It would be cool if after you died you could see the top 5 times you almost died
5 times you didn’t die and one time you did
warning: major character death

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It would be cool if after you died you could see the top 5 times you almost died
5 times you didn’t die and one time you did
warning: major character death
here’s a really relevant twitter thread (view the whole thread here)
Please read this if you’re a white or non-Asian fan of “idol culture” in any way, be it IRL or a series like Love Live. I know it’s long but if you really claim to not have any resources detailing its connections to sex trafficking of minors and child pornography then well here it is for your viewing now
Like the fire which guards light up to search things Burns up in the night And fades into the daylight
YOU BELONG TO THE WORLD
You wake in the night with your arm hanging over the side of your bed. It is still dark, and your bedroom is shrouded in deep shadow. Something unseen seizes your hand.
You grasp it tightly, knowing that first impressions are important and a firm, confident handshake will establish dominance.
A hollow voice echos under your bed, shaking you to your core, “You’re hired.”
i still cant believe that two boys, MAIN CHARACTERS AT THAT, are a canon, explicitly confirmed couple in yugioh zexal
(in the original, astral uses “aishiteru” which is one of the HIGHEST forms of love in japan, NEVER used towards family OR friends bc of its strong and serious meaning)
this is in a SHOUNEN series aimed at a YOUNGER audience
like
even in the anime, we had a bisexual boy who fell in love with both the main girl and the main boy
this is such a big fucking deal and i am so mad nobody is giving a shit as much as they should bc “lol extreme ygo series hair card games for kidz bluh bluh” like THIS IS HUGE AND YOU SHOULD WATCH/READ ZEXAL???????
Bonus Panel: (RIP Marik im sorry your yami is like this)
Based off @dewdlebot‘s textpost
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no my son please don’t cry oh god
oh god no
oh gOD NO
yOU CAN’T JUST CASUALLY THROW IT OUT THERE ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME THAT’S NOT ALLOWED
HOW HIS EXPRESSION CHANGES LIKE HE CAN’T BELIEVE WHAT HE’S HEARING BECAUSE HE FEELS THE EXACT SAME WAY
look listen you CAN’T just DO THIS TO ME OKAY you can’t just say I DON’T CARE IF I DON’T REMEMBER WHO I AM OR WHERE I CAME FROM, AS LONG AS I CAN STAY WITH YOU FOREVER
my dude that’s just nOT OKAY
you know what, you know WHAT, just get the fuck out of my face with your fUCKING HAND-HOLDING AND CONFESSIONS OF ETERNAL UNDYING DEVOTION TO EACH OTHER OKAY
I CAVE IN
In between bouts of screaming at my wrist for no cooperating, working at my job and on recovery, I am still fiddling around with that lab partners au.
I almost want to make it into a tropy anime thing
you’ve been waiting so long. preview.
why do anime girls from the 80s and 90s look so much better than anime girls today
Three factors: Color, personality, and realism.
First, color and shading.
vs.
The predominant style of the day in anime employs very crisp cell shading and eye-watering colors. Both female and male hair and eye coloration comes in any range of colors, from neon to pastel to white (although female characters most often display this). The typical color for skin in anime has gradually lightened to almost pure white over the years. Additionally, modern anime has a very specific, hard method of shading and highlighting that makes hair and skin look unnaturally shiny and often gross, lowering the realism value and throwing the texture of the skin into uncanny valley territory.
Secondly, anatomical proportions. Besides the shading, female character body and facial proportions have degraded so much that they are barely caricatures of human anatomy. Here are some examples of female anatomy in early anime:
and some in modern anime:
The biggest changes have been to the breast to waist proportion. For some reason, anime producers believe that an E-cup is the appropriate cup-size for an average 14 year old Japanese female. Bodies have also lost all of their depth (that come from an illusion of thickness necessary to two dimensional media) in favor of being skinny and flat (except for voluminous breasts, of course) and many normal, attractive parts of ladies (ribcages, stomach pooches, and natural folds) are simply smoothed over. Another noticeable change has been to the eyes and facial shape. Anime noses and mouths are apparently inversely proportional to eye shape, size, and distance apart. As the size of the eye increases, shape becomes more prominent, and distance towards the ears increases, the size of the nose, mouth, and chin decrease, contributing highly to the uncanny valley effect many modern any girls have.
