I'd like to start another dream thread, if that's all right. I'll go first. You know how when you're a fan of something like anime or scifi or similar things in your teenage years parents will try to buy stuff for you? My dad and stepmom bought anime\manga related shit at yard sales a lot. Sometimes it was good, sometimes it was off the mark. Well, in my dream I'm still in high school. I'm sitting there playing Xbox when my dad & stepmom walk in and yell that they got me something at a yard sale. I'm think to myself, "well, probably shit, but I might as well see," and go to check it out. I walk into the kitchen and on the table is a box full of stuff from Neon Genesis Evangelion. I get more excited and go to see what it is. There's every episode in raws and fansubs on VHS, some uniforms, figurines, and even Shinjis' fucking tape recorder with the tape he listens to inside it! All the merchandise seems to be older and seems like it was directly imported from Japan. I ask where they found it. It cuts to a yard sale with a slightly sad fiftyish woman in her front yard. She talked about how her son loved this show and whatnot, and seemed very sad. She sold it all for about 10-20 dollars. I take all the stuff out and find a suicide note. Her son had gotten into anime in the eighties while in high school and was completely inept and friendless. He grew obsessed with Evangelion and felt a strong kinship with Shinji because he was such a fuck up. He grew older and couldn't find anyone to share his interests with, became more and more of a recluse, and killed himself in the late nineties, which I recall being a shame since the internet as of 96, when he killed himself, could have given him a place to talk to others and feel less alone. I realized he was "an otaku of another generation." I hung up his note and saluted it. I then went to watch his tapes and realized that he had dubbed it himself in case he ever met anyone who wanted to share his joy. I inherited his legacy. His mother had cleaned house and ended up giving me a record of a hikkikomori life.
Last night I had quite a depressing dream. I remember being in a summer house I visited as a kid, choosing to have my death done there because of some reason or another but I was alone there. I fought back against the doctor who was going to inject me and I could have killed him in response, but chose not to. Then there was a lady talking about the difference between surviving and living (which in her eyes was knowing and caring about other people, but I later realized that's not the only possible answer), then me breaking out into a why me why me song, then crying in the car. I woke up after that feeling emptier than I have been in a long time, it was unbearable but I hope I have a better dream tonight.
I had a dream that Tohno stopped being the site admin and someone else came up and started changing the website theme and making all the posts be centered on the screen instead of left-aligned. What a nightmare.
>>42632 Sounds like a typical April fools around here.
>>42633 And a funny one at that.
Have your tastes in otaku media changed over time? How has it changed? Are there specific works that are influential in defining/changing your tastes? Do you have specific quirks or patterns pertaining to how you enjoy otaku culture?
>>37742 I still like catgirls
I hardly consume any fiction at all anymore. I kind of force myself to read some manga and watch some anime now and then just so I don't forget my Japanese. Don't play video games anymore, except puzzle games on rare occasions. I'm just bored with it all I guess.
>>42617 Out of curiosity, and if you're willing to share, how old are you?
>>42618 I'm in my 30s
How do I stop fapping so much? I spend too much time sitting in front of the monitor and then it just happens I don't think this is healthy, I need to stop
>>42600 Yeah I've had the same thought, and I might have even posted about this on another thread. MLP:FiM is the closest thing to CGCDCT/SoL anime that the west has to offer, and if someone didn't have any exposure to anime (which is less plausible these days but is quite likely in 2010 when the show first aired), it's easy to see how one could become a "brony".
>>42601 >MLP:FiM is the closest thing to CGCDCT/SoL anime that the west has to offer I used to watch a kid's cartoon called Sarah and Duck with my younger cousins thinking it could be a SoL anime with a few changes. I have to admit the character designs are cute.
>>42600 >>42601 i came to this same realization when i watched a video rebeltaxi made way back in the day about why my little pony had so many adult fans
>>42601 Right on the money. It's why the first two seasons are considered to be its prime as well. It leaned more into silly than the cute as a CGDCT would but it gave off that cozy, almost healing wibe the same. That was one aspect, the other big one was the excellent main character who routinely called out that very nonsense and silliness that would happen around her, who was also in contact with an equally aware but far less cynical superior. In moé anime terms: Imagine a series around a small tsundere who hates being called cute, making a vlog about how grown up she and her friends are to their fun-loving mom who still has her inner child.
