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 No.1063[Reply]

"A denpa song (電波ソング) is a type of Japanese music that is intentionally strange and catchy. Denpa music has grown into a subculture within Japan, forming a significant aspect of otaku culture, and has large numbers of dōjin circles and music artists dedicated to denpa music." - Wikipedia

Use this thread to talk about denpa music happenings, releases, artists, etc! More specifically doujin releases/circles.

> Resources Site: https://denpasong.nekoweb.org/


> APRIL RELEASES:

4/29 - えなじー☆Drinkin' by みけねこれこーど☆
4/29 - 幸せSelect by 妄想の旅団
4/27 - エンジェル店員がちんこ来店!? 『Pぱちんこちんこ物語ED』- ちえりちゃんのおみせ
4/23 - 穴を掘った by cloverkoma, ミ人ーP (ft. 初音ミク)
4/18 - モノレールにも乗れ~る by うぃすましょっぷ
4/15 - 僕はキャラメルポップコーンになりたい! by ちょこっとだけ
4/15 - もう黙れよ!by cloverkoma (ft. 鏡音リン)
4/13 - いろは☆ニャ by cloverkoma (ft. 猫村いろは)
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 No.1081

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>>1075
if looking for more for denpa beginners i'd suggest the erogesong channel series on youtube! not all of the songs are denpa, but its a huge catalog to choose from.

here's a playlist of a bunch of them:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKydlbVTZ23o5N9mgCGr5b8gUNoY4Ku1O

here are some of the channels:
> https://www.youtube.com/@erogesong98and99c
> https://www.youtube.com/@erogesong2000e
> https://www.youtube.com/@erogesong2001e
> https://www.youtube.com/@erogesong2002c
> https://www.youtube.com/@erogesong2003b
> https://www.youtube.com/@erogesong2004d
> https://www.youtube.com/@erogesong2005b

there's like, hundreds of these channels and i'd say they're a pretty good resource!

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>>1075
alongside those erogesong channels i've noticed a few soundcloud accounts that are good starters!

compilation/fan accounts:
> https://soundcloud.com/galgame2015
> https://soundcloud.com/nyowa
> https://soundcloud.com/vn-usagi
> https://soundcloud.com/denpatunes

official (??) artist accounts:
> https://soundcloud.com/mosaicwav
> https://soundcloud.com/nanahira
> https://soundcloud.com/user-993792759

a good place to look for albums to download digitally/etc is booth! which often is the source of new releases as well
> https://booth.pm/en/browse/Music%20(General)?q=%E9%9B%BB%E6%B3%A2%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0

 No.1115

Odenpa Studio as of today has new digital downloads of some of their older stuff available on BOOTH! Solid pieces of denpa history.

おでんぱ☆スタジオ - https://booth.pm/en/items/6870203
C77落選記念CD - https://booth.pm/en/items/6870136

 No.1146

めるてぃ〜♡ぱにっく is up for download on booth!

https://booth.pm/en/items/6872352

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Choko and RISH have released the PPSG ep!

A lot of the western rating sites seem not to like it very much, which is a shame :(

You can download the ep on DoujinStyle here:
https://doujinstyle.com/?p=page&type=1&id=28091

Directly support the artists by buying the ep here:
https://linkco.re/yS28xGam?lang=en



/cel/

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 No.3499[Reply]

>png
>1080
>no denoising or smoothing

Post dem film grain screenshots.
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This is how unedited 16mm looks, especially with the cheaper film stock they had at the time.

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Another grain vs. no grain example from the OVAs, which used 35mm film (thank god).

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/djn/

 No.907[Reply]

Post your favorite flash or even your own creations!
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 No.1170

I watched the anime, Wandaba Style specifically due to this flash. The show is kinda stupid but the girls are cute

 No.1171

Daily Dose

 No.1172

Ecchi thoughs are 4bidden

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 No.1174

Someone mentioned that the superwaha.swf was probably scaled to be played on an old cellphone, very retro. I could post more, but I think these are the best, if you can believe that



/lum/

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 No.1627[Reply]

Oshii used Mendo as a vector for his militerism fetish while the comic merely had him have some glasses wearing bodyguards. Did he go too far? The show makes Mendo a tad bit more menacing than perhaps Rumiko had intended. The two-parter where they're used by Mendo to try to thwart Atru from getting Lum back makes Mendo a bit of a Bond villain.

The Mendo Army: Good or bad? It was a nice excuse to see various bits of German hardware from the Wehrmacht or Bundeswehr from MP40s, Leopard 1A5. It basically vanishes after Oshii leaves.
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>>2064
I agree entirely. Sometimes people talk about Mendo's noble qualities and I can tell, they are approaching it from the anime. Not that I think Rumiko dislikes Mendo, but she's pretty clear that his better qualities are ultimately affectations, even if he won't fuck outside the school in a cheesy pleasure dome.

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>>2075
I think it's just basic writing where you need foils. He overlaps with Lum and Ataru as a character. He is normally well meaning and polite like Lum, but Ataru angers him and you can see his sword strikes as similar to Lum's lightning. And like Ataru, he's a wannabe lady's man virgin.

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>>2075
>>2075
Mendo has some noble qualities, as well as selfish and vain ones, so it's not entirely affectations. He will do the right thing when pressed, and would never hurt a woman. He's Ataru with pretentions of class.

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Anime gives Mendo a bit of an edge, which culminates in the S2 finale where he kidnaps Lum under the guise of helping her and making her his bride. It's probably the most outright evil thing Mendo has done.



/cel/

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 No.3497[Reply]

She isn't my favorite but I like Pacifica

 No.3505

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B-ko is just evil Lum and the earliest drills that i can find.



/cel/

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 No.1152[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Share cool retro anime Webms and GIFs with your fellow anons.Any other supported format is fine as well.
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/lum/

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 No.2104[Reply]

She's the best girl that Rumiko has ever made.


/djn/

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 No.528[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

April Showers with Suwako!

Hisoutensoku is an expansion to Touhou 10.5, made by Tasofro with ZUN's approval. It's a fast paced fighting game featuring all your favorites from the Touhou Project.
Sign up at https://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/eoBiiPVngp or reply so I can add you manually.
View the bracket at https://challonge.com/wapsoku4

I've setup the game myself so all you have to do is download https://files.wapchan.org/sokupack.zip, run SokuLauncher.exe, and choose the first option (Giuroll). May need to update the launcher first.

Wiki: https://hisouten.koumakan.jp/

This tournament will be livestreamed at https://stream.wapchan.org/r/sokutourney

This thread is also for coordinating soku friendlies for the month of April 😊
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 No.1163

Victory day soku in an hour?

 No.1164

>>1163
still up? i could play some soku before bed

 No.1165

>>1164
Yeah, hop on 37.112.23.211:10801 with giuroll!

 No.1166

>>1165
ggs, not sure why the connection decided to die a couple times there but i might as well go get some sleep now
thanks for hosting

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>>1166
Ggs and sweet dreams! Damn Sakuya's hitboxes and damn Aya's reach, I feel literally like left guy on the picrel trying to land any hits at all. My j.5A becomes almost useless in this matchup as tool for first hit since you have it same style but better (and can shoot a barrage in my face too).



/cel/

 No.581[Reply]

Self explanatory. For me it would be three late 80s Studio Comet produced TV shows all with Hirosho Kanazawa as character designer and heavily involved as an animation director. I believe all three are manga adaptations, and they all have the similar kind of pudgy faced caricatured character designs that are really unique. High School Kimengumi, Tsuide ni Tonchinkan and Meimon! Daisan Yakyuubu. The latter two I watched raw, with Tsuide ( screenshots shown here) being a well executed slapstick comedy, albeit a bit repetitive. Meimon is an incredibly well done sports drama with storyboards that feel somewhat reminiscent of Dezaki, as it was his student, Hiroshi Fukutomi who directed it. The animation quality was outstandingly good and consistent, full of subtle weighty convincing motion during the baseball games. Kimengumi has its movie subbed and I enjoyed it, but the series has yet to be picked up.
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 No.602

Damn, are those tanlines? Hng

 No.603

Maple Town Monogatari

 No.604

>>581
>>584

There were some VHS era fansubs that went up to about ep. 13 online, though I'm not sure if they're archived anywhere.

 No.605

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Still waiting for someone to pick up 70s Babel II again.

 No.3498

>>605
>>605
not subbed?



/djn/

 No.14[Reply]

This board has been claimed by Moriya shrine. Remember to pay your respects every time you visit here!
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>>1104
Sanae us the :D hu. She's the best at it.

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>>1104
How much faith a shrine gathers is directly proportional to the :D value of its keepers. This is why Moriya will always be in first place, and why H*kurei will always be dead last.

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>>1116
Silly outside world gods forgot the Hakurei's secret weapon

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>>1118
It's true that Suika and Aunn do a lot of heavy lifting for Reimu, but are they alone capable of standing up against the entire Moriya family?

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Maybe their faith-gathering is superior after all…



/djn/

 No.764[Reply]

April 22nd, 2025

Wapanese Channel creates /djn/ offshoot: Touhou, Visual Novels, and fanworks

Following the Vanishing Imageboard in Digital Paradise incident in the middle of this month, Wapanese Channel has been a place of refuge and reorganization for many affected. The administrator, figamin, has been making efforts to welcome the new arrivals, and also to help them assimilate to local culture. One large class has been categorized as those users who post primary and fan-made content for shmups, VNs, and other doujin works. At the time of the incident, this discussion was relegated to a board it shared with general computing and gaming, but it was quickly made apparent that one board could not hold both topics comfortably after the increase in site activity. It was this fact that spurred figamin to create a new board, /djn/, specifically for this type of discussion.

The decision has been accepted and even hailed as good by many. Still, it is not without controversy.
Most grievously, after it was announced that the board would allow character threads, several readers contacted me to voice their opinions that it was ridiculous that no Tengu threads had been made.
Furthermore, it has been alleged that figamin is working with a local impoverished shrine maiden in exchange for a cut of the donations she hopes to receive from these new users.

This article, as always, aims to spread awareness, but my work does not end here. Rest assured, I will continue personally monitoring this incident, as well as reaching out to figamin for comment.

(Shameimaru Aya)
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 No.1125

>>1038
>StB feels better to play
I generally agree, the slight changes between games compound into something noticeably better on StB's end. But DS still plays decently and has few fun spellcards that StB doesn't have. I wonder if anyone ever attempted porting spellcards from one into another.
>Ayaya is cuter than Hatatertot
Was there ever any doubt about that? But there is some value to having Hatate as a contrast, it highlights Aya's competence.

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I recently found a backup of my Aya folder so I have lots of pretty crows to look at again

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>>1143
Splendid. Best 10gu needs all the love she can get.

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I've been hearing crows outside all day, but they're too far away or too high up in trees to go feed.

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>>1160
That's because they've already been fed by their t*ngu overlords, and they've been assigned to keep an eye on you. Lock your doors. Lock your windows too, even the ones on higher floors. Only go outside during daylight hours when everyone can see you. And under NO CIRCUMSTANCES WHATSOEVER should you open the door for any newsboy with weird-looking ears.



/lum/

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 No.1663[Reply]

Or weird cross overs in general.
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>>2052
this isn't the first time someone posted those edgelord edits on here
>>>/cel/2260

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>>2099
Classic

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>>2102
Either she participated in a communist themed slumber party or made a visit to Jusenkyō



/lum/

 No.583[Reply]

So I'm sure we're all familiar with that episode of uy where the school gets a new hard ass teacher who instantly starts crushing on lum (can't remember episode number). anyway, sensei gets called a lolicon for being into lum-chan. but lum isn't what we'd think of a loli. she's married, full sized, and has big tits even if she's the same age as ataru which is still kinda old for a loli. So I went and looked around at the loli hentai that was being made in the mid 80s and so far its what you'd expect. but its not like i'm the lolimaster or something and know what i'm talking about... r-right fed-chan? so did the word's meaning change? did the whole flat chested bratty midget thing come later? afaik lolicon means like "pedophile" in modern Japanese. gotta be a loli history guide somewhere. Anyway I'm high as fuck and probably reading too much into things. Gonna go take a nap.
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>>610
phrog?

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>>583
That weird episode was written by Shusuke Kaneko, and he's mostly known for his 90s Gamera films. Check his filmography though, and you see his work around this time was teen sex comedies? The first 20 episodes were very rushed, and and Kaneko's episodes were not a good fit for the series so he was replaced by Kazunori Itō.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shusuke_Kaneko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urusei_Yatsura_(1981_TV_series)

 No.2058

>>2057
You can think of early UY as a nexus that many, many, film makers, writers, and animators, were part of who then went on to other things.

Kanako's films were part of the "pink film" genre of erotic softcore films and ran under the Nikkatsu Roman Porno line. So it's telling that right after UY, he's directing erotic films that are quasi pornographic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_film
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nikkatsu_Roman_Porno_films

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Ran's in-world fanbase is mostly pedos who like her childishness and innocence.

 No.2101

>>2100
I didn’t notice that pac-man looking fucker before but did notably laugh at that quote



/lum/

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 No.1768[Reply]

May or may not include Lum.
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Dance Party!

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>>2092
WEBM’s you can hear



/lum/

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 No.1861[Reply]

Best girl by a mile. Sleek, wholesome, driven. Everything you want in a gal.
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>>2025
This feels like a threat, knowing the extremes she’ll get into

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>>2012
Ran can't cast magic.

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Is Rumiko a closet case? Her comics are full of gender-bending, lesbian baiting. In the end, Ran used her life drain kiss on way more women than males.



/lum/

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 No.1807[Reply]

Sakura Sensei is so cool, so mature, so gorgeous.
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Early UY is EXTREMELY horny, and if anything they tone it down a lot over time. Did the TV laws change or something?

