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All I ever wanted was for someone to post "I ain't clicking that"

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 the shrouded lord wrote:
On the scale of things that are not Ok this is almost on the level of turning children into tentacle bombs as far as anime goes:
warning: do not click if jew.

Spoiler:

I'm confused? What's in that picture, besides a character from Angel Beats in a Nazi uniform? I know Europe has restrictions concerning Nazi symbols and the Nazi swastika is an enormous elephant specially for some of them, but that image isn't exactly offensive or shocking.

Oh, and Japan doesn't give a feth about it. And let's be honest, the black SS uniforms were beautiful, it's a pity their owners.... yeah, we know how history goes.

Well, they were designed by Hugo Boss.
The Nazis were bastards, but at least they knew how to dress.
Sort of like the Mafia, really.

It might be that it's suggestive of Nazi-sympathizing, or possibly a simple issue of glorification of the regime. It's one thing to admire the dress uniforms and emulate them, it's another to use the specific imagery and badges of office of that group. They could just as easily replaced the swastica and SS tag with, I don't know, a red square inside the circle and an AB on the collar.

It's like that thing where, what was it, Tailand?- youth were basically idolizing (as in, American Idol or a J-pop Idol) Hitler, with t-shirts featuring him and entire classes dressing up as stormtroopers and goosestepping around their school courtyard- not because they identify with Nazi politicks, but just because they thought they 'looked cool' and didn't really know about the atrocities and social issues associated with that imagery.

You'd think Japan would know better.


Then again, arguing Devil's Advocate, I suppose that after a certain amount of time, Nazis will have to become just another 'face of evil' in history- a warning about totalitarianism gone bad, but perfectly acceptable to joke about, make fun of, or dress up as, with the aesthetic separate from the ideology. Like the Mongol hordes.

I just found it funny.

But if Japan knew better, then I wouldn't have my female Hitler!



Or like them call her: Adorufu-tan!

Give the card game "Barbarossa" a look It's now translated to English amongst other languages. (And yes, they changed the swastica to what looks like a mix of the nazi swastica and the iron cross - it IS an alternate universe after all. )

Japan, colder then AUS and funner then Canada.

Anvildude wrote:

You'd think Japan would know better.

This is a country that lies it's ass off officially about WW2. Is it really shocking people wouldn't know much about the war in Europe when they barely know about the war in the Pacific?

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:
Your first mistake was watching an anime based on a visual novel...

If I stopped watching anime based on VNs my watching options would drop significantly.

To my knowledge, Grisaia is the only anime I'm watching based on a VN, and I don't feel hampered by not watching shows based on VNs... Granted I was at the damn bus incident by the time I looked up the source material, hooked by that point..

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:

Anvildude wrote:

You'd think Japan would know better.

This is a country that lies it's ass off officially about WW2. Is it really shocking people wouldn't know much about the war in Europe when they barely know about the war in the Pacific?

^This. Their government officially denies the horrible things their military did in China and South-East Asia to this day

Blitzed all of season two of Log Horizon over the last two days not too bad. Not as good as the first season but im excited to see where some of the things going on at the end are headed.

A lot of people look down on season 2 because of the animation being taken over by studio DEEN, the "pointless kids arc", and the lack of Shiroe being Shiroe,

I liked most of the kids, so I didn't mind that arc, I generally don't notice differemces in animation quality, but I would have preferred more Shiroe

 Alfndrate wrote:
A lot of people look down on season 2 because of the animation being taken over by studio DEEN, the "pointless kids arc", and the lack of Shiroe being Shiroe,

I liked most of the kids, so I didn't mind that arc, I generally don't notice differemces in animation quality, but I would have preferred more Shiroe

I kind of feel like the show moves at a glacial pace anyways, so the kids arc ended up feeling too long away from the main characters story. I didn't really notice the animation differences though honestly. All that being said, I do like the way they tied the end of the kids arc up so that they grew a little as useful characters for later and that their arc helped to reveal some more main plot.

Offhand, is anyone else as impressed as I am with the intro music for Owari no Seraph? It's weird, I don't enjoy the show all that much, but the intro music is actually like pretty good techno that I could see adding to a playlist just by itself.

I dropped it half way through season 2, it just became a complete snoozefest.

I was feeling down last night, so I watched RWBY again.
I really hope there's another season.
I should stop living under a rock too, I never know what is going on in the world of anime.

