No.4112
>>4108There is nothing to know about sumo anyway, its just big fat butterballs pushing and sometimes performing throws each other.it's like playing poker, you can learn by watching. The rules can be summarised in a few lines :
>big fat butter men must bow>big fat buttermen must push eachother out of the ring>first one out of the ring or to hit the ground loses.>winner bows, loser walks away in shamethat's it.
No.4174
>>4112The sport itself is simple but there's a lot of great tradition around professional sumo. Saw a good documentary on it a while ago on yewtoob. I think it was called "Sumo: Beutuful Tradition" or something like that. Can try and find it again later.
No.4177
>>4174Sumo season will soon be upon us. Sweaty obese lardballs will battle it out in front of a stadium full of retired geriatric japanese boomers and I will be watching on tv,as I gamble my meager income away.
No.4339
it is a bit disappointing how most works have nothing to say, or are imitations of prior works made by people who don't understand them, and this doesn't matter for success in the market because the audience is also dumb. basically, whenever high quality art is made, it's a coincidence, a stroke of luck, that we're able to see that sort of thing instead of a much worse thing with the same or greater mass market appeal.
it seems like the easiest way to capture the hearts of japanese audiences is to appeal to feelings of melancholy or nostalgia about their life back when they were in high school, or to write a setting in which shintoism and various other aspects of japanese folklore are real. i like this sort of thing, so i don't have an issue with watching monogatari, mushishi, and dandadan.
a schoolgirl running late with toast in her mouth bumping into the protagonist and falling down exposing her panties was already a cliche lampooned by gainax in 1996. but understanding that everything you like has been done to death shouldn't prevent you from appreciating things.
anyway, some good recent shows are, on the slop side, jujutsu kaisen and kaiju number 8. on the "wow folklore so true" side, mononoke (movie about a medicine seller detective, recommended for you due to the unique visual style). if you want to laugh, my next life as a villainess: all routes lead to doom. dorohedoro is exceptional and in my view easily the best japanese cartoon of the last however many years.
if you want to watch some exceptionally high quality things not from the last few years, you can try neon genesis evangelion, meduka meguca, sayonara zetsubou sensei, shin sekai yori, blame!, or literally anything directed by masaaki yuasa (though you should probably start with tatami galaxy or ping pong)