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>>1969
Not entirely sure but I am aware that broadcasters were furious when oshii snuck back in lum’s bare chest in the first episode lol

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>everyone acts like she's an old hag
>I thought she was 38
>She's actually only 27
>her social network seems to consist of high schoolers



/lum/

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I have never seen a full collection of promotional art. Does one even exist?
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>>2087
1993(for the manga) or 1996(for the anime) depending on which anniversary it’s referring to

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 No.2090

>>2089
A comment pointed out that because it was using the anime’s designs then that would mean this dates back to 1996



/digi/

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 No.809[Reply]

Here's the thread this board was missing. Let's talk about Made in Abyss.

 No.814

I remember when /a/ would do story time whenver a new manga chapter was released. Those were fun and interesting threads. I feel like editor-kun was able to keep the author's autism in check when the series wasn't as popular as it is now. And as a consequence, the whole story suffers from it. The organization using the orphanage system to raise child soldiers and then deploying them as cannon fodder was always in the background of this setting, but hinting darkness and outright showing abuse and gore are completely different hings. I think the anime has too much shock that it becomes less shocking. Shocking things are more impactful when you are wrapped up in the mc's naivety and positive attitude. You could forget the bad stuff while reading the manga, because chapters were months apart. But that isnt how anime releases work, so you just get bombarded with negative imagery with little chance to cooldown or recover.



/cel/

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 No.3495[Reply]

I think it's important everyone is aware there's still
FORTY-EIGHT (48) HOURS UNTIL THE NEXT STREAM

Giving everyone plenty of time to catch up.
Up to episode TWENTY-EIGHT (28) because the host repeatedly forgets to mention what episode we're at.

Hunter X Hunter (1999) ranks in the top 10 best anime of all time in the lists of multiple decorated experts in the field of japanese visual arts the world over. It's so consensual, it's become a joke within the field to say you're hunterxhunterizing(1999) something when you try to argue something has unquestionable widespread appeal and exceptional quality of production and execution (the joke is sarcastic in tone because only Hunter X Hunter (1999) has ever been able to achieve it – it's like reminding the people arguing for the virtues of whatever they're defending exactly the standard they're trying to compare their stuff to).

Come check whether or not the experts are right,
IN TWO DAYS.
At https://cytu.be/r/GreedIsland

THE CAN'T MISS EVENT OF THE YEAR.


/lum/

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 No.1755[Reply]

Let's discuss who is the best guy in urusei for a change.
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 No.2070

>>2066
This is just whining about the endings, since Inaba is tied into it and likely created to head off any chance of Shinbu and Ataru thinking of marriage in Boy Meets Girl.

A better ending might have Lum and Ataru breakup, so Shinobu and Ataru decide to go through with the marriage after all. I would still have Lum and Ataru back together in the end. I'd probably have Shinobu and Mendo paired up.

Inaba breaks up the main dynamic of the cast.

>>2066
Decades ago, one of my first exposures to the series was the OVAs and films, so Nagisaa is one of the first characters I saw.

 No.2074

>>2068
Nagisa appears in two arcs dedicated to him in the manga.

 No.2076

>>2074
I’m guessing one of them was adapted in the ova, and if so it must’ve been very late in the manga, as in right before “Boy meets girl”

 No.2079

>>2076
Volume 33, along with the second Inaba arc and some fun one-shot stories.

 No.2085

>>2066
If you can work it into the story and get some nice gags, then fine. I can see a nice story setup where Shinobu keeps cancelling on them, so Ataru and Mendo get suspicious and start stalking her. They then misinterpret what they see, thinking something much more sinister is going on, the boys paranoia reaches a fever pitch, and they strike out to save Shinobu from the clutches of evil, then after hijinks, it turns out she's dating some random and nothing sinister.

Literally anything better than god damn Inaba. I don't think that tool ever once stood up for himself and let Shinobu walk all over him. Ataru and Mendo would have both called out her bullshit.



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 No.386[Reply]

>Moshi Moshi, Ghostu Suipa Mikami desu?
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 No.399

>>398
She got them back and rejoined the team as a necromancer.

 No.3456

>>386
I think I’ve mentioned this before but I watched this around October last year, I thought she was so adorable no wonder she ended up on various popularity rankings in animage magazines.

 No.3461

I liked this scene.

 No.3462

>>3461
Same

 No.3494

>>398
Would've been a better ending than all the power tripping.



/cel/

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 No.163[Reply]

Often overlooked, I think there's a lot of good retro anime based on historical events that get often overlooked. Let's have a thread about them.
I'll start with Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari, adapted from the 1868 novel Little Women about the lives of four sisters during the American Civil War.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UUpcpiSUak

 No.164

I've been meaning to watch Paris no Isabelle. Simply because I think it is neat that there is an anime set during the Franco-Prussian War.

 No.3484

so sick of otaku shit. i like histirical shit.

 No.3493

>>164
Having already watched a few episodes: don't. It's slow and boring and all the characters suck.

It's too bad, because the historical period is interesting, but the actual show is shit



/djn/

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 No.695[Reply]

which touhou game should i start with?
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 No.1149

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>>1147
It's growing on me the more I play. Going back to Reimu and Marisa but with weird shots that reference past characters is really reminiscent of SA. I haven't played through all or even very many yet but picrel is really cool for being kind of a long-distance shotgun. The feature mishmash will take some figuring out.

 No.1150

I just started playing this series and started with 6. I read that future games in the series penalize you for using bombs, so should I try and get used to playing the series without using them? I'm actually doing better at this game than I expected. Not saying much though since I can only get to the second level so far before needing to continue but the fact that I can actually enjoyably play the game is more than I was expecting.

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>>1150
If you're new, you should get in the habit of using bombs whenever you think you're about to die. As far as I know, the only way you're "penalized" for using them is not getting bonus points for surviving a spell card if you used a bomb, which means nothing unless you're trying to go for a high score. Until th12 or so, your bomb stock resets to 2 every time you die, so you should make the most of them to prolong your lives. Don't be discouraged if you game over at the early stages, you get better with every attempt, and after enough practice you'll be able to snag that 1cc and brag about it to all the secondaries.

 No.1152

>>1150
> I read that future games in the series penalize you for using bombs
That's MoF and SA (th10 and th11), they take 1 power level from you for each bomb. In other games there is no penalty aside from moral one (you won't get spellcard capture and you will think you suck at the game).

 No.1153

>>1152
If you're good enough, you can bomb some spellcards and then replenish your power level back to what it was when the boss drops the Ps. Kanako's Mountain of Faith is absolutely brutal though since she's immune to bombs and you're just making yourself weaker against a pretty tough spellcard.



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 No.1356[Reply]

Screenshots or gifs of nice imagery. Some of the direction in Rumiko's works can be quite nice.
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 No.2017

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>>1964
>>1964
>>1409
Examples from the show of Frame within a Frame. Here's another from The Graduate which uses a similar effect of a woman's legs to frame the image.

I suspect the specific reference might be the poster For Your Eyes Only.

 No.2071

>>1422
These might not seem significant, but if it's not done it's rather noticeable and the absence is why a lot of modern productions (especially American) are very visually bland.

Adventure Time is used as an example, but I could have used endless examples. No negative space, every section seems filled, and nothing stands out visually.

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This might be my favorite shot of Ran, really establishes her and her character.

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 No.1979[Reply]

When is the Rumic World fandom going to make their own? Fandom is cancerous and evil, and I hate having to use it.
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 No.1986

>>1983
This would be extremely confusing seeing that Rumic World can already refer to
>Rumiko's short stories collected
>The general concept of the shared "Rumic World" throughout her works
>The website furinkan.com (aka Rumic World)
It's better that it's named something different

 No.1987

>>1982
Good start

 No.1988

I always just called that site Furinkan. That's why you make disambiguation pages and parentheses:

>Rumic World (manga)

>Rumic World (anime)
>website furinkan.com (aka Rumic World)
>Rumic World (Wiki)

 No.1989

>>1982
>>1983
>>1988
I don't hate Rumiki. Honestly, I wanted to help with it, but outside of minor trivia things, I have no idea how to write the basic setup and framework for a wiki.

I guess we could take it from existing wikis, but that felt off.

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Fandom is an evil cancer company and fan wikis need to dis-absolve themselves form it. Typically a fanbase will get sick of fandom, then fork their wikis.



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 No.612[Reply]

In the market for all cute and beautiful art, to soothe the heart and mind.
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I love art



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 No.847[Reply]

Hello! This might be premature and the site will be back up before Wednesday, but I wanted to see if any of the people who read my threads on /a/ would prefer I stick to my schedule and post the first volume of Rinne this Wednesday here or simply delay it until the site is back up. If the site goes back up, I'll probably redo it.

If you don't know what I am talking about, I dumped a few of Rumiko Takahashi's series on /a/ over the last year and a bit. Inuyasha was the most recent one.

Inuyasha Storytime: https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/271410702/#q271410702
One-Pound Gospel Storytime:
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/270924290/#270924290
Mermaid Saga Storytime:
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/270405739/#270405739
Ranma 1/2 Storytime:
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/265277188/#265277188
Maison Ikkoku Storytime:
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/263144591/#263144591
Urusei Yatsura Storytime:
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/258674340/#258674340
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 No.2078

>>2073
That’s too bad but I respect your decision, just try to stay away from the more toxic threads on there



/lum/

 No.2054[Reply]

1. Episode 44 After You've gone
2. Episode 75 And Then There was Nobody!?
3. Episode 157 I Love Darling's Kindness…
4. Episode 10 (Part 2) Pitter Patter Christmas Eve
5. Episode 1 (Part 1) I'm Lum-chan the Notorious!
6. Episode 194 Great All Star Banquet! We are Immortal!!
7. Episode 117 Lum-chan's Becoming a Cow?
8. Episode 106 "Deathmatch! Ataru VS Mendo Brigade!!
9. Episode 78 Pitiful! Mother of Love and Banishment!?
10. Episode 105 Scramble! Recapture Lum!!

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/perfectedition/10-best-urusei-yatsura-episodes-nhk-poll-2019-t5154.html

 No.2056

>>2054
That’s actually very similar to the penultimate episode listings

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/lum/

 No.548[Reply]

I started reading mao. It's pretty good.

 No.549

Have you started the people's war yet

 No.569

>>549
Winners don't do communism

 No.581

>>569
Lenin would've been a funnier name for the manga. Mao is just too brutal.

 No.2055

her art has regressed to the how to draw manga early 00's books.



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 No.76[Reply]

valentines day is one month away, time to get in the mood. only the best romcoms allowed
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 No.92

>>91
Thanks anon! We went out for dinner last night and are just chilling today aside from gifts. Happy Valentine's Day, I hope you're having a good one!

 No.93

>>89
it's something I whipped up in twenty minutes and it's kinda meant to be obnoxiously pink lol, i might fix it up later
It's good to see everyone having a nice day though, this week I'll get the new chat server up and running. Thinking about doing a fireside chat one of these days so we can all discuss what else needs to be done around here (especially in regards to ideas on how to grow the site traffic wise)
Also waptv is airing tomorrow, gonna put the schedule on the front page soon

 No.94

>>93
I actually rather like the pink theme lol. Also I'd definitely be down for a fireside chat to figure out a way to get more traffic, I really wanna see this place grow.

 No.95

>>93
that sounds great,I can't wait for waptv!

 No.3483

these are nice. shoujo nice.



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 No.774[Reply]

I am the shiki of my master
Spin is my body and focus is my blood
I have grazed over a thousand shots
Unknown to death, nor known to continues
Have withstood time to grow many tails
Yet, those hands will never fluff anything
So, as I pray — Unlimited Mofu Works
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 No.1129

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boink

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erotic!



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 No.2018[Reply]

How would you rank them?
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 No.2034

>>2033
Always my darling was kinda the straw that broke the camel’s back for the series and its fan base in regards to “let it end already, the story is over”. Now it’s not “bad” per say and I actually did kinda like it but in comparison to everything else I can see why but it did end the series ten year run and putting the cash cow to rest.

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>>2018
>The Final Chapter
>Always My Darling
>Only You
>Beautiful Dreamer
>Remember My Love
>Lum the Forever

I don't care for Beautiful Dreamer.

 No.2041

>>2034

Yeah, honestly, the fact that it killed the franchise is what got me to put it on fifth place, I originally had it as fourth and went "what do I even remember about this movie" and remembered my own personal bias of "being bland is worse than being bad". I don't care for movie 3 more than movie 6, but I don't /actively/ dislike either of them and I remember parts of movie 3, so that's why I placed it at a higher rank.

 No.2044

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>>2033
Lum the Forever's script is very messy, but the story is mostly straight forward and you can think of it as "Lum meets an Old One".

The tree holds the seal on a yokai that drains the lifeforce (seemingly the most important figure in town) to feed itself. By killing the tree, they unknowingly unleash this being and continues to grow until an Oni princess was able to calm it and a new tree planted to contain it. Only that it led to her eventual death.

The story in the present is a repeat of the cycle, and
Lum fufills the role of village elder and the Oni princess, so she gets her life force drained and is going to calm the being leading to her death. The being is initially an egg, then a fetus, and it seems very child like and wants a mother figure, only being child like it doesn't know limits and seems to kill its mother figure.

Have you played Demon's Souls (2009)? It's another HP Lovecraft inspired story, where a vastly powerful being can shape reality, but it's child like and it needs a mother to lull it to sleep to calm its vast power.

The being wants Lum to itself, so it tries to erase people's memories of Lum. Then after lum is drained, it starts sapping on Ten. The tree grows powerful enough that it starts producing a fog that when breathed in connects the dreaming person to the tree's power and manifests their dreams as reality.

Mendo figures this out and starts a war of the Zaibatsus to force everyone to wish that things went back to normal and to destroy the manifested dream worlds in the cross fire. It's hare brained but kinda works?

Ataru simply wishes for normalcy as well and jogs like Lum used to job. When he falls asleep and connects with the being he wishes for Lum back. The fetus like being finally understands, that Lum belongs to Ataru and the rest of the world, and relinquishes her and goes back to sleep. Presumably another tree will be planted on it to seal it.

