What comes to mind at the mention of "elitist anime" - /a/ (#280485353) [Archived: 315 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/12/2025, 3:21:13 AM No.280485353
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I don't think there is anything more presumptuous and elitist than Tatami Galaxy
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 3:29:44 AM No.280485545
>>280485353 (OP)
That shit isn't even an anime. It doesn't look like one and lacks shading. It's not anime styled. It's pseudcore like other yuasa shit. This is fellated by hipsters who hate anime and only like obscure Japanese animation.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 3:35:12 AM No.280485686
>>280485353 (OP)
classroom of the elite
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 3:36:13 AM No.280485709
>>280485353 (OP)
>>>/wsr/
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 3:36:50 AM No.280485727
>>280485686
having elite in the name is cheating
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 3:39:33 AM No.280485791
>>280485545
>this japanese animation is not japanese animation because it lacks shading
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 3:40:14 AM No.280485815
Hyouge Mono, LoTGH, 0079, Evangelion, SZS, Yuru Yuri, Milky Holmes... you know, the good shit.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 3:42:24 AM No.280485873
>>280485815
>SZS
Really? That's kinda normie
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 3:57:15 AM No.280486238
>>280485873
plenty of the gags, wordplay and satire draw on classic nippon literature, im not concerned with normies' undeveloped aesthetic sensiblities.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:03:09 AM No.280486368
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Felt like I needed a guidebook for all the references etc. this thing was making
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:05:45 AM No.280486425
>>280485353 (OP)
Frieren.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:07:36 AM No.280486470
>presumptuous and elitist
Nah, that's you.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:09:13 AM No.280486512
TAMA HAIR DOWN
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>>280485545
>why don't all characters have the same faces?
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:17:44 AM No.280486709
>>280485353 (OP)
It's still a better looper anime than Steins;Gate in every way.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:18:33 AM No.280486728
>>280485873
Evangelion is easily the most normalfag title on his list, far more than SZS,
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:19:32 AM No.280486760
>>280485353 (OP)
Angel Egg.
Belladonna of Sadness.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:21:37 AM No.280486807
>>280486728
Right but that one was so obvious I did not even think it was worth bringing up
LoTGH is also way too popular to be cult, it's like Tarantino
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:35:31 AM No.280487163
>>280485791
>>280486512
>only two replies are both strawmen
dumb subhumans
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:36:36 AM No.280487193
>>280487163
But "the japanese animation is not japanese animation" is literally your argument
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:39:12 AM No.280487261
>>280487193
Are you actually this dense or just trolling? He didn't say Japanese animation isn't Japanese animation. He just said Tatami wasn't anime styled.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:39:34 AM No.280487275
wtf does cult and normie enjoyment have to do with whether it's "elitist." at least by any normal metric/definition, it only needs be capable of demanding intellect effort and deeper engagement, while possibly cultivating a a sense of superiority in it's fans. Lain is like top 10 normie anime, you'd be hard pressed to find a list on reddit of top anime that does not include it, and no one would deny it's not also "elitist" in the sense of the superciliousness of its enjoyers.

obscurity/popularity shouldn't play into the classification at all. many things valued by the elite are cargoculted by the plebs.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:40:21 AM No.280487290
>>280487261
He said "that shit isn't even an anime"
>not anime style
It literally shapes the "anime style" because it is, objectively, anime.
Any art form has off-the-grid stuff, and if you barged into an elitist thread just to call out something for being too avant-garde you're in the wrong thread
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:44:37 AM No.280487392
>>280486368
There's an infographic or maybe it was a long 4chan post
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:47:47 AM No.280487474
>>280486368
If references make something elitist Pani Poni Dash is up there.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:51:20 AM No.280487566
>>280487275
>wtf does cult and normie enjoyment have to do with whether it's "elitist."
It's just the inferiority complex of some anons.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:01:14 AM No.280487807
>>280487290
It's obscure Japanese animation, not anime. It's beyond the scope of anime. It doesn't look like anime. It has a weird flat style, it doesn't have anime's iconic aesthetic.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:18:46 AM No.280488230
>>280487807
It has to come from the Anime Prefecture of Japan or else it's just sparkling animation.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:21:00 AM No.280488283
>>280487807
>It has a weird flat style
Is Crayon Shin-Chan anime?
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:22:21 AM No.280488313
>>280486368
It's not really "elitist" since it's kind of a love letter to Japanese pop culture. It's in an odd territory where it's an action show that's too dense for the typical action fan but not trying to be "deep" enough for the artsy fartsy crowd.
