Anime-Booru Desu~ |OT|

[Mr. Gundam]

CHAR gets cars. And mad pussy.

Cause he's Char.

[Joe Molotov]

Disney Presents: Pixar's Chars

[Mr. Gundam]

Hey Magus:



 “Even space pirates don't forgive pirating!"

[Great Rumbler]

Guys.

GUYS.

Watch WATAMOTE.

[magus]

Hey Magus:

(Image removed from quote.)

 “Even space pirates don't forgive pirating!"

i'm not listening to that old geezer of captain harlock

[Eric P]

[Great Rumbler]

[Great Rumbler]

 

[hampster]

The dumber Dog & Scissors gets the better it gets and episode 8 barely made any sense at all

[Joe Molotov]

Boobies!

[hampster]

New title  :rejoice

[Tasty]

It's "A Dandy Guy in The Space."

[Momo]

Captain Harlock

[chronovore]

It's "A Dandy Guy in The Space."

It adds that needed busted Nihonz flava.

This past week, I told you about the five anime you should be watching this summer. To prepare, I asked Kotaku readers to vote on their picks. The winner by a landslide was Watamote. I am dumbfounded by this. Watamote is, quite simply, the most mean-spirited anime I have ever watched.

Watamote – No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular is ostensibly a comedy about Tomoko, a young high school freshman who, as a master of dating sims, is unable to comprehend why she isn't popular and is unsure how to change and become so.

The problem is, this show isn't a really a comedy. It's a tragedy. Any laughs you get are due to her emotional pain and suffering. And while this is fine if the character is evil and thus getting some kind of karmic comeuppance, Tomoko, as a character, has done nothing worthy of being saddled with the hell that is her life.

Let's be clear here. Tomoko is not simply a nerdy girl who is a little socially awkward. Given the state of her socialization skills, it seems safe to assume she is a girl with a severe social anxiety disorder. And as all the jokes in the series are at her expense, the show really comes off as “let's make fun of the girl with a crippling psychological disorder.”

Which, given the popularity of Watamote, is, apparently, the height of humor.

But you don't have to take my word for it. Let's take a closer look at some of the “comedic” situations in Tomoko's life.

When her homeroom teacher says goodbye to her as she leaves school, she realizes that is the first time she's had any verbal interaction with anyone outside her family in two months. She is so startled she runs away in fear (and joy).

Because crippling social anxiety is “funny.”

Once, she forgets her textbook and is too afraid to borrow one from another student (as she has literally no friends or acquaintances in school) and is then bitched out by the teacher until she cries.

Because emotional abuse by a teacher is “funny.”

She is so socially awkward that the most major social accomplishment to date is ordering at a McDonalds.

Because being barely able to put three words together and thus generally unable to do things we all find so easy to do is “funny.”

At one point, after deciding to improve her social skills, she goes to her brother—one of the few people she can talk to without being overwhelmed by anxiety—to ask him to talk with her for an hour a day. She has to threaten to kill herself to get him to listen to her before she can even ask the favor.

Because having to threaten to kill yourself to get the bare minimum of social interaction from a family member is “funny.”

Another time, she starts wishing to be molested on a train because that at least would mean she's attractive. And then when she actually thinks she is being molested (as something hard is rubbing between her legs), she screams for help in terror—realizing that being molested is not a good thing like she had hoped. It turns out to be a naginata, however, and not a molester.

Because experiencing the feelings of shame, terror, and helplessness one feels when being molested is “funny.”

There has been, to be fair, one laugh-worthy part in the show to date. Feeling depressed, she buys a boys love game and by chance wins third prize in a raffle: a back massager. Thus she finds herself walking down the street with an erotic game in one hand and what looks like a vibrator in the other. This (unlike all the previous examples) is funny. It is a sight gag based on bad luck, nothing more. Her social anxiety has nothing to do with this situation. She is not the butt of the joke.

