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bobbiegalore · 1 month
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Hey, whatcha doin’ down there, silly? 🤭
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chaosprincess404 · 9 months
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Boo 👻
DM for OF 💜
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i watched My Neighbor Totoro for the first time, here's my chronological viewing experience:
woo-hoo! dusty old japanese house with japanese architectural details aplenty
these kids got some ENERGY my goodness
family dynamic's adorable. peak quality dad humor
kids: our house is haunted. parents: that's so cool!
hell yeah, wrinkled old lady rep. we need more friendly old women with potato faces and warts like storybook witches. the backbone of society, these ladies
Plot Summary: Small Child Bothers Local Wildlife
sacred tree sacred tree sacred tree
Introducing Totoro! nobody said this fucker's got TEETH???
Uh-Oh! Inadequate Parental Supervision Detected
(you misplaced your four year old! you're not supposed to do that)
4-year-old: i met a magic forest spirit. dad: oh shit fr?
4-year-old: *angrily hugs sister* missed u bitch
this small child has a smile like a toad. like a really really cute toad. like the cutest toad in all existence. i love her she's perfection please just let this child be happy
rice paddies are so pretty....so back breaking....rice is such a prissy crop
*my crush is stranded in a rainstorm* takethisumbrellait'syoursnowBYE *runs away in panic im so good at flirting*
Giant Chinchilla Learns To Hold Umbrella, Is Fucking Delighted By Experience
take this, it will help you on your quest! *hands u trail mix wrapped in a leaf*
LO-FI HIP HOP STUDY LIST!
crouching down to peer at dirt--A++ top notch foundational childhood experience
mom has a big ass forehead
honey! the chinchillas are performing Rituals in the backyard again
help yeah let's jack and the bean stalk this shit
huh so we're all just climbing aboard the giant chinchilla's tiddies now ok
class trip!
the pure adrenaline of Vegetable Gardening
no! the small child is crying! she is bawling her eyes out. no no no. i can't cope with this. emotionally i cannot cope 🥺🥺🥺
i've only had Mei one hour but if anything happens to her i will raze this earth and everyone on it
please someone make this small child smile again
oh no the tall child is crying too
i can't take this. my heart can't take this.
i need a drink
small child running determined to deliver magic veggies to the hospital. this kid is my hero
she is also unsupervised. so, so unsupervised
babe you are FOUR
godDAMMIT ghibli, you cannot give me watercolor sunsets while a small child is missing. u are killing me. my heart is giving out. this is me, experiencing heart failure.
Totoro to the rescue!
no wait CATBUS to the rescue!
i admit i initially thought the cat was a creep. alice in wonderland prejudiced me. i have revised my notions of smiling cats
i've decided the cat is a metaphor for the magic of a robust public transport system
MEI'S OKAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and so is mom. she's a lovely lady im sorry for what i said about her forehead. it's a noble forehead.
happy ending YES bitch!!!!!!
ok. ok ok ok. that was magical.
(as a first-time adult viewer i was worried i wouldn't be able to Access the Magic. but i could and i did and it was incredible. that was culture. that was ART. joy distilled into animated form. holy rites of childhood. i understand now. how glorious, this world we grow out of. how full of marvels. i'm going outside to smell grass and sun and get dirt under my fingernails. miraculous.)
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no but really, if you do art, you either make: 1) incomprehensible objects that "interrogate the connections between bodies and spaces in the context of cultural mutability" or w/e for rich collectors to launder money with, or 2) run-of-the-mill big tiddy anime girls/foot fetish mpreg mario jpegs for mentally ill subhumans online to jerk off to. the world would be a better place without any of those two
this is actually like top 10 takes ive seen in my inbox this is so funny i cant even engage with it. the only types of art in the world are banksy and foot porn
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brucebocchi · 3 months
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Ranking every new anime I watched in 2023, Pt. 4: #5-1
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The list is complete! This took a lot of work but I'm over the moon to get this out there. Please consider leaving a tip if you've enjoyed reading.
Here goes, my top five anime of 2023:
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5. Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead
Zom 100’s debut hit like a freight train, especially coming from a brand new studio. It had everything: Visceral satire of Japanese work culture, incredible animation, vibrant colors in unexpected places, clever cinematography, wish fulfillment for everyone who’s ever wanted to Stone Cold their boss, and most importantly: Zombie titties.
The premise is magnetic: When your job makes you feel like a zombie, an actual zombie apocalypse means certain freedom from the grind. Akira Tendo realizes that he can finally use the vacation time he amassed while being exploited and overworked at a legally dodgy black company, so he writes a bucket list of everything he’s ever wanted to do, with all intention of checking off every single line item before succumbing to a zombie bite. He manages to rescue his hunky fuckboy bestie from college, and they embark on a road trip across Japan to finish out the list, along with a beautiful, risk-averse tsundere and a big-tiddy German weeb. 
It's a perfectly fine elevator pitch, and a welcome break from the guns-and-grit quagmire the zombie genre has been stuck in for the past two decades, but what makes any good zombie-flecked media resonate is the human element, which Zom 100 delivers expertly. You’re quickly given reason to care for all the characters, their motivations are clear and relatable, and you want to see them survive and live out their dreams. But more importantly, you just want to hang out with them through their hijinks. It even delves into more serious matters, like what we owe our parents as adults, the ways isolation and bitterness can drive people to act out in their worst moments, and even the factors that push abuse victims to stay with and even return to their abusers. 
Above all, though, it’s a powerful (if extreme) story of finding joy in the direst circumstances. Akira, Kencho, and Shizuka are all kindhearted, well-meaning people whose situations kept them from what they truly wanted to do with their lives, and there’s something kinda beautiful to be found in them finding a new opportunity during the possible end of the world (Beatrix is a sweetie too, but aside from the whole zombie thing, she’s already exactly where she wants to be). The final arc of the season, in particular, looks you dead in the eye and asks you: If you were suddenly faced with the ultimate freedom, would you use the opportunity to better yourself, improve the lives of others, or do whatever the fuck you want at everyone else’s expense? You may not like the answer at first if you’re honest with yourself, and that’s okay. The world isn’t over, and there’s still time for you to be your best self.
