General Anime Thread

@Whatevs  
How…
 
How do you not get it?
 
Deku is pretty much the embodiment of what it means to be a hero. Well him and Link.

@SquiggyBomb  
I think the embodiment of what it means to be a hero is being somebody willing to do terrible things for the sake of people what’s best tho
 
Like me, purge everybody who disagrees with my ideal society and perform systematic genocide on genetic inferiors, such as oppai
 
I am the embodiment of a hero here
 
you’ve just fallen for media idealization

@ghostfacekiller39  
Alright there Sinbad.

@SquiggyBomb  
I dont understand the crying girl ya doof

@Whatevs  
That’s his mom  
She’s so proud of him

@Whatevs  
Oh, that’s Deku’s mother.

@mariomarc
 
@Virgil Stormblade  
thank you
 
 
@SquiggyBomb  
was that so hard?

I think I’m getting cocky. In MAL’s anime bingo thing, I went up two difficulties, raising the challenges I have to do from 20 to 34. To be fair, I also have a good run now, with two challenges already finished (although one is a movie and as such not a big time investment) and one nearly half-finished.
 
On that note, I finished Kill La Kill yesterday. Although I’m not sure if I didn’t rewatch Gurren Lagann instead. When I heard that KLK is TTGL’s spiritual successor, I didn’t think they’d be that similar. That might also be its biggest problem, not just because it feels pretty derivative, but also because TTGL is better than it.
 
TTGL basically consists of two stories, as if it were two seasons in one, with the first one ending in success and wrapped up and then starting the second one. KLK similarly gets a change in goals, themes and scope, but does so by basically stretching out the plot. At first, it’s all about learning who killed Ryuko’s father and why, which in the first place is obviously just the prelude to the main story, but that only gets answered pretty late. After that, things get better, but that part feels like it should have been shorter. As a whole, the series could have been shorter. The worst might be episode 14 and 15, which easily could have been a single episode.
 
On the other hand, I find skimpy girls more interesting than Mecha. Also, KLK’s ending is much better than TTGL (if only because it’s not completely terrible).

Getting a bit ahead of myself here, but Spring 2017 looks dope as fuck as well
 
Got the adaptation of the new series put out by OreImo’s author
 
Saekano sequel
 
This thing
 
This other thing
 
This other other thing
 
some crap I don’t really care about so you all don’t get your knickers in a twist
 
all will be good

@ghostfacekiller39  
This “other other thing” actually seems interesting. I’ll probably try it out.

@LR-Studios  

So here’s my current animu things collection
 
Haganai - volumes 1 - 14 + Club Minutes Volume + Now With 50% More Fail! Volume (manga)  
Sword Art Online: Aincrad - both volumes (LN)  
Sword Art Online: Fairy Dance - both volumes (LN)  
Sword Art Online: Progressive - volumes 1 & 2 (LN)  
Sword Art Online: Fairy Dance - volume 2 (manga, in German)  
Sword Art Online: Girls Ops - volumes 1 & 2 (manga)  
Omamori Himari - volumes 0, 1, & 2 (manga)  
Attack on Titan - volume 1 (manga, in German)  
Love Live! - volume 1 (manga, in German)  
Masamune-kun no Revenge - volume 1 (manga)  
High School DxD - volume 1 (manga)
 
1/8th Scale Amuro Ninagawa PVC  
Two 1/20th Scale PVCs of Ayane from Nagasarete Airantou  
Cait Sith Silica 1/8th Scale PVC  
Dakimakura of Shiro from No Game No Life  
A Takayama Maria & Hasegawa Kobato coffee glass I ordered off of a site where you can put pictures on things  
Heart-shaped Takayama Maria Mousepad from the same site  
(still being shipped out) 1/7th Scale Max Factory Pachira PVC
 
My goal of attaining a room like this is starting up
 
still a distant dream, but one day it shall come

@ghostfacekiller39  

 
rubs eyes and then reads it again  
………..Wait, I thought you hated it, why do you have a volume of the manga?

@ghostfacekiller39  

 
rubs eyes and then reads it again  
………..Wait, I thought you hated it, why do you have a volume of the manga?

@Virgil Stormblade  
That one actually was a gift from my best friend’s mom.

@ghostfacekiller39  
Ah, that makes sense.

@ghostfacekiller39  

 
A little like this?
 

@YetAnotherBrony  
Master Chief is top tier waifu

@YetAnotherBrony  
this is good too
 

 
although i remember i saw a picture once of a guy’s room where he had so much anime merch that he had to move his bed to in front of his desk to use his computer, because there wasn’t enough room for a computer desk and a bed to be separate because of all of his anime merch
 
It was the ideal picture of what I want my weeb den to look like, but I can’t find it

@ghostfacekiller39
 
At least this guy has an outdoor hobby (I’m assuming that’s what the motorcycle helmets are for) so he’s getting some fresh air and sunshine every once in a while.

@YetAnotherBrony  
who needs sunshine when you can have waifus

When I look at the victories in Crunchyroll anime awards, Yuri on Ice may have won in almost every single category it was in, but I feel like the ones it nipped off might show an interesting trend, given these were community voted on awards.
 
All of the stuff that’s traditionally popular in the west was completely outgunned by a boy’s love anime in almost every applicable category on a site mostly populated by western fans. Maybe the demographics of the western anime fandom might be shifting more than I assumed and that type only seems bigger than they are because they’re so fucking loud. Which can be reaffirmed by looking at the countless overreactions over a meaningless and unestablished awards show in tandem with how they lost in almost every category. They can’t even beat out a shounen ai and can react in ways little different than how a 5 year old would react if they got told “no” in a toy store. While BL and moe are two separate things, I would’ve previously thought it was a huge stretch to say that something like Yuri on Ice could crush things like Boku no Hero and Mob Psycho 100 in a western awards show to the extent that it did. The knowledge that manimu fans aren’t as big or rooted as I thought they were might just mean that moe has more potential to grow in the west than I was assuming.
 
I like the outcome because of that. And because it wasn’t like there was anything that was nominated that I had an investment in anyway, so who won what would’ve been irrelevant to me regardless. Can’t get salty over a loss if your team isn’t even playing.