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The movie has the same problems as Brotherhood does at it's start, except it's twice as bad. They speed through everything so quickly that it's hard to grasp onto anything. Putting the entire story into one film was the stupidest idea that could have ever been conceived. It should have been a tetralogy, 4 films, each covering in detail, a quarter of the events. It would have probably been at least 8 hours of film to make, so perhaps that was seen as too risky, but this is FMA we're talking about. You need to respect the material in it, and the film failed to do that on every level. Also, I can't get over how bad the CGI for Al and Nina were, that just hurt an already poor film to the point where it was beyond repair.

That's short term thinking. EA survived before Star Wars, they will survive after it. As for stocks, those will go right back up if people buy EA's sports games this year, which I can promise will happen. So long as they don't try that rumored monthly fee for online matches that I've been hearing about, EA will end up just fine after hitting a bad bump in the road. As long as we can force them to higher standards moving forward though, the company will have to change their ways, and that's where things are likely to go more than anywhere else.

Every game is a real game, regardless of how much we don't like it or bad it is. That's just the nature of things.

Realistically, that's not going to happen. Without backlash like what happened with Battlefront II and the most recent Need for Speed, EA will be just fine, and if they aren't fine, every company and project will go before they do, leaving a good part of the gaming development side of this medium unemployed. The only way to stop EA without bankrupting a good portion of the industry is to force them to change their ways with the games they make that have problems that need to be resolved. That's a goal I feel as well that we can accomplish so long as we get in their faces like what happened with the two games I mentioned. It's gonna be a long battle to do that, but it's winnable, and that's encouraging.

My "rig" is mostly my PS4 and 3DS. I also have a Vita and an Xbox One, but the latter of those two hasn't been touched since last April save for about two weeks ago to check and make sure someone didn't accidentally destroy my brother-on-law's external drive for his Xbox One. I do have the ability to play games on my PC but due to the fact that I have partial paralysis in my hands, using a mouse can start hurting after a while and to be honest, I mostly play RPG's anyways, so I rarely need a PC to play the ones I care about as they either come out on PS4 or 3DS.

What it really comes down to, is that people haven't gotten over the stigma's they believed as a child. It's kind of sad really. We've grown and matured so much this generation, even if the youngest generation may not have as much, and changed our perspective on so many things, and yet for some reason anime is not something that has gone through this change. Perhaps that's one of the reasons it hasn't really changed at all is so long outside of visuals, because the stigma hasn't and people seem unwilling to open their eyes to the medium. It could also be that because the world has changed so much and people seen more reluctant than ever to admit that perhaps their emotional reactions to something may not be what actually is, and they don't like being questioned, even though they can't avoid it, that anime has just become one of those things that people can get mad at to let loose some frustrations from their daily lives on. The point I'm making overall I guess, is that beyond the stigma, there's a slue of reasons that people still look down upon anime for.

I can't help but think some of those statistics are way off border, because it's been common knowledge that the largest demographic is males aged 35 plus, followed by women in their 20's, men under 35, women in their 30's and finally the different teenage demographics. If it really changed, I feel like there would have been some huge story about it somewhere, and i never saw it. That said, I'm naturally not willing to trust the ESA because they've been more and more like a government operated organization than one meant to protect, or even be honest to the gaming communities out there about the major issues with the industry in the hopes of protecting their investments. The journalism side of me doesn't trust much of anything they say right now, and it's hard to know how long they've been untruthful to people.

Anime hasn't changed. They've been using the same tropes so often for so many decades, that we've been trained to praise anything that deviates from the tropes even a little bit until that deviation becomes the norm, and we have to wait for that cycle to repeat. The only other anime that get popular are ones that reach fame because of people who are new to anime liking something and not knowing a better version of it exists, and they refusing to watch the better version when that's pointed out, like SAO as an example. This is a cycle that's been repeated for years and will continue to be for many more as that cycle repeats because anime doesn't change. It doesn't grow with it's medium, and the best shows from the 70's to early 2000's have already come and gone, so we continue to repeat the cycle of mediocrity. It's quite a sad state for the medium to be in. If there are any changes to anime, it's in the films, be they stand alone or not, because they do deviate and change far more often than shows ever try to.

As of today I'm 30, I have no genre preferences, I just want a good story, I'm male, and I've been watching anime since I was a kid, so no, I do not believe anime is for kids. There are several anime in fact that kids should not watch like Elfen Lied, Claymore, Devilman Crybaby and many others.

You do have to try and bribe people a bit to get a nomination, but even getting that nom can make your movie's sales skyrocket to the point that any anime movie would probably see at least a 2 times increase in revenue, and put them on the map for future nominations which can have the same effect.

