Every time I try to show someone Haibane Renmei
My condolences. Haibane Renmei is one of my favorites.
At this point any Love Live adjacent content is welcome
Literally me after a dozen people kept pestering me about NGE.
I think on the one hand it is fair to say NGE is one of the greats from its time and arguably one of the most influential anime ever made (to the point where it’s now part of Japan’s cultural identity – you can hear Cruel Angel’s Thesis just causally as waiting room music for instance).
On the other hand, even as a fan myself I recognize how many brain-dead evangelical (heh) supporters try to tout it as the end-all-and-be-all of anime when it’s really just an unorthodox entry into a very specific type of genre.
I think on the one hand it is fair to say NGE is one of the greats from its time and arguably one of the most influential anime ever made (to the point where it’s now part of Japan’s cultural identity – you can hear Cruel Angel’s Thesis just causally as waiting room music for instance).
Yeah, I get that. I’m sure it was great, especially if you were young at the time. But watching it as an old fart that is already familiar with a lot of similar shows (a lot of them probably heavily influenced by NGE), it just felt very mid.
Personally, my favorite parts of it have always been the themes of connecting with people and the hedgehog’s dilemma, rather than all the action-y bits or the heavy-handed religious symbolism. Between it, Eureka Seven, and The Big O, and comparing them to the likes of Code Geass and whichever-actual-Gundam-series-I-watched, I learned I don’t really care for mecha being mecha, but I enjoy when mecha are metaphor.
QUICKEDIT: I realize I’m sounding like I’m trying to convince you to like it and it’s not my intention here, more just trying to explain my side and make conversation.
Me trying to show anyone Gurren Lagann
It is peak
Me trying to show anyone Golden Boy.
Was beginning to think I was the only one who’d seen that lmao.
There’s dozens of us! Dozens!
In that case they are simply wrong. That show is peak.
I blame Yoko and Episode 4 on my failures.
Ya gotta prepare them for it. Tell them the first three episodes are great, then they do weird stuff until episode 10, then it gets better. That way episode 8 blindsides them even harder!
Row row fight da powah
If anyone ever says that about S1 of True Detective I’m going to prison
They won’t sent you to prison for bad taste, no worries.
(No clue what S1 or True Detective are, Im just trash talking here)
can’t argue about taste ¯\(ツ)/¯
there is no universal peak thing. even with yourself.
when i was still in HS, i watched an anime (k-on) because people were raving about it. it was meh for me. fast forward to adult me and i rewatched it out of a whim and it makes me cry. mostly because it was covid and i was quite lonely. it remind me how life was, i can relate.
I wish everyone can find peak things in their life and be reminded that life is good.
there is no universal peak thing.
Say you haven’t watched Twinkle Nora Rock Me! without saying you haven’t watched Twinkle Nora Rock Me!, fake fan.
Nah Ex-Arm clears it bro.
Ex Arm is pretty good, but I am fairly certain it has more total animation frames. Honestly, why even waste the time with so many frames? Twinkle Nora Rock Me! proved peak didnt need all those extra frames, its just waiting for the cult classic revival it deserves.
… Any day now…
Kenny Lauderdale fan spotted ☆(*^o^)乂(^.^*)☆
I have to be honest chief, I have no idea who that is.
For context, I own a LaserDisc Player, and a good amount of anime OVA LDs. I saw Twinkle Nora Rock Me “before it was cool,” probably. Its just a joke after all.
Oh, damn, my mistake. You’re definitely a rarity in the anime fandom, then. I only know of Twinkle Nora Rock Me!, Chargeman Ken, and other similarly notorious anime from the 70s and 80s because of this one youtuber Kenny Lauderdale who covers old anime like that. It may have been from him that I even learned of YKK.
I would never be able to get into collecting LaserDiscs for various reasons but I tip my hat to you for being able to and helping with preservation, however small.
I’ll check out his channel, maybe I will find something I don’t know about yet lol.
I don’t really collect them, just picked them up over the years for viewing and held onto them ever since. Same with all my VHS tapes and DVDs. It’s not really for any sort of “preservation effort” per se, as there are already really clean digital copies of what I have available online and even on streaming platforms in some cases, just that I bought them and used them like any other normal person does. Hopefully they still work after I die, maybe the next generation will have interest to use them (and not just hoard them to sell at auction after being graded at some corrupt auction house like Heritage).
