/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Did 4chan die again.

>>2538432,1
Fucking DDoSes.

Do people have nothing better to do with their botnets?

>>2538432,2
It's /po/'s fault. They're up to something!

>>2538432,2
It's probably AnonTalk again. Every time /b/tards get fed up with that fucking site spamming their board, they attack AT and that triggers this. Currently it seems both sides are in stalemate, this little war has been going on for over a year with no end in sight.

>>2538432,4
That's just sad.

Should we just use iichan/wakachan or something?

This looks like it will happen daily, so a backup board is a good idea.

>>2538432,6
Why not use the ghost board? It's not like pictures are required. Used imageshack if you really want them.

>>2538432,7
Well, we're doing it right now, aren't we?

>>2538432,7
Some people really detest the ghost board for some reason.

I don't know why, it's not particularly good, but it's not particularly bad either.

>>2538432,9
It's the same thing as the normal board.

The ghost board is easy to use, but not being able to make threads or images is a bit of a problem.

Either way, I don't care, I just want to discuss my touhoes and VNs.

>>2538432,8
Even though the post rate is too low for my liking, I'm staying here.

It's slow but working. Loads for me around 1/5 tries.

>>2538432,9
I think it's the higher tripfag concentration.

>>2538432,6
It's a sign to go out and get some stuff done for a few hours. Off to watch Nodame Cantabile, bye.

Although I'm a fan of using iichan in the event that /jp/ goes the same way /a/ did.

>>2538432,9
It's a small community so you can easily take it in its entirety. Read some posts, come back in an hour or two, make a post, etc...

I don't understand the hate for it myself, especially the people that think it's a way to hide your messages. Posts made here are even apparent than when they're made on /jp/.

But you can't start a new thread here.

>>2538432,17
Just search and bump an older thread. Are you saying you want to discuss something that was never discussed before?

>>2538432,17
You hijack old ones. Archived posts are darker so it's really easy to find fellow ghostmates.

>>2538432,17

You can just use one thread, or set one for VN discussion, one for Touhous, one for idols, whatever. Not that hard.

Depends how long this lasts though. Last time it was down for 7 hours before I went to bed.

>especially the people that think it's a way to hide your messages
Yeah, messages here are hard to miss, because you're bound to stumble across them. Even if you don't come here on purpose to check them, when a thread gets 404'd and you're searching for it on the archive, you're bound to find them.

>>2538432,20
Can we talk about Ayumi here?

This is now a Katawa Shoujo thread.

>>2538432,22
Why not?

>Being hungry loses my patient.
>Exact same routine happened many times.
>I wonder how people release their frustration.
>my mind doesn't focus now.
I'm worried.

>>2538432,23
KS is awesome just because of Kenji.

>>2538432,25
I like it because in almost every route Hisao finds something that makes him think that the conspiracy is probably true.

This is now a Clannad thread.

F/SN anime>F/SN manga>Fate Zero novel>F/SN VN

>>2538432,28
lol i trol u

>>2538432,28
I bet you liked the Tsukihime anime too.
Fag.

>>2538432,30
Whoa, I didn't know spoiler tags worked here.

>>2538432,31
All the tags that are supported on 4chan's text boards work here too.

Fag.

Lots of tags work here.

>>2538432,24
Which is weird, because she seems a lot perkier on her mails. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

>>2538432,32
4chan has text boards?

>>2538432,27
I finished the Kyou route and am disappointed.

This was a triumph.

>>2538432,34
I wish to read these mails, but confidentiality... ;_;

>Last Sunday, I had a good time playing with 4chan-kun. He was funny, as usual, but sometimes he tried to knock me down and call me names. He has a good heart, though. The secret is to remember that 4chan-kun has very bad breath and it's good to ignore him when he opens his mouth too wide. ^_^

Can you at least tell me what this part is about?

I'm making a note here, huge success.

They should really have made tags like that usable in the 4chan imageboards to begin with.

It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

Aperture science.

We do what we must, because, we can.

For the good of all of us except the ones who are dead.

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>>2538432,43
Excuse me, but what are you doing, Anonymous?

>>2538432,40
Just imagine the expert BBCode spam in /jp/...

I find it funny that people don't get angry as easily in here.

Is there something about 4chan that makes us all angry?

>>2538432,45
OP pic has an orange box.