Now normally, I wouldn't talk about anything like this, but I think it's important in this case. There are no anime films in the Oscars this year, and while normally that's an expected turnout, in a year where we get "In This Corner of the World" "A Silent Voice" and mostly notably "Your Name" that seems like a pretty egregious oversight, if I'm being kind. Now on the one hand I get it, the Oscars tend to pick films that are artsy or risky or some cases like freakin' Boss Baby, entirely stupid, and more importantly are either made by the United States or France, but it's hard to argue that 2017 was not the most important year in anime history, especially in the films department, since probably the early 2000's when Spirited Away was released to the world. To have all three of those films excluded at a time where anime has really shown that it can tackle some tough issues so well, or treat an often comedic idea with such seriousness that you have to love it, it's hard to accept this exclusion. Anime has always had this connotation behind it, or this stigma that leaves most people are afraid to admit to liking it for fear shunned of being open about it, and while it's fair to argue that perhaps none of these three films are quite up to Studio Ghibli standards, it isn't fair to say that they aren't the best the medium has to offer right now. And that's not saying that these are downgrades, but for the Oscars to ignore anime films in a year where they feel like Boss Baby is a suitable replacement, says a lot about how they should be looked at. Animated movies this year were terrible in terms of quantity that was also high quality, yet we have three genuine contenders to go against Coco which is really the only film the Oscars recognized that deserves anything, trust me, I've seen all the films they nominated, and none of them even come close to Coco, is frustrating to say the least. I don't know, that's how I'm seeing things right now, how about the rest of you?

This is different. I like it though.

That could be @ItsSammy but I don't think you and I really know each other well enough outside of anime so it's hard to say. That said, age is always a concern with me since I'm turning 30 this weekend, but again, like with Animefreak, if that's not a problem, I'd be okay with it.

Dark theme sounds good to me. It's easier on the eyes that way.

I mean, I think you're still a minor, but if not, I'd be okay with it. Never had reason not to like you.

That's difficult but I guess if I had to choose one it would be something like Bakumatsu Kinkansetsu. That world is a mix of a few things which makes it interesting.

Politely refuse I suppose.

Just to clarify, you're talking about my post right, because I distinctly mentioned a few films not directed by him like From Up on Poppy Hill which was directed by his son Goro Miyazaki, or When Marnie Was Here which was directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and My Neighbors The Yamada's which was directed by Isao Takahata.

Celica from FE Echoes

If we're just going by Sex Appeal here, Ayumi from X-blades does comes to mind, even if the game she's from is pretty much hot garbage.

4/10. Not a Garo Fan Fairy Tail.

This is probably the best, the best place for this, but it's kind of hard to know, because so rarely talk about anime news. That said, this is something worth mentioning: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-12-28/tokyo-otaku-mode-considers-otaku-coin-cryptocurrency/.125821 Basically, what this boils down to, a new kind of Cryptocurrency not unlike bitcoin of the several other ones out there, but it's also a hybrid of that, and getting money for reviewing or sharing anime content. The Otaku coin can be used to buy anime merchandise, or to support projects that we like, and it can even be used at conventions. Tokyo Otaku Mode had said that they want to get the currency out there by Summer of this year, which probably means somewhere around AX in LA this year. My question to you is, what do you think about the idea? It's pretty clear that the anime scene is suffering more and more from a lack of funding for years, but cryptocurrency being what it is, can allow for money to basically be made as long as put in time. The one major problem with this is of course, with a currency, there's an economy, and with that, a balance may need to come into play, so as to keep the currency from losing it's value,. There's also the possibility that this currency could be affected by the other cryptocurrencies out there, which means it's value would possibly yo-yo a bit, changing in value at the drop of a hat. The good thing about that though, is that unlike other cryptocurrencies this one wouldn't be an investment of actual money, but rather of time, which may alter it's value considerably. So with that in mind, what are your thoughts? I'd like to know, and hey, feel free to spread the news around in case there are people who aren't aware of this, because it would help save the industry if all goes well.

I looked up Violet Evergarden on my own, and I'm really pretty torn on it. On the one hand, it looks like an amazingly well animated show, and the visuals alone might make it worth checking out, but on the other hand, I feel like I already know the whole story, and that obviously ruins some of the fun.

It's an interesting topic, but I say it depends, and I mean it really depends. Take for example, Persona 4, the game, not the anime. In there, it not only feels natural because how seriously the game takes itself, but the actors pull it off without much of a thought, so you rarely think about it. Yet on that same note, when it happened in the animation, it was unnatural because the tempo of the show was different than the game. In another note, sometimes it can feel unnatural in Japanese, like with Dragon Ball's many series. If feels odd to hear Goku refer to Piccolo and Vegeta as san, because they both tried to kill him multiple times. Plus, even though Goku was raised on Earth in Japan, to see Piccolo or Vegeta do the same to him is jarring. That said, if it happened in English, it would be more awkward. I guess what I'm getting down is this, it all depends on situations, and the seriousness of any given show.