>>280487474
Concrete Revolutio typically isn't making direct references to TV shows and manga, but remixing them and replacing them with OCs that function on their own. But if you have a high enough powerlevel to appreciate generational media trends and important bits of pop culture across several decades it's easier to appreciate what the show is trying to do, since it moves at a breakneck pace and doesn't take the time to spell things out.
I guess my explanation does make it sound a bit pretentious, so maybe >>280486368 is right after all.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:22:45 AM No.280488321
>>280487807
Is avatar aang anime
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:23:07 AM No.280488331
>>280488283
You know what the answer is going to be so why even ask?
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:27:06 AM No.280488412
>>280487474
That anon means allusion when he say references. If mere references was elitist then family guy is the most elitist show on tv
content also matters, concrete revolutio they're largely historical allusions
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:27:43 AM No.280488426
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>>280486368
This show was unnecessarily nonlinear
Anyway I'm going to post the infographics
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:28:14 AM No.280488438
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>>280488426
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:28:46 AM No.280488450
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:29:05 AM No.280488460
>>280488331
no it's a legitimate question
is avatar the last airbender anime?
give a fucking yes or no response to his question and mine or fuck off
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:29:17 AM No.280488467
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:29:49 AM No.280488479
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:30:08 AM No.280488482
>>280485353 (OP)
>Tatami Galaxy
> presumptuous and elitist
Are you too retarded to read the fast subs or something?
There is nothing presumptuous about that show, it's just a dude imagining how his college live would be if he chose a different club.
You have to be 1 digit IQ to belive that is elitist or presumptuous.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:30:21 AM No.280488487
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:33:17 AM No.280488542
HunterxHunter
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:36:44 AM No.280488614
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>>280485353 (OP)
You are right, anon, it's probably the best example. Normalfags who huffed farts and really wanted to look like they know their shit flocked Tatami Galaxy en masse.
>>280485815
LOTGH used to be elitist, nowadays I see more people mocking it instead of singing praises.
>>280486368
I think that OP had completely different thing in mind when it comes to "elitism". I'm 99% sure that his post was about the people who in the past used to use Yuasa as taste signaling thing.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:39:25 AM No.280488669
>>280488614
>Normalfags who
not a single actual normalfag has ever heard of tatami galaxy
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:41:23 AM No.280488708
>>280488460
>malding
>referring to himself in the 3rd person
woweee
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:41:56 AM No.280488720
>>280488669
You are fucking joking now. In 2010s it used to be the go-to anime for every pretentious, self-proclaimed artfag teen and self-important, smug women.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:42:02 AM No.280488723
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>>280488460
>is avatar the last airbender anime?
No.
>>280488283
>Is Crayon Shin-Chan anime?
Yes.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:43:43 AM No.280488761
>>280488720
>implying
again, not a single actual normalfag has ever heard of tatami galaxy. The """artfags""" always go to actual popular pretentious anime like utena.
Tatami galaxy isn't even pretentious unless you're too retarded to understand it.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:44:01 AM No.280488769
>>280488723
You got it the wrong way round. Crayon shit chan is a Japanese cartoon.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:45:55 AM No.280488824
>>280488723
Right, then Tatami Galaxy is an anime
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:47:02 AM No.280488849
>>280488769
No, you're just retarded.
>>280488824
Correct.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:49:26 AM No.280488894
>>280487807
>>280488669
Yuasa is a famous animator who has done stuff for Cartoon Network. He's hardly obscure and has at least a little normalfag cred even if he's not quite at Miyazaki or Kon level.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:51:28 AM No.280488942
>>280488769
Japanese cartoons and anime are the same thing. "Anime" is not an institution.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:52:01 AM No.280488955
>>280488894
>implying
you do not talk to actual normalfags anon.
Even here in modern /a/ the majority do not know any Yuasa show other than maybe devilman because it's on netflix.
