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I guess many anime fans tend to look down on people who like the 'big ones'? I mean, unfortunately many anime fans tend to be elitistic to some degree... Another reason is probably, that the big shonen anime run for so long that only hardcore fans keep discussing and memeing it - and if a studio like Toei is predominately known for shows like this, they tend to get overlooked. Unique (as not that OP or DBZ isn't unique but after a couple of years they tend to feel generic) like FLCL or Monogatari that aren't released regularely or completely different to anything before and after will stay relevant in discussions for a long time, because they are not that present on the release schedules. And with it their studios. Also, not necessarily anything to do about what we talked but I'm just gonna drop this

I can only recommend it. Many older Magical Girl anime (at least the few 've seen) tend to be a bit repetitive. The fights might be nice but end always more or less the same way and characters do the same thing over and over again. In Cardcaptor Sakura, you have a different enemy every time (not the usual recurring Evil McEvilson, son of Evil Evilsen) and each enemy has to be approached differently. And the characters aren't annoying (Looking at Usagi from Sailor Moon...) and generally likable. And it has a it of nostalgic feeling to me. Not that I'vee seen it as a child but it gives me the same vies as DoReMi, and generally a naivé, laid back feeling.

It's weird, at least for me, KyoAni's move light sided series tend to be really well done, but the more series movie or series (like Violet or Koe no Katachi) tend to be ... off. They're good, really good, but KyoAni just tends to put too much into the emotional scenes. Like, so much cliché and a soundstrack so loud that you think more about the music than about what actually happeneing. Is it just me, or is Toei Animation one of the least discussed studios, even though its among the most influential?

Cardcaptor Sakura. Wanted to watch a Magical Girl anime, not really into the genre, and tried Futari wa Precure but this one got repetitive pretty fast, so I'm finally digging through Cardcaptor Sakura. Enjoying it a lot so far!

@efaardvark Hard SF is really the only SF I'm into, perhaps because, as you said, it gives us a glimpse at what we might have one day, in one form or another (Although I have to admit that I'm not that much of a SF fan except Cyberpunk and the 'very near future stuff' like Dennou Coil, Psycho Pass, etc. ...) I didn't know about VRD, thanks for mentioning that. Definitely an interesting topic. Imaging having glasses/lenses connected to some kind of central computer that processes most of the stuff after receiving information from the glasses and then sending it back for the user. Something like what came up (not so) recently where you play a game which is on a pc somewhere else and you just send the (controller) input and receive the output on your screen. With fast wifi available pretty much everywhere, you could reduce the lag to a bare minimum (ofc, there's always going to be lag). Since you mentioned cars, the FSD might, or probably will (since it's the point), change the rate at which self-driving cars improve. To go back to the idea above (doesn't have anything to do with the topic but still an interesting thought) - imagine having every car self driving, connected to servers, so that every car know the location of every other car in the vicinity, plus the traffic lights, pedestrians, etc. ... Could prevent accidents on a whole new level, plus plan traffic way more efficiently (for example have an AI [or several AIs working together] overlook the entire traffic in the region and managing every car's speed, direction, path, etc. .... You could steadily train it with simulations and rl exp. [like Tesla cars do] ) Having people run into traffic because they're trying to catch their 100th rattata wouldn't be a problem either, since this/these AI(s) could see it coming from cameras on the different cars, public cameras, etc. .... But if Dennou Coil taught us anything - don't fall asleep with you glasses on (or in you selfdriving car)!!

I'm almost finished with it and I think it's really great. Well written and expands on the characters in pretty much every way, having a new view point to nearly every scene and character. If you liked the manga/movie, I can only recommend it.

Global, augmented reality with "simple" glasses (and, perhaps, in the Dennou Could universe in the future with contacts) certainly would be interesting, furthermore I think Dennou Coil made these cyber battles really interesting (I was recommended this show after I felt let down by "Summer Wars" and its depiction of "battles" in a bit more advanced internet). Finding a way to project a new texture over literally any object IRL, is probably a bit far in the future - having 3d creatures roam the streets actually seems more feasible after Pokemon Go- but it'd probably be pretty awesome. Although the safety risk would be monumental.

He already has that goofy look, although these kind usually have spiky, blonde hair and a crush on their red haired class mate I would prefer to be a different Edogawa though - older than he looks, witty and famous with the ladies

@efaardvark Never seen this anime but the observatory looked something like that, except in white. (granted, observatories can't look that much different ) Maybe I'm the protagonist of the anime of a different universe? Or the goofy, dumb side character?

Finished the 5cm/sec manga (only bought it because the 'One more side' LN was released). I recently started 'Blood Trail' by Oshimi Shuzo and its really good. Also, I'm soon caught up with the Detective Conan manga.

We've had an Observatory in our school - like, a really big one - and the people in our Astro-Club sometimes took long exposure shots of stars, certain astrological objects and events (Can't say I know that much about this kind of stuff - more on the engineering side of things when it comes to space and physics) with their phone through the giant telescope. (The observatory was basically one part of our school with it's own tower and it had to be rotate mechanically - so yeah, the telescope was huge). But with the correct camera lens, a tripod, a lonely place on top of a mountain with no towns nearby and a clear night you can get some nice shots of the stars without fancy equipment. I did some a few years ago when we went hiking for a few days. I used to do photography more frequently, I hardly ever do it lately, mostly of landscapes and birds. Unfortunately I basically lost all my files on my windows system, including every photo I ever took so yeah - I have nothing to show for... (at least I now have a reason to completely free myself from windows )

ReCreators. Dropped it when I watched it shortly after it finished airing in 2017 but now I'm returning to it. It actually really good and I honestly don't know why I dropped it....

Going to Luxemburg to visit relatives but apart from that ... staying at home and enjoy the blue, electric light in the cool shade of a darkened room. But work and study will cut my vacation in half anyway...

Island

Either a high fantasy, RPG-like world or something neo-tokyo-esque. If you could be any character (from any medium; books, anime/manga, movies, operas, etc. ...) who would you be?

Yes, seen it. Mirai no Mirai

Haven't seen it. Persona 4 The Golden Animation

No, never seen it. Ikoku Meiro no Croisée The Animation

1.) Hard to answer. I'd say, something with a good english dub would make it easier to get into anime. And something with a bit of comedy and perhaps some good action but also some mature themes to it with interesting characters. Either FMAB, Mob Psycho 100 or Comby Bebop. It depends what the person like though. If they want something funny without any tension, or serious and grim dark, or an epic adventure, etc. ... 2.) I'd actually tell myself to start reading LNs sooner, starting with either Monogatari or Boogiepop! But as for Manga: Azumi and Vagabond; and for Anime: Black Lagoon and Durarara!

Give them hard riddles/cases to solve.

Dust - I collect dust on my violin. Ok, in earnest, I collect books - shelves and shelves of books (granted, many are from the collection of my parents) with either classical literature (19th - mid 20th c. and especially WW1 lit.), athurian/medieval literature (really, any story from the middle ages to the 17th century), Mythology (especially Norse, Germanic, and Arabic), Fantasy (mostly High or Medieval Fantasy) and recently I started a growing Light Novel collection, though I don't have much time to read lately. And some mystery somewhere in between. I used to collect stamps when I was a child but stopped long ago - I think the albums are buried somwhere in the attic...