| I think that most of anime are masculine |
| All weebs creatures of the galaxy, hear this message. Those of you who listen will not be struck by western animation. You will no longer know hunger, nor pain. Your Anime have come to lead you now. Our strength shall serve as a luminous sun toward which all intelligence may blossom. And the impervious shelter beneath which you will prosper. However, for those who refuse our offer and cling to their western animation ways… For you, there will be great wrath. |
| I would recommend the first FUNimation English dub of Dragon Ball Z with the phenomenal Bruce Faulconer soundtrack. (There are many versions, so be sure you go with that one...if you actually watch it. There are 291 episodes, though...) |
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| Sanrio Danshi. The only anime worth watching. |
| None of them. Because real men don't watch cartoons. :P |
| "Bang." -Spike Spiegal "Everything... is connected." -Lain Iwakura "Life is too short to watch bad anime. Long Live the 1st Episode Drop." -InkSpider "Anime fans make me embarrassed to be an anime fan." -InkSpider |
| Hajime no Ippo, real men dont care about what they watch since they arent toxic feminists saying anime is only for women. |
| Yeah right there is no way a doujin about vomit exists. Good song https://soundcloud.com/yeungkakit33/op4-hekireki-last-alliance Tsumino account is BigMaraIppo Another Good Song Listen to テスト by mukami #np on #SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/mukami/77a Ashita no Joe and Megalo box are disappointing anime. My reviews:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Botan-Chan45/reviews Best Naruto Op: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByCNZxOBVWM&list=RDByCNZxOBVWM&index=1 discord name: Chitoge Kirisaki#9564 https://discord.gg/nGKu6zx my discord server for plebs |
Close thread. its done nothing is better than this |
| Wow, no one mentioned the manliest anime of all time. Precure. |
Ne93 said: Wow, no one mentioned the manliest anime of all time. Precure. I'll definitely agree here. Cure Black kicks ass. |
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| I could see this turning into 4cahn maybe some day a pretty nice read though. but I'd say a calm chill guy yet protecting maybe. Takumi Usui from Maid Sama he's very protective and he stays to one girl and he doesn't nothing distract him from his true girl |
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| Can someone tell me what the hell it means to "cultivate masculinity"? Do you mean, you're looking for shows that help people relate to masculinity, or shows that reaffirm or vlaidate one's sense of masculinity, or what? Edit: i mean no disrespect to the OP, I'm just adding some sass to my post. The question is indeed legitimate |
| There is absolutely no reason why I should accept "turn your brain off" as a valid excuse to defend a poor show. ~ blatant ad: https://myanimelist.net/blog/Crusader_8 I spend the time to write it, so please read it lol |
I'd guess it's something like getting inspiration from manly characters. Maybe even feeling manlier than you actually are by getting into story. There is also this "feeling your beard grow just from watching him" thing. OT: JoJo, Berserk and TTGL are easiest and probably most accurate suggestions. Jormungand works too. |
Terkhev said: Yeah, I'd say Every JoJo arc will do the trickI'd guess it's something like getting inspiration from manly characters. Maybe even feeling manlier than you actually are by getting into story. There is also this "feeling your beard grow just from watching him" thing. OT: JoJo, Berserk and TTGL are easiest and probably most accurate suggestions. Ever_Onward said: I don't think watching an anime will help you develop the ability to exhibit masculine traits, unless you're just going to imitate what you seeThere are attributes that are traditionally considered masculine. The development of those attributes could be called the "cultivation of masculinity." I'm also extremely tired. Lmao. |
| There is absolutely no reason why I should accept "turn your brain off" as a valid excuse to defend a poor show. ~ blatant ad: https://myanimelist.net/blog/Crusader_8 I spend the time to write it, so please read it lol |
thizlas said: @Nihilfist So you think women don't have these traits ? Are you serious ? The whole point I was making is that the concept of masculinity is useless because it designates traits that aren't specific to men. What's more, the idea of masculinity tends to glorify violence and strength more than thinking, which is obviously a bad thing. Is this simple reasoning that hard to grasp ? Women can still have masculine traits. What makes traits such as aggressiveness, confidence, strength, ambition, etc. masculine is that they're driven by testosterone. |
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PrincessStarRose said: Takumi Usui from Maid Sama he's very protective and he stays to one girl and he doesn't nothing distract him from his true girl Absolutely not. Shojo manga is a girl's fantasy and men do not act the way that male characters in shojo do. You can't expect female authors to understand what it's like to be a guy, meaning it's impossible for a guy to relate. Usui is especially a huge offender because he has absolutely no flaws. A literal Gary Stu. EDIT: Shonen manga is a much better source of role models because it's written by male authors that know what it's like to experience masculinity. Characters like Midoriya from Boku no Hero Academia are perfect because it's a projection of hard work, struggle, and surpassing limits. |
shootinSep 7, 2018 12:45 AM