>>2538432,45
I wish we had at least aa tags. No Japanese SJIS Art in /jp/ makes me sad.

Population density. Country folk tend to be very relaxed.

>>2538432,38
She didn't like anonymous trying to get her personal information. Or being called a viral marketing attention whore.

I guess I can tell you this. I told her about Free Comic Book Day yesterday, and she gave it a try. She had fun there, and got some of the comics we recommended.

>>2538432,50
What's free comic book day?

>>2538432,46
We're all here only because we're so addicted to 4chan that we have to find some sort of substitute when it's down. Therefore, those of us who are bitter about how bad it's become aren't here, so there's a lot less trolling.

>>2538432,46
Our motto is "Take it easy". Even as shitstorms rage, we can try to take a step back and say "I must take it easy".

>>2538432,52
No, there's really something about 4chan that makes people angry. In other places, I read people saying stuff that would make me flame them hard if they said it on /jp/, but I don't bother otherwise.

>>2538432,51
http://www.freecomicbookday.com/
Once a year, most comic book shops in America give away free issues. Discounts on Trade Paperbacks too, so you can jump into a series.
It's a way to get into american comics easily. We at /co/ enjoy the spirit of the event, and have a good time.

>>2538432,54
Touhou is one of the worst rail shooters I have ever played.

>>2538432,56
See? Not the same.

>>2538432,55
Gah, I missed it... orz
Since we're on the topic, what are some good comics? The ones I tried at the book store either were too busy (the art) or was in the middle of something ongoing (the serials).

>>2538432,54
It's kind of the opposite for me. Whenever I see someone raving about how Naruto is the greatest thing to ever come out of Japan outside of 4chan, I assume their serious and rage like the fist of the north star. If it's on 4chan, I assume they're a troll, and hide the thread.

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>>2538432,54
Hey, you're right, what the hell? I don't feel anger at all. There's something weird about this.

/v/ here, you're all fags. Go play your shit VNs while I play well written AMERICAN RPGs like Devil Kings.

>>2538432,60
Maybe it's because we know everyone here is a bro while on the actual board....

>>2538432,45
ITT ^EX_PE_RT ^B_BCODE PROGRAMMERS ?

>>2538432,54
Actually, my moe goggles are on 11 when I'm on /jp/ so I'm generally in a fluffy mood.

>>2538432,59
Even when I stumble across Youtube-quality crap on the Internet, I just think "wow, that's sad." Can't really get angry over it.

who is that Ayumi?

I sure do love a good circlejerk.

This place is shit; it goes way too slow and you can't even make threads.

It works great as an archive, it sucks as an imageboard.

>>2538432,61
See?

>>2538432,67
Don't let the images fool you. We're a textboard.

>>2538432,67
We know it's not an imageboard. We're only here because real 4chan is down and the /a/ ghost board is being inactive.

>>2538432,66
You're too late. I already claimed her.

>>2538432,68
How do you think you'd react to that one on 4ch?

>>2538432,71
Why can't we share?

>>2538432,67
It's not supposed to be an imageboard, it's supposed to be the place where you come bitch when your thread gets deleted. Or something.

I obviously prefer /jp/ (otherwise I wouldn't be here in the first place), I was just pointing out there's something about posting on 4chan that keeps you in a constant angry mood.

>>2538432,73
I'm not that type of person. Sorry.

>>2538432,72
A "Reported" followed by pure anger.

>>2538432,58
Depends on what you like. There's the standard superhero stuff, the short books that mess with superheros, and the indie stuff that it's just weird and diverse.

But it's always a good idea to go for the first TPB of a short finished series. Or self contained short stories.
Seeing your comment about the busy art, how about Batman - The Killing Joke?
It's a good introduction to Bats. And self contained too.
Superman Red Son is fine too. The Walking Dead, Transmetropolitan. Maus if you're up for artsy history.

>>2538432,74
I guess I know what you mean kinda.
I always feel weird revealing that I use ANY other site other than 4chan while on 4chan. As if I'll get some sort of irrational hateful reaction for it. Maybe it puts me a little on edge as well or something?

>>2538432,76
[quote]pure anger.[/quote]
Clearly lying.

Hey guys

PENIS

>>2538432,79
Ah, it doesn't work here. Hoho.

