Does anyone here create manga as a hobby?

I wish I could but I don't have drawing skills.

I'm sure you could even make a manga even with shit or middling art.
Take a look at kaiji or OPM, all you just need to think of is an interesting premise.

>>3
I can draw stick figures and penises. I have a dozen interesting premises I could work off. I just can't damn well draw.

US and Japanese pop cultures influence each other. Hideaki Anno likes Gerry Anderson. George Lucas likes Akira Kurosawa. It's pretty cool.

Hideaki Anno is a westaboo???

there's nobody here

I'm here nigga

these bbs looks awfool

is he sugoi?

>>10
What's ota clinic about?

>>11
the main goal is sharing technical knowledge on art and literature for the purpose of creating otaku media with the same level of quality as Japan.
he shares some stuff Japanese artists don't like to talk about too much too for various social reasons. and he has a logical approach to explaining it as well, it's not just tutorials like "do this then this" but a systematized understanding.

he explained it well himself

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>>12
That's cool. If I get a job I might subscribe to his patreon. By stuff that Japanese artists don't like to talk about do you mean how to draw lolis?

How long are the ota clinic videos? Are they just livestreams or scripted videos?

>>13
yeah it's worth it if the topics are relevant to you.
i mean things that Japanese people are too diplomatic and polite to go into every time. for example the Saitou Naoki video about westerner anime talks about the painting being a naive adaptation of western fine art techniques to anime, as opposed to anime painting being fundamentally cel shading derived, but doesn't say much about the line art already being westernized and the reasons why westernized line art looks off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M5qXfamBvA

average length is about 28 minutes, it's not livestreamed and there's a plan to the whole clinic and individual videos but it doesn't feel prewritten.

Howard Blast made Orkastle.

I've been watching some 80s shows recently, and i realized just how much we're missing out on good sci fi in the modern anime landscape. It's not like I'm super against fantasy, but until fairly recently anime and sf were extremely intertwined concepts. They gotta bring back sf anime, this stuff is good!

>>1
The funny thing is that according to MAL tags, the number of non-sequel full-length anime with the sci-fi tag released in the last 6 years is more than double the number that came out in the 80's. So we actually get a lot more sf anime than before. The way I see it, some of the big differences are that nowadays sf anime tend to be much less present in the discourse, they have way shorter episode counts (I mean we just got a single-cour Gundam), and they aren't really considered at the vanguard of any otaku trend. IMO there are also just fewer good ones nowadays, and even fewer great ones. Contemporary sf anime also tend to be much less focused on space as a concept or setting. That said, there have been 3 new sf anime with space settings over the last 4 months, so they are absolutely still present.

There is a distinct sf light novel scene that you can wade into. People like Gegen Kusano (check out his Last and First Idol).
This interview with the Uresekai Picnic author about Yuri is how I first became aware of this subscene.

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Hey I didn't want to make a new thread on here so I'm going to post in this one as it seems to be the most relevant to my question.
Is Desert Punk worth watching? Would you recommend it?
I want to get back into watching anime, and I have had the complete collection sitting by my tv for a while.
I don't want to waste my time if there is a better series to watch or if it's going to be utter trash
Oh yeah, no spoilers please

>>8
Looks like I dropped Desert Punk on ep.1 when I checked it out years ago and I remember nothing about it, so I would probably say no.
If you really want an anime with a desert/western scifi setting, some other recs would be Casshern Sins, Back Arrow, Trigun (the 90's adaptation), and Sentou Mecha Xabungle.

>>7
I have been thinking about this post a lot and an unreasonable amount of things tagged sci-fi now aren't sci-fi in more than the absolute most surface level sense. They are neither futuristic adventures nor do they posit any real possibilities for the future of technology or science beyond maybe being set in the near future with holograms and whatnot. Any futurism is not even window dressing in most modern anime.

I still think about how Gundam remains actually focused on the themes of people having adapted to space and then the way warfare works in a world that forces combat into closer ranges due to technological reasons (which are a bit bullshit and are mostly an excuse to have mobile suits not get instantly fucked by a salvo of BVR missiles, but it still ends up being interesting).

>>7
Do you have any recommendations for recent scifi?

What have you been listening to recently? Post recommendations, favourite denpa artists. Let's All Love Akiba-Pop!

https://youtu.be/rw3YnH9SAto

>>9
anon pls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denpa_song

Alright OP, what do you think of my entry level Denpa Musics?

https://youtu.be/Ozs079hRq8c - Francium Nantoka-P
https://youtu.be/kuNixp-wvWM - 'FUKKIRETA' (wasn't this one of the earliest denpa musics?)

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this band is actually pretty cool

https://youtu.be/JIZQO3z4Rj0?si=bywPzuCgg-O08apl

check out asahidenpa dot net.

it's an internet radio station. very cool!

>>13
Nice. Added it to my dedicated portable music playing rectangle.

theres only a few anime that i really enjoyed, nge, lain, cowboy bepop, ghibli, satoshi kon, but when i try to watch other stuff i find it kiddy and annoying.

i was watching cyberpunk edgerunners and i did not care about the characters at all, it was all cool hacker kids being edgy, i watched aot and dropped it because eren is loud and annoying, the fight scenes were alright but you had to watch 20 min of screaming kids to get to them. i guess i like more "adult" themes in anime, stuff like nge deals with serious themes of abandonment and not living up to your potential, lain deals with finding comfort in online spaces when you are a loner, etc, theres only so much super powered anime boy beating up monsters i can watch. i just cant relate with most of the anime fandom. does anyone else feel like this? what animes should i watch instead?