Take these faces:
vs these
Thirdly, anime girls have lost much of their visible personality over the years due to moefication. This has happened to male characters also, although to a lesser extent. Anime girls are often not allowed to make cartoonish expressions (deemed unattractive) or generally change their expressions at all barring blush lines. In producers’ efforts to make the girls attractive to the audience in every frame, they sacrifice any personality that they might have. Anime girls look increasingly similar to one another, differentiated only by their hair style and eyes. Granted, there has always been a problem with female character same-face syndrome since the conception of anime (actually, in all drawn media) but as the number of female main characters in anime has grown, ironically, the problem has only increased.
Wow! Anime girls with the same hair color that you can actually tell apart!
And somehow, girls with all different colors that you can’t.
The screenshots in this post were taken from Urusei Yatsura, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, Ranma ½, Kimagure Orange Road, Ping Pong Club, One Piece, Angel Beats, Higurashi When They Cry, Sword Art Online, Shakugan No Shana, and Chobits. The examples above were not used to bash any anime, but merely to demonstrate the evolution of anime art tropes from the 1980s to now. The writing and plot of each anime were not taken into account at all.
So i definitely agree with some of these points for sure! but it also rubs me the wrong way just how biased some aspects of this post is because its blatantly comparing the best examples against the worst examples?
Ultimately its a style shift, just like how theres been a shift with western cartoons as well, meaning some stuff has gotten better and some worse.
I agree with the critique on body types, but your examples for expressiveness and same-face I think is rather unfair. Plenty of 90s anime also suffered from giant eyes tiny face syndrome, like Saber Marionette or Slayers
while 2000s+ have lots of examples that break this mold too, like Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood and Mob Psycho 100
however i do agree that there has been a trend in more of the needs-to-be-cute-all-the-time thing which is valid criticism
i think the greatest misleading aspect to this post specifically is the last part about expressions, because its comparing frames from in-motion animation to promotional art. Take promo art of Sailor Moon and anyone would admit its very same-face-syndrome, yet there’s lots of examples of these characters expressiveness in the anime itself
stills of anime like Konosuba and NIchijou are also very expressive despite the promo art too —and dont adhere to the “not allowed to make cartoonish expressions” rule. i feel recent anime has been moving away more from that trend
Modern anime is also producing great stuff like Your Name, so I guess it’s also a matter of taste as well because i found this movie to be beautiful and the character design/style very appealing. technology has come a long way!
idk i guess my point is, i agree with part of the message of this post, but anime on this site so often gets painted with broad strokes in a bad light, to the point where jokes like Anime Was A Mistake get dropped often and earnestly, at least from what i’ve seen. Theres bad examples out there, but a lot more good examples too than what I think a lot of people would expect ^_^
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“sharks aren’t vicious!!! they’re like huge puppy dogs!! they’re big sweethearts and i dont understand why people are scared of them!!”
“sharks do not attack humans in the way movies constantly portray them. sharks are curious, inquisitive animals and many bites come from sharks who “test bite” humans in order to see what they are/if they’re a threat, but that one initial bite can be fatal. while sharks are not monsters bent on hunting and targeting humans, human who hand feed them and treat them like any other animal causes more human-shark incidents (sharks can become used to humans feeding them and thus bite at a human to find fish). sharks are not blood thirsty maneaters, but they are an extremely powerful animal that deserves respect and should be admired from a distance.”
why do so many “icarus and the sun” artworks and stories portray the sun as a woman? do y’all know who controlled the sun? apollo. icarus is gay as fuck, y’all.
Sometimes it was helios, not Apollo. Icarus was still gay as fuck
“Icarus we just escaped prison don’t ruin it by flying too close to the sun”
[Icarus already fucking launching himself across the sky for the sake of some godly dick]
woops
Guy getting himself killed to get some godly dick is propably the most Greek thing to ever happen in mythology
icarus: I AM SO GAY *launches self into the sun*
Distance does not ruin people’s relationship. You don’t have to see someone everyday to be in love.
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I fucking love this.
Not only because hell yeah fat girl heroes and awesomely executed art and animation
But also because I know there are hundreds of assholes SEETHING over it
Everything about these pictures is PERFECTION.
I love how there are people who are pissed off about the depiction of *fictional* fat people being active. These aren’t even real people, but the very idea of a fat person being active (or you know, living while being fat) and being depicted in a positive light is enough to bother some?
Please.
These are beautiful and skilfully done. The ugliness of those others has no place here.
100% loving this
Tattoos That Turned People’s Scars Into Works Of Art.
I’m shooooook. Wow.
Love this
Super cool! What a great way to embrace scars and make them a beautiful part of yourself