#watch this anime

[floor10ghost]

Bocchi the Rock! fuckin slaps dude

Bocchi is a slice of life seinen anime about a high-school girl with severe social anxiety joining a rock band, it’s a simple enough premise but it executes on it *insanely* well. I haven’t read the manga, but the anime uses frequent changes in art style in impressive and creative ways to illustrate Bocchi’s anxiety.

You might have seen this gif going around of her Glitching The Fuck Out, it does stuff like this all the time, it’s incredibly endearing and its fuckin hilarious

But like. Where Bocchi stands out to me is how... *kind* it is around her anxiety. I was talking about this recently with my friend Rose who got me into the show, but there’s some other anime about a similarly anxious girl that I forget the name of and every time I’ve seen even Anime Bros™ talk about it they’ve referred to it always using the word “cruel”. The protagonist’s anxiety was the joke, she was the joke. You were watching this girl suffer and you were meant to laugh.

Bocchi isn’t like this at all. It does have jokes about anxiety, it jokes about how silly it can be sometimes, the catastrophising, the shit like “what if i walk into this building incorrectly”, all of that - but it’s always clear that the mangaka and the people working on the anime know how it feels. But where it really stands out is simply that it allows her to grow. Plenty other manga and anime about anxiety don’t do this, they feel that if the protagonist grows then that defeats the premise, if they’re no longer debilitated by anxiety then they’re without a draw. Bocchi the Rock rejects this. The character Bocchi is always striving to improve her anxiety, and it’s difficult for her - like. REALLY difficult - but she’s still trying and letting others help her. For every time you giggle at her weird worries (that I have almost always shared) she takes a step towards no longer being ruled by her anxiety. Her journey really reminds me of my own.

Bocchi the Rock knows how it feels to have anxiety, and it seeks to remind you that it can be overcome - all the while being endearing and silly and acknowledging that it *is* hard - and I think that’s really special.

[anonblubb]

Draw me like one of your babygirls - to save Saga

[priestessamy]

Thought about making a long, winding post complaining about this, but it's not actually all that necessary. You all live on the same planet I do. So I'll just summarize:

THERE'S TOO MUCH MEDIA

[my-thighs-turn-mudstone-to-slate]

get gargantia'd

[b0tster]

pov u stole her witch hat

[christadeguchi]

women………….. | DOROHEDORO

(by the way. this is noi.)

[naomistares]

caught up with farcille lore i am back

[elbunuelos]

“You obey me now.”

[savagegood]

“Did you see the way that little girl looked at me? Kids. Little kids. They grow up believing that they can be a hero if they drive a sword into the heart of anything different. And I’m the monster? I don’t know what’s scarier. The fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through my heart or that sometimes I just wanna let ‘em.” “We have to get you out of here. Over the wall. We won’t stop until we find some place safe, okay? We’ll go. Together. No matter what we do, we can’t change the way people see us.” “You changed the way you see me... Didn’t you?

NIMONA (2023), based on the comic by ND Stevenson, who came out as transgender in 2022

[53v3nfrn5]

Krabat: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1978) dir. Karel Zeman

[as-i-watch]

[a few moments later]

Both of them got the same terrible idea and nobody bothered complaining not even Marcille

[tisorridalamor]

Legendary mangaka Arakawa Hiromu is forklift certified!

[pemprika]

a love so eternally bedeviled 🌏

[psie-smutki]

Goofy tyrannosaurid playing in the snow ☃️

[elexuscal]

Danny Phantom, The Show:

geeky kid gets super powers from his parents' weird inventions! now he has to fight a rogue gallery of ghosts... but uh-oh! he still has to keep his grades up, deal with his embarrassing parents, and navigate girl troubles! rap theme song!

Danny Phantom, the Fandom, After 19 Years of Fermentation:

a child dies. but not quite. the inherent tension between life and death. the obsession of the dead for faded remnants of the living. warped green shadows on the walls of a dark laboratory. having to hide your true nature from those who should be your greatest allies. the fear of the monster you could become if you let yourself. being a ghost as a metaphor for the trans experience. a cold breath on the back of your neck in the dead of the night. rap theme song!

[cozylittleartblog]

not that we didn't already Know belos was full of shit, but it's even funnier knowing the titan was still alive the whole time and probably judging him