/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Code Geass

tsukihime, now go back to /a/

Hidden,reported, called the cops.
/jp/ doesn't watch anime, back to >>>/a/ with you

your pic
followed tightly by SEL

Seikon no Qwaser

Kanon

xxx holic

Haibane I guess.

Hidden, reported, off-topic

Clannad

>>4559611
This. Fuck I love Eva, no matter how troll-tastic it is to even mention it.

Cowbow Bebop

>>4559594
Gaogaigar

Followed by Lupin the 3rd

>>4559645
I just re-watched EoE about an hour ago, thanks to the great amount of threads it's had this week

>>4559677
So did I, I still don't understand anything

saki

Touka Gettan

>>4559677
Wow, /a/ has threads about Evangelion?

Princess Tutu

I'm the only one here, who liked KnK series?

I've never seen Evangelion, what's so good about it?

I'm being serious.

>>4559724
Many references + good fanservice. Depressing also.

>>4559701
Mostly they are Rei threads which lead to newcomers asking what order should they watch the movies and series

>>4559724
Impressive character development, a deconstruction of the mecha genre
also to immitate the spammer: THE TOP SOLD ANIME EVER, but it doesn't matter
it's really good, the first half is more episodic monster of the week with mechas, but the second part is just perfect, also the movie
>>4559701
newfags being themselves, also tehre have lately been some about Lain and Haibane, which is a good sign

>>4559736
wow, you really missed the point of its popularity completely, if you watch EVA for the fanservice you're doing it REALLY wrong

Haibane Renmei, Simoun, Azumanga Daioh, Monster, Standalone Complex etc

>>4559736
>>4559749
Is it one of those animes with 50+ episodes?
I can't really sit through that much.

I really suck at naming my favorite x, but I guess I'd say anime from 2007 is pretty awesome. Like Lucky Star, hayate no gotoku, strike witches, ttgl, school days, sketchbook full colors, etc.

>>4559767
26 eps and some movies (you dont have to watch them)

>>4559762

He is just saying that it was one of the good qualities

Eva: Come for the Mechs, stay for the Tang

LoGH

>>4559767
26 episodes

Also, is it me or Eva has a better school setting than most "school-life" garbage nowadays?

>>4559762
You're newfag, bro.

Boku no Pico

>>4559749
>but the second part is just perfect
Funny, I have the exact opposite opinion. The second half was where the show went bad in my opinion. Of course, its semi-philosophical nature probably appealed a lot to people back when they were 13. But the monster-of-the-week segments have more timeless appeal and entertainment.

>>4559796
it had a school setting?

>>4559811
>its semi-philosophical nature probably appealed a lot to people back when they were 13
>monster-of-the-week segments have more timeless appeal
Are you going senile?

>>4559819
Dont you remember Eps 5-19

The glasses kid, Brown hair bro, gray haired faggot, orange german girl, penis with blue lines girl, whiny black haired shirmp kid, freckle face class prez girl, that damn penguin

Gunbuster

>>4559836
eh, I really dont. Maybe I should rewatch sometime soon..

>>4559833

Its called becoming human

>>4559594
Too many to pick, only best ones, no one favorite.

>>4559769

2007 was a very strong year for anime. Dennou Coil and Mononoke were also outstanding shows

>>4559594


Remember back in the 90's when Eva was praised for having a whiny faggot protagonist?

ARIA.

Nodame Cantabile.

>>4559836
This. These characters seemed more natural and unbiased than your average high-school romance where it hurts to even hear the characters speak.

>>4559833
Not at all. I'm pointing out that a 10, 20, or 30-year old can all equally sit back and enjoy the action scenes. On the other hand, I doubt Hideaki Anno's self-wankery and shallow take on psychological and philosophical issues would appeal to any emotionally mature person. Which is why I believe it has so much adolescent appeal and became extremely popular, but whatever.