Sort of a hybrid between the book club and "post something new you learned." Post any interesting essays, articles or prose you've stumbled across on the internet. I'll start: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/09/02/754316710/meet-the-man-who-guards-americas-ketchup https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/22/guantanamos-darkest-secret
>>42341 I FOUND THEM!! This is the 1st season. Enjoy!! 3D WARNING Part 1: https://web.archive.org/web/20220608013636/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_oWxb0PJBo Part 2:https://web.archive.org/web/20220608022928/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Iq30oBAfQ
>>42593 I didn't know internet archive actually backed up the contents of youtube videos.
>>42593 Sorry for the ramble but I remember watching the first part of that (and gaki no tsukai in general) like 4 years ago and I stopped because some retard brought too much attention to it on jewtube and I ended up drifting away from japanese comedy for a bit. >>42594 Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. I've had times where I wanted to search for a YTP I used to watch many years ago, and I've had like a 2/10 chance in finding a working backup on archive.org. Wayback machine is still good to use if you're searching for "lost" media like I was.
I don't like japanese game shows, but Tantei Knight Scoop has really interesting stories and with the Tantei-san being a comedian, it has humorous story telling.
It's that time of year again! April fools day! Have you found anything interesting?!
>>42498 My interpretation was that this year's theme was about annoying stuff in websites. Like anti ad-blockers the big cookies disclaimer, and naturally the complementary video ads, that often show up in these sites.
>>42499 Ah I see, it was meant to be a video ad. I forgot those were a thing... (also the adblock thing was also used 2 years ago I think, but it doesn't matter because I always forget it's april 1st anyhow and have a solid moment of confusion)
>>42497 Didn't last long. https://vndb.org/t21774.25#last
>>42499 >>42500 Yup, pretty much that. Would have added more and maybe done something more original but between a recent cross country move and a new job, things have been a bit hectic here. I still wanted to try and find 'some' time to do something at least. I've seen a lot of websites these days have a lot of obnoxious garbage obscuring half the page. News letter popups, cookies notices, tech support and AI chat window popups, auto play videos of streamers/reviews that follow the screen and more. Just terrible annoying designs everywhere now. Honestly me and the mods debated a bit about what video to use, if any. Didn't want to play some 3DPD ads so I figured a PV might make some sense.
Let's have a whole thread about FAILURE and DISAPPOINTMENT. What are some projects that you followed for years that never amounted to anything. Ones were you were hoping, waiting for so long, just for the moment to come when you realized "this is never happening", or "this is garbage actually". I want to talk about the Pokemon Special Animation project. There's a Pokemon manga called Adventures. It has a darker tone than pretty much any other Pokemon media, so it was fairly popular in the aughts, and in 2010, some westerners decided they were going to make an anime adaptation of it. 12 years later, this is the end result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rDi4gO3fhc For comparison, here's a Japanese fan animation made by one guy in 2 months: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_nbzPLt-wE They made a forum https://pokespeanime.forumotion.com/ There's auditions on there, for voice acting and animation. I remember a fairly well-known symphonic composer was interested in doing the music at one point. They saw Japanese fan animations and somebody said something like "this fires me up. We gotta compete with this". At one point, they made an okayish intro, as an "April Fools day joke" and an animated video asking for donations or something. Those seem to be lost to time. The end result speaks for itself. I just don't understand it. How can one guy make 2 minutes of not phenomenal, but serviceable web animation in 2 months, and these people spend 12 years making a sub-12 minute slide show? So much time and energy spent on bikeshedding, for that. This was part of my childhood.
>>42226 The pacing on that is just grueling, wow. For contrast, I can totally see myself rewatching the fan made OP. That entire episode? Not a chance.
26 seconds of animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=til1yw6eJio
>>42433 Like anything good related to (c)rap, it's stolen from somewhere else https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci_zad39Uhw
So the new admin at 4chan is struggling financially with the site (ads are now gone) And /a/ is having talks of where to migrate to if the site goes down for good , people are name dropping your site a lot I'm not sure if this is wanted or unwanted but I feel you should at least be aware of it . http://boards.4chan.org/qa/thread/711491/a
>>42249 Lurk and learn, or fuck off.