 No.2045

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>>2044
As I said the script? Messy with pacing issues and the story is hard to follow. It likely got re-writes for more action (hense the ending war) when it should have stayed a spooky mystery story. The overall story might have worked better as an original story. If it was called "Legend of the Oni Princess" the film would likely be much better received and liked.

For plus sides: some amazing scenes, score, and animation sequences. Mendo's date with Shinobu and his dream sequence are highlights of the film.

The symbolism is pretty obvious: Urusei Yatsura anime is over so move on. The first thing the being manifests is Lum on a tv screen, and the last image we see is Lum on a tv screen that fades away. The series was over, and the film is meant to be the send-off to it and a message to the fanbase. The fantastical being birthed by felling the tree is representitive of the Urusei Yatsura fanbase, and their obsession with lum is unhealthy. Go out into the real world and find a real woman and let Lum go. For message, Evangelion has a similar meta message for anime otaku.



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 No.663[Reply]

Let's have a thread dedicated to the discussion of Keiichi sensei's work, especially now that CITY is getting its anime adaptation very soon. Keep it comfy lads.
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 No.797

>>779
>>787
well didn't he disappear after nichijou?

 No.800

>>779
I have faith in whoever else they get

 No.803

>>797
He's still releasing music what do you mean?

>>800
Furui Riho does the opening and TOMOO does the credits
I assume Piranhas are doing the soundtrack itself

 No.807

>>803
my bad, I just assumed he had stopped.

 No.808

Just a few months



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 No.444[Reply]

Recently got around to watching it, and was pleasantly surprised to find myself loving it. Mystery was great, which was complimented by countryside setting. It really knows how to create tension and ambient atmosphere as it manage d to make me feel uneasy. I heard it's a VN adaptation and there is also a manga, so definitely going to check it out sometime in the future.
What are you thoughts?
Shion is the best girl.
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Prior to
>>786

 No.847

>>786
imagine being the only male under the age of 20 in a small isolated mountain town in rural nippon during the 1980s.

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>>847
It sounds like you'd get your dick experimented on without consent.

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What would Hanyuu do for a cream puff? That delicious delicacy she craves is something she would probably do ANYTHING for. What an amazingly powerful sweet, to be so effective on an alien-god. And yet, it would be so easy to tamper with that cream puff, to make Hanyuu move to your whims. Put in something spicy, and she'll cry. Put in an aphrodisiac, and she'll pounce you before long. But perhaps, if you fill it with something else…
Collecting a large amount of semen can be hard, but it's worthwhile as to your aims. Preparing it all in a large jar, hidden away in your room, is easy, if time consuming. Once you've got what you need, all you need is a syringe, and a cream puff. Hell, if you felt like going faster, you could probably go to Angel Mort and talk to all the otaku customers; they'll be sure to contribute to the nefarious scheme. However, you have later plans that would interfere with this, so you decide not to do that.
You start simple. Every day, you give Hanyuu a completely normal, completely innocent cream puff. This becomes a habit, a thing between the two of you. At lunch time at school, you open up your bento box and pass a cream puff to Hanyuu. She starts looking at you with sad, teary eyes if you take too long after a while, and that's when you know when to move to step two.
Now you start giving her the cum puffs. And miraculously, amazingly, she doesn't notice. What degeneracy must she have gotten up to in her youth? The idea boggles your mind, but furthers your boner. A step three and four are sure to follow after that showing. Each cum puff you serve her makes the next easier, your hands less sweaty, but your mind continues to race. You do this for a few months, in preparation for the next step.
Step three is finding out just how accustomed to the taste she is. You prepare a handmade cum puff, without any cream within it. You pass it to her, sweating bullets, screaming in your mind that this was a bad idea. She takes it with a smile and a hau~, puts it in her mouth, takes a bite, and swallows. The sound of her throat moving, the sign that this dirty goddess is eating YOUR semen, is both hot and scary as fuck.
…She takes another bite. She doesn't notice. You have successfully accustomed Hanyuu to the taste of cum instead of cream in her cream puffs. Excellent.
And now for step four. You get her a drink of milk to start the club day off right. Needless to say, it isn't milk. As she guzzles it down, youPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.1142

>>901
that's cool man i just think shes cute and all



/lum/

 No.160[Reply]

Shinobu > Lum

Discuss
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 No.1996

>>1872
>>1922
I always loved Rumiko taking gags and making them bigger and bigger and sometimes changing them along the way.

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>>1800
Beautiful, sexy and pure.
A harlot like Lum could never compete.



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 No.3476[Reply]

Are there any sites out there in the depths of the Japanese web anything like comics.org that list what mangas ran in what magazine for a given issue?
Ones that are more specific and only list a few magazines are fine. Any sort of listings going into the publication history of magazines besides Shounen Jump would be useful.

 No.3477

>>3476
Well hey there’s majin bandar, was there ever a manga because I’m aware it had a television series that had 13 episodes with only 3 surviving, didn’t really show off all much



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 No.1909[Reply]

I still go with this gold standard. What do you think?
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 No.1994

>>1993
Ugh. These are way out of order. admin, please fix the upload from quick reply.

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>>1993
>sexy chinese dress that highlights her figure
Mhh well just like her mother, interesting.

 No.2005

>>2002
Now I can’t unsee the similarities between these characters lol, it’s so true

 No.2007

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>>1993
>>2002
The outfit in question. Rumiko just likes these. Apparently, she used to wear them to events here and there.



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 No.84[Reply]

Now THIS is a classic.
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 No.130

>>127
>male Ranma
Ridiculous. Akane is a lesbian, just like the person who created her.

 No.512

I feel sorry for Ukyuo :_:

 No.1999

>>84
Resurrecting this thread, after finishing UY earlier I’ve now decided to check this one out. Like the previous series I’ve known about this one for a very long time, much more so seeing the previews for this at the end of the Pokémon tapes I used to watch, it’s surprising I haven’t seen this earlier as well. I went through the first season relatively quickly but now that I’ve reached the nettohen episodes I’m taking my sweet time

 No.2001

>>512
She could have definitely used the childhood friend angle to try and win Ranma, but again, we barely get any backstories of hers and Ranma, because you know..

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>>512
Best girl got robbed because Rumiko didn't want her self-insert to lose again…



/lum/

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 No.1828[Reply]

They used to get naked a lot on these old shows!
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i don't like the madhouse art style. Think this is the only topless Ran scene.

 No.1976

>>1971
Dat neck

 No.2003




/lum/

 No.134[Reply]

Does anyone know about a particular deleted scene that was allegedly showed only in Japan theaters were Ataru was hit in the head with a mallet and had a dream where he was a old man. I can't find any leads on this.
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 No.1785

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The film was animated Open Matte, then cropped for theaters in Widescreen. We still don't have an HD open matte release.

 No.1868


>The burning sun was red and hugely bloated and shining. Thousands of spaceships fly through the sky.

>The last time it is about to come to the earth.
>The man was standing alone in the beach where the future city, which is now uninhabited, was seen far away. It was the figure of Ataru who became an old man.
>The man who talked to him was a pilot from an immigrant fleet who abandoned Mother Earth and set out for a far alien planet.
>The pilot encourages him to board a spaceship, but Ataru refuses to respond. He couldn't feel like leaving this star, where he used to spend time with a memorable person, and the one where that memorable person is sleeping.
>It is a memory of the nostalgic past. But then Ataru realized that he had spent a long time here and couldn't remember his name. Despaired and struck by despair. Cherry's words, "A fool !!", suddenly appeared.

 No.1873

>>1783

Am i crazy or is the bottom image severly cropped compared to the top?

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 No.2000

>>1873
>>1998
If you mean more extreme cropping than usual for widescreen? Yeah, they intentionally want to cut out Akemi's titties there.



/cel/

 No.536[Reply]

Have (you) read his works?
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 No.544

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Video's up on Nine!
https://youtu.be/ZvjghVlCazw

 No.545

>>536
I loved Touch and H2. I enjoyed Cross Game and Mix, but don't feel that they lived up to the legacy. Probably an unpopular opinion.

OP 4 of Touch always hits me RIGHT where it hurts. "Hitoribocchi no duet"... what a name, what an image. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zLHt0Yo6TZc

 No.3341

>>536
Even more than Rumiko I find his works samey, the first one you read or watch will be the best

 No.3460

>>537
I like Rough the most

 No.3475

>>3341
This is kind of how I feel. I read a collection of oneshots of his that Viz (? I think) released back in the day and it was fine, but the best one was the mystery of the cute psychic girl at the ski lodge and even a series of one shots was getting repetitive by the end.

Still, what he does do, he does well.



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Does /ar/ like mahou shoujo anime?
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Have any of you seen Miracle Girls? It's show about two twins who can communicate telepathically and and teleport. It's more shojo that magical girl, but I remember liking it alot. I saw it some years ago and remember laughing on the second episode when a plane gets hijacked by terrorists as part of a joke, thinking how they couldn't make a plot like that today.

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Have any of you seen Miracle Girls? It's show about two twins who can communicate telepathically and and teleport. It's more shojo that magical girl, but I remember liking it alot. I saw it some years ago and started laughing on the second episode when a plane gets hijacked by terrorists as part of a joke, thinking how they couldn't make a plot like that today.

 No.3469

uh…
i love CREAMY MAMI THE MAGICAL ANGEL!

 No.3472

I wasn't that sure about Creamy Mami at the start but some of the episodes were crazy and surreal, which I liked. I was going to jump into Persia but it's sub status isn't as clear and Creamy Mami kind of burned me out. I'm currently watching Nanoha Strikers.

I liked Nurse Angel Ririka a lot too and it's a shame it was apparently cut short. I'm interested in if the manga has any additional content (like the Tokimeki Tonight manga vs the anime) but based on the length, probably not.

The manga of Hime-chan no Ribbon is one of my favorite magical girl things. The anime is good too but doesn't have a good conclusion imo.

 No.3473

just came here to say that i was legitimately depressed when i reached the end of CCS



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 No.3295[Reply]

In response to >>1262 I'll make a brief post about why colors were so damned good in cel animation versus modern productions.

1. Paint

They're quite literally using real world paints on plastic cels to photograph so the colors are much better quality and more realistic.

2. Film stock

They were shot on 16mm or 35mm film, and film stock had strived for decade for rich strong colors and strong contrasts. Most television anime was shot in 16mm film, and 35mm used for theatrical films or television OPs.

Then they shifted to digital formats, and with them digital color spaces and palettes. More washed out, lacking contrast, overly bright, like there's a haze or some kind of bright light out. This is also an issue for live action productions.
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 No.3464

>>3448
Clamp had the resources from 11 successful manga projects and had done 3 other ovas before launching card captor sakura with almost 10+ years of industry connections. And considering they were also a group of relatively attractive women in a field dominated by lonely men… maybe they just made pretty girl faces at everyone to get good deals for their first big anime :o

Another aspect was that the 90s was the last good decade for the japanese economy. And Clamp made a ton of money during the 'good' times of the japanese economy and was able to dump an absurd amount of it into ccs. Not only that, but there were lots of experienced animation studios competing against one another due to the good economy being able to afford multiple studios existing so they were able to get 'more' for their money. Keep in mind, these were purely japanese studios with japanese employees whose profession was to make japanese anime.

Then japan slowly spiraled into a forever recession and lots of the older experienced studios shut down or consolidated. Companies started switching to digital cg to save money, and started outsourcing to south korea and china. It became harder and harder to get real japanese artists to work on real japanese anime and those that did remained in the field would often complain about long hours, low pay, and horrible deadlines which resulted in lower quality products.

 No.3465

>>3449
true!

 No.3467

>>3464
1997 was actually a bad year for Japan's economy. 1992 saw the economic bubble of the late 80s burst, and had already started causing a slow decline, and then 1997 saw the Asian financial market crash, which damaged Japan's economy even more. Even the mainstream Japanese music industry, which saw a boom when people could no longer afford houses and other big picture stuff, so would spend more on consumer goods, saw its peak right at 1998 when Sakura began to air.

NHK, Kodansha, and Sogo Vision funded Cardcaptor Sakura, not Clamp themselves. As a Kodansha manga serialized in Nakayoshi they would probably be the primary rights holders, and would be giving Clamp some royalties from any money made off of the franchise. Not that Clamp didn't have any say over how the anime went, but it's not like it was their project.

>Keep in mind, these were purely japanese studios with japanese employees whose profession was to make japanese anime.


Massive outsourcing to Asia for lower level jobs like inbetweening was already extremely common by then, Gundam Wing for example would start with layouts and rough key animation from a Japanese Studio (Dove) and then all the animation would be finished up over in Asia by their overseas subsidiaries.

>Then japan slowly spiraled into a forever recession and lots of the older experienced studios shut down or consolidated.


Like who? Sunrise, Toei, Tatsunoko, Pierrot, Deen, Ashi Pro, Madhouse, Gainax, Production IG, AIC, OLM etc, all the big established studios of the 90s persisted into the 2000s. It was more marginal studios like E&G that died out in the early 2000s.

The answer to why Cardcaptor Sakura looks as good as it does, is likely just because Madhouse gave it a good schedule and good staff. They also did X 1999 a few years earlier, which looks phenomenal as well.

 No.3468

>>3467
>Cont

Double checked.

>NHK, Kodansha, and Sogo Vision funded Cardcaptor Sakura, not Clamp themselves. As a Kodansha manga serialized in Nakayoshi they would probably be the primary rights holders, and would be giving Clamp some royalties from any money made off of the franchise. Not that Clamp didn't have any say over how the anime went, but it's not like it was their project.


Looks like Clamp actually did contribute costume designs and screenplays for the anime. Still, I'm not finding any evidence of them being on the production committee for it.

