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Oddjob OTP said:
Apparently they were pretty decent at math up until the Br*tish finished the curb stomp of Indian culture that Islam began. The history of science/mathmatics tends to make pre-European enlightenment India (and Islam) look a lot less retarded then they are in current year.
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"Saar, we invented zero."
"Woah, holy shit. You managed to draw a circle representing nothing."
 
Professor Donger said:
Is there anything good this season? or is it a dud season?
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Liar Game and Kami no Shizuku have some potential, but so far I haven't managed to get really invested in them; I'm giving both the "see if it improves by the third episode" treatment.
Witch Hat Atelier seems fine so far, even though some people have warned against it due to upcoming woke bs in the story.
Dr. Stone, which I've already read to the end, but am watching just for fun/decompression.
Yomi no Tsugai has been good so far; apparently it's from the same author as FMA and Silver Spoon, so I have high hopes for it.
Kami no Niwatsuki Kusunoki-tei is quite nice and mostly relaxing, I hope it doesn't devolve into some high stakes bullshit.
Niwatori Fighter is dumb fun with some dashes of drama.

I guess it's time to finally catch up on Golden Kamuy, haven't watched it since the 2nd season if I'm not mistaken.
 
I watched Violet Evergarden for the first time. Wickedly over-rated show by mongoloids who likely only care about visuals and surface level drama, not actual worldbuilding and genuine character development. The visuals are indeed great, it's kyoani, but an anime has to have more than that. Aside from a few genuinely great emotional episodes (almost all of which involve children suffering/dying and don't focus on Violet herself), the show isn't breaking new ground or doing anything that hasn't been done before. The side characters never get truly fleshed out, the "totally not Europe" setting is painfully shallow, and certain things like Violet's Full Metal Alchemist arms are never explained. It's like the visuals alone are supposed to be carrying every aspect of the show that is par or sub-par. Sorry dude but an anime has to have more, especially one that was sold to me as the second coming of Christ. I can recommend it for the visuals, but is that and a handful of emotional episodes really all you need?

The music is also good, it sure didn't blow me away, but it's absolutely serviceable. I would say Evan Call's work on Frieren is better, in fact a lot of what Frieren does is better. And then there's the main girl Violet, a character who is an emotionless doll for half the show, kindov learns a lesson about "letting go", but then throws it all away in the movie... She's another case of this show's not great not terrible aspects. Once again, pay no attention as to why she has robot arms and fought as an under-aged child super soldier in totally not WWI. If I'm not supposed to think too hard about certain elements of your show because it breaks if I ask "where'd your robot arms come from and why does literally no one else have them", it isn't a masterpiece. Let's also not think about why her father/daughter relationship with her commanding officer got turned into a lovers relationship in the movie, talk about an age gap - Null would be furious.

Final Nail in the Coffin: The climax arc of the show involves a group unironically called, "The Anti-Peace Faction". Do I really need to say anything else? LOL nigger, if you have even two braincells to rub together, kyoani's visuals aren't distracting you from the fact that in a show supposedly all about nuance and healing the scars of war - there's a group that the author named, "The Anti-Peace Faction" in order to make you hate them as an ontological evil and not have to think too hard (of course) about killing them.... fucking yuck.

Violet Evergarden is top-to-bottom CARRIED by kyoani's visuals. A big disappointment considering how I thought it would be going in.​
 
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GameofMoans said:
I've been on a binge of mid tier 2010s shonen manga for some reason, so Toriko, Beezulbub, Soul Eater, Reborn. And while I would say Soul Eater is the goat of these for obvious artistic reasons, Reborn I think takes second for me, the first 50 chapters are hit and miss, but man... once it gets going it really hits for me.
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You shouldn't be wasting time with this trash: go read shaman king
 
GameofMoans said:
I've been on a binge of mid tier 2010s shonen manga for some reason, so Toriko, Beezulbub, Soul Eater, Reborn. And while I would say Soul Eater is the goat of these for obvious artistic reasons, Reborn I think takes second for me, the first 50 chapters are hit and miss, but man... once it gets going it really hits for me.
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You couldn't escape Reborn in certain circles back then. I'm not really sure how it's aged but I remember really liking the Varia and Future arcs, it's good it's still being read. Tsuna's dying flame ability for some reason is still one of the coolest things ever in a manga.

