This is very true. Code GEass gets a 10 for being really enjoyable.
LOL. I wish I can critique shows like that.
This is very true. Code GEass gets a 10 for being really enjoyable.
Speaking of Nutcrackers, I always found The Nutcracker Prince cartoon from Warner Brothers to be full of nightmare fuel. I mean besides the prince who turns into a nutcracker, you have a princess who gets turned into a disgusting, screeching goblin-like creature, and then of course this scene of terrifying dental anguish.
"You'll think you have experienced Nice Boat, but you'll be cheated."Oh. You're talking about school days. Nvm. Now I know.
If Joe Nathan was an anime character:
thanks for nothing texas
Heh.9 down, 3 to go guys. Home stretch. I honestly think that the plot has made very little real forward progress yet. It moves a big jump every few episodes, than just sidesteps for a while. It's weird.
9 down, 3 to go guys. Home stretch. I honestly think that the plot has made very little real forward progress yet. It moves a big jump every few episodes, than just sidesteps for a while. It's weird.
Omg... are they making you watch School Days? WHY?!
Omg... are they making you watch School Days? WHY?!
No he's watching Blood C
School Days, fosho.which show was actually good, school days or blood c.
All i remember is memes.
which show was actually good, school days or blood c.
All i remember is memes.
which show was actually good, school days or blood c.
All i remember is memes.
which show was actually good, school days or blood c.
All i remember is memes.
Blood-C's solution to "plot". Who's left we can kill in a horrible fashion?
Is that really how it goes? Sounds horrible.
Is that really how it goes? Sounds horrible.
Is that really how it goes? Sounds horrible.
To be fair, they do nothing to make you care about these people, so it's hard to feel bad.
I'm not sure you get it.
Is it horror movie style where I'm actively supposed to hate these people and want them to die? Because that's what's happening.
Is it horror movie style where I'm actively supposed to hate these people and want them to die? Because that's what's happening.
Should've watched more Accel World.
Should've watched more Accel World.
But in Accel World I want the protagonist to die, and that's obviously not going to happen. At least here I get the catharsis of seeing these people horribly murdered.
While I agree with most of this, the problem is that there's no real in-universe explanation given so far as to why they are treated this way beyond "people are jerks to the Japanese".You can see that this is untrue by simply observing how they treat different characters in the show. Leila is also an exile, in fact her family was exiled from Britannia, a noble family from the enemy empire itself. They should be treated with even more fear. But no, they are welcomed, their children adopted into power families, they've viewed with interest and not disgust, and they can grow up holding leadership roles in the military.
Meanwhile the Japanese? They looked down upon, rejected, used as canon fodder, and even military drivers don't like them. Commanding Officers make comments about how their lives are useless, talk shit about how they're only good as KAMIKAZE, and nobles see them as brutes who know SCARY ASIAN NINJA SKILLZ. The displaced refugees are fenced off, they're not well looked after, and they all have this sad resigned look on their faces.
And all this is set in a world where the Japanese were never at war with anyone, there is no America, there was no Pearl Harbor, and there is zero reason for anyone outside of Japan to have this ultra xenophobic racist viewpoint of the Japanese people.
So how do we explain it? Is it really just bad writing? I don't think so. In fact, I find the refugee situation in Akito very familiar. I've seen it before. In anime even. Where? Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. The story, especially in the second season, depicts a future Japan with a refugee problem due to conflict in the surrounding Asian region. Refugees are displaced into Japan, and the people in Japan hate it. This is natural and realistic because Japan by nature is a xenophobic closed nation. Foreigners are viewed differently, and refugees are foreigners who have no "good" reason to be in the country. This becomes a social problem.
Since Akito is a Japanese anime production intended for a Japanese audience, created by Japanese staff, it is not really that surprising that their viewpoint would be extremely Japanese in nature. So even when they are dealing with a story which supposedly takes place in Europe, and the refugees are Japanese, while the country in question are filled with Europeans (which in this case seems to basically be Generic White People), their perspective of how refugees of a different ethnic group would be treated is based on their personal view of how a situation like this would play out in Japan.
