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AYA thread by also sametdze

give a book, a movie, an anime or manga (or even a videogame) and I will do my best to complete it and write a little essay about it. Or just about single characters or concepts. I have time on my hands and I think I may be able to do it (but please, be something that you yourself have played/read/whatever)


WHAT I DON'T ACCEPT:

-Horror (may be exceptions but generally not)

-Music (I'm not into music and I wouldn't have much to say other than I liked it/not)

-Plot-light videogames (I mostly know how to speak about and i'm interested in talking about the narrative side of things, if the only real thing I can talk about is gameplay design I may not have that much to say)

-Really long stuff (For videogames, make it nor sur 15 hours in howlongtobeat, I generally do exceptions depending on the length of the queue, for anime, keep it under 50 episodes)

-Fandom heavy content (If you need to be part of a fandom to really enjoy or understand something, don't request it)

-Youtube heavy content (Things that one normally interact with via youtube videos, for example, an ARG, no one solves an arg by themselves, you just watch the video about how it got solved, I'm not interested in doing this sort of stuff. I also dislike things that are with the idea of baiting youtube videos or whatever, i'm not matpat, don't expect me to analyze hello neighbour or fnaf)

-ecchi/harem/sexual stuff (i'm not doing this thread to get horny)

-autobiographical stories (feels bad to criticise) these)

as an added requirement, PLEASE have played the game/read the book/etc yourself, don't request things you yourself haven't experienced


Requests status
[CURRENTLY READING]: Akane Banashi (Manga) (Requested by kobold84)
[CURRENTLY WATCHING]: nothing rn
[CURREANTLY PLAYING]: nothing rn

Next:

completed:

Chi (Anime) (Requested by reffty_gag)



Tier List (so far)

(Items inside each tier are in no particular order)



Items in each tier
S tier: 12th fail, A silent voice, Billy Bat, Deltarune, Disco elysium, Made in abyss, Revolutionary girl utena (full anime), The tatami galaxy, omori, undertale, Legend of the galactic heroes, Whiplash, girls last tour, Your Lie In April, Bocchi the rock, RRR, To the moon, Witch Hat Atelier, OneShot, Houseki No Kuni, Hundreds of beavers, I sold my life for 1000 yen per year, Until Then, Beacon Pines, Hylics, Her, Chi

A tier: Angelt beats, Shinsekai Yori, Flowes for Algernon, Genocidal Organ, Hamilton, Purrgatory, Pokemon scarlet and violet, Revolutionary Girl Utena (movie), Mario bros wonder, Akira (anime), Akira (Manga), Harmony, Cowboy Bebop, Monster (2023), Hyouka, Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Yume Nikki, House of leaves, Ex Machina, Half life 1 + 2, Howl's Moving Castle, Lord of the rings, Jesus Christ Superstar, Parasite, Shin Godzilla, 5 Centimeter Per Second, Godzilla Minus One, Azumanga Daioh, Portal, Death Stranding, I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, Dungeon Meshi, A Space For The Unbound, Pluto, Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, Wall-E, The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, The Stanley Parable, Evangelion rebuild, Yakuza 0, Charly, Tomb of the fireflies, Carandiru, ZOM 100, City lights, Titanfall 2, Little misfortune, Wolf Children, Killer7, Anohana, Top Secret, Tropa de elite, Everything Everywhere all at once, Summer Ghost, Life of pi, Metro Last Light, The girl who leapt through time, Odd taxi, Barakamon, Welcome to the N.H.K, Evoland, Night in the woods, Railgun 3-Gatsu no lion, Transistor, Violet evergarden, Radiation house

B tier: 8-mile, Boogiepop (2019) Boogiepop (2000), Cyberpunk Edgerunners, Devilman Crybaby, Learn to fly 3, Loop hero, Master Detective Archives: Rain code, Metapocalypse, Mr nobody, The Lion king, Niea under 7, Pale fire, Solo leveling, Stellaris, Spirited away, summer pockets, corpse bride, Millenium actress, The nightmare before christmas, Follow the Clouds North-NorthWest. Dragond and chameleon, Rokujou Hitoma no Majo Life, Metal gear solid 1, Kaguya-sama love is war, Tasogareboshi no Sui to Neri, Mob Psycho 100, Ford v Ferrari, lisa the painful, lisa the joyful, A Monster Calls, The Book Thief, Top of the lake (season 1), Matrix, Gone Girl, The Cat Retruns, Arctic eggs, Frieren, Shrek (all movies), Nightmare Alley, Road 96, Banana Fish, Evangelion (original + end of evangelion), johnny english, Inglourious Bestards, TÁR, Freaks (2018), the boy and the heron, Vivy, Touge Oni: Primal Gods in Ancient Times, Hell screen, Hellsing ultimate, Fallout 2, Fallout new vegas, q.u.q, Jin, Paprika, Romantic Killer, Ghost Trick, Death Parade, xxxHolic, Metro 2033, Bastion, Lycoris recoil

C tier: Chainsaw Man, Children of men, Contagion, Fist of the north star, The flying luna clipper, Gilgamesh, Higurashi, Shimotsuki-san wa Mob ga Suki, Hotel, Lackadaisy, Nickelodeon, Texhnolyze, The cuphead show, The history of the seattle mariners, The hobbit, Hatoful boyfriend, The animatrix, Song of the long march, Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai, Samurai champloo, coraline, seconds, Edward Scissorhands, Uzumaki, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, EF - a tale of memories, The Thaumaturge, Blood Meridian, Look Back, Annihilation, Lilyhammer, Phantom Requiem For The Phantom, Ace Combat Zero, Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, Blade Runner, Girls Band Cry, Stray, Who's lila, Ergo Proxy, The Breadwinner, Bicentennial man, Rango, Nakitai Watashi wa Neko wo Kaburu, Guardian's Crusade, Rejected, Cold Front, Cyberpunk 2077, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, Fallout 1, Needy Girl Overdose, Lars and the Real Girl, Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the hunger games, Jane Austen’s Mafia!, Sora no woto, Chrono Trigger, Mission Impossible 5, Mission Impossible 6, The dry, FLCL

D: Andy's apple farm, Assassins creed odyssey, BFDI, Bone, Happy new year, Hapymaher, Helck, Homestuck, Kagurabachi, Macross, OT!Book, Saints row 2, Skelter Heaven, The coffin of andy and leyley, Tokyo Ghoul, Too many cooks, ICE Train North America Tour documentary, Uramiya Honpo, Wander over Yonder, Shinka no Mi, MrMcMikey webcomic, Heathers (movie), aho-girl, Plastic memories, Re:zero, 31 Minutos la pelicula, gravity falls, Girls und Panzer, Gosick, Pintu Terlarang (AKA: The Forbidden Door), Air, Kaiju no. 8, Total Recall, Bluets, Thank you Isekai!, Akagi, A nightmare on elm street, The Menu, Grand Theft Auto IV, 17776, Zootopia, Baki, Armitage III, Lost Highway, Konosuba, Great Pretender, Drifting home, Fantasy Bishoujo Juniku Ojisan to, Cipher the Video, Kagerou Daze (anime), Onegairu, Mars of destruction, Final Fantasy Unlimited, MFZK, Avatar the last airbender, Paper mario, GATE, the maze runner, holes, Sleeping Dogs, NFS 2005, Beast Tamer, Underhero, Matilda, Watashi no Shiawase na Kekkon, Aharen-san wa Hakarenai, Dricam!!, Kindergarten wars, Evoland 2, This war of mine

