Cuteness enjoyer.
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2·3 days agoShe certainly is very alive, even though she is a robot.
2·4 days agoI’ve been meaning to read more but it’s been a little hard. Maybe I’ll take your recommendation and read The Old Capital. In English, I’m afraid. My Japanese is way not good enough to get into literature unfortunately.
This is what makes Japanese literature so meditative and beautiful.
It does seem Japanese media does have more of this as well. I don’t know of any western media that is similar to Iyashikei anime. It could very well exist though, I just haven’t come across it.
3·4 days agoYea but so pretty lol.
You have reported this post (I cannot reply directly to reports). This one is slightly complicated. The main relevant rules are “No NSFW” and “No lewdness”. I don’t think it directly breaks any rules. It is SFW: we don’t see anything we shouldn’t see. Is it lewd? The situation seems more like “dummy Tsukasa is clumsy again” then a lewd situation. Important factors are the fact that no one is behind her or other context to make it lewd and that we don’t have a dodgy camera angle. Things like that would definitely change my judgement. I do understand the concern though just by the skirt lift being present. But I don’t think it has a porn like quality though, as your report mentions.
According to downvotes here it is controversial. According to danbooru it rated G. I have seen this picture before on danbooru. Not quite my vibe, sure, but neither something I will remove. Another consideration with things like this is: is the picture any worse than what the show itself contains? I have been watching some episodes lately, and it’s kinda more sus than I remember. Certainly it has scenes that are way more sus than this. I do usually keep my communities a little cleaner than the source material though, but we can’t be more holy than the pope so to say.
@jlow@slrpnk.net: you may always bring your concerns but please mind your way of bringing them (referring to your comment), and don’t accuse beyond reason (referring to your report). Please assume the good faith of your fellow man in your questions. e.g. “Isn’t this a bit lewd?” would be a perfect way to start a discussion and show your concerns. Note that I don’t mind that you wrote a report, that is fine.
@kiri@ani.social: remember that this community is one of the purest there is when it comes to anime and has a certain audience for which anything even possibly relating to any lewdness is immediately controversial. We don’t want people to feel that there is no anime place to go if they wish to not see anything lewd/sus.
As the anime dad of this house I impart on you that we don’t ignore anyone’s concerns but we also don’t judge with haste nor exaggeration.
I wouldn’t say absolutely zero drama: in ep 2 Aika and Akira have a pretty ugly fight for example. But ARIA really knows how to resolve things in that soft and gentle way. Suteki!
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Like in ARIA?
- slow pace
- cute girls
- chibi art style
- aesthetic environments
- very little action
- very few serious stakes
- thin or nonexistent plot
- every episode ends on a good note
- no cliffhangers
- soothing music
- cute voices
- characters with a soft voice
- random shots of environments and objects in between
- shots where almost nothing moves or happens (think non non biyori veranda scene)
- singing and music by characters
- tradition
- interconnected social structure
- lots of hugs and snuggles and head pats etc
- tangible love between characters (of any kind)
- lots of conversation
- daily life / relatable activities
- down to earth (not too unrealistic) but with a slight element of mysticism / unexplained magic (think gochiusa’s tippy)
- cute clothes that are plausible as everyday wear
- environmental sounds
- day nights cycle / passing of the day / daily routine
- lots of golden hour
- lots of moe
Singed, your local SOL/CGDCT/Iyashikei weirdo.
1·9 days agoComfy vibes 🥰
K-ON is certainly made for men but notably it is very popular among women. This is kinda rare for CGDCT. Maybe it has to do with the female director giving it a certain touch that resonates with women.
The appeal of CGDCT is not singular. Innocence is certainly a part of why girls are chosen. But also, it needs to be cute and to most only girls are cute. Neither is the innocence universally applied and there are often not so innocent girls included in the cast. For example Konata in Lucky Star says some really not innocent things yet she is a popular moe character.
In the end, dudes rather looking at girls than at guys is still an important factor I think. Somehow being straight makes you like girls more even if you are not romantically or sexually attracted to those girls.
Aaah Asobi Asobase. My favorite moment is Fujiwara speaking broken Japanese and then awakening her kobun. And quite an interesting colour palette the show has.
Because cars are quite complex and they move around they are time consuming and expensive to animate. Especially if a car turns and rotates relative to the camera, that is quite the job. They also are an object with familiar geometry so it needs to look correct and consistent, unlike character heads and faces for which we accept a lot of artistic liberty to be taken.
It comes down to some options:
- draw it well (takes a lot of resources)
- CGI but integrated very well by tracing over it by hand (also expensive)
- draw it using reasonable resources (probably won’t turn out very well)
- CGI but don’t redraw each frame (CGI will jump out as being CGI)
I remember the first episode of Non Non Biyori. Beautiful intro, one of my favorite introduction moments. The only thing that takes me out of it a bit are those ugly ass CGI cars lol. They really stand out!
For an example of good car animation? I don’t watch much things with cars in it but in Lucky Star episode 6 it starts off well. They are either drawn or CGI that is traced over. When the initial D parody starts, the outside of it is clearly CGI, but the inside is drawn/traced. When you see the camera panning around the car, you can see that it would take a lot of time to trace each frame to make it blend into the art style and background. Maybe the CGI look has to do with the anime they are referencing, I didn’t watch it.
3·14 days agoI got Yui, my favorite character.
Omg they’re even bigger than the Haruhi plushies from last month. And that girl gets to pose with all of them. I think they have outgrown her lol.
Lovely dress 🥰. Relatively simple, cute, elegant and feminine. Unfortunately not at all a popular style.
2·22 days agoI like when hair is expressive like the ahoge and odango.
Ah yea, I do like michishirube!
I don’t remember what happened exactly anymore when they weave in the main story but I remember it being quite touching. I also love the ending theme and its music video on YT. It definitely reveals things not revealed in the main series so definitely a must watch for fans indeed.
I almost only watch comfort anime… So all my favorite CGDCT and Iyashikei anime.
Given that I just let a shipping company extort me just so that I could have the complete ARIA vinyl collection I’m gonna have to say ARIA for me 😅.
Gintama is also a great choice! It such a diverse anime and the OST reflects that. I love listening to it as well! Picking a favorite is hard but I think it is 昔の友人が変わらずにいるというのも悪くないものだな… It’s very OG and has such an wholesome bittersweet sensation to it. Gintama has a lot of bittersweet and I love that. Life is bittersweet after all. My favorite character theme is probably Madao’s theme.