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why save time say few word when lot word do trick? \\ likes are a read receipt \\ I mute my threads because I'm essentially an arsonist \\ game dev

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joe

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9 months

After many months of work, writing, and rewriting, I finally finished my video on Persona 4. It tries to honestly engage with a ludic perspective on P4 and, ultimately, the limit case that comes with Persona 4 Arena. Please check out the video!

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Persona 4 is about Television

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4 months

I still can't get over the fact that "To Kill a Mockingbird" was translated into Japanese as "Alabama Monogatari"

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Okay, I don't care anymore. I watched this. This video is, in my opinion, emblematic of my issues with the "anime is trash and so am I" mentality. tldr: It sets up an position where you literally can't criticize it.

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Light Novel titles have gotten so stupid recently, that I bet a robot could come up with better ideas. So I built one. I made an A.I who's sole purpose was to make awful Light Novel titles.

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3 years

@liweijianglw Are you kidding me

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1 year

A deconstruction isn't supposed to "embarass" something, it's meant to give insight on how something ticks. Isekai has too many variables and variations to really have something that big. Thing is, isekai constantly build on top of isekai all the time.

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I want a very intelligent author and director to make an isekai anime that deconstructs and completely embarass the genre by showcasing everything wrong it does.

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I wanna talk about Gojo from My Dress Up Darling, since I'm caught up to the anime. I've seen some people say that it doesn't make sense for Marin to fall head over heels for Gojo, but I think they might be misunderstanding Gojo's character. In episode 3, Marin tells him (1/5)

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15 seconds into this why anime dialogue sucks video: "i think japan's collectivist affects the media it produces" ah okay so we're going with THAT angle

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1 year

Man, I'm so tired of this. Like, there's something deeply exhausting about seeing people constantly dunk on something you find interesting.

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guy recommending isekai: you gotta check out this one it’s good it’s from a light novel with super detailed worldbuilding and history me: does it actually or is it just another hero’s guild with the worlds most needlessly complicated magic system guy recommending isekai:

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This offhand comment is a pretty striking example of toxic masculinity. The implication here is that if Gojo had more of a personality, he'd "make a move." There's a conflation here that one's personality is tied to their...confidence?

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@LichVtuber Let’s be real, if he was any less of a wooden plank, the show would just turn into a doujin

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I want to talk about this very specific quote, and why I think, on a fundamental level, is a problem. No cultural "correction," no "well ackshually otaku and maniacs are different," or "Nakamori Akio started," just the quote on its own and why it's a problem.

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I hate the "wow this show is so bad, it's good!" or "it's trash, but I love it!" style of video. If you enjoy it, just say you enjoy it without tiptoeing around it like a coward. You aren't gonna convince the people who think it's bad by limp-wristedly adopting their sentiments.

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5 years

Fantasy. The word is 'fantasy'.

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4 years

Zero context, zero background, zero overview with regards to why LN titles might be the way they are. I repeat: ZERO. Instead, it's just "bad". I understand not liking it regardless of WHY it might be like that, but his descriptors are entirely based around "bad" and "stupid."

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4 years

Add in a dose of "wow strange Japan!" "haha isn't this weird?" vibe and you have a melting pot of orientalism.

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4 years

nobody told him

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Also, he interchanges the idea of long titles and Light Novel titles with isekai, despite the fact that many of his titles are, notably, not isekai. I understand this is just a thing he does, but the problem is that it fosters this mentality that this is an "isekai" thing.

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I watched the noralities video on isekai (but it's really about re:zero). While I sympathise with her concerns, I feel like a lot of them are built on anime-only consumption. Mentioning this now because she's gonna surpass me in subs and I'll get accused of clout chasing again.

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In fact, most of the conclusions he comes to is just the sheer "stupidity" of it, and has absolutely zero empathy or sympathy for the decisions made by authors, the material conditions they may be grappling with, and the sheer scale of the competition they have to work with.

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How does this relate to the anime is trash "problem"? Because this cannot be criticized. Anyone who defends this video will immediately go "well it's just good fun," but the sheer rapidity and looseness with which he uses terms comes off more as consumer disdain than investment.