How could you ever do this to me: Class of '09, CTRL+ALT+DEL, Nijigahara Holograph: BFDIA 5B, mugman series, Murder Drones, Horace, Akiba Meido Sensou, Baby Invasion
The Hobbit
Hmm...
Hapymaher, a visual novel released by Purple Software
Texhnolyze

Patatitta wrote: 5t25

I will do my best to complete it
Chat, lets abuse this feature!
Nickelodeon (the manga, not the tv channel).
Topic Starter

-Remi wrote: 103k2t

The Hobbit
honestly it's been so long since I've really watched lords of the rings that I wanted to rewatch all the movies and stuff, going to use this as an excuse in case you didn't say this just to troll. Also yeah, will watch the movies, not the books


KatouMegumi wrote: 4d5u5e

Hmm...
Hapymaher, a visual novel released by Purple Software
ok sorry but this may be too long, will add to the bottom of the list so if I finish all the other requests and there really isn't anything more I will start reading




Karmine wrote: 6c5h1b

Texhnolyze
this was also on my P2W, so will absolutely watch it, will take a little while tho


Kobold84 wrote: 4c5ma

Nickelodeon (the manga, not the tv channel).
never heard of it, will read but after I finish reading the manga i'm currently reading which should be in a couple days



also, i'm going to update the thread with the status of the requests
tomy thomas the tank engine toys
Jangsoodlor
kowalski the penguin
NIJIGAHARA HOLOGRAPH
Topic Starter

sametdze wrote: 1l1a4s

tomy thomas the tank engine toys
sorry, but I haven't really seen the series and 24 seasons of something I probably wont really enjoy is just too much for me


Jangsoodlor wrote: 4z5t12

kowalski the penguin
I was a fan of this show as a kid however, it's going to be a lot more shaky since i'm just writting what I it being, but I can do this one RN

I think this show overall was pretty good, the concept of the show was really interesting, being both a cute show about penguins (Which are my favourite animal!), and also a parody of the spy genre. Which is a genius combination. And kowalski is the greatest example of the spy genre in this show, being the most logical and more "spy-like", and having the constant joke of "kowalski, analysis". And I think it is a really good character for a comedy, honestly, better than a lot of other comedy shows

One thing that I really appreciate about the show, it's that the characters aren't just only the jokes that they make with them. They're full and kinda well written charactersm having a personality that's independent to the plot of the show. And kowalski is no exception.

TLDR: I just really like this show and I really love kowalski, there are a lot of funny jokes and they're actual characters unlike many other comedies tbh
Topic Starter

Reyalp51 wrote: 3o2r5d

NIJIGAHARA HOLOGRAPH
oh fuck you, I will read it but just keep in mind, asano inio is my LEAST favourite mangaka, I have yet to read anything from them that I enjoyed, so I don't expect to have a positive opinion on it

Patatitta wrote: 5t25

-Remi wrote: 103k2t

The Hobbit
honestly it's been so long since I've really watched lords of the rings that I wanted to rewatch all the movies and stuff, going to use this as an excuse in case you didn't say this just to troll. Also yeah, will watch the movies, not the books
I never read or watched the lord of the rings either, I just meant The Hobbit book. It was probably one of my favourites to read growing up.

Patatitta wrote: 5t25

sametdze wrote: 1l1a4s

tomy thomas the tank engine toys
sorry, but I haven't really seen the series and 24 seasons of something I probably wont really enjoy is just too much for me
i meant the toys..
if you can't do that, please do this instead
Topic Starter

sametdze wrote: 1l1a4s

Patatitta wrote: 5t25

sametdze wrote: 1l1a4s

tomy thomas the tank engine toys
sorry, but I haven't really seen the series and 24 seasons of something I probably wont really enjoy is just too much for me
i meant the toys..
if you can't do that, please do this instead
oh my bad, missread

never really had one of those toys so I cant really say anything more than they look cool, will watch the video later
Topic Starter
okay the train video was short so I could just sneak it as a break from reading the manga i'm reading rn

if I understood correctly, the tour was made to showcase the new technologies, since high speed trains was still pretty new at the time, and this apparently was succesfull and people were "omg so fast", however, while I may not kow much about trains, I do know a bit about america itself.

and that is, while the technology was there, and was cheap, and successful, trains are NOT the main form of transformation as they envisioned and to happen. The main way to move in america is with a car. And this is just not a conveniance thing, in many ways trains are the superior way of transporation, it allows people that wouldn't really be able to drive a car move to further places, it's faster, and it's cheaper since you dont need to buy a car. (Also I forgot to mention they're more enviromentally friendly too!)

but, the car itself, is part of the american identity, part of their patriotism. At least with the image of america that I have (i'm not american and never been to america), stuff like seeing a race and drinking bear while doing so is an incredibly patriotic act, same with driving big trucks and stuff. And while amtrak may had the superior way of transporatation, they ended up losing due to american culture, and while trains are a lot more present in asia and parts of europe, the actual tour that they describe was not as successfull as they would have wished, which kinda just raises a lot of questions of if we should prioritize what seems objectively correct over culture. Which is a MASSIVE political and philosophical topic that i'm not getting into.
read flowers for algernon
Topic Starter

Dementedduck wrote: 3c2da

read flowers for algernon
it's a novel, i'ts going to take me a lot of time so will only do if I ran out of requests
Shoujo Kakumei Utena?
Topic Starter

eblf2013 wrote: 331669

Shoujo Kakumei Utena?
yeah I liked penguindrum and it's from the same director so will add
are you willing to do albums
Ah I think you might like Niea_7 too
Chess please!
Topic Starter

Joon Yorigami wrote: 3l6xx

are you willing to do albums
dont know anything about music, so no, not accepting albums sorry


eblf2013 wrote: 331669

Ah I think you might like Niea_7 too
will watch this one first, I have too many things noted already LMAO



Farfocele wrote: e575n

Chess please!
It's chess, I dont have anything to say about chess, I don't feel any sort of way torwards chess, there isn't a plot or any idea that I can really explore, it's just a competitive board game
Review "osu!"
my art :>
Topic Starter

