I've never read a light novel before, but I've become interested in reading one. Have you ever read a light novel? Did you enjoy? What's your favorite?
Haruhi is the only one I've ever read. It was good. That is all.
Haurhi, Konosuba, and Spice & Wolf are probably the series I'd recommend to someone new to LNs. But I'm also a weirdo that likes shit like Boogiepop and that one LN series with the vampire astronaut so I have no idea what its like to have good taste.
https://royallib.com/read/Takimoto_Tatsuhiko/Welcome_to_the_NHK.html#0
In my early teens I did not understand it so much or did not want to understand it, but as I got older I realized I had lived all of it and how truly pathetic I was. I appreciate this novel a lot now. I think anyone who ends up here will find it relatable, either the present or from a past self.
mushoku tensei, the anime's ending got me interested in the rest of the story and it only recently released the final volume in english.
i don't have much experience with LNs either, but that one is really simple and easy to read.
Boogiepop Series is really fun if you read it while listening to the songs that are referenced in the book
How was it? Don't need to finish the entire thing before talking about it, one episode, one chapter, or even looking at a cover page is enough.
>>13
Link? Sounds cool but I can't find it on Nyaa or Mangadex
I've been catching up reading Tomo-Chan is a Girl! I originally passed on reading it cause it didn't look too good but it's been mostly good. I love me some pure tomboys
I'm reading A Silent Voice. It's in the same genre as "Masturbation Master Kurosawa" in that it's a douchebag who takes what he deserves in stride and tries to improve his ways regardless manga, and I'd say its depiction of such a type of character is far more mature overall(though the protagonists of both are different ages during the story so I suppose that's to be expected). I think that most of the people here could relate to this man somehow, hell his plan of "pay my mom what I owe so I don't have to feel like I died with unfinished business" is something I've thought of verbatim for as long as I can remember. This is all just from me reading up to Vol. 2, so maybe I'll update this review when I'm finished.
Good shit. Hope it doesn't fall off.
>>11
That's one of my favorite yuri mangas. She's a good girl.
Usually I prefer something with more of a supernatural theme though, like the Ne No Kami visual novels. Highly recommended VN for yuri aficionados.
>>17
Tell me more about this Masturbation Master Kurosawa. Where can I find him? Doth he live as a hermit in the mountains of Kagoshima or lie deep in the fiery pits of Unzen?
"When I Returned to My Hometown, My Childhood Friend was Broken" is good; sweet even. tl;dr, guy comes back home after being away for work and discovers that his outgoing tomboy childhood friend is now a paranoid NEET who looks like a gyaru whore. He tries to rebuild their friendship and she's constantly paranoid and ashamed because of what happened to make her this way.
Currently watching Minky Momo and The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess.
>>20
This was not so great, the man has no defining features, he could very well be replaced by a bag of rice and it would be the same story
I was watching hand maid may. It had me thinking about how much anime and otaku culture has changed since then. For example, the association between otaku and hobby electronics has vanished.
Iketeru Futari. It was ok but the ending was abrupt and right when things were getting interesting.
Inspired by the "What anime really surprised you and why?" thread, I think it's time we fess up and say that that one series we always insult, belittle, or just ignore is actually the one that touched us deep in our heart.
For me the main one that pops into mind is Gravitation. It and couple episodes of Loveless are the only two shōnen-ai animes I've ever seen, but I ended up really liking this to the point that I even read the manga too. I don't even remember why I started watching it, but the drama and dynamics between Shuichi and Eiri kept me hooked. Of course I'll never admit this and have on more than one occasion made fun of Gravitation with my friends, but somewhere deep in my closest is a box with all 12 manga volumes and the anime boxset lovingly packed away.
Hetalia is the other one that I've recently become pretty obsessed with but hide from others. Enough of my friends have seen the anime that I feel comfortable admitting that I like to watch it, but if anyone asks if I've read the web comic I pretend like I don't even know there is a web comic.
So yeah, please share your secret anime loves or better yet, any stories you may have about being caught or something. It'll be cool to read and who knows, you it may even inspire us to watch something we normally would not.
Meeting new people. Ever. How does this even happen to you?
>>92
I don't meet a lot of new people anymore because of the stupid meme flu, but before that, my college had an anime club. It kind of sucked because everyone was always talking over the anime, but it was a way to meet new people
>>93
What type of anime do people watch at anime clubs? I always assumed it would just be battle shonen.
I wouldn't say ashamed because I have chad thundercock self-assurance and I don't feel bad for my taste, but man oh man I fucking loved Mysterious Girlfriend X. It was honestly really charming and cute as fuck. Though, yeah, the ending was a letdown.
READ THE MANGA YOU FAGS.
>implying I can read
Mysterious Girlfriend X was interesting. It had really really detailed art at first, but got to really really good eroticism closer to the end instead.
vtubers
>>55
Watched this thanks to this poster.
Really great watch, I am glad to have found good anime.