Atual normalfags don't even know who kon is.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:55:01 AM No.280489014
>>280485353 (OP)
Post made by a sub 80iq midwit lmao
Tatami Galaxy is fairly straight forward
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:57:06 AM No.280489065
>>280485545
Pretty much, anything touched by Yuasa shouldn't count as anime.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:58:15 AM No.280489092
>>280489065
>anything touched by a japanese animator and director made in japan shouldn't count as anime
retard
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:59:31 AM No.280489119
>>280486709
S;G isn't even that good so that's not too hard to accomplish.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:59:42 AM No.280489123
>>280489065
Go away faggot
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:01:07 AM No.280489164
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>>280485353 (OP)
Anything good should be considered elitist.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:01:41 AM No.280489178
>>280488614
>people who in the past used to use Yuasa as taste signaling
His two best are probably his most experimental (Kaiba) and most plain (Ping Pong). I guess Ping Pong is too pedestrian for the tryhards and Kaiba is too anime for them, since they didn't catch on with the same crowd (though Ping Pong caught on pretty heavily with a different crowd).
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:03:09 AM No.280489206
>>280485353 (OP)
Pretty much anything made by Yuasa.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:05:34 AM No.280489265
did yuasa kill this guys parents lol?
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:06:33 AM No.280489286
>>280485353 (OP)
Fun things are fun. Anything else is just being pretentious.
>>280486368
Thanks for the recommendation.

I've watched the tatami galaxy and i really didn't think of anything else beyond a cunning of age story.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:06:40 AM No.280489288
>>280488761
Tatami isn't pretentious but back then it attracted pretentious people: english majors, self-important third worlders, people who hate anime; the ones looking for "cream of the crop". There is a reason why it was put on Digitranny's meme 3x3.
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Anonymuos
7/12/2025, 6:11:10 AM No.280489389
>>280489288
it's creme of the crop
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:14:02 AM No.280489438
>>280488955
Anon, if you eliminate Ghibli and Gainax/Trigger directors Yuasa is probably top 3 in the list of people /a/nons could name along with Kon and Shinkai.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:21:49 AM No.280489593
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>>280488708
>everyone who disagrees with you is the same person
yep yep yep reddit retard alert
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:30:22 AM No.280489744
>>280485545
Aku no hana has an anime adaptation that looks nothing like the average anime, is that not anime? is that just "Japanese animation" (which is what anime MEANS)
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:38:18 AM No.280489887
>>280489438
>Anno
>Miyazaki
Are the only directors a normalfag knows, there is no 3rd
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:39:18 AM No.280489903
>>280485545
>this song is not music because it sounds different from anything I have listened to before
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:49:03 AM No.280490037
>>280489887
After how big Kimi no Na wa was Shinkai is more normie than Anno. Knowing Anno is already starting down the anime fan rabbit hole. Next comes claiming to like Takahata more than Miyazaki, then Kon idolization, then expanding breadth into easily recognizable styles like Yuasa, Imaishi, Oshii. All this just through osmosis from watching anime and participating in even the most basic discourse on it.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:51:58 AM No.280490082
>>280488614
You can tell exactly how old this image is because it's complaining about SAO instead of isekai in general.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:51:59 AM No.280490083
>>280490037
No one even brings up Shinkai in Kimoi no Na Wa discussions, meanwhile it is impossible to discuss Evangelion without talking about Anno

A director's popularity does not coincide with their work's popularity
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:53:55 AM No.280490109
>>280485353 (OP)
Wouldn't it be elitist if you thought you were smart or great for watching it? Never saw people act that way about this, in fact, it's just about the struggle of finding yourself in college. Bog standard theme. I think it's a fine anime.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:01:03 AM No.280490216
It's good if it's 2deep4u but it's bad when it's 2deep4me
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:05:35 AM No.280490262
>>280485353 (OP)
Tatami Galaxy is my favorite psuedcore anime because I the message resonates with me.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:21:31 AM No.280490443
>>280485353 (OP)
Never watched this but I read both books last year and I think they're pretty good. Comedy is subjective but I think the humor carries them. The recurring jokes like the one guy's sex doll and Ozu throwing himself off the bridge for no reason are pretty funny and the MC's narration is consistently amusing enough that it helps you not get sick of him as you start to see his flaws more. Both books are just very amusing to read in general.

I do hope more of the author's books get translated eventually, since I hear Penguin Highway isn't great.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:26:55 AM No.280490504
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>>280488614
The urge overtook me, I had to
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:52:20 AM No.280490799
>>280485353 (OP)
TTG is unpretentious. You don't have to be otaku to access it. That's why it bothers some of you. You want to feel special for watching foreign cartoons. You especially want to feel validated for the countless hours you've spent sitting alone consuming media and collecting factoids and information.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:53:30 AM No.280490812
>>280485545
You know you can just say the animation style isn't typical of anime.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 9:51:22 AM No.280492147
Bro, it's just a cartoon.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 9:59:45 AM No.280492218
>>280485353 (OP)
Anime is mass media, it's pop culture. Half the stuff people call pretentious isn't pretentious at all; the presentation is just slightly unorthodox and it doesn't lay out every single thing like your typical shounen battle manga.