That's how I see it. Seems to make sense to me.
living the dream
You can see that this is untrue by simply observing how they treat different characters in the show. Leila is also an exile, in fact her family was exiled from Britannia, a noble family from the enemy empire itself. They should be treated with even more fear. But no, they are welcomed, their children adopted into power families, they've viewed with interest and not disgust, and they can grow up holding leadership roles in the military.
Meanwhile the Japanese? They looked down upon, rejected, used as canon fodder, and even military drivers don't like them. Commanding Officers make comments about how their lives are useless, talk shit about how they're only good as KAMIKAZE, and nobles see them as brutes who know SCARY ASIAN NINJA SKILLZ. The displaced refugees are fenced off, they're not well looked after, and they all have this sad resigned look on their faces.
And all this is set in a world where the Japanese were never at war with anyone, there is no America, there was no Pearl Harbor, and there is zero reason for anyone outside of Japan to have this ultra xenophobic racist viewpoint of the Japanese people.
So how do we explain it? Is it really just bad writing? I don't think so. In fact, I find the refugee situation in Akito very familiar. I've seen it before. In anime even. Where? Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. The story, especially in the second season, depicts a future Japan with a refugee problem due to conflict in the surrounding Asian region. Refugees are displaced into Japan, and the people in Japan hate it. This is natural and realistic because Japan by nature is a xenophobic closed nation. Foreigners are viewed differently, and refugees are foreigners who have no "good" reason to be in the country. This becomes a social problem.
Since Akito is a Japanese anime production intended for a Japanese audience, created by Japanese staff, it is not really that surprising that their viewpoint would be extremely Japanese in nature. So even when they are dealing with a story which supposedly takes place in Europe, and the refugees are Japanese, while the country in question are filled with Europeans (which in this case seems to basically be Generic White People), their perspective of how refugees of a different ethnic group would be treated is based on their personal view of how a situation like this would play out in Japan.
That's how I see it. Seems to make sense to me.
While I agree with most of this, the problem is that there's no real in-universe explanation given so far as to why they are treated this way beyond "people are jerks to the Japanese".
Okay so I guess racism is the word to go for here.
I've been away from anime, watching other stuff. That's all.I'll never forget while you're around to secretly read my posts!
Akito 01 doesn't try to show why the Japanese would not be liked by the Europeans is what Jexhius and I are saying. It might be something explained in following movies.Because they're unwanted?
Yeah, pretty much. It doesn't feel like it's an issue particularly important to the narrative beyond building the setting.It is certainly overstated though, I imagine you are right about it playing into the japanese way of thinking with regards to xenophobia and such. In the end I don't think its something that requires much back story on, it serves its purpose within the show to provide that sense of isolation for Akito.
Akito 01 doesn't try to show why the Japanese would not be liked by the Europeans is what Jexhius and I are saying. It might be something explained in following movies.
Blood-C's solution to "plot". Who's left we can kill in a horrible fashion?
I don't like Light because he has no redeemable human qualities imo. Lelouch is more likeable. People like characters in two different ways. If they would like them if they were people in real lives. Or they like the character because of the portrayal.
My only worry is that Haru seems to be yet another perfect-guy-who-is-better-than-the-girl-so-that's-why-she-loves-him love interest since he happens to be the smart kid in school. I hope that it doesn't become another Special A or Maid-sama or whatever, but that's just a fear based on that one scene.
I hope the other two shoujo shows turn out to be just as good!
10's done. 11+12 are queued up. No stopping this train now. Next time you see me, this will all be over. See you on the other side!
Should've watched more Accel World.
10's done. 11+12 are queued up. No stopping this train now. Next time you see me, this will all be over. See you on the other side!