Serial Experiments Lain. While objectively it probably isn't the best anime I've watched (although it is certainly one of the top shows around, it kind of saddens me when I rewatch it and realize it isn't as incredibly good as I remember it being in my memory) it is definitely my personal favorite and will most likely always remain that.

To call Lain my waifu would be exceedingly conceited of me, she is more than that.

Clannad.

First a JRPG thread, now an anime thread.

What the fuck, mods. I've been (temporarily) banned for this shit before.

>>4560060
"goddess" is the way I usually phrase it.

>>4560076
this is otaku culture, bro!

>>4560060
Don't worry, Lain is pretty much one of the best shows if only for its depth and everything having a meaning, I really don't think there's anything kin the whole series taht hasn't meaning

i only watch eva because rei is my wife

>>4560143
then EoE must be a fapfest for you

>>4560076
Bother moot and tell him to add some rules.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

As common as this answer is: Eva, Lain, NHK (in no particular order)

I'm the opposite of most people when it comes to Eva. I tried to watch it when I was younger and was turned off by the mecha. "This is stupid, mecha don't make any sense. They're fighting aliens or something? Fuck this." Years later, I picked it up again, realized that it was more than just a mecha show, and chastised myself for dismissing it so easily.

I stayed around for the overwhelming atmosphere of dread, the horribly (and with good reason, not emo whiny bullshit) depressing characters, and the psychology. In particular, the deconstruction of the characters toward the end was fun to chew on.

Serial Experiments Lain has rekindled my interest in all kinds of things, from artificial intelligence, to the idea of a man-machine interface, to that feeling that everyone seems to have that "something big is going to happen" soon.

NHK isn't up to snuff with the previous two, but it's still a fairly interesting and unoptimistic portrayal of the whole hikkomori thing.

Just about all other anime I've watched is (whether I enjoyed it or not at the time) either the stuff of horribly naive fantasy or trying to be something like Lain or Eva and missing the point entirely, becoming emo whiny bullshit/DEEEEEP in the process.

Dear Imagespammer,

Please cut that out.

Signed,
Anonymous.

>>4560262
Don't bother, pretty much any non-Touhou thread will get imagebombed here

The thread wasn't enough, now we have imagespamming, truly we have become /a/

GOGOGO
cirno image dump is awesome

>>4560273
at least /a/ doesn't ahve imagespamming lately

>>4560273
>Implying there wasn't image spamming before.

>>4560277
teh nine O_O

>>4560273
You must be new here.

>>4560273
/jp/ as a whole isn't that bad, it's just jewnes and kog making it look that way.

>>4560273
I hope you guys realize that all of the imagespam on /jp/ nowadays is done by the retarded Cirno fan, a notorious /a/ poster.

Well, all with the exception of AoRF's spam of KS threads.

Thread is funny since I'm currently re-watching Eva for the first time in 6 or 7 years.

I'm even enjoying it a lot more than before! Maybe that's because I'm older and more able to appreciate the character developpment, I dunno.

>>4560331
and please remember to watch EoE

Kaiji

>>4560331
Funny, because everyone I know who tried to rewatch Eva ended up saying it loses its charm when you're not a teenager anymore.

Yeah, I'm aware I don't actually know anyone and I enjoy being alone, you don't have to tell me that.

>>4560328
cirno got caved by ex-kaine

Whatever, /jp/ is so bad right now that me replying to this thread won't really make much of a difference.

Kaiji, Monster, and, Planetes.

>>4560383
my sister and I love to re-watch it, that and Lain, she's a great fan of it

>>4560272
>Don't bother, pretty much any non-Touhou thread will get imagebombed here
Survey, recommendation, and /b/ template threads are the mark of newcomers. Just in the last hour I took a screencap of these. Then you wonder why it got imagebombed.

Also, /a/ threads don't belong here. /jp/ used to have rules that said "all things Japan are welcomed." But that didn't stop the mods from deleting Naruto threads. You guys act as if the name change means we're old-old /b/ now. If anything, the rules became more strict.