 No.3471

>>3464
A little off topic but kinda wanted to clarify a few things.
>Last good decade
The economy is still pretty high all things considered, not exactly bubble era tier but still in the top 5 GDP surprisingly.
>Outsourcing to other countries
That’s has been done since the 60s, the golden bat anime for instance had some work done in korea which is also why it had a following there but couldn’t say it was Japanese. Also sunrise did some stuff as well, not as much but then all those Korean bootleg knockoffs begin to make much more sense as to where they got the character designs from lol



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Don't think we've done a proper /vnt/ event yet, so for this month (running from April 3rd - May 3rd) we are doing a high score challenge for Touhou 6 (Embodiment of Scarlet Devil)!
If you don't have this game, it's pretty easy to find with google or nyaa. I recommend using an English patch.
Very simple to participate - just upload a replay (results screenshot is optional). Make sure the replay is the only file you upload or it won't be attached (will try and fix this soon) Be nice. Don't cheat.
I've played this game a few times over the past few years, but have finally started to try and get decent enough to 1CC (still only on easy with max lives and bombs). I'm sure at least a few of you can beat this with higher difficulties.
Top players will be immortalized on a soon to be added static page.
If someone feels like making OC (not reposting existing stuff) they might get on that page too. Get shooting!
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 No.87

>>86
It's a little bit of everything. Aside from the gameplay, music, art (despite people poking fun at it), cute girls, and being in the right place at the right time on 2000s internet, I think it grew because the world is as open-ended as it is. There isn't a cool plot or any defining climax, and at the end of every incident everything goes back to the status quo, but that's why it's so appealing. Gensokyo is a world, not like those made by modern worldbuilders who over-detail everything from the start without any purpose and think they're going to be the next Tolkien, but like Wind in the Willows: a place you can daydream of, between old and new, between fantasy and reality, and as whimsical as can be. What you see in the games and writings is just a portrait, a brief snapshot of that world, but the rest is on the other side. Artists and writers and even completely unskilled fans latched onto that so they could explore it.
Seeing picrel this morning helped me put it into words. They're on some whimsical errand in their old-fashioned motor car, and you can imagine what happens before, during, and after. At the end, everything turns out fine. I daydream a lot, so this is all a personal view, but I think Touhou is something stronger than fantasy: it's a fairy tale. That's what makes it different and special.

If you want to see a small part of how it grew, here's an oekaki board that goes back to before PCB was released. It's fun seeing people make art for characters as they come out. https://coolier.net/oekaki/191.htm

To keep it on-topic after all that, I'm working on my first lunatic no-bomb run and Remilia is a big jerk.

 No.88

>>85
your story is interesting to me
what did you think of Hotline Miami [2]?
>2 months later
lol if you actually read this

 No.1119

Hoo boy, The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil… My first contact with the actual Touhou experience back in December of 2021, when I had finally to take the dive. The first 1CCs came on January of 2022, on Normal; between April and July, I achieved all Hard 1CCs and Extra clears in that game. EoSD was fun to play.

This is absolutely not a scoring-focused run, but it is still my highest-scoring regular run through the game. Have some Hard ReimuB.
…or you would, if my file could be accepted. 'Unknown file extension', wapchan reports. Am I missing something?

 No.1120

>>1119
Honestly just forgot to add the extensions when I moved to vichan a while back since this thread was kinda dead. Here's a test file from https://maribelhearn.com/gensokyo

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>>1120
Much appreciated! Here's the replay file due for >>1119.



/djn/

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 No.1082[Reply]

It's that time of the month again /djn/!
Remember to say 'rabbit rabbit' as you wake up on the first day of a new month and you will be blessed with good luck!
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NEET NEET!

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I said my rabbit rabbits today.

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rabbit rabbit!

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rabbit rabbit

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bunny bunny



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 No.87[Reply]

This thread is for 00s anime/manga shoujo. Discuss and post what you're watching/your favorite series etc. etc.
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Not my usual genre but I'm reading Kitchen no Ohimesama at the moment. Enjoying it well enough so far. Mostly just in it for the baking aspect (although the art is very cute).

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Rewatching Princess Tutu, I loved it the first time around and wanted to experience it for a second time, though in all honesty I'm not ready to be sad again.

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right now I'm watching Idol Precure and Princession

 No.799

>>87
I was watching Futari wa but got distracted by watching VOTOMS. I love Nagisa.

 No.806

>>89 I remember this manga! I read it at the local library when I was much younger and remember it being pretty decent. Does it still hold up?



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 No.1985[Reply]

So is Lum like a genie or something and the whole thing is just an ironic wish? You catch the Oni, you get your wish granted? I'm not familliar enough with the actual children's game and the mythology of actual oni.


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 No.616[Reply]

Why does she consume large amounts of Tabasco? Is she retarded?

Also post food recipes that include lots of Tabasco within the dish, Lum would love it if you do.

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You posted this on /a/, didn't you? I respect the grind. Here's a recipe I found on the Tabasco website that seems worth exploring.

Santa Fe Western Omelet Tacos

Ingredients:
>TABASCO® Green Jalapeño Sauce (3 tablespoons)
>Vegetable oil for deep-frying
>5 (8-inch) corn tortillas, cut in half
>15 large eggs
>1/4 cup half-and-half
>10 tablespoons olive oil, divided
>1 cup diced smoked ham
>1 cup diced red bell peppers
>1 cup diced onion
>1 cup diced, seeded tomatoes
>1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
>1/2 cup sliced green onions

Preparation:
>Heat vegetable oil to 375°F in a deep fryer or skillet; add tortillas a few at a time and fry until golden brown. Drain on paper towels and keep warm.

>Combine eggs, half-and-half, and TABASCO® Green Sauce in a large bowl and beat until combined.

>Heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil in an 8-inch skillet over medium-high heat. Add 2 tablespoons each of ham, bell pepper, onion, and tomatoes and cook 1 minute; stir in 1/2 cup egg mixture. Cook until set, then flip.

>Sprinkle omelet with 2 tablespoons cheese and fold in half. Place one fried tortilla half on a plate and top with omelet; place another tortilla half on top. Repeat process with remaining ingredients. Serve omelets with sour cream and guacamole and sprinkle with green onions.

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>>617
>You posted this on /a/, didn't you?

I may or may not have done such a thing. Also thanks the recipe.

 No.620

>>618
*for the recipe

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She considers earth food edible, but finds it mostly bland so she needs a strong flavor like toabasco.

 No.1977

>>1897
I think she just likes vinegar



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 No.1855[Reply]

Expressions not meant to be absurd but look it when taken as stills.
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/lum/

 No.599[Reply]

So who would you rather date? Say you had a meeting with the truck and got isekai'd into a Rumic 2D paradise. Now you have a choice between these two ladies.

>EXHIBIT A. Lum
Perks? She's an alien princess of a mighty and powerful space empire. That's a big step up from your shitty earth bound existence. Not only are you never short of funds but she has a personal army and a UFO to boot. The downside is she will use these things against you if you upset her. She's not entirely used to earth customs, which can be an advantage and a disadvantage depending on your taste. she' also hawt as hell and not afraid to flaunt it. The downside is she appears to be some sort of sexual sadist who shows love by frying her darling with volts of electric. Her ability to fly and access to a UFO mean you'll never escape her. But I guess that's fine if your into masochism.

>EXHIBIT B. Shinobu
Cute, petite, and none of the alien stuff that make Lum so weird. She's not as good looking as either, a bit pasty and thin compared to Lum with breasts that'd make a lolicon drool. Cute over sexy. But Shinobu is confident, upstanding, intelligent, and usually clam. This makes her fairly reliable in serious situations that require the use of common sense and a functional human brain. Her earthly human family should be somewhat easier to deal with than Lum's. By far her worst drawback is her explosive temper and ability to throw around furniture like a pro wrestler. So much as glance at another girl and you'll risk a steel chair to the head.

So which will it be? Who do you choose? Is there someone else feeling left out?

Personally, I'd marry Lum for the political connections and make Shinobu my concubine, unless the Oni tolerate polygamy then she'll be our sweet co-wife as God intended.
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 No.623

>>621
There are definitely prettier boys in this anime. You should go for Mendou. He deserves it. The guy has a silver spoon up his ass so it will accommodate your chinpo nicely.

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>>623
mfw fucking mendou

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>>599
The original series premise is normal couple Shinobu and Ataru being accosted by "Urusei Yatsura" (obnoxious aliens), which then shifted to having Lum being more prominent but still as a foil for the couple. So the early stakes are how Ataru can reuinite with Shinobu. That's why the first OP is so heavy in focusing on this.

After that however, the series is retooled with Lum as the main heroine. Shinobu is now clearly not dating Ataru, but she's still in the series, often as one of the four main characters (with the addition of Mendo). Rumiko clearly doesn't want to ditch her, but she also doesn't know what to do with her.

Meanwhile if the anime for the first two seasons wants to fill time, they often give Shinobu or Mendo something to do. Shinobu has a lot of scenes where she's still scheming or seething at Lum, which is mostly gone in the manga.

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>>1925
So it's still weird to see the early series still play this up, and to see Shinobu even showing any damn interest in Ataru at all. She's still willing to make up with Ataru and is glad he's showing interest in her.

Later Shinobu is just another girl for Ataru to be leecherous towards, and then punish him with violence. There's almost no hints that they were going to get engaged.

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Also as written originally: the space babes are exotic and sexually provocative, while the Japanese Shinobu is chaste and demure. There is meant to be a big contrast between the two, while later the line is much more blurred. Shinobu gets more outfits and fan service and Lum becomes quite chaste and innocent herself.



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 No.668[Reply]

Are they really perfect for each other or is this a Stockholm syndrom situation?
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 No.1394

>>1337
> She's okay as a hero girl but they were clearly going for prime waifu that would capture the nerd boy hearts and it didn't quite happen.

With the amount of representation she got in all the anime magazines around the time, it most likely did happen. Noa is very likely based on Leona from Dominion Tank Police as well.

 No.1415

>>1345
>They spend the entire day together which functionally makes them closer than most couples. They wake up in the same room, get ready for school, then go to school, come back, eat dinner, hang out for a few hours, then go to sleep and repeat the cycle. Weekends they spend more time together. I don't care what you call that, that's basically marriage

Or incest

 No.1670

Many relationships in Takahashi's works are stockholm syndrome but Lum and Ataru aren't

 No.1929

Focus on the times when they are not bickering, and they get along extremely well. They literally go out on dates in matching outfits.

They get angry with each other when Ataru flirts with other girls. If you ignore that, they're a perfect couple with extremely high compatibility.

>>670
Boy meets girl is a shit ending, partially because the Inaba the Dream Maker storyline ALREADY is the end, and that should have been it. They get to see the various endings for each other, including Ataru's perfect ending of a harem and Lum has left him.

 No.1932

>>1398
>>1398
This is AI dogshit



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 No.1832[Reply]

She gets hurt the least in the entire series, so I want to catalogue all the incidents here.

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 No.1852

>>1832
best thread on wapchan

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/lum/

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 No.140[Reply]

Thread dedicated to the one and only Ryuu-chan.
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Good idea.

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>>159
Not every chapter got adapted and some of the ones that did got adjusted to be a bit less evocative of abuse, but all in all, I think they did fine with Ryunosuke.

I'm replying to a person from more than two years ago.

 No.1625

>>1622
>I'm replying to a person from more than two years ago.
Welcome to the altchan experience, lol.

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/cel/

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 No.2901[Reply]

Is it me or does the online lain fandom miss the entire point of the show? I'm pretty sure the message isn't that Lain is a cyber goddess or pushing some kind of tech gnosticism or accelerationist pseudo-philosophy.

The general themes seem to be on Japanese family breakdown, lonliness and atomization, and technology causing a hyperreal breakdown of the world. There's also the conspiracy history of the internet being invented by aliens but also theological stuff about the soul and religion too, which I'm guessing is just added on as a way to create artificial depth.
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 No.3430

>>3412
No. Lain isn't making a metaphysical claim about the nature of reality. Its really more of a sociological point. In the past, we drew a line between reality and the representational world of print media and when computers became a thing we drew a line between irl and cyberspace. But now everyone's connected and always using the internet, stuff happens online and moves into the meatspace so the line bertween irl and cyberspace has become really blurry. The vast amount of unfiltered information makes it hard to know what's true or false so we end up confused and misled. You see this happen to Lain. She gets wrapped up with a hacker group online run by Masami, but it just turns out that Masami is trying to get revenge on his former employer and he seems to be luring teens into suicide for the fun of it. The narrator tells us Masami is dead but how do you know that's true? He sounds like an authority figure, you know those voice overs in documentaries, but it could easily be fake. Maybe Masami is dead and one of his flunkies is using his persona over the wired?

The tone of SEL is very negative. You see a kid playing a computer game not realizing his mom is dead, the power lines and machines are always dark and scary looking, Lain's entire family is dysfunctional. Her father is addicted to his computer, her mother is cold and distant, her sister is living a double life having sex with older men, and Lain starts acting cruel towards Arisu for the thrill of it. There's hamfisted alien imagery that symbolizes how tech is like an invader colonizing our lives and conspiracies about human experiments. The show is mourning the loss of a more traditional Japan so its not accelarationist.

 No.3434

For the Oshii whining in some Lum circles, you'd think he didn't direct some of the best Lum action in the entire show.

 No.3455

>>2901
Like all things, tourists have ruined Lain.

 No.3458

>>3429
>>3426
thank you for your contribution.

 No.3459

>>3430
In a way, the themes are very similar to Videodrome.



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 No.1631[Reply]

Nuts to Lum. We need more ATARU and his zany hijinks. He has the energy of a Loony Tunes character.
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One track mind.



/djn/

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 No.964[Reply]

It feels like a huge waste to not use this site's wonderful property of posting videos with sound, so here is a touhou MAD/right version/YTP/whatever you call it thread! Or not necessarily touhou, I love them all.

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Agh, one of my favourites is too heavy, I'll cut it a bit later.

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 No.1085

What's the deal with thumbnails here I wonder? Site persistently ignores native ones and picks random frame instead apparently.



/lum/

 No.1790[Reply]

This movie's great, and extremely well directed. Let's talk about it.

 No.1791

The other poster, which is now more popular. I think Lum as the Oni-princess sells the premise better.