I hear people like this show because they identify with Tomoko—that they had similar experiences in school and now look back on those experiences with nostalgic humor. But for me, despite being more than a little bit of a social outcast in high school myself, none of this is funny. It's just reveling in the pain of a mentally ill person—laughing at a girl who is even more awkward than they were in order to feel better about their own lives.

And that is just plain fucked up.

"OMG an awkward social situation played for laughs, how is this funny??"

Not only that, but most humor is, in some way, based on pain. Moreover, I take offense at the author's need to victimize and call their condition "mentally ill." Give me a break.

[Momo]

Uchouten Kazoku is just blowing anything that isnt named monogatari out the water this season. It's so incredible

[Himu]

SPACE DANDY

AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Himu]

Guys.

GUYS.

Watch WATAMOTE.

cr: yes/no

[Great Rumbler]

Yes, it's on Crunchyroll.

[Great Rumbler]

This may be of some interest to a few people here:

We're hard at work developing The Mysterious Cities of Gold: Secret Paths on the Wii U, 3DS, iPad and iPhone, and it's on track for a release this fall (fingers crossed!).

Unfortunately, and to be completely and candidly honest, our initial plans were to release the game in French only; the new season is directed in France, and airing only in French-speaking territories, where it's the most popular.

But since we announced the game, we've been swamped with emails, and messages on various social networks, asking us to consider both an international release, and a PC version.

Those requests came from all over the world: UK, US, Germany, Latin America, Lebanon – we simply didn't anticipate it would raise such a global interest, and already had focused our development budget on the game itself.

That's where you come in.

[Momo]

WRATH LETS KICKSTART THE FUCK OUT IF THIS

Mysterious Cities of Gold

[Great Rumbler]

SECOND SEASON

ALSO THERE'S A MOVIE NOW

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-09-06/psycho-pass-anime-gets-new-film-along-with-2nd-season

[MCD]

[Great Rumbler]

Uchouten Kazoku is just blowing anything that isnt named monogatari out the water this season. It's so incredible

This is a very fine show, indeed. I didn't watch it initially, because it didn't catch me eye at first, but I'm glad I came back to it and decided to give it a shot.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

But the way that the boiling and eating of sentient beings is treated so lightly, especially between Benten and Yasuboru, is very unnerving, though.

[close]

[Great Rumbler]

New CR show:

http://www.crunchyroll.com/akagi

[Great Rumbler]

Stella Women's Academy is the Apocalypse Now of anime. That's not a joke or hyperbole.

[Joe Molotov]

I heard it's gone pretty far down the rabbit hole.

[Great Rumbler]

Anyone who's gotten the bad ending in Spec Ops can already see what's coming down the pike, it's inevitable:

spoiler (click to show/hide)

[close]

[MCD]

Gamble Fish chapter 102

[Joe Molotov]

King Omaha!!

[magus]

New CR show:

http://www.crunchyroll.com/akagi

akagi is basicaly kaiji but with all mahjong instead of death or life gamble's,it's allright if you know how to play and/or liked kaiji

[bork]

King Omaha!!

 

[Mr. Gundam]

Gamble Fish chapter 102

I really have no clue what's going on there.

[Great Rumbler]

Just 3 weeks to go!

[Great Rumbler]

Full Fall 2013 lineup here:

http://hummingbird.me/anime/upcoming

Definitely watching:

-Kill La Kill
-Coppelion
-Pupa
-Samurai Flamenco
-Galilei Donna
-Kyousougiga
-Teekyu 3

[hampster]

I watched the first two seasons of Saint Seiya Omega (~50 episodes, never seen the original series). Its amazing how much better the second season is. I thought the first season was okay but it never really grabbed me. I would have dropped it if it wasn't for the ending. That left me curious enough to continue and it got so much better

That final fight  
SHINE MY COSMOS

[Mr. Gundam]

Gundam Build Fighters.

Yup yup.

[cool breeze]

A new Dragon Ball Z movie came out, first since 1995, and now another new one was announced.  I guess they're starting up the series again?

