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[Rolan7]

Yeah... I think Lala (if that's who you're referencing) is supposedly older than she looks, but still only like 17 or somethin' like that. If basically everything related to her (I had somehow missed Char found her working in a brothal...) makes you uncomfortable it kinda' should, though I'm less sure how much Char's Counterattack's creator thinks that, too. Char's characterization has had a lot of shit flung at it over the years due to his interactions regarding that, though.

He's definitely, like... not a good person, in any case, or fighting for a good cause (though it's kinda' hard to say who is, exactly, as the feds are giant sacks of shit, too, they're just mostly less competent about their genocide, lol). If that's your takeaway, you paid attention, heh.

... he is usually on the side of the best looking mecha, though. Gundam/GM design is ass, if it ain't thicc it ain't good lookin'

Zaku forever!

Lalah wasn't who I meant, but she kinda is!  She's dead during the events of this movie, and yet the protagonist and antagonist are seeing visions of her and using her as motivation.  I had no idea she was also young. 

No, I'm talking about Quess.  She acts like a literal twelve year old throughout the entire movie.  I guess she looks like a typical young-adult character, which is good, but she's so immature.

I get that she's a young person foisted with destiny because she psychically attunes to the alien gundams, much like the protagonist. That's cool.
I'm weirded out that the antagonist plays her off against his significant other.  But that's fine, narratively.  In summation:
The bad colonist neo-human wants to destroy the disgusting heirarchies of Terra.  But to do so, he is nice to a young girl.

And also there's a protagonist who just wants to protect all humans or whatever.  Boring.  He and the antagonist keep dreaming about Lala but I found the protagonist completely uninteresting.

[Frumple]

Yeah, I had forgotten quess exists, not gon' lie. That one's actually 13, checking, so you're entirely free to continue seeing everything related to that as sketchy as hell. Extra sketchy, even. Extra extra sketchy if you scope some of the supporting material*

I actually can't even remember if I've seen char's counterattack. Like, probably, because there was a period years ago I spent watching through a lot of the older bits of the franchise, but... yeah. Not much in the way of strong memory of it.

... though yeah, amuro's pretty milquetoast for... a lot of the series (which is interesting in some ways 'cause he's killed like a lot of people over the course of it all). Honestly a lot better in several of the SRW games, where at least he's got legit chops as one of the most skilled and experienced real robot pilots in the series, and the SRW stuff plays that up pretty well a good few times. SRW's got notably decent writing for what amounts to a giant pile of officially published massive crossover fanfics, really...

*There's an official novel/LN that has an illustration of 'er straddling char in her underwear, apparently. Folks doing content control couldn't countenance amuro with a family, but that was a-okay!

[scriver]

Yeah... I think Lala (if that's who you're referencing) is supposedly older than she looks, but still only like 17 or somethin' like that.

I thought the teletubbies were supposed to be like, toddlers

Entirely off-topic question, but did the telethon idea telethon he’s there is no telethon ffs autocorrect did the Teletubbies get translated to Swedish, and were the names of the teletubbies changed at all?

I couldn't remember, but apparently it was just dubbed and they kept the names, even with the englishy inflection

[MCreeper]

Off the usual deal there, but i like works of this mangaka too much to not link them somewhere. Highlights: Touhou girls nonchalantly eating people,  silly and evil Suwako,  lame jokes,  sometimes general gloomines. Somehow, most "comedy"-tagged parts are unfunny at best.
EDIT: Most liked, in order of decreasing: Kaminare, Dancers of the Boundary, Before the Rainbow, Hungry Tiger, Last Supper.

[Iduno]

https://twitter.com/benner/status/1478808564944629760

[voliol]

I can't agree with that position. Art isn't derived from suffering. If you don't like your medium don't work in it or learn to like it. As for Hayao Miyazaki he is (as far as I can tell from his public appearances) a prickly old man who I'd rather be a happy old man who had made a couple of movies fewer.

[Rolan7]

Spoiler: That Miyazaki vs Junji Ito (THIS IS MY HOLE/constant horror) meme (click to show/hide)

I'm bad at unpacking layers of irony but I usually take Miyazaki's famous statement as typical artist self...criticism.  Back when I was a creator I sure felt like that.  I would take his angst seriously, but not as an actual denouncement of the medium.
Guy just worries that maybe making some of the best animes of all time is sort of silly and bad and he isn't good enough, and his life's work is trash and the entire medium is trash and everything is trash, actually.
That's how I read it.