>>4
chatgpt response

>>4
chatgpt response

I relate as well. Thank you OP for the list of anime you've already seen and enjoyed, it is appreciated.

Just watch what you like and don't watch what you don't like uhhh be willing to try new things but I mean don't force yourself to trog though some shit you hate lmao (rest off this is off topic but) I've noticed a lot online, that like "media consumption" has became some sort of status symbol and I felt like it kinda puts the feeling of needing to like certain things regardless of actually enjoying it or not

I feel similarly, but when an anime is good, it's really good. It's a mix of genres: some of my favorites are One Piece (watched since I was a kid) and more recently the film adaptation for Blue Giant. As a medium itself, anime is a good art style. It can seem like there's not stuff out there that's good because otaku culture tends to highlight certain genres more heavily, but from what I've seen, there really is something for everybody.

Youre a NEET, so you have plenty of free time. RenPy is free. You can surely figure out how to draw crude sprites.
...Well, anon? What are you waiting for? It'll be fun, and it'll give you something to focus on!

>>20
is it Escape from Wormwood? That one feels quite Denpa.
https://nomnomnami.itch.io/escape-from-wormwood

hello chad gpt make me a visual novel like Everlasting Summer + Saki Sanobaski

Osaka just died on his own. Disregard the marks on his neck, they're from a forest critter. Might as well eat him at this point.

I can draw and code but never practiced writing that much, I hope to meet someone I can collaborate with one day.

>>23
Wrong thread. Cool it with the parasocial cannibal remarks anyway.

Currently working on my own vn tbh. It’s fun.

do you like 2d men?

>>9
I love Reg! He's such a delightful metalniggger!!! I love how cute and easily flustered he is, and also how he's willing to put his insecurities aside to protect the people he loves! I want to kiss him gently and make him feel safe from all the ills of his terrible world!!!!

I like both 2-D and 3-D men. My first introduction to manga was when my highschool boyfriend loaned me Gravitation.

2d men :%3. I've recently enjoyed 'hoeru innu to kubittake' perhaps this is more appropriate for the vn thread but i wonder if any denpas have recs for vn's with good boys. I've recently acquired copies of 'Lucky Dog 1' and 'Alice in the Country of Hearts', though have barely read anything of these. I may report on my opinions when I've read more.

>>16

perhaps this is more appropriate for the vn thread but i wonder if any denpas have recs for vn's with good boys

what sort of boys do you like? also, can you read in japanese?

>>16
if youre alright with a very story-heavy visual novel, id strongly recommend slow damage. the story is fucking excellent - truly a riveting ride. the boys are designed in very cool and alluring way too, as is common with nitro+chiral games. it's probably my favorite yaoi visual novel out there. in a similar vein, i'd recommend sweet pool, saihate station and room no. 9.
your turn to die, omori and the okegom games have my favorite boys, but theyre not yaoi visual novels.

just started dipping my toes into hololive! normie pick, but i really love korones vibes. whos your favorite girl? any recommended english sub channels?

>>2
Old but, this guy watches still watches vtubers. Watch that Rukia video, he was fine with it in the end too.
The JAV video is old and most of the takes in it are admittedly dumb. JAV(tm) is regulated. listen to someone that has actually worked in the industry like June Lovejoy. It's more about otaku purity testing from someone that didn't keep up to it. Cool presentation though.
ENtubers are shit it's like watching a dub for moe anime or something. Worst are the ones that try to pander to the reddit/4chan(then eventually have to back down lol)/xitter audience like Shondo, the one that sang moonman on 8chan or Pippa. It's fun reading about them and their alogs thoughever.

>>21
nyanners? pretty sure that was on 4chan. she very much predates "vtubing", altho now that vtubing exists her content has become much less interesting.
if gradeAunderA popped up today would people consider him a vtuber?
is there a difference between pngtuber and vtuber?
is every vlog channel just a vtube channel with photorealistic models?

>>22
It was on the chans YEARS AGO. People commisioned all kinds of shit like pomp pomf and moonman song, then later would edit her avatar singing these. I don't really get how western Vtubers have loliavatars and pander to lolicon while still somehow moralfagging over it. I said alogs but it's more like their white knights, rev says desu and some really obscure ones there was one called crocodile something that was formerly associated with Dick Masterson and Da Sektur.
gradeAunderA lost relevance after he stopped releasing content consistently and has been replaced by a plethora of channels with atleast a similar animation? style like Sam O'Nella Academy for pophistory and recently Maruhi Academy with Japan centric content,some pophistory, some language though his recommended language learning methods aren't as advanced as AJATT and are more riajuu-centric. He also perpetuates some old bullshit like how you'll learn to speak like an anime character from watching anime and doesn't know about modern immersion methods and software.
There's nothing wrong with the language videos themselves but you aren't gonna learn anything without large amounts of language exposure and discouraging people from their preferred way of immersion isn't gonna contribute to that. Of course you'd supplement with some YouTube/Podcasts/TV and make a distinctions about how normal people speak but you aren't gonna be able to do that if you don't even know what they're saying. Some people also only learn Japanese to be able to read and listen to more otaku media not to speak it.
I don't think any of those are considered VTubers and neither are classic animation youtubers which these could go under.

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is every vlog channel just a vtube channel with photorealistic models?

Yes.

If you watch vtubers you're unironically a cuckold