Corne2Plum3 wrote: 3y1z1p

Review "osu!"
I'm mainly looking to do an analysis on the themes and ideas and stuff, same reason why I didn't review chess, I don't have anything to say about osu! in that sense


lostsilver wrote: q37e

my art :>
I think your art is ok. Being completely honest it's not something that's really going to stand out compared to the style of the other artists I follow like cam collins or some weird japanese artists I follow on pixiv. However the art is still good, it reminds me a lot of the style a lot of occidental webtoons has, or even the artstyle some newground flash games used to have, and I do think you habve the skill level in art to actually draw one of these if you were actually determined to do so (Of course you would need to know how to write a story or code but you get my point)

Patatitta wrote: 5t25

lostsilver wrote: q37e

my art :>
I think your art is ok. Being completely honest it's not something that's really going to stand out compared to the style of the other artists I follow like cam collins or some weird japanese artists I follow on pixiv. However the art is still good, it reminds me a lot of the style a lot of occidental webtoons has, or even the artstyle some newground flash games used to have, and I do think you habve the skill level in art to actually draw one of these if you were actually determined to do so (Of course you would need to know how to write a story or code but you get my point)
i do actually wanna end up making my own webtoon/show or something :>
thanks for your !!
Watch Battle for Dream Island..
Topic Starter

MrMcMikey22 wrote: 6l396f

Watch Battle for Dream Island..
tried to watch it a while back but honestly I really didn't enjoy the first chapter and it would seem painful to watch the rest
Review Deltarune
Review Wander Over Yonder

Patatitta wrote: 5t25

MrMcMikey22 wrote: 6l396f

Watch Battle for Dream Island..
tried to watch it a while back but honestly I really didn't enjoy the first chapter and it would seem painful to watch the rest
*season

it's not for everyone of course
Review Off Topic, do you like the way it is right now, why or why not? What kind of threads make OT more enjoyable for you?
Topic Starter

z0z wrote: 2h2d46

Patatitta wrote: 5t25

MrMcMikey22 wrote: 6l396f

Watch Battle for Dream Island..
tried to watch it a while back but honestly I really didn't enjoy the first chapter and it would seem painful to watch the rest
*season

it's not for everyone of course
no I mean I gave up at episode 1


MaxIsABigKaiju wrote: 5b4w4z

Review Wander Over Yonder
will add to the backlog but that's going to take a whilea at this point, big backlog



Corne2Plum3 wrote: 3y1z1p

Review Deltarune
I have alraedy beaten deltarune, so I can do this one rn

I feel that the only way to talk about deltarune is to put in context, this is toby fox second agme, that is a follow up to undertale, one of the must influential games of all time, and so far, deltarune just seems to be more and bigger in every sense

The combat has improved, the plot seems more serious and deep, the alternate route is more darker, the story is more ambitious, the game is 7 times longer, etc.

Not only that but we got to consider that deltarune only happened because it was showed to him in a dream (this is real look it up), and undertale only existed as a proof of concept for deltarune, it promises to be a LOT

so, we know undertale tracked morality. Not only with the spare or kill system, but it also tracks stuff like reloads or if this is your second playthrough, this was the thing that really made undertale blow up as it did

but then, in deltarune, while offering the same options, we get a denial of consequences. When you're expecting the same concepts to apply, sparing or killing have no apparent effect on the ending of the chapters.

However, then we got chapter 2 with the weird route, which is not just activated by kiling everyone, but now you got to mentally maniputale one incredibly likeable character with a tragic backstory into killing everyone which is somehow way fucking worse

Not only that, but the game also plays with a concept that undertale really didn't play, and that is layers of separation and distances

I think the most apparent use of this is jevil, that if you think about it, they are on a cell, inside of a basement, of a castle, of a dark world, of a regular, fantasy world, inside a program, inside a computer, inside the real world and the game makes use of that for storytelling, like lancer not being able to travel between worlds, spamton trying to reach heaven, noelle denying the existance of dark worlds, etc

this is no longer about just breaking the fourth wall, this is about having another fourth wall for the protagonist and then having other character break that wall. Given that deltarune is only 25% released at this point and that things for sure will get crazier near the end, the potential deltarune has is absolutely inmense, and having a concept that could be equally as ground breaking as the original undertale, but given this level of polish and preparation, allow me to be hyped



-Remi wrote: 103k2t

Review Off Topic, do you like the way it is right now, why or why not? What kind of threads make OT more enjoyable for you?
I think people overthink OT, like A LOT, I feel for most of the problems people complain about, it's just stuff that they like to complain about but either dont actually hate it or at least not enough to do anything about it. I'm saying stuff like "OT is dying" or "current thread sucks!!!". I just think that is total BS

however, I will say, since I started on OT I have seen a big shift. I feel a lot more people had less unique posting styles, in fact, most of them shared the same lore-focused, semi-interactive thread. And everything outside that, it would have a lot bigger of a change to get shit on because "it was not effort"

now, it's a lot easier to see how a thread is written and perfectly know who the OP is, people like lostsilver, sametdze, mikey, etc. The is a lot more variety, and some people really put some really big effort into each thread, and there is a lot of people who seem interesting in taking part on each one of them

also, metas seem a lot less frequent, when I started it felt like every other week, and now it's a very rare occurance

I'm my personal opinion, I like the current state of OT, while I do personally think OT isn't dying, I'm my opinion i'm enjoying OT more now than I did in the past, it feels a lot more personal and interesting compared to the lore supremacy of back then

what kind of threads do I enjoy the most?, I do personally engaging al ot in any thread that allows me to be writting for more than 10 seconds or have a disscusion, stuff like the reyalp yume nikki thread, the AYA thread, etc, but those threads are rare, doesn't really do that good, and honestly having too many of them would be bad

so excluding that, I like those competition threads, like the minima speedrunning or the watermelon game, cool to see if anyone actually starts hardcore grinding

and for shitpost threads, AI think the newdweller thread is probably one of the funniest OT threads in recent time, so whatever that type is, I like it

Patatitta wrote: 5t25

z0z wrote: 2h2d46

Patatitta wrote: 5t25

MrMcMikey22 wrote: 6l396f

Watch Battle for Dream Island..
tried to watch it a while back but honestly I really didn't enjoy the first chapter and it would seem painful to watch the rest
*season

it's not for everyone of course
no I mean I gave up at episode 1
well it was made by 2 preteens at the time
the later released episodes may be of higher quality
since im playing it rn so why not, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Left 4 Dead 2?
Topic Starter

Nanofranne wrote: kae

Left 4 Dead 2?
mainly multiplayer thing, not something I can analyze


Cerno wrote: 6g571s

since im playing it rn so why not, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
i'm going to note it but due to it being a very long game it's going to take me a while

also, update, I've just finished the first movie of the hobbit, i'm nearing the end of the manga i'm reading so I will probably start reading nickelodeon today
Topic Starter
Okay I have read nickelodeon (the manga)

Nickelodeon is very strange. I personally went fully blind torwards it, and it seemed to be an drama/experimental anthology from what I had read in the first couple chapters, but it ended up being a comedy anthology with reacurring characters

This manga in many ways feels like a very primitive version of city, but with more explicit jokes, shorter arcs for each character, and without an ovearching plot really uniting the manga

comparing it to city, I enjoyed city a lot more, but mainly because I like the comedy style more (city is a manga created by the same mangaka as nichijou, my favourite comedy of all time)

nickelodeon is a manga that shifts a lot tho, because even if most of it does feel like a comedy manga, there are some pretty serious chapters without any apparent jokes, like chapter 1, so it's really a gamble if the next chapter it's supposed to just be weird/depresing or funny, because there is no way to tell really.

