KaiyaSaysHaiya

civilisation

I also agree with option one. As others have already said, I'd much rather switch to a simpler format than have everything disappear altogether. Features like blogs and clubs aren't used much anyway. I'm also not sure how switching to another place such as discord would play out. I personally think that it would make navigation and accessibility more difficult. At the end of the day, I just hope that we can keep this community one way or another ^^

Considering that this is a forum, there are lots of people on here with such varied experiences when it comes to the anime world. There are new fans and old fans alike! I'm curious, how has anime changed in your time? This applies to anybody regardless of how long you've been interested. These changes could be anything from the anime community to actual content in anime itself. What have you noticed? Do you like these changes or not, and why is that? Do you wish you could go back to a different era, or do you enjoy how things stand now? How do you think anime will continue to change in the future?

"I feel like there were spotty things before there were snotty things."

bad/strong smells

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error

"PEASANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

uninspired wanting cookies

doom

humanity

an 'interesting' kpop idol named tarzzan

aspiring

My favourite anime ED is currently Prayer X by King Gnu (the first Banana Fish ED)! The song originally didn't stick with me much, but I've recently fallen in love with it after starting to learn it on the piano. I think it's a very beautiful song overall. Everything from the vocals, to the lyrics, to the instrumental etc. is amazing, especially given the context of the anime. While this isn't exactly the song itself, I also LOVE the animation for the ED. While the premise itself is quite simple (not the best way to phrase it, but whatever), I think it's very effective. The sketchy, messy and grainy art, the DNA and the beating heart, ash lynx simply walking forwards, pausing to clutch his aching heart before being plunged into water. It's all very beautiful to me. Tangent time! I randomly felt like analysing it Maybe I'm thinking too hard, but one way I like to interpret it is the way Ash originally lives his life, constantly walking forwards and doing generally unforgivable things that are shamed upon by society just to survive, despite all of the pain held inside himself. The beating heart is set aside/covered up and he continues on as if it isn't there. At first, he is facing away from the audience, walking away from us. He is mysterious, unknown and 'locked away'. Nothing and nobody can get past his rough exterior and through to his now concealed heart. The lineart is very loose and messy, which creates a distant and dissociated effect. I think this also shows the way Ash is just going through life in an empty, unfulfilled way. The camera then flips, and Ash begins walking towards the audience. At first you can only see his feet (put yo dogs away ash nasty), which helps keep the mysterious and unattached effect from before. The non-existent camera then pans up to Ash's chest, and he reaches for his chest to tightly grip his shirt. While his body language when he was walking was loose and seemed carefree, his body is now tense and moving with clear intention. He quickly tears away his shirt, and all we see now is the beating heart. The way I see this is that this is when Eiji comes into Ash's life. His empty, repetitive life (Ash walking) is suddenly shaken and stopped (Ash pausing), and through Eiji's presence and influence, his life is now given meaning (Ash reaching for his chest). Eiji was able to reach past Ash's rough exterior and mask that he puts on for everybody else, and was able to reach his heart (which was previously put aside). We as the audience still can't see Ash's face though, which I think further shows that only Eiji could get through. After pulling aside his shirt and unveiling his beating heart, Ash falls backwards. He falls out of the white box he is shown in (I forgot to mention that), and while reaching out, he falls into a deep, dark ocean. Ash sinks down into the water, and for the first time, we see his whole body. His body language was loose when he was walking earlier, but it was controlled and intentional. It was part of the facade he put on in-front of others. It was unbreakable. Now, after meeting Eiji, Ash has become uncontrolled. Eiji has opened up Ash's unreachable heart, and he now drows in his emotions. Ash descends deeper into the water, and deeper into his feelings and his own life. He still appears 'loose', but he is now vulnerable. There is no fighting for himself in the water, but there is no need to put up walls. He drowns in these feelings, both new and old, and it's obviously overwhelming, yet he still doesn't fight back. Eiji is the calm and the good and the innocence in Ash's world that is stained by distress, bad and impurity. Similar to this description of Eiji, the water is calm and serine, and Ash seems to relax. Not fully, not by a long shot, but enough that he falls into a position where he doesn't need to be hyper aware of those around him. Only of himself. His arms and legs pull closer to his body, almost as if hugging himself. The protection is no longer from the world that has hurt him, but from Ash himself. From what Ash has become, and that in-itself feels terrifying to him. Finally, we zoom into Ash's face. This is the first time the whole sing that we see his expression. His eyes are closed and eyebrows furrowed due to his inner turmoil. Ash is finally vulnerable enough that even we, the audience, can see his face. We see past his exterior, and can see not Ash Lynx, but Aslyn. His emotions finally show. Then Ash's eyes open, and he can finally see agin. I spent quite some time writing that, and couldn't be bothered to reread it LOL. I suddenly felt the random urge to analyse the animation, so I went quite off-topic, but oh well Hopefully it was at least somewhat of a good analysis. There are also a few details I left out, but whatever