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| Hahaha. Pure trash that proudly accepts it and invites us to go along the trip. Loved it. |
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| God bless these visuals. Classic Ikuhara so far. Love him or hate him, there's no in-between. |
| [quote=skacinth message=57372456] kofmaster said: Trying to fill the Ikuhara's Bingo for this first episode (Warning: There are spoilers to other ikuhara shows on the bingo) I can say that THIS WAS FREAKING AWESOME FIRST EPISODE. Moterfucking Ikuhara. I think that this analysis is great. That quote though, alive as you are dead, I think that is going to be a major theme in this show. The way I take it is if you don't have any connections or any meaningful relationships in your life, you might as well just be dead. And to have a meaningful relationship, that means there are no secrets between one another. I'm glad there are other people doing analysis on this show too! |
kofmaster said: You can add suffering to that xDTrying to fill the Ikuhara's Bingo for this first episode (Warning: There are spoilers to other ikuhara shows on the bingo) I can say that THIS WAS FREAKING AWESOME FIRST EPISODE. Moterfucking Ikuhara. |
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| I'm all in for Ikuhara's wild ride. |
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kofmaster said: No wonder the style is so identical. And that unique humour.Minar-kyun said: This weird world setting. It reminded me of Mawaru Penguindrum. I wanna slap myself for wanting to skip this show at first lol. Interesting show. Shirikodama? That's funny. Is the same author than Mawaru. |
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 Ikuhara fans say "ア" means "object petit a" from Lacan's psychoanalysis theory. https://hilosophia.hatenablog.com/entry/2019/04/12/040243   Then, we can easily understand what Ikuhara wants to say in this series. "Don't give up on your desire" -Lacan I don't know about global situations, but philosophy about over-connectedness was trending in Japan. Ikuhara brought anus image from kappa myth and added the psychoanalysis background into it. Our desire is so easily controlled by the technological environment that we don't know what we really wanted to do. Desire is never free from restraints by some forms of others, but we also never should stop checking our desire function. Only desire leads us to some kind of actions beyond our current status. |
e_hobaApr 13, 2019 6:16 PM
| Japs and their folklore are fucking weird. Jesus Christ. |
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e_hoba said: Ah, someone finally decipher the message. Now I can sleep peacefully.Ikuhara fans say "ア" means "object petit a" from Lacan's psychoanalysis theory. https://hilosophia.hatenablog.com/entry/2019/04/12/040243 Then, we can easily understand what Ikuhara wants to say in this series. "Don't give up on your desire" -Lacan I don't know about global situations, but philosophy about over-connectedness was trending in Japan. Ikuhara brought anus image from kappa myth and added the psychoanalysis background into it. Our desire is so easily controlled by the technological environment that we don't know what we really wanted to do. Desire is never free from restraints by some forms of others, but we also never should stop checking our desire function. Only desire leads us to some kind of actions beyond our current status. |
| why are people liking this.... though animation was good... butt too much absurdness |
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| Wow. I'm so ready for this, this is wild and was so fun to watch lmao |
| Man.. its mawaru penguindrum all over again... |
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ibraheem234 said: why are people liking this.... though animation was good... butt too much absurdness Sums up Western general norms and majority of Mal users as a whole. They don't accept anything unique and different , thus Hollywood always produce generic movies that try to play extremely safe. Many JP studios too, try to produce generic genre (high-school dude go to isekai) storytelling and art-style in fear of audience not favouring it. (Not knowing this is what makes them mediocre to begin with lolz) Also I expect the story to get dark/ serious in later half. This is exactly like Monogatari series I bet. Foreshadowing, symbolism, and lots of hidden meanings. PS: Most of the absurdness in the show is base on Japanese mythology. Most mythologies are absurd/ weird, or even creepy. This is true in almost every religion. |
Ventus_SApr 14, 2019 6:34 AM
| What the fuck did I just watch? Only in Japan. |
Funny that you say that cause the entirety of the first episode has been produced at Ikuhara's personal team at Lapintrack. |
| 4/5 What a great start ! I wasn't expecting an anal penetration so early in the series though. gophercg said: Do you have info who's in the team? Are they new? The page is somewhat empty: https://myanimelist.net/anime/producer/1828/Lapin_Track https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=13454 |
Rei_IIIApr 15, 2019 8:33 AM
| holy heck, i totally didn't expect that plot twist!! Can't wait to see the explanation for it! |
