Why cant we have Anime like this anymoreJust 27 episode of a wild ride with no breaks or logicBut no everything now has to be serialized with open ending to continue and milk forever with endless filter shitI'm just gonna post all the eyecatch frames just because I feel like it.
>>284618581is this a sincere question or are you just posting shit for the sake of venting?
>>284618628Im drunk
>>284618643that ah...doesn't answer the question
i haven't seen this oneanyone want to watch it together on discord?
>>284618581the eyecatches were the worst par t of the series. that cunt yoko is a close secondto answer your question: the suits nowadays hate fun and actually giving the studios a budget
Part 2 fucking sucked and never should've been made
boring slop for cishet scum. watch some yurikino/yaoikino such as Gundam.
>>284618581>Everyone said Bravern is a good successor >It's nothing but gay faggot shitDisgusting
>>284618698fuck you
>>284618853This but unironically Gundam Wing and GQuuuX mog this boring garbage
I'm don your all gay bye
>>284619006Always drives me even more insane as shit starts getting ludicrous
>>284619035Thanks for the dump, drunk anon
>>284618581Simon the KEK!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyRK2GI_T7I
>>284618581>Why cant we have Anime like this anymoreautism and gatekeeping. instead we get more generic romcom slop, and stuff like shows about ice skating or horse racing. the turbo autists just want the next cute girl of the month.
>>284618581Well, Gainax went bankruptSo clearly the moral of the story is thye should have milked Gurrent to max
>>284618581TTGL is one of my favourite anime of all time. And you Sir are not only drunk, but also a man of culture with sublime taste. Great thread, have a great christmas.
>>284619784>Well, Gainax went bankruptworth it
>>284618724>Eyecatches were the worst part of the seriesAbsolutely bizarre grievance.
best thread on /a/
Kill la Kill could have been this good, but they dropped the ball early. Cyberpunk gives the same vibe, but irs good for a different reason
>>284618822Nia with short hair was the best
>>284618581friendly reminder that Yoko and Simon are the perfect fit for each other
>>284618581Just go and watch other super robot shows, surely you aren't one of those people that only watch TTGL and that's it.
God, belting out Sorairo Days at karaoke during my Japan trip last month got me so fucking pumped I felt like I could fight god. One of the greats
>>284618581ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWERlove these eyecatches man
why the fuck did I make this thread
>>284625040Cuz you're cool
>>284618839I love how most the bots were goofy but then Genome pulls out an Eva
>>284622638It's one of the few songs in Japanese I could probably sing from memory with only minor errors and I barely know Japanese at all. Was it the original or the Lagaan-hen version?
>>284625040Dissatisfaction with the current state of things.
>>284618794Can you get a beastman pregnant?
>>284618581Because the audience has changed. In the past people went into fiction for novelty and adventure, seeing new worlds explored and great journeys enacted. Today that crowd has been silenced by a much larger crowd that uses fiction as emotional management, usually from their failures in reality so there isn't any patience for a more ambitious tale, a quick power fantasy or smut would do just fine for much less effort.
>>284618698Sex with Yomako-sensei!
>>284625769No, they are sterile by design, which is why Virals dream of a family was so tragic.
>>284618691This one is so good.>>284618831Part 2 carried Gurren Lagann.
>>284618908I fucking love Kittan man
>>284625174NTA but check out the Tengen Toppa edition: https://youtu.be/JrBvEFH7fU8?t=174That part specifically got me insanely pumped up during my jog. Good times
>>284626797He was great and I wish he got to do more before he died.Part of the issue I had with Gurren Lagann was that nobody but Simon had actual spiral power until the VERY end of the series. You could probably argue that Kamina had it too when he overpowered the lockouts on Gurren but he died shortly after and all his other feats were performed with Lagann attached so you could attribute it to Simon rather than him
>>284627307I think Kittan did everything that mattered. He was the second glue of the Gurren brigade: Kamina was pulling everyone ahead with his bravado, Simon was the one actually forging the path ahead, and Kittan was the "glue" and heart. He got not one but TWO great sacrifice scenes.
