Sounds perfectly period accurate to me, honestly. Almost all classic anime is cheesy and full of what have now become overused tropes. I will enjoy checking this one out.

Well, I hope the anime has an art style that looks like this and also isnt a fully 3d animated work. Trigun’s new art style was a big disappointment for me.

I didn’t even make it all the way through the first paragraph and that’s time reading an article I wish I could have back. I don’t like NFTs or crypto either, but I don’t make hating it my entire personality. Sheesh.

Whichever one looks most interesting to you. Only you can answer that.

I believe the PS2 hardware was weaker than the GameCube on a technical level, but the Xbox was absolutely way more powerful. Nintendo should have had the home field advantage though, given the popularity of the Nintendo brand. The GameCube should have sold well, especially since it was cheaper than a PS2 or Xbox, but it didn’t.

Yet again, the Japanese displaying a clear misunderstanding or willful ignorance of the positive effects of piracy on business and consumption.

If you target piracy, your product becomes harder to get or find, discoverability goes down especially among people that cannot afford to buy it, then you lose even more money since people that could maybe afford only some avanues of paying for your product are now priced out of the products entirely. This happens all the time.

The GameCube is my favorite example. It was hard to pirate games for. Unsurprisingly, the console sold really, really badly in South East Asia. At the same time, PS2 and Xbox both used normal disks, and consequently, since games could be pirated easily, those consoles outsold the GameCube in South East Asia. Nintendo was a victim of their own hubris, their attempt to reduce piracy literally meant they got outsold by their competitors. This is not a unique experience, this continues to happen again and again.

Chuuni Megumin… So… Just Megumin? Lol.

Well, assuming that a modern remake or continuation can manage to recapture the magic of the original and retain its style:

Bubblegum Crisis (NOT Tokyo 2040)

The Turtle Arc really hurt this one. Glad its past that, I look forward to seeing what happens.

Love the visual style of this one.

For the interested:

Not that Mononoke. The newer one.

Bro gave End of Evangelion a 1/5 💀 Maybe try the Rebuild movies, they have a happier ending than End of Eva. Mononoke-hime is peak though.

But checking on the rest of your list, here are a few others of ranging quality:

• Claymore - Serious dark fantasy, basically a show that follows Witcher women that hunt monsters.

• Black Lagoon - Sometimes serious, sometimes comedy, follows a boring office kid on an adventure with a rag tag group of criminals

• Bubblegum Crisis (the original OVA series) - Peak 1980s Cyberpunk anime, basically Power Rangers but armored women vs androids called Boomers. Shame its only 8 episodes. The Tokyo 2040 remake was mid, the story was a little better but the art style and theme style was pretty much trashed compared to the original

• Full Metal Panic - Sometimes serious, sometimes comedy, follows a PMC agent assigned to protect a young girl, features mecha

• Jin-Roh - Very serious war time style movie, set in an alternate timeline where Nazi Germany conquered and occupies Japan, follow an elite counterterrorism officer and his struggle between love and country. Lots of symbolism with Little Red Riding Hood in the story

• Record of Lodoss War - Peak 90s Dark Fantasy anime. Like, the daddy of almost all modern fantasy anime with a gold standard art style to match, seriously don’t skip this one

Overlord is amazing, but definitely a very different vibe from Apothecary Diaries, despite being in the same fantasy genre.

I think I would say this happened to me once when I went from watching Coffin Princess Chaika to Skeleton Knight in Another World.

Like your experience, Chaika and Skeleton Knight are both fantasy themed anime, but boy was the beginning of EP1 of Skeleton Knight uncomfortable. I mean, it was like that on purpose, and it obviously achieved what it was trying to accomplish, but I think that that type of opening would have been better if they showed a whole lot less than they did (which was still basically nothing, by the way). Goblin Slayer had a shocking opening, but it gave a good reason to the viewer why goblins would be hated, and made goblins a justifiably evil villain for the show. Skeleton Knight on the other hand, could probably have gone without the opening and would have been fine as the rest of the show doesn’t ever really match that intensity.

Chaika was a mostly fun show, with an easy to follow plot. Skeleton Knight, while also easy to follow and a mostly fun plot, had massive whiplash from its opening episode, at least IMO. I am not a thin-skinned person, and while I don’t necessarily feel good or comfortable with certain onscreen actions, I do think that they can be used to enhance a story, depending on context and presentation. But in Skeleton Knight, it didnt really add anything, it just left me wondering for the rest of the entire show “why did they chcoose to open the show like that, was that a shock style marketing attempt?”

I hope its better than the Turtle Arc. S3 was a good turn though, so I am sure it will be much better.

That is certainly one of the anime titles of all time.

These were great. Bubblegum Crisis and its related proprties are peak cyberpunk superhero anime, IMO. It doesn’t get better than that.

I recommend starting with BGC 2033 (the original OVAs) first. Tokyo 2043 lost the style and character of the original. Crash is a cool sequel that unfortunately went ultimately unfinished due to legal problems.

Don’t forget to check out Parasite Dolls!

What most people actually object to is a large corporation spending countless resources to vacuum up public data in order to create a privately controlled model.

I am curious how and why this seems to be viewed differently when it comes to something like proprietary code.

For example, there are large swaths of publicly available repos of code. Some are licensed under restrictive licenses, and some are public domain. Many are hosted on the Internet, and many more are written in educational books and other such materials you can find in your local library. If a business, large or small, references publicly available information to create its own proprietary code which itself does not contain any actual instances of infringing code (just as AI training data files do not contain any actual images and therefore no actual infringing data), why is that considered okay? It is extremely rare for completely new, original code to be written especially when a publicly available, well known method already exists. Why re-invent the wheel?

What I mean is, are the people that feel the way you have written upset when they see any project, from any business, large or small, that referenced anything that is publicly available? Are they upset that the names of all the references are not listed in the credits of every project ever? What is their problem with this? Does it matter whether a business that does that has 1000 employees or just 1, since the outcome is more or less the same?

Additionally, nothing prevents private citizens from doing the exact same thing themselves. A person can go along vacuuming up publicly available data to train a model only they have access to. Would those that you talk about object to that as well?

Hm. Not sure how I feel about a company treating an artstyle like it’s their own legally protectable trademark or intellectual property.

I think the specific IP they have created can be their own to protect, but not the style of artwork. Just like the art style that was popularized by Blizzard’s earlier titles that were later copied in other games (such as Paladins), the artstyle alone should not be enough to initiate legal action.

When it comes to AI, I can understand people being concerned about “unauthorized use” of training data (which honestly, how is that any different from a human artist seeing an artstyle and creating art inspired by that). At the same time, this could easily be avoided by training data made by artists that mimic the artstyle of Ghibli. If OpenAI hired artists to create artwork that is not of Ghibli property but has the same or very similar artstyle of Ghibli, nobody should have a problem with that. But I have a feeling Ghibli would complain anyway.

Maybe a movie?

Okay, but I mean, what was the competition?

Snow White?

Like, Princess Mononoke is one of my favorite films, but it was bound to be a success guaranteed if its competition was literal garbage.