Actually, although Evangelion is sometimes called obtuse I could never figure out why. Almost everything the characters are psychologically grappling with is explained to you in bare detail during the last few episodes.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 10:05:37 AM No.280492279
>>280485545
Fpbp
I mean, I disageee when You Say it isnt anime since it was made in Japan, but it's the type of anime that hates other anime in the same way ashkenazi jews ARE technically white but are the type that hater every other white in Europe. Said this, Makoto ueda can actually write , if it was directed by some other guy it would be a good show. Keep in mind river exists
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 10:07:19 AM No.280492294
280492279
>jews and race comparisons out of nowhere
This is even worse than food analogies and video game anecdotes. Go the fuck back nigger.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 10:07:39 AM No.280492298
>>280485353 (OP)
There is no elitist anime. There are only elitists anime fans.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 10:16:43 AM No.280492400
>>280485353 (OP)
I find Steins;Gate fans to be somewhat pretentious.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 10:23:24 AM No.280492479
>>280492218
Anime has never ever had a genuine pretentious and infallible work. Only one medium on earth has had such a thing and said medium has taken 1000s of years to create those works, western canon.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 10:25:58 AM No.280492505
>>280485353 (OP)
I am the elite, so the anime that I like most is the most elitist anime.
Symphogear, I guess.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 10:31:42 AM No.280492573
>>280485545
fippy bippy
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 10:33:39 AM No.280492603
>>280492479
The "Western canon" isn't a medium. Anyway, there are other canons and the great Western works only match up to them, sometimes rank under the ones from other civilizations.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 10:38:51 AM No.280492665
>>280492603
Yeah I shouldn't of said medium I more so meant the western canon of lit considering I could of been referring to visual arts, plays etc. Also the eastern canon of lit is subpar in comparison. Tao Te Ching, The Art of War, and the Bhagavad Gita all nowhere near as influential. Most countries outside the Roman Empire barely have literature aside from a few poems until after they embraced Christianity. The eastern canon as a concept doesn't make much sense considering how varied its civilizations were.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 10:41:32 AM No.280492708
>>280492665
I forgot to add if you considerWater Margin, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West, and The Dream of the Red Chamber even in the same league as the best of western lit your delusional.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 10:51:04 AM No.280492847
>>280492665
>>280492708
You're a native Anglophone ("should of" is a mistake seldom made by ESLs) and you can't even spell shit properly. I doubt you've read the titles you're spouting off.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 10:52:19 AM No.280492862
>>280492708
I don't consider anything written after the Iliad and written outside of Italy or Greece part of Western culture
I'm sure you're a pig who thinks Shakespeare is part of the Canon
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 10:58:18 AM No.280492947
>>280492847
I'm typing quickly on a phone, what do you want. I absolutely have read the titles I've mentioned and I likely have read a lot more than you'd assume from the average /a/ anon. You haven't provided a single work that backs up the original claim you made "the great Western works only match up to them". I take it this will remain unsubstantiated?
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:00:18 AM No.280492970
>>280492862
/lit/ isn't sending their best, sad.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:02:25 AM No.280492993
>>280492847
If that's the best insult you could come up with, he's probably right.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:05:22 AM No.280493020
>>280492993
You don't have to samefag out of anger.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:07:11 AM No.280493039
>>280485353 (OP)
It gets associated with elitism but the anime isn't elitist at all. It's not cryptic and told in a straightforward way.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:08:58 AM No.280493053
>>280485353 (OP)
>presumptuous and elitist
it's a fucking cartoon for kids, you presumptuous and elitist fag.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:10:53 AM No.280493067
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>>280493020
That isn't me, will you back up the claim you made or continue to deflect and derail?
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:13:01 AM No.280493091
>>280485545
Yuasa's works aren't remotely difficult to understand, they just look atypical. You have a very narrow view of anime and have no understanding of its history either. Awful post.