What happens in the movie

spoiler (click to show/hide)

-Dragon Ball GT is erased.  The official real truth ultimate canonical timeline is Buu business -> special with Vegeta's brother () -> new movie (Battle of the Gods) -> final episodes with Pan and Ubuu.
-There's now a fourth or fifth level of super god who's a furless cat of death or something named Bills, and there's multiverse with 12 'worlds' and 7 other super duper gods.
-Goku turns into Super Saiyan God by combining the saiyan powers of Vegeta, Gohan, Goten, Trunks, and Videl (via Pan's fetus).  Still loses at the end.
-Bills bitch slaps Bulma and it makes Vegeta so pissed he surpasses Goku in power.
-Gohan gets drunk, deflects a bullet into his pregnant wife's leg.
-A 41 woman gets turned in a child and Trunks has a crush on her (and she's into it).

[close]

 
 

[Joe Molotov]

A new Dragon Ball Z movie came out, first since 1995, and now another new one was announced.  I guess they're starting up the series again?

What happens in the movie

spoiler (click to show/hide)

-Dragon Ball GT is erased.  The official real truth ultimate canonical timeline is Buu business -> special with Vegeta's brother () -> new movie (Battle of the Gods) -> final episodes with Pan and Ubuu.
-There's now a fourth or fifth level of super god who's a furless cat of death or something named Bills, and there's multiverse with 12 'worlds' and 7 other super duper gods.
-Goku turns into Super Saiyan God by combining the saiyan powers of Vegeta, Gohan, Goten, Trunks, and Videl (via Pan's fetus).  Still loses at the end.
-Bills bitch slaps Bulma and it makes Vegeta so pissed he surpasses Goku in power.
-Gohan gets drunk, deflects a bullet into his pregnant wife's leg.
-A 41 woman gets turned in a child and Trunks has a crush on her (and she's into it).

[close]

[magus]

sooooooooooo a few years ago i've read a manga called "lucifer and the biscuit hammer" basicaly the plot goes like that a giant nutcracker hammer is going to destroy the earth and the only thing that can stop it are a bunch of 12 people who are accompanied by animal pets fighting a bunch of monsters,but the protagonist is actualy a moody unsocial fella who just wish for the world to be destroyed... coincidentaly the leader of the knight wants the world to be destroyed too and the only reason that she's fighting is that she could destroy it herself... i tought that was a pretty nice premise and actualy the only reason i stopped reading the first time was because it was still on going

now that i remembered to check it out again it's finaly finished and it's such a chore,it drags on and on and on and on and the original premise slowly fade away to make space for your standard "group of people fight a bunch of monster then they get sad for 5 chapter when somebody inevitable die" and of course in the end the world doesn't get destroyed because POWER OF FRIENDSHIP

[Great Rumbler]

Kill la Kill is going to be streamed on Crunchryoll.

[Himu]

A new Dragon Ball Z movie came out, first since 1995, and now another new one was announced.  I guess they're starting up the series again?

What happens in the movie

spoiler (click to show/hide)

-Dragon Ball GT is erased.  The official real truth ultimate canonical timeline is Buu business -> special with Vegeta's brother () -> new movie (Battle of the Gods) -> final episodes with Pan and Ubuu.
-There's now a fourth or fifth level of super god who's a furless cat of death or something named Bills, and there's multiverse with 12 'worlds' and 7 other super duper gods.
-Goku turns into Super Saiyan God by combining the saiyan powers of Vegeta, Gohan, Goten, Trunks, and Videl (via Pan's fetus).  Still loses at the end.
-Bills bitch slaps Bulma and it makes Vegeta so pissed he surpasses Goku in power.
-Gohan gets drunk, deflects a bullet into his pregnant wife's leg.
-A 41 woman gets turned in a child and Trunks has a crush on her (and she's into it).

[close]

Gohan

[bork]

A new Dragon Ball Z movie came out, first since 1995, and now another new one was announced.  I guess they're starting up the series again?