Zom 100, unfortunately, fell prey to a cruel irony in the form of production issues. Bug Films is a new studio made up of a former team from OLM that was responsible for similarly gorgeous projects such as Komi Can’t Communicate and Summer Time Rendering. They clearly saw so much of themselves in Akira's workplace exploitation that they had to swing for the fences here. The firm he works for is named “ZLM” in this adaptation, for fuck’s sake, and he fully destroys his zombie boss in the first episode. But new studio or old, the anime industry is a grind, and Bug had trouble keeping up; animation quality did take a bit of a dip after the stunning first episode, and episodes were frequently delayed as the summer broadcast season wore on and ended without the entire seasonal run making airwaves. Hell, it was impossible to watch the final three episodes until just a few days before I could write this sentence.
For what Bug were able to pull off, though, Zom 100 is outstanding. The paintball-colored blood splatters everywhere are an instantly-iconic look that strike the balance between horror and spectacle. Everything and everyone looks gorgeously faithful to Kotaro Takata’s art, and delivers an appropriately cinematic look that the manga always deserved. I almost don’t know what else to tell you but that this show is a fucking blast.
There’s also a zombie shark. What more could you want?
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4. Oshi no Ko
I spent a good chunk of 2023 just assuming Oshi no Ko was going to be a layup for anime of the year. Shortly after moving on from Kaguya-sama, I rushed to binge Aka Akasaka's subsequent manga in time for the anime's feature-length debut. I was taken in by OnK's bonkers premise and sudden dark turn and quickly fell in love with the characters, and my anticipation only grew. I had high expectations for the screen adaptation, but nothing could have prepared me for just how lovingly it all came together. This is as close to a perfect adaptation as you can find, and the same can be said about both the preceding and following entries on this list.
Oshi no Ko is an audiovisual feast. Doga Kobo cleaned up Mengo Yokoyari’s character designs just a smidge, but put just the right flourishes on them to make every single cast member instantly iconic. One look at Kana Arima’s eyes will tell you everything you need to know about the level of care put into the visual design of this anime. The performances are on point as well; though many of the main cast members are relative newcomers to the world of seiyuu, you can tell they truly came to understand the characters before they even recorded one line. I’ve already gushed about Rie Takahashi in earlier entries, but her turn as Ai Hoshino is easily one of the best voice performances all year. Takahashi makes a meal out of every single second Ai spends on screen and gives you every reason to care about her as a character.
Showbiz manga in general is obviously missing an audio element, and when an adaptation can expand on that aspect well, it can help turn even middling source material into something transcendent (see also: Rock, Bocchi the). Music is central to Oshi no Ko, and the OP/ED combination is already iconic; YOASOBI’s “Idol” has had the best worldwide chart performance of any Japanese song ever, and the prolonged intro to Queen Bee’s “Mephisto” became a meme in Japan in the same vein as JJBA’s iconic use of “Roundabout.” Rather than taking manga characters’ word for it that someone is a terrible actor, we actually get to cringe along to an amateur actor’s hammy emoting. We get to see and hear what turned a fictional idol group into a national phenomenon rather than just see cute girls posing on the page. All of this is to say that while Oshi no Ko is an excellent manga, it needed a screen adaptation, and especially one of this quality.
Oshi no Ko deserves every shred of its success. I've never seen an anime make a splash this enormous with just its debut episode, even if it’s kind of cheating to say so because the first episode is almost literally a movie, and if I were to give an award for the best single episode of anime this year, it would be that one, hands down. Adapting the entire first volume into a feature-length debut was the correct move (mostly because it’s a tonal rollercoaster, and the Big Event that defines the entire story wouldn’t have happened until the fourth episode otherwise), and the investment paid dividends. The hype naturally died down a bit as the season wore on and settled into a more consistent tone and rhythm, but it remains an essential anime to 2023.
You may have noticed that I have said very little of what this show is actually about, and that’s by design: If you still don’t know the plot of Oshi no Ko’s first episode by now, I refuse to tell you: you need to go in blind. All I will say is that it is an idol anime that glorifies nothing. If you've read this far and still trust what I have to say about anime, I beg you to just take my word for it. It's an incredibly rewarding experience.
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3. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
There's just something so wonderful about taking in an adaptation of a work you’re already familiar with and knowing, almost instantaneously, that every single person working on it genuinely loved the source material and relished the opportunity to bring it to life. Nearly every single member of the original cast is in the dub (including the ones who went on to be MCU mainstays), Edgar Wright is back on as executive producer, Anamanaguchi reprise their soundtracking duties from the video game, and even Bryan Lee O’Malley himself helped co-write everything.
That last detail is probably the most important thing about this entire production: It’s not exactly a secret that the original Scott Pilgrim comics are very imperfect portrayals of a very imperfect young man. I knew reading them at the time that the comic did not have a great grasp on relationships and the dynamics between men and women, and that was at a time in my life when I myself was pretty terrible with and to women. O'Malley has said that he would only revisit Scott Pilgrim if it was “the right thing” and that he was leery of a straight retelling of a work he has since outgrown.
So instead, we have the Rebuild of Scott Pilgrim, to put it simply. Takes Off is a completely new story that reexamines the Scott Pilgrim comics, movie, and even game without undermining what came before it. This series is not a repudiation of Scott Pilgrim (the character or the franchise)’s flaws, nor is it purely fanservice; it splits the difference perfectly. It’s both more mature and completely self-indulgent. This show so easily could’ve marched to the familiar discourse drumbeat of “Scott isn’t the hero here” or “he’s actually not a good dude,” but it instead focuses on what should always be the second half of that sentence: “But Ramona still sees something in him.”
Yes, Ramona Flowers is effectively the protagonist of a new work that doesn’t even have her name on it, and it tackles some surprisingly necessary questions: What was her responsibility in creating seven evil exes in the first place? What made them evil? Are they even that evil? This series opens up entire worlds of possibilities within the extended cast and gleefully dives into them. Though Takes Off may not flesh out every single character, it does take its time with several of the ones who really did need a little more meat on their narrative bones, and even gives some characters new roles just because it would be fun to see them in new situations.
