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I know I watched the first few episodes of this, but fell off. Might need to revisit. I do recall liking the impression the story gave me that there was essentially a battle anime going on well away from the main protagonist that he was barely aware of. Always had a fondness for the trope of "There's a high-stakes plot in the setting that the actual protagonist doesn't know/care about".

Those several years were a bit of a renaissance or golden era. The content producers were talented and had good stories, but the big Sonys and Disneys hadn't yet taken over and dumbed down most of the content to push it into the mainstream.

I agree that was the peak of anime and manga.

Welcome! I come from a time before PCs, cellphones, or the Internet. Been coding since before the 486 was invented. My tastes are .. eclectic. Mostly into science fiction but I'll watch or read (almost) anything for the entertainment of it. Fan of Ghost in the Shell. Books are mostly hard science such as from Niven, Clarke, or Heinlein. Music is largely prog metal with a theme, such as Threshold's "March of Progress", Blind Guardian's "Nightfall in Middle Earth", or Ayreon's "Universal Migrator" albums. Games are mostly about crafting & building. Minecraft is a staple. Kerbal Space Program is my all-time favorite. Rockets and space exploration pays the bills. Don't be afraid to say "hi" if you see me around.

For me, it just takes away the whole point of art, If you let an algorithm do the interesting part for you, you're not making art, you're just making content

What would you do if you could go back 10 years, and what would you do differently from what you're doing right now?

Currently watching Red Dwarf for the first time - quite a riot.

While not always true, heroes are frequently defined as much by the villains they clash with as anything else, and the villain and their machinations frequently serve as the thing that grounds the journey of the hero and makes it feel like a journey rather than aimless wandering, the villain's defeat often being the ultimate goal. Guts' whole story in Berserk is centered around his desire to get revenge on Griffith for destroying the Band of the Hawk. Midoriya's becoming the "greatest hero in the world" is inexorably intertwined with his conflict with Tomura Shigaraki and the latter's desire to tear the world down. Amuro Ray's legendarily messy rivalry with Char Aznable remains one of the most famous in the medium of anime to this day. Put shortly, I'd pick the villain.

The biggest problem is always not being able to access full anime series in different countries. Some countries have limits, which is the same problem as Netflix.

Humans do learn from other artists, but we aren't trained on millions of works in the same way AI models are. We imitate and develop our own style over years, while AI is designed to extract patterns from vast datasets at a scale no person can. Whether that difference matters is up for debate, but I think it's a meaningful distinction.

Hey, I'm 62 and still working. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Congrats on making it this far at least.

500 page novel IN A DAY is insane!! That's crazy impressive

It worked well as a stand-alone novel, but considering how Sanderson seems to tie all of the Cosmere together, it's not entirely surprising. I'll probably have to re-read it when new ones come out, it's been so long. Have you read any of Sanderson's other books? I picked up Tress of the Emerald Sea, so that'll probably be my next one to read. Only a couple chapters in.

Some possibilities Fantasy/Isekai: Dororo • Scrapped Princess • The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat • The Faraway Paladin • The Eminence in Shadow • Clevatess • Demon Lord 2099 • Sentenced to be a Hero • The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic • The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs • Tsukimichi Romcom: Dealing With The Mikadono Sisters is a Breeze • Recovery of an MMO Junkie • Makeine •Tomo-chan is a Girl

I might need to go in and give it a try!

Finished Dorohedoro season 2, what a gut punch of an ending Glad they already announced season 3, hope we don’t have to wait for more than a year. Gonna try to finish up Agents of the Four Seasons & Akane Banashi today, start Re:ZERO’s latest season tomorrow.