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Oh, but he's the "funny guy," you see? Anything he says that's wrong or off is meant as a joke, an offhand quip, but anything he says that's on point is clearly true - comedy becomes shield unassailable by any sort of criticism.

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Not to be mean, but HasanAbi probably shouldn't get his takes about Japan from Trash Taste of all people, who are effectively insulated tourists whose job is to have fun in Japan. At least Majin Obama taught English on his own, surrounded by pig farms. Shoulda asked him.

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4 years

You might also say, "Joe, why do you care so much?" Because when one of Anitube's biggest content creator makes stuff like this, we all take shit for it.

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You SHOULD hold this man accountable - he does this for his job. This isn't some fun hobby like most Anitubers (myself included) - this is his livelihood. He has the time, access, ability, and resources to punch out stuff, and THIS is what he comes up with.

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harems in anime, many protagonists go through hell (sometimes literally) for their partners. I don't know if most people complaining about "loser" protagonists woulld go to such lengths for their partners. (5/5)

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friend. This folds into a broader point I want to make, which is that I sometimes see this toxic masculine assumption that if a character doesn't present themselves as confident or self-assured, they're instantly a "loser." Regardless of your thoughts on romances or (4/5)

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I know a lot of people will be genuine and earnest with their reactions to the news, but to those thinking about it: please, for the love of God, don't make videos on Miura's death for views.

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"Japanese people will really talk like that" Wow this is just orientalism lmao. Exclamations are a part of every culture, think about people in English speaking communities who say stuff like "bruh" or "no way" as a single exclamation. I'm so baffled right now

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Remember that poster that complained about the long titles and made zero effort to try and explain why they're like that? This is the Gigguk video, but the difference is that he got paid to make it.

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You might also say, "well it's comedy, it's just a joke!" But how does that excuse nuance or being wrong? His comedic structure isn't focused on getting stuff wrong as a punchline. You can be both mindful and funny.

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I am most definitely being hysterical, but this isn't a new thing; he's done this many times - remember his Franxx mecha comment? Remember his K-On "Slice of Fucking Nothing" comment?

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Years of trying to post positively and I complain one or two times and some folks now just see me as "that angry guy". Conversely, years of attempts at measured tweets and nothing, but I get angry once or twice and THAT's what gets traction. I hate this platform so much.

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Bruh

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to understand it from Gojo's perspective: he's not an anime, manga, or galge guy. He doesn't have to do any of this, but he went through all this trouble to do it with no expectations of any sort of reciprocity. He's doing it specifically to help out someone he deems a (3/5)

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Anti-intellectualism is immensely annoying. Some guy talking about Jameson in Minecraft is infinitely more honest than this braindead cynicism, and hell yeah I'll rail against this, especially considering this article is very likely written for free (as most academic labour is)

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I think my favourite anime and manga trope is when dudes become dads through really contrived reasons like finding a kid in rubble or build one or just get stuck with one due to a pact with the devil or something and all of a sudden they need to learn what a stovetop does.

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You might say, "well he actually likes these quite a lot!," But the problem is that none of it is demonstrated by any specificity or nuance about the subject he supposedly cares about.

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Before I became some YouTube guy, I did finish my degrees in a positivist research program. I feel like YouTube videos are pretty bad at "research literacy," so I'm wondering if anyone would be interested in my thoughts on a short series of videos on how to understand research.

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that she appreciates partaking in her hobby by playing through both games. That's a huge bit of insight into his character: the guy goes really hard. He's a bit of a loner, but he's definitely not a loser. "Oh, but Joe, I can play two eroge as well huehue!" But you have (2/5)

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This thread is full of crabs in a bucket. The whole point of progress is that the next generation shouldn't have to work as hard as the previous one. This is from someone worked three jobs in college, so none of y'all boomers better come at me with this "snowflake" nonsense.

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Trans Barrister has meltdown because 8 hours is too long to work on a day...

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He became a bug bro are you STUPID, that's fucking SICK af

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Kafka’s Metamorphosis is called a major work of literature. Why? If it’s SF it’s bad SF. If, like Animal Farm, it’s an allegory, an allegory of what? Scholarly answers range from pretentious Freudian to far-fetched feminist. I don’t get it. Where are the Emperor’s clothes?