>>2538432,79
http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/7042/bbcodefail.gif

But there's no sense crying over every mistake
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

>>2538432,74
probably since theres no repercussions for pouring your anger on someone.

>>2538432,82
S-shut up!

>>2538432,77
TPB? By busy art, I mean pictures that make me feel like I'm looking at a 'where's waldo' panel with colors everyone. Extremely disorientating. Stuff like Junji Ito though, I like.

And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun
for the people who are still alive.

>>2538432,77


Going to suggest Blue Beetle.

>>2538432,84
That is part of what makes 4chan (good?)[citation needed]
The novelty is that it ends up being cliquey, in that if you don't share taste with the mainstream, you're called a newfag. My reasons initially for staying on (Note: I'm actually a secret /a/gent, only here because ghost /a/ is inactive) are that /a/ disapproves of the shonen series I hate the most, and we're allowed to call the people who like them what they are without so much as a warning. Other sites could and would ban you for "flaming."
Of course, if I were to learn of a forum that has no tolerance for Naruto/Bleach, I'd jump ship immediately.

>>2538432,88
But /a/ is long dead...

>>2538432,85
TPB -> Trade Paperback. A book compiling some issues in a way that it alone comprises a single arc of a given comic series.
Graphic Novel is a standalone book that starts and ends there. It's not part of a series.

Marvel and DC stuff will make you sick unless you get your brain rewired for it. But I think you will enjoy The Walking Dead. You like zombies, don't you?

>>2538432,89
Only because it has become the trend for one series to dominate every season. And people who like Naruto and Bleach have invaded and started whining that they aren't being accepted.

>>2538432,88
>only here because ghost /a/ is inactive
Ha, this is nothing new. They rarely use this board.

I just like /jp/ because it throws me into the fray without strings attached. No 'hello, my name is Dolor'-type things. Service without the formalities. Raging is tiring.

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>>2538432,91
I always smile and consider it a minor victory when One Piece isn't mentioned along with those two.

>>2538432,92
We were using it last night. Though, when we first learned of this site and it's "Tripfags by post amount" function, we all started raging. /a/ has an immense hatred of it's tripfags. Does /jp/?

>>2538432,90
Who doesn't? Post-apocalyptic or 'mission'-based?

>>2538432,94
Must be something new because it's been the assumption that /a/ rarely goes ghost. For /jp/, there's some discontent, but very rarely do I see >specific tripfag. The only time I see that happening is when some random tripfag from /a/ comes and are recognized by fellow postmates.

well I'm from /a/
but after playing Katawa Shoujo girls I guess I can the appeal of VNs.
perhaps I should look into more, any suggestions?

>>2538432,93
I do refer to "The big 3" sometimes, but only because they are all similarly popular and long running.
However, I still find it difficult to get into One Piece. Mostly because of length. Sometimes I'm tempted to make generalizations that include Bleach and Naruto, such as "All 100+ series are shit," but that also includes One Piece and LOTG, and that's just terrible. One Piece to a lesser degree than LOTG, but I still see a huge gap between the quality of Blearuto and One Piece.
On that note, I find it shocking when I see people revering Inuyasha in any way any more. Shocking, and terrifying. More so than any other series.

>>2538432,97
inb4 Fate/stay night

But seriously, it's mandatory.

>>2538432,97
Fellow /a/ here.
My first was Ace Attorney.
My second, still unfinished, is Fate
And I'm working on Katawa now. Also looking for more suggestions. Are there any like Gyakuten Saiban, that don't focus at all on romance or character routes?

>>2538432,97
Saya no Uta. It's nice and short

>>2538432,97
Did you the entire appeal? Was it dangerous?

>>2538432,46
It's normal to be an asshole on 4chan.
I rarely act any other way.

>>2538432,97
Well do you want plot or porn with plot?

If its the latter then Tsukihime and Saya no Uta are good starting places. For the former Umineko and Ever 17 are pretty much the only good ones translated so far.

>>2538432,95
Post-apocalyptic.
Everyone likes zombies.

>>2538432,100
Are the PW games even considered VNs? I think they are classified under adventure canonically speaking.

>>2538432,97
Ah, I can feel the bias kicking in. Better post before it gets worse. If you want something short and contained, go with either Planetarian or Saya no Uta. If you like the fluffy girl-specific, then go with Clannad. For sex, I love the X-Change series with Alt being my favorite (3 sucks).