The day is ending and my ACTs are all done. I actually didn’t read that much manga when I finished, but it’s fine. I don’t know why I suddenly wanted to come back to the forums, I posted on tumblr for a bit in my time gone to try and makes gifs for anime I felt was under-appreciated and have a space to discuss anime, but got burnt out fast since I was doin it daily and the reach is poor. I picked up art again though. Gonna start postin on twitter when i have enough courage. As for the manga review, I finished volume 1 of Dance in the Vampire Bund, got further into Kuroyuri apt, and started Saekano. Oh, where do I even begin with Vampire Bund. I’m in love with Nozomu’s style, it’s so sick and gothic and cool. The portion of the first volume where Akira walks through the streets with all the partying vampires, it fascinated me to see a lot of the crowd were designed with piercings and a lot of western rave, emo, and punk style of the time in mind (2005 to be exact). It makes sense, I think most of the vampires are sposed to be from europe and the americas. Mina is an adorable heroine, but beyond her cuteness and elegance is a highly intelligent and calculating character. As I read on, I realized that nowadays this series would be considered lame, it’s very of its time. It kind of envokes the feeling I get feom Shadow the Hedgehog, and ir did not surprise me that there were plenty of AMVs to stereotypically emo music of the 2010s and lady gaga. I was born a little late to that stuff, but I desire a return of AMVs. I made one almost two years ago for CubexCursedxCurious. I couldn’t watch any of the Vamp Bund ones since I didn’t want to be spoiled on the anime. All that aside, it’s so far a 8/10 at least. I’m waiting to get more volumes before I make more judgement on the story. As for Kuroyuri Apartment, well. It’s nice, very cute and clean style. I could tell immediately it was released around the same time as Himouto Umaru (2016-2018 was definitely a good time for slice of life) However, outside of being cute with an interesting enough premise— it’s kind of bad. I was expecting a cute daddy-daughter dynamic story, but kind of got an almost-harem-somehow-not-ecchi comedy. It’s fine, but not good by any means. Yuzuki Gao seems to make a lot of mediocre work, but has a nice art style. Last, Saekano. Which, I’m actually only a couple of pages into. I was really interested in Eriri which is why I grabbed it when I saw it at the bookstore. She reminds me a lot of Kanzaki H. Aria? Twintailed tsundere, half english and half japanese. All I could gather in the little I read was a bit generic, but I’m sure once I get further I might like it. The girls are very cute, Utaha is gorgeous and Megumi looks quite cute. I’m excited to see if the whole game plot is realized. For today, that’s all I have. Tomorrow will be an anime day because I’m watchin a lot right now, so perhaps a review of whatever I watch. Goodnight folks -w-

I like Wage war, The Amity Affliction, The Plot in you, Bad Omens, Dayseeker, Driveways, Bullet for my Valentine, Make them suffer, Cold rain, Like Vultures, Avenged Sevenfold I know a little of, Currents, Trivium, All That Remains, August Burns Red, Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying I've been listening to Vkei and Jrock recently like dir en grey (I know not all of these are technically metalcore but they all fall under the umbrella of rock and metal)

The way I see it, AI can not be inherently talented. If talent is the natural ability to do something, AI has no talent. AI is trained on human creation. Everything from the way it scans millions of pre-existing content to the prompts put into it stems from real human creativity. That isn't natural ability or talent.

hi guys. i decided to shift from social media and more to online forums. interactions w/o algorithms and AI and such. i find it to be a lot more engaging anyway, i'm ken and i like linkin park; hence my user. my favorite anime is either trigun or gurren lagann but i'm really into jujutsu kaisen lately

Villain, because the villain sets the circumstance in which the hero exists. Looking at it this way, the villain here can be just whatever constructed the circumstance, i.e., the context of the hero, and thus does not need to even be a character and can be practically any contextual problems that justify the hero's existence.

Congratulations on your 50th, a big landmark birthday. The verse Animechat quoted comes from a hymn written in 1719 by Isaac Watts, "O God, Our Help in Ages Past."

I'm about halfway through Shakugan no Shana. It's enjoyable, but nothing spectacular. I've wanted to watch it for a long time, because it was big back in the day. Also watching Revolutionary Girl Utena. As a fan of yuri, it's been on my list for quite awhile. I'm enjoying it so far, even though it can get a bit meandering. The mistreatment of Anthy so far by other characters has been rather...surprising, to put it mildly.

Hi Hunter, it's nice to meet you. Welcome to the forum!

Just finished up Fractale, which I thought was all right. I enjoyed it well enough, but the chance I'll ever watch it again is extremely low. Picked up Last Exile to replace it, and I'm having a great time. Hopefully this continues throughout the entire show.