I still cannot believe they got Science Saru to make this show. “They made a Scott Pilgrim anime” and “They brought back the movie cast” are already good enough fodder for that Vince McMahon meme, but “It’s produced by the motherfuckers who made Devilman Crybaby” had me falling out of my chair. The animation maintains O'Malley's chunky, cartoony character designs and works wonders with line weights and simulated camera effects to give everything a tactile, weighty feel, like it’s somehow (and very appropriately) splitting the difference between a comic, a film, and even a video game. There’s a wide array of visual effects that helps to place all of Scott Pilgrim’s influences further on its sleeve: Dynamic action scenes, camera depth and chromatic aberration, and our beloved pixel art inserts. It looks like every Scott Pilgrim, everywhere, all at once.
The live action film’s cast did a (mostly) great job reprising their roles for animation, and there are some wildly unexpected cameos in there. Voice acting is not quite the same as stage or film acting, but everyone pulls their weight, and dialogue feels far more naturalistic than your average anime dub. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ellen Wong and, surprisingly, Chris Evans are outstanding in their respective roles. I’m gonna have to watch this again in Japanese, though. Fairouz Ai as Ramona, Aoi Koga as Knives, and Yuichi Nakamura as Lucas Lee? Sign me the fuck up.
This is not an apology or revision of Scott Pilgrim the character or work, it is a celebration that still acknowledges and improves on the flaws. If you’re a Scott Pilgrim fan who’d been clamoring for a proper cartoon adaptation, Takes Off may not exactly be what you’ve wanted, but it may be what you needed.  Chances are pretty good that you’ve grown since the first time since you read, watched, or even played something with Scott Pilgrim’s name on it, and it’s a blessing to say that while the character may not have grown, Scott Pilgrim the franchise finally has. 
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2. Jujutsu Kaisen, season 2
I’m so glad I picked up JJK this year, if only because I would’ve otherwise been caught in a mudslide of memes I didn’t understand.
Season 2 follows in lockstep with the manga from where season 1 left off, beginning in extended flashback with the Hidden Inventory/Premature Death arc, covering Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto’s high school life and the events that would eventually create the rift between them that came to shape Jujutsu Kaisen’s story. We see very different versions of Gojo and Geto here, much younger and more naive, but only marginally less powerful as they’re sent on an escort mission with the future of the jujutsu world in the balance. Because this is Jujutsu Kaisen, and because Jujutsu Kaisen is for masochists, nothing happens as planned.
We unfortunately do not get the precious slice-of-life hijinks the OP suggests, but if you watched season 1, you should know better by now than to trust an OP. While the initial arc does have its quieter and goofier moments (and some delicious homoerotic subtext), it wastes little time in declaring that this is a new version of the Jujutsu Kaisen anime: Lines are thinner, character models are looser, and action is buckwild. Two of the best fakeouts in the series happen in the span of five minutes. Those unfamiliar with the source material may have wondered for a bit why there needed to be a five-episode prequel arc to start the season, but the pieces would soon fall into place.
And then came Shibuya.
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The Shibuya Incident arc was what made Jujutsu Kaisen a must-read in every new issue of Shonen Jump. It reset the status quo for the story and shaped it into something far beyond another “teenagers with special powers go to a school for teenagers with special powers” battle shonen. Needless to say, the hype for its anime adaptation was astronomical.
The Shibuya arc sets the stakes early: Nobody is safe and there may be no happy ending. Triumph is short-lived, and every threat is existential. Everyone who has been in the series up to this point plays a role, and you’re not going to like a lot of what’s needed of them. This arc punches you in the gut, repeatedly, and in between each blow is some of the most intense and innovative action you’ve ever seen. It will hurt, and you will beg for more.
I liked this arc a good amount in the manga, but by the end I was ready for it to be over. I didn’t get the hype around Toji, thought the deaths were cheap, and was so. FUCKING. sick of Mahito. Seeing it in fluid motion onscreen, though, everything just clicked for me and I couldn’t get enough. I fully get now why the girlies have been wetting themselves over Toji; the character modelers were HORNY horny this season. I see now how even the most unceremonious deaths fit into the narrative, or at least one will make perfect sense to me once Gege Akutami and I have a little chat :). And holy hell do I understand now that Mahito is one of the best shonen villains in the history of the medium, that sick bastard. Season 2 was my Rosetta stone for Jujutsu Kaisen; I see it all now. My sixth eye has been opened. Throughout heaven and earth, I alone am the literate one.
JJK’s second season has a markedly different feel from the first from a presentation standpoint, and I feel it’s for the better. Every aspect of the presentation is on point, and I want to call attention to the audio element: The production music, with a heavy focus on jazz piano, is wonderfully unique for the genre, and the voice acting remains top notch. These are banner performances from the likes of Yuichi Nakamura, Kenjiro Tsuda, Takahiro Sakurai, Asami Seto, and Nobunaga Shimazaki, but the performance that defines the Shibuya arc (and by extension the entire season) is Junya Enoki as Yuji Itadori. 
Enoki’s been great this year in lead roles in goofy works like KamiKatsu and Girlfriend Girlfriend (not to mention minor roles in Skip and Loafer and the vending machine isekai), so it’s no surprise that he continues to crush it as JJK’s protagonist; Yuji Itadori is a goofy dude. But the Shibuya arc, for as much ground and as many characters as it covers, is ultimately Yuji’s story as he is forced, time and again, to endure the cycle of the “suffering builds character” meme. His peers and mentors in the first season told him repeatedly that the life of a jujutsu sorcerer is a short and unhappy one, and he now has to shoulder that burden for everyone. Enoki nails every single part of a wide spectrum of emotions Yuji is forced to endure over the course of the Shibuya arc, be it determination, naive confusion, or just pure unbridled trauma. If this isn’t the best voice performance of the year, it’s top five at worst.