>>284625769>>284626728I think with enough spiral power it would be possible
>>284618581>or logicI love that Gurren Lagann is so subtle with its themes and symbolism people legitimately think it's nonsense.Lagann has a drill/spiral growing from its third eye."As above, so below" is painted in virtually every aspect of the show.Gnostic imagery and Yaldabaoth/Demi-urgic authorities on various levels.All those Gattais revolving around the unification of opposites (Mind and Body or Mind and Heart being the most obvious and most used)The final battle is entirely decided based on the Law of Attraction.Simon LITERALLY punches a hole in the firmament with Arc Gurren.It's a story about going "beyond surface level" to reach something deeper and more meaningful with the spiral of knowledge.It's such a great show and speaks to a man's soul on every level.
>>284627443My drill is the drill that will pierce the eggDo the impossible see the invisible
>>284627516But you have to be a man with a soul to follow it, so it's not for everyone.
>>284627516Lagann's canopy looks like a brain and Simon is seated where the Pineal gland would be. The dream organ in a sense.
>>284627516It's just pretentious bullshit trying to pretend that it's deeper than colorful explosions and shouting.
>>284627553Yeah you're right. There's people like this>>284627598
>>284627443But thats just the thing, Beastmen can't use spiral power :(
>>284627667Not with that attitude.
>>284627667Boota literally does and in the movie, so does Viral.
>>284627696Boota is not a Beastman and Viral in the movie is as far as I understand it a mutation caused by being basically bathed in Simons spiral energy for a prolonged amount of time. Beastmen were genetically engineered by Lord Genome to not produce spiral power.
>>284627516Yeah, I'm not saying every single one of these interpretations is right and intended but at least some of them, and some are even kind of explicit too. Gurren Lagann is one of these anime that require some level of engagement, but if you meet it on these terms it answers back.
>>284618581Whenever someone asks me when was the last truly good mecha my mind goes immediately to TTGL thinking that it only came out a few years ago not nearly 2 decades ago. There's some stuff I like now but nothing has ever hit the same beats as TTGL or what came prior like GaoGaiGar or the Getter Robo OVAs. Maybe i'm just old.
>>284627529>>284627667No no no, I mean a spiral-race using that power to make a beastwoman fertile. You can't just pierce the egg, you have to create it first.
>>284627516The dichotomy of underground and above-ground isn't about the gnostic junk, it's from the anti-imperialist concept of subaltern positioning as reflected in Libera Me's hip hop segment.
>>284627936Yeah things can't possibly have more than one meaning, that's impossible.
>>284628005That as above so below thing just doesn't fit though. The underground and the above-worlds have entirely different meanings in the series.
>>284628053And in the term 'as above, so below', heaven and earth have entirely different meanings to. The meaning of the statement is that things on a higher strata are reflected and paralleled on a lower one.Giha village chief -> Lord Genome -> The Anti-spiral.Viral was used by Genome the same way Lord Genome was used by the Anti-Spiral.Stuff like that.
Reminder the AntiSpiral was Simon's final teacher, and right about a lot of things.
I liked Green Lasagna but I really want to know what the initial plan was because it's very clear they swerved pretty hard after the episode 1 teaser opening
>>284628204It was going to be Aim for the Top 3!I bet my money on it.
>no logicTTGL's internal logic works almost flawlessly all show. The logic also jives perfectly with what the show's theme is. You can trust me because in stark contrast I fucking despise Diebuster made by 95% of the same people that made TTGL. Character and plot go right out the fucking window so they can get to the next titty shot or fight sequence.
>>284627307The series was very aware of who its main character was, and barely gave focus to anyone but him. And when it did, it was mostly for his sake. Kamina as a mentor, Roshiu, Genome or Viral as foils, Nia as comfort animal + damsel in distress.
>>284628104When you oversimplify it to that degree to you can apply it to almost any story with progression
>>284628481Right, forgot I'm talking to people who can't connect dots even when shown how to.
There's always that one anon who gets upset that entertainment isn't always mindless and a talented team of people put effort into their thing.
>>284628491That's the point though, there are no dots to connect. That phrase has no bearing on the ideas and themes in the series.
