Thread 281284471

I still think about Sonny Boy every day
What a fucking retarded ending.

>>281284471 (OP)
How would you have ended it then?

>>281284471 (OP)
Isn't this the series about a dude getting cucked, but the author tries gaslight himself that is all part of "growing up" or some retarded shit like that.

>>281284471 (OP)
The ending was fantastic. Nagara's choice was fucking retarded.

>>281284471 (OP)
You'll understand it when you grow up.

>>281284471 (OP)
It's about rejecting escapism and living as an adult in the real world. You're just a basement dwelling, parent-leeching neet.

>>281285291
I'm 35

>>281284471 (OP)
Episode 11 was perfect with Nozomi’s send-off. I’d rather the show just end there because the conclusion sucks. They’d been building up this fleeting feeling of youth (not wanting to let go of the alternate world) in a coming-of-age story (see the “DON’T SAY GOODBYE” part in the ED), but the author thought it was a smart idea to drag things past the climax in episode 11 just to add some muh message.

>>281285614
Realism is when you get cucked, and Nozomi ends up with the guy who simped for her in another world. By the time Nozomi and Nagara reunite in the future shes already used goods, it’s all pointless. Better to have left her dead. Isn’t that the whole point of realism? About moving on? So why bother jumping through multiple worlds just to find the universe where Nozomi’s alive? The fucking narrative is working against the theme.

>>281285614
>the real world
japan at least

>>281284471 (OP)
The ending was brilliant. It was obvious a lot of people would seethe about it.

>>281286968
By far the most depressing ending in the past few years. It's brilliant but man it makes me want to kms.

>>281286968
Erased had a way better ending. If "people seething" is your point, then you just proved you like it out of spite, not because it’s genuinely good or makes a great point.

I wish 銀杏BOYZ would do more OPs and Sunset Rollercoaster was incredible. I don't remember much else about this one.

>>281284471 (OP)
Get a job you fuckin slob

>>281284471 (OP)
This could've been remembered as a masterpiece if it ended like this

>>281284513
it wouldnt have ended

thinking

The lesson was just total introversion & isolation will lead to total ego death. Even jeetbro's mind completely succumbed to oblivion, although he got the nicest ending by becoming a great forest he IMAGINED. SANity is retained by interacting with other beings, by being an active part of SOCIETY, even when living in it fucking sucks a big shit. Anno explained this stuff way earlier.

Sonny Boy does not have the black and white morals people paint it to have.

>>281288745
Exactly. It's cliche as hell, but it's the kind of message that never gets old as much as I hate normalfags.

>>281288795
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvNVdo8Tchw&list=RDEMcSPhZRHSLTHLoZExT83K8Q&start_radio=1
Sonny Boy is based for introducing me to Mitsume

>>281288929
The soundtrack is so fucking good. I love Mid-air thief

Being human fucking sucks. Being sad and unsatisfied is the fucking worst.

>>281284471 (OP)
The lesson here is, if you don’t confess to your crush, she’s gonna get plowed by another guy before you reunite in the future. It’s Wotakoi all over again.

>>281289861
So do I just need to get a tan, dye my hair and work out?

>>281285614
nah, it's the opposite, You should reject the meaningless strive to reality, or you'll end up as a mc. do your own.

>>281284471 (OP)
>unable to understand the meaning behind the second compass
>thinks it's a cuck ending when he literally brought the drift's nozomi back from death
retard

>>281285291
You’ll understand it when you *give up

>>281284471 (OP)
First time?

>>281284513
Mizuho pregnant.

>>281287395
You are a child. Learn to appreciate the beauty of tragedy.

>>281286107
My condolences on how things turned out for you

>>281293246
Everyone gets the whole second compass thing, retard. But it’s dumb that a coming-of-age story completely shits itself and goes, “Actually, you don’t need to move on. We have another alternate option for that,” and it’s a used goods Nozomi.

What’s the point of Episode 11 then? You could argue it doesn’t matter since it’s a different Nozomi, but in the grand scheme of things/how the story’s perceived as a whole, “another Nozomi” is just a final cop-out from what was already a perfect ending.

