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Anonymous No.282178403 >>282179039 >>282179621 >>282179706 >>282180790 >>282182553
With all the craziness going on in America, I think it's time we revisit Paranoia Agent
Anonymous No.282178499 >>282178595
What about it?
Anonymous No.282178562
RAAAAAAAEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAA
Anonymous No.282178595 >>282179142 >>282180219 >>282180895
>>282178499
My fellow Americans are becoming unhinged (regardless of political leanings). So many people on here have bought into delusions that make them think every political decision and election is a zero sum game. It's constantly the other side is trying to genocide my side, so we're seeing an increase in political violence for the first time in ~50 years (between 1960 - 81, peaking in the late 60s/early 70s). There's a mass paranoia taking over the country, and most people aren't even aware of it.

In this sense, Paranoia Agent was both reflective and prescient. Kon was inspired by the social on goings of Japan at the time he started the project, but it speaks very much to the world today, especially because the internet allows the mass delusion to metastasize a lot quicker and further.
Anonymous No.282178760 >>282178867
This show has one of the best OPs of all time, both the visuals and the music.
Hirasawa doesn't do a lot of anime work, but when he does it's top tier.
Anonymous No.282178867
>>282178760
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEsNDDwhSJ4

Don't sleep on the ED either

https://youtu.be/7zzLIzk7OPc?si=Ni-9YtV2S4Tk00RT
Anonymous No.282178995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JOvHxHZiyY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb55eInTpM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo4D9_xBUoU
Anonymous No.282179039
>>282178403 (OP)
Reading my mind, OP. I was just thinking it’s been awhile since I last rewatched this
Anonymous No.282179142 >>282179228 >>282179575 >>282179621 >>282180546 >>282182336
>>282178595
Who cares? Just ban guns and political extremism won't be a problem.
>but i need to plink plates at my range without being annoyed! The real problem are minorities :((((
Well, you're not interested in solving it
Anonymous No.282179228
>>282179142
Americans are all mentally ill. It's caused by being an artifical country with no people and no identity, no culture outside of processed food, murder and obsession with ghetto darkskins. The only solution isn't banning guns, it's nuking the entire continent.
Anime & Manga
Anonymous No.282179575
>>282179142
neither are you, it looks like.
Anonymous No.282179621 >>282179720 >>282180372
>>282178403 (OP)
Its OP is fantastic, yet I have no knowledge about what its about besides it being by Satoshi Kon. Its in my list of shows that I want to watch eventually.
>>282179142
The problem is the bad guys who would use the guns for bad purposes don't abide by rules in the first place, like banning guns.
Anonymous No.282179706
>>282178403 (OP)
It's not a series that works on rewatch - knowing where each twist is going deflates the whole thing.

"It was her first period." Wow, how stunning and brave.
Anonymous No.282179720 >>282179863 >>282179867 >>282184511
>>282179621
Just watch once a day. Also make it a mission to watch Perfect Blue and then Paprika over a weekend. Tokyo Godfathers on Christmas day. It's special.
Anonymous No.282179863
>>282179720
Thank you for the recommendations. I love Perfect Blue. I want to rewatch it for October. I didn't watch his other works though. Tokyo Godfathers sounds fun as a Christmas movie to watch.
Anonymous No.282179867 >>282180511
>>282179720
It's incredibly unfair that Kon died so young. All his movies were great and if he hadn't gotten sick he'd probably have made many more. His final letter that was publicized after his death is one of the saddest things I've ever read.
Anonymous No.282180219
>>282178595
This sounds like a pitch for a dumb Netflix revival series.
Anonymous No.282180372 >>282180632 >>282180810
>>282179621
gun bans objectively work everywhere and drastically reduce all gun homcides. see: japan, austrailia, UK, etc. Even switzerland restricts ammunition. gun deaths will still occur, but it with be less frequent.

a different school shooting in America occurred on the day Kirk was shot. We have a gun problem, not a political polarization one. The same type of inflammatory politics exists in every country, but the difference is that idiots couldn't easily kill people over it
Anonymous No.282180511
>>282179867
>I'm so sorry, for not bringing you into this world with a stronger body!
Reading a parent say that is rough as someone who's sick a lot
Anonymous No.282180546 >>282180856
>>282179142
>ban guns
Never happening
>b-b-but
Never happening
>have you considered
Never happening
>Why
If is just Never happening
Anonymous No.282180632
>>282180372
>drastically reduce all gun homcides
But not overall homicides, looking at the UK data around the 1997 firearms act. Being stabbed rather than shot doesn't seem like an improvement.
Anonymous No.282180790
>>282178403 (OP)
hell yeah a classic!
Anonymous No.282180810 >>282180856
>>282180372
Or perhaps we could just admit we got a mental health crisis and actually get to the root of it all.
Anonymous No.282180854
The only great episode is the one that has very little to do with the show's main thrust.
Anonymous No.282180856 >>282180998
>>282180810
Every country has mental health issues, but the difference is that mentally ill people can't easily purchase effective murder weapons like they can in the US. just ban guns like Austrailia did.
>>282180546
Incorrect, the only time gun bans occur is when they want to ban it from minorities unfortunately. Gun control is always effective though
Anonymous No.282180895 >>282181043
>>282178595
I honestly try to care as little as possible as a europoor. It's insane that I barely know what's going on inside my country yet my head has been invaded by american memefluencers like Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro since 2016 onwards. It's fucking invasive. 31 year old idiot with the worst possible opinions get shot in public after advocating for more guns for years - I live on the other part of the ocean and yet this MUST be news for me. I'm dropping this fake shit. I joined a neighborhood leftwing group and I'm learning how to grow vegetables we can share. Fuck these guys.
Anonymous No.282180998 >>282182779
>>282180856
>Every country has mental health issues, but the difference is that mentally ill people can't easily purchase effective murder weapons like they can in the US.
So the problem IS mental illness and not the guns.
Anonymous No.282181043
>>282180895
If you hear Ben Shapiro's voice in your head, take yer meds.
Anonymous No.282182336
>>282179142
Why do people say stuff like this when the most destructive attacks use fire and explosives instead of guns? If schizos realized this the problem would get worse.
tl;dr Shootings are good actually
Anonymous No.282182553
>>282178403 (OP)
true.... everytime i see another news headline it makes me wanna kill myself
Anonymous No.282182779
>>282180998
you can solve the gun issue(at least to an extend) you can't with mental illness. That is, there is ONE solution, but no one wants to make the call
Anonymous No.282184511
>>282179720
I prefer Godfathers on New Years