Honestly, it's those weirder chapters I have a problem with, because I don't know what their purpouse is, if they have any purpouse, because the story aren't really that groundbreaking from my opinion and the fact that most chapters doesn't really have any consequence on the next, I dont really know what the purpouse of these chapters are, it feels like it just makes the pacing of the jokes worse

this is just a really strange manga that I dont quite understand

Nijihahara Holograph next

also i'm ing assassins creed odyssey rn but my pc may shit itself and die
Can you do research over how to build a parameter in Minecraft when the default method of using dry coral fan is not working (when the server run on paper, it does not work)
Topic Starter

Manishh wrote: 2k5q58

Can you do research over how to build a parameter in Minecraft when the default method of using dry coral fan is not working (when the server run on paper, it does not work)
absolutely not






also: updates

assassins creed did not make my computer shit itself, but the game itself doesn't seem to be very good, will continue playing it but i'm seeing myself dropping this game tbh

Patatitta wrote: 5t25

Manishh wrote: 2k5q58

Can you do research over how to build a parameter in Minecraft when the default method of using dry coral fan is not working (when the server run on paper, it does not work)
absolutely not






also: updates

assassins creed did not make my computer shit itself, but the game itself doesn't seem to be very good, will continue playing it but i'm seeing myself dropping this game tbh
Played it for a while but couldn't finish, it gets very repetitive
Topic Starter

Karmine wrote: 6c5h1b

Patatitta wrote: 5t25

Manishh wrote: 2k5q58

Can you do research over how to build a parameter in Minecraft when the default method of using dry coral fan is not working (when the server run on paper, it does not work)
absolutely not






also: updates

assassins creed did not make my computer shit itself, but the game itself doesn't seem to be very good, will continue playing it but i'm seeing myself dropping this game tbh
Played it for a while but couldn't finish, it gets very repetitive
ok yeah no I've only played like an hour but i'm already hating the game, i'm not going to subject myself to this



This game just doens't feel like a single player game, it feels like you took a game like destiny 2 and then just made it singleplayer, totally ignoring the fact that the structure of a multiplayer game does not work in a singleplayer one

for example, in most single player games, while they usually have some balance testing and stuff, if something ends up being a little overpowered it doesn't matter, you can choose to just not use it if the game didn't really require it. If you find a way to cheese a boss, the game will usually just hand out the win to you, the game is non-competitive so it doesn't matter if you found a way to cheat

this was my idea of what the game was going to be, so I played like that, however, I felt the game was pushing me back at every single chance it had

oh I obtained a cool item!, cool but you dont have enough experience to use it, you must get to at least x level to use it

I'm confident on my fighting skill, I can take that elite down: wrong, you cant since you're not the adequate level, it's just going to two-shot you

well, I saw that stealth can oneshot enemies, i'm just going to sneak up to them, do this whole section while stealthing, and then just oneshot them: wrong, the attack only really does a certain ammount of damage, so you cant really one-shot enemies with a level higher than yours

the whole thing seems like you're playing a live service multiplayer game, but that's not how a single-player should look, in a multiplayer game, certain choices are made because if not it could ruin the experience for other players, this game is doing those decisions because they thought they were cool

not only that, but this game literally features an option for your horse to travel to quest objectives automatically, and a cash shop, in a single player game

this is the first single player game i've ever played that had a cash shop

i'm just baffled by this game, I haven't played too many AAA games in general, so I really didn't expect an assassins creed to look like that. And the AAA games that I have played are stuff like baldur's gate 3, where if you're skilled enough, you can take on a stronger enemy than you, maybe even use the environment to oneshot it, and then steal all their loot, which has no level requirement associated. Because this is the standard, or at least it should be, not whatever the fuck this game tried

Patatitta wrote: 5t25

Karmine wrote: 6c5h1b

Patatitta wrote: 5t25

Manishh wrote: 2k5q58

Can you do research over how to build a parameter in Minecraft when the default method of using dry coral fan is not working (when the server run on paper, it does not work)
absolutely not






also: updates

assassins creed did not make my computer shit itself, but the game itself doesn't seem to be very good, will continue playing it but i'm seeing myself dropping this game tbh
Played it for a while but couldn't finish, it gets very repetitive
ok yeah no I've only played like an hour but i'm already hating the game, i'm not going to subject myself to this



This game just doens't feel like a single player game, it feels like you took a game like destiny 2 and then just made it singleplayer, totally ignoring the fact that the structure of a multiplayer game does not work in a singleplayer one

for example, in most single player games, while they usually have some balance testing and stuff, if something ends up being a little overpowered it doesn't matter, you can choose to just not use it if the game didn't really require it. If you find a way to cheese a boss, the game will usually just hand out the win to you, the game is non-competitive so it doesn't matter if you found a way to cheat

this was my idea of what the game was going to be, so I played like that, however, I felt the game was pushing me back at every single chance it had

oh I obtained a cool item!, cool but you dont have enough experience to use it, you must get to at least x level to use it

I'm confident on my fighting skill, I can take that elite down: wrong, you cant since you're not the adequate level, it's just going to two-shot you

well, I saw that stealth can oneshot enemies, i'm just going to sneak up to them, do this whole section while stealthing, and then just oneshot them: wrong, the attack only really does a certain ammount of damage, so you cant really one-shot enemies with a level higher than yours

the whole thing seems like you're playing a live service multiplayer game, but that's not how a single-player should look, in a multiplayer game, certain choices are made because if not it could ruin the experience for other players, this game is doing those decisions because they thought they were cool

not only that, but this game literally features an option for your horse to travel to quest objectives automatically, and a cash shop, in a single player game

this is the first single player game i've ever played that had a cash shop

i'm just baffled by this game, I haven't played too many AAA games in general, so I really didn't expect an assassins creed to look like that. And the AAA games that I have played are stuff like baldur's gate 3, where if you're skilled enough, you can take on a stronger enemy than you, maybe even use the environment to oneshot it, and then steal all their loot, which has no level requirement associated. Because this is the standard, or at least it should be, not whatever the fuck this game tried
Yeah, there's also this whole thing with named fighters you can kill to rank up, would make sense in a pvp game but is kinda useless in a single player, you can entirely ignore it as far as I know
Also having all gear stats be linked only to level makes all legendaries obsolete as soon as you level up and pick up even lowest tier gear
It's kinda sad, I'd love a good action/adventure game in ancient Greece (other than old God of War), it's almost endless copyright free content you can use any way you want and pretty much everyone is at least somewhat familiar with it (especially since Hades), how is there not a good AAA game like that?
What about Silent Voice?
sad ;(
the game ib please
Topic Starter

Nanofranne wrote: kae

What about Silent Voice?
that's a good one, of the movies I initially watched when I was getting into anime and I still really love it to this day

A silent voice is a romance drama anime movie, you could probably group it in the same category as stuff like I want to eat your pancreas (which is also an amazing movie).

