Daos

I heard the ending of Fairytail was pretty embarrassing. Surprised he came back for more.

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I think this is only 12 episodes, so they really need to get this plot moving.

Sounds like it was just a "sorry you guys didn't like it apology." It's a bad, campy film but much better than Evolution. At least the Batman movie was actually batman related, the DBZ movie was just some other movie they called DBZ and slapped some character names on.

Whoa now cowboy, Batman and Robin isn't very good, but it wasn't anywhere near Evolution level bad. I can't even think of another movie where the director admits that he took it as a cash grab and submitted a formal apology to the world for how awful it was.

They're bringing in top tier voice talent for this project.

That's like asking Owl if he enjoyed something. So far I'm getting Casshern Sins vibes. An anime where the concept is there, the visuals are there... but it's never able to get going at more than a snails pace. I know they sunk a lot of money into this, but it definitely doesn't need to be the lead show.

Is anyone actually enjoying Fena so far? It's pretty and has good VA's, but after a few episodes of it I don't really see any reason to keep watching.

Well since we just gave the Taliban about 100 billion worth of US military equipment this will only count as the second worst financial decision in the US this month =P

Is she some sort of Idol character?

Did we just see her bare ass?

Oh sheesh he's still mad that he can't draw guys having rough anal on the forum?

Btw what ever happened to that Mochi guy, I don't think he posted the last few weeks.

That show was doomed from the start. What was the Mcguffin in that show called? Coils? The main character hated an inanimate object called coils. Then takes a job where his entire life revolves around coils. That reminds me of the time I hated tables and became a table salesman. I just have zero respect for that show, which is why I shit on it so much.

Yeah I thought people didn't like Sakura?

Biggest surprise on the list... Echidna from RE Zero. Wtf?

If you wish to know which Anime are mainstream... you must follow the Waifu. Just ignore the ones that weren't popular in the US.

It's good, but yeah I never got the hype. But hey, not everything needs to be groundbreaking. It does what it does well and they clearly put the effort in with the animation and character design. It's kind of an Inuyasha that didn't decide to go into filler hell.

What do we want to consider mainstream, when something becomes so popular that even a large number of non anime fans are aware of it? Naruto, DBZ, MHA....Inuyasha definitely was at the height of its popularity. Pokemon, AOT, RE Zero. One Punch Man. Maybe Death note? A lot of people are aware of it due to the terrible movie. One Piece and Jojo definitely are in Japan. Evangelion. Kill La Kill and Gurenn Lagan. Obviously DBZ comes in first, Pokemon second and everything else a distant third.

NO U LEARN ABOUT ECONOMICS AND DO HOMEWORK NOW

I've always found Social Democracy to be kind of a nonsense term. All Capitalist countries have socialist elements to them, but if they have high degrees of economic freedom and have market economies we just consider them to be capitalist countries. We have GSE's like Fannie and Freddie, subsidies for a lot of stupid things like ethanol and sugar, state run health exchanges and the US government flat out owns 28 percent of all land in the US. France, Norway, Denmark? All capitalist. Bigger welfare states but still capitalist. Sweden did try an experiment with a massive welfare state and ultra high taxes in the 70's. It quickly caused an economic downturn and they changed course. So which country would be capable of sustaining something like an anime industry, 70's Sweden or modern day Sweden? I would say the obvious answer would be modern day Sweden.

Merrian Webster defines it as Definition of socialism 1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods 2a: a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state 3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done And in real life, 2a and 2b is how Socialism has gone in every country it's been tried in. State run, no private property, government calls all the shots. Sweden is actually more economically free and more capitalist than the US, just higher taxed. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/youd-be-surprised-which-european-countries-are-more-capitalist-than-the-us Honestly it sounds like you actually want a capitalist system and all the things that it provides, just a better less corrupt one than we have now.

So what country is closest to your ideal form of government then? I'm having a hard time picturing what it is exactly. Small government socialist is practically a contradiction. I think all of the stuff you want is doable in the US. If you want to start a business and then give the workers all equal say in the company and pay them equally I don't think there's any reason why you can't. I think they've tried experiments with this and they failed though. Here's how the equal pay for everyone experiment went https://norwaytoday.info/finance/a-company-tried-paying-all-employees-the-same-salary-heres-how-it-went/ But my main point, is when would these non capitalist countries have developed any of the technologies required to even create an anime industry that resembles anything we see today? The Soviets main contribution towards tech was the AK47 and Sputnik. Would they have even invented Television by now?

Well I mean Michelangelo did the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by himself but it took 4 years. Why would Co-ops be considered Socialist? Are Ace Hardware and the Green Bay Packers Socialist? Ace Hardware is a highly successful company that functions well in a capitalist society. Are companies on the stock exchanges Socialist? Millions of people owning small percentages of the company and then voting on various things? Your definition of Socialism is probably drastically different from mine, Socialism typically refers to a system of government where the means of production are owned by the State. If you and 50 friends want to get together and make an Anime no one's stopping you. That's the great thing about living in a country that has economic freedom, as long as you follow existing labor laws you can pretty much do whatever you want. Without Capitalist countries its doubtful that the ability to even watch animation would exist. There's a reason almost every technological advance in the last 200 years came from Capitalist countries. How long would it have taken them to invent their own TV's? DVD's? Everything else that made watching anime possible? Even with their current cutthroat model of maximum efficiency, most Anime studios seem to barely turn a profit and seem to be one bad decision away from bankruptcy. I remember reading that most anime actually lose money, and serve mainly as an advertisement for the Manga. Even massively successful anime that end up with multiple seasons like One Punch Man and Seven Deadly Sins end up doing major cost cutting in their sequel seasons, to the point where it looks like you're watching a slide show. This isn't really indicative of an industry that has the wiggle room to change their business model very much.

Yeah except anime is a bit different than say...... painting a picture for your own enjoyment at your house. Anime has a fairly high man hour and personnel requirement. The people developing it would have to be working on it as their full time job in order to actually create it. Which means they would need either a company or just some random guy with a lot of money to bankroll the cost of the labor and materials. Someone would have to pay to rent/lease a large work space for all of the artists/VA's/writers. Normally, the company/ rich guy wouldn't be doing this just for fun and would want to sell the finished product in order to either break even or perhaps even make money. All this would tend to point to capitalism being a pretty necessary component in this whole process. Would any of the technology even exist to make anime in its modern form without capitalism? Would you just have some random company/ rich guy in a Socialist or Communist Society that wants to fund this kind of thing? Given that non capitalist countries never became known for their thriving animation industries I would lean towards no. But hey who can forget the good old state sponsored Soviet classics like "Moydodyr" or "The Tale of the Priest and his Workman Baida." Brought to you courtesy of the Principal Management of the Photocinematographic Industry.