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  • #52
    Butterscotch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭Butterscotch


    I am currently watching Kill La Kill and Coppelion. Kill La Kill is just wow and cleverly written. I love how random it is. I only watched two episodes of Coppelion and reminds me of Gunslinger Girl and comes across as deep. Reminds me I need to go back and watch more episodes but I too prefer when they are all realised as cliff hangers can be a pain...

    I am totally up for beers, coffee what not! :D


  • #53
    GalwayGuy2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,269 ✭✭✭GalwayGuy2


    The new kill la kill episode is incredible.

    I thought it was just a sill fan service show at first, but now I'm starting to think that everything has a purpose.

    And the artwork. Wow.


  • #54
    Gunmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,067 ✭✭✭Gunmonkey


    Its definitely growing on me, was a bit "Whats all the buzz about?" for the first 2 episodes but its really coming together, I like how Ryuko does'nt win every fight by going "I CAN ROAR LOUDER THAN YOU SUPER-POWER-MEGA-ABILITY RRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHHH......." like most other action series.

    Plus the scenes where her friend does the interpretive dances to explain whats going on are brilliant :D


  • #55
    entropi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    Have you guys seen the trailer for Princess Kaguya, the new Studio Ghibli feature? The artwork is awesome! It has such an old skool look and feel to it and the story is bound to be top notch as always.

    Anyhoo...here it is for those who have not seen it yet:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10KyiwSCixU


  • #56
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Saw it yesterday, it looks great. Great to see another Isao Takahata film too, I think the last one I saw of his was My Neighbors The Yamada's. This has a very similar art style.


  • #57
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B7kO-4Tkag


  • #58
    entropi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    Links, that is AMAZING :D:D In tears here laughing at it!


  • #59
    megaten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,897 ✭✭✭megaten


    http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2013/11/11/seven-seas-licenses-lucifer-and-biscuit-hammer

    Lucifer and the biscuit hammer was just announced by seven seas. It a seriously good action series.


  • #60
    GalwayGuy2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,269 ✭✭✭GalwayGuy2


    Hmmm, I wonder should we have weekly watching session?


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  • #61
    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,135 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    I see police came to an Asian cosplay convention after someone came in a very revealing Kill la Kill cosplay. :/

    EDIT: It was over this
    1391952_10152113649619705_1273621969_n.jpg


  • #62
    GalwayGuy2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,269 ✭✭✭GalwayGuy2


    ^^^
    Why?


  • #63
    alarmedredfox
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭alarmedredfox


    very orignal


  • #64
    Butterscotch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭Butterscotch


    That girl's Kill La Kill's cosplay is amazing! This is the kinda costume you got to be careful doing in public as it could come across as tacky/cheap but this girl really nailed it and her costume looks spot on! The costume looks like she put alot of work into it too. I guess this costume is more suited for shooting material but fair chunks to her wearing it in public.

    I thought this was interesting.

    DpG1VIk.jpg
    If print is too small to read. Link.


  • #65
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Something fun, Shingeki no Kyojin promotion for horse racing in Japan ;)

    http://shingeki-jra.jp/


  • #66
    GalwayGuy2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,269 ✭✭✭GalwayGuy2


    Hmmm, i wonder what age can you show Howl's Moving castle to?

    I think one of my cousins would like it.


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  • #67
    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,135 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    I'd say 12 onwards if you want them to fully understand the storyline.


  • #68
    Butterscotch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭Butterscotch


    entropi wrote: »
    Have you guys seen the trailer for Princess Kaguya, the new Studio Ghibli feature? The artwork is awesome! It has such an old skool look and feel to it and the story is bound to be top notch as always.

    Anyhoo...here it is for those who have not seen it yet:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10KyiwSCixU

    That looks beautiful. Stunning artwork. I really want to see that. I would recommend Howls Moving Castle. Very magical.


  • #69
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imtdgdGOB6Q


  • #70
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Did you know that cabbages are used to measure animation quality? http://imgur.com/a/2Bt2C


  • #71
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,104 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    eirtakon cosplay video, awesome work to the people in it as well

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvjR2rmWiEA


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  • #72
    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,135 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    Yarp! The quality of cosplayers gets better every year. First time I've missed it in 5 years this year ;_;


  • #73
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,104 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    I hjave never went, meant to go this year, missed out on master of nothing as ryuk! damn!


  • #74
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Someone went as Ryuk? :eek: Must see that! :D

    Still twitching I couldn't go, but there's next year and there's also Akumakon in Jan, so yay :)


  • #75
    entropi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    Someone indeed ;)

    That's a great video. I really should have got in contact with him to take part but left it too late :/


  • #76
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    love this guys videos

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuFepRC98Mo


    and also, must see Sword Art Online at some point


  • #77
    GalwayGuy2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,269 ✭✭✭GalwayGuy2


    Hmmm, is it true that people who watch anime, less so with reading manga, are looked down on in Japan?


