There is no good reason in the Harry Potter universe for magic to be kept secret from Muggles. ANY moral character in that setting should be calling to end the divide so magic can be used to help wider society. The fact this is never addressed is an embarrassing oversight.
the only difference between anime and western literature is that, in western lit, the harem protagonist is an ex-professor in his late forties instead of a high school boy
I squealed
ya just can't put a boy with a pout this cute on television. it's illegal. it'll lead the kids astray. we'll descend into anarchy! moral depravity! I might go smoke a weed right now!
I'm sorry, but 22 is the prime age for being overly online, self-righteous, and misinformed. mentally, you guys are not as far ahead of the 15-year-olds as you'd like to think
I think one of the universal experiences of this website is seeing an opinion so misinformed and dogshit you think “surely OP is 15” and you check their bio and that “22” hits you like a gale force wind
the early skepticism to today's spice & wolf and frieren trailers I'm reading from those unfamiliar with those IPs is proof to me that the damage isekai has done to the fantasy genre is perhaps irreparable lol
viewers see a medieval town and have a fight or flight reaction
@CanipaShow
also, the general argument that you shouldn't date a work with trendy vernacular doesn't hold up considering that live-service games are ephemeral media
demon: I don't get it. how are we down 16 and so tired when they're not dribbling or even setting any ball screens
baller fern: frieren-sama told me basic passing, cutting, and shooting is all you need to beat the hoopers of this era *drains three-pointer*
the last time I did a shield hero tweet things got hairy, but I have to get this off my chest
why don't they give filo shoes for her human form? give her some jesus sandals or crocs or something. see, if I was one of these isekai protags, all my party would rockin Air Jordans
Anyway now that it's complete, Eupho S3's team gives strong hints about the studio's upcoming work. The fact that they immediately moved on, a new show that is currently near completion, all the people focusing on that instead, etc. Gotta write about that on the blog soon-ish
anitwitter is a carousel of late teens & early twenty-somethings posting every five minutes about how the latest thing they've watched or read is the most totalizing and formative experience they've ever had
mildly controversial, but I trust y'all to be cool: if it matters to you that a show commit to its queerness by making this or that relationship explicit, you're gonna keep running into disappointment, because that rarely ever happens unless it's billed as yuri or bl upfront
the industry as a whole has been so hesitant to break from source material in recent years. eupho is somewhat niche and can get away with it more than others, but I'm still encouraged this happened and how phenomenal it turned out
I'm told the anime changed a key plot point from the novels. like, THE key plot point. incredibly based if true and a big nod to jukki hanada and ishihara for the gutsy creative decision
ODD TAXI, GOD DAMN
obviously, that was a scathing condemnation of gacha games in particular, but more broadly it depicted how viciously capitalism preys on vulnerable people in a materialistic society where the material isn't even palpable anymore. knockout episode
anime tends to do eroticism so tastelessly and so childishly that "fanservice" as used by the community more describes a certain type of low-brow, male-oriented, time-filling slop than it identifies the presence of sexuality or sexual imagery
@poetpedagogue
the absence of hats ensures no cowboys enter school grounds, thereby preventing any wild west conflicts between train burglars and vigilantes
How We Talk About Anime: The Limits of Subjectivity
I string together a few thoughts about what we mean when we say art is subjective, and how that sometimes hinders our conversations about it.
eupho 3.12 spoilers
been calling the latest ep "the kumiko requiem" a la code geass for giggles, but truthfully I think the anime's take adds far more to eupho than the alternative. the show and its characters are so insistent on meritocracy that it needed to fall on its sword
loving the mean girls vibes from the euph section, but this is the exchange that really left me on the floor
oumae kumiko, you do not, under any circumstances, have to call this 17-year-old girl "mama"
I fucking hate how formulaic demon slayer is with its antagonists. every time we go into the sob story post-battle, I groan
"we're EVIL because SOCIETY." oh boohoo. should I play a sad song on the world's smallest violin
Stars Align fearlessly tackles child abuse and neglect unlike any anime I've seen before. Kazuki Akane and his team deserve to tell the full story #星合の空
zombieland saga is the best kind of stupid. it's good at pretty much anything it does while always remembering it's first and foremost a comedy. two consistently great seasons have proven it the definitive fun-lover's idol anime
what are posts that aren’t load-bearing anywhere but your personal lexicon. like the ones that weren’t really popular but are so enshrined in your mind that you just assume they got hundreds of thousands of likes
"what about straight pride?"
listen, I will be the first to pop off when spice & wolf or hyouka get anime continuations, but until then we have nothing to celebrate
mai's confrontation with azula in "the boiling rock" is one of the series' most stone-cold, intense scenes. azula just unravels after this betrayal
sometimes a ninja-assassin goth girl has to save her ex