Also, most /jp/ers want to discuss anime and video games but if the aforementioned topics were allowed here it would attract /a/ and /v/ users. Tell me this op, if you wanted to discuss anime and manga. Why didn't you make it on /a/? What's that? You don't want to discuss these topics with /a/'s user base? Another question. What makes you think the quality of our user base would remain the same if anime and video game topics were allowed here? Build it and they will come. Allow it, and they will multiply.

>>4560361
There will never be Kaiji S2
;_;

>>4560407

That's a bold-faced lie, Anonymous.

>>4560407
there will be one, don't worry
just after cirno racing is released

>>4560407
WHY?

>>4560399
You can't be stupid enough to believe imagebombing actually helps.

>>4560424
this. reminds me of the idiots of /g/ who "sagebomb" threads that are being ghostbumped.

>>4560399
I agree wholeheartdly with this, although in my honest opinion at least Evangelion-related threads should still be welcome in /jp/. It's not like it's just an anime, it's a whole fucking franchise, and it's pretty high on the "otaku" scale, if you ask me.

>>4560424
they only effective way of doing this things if you want to do them well is wikispamming
but they just create more threads

>>4560424
I'm not Jones. But I see nothing wrong with spam in certain situations.

>>4560431
Except for the imagebombing part, of course.

>>4560431
we should still beware them, there are many shitty franchises out there
but for example the strange Slayers threads usually do well here

>>4559594
Evangelion.

>>4560438
spam is ALWAYS bad
if you don't like a thread, hide it, and report it if it's not related, spam only leads to the creation of new threads

>>4560438
When you resort to spam, you become the worst kind of poster and the most unfitting to even lurk /jp/.

>>4560383 Funny, because everyone I know who tried to rewatch Eva ended up saying it loses its charm when you're not a teenager anymore.
Seriously? When I was a teenager I was mostly annoyed by Shinji's attitude, and only wanted to watch giant robots destroying shit.

In short, teenagers are fucking stupid.

My favorite anime?
I guess FLCL.
It just has a certain charm to it that you don't find in most anime.

Why do so many people like eva?
Seems pretty mediocre to me.

You guys seem to understand the implications of allowing /a/ threads on /jp/. The Cirno spam is gone. Carry on.

fukin masterpiece

>>4560492
there was already spam before this thread, you know

>>4560494
This.

Nanoha

>>4560488
And FLCL seems pretty mediocre to me. Opinions.

Top 5 in no particular order

Sailor Moon (yes, I said Sailor Moon, it's a pretty grandiose epic)
Tenchi Muyo OVA
Escaflowne
Evangelion
Kanon 2006

>>4560511
Nah, Sailor Moon is excellent for what it is and pretty much one of your first anime

Evangelion
Eve no Jikan
Kino no Tabi

Top 5 in no partiuclar order
-EVA
-Lain
-Haibane
-Slayers (my country's version, all seasons with NEXT opening)
-Kino

>>4560515
I'm 34 years old, my first anime was Tranzor Z back in 1984 when I was 9. After that Robotech/Macross then Ranma 1/2 during my second year of college around 1995. I bought Tenchi Muyo 2 years before Cartoon Network even heard of it and own about 50 series on DVD and tapes.

Don't make shit up just because you can't believe someone enjoyed Sailor Moon

berserk. because the far superior manga. I would like a crossover between berserk and touhou.

Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Ghost in the Shell SAC
Patlabor
Aria

>>4560530
Sorry, did I say anyhing like that AT ALL?
stop making up shit, retard
WAY to take out of context a comment, really

>>4560530
>blah blah blah I'm old I watch shit anime.

>>4560546
You specifically said Sailor Moon was one of my first anime. Sorry if I misunderstood but that's the way it looked to me.

