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[Reelya]

Do we talk about manga here?

Spoiler: I hope so (click to show/hide)

Majo no Shinzou has left me an emotional train wreck

Also it's really good. 10/10 would emotionally traumatize myself again.

The title of a series spoiled should really be outside the spoiler, or in the title of the spoiler. Otherwise it's like a hand-grenade which you don't know whether it's a dud or dangerous until you open it. You didn't really write any spoilerish material in there, but in general, mystery spoilers aren't really handy.

[Cruxador]

Do we talk about manga here?

Spoiler: I hope so (click to show/hide)

Majo no Shinzou has left me an emotional train wreck

Also it's really good. 10/10 would emotionally traumatize myself again.

The title of a series spoiled should really be outside the spoiler, or in the title of the spoiler. Otherwise it's like a hand-grenade which you don't know whether it's a dud or dangerous until you open it. You didn't really write any spoilerish material in there, but in general, mystery spoilers aren't really handy.

It looks like it's written in a spoiler tradition not native to these boards. A spoiler, in this case, doesn't necessarily represent an actual spoiler but is a kind of a rhetorical presentation technique. It's a bit akin to the dialogue in manga that's written outside of text bubbles, and when translated is often unique among dialogue in using a font that includes lowercase characters.

As to the actual topic at hand, I feel like there's too much manga for a thread with as small a userbase as this one to have meaningful discussions without first becoming a circlejerk. Even with anime, discussions are limited because someone can go "I saw this series and it was awesome!" and then not enough people have seen it to start a conversation.

[Andres]

DBS episode 2

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

"I'll it eats entire race!" Holy crap I can't believe Vegeta actually said that! That's a joke from DBZA Episode of Bardock! It was really hilarious too!

[BFEL]

Goodness I am starting to think the Author of Jojo... actively hates his own series.

I did a few mental exercises to enjoy it (pretending part 1-2 never happened helps a lot)

....

(pretending part 1-2 never happened helps a lot)

HERESY

[Neonivek]

If there is one big credit I will give to "Start From Zero"

It is that the main character is the most suspicious person in the universe.

So how do people treat him? Like the most suspicious person in the universe.

It is only the main character's earnestness and general cluelessness that keeps people at bay (that and... well... the best way to deal with a spy is to pretend they aren't a spy)

[JoshuaFH]

I watched two interesting animes back-to-back: Shinsekai Yori and The Tale of Genji.

I think a lot of people around here would be familiar with Shinsekai Yori. It has very dramatic presentation with an interesting setting and a very good pace to the plot. Though it does seem like the plot was rushed and condensed in some spots, I think it got through what it wanted to say. I suppose my only gripe with it would be:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

That at the very end, it would seem that all the problems that instigated all the story threads are still in place, nobody learned anything, and everyone is ready to just continue making all the mistakes that made all the problems again in first place. Unless I'm missing something huge, that's a huge depressing downer of an ending. That's probably the most tragic ending in my opinion, when the Main Characters wind up becoming the bad guys that they set out to defy in the first place. Ordinarily, I wouldn't consider that a flaw in a story, but the show portrays the ending as being 'well, I guess this is the good ending?' with everyone being happy and growing up and makin babies, but it's dissonant in that they're obviously just going to repeat the mistakes of the prior generation. That's what I got out of it.

Then there's the Tale of Genji:

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 which is a comparatively simpler story about a ballin' swaggin' big OG pimp named Genji and the story of his many sexual conquests. He's born into a life of wealth and privilege, women fall at his feet, he shags nearly every single one, displays amazing combat prowess in the *one* action scene wherein he's completely surrounded by mercenaries, and still has the nerve to cry about it and wonder how he can forgive himself. There's something to be said about the ego of a guy that shags the emperor's wife, gets away with it, shags the next emperor's wife, gets caught but then is forgiven by emperor supercuck cause he knows that Genji's just so awesome that he understands why his wife would sleep with him, and then sets himself up to marry what is a 12 or 13 yr old, and walks off into the sunset like he's the greatest guy in the world.

I'm pretty sure this is based on an old japanese text, and I butchered the story in my little synopsis above, but this guy is absurd. Because it was so dramatically absurd though, I really enjoyed it.

[Oneir]

Then there's the Tale of Genji:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 which is a comparatively simpler story about a ballin' swaggin' big OG pimp named Genji and the story of his many sexual conquests. He's born into a life of wealth and privilege, women fall at his feet, he shags nearly every single one, displays amazing combat prowess in the *one* action scene wherein he's completely surrounded by mercenaries, and still has the nerve to cry about it and wonder how he can forgive himself. There's something to be said about the ego of a guy that shags the emperor's wife, gets away with it, shags the next emperor's wife, gets caught but then is forgiven by emperor supercuck cause he knows that Genji's just so awesome that he understands why his wife would sleep with him, and then sets himself up to marry what is a 12 or 13 yr old, and walks off into the sunset like he's the greatest guy in the world.

I'm pretty sure this is based on an old japanese text, and I butchered the story in my little synopsis above, but this guy is absurd. Because it was so dramatically absurd though, I really enjoyed it.

Not just a Japanese text, but by some accounts the oldest novel in the world.

[Neonivek]

What does Panic mean in Japan?

I know it is an English word and some smarty is going to go "Panic means panic" but I mean what do they use to refer it to? It seems to be just a crazy mixed up event.

[overseer05-15]

What does Panic mean in Japan?

I know it is an English word and some smarty is going to go "Panic means panic" but I mean what do they use to refer it to? It seems to be just a crazy mixed up event.

Are you asking for the definition of panic, or some actual event in Japan named Panic?

[Mech#4]

If you mean something like "Doki Doki Panic" than I believe it is used as you said, to imply a frantic, exciting situation.

[Neonivek]

If you mean something like "Doki Doki Panic" than I believe it is used as you said, to imply a frantic, exciting situation.

There are a lot of times Panic is used like... Dye Panic.

Doki Doki Panic... likely means more of a love thing doesn't it? because Doki Doki is the beating of the heart. A Escapade likely.

[Reelya]

Doki Doki just means "heart-pumping" i.e as an adjective. It's not a specific thing about love except for the fact that love make your heart beat faster.

As for anime titles, you have Strawberry Panic and Full Metal Panic. Probably the only thing they have in common is both being farcical comedies. In these contexts it probably means mixed-up situations. e.g. "wacky hijinks", "zany antics" and other nauseating terms, rather than e.g. panicking because your house is burning down and there's an homicidal chainsaw murderer after you.

[Neonivek]

Doki Doki just means "heart-pumping" i.e as an adjective. It's not a specific thing about love except for the fact that love make your heart beat faster.

First thanks for answering Reelya.

As for this. Yes it isn't "specific about love" but the symbolism is so well attached that it pretty much always means that.

At least I cannot recall when it was contradicted...

[Mech#4]

Doki Doki just means "heart-pumping" i.e as an adjective. It's not a specific thing about love except for the fact that love make your heart beat faster.

First thanks for answering Reelya.

As for this. Yes it isn't "specific about love" but the symbolism is so well attached that it pretty much always means that.

At least I cannot recall when it was contradicted...

"Yume Kōjō :Doki Doki Panic" translates to "Dream Factory: Heart-Pounding Panic". It's the title of the game that was used as the basis for Super Mario Bros. 2 in the west.

[Reelya]

We there's a prime example of it having nothing to do with love. Just excitement and action.