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 No.1[Reply]

Welcome to Sushichan!

Original Samachan.org migration discussion thread at >>>/yakuza/776

This board was made to handle some of the discussion topics that were common on Samachan but not so common on Sushichan. Japanese and Otaku culture as well as Anime-related discussions can go in this board, whether you were originally from Samachan or not. In addition, if you are from Samachan and you're not sure if your topic would fit in one of our other boards, you can post it here. If the moderators think it would be a better fit for another part of the site, it might get moved.

Sushichan Guidelines
* Read the rules! Also take a minute to look around.
* All conversations should be comfy and use polite language.
* Less comfy conversations (within reason) can be had in /hell/.
* NSFW content goes in /lewd/. Keep 3D threads in /lewd/ to a minimum.
* Site meta discussion goes in /yakuza/.
* The /culture/ board is mostly for literature and artwork, despite the name.
* Cute stuff goes in /kawaii/, but it is an SFW board.
* The /arcade/ board has been expanded to include all kinds of games, including tabletop.
* Keep most Japan / Otaku / Anime related topics within this board.

 No.255

Archived copy of Yuno's goodbye message that was posted on Samachan.org before the 4chan redirect: https://web.archive.org/web/20200517154448/https://samachan.org/



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>>6517
Last thread hit the bump limit.

Stream starts every Saturday at 20:00 UTC or 21:00 UTC depending on daylight savings time (16:00 EDT/13:00 PDT). See each week's announcement for the UTC time.
https://cytu.be/r/SushiStream

We usually watch one older show as a "main feature" as well as keep up with several currently airing shows as voted on by the community. We'd love for you to drop by!

Things we've watched before: https://pastebin.com/pgK1NFDJ
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 No.8230

On this day, Saturday the 14th of June at 21:00 Central Daylight Savings Time, Catesby officially claimed the crazy bandage lady in Re:Zero.

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GORGEOUS TIGER!

\o/

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Stream today, 20:00 UTC @ https://cytu.be/r/SushiStream (that's about 4 hours and 4 minutes from this post)
We're watching more Fuujin Monogatari and seasonals.
Hope to see you there!

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Their mapo has been stolen, their shop hijacked.
After a summer full of memories, five girls tearfully swear that they will never forget each other.
Yet, as they meet at the crossroads, they see the faces of strangers.
They turn away and return to their own lives in silence.
The fellowship is broken.



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The 27th anniversary of Hunter x Hunter's first chapter has passed by recently, and I thought it might be a fun idea to stream the 1999 anime series.

Stream link: https://cytu.be/r/GreedIsland

The stream will officially begin on March 13th, 20:00 UTC. See you there!
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Let me know if and when you're doing this catchup stream because I'd be interested in attending to watch the post-stream shows I missed last time, kthanks.

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>>8237
Let's do it on Tuesday, 20:00 UTC

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>>8238
I will sleep faster so tuesday comes sooner.

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Hope you're ready for some good clean fun!

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Stream in 3 hours (21:00 UTC). We're starting from episode 57. See you all there!

https://cytu.be/r/GreedIsland



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Do any of you enjoy reading academic works on Japanese media? I want to broaden my horizons and learn more about this medium that means so much to me.
Reading is difficult, but I think I'll start with Otaku: Japan's Database Animals by Hiroki Azuma.
The work of Patrick W. Galbraith also seems promising.

I've also found out about Mechademia, an academic journal that concerns this stuff. Have any of you ever taken a look at it?

Do you have any pointers? Maybe for stuff the other rolls should look at, or that really any proper otaku should read up on?
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 No.8244

Maybe you have some concrete recommendations for some good Japanese authors then? I wasn't trying to hear about western academics in particular.

 No.8245

>>8243
This is the sort of weebery that needs to be corrected with such reading. If anyone has some recommendations, I'd love to see them.

 No.8246

>>8244
Sorry. If you like Hiroki Azuma, you might want to check out Asada Akira. There's a collection on Japanese film theory by Naoki Yamamoto called Dialectics without Synthesis. This isn't strictly speaking anime-related, but worth checking out. Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn isn't an 'academic' work, but I consider it scholarly. The same with Okakura Kakuzo's Book of Tea. I really like this one. Heidegger is said to have stolen ideas from this book. Precarious Japan by Anne Allison is pretty good book. Robo Saipians Japanicus by Jennifer Robertson. Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo's Commuter Train System by Fisch. If you are into Japanese religion, I'd recommend A New History of Shinto by Breen and Teeuwen amd Sourcebook in Shinto by Stuart Picken. There are a lot of really fun anthropology papers on Japan that focus on everything from maid cafes to conventions too but you have to surf scihub to find good ones. I wouldn't waste money and energy focusing on a specific journal, only do that if you find an academic who's work you like.

I can't think up of anything else right now, but if I get the time, I could go digging for some of the books and papers for you. If I see other fun papers on Japan, I'll be sure to post them here.

>>8245
Sorry. I shouldn't have been so kneejerk. I apologize. Generally, I don't enjoy academic works on Japanese media because I'm generally very cynical and pessimistic towards academia, and Westerna academia specifically. I only have a preference for Japanese academics because they are less likely to be intellectual tourists. Good scholarship is rare these days. There's lots of sloppy work, lazy analysis, tone deaf arrogance, and lack of reflection with that crowd. I recognize that I have many of these flaws within myself too and struggle to rectify them.
One thing that really bothers me is the way academics can kill fun subcultures.

