Anime & Manga General Anime/Manga Discussion

[Val the Moofia Boss]

So I'm watching Princess Mononoke again (courtesy of Netflix), and a shower thought has struck me.

Doesn't the existence of amputation as a medical procedure effectively crash and burn a good chunk of its plot?

He could, but IIRC Ashitaka' village seemed to be doomed. Ashitaka was the last young man from there. If he had no arm, he wouldn't be able to effectively protect the village, which would probably be a bad thing given that they seem to live in a time of turmoil. The village could be easily overrun by robbers. Without his arm, Ashitaka also becomes a dependent... in a village where he is the last young man. Harvesting their crops and hunting food would become extremely difficult. The young women of the village are probably going to be absorbed into other clans and villages anyway. So even if Ashitaka got his arm amputated, his village isn't going to last long and he's going to have to go somewhere else, and other people might not be so keen on housing and feeding a one-armed man. So trying to excise the corruption is a good plan for him.

 

[Captain X]

I thought they said even if he cut his arm off that it wouldn't matter.

 

[Captain X]

 

[Terthna]

Professional localizers all think they're Ridley Scott adapting Blade Runner for the big screen. Their egos won't allow them to just translate something; they have to make it theirs.

 

[Lord Sovereign]

Professional localizers all think they're Ridley Scott adapting Blade Runner for the big screen. Their egos won't allow them to just translate something; they have to make it theirs.

I'd argue that's a big problem with woke writers in general, especially when it comes to book adaptions. It's the sort of attitude that can only come from the most truly arrogant of worldviews.

 

[Captain X]

Professional localizers all think they're Ridley Scott adapting Blade Runner for the big screen. Their egos won't allow them to just translate something; they have to make it theirs.

Actually probably worse, because just like those SJW artists on Tumblr, they think they are "fixing" someone else's art by making these changes. You know, like Cowboy Bebop's live action farce.

 

[Terthna]

Actually probably worse, because just like those SJW artists on Tumblr, they think they are "fixing" someone else's art by making these changes. You know, like Cowboy Bebop's live action farce.

They also seem to despise anime as a medium, and the Japanese as a culture. I suspect they consider their current occupations to be beneath them.

 

[Bacle]

New Gundam coming out, called the Witch From Mercury. Tag line is 'This Witch...Rides a Gundam."

Mobile Suit Gundam THE WITCH FROM MERCURY Official Site

All episodes are currently streaming through the official Gundam YouTube channel GUNDAM.INFO!

en.gundam.info

The director did Kill la Kill, and the script writer did Code Geass, and it's a corpo 'conspiracy in space' type plot it seems.

 

[Lord Sovereign]

The director did Kill la Kill, and the script writer did Code Geass

This is going to be utter chaos.

 

[Bacle]

This is going to be utter chaos.

Entertaining chaos at least.

The main character...already getting a mix of Ryoko Matoi and Kallen Kozuki vibes off her.

 

[Robovski]

You ever watch anime and think "geeze there is a lot of child labor in these shows"?

 

[Buba]

You ever watch anime and think "geeze there is a lot of child labor in these shows"?

Not that I watch much anime, but I've never had such a thought.

 

[Bear Ribs]

You ever watch anime and think "geeze there is a lot of child labor in these shows"?

Not really, everybody in Anime is typically aged down.

12-Year-Old: Young Adulthood, basically old enough to let wander the world and fend for himself, be a professional ninja hitman, or work a full-time job.
15-Year-Old: Prime of their lives, able to pilot war machines, be a world political leader, the pope, or a master strategist. Probably having regular sex with no social repercussions.
25-Year-Old: Geezer status. Guys are all grizzled, jaded, filled with whistful regrets about all the things they couldn't accomplish now that their life is over, well past their prime and only suited to mentor the 12-14-year-olds. Women are considered too old to marry or be attractive anymore.

1,000-Year-Old: All the years stolen from younger age categories are added to the old martial arts master.

 

[bullethead]

1,000-Year-Old: All the years stolen from younger age categories are added to the old martial arts master.

That or they're a loli that's uncomfortably paired with a character that looks at least 5-10 years than the loli's apparent age.

Especially bad when there's an adult looking form they could be taking (looking at you, Frederica from Chaika).

 

[Bear Ribs]

That or they're a loli that's uncomfortably paired with a character that looks at least 5-10 years than the loli's apparent age.

Especially bad when there's an adult looking form they could be taking (looking at you, Frederica from Chaika).

10,000 year old women become lolis. 10,000 year old men... not so much.

 

[Captain X]

You ever watch anime and think "geeze there is a lot of child labor in these shows"?

Usually I'm thinking of other problems, but really it all stems from this appeal to the high school age group and people who miss being in high school, meaning there is a distinct lack of anime about adults these days.

 

[Robovski]

I forget some of the shows I was thinking of, but the one I was most recently watching was Ascendance of a Bookworm, just so much orphan labor and kids in general. It's not a problem really, just something I noticed.

 

[bullethead]

Usually I'm thinking of other problems, but really it all stems from this appeal to the high school age group and people who miss being in high school, meaning there is a distinct lack of anime about adults these days.

What's sad/weird is that when anime that feature adult main characters are a thing, they can be extraordinarily popular. Tiger and Bunny was super huge in Japan because of that, although they completely botched the handling of it by taking forever to get to a second season.

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

You ever watch anime and think "geeze there is a lot of child labor in these shows"?

It depends on the genre. Seems to happen the most often in anime set at highschool. Shounen anime and light novels also tend to have a lot of unpaid child labor, though sometimes the hero is a part of an adventurer's guild and gets some money. Naruto is somewhat justified in that the villages have warrior cultures and have been at war for many years and are starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel trying to find reinforcement, hence why the kids are fighting.

In mecha shows like Gundam, the hero is usually a volunteer in some sort of small paramilitary force that does not have the resources to pay them. A few mecha shows allow the kids to officially join the military and get paid (Gundam 0079, Dragonar, Gasaraki).

I forget some of the shows I was thinking of, but the one I was most recently watching was Ascendance of a Bookworm, just so much orphan labor and kids in general. It's not a problem really, just something I noticed.

It could be argued that by making books for Myne, the orphans were paying for their food and housing at the Church, though it would be nice if they actually got money/an allowance they could save up to buy things.

Not really, everybody in Anime is typically aged down.

Sometimes the aging down comes off as really weird. Last year, I played Sakura Wars. There is a scene where one of the possible love interests, Sumire (pictured below), flies off the handle at one of the girls, Iris, who is 10 years old, for making a trivial mistake. Seeing a grown woman who looks like she is in her mid 20s berating a little girl really soured my opinion of her. Then you find out that Sumire is supposedly "16", only a few years older than Iris.

 

[bullethead]

Ramba Ral from Gundam 0079 is canonically 35 years old.

He looks like he's at least 45-55.

South Burning from Gundam 0083 has the same thing going on too.