Death Stranding Director's Cut - Kojima's post-apocalyptic deliveryman simulator

[cvv]

Souless, lacking a single drop of whimsy and childlike joy.

In other words, adult.

The Japanese are not a philosophical race.

Older Jap movies like 7 Samurai, Ran, Rashomon and many others are wonderfully adult, thoughtful, serious. Same for books, with authors like Murakami or Ishiguro. Even older anime stuff like Ghost in the Shell or GitS: Innocence are very serious, mature movies. The Japs used to be very serious, masculine, properly stoic race.

It's only in the last 20 years everything Japanese degraded into the most juvenile, infantile retardery and modern Jap authors who grew up in this culture are no longer able to even conceive anything deeper or more serious than Pokemon. And with nuAnime popularity skyrocketing in the West I'm guessing that's what awaits us too. In a decade or so playing as 5 year olds with squeaky voices are all we're gonna get in our RPGs.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

In other words, adult.

Hope I never become one...

 

[Latelistener]

Older Jap movies like 7 Samurai, Ran, Rashomon and many others are wonderfully adult, thoughtful, serious. Same for books, with authors like Murakami or Ishiguro. Even older anime stuff like Ghost in the Shell or GitS: Innocence are very serious, mature movies. The Japs used to be very serious, masculine, properly stoic race.

It's only in the last 20 years everything Japanese degraded into the most juvenile, infantile retardery and modern Jap authors who grew up in this culture are no longer able to even conceive anything deeper or more serious than Pokemon. And with nuAnime popularity skyrocketing in the West I'm guessing that's what awaits us too. In a decade or so playing as 5 year olds with squeaky voices are all we're gonna get in our RPGs.

Kojima himself was upset about an overabundance of shy protagonists and blamed Evangelion for this.

However, we only recently got a proper Devilman anime adaptation, so I'm not sure what you're talking about. There are plenty of great anime and manga creators, many works of which can be considered as "wonderfully adult, thoughtful, serious".

And The Ghost in the Shell you're mentioning is not even truthful to the original portrayal of Kusanagi:

Spoiler

 

[cvv]

There are plenty of great anime and manga creators, many works of which can be considered as "wonderfully adult, thoughtful, serious".

Citation sorely needed my man.

 

[911 Jumper]

 

[Latelistener]

There are plenty of great anime and manga creators, many works of which can be considered as "wonderfully adult, thoughtful, serious".

Citation sorely needed my man.

You know, there weren't many works on the level of GitS back then either. From famous movie directors Satoshi Kon comes to mind and Makoto Shinkai. The former died 15 years ago at 46, so Paprika would be his last work and his Dreaming Machine was never finished. Hayao Miyazaki is also still making movies, although every time he says it's his last one.

If we're talking about other creators, I'm personally fond of Tsutomu Nihei (Blame!, Knights of Sidonia), Q Hayashida (Dorohedoro, Dai Dark), Gen Urobuchi (Madoka, Psycho-Pass), Ryukishi07 (Umineko, also writes the new Silent Hill F) and Masaaki Yuasa (Devilman, his studio is also making a new GitS anime).

I'm sure you can find all the popular hyped anime titles by yourself, i.e. Steins; Gate, Frieren, Devilman or Madoka.

If we're talking about less mainstream titles, I've been impressed with Rakugo, Summertime Rendering, Dorohedoro, Odd Taxi, 86 and Akudama Drive.

 

[ind33d]

Bought this game on day 1 back in the day and it was about being a uber eats delivery driver and you made bombs out of piss and poo to throw at monsters. The nigger Hideo Kojima has completely lost the plot, he went bonkers. Overdosed on tranny cum probably.

death stranding is probably the first game in history that's better if you skip all the dialogue and cutscenes

 

[cvv]

I'm sure you can find all the popular hyped anime titles by yourself, i.e. Steins; Gate, Frieren, Devilman or Madoka.

You seem to know your shit, problem is I've had many recommendations for great modern anime from people who seemed to know their shit over the years and I've been always disappointed (except with the Vinland Saga, I've loved that one). All those Narutos and One Pieces and Attacks on Titan and Cowboy Beepops and Evangelions left me deleting the torrent after one or two episodes.

As far as the the most famous roster is concerned, I haven't seen Guts and Cyberpunk yet. I'll check your stuff too.

 

[Latelistener]

You seem to know your shit, problem is I've had many recommendations for great modern anime from people who seemed to know their shit over the years and I've been always disappointed (except with the Vinland Saga, I've loved that one). All those Narutos and One Pieces and Attacks on Titan and Cowboy Beepops and Evangelions left me deleting the torrent after one or two episodes.

As far as the the most famous roster is concerned, I haven't seen Guts and Cyberpunk yet. I'll check your stuff too.

To each his own. I personally enjoyed Bebop very much (the movie is also great), but I didn't mention it because it's old (we were talking about last 20 years or so) and quite known at this point. Shingeki no Kyojin starts off as your typical shonen manga / anime and the fact that it's so hyped can be off putting, but it gets more mature and dark especially towards the end.

However, if you've enjoyed Vinland Saga, you'll probably also like Orb: On the Movements of the Earth and Monster.

 

[911 Jumper]

>White woman dances like a possessed African.
>Hideo Kojima: “I want her in my game.”

 

[ItsChon]

>White woman dances like a possessed African.
>Hideo Kojima: “I want her in my game.”

Margraet Qualley is hot af so it's fine.

Note: Never played this game and don't plan to.