As is customary of older anime, be aware most if not all of these contain any of the following: graphic violence, graphic nudity, high amounts of foul language. In other words, its probably not for your grandma or your living room TV.

Bubblegum Crisis (DO NOT start with Tokyo 2040, start with the original OVA first, it has better aesthetics and art) is always a recommendation from me. Along with the related series Bubblegum Crash, AD Police Files, Parasite Dolls, and A.D. Police: To Protect and Serve.

Armitage III has a cyberpunk aesthetic but on Mars, the story isn’t perfect but it’s interesting enough. The original, not the movie with Kiefer Sutherland which is just the OVAs cut down into a movie.

Dominion Tank Police was a fun series.

Goku Midnight Eye is all attitude and little substance. I really liked it, but don’t watch it expecting an intricate plot. Its just entertainment, not more. But its cool entertainment.

Cyber City Oedo 808 is another one that isnt that deep but oozes pure classic cyberpunkium.

Since GKIDS is an American company formed in 2008, you have to consider what the average American in 2008 thought about anime. And for the 99% of them, “animes are cartoons, and cartoons are for children.” The company was also formed by someone that ran the International Children’s Film Festival. So that explains that.

Ironically, in Japan, there isn’t much of a distinction between anime and cartoons. They’re both called anime, which is just short for animation or animated work. So for the Japanese, Tetsujin 28, Berserk, Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, and Shrek are all “anime.”

GKIDS is currently owned by Japanese film giant Toho.

Let’s be real, are any of them honest? You know the answer.

Anime used to be multiple pictures of a piece of plastic with paint on it

So the inspiration is they made it yellow and made the dial hands look a little like gauges?

Maybe when the person was young they did something and they are older and have proven to not be a repeat offender? Rare case, I know, but still possible.

To me it just sounds like a legal out to say any or all of them are deemed ethically unacceptable so they can fire them without legal issues. Japan has whack employment laws, and businesses will almost always try to make you quit before they fire you. I can see this wording being related to something like that.

Very Kenichi Sonoda looking to me.

Seeing behind the curtain doesn’t bother me. Actually, I almost prefer when it happens because I can usually guess how something will go before I waste more time on it if I won’t like it.

Hope it keeps the original art style.

Larry Niven mentioned

Uh… Three?

Why are there two cursors?

Def Leppard also noted that piracy usually leads to fans that pay more than people that don’t pirate at all.

For many, people can’t afford to just spend what might be a lot to them right now for something they don’t know if they will like it or not. Its a risk not worth the cost, and not every library has every new book/manga/movie/music album/video game/etc. Since most of these don’t have adequate “demos” for them to try out, they either:

A) Don’t buy it ever B) Pirate it

The ones that pirate might find out they actually like the thing, and when their fortunes turn around they end up being the biggest spenders that shareholders dream about. Is every pirate that way? No of course not. Most pirates download the data just because they can with no intent of ever buying it (IE, NOT a lost sale). But a sizable number of them go on to spend more than they would have if they didn’t pirate.

I will throw myself under the bus and admit this about myself. NieR Automata. I heard positive things about it, but at the time it was a lot of money for me to risk if I didn’t like the game. When it got cracked I pirated the game and played it. Loved the game.

Loved the game so much I bought it on Steam (at full price). Then I bought it on Xbox. Three times, twice as gifts for other people. Then I bought 2 gift copies on PS4. Then I bought NieR 2010 on the Xbox store. Then I imported a Japanese copy of NieR Gestalt. Then I pre-ordered the White Snow edition of the 1.22 remake. I even spent money on the mobile gacha game NieR Reincarnation (which was actually a fun game, I will add). I even bought copies of the Drakengard games to play those. And I eagerly await another chance to buy another Yoko Taro game. I don’t even like Square Enix. I just like Yoko Taro’s games and I want more of them.

All because I pirated one copy. That’s 12+ sales from a single vector of piracy. That’s a shareholder’s wet dream. They don’t realize I am only that way because piracy allowed me to take a risk on an experience I didn’t know I would like or not. By taking away my opportunity to play the game at no cost of risk, they eliminate people like me that turn into 12+sales from a single vector of piracy.

But I suppose they wouldn’t be businessmen if they weren’t bending over thousands to pinch pennies.

Hm, interesting.

I love how they estimate every instance of piracy as a lost sale. Like oh, you can guarantee that every person pirating your content would have bought it if they couldn’t pirate it? No? Then its not a lost sale.

IDK, “this years ceremony” could just mean they did it this year and not the other years. Just curious as to whether there was any significance or not.

Is there a reason they waited seven years to do this?

I mean, I do have mine in VLC set to yellow, but I was talking about the subtitles that people who are trying to be legal goodboys see on the big streaming platforms, and the ones that used to get cooked in the video starting in the late 00s.

I miss the yellow subtitle days. Easily readable. The white ones they use now are more difficult to read because the outline they use either is a shadow only, or is not dark or think enough to make a difference.

Reading the title, I thought this was going to be about lost media.