Aw I thought this was a new thread.
>>42344 Were you excited or dismayed?Post edited on 20th Feb 2024, 5:04pm
>>42349 disappointed.
You wake up in a room, what do.
>>30025 succ on tite
>>30025 Should've went with either some dangerous Xenomorph-like creature or some stupid, useless, and probably slightly retarded comic relief alien that won't spout shitty puns.
>>30015 I go outside.
The sun burns........
Hey Tohno-chan, I need help deciding on a pillow. A rather big birthday of mine is coming up and instead of an iPhone or a smart watch or some other crap I told my family I want something to fix my awful sleep. I'm quite a cuddlebug so a dakimakura is what I've been thinking about, but my family insists on an orthopedic hybrid of a memory foam main pillow and a 'wedge' pillow from a telemarketing store to go between my knees. I trust the battle-tested market of NEET accessories much more than any 'ergnomic' stuff but buying and shipping a proper daki over here is crazy expensive in comparison so I need to be absolutely sure it will be a good choice. Anybody here with experience, especially with Dakimakuri's inner pillows, can give some feedback on how durable they are, and whether they clump easily? Alternatively I could try getting a 'backup husband' type pillow as it's so called on online stores here but I only found one sold by a vendor I don't trust, they routinely underfill their normal pillows with low-quality stuffing.
>>42271 The one weird trick that daki manufacturers don't want you to know. Big pillow _hates_ him! Outside the issue of having a nonuniform filling which could probably be worked around by choosing the right type of "smaller pillows", I guess it probably would work.
Alright, so a follow up on this one. I actually found a pillow vendor that sold body pillows with regular old polyesther in standard 160x50 so I got that one. It arrived today. It's pretty light, feels about 2kg which is pretty far from Dakimakuri inners, but it's still pretty high and is very much stuffed with the material. Going to see how it works out and report my findings in a few days.
>>42351 Unless it's against some kind of rule about advertisement or such I wouldn't mind you sharing the vendor.
It's been a few days and I got to say I don't regret what I bought. Took a bit of experimenting to get a good setup going, and while I'm not sleeping like a log all the time still, it's much better than before. Once I can afford it I'll definetly invest in a proper dakimakura later down the line, but until then, this regular old white pillar is basically perfect. Thanks for your help, Tohnons. >>42354 Thanks, but I'd rather not. They specialize in 'orthopedic' (read: oddly shaped) pillows and they don't ship outside of my country as far as I am aware.
What are your thoughts on this no touching yourself for a month thing? Do you take part in it, or do you think it's stupid?
>>42321 For you, but some try to look for more in their ideal. And that's kind of the point.
/tat/
i think if you jack off to 3D "women" then tohno should ban you
This discussion would be better off in /tat/.
From games, comics, and cartoons, since the late 90s, westerns from America to Europe(especially France for some reason) have attempted to create "anime-like" media. You remember some of these: rwby, totally spies, avatar, teen titans, code lyoko, to name a few. Most of these are made to capitalize on a dying trend, but that's besides the point. These try to copy something more than the artstyle(which is usually a failure). There's some kind of character to otaku media that they're trying to replicate. Aside from anime largly representing adult-oreiented animation that isn't primarily comedic, there's something else to it, some dynamic. Most people write these "knockoffs" off as shit and that's it, but I want to know, if I were to try to make something with that unique "spirit" to it, wouldn't it just come out the same? Could a westerner capture whatever that thing is so it feels the same? There's a couple western porn artists which do a really good job, but that's as close as I can think of
If you ever spend any time in western art communities, one thing you'll notice is how absurdly obsessed everyone is with finding their very own super special and unique art style. Basically, aspiring anime-style artists are pressured into committing artistic self-sabotage.
>>42242 Gonna be worse now than AI-generated art is out in the wild. Art-styles will go even more unhinged...
>>42242 >western art And then they all look like the same ugly ethically diverse fat bloated over stylized characters with big red noses.
>>42242 Once I believe the epitome of art was to look like a photograph. Ah, simpler times.
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