Replies: >>280493836
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:24:33 AM No.280493184
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>>280485545
>It's not anime styled
You can't be serious
Replies: >>280493223 >>280493836 >>280493844 >>280520214
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:28:51 AM No.280493223
>>280493184
The fact that anon mentioned shading means he has to be some kind of troll, pretending to be one of those wannabe "anime pros" that salivate over dark 90s OVA.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:45:49 AM No.280493427
[typesetter] Kaiba 02 [BDRip 1920x1080 x264 FLAC].mkv_snapshot_13.11.374
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 12:18:22 PM No.280493751
>>280492218
>Actually, although Evangelion is sometimes called obtuse I could never figure out why. Almost everything the characters are psychologically grappling with is explained to you in bare detail during the last few episodes.
Really? The original Evangelion does not explain even 10% of the mysteries, and The End of Evangelion explains maybe 30%. It has so many loose ends.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 12:22:41 PM No.280493790
With the advent of the internet nothing is elitist. The internet democratized anime. Everything is out there for anyone to watch it.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 12:26:49 PM No.280493836
>>280493091
>>280493184
It'd either a troll or a certain poster who has been known to make outrageous claims about large numbers of beloved anime being "cartoons" because they don't adhere to the "classical anime style", whatever that is.
Replies: >>280493849
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 12:27:47 PM No.280493844
GS7xwCQWUAAs8VL
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>>280493184
Is this the college girl look?
Replies: >>280496984
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 12:28:08 PM No.280493849
>>280493836
So either a troll or a troll
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 2:40:59 PM No.280495491
>>280486368
1/3 of stuff directed by Seiji Mizushima falls under this. I also had a hard time following Un-Go and you need to know a lot about 90s in Japan to get Oh! Edo Rocket.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 2:42:48 PM No.280495522
shinkai anno yuasa
shinkai anno yuasa
md5: 1b09883eedba0365d278fd5d1b90d2b9๐Ÿ”
>>280489438
>>280490037
I don't think it's very close. At all.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 2:56:40 PM No.280495702
>>280485353 (OP)
>thinly veiled rec thread
I'm gatekeeping them from the likes of you
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 2:57:41 PM No.280495713
Anime Art Styles 2
Anime Art Styles 2
md5: 1988710beaa4d93685e33a71db46c328๐Ÿ”
>>280487807
>It doesn't look like anime. It has a weird flat style, it doesn't have anime's iconic aesthetic.
With all due respect, kill yourself nigger newfaggot tourist piece of shit motherfucker subhuman missed-abortion
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 3:54:50 PM No.280496707
>>280485353 (OP)
Non 90's oldshit like Galaxy Express 999 and Ideon.
Also shit with "crazy" imagery, typically stuff that's "open to interpretation" (AKA: we don't even know what the fuck we were trying to say).
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:01:59 PM No.280496892
>>280485815
>Yuru Yuri, Milky Holmes
lmao slipping these in is funny
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:03:52 PM No.280496942
>>280489178
>Kaiba is too anime for them
Kaiba is like adventure time this is retarded
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:04:53 PM No.280496963
>>280488614
No 16 year old alive is on baka fucking bt
Replies: >>280497013
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:06:02 PM No.280496984
>>280493844
It's the whore look
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:06:44 PM No.280496997
>>280492479
>pretentious and infallible
These adjectives do not make sense with what you're saying wtf do you mean.
Replies: >>280511971
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:07:50 PM No.280497013
>>280496963
Think about how old that image is.
Replies: >>280497193
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:17:02 PM No.280497193
>>280497013
god i remember digi retard making that chart
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:19:39 PM No.280497246
>>280488614
Modern version should have Frieren, CSM, Edgerunners and Dandadan.
Replies: >>280517597
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:26:46 PM No.280497412
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>>280485353 (OP)
>What comes to mind at the mention of "elitist anime"
Teenagers?
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:28:29 PM No.280497452
>>280488614
What's wrong with mpv?
Replies: >>280502397 >>280505622
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:03:23 PM No.280498201
>>280485353 (OP)
Nobody cares about Yuasa anymore man. New era pretentious is series like Ousama Ranking Frieren, Mob Psycho and Spy x Family that sell a compelling premise yet go nowhere. Itโ€™s the type of crap loved by people whoโ€™ve only watched 10 anime max.
Replies: >>280498311 >>280514763
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:08:19 PM No.280498311
>>280498201
>Spy x Family
>Mob Psycho
>pretentious
These shows are just having fun. Which is why they go nowhere. They never intended to have somewhere to go.