  • #78
    Konata
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,164 ✭✭✭Konata


    GalwayGuy2 wrote: »
    Hmmm, is it true that people who watch anime, less so with reading manga, are looked down on in Japan?

    Depends! Otaku are sometimes looked down on but I find you generally have to be quite extreme to be considered an otaku. So like, guys who have rooms adorned with posters, bedsheets, figures etc. etc. of anime girls would be considered a bit unfavourable.

    But there's tons and tons of casual anime viewers here and they're definitely not looked down on (in my experience anyway!). Like, people wouldn't be afraid to say they watch anime or anything like that.


  • #79
    GalwayGuy2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,269 ✭✭✭GalwayGuy2


    Oh well that's better than I thought. I was reading about the Otaku murders, etc, and I thought there was more stigma.

    It seems fairly like our own tbh. There always articles about why people read YA and so on so forth.

    So, I'll be a quite Otaku :P


  • #80
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,104 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    kill la kill opening done in MS Paint

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMggchBYKzk


  • #81
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    ...watashi wa L desu...


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  • #82
    Gunmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,067 ✭✭✭Gunmonkey


    So, anybody get anything Anime related yesterday? Got the first half of Steins;Gate, and a voucher for Amazon so will grab the other half soon :D


  • #83
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Gunmonkey wrote: »
    So, anybody get anything Anime related yesterday? Got the first half of Steins;Gate, and a voucher for Amazon so will grab the other half soon :D

    I got the second half of Steins;Gate! :D and the second half of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, which is all very super awesome! :D


  • #84
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,755 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Gunmonkey wrote: »
    So, anybody get anything Anime related yesterday? Got the first half of Steins;Gate, and a voucher for Amazon so will grab the other half soon :D

    Got feck all anime related -_-


  • #85
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    So I had posted this to After Hours by accident, but Hayao Miyazaki returns from retirement


  • #86
    Hesthea
    Registered Users Posts: 201 ✭✭Hesthea


    GalwayGuy2 wrote: »
    Oh well that's better than I thought. I was reading about the Otaku murders, etc, and I thought there was more stigma.

    It seems fairly like our own tbh. There always articles about why people read YA and so on so forth.

    So, I'll be a quite Otaku :P

    The word otaku only has a bad connotation in Japan from when they arrested a pedophile that among his several videos of child porn he also had lots of anime among it. Since then, being considered an otaku is the same as being a pedophile even though that, outside Japan, the same word is used to describe people who enjoys the japanese culture: anime, manga and anything Japan related.


  • #87
    GalwayGuy2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,269 ✭✭✭GalwayGuy2


    Hmmm, that's interesting and rathr disturbing. So, it's about being considered an 'Otaku' rather than watching anime?

    In other news, I found out Kill La Kill has a Pulp Fiction cameo.

    http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2013/10/26/blink-and-you-might-miss-pulp-fiction-cameo-in-kill-la-kill


  • #88
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Hesthea wrote: »
    The word otaku only has a bad connotation in Japan from when they arrested a pedophile that among his several videos of child porn he also had lots of anime among it. Since then, being considered an otaku is the same as being a pedophile even though that, outside Japan, the same word is used to describe people who enjoys the japanese culture: anime, manga and anything Japan related.

    That's really not true at all. In fact, there was a serial killer who was Otaku, but that was over 25 years ago now, and has very little bearning on what the term Otaku means now. To say that Otaku is 'the same as being a pedophile' is just not true.


  • #89
    Hesthea
    Registered Users Posts: 201 ✭✭Hesthea


    Links234 wrote: »
    That's really not true at all. In fact, there was a serial killer who was Otaku, but that was over 25 years ago now, and has very little bearning on what the term Otaku means now. To say that Otaku is 'the same as being a pedophile' is just not true.

    Maybe i exaggerated a bit but the info i gave was given from friends living in Japan.
    It is true that he was a serial killer but he also sexually molested his victims. The fact that japanese society still see Otaku as a black stain is partly due to "The Otaku Murderer".

    Tsutomu Miyazaki


    So otaku is a derogatory term in Japan that refers to anyone with an unhealthy, unnatural obsession to something including but, not limited, to anime, manga and video games.


  • #90
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Hesthea wrote: »
    Maybe i exaggerated a bit but the info i gave was given from friends living in Japan.
    It is true that he was a serial killer but he also sexually molested his victims. The fact that japanese society still see Otaku as a black stain is partly due to "The Otaku Murderer".

    Tsutomu Miyazaki


    So otaku is a derogatory term in Japan that refers to anyone with an unhealthy, unnatural obsession to something including but, not limited, to anime, manga and video games.

