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Lucifrost said: I asked my brother about this meme. He follows Attack On Titan and he has no idea what you're talking about. It wouldn't be 100% of the people, but those who would vote it are people quite deeply involved with the 4th season. They'd catch on to either the birb or that machokasa+s4 might mean AOT. Some guys here liked the joke. The ending to the show is pretty much spoiled. The people who would vote let's say "depression gundam: the anno" would already be in the know about what that might be or even the discussion around its creator. Many dislikers would see dislike reviews and come to terms with the terms or criticisms of other people. They'd see discussions on it. Essentially think of it as a signal decipherable by people who would vote for these shows in the first place because they dislike them so much as compared to the others. They'd know what I'm talking of based on the hints that are widely memed in the anime community. It's not essential for everyone to get every one. Let's say 7 people out of 10 get it, that's great enough, there'd still be thread participation. At the end of the day, it's just written like that because it'd be more enjoyable to see for a few people, the ones who'd relate to the comedy. |
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FALSE_G0D said: No worries, it doesn't look like you were even trying, and your choices are still pretty solid kek. Haha I can live with that then. Cheers |
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biaofbafiabegoub said: JaniSIr said: Evangelion, and it's not even close. The entire "story" is just the characters name dropping Christian references, and some utterly incoherent techno babble. I really like eva, but yea there is a lot of techno babble. The last movie was also especially bad in this regard, it was throwing around random gibberish terms near the end that made absolutely no sense. TBH the only part in the rebuild movies I liked was the part where Rei was speedrunning the plot of Violet Evergarden, not particularly because it was so well done, but I really like Violet Evergarden. As far as the OG anime, I just didn't finish it, it was too boring. |
there's some good ASMR in the penultimate episode, that's the only thing I can recommend for viewing there lol |
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| Personally, my favorite episode of Eva is the last one. Rebuilds are better. |
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Lucifrost said: Personally, my favorite episode of Eva is the last one. Rebuilds are better. Rebuild 1 and 2 definitely. Because of the ASMR right? XD |
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| You guys don’t like NGE because you think the plot is overly contrived incoherent nonsense and impossible to follow? That’s understandable. Have a good day. |
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| I voted for Hipster Clannad: Hamebakemonoararagagatari All that ever happens in this show is lots of talking about nothing interesting with annoying random camera angles. You must have intimate knowledge of Japanese language and culture to make any sense of the wordplay and puns but without that understanding, it's all a bunch of nonsense. Of course, such jokes do not survive the translation to english so it's like the fans here on MAL are deluding themselves. |
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| Monogatari and Bunny Girl Senpai are my top picks, but shit like SnK and Evangelion 3.0+1.0 took a hard told on my mental sanity. |
Hrybami said: The haremgatari series : a 100% fanservice based anime where the fanservice sucks. The ecchi sucks and the story isn't even good. Incestgatari is one of the worst series ever made. |
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triglemon said: _FRB_ said: >calls out the anime in the thread for not being pseudo intellectual >mentions tatami galaxy and ping pong the animation What's pseudo intellectual about ping pong? It never tries to be more than a sports anime. If you want to quote me, you might as well have actually used what I said, considering it doesn't need any alterations to get your point across. _FRB_ said: A lot of these I wouldn't call pseudo intellectual. LoGH is pseudo intellectual required viewing, and some that you missed are Tatami Galaxy and Ping Pong The Animation. Tatami Galaxy and Ping Pong are watched by pesudo intellectuals, just like LoGH, and unlike some of the shows also in the poll. There are people who watch AoT and Steins;Gate that don't always think they're the smartest in the room; they're widely popular series. I don't think the same can be said for Tatami Galaxy and Ping Pong, people that watch it and particularly like it almost all consider themselves smarter than the rest for having done so. That's what comes to mind when I think pseudo intellectual, not just shows that people think are deep that I don't. A quick look at your profile though tells me that I obviously struck a nerve. |
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triglemon said: I didn't actually watch it, but the fans of that show give off the vibe of "this is the best anime ever, shounen fans just don't appreciate it because of the art style"._FRB_ said: >calls out the anime in the thread for not being pseudo intellectual >mentions tatami galaxy and ping pong the animation What's pseudo intellectual about ping pong? It never tries to be more than a sports anime. I can't confirm or deny the former, but the art style is most definitely some of the ugliest things I've seen in anime. |
