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What country are you currently living in and whats your opinion on it?
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[mention]ahill1[/mention] The instrumentals are good, though the lyrics are filled with a bit too much depression and self-deprecation. This could be OK with more variety in lyrics or a further point beyond it, but without those, it's pretty basic.
[mention]UltimateGohkan[/mention] England. As far as its history, it has a lot to respect in the influence it has played on human history. In its current state, however, it's shit; being little more than a land implementing soft-communism and destabilising the values that allowed it to work in the past.
To put things into perspective, no British soldier would've ran up the Normandy beaches if they'd known the royal family would end up supporting the idea of one of their own being genderfluid or if the immigrant situation would become as bad as it is now.
[mention]UltimateGohkan[/mention] England. As far as its history, it has a lot to respect in the influence it has played on human history. In its current state, however, it's shit; being little more than a land implementing soft-communism and destabilising the values that allowed it to work in the past.
To put things into perspective, no British soldier would've ran up the Normandy beaches if they'd known the royal family would end up supporting the idea of one of their own being genderfluid or if the immigrant situation would become as bad as it is now.
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JJBA by far as it has far less linear plot progression, actual character development and a far less linear and more interesting power system from Part 3 and onwards. Plot-wise, none of OP's arcs come close to SBR's quality, whilst JoJo's bottom points of Parts 5 and 8 still aren't anywhere near as bad as Skypiea or any post-timeskip arc. Only things I'd say OP does better as a whole are world building and not having notable retcons, though I'd take those flaws over zero character development for the main cast and top tier plot armour for the protagonist as modern OP has become.
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Hardly ever. Last time I went on a vacation somewhere must've been well over 6 years ago.
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Animes you recommend worth watching?
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes (OVA series, not the 
2018 remake)
Ashita no Joe (would recommend the manga more for the Rikiishi Arc, despite the great ost of the anime, but would definitely recommend the Ashita no Joe 2 anime for the later arcs)
Neon Genesis Evangelion + The End of Evangelion (Don't bother with the Rebuild films though)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Welcome to the NHK!
Mobile Suit Gundam (Universal Century timeline. The order to watch each series is a bit convoluted, so ask more if you're interested)
Rose of Versailles
Kenpuu Denki Berserk (Manga is better for the Golden Age, especially due to Lord
, but the 1997 anime is gr9 too)
Haibane Renmei
Area 88 (OVAs. Not the TV series with bogged down pacing and poor CGI)
Monster
Can recommend more of my favourites, but those will do for now. Also, if including manga recommendations:
Battle Angel Alita (Original manga and Last Order. Don't bother with Mars Chronicle)
Lone Wolf and Cub
Hokuto no Ken
[mention]ahill1[/mention] Will get back to that shortly.
2018 remake)Ashita no Joe (would recommend the manga more for the Rikiishi Arc, despite the great ost of the anime, but would definitely recommend the Ashita no Joe 2 anime for the later arcs)
Neon Genesis Evangelion + The End of Evangelion (Don't bother with the Rebuild films though)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Welcome to the NHK!
Mobile Suit Gundam (Universal Century timeline. The order to watch each series is a bit convoluted, so ask more if you're interested)
Rose of Versailles
Kenpuu Denki Berserk (Manga is better for the Golden Age, especially due to Lord
, but the 1997 anime is gr9 too)Haibane Renmei
Area 88 (OVAs. Not the
TV series with bogged down pacing and poor CGI)Monster
Can recommend more of my favourites, but those will do for now. Also, if including manga recommendations:
Battle Angel Alita (Original manga and Last Order. Don't bother with Mars Chronicle)
Lone Wolf and Cub
Hokuto no Ken
[mention]ahill1[/mention] Will get back to that shortly.
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Most overrated animes in your opinion?
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So many could fit that title, but here's a few:
* Shingeki no Kyojin - Just edgy sensationalism and post-2000 Shyamalan tier mystery-bait. Blue Gender did a similar premise far better
* My Hero Academia - Riding on the coattails of better Shonen, particularly Kinnikuman and Part 1 Naruto, to make a Shonen that does absolutely nothing different from the rest.
* Kimi no Nawa - Absolutely nonsensical with how the main characters easily adapt to being in different bodies or never try to contact the other, but who cares about plot when feels can override critical thinking? Add the rest of Makoto's films to the list as well.
* One Punch Man - Repeating the same joke over and over again before taking what was meant to be a satire seriously with the Boros fight doesn't make something a deconstruction.
*Fate series - Beyond Ufotable's animation and the character writing of Rider in Fate/Zero, there's asbolutely nothing good about it. Fate/Zero is predictable, nonsensical and pretentious. Fate/stay-night is a generic Shonen (and the original game is just a poor excuse for Hentai, and the rest of the franchise are just alternate reality cashgrabs.
* One Piece - Not as bad as those previously listed, or even primarily bad, but the fanbase treating it as the gold standard for Shonen or anime/manga in general are definitely overrating it heavily.
* Gintama (Relying on referential humour as its strength when taking 300+ to build up a plot that's a Kenshin knockoff with sci-fi elements that quickly gets back to meandering doesn't make one of the greatest anime, no matter what MAL says.
* Most Ghibli films (Particularly the post-2000 ones) - Nausicaa is ok, whilst Grave of the Fireflies and Princess Mononoke are good. The rest are pretty average at best family films (some such as Spirited Away heavily meandering), so placing them on such a godlike pedestal is definitely overrating them.
* Cowboy Bebop - It's decent rule-of-cool, but not much other than that with its pretty simplistic characters and limited plot continuity. Hardly one of the best anime of all time as many praise it as.