 No.1792

>Nihon Animation Eiga Poster’ book, 1987

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The movie is REALLY cool, but the script is messy and it probably would have worked better without the UY branding. It's quite artistic and cinematic, with a very unusual storyline and messy script so it completely alienates the UY fanbase, and people outside the fandom won't see it simply because they think they need to see the rest of the series, or the series doesn't interest them.

I think if it was called "Legend of the Oni Princess" it would probably have more discussion among mainstream film critics.



/digi/

 No.354[Reply]

Taking a shot in the dark here to see if anybody might be able to lead me in the right direction.
Im trying to find complete raw in any video format of the original broadcast version of the Hellsing TV anime. If you are not familiar with what that is the show originally had many scenes redone for what i guess was more "consistentcy" after it aired and for home release. This isnt about what is better just interested in something complete to watch.
I found a few random episodes here and there but not the whole show complete or unsubbed/dubbed.
Obviously some sub groups back in the day had them for their uploads but those groups are all dead and gone, nyaa doesnt seem to have it and all the resources i use to look for older stuff has dried up.
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 No.502

Bumping since im here.

 No.801

>>354
>>502
I don't know if this is much help. But there's this Youtuber called Johnny Joestar who worked on making remasters of some of Ishii's unreleased tracks for Hellsing (i.e. Golden Ball Heaven) and he even collaborated with Ishii to make some original tracks.
Anyhow a while back he did a comparison video of the old broadcast footage and the final version. And in a followup video he mentioned that the broadcast footage was on Japanese DVDs before the "Rescript" versions. And that a youtuber named Shockwave984
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3nvXEz2MXA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0X7bCwE9aE
However, unfortunately, some people in the comments mention that this DVD doesn't actually contain broadcast footage, and it only appears this way due to the fact that the promotional art of the DVD uses screencaps from the broadcast footage.
So unfortunately, the broadcast footage might be lost media. I definitely remember seeing the old footage used in some AMVs and it's how Johnny Joestar got a lot of his footage, but I don't know if we'll ever find the full uncut versions of every episode. You might have better luck with the Lost Media Wiki.

 No.802

>>801

Thanks for the reply.
As you can see in >>502 for the rescript releases they came out right after the series ended its initial broadcast run. This is the earliest release out of all the domestic and foreign releases of Hellsing TV.
However, they definately dont contain the broadcast version.
All the broadcast episodes i found on Veoh by dead fansubbers right before it died so if there was any more there its gone now.
Such a shame really.

 No.804

>>802
Then yeah, unfortunately it would seem that you'd have better luck going to the Lost Media Wiki and asking there given how good their track record is at finding stuff like this. There is a chance someone might have the episodes in their hard drive somewhere, I think it's the best/last shot for now.
Part of me wants to say that there's a chance that some obscure Hellsing fansite has it. But at the same time, I think Hellsing's popularity in the west only really got traction after the Rescript DVD already released, so that's the only thing that makes me think otherwise. But still worth a shot. Plus given we have documentation like AMVs and comparison images ( >>372 )
and whatnot, I think there's definitely SOME chance someone still has all the broadcast era episodes. I know it's pretty redundant to mention, but I think these are the only possible leads I can think of.
The other last (but unlikely) possibility is some of the foreign fansubs. Since I am fluent in Italian, I could also try looking into some Italian sites regarding the Knights fansub group mentioned before, but I doubt I'll find much. But I'll also try and see if I can find anything there, even if I think it'll probably be a dead-end.

 No.805

>>804

When i looked into it i believe soldats was the only group that fansubbed all 13 episodes. The eastern european groups i found episodes of had soldats on them so they subbed over their rips.
I believe knights only did the first one and stopped.



/djn/

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 No.161[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Hey wapchan.
/jp/ is trying to make a touhou visual novel, but they're having issues with coordination.
Someone floated the idea of using an altchan, so I'm here to see if anyone supports this idea.
Here's the original thread:
https://boards.4chan.org/jp/thread/48279006
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 No.443

>>442
I am the Koishi/Zanmu/Keiki anon. I will read the link you posted, so thank you for that. Hopefully I can say something more definitive in a few days. Good luck with the Marisa route btw.

 No.804

>>443
Any f/f in Zanmu?

 No.902

>>443
thanks, been desperately trying to finish what i've been writing since i obviously missed my self-imposed 21st deadline but i don't have too much farther to go now really. gotta keep telling myself that a little progress each day is better than none at all…
also, as many of you are surely aware of by now, 4/jp/ is back online though the VN thread over there was unfortunately unable to be bumped back up in time before all the fresh threads from today kicked it off the board. i've been wanting to rework some of the information i included in the starting posts for that thread a little anyways, plus we have this brand new board to call home here (thanks admins), so what i'll do is start up a fresh one sometime this weekend once i've gotten through what i'd like to for Day 4 and rework those informational posts to hopefully be just a little less dense.
best of luck to any anons out there just getting started with further contributions and i'll be looking forward to seeing you all again in the next /jp/ thread (though i'll obviously still be crossposting updates and such here as well)

 No.1050

>>902
alright, first off: https://files.catbox.moe/ijl3oe.txt

there's everything i've been wanting to do for Day 4. i've decided to make the good/bad ends following this day separate just for the sake of not creating too many endless walls of text at once, but that link does include both choice outcomes just like any other entry so far. it might be a bit unpolished and i'm unsure if i landed everything for 1.4.2 just as i originally intended but that's how i've been wanting it to play out.
i was wondering if i should take a proper break from this or not after wrapping up the acceptance/rejection dialogue, just to recuperate and maybe spend more time on my own things for a little while, but here's something that could be more immediate: should i even try and bring the thread back right away? i did intend on brining it back tonight at first but i think people are still settling after the site hack, activity on 4/jp/ just seems a little dampened. this could give more time for others to catch up here if i don't, giving us more to come back with for a new thread proper but there's been increased interest here either way. if anyone wants to speak up over this or not go ahead, i may just decide one way or another on my own anyways if there isn't much consensus and there could be more to discuss with the subject.

 No.1051

>>1050
whenever you make a new 4/jp/ thread it may be helpful to make one on kissu as well since they've got an active touhou userbase and not all of their users regularly browse here



/djn/

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 No.141[Reply]

/vnt/ stands for Visual Novel Thread, right?
This thread is to discuss visual novels.

Post:
>what you're reading
>what you're planning to read
>recs for those new to visual novels
>favorite works
>favorite characters
>fanart
>NVL vs ADV

Make sure to use spoiler tags!
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 No.150

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>>145
Check out vndb if you're really new to visual novels (set to rate by rating if it's not the default setting). It's an international visual novel database with all the info you might want.
https://vndb.org/v

>I decided to play through he Science Adventure series first

Aside from Steins;Gate and (questionably) Chaos;Head/Child), none of them are particularly good.
If you're looking for the crème de la crème, I'd recommend to follow a beginner's guide like picrel.
Essentials to read would be:
Clannad
Little Busters
Tsukihime
Fate/Stay Night
Steins;Gate
Higurashi
Umineko
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>>141
I started chaos;child recently but tbh I've been thinking about focusing more of my attention on summer pockets reflection blue instead because chaos;child is kindaaaa boring so far. I just hope it's a case of a very slow start or something

 No.757

>>151
Chaos;Head is indeed a slow start, wading through all the exposition pays off (:

 No.833

Any of you read Muramasa

 No.1042

>>833
I'm on the last two routes.

I really enjoy the story, but there are a few things that make it hard to finish.

It's EXTREMELY exposition heavy. But the story, as depressing as it can be, is fantastic



/lum/

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 No.1407[Reply]

We know Rumiko has an interest in mythology, and that Lum, Benten, and Oyuki, are clear parllels to real world mythological figures. Ran is the odd-one out and for 40 years fans have tried to figure out which specific mythological creature Ran actually is.

She has some kind of life-drain kiss so she's a Succubus? Is that the European variety or a Japanese one? No one's ever been able to pin her down exactly.

It's entirely possible Rumiko didn't think of anything specific so it's a red-herring.
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 No.1821

Ran is the famous mythological “street walker” of American urban mythology. These ladies of the night lurk on street corners, sucking the spunk out of men who pay them for this immoral service. They are said to spread disease and ill omen to the the towns they prowl at night.

 No.1826

UY wiki trying to parse it out.

 No.1839

>>1826
Seems about right
>>1821
lol

 No.1841

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>>1658
The 4 space babes stories are by far the least interesting. Even Ran is a downgrade in them. Ran works best paired with Ataru and scheming against lum.

 No.1843

>>1841
I found them hilarious and a personal highlight from my watch through, felt like classic slapstick at times.



/djn/

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 No.729[Reply]

Since this is taking off I may as well be the guy to start the endless discussion of my favorite brain worm

How is /umi/ going?
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 No.733

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Reporting in for my patron, Ms. Lady Lambdadelta, the Witch of Certainty

 No.734

>>732
07th mod or Umipro allow that (not sure about Umipro)

 No.735

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Why did he eat the letter?

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 No.1034

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>>730
Was expecting Rosa to pull out a gun and shoot them both.



/djn/

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 No.748[Reply]

A thread to post and share peculiar and unique touhou art you consider special or just pretty.

ZUN-style art is also welcome.
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 No.850

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I also found here some of the oldest 2hu fanarts ever done dating back to 2003. Can't decisively say they're the oldest fanarts because maybe there's some part of this universe where PC-98 era Touhou might've gotten some fanart yet to be discovered.

 No.851

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>>850
Nevermind, after digging around some more, I found even older 2hu fan content. First pic was made 8 days before the release of EoSD promoting its launch. You can check out this archived japanese fan page here: https://web.archive.org/web/20020803184126/http://nightlights.atarashi.com/zun/
This website also featured arrangements of the PC-98 game soundtracks, a really rare PC-98 era Touhou fan site.

There's also the second picture which I found at an archived Japanese imageboard thread dating back to August 24, 2002, if anyone is curious about it as well, you can read it here: https://web.archive.org/web/20021005182251fw_/http://merkmal-2nd.hp.infoseek.co.jp/allroom.html

Not really art related but on a sidenote, I also found an archive of this fan website that featured a MIDI arrangement of Shinki's theme song that was released in 2000 but made in 1999 https://web.archive.org/web/20001030145224/http://www2.plala.or.jp:80/joter/midi.htm

 No.853

I like these multi spread artworks

 No.993

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Lunatic Eyes!

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>>993
these hurt my brain



/djn/

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 No.780[Reply]

A cat has been spotted in /djn/. What do?
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CHEN!

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>>903
>>1005
I am legally obligated to watch these again.



/digi/

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 No.605[Reply]

A school full of gods and devils… which girl will u choose anon?

Post all content related to SHUFFLE! and its extended universe here. Including the 2004 anime adaptation, the original visual novel, the manga series, and the visual novels taking place in the same universe (Princess x Princess, SPIRAL!!, Really? Really!, Tick! Tack!, Ne~pon x Rai~pon).

Who's your shuffle waifu?
Have you played any of the VNs?
Favorite route?
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 No.722

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sia is the perfect wife..

 No.734

>>605
Anyone read it in Japanese? Is it easy?

 No.782

>>734
it was one of my first japanese vns actually, not too difficult i'd say! i'd recommend it

 No.798

>>722
Sia's route wasn't that interesting to me but I found her quite charming. Her and Kikyou were both pretty cute.



/lum/

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 No.1757[Reply]

These apparently come from here? Who made them and why? Why are there so many variants?

 No.1765

Think the admin made it. As for variants, I assume for gags.

 No.1823

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It is from this panel, right?

 No.1824

>>1823
Looks like you found it

 No.1825

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huh?



/cel/

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 No.3231[Reply]

Current /cel/ has too much nostalgia wank. Too little quality show discussion. Manga is also 100x bigger and more varied and has better quality controls than retro anime to boot! Posting is very stale for what should be the core of the site. It should be about new discoveries, new 16mm scans, preservation projects, new laserdisc scans! Let's use this thread to highlight projects in the retro anime scene. I'll start:

A fansub of an anime short included in a V-Jump Festival '95 Video VHS tape, themed around Dragon Quest and starring Slime was released a few weeks ago.
https://www.lonelychaser-subs.net/2025/04/v-jump-festival-95-video-slimes.html
https://nyaa.si/view/1956932
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The 16mm film stock used is just kinda grainy, and remember, it's used as a cost saving measure to begin with. They're supposed to be using 35mm film stock.

 No.3387

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>>3385
I think SM is an upscale rather than a new scan but it shows how bad these can get. I would muuuuch prefer to be whining about a few hairs than whatever this is.

 No.3391

>>3381
Bebop Laserdisc looks the same as the original released DVD just slightly less sharp so it's the usual but Bebop changes aren't really visual anyways even if Blu Ray is darker.
https://youtu.be/vK3G07zN6NA

 No.3392

>>3387
It is, the only HD direct scan SM has is the movies which are sadly only in 16:9 (played in theaters that way but it was animated and shown on Tav 4:3 so it's better) and fan upload of Sailor Stars op.
https://youtu.be/322WvZ3e2zs

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You can literally see white specs fly up during the scene.



/lum/

 No.805[Reply]

We are the last bastions of classical /lum/ culture, such as the emperors in Constantinople were after the west was overrun by barbarians (Ran spammer & nippleschizo). We owe it to our illustrious ancestors to create OC and spread /lum/ culture far and wide so that we may be able to recapture the magic of 2020!
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 No.1754

>>1749
Finally finished the last movie, and with that the franchise itself. Maybe I’ll take a look at the original manga stories but with that I’m now in the same boat as the rest of the fan base. Wonderful story and a new favorite series in general, I don’t think I’m ever gonna forget the first ending song, it’s already cemented in my mind as iconic.

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>>1754
A LOT of manga chapters never got adapted, as the anime ended about 2/3 of the way through the show, so there was only a trickle of important stories that got adapted into OVA or films. A lot of hte anime adaptions are also wildly different from the manga counterparts that they might as well be original episodes.

