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>>8366
wwwwww I hope that's shopped

>>8368
It's probably just a gallery image.

>>8366
topkek
>sauce

I have an anime wallpaper but it's pretty tame. Just Sayaka from Madoka Magica. Anime is incredibly popular these days.

>>8370
>topkek
4chan still dead, eh?

>>8371
It's up. Have an anime wallpaper, sushi.

For me, nothing in video games will ever come close to the feeling of max comfiness I got while playing gen 4, gen 2, and Pikmin 2
Top tier games

I want a pokemon game I can put 10000 hours into…

Pokemon has the unique ability to transfer your team to the next game, which makes it feel all connected. I started over for each campaign of course, but it was very fun to bring my old pokemon forward later for the post-game content, consider what new moves and items would fit my old favorites, and continue to build and bond with my team over several generations.
Especially when breeding pokemon took a lot of effort and there were many exclusive moves, my pokemon from older games really felt as if they had meaningful history. So the series effectively felt like a single game.
However the newer games exclude certain pokemon, make old moves unavailable, and special pokemon (shinies, perfect IVs, etc.) that you might have worked hard to obtain before are now easy to get. While it's a relatively minor change, it's made each game feel very stand alone to me, and theres no post-game now anyway. Considering I have favorites from new and old games, there doesnt even exist a main game where I can see all 6 of my favorites together now. All I have are Pokemon Showdown and my dreams.

I'm the roll who tried doing a hardcore nuzlocke on white and failed in the E4

I ended up starting again on Platinum awhile back, with some more speific rules. I went through Platinum extremely carefully, there was a lot of challenge and I feel I played really well overall. I played very meticulously with the E4 in mind the entire time, not daring to underestimate them like I did in white.

I am proud to say I have just entered the hall of fame, completing a nuzlocke for the first time. I really loved playing with level caps, will be doing that in some way in every pokemon game I play from now on.

ポケモンマスターになりました！

Fixed it for ya~

Following egg channel (the big gyaru magazine) on YouTube and waking up to cute girls doing cute stuff almost every single day!!

>>8339
>「20歳のギャルママ」祝い！！娘の１歳の祝いします♡
>20 year old gyaru mama celebrates her daughter's 1st birthday
Wow even moms can be cool gyarus.

round bocchis

literally me

Me(ku) in your wifi

Windows Me on her laptop

I just got here, and i have to agree yes

>>8323
Me when I agree

>>8325
Yay my first reply!
Thank you sushi roll, have a nice day

Maybe you have some concrete recommendations for some good Japanese authors then? I wasn't trying to hear about western academics in particular.

>>8243
This is the sort of weebery that needs to be corrected with such reading. If anyone has some recommendations, I'd love to see them.

>>8244
Sorry. If you like Hiroki Azuma, you might want to check out Asada Akira. There's a collection on Japanese film theory by Naoki Yamamoto called Dialectics without Synthesis. This isn't strictly speaking anime-related, but worth checking out. Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn isn't an 'academic' work, but I consider it scholarly. The same with Okakura Kakuzo's Book of Tea. I really like this one. Heidegger is said to have stolen ideas from this book. Precarious Japan by Anne Allison is pretty good book. Robo Saipians Japanicus by Jennifer Robertson. Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo's Commuter Train System by Fisch. If you are into Japanese religion, I'd recommend A New History of Shinto by Breen and Teeuwen amd Sourcebook in Shinto by Stuart Picken. There are a lot of really fun anthropology papers on Japan that focus on everything from maid cafes to conventions too but you have to surf scihub to find good ones. I wouldn't waste money and energy focusing on a specific journal, only do that if you find an academic who's work you like.

I can't think up of anything else right now, but if I get the time, I could go digging for some of the books and papers for you. If I see other fun papers on Japan, I'll be sure to post them here.

>>8245
Sorry. I shouldn't have been so kneejerk. I apologize. Generally, I don't enjoy academic works on Japanese media because I'm generally very cynical and pessimistic towards academia, and Westerna academia specifically. I only have a preference for Japanese academics because they are less likely to be intellectual tourists. Good scholarship is rare these days. There's lots of sloppy work, lazy analysis, tone deaf arrogance, and lack of reflection with that crowd. I recognize that I have many of these flaws within myself too and struggle to rectify them.
One thing that really bothers me is the way academics can kill fun subcultures.

>>8240
I'd say the most 'important' anime writer/theorist other than Azuma would be Thomas Lamarre (his 2009 work specifically), and other writers to look into would be the Journal of Anime & Manga Studies, Dani Cavallaro, Susan Napier, and Christopher Bolton, and if you distrust western academics like the first guy, then Yoko Arisaka and Sakabe Megumi have offered some commentary on Japanese art (not anime specifically)

>>8244
If Japanese language papers are acceptable, A. Tachyon provides neoclassical interpretations of otaku subjects that stand in stark contrast to the decadent works of other modern academics. Compared side-by-side, other works appear as gross imitations, senseless regurgitations of buzz-words as the author attempts to please the algorithms in the minds of the inbred community that consumes such works. Often considered too provocative by Western academics, Tachyon ignores their criticisms. She is unafraid to cut to the heart of difficult moral questions, one of the few authors who coöperates with soaplands and JAV studios to get stories of the experiences there straight from the horse's mouth. This type of subject matter has led to her censure from all English language journals, but she still regularly publishes in certain Japanese circles.

I've been watching Black Lagoon and SAO on and off for a while, the former more seriously, and the latter as a way to put something on before I go to sleep.

I watched Char's Counterattack, and found the use of Quess as a character to be particularly meaningful

quess' behaviour treats the affection of men she meets in a way like a primal hoarding of resources, not wanting others to get in her way, in a method similar to how hobbes said that a man in the state of nature will desire every further power he can reach, because the only way to ensure that he doesn't lose what he has now is to gain more
in this way, while char says he thought he failed to be an adequate father figure to her, the reason the two seemed to resonate with each other is because that quess' typically immature anger and pettiness is a mirror to char's own state of mind, especially I think he carries a level of resentment that amuro has managed to become popular (actually liked by people, as while char is valued as a political leader, he has no real friends to speak of) and successful in his absence
in this way, I think when char invokes lalah, she herself is not the most important element, but rather it is his resentment towards amuro from having taken her from him, which becomes a source for char's own counterargument to amuro's belief in positive change, and as such when he speaks of how she "could have been a mother to me", he does not necessarily want that on the level of providing comfort/affection (or the other reading I have seen in the sense of 'a mother to my children'), but rather what he wants is a mother's unquestioning and unconditional love, something which he sees amuro as having, and though he can cloak it in a political context, char responds in a way that aligns him with quess, believing that if he cannot get his form of desire, then he will destroy earth so that nobody can have it

>>8210
Chu-chu the monkey represents Anthy's eating disorder.

Since its friday 13th, can we stream Friday the 13th too?

which current show is the best?

>>8193
Of the ones I've seen, Apocalypse Hotel easily.

i had big hopes for mono but it turned quickly into a yuru camp with hags but no camping

>>8193
Maebashi Witches and it's not even close.

there is no escape

I would never.