    Sure, it's often used as an insult in the same way that some people in English speaking countries would use nerd/geek to describe folks who are into games, comics, or have other generally nerdy interest, and consider them basement-dwelling no-lifers. But similarly, there's folks who embrace the term, a look around Akihabara in Tokyo or on Osaka's famed otaroad (or, 'otaku road') would give you an idea of this.


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  • #91
    Hesthea
    Registered Users Posts: 201 ✭✭Hesthea


    Links234 wrote: »
    Sure, it's often used as an insult in the same way that some people in English speaking countries would use nerd/geek to describe folks who are into games, comics, or have other generally nerdy interest, and consider them basement-dwelling no-lifers. But similarly, there's folks who embrace the term, a look around Akihabara in Tokyo or on Osaka's famed otaroad (or, 'otaku road') would give you an idea of this.


    Yes. I'm not saying that everyone thinks the same way towards the term otaku. One of the reasons japanese don't laugh at cosplayers is because majority of them like to cosplay.
    Even though they are trying to ease the negative stereotype that has befallen on the word otaku that might take a while since the media still links the "otaku murderer" to the word otaku.


  • #92
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Hesthea wrote: »
    Yes. I'm not saying that everyone thinks the same way towards the term otaku. One of the reasons japanese don't laugh at cosplayers is because majority of them like to cosplay.
    Even though they are trying to ease the negative stereotype that has befallen on the word otaku that might take a while since the media still links the "otaku murderer" to the word otaku.

    A majority of Japanese people like to cosplay, huh? Cosplaying can be a pretty intense hobby, so I really doubt that a mority would cosplay, it sounds like quite a generalization. You don't mind if I ask you for a source on that, do you?


  • #93
    Hesthea
    Registered Users Posts: 201 ✭✭Hesthea


    Links234 wrote: »
    A majority of Japanese people like to cosplay, huh? Cosplaying can be a pretty intense hobby, so I really doubt that a mority would cosplay, it sounds like quite a generalization. You don't mind if I ask you for a source on that, do you?


    Let me rephrase it:
    The Japanese youth likes to cosplay.


  • #94
    Butterscotch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭Butterscotch


    Here is an imformative documentary explaining how cosplay and Otaku are seen in Japan and in the Western world which you maybe interested in.

    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/9XBrmyoWj-k" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>


  • #95
    Butterscotch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭Butterscotch


    Sorry for double posting I couldn't edit post. Here is the link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XBrmyoWj-k


  • #96
    Hesthea
    Registered Users Posts: 201 ✭✭Hesthea


    Butterscotch wrote: »
    Sorry for double posting I couldn't edit post. Here is the link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XBrmyoWj-k

    Thanks for the link, Butterscotch.

    That shows clearly that Japan has a market for cosplay in Tokyo, the famous Akihabara, Otome Road in Ikebukuro and lets not forget Harajuku.

    Unfortunately, cosplay is a taboo hobby that isn't openly accepted by the Japanese society.


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  • #97
    Butterscotch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭Butterscotch


    You are welcome. Glad you enjoyed it!

    It is a very informative documentary. It is the same with here too to a certain extent and most places. We are still living in the dark ages some what having a long way to go but there is hope in the future as times are changing gradually.


  • #98
    entropi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    I was reading somewhere online quite a few months ago that most Japanese people cosplaying at a con in Japan will get themselves into costume and character at the con itself, rather than walk around/taxi themselves to a con in character as it is viewed as shameful or disrespectful. Apparently the people you would see walking to a con already in cosplay are Westerners, is that true?

    I don't have a link unfortunately, it was too far back to remember.


  • #99
    Konata
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,164 ✭✭✭Konata


    entropi wrote: »
    I was reading somewhere online quite a few months ago that most Japanese people cosplaying at a con in Japan will get themselves into costume and character at the con itself, rather than walk around/taxi themselves to a con in character as it is viewed as shameful or disrespectful. Apparently the people you would see walking to a con already in cosplay are Westerners, is that true?

    I don't have a link unfortunately, it was too far back to remember.

    Well, certainly at Comiket this year, most of the cosplayers seemed to be carting around suitcases so I'm assuming they were getting changed at the venue. However, I would've just assumed it was more for practicality's sake - most people would have had to travel a fair distance on trains etc. to get to the venue and navigating that in cosplay (especially since most of the ones I saw were quite extravagant!) wouldn't be the easiest of tasks. Plus, there's the chance of your cosplay getting dirtied/damaged etc. Could well be true about the shameful side of things aswell but I genuinely think practicality plays a huge part in changing into your cosplay the the venue rather than at home!


  • #100
    cherryghost
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    When I was over there I talked to a few and they said they would have no problem wearing cosplay around. As Konata said above, it's just more convenient.


  • #101
    entropi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    It does seem far more practical to do it that way, since not everybody will stay more than the one day as per usual with a con and they can just pack up, wheel their stuff away and catch a train home during the night. Were there dressing rooms separate from the regular toilets for cosplayers there, Konata? Also, was it a good con?


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