 No.1761

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But on the other hand: a lot of things get expanded upon. This is like a panel in the original and skating becomes one of Lum's "things" in the anime run but gets dropped once Studio Deen takes over.

 No.1762

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>>1761
Her hobby is jogging in the manga pretty consistently. This is Heian era Lum, but we see Lum jogging fairly frequently in random chapters.

 No.1766

>>1762
Yes, jogging becomes her "thing" in the Studio Deen era too. Most famously shown in the Lum the Forever opening credits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxALfpss9b0



/djn/

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 No.745[Reply]

You can post drawings here
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 No.846

>>845
Is that a challenge?

 No.848

>>846
im totally not asking you to draw her tiny jacket being ripped apart by her massive breast

 No.913

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>>848
Too bad

 No.961

>>913
…taoist tricks……..

 No.963

im keeping that as evidence for my taoist hate folder



/cel/

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 No.1947[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Let's have a thread for pre-2000s anime music that you enjoy a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MGQpJq5KVs
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 No.2786

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 No.3432

>>1947
I think that my favorite Anime soundtrack is probably Akira's. I love the prog, traditional, and ambient fusion that the soundtrack has. Geinoh Yamashirogumi's entire discography is fantastic as well. Akira's soundtrack essentially has two sibling albums as well. Ecophony Rinne and Ecophony Gaia. Rinne is my favorite ambient album. If anyone enjoyed Akira's soundtrack I highly recommend listening to these if you haven't done so already.
Akira sample: https://files.catbox.moe/hfrn06.flac
Rinne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvm2PUgP9_s
Gaia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS1wkJqU3G0

My second favorite is probably Turn A Gundam's soundtrack. I believe that it is by far Kanno's best. The soundtrack is nostalgic and refreshing. The mix of British folk sounds and wide open Coplandesque feeling pieces perfectly fit the show's Amerian setting.
https://files.catbox.moe/5lhndj.flac
https://files.catbox.moe/w6ef1x.flac
https://files.catbox.moe/jhgmla.flac

Honorable mention to Giant Robo's grand and sweeping score as well.
https://files.catbox.moe/f3h1x2.flac
https://files.catbox.moe/uzd37n.flac
https://files.catbox.moe/0opsov.flac
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/cel/

 No.3266[Reply]

This is a long one text post, so head's up:

Looking for a Mystery and-or Horror Anime that was on a T.V Anime Block (maybe be SyFy channel?*, or even Starz)

See, I watched on a anime on a TV block back around… I'd like to say around the 2010's, probably the mid-2010's at best guess.

I remember watching it around Halloween time as it appeared on either the Syfy channel or the Starz channel that was promoting "Mature"/"Adult" anime (blood, guts, nudity, etc) on either a limited anime focused block (to test the water or something) or of a pre-existing one 'just changed for the holiday season.

I've been trying to find this anime for years with no luck, but I do remember a few good chucks of the first episode that may help identify it; though again, it has been a good few years since 'so my memory is hazy on full details, and may have mixed or confused other details over the years .

The initial premise of the anime, if I recall correctly, was set in a high school where a fresh female teacher got a assigned to a new school 'specifically a class of trouble makers/perverts. Her colleague showing her the ropes is a buxom, blonde haired, sultry sexy type; with a red open long-sleeved blouse (or dress shirt) black mini-skirt[*?], garter sock stocking and heels.she has a very laid back attitude, with an aloof personality. given the school she works in is pretty bad (I think)

the new teacher is a glasses wearing, black haired 'braid (either a single braid ponytail, or braided twin-tails) a green jersey & matching sweatpants; which given to her by said colleague as protection, since as soon as she walking into the class a pair of male students are laying on the ground to take an up-skirt photo of her, which fails thanks to the track-suit given to her.her personality is quiet and a bit squirrel-ish, being a new teacher and all; the typical naive 'innocent heroine protagonist.

Her colleague steps in the class with her, where said students take an up-skirt photo of her instead 'which doesn't phase her, she teases the new teacher a bit & scolds the students while she introduces her to the class.
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 No.3375

>>3373
nope not that either, again 'the teacher was squirrel-ish 'being a new teacher and all; Like this show & manga though, fun time

 No.3401

>>3373
holy crackers this show is amazing

 No.3409

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>>3353
GTO artstyle and the "maggots that eat people and turn them into zombies" sounds like Tokko, which was broadcast on Syfy. But I don't think it has any characters or scenes like you describe in a high school, even if that scenario with the teachers sounds like something Fujisawa would write.

 No.3423

>>3401
It's fine honestly, nothing actually remarkable about it beyond the premise. I can barely remember it honestly, only a few jokes here and there.

 No.3424

>>3409
oh when I said "GTO" art style, I was mainly referring to it not having the typical "anime"; like I said, the folk looked pretty normal.

it why I also said "Golden Boy" as an example; sorry if I confused ya with my odd wordings



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 No.727[Reply]

Not sure if it needs a thread but it's not like we're overflowing with discussion here ;), still I recently started watching the original HxH anime from 1999. I have never actually watched/read any of HxH and all I know of it was that it's permanently on hiatus, that cat girl (or boy?) that everyone posts a lot and the designs of the MC's. I decided to give it a shot for no real reason and so far I've been enjoying it.

I've watched YYH last year and enjoyed that as well. I found Season 1 of YYH to be good, 2 to be great the first half of 3 to be fantastic and then it kinda falls off after Sensui is introduced which was a shame, but it's nice to know that Togashi hasn't lost it with HxH.

I will say the first couple of episodes were...fine, I'm still not entirely sure what the plot is. Sure, Gon is trying to find his father and that's the goal but the whole idea of Hunters just seem odd. The fact Gon and that other hunter in the first episode were seen hunting animals and Gon wants to become a hunter kind of makes you think Hunter's are animal hunters, but then they add several characters who don't really fit that niche at all which makes the term "Hunter" kind of confusing. I guess it's more like a catchall term for someone who is exceptional and reliable in everything and thus the guy you go to for troubles, like an official bounty hunter or mercenary.

Character wise, I enjoy them a lot.What surprises me the most about this show was that I expected Gon to be the main part of the whole show and everyone else to sort of be secondary characters who don't really interact with one another since it's about Gon and his story, but it's actually pretty cool to see Leorio and Kurapika be together a lot and see their histories and helping each other out and such. I also like how Gon and Killua have a really normal friendship. They basically act like kids their age would act if they were friends. Which is very surprising since I thought Killua would be very stoic and not want to be friends with Gon but he opened up pretty damn quickly to him. Hell their dynamic feels like the other way around. Killua should be the MC and Gon is the friend who helps him out of his shell, but it's not like that at all.

I'm currently on episode 27 and the final part of the Hunter exam. I found the first section (running) to be a bit lacklusterPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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Shameless shilling is shameless, but I have been operating an episode-by-episode 1999 Hunter x Hunter for a few months. Essentially I just slowly talk about each episode, what they do differently, and how they might contribute to 1999's overall alternative take on the material.
https://kurorosanime.tumblr.com/ (not a webmaster so blogposting is easier to do here)

I've made a few interesting discoveries while doing this- primarily in contrasting how Gon and Killua get characterized here in comparison to the manga, but also getting way more information on the alt ending that even more dedicated Japanese fans didn't know (entirely thanks to making a thread about it at the right time on 4/a/).

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>>3217
Interesting.

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>>3217
Based. Will read later.

 No.3318

>>3212
Nen is complicated to understand in both versions. But at least in 1999 you don't see a bunch of badly made censorship. Although the main reason why 1999's better is just the great amount of love put into every episode. Is a great ride from start to finish.

 No.3422

>>727
Its been years since I watched HxH 99. I've been meaning to do a rewatch one of these days since its a genuinely good show, adaptation, and directed by the great Kazuhiro Furuhashi.

Gonna reply to the points I find interesting so bear with me lol.
>who don't really fit that niche at all which makes the term "Hunter" kind of confusing
That is part of what maks HxH great. The title of "hunter" can mean anything and so allows Togashi to explore a variety of genres and settings. Hunters aren't constraint by expectations like other archetypes are like pirates or ninjas.
>and thus the guy you go to for troubles, like an official bounty hunter or mercenary.
That is one of many types of Hunters, yeah. In fact, I believe Togashi was partially inspired by the video game series Arc the Lad when it came to the conception of the manga since ideas and characters like Hunters, mode of transport and even Gon's father all look lifted straight out of Arc the Lad.
>What surprises me the most about this show was that I expected Gon to be the main part of the whole show
Yep, that is another great quality of HxH. The world isn't centered around the protagonist. Characters can and will interact heavily with each other and have a significant influence on the plot with or without Gon. He is only one kid after all. I also view Gon more like vehicle to see the world and characters from his perspective since I often find the seconary characters to be more interesting and better written. Not that its a bad thing, Gon is a very good shonen protagonist all things considered.
>and not want to be friends with Gon but he opened up pretty damn quickly to him.
The 1999 show actually somewhat changes their interaction. In the manga, it was Killua who introduces himself to Gon and seeks friendship since that is whole character early on, wanting to bond with others. Meanehile 1999 changes it to having Gon introducing himself to Killua. Its not really "bad" but I do prefer how the manga does it since lets Killua be more proactive.
>The fourth section (battleship) was also REALLY good,
Its basically an anime exclusive filler arc but a damn good one, especially since it gives the later phase more tension.
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 No.3418[Reply]

Does "Obscure Cel Anime" even exist anymore? I feel like I've seen everything.

 No.3419

>>3418
There's thousands upon thousands of tv specials, films, OVA, etc from 1970-2001. Unless you are very specifically obsessively collecting these rips and watching all of them then, no, it's not possible. There were so many thousands of OVA especially and most of them are forgotten about.

A lot never even got DVD releases since they are from companies that went under, or are obscure enough no one has cared enough.

Do you follow Lonelychaser, Kineko, Oprhan and others? Pretty much all of those are new to me.

I thought I knew the OVA era, but I had only seen the dozens of most notable. Truth is, most of these are pretty forgettable or cliche as well so you are not missing much. The big famous series all got DVD/BD releases, so everything else is the shit even Japan doesn't care about.

 No.3420

Idk, what's your reference frame for "obscure"? Because to the wider anime fandom, all but a few dozen titles from before 2000 are hella obscure. Uchuu Senkan Yamato ranks at #4304 most popular on MAL with 30K members, only a third of those listing it as completed. Most modern anime fans didn't know what Urusei Yatsura was before the remake.
If you're into cel anime, those are the most obvious shows in the world of course. But when was the last time you heard something about Skyers 5, Wakakusa no Charlotte, Rainbowman, Moeru Onii-san or Teki wa Kaizoku? There are a few hundred people outside of Japan who care about these titles. They're obscure, a niche within a niche within a niche. This is also reflected in how many titles remain untranslated. Having been available for decades but not having an English translation isn't exactly a sign of popularity.
And then there's the stuff that isn't even in the databases of course. People are still digging up new stuff with some regularity, be it educational anime, virtually unknown OVAs, weird local stuff, whatever. Oh, and the anime that's just lost. Most pre-1945 anime is lost forever, so those early cel works (a lot of the very early films are from before cels became standard) are forever obscured.

So yeah, most of cel anime is obscure. And even if you're in the know, there's still more obscure titles to dig into.

 No.3421

>>3420
If they haven't bothered with a modern DVD/BD release, it's probably obscure. Though there's a slow steady trickle of new BD releases of old series.

Did anyone give a shit about Kentauros no Densetsu? It's not offensive, but it's not very good either and the art and animation are ho-hum. This is very typical of these obscure OVA/Film from this era. One thing I do appreciate though, is that the subject matter seems way more varied. Oh yeah, manga about bikers and turn that into an animated film about bikers. Would anything like this get made at all? I strongly get the vibe that this was meant to be a live action film from the way the script is written and how it's directed. Probably couldn't secure funding, so a cheap animated film was made.

https://myanimelist.net/anime/17339/Kentauros_no_Densetsu



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 No.147[Reply]

Post underrated 2000s kino right now!
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 No.730

>>724
What the fuck are you talking about? Shows dealing with cyberpunk aesthetics and postmodernist malaise are by necessity going to be in conversation with Western ways of doing things. Their source material is overwhelmingly Western.

There was no conspiracy to shit up the cozy wap schema you have of Japan; the Y2K era had a strain of creators who were critical of the modern condition all around the world.

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>>730
im sorry.

 No.794

>>724
I strongly doubt it. Especially since there was a lot of dark stuff in the 80s with hyper violent OVAs that was reviled by a lot of westerners, especially internet critics of the 2000s. Hell look at Genocyber which was peak nihilism and postmodern critique. The same guy that did Genocyber went on to do the plot of FMA 2003 which was more nihilistic than the source material.
I think it's less to do with western influence and more a sub-sect of that Japanese generation at the time that grew disillusioned, I am not that good at Japanese Cold War history, but part of me thinks it has to do with all the wacky shit that was going on in the 60s-70s with those extreme leftist groups that were taking over schools and causing literal sieges (I think there was even one that was a literal self-hating anti-Japanese group?).
Also post-modern critique in Japan is nothing really new. So I don't really believe that either. It just so happens it more easily appeals to western tastes because westerners are a lot more cynical.

>>730
I wouldn't be so harsh, he heard it from another anon so I strongly doubt it's his own beliefs. But I can see why it would be easy to jump to that conclusion if you only looked at it superficially. If you look deeper it doesn't really add up that much honestly.

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>>199
>It's as if Gonzo wanted to atone for how much they butchered Hellsing by taking a similar IP
Nah take that back. Hellsing 2001 was great.
I get it wasn't faithful, but I just found out more interesting than Hirano's original version (I like the tone, characters, writing, style and music more). Hirano's original manga felt too rushed since Hirano was just too lazy to actually write the damn story, which is part of the reason why the anime was mostly original instead of faithful.
I wish Hirano had more of an attitude like Arakawa when it came to unfaithful adaptations, I would've liked Hellsing 2001 to run for a bit longer before then having Ultimate come out much later so Hirano could've taken more time to actually finish the manga instead of rushing it in such a weird way. But nah, Hirano threw a hissy fit about 2001 and probably got any continuation shit-canned.

