Although I'm 100% sure everyone understood something different from Lain, it was a very interesting trip lol.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2742947

I want to keep my thoughts on it a bit mum here and I'll explain why.

But what does everyone think of it?

Because frankly, I think I'm enjoying a manga for the first time in a long time since I stopped reading them.

Thoughts on Witch Hat Atelier?

I'm on Chapter 34.

I hope it gets an anime.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4787748

I am terrible at media criticism. I do not understand the media that I watch at all and I heavily rely on others explaining it to me.

I watched Neon Genesis Evangelion because I really like mechs. It's been a long while so my memory is fuzzy. As it started, I noticed that the overall tone of the anime was more sober and grim than I had anticipated.

In the beginning, I liked it when new Angels revealed themselves. The fights were not the best but I still liked them. I really love the concept of an incomprehensible foe whose secrets are slowly unraveled.

As the show went on though I ended up extremely confused. I realised that the mechs are sort of a side-aspect of the whole thing which was a bit of a bummer. It seemed more about the difficulties of an ill-adjusted Shinji being forced into the role of being humanity's child soldier. Other child soldiers had issues of their own which I did not fully grasp. Even the adult lady whose home Shinji lives in had boy troubles of her own which I did not grasp at all as to how it fit in with the whole theme.

I watched the last few episodes extremely high and was completely lost. You cannot imagine my face when that scene where Shinji fantasises about sex (I think that's what he was doing) came on.

So can someone tell me what the general theme of the show is? If you wanna link to other articles or videos on thiz topic that would be swell as well. I cam understand not wanting to type out about an anime that has been analysed probably more than any other.

at 17:32, episode 6, Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night

don't forget to like and suscribe!

Sharinganism is the name I give to the ideology of the Uchiha in Naruto.

I found this manga very interesting and it explored the idea of how tribal societies(before agriculture) were rich in resources. Also, it shows how people shared and used to be a strong collective.

time to get serious

This work caught my attention a few months ago with the premise of having a 'realistic' economy based villainess type of story but as the story progress, it's getting more and more blatant with it classical liberal wish fulfillment bullshit

The original message of "I will save Japan lost generation by making the economy better" got turned into "how I exploited future knowledge to make profit for myself (and Japan) while screwing everyone else". The FMC basically just use her future knowledge to siphon America economic might to bail out Japan's economic burble while encouraging the worst aspect of America capitalist system. War profiteering, political corruption, racism, stealing personal freedom and privacy, every tricks in the book is fine as long as it's done outside of Japan.

Of course, the main character have to a be a super beautiful genius white girl from a rich and noble family that is only barely down on their luck right now cause of bad management by other people. It was totally easy to turn the ship around with future knowledge and a million dollar in seed capital. She was also super talent in singing and easily became an idol if her business fail.

To make the matter worse, to justify a world where the MC can be a blue blood noble in modern Japan, the author basically created an alt history where all other nations' agency is erased and the Allies just decided to give Japan everything they wanted in WW2 cause they surrendered earlier. Japan got to keep Manchuria, Japan got to keep the Zaibatsu, Japan beaten the Soviet and got stopped by the USA cause the Soviet got the A-bomb etc.

Finally, the books were pretty blatant about the anti communism message. The author have many characters in story repeating the same cliches "my country bad when it was under socialism, we are so rich now under capitalism, praise capitalism" or "communist stole my grandpa slaves, they were bad people".

The more I read the worse I feel so here is just my thought to easy my anger and grief of wasting time on such a piece of trash.

Maybe the web comic is awesome but so far the anime is nothing special. Other than the Korean names.

Even that one about literal terrorists ends up changing absolutely nothing about society.

So, my counsin and i have great interest in china and we want to watch some stuff from there, specially hers that is studying chinese language, so can you recommend any free source of chinese media? (movies, series, animes, doramas and etc)