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Spring 2011 Anime Thread of ZAWA ZAWA, Money, emo Cyclops, and fun^10xint^40=Ir2
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people die.Uchip said:
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Uchip said:
The manga is VERY mild compared to the anime in the ecchi department. It's also not as over the top. It's definitely closer to 28 Days Later than you probably think based on the anime.
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Some people thought about it during the occupation of Japan after WWII, but the Japanese weren't interested... they preferred their needlessly complex characters because they look prettier and are traditional (and for the multiple meanings, etc.).firehawk12 said:
One nation did change to Western script, though... Vietnam. They dropped Chinese characters for a Roman-based script while they were a French colony, apparently in part accepting it because they'd never really liked characters that much anyway (China being their longtime overlord and enemy, and the script having come from there). Korea invented its own alphabet too, of course (and Thailand, etc.), it's really only China and Japan that still hold out for the ridiculousness of characters...
I mean, I understand those minor advantages, but compared to the insane, very memorization-heavy task that actually learning how to read is in those countries, they seem minor...
I've wondered how people write (on a keyboard) in Chinese, given that it doesn't have a syllabic script like Japanese does... sounds complex.firehawk12 said:
That isn't all of the kana though, right? I mean, there are more syllables in Japanese than that, right... how did they decide which ones go on the keys, how do you access the others if they aren't on keys... does each key actually have several on it you access with the modifier keys or something?zeroshiki said:
He posted some about IS too you know. But are you not interested in theorizing about AnoHana or something?mAcOdIn said:
Indeed, same.
When I did live at home though, as far as anime goes (summer vacations and such, given that I didn't really start watching anime until college), I think I mostly watched after people went to bed, etc... I mean they did know I watched anime, but I didn't watch with others. Either on the TV, or on the computer often with headphones (I still usually use headphones on the computer actually).Ah. I haven't really played sports since I was younger.
Sometimes they have good tastes, other times bad tastes. It definitely varies, I agree.
Then watch A-Ko again and be reminded of it.
I guess some people dislike optimistic characters. I don't get it either, going too far with it could be annoying but she wasn't.
And hence why people say that you hate everything -- your standards for the latter category are quite high.
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Well that was anti-climactic. Why did I watch this whole thing again? Oh well, guess A's is next.
Well that was anti-climactic. Why did I watch this whole thing again? Oh well, guess A's is next.
firehawk12
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A Black Falcon said:
Doh, of course, totally forgot about Vietnamnese. Mostly because every Vietnamnese person I know is bilingual. :lol
Honestly though, hanzi/kanji/and presumably hangul are fairly easy to learn and actually make some modicum of sense once you sort of figure out the tricks and memorize a few basic words.
But yeah, Asians probably wouldn't have invented the typewriter. :lol
There are specific Chinese keyboards like the Japanese one, but I have no idea how they are used though. I might actually have a better time of it if I picked one up and learned how to use it, but eh, too much work just to write notes home.
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trejo said:
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trejo said:
Dresden said:
Idk, not a huge fan of things getting condensed. I don't really feel like I wasted my time or anything anyway.
A Black Falcon said:
Nopes, that's pretty much it. You can add the umm dakuten (voiced consonant mark?) that turns H to B, P or S to J but other than that, you've got the whole alphabet there. There's no katakana because anyone who'd type katakana probably know the hiragana to convert from anyways.
Nah, I offered my only speculation, that the gang will get back together soon and solve mysteries with their ghost pal, which I expect to totally not happen in all actually.A Black Falcon said:
Lol, the smile's to hide the pain, I know the feeling!A Black Falcon said:Indeed, same.
Well then don't tell me age is no excuse when you also don't play! If you were some 50 year old bad ass pitcher you could say it but as a fellow couch junkie? Tchk. But seriously, I hate watching sports, hate it, it's super boring. I don't mind playing them but I only have like 2 real honest to God friends, we all work different schedules and that's pretty much that.A Black Falcon said:
Ehh? I never said their taste varies, I said it sucks, therefore we can not be in agreement.A Black Falcon said:
I will, May 17th!A Black Falcon said:
Right, she's awesome.A Black Falcon said:
Who are these people? Yourself? Anyways, high standards are the right standards right? That's how I see it, it's not good to have low standards, it's not a compliment to say someone has low hygiene standards or low ethical standards so why should one have low entertainment standards? Obviously, the higher the better!A Black Falcon said:And hence why people say that you hate everything -- your standards for the latter category are quite high.
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HSotD is probably the most offensively bad anime I have seen in recent memory, it went beyond what even my lizard brain could enjoy, just so fucking absurd that it actually pissed me off while watching it. That bitterness still hasn't gone away either, slowly consuming my soul, each passing day the urge to just buy a ticket to Japan and bunch the director in the face grows, I actually fear the repercussions of watching another show as terrible for what it might do to me. And it's not like I gave two shits about the manga or even cared about the panty shots, no, it was all the absurd fan-service beyond that mixed with real life weaponry in a manner that made no damn sense. It was so broken it physically pained me to watch it. It was like that fucking episode of Bones with the Chupacabra, at the end they ask someone where the bullet's hidden and then later he shows up with a casing in his evidence bag and the culprit knows he's toast, except the casing's not the bullet, no way did the casing fly into the victim to be later buried, who the fuck rights this shit? Who? Argh.
