There’s a lot that can go over your head when you’re young. For me it was FLCL and its themes of grooming and abuse along with Mimi being homeless.

I’d never actually watched CCS as a kid and thought “maybe I should introduce my nieces” but then read the first volume of the manga and WOAH, NELLY. [Bullhorn]Step away from the child.

Oh, whaaaaaaaat? Man, I keep running into little unexplained bits of jank across the fediverse. Thanks for solving it for me.

Well, it was worth a shot. I literally cannot watch it at the link but I’m not torn up about it.

Sorry to bother you, but I’m getting a "Response body larger than size limit" error when trying to view the image, it’s not loading for me. You wouldn’t happen to know why or a solution, would you?

I’m commenting on your post body (and title), not the panel, dude. Like are you running some sort of ARG or just some new breed of lolsorandom?

Is that an order, or can I stick to eating chicken & mushrooms?

My memory is a little hazy on the details, but I think there was more to the original story (probably a light novel?) that never got adapted, which is why it kind of peters out at the end. It probably doesn’t get much attention the same way Mushi-shi doesn’t – it’s a slow-going show without a clear-cut plot, and that doesn’t appeal to a lot of the folks who watch anime (esp. here in the West).

If I’d ever finished Mushi-shi I’d have probably included that, too, but I’ve had the worst luck watching it just as sites get taken down or I lose internet for a few days and lose all momentum.

Am I having a stroke?

Hangul, Old/Middle English, Japanese/Chinese, and heavy modern English slang all in one post?

TBH I’m capable of reading your post because of my interest in languages but I think we need a professional linguist to decipher just what the hell you mean

Six of one, half a dozen of the other. It’s like the fact that you cannot create a category that includes all “fish” that doesn’t also include humans (or, if you want to exclude humans by way of things like body plan or living on land, then you have to include cetaceans and start excluding things like lungfish).

To use your example, most people would probably say there are actually pretty clear expectations of tone & pacing between “a Netflix show” vs. “an HBO show” vs. “a syndicated television show (from before streaming services)” despite them all being the same on the surface.

Calm down, dude ʕ థ౪థʔ

I can hear this gif.

Ah, thank you. I thought this was possibly a trans meme or Ranma ½ reference.

[gif from The Amazing World of Gumball, with the titular character sitting behind an office desk with a large button sitting on it, before he says, “I think we all know where this is going”]

I have a hard time conceptualizing PSG as an ecchi anime. Between the majority Tom & Jerry style animation and the much larger emphasis on toilet humor over leering at the girls, it just slides under my mental gate for it.

I can absolutely see all the inspiration but with the skirt, the wings, the little tail, and some other little details, I’m kinda seeing this like a Welsh Dragon gijinka.

I have to distinguish “classic” big three because I’m more of an oldtaku and the young’ins these days consider the “big three” to be One Piece, Naruto, and BLEACH. I don’t necessarily mean “classic” here in terms of absolute quality but more “these were the three everyone at the time knew about” – which I know is also subject to region/culture when things like Knights of the Zodiac AKA Caballeros Del Zodiaco would have been THE anime of LatAm around the same time but virtually unknown in the U.S.

The way I see it, Hosoda’s films are a natural progression for anyone who likes Ghibli films, which I probably should have included in the post but it was already growing overly long. Low-key agree with you on Mirai and Belle but I’d say they’re still worth a watch. Also Summer Wars makes a lot more sense if you’re familiar with Digimon, as it’s just the Our War Game OVA extended out to a full movie.

Kinda fair wrt Perfect Blue, I’m used to its reputation preceding it. Generally all of Kon’s works are “kinda fucked up” tho; actual adult material (and not just gritty or overly-sexualized) that draws people to them.

Oh, no, I’m aware that DBZ jumped the shark from the word “go”, and also vaguely aware of the original Dragon Ball being a retelling of Journey to the West. Truthfully, I expect I will actually enjoy Dragon Ball more than DBZ because while I hold a lot of nostalgia for DBZ, in rewatching it I realized how much it’s very much like a modern mythology story, where you already know the outcome (Goku wins) so there’s not the same kind of narrative weight we’re used to (not to mention some absolute bullshit maneuvers from time to time), but a lot of the fun is just getting to see the big, unbelievable battles and how they keep getting bigger and unbelievable-er. Dragon Ball being just an adventure story is probably going to be closer to my tastes nowadays.

Okay, I see where the confusion lies: fanservice is what that T&A in most anime is called. Ecchi is when that’s the main focus of the show. Again, it’s like how in a PG-13 movie they’re allowed a certain level of “suggestive themes” like an implied sex scene, but if they’re too blatant/obvious/frequent they’ve got to go up to an R rating.

So, like,

• Yoruichi in BLEACH: fanservice
• a zombie anime where every girl’s chest is as big as their heads and the shirts cling impossibly close to their skin and bullets travel between their individually flapping breasts (Highschool of the Dead): ecchi
• naked wolf girl with no visible tits in an otherwise grounded story about Medieval commerce (Spice & Wolf): fanservice
• an entire anime based around gaining superpowers by drinking breast milk straight from the tap (Qwaser of Stigmata): Ecchi
• beach or onsen episodes: fanservice
• harem anime where the girls are constantly in states of undress: ecchi

The anime community (especially in the West) has had a bad reputation about making the fanservice front-and-center (for various reasons I won’t get into here) but I think one should make a clear separation between what you see at fan meetups and what the actual content of the anime is.

I have never heard of Saiki at all. I’m also reasonably certain that I’ve only ever heard of Gintama by name, never seen a scrap of it in all my time. I’m also a certified hater of AoT, so there’s that.

As much as I do like Yu Yu Hakusho, I don’t think I’d call it particularly rewatchable. I will agree that FMA/FMA:B deserves it’s spot on the list, tho.

I do not think I like this list, but I don’t think I’ve cared for top X lists since I was a tween some two decades ago.

I’d like to hear your thoughts on Dragon Ball, though. I’ve been meaning to watch it for real and have been putting it off since I got gifted the entirety of DBZ and revisited my childhood.

Yeah, and as a matter of fact I think most ecchi anime don’t even show nipples (tho panty shots are often frequent). The furthest most ecchi anime will ever go is showing nipples, but generally you’re going to see things that are purposefully towing the line (barely-there swimsuits, groping, shirts/towels/hair just conveniently hanging down to cover important bits, references to sex toys and/or BDSM, et cetera.). The point of an ecchi is to be sexually arousing first, rather than just having a naked dark-skinned cat girl in an otherwise fairly serious action show about soul people with sentient swords. Most ecchi anime tends to be comedy as a result.