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what the heck is learned that the james somerton attack on titan video referenced me but by my full name, and not my youtube name, so I don't even get youtube clout? that's it, i know where i stand on this issue now

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I watch a lot of Youtube, but I drop a lot of Youtube analysis. Mainly because a lot of analyses do a lot of things that drive me up the wall. Here's the main ones. This has no thought into it, I just wanted to get stuff off my chest.

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"Joe, why do you criticise content creators? Why don't you just let things you disagree with be?" Cause I'm getting tired of people arguing with me on whether Goblin Slayer is an isekai or whether Otaku are 95 percent greasy men (NEITHER AREN'T).

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Moon Channel's latest video on trans rights in Japan is what I'll loosely call content named "Repressive Japan," specifically in the sense that its primary lens focuses only on the governmental aspects while completely ignoring the actual on-the-ground debates happening.

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3 years

I'm applying to the Polygon Video Producer job. Please wish me luck, if you can spare it.

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Sometimes I see takes from people saying "working class people can't understand X text, it's too hard for them" and everytime it's some always-online charlatan. I am in a factory 10 hours a day, 5 days a week. I've read these texts. We lack time, not intelligence.

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@RedBardIsCool has an interesting video on the titles, for something with a bit more context. It's not the same kind of video, but I'd be remiss to not at least shoutout something:

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The "Shinji is a pussy" people: "I want more verisimilitude in my storytelling" Also the "Shinji is a pussy" people: "I don't like how this 14-year-old is responding poorly to being cajoled into war"

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It's absolutely wild seeing how the @TotallyNotMark situation brings out the corporate bootlickers, smug internet lawyers, and dregs who are glad that an anituber's livelihood is in jeopardy. It's like the perfect trifecta of assholes. Most are supportive, but gaddamn

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Paperwork has been signed so I am now OFFICIALLY a PhD candidate.

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This meme has never made sense to me because when you read a lot of author interviews, they often hem and haw, speak in vague generalities, and love winking at readers or viewer and go, "that's for the audience to decide."

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"Japanese people say this thing about X subculture" is, imo, immensely unhelpful. It treats them like a monolith and is kinda essentialist. It'd be like expecting I knew a lot about Canadian Goth punk because I'm Canadian. I know nothing about Canadian goth punk.

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"you should check this out, it's a deconstruction" what is this deconstructing, my time?

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This is not a dig at the OP, but I think it's really interesting how quickly and widely the word "incel" has travelled into the lexicon of a lot of different contexts. At first it was just involuntarily celibate, then a bog standard misogynist, now someone with no friends.

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here are two "male MCs with no friends or social skills" who are not only not ever called incels but are extremely beloved by everyone so this sounds like a taste problem

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Okay, this may sound like a joke, but the "Holding Out for a Hero" scene from Shrek 2 is legitimately one of my favourite sequences in media. No meme irony, no "haha post-irony" nonsense, I really love that sequence.

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That's all I got, I'm sure I'll have more but I don't wanna clog up a Twitter feed with my rants.

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"Most of the popular anime characters are outspoken and give interesting dialogue and have personalities...and that's maybe because can't be outspoken in daily life" alright this video has mixed me up, i can't get out of this setplay ggs no re I'm done i can't do this

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Since last summer I've been exercising at home, mostly calisthenics. Slowly getting there! September 2020 to beginning of this month!

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Anyone who unironically uses tropes as narrative analysis is speedrunning me not taking them seriously.

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To be clear, I have absolutely nothing against Connor or Joey (the others in the Trash Taste Triumvirate). I haven't seen much of the former's and from what I've seen of the latter's, it looks like he cares quite a bit about what he generally talks about.

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I think "depth" is an antiquated concept; the only thing that matters is how interesting or compelling the argument is presented, and whether that sheds new insight on something.

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Man, I don't like shaming people for being passionate about something, but... Persona games really aren't deep enough for this kind of effort

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Imagine being an overworked and underpaid animator who spends all this time to make the perfect cut and then some rapscallion "improves" on it by putting it into Twixtor and then uploads it to Youtube as "4K 120 FPS." With AdSense, of course.