Didn't the main person responsible for that pass unexpectedly or something? Could be totally wrong. Just thought I heard it to that nature.

Watching Eureka Seven. Its ok so far. I think I watched at least part of it in the past but I've pretty much forgotten that.

Yeah. It was quite tragic.

Indeed. Sad times, those were.

 GrimDork wrote:
Didn't the main person responsible for that pass unexpectedly or something? Could be totally wrong. Just thought I heard it to that nature.

Watching Eureka Seven. Its ok so far. I think I watched at least part of it in the past but I've pretty much forgotten that.

Monty Oum. Complications from what should have been a routine surgery, from what I heard. It's super tragic, and since he was the main writer, animator, and one of the voice actors, I wouldn't hold my breath on another season.


About Eureka Seven- I think that's a show that gets better later in the run, gets better with a re-watch, and gets better as you get older. It's got a lot of deep stuff, a lot of adult stuff, in it. Relationship heavy without being over-romantic.

It wasn't routine IIRC. He was in a car accident as I recall.

 Alfndrate wrote:
A lot of people look down on season 2 because of the animation being taken over by studio DEEN, the "pointless kids arc", and the lack of Shiroe being Shiroe,

I liked most of the kids, so I didn't mind that arc, I generally don't notice differemces in animation quality, but I would have preferred more Shiroe

I hardly even noticed animation differences. Just some odd quirks guess I know the reason now. Never bothered me though

Summers not looking too exciting so far... http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/05/09-1/preliminary-summer-2015-anime-chart

Besides a few things the early look isnt looking to great.

Eureka Seven is pretty good. First time I saw Adult Swim air an extra disclaimer about No, seriously, this episode gets fethed up, but we don't want to censor it so consider this an extra strong warning. They later started airing that extra disclaimer a lot so it lost its impact, but that first time, damn. Also I think the level of violence in that episode has gotten to be fairly standard, though not a constant run of the mill.

Gate and Monster Musume are the only things that really have my interest for summer.

Anvildude wrote:

 GrimDork wrote:
Didn't the main person responsible for that pass unexpectedly or something? Could be totally wrong. Just thought I heard it to that nature.

Watching Eureka Seven. Its ok so far. I think I watched at least part of it in the past but I've pretty much forgotten that.

Monty Oum. Complications from what should have been a routine surgery, from what I heard. It's super tragic, and since he was the main writer, animator, and one of the voice actors, I wouldn't hold my breath on another season.


About Eureka Seven- I think that's a show that gets better later in the run, gets better with a re-watch, and gets better as you get older. It's got a lot of deep stuff, a lot of adult stuff, in it. Relationship heavy without being over-romantic.

Allergic reaction to some of the meds used.

Also, I really liked Eureka Seven.

Besides, OBVIOUSLY, Non Non Biyori, "Overlord" caught my eye. It seems the main character is a skeleton, "the most powerful wizard", bent on "world domination". Sure, it's inside a MMO world, but hell, this plot does seem refreshing. Usually it's the hero trying to stop said domination

Ok, Gate looks awesome too. JSDF vs Dragons and such? This I have to see

Man, only episode six and Plastic Memories keeps on driving that feel train.



Although the preveiw for the next episode looks like its going to be humorous and light hearted to elivate some of the feels.

 DA's Forever wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:
A lot of people look down on season 2 because of the animation being taken over by studio DEEN, the "pointless kids arc", and the lack of Shiroe being Shiroe,

I liked most of the kids, so I didn't mind that arc, I generally don't notice differemces in animation quality, but I would have preferred more Shiroe

I hardly even noticed animation differences. Just some odd quirks guess I know the reason now. Never bothered me though

Summers not looking too exciting so far... http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/05/09-1/preliminary-summer-2015-anime-chart

Besides a few things the early look isnt looking to great.

Jesus, nothing on that list interested me except the next season of Durarara

Overlord looks interesting, and I'll probably want to check out Jitsu wa Watashi wa after enjoying the manga so much (although I'm still a little bitter that they got rid of it's unique style).

Watching Madoka, because I'm late to the party.
Its surprisingly metal.

Its surprisingly a lot of things. And late to the party is better than not at all!

I'm digging the visual design.
Its my kind of strange.

I like how for the first two episodes its all light and fluffy, typical magical girl fair, and then episode 3 comes along and slaps you with a sockful of tragedy.

I also like how afterwards the ending theme changes to reflect the change in tone; prior it was a light little ditty, to hide the darkness that's come.