What are you reading/watching? AKA Anime/Manga General

[Five_X]

;_;

Okay now that my face isn't a hot mess of tears and snot

The whole idea of striving to be remembered, to have some place in people's hearts and minds really resonated with me. As a writer, I understand that very painfully: the entire goal is an intensely arrogant one, of wanting people to care about you for no good reason other than that you make them feel things for what is ultimately fiction. It's a fundamental test of empathy that will not necessarily succeed, and when you emotionally and physically invest yourself into something as thoroughly as you must with the arts, rejection becomes not only a rebuke of your profession, but of your very soul. Somehow, despite this pressure, there are still artists in the world.

I'm terribly afraid of dying, not because I fear the pain or the slow descent to death, but because if I die now I'll die knowing I meant nothing to the world. For some people, it's enough to mean something to their friends and their family, the people close to them; but for artists, nothing less than the appreciation and admiration of countless strangers will do. The hope is that, through your art, you can inspire people so that they never forget you, and hold you in their hearts as a person and a life to be remembered. I don't think there's any form of love stronger than that.

[Marmadillo]

wait, are you talking about Shigatsu or re: creators?

[Five_X]

Re:Creators is a hot mess

Shigatsu made me one

[GundamFSN]

Just finished reading Asano Inio's Reiraku.

It's a tell first then show story of the climax of a quite successful mangaka's slowly deteriorating relationships who came to abhor manga industry due to the obligation he had to cater to his audience's shitty taste and of the fact that he felt insignificant, by the measure of sales number, than other mangaka.

It could've been better fleshed out, but I guess the takeaway is a mangaka, viewed with another lens, is a slave of society as they've to meet their demand in order to sell. I dare say this the closest to Asano's autobiography of himself.

[LJ3]

My take on Shigatsu was a little different

it resonated and affected me hard because at that time, I was still suffering badly from depression and had just given up on a music major and dropped out of school. So this was pretty relevant to me. I remember feeling ticked off on how others reacted to Kousei's depression and resented Kaoru's manic pixie dream girl act.

To me, a big part of Your Lie in April was forgiveness. Especially with Arima's mom and himself.

[Five_X]

I suppose you could draw a vague parallel between the actual meaning of the two, but at the same time they're too functionally different. The contrast is nice, though: the fact of Re: Creators being fairly unremarkable and forgettable is a supreme irony I wish was intentional.

While Re:Creators attempts to mix a convoluted narrative with a self-analysis of the industry and an emotional presentation of the creative process, Your Lie in April distills this to a story about being an artist. Everything else within it follows. In that sense, the narrative creates and contributes to its themes and emotions, rather than - as in Re:Creators - attempting to use the narrative to carry these ideas atop it. Narratively, one is disorganized and confused, and the other is cohesive, with every character and narrative element contributing to the whole. Or, put straight: Your Lie in April is emotionally convincing. Re:Creators, in its listlessness and sparseness, is not.

[RoydGolden]

Can't comment on Your Lie In April, but I thought Re:Creators and what it was trying to do was pretty good.

[LegalLoliLover]

Pretty high profile dub cast for the Testament of Sister New Devil dub.

[Cruor]

This series is awesome. Very old school monogatari like dialogue and plot its p cool. Very enjoyable.

[Historia]

so, gunnm mars chronicle about yoko's past:

Spoiler:

turns out she's not even really human. she's the queen of mars's unwanted space tumor.

so, a clone. with legit right to be the next successor as ruler of mars.

current gally probably doesnt give a shit though

weird developments

[Sesto]

I've been rewatching K-ON. It really was peak KyoAni. Yui is the cutest cinnamon roll.

[LJ3]

And I still have to finish second season of Euphonium.

Did anyone else get the book?

[Skull]

And I still have to finish second season of Euphonium.

Did anyone else get the book?

I have the LNs, yes.

I will never forgive KyoAni for the ending of Sound S2.

[GundamFSN]

Reading Tesuhiro Hirakawa's Clover. Honestly, it's getting boring since every arc basically follows the same twists, patterns, ideas, what have you.

Kingdom is good stuff tho. I'm gonna savor it.

[Laserman]

New Gundam Build Fighters: Battlelogue is finally here, so I'm going to watch it and update my post later.

This episode was so worth the wait, seeing the Renato brothers again with a third brother and them still using their tactics to win at all costs.

Spoiler:

When the Cherudim Gundam SAGA showed up, I thought the other Gundams from S2 would show up. Instead I got a very big surprise. It's nice to love Gundam 00.

D.Gray Man Episode 58-59: Allen's Innocence is still around, all he has to do is reform it again. His method for trying to speed that up is dangerous though. I also learned a bit more about Innocence itself. The shape his arm takes at the end of the opening is different than how it normally is. The question is, is it a new mode or something like that? Then there's two of the generals finally making it back to headquarters and the preview for the next episode looks good. That thing from the new opening, what exactly is it?It's past midnight here, so I'll wait until tomorrow to watch it.

[Laserman]

D.Gray Man Episode 60: So that thing from the opening was an Level 3 Akuma. It just came out of nowhere, and no one has been able to hurt it so far. Only Lenalee can fly up to fight it and even then she can't do anything to it either. It's so strong, can't wait to see how they get out of this.

[Akyuu]

I will never forgive KyoAni for the ending of Sound S2.

Did they change up the ending from the novels? I have 'em in Japanese and I've been too lazy to read them/study enough to be able to read them.

[Rafflesiac]

"I love Taki-sensei."

[Akyuu]

shit, it's been a while, i don't remember very well

reina said that didnt she? and not even near the end

[RoydGolden]

I was under the impression the anime actually played up the yuri themes compared to the novels. Is that wrong?