The plotisn't too surprising if you've seen this type of movie before, protagonist is fucking depressed, meets girl, guy and girl improves their life thanks to their relationship, it's more complex than that of course but htat's the idea, in this case, the girl she ends up liking was a girl she used to bully because she was mute, and what used to be their classmates resent him for it

Our protagonist is completely and fully aware that they resent him, and just doesn't want top interact with anyone for that reason, even if they dont know them, they're still too scared to talk, the way this is showcased in the movie is by crossing out the faces of everyone else

and while they dont explicitely tell you what the crossed faces mean, or that he sees everyone under that same light, the spectator understands this perfectly, you learn about the situation and then you can extrapolate all that information, allowing for a lot more character development with only a few extra seconds of runtime

in that sense it reminds me of Ping Pong, they dont tell you how the protagonist got into ping pong, but by reading it, you just know. I love this style of storytelling

not only that, but this way of telling the story not onl makes you enjoy the plot more, because if they just told you all that stuff from the stuff, you would enjoy it a lot less than just discovering and understanding it yourself, and being proud of yourself for doing so

it's also a lot more ambiguous than a written sentence, so it really does help to illustrate this very ambiguous and complex feelings

and while the movie advances, he gains confidence and forgives himself for their past acts, he starts losing the crossed out faces, being more open, and finally being able to really push their life forward

our female MC also has a lot of developement too, mainly, the misscomunication that constantly happens during the movie, of having her friends who stil resent the guy try to constantly read her mind and talk for her, even if she didn't feel that way at all

however, she has lived her entire life like that, she's kinda used to it already, and again, by seeing the movie you understand this fact, even if no one had to explicitily tell you

I absolutely love this movie, it has a lot to say about disabilty and depression, and it does it in this beautifully artistic way that is honestly needed to be able to portray these types of complex feeling. It's just wonderful. I giving it a 10 in myanimelist

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179bpm wrote: 4r3o3f

the game ib please

i'm not touching horror sorry, I don't enjoy getting scared
Is this still open for request because i think i have a few mangas i think are fun
Topic Starter

NotRaffi wrote: 171b11

Is this still open for request because i think i have a few mangas i think are fun
yes, still open, will still be open for a long while
Alright here, just do it in any order:

Kagurabacchi (genuinely curious of your opinion) [4 chapter]

Shimotsuki-san wa Mob ga Suki (ongoing one-shot i think) [8 chapter]

Reincarnation no Kaben (one of my personal favourite for some reason, ongoing) [69 chapter]

Billy Bat (i haven't finished it myself, but it's pretty confusing, you don't have to do this one if you don't want to, it is pretty long) [165 chapter]
You know, I regret posting here. The thing I asked for will probably never get done.
Topic Starter

NotRaffi wrote: 171b11

Alright here, just do it in any order:

Kagurabacchi (genuinely curious of your opinion) [4 chapter]

Shimotsuki-san wa Mob ga Suki (ongoing one-shot i think) [8 chapter]

Reincarnation no Kaben (one of my personal favourite for some reason, ongoing) [69 chapter]

Billy Bat (i haven't finished it myself, but it's pretty confusing, you don't have to do this one if you don't want to, it is pretty long) [165 chapter]
i've already read kagurabachi

since then more chapters were released, they're currently on chapter 3 with the 4th one leaked, i've read them and idk, it's alright, there is nothing I can really point out that say it's good, and I don't know if I like the direction, like, they didn't even make the protagonist good, he's just strong because their katana is strong, and so far there is nothing of character development or plot and just fights, just not my jam

rest haven't read, billy bat was on my p2r list tho, I really enjoyed 20th century boys, in fact, it's one of my favourite mangas

KatouMegumi wrote: 4d5u5e

You know, I regret posting here. The thing I asked for will probably never get done.
no harm in suggesting
Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE
Topic Starter
Nijigahara Holograph analysis



I HATE asano inio


thanks for reading




ok but actually, I just dont get this mangaka, i've read four mangas of them (Oyasumi punpun, dead dead demons dedededestruction, subarashii sekai and now this one), and I have to say, I hated all four of those

asano inio has this writting style where the plot is just pure unfiltered nihilism, and I feel you're only really going to enjoy their mangas if you already agree with that philosopohical viewpoint, because he doesn't really put any effort into actually making you care if not

for example, this manga, which is one volume long, the protagonist starts being a complete asshole for not good reason, and I feel the manga expects me to still care about this character and t osee their cool little growth, but due to the fact that I hate about the character from the fourth , I just dont care, i'm just wishing for divine retribution and for the character to be punished for their actions, something that doesn't really happen in this manga, but, insteaad, their actions are weirdly rewarded

I feel that is by far my biggest problem with this mangaka, that is the reason why I also disliked punpun, I just didn't care about punpun at all, the story was made to be so nihilistic that I just couldn't even care about the manga itself

another quirk of their writting, is in fact, that it's just bordering on torture porn, like actually, we did NOT need a rape scene in punpun, and the end of this manga just borders in the same imaginery, even if that was just an hallucination

the story is not particulary deep or interesting either. It's not bringing anything new to the table and it's not really a noteworthy story, which was mainly my problem with subarashii sekai, while it does look like it would be deep, it really isn't

however, I have to say, most of these problems were adressed in dead dead demons dedededestruction


... at least the first half of it

because yeah, it starts strong. It's a story of an alien invation from the perspective of someone normal and society at large, not a story focusing on the heroes that would save the world or anything, which is a story I like. The characters are actually likeable, and the nihilistic point of view actually makes the manga better

but starting the second half, I feel that vision of an alien invasion from the eyes of someone normal is lost, as the story gets more complicated for some reason, culminating on the worst ending i've ever seen to a manga

I just dont get this mangaka, and honestly this is probably the weakest manga from all of the ones i've read from him, I'm actually interesting in hearing any positive opinion on this because I don't get what there is to like here