Like every major battle shonen release in the age of social media, this season has had its detractors. Reviewers at Anime News Network kinda hated the story, but that’s something you take up with Gege Akutami (and get in line behind the manga readers). I've seen people complain about the animation. Which, like. If you don’t like the new visual style, sure, fine, that’s up to personal taste. But if you think this season isn’t well-animated, you just plain don’t know ball. It may not have a cohesive look, but that was the draw for me: Season 1 was good, but at times I felt like it looked a little too rigid, a little too shiny, a little too samey. Season 2, especially the Shibuya arc, looks like everything. Sometimes it looks like an action film, sometimes it looks like Mob Psycho, and at points it looks, most crucially, like Akutami’s most iconic panels brought to life, stroke for stroke.
The varying styles weren’t an accident: Nearly each episode had its own director, and those resumes cover top-tier animations like Mob Psycho, Devilman Crybaby, Kill la Kill, Heavenly Delusion, Oshi no Ko, FLCL, even Akira and goddamn Golden Boy. While the episodes don’t look entirely consistent from one to the next, the variance is less jarring and more “holy fuck, what am I going to see next?”. The looser style of animation is what Jujutsu Kaisen always needed; Akutami’s art is very loose and dynamic, and his action panels are borderline inscrutable at times. Season 2 nails the feel of JJK to a degree that its adaptation always needed and lets its directors, storyboarders, and animators run wild. At times, characters will look like they leapt right off the page; others, they will look like something you have never seen before in your life.
It is unfortunately impossible to talk about this season without also bringing up MAPPA’s working conditions, and how animators were frequently overworked against nigh-impossible deadlines. It was an open secret last year as Chainsaw Man aired that MAPPA’s animation schedule was a meat grinder, but that came bubbling to the surface quickly as JJK’s second season aired. Word got out midseason that MAPPA had its animators sign NDAs about their work conditions, but complaints still broke containment and several staffers took to social media to apologize for their work looking incomplete, and some even publicly announced that they are leaving the studio. It is stunning that the finished product looks the way it does under such conditions, and I respect the animators for putting in such incredible work, but something has to give. Several major series suffered from major delays this year, some of which I gave significant praise, but MAPPA is lucky that all of JJK came out on time. I wish I knew what could push them to treat their workers with the dignity and respect (and pay) they deserve, but that’s a conversation that covers much wider ground than just anime.
MAPPA has already announced that the series will continue through the next major arc. While there is quite a bit of it that I would love to see on screen, I can only hope that the animators get to rest. For now, though, we can be proud of what they made under duress, even if some will forever wonder what it would look like if the staff were treated like something a notch above cattle.
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1. Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
Fucking hell. This is why I watch anime.
I was curious about this one because a couple major anitubers I watch had reviewed the manga and were effusive in their praise. I knew the anime adaptation was on the way, so I decided to hold off on reading and see what the anime would be like, and with Keiichiro Saito (director of Bocchi the Rock and key animator for Oshi no Ko’s instantly-iconic OP) at the helm, my excitement was piqued. That guy turned a B-minus 4-koma into an innovative hit comedy, so what can he do with a beloved source material and the backing of a legacy studio like Madhouse?
I've had so much to say about Frieren since the premiere, and I still have so much to say now, but to talk about what I love about this show is to talk about everything about this show. When the first four episodes dropped, I described it as “Mushoku Tensei without the baggage,” and I stand by that. There were multiple points throughout Frieren’s first cour where I'd nearly forgotten that I wasn't watching Mushoku Tensei. Every single element is on point: The animation is fluid and expressive, backdrops are consistently gorgeous, voice performances are quickly memorable, and the music is evocative and instantly iconic. This is, plainly, one of the most beautiful pieces of television I have ever seen on nearly every level, be it visually, sonically, or thematically.
The initial four-episode debut was a masterclass in establishing the setting, building emotional investment into the characters, and slowly but deliberately laying out the premise of the season to come. The titular Frieren is an elf mage who, for a very brief decade of her millennium-long life, lent her skills to an adventuring party to slay the Demon King. Though she helped save the world, she was never one for stuff like adulation or socializing, so she breaks away from the group to continue her hobby of collecting various spells and arcana. She regroups with them after 50 years, having kept in contact with none of them, only to find them older and frailer. The party’s leader, the hero Himmel, passes away shortly thereafter, and Frieren breaks down at his funeral, having realized exactly too late how important he was to her and that she’d never really bothered to get to know him as a person.
Some time later, she’s called by the surviving human member of the party, Heiter, under the guise of translating an old text, but soon realizes that he duped her into helping train the young orphan girl he adopted, Fern, as a mage. Upon Heiter’s death, Frieren and Fern head out together, carrying out odd jobs and retracing Frieren’s steps from the journey that changed her more than she realized. They soon learn from the other surviving member of the party, Eisen, that (ooh) heaven is, in fact, a place on earth, and that Frieren may be able to properly pay Himmel his final respects in person. In order to do so, they must make a trip to the north, past the Demon King’s castle. The story of Beyond Journey’s End is, quite literally, a nostalgia trip.
Frieren's story is one of grief and regret, but also how we can use those emotions as a way of moving forward rather than looking backward. Her history is a long one and her memories seemingly everlasting, but she uses them to pave the road ahead of her rather than let them shackle her to the past. This is best exemplified by Fern herself, as well as the other companion they pick up the way in Eisen’s former trainee, Stark. Frieren can carry on the legacies of Heiter and Eisen by helping their young wards grow into the capable young adults they’re meant to be, while Himmel’s legacy lives on in the memories of the towns and villages he helped save along Frieren’s new path, and most importantly, in Frieren herself.