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>>8240
I'd say the most 'important' anime writer/theorist other than Azuma would be Thomas Lamarre (his 2009 work specifically), and other writers to look into would be the Journal of Anime & Manga Studies, Dani Cavallaro, Susan Napier, and Christopher Bolton, and if you distrust western academics like the first guy, then Yoko Arisaka and Sakabe Megumi have offered some commentary on Japanese art (not anime specifically)

 No.8249

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>>8244
If Japanese language papers are acceptable, A. Tachyon provides neoclassical interpretations of otaku subjects that stand in stark contrast to the decadent works of other modern academics. Compared side-by-side, other works appear as gross imitations, senseless regurgitations of buzz-words as the author attempts to please the algorithms in the minds of the inbred community that consumes such works. Often considered too provocative by Western academics, Tachyon ignores their criticisms. She is unafraid to cut to the heart of difficult moral questions, one of the few authors who coöperates with soaplands and JAV studios to get stories of the experiences there straight from the horse's mouth. This type of subject matter has led to her censure from all English language journals, but she still regularly publishes in certain Japanese circles.



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Another Friday night with the Bocch
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round bocchis

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literally me



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Last thread seems to have been deleted, so let's start a new one!
Post about whatever you have been watching lately, what you are thinking about watching, ask for recommendations, anything really!

I intend on watching the Burn Up! franchise soon.
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 No.8114

I've been watching Black Lagoon and SAO on and off for a while, the former more seriously, and the latter as a way to put something on before I go to sleep.

 No.8191

I watched Char's Counterattack, and found the use of Quess as a character to be particularly meaningful

quess' behaviour treats the affection of men she meets in a way like a primal hoarding of resources, not wanting others to get in her way, in a method similar to how hobbes said that a man in the state of nature will desire every further power he can reach, because the only way to ensure that he doesn't lose what he has now is to gain more
in this way, while char says he thought he failed to be an adequate father figure to her, the reason the two seemed to resonate with each other is because that quess' typically immature anger and pettiness is a mirror to char's own state of mind, especially I think he carries a level of resentment that amuro has managed to become popular (actually liked by people, as while char is valued as a political leader, he has no real friends to speak of) and successful in his absence
in this way, I think when char invokes lalah, she herself is not the most important element, but rather it is his resentment towards amuro from having taken her from him, which becomes a source for char's own counterargument to amuro's belief in positive change, and as such when he speaks of how she "could have been a mother to me", he does not necessarily want that on the level of providing comfort/affection (or the other reading I have seen in the sense of 'a mother to my children'), but rather what he wants is a mother's unquestioning and unconditional love, something which he sees amuro as having, and though he can cloak it in a political context, char responds in a way that aligns him with quess, believing that if he cannot get his form of desire, then he will destroy earth so that nobody can have it

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 No.8212

>>8210
Chu-chu the monkey represents Anthy's eating disorder.

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Since its friday 13th, can we stream Friday the 13th too?



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The Spring 2025 season is nearly upon us. What are you looking forward to sushis?
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 No.8193

which current show is the best?

 No.8195

>>8193
Of the ones I've seen, Apocalypse Hotel easily.

 No.8196

i had big hopes for mono but it turned quickly into a yuru camp with hags but no camping

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>>8193
Maebashi Witches and it's not even close.

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there is no escape



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please dont forget about acro trip

 No.8203

I would never.

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 No.4145[Reply]

Can I get a recommendation for an anime or manga that includes plenty of lolis, shotas too if possible, is absolutely overflowing with fanservice, is unimaginably fucked up, trauma, gore, etc, and ideally has vibrant and complex world-building.

I've already seen made in abyss, elfen lied, and a certain series.

the loli fanservice part is nonnegotiable I want absolutely gratuitous fanservice.
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Dennou Coil and Gunslinger GIrls might be up your alley. I haven't watched them yet, but what I've seen so far at least partly fits your description.

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I can't believe no one has suggested Moetan yet… for me it's THE loli fanservice anime.

Rizelmine also has a loli with plenty of fanservice. If you like great music and comfier lolis I would also suggest Saint October. Oh and watch Dance in the Vampire Bund.

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narutaru might be good for you OP, also there's the takopi's original sin ONA that is airing soon

 No.8207

>>8201
I wouldn't really consider narutaru to be lolicon or fanservice, but it does have a lot of trauma and violence.

 No.8227

>>8207
Narutaru has some fucked up stuff in the story. The show isn't great, but the manga is and it takes the story to a whole other level towards the end, which is not included in the anime.



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 No.6585[Reply]

For the games, anime, girls, etc. of both old and new Pokemon.
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Looks like my platinum adventure log killed the thread.

…Gomen.

 No.6775

>>6757
Nooooo, we love you Platinum-kun…

 No.6784

>>6585
>>6587
pangoro
infernape
raikou
ivysaur
piplup
garchomp

no particular order

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For me, nothing in video games will ever come close to the feeling of max comfiness I got while playing gen 4, gen 2, and Pikmin 2
Top tier games

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I want a pokemon game I can put 10000 hours into…

Pokemon has the unique ability to transfer your team to the next game, which makes it feel all connected. I started over for each campaign of course, but it was very fun to bring my old pokemon forward later for the post-game content, consider what new moves and items would fit my old favorites, and continue to build and bond with my team over several generations.
Especially when breeding pokemon took a lot of effort and there were many exclusive moves, my pokemon from older games really felt as if they had meaningful history. So the series effectively felt like a single game.
However the newer games exclude certain pokemon, make old moves unavailable, and special pokemon (shinies, perfect IVs, etc.) that you might have worked hard to obtain before are now easy to get. While it's a relatively minor change, it's made each game feel very stand alone to me, and theres no post-game now anyway. Considering I have favorites from new and old games, there doesnt even exist a main game where I can see all 6 of my favorites together now. All I have are Pokemon Showdown and my dreams.



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