>>281296308
Being a cucked wagie isn't tragedy. It's just depressingly realistic.

>>281284471 (OP)
The whole show had an eerie and melancholic vibe so the ending was appropriate.

>>281294961
I know you're memeing but this would have made a lot of narrative sense to see her pregnant at the end considering her own power was stasis/immortality because she was afraid of change/death.

>>281297490
That's nothing compared to how low you’ve already sunk in life kek

heh

>>281285614
Doesn't exactly do a good job convincing me its worth it.
>just get in the cuck wage cage bro

>>281284471 (OP)
>someone actually saved my shitpost
heh.

Will they ever stop being filtered?

>>281297479
>Everyone gets the whole second compass thing, retard.
>

>>281284471 (OP)
Tatami Galaxy was better

>>281299910
They're both good but I liked Sonny Boy a bit more.

>>281284471 (OP)
It was thematically perfect. Filtered brainlet.

>>281299910
did that one also have a cuck ending? might have to watch it I dropped it when I thought MC would end up with the stupid whore FeMC

>>281301204
MC and his love interest have a kid that travels back in time in the second season.

It's my contender for the best 20's anime. It has:
1. Amazing art
2. Unique setting
3. Interesting and varied cast
4. Great OST
5. An impactful death of a main character
6. An ending that isn't just "they all lived happily afterwards"

>>281302752
not canon

why is almost everyone obsessed with getting validation from fictional female characters on this board so much

>>281303279
Why not?

>>281284471 (OP)
nah it was good, did you want a happy go lucky ending? the whole show was tinged with melancholy

>>281302982
>best 20's anime
I'm not even going to bother looking a smug anime girl for this one.

>>281303700

How about this one

>>281303398
It is a loose adaptation of a movie that has 0 relation with the original novel (and it’s even older) but that for some reason uses the tatami characters.

>>281304066
gay

>>281284471 (OP)
I have a doctor's note that says I need to suffocate in the teachers breast meat can anybody help me with this?

>>281305922
what was the point of this bitch again?

>>281297490
It's still a tragedy.

>>281288929
I fucking love the soundtrack, it's a banger. It got me into Toe.

>>281299254
>>281299398
>filtered
"Filtered" implies the show had any worth to begin with. It’s funny that Sonny Boy fags think they have any stake in this. There’s no big prize behind all this, just a bunch of trash bag of poop.

>>281301160
>thematically
Muh deep show does the most clichéd theme ever

>>281303279
>>281304370
>not canon
That’s not how Tomihiko Morimi’s characters work. They’re canon in their own series or movies and aren’t connected. You can’t claim one is the “main (canon)” version over another.

It's a baseball league here in the world of Monkey Mountain,
played by the great monkeys, which started when the first ball and bat
and the rules of the game were handed down to them.
In the Monkey League, a number of great players arose
from among the nameless monkeys,
whose faces and appearances all looked the same.
They included the legendary home run king,
who batted an unprecedented, record-breaking
80 home runs in one year, Steroid Monkey;
the one who bested the god of batting, Monkey River's career batting average
by two thousandths, the miracle hitting machine, Upper Monkey;
the greatest catcher of the Bigfoot era, Mister Monkey;
later, as manager, he would go on to break the record for most league wins,
with a legendary ten-season-long streak!
Then came the golden age of the M-League.
A miracle monkey came along
and shattered those previous legends one by one--
the monster, Monkey Blue!
This maverick of the league was the only one with blue hair,
who, despite weathering ugly discrimination and crafty persecution,
triumphed over them with overwhelming talent, ultimately becoming a hero,
and a symbol of hope for the monkeys!
Although a rookie, Blue put the brakes to the king, Steroid Monkey!
Breaking his bat as well as his heart, Blue drove him to retirement.
Then, with his mighty pitching arm,
Blue led the underdog team Monkey and Club to victory,
preventing Bigfoot's championship streak from reaching 11.
The public accepted this new hair color,
and there was no doubt in anybody's mind
that the era of Monkey Blue had begun! But then...
...that great tragedy, when a near-perfect game was foiled,
and a monkey was killed, took place!

