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.
No.815
>>814>I think the anime has too much shock that it becomes less shockingI disagree. I watched the anime (including dotds) before i read the manga and i found it to be quite tame in comparison to what''s actually shown in the manga. At some point in the manga during the ganja squad story there's a literal sex scene involving Pakkoyan and Vueko that's absent in the anime and a lot of the "shocking" stuff is cut.
No.819
>814
>> The organization using the orphanage system to raise child soldiers and then deploying them as cannon fodder was always in the backgroundsounds like
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460012MiA took world design plot concepts from Stalker book, movie (not the game, which is VERY different and misaligned with original concept book & movie).
worth noting that MiA haters usually act like green skinned general , dressed in a witch hunt inquisitor black costume from some British tv series animation, I can't recall title of. something about monkeys.
No.823
I tried to give MiA a fair chance by watching the anime first but I gave up after season one after it just kept sliding into "let's torture children" porn. Except not like literal porn, but I'm not going to get far enough into the series to find out if the constant sexualization of children goes that far. It /probably/ doesn't, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did. I loved the setting because it did remind me of Tarkovsky's Stalker, and I love series like Madoka and Elfen Lied but at some point, it ended up giving me the sensation of watching a video of a kitten be beaten to death with a shovel and I started wondering what the fuck am I doing with my time.
No.826
I have seen only 1st season. I haven't read manga.
>author is one
one of who? Are you mangaka or writer, maybe show us some of your works?
there is no such thing as "otaku", it's a broad social construct term. person who watches only iyashikei are different from one who watches mahoushoujo or shounen etc.
or maybe you wanted to say : author is just a normal regular human too. In this case yes, maybe.
Buy originals, licensed hard copies directly from author, if you really care so much.
>Elfen Lied
I remember when it just came out and were considered newfg zoomer type of emo slop. And then some one made cool effect amv with breaking benjamin & diary of jane. When it came out we were drinking beer staying overnight with my punk school friend, smoking cigs at roof, watching moon n stars n anime. now he grew up a bit of alt-right. but he still like watching mimikauwa alike stuff.
> the series to find out if the constant .. goes
> crowd who
have you seen Roman art, sculptures, other pre-medieval, Renaissance ?