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Since Ergo Proxy is being talked about, here is an old interview with the director.



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 No.565[Reply]

Since you're all here it seems like it's a good time to ask, which is your favorite?
>Hidamari
>Geijutsuka
>Sketchbook

Or, since Hidamari is the most popular by far, let's give some love to the other two. Sketchbook's adaptation is the most relaxing of the bunch IMO, especially this time of year.
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>>610
I can understand finding the Sketchbook manga insufferable. It's largely anti-humor, but I like it because of that. The Hidarmari Sketch manga should be ending soon in terms of chapter count but it's been 9 months since the last chapter so that slows things down a lot.

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Watching Hidamari in the middle of the night was the only way I could fall asleep while sick. This series is a gift from heaven.
>>610
Interesting, Hoshimitsu is my favorite season and the one I rewatch most often. I never finished Honeycomb cause I don't want it to end.

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>>565
It's nice to have a situation where the most popular one is the best as well.
For Sketchbook I recall it being decent but all the cat parts being shit. For GA for reasons I can't recall it's one of my least favourite Kirara anime. I really don't know what it did wrong to make me consider it Aldnoah tier but aside from remembering a surrealist episode being decent I don't remember anything else so have to defer to a list I made 6 years ago.

For extra art girl anime if I count New Game and Stella no Mahou they'd only be behind Hidamari. If I include mangaka and potters a few extra series would join them.

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Cute Kuga

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>>792
Ooba is best girl



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just learned about this place
let's start lumposting!
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>>1659
Ran-chan got Lum's awful traits.

 No.1668

>>1661
I get the Ranposters now

I don't like it, but I get them

 No.1713

>>1668
>>1668
It's not genius writing: if Lum becomes too nice the story lacks conflict now. So they introduce Kurama who is closer to what Lum was originally going to be, then Sakura and Ran.

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>>1713
This is why I headcanon Lum as being actually competent and a bitch like in the real early episodes, because the idea that she A) can cause trouble and B) can get out of trouble lines up with how she's portrayed at times.

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>>1714
The story and setting got re-written since they didn't have a plan and just responded to what worked and what fans seemed to like. The early premise seems to be Ataru and Shinobu (remember her?) being accosted by Urusei Yatsura on a weekly basis when they just want to get on with their lives and get married. Lum was just going to be a recurring harlot who is trying to break them up because she wrongly thinks that Ataru is engaged to her. Then the story was retooled to be about Lum and Ataru being together with Shinobu as the side character.

Then it was retooled AGAIN to focus mostly on Tomobiki high school - making it the prototypical high school anime. Characters like Sakura, Mendo, or Ryunosuuke have nothing to do with the original premise, but they end up taking a majority of screen time once they're introduced.

Rumiko's later works were more planned out with a more consistent premise because she and her team had more experience in what fans wanted. If they knew how the series would play out, UY would probably be a supernatural series with no aliens centered on the high school and town from the get go. Other than electricity and flying around, the fact Lum is an alien is irrelevant for 75% of later UY stories. Could have easily made her and the Oni come from subspace to begin with.



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 No.863[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Alright, it is Wednesday and I am gonna post the first volume of Rin-ne. Feel free to react or comment on any panel, though I appreciate if image replies are not used during the dump. Feel free to discuss anything related to Rin-ne after the dump.

Rin-ne is Rumiko Takahashi's return to comedy after Inuyasha. Rin-ne is VIZ's localized title, presumably chosen to assist in pronunciation. The original title is 境界のRINNE (Kyokai/Kyoukai no Rinne) which means Rinne of the Boundary. While it is not a megahit like some of her other huge series, I highly recommend it to fans of Ranma 1/2 and Urusei Yatsura though it is obviously different.

I will be using scans of the official VIZ localization. Be aware that some of the larger images may have been edited to be lower quality due to image size limits.

In addition, I will be dumping the one short story by Rumiko Takahashi and Mitsuru Ikegami that came out around this time called "My Sweet Sunday". Today, the scans I have of the one shot are the official VIZ ones.
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>>1699
It wasn't the boyfriend being bad news.

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>>1700
Would you look at that.

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>>1701
End! All's well that ends well. I like this story, though I feel there could've been a bit more to it. It does touch upon how difficult it is to give advice and help people but it also shows that it is easy to misunderstand other people's situations. As such, I can't help but want a bit more from it. But life doesn't have an easy moral, I guess. Let me know what you thought of this one.

As mentioned before, I'll be back next WEDNESDAY with Volume 4 of Rin-ne.

 No.1716

Well, 4chan is back up. I hope you guys enjoyed reading Rin-ne on /lum/. I did enjoy posting it, but I'll admit, posting on both /a/ and here would take a lot of time and while I appreciate all of you who read it here, I think there will be more people reading on /a/.

I will be returning on /a/ on 4chan next Wednesday with Volume 1 of Rin-ne (reposting what I've posted here).

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>>1716
thanks for stopping by



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 No.569[Reply]

Last series I read was Billy Bat, looking for something new to read
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 No.728

Whoops, one of those is not post-2000, but the recc still stands! All of Matsumoto Leiji's works, really.

 No.729

test

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>>569
Kouya ni Kemono Doukokusu.
it's about a genespliced super soldier fighting furries.
it's got a monke lady and a multibreasted tiger lady.
Dorohedoro.
it's about a lizard guy fighting wizards.
it's got a muscle lady and a brain damaged goth girl.

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 No.705[Reply]

Inspired by the /cel/ thread
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>>705
Kanata OP made me trust this was going to be a good thread.
You let me down, OP.

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/digi/

 No.783[Reply]

I don't know everything, I only know what I know.

 No.784

MODS!

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>>783
i actually kinda liked this one, alas it must perish like the rest of them…



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 No.739[Reply]

Kanashimi No Belladonna (1973) is a masterpiece of tragic/erotic/psychedelic animation directed by Eiichi Yamamoto. Jeanne is a peasant who gets raped by a noble and becomes a witch; based on/inspired by La Sorcière by Jules Michelet, a treatise in the history of witchcraft. Noted for its experimental artstyle, bizarre visuals and its connection to Western classical art works like Klimt and the cubist movement, it's a unique piece of art with a moving narrative and breathtaking moments on screen.
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>>747
Char's Counterattack (1988) by Yoshiyuki Tomino is the culmination of the original Gundam saga which began with 0079, marking the final conflict of the fourteen-year rivalry between the characters Amuro Ray and Char Aznable.

 No.770

>>761
What's really interesting to me is that the Red Spectacles is sort of filmed like an anime in live action. Movement is deliberately limited, the backgrounds are flat, camera tricks are anime-style... It's pretty neat.

 No.3389

some of these are boring though.

 No.3393

>>739
Shoujo Tsubaki (1992) by Hiroshi Harada, bad online discourse aside, it's a unique film that's rare in anime and is tapping into Japanese underground and wears its influences on its sleeves like Shūji Terayama films, Japanese theater, 1900's art, etc. It's ashamed the movie (and manga) are reduce to just shock content when it's much more than that while it meant to be shocking to the viewer in a exploitation way, it's still has themes and direction that make it above just an exploitation film.

 No.3400

>>760
And old opinion I came across was that for the second movie it’s an amazing animated spectacle but a terrible lupin movie, haven’t seen it yet myself but have watched mystery of mamo



/digi/

 No.218[Reply]

What are your favorite comedy anime from this era?
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Do romcoms count? I've been really enjoying my rewatch of Haganai & Haganai Next.

 No.776

>>218
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is my favorite comedy anime, period.
Gintama and Grand Blue are also pretty good.

 No.777

>>776
>see you in 8 years
>the mad man actually did it

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It's not exactly a niche pick, but Konosuba does make me laugh.

 No.781

I recently finally got around to watching Seto no Hanayome, and it was a damn good watch. And the obligatory Lucky Star mention.



/cel/

 No.315[Reply]

Self explanatory. It's fine if characters are featured, but try chose shots focused on the background.

I'll start with some from Tokimeki Tonight.
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I don't know if the second counts.

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Oh nice, I was gonna make a new thread for these. Yes, Masion hsa some nice backgrounds.



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 No.1109[Reply]

Anyone here collect anime cels? Or dougas/gengas? My collection is pretty small so far, pic related is my cel and douga of Yuumura Kirika from Noir.

I'm actually looking for a good UV-blocking frame for it, anyone know of a good one that's about the needed size? (my douga measured to be about 10.5x9.5 so I'm guessing the cel is about the same)
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Not a collector myself, but I did (vaguely) recently get to see some on museum display

 No.3374

>>2794
I really want to get some Plastic Little cels with boobs in them but there’s one german autist that buys them all lol.

 No.3376

>>3374

I know the one you mean, heh.

 No.3379

I don't own any cell but I think cool lot of the old website that sell them are still up.
>>2620
>>2630
It's funny on eBay I've seen fake cells of modern shows, I guess it's a novelty thing.

 No.3380

>>3379

Most of that seems to be purely promotional and not intended to be deceptive.



/digi/

 No.738[Reply]

Sachiroku Sachi’s Records Sachi’s Book of Revelation 48 (END)
Chapter 48 (End) Finale
https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/titles/100256
The final chapter, get comfy, say your goodbyes, and wish Chanta well for his next series
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Goodbye Sachi

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>>771
The End

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Aaaaand I just realized I renamed all the files to chapter 35 instead of chapter 48

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/digi/

 No.528[Reply]

You don't mind if I post here a bit? I don't mean to stick to any specific topic, but I feel like I need to write my thoughts down somewhere and here just looks to be good enough?

This scene caused me goose bumps!
So cute!
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Is this the new /a/?

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>>528
Otherside Picnic was decent but felt a bit directionless for the most part. I think it would've been better had it just been an adventure of the two girls traversing the zone throughout with no link to Japan and back.. Still, the escape theme from that show was a banger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uwD9Z53cKs

 No.767

Sell me on this programme



/cel/

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 No.2695[Reply]

City Hunter is the greatest anime of all time. Unknown to both waps and normies, it is only for patricians. It also has the greatest soundtrack of any anime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r107W1YXrSM
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>>3204
>discotek
I havent downloaded any anime in years, where can i watch this show?all the sites i knew from a decade ago have been purged or 404'd.

 No.3223

>>3222
>where can i watch this show?
all of it should be up on nyaa.si

 No.3224

>>3223
Thanks anon,i know i may sound like a retard but the last time i watched anime, i would just go to animetake and it pretty much had everything.

 No.3377

>>3170
>City Hunter 3's OP has her doing shit I'd LOVE to see her do in the show
Yeah, that great intro really set up something that never happened. Kind of odd how different it is from the other intros, with its narrative.

Although I don't agree that Kaori should've been using her hammer in actual fights. It belongs to the comedic sections of City Hunter, which are sharply, and loveably, divided from the serious ones. I think I can vaguely remember her trying to use it once and immediately gets dommed by a criminal, as a kind of meta joke about the hammer not actually being real. It also fits in with the hyper-masculinised men and hyper-feminised women of the 80s aesthetic. Kaori is the frail, innocent woman that needs to be saved by the strong, heroic man. In commercial American tv and film from the era this may have been vulgar and shallow, but it works in City Hunter.

>the less said about the amount of children/teens that fall for him the better. While those were some pretty funny jokes of desperately trying to not seem like a pedo, it felt like it happened WAYYYYY too often.

I think the same reason City Hunter could happily include gay people and transvestites was the same reason it could show Ryo lusting after teenage girls. It is completely without an agenda and is simply motivated by Hojo's objectivity and desire to create an entertaining world. Sometimes he uses the ridiculously masculine traits of transvestites for comic relief, another times he uses the passableness of a transvestite for comedic relief. I didn't see anything wrong with the many teen romance subplots; it is typical of Japanese culture and Ryo always ends up running away from them anyway.

 No.3378

>>3377
Yeah that's fair about Kaori. I was just trying to spitball some ideas here to make her more than what she is. She's a terrible shot with a gun from what I recall and the few times she does try and do things by herself other people have to help her and it's a real shame she can't have some moments to shine. Even a bit of luck could take her a long way with a few clients and that's pretty much all I wanted for her where she can handle herself but obviously gets overwhelmed and requires Ryo's help in the end especially near the end of the series.

As for the lolicon angle, I actually quite enjoyed those jokes. They were always pretty funny since everyone can understand *not* wanting to seem like a pedo and it's made even worse by the fact it's always the kids/teens initiating it and Ryo desperately trying to remedy the situation.

I also did find the use of gay and trans people to be surprising as well. Ryo frequents gay bars, dresses as a woman in a few episodes and jokingly convinces other people Kaori is a man much to her displeasure. It feels both progressive and mocking but I honestly liked that aspect of it. You never really knew what kind of angle each episode would take and it was always pretty funny.



/lum/

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 No.1101[Reply]

Requesting Lum pics and gifs
Especially a gif of Lum sleeping that I thought I had but don't seem to be able to find.
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 No.1311

>>1196
if you dont know for sure you should rewatch the whole thing.

 No.1365

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A lot of people whined about Beautiful Dreamer having reduced Lum focus, but the plus side is that almost every single scene of her is gold. Even this little smile is perfect.

 No.1414

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The smoothness on this is pretty unreal.

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Beautiful Dreamer is best Lum. It has some great sequences with her flying around and takes her "magical" nature seriously.



/digi/

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 No.664[Reply]

Quite an underrated show, lots of nice drawings with thick lines

 No.678

>>664
What's this anime all about?

 No.679

>>678
Gals that are super, if I had to guess.

 No.688

>>678
Shoujo manga adaptation about gals and their two male friends and the main character's family. The main character is from a family of police officers so she has a strong sense of justice and helps the character of the day. Very funny show with good colors

 No.733

It's cool seeing a work about Gals from a shoujo perspective.