For me, it would be Kanon(2006), which I have watched once a year for the past 16 years. Also Koi Kaze, which I mentioned to a classmate in high school, she looked at me with utter disgust for the rest of the year.
I'm not ashamed of any anime, but I'm smart enough to avoid mentioning some to most people. It's hard to say you watched a very sexual mahou shoujo. People might react hostile...
>>100
I've also seen Kanon many times, but not as much as you. Seen the 2002 version and the 2006 version several times each.
My favorite Manga is Death Note.
What's yours?
BLAME
Kodomo no Jikan
The world god only knows
Rozen Maiden
Parallel Paradise
Garden by midori no rupe
I mostly read seinen comics nowadays
>>1
lol couldnt take death note seriously after the whole death eraser thing
LAIN! LAIN! LAIN!
>>15
Consider having an opinion of your own and not following popular teenage culture.
Melancholia by Dowman Sayman
it's an anthology like his other work, Nickelodeon (which is also really good but maybe should be read before) and they connect to eachother, along with his other work Voynich Hotel
Unlike nickelodeon however, all the short stories connect at the end which is a trope I like
His manga are always weird, surreal, and occasionally disturbing which i really like. For the same reason I'm also a big fan of:
I really like Battle Angel. Love that scrap heap 3rd world aesthetic. But Ranma 1/2 has to be my favourite manga.
>>16
Lain is popular with teens? Since when? Also, it’s not a manga.
some stuff that hasn't been listed
Blade of the Immortal
Emanon
Halcyon Lunch
Helter Skelter
Homunculus
Mato Seihei no Slave
Molester Man
Ousama Ranking
shit guess this too
yancha gal no anjou san
>>17 I haven't read any of Dowman Sayman's stuff in like 10 years... must see what I've missed. Thanks for dropping their name here
I'm surprised nobody's mention made in abyss
Girls' Last Tour.
Why does all anime look the same now? What happened? They all look so similar to one another these days. It's incredibly dull and boring. They all use the same color palate, the same art style, thin lines, all the characters look identical, the shading and tone is the same and then there's all the choppiness and framerate issues which lead to general ugliness. It's like they sink the entire budget into visual set pieces.
It probably costs less to stick to one style.
Most of the more generic anime from the mid 2000s looks pretty much all the same too. I think that style looks better, but I guess I am just becoming an old fart stuck in the past. Or it really just does take more time and effort to do it with the old techniques that made the style of the time. Stuff like Kanon, Air, Clannad, I really think that is the style to go with. It even looks decent on 360p. I still like new shows though, there's usually something I like in every season.
The framerate issues probably have to do with studios outsourcing work to the Philippines, China or South Korea. When you have animators spread out over multiple countries speaking different langauges choppinness and general ugliness is the result. It's a double edged sword really. The Philippine animators get to build expereience, but being used as cheap labor keeps them from producing their own high grade product. Anime also has to have a high turn over rate and they pump that shit out and whoever has to make it, Japanese or not, end up overworked and then their work sucks because they can't stop their hands from shaking.
To appeal to Americans anime has to look a certain way. So studios pump out the same “anime style” artwork which leads to less artistic diversity. More Americans consume anime than actual Japanese people so now they are the target audience. So its become an Asian minstrel show where people play into the stereotypes others have about them just to make money.
Hand drawn is dead. Everything is made by computers using engines and graphical tools that recycle the same components. Everything today is painfully stock.
>>3
I wonder how long those cheap labor sources have before Japanese studios just start using AI instead. Then everything will look the same and extra ugly.
>>6
They'll probably always use them. If AI will get rid of anyone it will be the Japanese animators. You'll have a handful of Japanese involved in the process, AI will do the heavy lifting, and they'll outsource the remaining human element to the cheap labor in foreign countries. The Japanese are adopting the Hollywood model of corporate exec dictated art and building huge endless content franchises. Give it decade and it will look exactly like Hollywood.
>>43
Imagine thinking that "It's okay to let go and move on" is hating your fanbase. Even the manga's ending was literally Shinji giving everyone the chance to just move on. Hell; Anno even threw the waifu fans a bone with Kensuke/Asuka.
Rebuild is great, don't listen to those nerds.
evangeleon is bullshit, gundam is better
>>47
Nadesico is bullshit. Dominion Tank Police is better.
>>49
Dominion Tank Police is good. Getter Robo is better
>>50
They are both bullshit. Space Battleship Yamato is better.
Nadesico isn't better than some of the better Gundam series but it sure is a lot better than Evangeshition.
i see a lot of place in second life about 2ch like this place
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Keroo/31/13/56
put in this thread software for mac that is japanese
Are Macs even popular at all in Japan?
please i need old japanese software for windows 95 to windows xp
archive.org, vector, japanese personal sites etc
w3m web browser
Postpet's email client has a cute menu with a pet that you can take care of. This site (https://kokoscript.com/2022/007.html) explains how to download and configure it.
>>3
Does w3m even work on Windows? I thought it was UNIX and Linux only.
Does anyone know where I can find a copy of NEC's unix OS for the PC-98?