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Oh totally I know they're getting made because they're popular, I mean most of them sound like the opposite of passion projects. But it's the popularity of them that's the deep part. What I'm interested in is why exactly it is so many people like this stuff, it's surely reflective of some deeper...

This sounds proper good! Always appreciate your episode mini reviews, Rui. I usually watch on average about zero of the new shows every season, so your write ups give me an intriguing insight into what the anime landscape is like. I have to say though, most of the descriptions do leave me...

Seeing what is happening to the Palestinians unfolding before our eyes like this is honestly one of the most angering and heart breaking things I've experienced. The sense of helplessness and injustice is horrible. I cannot believe the US has allowed this to carry on so long unabated and...

Just to add a note of hope to my previous post though. I don't think it has to necessarily go that way, it could be used to genuinely uplift and improve our lives. I agree with ayase that it'll probably take a radical transformation of our society to achieve that positive application. But I...

Interesting responses. Despite some (maybe most) in here quite liking the idea of a more truly intelligent or cognisant AI, and for sure recognising the uses of current AI in things like the medical field, or ayase hoping for a robot judgement day, I'm kind of surprised that basically everyone...

Ok this is a thread about AI. know everyone seems to be talking about it, and for me it certainly can get pretty tiresome as I don't have all that much interest in this technology as it currently stands, I'm a bit of half hearted neo luddite if you will. However, it does seem clear that we are...

That sounds pretty good, I'd like to know what that is too!

Pig At the start it almost seems to be setting itself up as a sort of more artsy version of a Liam Neeson Taken kind of thing, instead the daughter is a pig. But it's the opposite of that, a strange, delicate and beautiful film about love and loss. Cage is brilliant. Hanging Garden This was...

I suppose you could look at the film as less of a comment on climate change and more riffing on Japan's more inherent natural precariousness. But I'm not sure I buy the argument that the Japanese are in general more blasé about the global climate crisis we're in, especially when so many of us...

Oh I definitely share your distaste for the whole just work hard and everything will be ok schtick, and I suppose you're right the film is a bit different from Your Name in the but I see it as a bizarrely hopeless and blasé comment when in the context of climate change, which I couldn't help...

Weathering With You The only Shinkai film I think I've seen before was Your Name. At the time, the jury in my head was a bit hung , but there was certainly something about the ideals of that film that I found left an unpleasant aftertaste. But after watching his follow up big anime blockbuster...

Which anime directors would you describe as auteurs? That word of course gets thrown around a lot and I'd imagine it's often used unfairly when in reality most productions, if not all, are collaborative products and directors usually get most of the praise. So ok maybe let's just put that word...

This title is absolutely mental. Even by the standards of ridiculous anime titles. Were five reallys really necessary.

I've watched a couple more eps of Blue Eyes Samurai. I'm not so certain whether I'm liking it as much as I did after the first episode. I mean, it's not bad, it's entertaining enough. But it might be a bit uninspired at a core level. A bit generic as far as these things go. Will still happily...

Spoilerific review of The Sopranos

The more I think about it though, anime, in the western context at least, is a strange word in that it both seems to mean so much and so little. I was curious about whether non-mainstream and experimental Japanese anime creators embrace or try to avoid the label, although I don't suppose there's...

That's a pretty interesting answer to me, as I've never really thought of language of dub as having much bearing on this question. It makes sense in a way though, as I know voice acting in general is a much bigger deal in Japan than it is here. It's also kind of interesting that you loosely...

I've made a thread for us all to tie ourselves up in knots and get all metaphysical and Inception-esque (Indeed is Inception not partly anime?) over anime. Of course the simple answer is that anime is Japanese animation, but if we're honest that definition doesn't really capture what it means in...

Your post wasn't in bad taste or anything, I'll take almost any opportunity to write a reply most of the time. Just trying to make conversation that's all. I was even slightly hoping we might all end up in a mostly pointless but not entirely pointless discussion as to what constitutes anime...

Who are these people? Really I think we're long past the point of believing there is some objective scientific definition of what anime is, aren't we? Some people think that anime is all animation made in Japan, and some people think that animation made in Japan without the big anime eyes isn't...