Replies: >>280498381
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:10:58 PM No.280498381
>>280498311
Theyโ€™re pretending to go somewhere. Half of Spy x Family chapters are
>oh no plot progression itโ€™s finally kicking offโ€ฆ
>itโ€™s a nothing burger
Replies: >>280498550
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:16:37 PM No.280498550
pretentious
pretentious
md5: 11b28da15da9c09c5044f0b415559f04๐Ÿ”
>>280498381
>Theyโ€™re pretending to go somewhere
Are you retarded or just pretending?
That's not what pretentious means
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:32:54 PM No.280498998
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>>280485545
The replies are seething over the definition of anime but I know exactly what you mean. It's an anime that looks not-anime enough that normalfag psueds aren't ashamed to recommend or base their personality on it.
Replies: >>280503617 >>280507453
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:55:26 PM No.280501073
bump
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:43:30 PM No.280502397
>>280497452
N-nothing
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 8:02:33 PM No.280503007
>>280485353 (OP)
Pon no Michi. You need to know mahjong at the bare minimum and then it references out-of-print magazines and old matches (that only have VHS recordings) as if anyone will know what the fuck itโ€™s talking about. Everyone focuses on the Akagi and Tetsuya references but thatโ€™s only because itโ€™s Al they recognize. Thereโ€™s also the Onomichi tourism stuff but other anime do the same shit, hell, Zatsu Tabi covered a lot of it too.
Replies: >>280503080
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 8:05:06 PM No.280503080
>>280503007
>Pon no Michi
The MahjongSoulless release was a fucking trip
Replies: >>280503358
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 8:15:08 PM No.280503358
>>280503080
I watched it raw since the MTL was shit. Someone actually bothered to sub it?
Replies: >>280503726
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 8:22:55 PM No.280503573
>>280485353 (OP)
>elitist
it's not elitist at all
its funny schlock like shaun of the dead due to its comedy
Replies: >>280511776
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 8:24:29 PM No.280503617
>>280498998
Yep, anime is about being visually appealing which usually keep normalfags away, making things ugly just kill the point of it being anime.
Replies: >>280508745
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 8:28:11 PM No.280503726
>>280503358
Eventually it got ufficial subs.
MahjongSoulless was a bunch of /a/nons who made shitpost subs for the anime 'cause, as you pointed out, nobody had any idea what the fuck the girls were talking about 90% of the time
Replies: >>280503795 >>280508526 >>280511234
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 8:30:28 PM No.280503795
>>280503726
Cool, Iโ€™ll give it a watch. The show wasnโ€™t very good to begin with.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 9:15:38 PM No.280505202
>>280489164
key... i love you...
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 9:23:28 PM No.280505399
>>280489178
What about Mind Game?
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 9:30:51 PM No.280505622
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1728161986726484
md5: 232c410d91e9fa8293fbd5fea0b27b6c๐Ÿ”
>>280497452
Replies: >>280506679
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 10:10:51 PM No.280506679
>>280505622
my fucking eyes
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 10:42:02 PM No.280507453
>>280498998
that doesn't mean it's bad.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 10:45:02 PM No.280507528
>>280485545
>>280487807
>>280489065
>no, you have to reify your medium's tropes all the time!
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:21:52 PM No.280508526
>>280503726
Wasnโ€™t it made the mahjong general
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:23:22 PM No.280508568
>>280485545
10/10 bait.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:30:57 PM No.280508745
>>280503617
Retarded faggot, normalfags like visually appealing things too
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:40:57 PM No.280508960
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md5: 51aa32224e0f8c415669fc24cd590f38๐Ÿ”
>>280485353 (OP)
Stuff like Lain and Utena (zero offense to Lain) is a lot more paraded as patrician core by pseuds than Tatami Galaxy is, a series that is really just appreciated as a seinen gem by those who've seen it and rarely talked about at all. So Tatami Galaxy is highbrow and avant-garde; so what? I enjoyed it a great deal and used to even 3x3 it.
Replies: >>280511776
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 12:06:36 AM No.280509466
>>280488614
This really needs to be updated. This is 15 years old.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 1:17:42 AM No.280511234
>>280503726
What official subs?
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 1:36:45 AM No.280511776
>>280503573
>>280508960
remember, if a story allows you to form your own various interpretations beyond what's in the script and lets you think about it even after finishing it - it's pretentious.
the same reason why Sonny Boy, Ergo Proxy or Texhnolyze will always be pretentious and pseud, too.