/digi/

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 No.621[Reply]

えっちなのはいけないと思います!

 No.623

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Dirty thoughts about Mahoro…

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 No.732

>>621
I always liked the "Dirty thoughts are no good!" translation.

>>623
Stick it in her pooper



/tower/

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 No.212[Reply]

Share videos you find interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzRveOGMflo (STAR WARS Audience Reaction 1977 (AUDIO with VIDEO))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCox8wIHBlk (Avengers Endgame ULTIMATE Audience Reactions (THE REAL VERSION))
I think it's interesting to see how much less annoying the audience reaction was for Star Wars. At first when I saw the Star Wars one I thought "wow, even back then the audience couldn't shut the hell up" but then I remembered watching Avengers Endgame in theaters and how the audience burst out with applause every time they saw someone enter the frame. I think that the SW one is a lot more appropriate seeing as the only parts worth putting in the video were actually important points and they stopped pretty much right when they needed to. It's not excessive so I don't think it's wrong for them to enjoy themselves. As opposed to the Avengers audience where all they needed was for Robert Downey Jr to walk on screen and they'd have a fucking meltdown. I guess that's what the movie was meant for so I shouldn't blame them, since they're only cattle responding as they're trained to, but it's still annoying.
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 No.297

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Not a fan of those "history for retards" videos with cartoons but I found this one (there's three or four actually) about Yi Sun-sin quite nice, you can't say reading the wikipedia page is too much better.
I don't know about the rest of the channel yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ieaDfD_h6s

 No.298

Internet archive has some really good stuff on it, here's the first 17 seasons of the show "How it's Made". It's a nice documentary series where you get to see how raw materials are processed into various goods. Outside of the first season or so, there's practically nothing but footage of the job being done and a voice over.

https://archive.org/details/HowItsMadeDiscoveryScienceChannelSeasons117Complete/

 No.300

>>298
One of the best things about How It's Made is finding out how interesting the production of some items are. I wouldn't go out of my way to ever find out how any of these products are made but for some reason I am captivated by the production process during the show.

 No.454

A video that attempts to chronologically present the distress transmissions of the HMS Titanic and other involved ships during the incident. Some ships appear to immediately grasp the situation and turn to action (Olympic, Mount Temple and Carpathia, for example), while others appear quite hesitant or are outright unresponsive (Frankfurt and Californian) . The degrading situation aboard the sinking ship also shows through its comms, most near the end being a variation of CQD CQD SOS SOS COME AT ONCE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxRN2nP_9dA

 No.2570

Tetris: From Russia with Love (TV Documentary). I actually watched this documentary with my dad on my tv, when I was a teenager. It's tell the story of Tetris, to it's creation to the legal troubles.



/tower/

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 No.1252[Reply]

Anything to break up the monotony of NEETing

>B-ok
Online library, very extensive: https://b-ok.org/
>Project Gutenberg
Online library for books that have had copyright expire: https://www.gutenberg.org/
>Classic Reload
Loads of old and retro games online for free: https://classicreload.com/
>Retro Games
Covers games not already covered by classic reload: https://www.retrogames.cc/
>DOS games
Moderate selection of DOS games online: https://js-dos.com/games/
>FMovies
Watch movies and TV series online for free: https://fmovies.wtf/
>Read Comic Online
Pretty obvious: https://readcomiconline.to/
>The Eye
An archive of random stuff - check out the rom section for vidya stuff. Download anything you like asap as The Eye is notorious for having the roms disappear because of copyright claims: http://the-eye.eu/public/
>Creamy's List of Imageboards
Big list of image and text boards, some outdated and dead links but still interesting to flick through: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t10VI-sccy1CfAeMZHwmCS_7agIHFo_B5ipMjzsMtTg/edit
>Tank Encyclopedia
Self-explanatory: https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/
>Anime Character Database
Search for characters by hair color, eye color, hair length, age, gender and animal ears: http://www.animecharactersdatabase.com/
>Dead 2 RightsPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.2239

>>2232
If they're dead, it's easier to keep track of them.
>>2234
The real work is in integrating them into your mental schema.

 No.2409


 No.2444

These are the last sites I saved. Hope someone will find them useful or interesting.
A web version of MS Paint:
https://paint.js.org/
Some acient website about philosophy:
https://friesian.com/
A guide on how to set up your own website:
https://landchad.net/
A website dedicated to the manga Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō:
https://alpha.cafe/
A TV simulator of the 2000s:
https://www.my00stv.com/
A search engine for old sites:
https://wiby.me/

 No.2568

Site that catalogs every soda machine seen in a game:
https://vgsmproject.com/

 No.2569

Site that catalogs every soda machine seen in a game:
https://vgsmproject.com/



/cel/

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 No.2855[Reply]

Isn't the whole point of this site about retro anime? Y'all need to start posting more retro anime!

 No.2856

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>>2855

Ive been busy.

 No.3126

>>3125
Nigga doesn't know about the glory of Precure.

 No.3127

>>2855
Well, I'm watching fancy Lala. it starts off a bit weak, but begins to channel what was so good about the '80s Pierrot Mahou Shoujo shows as it goes on: that dreamy kind of surreal take on magic and allowing it to interact with believable slice of life scenarios, and like Creamy Mammy it has the idol element front and center.Occasionally the animation and storyboarding gets quite strong as well , It's not really on the level of the '80s shows, but it's not unsatisfying that regard.

What about you, anon?

 No.3366

>>2855
Irony of this thread now.

 No.3367

>>3366
Much irony
Damn, I only have nu-anime screencaps and images, so I can't even post a relevant image. What a shame!



/lum/

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 No.789[Reply]

starting a new longform series of threads on here twitter & bluesky, figured I'd bring them here as well to spur discussion.
why? mostly because i haven't actually read the manga since i did a storytime on /a/ back in 2021, and there's a lot to see from rumiko's first.
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 No.1353

>>1350
And of course being a comedy series: Ran is just really really funny. Ryunosuke is funny. Benten and Oyuki just aren't very funny. Simple as that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdoujeC0lqw

 No.1354

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Frienimies.

 No.1396

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>>1352
Ran is great because she's actually involved in Tomobiki, while Benten and Oyuki are like actual "aliens" who pop down and then leave. They're disconnected.

>>1336
Based on this art, Benten and Oyuki would be at separate schools which I think would have fit quite nicely and effectively change nothing about the story or plot.

 No.1405

>>1396
So what if they're disconnected? I still like them a lot.

 No.1411

>>1405
It's effectively a new manga series when they show up, and it's just NOT that interesting. They can't really propell the storyline very well and at most they're just disconnected stories and objects for Mendo and Ataru to gawk at. Ran can start any number of shenanigans - like accidentally poisoning Ataru and Lum thinks he's gonna die so she has to go on an adventure to save him. Or Ran creates some mayhem that gets them all sent to detention. Ran gets taken on a date by Ryunosuke.

Actually Benten's BEST was the anime only ep and the manga chapter where she palled around with Ryunosuke.



/digi/

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 No.216[Reply]

Can't have a 2000s board without the goddess of the decade
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>>453
seeing how nagato is LITERALLY a robot you actually could marry her if you bought a sexdoll and put a raspberry pi or roomba inside it

 No.513

Haruhi is a scam. God bless Mikuru chan! MIKURU BEAAAAAAAAAAAM

 No.574

>>272
I'm out of time

 No.717

>>273
>lets down load an entire episode of evangelion in real media format, its like 10 mb max with hardsubs

it took me 10 years to find out shinji was jerking off to asuka's comatose body. i thought it was just too deep for me and shinji was just staring at his hand for no reason because the quality was so low.

 No.720

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/lum/

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 No.661[Reply]

Who would have won there?
>votes only
>with the final contest
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 No.744

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>>661
Probably Ryuu, assuming there are more girls than boys in Tomobiki high.
My vote is for Shinobu, of course.

 No.776

Lum and it's not even close

 No.777

>>661
Close race between Lum and Ryuu split by gender, with a few token votes going to the other girls.

 No.1343

>>665
Tomobiki students have no idea that Ran is a psycho-bitch and she keeps up a pretty face in public. She is supposed to be psychologically damaged and holds a grudge against Lum, rather than being actually evil. So she's mostly normal, but then goes on her murder plans when Lum and Ataru are involved. So for them they're just attracted to her cutesy persona.

Ryu-chan also only sees the cutesy side. I don't think Ran and Ryu were ever in an adventure together with the gang, it was always one or the other.

 No.1395

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Did they cut the ep short so they could avoid Ran's lesbian kiss shenanigans? It's almost never used in the manga, but she has a soul drain kiss ability.



/cel/

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 No.2813[Reply]

Cowboy Bebop is boring. Outlaw Star has cute girls, Taoist magic, and intergalactic space temples and better action scenes. Yet we we're deprived of a sequel! Why do people even like Cowboy Bebop so much? Its not even that good! Well okay that's just annoyingly contrarian, its a good show just not as great at the hype train makes it out to be.

Legend of the Galactic Heroes is also overrated. The battle scenes are absurd. How can one man command so many vessels? It makes no sense. The average admiral can't even command one battle group properly but in LOTGH they can command hundreds of ships at once? No communications breakdown? Its like playing a crappy Paradox strategy game, having billion units, and realizing your brain doesn't have the mental processing power to manage them all but somehow they can do it. The story is Star Wars level Evil Nazi Coded Empire vs Space America. Its like choosing between slitting your throat or jumping into a fire.

Serial Experiments Lain is a great show but why isn't there more love for Texhnolyze?

Evengelion is good but overrated. Everybody knows this already. People are just mad at how popular it is.
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 No.3352

>>3347
bepop was constantly promoted, and shown more often. outlaw star was ran then disapeared. in toonami adverts you might see little cuts from outlaw star scenes that looked cool but nothing that actuall indicated which show it was from if you werent familiar with it. But everyone knew bebop because they never let you forget about it.

 No.3356

>>3351
>Simarily this is why the show wasn't very popular in japan

It's TV ratings in Japan were actually quite good.

"Between them, late night slots and WOWOW accounted for half of the ten 10k+ hits from that same 1997-2000 time period; Brain Powerd, Cowboy Bebop, Hand Maid May, Initial D, and To Heart."

https://animetics.net/2014/09/29/timeslot-history-1994-2000-wrapup/

 No.3358

>>3356
Well that's certainly true from a by view basis but I mean over all. For example, bebop ultimately got 1 series, 1 movie, 3 volumes and then done if I am not mistaken. The show wasn't really popular enough to push the series forward to more success. It was a novelty that people moved on from. Compare that to to-heart. Directly after the tv show, a manga was spawned and ultimately the series got a 2nd game. Now compare that to the beast that is Initial D. Initial D is still making new content, and currently is at like 5 tv series, 2 ovas, 8 movies, and 48 volumes of manga.

 No.3360

>>3358
Right, but most anime in general weren't large franchises like that, and there is more to the calculus when it comes to sequels than just popularity, like the consumer habits of the fanbase. Niche shows with a fanbase that will buy lots of merch can make up the difference, for example. Initial D and To Heart are also adaptations of other media, where Bebop is an original, so fairly different context.

 No.3363

>>3348
I don't really see how Cowboy Bebop characters are "deeper" than Outlaw Star. Just because one has all this melancholic jazzy aura doesn't mean is deeper. Outlaw Star is stronger in its vitalistic themes that just parading around navel gazing about whatever ghost of the past. And I think its themes resonate better through the power of will and lifting yourself up.

>>3352
Yeah, that sounds more plausible. Gene is a hyper-masculine character, he fights, he grabs butts, he's gallant and refuses to beat woman. Totally the opposite of the type of character that became mainstream after that and makes cat ladies go "oh nooes" while also wetting their panties.



/lum/

 No.1335[Reply]

Can we talk about how hot Ryūnosuke is? She puts the rest of the cast to Shame. Only Sakura is competition.


/digi/

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 No.48[Reply]

You DO know how to play Mahjong, right /a2k/?
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 No.641

>>48
I've played a bit in Mahjong Soul, and I hate to admit it, but I just don't find it fun enough to dedicate the time it would require to get good. It'd be one thing if I was learning along with my friends and we played together, but all that effort just to play against voiceless randos…?

 No.695

>>48
I know how to play, but I don't know how to remain consistent on my decision making. A few years ago I only ever played mahjong all day everyday, until I burnt myself out and got depressed.
Nowadays I can play 1 or 3 games in a good form depending of how long they last, going for more just makes me mentally crumble. Because of this, and that I only ever play mahjong whenever I remember I have a mahjong soul account, I have no desire to actually improve beyond my skill level.

 No.702

Pon no Michi thread?

 No.713

>>48
Enough to get the Yakuza achievements. I should play more but i'm busy chasing other vices like Terraria skyblock.



/djn/

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 No.749[Reply]

Why is Ryukishi such a hack nowadays?
>Higurashi reduced to bad spinoffs
>Umineko gets a weird stageplay
>Phase 2 never

 No.762

>>749
i was under the impression that the real brains behind his projects died in like 2010 and took all the series's good ideas with him to the grave.

 No.766

>>749
>Higurashi reduced to bad spinoffs
Greed. Plain and simple.
Once he saw how much the gatcha game made all bets were off for that series.

>Umineko gets a weird stageplay

He's always had an interest in stage plays. Rose Guns Days had one too and Higurashi started as a stage play script.

>Phase 2 never

I want to believe he'll make it after Silent Hill f but he probably doesn't have a reason to go back after he gets his Konami money + whatever he made from milking Higurashi.

 No.768

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>>762
You mean that friend of his, who died during Umineko and R07 dedicated the Answer Arcs to him? Due to the sudden tone shift in Umineko, rumour has it that R07's friend was a ghostwriter for Higurashi and Umineko Question Arcs.

Still, I consider Rose Guns Days as R07's best work

 No.769

>>749
He built a career on aping Edogawa Ranpo in the new media sphere



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