The degree to which Himmel truly mattered to Frieren becomes more apparent to her as the story goes on, and it becomes more evident in her actions. Himmel was a gentle, selfless (if self-aggrandizing) man who was every last bit the hero the modern world believes him to be. With every statue of him she cleans, every flower she plants in his name, every core memory that returns to her, we are watching Frieren become more and more like him in real time. You would expect a thousand-year-old woman to be pretty set in her ways, but we see her holding off on old, bad behaviors because of how Himmel would react to them back then. As Fern and Stark grow into young adults, we see her beginning to treat them the same way Himmel treated her. Frieren doesn’t realize it until later in the season, but it’s apparent to us early on that Himmel well and truly loved her, and I feel that it’s dawning on her that she loved him too and didn’t recognize it. That is tragic in and of itself (this show absolutely is a tearjerker at times and I will cop to getting misty-eyed as I write this), but there is something beautiful, well beyond my grasp, in being able to honor the memory and carry out the legacy of a loved one in how you treat those around you. I don’t think anything could have made Himmel prouder.
Frieren herself is a really goddamn good character too (and expertly voiced by Atsumi Tanezaki, best known for voicing Anya Forger in Spy x Family). Though she is portrayed as quiet and uncaring for the early part of the story, it’s been really delightful to watch her open up, and above all, inadvertently reveal that she’s actually just Really Fucking Weird. For as self-assured and put together as she always seems on the surface, it was great to learn that she’s just an enormous slob (she just like me fr), and any outward expressions of smugness or her offbeat sense of humor are always a joy. “Deeply weird person trying to act normal” is always fun, and there’s just something so consistently delightful about seeing someone so typically calm and intelligent get caught in a mimic chest every single time.
I still can’t get over how fucking good this show looks. Beyond Journey’s End features some of the most intricate, loving animation I’ve seen for stuff as simple as someone putting on a jacket. Action scenes are few and far between, but not a single frame is wasted when shit pops off. Not everyone is as detailed as possible at all times, and they don’t need to be, but everyone looks incredible when they need to be. It’s well above my pay grade to accurately say so, but this show could be a lesson in proper animation budgeting. I could go on and on and on, but I’ve written nearly eighteen thousand words about anime, so I’ll wrap it up. 
The debut season of Frieren will continue into 2024, and if the quality remains a constant, it could very well be one of the best anime of next year too. It has remained as MyAnimeList’s top-rated anime ever for its entire run, warding off the legion of Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood fans. Frieren deserves it. I say with no hyperbole that this is one of the most perfectly realized things I’ve ever seen on television. This is an essential watch for anyone who likes fantasy anime, anime in general, or fantasy in general.
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rachelcommitscrimes · 5 months
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bro im actually so pissed right now i told this guy at my school i was doing a cruise around east asia for my senior graduation gift and he was like “omg r u going to japan?!1?,!🤩🤩🤩” and i was like yeah im going to china and some places in south korea as well and he was like “why would you go to china?” and looked disgusted like 🤨
i’m obviously aware of the harsh government but i’m going to the safe parts. like i wouldn’t even be allowed in the dangerous you dumbass 😭 like get your fucking xenophobic weaboo ass out of here i could just as easily be sex trafficked or groped on a train in Japan as i could be mugged in China every place has dangerous spots
don’t hold a certain country over another just because you know more about one than the other bc i hate to break it to you when you go to Japan you aren’t going to be immediately greeted by big tiddy anime girls most likely people will give you looks and call you a weird foreigner
im going bc of my studies also because chinese food is fucking delicious also because i’m not a narrow minded asshole and i actually take chances to learn and better myself on cultures seperate from mine
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Ikemen Masterlist
Hello! I compiled a list of all my current works. I can still do headcanons for the og Ikesen, og Ikerev, some Ikevamp, and og IkePrince characters, just pop a request in my ask box and I’ll get to it eventually!
Ikemen Sengoku Headcanons (all warlords unless specific warlords indicated)
Warlords in Court
MC gives the Silent Treatment Short Version
MC gives the Silent Treatment Long Version
MC wanting alone time
Olympian MC
Warlords travel to modern time
Night Owl MC (Ieyasu, Mitsuhide, Mitsunari, Hideyoshi)
MC as an old grandma
Artsy MC (Kenshin, Shingen, Ieyasu)
MC as an athlete/dancer (Kenshin, Shingen, Hideyoshi)
MC from a physically open/affectionate culture (Kenshin, Ieyasu, Mitsunari)
MC showing them the smartphone (Kenshin, Ieyasu, Mitsunari)
Warlords react to you leaving cute notes for them
Musician MC
MC that's a hardcore anime/otome fan (Kenshin, Ieyasu, Hideyoshi, Shingen, Yukimura, Mitsuhide)
 MC that's a hardcore anime/otome fan pt 2 pt 2 (Masamune, Nobunaga, Sasuke)
Warlords realizing they're in love w/ MC (Azuichi Warlords)
MC accidentally moans another warlord's name in bed (Masamune, Shingen, Yukimura) NSFW
MC accidentally moans another warlord's name in bed pt 2 pt 2 (Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, Ieyasu, Mitsunari, Mitsuhide, Kenshin)NSFW
MC with depression (Kenshin, Ieyasu, Hideyoshi) Trigger warning
MC with poor eyesight (Hideyoshi, Ieyasu, Mitsuhide, and Yukimura)
MC accidentally becomes blind (Kenshin, Hideyoshi, Masamune)
Holding your lover's chin trend
General Fluff  (Kenshin, Ieyasu)
Warlords react to MC being gay
Reader with super strength (Nobunaga, Masamune, Ieyasu, Sasuke, and Mitsuhide)
Reader with super strength pt 2 Pt 2 (Hideyoshi, Shingen, and Kenshin)
Deaf MC (Hideyoshi, Nobunaga, Yukimura)
Bold Romantic MC (Masamune, Ieyasu)
Photographer MC (Kenshin, Ieyasu, Hideyoshi, Masamune)
Blind Independent MC
Bitter about love MC (Mitsuhide, Shingen, Mitsunari)
MC practices witchcraft (Nobunaga, Shingen, Mitsuhide)
Warlords comforting anxious MC (kenshin, masamune, ieyasu, and Hideyoshi)
Warlords jealous of MC + Sasuke's friendship (Nobunaga, Kenshin, Yukimura)
MC w/ baby fever/ pregnant MC (kenshin, mitsuhide, ieyasu, and mitsunari)
MC with PMS (mitsuhide, kenshin, masamune, and hideyoshi)
Feisty MC (Uesugi side)
MC confronting best friend's cheating BF (Azuichi Warlords)
Warlords react to beautiful MC (nobunaga, ieyasu, kenshin, shingen, and sasuke)
Warlords react to MC having a potential stalker 
Sniper MC (Mitsuhide, Hideyoshi, Ieyasu, Masamune, and Shingen)
Theater kid MC (Nobu, Hideyoshi, Shingen, Kenshin, and Mitsunari)
Grayaro MC (Nobunaga, Kenshin, Masamune)
Ikemen Revolution Headcanons
Big Tiddy Goth GF MC (Jonah, Blanc, Seth, and Ray)
MC with mouth piercings (Jonah and Blanc)
General:
Smash or Pass Theory 
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thepeacockangel · 5 days
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I Think The Discourse Around AI Art Is One Place Where You Can See "Cultural Capital" Having An Effect
Because, in terms of people's judgements about self-checkout (which majorly hurt a lot of people) and the now thankfully stalled development of self-driving cars (driver is the single most common occupation in the United States) although I saw people objecting to, and mocking the technology. I didn't see anywhere near the vitriol and rage I see surrounding AI art.