>>2538432,102
I'd the entire appeal

>>2538432,97
Fate/stay night is considered starter, but if you can get past lower production values, Tsukihime is better. Although if you're looking for something more like KS, Clannad would be up your alley. All 3 of those are pretty long, so if you need something shorter Saya no Uta or Planetarian are worthwhile.

All of those are pretty basic /jp/ stuff, after that you might want to move on to Umineko, Kana, Phantom of Inferno, ect.

>>2538432,102
did I what the appeal?

I browse both /a/ and /jp/, and they both have their own, unique problems.

/a/ has too many people, which makes it too fast and lends to the spamming of one popular show (Gurren Lagann, Code Geass). /jp/ has too much /r9k/ meta discussion, and a lot of content nazis who think the board should only be for Touhou and TYPE-MOON.

>>2538432,106
What is a visual novel, really? Text with sprites and backgrounds. Whether it has routes or not differentiates as to what kind of VN it is, but basically they're the same kind of medium.

>>2538432,106
I think PW would be a adventure game, while something like RD would be a VN. Then again, Sumaga was called a ADV by it's creators, so I guess adventure is the broader category.

>>2538432,110
Her horns

>>2538432,113
>ADV
Adult Video Game? dunno

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>>2538432,115
ADV = adventure; NVL = novel.

>>2538432,100
Umineko maybe. Battler>Phoenix Wright. There is some romance, but it's not like bishoujo games where there are individual routes for different girls. There actually aren't routes at all.

>>2538432,106
Technically visual novels also fall under the "adventure game" category.

>>2538432,112
You know, a number of RPGs could be described like that. Unless you are suggesting that they are also VNs.

>>2538432,113
I just call them reading games. It's easier that way.

>>2538432,116
wat

>>2538432,121
It's Uboa from Dream Diary.

>>2538432,111
I may be biased, because I don't dislike either Code Geass or Gurren Lagann, but I only saw their domination as a problem during their airings. The bigger problem isn't that we have too many of one kind of thread, but that some people think wikibombing, sagebombing, and thread derailing is the way to cure /a/ of the "cancers" such as the classic Daily Yotsuba chapter or Aria chapter. Hell, even recently, someone has been sageing Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei threads. And that's just terrible.

I prefer /jp/ over /a/, since /a/ tends to rage about everything and there's too much /b/ shit and tripfag drama.

Not to say that /jp/ doesn't freak out at every little thing either.

>>2538432,116
This gets me every time. Ugh.

>>2538432,111
/a/'s problem is that it's slowly turning into Gaia. There were never any Naruto/Bleach threads, and now that shit is posted by the hour. Then of course add the flavor of the season into the mix (K-ON) along with the the majority of people who only watch whatever is popular on /a/ and you have /a/ of 2009

>>2538432,118
I've never read Higurashi, but I've seen the anime. How much better is Umineko? The general consensus I've heard is:
Umineko novel>Higurashi novel>Higurashi anime
Is this basically true?

>>2538432,125
You should remember the dimensions by now.

>>2538432,126
But I like K-On.

ITT confessions

I used to troll loli threads with "only faggots like loli" and have a dozen of butthurt pedos reply to me each time. Now that I fap to loli daily I feel bad about it and regret my actions.

I really wish /b/ and the rest of the site were on different sites. None of us outside of /b/ want to deal with raid drama and DDoS attacks.

>>2538432,106
There's a lot of confusion about terms because of the fact that they use English terms in Japanese that may or may not sound like what they do to us.

In Japan, ADV and NVL are structures for the game, and a VN is sort of a genre within either of those, as is erotic games and others. But to English speakers "visual novel" sounds like it could apply to any kind of reading game, so people use it for any style or genre.

People complain about "VN" not being used correctly, but since so many people use it the "wrong" way in English it's more or less become the blanket term for us.

>>2538432,126
I wish I could enjoy K-ON as the Slice of Life fag that I am, and not be barraged by the millions of people who never saw a SOL before Lucky Star, and expect plot from them, like any other series, and when it doesn't deliver, they troll it. And seriously, no Slice of Life deserves the attention K-ON or Lucky Star get. Not even Hidamari Sketch needs or warrants that kind of spam.

>>2538432,129
I started Japanese Bird Cooking Spaghetti

>>2538432,132
Oh, that's easy. Just leave /a/ and join us in /jp/. No more anime issues there!

