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>>2773
You are my hero. I hereby award you this certificate of recognition, so that you may print this out and stick it on your fridge to let everyone know of your bravery and dedication.

This show is insane. I love it.

>>2837
It really is.

>>2756
Yeah the logic I was trying to go for was
>1
I imagine Joe and Kamille would being arguing about something since they're both hot headed to the point that Lina would get pissed at them too and you're just sitting next to three incredibly loud angry people
>2
Self explanatory
>3
Self explanatory
>4
Honestly, I should've switched Gendo and Usagi I guess. I think sitting next to Gendo would just be boring and he wouldn't want you to talk over him to Usagi if you wanted to, but maybe Usagi does nothing but watch movies or listen to music. I haven't seen Sailor Moon.
>5
I haven't seen Patlabor so I assumed Noa is above 18 and then assume Ryo would do everything he could to talk to her while avoiding you (unless you were a woman, then he'd spend a lot of time talking to you)
>6
Honestly I felt being ANYWHER near Griffith would be horrible but I also imagine Lupin would be doing something that's up to no good or perhaps chatting up Lum which would be annoying on a long flight.
>7
Self explanatory
>8
My logic was that since Tylor is a parody of Yang. Reinhardt would get into some discussion about something that eventually evolved into Reinhardt becoming completely dumbfounded by Tylor in general while whatever the hell happens in the row above being unknown.

Also I like to imagine if shit began going south quick the good guys would save the day. Griffith probably couldn't stand Lina's Dragon Slave and I'm sure some bullshit from Tylor will somehow make Dio's time stop malfunction.

>>2758
Usagi is a typical teenage girl, immature, self-centered and complains a lot, but she is not a bad person. Lina might remind her of Rei, Sailor Mars, which would give in to an argument if they were close, but i don't think any of them would go overboard.

Noa is an adult, but maybe her tomboyish style would remind Ryo of Kaori. Irene might be more of the mokkori bijin type he'd go after.

I see Griffith as acting on ideals and with purpose, if you are on his way you are done for, otherwise you are safe, but he wouldn't act arbitrarily or out of annoyance. Either way, it's a lot that is not cast by you and maybe not really even by him. I don't think anything in there could stop events set in motion related to Griffith, it's the type of thing that can change the structure of reality. That's why I chose the Cthulhu protocol, if I see him there, I already think I'm fucked.

Toguro I see keeping to himself in common circumstances, but Lupin might be a type of guy who bothers him, and I'm certain Dio is.

Dio, even without time stopping power, is the one most likely of making things go out of control due to his psychotic unpredictability.

And Hisoka is probably ok (as long as you are no young boys on board).

Maybe Goku would be able to act fast enough to teleport the problem out of the plane, 2 or 3 might be good places to tip him off.

>>2753
Original op here, sorry for the late response but this is pretty great lol. I’d pick 5 honestly, noa would be great have a long talk about mecha and the like, ryo as well though I haven’t seen city hunter (yet). Goddamnit goku you had to take rally’s spot although I can’t imagine what kind of things they’d chat about anyway. Also get dio, Griffith and that clown off the plane immediately, I’d rather have the lovely angels on the same flight

>>2829
Ah! I never thought about The Dirty Pair. That would've been fun to add onto there instead of Gendo or Usagi. Maybe I should do another one with different characters for fun. Having ALL of pre-2000s anime to go through is kinda tough lol, still a lot of stuff I've never seen so a lot were just fun guesses. I wanted there to be bad guys on the plane no matter what to make each seat have a downside but I think having these two sitting in a row would just be trouble no matter, haha.

>>2832
Agreed lol

>>562
The first three DBZ movies are still pretty martial arts-oriented. I think they feature the best fight choreography in official DB media.

Finally a place where I can discuss the dragon ball series in its prime, none of that DBS nonsense or over the top powerlevel shenanigans, just the way I once knew the franchise. Just an excuse to bring this thread back with the dragon balls lol

>>557
I really liked dragonball when i was younger, but I was a bit too dumb as a kid to pirate the anime/manga, and was more a fan of the weird online mix the sonic community had with them.
Nazo Unleashed being the huge deal at the time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-etGCr7SM4

I'm definitely going to rewatch the anime. When I have kids I want my sons to enjoy some good classic shounen

RUN.

>>2172
You can’t escape https://youtube.com/watch?v=rPS4mbYFOWg

>>2812
Late response but seems about right, just discovered more about the timeline itself more in depth

I was thinking about that after I saw that 90s OVA/movies thread here. There are trends according to the time period. The 80s were marked by sci-fi, futurism, cyberpunk, "badassery", hyperviolence, sexual explicitness, and it seems to me the mechanics were much more elaborated and detailed. Then on 90s there was a turn for a lighter tone, fantasy, romance/comedy, video game adaptations, precursors to isekai and harem, and philosophical/reflective narratives.

Now, this is just a vague hypothesis, but maybe the productions reflect the state of Japan's general consciousness. They had made remarkable and unthinkable progress since being a completely devasted shithole after war, so that "chuuni shit" might be the Japanese themselves figuratively going through their second year of junior high school. The advent of OVA just allowed for the content to go even wilder and more explicit. Then came the realization that they wouldn't just grow at the same rate forever, it was either stagnation or decline from there, and they either turned to rethinking deeply about their condition or retreating into comfort.

>>2776

Alot of that creative concept died when the self insert protagonist concept came along.
Having unlimited energy and psychic powers and cybernetic augmentations is cool and all but that isnt you and unfortunately never will be.

>>2778
It's not you, but it can be your power fantasy. What made people stop dreaming?