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To add on to this, this is why Lamarre's chapters on Chobits is so transgressivrly brilliant. It moves away from questions or Miyazaki or Anno into CLAMP, an all-female doujin circle who represented the COMIKET old guard. Chobits is as much an interrogation of technology as EVA.

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I'm getting real tired the stereotype that otaku are dominantly male - followed by the usual NEET and nerd stereotype bashing. All it does is erase female otaku. The Yano institute back in 2012 found that people who self identified as 'otaku' were split 59% male and 41% female.

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I see this take a lot, that because he doesn't act like a self-confident suave character, outgoing or a social butterfly, that he's immediately a loser or bland, etc. Gojo, in reality, has extremely strong comedic timing, he knows several trade skills, and he's really perceptive.

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I'm getting really annoyed by this "isekai is oversaturated" take I keep seeing. No, you just don't care about it fam, that's fine, but that's as dumb as me saying "cute girls doing cute things is oversaturated." Gigguk is right: anime adaptations have been more varied than ever.

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I want to shoot off a stray thought, and that is that in my opinion, many people who consume video essay analysis (and just that) don't actually respect the field of media analysis.

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The idea that dudes need to make a move on a vulnerable women festers an ideology that makes environments dangerous for women. It doesn't matter that Marin showed up to his room in a bathing suit, that she was a bit flirtatious. Respect boundaries, simple as that.

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I dunno, a lot of protags in school deal with real stuff like social isolation, career precarity, grappling with their sexual and political identity, and bullying. I feel like these are pretty real struggles with pretty real consequences.

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We need more adult anime. No, not hentai; ADULT ANIME. Main/major characters who are all 25 and older. Issues that are more than just friendship and growing hormones. Struggles with REAL consequences. No more high-school shit.

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Some people say that if it wasn't for isekai, more animators would be working on other things. I understand wanting more of the things you like, but please don't trash the things I like in the process.

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I've applied with my reel and channel videos. Wish me luck!

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Got a passion for video editing? We're looking for a talented Video Production Coordinator to join our team! Apply now:

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Gaddamn homie these kids are brutal. At least 10,000-shows-watched MAL elitists have something to stand on when they act like asshats but these guys come in on pure e-bravado

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If Demon Slayer and Attack on Titan aren’t in your top 10 anime of all time, you’re bugging, I’m sorry 😅

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My philosophy when it comes to talking about media is that if I don't like it, I try to find something I think is interesting about it. I've been accused of overthinking more than not, but as time goes by I care less and less. I'm finding less merit in negativity.

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Damn r/anime y'all built different

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when I get into an argument in the anime and manga channel of a normie discord

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Disgusting interpolation.

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Making moves on women who clearly trust you enough to not be a lascivious creep isn't "personality" or "confidence". It's toxic masculinity that reinforces an idea of men being horny monsters and women being purely objects to be conquered.

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This is compounded with the strange take that if he had "a personality," he'd make a move on Marin. Gojo consistently establishes that he's very considerate of those around, and moreso, he's a PROFESSIONAL. His initial relationship with Marin is transactional.

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I like isekai.

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@zombiemaster999 @FunnyFeb14 @Digiordep That's a bit of a myth. @MercuryFalcon addresses a lot of this in his video, bit Ghost Stories was actually more popular in Japan than suggested. The truth is the guy in charge just likely had a deep disdain for it.

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I will not cheese on noralities anymore. I'm still pissed as hell she essentially accused me of being sexist and refuted absolutely nothing, but there's no point belabouring it. It's still better than that one guy who threatened to send me to jail because I interviewed Galbraith.

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There's a part of me that's kinda...concerned?...that certain segments of this medium-genre will never be catalogued or analysed because they're just seen as lesser forms of media. It's no longer just, "what is happening with this genre," but like, "who cares?"

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I've been warned that this person is clout farming (?) so I'll generally use this tweet as a means to jump into addressing some general misinformation that sometimes gets peddled around the narou space, because I think this tweet is emblematic of some misunderstandings.

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yuuko from nichijou

1 year

you could improve anime like 600% if you just banned narou adaptations tomorrow. perhaps apply the incredible talent of professional animators to a real screenplay and not the unhinged ramblings of a fascist teenagers fanfic that happened to get popular

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Absolutely insane that someone can look at a teenager who's never had a girl in his room before try his damndest to BE PROFESSIONAL and their takeaway is "bruh why didn't you make a move lol what a loser." C'mon man you gotta think harder.

