattern and never challenging himself artistically or as a director. He tried to do something different, but as he's not really very well versed in making a different kind of movie, it had a few flaws.

I, however, still see it as a very good sign that he's trying to tell a different kind of story, even if it's going to take him a bit of practice.

 

[Dresden]

All I knew about Digimon was that it was the shit the weird kid in class watched while the rest of us played pokemon in elementary school.

 

[jman2050]

Everyone with taste always knew Digimon had a better narrative than Pokemon.

Sora ending up with Matt was bullshit

 

[cajunator]

Yeah but what if he watches obscure moe shows just to brag about it.



Eloquent

Yeah. Have you seen ANDROID ANNOUNCER MAICO 2010? HAVE YOU?

 

[wonzo]

all i remember about digimon was trolling kids at school by looking up spoilers on the internet.

 

[Branduil]

Sora ending up with Matt was bullshit

Is that what happened? I never really watched past the first season.

 

[PdotMichael]

Monster Rancher was the real deal with Holly and Pixie

 

[Jex]

Everyone with taste always knew Digimon had a better narrative than Pokemon.

You mean it actually had a narrative with a beginning, some minor character stuff and an actual ending? That would certainly count as superior, even if besting the narrative of Pokemon is hardly a feat worth singing about.

Is that what happened? I never really watched past the first season.

Matt also went to Mars. True story.

 

[Haly]

But... Ookami-kun watches Digimon.

For different reasons than we did I'm sure.

 

[Instro]

Sora ending up with Matt was bullshit

Fuck Matt. That was some hot garbage. Tai forever alone.

 

[Jex]

I vaguely remember disliking the dumb 80s segments of Robot Carnival, but I do distinctly remember the cloud pornography short being my favorite and thinking how much more I liked it than any of Shinkai's efforts in the field of gratuitous cloud porn. So I can't really agree or disagree.

Were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

For the record, I believe that Presence is the finest segment of Robot Carnvial because it's a twisted journey into the mind of an otaku.

 

[Instro]

Monster Rancher was the real deal with Holly and Pixie

Never did see that to the end. I watched a bunch of it when it was on fox kids though, it was always on before I went to school in the morning.

 

[Branduil]

Were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

For the record, I believe that Presence is the finest segment of Robot Carnvial because it's a twisted journey into the mind of an otaku.

Is that the one where a British guy builds a robot waifu?

 

[Hellsing321]

All I knew about Digimon was that it was the shit the weird kid in class watched while the rest of us played pokemon in elementary school.

When he grew up that kid spent his days on the digiclipse forum waiting for THE EVENT because living in the non-digital world was too mainstream. Today, after GAF destroyed digiclipse, he is living on the street his only possession hid digivice which he hold tight to his chest on those cold winter nights waiting for the day his digimon will come and take him away.

 

[Haly]

Tai has Davis or whatever he's called in glorious nihongo.

 

[Jex]

It was apparently the 13th time Laputa was shown on Friday Night Roadshow and it still scored a respectable 16% rating.

I guess Japan still knows that Laputa is Ghibli's greatest adventure movie.

 

[Regulus Tera]

Sora ending up with Matt was bullshit

Not Matt's fault Tai is so beta!

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Infinite Stratos: an engrossing account of political struggle between modern states played out as a tragicomedy in a Japanese school setting

This kind of makes me want to watch Hetalia: Axis Powers.

Well, actually no it doesn't.

 

[jman2050]

Matt also went to Mars. True story.

Don't forget Tai and Agumon being diplomats

 

[Jex]

Sora ending up with Matt was bullshit

So you're saying it had NTR? Is that why people liked it? Or is that why it's retro-cool?

 

[Instro]

Not Matt's fault Tai is so beta!

His band sucked.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

It's like you've never head of sarcasm. I guess 'deep, cultured' wasn't enough for anyone to notice it?

Don't try to cover for yourself after the fact!

 

[Haly]

All the males were beta.

Except TK and Izzy.

And later, Henry.

 

[Branduil]

I guess Japan still knows that Laputa is Ghibli's greatest adventure movie.

Let's not limit it to Ghibli, I'd put it up against any adventure movie, live-action or animated.

 

[Jex]

Don't try to cover for yourself after the fact!

'Deep' is literally a word with no meaning unless you actually explain what the context is. I guess it's hard to joke on the internet when so many 'anime scholars' write like that.