>>281307013
>Everyone understands it!
>...Well...
>Nobody needs to understand it anyway!

The age old tale of the spic and those spicy grapes.

I dropped it because the main character was a boring retard. Why should I care about him or any choices he makes when every interaction he has with other characters has him behaving like a lobotomized zombie? If the ultimate message was escapism bad I can't say I blame him since he looked fucking bored during the escapism fantasy, just like I was watching this trite.

Did nobody else interpret that girl watching him kick the trash cans at his job as a girl being into him?

Idk when it came to the whole “get the girl” thing I always saw it as him growing into the kind of man girls would want but having to move beyond his unrealistic fantasies for a “new” Nozomi.

Either way people who keep yelling “cuck” forget the prior Asakaze was deeply insecure and stuck missing the “old” Nozomi and his friends whereas at least Nagara is moving forward and growing as a person.

>>281284471 (OP)
I can't forget how ugly the character art was and how it didn't have proper shading.

>>281284471 (OP)
youre homo

>>281310568
You're an ESL.

>>281310594
tourist

>>281284471 (OP)
>watching garbage

>>281304054
Even though I'm a fucking neanderthal, this anime really is a treat for the eyes.

>>281308330
You’re assuming that if someone understands a show thoroughly, they’ll automatically like it, which is retarded. I understand every part of Nolan’s Tenet, but that doesn’t make me like it more.

The fact that you missed the point says it all. I’m talking about Sonny fans “gatekeeping” and guarding something they think is valuable, but who are you to decide that the show has any value? Because of the writing? Episode 11’s Rajdhani dialogue on existentialism is textbook stuff straight out of Sartre. Acting like the philosophical side and the themes of the show carry any real weight is just silly. I’d even say Wall-E is more profound than this show.

>>281304054
Ngl I’d rather watch Revue Starlight since at least the story isn’t dumb.
Ask ChatGPT

>>281304054
Kino

Will there ever be something like Sonny boy again? I mean I still remember the threads, they were really fun to hang out in after every episode, every season I open /a/ for the hope that something as good as it is currently airing but I'm starting to lose hope, and I thought it was nostalgia at first but I rewatched it recently and it was even better than I remember, like fuck me

>>281313114
Probably in the next 15 years

>>281312277
I'll give you that the philosophical dialogue was ham-fisted, it reminds me of Psycho Pass.
But that's not what I like about the show, the characterization is amazing. For instance, the dialogue in ep 1 gives us so much information and the reactions from the characters when the fail in ep 6 are super satisfying.

>>281284471 (OP)
isnt this like lord of the flies

>>281314051
No, Infinite Ryvius is

Guess I should pick this back up.
/a/ keeps shilling this, but I didn't find the first few episodes particularly interesting.

>>281306065
tits

>>281306065
The common theory was that she was probably an agent of Beatnik that can change her physical appearance and who came there when they realized Nagara was doing the world creating (and possibly that Mizuho was doing the stasis/immortality).
That or she was sent by "God" to prevent them both from leaving.

>>281297490
Trying to mock others in the internet for not doing menial labor that ultimately contributes to a corrupt system with drugs, prostitution, abuse, human trafficking, consuming of resources and beings (including something more primal), and griefing.... >>281297966 <---All to feel better about yourself. This IS a tragedy, just in a pitiful, pathetique sort of way. You almost want to look away. It's not the grandiose, cathartic, larger than life, beautiful sort type of tragedy that stays with you

>>281312277
>I understand every part of Nolan’s Tenet
That movie is bullshit however, Nolan is a hack and you're a pseud.

>>281308499
I feel you anon, I dropped it at first for the same reason, but I'm glad I finished it in the end because everything else was great.

>>281308604
She was probably there to throw a bone at the self-inserting-incel crowd and to make the ending less bleak (muh possibilities)

>>281288745
>SANity is defined as a 'ur example' by a worthless hack who did shrooms like Kopoopma and regurgitated back everything his corrupt society and peers told him to, with no real input of himSELF
So if instead of doing a shitty series about getting a job or opening up to others, with pretentious and hollow symbolism that doesn't mean anything, the 'rooms and 'society' told him to traffic with human beings, participate in the procuring of women and substances, (as socialist politicians do in Europe and the United States, also fitting in a particular role that they're told to), he would be sane and a valid 'individual'... Got it.