>>4560438 If everyone ignores a shitty thread, it goes away. If everyone ignores it and makes a comment or two on how shitty it is and how shitty the posters sincerely responded to it are, while saging, it does a very good job of deterring newbies. The moment you start imaging spamming, you are basically admitting that you have lost all faith in your board to ignore troll threads and harass idiots, and it becomes clear that your board has fallen to a new demographic.

That said, I don't think anime threads should be
"allowed", but I don't mind when one or two slip through the cracks. The rationale is simple:

If you make a board about certain topics, it gets filled with the worst kind of people interested in said topic. There are intelligent people with good taste who are interested in the topic out there, but they, inevitably, get overpowered by aspies, weeaboos, idiots, teenagers, etc. eventually.
If you make a board about a more obscure topic, it becomes populated with (hopefully) more of that cream of the crop. Make a thread in there that another board covers (like anime or video games in /jp/, /co/, or /tg/) and you'll have a far better discussion than you would have in the intended board itself.

One of the things I do like about 4chan over other chans is that mods are more lax about "what goes where." The thing is, it's not like /v/ is the place for 4chan browsers to discuss video games, for example. It's the place for people who are mostly interested in video games to hang out. There are people that hang out on single boards only; at that point, it's not a matter of the community having a place to discuss a topic as it is a different community entirely. For that reason, I can not rely on /v/ to be a good place to talk about video games any more than I can rely on /a/ to be a good place to talk about anime.

I don't see the problem with someone making a thread about a GOOD anime every now and then, but if I started seeing threads about "what anime are you watching this season" pop up here, I'd probably have to get out of jp.jpg

Oh, and for the record, Haibane Renmei was pretentious emo shit.

>>4560571
I said taht IN GENERAL is many people anime, not especially referring to you, since the usual population in 4chan doesn't usually exceed the 30 years, it's quite common for anime like Sailor Moon to be one of your first animes, just that
Also I didn't even criticize it nor your enjoyment, even called it excellent (even if the Stars season is shit)

>>4560583
I don't think I want to see threads about what you consider good anime at all, much less here.

>>4560583
Haibane Renmei? I think even my mom was talking to me about if it was any good.

>>4560583
the last line is just a shitty troll right?
if not I'm gonna request that image

>>4560591
My apologies then, you raised my hackles there. Yeah, I'm one of the older guys on 4chan but I've seen guys in their 50s in threads and in other anime communities. Many of the old old guys started way before I was born with shows like Speed Racer.

>>4560594
Agreed.

>>4560620
Don't worry about that

>>4560594
Fuck you, I'm telling you anyways.

Eva
NHK
Lain
LotGH
Monster
Texhnolyze
anything in the GitS franchise
Jin-Roh
War in the Pocket
Golden Boy
Cyber City motherfucking OEDO 808

>>4560583
So only anime you like should be discussed. This is why there just shouldn't be anime threads on /jp/.

生は死の始まり

Boogiepop Phantom

>>4560644
>HE HASN'T SEEN KARAS

>>4560583
I just see it like this. Rules and regulations are what keeps out bad users. /b/ has no rules (i.e., no limitations) so it has the most topics and users. Anime and video games are more popular than Touhou and Visual Novels so they attract more users. Which is a good thing and a bad thing depending on how you feel about fast paced boards like /b/. For you guys to endorse this thread is the same thing as saying: "hey /a/nons, you're allowed to discuss Naruto on /jp/."

>>4559594
And before you call me an elitist. I just want to say you already have a board for discussing anime and manga. If you honestly don't see the difference between /a/ and /jp/'s userbase then why not discuss it there. The more niche the topics are the better the userbase. /tg/ is regarded by some to have the best userbase on 4chan. That's because /tg/ is a gathering of niche topics.

I don't have favorites. I like a lot of shows. I don't want to come out as an oldfag but I like older shows more than what's out there right now. For some reason new shows right now don't really interest me, and no I don't think I'm growing out of the 'anime' age.