| Code Geass is not trying to be intellelctual, but its the best rule of cool and mecha in anime and should be retired from this list Steins Gate is genuinely creative when it comes to sci-fi, and honest when it comes to "otaku culture", and should also be retired from this list. NGE? sometimes pretentious, sometimes convoluted, but most of the time great and at least its not boring trash like retro gundam. 96 isnt pseudo intellectual, but has boring story, characters and politics Mawaru penguindrum and Monogatari are definitly among the most pseudo intellectual ones, but Mawaru penguindrum is at least fun in the first episodes, so my vote goes to monogatari since its a banal harem-builder desguised as pseudo intellectual "art-house" |
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JaniSIr said: Evangelion, and it's not even close. The entire "story" is just the characters name dropping Christian references, and some utterly incoherent techno babble. Finally some common sense, thank you |
AnimeDownUnder said: JaniSIr said: Man, I wish Ergo proxy was good, the first half had such a pleasantly dark vibe to it, and then it went sideways... Actually quite the opposite...the last half was good the first half was trash. You don't get any actual story at all during the first half just a waste of time...but the last half when they actually start telling some story it gets good. Otherwise it's just a bunch of nothing happening the entire show. One of the worst anime though that's for sure Might have been a bit style over substance, but I like style. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don't want to undersell the story of Mars Red, but the presentation carried that show. Gorgeous art style + assuming that the audience pays attention. Meanwhile Ergo proxy just had a quiz show, after 12 episodes of black and brown dystopian cityscapes... Plus despite the plot reveals, the show was even slower paced than the beginning! It went from slow to boring, and the plot reveals didn't save it either. |
epidemia78 said: I voted for Hipster Clannad: Hamebakemonoararagagatari All that ever happens in this show is lots of talking about nothing interesting with annoying random camera angles. Most of us think the talking is interesting even without knowledge of Japanese. |
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triglemon said: I'm surprised that neither of you have watched the anime since I initially assumed that's what this thread was about. You can't really make meaningful criticism of something without having watched it first, anyway. So this is about the fans of the show? Sure, both animes give off the kind of vibe that would attract a lot of elitism. If that's what you think of all people who enjoy those shows, then by all means call me an pseudo intellectual. I personally haven't mingled with a lot of Yuasa fans so I wouldn't know much about that. I did not criticize it. Well, I didn't criticize it much, I did call it ugly, and you don't need to watch much of it to come to that conclusion. |
Lucifrost said: epidemia78 said: I voted for Hipster Clannad: Hamebakemonoararagagatari All that ever happens in this show is lots of talking about nothing interesting with annoying random camera angles. Most of us think the talking is interesting even without knowledge of Japanese. is that so? To me it seemed as if a lot of the dialog was repetitive. Saying the same things again but slightly different. I assume there is a joke buried in there somewhere lost in translation. |
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Anonychan said: Masaaki Yuasa (I enjoyed Devilman Crybaby however) That's because Devilman is not a pseudo intellectual manga. If you like seeing Yuasa adapt normie material, you might also like the episode of Adventure Time he made. |
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| I feel like half of these are so undecipherable that it's completely unclear what the options to vote for even are...is "Legend of the Galactic prussian cockfest: Siscon space Lelouch" dragging LotGH or CG? And wtf is "Reincarnated as angry birb, I was babysitted by the ultimate femboy machokasa alphaman, S4" supposed to be? Yes I know, AoT, thanks to the comments, but that made zero sense. |
SleepySera said: I feel like half of these are so undecipherable that it's completely unclear what the options to vote for even are...is "Legend of the Galactic prussian cockfest: Siscon space Lelouch" dragging LotGH or CG? And wtf is "Reincarnated as angry birb, I was babysitted by the ultimate femboy machokasa alphaman, S4" supposed to be? Yes I know, AoT, thanks to the comments, but that made zero sense. Did you not see the manly Mikasa memes about her season 4 design? |
| Shinsekai Yori and Devilman Crybaby come to mind. Both are extremely pretentious and full of forced and pathetic drama while authors obviously didn't know what are they even writing about. They both have bunch of optional perversions and author fetishes, both have the same inadequate way of story telling when start of anime has nothing to do with middle and middle hardly connected to final. And final is one big BS. |
_Maneki-Neko_ said: I mean... these guys don't seem to know any real women in their life. Otherwise they wouldn't go crazy about women with short hair and a bit of muscles. It's not the muscle though, it's her facial structure, that makes her totally unrecognisable compared to the previous 3 seasons... |
Nope, I'm too old to understand memes so I don't really participate in meme culture. Well, and I like androgynous characters so her design doesn't bother me. When I read "reincarnated" my mind immediately went to isekai, and eventually gave up while trying to think of any isekai with a prominent femboy character. Maybe Re:Zero? But then why the bird mention, and alphaman sounds like some super sentai thing. Shield Hero had a prominent bird and is an isekai, but it's not exactly considered pretentious, so can't be that either, and so on. I literally would have NEVER guessed AoT 🤭 |
