Why did Kotatsu never take off outside of Japan?
Usually you'd pack away the other table and then bring out the kotatsu. In the West tables weren't designed to be packed away.
>>31272 >they're only as good as the house is bad? Sorry, I worded my post badly. I meant that it's a cultural thing more than an architectural one. The things I listed is why kotatsu are popular in Japan, which comes down to lack of other forms of either heating or keeping the house insulated.
Maybe its not too late for the kotatsu to catch hold in the west, but I doubt it. Imagine some big western slob steps in dogshit on the way home and walks into his house without taking his shoes off then sits at kotatsu.
buildings in the north are properly insulated or have a fireplace
I don't think we had a movie thread yet so I wanted to ask, does /tc/ watch movies? What was the last one you saw? Have any good recommendations or favorite genres? Do you like american, european or asian cinema?
Is it just me or do the MCU movies feel less like 'movies' and more like big budget tv episodes of a long running series?
Two Japanese films I've seen are 'Goemon' and 'Dai Nipponjin'. 'Goemon' is a fun and well-done film to watch, background is Goemon is Japanese Robin Hood. 'Dai Nipponjin' is interesting, what I took from it is it's a film about the degradation Capitalism and the post-war period has done to Japan and the Japanese people. In particular, making them weak and greedy.
I find it a tad bit weird and slightly annoying how people keep treating the bombers in The Last Jedi like some sort of mistake. The common complaint is that bombs wold not be able to fall onto the target because there is no gravity in space. It's a shitty movie and I don't give much of a crap about starwars, but this is dead wrong and clearly so. Maybe it's because I'm complete fucking brain damaged retarded moron, but the way these bombers work makes perfect sense to me, and I can't understand why no one else sees it. An object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force. There's nothing stopping these bombs that are being ejected from the ship. As soon as they leave the ship they're being propelled by their own momentum -not gravity- . It's so simple to me but somehow everyone seems to fail to understand this. The reason the bombs fall while in the ship is because there's artificial gravity in the ship, it's what keeps people's feet on the ground, it's how that remote to release the bombs fell and was almost missed. Gravity inside of the ship pulled the bombs down towards the exposed bottom and momentum carries them the rest of the way. Did people expect the bombs to just stop the moment they left the ship or something? Besides, the ship they were attacking was so massive that it might have had it's own faint gravitational pull anyway.
>>9741 I've watched a ton of Sion Sono movies this past month. They're all really enjoyable, in one way or another. I think the ones I disliked the most were Exte and Strange Circus. Exte was kind of boring and the twist/ending to Strange Circus actually felt kind of anticlimactic. His best one was Cold Fish imo. That movie was scary as hell, and I like to think I have a pretty high tolerance for horror. He said he wanted to depict "a feeling of complete hopelessness" and I felt that in the movie. It's chilling. I highly recommend it if you like horror/psychological stuff. I also absolutely loved Love Exposure, it doesn't feel like a 4 hour movie. His movies are just different.
What's your living situation like? Do you live with the folks, rent an apartment, or what?
>>31530 Why would you live in a city? It would cost a fraction to buy a small house in a rural area.
Currently live in an apartment with 3 roommates in a medium-sized US city. It's not so bad, they're all pretty chill and I get a private bedroom to myself which is really all I need in life.
>>31444 >What's your living situation like? I live in a small two bedroom house, with a decent sized yard in a shitty small rural town. >Do you live with the folks, rent an apartment, or what? I barely get anything to live off of but I do have a roommate who has taken me in in exchange of the little bit I do get and some help around the house. Mowing grass, housework, etc. But it's a rental.
>>31554 That sounds like a pretty neat arrangement. How do you like it?
my current torrent stats ratio 0.93 total downloads: 674.12 GB I've downloaded about 47gigs more than I've uploaded. Thats like 8 whole seasons of anime I've gotten off you people for free.
Your ratio is sub-standard. You can definitely do better than that...
I only use XDCC for downloads so I've download everything more than I've uploaded.
>>31595 i try to keep my ration under 1 at all times, that way i never feel like i'm being taken advantage of. still hanging at 0.93 now with 678.06 GB downloaded, so apparently i consumed 3.94GB of anime over the past 12 days. 328 megs or roughly one ep in 720 per day
Whenever I get something that I know won't have that many seeds, I try to do my part as I know what its like to be unable to obtain something you want. I'm grateful for those that have shared and want to help as many as I can if I can. I'm only posting this small example because I'm not sure how to find out my total ratio on Deluge. Orz
Do you know any nice places to visit in Japan? Especially anime related places. I plan to go to Japan this year and try to find some less touristy places to go to. The thread will most likely still be up so I can post some pictures I make. Does any one recognize the place in this picture?
>>31346 >Funfact Yui walks 20 km to school because the train station on her way to school is in Kyoto. This is one of the best things about pilgrimages. You really get a feel of the geography. Finding out that this place is a few steps away from Konata's house was pretty great.