And I think that's because as a society "artist" as a profession still has a certain cache, even though most artists do not and will never make a living at it.
Additionally, we ought perhaps to have some questions about the deployment of the concept of intellectual property as an argument against AI art.
Because 1. The idea of owning an infinitely reproducible idea gets oddly close to owning a part of the means of production privately. 2. IP law does not now and never has protected small creators. Civil law (law which nearly always requires one to go through lengthy and expensive court procedures to get a result) always favors the already powerful. Fan artists would suffer. Disney would not. 3. Honestly it feels like a psyop to get left-leaning people to think tightened IP laws are a good thing for the working class.
I also think that plagiarism as a discourse has turned weird because for example, collage as an art form is considered to be "real art" and not a form of theft, even when it doesn't clearly cite the source of each part of the image used to create the piece. Look at Hannah Höch's work for example.
Again, my sympathy is with labourers who will have their livelihoods affected, but again, the infinite reproducibility thing of digital media kinda already hit that one.
Also, I think it's interesting again with the whole cultural capital thing that the workers who will be affected by AI as a technology aren't the ones who get their work respected as "Art" with a capital A.
No one is going to be replacing a Murakami or a Basquiat or Abromovich (as much as I wish they would in the last case) with an AI, or if such an artist uses AI it will be in a weird conceptual way and it won't be that different from what a lot of artists in the "Fine art" world do now.
It will be advertising artists, illustrators, and so on who will be hit by this stuff. The people who draw the big tiddy anime girls. The markets where frankly, the selling point isn't soul and vision, but a much more commercial endeavour.
Commercial jingle composers will suffer, people who make weird atonal stuff will not.
But also I think the way in which we've sort of entirely replaced most "fine art" with discussions of "pop art" or whatever in culture, like we analyze a prestige drama from Netflix the way historically people analyzed a modernist novel sort of speaks to why people are so upset by this. We're sort of "surprised pikachu face" when the commercial endeavour turns out to be commercial and not for pure artistic expression and necessarily filled with the artist's soul or whatever. I don't know.
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doberbutts · 1 year
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I can't believe that square enix, the prettyboy video game company, has made a prettyboy character.
Honestly I think there’s more to it than that BUT I also laughed really hard at this reply because it’s true.
While Squeenix is known for its very pretty men, it’s also known for its big tiddy anime girlfriends as well as for its men who are practical paragons with godlike strength and abilities (thus the name “Squeenix”, for western anime culture oldies). In other words, Sephiroth might be pretty, you could even call him somewhat feminine with his face and hair, but he is very recognizably male and has been in most of his iterations due to the big tiddy anime girl characters that line the rest of the cast, Tifa and Scarlet being the worst offenders of that category. And, remember, when they first announced that Tifa would be getting a breast reduction and her miniskirt was going to have shorts underneath for “more realism”, the fanboys rioted claiming that somehow Tifa going from F to D cups and not allowing panty shots when she does her high kicks violated their freedom of speech and censorship from a fascist dictator government. I’m not joking.
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While he is pretty (and wearing bondage gear, is2g someone at Squeenix has a very clever excuse for why all of these characters are in some form of kink costuming) he’s also clearly male. Nothing about him besides the length of hair and the delicate features on his face, both of which have in-canon explanations, really scream “feminine” or “girlish”.
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And, the same with Tifa, whose interests, fighting style, and bearing should make her more masculine, but she is clearly female.
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Even Cloud in the dress is still recognizably Cloud, and thus recognizably male. So even though Square has been playing with gender for literal decades, I don’t know that we’ve ever had them put their foot down and say “what if bodies were just bodies and we didn’t exaggerate secondary sex characteristics for our protagonists? what if you couldn’t tell male from female at first glance? what then?” Cloud’s time in the dress both in the original and in the remake is mostly played for laughs, but in interviews the intention was for that segment of the game to show “gender-free spaces” as good and freeing, even if they were odd to a rigidly gendered audience. How much they succeeded really depends on the viewer’s interpretation.
Again, from a western perspective, it seems to me like someone fairly high up the ladder of this company has always at minimum been an ally for Japan’s LGBT population, if not directly involved with that community. Like I said, it just seems to me that Square Enix and its subsidy Live Wire heard the “if you don’t like it make your own” and... made their own, as they have been doing for decades. And the gamer bros are mad about it because they don’t have a godlike huge muscled paragon like Sephiroth to play as, nor a big tiddy anime girlfriend like Tifa, and thus how dare they give us protag models with little-to-no difference between male and female.
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bi-sexual-love · 4 months
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"This or That" for Queer Culture
Or at least my version!!!