Once in a while a decent/great show comes out. But right now things fall in one of four categories:
Moe-moe bullshit (Looking at you Hanmaru)
Ecchi shit with tits and ass (Qwaser, Queen's Blade)
'DEEP' shit (Ookamikakushi)
Shounen crap/kids shows (Letter Bee, Cobra)

Haibane Renmei starts off interesting enough, spending some time going over the life of each character in some kind of simple utopia.

Suddenly, main character's best friend (the least interesting of all the characters) dies and main character does a fucking nosedive into emo waters, complete with overreactions and BAWWWW YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ME.

Combine that fucking melodramatic trainwreck with religious references and you get the most pretentious piece of shit ever crapped out across a satellite TV network. How can you guys even pretend to like it?

Also, >>4560594
>>4560600
>>4560611
>>4560622
>>4560660 WOOP WOOP LOOKS LIKE I PISSED OFF A BUNCH OF PRETENTIOUS FAGGOTS

>>4560708
you didn't even pay attention to it
also
>pretentious
gb2/a/ please

>>4559594
Fuck yeah Sailor Moon, that anime got me into romance and eventually into VNs,

>>4560644 Cyber City motherfucking OEDO 808
Hell yeah Kawajiri.
Wicked City is my favorite anime which combines demons, cyberpunk, rape and romance.

>>4560708

Lupin the third and Akagi.

>>4560689

And yet, they have no problem with discussing the more niche aspects of larger topics (like, again, anime and video games from time to time). Go ahead, post a "what is your favorite video game" or a dwarf fortress/x-com/whatever thread on /tg/ and come back in 20 minutes. I'll wait.
Take a look at that thread. Surprised? Your thread is now filled with a bunch of posts ACTUALLY RELATED TO VIDEO GAMES, no one is getting mad, and the board is still working just fine. It didn't magically become flooded with /a/ or /v/ users either!

There's a difference between an /a/ anime thread and a /tg/ (or just about any of the other niche board) anime thread that is very easy to see. I, for one, believe I can trust /jp/ to see it, and ignore the ones that belong in the shitholes.

Look at it like this:
1. No one from outside of /jp/ comes here except to talk about VNs.
2. Most of the people in /a/ don't like VNs.
3. People who don't browse /jp/ either see it as the realm of pathetic hardcore weeaboos (which, ironically, everyone here knows isn't true, we're just pathetic hikkis) or a place full of elitist assholes who sage everything.


Therefore, /jp/ will never ever "become" /a/, because anyone who tries to troll here will get ignored, and anyone who honestly tries to talk about anything that isn't "/jp/ related" will get saged to death.
PEOPLE ARE FUCKING SCARED OF /jp/, WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT PEOPLE FROM /a/ SHITTING THE PLACE UP. IT'S OK, YOU CAN TALK ABOUT ANIME EVERY NOW AND THEN

God tier: Lain
Anime Tier: Beck

>>4560861
I chuckled

>>4560861
Not anime tier: ZZ Gundam

>>4560859
>PEOPLE ARE FUCKING SCARED OF /jp/

Let's keep it that way, shall we?

>>4560837

Just for you, Anonymous.

>>4560945
Wait, did you just spent half an hour doing that? Talk about dedication.

>>4560963

Try ten. I was reading other threads.
Even I did spend half an hour on it, I would hardly call that dedication.

>>4560963
>>4560979

Oh, and I forgot:
<3<3<3<3

Neon Genesis Evangelion,
Princess Tutu,
Baccao!,
Revolutionary Girl Utena,
Card Captor Sakura,
Haruhi.

Now and Then, Here and There

just thinking about it gave me some serious chills. it's... perfect.
"Because ten billion years time is so fragile"

ITT: People with horrible taste

Too MOE for you?

In all seriousness, though, I don't think I have a 'favorite anime'.

just scrolled this thread and if this were /a/, I'd assume mass-trolling. I still think Utena and Princess Tutu are the worst pieces of anime I've ever seen. guess people actually *do* like them. In recommendation thread in /a/ months ago, I to this very day thought that I got trolled to watch Tutu & Utena, but heavens forbid, they were honest.