So, to not be insane, and be a valid 'individual', you have to destroy any semblance of your individuality and be a well adjusted cog, no matter how sick society is. Hahaha, yeah, yeah, Anon (no name), that's a good number. You're definitely sane. Anything 'you' want to add? Or are you waiting for society to validate your sane thoughts and your reply to me?

>>281315332
>>281312277
Just sounds like some anon getting triggered that there is nothing to really "get" and that Sonny Boy was just a feel piece, eerie and melancholic, and leaving autistic explanations off-screen was part of its vibe.

>>281284513
by not killing best girl

I honestly do not remember anything about Sonny Boy beyond the invisible monkey baseball episode.

>>281307666
This is the only reason I've opened this thread. It didn't disappoint.

>>281284471 (OP)
I don't get why some people hate the ending. I thought it was a masterpiece from beginning to end. I usually say this semi-provocatively, but I genuinely believe it was a strictly better Evangelion in many respects. There aren't many anime that soar to the same lofty peaks as Sonny Boy, nor that many that even aspire to. Yeah, the ending was a punch to the gut, I get it, but that is the point of Sonny Boy. You cannot remain in Hateno forever, and if you do, you will die a miserable child. I have some criticisms of the series, but I don't think this is the right place for me to air those opinion. But despite these criticisms of mine, I sincerely believe Sonny Boy was a masterpiece that can't be appreciate by that many people.

>>281305869
>look at rainbow
>see american lgbt

>>281314277
If you're a sensible young zoomer, Sonny Boy has the potential to be your quiet Evangelion.
If you're a defeated old guy, Sonny Boy is the kind of anime that will make you remember.

It's definitely not something for everyone, but I recommend it wholeheartedly.

>>281288929
There isn't a single bad song in Sonny Boy. The OST is pure perfection.

>>281303761
I wasnt even mad that the MC didnt end up with the girl he was simping for but how he instantly lost touch with the cat girl after all they went through was kind of bullshit

>>281314277
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Sonny Boy. The symbolism is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of postmodern philosophy, most of the plot will sail over a typical viewer’s head.

The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these episodes, to realize they’re existential dissections of reality itself. As a consequence, people who dislike Sonny Boy truly are philistines. Of course they wouldn’t appreciate the absurdist brilliance of the monkey baseball episode.

>>281285614
>it's another "LIVE IN THE REAL WORLD GOYIM NEVERMIND THE FACT WE'RE RICH CREATORS WHO MAKE THE VERY SAME MEDIA WE'RE TELLING YOU NOT TO CONSUME AND THUS ENRICH US FURTHER AND GO OUT AND LIVE REAL LIFE....or something" anime
Can the people making this stuff all die and go to hell? How fucking psychotic do you have to be to not see the stupidity of spouting this crap?

I enjoy sonny boy because it's dense, thematic, and open to interpretation. Too many posters here just can't move past a surface level understanding of things. Just because you think the ending is saying "live in the real world", that doesn't mean the only message you can draw from the entire show is "live in the real world".

>>281316758
Sounds to me you're just jerking off to this show because it looks deep

>>281284471 (OP)
>i didn't get it therefore bad

>>281316758
>Just because you think the ending is saying "live in the real world", that doesn't mean the only message you can draw from the entire show is "live in the real world".
then what's the message

>>281307666
So what's the deep meaning behind this

>>281306065
nothing, the writer just spawns characters into existence for pseuds to overthink them

>>281304054
>>281304066
>look at the pretty colors

>>281317566
Being blind is not a personality.

>>281317566
>nooo this should've been black and white and grimdark

Escapism is bad
Why do losers have a problem with such simple message? Happens a lot

>>281317734
>Escapism is bad
such a groundbreaking message

>>281317734
That wasn't the message. Did you miss everyone else who stayed?
>uhhhh they all got bad ends
Yeah, after living for centuries/millennia instead of dying at 70 or even before from some illness or accident.