1. Coffee or Tea?
2. When sleeping, sheets tucked or untucked?
3. Patterned Socks or Black/White Socks?
4. Matched Socks or Mismatched socks?
5. Books or Movies?
6. Music Junkie or Radio Surfer?
7. Breakfast or Dinner?
8. Sun or Moon?
9. Emo Queer or Rainbow Queer?
10. Fem or Masc or Androgynous?
11. Titties or Tiddies?
12. Tattoos or No Tattoos
13. Natural Hair or Dyed Hair?
14. Like, 80 pillows or a couple pillows?
15. Concerts or Festivals?
16. Spotify or Pandora?
17. Shirt tucked in or Shirt let loose?
18. Big flowy shirts or Tight shirts?
19. Pants or Shorts or Skirts?
20. High waisted pants or regular pants?
21. Bath or Shower?
22. Fruit or Vegetables?
23. Jean Jacket or Leather Jacket?
24. Subbed Anime or Dubbed Anime?
25. Novels or fanfic?
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bobbiegalore · 3 months
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bihansthot · 11 months
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Hey, can I give you a blitz interview? If you don't mind, please answer the following questions:
If you were to become a dessert, which one exactly?
You said you believed in a dog's paradise. Do you think there are angels there who study and praise dogs? Or is it done by those who have fallen into human paradise ?
What kind of stereotypical anime character are you ? (a psychopathic villain, a modest interest of the main character, a misunderstood genius or a sexy girl?)
Imagine a situation: you go to bed, when suddenly a sorcerer appears from your closet and turns you into a lamp \ chandelier. What is this lamp\chandelier?
Would you feel comfortable as a Marmalade God? If so, would you agree to be the honored guest of the Mortal Kombat? (I'm not hinting at anything, but Shang Tsung will use you to get supplies of marmalade)
Have you taken the 16 personalities test or mbti ? If so, what did you get?
This time you are a witch ! Good news, because you can do almost anything! But the bad news is: do you need to turn any person into a lamp \ chandelier to save your strength? Who will it be ?
What kind of coffee are you ?
What do you dream about most often ?
Tell us the most romantic thing in your life ? (I'm a hopeless romantic, I've never missed a love story in my life. Even when I read the most beautiful stories with y\n (for example, yours), I imagine that my sister tells me all this at dinner or a party)
Do you like hugs and kisses ? (Yesterday I kissed my friend with bright red lipstick, and she passed with my kisses all day)
Who do you think is the laziest Mortal Kombat character ? (I just really want to find myself in this universe. And I can't not be lazy)
If all your fears and psychological problems acquired a single monster form, what would it look like?
What is your favorite Disney princess ?
What is your favorite gemstone ?
I know this isn't exactly a blitz poll. In my defense, I will say that I am stretching the presentation for 5 minutes for 45 minutes)
1. Flan, it’s my favorite and it’s all jiggly so it would be fun to be.
2. Weirdly enough I don’t believe humans live on after death only animals are good enough creatures to deserve that honor. I firmly believe dogs are guardian angels and are the greatest thing life can offer. Maybe angel dogs study other angel dogs?
3. I’m the sexy bimbo lol the dumbass, boy obsessed one with huge tiddies.
4. Hmmm well the only “lamp” I have in my bedroom is a neon Cinnamoroll so I guess that would get turned into a cute Cinnamoroll chandelier?
5. I have no clue what a Marmalade God is, sorry. Also I might be the stupid bimbo in anime but I’m smart enough not to participate in MK in any way shape or form, I can’t trust Shang Tsung to go from honored guest to suddenly honored participant.
6. I have but I never remember what I am lol
7. Any person? Hmm my high school bully, he deserves to spend his life as an inanimate object.
8. I’m a sickly sweet salted caramel mocha, emphasis on sickly sweet.
9. I don’t really dream tbh, ever since getting on Trintellix I don’t think I’ve had a dream I can recall.
10. Hmm I’m not really a big romance person myself it makes me feel weirdly uncomfortable even if I am a highly sexual person. I think the most romantic thing though was my partner proposing? We were in Epcot (part of the Disney parks in Florida) and they have a mini Japan there and they said “this is the closest I can get to taking you there right now” and I thought that was really sweet they proposed in “Japan” knowing how much I love the country and culture.
11. I’m not a super affectionate person, I wasn’t raised in that environment. I’m fine with hugging my friends and I like kissing during sex and I’m not necessarily opposed to affection it’s just not my go to.
12. Hmmm the laziest?? I’d say Reptile but in a cute way because I want to just imagine him happily sunning himself on a nice warm rock.
13. Probably a lot like my Mother, we’ve improved our relationship a lot in the last year or so but she’s the primary root of all my insecurities and self loathing and all that fun stuff.
14. Ahhh Pocahontas, that was always my favorite Disney movie growing up.
15. Probably sapphires? My wedding band is pink sapphires and diamonds, I love both.
Hopefully I did this right and you enjoy the answers, I’ve never actually done one of these before, it was fun! Thanks for asking me!
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thecarpathians · 2 years
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people like weirdos when they think you're being ironic or entertaining. when your identity is a consumable good.
i read an article which described mgk and megan fox's relationship as 'gothcore'. people at my work want a 'big tiddy goth girlfriend' but know nothing about goth music, culture, or people. i know people who had a 'goth phase' in which they wore catwing eyeliner and dark red lipstick.
obviously this sounds like gatekeeping but its more frustration. everything for the average consumer is diluted. pop punk is a good example. so is people i know thinking uzi or mgk are examples of metal or goth music. the people who are unapolagetically weird are shamed and hated (e.g. a friend who watched anime when she was very young) until the general public catch up with them and adopt their interest as 'cool, but only in this diluted, not-cringey way'.
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whaleofatjme1920 · 2 years
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I feel you kinda on the gatekeepers thing
I was raised in the alt scene, my dad was a rockermetal head, and I was raised on that music and belifes and I was emo from 4th grade to 7th and i went jnto the goth scene during my freshman year and im still in it now, and so many people who are "goth" and "emo" now we're just normal people who bullied me for years for being emo and being goth, they actually made my life a living hell just for funzies bc I looked different and liked different things, and that put me in such a horrible state mentally for so long
And it's just rage inducing seeing those people put on a black and white long sleeve, a choker and some bad eyeliner and be like "I'm so goth, I listen to mother mother and panic at the disco, I'm so hard core uwu"
Like, yall made me want to off myself for being in the alternative scene but it's cool now that it's trendy .??