>>284618581>Why cant we have Anime like this anymorebecause it's much harder to make money off of anime, especially original anime nowadays. Remember, TTGL came out in 2007, way before streaming was a thing. The anime aired, it was successful, and if you wanted to watch it again you basically /had/ to buy the blue-ray (in japan) unless you had much more tech savvy than today. this is not the case in year of our lord twenty twenty five. Anime even then had issues with profitability, but BD sales, toys, models, licensing to tv stations in SEA, pachinko games, made up for it for original titles. BD sales are now gone, the japanese economy has continued to circle the drain, and streaming is not nearly as profitable for (most) shows as tv licensing (the japanese also are still in 1997 and don't understand streaming well). So now, the safer bet is anime as adverts for already-somewhat-successful manga/LNs, and if it makes more money along the way like frieren, all the better. most studios are risk averse, so you get saleable anime, not necessarily good anime
>>284628698>most studios are risk averseEntertainment as a whole went downhill when the suits switched from cocaine to ketamine
>>284618685It does, actually.
>>284618712sure why not
>>284628698>streaming is not nearly as profitable for (most) shows as tv licensing (the japanese also are still in 1997 and don't understand streaming well)Not just the Japanese, it's less profitable for all entertainment EXCEPT established IPs with many entries and high attachment rates (barring a few handpicked winners)Less money going to more entrants rewarding repeat consumption instead of new production
>>284618581Beyond the profitability that other anons mentioned (which is why also you won't see multiple season originals. The days of shit like Noein being 26 episodes or Eureka Seven having more episodes than most famous series today are over) a lot of Japanese creatives simply don't really have the hunger to create and adapt their own original stories. Very often they'll first try to do multiple projects at once for a series of their design, with an anime as a final piece were it be to be successful. Doesn't help that they also have to pander to the streaming market, which is majority SEA and Chinese. Next time you question yourself why the Vending Machine Isekai is a big success remember the average Indonesian or chin hast to watch it.
>>284627516This certainly provides context for Rossiu's religious upbringing.
>>284618581We literally had an anime like Gurren Lagann a couple of years ago (written by Gurren Lagann's writer, directed by Code Geass's director) and yet nobody watched it.
>>284632181It didn't succeed because just looking at this promo illustration I can tell it lacks style.
>>284632181i watched it. it was like someone took TTGL and sucked the soul out of it. Back Arrow had some decent moments, but was otherwise mediocre.
>>284632169Religious stuff like pic related is just reality when it comes to GL's universe. I'm not surprised religions formed from that.
>>284618581I am afraid it is impossible to recreate this level of kino, OP. And that's ok because that means it will forever remain special
>>284618581Is that a butt plug?
>>284632227>It was like someone took TTGL and sucked the soul out of itit wasn't trying to be TTGL, it was trying to be xabungle and g gundam
>>284632238>outside looking further outliterally me
>>284632276Trigger thought the same which is why a dude shoves a drill up his own ass in Panty and Stocking.
>>284632181They really fucking wanted this show to become a hit and it just flopped lmao>heavily advertise and merchandise the mechas months in advance>24 episode series>ends with "watch the sequel" bait>nobody watches it>sequel never ever
>>284632181Didn't this have CG mechs?
>>284618612>>284618674>>284618698>>284618784>>284618799SEX with Yoko.
>>284621056Kill La Kill only dropped the ball on the last few episodes, and only because it had already reached a climax earlier.
>>284631974What makes the Chinese or Indonesians any different from the average Jap in their viewing habits? And by that I mean the average consumer is not an aesthete, no matter what region you look at.
>>284632181Wow. I can detect absolutely no soul from this image in the slightest.
>>284628698The number of people buying blurays was basically never enough to pay for the show itselfAs with all entertainment the real money is in the merch afterwards
>>284632181Looks like gacha slop
>>284632181>Look at this anime NOBODY watched!!>Check inside>Already watched itStop doing this to me, faggots.
>>284620054Seconded my fellow TTGL appreciator
>>284634837>>284620054brothers, a toast to kino taste
>>284618581it was a fun show
So to put it simplyGAR lostMOE won
>>284637110unfortunetly