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Serraionga wrote: 2r3s1z

Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE
I don't own a switch, I will have to see if a friend legally decides to lend me their switch on their legitimate bough physical copy of the game at hand, will add to the list tho

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also: update, I've just finished the second hobbit movie, moving on to the last
Battle for Circle
Topic Starter

MrMcMikey22 wrote: 6l396f

Battle for Circle
I just watched the first 3 episodes due to them being like 1 minute long but this is just a joke of everyone being called circle for 14 chapter and nothing more, not really something I can analyze as it's just a simple yt shitpost
Alright you potatohead... -.-


ONE
Topic Starter

MrMcMikey22 wrote: 6l396f

Alright you potatohead... -.-


ONE
watched the first chapter, this is just a funny silly youtube series about a game show, no real topic or anything I can really analyze since it's not particulary deep or original, there isn't even really a script set ahead of time since it's comment vote out people

edit: also, just to clarify, there are youtube videos that are worth analyzing that can in fact be as deep as a regular movie, just not animated game shows, or game shows in general. I'm not just saying my opinion and saying if you sohuld watch something or not, i'm trying to look at the themes, at the elements in a certain piece of media and why I enjoy them or why I dont, or what do I think the author was trying to do and how well did they achieve it. Or even with the train stuff that was submited earlier, look at actual real life events and stuff and the consequences they had in the world. you can read my previous stuff and see all of that
._.

Patatitta wrote: 5t25

Nanofranne wrote: kae

What about Silent Voice?
that's a good one, of the movies I initially watched when I was getting into anime and I still really love it to this day
Agreed. Simple plot and premise but excellent execution. The moment of Shouya in the end makes me cry in the cinema, seeing how the guy fully redeem himself and let go from his troubled past. I think everyone should watch it. It will change an aspect of your life.
Topic Starter

Nanofranne wrote: kae

Patatitta wrote: 5t25

Nanofranne wrote: kae

What about Silent Voice?
that's a good one, of the movies I initially watched when I was getting into anime and I still really love it to this day
Agreed. Simple plot and premise but excellent execution. The moment of Shouya in the end makes me cry in the cinema, seeing how the guy fully redeem himself and let go from his troubled past. I think everyone should watch it. It will change an aspect of your life.
I dont have the courage to go watch one of these animes in the cinema haha, it did make me cry too when I watched initially
Review Nabokov's 'Pale Fire', it's a funny book, one of my favourites
please review minecraft
Topic Starter

Kudou Chitose wrote: 5e5w51

Review Nabokov's 'Pale Fire', it's a funny book, one of my favourites
will add, but due to it being a book, it will take a me a very long time to read, and actually get to


Farfocele wrote: e575n

please review minecraft
open sandbox, do whatever, not something I can really analyze

I just need things with plot or relevant themes

Patatitta wrote: 5t25

Nijigahara Holograph analysis



I HATE asano inio


thanks for reading




ok but actually, I just dont get this mangaka, i've read four mangas of them (Oyasumi punpun, dead dead demons dedededestruction, subarashii sekai and now this one), and I have to say, I hated all four of those

asano inio has this writting style where the plot is just pure unfiltered nihilism, and I feel you're only really going to enjoy their mangas if you already agree with that philosopohical viewpoint, because he doesn't really put any effort into actually making you care if not

for example, this manga, which is one volume long, the protagonist starts being a complete asshole for not good reason, and I feel the manga expects me to still care about this character and t osee their cool little growth, but due to the fact that I hate about the character from the fourth , I just dont care, i'm just wishing for divine retribution and for the character to be punished for their actions, something that doesn't really happen in this manga, but, insteaad, their actions are weirdly rewarded

I feel that is by far my biggest problem with this mangaka, that is the reason why I also disliked punpun, I just didn't care about punpun at all, the story was made to be so nihilistic that I just couldn't even care about the manga itself

another quirk of their writting, is in fact, that it's just bordering on torture porn, like actually, we did NOT need a rape scene in punpun, and the end of this manga just borders in the same imaginery, even if that was just an hallucination

the story is not particulary deep or interesting either. It's not bringing anything new to the table and it's not really a noteworthy story, which was mainly my problem with subarashii sekai, while it does look like it would be deep, it really isn't

however, I have to say, most of these problems were adressed in dead dead demons dedededestruction


... at least the first half of it

because yeah, it starts strong. It's a story of an alien invation from the perspective of someone normal and society at large, not a story focusing on the heroes that would save the world or anything, which is a story I like. The characters are actually likeable, and the nihilistic point of view actually makes the manga better

but starting the second half, I feel that vision of an alien invasion from the eyes of someone normal is lost, as the story gets more complicated for some reason, culminating on the worst ending i've ever seen to a manga

I just dont get this mangaka, and honestly this is probably the weakest manga from all of the ones i've read from him, I'm actually interesting in hearing any positive opinion on this because I don't get what there is to like here

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Serraionga wrote: 2r3s1z

Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE
I don't own a switch, I will have to see if a friend legally decides to lend me their switch on their legitimate bough physical copy of the game at hand, will add to the list tho

--

also: update, I've just finished the second hobbit movie, moving on to the last

thats more or less the rection i was expcting lmao
Topic Starter

Reyalp51 wrote: 3o2r5d

Patatitta wrote: 5t25

Nijigahara Holograph analysis



I HATE asano inio


thanks for reading




ok but actually, I just dont get this mangaka, i've read four mangas of them (Oyasumi punpun, dead dead demons dedededestruction, subarashii sekai and now this one), and I have to say, I hated all four of those

asano inio has this writting style where the plot is just pure unfiltered nihilism, and I feel you're only really going to enjoy their mangas if you already agree with that philosopohical viewpoint, because he doesn't really put any effort into actually making you care if not

for example, this manga, which is one volume long, the protagonist starts being a complete asshole for not good reason, and I feel the manga expects me to still care about this character and t osee their cool little growth, but due to the fact that I hate about the character from the fourth , I just dont care, i'm just wishing for divine retribution and for the character to be punished for their actions, something that doesn't really happen in this manga, but, insteaad, their actions are weirdly rewarded

I feel that is by far my biggest problem with this mangaka, that is the reason why I also disliked punpun, I just didn't care about punpun at all, the story was made to be so nihilistic that I just couldn't even care about the manga itself

another quirk of their writting, is in fact, that it's just bordering on torture porn, like actually, we did NOT need a rape scene in punpun, and the end of this manga just borders in the same imaginery, even if that was just an hallucination

the story is not particulary deep or interesting either. It's not bringing anything new to the table and it's not really a noteworthy story, which was mainly my problem with subarashii sekai, while it does look like it would be deep, it really isn't

however, I have to say, most of these problems were adressed in dead dead demons dedededestruction


... at least the first half of it

because yeah, it starts strong. It's a story of an alien invation from the perspective of someone normal and society at large, not a story focusing on the heroes that would save the world or anything, which is a story I like. The characters are actually likeable, and the nihilistic point of view actually makes the manga better

but starting the second half, I feel that vision of an alien invasion from the eyes of someone normal is lost, as the story gets more complicated for some reason, culminating on the worst ending i've ever seen to a manga

I just dont get this mangaka, and honestly this is probably the weakest manga from all of the ones i've read from him, I'm actually interesting in hearing any positive opinion on this because I don't get what there is to like here

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Serraionga wrote: 2r3s1z

Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE
I don't own a switch, I will have to see if a friend legally decides to lend me their switch on their legitimate bough physical copy of the game at hand, will add to the list tho

--

also: update, I've just finished the second hobbit movie, moving on to the last

thats more or less the rection i was expcting lmao
did you not enjoy the manga yourself?