>>2538432,129
Hi, Miyuki is Mai Waifu.

>>2538432,133
no you didn't, I did.

>>2538432,129
I'm a tripfag who only uses his trip to act like a faggot.

>>2538432,127
I haven't read the Higurashi VN because only one chapter is translated but Umineko is better than the Higurashi anime.

>>2538432,129
I'm the guy that always post mother incest threads.

>>2538432,129
When I first came to 4chan around 2005 I used to post things like "I guess I'll go back to pretending to be a pedophile like everyone else." Then I realized people weren't pretending. Then I realized I was a pedo myself.

>>2538432,128
That's not a bad thing. I'm just wondering why we can't keep our discussions in one thread like Futaba does (for the most part).

Everyone seems to think that every individual screenshot or piece of fanart deserves its own thread. Yeah, /a/ has worked like that for a long time, but still..

>>2538432,132
I blame the anime adaptation. Started reading the manga before it aired, and it was amusing and still had a good SOL dose.
The anime trampled all over that to fill it with moe. Ugh.

Did you like Sketchbook? Never gets enough press around here, and it's pretty good for a SOL based mostly on puns.

>>2538432,137
get out INfinity

>>2538432,141
It's the "I'm as unique as a snowflake" attitude kicking in. I sure wish KS posters would keep things in 2 threads (KS and KS flipside). Since I'm wishing, I sure wish people would use the subject field!

>>2538432,132
Really, no 'popular' show on /a/ deserves the hype or spam. K-ON mostly just got it because of the fact that it's made by KyoAni.

>>2538432,134
I'd miss the good threads too much.
We've had some great ones in 2009, even if it is mostly shit.
The Akira threads, more Pimped threads than usual, the inception of Brocar, and we still occasionally have Akagi threads. I don't think any of these things fit under /jp/'s umbrella, unfortunately. And my VN power level is ridiculously low.

>>2538432,132
Aria deserves more attention than it gets. Althought that would just lead to trolling. It's a double edged sword.

>>2538432,146
Akagi is easy. Start a mahjong thread and then go from there. Work the system. I don't know what you can still have to talk about though.

>>2538432,146
30% of /jp/ have only played Fate/Stay Night and ClannAIDS. You're fine.

I honestly think all slice of life shows are pretty mediocre. Even the supposed sui generis of the genre Azumanga.

>>2538432,147
It got pretty bad with Aria daily dump getting trolled and spammed.
Truly, /a/ is a forsaken wasteland now.

>>2538432,129
I like to badmouth my trip and various works as anonymous. Feels good.

I've always wondered why /jp/ tends to freak out at anybody who doesn't have the highest powerlevel possible. Some of the rage is just uncalled for.

>>2538432,150
You and I have nothing to say to each other from now on athens.

>>2538432,152
Self reassurance. Calling others on their faults hides their own. Not unlike newcomers calling others "newfags"

>>2538432,152
Because we don't want /b/tards shitting up our board.

If you're not a faggot, having a low powerlevel doesn't really matter.

>>2538432,150
What is your favorite anime athens?

>>2538432,144
Speaking of KS, are there different act-1 'endings' for each character, or do I have to wait for the full thing/another demo to get more Rinteraction?

Because the people /a/ sends tend to act like idiots. KS doesn't help either.

>>2538432,152
Lashing out as a result of the constant "I'm new to /jp/ what VN should I read" threads. That's my guess anyway.
>>2538432,150
I can understand why someone wouldn't like them, but I'm still upset at you because of it.

>>2538432,144
Also, screencaps get more reaction as a thread than as a post in a thread. It's the sad truth of how it works. Everyone makes threads from screencaps they see as funny, hoping it'll become the next spinzaku or pimpEd template. Because of this, a new thread is made every 30 seconds or so, and not all of them get seen by their target audience. Which is sad, because I'm still convinced that /a/ has a relatively high power level and appreciation of somewhat obscure anime, but won't see the thread for (Unknown but awesome 80's anime) if it gets to page 2 in 15 seconds. Of course, because of this, the general power level is dropping, because people are leaving, because they think no one else appreciates their obscure show.
So as I pray, unlimited newfag works.

>>2538432,150
I like slice of life because I sometimes wonder what it would have been like if I had one.