So I'm still a little pissed that people can get paid to make that stuff.
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cosmicblizzard said:
Don't worry, while the movie version is great (definitely watch it!), the TV series is good too, I think... I think the movie will make more sense if you've watched the TV series first, to see what it skips over and what it changes.
Also, why watch the series? In part because it's pretty good on its own, and in part to prepare you for A's, by far the high point of the franchise...
Hah, but I don't think you can say for sure what those are, there are several things they could be...trejo said:
Kana, you mean? But yeah, sure, while certainly not as easy as the Roman alphabet, syllabic scripts aren't too bad. Once you learn the letters you can read it. The problem is the character-based ones China and Japan use... and on that note that's why kana only gets you so far, they use lots of characters. I know, if you're dedicated you can memorize them, etc, etc, but it's a gigantic hassle. Literacy in those countries would be so much easier with more modern scripts.
Sure, back when the only people who needed to know how to read were scribes it didn't matter how complex the language was (indeed, making it hard might have been good, keep those ignorant peasants down in their place, they'll never have the time to learn it), but in modern times when everyone needs to be literate, it's a problem that only huge amounts of character memorization in school can fix.
Probably so.
Without even the syllabic characters to put on the keys it just seems like it'd be really complex. Obviously they manage, but it's clearly not ideal...
Oh, right, that's what I was thinking of, the notes to change the consonant sets. So is that done with a modifier key, or a popup menu or something?zeroshiki said:
But remember, he isn't going to school, while he is (if he's the same age as the others) still school age; he's just doing odd jobs and travelling... you think that that's really fine? You don't think he is, in some way, running away? Maybe it has elements of both, or maybe you're right, but I think it's a plausible explanation anyway.Geneijin said:
I'm not so sure it's going to become a harem...
remember, for one thing, even if she likes him Menma can't actually do much about it -- she's dead. Unless she magically comes back to life in the end (I do not expect that to happen), any "harem" would be more as much about acceptance and healing as it would be about harem antics, though being anime I imagine they'd put some in anyway if they did go in that direction.
But "the girls like the main character", if it is true that Tsuruko likes him too, maybe could be seen as a harem element... with the twist that they key girl died and the series is now mostly in a completely different genre.
But "the girls like the main character", if it is true that Tsuruko likes him too, maybe could be seen as a harem element... with the twist that they key girl died and the series is now mostly in a completely different genre.
That's going too far into speculation that we don't know much about, I think, I'll just wait to see more of Tsuruko before I decide anything about that. Maybe, but who knows?
I don't know, spoilering that she died is kind of pointless, it's the entire point of the whole series and it's what it centers around. Spoilering details beyond that, sure, but that? Kind of pointless. But of course, I thought that that very deceptive Madoka OP wasn't such a great idea there either, but at least there it's not until three episodes in that that fact becomes clear, instead of just minutes as in AnoHana.
Hopefully the next episode will help answer these questions.
Well of course, for all of them... the characters dealing with the legacy of that traumatic event is what the series is about.
Yeah, that makes sense, I guess...
She probably is depressed, yes. She tries to cover it with things, but can't completely keep it hidden. But now that the characters are starting to get along again, the hope obviously is that maybe their traumas will gradually be lessened. I don't know though, it needs to keep drama up through the series at least, so it can't let it all just get over quickly, so it'll be in fits and starts I'm sure, and with other twists to complicate things.
Yeah. However he did it's creepy, but that's obviously the point.
Of course you're right, people are going to have favorite characters. I was just saying that they're all broken, not just her. But yeah, it's still early yet, and it's hard to say what you think of all the characters when several haven't gotten much focus yet.
firehawk12
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No, Kanji. It's what the Japanese call the Chinese characters they use in their written language. And it's very systematic. Once you learn base characters, you basically have the ability to recognize whole categories of words. Some are phonetically based, of course, which is why in Chinese, "ma" is horse, mother and the interrogative particle (used to ask a question) and each of those characters is based on the character for horse, but for the most part words that involve water of some sort will use the same water character as its base, and so on.A Black Falcon said:
As for literacy, the Japanese went with kana and the (Commie) Chinese went with "simplified" characters (which is what I'm use, because I'm a coward), so there are clearly accommodations anyway. Whether all billion+ people in China are literate though? Heck, there is illiteracy in the West, so the problem is bigger than just characters being hard to learn.
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Okay, now I feel like I have a bunch of answers but no idea what the questions actually were. I think I just sat through about an hour's worth of discussion about metaphysics and the collective human unconscious.
Someone please tell me that there's a definite explanation for what's going on and it isn't one of those things that's just left "up to speculation."
Okay, now I feel like I have a bunch of answers but no idea what the questions actually were. I think I just sat through about an hour's worth of discussion about metaphysics and the collective human unconscious.
Someone please tell me that there's a definite explanation for what's going on and it isn't one of those things that's just left "up to speculation."
Porn has ruined you sir! Ruined!Uchip said:
Just what do you need to see now for someone to be naked?
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Anyways, Utena set 2 set for August 2nd.
She's still naked, lol, you can't say there's no nudity when she's standing there nude, lol, hence my silly joke that I edited as it still sounded off about what exactly would one need to see for it to be considered nudity.Uchip said:
But I'll admit, it's covered the "naughty" parts with some creative hair censoring.
Edit: there's even a naked apple on the base!
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