Recent content by Vashdaman

GTO Eps 27 + 28 Oh man the Tomoko episodes of GTO are always GTO walking its tightrope between of pervy irreverence and warm heartedness at its diciest. On the one hand I love seeing Tomoko becoming a star and how the emphasis is always on empowering her, on the other hand it's pretty...

@BrokenPhoenix The comparison holds because you're essentially arguing in favour of the sort of power politics that led to the world being carved up by a few ultra greedy nations in the 19th century. Your justification is "that's the game of geopolitics we all play", but it's only a game to the...

But not this, there is no justification for it. The US can sanction or use diplomacy, they have the right to do that. What they do absolutely  not have the right to do is kidnap the president and demand the extraction of the country's resources! I thought that would go without saying. Do you...

Something may have had to be done, but not by the US, it has to be up to the people of a country to overthrow their oppressive regimes, not for some imperalist super power to decide for them. American led regime change never ends well, so it seems extremely naive to imagine this time, under the...

I'm sure there could be legitimately interesting things creative people can harness AI for, some people are always interested in blurring the line between human and machine, although even when I see stuff claiming to use it with such intent, it's usually not actually that interesting and it just...

First of all, happy new year AUKN! In that recent Forbes interview with Anno that got a bit of attention for him taking a stance against pandering to the west. He also, and for me much more concerningly, said it's probably not possible to tell the difference between an AI generated script and...

Merry Christmas AUKN! Nothing especially surprising here, but Anno recently has said he doesn't think the international market should be given much thought when producing anime and that it's the marketing people's job to sell it to the west rather than the creator's responsibility to make...

To all the One-Piece haters on here, few in number though you are, I, your long time former comrade and brother in arms, am ashamed and sorry to report that I have fallen. I thought I should finally watch the cursed show to better understand my enemy, to know just how annoying the straw hatted...

The Hunted (1995) This silly and violent romp through 90s Nagoya written and directed by the writer of Pretty Woman, sees Christopher Lambert as the hapless businessman on a trip in Japan who is in the wrong place at the wrong time, or rather the right place at the right time, and after a soul...

I've got back onto GTO again after being sidetracked for a while, I'm still only maybe fifteen or so episodes in but still loving it. It is one of those shows though that when you stop and actually think about what's taking place on screen, it's err the sort of thing you'd imagine Andrew...

Genuinely awesome post there, @Rui! I think that might be my favourite anime related AUKN forum post of the year, it's deserving of professional publication! A fascinating analysis of the modern anime landscape and a great read! This morning I'm currently not feeling incredibly optimistic about...

Thanks for that really interesting charting of Isekai history, @Dai! I find the stubborn popularity of what on the surface sounds like a creatively fairly barren genre to be fascinating in a morbid kind of way, but I cannot muster the willpower to actually watch a single one of these shows...

Yeah, I'm not well versed in the subject, but it seems pretty obvious that media in China has a lot of red lines that can't be crossed, and very obviously there's little to no tolerance of openly critical political sentiment. It's a real shame the Chinese government won't relinquish its control...

Also interesting point about Chinese animation hitting the spot that Japanese anime is sometimes struggling to these days! That actually makes total sense given that Chinese creators have a big enough domestic audience not to feel the pressure to appeal to other markets, and thus ending up with...

Some really interesting answers here. I'm slightly surprised to hear all those pseudo European fantasy set isekai shows might have been targeting western audiences. My assumption has always been that a safe, tried and tested way to appeal to an audience is by giving them something "exotic"...