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In a way, some aspects of the premise remind me very faintly of the first run syndicated series Earth: Final Conflict, advanced aliens come to Earth, offer their technology and help us out but they may have an agenda, (they do, actually) and secrets (oh yes). So, part of the basic premise has been done before in various ways. V, for instance, and Keith Laumer's novel "The Monitors", a humorous twist on the idea of the "benevolent" alien invasion, where the invading aliens are actually extremely benevolent and do all they can to raise up mankind. They can use their advanced technology to provide free food, education, housing, and all, but there are human resistance groups, who resent all of this as being extremely paternalistic.
There was a Rick and Morty episode with a similar premise where sapient dinosaurs come to Earth and make things better to the point where Rick resents it and wants them gone.
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I forgot what it was called, but it had some stupid pun name like most R&M eps do.
 
Director is Kazuya Tsurumaki aka the director of FLCL
And Diebuster, which wasn't that great. This new robot even looks like something you'd expect from Diebuster or Linebarrels or Captain Earth -- barely defined and overly organic. Combined with the moe/cutesy characters and the storyline that invokes G-Witch, I have very low expectations for this. Who would have thought that Gundam, the franchise that once condemned forced crossdressing and tranny chasers (yes srsly), would have become weeaboo troonslop?
 
And Diebuster, which wasn't that great. This new robot even looks like something you'd expect from Diebuster or Linebarrels or Captain Earth -- barely defined and overly organic.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees a resemblance to Linebarrels of Iron. It looks like someone hired a huge Linebarrels or Argevollen fan to design a cross between Gundam AGE and Gundam Barbatos. I'll always give a new Gundam series a try, but nothing I've seen about it so far has made me optimistic. Hideaki Anno's involvement in particular is a big red flag for me. I know a lot of people love his stuff, but I haven't liked anything he worked on after Nadia.
 
It looks like someone hired a huge Linebarrels or Argevollen fan to design a cross between Gundam AGE and Gundam Barbatos.
What it reminds me of is that thing from Captain Earth. This design philosophy of "as lean and rugged as possible" that originated in the 2000s and has persisted to this day is pure cancer -- they look more like giant monsters rather than robots.
Hideaki Anno's involvement in particular is a big red flag for me. I know a lot of people love his stuff, but I haven't liked anything he worked on after Nadia.
Rebuild 2.0 and 3.0 were good (better than 90s Evangelion), as were the Anima novels. I still hope we someday get a novel or anime or something about the time skip. The big red flags for me are the school setting, boy-meets-girl premise, yuri bait, and cutesy character designs; all those things make any show bad. Ever since G-Witch, it feels like Gundam has been trying to hard to be like the shows that weebs like -- stuff like Eureka 7, Code Geass, and Franxx -- to get zoomers into Gundam, but zoomers are flocking to SEED and UC because those are what's good.
 
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Imagine thinking Eureka 7 and Code Geass are Zoomer mechas. They came out nearly 20 years ago. The oldest zoomers were like fuckin' 6 at the oldest. Your perspective for anime is so out of fuckin' whack lol.
Ngl It's funny to me how many people seem to forget that the oldest zoomers are 27 years old and not 17. I would say that Eva is more zoomer than Eureka Seven when it comes to overall fanbase. Evangelion related things are very easy to find on the internet and especially, if we are talking about memes.
 
damn episode 7 got me feelin feelings
It has the emotional weight of the average tragic naruto backstory episode.
The anime isn't that good. I dislike a lot of things about it (humor, OP, ost, character design), but I think the thing I dislike the most about it is that it seems to be confused on what emotion it should convey. When watching a fight, I don't know if I should take the enemy seriously, if the protagonists are struggling, or if it's alright and they'll just beat it. The worst offender of this was in part 7. It wasn't apparent that the ghost mom was to be taken seriously until Aira was about to die. And even then, Okarun's lines broke the tension.
 
TLs done by an ESL, I would rather grind anki and tae kim for months before reading them.

Hot New Manga about killing and eating immigrants: Drama Queen
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I read the first chapter and yeah it's pretty fun. I hope it doesn't employ the "oh wait it turns out i'm half-monster and monsters can be human too!" or end up pussying out with the "I don't wanna kill the demons" thing that happened in the promised neverland. I genuinely hope it becomes a "total alien death (or expulsion)" story.
 
Oh people are talking about Drama Queen already, it comes across as quite redpilled and I like some parts of the story but it still has a lot of problems. Obligatory artstyle whinging, the artstyle looks very mid and webcomicky. I dont know if its just me or its coomerism but I thought Numamoto was a dude, like a twinky guy and was very weirded out by the romantic undertones, it could dive into bara territory really fast. I was shocked to learn that its a woman cause theres no visual signifiers apart from the hairstyle, no angular jawline, no hips or tits, nothing. Am I just a coomer or does anybody else think the same? Also the "asteroid incident" reminded me of the false flag attack from starship troopers for some reason.
I saw the chick is a chick immediately, seems like a skill issue to me. Kinda weird to say a story is redpilled then immediately talk about how gender ambiguous the main character is.
Regarding Drama Queen: I'm leaning towards it being just a story with no real sociopolitical commentary and that people are attaching meaning to some dumb fun.
Ah, the Helldivers effect. I hope it is just dumb fun, because I want it to stay that thing that sends retards into paroxysms of rage.
Who would have thought that Gundam, the franchise that once condemned forced crossdressing and tranny chasers (yes srsly), would have become weeaboo troonslop?
As a zoomer with better taste than my peers (not a high bar) this actually is shocking to me. I've put the Gundam Franchise in the 'too hard' pile for a long time, maybe it's time I figure out where to start.
 
Yup.

You think it's cool and then you grow up, really think about it, and figure out none of it really makes any sense.
It does make sense, you might simply wanna re-read it, slowly and more carefully this time.
From Aizen's plans, Soul Society, the Vizards, Urahara, and why Yoruichi is a fucking cat.
Aizen's plan was to free himself from the rule of the weak, enforced by the strong who deny themselves (see central 46, whose rule is enforced by the strong gotei 13). The vizards were an experiment by aizen. he wanted to see how strong he could get and considered hollowfication (until he learned about the hogyoku). You can think of Aizen as the Übermensch and Urahara as the last man. Why yoruichi can turn into a cat doesn't really matter, I don't see why it would need an explanation in the manga.
When you realize Ichigo wins every major fight using the exact same story beats and asspulls, you just can't enjoy the story anymore.
What asspulls?
It's just bad. And unironic Bleach fanboys are some of the most retarded people. People pretending like Bleach is good now is the most embarrassing shit. The Thousand Year Blood War doesn't make any sense and literally comes out of fucking nowhere.
I think you might really wanna re-read the manga.
If you think that's bad, you haven't read enough scanlations.
I have. It's just that broken english takes away the joy of reading manga.
 
Zoomers are at least still willing to watch Code Geass because it's still widely talked about and is available on streaming. Gen Alpha are the ones who're going to overlook it for "being old".
I could almost see the argument for Eureka 7, as it tends to be more family focused despite all the characters being at a minimum double the age of the oldest Zoomers alive at the time.

Code Geass on the other hand tended to be more violent, more openly racist about shit, and had nudity and sexual content in it. I don't think you can really say it was made for children when it came out.

Code Geass has remained more relevant today largely due to the fact that it isn't as openly hostile towards its setting the way E7 is, plus Code Geass gets the odd spin off every now and again, but I don't think that makes it a Zoomer anime.

Truth is both anime were targeted at Millennials who were in Middle/High School at the time, and those kids were born in the late 80's and early 90's.

Such a weird fuckin' take man.
 
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