>>2778
The entire purpose of isekai is to imagine an ordinary figure, or perhaps even a lesser subject reborn under superior circumstances. The fact that no one wants to be reborn as a cyborg ninja shows a lack of discernment amongst modern otaku.

>>2795
But those are pretty harsh lives. Even outside the niches, is it better to be Kenshiro, live in a post-apocalypse hellscape and lose everything that was once precious to you, be Seiya, getting senseless beaten over and over again without even a hint of personal benefit, or be Naruto/Luffy, who mostly enjoy themselves traveling around with their friends with some mishaps along the way?

>>2693
Honestly, not really? It's like asking if Digimon ripped off Pokémon because they're similar in a few ways.

>1. Vaguely similar art style and aesthetics
Huh? They look nothing alike. Sure they're about boxing and have two little dudes in boxing shorts for most of the show but it's not like the artstyle is exactly the same. Joe is from 1968 and Ippo is 1989 there's 20 years of difference in the art there.

Joe is mainly about Joe with some snippets of Rikishi, Carlos, Yoko and Danpei and the many random boxers along the way.

Ippo is about a dozen boxers and side characters too (his mother, his friends, his potential relationships) with tons of arcs along the way. There's. Ippo himself, Takamura trying to win all six belts, Mashiba trying to achieve a better life for him and Kumi, Miyata trying to keep to the promise he gave Ippo and more. It's not *just* about Ippo. The latest chapter is about Mashiba right now.

>2. Young man from a disadvantaged background making his way up in the fight game (literally every boxing story at this point)
Joe and Ippo are different characters entirely. Joe is an orphan who pretty much ran away from the orphanage to be a vagrant and just happened to be noticed by Danpei and became a boxer through that (and only because of Rikishi being a perfect rival to him). Ippo was a meek kid who was somewhat bullied in school who then grew to love boxing after Takamura saved him from that bullying. He had a loving mother, a decent job and overall a good life. Joe comes from nothing but Ippo has something.

>3. Tragic end where the protagonist ends up punch drunk and is totally fucked over.
We don't know how Ippo ends and currently Ippo isn't punch drunk He's retired due to...well, I actually don't know. Takamura refers to him as being "broken" but he's not punch drunk like Joe seemed to be by the end as when Ippo was asked to draw a straight line (which iirc is some kind of test to prove if their motor functions are shot) he passed it. I just think something is going to happen to Ippo to get him back into the ring but no one really knows what. George is probably going to have something occur that will make him go back to boxiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

All boxing stories follow a simmilar plot structure more or less. Its genre convention. Hajime no Ippo gets repetitive after a while but I've never felt that way about Ashita no Joe.

>George is probably going to have something occur that will make him go back to boxing again but what that is we don't know.
Wait... they are still publishing this series! Hang up the gloves already George!

>>2762
Yeah, well Joe didn't go on for 30 years....

>>2771
Yeah but Hajime no Ippo gets boring fast. Talking - fight scene - talking. Is pretty much the structure of that show. It feels like groundhog day except it never ends.

Considering Joe is THE boxing manga yea I would say he ripped it off or at least capitalized off its popularity. The other guy mentioned the different artstyles, but they don't mention the similarities. The muscle tone is clearly taken from Joe. It's like taking the Mcdonalds arch, turning it upside down, changing the color, and making a new burger chain. The details don't really matter, especially since Ippo is the crappier narrative, when it's obviously a ripoff, by that if it weren't for Joe it wouldn't exist.

>>924
Even with the story being weak it's really puts you in the world of the late 80s city scene, which really separates it from the Rumiko works it's so often compared to (even if the simplest way to describe it is "diet MI")

>>924
Is it true that it's just like a knockoff Maison Ikkoku?

>>2704
No, it's just another romcom from around the same time with lots of misunderstandings - the relationship dynamics are way different.

>>924
It's funny, when I was younger I was more interested in girls like Madoka, who are tough to get to know but can open up after a while. But nowadays I prefer girls like Hikaru who are a lot more overtly sweet. But I'm also straight up bad at reading girls a lot of the time and I'm worried I'll mess things up by asking too many questions.

The Dragon Ball of romcoms

>>679
When I first saw the ending of Texhnolyze (around 2005ish, I was still a young teenager), while the scene with Ran was unfolding I unconsciously dug my fingers into the skin of my other arm and drew blood. I was making the same facial expression of confusing and rage that Ichise was making and I started sweating and crying intensely. Then the scene that immediately followed afterwards with the insert song and I fucking bawled like a bitch.
I threw up later that evening too.

Not a single other anime or any other piece of media gave me such a visceral reaction, jesus christ. I haven't watched Texhnolyze since then and I don't want to watch it again.

>>682
Yeah I remember feeling this heavy hole that slowly drained everything. By then she really was the only part of that show left to hope for and when that was gone and the ending came I just felt empty. Powerful stuff, but it really gets the message of not putting your existence behind impermanent things across to the viewer.

Jinrou comes to mind for me ;_;

yeah this moment cemented Zeta gundam as one of my favourite anime.
listening to this is melancholic
https://youtu.be/oNYPryOqyGo

>>680
The problem with the endings mentioned here is that they all go rather abstract. Wolf's Rain has a sad last episode, but the last scene is that kind of open for interpretation, same thing with Zeta Gundam, at first it's "oh no", but then "wait, what?", and you only find out what happened in ZZ, and then there is Texhnolyze where you are made unsure about about what, or if anything, even happened, and I think the immediate intellectual demand breaks the emotional impact.

Now, this one had me upset for days.