If you're on about 2010s run I might recommend Medaka Box. It's a really strange series that somehow managed to finish its entire run while ripping on every shonen troupe imaginable. Magi was also around that time and was pretty good from what I remember.
 
Lone MacReady II said:
Violet Evergarden is top-to-bottom CARRIED by kyoani's visuals. A big disappointment considering how I thought it would be going in.
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The light novel is a lesser product, really emphasizing the odd forced romantic relationship between Violet and the Major. Still, I must disagree with you because the show has good music, visuals, and it got me caught up in my feefees. 11/10, I have all of it on bluray
 
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Dr. Stone was always "I fucking love science" - the anime.
GameofMoans said:
I tried to watch the remake anime
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Now that's your problem.
Lone MacReady II said:
Violet Evergarden is top-to-bottom CARRIED by kyoani's visuals. A big disappointment considering how I thought it would be going in.
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I think I saw 2 episodes and didn't bother. It was way too forced and manipulative to not think about it.
 
Wilson The Ball said:
The light novel is a lesser product, really emphasizing the odd forced romantic relationship between Violet and the Major. Still, I must disagree with you because the show has good music, visuals, and it got me caught up in my feefees. 11/10, I have all of it on bluray
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Even the extra material doesn't save it. Put to one side the forced romance at the end which turns Violet back into a "I yearn for your orders forever" drone... the best post-anime story is once again about a sick child. Really going for that Made in Abyss quality, where the creators were guaranteed to hit some feels simply by making children suffer. I think it's pretty cheap.
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I think I saw 2 episodes and didn't bother. It was way too forced and manipulative to not think about it.
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I read a review that summed up the show perfectly as a "pretty artificial rose". Yes the flower you are looking at is pretty in the distance, but once you get a closer look at it, the flower is simply fake. The stem is painted green metal, the petals are coated red fabric, and the droplets of water are blue plastic. It's something designed to be beautiful, not something that is beautiful by nature.
 
Lone MacReady II said:
Even the extra material doesn't save it. Put to one side the forced romance at the end which turns Violet back into a "I yearn for your orders forever" drone... the best post-anime story is once again about a sick child. Really going for that Made in Abyss quality, where the creators were guaranteed to hit some feels simply by making children suffer. I think it's pretty cheap.
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It is cheap with the light novels and final movie added onto it. If we take the anime itself (plus the first movie and ovas because fuck you I like em) then it's a story about not only finding out what love means but also how to move on and carry that love forward. When speaking about the show with another fan, she always illuminated this for me- that final scene where Violet walks up to a cabin by the coast and the door opens and she smiles? A lot of people hoped it was the Major. She never did hope that. She always hoped that smile she gave was perhaps the first genuinely warm one we ever got from her, and it was to a complete stranger. That she learned to be human after the war, took that fatherly love from the Major, and transformed it into a love for others.
 
After a three week hiatus we have had the fifth Yujiro chapter in a row, with a sixth chapter full of glaze on the way.
Fascinating play, let’s see if it’s the CTE or if this has anything to do with anything besides Yujiro flexing on niggas.
 
If you’ve never read Moby Dick then you should because it’s a really well written novel (yes, even the whaling encyclopedia parts).

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VeteranOfTheRetardWars said:
After a three week hiatus we have had the fifth Yujiro chapter in a row, with a sixth chapter full of glaze on the way.
Fascinating play, let’s see if it’s the CTE or if this has anything to do with anything besides Yujiro flexing on niggas.
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Itagaki got bored of Jack the same way he got bored of Sumo and boxing, his love for Yujiro just walkin' around never fades tho.
 
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Chocolate Rain said:
If Berserk can be heralded as a masterpiece of literature despite the deceased author being a known lolicon who even used the "um actually" defense for it including statistics about the number of sexual assaults involving minors in other countries versus Japan Im not sure why MiA isn't also given the same status since its not like the content between the two is any different.
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I'm done having any respect for any Japanese person ever. Only female Japs can have respect now.
 
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