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2 years

I can never tell what part of these things are jokes and what parts are legitimate beliefs masquerading as jokes cause these feel so mean-spirited at times

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SungWon Cho

2 years

listen, if japanese is not your first language and you come at me going how much you love the movie "Koukaku Kidou Tai" or some shit and i google it and it's Ghost in the Shell, i'm shoving you into a fucking locker

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3 years

Aside from posting videos, I'll be inactive from twitter for a little bit. I am currently extremely depressed and am not in the right headspace to engage. I hope you understand. I will be back tweeting more actively when I am better. Sorry about the inconvenience.

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1 year

I also think saying something like "a very intelligent author and director" is kind of insulting cause it implies that authors who are writing isekai right now aren't people who can have intelligent thoughts or premises. People constantly fine-tune their craft.

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3 years

Major problem in recent episode of My Dress Up Darling. Shinju is using autofocus, f2.8 with 800 iso on a turning subject with natural backlight close to a background object.

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9 months

Funny story, someone in a discord saw my sources list and told me that (clearly as a joke), "Don't wanna get cancelled by hbomberguy huh?" Like bruh, what? I've been fighting for citations for a very long time on Youtube lmao

@GilLiesHere

Gil

9 months

I watched a video from @lextorias about Rule 34. It's a very good video about the history of parody, internet, and 3DCG erotic art. But in the description, he links to a google doc of references and citations. Which is great.

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5 months

orientalists be like "japan is a culture of respect and honor" but they've clearly never seen an old man grab fistfuls of half-off karaage packets at the supermarket

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11 months

Media is negotiated at three central points: its producer, its material form, and its receiver. Stuart Hall calls this the encoding/decoding process. Media has no form beyond the reconciliation of all three elements. What's wrong with theorizing?

@SocialNomadRach

Venom Rach ☧

@SocialNomadRach

11 months

Is it bad that I like that he said that?

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joe

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3 years

Friendly reminder: you can analyse stuff you don't like. You don't have to personally enjoy something to find it interesting.

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joe

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2 years

This is not against OP; just QRTing this to give my thread context. I've always wondered what people mean by "character development," cause it seems like it means anything the critic values to uphold or reject whatever it is they care about. Yukiko's arc is an example.

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2 years

Heyyy, found an old photo. It sucked sleeping in a temple in Laos, the floor was full of ants and they were not afraid to bite you nonstop.

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joe

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4 years

Don't be like this guy.

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2 years

Interesting response thread on Bleach. I find that a recurring theme with Bleach is when someone makes a video with errors and someone tries to correct them, their immediate response is, "ugh, fanboys!" It's goofy. What's wrong with information correction? It's part of learning.

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STEVEM

2 years

@bonsai_pop It seems them catching up with the manga would be the reason since they knew it was the last arc. Kubo talked recently about this "I started ... Blood War around the time it was decided... the anime would end". Rather than the show being cancelled.

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joe

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1 year

A few weeks ago someone told me that they cited my Japan Sinks 2020 video and the prof told them to provide a more reliable source. So instead, they cited a paper on Japan Sinks 2020...that I wrote. Bruh YouTubers being oppressed frfr

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2 years

90 percent sure this is just "stuff I like" + Astro Boy

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DoraBall

2 years

The most influential and important Anime/Manga EVER! Am I right or wrong?

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2 years

I looked up where this is. It's in the Garden District, smack dab in-between Ryerson University and Cabbagetown, an incredibly gentrified NIMBY district. For an owner who left Vancouver for its "classism," they seem pretty comfortable catering to it in Toronto.

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blogTO

2 years

This new cafe in Toronto is proudly anti-capitalist ☕️ #Toronto #TorontoCafe

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4 years

Also I'm really bad at responding to things so if you said something to me and I didn't respond feel free to assume you've owned me on the internet etc.

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2 years

No, there's no conflict between citations and compelling content. Youtubers do it every single day with videos all the time. It's not hard to maintain basic intellectual honesty, and to assume that citing work "costs" something is disengenuous at best.

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