>>31346 >Funfact Yui walks 20 km to school That's insane; this can't be true. Considering her size and age, it should take her 4-5 hours to get there, round trip.
>>31345 >Yes. Go to Kyoto or Nara. Get your ass out of the city. Don't spend more than a few days in Tokyo (make sure to spend a couple of hours at Akasaka and the imperial gardens, but otherwise avoid the concrete jungle, it is basically like any other big city in the West just in Japanese and with a lot more people crowding the place), the rest of Japan has a lot more character. We plan to stay at last a week in the Kyoto area and get a 14 day railpass to visit some more remote places. I have never been in any city outside of Europe, I don't know how much I'll like Toyko but I'm not a fan of big cities anyway. >>31347 >https://anime-tourism.jp/. This is what you're looking for. This one is nice. I don't recognise most places though. >Have only been to the various Lucky Star locations in Saitama and Ooarai (twice) so far. First is a little bit depressing since you can see how its popularity is fading (quite literally, the flags in Satte or whatever you call them almost have no color anymore), second is still going well (they really know how to promote it). The Lucky Star locations are a bit remote but I hope I can find time for it. Ooari is from that one Girls and Panzer Episode? Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>31360 >>>/pic/6677 Images are up
Why can't 3DPD like cute hair accessories like ribbons and bows and stuff?
>>31592 The issue with this thread is that nobody can give a proper rebuttal, because that would require breaking the no posting 3DPD rule. I myself have seen plenty 3DPDs of which I've thought "That's a nice <insert hair accessory>" around here. Already discussed here: http://tohno-chan.com/an/res/30465.html#30830
If you live on turd island, people there usually look like turds.
How old are you and what do you think the minimum age rule should be on here if there was one?
i am a cute little anime girl
No idea, don't see how it matters
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I am a small loli catgirl, only 9 years old. Please do not bully me!
I HATE it when I have the misfortune of talking to someone cancerous online, especially when it's someone who obsessively hates on anime for no reason. I try to just ignore it and walk away, but the thought just stays on the back of my mind. I can't watch anime or play video games because my brain keeps telling me to go back and fight! And then, I waste several hours of my life on some stupid internet fight instead of doing something I'd actually enjoy. How do you guys deal with this?
>>31580 Why not kick them out?
>>31582 Because people are terrified of being pegged with "clique mentality" and the one time someone actually got banned it raised an insane shitstorm that never died down
>>31584 >Because people are terrified of being pegged with "clique mentality" Well, then the real issue is that these hangouts are filled with cowards. If you can't reliably put your (collective) foot down and kick the hijackers and pretenders, than it's on you as a whole. The aforementioned will go wherever they can to get the attention they crave, so it's your duty to kick them out and preserve the integrity of what you have, otherwise you lose your right to complain.
>>31585 no earnest group of posters no matter how large will ever be able to withstand the assault of a single determined and skilled griefer. sure grieferism is no longer fashionable or "cool" in the modern era, but their long lost skills and way of life has yet to be reckoned with in any sort of effective manner. sometimes old religions just fade away
My mentally abusive, alleged "father" threw a remote control hard at me, this evening. Before that, I said that even his favourite mainstream media outlet SVT has said that basically no migrants have gotten jobs, recently (or "newly arrived" as they creepily are called, here, to explain to Swedes that they are here to forever stay and replace us); either because they haven't been qualified or don't want any, as their article said. He immediately came up with some migrant that had changed tires on his car, the other day, and that he worked "far more effectively" than the others around him. I said I would rather have seen that that job had gone to someone from here (they automatically get jobs as all Nordics now are consider second-grade people, by the state, but he's too unintelligent to get that, despite that it's been said it will be done by those he has voted in). Then when he realized I was right, he as usual started to point out how worthless I am. I pointed out that it's hard to get back to life when you have been harassed to despair by the psychiatry (he, by the way, has several times commended the worst of those psychiatrists and said "he only wanted to help me" and that my life would be good if I had listened (they wanted to commit me, give me ECT and antipsychotics, mainly for wearing "odd clothes" (normal, nowadays), being a vegetarian and wanting to become a farmer)). He said something nasty I can't remember so I said I would be better off dead. He said something like "die then," to which I replied that I actually think I might have breast cancer so maybe I will (I've realized I have faint, wide lumps where they shouldn't be, on my chest, that definitely aren't fat lumps). Then he threw the controller on me and stormed off. Then he returned, saying that if I don't stop being a "fascist" and change my attitude, he will send me out of the house. If he does that, I won't have my only reason of living, anymore; our dog. I've decided to try to go mute in order to not speak with him. I prayed as hard as I could that he would die, but so far, none of those prayers have been listened to. Just further proof that no good god exists. I'll talk as little as possible with my mom, too, as he feels provoked when I ta Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>30655 Not him but about war... "Lots of terrible, nightmarish stuff" is already my life. It could get worse with war but not by much and every day I care less.