>>4561039

While you're at it, what do you think about Haibane Renmei?

>>4561039

>>4561039
Well if you like heavy handed tripe like Now and Then, Here and There it's to be expected that you can't appreciate a masterpiece like Utena.

>>4561039
>In recommendation thread in /a/ months ago

Well, I guess you don't realize this yet, but if you were reading /a/ at any time during the last two years, you most probably don't belong here.

Hope this will save you future disappointments.

>>4560859
I've never really thought about it that way. But I'll still be somewhat hostile towards guest. I remember one time when I tried to make a Touhou thread on /m/ and it was greeted with "get back to /jp/" spam. Their hostile reaction to my Touhou thread sent me the message that I wasn't wanted there. I haven't been back there since.

And your /tg/ analogy is somewhat different from our situation on /jp/ because /tg/'s rules are pretty straight forward. /jp/ on the other hand has ambiguous rules. And by that I mean /tg/'s janitors can make faster decisions on what belongs or not. While on /jp/ our moderation takes much longer. To reiterate, /tg/ is protected by its rules. The people of /o/ for example don't have to worry about their board being invaded by Naruto threads because it's blatantly obvious that those threads don't belong there. Consequently, the users of /o/ let the moderators handle it.

>>4561047
Great, makes 3rd in my favourites after aforementioned and Rozen Maiden (S1 of that to be specific, 2nd was meh). This is my complete listing.

Rozen Maiden +++
Neon Genesis Evangelion +++
Now and Then, Here and There +++
Galaxy Express 999 +++
Serial Experiments Lain +++
Girl Who Lept Through Time +++
Haibane Renmei +++
Akira +++
Welcome To NHK! +++
Death Note +++
Tonari no Totoro +++
Hellsing ++
Lucky Star ++
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei ++
Cowboy Bebop ++
Full Metal Alchemist ++
Porco Rosso ++
Ghost in The Shell ++
Howl's Moving Castle ++
Grave of The Fireflies ++
Mushishi +
Bakemonogatari +
Mobile Suit Gundam +
Space Pirate Captain Harlock +
Gantz -
Revolutionary Girl Utena ---
Princess Tutu ---

>>4561103
If you liked Evangelion, then I am very, very surprised that you didn't like Utena or Tutu. Was there any particular reason on why you didn't like them?

>>4561103

>>4561116
Unintresting characters.
Uninteresting stories.
Uninteresting locations.
Utena specific: art & presentation was terrible.

>>4561039
>>4561103
>>4561173
This is why I don't visit /a/ anymore.

>>4561209
hmm.. you definately should. they seem to love Tutu and Utena while calling everyone who disagrees with that a troll, complete with facepalming reaction pictures, saging and never explaining why they like those so much.

yup, you most definately belong there, not here.

>>4561173
Ok now it's obvious you're trolling. Utena has godly direction.

北斗の拳

My personal favorites are Giant Robo OAV, Simoun, and the whole Macross series because they have:

- Awesome and/or developed characters.
- Best anime soundtracks ever.
- Great mecha and/or aircraft mecha.

>>4561209
Well, what did you expect from someone who uses !8FuIlcirno as a tripcode?

>>4561266
I knew I liked you for a reason. Macross and Simoun bros!

>>4561250
see
>>4561249

Also, if you seriously call identical scenes (going on arena) and repetition of interrupting unrelated components (shadow puppets) almost in every episode godly direction, I can do nothing but disagree with you strongly.

>>4561297
I don't think there's any one out there stupid enough to agree with you anyway.

>>4561328
Nobody can disagree with me either since nothing especially great about either Utena nor Tutu gets ever specified. You have no arguments for, while I do have arguments against. As you are not capable of arguing, you are not disagreing. I was excepting that rare anime thread in /jp/ would be a bit more mature, but guess not.