[scriver]

The context, if how it was explained to me is correct, is more about the darker sides of escapism, such as "otaku-ness" and the "cult of cute", than the medium itself,  and about the parts of the industry that cater to or indulge in these less than healthy cultures.

[lemon10]

Spoiler: That Miyazaki vs Junji Ito (THIS IS MY HOLE/constant horror) meme (click to show/hide)

I'm bad at unpacking layers of irony but I usually take Miyazaki's famous statement as typical artist self...criticism.  Back when I was a creator I sure felt like that.  I would take his angst seriously, but not as an actual denouncement of the medium.
Guy just worries that maybe making some of the best animes of all time is sort of silly and bad and he isn't good enough, and his life's work is trash and the entire medium is trash and everything is trash, actually.
That's how I read it.

I mean, I read it as memers/trolls making shit up that he never said. Cause ya know, he didn't say the whole "anime is a mistake" thing.

You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, it depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, ‘Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life. If you don’t spend time watching real people, you can’t do this, because you’ve never seen it. Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves. Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It’s produced by humans who can’t stand looking at other humans. And that’s why the industry is full of otaku!.

He certainly has had some pretty strong criticism of the industry and otaku (and note that otaku has a much much harsher meaning in Japan than in America where weebs just use it to call themselves anime nerds), but not on that level of the pics in that tweet.

[Iduno]

I would watch a full-length anime based on the billiards opening of the third Project A-ko movie.

[MCreeper]

Discovered yet another touhou fan anime while browsing tvtropes, The Sealed Esoteric History. Its nice (can't say the same about english subs). Unusual take, certainly. And it is whole total of 2 half-hour episodes long.    Though they, after a 5 years long hiatus, apparently announced a third one. Commenters estimate that it will appear somewhere or another in 1-2 years.

And once again i'm baffled about apparent lack of correlation between views\downloads on a thing i would be interested in and my awareness of it. First episode has almost a million of views on youtube, and have i, a touhou fan, heard about it in those five years? Nay, sir, not even once. First bafflement was with Dreaming Mary, obscure little game, and it's 100000 downloads. Where did i first heard about it? On chanell of youtuber who does fan songs on this kind of games. Although, if one considers that 100000 is not even 1\10000 of Earth's pupulation, it becomes somewhat less surprising.

[heydude6]

How deep are you into the RPG maker horror fandom if I may ask? Dreaming Mary's one of the big classics so I'm surprised to hear that you haven't heard of it.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, then boy are you in for a treat. There's a whole host of games like Dreaming Mary that you'll get to discover. I personally recommend Lilly's Well. Don't google it cause of spoilerific images, you can just download it for free on steam.

[MCreeper]

How deep are you into the RPG maker horror fandom if I may ask? Dreaming Mary's one of the big classics so I'm surprised to hear that you haven't heard of it.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, then boy are you in for a treat. There's a whole host of games like Dreaming Mary that you'll get to discover. I personally recommend Lilly's Well. Don't google it cause of spoilerific images, you can just download it for free on steam.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Not really deep. I know what they are, know about considerable amount, but didn't play a whole lot. Decided a while ago that i want some doom and gloom and went searching for RPGMaker horrors through itch.io's detritus. Downloaded a bunch and cracked one open once a week, often to be dissapointed at how they are only half-hour long. Among those were Pocket Mirror, and I stumbled on youtuber in question while searching for it's amazing music, then downloaded some of games on her chanell too. And of those i had misfortune of trying a gargantuan abomination that is Witch's Heart (one watery meal, all things considered), which burned me out for this kind of games for a long time. So now i'm stuck with a hoard of what may be another penny dreadfuls and no real desire to play any, Dreaming Mary included.

Lilly's Well I also didn't heard about. One more game to the pile.  And if we are swapping games, have you heard about Fantasy Maiden's Odd Hideout? Its pretty neat one, found it few years ago while clicking random page on tvtropes. A treasure hoard of needless junk, they are.

[Iduno]

The first 4 Project A-ko episodes/movies are good stuff. Parodies of other animes, as well as being entertaining in their own right. Also, frequently very stupid.

Uncivil Wars (the 5th and 6th episode/movies and a different continuity) are like they tried to make a serious anime, mostly. Still entertaining, and the second one where they explain the plot is...I mean, I guess it's a plan.

[Folly]

Well, for better or worse, it sounds like we're getting two more seasons of FLCL.
Slated to release in 2023.