I feel you anon. My mom is similar to your father, plus she drinks. She doesn't throw stuff at me but she threw a brick into my window once. For me the only thing that works is not talking to her at all and avoid her as much as I can. >>if I don't stop being a "fascist" and change my attitude, he will send me out of the house Can he actually do that? I mean what's the law in your country about this and who owns the house, your mom or him? Is your apartment stable / paid for on the long term? If yes, then maybe you should just move and visit your mom and your dog when he is not at home. And before anything else certainly go and see a doctor.
>>30655 >Well.... war is never nice, though. Sure, but getting a influenza injection isn't either, but it's best to get it done. And war will really test my limits, I want to know just what I can acheive when pushed. Nobody really deserves to die, though I sure would like certain groups exterminated, but that doesn't mean they deserve it, it's just what personally think is best and I wouldn't grieve over their removal. >I'm not sure if he understands how much damage he is doing to me, mentally... and his behaviour is just making me get even more extreme Yeah, sounds like mine. I've concluded he must be a sort of psycopath, since clearly he is unable to process other's emotions. Best advice I can give is to just stop talking to him.
>>30639 He's not going to change until either a different narrative shows up on the television screen, everyone around him changes, or he's subjected to soviet style torture and brainwashing. As for cancer treatment I recommend you read: "Detoxify or Die" by Sherry A Rogers M.D https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/151489.Detoxify_or_Die
>What you sold. >Why what you sold is no longer useful to you. >Where you sold it. >How much you got for it. Garage sales, pawn shops, online selling, everything goes so long as it is kept legal. You can also recommend some good places to sell stuff that others might now know about or share resale knowledge that others might not know. You can also post pictures of what you intend to sell before you it's gone.Post edited on 4th Jan 2018, 11:56pm
In elementary school I brought my bayblades with me and showed them off. Turns out my friends have some too and we start battling each other every break. Soon the younger kids start swarming and watching us. Told them I could sell my bayblades if they wanted. Made like 50 bucks. I should add that bayblades where already out of fashion at this point in time
i sold all my videogames not long ago. i kinda regret it
>>31569 Ditto. Although I have most of it back thanks to pirates (thanks guys, whoever you all are!), the floppies and manuals would made a nice keepsake...
>>31260 I sold all mine like 10 to 15 years ago, and I regret it immensely. Some of them are worth a lot more now, but I mostly just miss the memories.
How many of you have been into anime 20+ years? Also what year did you start watching anime? Then what year did you find what anime actually was? I've been into anime since 1995 but I didn't know what anime was until 1997.
>>31549 I’m also 30, and I’ve noticed in public life that a lot more people watch it than let on. For instance, walking by a pharmacist talking to a patient the other day I heard one telling the other how they like older anime like Ranma. Both of them were, I would say, in thier mid 30s to late 30s. I think it’s mostly that once you become older and are finished with school and college, your life takes a very narrow path that you, yourself, stear. You’re also no longer branded into social groups as much beause everyone else is just focused on their own path. When you’re in your early twenties and teens you are still focused on groups, like who is an “anime fan” or “jock” or whatever. Beyond that age range we are all just people winging it, and what we like doesn’t define us as much as how much money we make or what we do for a living.
>>31549 Yeah, I've also noticed not a lot of people who I used to hang out with still watch anime. My roommate is 25 and still watches it. There's also this woman who's 31 that I know who still watches anime and is trying to raise her kids to like it as well although that doesn't seem to be working out. But yeah I am noticing that there's a huge decline once people start hitting a certain age. >>31551 >Beyond that age range we are all just people winging it, and what we like doesn’t define us as much as how much money we make or what we do for a living. Unfortunately this. People only care about you based on what you do and how much money you make. If you're not working people don't want to be seen with you thus you become isolated to no ends. That's what happens to most NEETs. I'm trying to figure out a way out of long-term NEETdom myself and anytime I run into people I went to school with they always try to ask me what I do and intrusive questions like that. I finally wised up and started lying to them. But even then that doesn't seem to matter much. Most of them just sit around drinking themselves to death while they're in their second or third marriage right now with three to four kids. I'm literally the only one left out of my entire class that hasn't had any kids or been married. Also even my younger brother tries to pretend that he doesn't remember watching anime with me growing up because it's seen as "uncool" to his peers. He's in the military and completely changed his persona and looks like he wants to kill himself on a daily basis. Then again that's most people I see anymore. They work and have a family but deep down you really pay attention these people are extremely miserable. I've had an extreme depression over the years about being a NEET and not having but a very small handful of friends. But I've started to look at it like this, I don't have any drama, I choose to actually be my true Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>31544 I think I found out Anime was a distinct separate medium around 1998 or 1999. Before that I remembered it as just called "eastern cartoons" locally. Same thing with Tokusatsu (Jiban, Masked Rider and co.) which was usually referred to as "Japanese shows".
"Japanimation" was the de rigueur term before anime
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