I don’t listen to pop music much but hip hop has been popular in Korea for a long time now. Same with neighboring East Asian and Southeast Asian countries. I guess they’re just not nearly as popular overseas but they’re mainstream enough locally you’ll hear it wherever you go.

edit: Other than music, hip hop dance and fashion was pretty popular too at least when I was in high school.

Neon Genesis Evangelion. I remember reading somewhere that every anime since NGE is just a spin-off of NGE lol

Kind of reminds me of “Class of 09”.

Oh boy I have a lot but the one that stands out is Paprika. It’s the only Satoshi Kon film I haven’t seen. I don’t know when I’m ready to watch it yet.

I was expecting a Dan Da Dan sweep but it was a Frieren sweep all along! Congrats to the winners in !manga@ani.social and !lightnovels@ani.social too!

Thank you for organizing the events @wjs018@ani.social and @NineSwords@ani.social!

You can use LibRedirect to redirect to invidious or piped

Yeah I think Stevem makes clickbaity titles too. His anime director video series are titled “THE [DIRECTOR’S NAME] PROBLEM” which made me hestitant to watch. But after watching the Love & Pop segment in his Hideaki Anno video, I realized he does his research surprisingly well.

Actually he does mention Deedlit (Record of Lodoss War) a lot throughout the video. He mentions Wizardy in the beginning too.

Got it! Get lots of sleep, it’s New Year soon!

Yup. Baka (stupid) -> baagaa (burger)

あんたバーガー

I’m dead.

But this smile brought me back to life.

Merry Christmas to you too!

Beautiful. I love Moshimoshibe’s art.

Done! Sorry, I didn’t see it.

This is a cool idea. I pinned the thread to local so hopefully more people see it!

Seitokai Yakuindomo

Comedy 4 koma

The article title is… something.

It’s not just anime but every non-American film industry and culture is under-represented in the Academy Awards. There’s a lot of good movies put out by other regions but because the Academy Awards has a small segment called “Foreign Films”, naturally you’ll have so many countries competing for a spot there.

Because of this, I wouldn’t rely on the Academy Awards to decide what movies are “best”. I also wouldn’t say that “film is dead” even if anime (or any other non-American film industry) doesn’t get a nomination. Saying something like that is absurd because it implies that film is defined by Oscar nominations somehow.

I was going through some of Anno’s older works and found this gem. He also made an Ultraman fan film with him as Ultraman.