My favourite quote from an article on Manga's blog about Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere season 2:
Still can't bring myself to rewatch it!
Aku no hana is so damn good, the ending to episode 7 is a masterpiece, hell the transition from episode 1 to the end credits gives me goosebumps each and every time I see it, the audio direction is immaculate, the whole production is such a beautifully crafted concoction of pure dread and absolute joy, there's nothing else out there quite like it.Flowers of Evil was a perfect adaptation of the manga. Shame it never got the 2nd season it deserved.
How dare You! Why I outta! But he you have a point. I like the series myself, and if I watched it again looking for faults I wouldn't have to look far to find them. Even now it's not sure which tropes to follow, where it fits in the grand scheme of things when it comes to the type of series it I. Is it about the government? The titan threat? It seems to come up with things out of the blue without finishing the first kind of mystery. That and this action - or - drama is talked about to death by anyone whose seen it streamed or broadcast. Game of thrones kind of has this same problem, you can't escape people talking about it
The current bunch of schoolie/millenialoids are exposed to the same thing - Netflix and YouTube. If someone has a YouTube channel where they talk about retro games then this suddenly becomes socially acceptable. My niece just finished high school and comics/anime/games etc are all really cool to be a part of. She's really impressive apparently because she knows what "The Konami Code" is. The Netflix anime available (for example AoT and Sword Art Online) is easily consumed and thus again socially acceptable. Although they found it first and any attempt to suggest that SAO was not the first example of someone being trapped in a computer game is met with contempt and disapproval because it's wrong...apparently.
Oh god, man. Best of luck.
We were just born into the wrong era, I reckon.
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Haven't quite got so much of this in my town but yea mellinials have made it "cool" now. Dang millenials I was watching robotech and losing on the mega drive and having a rage fit that got me caught under the cupboard when they were barely thought of!The current bunch of schoolie/millenialoids are exposed to the same thing - Netflix and YouTube. If someone has a YouTube channel where they talk about retro games then this suddenly becomes socially acceptable. My niece just finished high school and comics/anime/games etc are all really cool to be a part of. She's really impressive apparently because she knows what "The Konami Code" is. The Netflix anime available (for example AoT and Sword Art Online) is easily consumed and thus again socially acceptable. Although they found it first and any attempt to suggest that SAO was not the first example of someone being trapped in a computer game is met with contempt and disapproval because it's wrong...apparently.
I was ridiculed as a kid for my interest in comics, D&D, computers (pre-facebook), games and even anime when that came along in the 90's. These days I've been elevated to a god-like status for having even a little bit of exposure to these things. Maybe I should take pride in the fact that I've gone from being a geek to being used to settle arguments?
EDIT - reading this back it sounds like a dig but is more a criticism on how generic the culture has become.
It is a weird feeling isn't it? Like you want people to be accepting of the things you like and like it too but in ways like you mentioning it happens your sat there scratching your head thinking this is not how it is supposed to be. Like comic book movies becoming main stream, jeez like I was the only guy in 6th form that read genuine comics but I'd get a butt load questions a lot, at first it's like "awesome I finally get to talk about all this comic book trivia" but then it slowly becomes annoying and it's far from as "awesome" as it's not a conversation but you one sidedly explaining things.The current bunch of schoolie/millenialoids are exposed to the same thing - Netflix and YouTube. If someone has a YouTube channel where they talk about retro games then this suddenly becomes socially acceptable. My niece just finished high school and comics/anime/games etc are all really cool to be a part of. She's really impressive apparently because she knows what "The Konami Code" is. The Netflix anime available (for example AoT and Sword Art Online) is easily consumed and thus again socially acceptable. Although they found it first and any attempt to suggest that SAO was not the first example of someone being trapped in a computer game is met with contempt and disapproval because it's wrong...apparently.
I was ridiculed as a kid for my interest in comics, D&D, computers (pre-facebook), games and even anime when that came along in the 90's. These days I've been elevated to a god-like status for having even a little bit of exposure to these things. Maybe I should take pride in the fact that I've gone from being a geek to being used to settle arguments?
EDIT - reading this back it sounds like a dig but is more a criticism on how generic the culture has become.
Oh god, now you've gone and done it!