What happens in the movie

spoiler (click to show/hide)

-Dragon Ball GT is erased.  The official real truth ultimate canonical timeline is Buu business -> special with Vegeta's brother () -> new movie (Battle of the Gods) -> final episodes with Pan and Ubuu.
-There's now a fourth or fifth level of super god who's a furless cat of death or something named Bills, and there's multiverse with 12 'worlds' and 7 other super duper gods.
-Goku turns into Super Saiyan God by combining the saiyan powers of Vegeta, Gohan, Goten, Trunks, and Videl (via Pan's fetus).  Still loses at the end.
-Bills bitch slaps Bulma and it makes Vegeta so pissed he surpasses Goku in power.
-Gohan gets drunk, deflects a bullet into his pregnant wife's leg.
-A 41 woman gets turned in a child and Trunks has a crush on her (and she's into it).

[close]

Some of those aren't spoilers.  And where did you see that another movie was coming?  I only saw stuff for this one.  DBZ is also continuing...as in more DBZ Kai episodes are coming.  (Thanks, Wiki!)

-GT isn't "erased."  They're just ignoring it as usual.     The special with Vegeta's little brother is almost like a shorter version of this movie, with everyone sitting around eating and shit, and there's some friendly sparring and the end.  The special and this movie take place way before GT would have happened.

-The 41-year old woman who is turned into a child is Mai, Emperor Pilaf's sidekick from the old DB.

-This movie was OK I guess, but pretty much a throwaway movie much like the last special.  The biggest thing about it was the reveal that Dragonball is part of a multiverse.  Who knows if anything will come from that.  All it really did was give Goku more motivation to get even stronger and zzzzzzzzzzzz it's same damn thing over and over again.

[Mr. Gundam]

It's been three years now since Satoshi Kon passed away. Whoa.

[Great Rumbler]

It's been three years now since Satoshi Kon passed away. Whoa.

And his half-finished final film still isn't any more finished than it was when he died.

[Eric P]

http://blog.yahoo.com/_ED274AZGFINLESDVVHRADMVIMU/articles/1290865

[Mr. Gundam]

I have the 7-11 OG Gundam. Love it.

[hampster]

manime

[Trent Dole]

It's been three years now since Satoshi Kon passed away. Whoa.

And his half-finished final film still isn't any more finished than it was when he died.

:'(

This show was made of his leftover ideas from previous films that he made and yet we're lucky every season if a single series is worthy of standing in its shadow. RIP

[MCD]

[Tasty]

Been marathoning H x H in the last week, just finished Greed Island. Show is pretty good.

[magus]

(put it in spoiler because it's a big ass image)

spoiler (click to show/hide)

[close]

and that is the most realistic manga page you will ever see

[Great Rumbler]

[Great Rumbler]

YES

[MCD]

 

http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/review?scode=FIGURE-002363&page=top

what the flying fuck JOE

[Joe Molotov]

http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/review?scode=FIGURE-002363&page=top

what the flying fuck JOE

oh mah GAWD!


Max 3 quantities per household. 

[bork]

Senran Kagura!   

[Great Rumbler]

Try these fine examples of animation:

-Space Brothers
-The Eccentric Family
-Silver Spoon
-Gintama
-Durarara
-Chihayafuru
-Anohana
-Polar Bear Cafe
-Kids on the Slope
-Level E
-Humanity has Declined
-Moribito
-Gakutsuou - The Count of Monte Cristo
-House of Five Leaves
-Kuroko's Basketball [it's basically Free! but about basketball and with not as good animation]

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-Oreimo 

[close]

[Eric P]

silver spoon rulz

[Great Rumbler]

SHE ASKED ABOUT OREIMO! I told her I wasn't familiar but it probably isn't good.

BAIL OUT MAN BAIL OUT

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Or bail in, maybe.

[close]

[Joe Molotov]

Kinmoza

Also, Polar Bear Cafe.

Edit: Oh, if she likes fujoshi-bait like Free, then she'll probably love Kuroko's Basketball. That's supposed to be the shiznit when it comes to dudes kicking it with dudes.