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Ventus_S said: ibraheem234 said: why are people liking this.... though animation was good... butt too much absurdness Sums up Western general norms and majority of Mal users as a whole. They don't accept anything unique and different , thus Hollywood always produce generic movies that try to play extremely safe. Many JP studios too, try to produce generic genre (high-school dude go to isekai) storytelling and art-style in fear of audience not favouring it. (Not knowing this is what makes them mediocre to begin with lolz) Also I expect the story to get dark/ serious in later half. This is exactly like Monogatari series I bet. Foreshadowing, symbolism, and lots of hidden meanings. PS: Most of the absurdness in the show is base on Japanese mythology. Most mythologies are absurd/ weird, or even creepy. This is true in almost every religion. Agreed. Some people are always going to think it's just random weirdness or don't want to "invest" their patience into this kind of show - which is fine, to each their own - but I'm still somewhat shocked it has this low a rating. Even if that rating only really gets "accurate" of the overall perception a couple weeks into the season, the first impression ratings are mostly driven by hype, anyway. In Fall, Gridman had like what, a 6.4 after episode 1? Mika-taicho said: Natsuaki said: Or maybe that's just episode one. (Plus I really don't think the little girl we saw will be romantically pursued). It's Kazuki's little brother actually (They don't share the surname tho). Crunchyroll just fucked up the subs lol Oh, damn, I must've somehow missed that. That lowers the amount of female characters basically to just one? |
There is nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, wearing their discomfort like a favorite shirt - Johnny C.   |
| Crazier than Penguindrum, will probably be more convoluted too, but I'm in for the long haul. I know it'll be divisive, but I've seen a handful of other first episodes this season and this is easily the best. |
| Is Ikuhara ever gonna stop surprising me? |
| so much happened in one episode that i'm a bit confused |
| Wow, been a while since the last time I saw this kind of visuals, Mawaru Penguindrum vibes all over the place (same director, duh), reminds me to the days when I started to watch anime. |
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| This was the best and worst anime I've ever seen in 30 minutes. Can't wait to have my mind exploded next week. |
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| What the hell... Weird but interesting in some way. |
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| WTF?! I mean... WTF?! WTF did I just watch?! I initially thought 1GB per episode was too much, and I was gonna delete it after watching. Well, nope. |
| "I am confusion!" Never has butt play been so surreal. |
| Really crazy and impressive first episode Sponsored by kappazon lol |
 "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost." |
| Super quality production... weird, quirky, goofy context... kawaii boyz... inventive art style with lots of different animation styles... I had so much fun watchin this! Also, the peggies on the ED is EXTRA FRESH. |
| I've been away from anime these past months... and when I just check how things are I find that Ikuhara is doing it again. I loved the episode, totally my shit. Loved penguindrum and this one is even weirder, and still makes some sense. Toadally awesome. |
| I am so confused as to what the hell I just watched but this was fantastic. LOL Also loved the animation style. Nice hearing The Peggies at the end. |
Bunnybooboo2234 said: Claptrap said: Wonder if the main character is trans or just enjoys crossdressing. Not sure how Ikuhara wants to tackle that. Anyway... definitely going to be a series heavy on the gay sex metaphors. The main character clearly gave a reason for why he cross dresses. He doesn’t do it for his own enjoyment and was clearly ashamed of it. The episode revealed that his secret is that he cross dresses for his little brother who likes the idol Sara, as in he impersonates her for that reason and sends the pictures to him. He, as far as we know right now, is not trans. Being a cross dresser and transgender are two things that should not be conflated, Just because he keeps it a secret and doesn't want people to know doesn't mean he doesn't do it for himself. There's still a lot of questions to be answered. I'm just puzzled by why youre acting like this has a definite answer when it really doesn't. Also, that's definitely not his little brother. We don't know how that girl is connected to him at all, actually |
| This was fucking genius. Gloriously-animated. Adore the ED especially. |
big_Tortoise said: MAPPA is back at again with some great shit given to us in a full course meal, with dessert to top it off uninstallthegame said: MAPPA sometimes does the wildest shit lmao FWIW, the first episode was pretty much entirely by people from Lapintrack, and not the work of MAPPA. https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2019/04/12/sarazanmai-production-notes-01/ |
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