I do find it kinda funny how watered down and mainstream some subcultures have become due to the internet. I was never really part of any alt culture growing up? At least not clothing wise like that. It's always weird to see people switch up once things get put in the spotlight. Again, anime culture. Once a whole "ew they like anime" to "x is my waifu/husbando". It's,,, bizarre.
Specifically like, goth, emo, punk culture? Like, I didn't,,, see any of that growing up but like, I know it was kinda made fun of A LOT. So seeing it now in the way it is is neck breaking whiplash. "big tiddy goth gf" when,,,, I remember the heinous bullying.
lmfao panic at the disco. I hate him. Mother mother,,, has been showing up more than I care to admit in my "list of things I now know about"
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ecoevoexo · 1 year
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i hate the ai art debates so i dont wanna get too involved but like, ive studied art a lot, and ive been an artist my whole life. as a very disabled person i was trying to start making art my career last year, since its one of the few things i can successfully do, & im sort of giving up bc at this point it feels like a dead end.
ive also used AI art thingamabobs a bunch. its fun. its fun that you can say "femboy osama bin laden funko pop" and get something that looks like that back. at times it can be a useful way of playing around with composition, value, and palettes.
only... it's all kinda the same. because of how it works, it aggregates trends and turns them into norms. you end up with a lot of normative bodies in heroic poses in the well-lit center of a tableau.
and that's a genuine problem. not just because it weakens the visual culture & its variety, but because some of those elements (normative heroic individual) are a characteristic of conservative and fascist art.
now the question of the politics of aesthetics is a difficult one to pin down, but it's foolish to act as if aesthetics never has a political character. when i spend a lot of time engaging with AI generated images i start to have an uncomfortable nagging feeling i also get when i spend too much time looking at propaganda. i don't think this is intentional on the part of AI creators. my real worry is that it's a functional inevitable result of how AI works. the flattening of cultural output into certain unitary trends has an underlying politics, i think that can't be avoided, and that politics shows up in the content it produces.
this isn't my only problem w using AI generated images as art output, but it's one i haven't really seen people talk about. when people critique, for example, "bigtiddyanimegirltrendingonartstation" aesthetics, i notice that they rarely mention the fact that the composition of those pieces is uncomfortably uniform, and follows the same basic "heroic portrait" aesthetics one might expect from a painting of a US president, if he had big anime tiddies.
now the artist Andres Serrano is most known for his infamous work Piss Christ, but i personally find his entire output to be fascinating, because he's essentially engaging in a constant détournement of the heroic aesthetic in art. part of why Piss Christ is effective is because it is beautiful, because it shares the aesthetics of so many faithful loving representations of jesus. if you want to see what i'm talking about with fascist aesthetics, look at the pieces from Serrano's series named Shit. it's nothing but heroic photography of literal shit, and i think it's great because it enables us to examine the heroic form bereft of everything but its visual symbology.
now, there are times i quite like the heroic form. it has its place in scifi, fantasy, even in antifascist political art. i've been experimenting with using this imagery and symbology a lot in recent years while representing queer feminine otherness, as a contrast to the patriarchal world i normally find in art. the problem that i have is that our current totally-not-fascist-wink-wink era there's enough heroic art out there to dilute the reference pool. which is to say, when an AI is training, it is disproportionately exposed to art that can frequently have compositional aesthetics with a fascistic bent, and because those aesthetics are all shared (a "norm"), it will be more reinforcing on the AI's internal model than the many other potential compositional aesthetics. with a human, i can conscientiously choose to disregard the norm and try to make something different--and that's hard! it requires willpower. with an AI, everything is infected with norms.
and this doesn't just mean compositional aesthetics. it means body types, skin color, etcetera. the way these AIs currently work, at least, you have to be very skilled with your inputs to not get very normative outputs. you can see this, for example, in the nature of Loab, which essentially shows how an AI is learning to model the idea of disgustingness, and to give it a human face.
now normativity has always been a problem with art. but as we pass the creativity of the artist on to a process without conscious supervision, the risk increases.
i think some of the best most interesting AI art are failure pieces. stuff where the algorithm gets confused and limbs pop out of walls and a head is coming out of the ground, phantasmagoric morph scapes. these are things that are going to be increasingly lost with time, as AI gets more skilled. we should celebrate and explore them instead, it might help derail the machine of normativity.
i also think it's very interesting to do creative explorations of AI's internal reality, such as Loab. that's cool, genuine, creative stuff. that is, in my opinion, a good way to engage with these tools, exploring their internal structures and limits.
but i of course share concerns about the effect on artists--and it's bullshit to act like art directors won't preferentially use AI works over paying actual creatives, it's already begun to happen. the idea of the artistgeoisie that some people have is utterly out of touch with the precarious nature of creative labor in the 21st century. for more, read the book Capital Is Dead, Is This Something Worse?
i also have these aesthetic concerns. i've found most aesthetic concerns about AI to be, frankly, stupid. i don't care if it's soulless or ugly or if there's too many fingers. all those can be interesting. but i do worry that, like a lot of algorithm-based mechanization, it can function as a self-reinforcing echo chamber of some of the worst social constructs of our society.
and it raises an important question: what does it mean to bring an algorithm or a simulated neural net into the process of social construction? what are we doing to our society when we give up the reins to something that is a glorified mechanism?
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skeleton-bat · 16 days
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Vtubing community is just the worst
Toxic bullshit of people wanting to stay in a little bubble and don't want to have to deal with reality because their life is shit.
Fucking complaining about people brining up a genocide and getting pissy at a black vtubbing awards that was created to give more shout outs and praise to black talent.
But we can't have that because it's filled to the brim with white and light colored ass holes that are beyond immature and want to fucking jack off to oversatured anime girls with white skin big tiddies and no fat.
Fucking hate that community its like Fandom but worse cause it's mixed with fucking idol culture. 🤮
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