| Astolfo is the holy answer........ |
| I mean, if you really wanna be masculine, you gotta stop watching anime first. It's like eating laxatives while trying to treat your diarrhea. |
Ever_Onward said: Correction, reading and watching only shows perspectives which we form beliefs on. One can *believe* they are being taught, or *believe* the information is tantamount to wisdom. That doesn't necessarily make those things true. If anything, entertainment media tends to validate our pre-existing beliefs rather than "teach" us. Well, reading teaches many things. I figure a show can as well. It contains wisdom and so on too. |
| There is absolutely no reason why I should accept "turn your brain off" as a valid excuse to defend a poor show. ~ blatant ad: https://myanimelist.net/blog/Crusader_8 I spend the time to write it, so please read it lol |
| Ashita no Joe without a doubt is the best example of productive masculinity ever in anime. It's all about power, expression and respect. A relatable and restless youth with no future learns virtue the hard way and begins to appreciate the sport and spirit of boxing as well as the ones who surround him. He learns that hard work is the only true way to get what you dream of, and in the end he faces a fate any man would consider great. Honestly this story could have been about any sport, but the fact that it's boxing reaffirms the point so much more as it's a stereotypically masculine discipline and requires intensive training and preparation that no ordinary person can endure. Only someone who possesses the virtue required to be a true man can do that and do it well. |
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Crusader_8 said: Can someone tell me what the hell it means to "cultivate masculinity"? Well, Iunno, to me at least, the concept of masculinity in general is really just trying to develop and nurture traits that I see as "good." It's like an ideal vision of myself, so to speak, that I strive to achieve and live up to consistently, at which point I'd be comfortable considering myself a "man." So I associate it with elements like balancing out idealism and pragmatism when trying to achieve my goals, being reliable and hard-working, the ability to cope and deal with situations that are stressful and grit my teeth through it, and an ability to dig my feet into the ground and stand firm without being stubborn about it. Stuff like that, the type of person I want to be like. So I think cultivating masculinity is basically just trying to develop and achieve that ideal vision, in a way. Fiction can communicate these ideals with its audience through its characters and narratives, and I think this thread is pretty much just asking for something along those lines. Something that can try to communicate values that can be reach the viewer enough to achieve this kind of self-vision, help develop their understanding of these values they're considering important or potentially communicating values that can be deemed admirable as a result of as much. I do kind of think that masculinity tends to function as a relative concept, though. Different values and different traits that are deemed to be good and desirable are the concept of masculinity that somebody is adhering to. It could be aesthetic stuff like strength and power, it could be the psychological mechanisms involved in how they approach and deal with situations put before them, so on and so forth. I do kind of think that at heart it serves as a kind of ideal to try to live up to, though, and little more. It's why I recommended Kaiji in this thread - it's the anime that probably displays the traits that I associate the most heavily with genuine masculinity in its protagonist, not really through its gar elements as much as how it portrays the MC's situational coping. Cairne Bloodhoof from the Warcraft series is another fictional character that I really admire for what I perceive to be a sense of masculinity, with a sense of "strength and firmness when needed, but not when it is unnecessary" type of deal, going in a bit of a different direction for traits I consider to be the most masculine in Kaiji, I guess. |
ManabanSep 7, 2018 5:52 PM
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SimeonStylitses said: Agreed.I never really saw virtue's and morality as in anyway gender specific. If something is right or wrong it's right or wrong whether or not the person doing it has a dick so I find talk of the importance of becoming a man or lady rather silly. To try to avoid some of the gender identity quagmire if you got the right Chromosone's and/or identify as that gender then that parts already sorted what you should try to be is a good person. In practice men & women typically have different hurdles to jump there but so do people of different social/economic classes, aptitude's etc. I'd expect a mature man to be level-headed and know how to read the situation, just as I'd expect a mature woman to be such. SimeonStylitses said: Haven't seen enough of TTGL to say for myself.Also Kamina is an annoying idiot. edit: well goodness apparently i don't know how to read the situation because I didn't know there were two additional pages of posts |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| The only correct answer is Gurren Lagann |
| If you like battle shounen definitely Bleach |
| Let me share to you the wisdom of the elders: "Addi, there's nothing less manly than a man constantly seeking to reaffirm his masculinity... You don't want to play basketball with the other kids, that's fine. Come help me tend the garden." As for "role models", I don't like the selections here so have my take: And maybe give this video a try: |