Replies: >>280511812
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 1:38:08 AM No.280511812
>>280511776
Sonny Boy is shit, not because of its pretentiousness but because of the execution of such.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 1:44:10 AM No.280511971
>>280496997
They do, works can be pretentious/snobby but also without flaws which leads to said work not exactly being pseud like all anime is. The community around say The Metamorphosis is pretentious and snobby, but those who have deeply analyzed it (not me btw, too much of a pain) aren't "pseuds" they often are genuine scholars in academia as snobby as they may be.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 1:44:25 AM No.280511981
Anti-intellectuals are worse than pseuds these days desu. Discussions are full of people projecting their insecurities.
Replies: >>280512136
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 1:49:03 AM No.280512136
>>280511981
most people on earth are anti-intellectual
Replies: >>280512207
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 1:51:18 AM No.280512200
>>280485353 (OP)
I saw it to have my "High IQ anime" bragging rights. It was actually enjoyable and i never missed the OP song

https://youtu.be/xkH8ti1gakE?si=zad13UYM8kD2ptU0
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 1:51:34 AM No.280512207
>>280512136
Most people are NOT intellectual. Being ANTI-intellectual is something else.
Replies: >>280512292
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 1:55:10 AM No.280512292
>>280512207
Hm yeah I guess so, the thing is you will get a lot of pushback when you suggest this as people will assume that you are declaring yourself to be intellectual; so backing this claim up can be difficult without doxxing yourself or providing credentials. Also if you aren't intellectual, the issue becomes.
>how can you make such a claim if you aren't the thing yourself
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 1:56:00 AM No.280512316
>>280485545
Was getting 13 replies part of your plan?
Replies: >>280518711
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 2:45:26 AM No.280513473
>>280485353 (OP)
For me it's samurai flamenco, it's not made for an average watcher it was made for critics
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 3:45:56 AM No.280514763
>>280498201
>Ousama Ranking
Havenยดt seen it.
>Frieren
Yep.
>Mob Psycho
Its very preachy but I wouldnยดt call it pretentious.
>Spy x Family
Not at all. Its slop that knows its slop.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:21:29 AM No.280515496
Where does Uchouten Kazoku fall in this discussion? And where is season 3?
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:35:54 AM No.280515798
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828662aae2213837d9aa58309df6a1a5
md5: 2941ed7b5ce16283f275ecd2916483e1๐Ÿ”
This is still the best anime film of all time
Replies: >>280515974 >>280516249 >>280516429 >>280518962
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:44:19 AM No.280515974
>>280515798
No it was absolute ass and i loved the tatami galaxy
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:57:43 AM No.280516249
>>280515798
tatami galaxy was better
in general the amount of room left for pretentious anime films is low, but if we're gonna do it anyways might as well be something from Genius Party

Yuasa really is the king of pretentious
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 5:07:30 AM No.280516429
>>280515798
not the best movie of all time for sure, but still a very fun and enjoyable one.
those who say that it's shit, while calling tatami galaxy good/superior, are being disingenuous.
Replies: >>280516548
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 5:13:30 AM No.280516548
>>280516429
I feel like tatami galaxy had something to say in a way that was a bit more direct and relevant to its target audience
while night is short is too unspecific to really make anybody think about what it had to say.
It's kind of like comparing Another Round to The Hangover
Replies: >>280516666
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 5:20:05 AM No.280516666
>>280516548
i can agree with you.
but that doesn't make the movie bad.
Replies: >>280516865
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 5:31:18 AM No.280516865
>>280516666
i didn't say the movie was bad
you can enjoy it the same way you might enjoy The World's End
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 6:00:36 AM No.280517439
1742943892595039
1742943892595039
md5: 293caa671803cdebc32b145fff0eb774๐Ÿ”
Based off everyone here praising Tatami Galaxy I watched the first episode and it felt like reading western high literature. It's definitely coming off a bit pretentious and I'm surprised with how everyone here was saying it is not pretentious at all and rather a simple show. Maybe the rest is less snobby we'll see.
Replies: >>280517547 >>280517703 >>280518509 >>280518658
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 6:06:15 AM No.280517547
>>280517439
>snobby
what makes you call it that?
Replies: >>280517610
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 6:08:32 AM No.280517597
>>280497246
>Edgerunners
Hurts that imaishi mid is listed among the rest of the slop, but I can't disagree that from an audience standpoint it fits.
>>280486368
This requires the viewer to like too many un-elitist otaku tropes to be called elitist, kinda like otaku-no-video or genshiken. The actual elitist version of this would be Giant Robo: The Day The Earth Stood still, but it's actually kino.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 6:09:34 AM No.280517610
>>280517547
It's smelling its own farts way too much what with the extremely in-depth description of coming of age shortcomings that are also so long it is almost impossible to properly read the subs.