The people whining constantly about KS threads are as bad as the ones posting them.

I bet most of them are hardcore Touhou-tards who can't stand the board having less than 75% touhou threads at all times.

>>2538432,150
Aw... how can you... even Azumanga? Really?

>>2538432,155
Its hard to say, I think I gave a list in the other thread. Top tier shows for me are Mushishi, GitS: SAC, Planetes (especially Planetes actually), Mushishi, LoGH, Mononoke, Bartender, FMA, Trigun and TTGL.

How about you?

>>2538432,152
I don't mind newfriends so much as those shitting up the board with /b/ quality posts.

Really, those telling people to 'get the fuck out of /jp' for trivial reasons, often accompanied by a sage, are probably just trying to make themselves feel better.

All in all, it's just best not to take the board so seriously.

is it because of ghost mode
or is /jp/ really this receptive to newcomers?

>>2538432,161
It's people who are getting tired of seeing 4 KS threads on the front page at once. They really should have expected it though, this sort of thing always happens. Although their reponse isn't exactly the best way to go about it.

I actually don't like Azumanga and I watched that before Hidamari Sketch, Aria, Genshiken, etc. It's too slow for the way it draws out its jokes. The manga is fine though.

>>2538432,126
I think that all the "turning into Gaia" (although it's really more like animesuki or ANN) stuff is also due to the high population as well though. If /a/ were still the size it was in 2005-2006 it would be perfect again. There wouldn't be enough people to "discuss" Naruto, and fags wouldn't be able to drive stuff with smaller niches off the board.

>>2538432,161
Nevertheless, I think if we were able to contain the KS talk to one constantly-renewing thread (much like the idol threads; have they hit 100 yet?), it would be better for everyone involved. I'd have an easier time hearing more of what people have to say about it, and the posters who don't like it would have an easier time ignoring it.

>>2538432,149
I, same massive SOL fag as before, (Fuck it, I'm putting my tripcode back on), agree. Slice of Life is exactly average. It can be slightly above average at best, and below average at worst. There is no plot, only characterization, and it generally relies on cuteness to make it good/enjoyable. I enjoyed Hidamari Sketch mostly because of how relaxed and good inside it made me feel.

>>2538432,160
;_;

>>2538432,165
Always has been, though ghost mode may allow some of us to express it more freely.

>>2538432,161
The one thing I hate most is people claiming that all the people creating and posting in KS threads are the KS devs themselves.

Also, ZUN!bar and his threadshitting doesn't help either.

>>2538432,163
That's a pretty good list. I approve.

>>2538432,160
I know there is that appeal. When I watched LS it was late 2007, first year of university for me. I was very depressed so it appealed to me a lot. But lets be honest, we must assess things objectively and objectively LS is not really top tier material.

I'm not going to bash people for enjoying it though, because its actually quite a relaxing thing to put on at times.

>>2538432,162
Its certainly the best of the genre. But I can't compare it to something like Mushishi and honestly say that they're in the same league. I know that they should be treated autonomously to a degree but theres a degree of overlap, and one is quite clearly more adventurous and bold and enjoyable than the other.

>>2538432,158
See above.

>>2538432,163
Good taste my man, good taste.

>>2538432,165
The actual elder anonymous accept newcomers because we need their fresh blood. But all in moderation, as long as they adapt to our ways and they behave like good posters.
What we won't take are shit posters, no matter when they started to post here.

>>2538432,163
Oh I forgot Eva, which I'll get shit for but meh.

>>2538432,176
>>2538432,174
Thank you!

>>2538432,165
Probably.

On regular /jp/ elitism is commonplace.

>>2538432,165
A little bit of both. /jp/ sort of follows the old "lurk more" rules. If you just showed up but you aren't a fag, no one will notice. /jp/ posters are also very forthcoming with source requests compared to other boards (very little Boku no Bibletoads).

However, /jp/ also has a lot of content nazis that get pissed off whenever anyone posts anything that they think isn't related to the board. Some of them even take it so far as to assume the board is only for Touhou and ADV games.

>>2538432,161
Doing a "you too" won't help you there. Condensed threads are actually better for the participants. Rather than spamming the same one-liners you see in every thread, you can actually have discussions and advance.

Spam threads are shallow.

>>2538432,165
Think about it. Where can we kick you off to? We're at the end of the line here.