TheMechaManiac said: The anno = Galactic cockfest = prussian 86. Literally "I don't like sci-fi but"... tier of pseudointelectualism. The first one because it's just late 70s/early 80s Tomino again but without the originality. The second one because it liberally cribs from Foundation and Dune. The third one because it's liked by waifushills and Twitter-level nu-leftists who think a Japanese cartoon for horny teens makes them smart. Honorable mention: Code Geass because it's Gundam all over again without the originality. Wait which one of these was inspired by Foundation and Dune? |
novusanimis said: TheMechaManiac said: The anno = Galactic cockfest = prussian 86. Literally "I don't like sci-fi but"... tier of pseudointelectualism. The first one because it's just late 70s/early 80s Tomino again but without the originality. The second one because it liberally cribs from Foundation and Dune. The third one because it's liked by waifushills and Twitter-level nu-leftists who think a Japanese cartoon for horny teens makes them smart. Honorable mention: Code Geass because it's Gundam all over again without the originality. Wait which one of these was inspired by Foundation and Dune? That's probably steins gate, that's the one with the fate thing, but it's a really big stretch. |
| I dont even know what 4 is supposed to be |
| "This emotion is mine alone. It is for Madoka alone." - Homura or how I would descripe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. |
| Would y’all think Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei counts |
novusanimis said: TheMechaManiac said: The anno = Galactic cockfest = prussian 86. Literally "I don't like sci-fi but"... tier of pseudointelectualism. The first one because it's just late 70s/early 80s Tomino again but without the originality. The second one because it liberally cribs from Foundation and Dune. The third one because it's liked by waifushills and Twitter-level nu-leftists who think a Japanese cartoon for horny teens makes them smart. Honorable mention: Code Geass because it's Gundam all over again without the originality. Wait which one of these was inspired by Foundation and Dune? My understanding is the "Galactic cockfest" was inspired by Foundation and Dune. |
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Comander-07 said: I dont even know what 4 is supposed to be The fourth season of Attack on Titan |
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| This thread reeks of "It has actual themes and doesn't shove booba in my face??? PSEUDO-INTELLECTUAL HORSESHIT!!!!!!" |
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Anonychan said: i think lain is very much not pseud specifically bcus of how much of an acid trip it is. it gets better the more you watch it bcus ur supposed to watch it when ur incredibly inebriated so you can take in the vibes and occasionally think "woahhhh" when it hits you with some nonsense about john c lilly over a psychedelic jam sessionSerial Experiments Lain. Mostly an acid trip with static noise. It has good themes that have aged well (existentialism, humanity's identity and its relation to online) but its execution is incredibly bland wasted potential and is the type of thing an overthinking pseud who appreciates occassionaly being thrown a bone by the author like a dog to understand his needlessly confusing and contrived story will appreciate. Of course, none of the characters are interesting either. Don't worry though, "it's the type of show that gets better the more you watch it". petran79 said: Boogiepop Phantom (2000) comes to mind. It has mixed episode order and jigsaw puzzle narrative just for the sake of it. Top music and sfx mixing though, perhaps the best series in that regard now THIS show is like lain if it was cut to appear intellectual and avant garde instead of something youre supposed to be blitzed out of your mind to watch. all that good music just wasted ;___; |
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| Definitely Evangelion. It's really good but the fanbase makes it seem like some godly super intellectual piece of media that no one can compete with. Also who tf says AOT and 86 are intellectual? They are good anime and I stand by that but I've never seen anyone say that you have to have 300+ IQ to understand or enjoy them. |
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| My vote goes to Legend of the Galactic Hipsters |
| Voted others because of Classroom of the elite God that anime made me roll my eyes all the way back |
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JaniSIr said: That's probably steins gate, that's the one with the fate thing, but it's a really big stretch. Wrong. It's LOGH, it's got a lot of similar tropes to Foundation (80%) and Dune (20%) because of the entire space opera setting and larger-than-life politics. |
| Hot Blood saves lives. |
| probably psycho pass that show just reeks of "philosophical" quotes taken straight from stanford encyclopedia of philosophy or goodreads |
| kara no kyoukai is the best example ever. painful how its literally got no substance to its themes or whatever nonexistent shit they got in there |
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| "Tales of depression Gundam: The anno (your vote)" Knowing what I know now of how messy the show's development was behind-the-scenes that led to its controversial endings (TV series and End of Eva), definitely fail to see what makes many consider it one of the all-time anime greats. |
TheMechaManiac said: Well ok, didn't know what the Foundation is, but Dune's primary focus certainly isn't politics.JaniSIr said: That's probably steins gate, that's the one with the fate thing, but it's a really big stretch. Wrong. It's LOGH, it's got a lot of similar tropes to Foundation (80%) and Dune (20%) because of the entire space opera setting and larger-than-life politics. cbgap said: kara no kyoukai is the best example ever. painful how its literally got no substance to its themes or whatever nonexistent shit they got in there But it did tell viewers that murder is bad! |
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