Patatitta wrote: 5t25

Reyalp51 wrote: 3o2r5d

Patatitta wrote: 5t25

Nijigahara Holograph analysis



I HATE asano inio


thanks for reading




ok but actually, I just dont get this mangaka, i've read four mangas of them (Oyasumi punpun, dead dead demons dedededestruction, subarashii sekai and now this one), and I have to say, I hated all four of those

asano inio has this writting style where the plot is just pure unfiltered nihilism, and I feel you're only really going to enjoy their mangas if you already agree with that philosopohical viewpoint, because he doesn't really put any effort into actually making you care if not

for example, this manga, which is one volume long, the protagonist starts being a complete asshole for not good reason, and I feel the manga expects me to still care about this character and t osee their cool little growth, but due to the fact that I hate about the character from the fourth , I just dont care, i'm just wishing for divine retribution and for the character to be punished for their actions, something that doesn't really happen in this manga, but, insteaad, their actions are weirdly rewarded

I feel that is by far my biggest problem with this mangaka, that is the reason why I also disliked punpun, I just didn't care about punpun at all, the story was made to be so nihilistic that I just couldn't even care about the manga itself

another quirk of their writting, is in fact, that it's just bordering on torture porn, like actually, we did NOT need a rape scene in punpun, and the end of this manga just borders in the same imaginery, even if that was just an hallucination

the story is not particulary deep or interesting either. It's not bringing anything new to the table and it's not really a noteworthy story, which was mainly my problem with subarashii sekai, while it does look like it would be deep, it really isn't

however, I have to say, most of these problems were adressed in dead dead demons dedededestruction


... at least the first half of it

because yeah, it starts strong. It's a story of an alien invation from the perspective of someone normal and society at large, not a story focusing on the heroes that would save the world or anything, which is a story I like. The characters are actually likeable, and the nihilistic point of view actually makes the manga better

but starting the second half, I feel that vision of an alien invasion from the eyes of someone normal is lost, as the story gets more complicated for some reason, culminating on the worst ending i've ever seen to a manga

I just dont get this mangaka, and honestly this is probably the weakest manga from all of the ones i've read from him, I'm actually interesting in hearing any positive opinion on this because I don't get what there is to like here

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Serraionga wrote: 2r3s1z

Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE
I don't own a switch, I will have to see if a friend legally decides to lend me their switch on their legitimate bough physical copy of the game at hand, will add to the list tho

--

also: update, I've just finished the second hobbit movie, moving on to the last

thats more or less the rection i was expcting lmao
did you not enjoy the manga yourself?
i didnt finish it :/
can you ANALyze me?
Yeah let's analyze Scyla's SEXY OT threads! O_OÖO-_oO__OO_O_O_oO__O
Topic Starter
hobbit analysis:

this is a prequel to the lord of the rings, I think everyone knows that far, it's supposed to be lower stakes than LOTR, so it's not like everyone is going to die or anything, in fact, the start of the films seems to set us up for a more slice of life-ish adventure, of how this random guy got drafted in, and changed as a person due to the adventure that followed

the hobbit is by all means a pretty good trilogy, same for LOTR, but honestly it's weighted down by the fact that they were so succesfull that every fantasy story from there on will take inspiration from tolkien

that's really my only complain raelly, it's just, the standard of medieval fantasy with blacksmithing dwarves, elf archers and big fire breathing dragons is just too common for it to really be mind-blowing, and while I do know that this existed WAY before LOTR, I feel that the success of those movies pushed the genre to be even bigger

the hobbit is also not really something to enjoy standalone, it's something for if you do like LOTR to know more about the characters and middle earth, it's still a pretty good fantasy story, but you're not really going to miss out on much if you didn't really like LOTR beforehand

however, it's true that the movies are incredibly high quality, the actors are good, the cinematography is good, there really isn't anything bad about it, it's just so successful that you're not really going to be surprised or amazed at anything it you watch it in the current year

nothing more I have to say about it really

texhnolyze next
Topic Starter
Shimotsuki-san wa Mob ga Suki: Hitomishiri na Kanojo wa Ore ni dake Dere Amai (manga) analysis:


not too much I have to say

romcon that just started recently, seems that it still has a little bit more to go. You said this was an one-shot but seeing as the LN is still ongoing I doubt so, kinda similar to kagurabachi in the sense it's too early to really analyze it

protagonist seems alright, don't really agree with their ideas but I get where he is coming from, there hasn't really been much revealed out of the female mc other than they're shy

just have to wait and see IG, but so far, these first chapters were just alright

Reincarnation no Kaben next

Scyla wrote: 1d6q5d

can you ANALyze me?
O_O
Topic Starter
update: not doing reincarnation no kabe, read the first volume, this is clearly not my thing, this is not something I enjoy, so i'm just going to skip it, sorry

billy bat next
How do you have so much free time?

If you like puzzle games: Antichamber and Manifold Garden, also DeadCore (fps platformer but with some puzzle elements)
They are pretty short (<10 hours)
Topic Starter

Karmine wrote: 6c5h1b

How do you have so much free time?

If you like puzzle games: Antichamber and Manifold Garden, also DeadCore (fps platformer but with some puzzle elements)
They are pretty short (<10 hours)
irl shit happened and I have some unfortunately free time
Topic Starter
Finished texhnolyze: I have a lot to say about this anime, and half of it isn't even about the anime

this is a weird AF anime, it's an extremely slow anime, with confusing storytelling and almost no sound, and I mean that there are like moments in the anime that's basically just a black screen with no sound for like 5 seconds.

To be fair, in the second half of the anime, they start adding more dialogue, since they start focusing mroe on the plot but yeah, if you dont enjoy the first chapters you're not enjoying the end even with that slight change on style.

with this type of anime I think everyone has their own interpretation, so i'm going to explain my entire thought process of why I think the way I do about texhnolyze

first of all, we got to see why the decision to barely have any dialogue or even images at point really do for the anime, to be fair, if you wanted to write a story about the afterlife and not really being quite human that sort of stuff you would just write something like haibane renmei, but this is drastically different to that.