I think if you get the once in a lifetime opportunity to create an original series in a world where anime originals become rarer and rarer rehashing the meditation on escapism that many before you in the industry have done inordinately better is just fucking embarrassing. It's all just a rehashing of what happened with modernism at the start of the 20th century. Also, boring protagonists in escapist fiction can be carried by colourful characters, scenarios, world, fun in general. If you're genuinely trying to be serious, transposing that boring protagonist does not work. If you think this is good, you are definitionally a midwit or even if you're smart you need to go and pick 10 significant novels written between 1900 and 1950 that interest you and read them. An alternative education would be reading about and listening to Schoenberg and the reaction that followed, if music interests you more than books. World as it is > world as it ought to be > retarded jap showing you the world as he thinks it ought to be and pretending it's the world as it is.

>>281317823
>pick 10 significant novels written between 1900 and 1950 that interest you and read them
seems like you're the actual midwit thinking literature peaked at 1900s

>>281317864
I don't think literature peaked at any time, I'm saying this is a subject that is explored with inordinately higher levels of nuance during that period. Sonny Boy is kitsch. It is the definition of kitsch, but it wears the trappings of modernism like a skinsuit. It's a deceiver.

I like escaping and there is nothing wrong with enjoying it. Fuck this show.

>>281317978
And there's nothing wrong with telling a proper story once in a while.
You can eat McDonalds all you want. Why seethe at people eating five star meals?

>>281317823
Ignore the other retard, can you explain a bit more about early 20th century explorations of this theme? What are the important novels which cover this?

>>281318001
You're such a fucking pseud, no wonder A24 schlock is so popular nowadays. People love to be assured about how smart they are.

>>281318016
Why are you telling other people how to live when you spend time watching isekai catgirl slaveowning narouslop?

>>281318001
>And there's nothing wrong with telling a proper story once in a while.
Unrelated to the thread? Sonny Boy doesn't have a proper story. Virtually none of the plot threads are resolved, and new characters are introduced for no reason

>>281318128
You speedwatched it. Why are you replying to me?

>>281318142
>nu uh
lol

>>281318014
QRD is that modernism was fundamentally a reaction to idealism. As in, works that show things for how they are versus works that show things as they ought to be. The famous names are things like The Trial, Ulysses, In Search of Lost Time. If you want something Japanese then Snow Country is an incredible novel. The protagonist is a scholar with a refined knowledge of ballet yet has never seen one.
I like both strains, personally, I think they each have value, but it causes me physical pain when a creator thinks they're creating one but are actually creating the other. It's a question of values being imposed on a work without the creator's intent, and what you end up with is something that styles itself as portraying harsh truths but is actually just a jap who wishes the people who engage with his chosen medium weren't so unruly and difficult.

This thread is hilarious. Feels like going back in time and discussing whether NGE is le deep or not. I'm assuming most of you are pretty young. Some things never change.

>>281318180
>something that styles itself as portraying harsh truths but is actually just a jap who wishes the people who engage with his chosen medium weren't so unruly and difficult.
Didn't we get some decent shows out of this mindset? Evangelion is the most famous one.

>>281318206
This applies to the rebuilds, but I'm not sure if I'd say it applies to the original series. I do think it produces far more Guilty Crowns than it does Evangelions.

>>281318220
I figured out why my gut instinct said this and it's because Eva is so unbelievably personal. Sonny Boy feels like a psychiatric evaluation of a patient, which condescending at best, and Eva is the physician healing himself, a weird, interesting guy showing you his inner world. My eyerolls per second watching the rebuilds were significantly lower than Sonny Boy. I'm happy Anno found a woman who can put up with him, good for him I suppose. Much less annoying than paint by numbers surrealism paired with finger-wagging.

>https://febri.jp/topics/sonnyboy2/
Shingo Natsume said himself he doesn't know the point of the story and yet you'll find retarded pseuds on /a/ claim it's actually deep because there is prog rock in the last ep or some shit.
So fucking delusional lmao, they think they're smarter than everyone else but they are exactly the 90IQ midwit from the bell curve meme and do not even realize it.
I've gotta say props to Sonny Boy for having groundbreaking avant garde directing which is THE go-to method to manipulate dumbfuck autists into thinking they are intelectuals.

