RightHandOfIkaros

Since GKIDS is an American company formed in 2008, your have to consider what the average American in 2008 thought about anime. And for the 99% of them, they are cartoons. And cartoons are for children. Do that explains that.

Ironically, in Japan, there isn’t much of a distinction between anime and cartoons. They’re both called anime, which is just short for animation or animated work. So for the Japanese, Tetsujin 28, Berserk, Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, and Shrek are all “anime.”

Ironically, Goblin Slayer returns to the intensity of its first episode basically never again in the show.

I mean, this kind of argument is a bit stupid. Are we supposed to not recommend any books because garbage like Mein Kampf exists (and is infact still printed today)? That’s some certified Grade A trash that is permanently associated with books.

Let’s be real, are any of them honest? You know the answer.

Anime used to be multiple pictures of a piece of plastic with paint on it

So the inspiration is they made it yellow and made the dial hands look a little like gauges?

Maybe when the person was young they did something and they are older and have proven to not be a repeat offender? Rare case, I know, but still possible.

To me it just sounds like a legal out to say any or all of them are deemed ethically unacceptable so they can fire them without legal issues. Japan has whack employment laws, and businesses will almost always try to make you quit before they fire you. I can see this wording being related to something like that.

Very Kenichi Sonoda looking to me.

Seeing behind the curtain doesn’t bother me. Actually, I almost prefer when it happens because I can usually guess how something will go before I waste more time on it if I won’t like it.

a waging finger

What was the wager?

Hope it keeps the original art style.

To be fair, Spain had like 20 shots on goal. The final score doesn’t reflect this information.

Def Leppard also noted that piracy usually leads to fans that pay more than people that don’t pirate at all.

For many, people can’t afford to just spend what might be a lot to them right now for something they don’t know if they will like it or not. Its a risk not worth the cost, and not every library has every new book/manga/movie/music album/video game/etc. Since most of these don’t have adequate “demos” for them to try out, they either:

A) Don’t buy it ever B) Pirate it

The ones that pirate might find out they actually like the thing, and when their fortunes turn around they end up being the biggest spenders that shareholders dream about. Is every pirate that way? No of course not. Most pirates download the data just because they can with no intent of ever buying it (IE, NOT a lost sale). But a sizable number of them to on to spend more than they would have if they didn’t pirate.

I will throw myself under the bus and admit this about myself. NieR Automata. I heard positive things about it, but at the time it was a lot of money for me to risk if I didn’t like the game. When it got cracked I pirated the game and played it. Loved the game.

Loved the game so much I bought it on Steam (at full price). Then I bought it on Xbox. Three times, twice as gifts for other people. Then I bought 2 gift copies on PS5. Then I bought NieR 2010 on the Xbox store. Then I imported a Japanese copy of NieR Gestalt. Then I pre-ordered the White Snow edition of the 1.22 remake. I even spent money on the mobile gacha game NieR Reincarnation (which was actually a fun game, I will add). I even bought copies of the Drakengard games to play those. And I eagerly await another chance to buy another Yoko Taro game. I don’t even like Square Enix. I just like Yoko Taro’s games and I want more of them.

All because I pirated one copy. That’s 12+ sales from a single vector of piracy. That’s a shareholder’s wet dream. They don’t realize I am only that way because piracy allowed me to take a risk on an experience I didn’t know I would like or not. By taking away my opportunity to play the game at no cost of risk, they eliminate people like me that turn into 12+sales from a single vector of piracy.

But I suppose they wouldn’t be businessmen if they weren’t bending over thousands to pinch pennies.

Hm, interesting.

I love how they estimate every instance of piracy as a lost sale. Like oh, you can guarantee that every person pirating your content would have bought it if they couldn’t pirate it? No? Then its not a lost sale.

IDK, “this years ceremony” could just mean they did it this year and not the other years. Just curious as to whether there was any significance or not.

Is there a reason they waited seven years to do this?

Did the show ever get less weird? I remember watching a bit of S1, I dont remember if I finished it or not. And I remember liking it. Except when they would go out of their way to occasionally remind me that Rudeus is actually a 40 year old dude. I just felt so disconnected from the show every time they did that, it jept taking me out of the suspension of disbelief. Did they ever change that? Or should I try to pick the show up again?

I mean, I do have mine in VLC set to yellow, but I was talking about the subtitles that people who are trying to be legal goodboys see on the big streaming platforms.

I miss the yellow subtitle days. Easily readable. The white ones they use now are more difficult to read because the outline they use either is a shadow only, or is not dark or think enough to make a difference.

Readint the title, I thought this was going to be about lost media.

Hmm. I see. Well in so far as places where you can chat with other anime fans is concerned, the only places I really know are online forums like here on Lemmy or on Reddit or Facebook. Though, finding places where people won’t poke fun at what you like or call you a tourist depending on your tastes will be difficult (regardless of what you like, usually).

You might try checking your local library for local events of anime or manga fans or something. You could visit local hobby shops to strike up conversations with others about it. Anime conventions are a good place to go for that as well.

There isn’t really much ettiquette that would be non-stansard (such as be nice to people). But not everyone follows it anyway.

Its unclear what exactly you want from this. “Joining the community” is very vague and kind of not possible. There isn’t just one anime community. There are many groups, and while they may all share anime in common that doesn’t mean they all get along with each other. Some language groups don’t like others (and sometimes it’s justified, sometimes its not the language groups fault because the translators did a bad job or changed words from the original creator’s work usually without them explicitly knowing, etc). Its kinda like saying you want to join the Lemmy community. What exactly do you mean by that, or better, what are you looking for? Some instances dont get along, some communities on the same instance dont get along, some people in the same community dont get along and form their own on the same or different instance.

So what is it you want? You say to “discover anime and get more into the trends, etc.” Well the first part is simple enough, but what does the second part mean? You want to know what the current trends are? Past trends? You just want a sampler suggestion of different kinds of anime that showcase different trends? This is unclear.

I am happy to make suggestions (though my suggestions skew older and more cultured than modern offerings tend to have, but I do like some modern stuff), but without clarity on what you want I wouldn’t want to offer something you don’t need or care about.

Kevin Hart as Kakashi

Its called Connecting is Hard.

Its about people with big feelings getting their feelings hurt, so they build walls that protect them, but that makes making friends difficult. There also robots and monsters.

Okay well now she isn’t watching anything.

She is definitely watching End of Evangelion.

Definitely missing the theme of the Gunsmith Cats OVA by Peter Erskine!

This list looks like:

1: The song most people probably recognized even if they didn’t watch Evangeline

2-16: Either a recent anime song, or a “classic” anime song regardless of merit of the actual music (ie, we would literally be killed if we didn’t include this, even if the song isn’t musically that good)

17-20: Ghibli

“No, this is Patrick.”

Lol

Yeah but now its called a 5060 Ti.