Anime your top ten favorites

Bagginski

Bagginski

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sf_frankie said:
Honest question for you guys. What’s up with the obsession with the anime girls? Y’all like get off to them or what? I mean, I know some do and admit it but I’ve asked this question elsewhere before and they claimed they just liked the art style but I wasn’t really buying it. Way too many pics of scantily clad school girls with huge tits and short skirts for it to not be sexual. No judgement, just curious.
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I suppose it only makes sense if you realize HOW MANY of these stories are about teenagers coming of age...which, if you grew up as a boy, you might remember as a time when nearly anything could arouse you whether you were “thinking about it” or not...and when it was still virtually impossible not to be captivated - even overwhelmed - by the sight of skin, curves, and bumps on girls. I remember lying awake nights, praying that Jesus would ‘take all that away from me’ so I could act normal more easily, and not embarrass myself...not having ANY idea how to act acceptably on a date, how to get past the impact of being close without doing *anything* inappropriate or offensive....

If you never went through any of that, then maybe you can’t really understand or appreciate a great many of these stories. If, OTOH, you were “maladjusted” by your efforts to wrestle with sexuality...like almost all boys...you might actually get something out of watching characters learning how to be real people and have real relationships...you might even see that sexual transgressors are almost always THE BAD GUYS.

Shorter version, if one watches Anime to stare at the girls, one may have development issues...or is just in it for the tits, monsters, and explosions...or one *wants* to watch porn but doesn’t have the nerve.

Just my opinion.

For another opinion, my daughter-in-law, a beautiful nisei woman frequently mistaken for a child, is extremely uncomfortable about the “pervy” content in some anime...so much so that she can’t appreciate a great many stories - ‘thanks’ to anime “fans” who seem to want to imagine her as some kind of sex toy while in-line at the grocery....
 
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Jeffislovinlife

Jeffislovinlife

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Bagginski said:
I suppose it only makes sense if you realize HOW MANY of these stories are about teenagers coming of age...which, if you grew up as a boy, you might remember as a time when nearly anything could arouse you whether you were “thinking about it” or not...and when it was still virtually impossible not to be captivated - even overwhelmed - by the sight of skin, curves, and bumps on girls. I remember lying awake nights, praying that Jesus would ‘take all that away from me’ so I could act normal more easily, and not embarrass myself...not having ANY idea how to act acceptably on a date, how to get past the impact of being close without doing *anything* inappropriate or offensive....

If you never went through any of that, then maybe you can’t really understand or appreciate a great many of these stories. If, OTOH, you were “maladjusted” by your efforts to wrestle with sexuality...like almost all boys...you might actually get something out of watching characters learning how to be real people and have real relationships...you might even see that sexual transgressors are almost always THE BAD GUYS.

Shorter version, if one watches Anime to stare at the girls, one may have development issues...or is just in it for the tits, monsters, and explosions...or one *wants* to watch porn but doesn’t have the nerve.

Just my opinion.

For another opinion, my daughter-in-law, a beautiful nisei woman frequently mistaken for a child, is extremely uncomfortable about the “pervy” content in some anime...so much so that she can’t appreciate a great many stories - ‘thanks’ to anime “fans” who seem to want to imagine her as some kind of sex toy while in-line at the grocery....
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Would hafta brake a mother**cker in haft my daughter pasted away when she was 16 and we watched all kinds on Fridays morning we still had watch Saturday morning cartoons and I would have loved to see some guy look at her like that aw man it would be a scene out of Tokyo Ghoul she would have talked so much sh*t it would have been beautiful ha ha ha
 
Bagginski

Bagginski

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Hearing ya loud and clear, Jeff!

My son is bigger than I am...and I’m *not* small...and much like my daughter, DIL is super smart, very tough...and practiced in the art of making assholes regret their stupidity. Daughter got a reputation as an untouchable ninja in third grade...so fucking proud....

*Another* thing I really like about the anime I like: strong and independent girls young and old, willing to accept help or help out, but completely capable of acting for themselves.
 
Jeffislovinlife

Jeffislovinlife

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Bagginski said:
Hearing ya loud and clear, Jeff!

My son is bigger than I am...and I’m *not* small...and much like my daughter, DIL is super smart, very tough...and practiced in the art of making assholes regret their stupidity. Daughter got a reputation as an untouchable ninja in third grade...so fucking proud....

*Another* thing I really like about the anime I like: strong and independent girls young and old, willing to accept help or help out, but completely capable of acting for themselves.
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I've got 2 of them 6 foot 4 and 6 foot 2 me 5 foot 9 and shrinking
 
Bagginski

Bagginski

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cannabineer said:
Open question: does Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli) count as animé?
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IMO, absolutely Miyazaki counts as anime...IIUC, his work is all original, and done in ‘movie’ style, as opposed to being manga- or novel-based, and as single works, not as ~20-minute episodic series.

I haven’t seen all of Miyazaki’s work by any means, but the elements of Japanese culture and folklore are present in them as they are in all Japanese anime (I’ve also seen Eastern European, American, and Spanish anime that lack those elements). “Real” anime strikes me as quintessentially Japanese, and it really impacts the storytelling. I find it one of the attractions...not like I’m learning about Japanese culture from it, but it adds a real ‘otherworldly’ coherence to the way the stories are shaped and told. Makes them...not just cartoons...more rich, more compelling. I find the extra effort to be worth the effort.
 
Jeffislovinlife

Jeffislovinlife

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BudmanTX said:
i have one on VHS in my back room and it's the only one i've ever seen with a NC17 rating on it.....can't remember the name though....hmm gonna have to look this weekend
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Would love to see it or here the name of so if you can squeeze it in between running around in shorts and fishing and all the great things one doses in the first couple of days of spring in Texas that would be awesome
 
BudmanTX

BudmanTX

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Jeffislovinlife said:
Would love to see it or here the name of so if you can squeeze it in between running around in shorts and fishing and all the great things one doses in the first couple of days of spring in Texas that would be awesome
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no problem....i have a good collection or i did...stored them in my man cave of sorts, also have a good collection of comics and mtg cards in there too
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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Bagginski said:
IMO, absolutely Miyazaki counts as anime...IIUC, his work is all original, and done in ‘movie’ style, as opposed to being manga- or novel-based, and as single works, not as ~20-minute episodic series.

I haven’t seen all of Miyazaki’s work by any means, but the elements of Japanese culture and folklore are present in them as they are in all Japanese anime (I’ve also seen Eastern European, American, and Spanish anime that lack those elements). “Real” anime strikes me as quintessentially Japanese, and it really impacts the storytelling. I find it one of the attractions...not like I’m learning about Japanese culture from it, but it adds a real ‘otherworldly’ coherence to the way the stories are shaped and told. Makes them...not just cartoons...more rich, more compelling. I find the extra effort to be worth the effort.
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In that case, I recognize two animé films as favorites.

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Honorable mention for his wonderful weird aircraft that could have come from the Burgess Shale.

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