[Insert most popular seasonal here] - They're all poorly written trash after about 2011 or so, either being more of the same mediocrities praised as masterpieces or heavily flawed works by relying on such poor writing red flags as time travel, amnesia, harem elements, etc.
* Shingeki no Kyojin - Just edgy sensationalism and post-2000 Shyamalan tier
mystery-bait. Blue Gender did a similar premise far better* My Hero Academia - Riding on the coattails of better Shonen, particularly Kinnikuman and Part 1 Naruto, to make a Shonen that does absolutely nothing different from the rest.
* Kimi no Nawa - Absolutely nonsensical with how the main characters easily adapt to being in different bodies or never try to contact the other, but who cares about plot when feels can override critical thinking? Add the rest of Makoto's
films to the list as well.* One Punch Man - Repeating the same joke over and over again before taking what was meant to be a satire seriously with the Boros fight doesn't make something a deconstruction.
*Fate series - Beyond Ufotable's animation and the character writing of Rider in Fate/Zero, there's asbolutely nothing good about it. Fate/Zero is predictable, nonsensical and pretentious. Fate/stay-night is a generic Shonen (and the original game is just a poor excuse for Hentai, and the rest of the franchise are just alternate reality cashgrabs.
* One Piece - Not as bad as those previously listed, or even primarily bad, but the fanbase treating it as the gold standard for Shonen or anime/manga in general are definitely overrating it heavily.
* Gintama (Relying on referential humour as its strength when taking 300+ to build up a plot that's a Kenshin knockoff with sci-fi elements that quickly gets back to meandering doesn't make one of the greatest anime, no matter what MAL says.
* Most Ghibli films (Particularly the post-2000 ones) - Nausicaa is ok, whilst Grave of the Fireflies and Princess Mononoke are good. The rest are pretty average at best family films (some such as Spirited Away heavily meandering), so placing them on such a godlike pedestal is definitely overrating them.
* Cowboy Bebop - It's decent rule-of-cool, but not much other than that with its pretty simplistic characters and limited plot continuity. Hardly one of the best anime of all time as many praise it as.
[Insert most popular seasonal
here] - They're all poorly written trash after about 2011 or so, either being more of the same mediocrities praised as masterpieces or heavily flawed works by relying on such poor writing red flags as time travel, amnesia, harem elements, etc.
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Your opinion on gene modification and the controversy in china over the crispr twins?
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[mention]ahill1[/mention] Behind Blue Eyes is an amazing song. Along with having a pretty interesting message in that the villains of a work are usually forced into their position in the audience's mind or believing themselves to be the hero, the instrumentals and vocals of the piece are both amazing to hear and very iconic.
[mention]UltimateGohkan[/mention] I would be in favour of gene modification in practice as science should be used to advance humanity and our world in whatever way it can. That is only in the case of it being something everyone had free access to in some utopian fantasy, however, as the reality is that the research facilities and companies associated with them would have the priority of monopolising it as being incredibly expensive and allowing primarily the rich to benefit from it. This would lead to a society in which nobody would have the chance to rise up the hierarchy, as those at the top and around it would've been made into genetically superior beings and humanity would be stuck in a perpetual caste system when it came to evolutionary advantages.
[mention]UltimateGohkan[/mention] I would be in favour of gene modification in practice as science should be used to advance humanity and our world in whatever way it can. That is only in the case of it being something everyone had free access to in some utopian fantasy, however, as the reality is that the research facilities and companies associated with them would have the priority of monopolising it as being incredibly expensive and allowing primarily the rich to benefit from it. This would lead to a society in which nobody would have the chance to rise up the hierarchy, as those at the top and around it would've been made into genetically superior beings and humanity would be stuck in a perpetual caste system when it came to evolutionary advantages.
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When is the last time you went to Neo?
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Probably the last time a member posted a link on here. Pretty sure it was GSM linking a thread a few months back.
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Definitely Hisoka. Seeing what shaped him into being such a sociopathic clown with a constant hard-on for battle and seeing how his attempt to kill the Troupe members goes are really interesting and the one thing that'd make reading the Light Continent arc worth it. Chrollo is interesting too with how he wishes to discover who he is through his actions, though his background is enough to piece together why that is and his current goal being entirely reactionary to Hisoka's actions makes him less interesting by default.
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Hisoka if counting him for reasons already mentioned in the previous question and expanded on fully on Page 42 of this thread.
If excluding him, then Uvogin. Though very simplistic in his goals, the genuine friendship he showed towards his allies such as Nobunaga and Shalnark made him fairly endearing and the similarity that Nobunaga saw in Gon from their typical Enhancer personalities adds interest to the idea that Gon could become a similar individual if in the same upbringing or environment, of which may have been good foreshadowing for the direction Gon's character would go in the Chimera Ant Arc. His death also served as a great driving force to several Troupe members' actions in the arc such as Chrollo's decisions as a leader and Nobunaga's grief.
Also, being a manly badass who wrecks his enemies with sheer force and can KO someone by screaming in their ear is always a win.
If excluding him, then Uvogin. Though very simplistic in his goals, the genuine friendship he showed towards his allies such as Nobunaga and Shalnark made him fairly endearing and the similarity that Nobunaga saw in Gon from their typical Enhancer personalities adds interest to the idea that Gon could become a similar individual if in the same upbringing or environment, of which may have been good foreshadowing for the direction Gon's character would go in the Chimera Ant Arc. His death also served as a great driving force to several Troupe members' actions in the arc such as Chrollo's decisions as a leader and Nobunaga's grief.
Also, being a manly badass who wrecks his enemies with sheer force and can KO someone by screaming in their ear is always a win.