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| Sailor Mercury. Ideal. I know she is a female but. She is gonna be a doctor. She is strong and tactical. She uses her mind. She isn't hyper violent. She isn't stupid. She avoids the opposite gender because they will fuck up her career. Perfect man right there. |
The anime community in a nutshell.  |
| That's why anime is dangerous to a certain extent. I used to think this way, adopting anime character's value judgments and the likes.. well at one point of your life you will realize anime aren't even specialized to do these kind of things even after seeing all the improbable number of good deeds and philosophical grandeurs they exhibited, there's a reason why anime is also a medium of escapism, as it selectively nurtures those things one can't cope up with the real word. Proper moderation, vigilance, and reflection is (my) way towards anime, so as not to confuse and alienate myself on what's really up ahead. |
| JoJo and Kaiji is definitely the only correct answer for this one. |
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| Yusuke Urameshi is the patron saint of positive masculinity. |
Take care of yourself |
| Role Model is Eikichi Onizuka, I studied to become a teacher because of GTO. |
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| I still think Gurren Lagann teachs us how much we, humans, are crazy dumb warlike race and being a man is being a jerkass... What I call a real "man" is in Oyaji. |
| It would probably be the guy from shokugeki no soma don't his name but it's the guy with a lot of muscles. |
| Funniest thing is that I ran across a surprisingly good male role model in a harem series, of all places. And said character is neither a "beta cuck mc" nor some sort of edgy sexually-domineering superman who memetically makes all the ladies swoon just to spite said "beta cuck mc" concept. * Tigrevurmud Vorn, Lord Marksman and Vanadis. Here you have a guy who stands up for his principles, yet presents that strong resolve with an admirable sense of humility. He doesn't try to impress people with swagger or tough talk. Rather, he knows what's important to him, and works hard to achieve it. But he's not just a boring stick-in-the-mud -- he's also quite intelligent and clever, able to maintain diplomatic friendships with his attitude of honorable respect and a knack for knowing what to say when, and also strategize winning tactics on the battlefield in short order. And this is a character in a setting where at least several major female characters are at least as powerful if not far more powerful than him, at least as far as combat ability is concerned. Seiya said: No one Marble Screws like Cure Black and Cure White.Ne93 said: Wow, no one mentioned the manliest anime of all time. Precure. I'll definitely agree here. Cure Black kicks ass. Not even Gaston. |
GlennMagusHarveySep 24, 2018 3:21 AM
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| Vagabond, Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin. |
| Hentai Kamen live action. The manliest shit I ever seen. I wish there were anime adaptation for the manga. |
Nemo_NiemandApr 21, 2023 7:06 AM
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Mistanel said: Anime and Masculinity #thecommonmanvcharalimit.org |
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Captain Harlock and basically any anime by Leiji Matsumoto is going to have boatloads of masculinity. The entire premise of his shows are often about 'being a man' and following one's ideals and dreams no matter how disliked or even pointless they may be.  |
Mistanel said: What shows help a man cultivate his masculinity? Also, who do you consider a good male role model (anime character)? Tomo from Tomo chan is a girl. I'm not even joking. |
| I don't like characters with facial hairs.. I don't think it's a sign of masculinity but laziness |
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| Guts, Goku and Vegeta give me infinity gym motivation. |
COTEisShitTier said: Guts, Goku and Vegeta give me infinity gym motivation. Vegeta is balding and shorter than the average woman. I don't see how girls like him but they don't like short bald men in real life... Lmao |
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| K-On, Nichijou, Black Lagoon and Rurouni Kenshin. |
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| Also Joe as somebody mentioned above me... |
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__Duckie said: Truer words were never spoken. Also Jormungand where the pirates are replaced with arms dealers.justcaolan said: All I know is that real men watch black lagoon *types to get more than 30 fucking characters in* best answer here |
KruszerApr 21, 2023 4:05 PM
| "Laws exist only for those who cannot live without clinging onto them." -Souske Aizen "Bleach"  |
ryo-san said: The same reason they find L from Death Note attractive, yet messy haired, skinny guys haven't touched a woman since their mum gave birth to them. Unattractive real life traits somehow end up being attractive in the anime medium.COTEisShitTier said: Guts, Goku and Vegeta give me infinity gym motivation. Vegeta is balding and shorter than the average woman. I don't see how girls like him but they don't like short bald men in real life... Lmao |
| There's nothing manlier than paternal instinct so if you want to feel like a true man then you should watch some K-On! and Precure. |
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| s.CRY.ed is my pick for manliest anime. Very underrated too. It should have at least an 8 MAL score. |
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