I have a background in computer science and I know a bit about AI, past and present. I don’t have a problem with AI, but I understand why creators of all forms of media are concerned. My main issue is that the big AI companies - Open AI (ChatGPT) and Perplexity and others - make money by scraping humans’ art without providing any compensation to the originators. I doubt the AI companies would reciprocate.

Animé LA in Long Beach has got to be straight vibes. It sounds pretty cool

My sixth drawing of Reisen Udongein Inaba from anime, manga and Games Touhou, drawn on March 22, 2014 You can see more of my art in Twitter: https://x.com/ToshiroFudo

New drawings

Welcome! I'm also new I think my first anime ever was Pokemon - the Primeape episode

Im currently reading My Hero Academia and Demon Slayer.. in My Hero Academia i left off on v.6 which is really good so far. And in Demon Slayer I left off on v.6 which is really good but now even better now that Muichiro has showed up.

I read Vol. 1 of Demon Slayer. Now thats a good storyline. The story is action packed from the very beginning. Before anything happens theres definite for shadowing.

Hey there and welcome to the forum.

Butter cookies and milk

Bean dip. Crazy amounts of bean dip. This is my third can of bean dip this week and I don't know what's wrong with me.

Nope.

Hi dear manager, I have some little issue recently, Chosen bg image is not permanent after clearing history or am still lost navigating my cp?! Signatures are not visible in mobile mode! New topics should always on top! These are only my humble opinion, pls dont take it seriously, ty

I've never had issues with the themes here and I've been using the same one since I became a member.

Dress up like a Yeti and blast music outside of their doorstep.

These were some of the first manga I stumbled upon when looking for horror genre manga. Tomie and Lovesick Dead were the first couple I read. Still a fan I read Uzumaki not too long ago.

I think some of the art AI generates is interesting to look at but nothing more. I don't agree that you should claim AI generated work as your own, as you did nothing but type in some key words. Therefore if using it, should be displayed that it was created with AI. The reality is though we live in a world where technology is advancing and things like AI works are showing up more. Most people can't even tell the difference in if something is AI made or not. I've even seen several pictures of landscapes that I've had to look twice at to realize they aren't real and have been made by AI. I still haven't decided if that's scary or not yet. For now though, I just see them as something fun to play around with from time to time when I'm bored.

OK, i saw Chainsaw Man, and let me just say...you. are. CULTURED!!!! same with Nana, cheers!!!!

Knight Rider on the Charge Channel the classic shows never die in the land of tv the just land in the area of syndication

As for alcohol and neurons, your brain does not fully mature until your mid20s. That means neural connections are still being made and altered. Alcohol and other drugs can interfere and inhibit or misdirect those connections so while you wouldn't have brain damage from it, neurologically, you will likely never reach your potential. Most real neuronal death will come from a lack of oxygen supplying the tissues (from depressed breathing or asphyxiation on your vomit). As for me, I am in the lucky few that don't get hangovers, ever. I enjoy dry red wine and I mix my own drink and cocktails at home (I have a veritable liquor store supply at my home.). I do shots of liquor or shooters at home. Occasionally I order a mixed drink when out or a margarita at Longhorns (both the strawberry and watermelon ones are really good). I like a glass of gin or southern comfort after a long day at work. I don't drink beer (even when I visited Germany I didn't)...unless it is the "root" beer variety in a float . I have always wanted to try grog and mead. These days I rarely drink. The older you get the more weight a little bit of alcohol will add to your hips. It is more a at most monthly pastime as opposed to weekly. I do understand why some people drink to forget and I don't judge them for it. Rather I feel I should be grateful that I am not in their shoes. Different people have tolerances for only so much grief.

When I`m at a club or a party which I usually don`t go often to but lets say 10-20 times a year - which is seldom if compared to other people of my age group. I do like to drink beer though. While I don`t drink alone, I always have some beer in my cellar to drink if a visitor or friend were to show up. And when I`m out eating and don`t have to drive I enjoy one or two beer - although, both cases are pretty rare too...

Anyone here reads Goblin Slayer? It's a really good one, but kinda dark.

so true