>>281318428
>intelectuals

>>281318428
maybe he's just being humble like anno and oshii

>>281318066
>isekai catgirl slaveowning narouslop
I never watched the anime and only played the game, but just a heavy reminder that Nier Automata did a lot of things better than Sonny Boy while still having a cute exterior that appeals to nerds, it actually has a story to tell, and the audience doesn’t stick it up their ass just because they saw the game reference Immanuel Kant once.

>>281318463
>anno
>humble
There is no one on earth with their head more up their ass than Anno has.
Reality is Sonny Boy is overthought upon by its audience for obvious reason of being an absolute UFO in the modern anime landscape, original anime are rare, experimental shows are even rarer, we might get 3 a year at most.
It's a good anime with terrible worldbuilding and characters but groundbreaking scenery and visual ideas.

>>281318568
I really disliked it but this post is hard to argue with.

>>281318428
Link a post ITT saying that it's deep.
You have anons who are angry because it's not deep the way they would like it to be, and other anons saying that there is nothing that needs deeper interpretation.

>>281318568
>There is no one on earth with their head more up their ass than Anno has.
he literally said that his work is meaningless and the symbolism is there just to look cool

>>281318700
That guy's right, Anno is a professional navel-gazer. I say this as someone who enjoys his work.

>>281308604
Yes anon, it was only (You).

>>281318700
>make 4 movies in the span of 15 years to rewrite the entire plot of your original story in order for it to fit your current life
>milks the same franchise since 1995, said franchise entire point is about growing up
>this fucking segment in aoi hono tv adaptation https://youtu.be/lfmLhXr8rm4
To be fair, Anno's ego is, for me, a huge quality in his directorial style and worked for him a lot. I'm not a fan of his shin japan heroes so far but shin godzilla is genuinely the best godzilla movie ever. You cannot claim a guy that has spent the last 30 years of his life seething about otaku culture despite being the embodiment of otaku culture himself and still to this day only create art around otaku properties (there is nothing more otaku than fucking kamen rider and ultraman) isn't a gigantic hypocrit thinking highly of himself.

>>281319071
He's less of a hyprocrite and more of a critic, period. I'd rather see criticism of otaku culture by someone from the inside (i.e someone who cares) rather than the same trite misunderstandings and platitudes propagated by mainstream entertainment.

>>281315187
Holy projection. How do you type this garbage unironically?

>>281287395
I like to see people suffer, anon.
It makes me happy.

>>281319071
His Godzilla movie is the only movie, in my entire life, that I dropped before finishing it. It was just way too fucking boring. Then after I saw 4.0 I realized that Anno is a now complete hack that peaked with EoE and then dropped off massively

>>281319411
Asushintards are so obvious

>>281318195
BASED

>>281303761
>>281316804
Best posts in the thread.

>>281320934
Cute!

>all this seethe
Yup yup sonny boy won again
Iconic and deep masterpiece

>>281321524
no cap

>>281296308
holy cuckeroni. i love sonny goy!!

>>281284471 (OP)
>abenobashi but unfunny, with tons of useless dialogue and cuckhold ending
had it been less aesthetically pleasing nobody would've cared

>>281321524
Cucks see something they don’t understand and immediately call it a masterpiece to keep up their image as a pseudo.

I miss the era when retards were more honest with themselves and weren’t afraid to admit they liked simpler stuff.

>>281322359
Or maybe needing to understand something to enjoy it is just autistic.
In the case of Sonny Boy, it's opaque on purpose.
Some anons can understand this distinction and enjoy it for what it is, some can't.
It's not about "this seems complicated so it's deep and good" but more "I can accept that this work is not meant to be autistically nitpicked and enjoy it for what it is".

That scene by the end where they go back to the "real" world is quite great. Unfortunately, only in a superficial sense when considering the context of the story it was part of. If that scene wasn't part of a story which amounted to little more than meaningless drivel it could have really been amazing.