Silence is not a good option for telling a plot, since when you're talking about complex concepts, like texhnolyzation or any other very specific and precise details, you must use words, you cant really explain world history properly without really using a single word.

the one thing that's actually better understood without saying a word are personalities, how someone acts. It's better to actually see that person in action than just hearing about it. If you realize that the anime is extremely silent (which you will), you're going to start focusing more on every detail that you have access too, and that includes how a character acts.

this anime is all about that, seeing how people reject and embrace the post-humanistic ideas, how they deal with being able to see a possible future or how they deal confronted with death, if you look at the anime with that lens, and stop really trying to fully understand the plot I think you will see it a lot more clearly

this is reinforced by the fact that it is an anime original, there was no source material for this. When creating an anime original you take full advantage of the medium, a lot of the time betters than a adaptation from a manga, and allowing to determine how long each shot lasts does improve the experience of this anime.

the actual anime is pretty interesting, I think all the characters are very interesting and the locations and plot really reinforce and create situations where they flourish a lot.


----- (starting this part I start derailing to something entirely else so yeah, my actual analysis of the anime itself ends here) ---


However, I suspected one thing. This wasn't about the anime itself, I've already said all that I wanted to say about the anime, but more about the reception and seeing why other people enjoyed or disliked this anime

and that is, because I know how the internet acts, and I know that my opinion on this anime would be in the minority

Currently, on the internet, every disscussion on any film, anime, book, manga, or even colaborative project will end up in the same way. The internet wants to see an explanation for EVERYTHING, the work doesn't even have to be abstract for this to really happen. I saw it happen with lain, and I feared it happening the same with this anime

I feel the biggest current example of this are in fact, the backrooms. One guy did a short horror story, and then people started to go, but wait... where does x come from? where do you from here? eternally, and you now currently have something closer to S than you did to the original work

A similar thing happened with lain, it had a lot of elements that also mainly work to make it a more character focused story, however, look into any disscusion of lain, and everyone is praising how complex the plot is, even if lain really doesn't have that much plot (and honestly isn't really that good IMO)

and you here had a similar recipe, abstract anime that mainly focused on the characters with barely any dialoge. So I looked into it, and I was right.

Most of the negative reviews i've seen on this anime is that the anime was too slow "for no reason at all" and that you could not understand the plot properly, and i've also seen some other analysis trying to completely decypher and explain the plot. To be fair I did find a lot of people talking similar stuff to me. But I realy think that just going with that mentality is going to cause you to enjoy some works a whole lot less, and I think this is one of those examples

so yeah, good anime, but to embrace the abstract and confusing aspects of it rather than trying to overexplaining it to really enjoy it (at least in my personal opinion)


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also updates: i'm halfway through billy bat (really enjoying it)
going to watch utena next

Patatitta wrote: 5t25

Finished texhnolyze: I have a lot to say about this anime, and half of it isn't even about the anime

this is a weird AF anime, it's an extremely slow anime, with confusing storytelling and almost no sound, and I mean that there are like moments in the anime that's basically just a black screen with no sound for like 5 seconds.

To be fair, in the second half of the anime, they start adding more dialogue, since they start focusing mroe on the plot but yeah, if you dont enjoy the first chapters you're not enjoying the end even with that slight change on style.

with this type of anime I think everyone has their own interpretation, so i'm going to explain my entire thought process of why I think the way I do about texhnolyze

first of all, we got to see why the decision to barely have any dialogue or even images at point really do for the anime, to be fair, if you wanted to write a story about the afterlife and not really being quite human that sort of stuff you would just write something like haibane renmei, but this is drastically different to that.

Silence is not a good option for telling a plot, since when you're talking about complex concepts, like texhnolyzation or any other very specific and precise details, you must use words, you cant really explain world history properly without really using a single word.

the one thing that's actually better understood without saying a word are personalities, how someone acts. It's better to actually see that person in action than just hearing about it. If you realize that the anime is extremely silent (which you will), you're going to start focusing more on every detail that you have access too, and that includes how a character acts.

this anime is all about that, seeing how people reject and embrace the post-humanistic ideas, how they deal with being able to see a possible future or how they deal confronted with death, if you look at the anime with that lens, and stop really trying to fully understand the plot I think you will see it a lot more clearly

this is reinforced by the fact that it is an anime original, there was no source material for this. When creating an anime original you take full advantage of the medium, a lot of the time betters than a adaptation from a manga, and allowing to determine how long each shot lasts does improve the experience of this anime.

the actual anime is pretty interesting, I think all the characters are very interesting and the locations and plot really reinforce and create situations where they flourish a lot.


----- (starting this part I start derailing to something entirely else so yeah, my actual analysis of the anime itself ends here) ---


However, I suspected one thing. This wasn't about the anime itself, I've already said all that I wanted to say about the anime, but more about the reception and seeing why other people enjoyed or disliked this anime

and that is, because I know how the internet acts, and I know that my opinion on this anime would be in the minority

Currently, on the internet, every disscussion on any film, anime, book, manga, or even colaborative project will end up in the same way. The internet wants to see an explanation for EVERYTHING, the work doesn't even have to be abstract for this to really happen. I saw it happen with lain, and I feared it happening the same with this anime

I feel the biggest current example of this are in fact, the backrooms. One guy did a short horror story, and then people started to go, but wait... where does x come from? where do you from here? eternally, and you now currently have something closer to S than you did to the original work

A similar thing happened with lain, it had a lot of elements that also mainly work to make it a more character focused story, however, look into any disscusion of lain, and everyone is praising how complex the plot is, even if lain really doesn't have that much plot (and honestly isn't really that good IMO)

and you here had a similar recipe, abstract anime that mainly focused on the characters with barely any dialoge. So I looked into it, and I was right.

Most of the negative reviews i've seen on this anime is that the anime was too slow "for no reason at all" and that you could not understand the plot properly, and i've also seen some other analysis trying to completely decypher and explain the plot. To be fair I did find a lot of people talking similar stuff to me. But I realy think that just going with that mentality is going to cause you to enjoy some works a whole lot less, and I think this is one of those examples

so yeah, good anime, but to embrace the abstract and confusing aspects of it rather than trying to overexplaining it to really enjoy it (at least in my personal opinion)


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also updates: i'm halfway through billy bat (really enjoying it)
going to watch utena next
Glad you liked it, it's a hit or miss
I seeing the first episode and the only dialogue comes after like 15 mintues and is a guy on the phone but you only hear what he says, no idea who he's talking to or even what they're talking about

People don't like anime etc. that require them to think, but they still watch stuff like that then complain (average MAL reviewer lol)

Gilgamesh is another anime with a similar weird vibe but not nearly as abstract
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