Hidden Gems of Netflix's Watch Instantly

Sure. Watch the show if you want. I'm a firm believer that it's okay to like problematic things and that all favorites are problematic. I just thought it was funny to say that the universal opinion on the internet isn't that something has problematic elements when people on the internet will defend damn near anything that's part of geek culture.

I mean, the Internet is a big and weird enough place that there's someone who will attack anything, no matter how innocuous, and there's someone who will defend anything, no matter how vile.

At this point I think it's perfectly reasonable to hold claims that Work X is secretly trying to turn your children anti-semitic in abeyance pending further investigation.

(I also think it sounds perfectly believable that Attack on Titan specifically probably has some pretty f*cked-up subtext, but I enjoyed the first season for what it was and never had any particular personal desire to go further, so I suppose I'll never really know.)

We've wandered rather far afield: let's talk about Evangelion, which as far as I know is perfectly innocuous and has absolutely no problematic elements. (-:

hbi2k wrote:

We've wandered rather far afield: let's talk about Evangelion, which as far as I know is perfectly innocuous and has absolutely no problematic elements. (-:

None at all! Cheers for a pure work at last!

I'm caught up on Attack on Titan. I'd call the government facist but the anime itself isn't pro fascism. On a grand scale the political stuff takes some huge swings. The bad guys are now the good guys, the good guys are now the bad guys. Are any of these people good. Good and bad might not really apply considering the motivations of some people.

Anyway I doubt anyway is going to become pro fascism after watching this. Did anyone become pro fascist after watching full metal alchemist or most gundam series.

Please keep your politics out of this media thread. Television and movies are about entertainment.

Yakitate ja-pan's jingoism cannot be allowed

oilypenguin wrote:

Please keep your politics out of this media thread. Television and movies are about entertainment.

I would like to know more.

I don't mind the politics. It's the anime talk that's offending me.

I miss the good ole days of anime, when no military might in the universe could stand against the power of song.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:

I miss the good ole days of anime, when no military might in the universe could stand against the power of song.

I’m pretty sure that song was an allegory for pan germanic anti veganism. If I can find the article I’ll link it.

doubtingthomas396 wrote:
SpacePPoliceman wrote:

I miss the good ole days of anime, when no military might in the universe could stand against the power of song.

I’m pretty sure that song was an allegory for pan germanic anti veganism. If I can find the article I’ll link it.

The OVA version was much, much different. I think it really speaks to the creator's pure intent, instead of what was watered down for broadcast.

kuddles wrote:

I don't mind the politics. It's the anime talk that's offending me.

Would it help if we spoke very quickly? In higher pitched voices? And sometimes shouted syllables so elongated they must have been stretched in a taffy machine?

ClockworkHouse wrote:
kuddles wrote:

I don't mind the politics. It's the anime talk that's offending me.

Would it help if we spoke very quickly? In higher pitched voices? And sometimes shouted syllables so elongated they must have been stretched in a taffy machine?

It really would.

If you could see your way into a few extended transformation sequences with bonkers backdrop-visuals, i'd really appreciate that too.

We offer those at least once per episode. Don't underestimate the value of 15 seconds of infinitely reusable footage. That's 360 frames that don't have to be drawn!

I read that in an teeth-gratingly squeaky voice, and that totes worked. We're making progress.

We can do it!

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Is there a watch order to the Evangelion movies now that I've finished the series?

ClockworkHouse wrote:

We offer those at least once per episode. Don't underestimate the value of 15 seconds of infinitely reusable footage. That's 360 frames that don't have to be drawn!

whoa there with your fancy pants 24fps anime

mrlogical wrote:

I, too, have started watching Evangelion... I think it was the Waypoint discussion a few months back that put this on my radar. I have basically never watched anime before (on a totally random whim, I watched a few episodes of Kill la Kill a few years back, and somehow that was both not at all what I expected but also exactly what I expected--decidedly Not For Me), but as someone who likes video games and comics and sci-fi, I'm open to the idea of finding stuff I like in this medium

As someone who doesn't watch much anime, but catches some of it, I'd suggest the recent "Boku No Hero Academia". That's in the fighting genre (I think there's an actual technical term that I don't know), which has a lot of weird internal tropes that are a little hard to watch. Examples: everyone constantly announces their power sets, or muses to themselves for, like, a couple of minutes about how to win a fight when things aren't going well. It's pretty closely related to Evangelion, so if you got through that okay, Academia should be fun. It's not finished yet, but seems to be doing well and not in danger of cancellation.

I was not impressed with the little I heard of the American actors. Cowboy Bebop, this is not.

Which, btw, is a great classic in that field, and well worth watching. (Cowboy Bebop.) That one works quite well in English; the dub work there is way better than normal. I still think the original's better, but the English voices don't suck.

Yeah, My Hero Academia (as it's called to non-weebs) is quite possibly the cream of the crop when it comes to the particular subgenre of fighting-centric shonen anime. The fact that it's largely a love letter to Western superhero comic books also helps it feel more familiar and less off-putting to Western audiences.

Rat Boy wrote:

Is there a watch order to the Evangelion movies now that I've finished the series?

Might be fun to just do them at random.

A bit more helpfully, there's one that I think is called "Death & Rebirth" that's just a recap. End of Evangelion is usually what people mean by "the movie," and its history is muddled by decades of fandom hearsay. The "You Can(not)s" are a retelling/reimagining.

The rebuild series should just be skipped. The last two movies have been delayed over a decade and will probably never come out.

Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse is now on Netflix, so I know what I'll be watching ten times in the next week.

Yeah, I actually tried My Hero Academia sometime in the last six months because the first season was free on Xbox and I'd seen comic creators whose work I like praise it. It wasn't bad, but just not for me. It was slow in a way I found frustrating. Not even like the overall plot, slow on a sort of micro-level, like a character would say "WHAAT?" or "OH NO!" or something and the shot would hold on it and the character whimpering for a good 10-20 seconds. I have also watched a few episodes of Cowboy Bebop and thought that seemed neat. Didn't totally click with me, at least not enough to cause me to finish the series, but if I finish Evangelion and feel compelled to explore further that might be my next step.

If My Hero Academia was too slow for you, go ahead and do yourself a favor and skip DBZ / One Piece / Bleach / Yu Yu Hakusho / Naruto / Black Clover. That particular subgenre just plain isn't for you, no need to try to force it.

Cowboy Bebop is great, and it's a rare one in that it's almost entirely episodic, meaning you can watch it out of order, catch an episode here and there as the mood strikes you, whatever, and you won't be missing out on much.

Death Note's another one that tends to be considered an "anime for people who don't usually like anime." It falls apart a little in the final third, but it's a fun ride getting there.

The works of Hayao Miyazaki are another good starting point, and of course movies are a less severe time commitment than even a 13 or 26-episode series.

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trichy wrote:

Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse is now on Netflix, so I know what I'll be watching ten times in the next week.

Not seeing it. Are you in the US?

Stele wrote:
trichy wrote:

Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse is now on Netflix, so I know what I'll be watching ten times in the next week.

Not seeing it. Are you in the US?

it's on: https://www.netflix.com/title/810027...

trichy wrote:

Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse is now on Netflix, so I know what I'll be watching ten times in the next week.

Honestly, does Netflix have a repeat function? I might just leave it on for the day as background noise, checking out scenes off and on.

Thanks Mao.