>>281285614
Unironically great bait.

>>281285614
>muh debt to society
fuck off

I'll take the harem of sluts, thank you very much.

>>281323882
And I don't mean it in the sense that it's disingenious. It's like yelling HEY FAGGOT in a crowd and watching who turns their head. The purest form of getting worthless neet anons to self-report.

>>281322359
>a masterpiece
not a masterpiece. just an entertaining show. whether you end up pondering about its "deeper themes" or not is secondary.
>honest with themselves and weren’t afraid to admit they liked simpler stuff
you should heed this advice yourself. the way you project your insecurities onto people that you don't agree with is cringe-inducing

Monkey

>>281315332
No, it's a simple logical truth. Ego is defined by the dynamism of affinity: what you like and don't like. Media consumption ultimately results in truncated dynamism: at most, you are responding to a state that will never change. In most cases, you just become a receiver of another's ideas. Ego death. Interaction with another living thing is inherently dynamic; your opinions and reflexes develop by the constant back-and-forth. Individuality is developed and maintained by varying the nature of or partner in those interactions. If you become a cog, it's because you let yourself be sublimated to a lack of dynamism in interaction.

>>281317823
>pick 10 significant novels written between 1900 and 1950 that interest you and read them.
You could just say Invisible Man and be done with it.

I think people mistake the greatness of Sonny Boy's poignancy for a declaration of its thematic depth. It can be the former without being the latter. Watching it at 30-something in the state that most Millennials are in, there is a massive amount, "Oh, yeah, that hits," without there being any way or need to dig deeper.

>>281324632
I agree but also wish they had not written Nagara as such a stereotypical doormat self-insert with no dick and no will of his own.

The smartest poster ITT is the guy calling others "idiot" because they enjoy something that is not meant for him to understand.

>>281317734
Yeah, bro. Escapism is bad. Now let me light a cigarette, drink a pack of beer, and browse netflix all day. Reality sure is great.

>>281318428
Based

>>281285614
>You're just a basement dwelling, parent-leeching neet.
I'll have you know that I'm leeching off the government.

Shit. Shake hand. Bang.

>>281284471 (OP)
I agree except for the part in which you say the ending is bad.

>>281331088
b-but he didn't get to do the sex thing with the girl? he's a cuck... A KEK?? IT'S N-T-R IM GOING FUCKING INSANE AAAAA

>>281307666
came here for this

>>281331445
That's the point: you can't avoid your GF to f..k around if She wants to. And if you find a GF After middle school, She May be already "used" by someone else. It's completely normal and if someone thinks the opposite. It means that he lives in an imaginary perfect world.
Ask the Swede from American Pastoral: he should have been the most Happy man in the world but...

>>281317413
You're free to interpret it how you wish, the ending isn't one way or the other because it's a literal fictional universe Nagara escaped to, he never made it back to the real world.

Sonny boy = Masterpiece
Anon = dumb

nah

>>281284471 (OP)
>I still think about Sonny Boy every day
me too. it was so beautiful.

>>281284471 (OP)
i agree except for the part about thinking about it every day

>>281307666
Never fails to make me laugh.
>>281316664
Sakiko is a cunt and Uika is a bad person btw.
>>281318507
RHOMBUS. I really miss her show. I loved it.

>>281324173
It’s more about being genuine. I watch deep art-house stuff myself, like Ryuusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car and his 5 hour film about housewives and divorcees just living life. The difference is I don’t treat it like some untouchable masterpiece. Judging by how some people wear this show like a medal and how defensive they’ve been in this thread feels like they’re not being honest with themselves. Even NGE fans are upfront enough to admit their favorite show’s flaws.

I hung out in both the Reddit and /a/ discussion threads when the last episode aired, and the amount of pseuds was astounding. Some even admitted they didn’t understand a damn thing they just watched and still rated it 10/10 just because. Their whole “objective” rating system runs entirely on vibes, like you could show them 10 secs of Oppenheimer and they’d slap a 10/10 on it without even finishing it.

>>281333118
Caved, lmao. Couldn’t answer, so you went with the cop-out “it depends.”