I still enjoyed it don't get me wrong. Just surprised that people here consider it a normal show not any different from anything else. This show is definitely pretentious.
Replies: >>280517737
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 6:15:55 AM No.280517703
>>280517439
I wonder what's western high literature for you.
It's endless 8 but with quirkier animation. There's an infodump per second but every episode repeats the same kinds of infodumps with a different twist, after ep 1 there's very little new presented each episode and anyone familiar with 7th grade concepts like "unreliable narrator" can understand a lot of it is the protag's delusions playing with what the reality of each character actually was.
I do love Jougasaki and Ozu, Suwabe playing retards while Yoshino plays scoundrels is always fun.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 6:18:32 AM No.280517737
>>280517610
you do know that just because the protag-kun says something it doesn't mean that you have to agree with him or consider his thoughts to be profoud?
what you think makes the show pretentious is there for an entirely different reasons
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:11:20 AM No.280518509
>>280517439
It sounds pretentious because the main character IS pretentious. To go any further would be spoilers.
But yes the show is pretentious.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:19:54 AM No.280518658
>>280517439
>high lit
High lit isn't pretentious; midwits are pretentious about high literature. Shakespeare and Stendahl and anyone else you can think of wrote for the enjoyment of anyone who showed up.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:24:31 AM No.280518711
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>>280512316
No but it's amusing that some schizo got really mad at my post. I love the anime style and I love Japanese culture. I love anime style shows. I just made a blunt and unapologetic statement about the way Tatami Galaxy looks. The "Anime is Japanese animation" meme is cringe and erases Anime's identity. I'm not ashamed to say I love the way Japan makes their animation.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:26:26 AM No.280518733
>>280485353 (OP)
Whatever is popular on Reddit.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:28:10 AM No.280518759
>>280490812
I could say that but it's not what I think. Anime is a style and the people saying it isn't hate Japan and their culture. I'm not saying other styles within or outside of Japanese animation can't be good though but Tatami galaxy is not one of the good ones. It looks like a flash animation.
Replies: >>280518783
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:30:06 AM No.280518783
>>280518759
>Tatami galaxy is not one of the good ones. It looks like a flash animation.
I know this is bait but I can't resist the urge to say that you were filtered
Replies: >>280518809
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:30:42 AM No.280518795
>>280489065
Yeah lol. He never makes anything that looks like anime and his work is awful. Science Saru are shit. Studio 4C has done some animations that aren't anime styled and actually look decent.
Replies: >>280518845
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:31:54 AM No.280518809
>>280518783
>opinions are bait
nah
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:34:23 AM No.280518845
>>280518795
Science Saru is korean anyways, not anime.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:39:02 AM No.280518916
>>280485545
Anon you are correct, most of the board and the net in general is failed pseuds who cant accept that you have to actually be a innovative person; as in create something of value to be considered smart. With this in mind they flock to artists who have created something enjoyable and a little interesting because they know they could never ever be as creative as someone who can create that, they bash others for not accepting the idea that anime's moe identity is now a vital part to anime itself, in the past it wasn't sure but it is now. This anime is pseud not because of Yuasa but because of the pseuds who are drawn to it like a moth to a flame. Most of the seething replies are evidence of it being the case. Yuasa doesn't really make what most would consider "anime", not that its bad to me personally but I would never say tatami galaxy is representative of anime in any form outside of being made in Japan. Before any anons go
>b...b.bu.but! Anime just means animation in Japanese!
True that's right but this is a English speaking site and in English anime is a very specific thing, not cartoons or pixar.
Replies: >>280518948
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:40:47 AM No.280518939
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Teen thread
Replies: >>280518964
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:41:15 AM No.280518948
>>280518916
>Yuasa doesn't really make what most would consider "anime"
True. His works don't feel like anime and they don't have the appeal of anime.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:41:25 AM No.280518953
>>280485353 (OP)
I wrote it off because I don't care to watch another fucking romance story. I don't care that it has words words words and looks like an art student made it; if the underlying story appears to be trite and boring I'm not going to waste my little time on it
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:42:16 AM No.280518962
>>280515798
Tatami Galaxy: 7/10
Night: 6/10
Time Machine: 4/10

Simple as.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:42:21 AM No.280518964
>>280518939
EVA is shit.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 9:10:13 AM No.280520214
>>280493184
Says you who's being disingenuous.