>>2538432,169
Agreed. People managed to do that when Suika got cracked. Sure there are more people discussing KS, but it still shouldn't be hard to keep it in one thread.

>>2538432,179
Commonplace, but not overt. There are some things we just can't help trolling over (Tsukihime _____, anyone?), but it's more of a gut reaction than actual hate.

We get so many people trolling about these things that when somebody who isn't familiar with those trolls tries to ask about them, we assume they're trolling.

>>2538432,159
>I'm still convinced that /a/ has a relatively high power level and appreciation of somewhat obscure anime

Unfortunately not, as seen by the powerlevel threads.

As a regular /a/ user myself, it's annoying to see so many /b/ refugees and newfriends taking over the board. /a/ isn't the board it used to be anymore. You might as well just call it /b/ with anime.

>>2538432,175
>one is quite clearly more adventurous and bold
Tue
>and enjoyable
I don't know if I can agree with that. I view it more as extremes. Watching something like Gunbuster or Ippo will get me pumped up and excited, while watching Aria will relax me almost to the point of sleeping. I can get the same level of enjoyment out of them, even when one is more "ambitious" than the other. Although this all depends on my mood at the time, so take it however you will.

>>2538432,185
Night time /a/ has excellent taste.

The way I see it you either like slice of life or you don't.
its just a matter of preferences.

>>2538432,167
Genshiken was good at the start, when it turned into dating club it got a bit faggoty though. Manga was better though, though nothing can touch GTO as far as comedy type stuff goes.

>>2538432,175
I agree with your assessment that we should view and judge them subjectively when comparing them to other anime, but I disagree with your placement of Azumanga Daioh as the best. Maybe the first, but I've never seen that as a valid argument for something being better than something else, even if a direct influence is obvious. The quality of a slice of life is, in my experience, directly connected to how viewers react to and enjoy the characters, making it more subjective than other genres. It is, after all, impossible to analyze storytelling methods, plot, and ending in a series that has none of those. And they don't tend to have enough animation to really warrant that being a factor, so we're left with characters, and art. Both somewhat subjective.

Also, maybe I'm just a fag, but I am having so much trouble getting further in Mushishi than I am. I enjoyed the first several episodes immensely, but I've hit a snag in the middle. Is this normal? Should I skip to a later episode, not missing anything because of it being episodic, or am I maybe just one of those people who can't enjoy it's tone or something?

>>2538432,129
Confessions? I'm the faggot who creates good cheer threads every now and the for no good reason. I randomly post copypasta on /a/ as well.

>>2538432,187
I like how a lot of people say night shift /a/ is a myth. It's amazing how the amount of shit posting is cut nearly in half and most discussion is kept in its respective thread. Though it won't last much longer with summer just around the corner. Enjoy it while it lasts

>>2538432,165
Even on real /jp/ I try to be helpful to newcomers, but it depends on their attitude. As long as they don't act like faggots or assholes I'll try my best to help them. Unfortunately there are a lot of faggots and assholes making their way to /jp/ these days.

>>2538432,140
Everyone really is just pretending that they are pedos. Enjoy being a real pedo, you creepy fuck.

>>2538432,194
Enjoy being a troll, you closet pedo.

>>2538432,194
That's not funny, you should stop that at once.

>>2538432,185
I have to confess to being a late 2007 /b/ refugee with a power level of 33 days worth of anime. Of course, I'm not going to GB2 anywhere, because this is the only place where I ever see Akagi discussed.

>>2538432,188
Actually, it's either you like a show or you don't. Categories don't make the show. For example, Adrift in Tokyo is a pretty decent movie even though there wasn't a constant ongoing storyline. It has a decent atmosphere and even makes you laugh a couple of times only making you go "ah!" when it's over.

>>2538432,193
well then what would you reprehensible behavior?

>>2538432,192
Night shift /a/ now is about as good as daytime /a/ was a year ago (i.e. terrible). If /a/ is better at night I don't want to know what daytime /a/ looks like these days.

>>2538432,186
>>2538432,190
I think both of you are basically making the point that a genre like slice of life is more open to interpretation because it lacks a narrative focus beyond that of the lives of the characters.

>but I've hit a snag in the middle. Is this normal?

I have a friend who loved it but hasn't finished off the last few episodes for months now. Sometimes its just apathy, I'm assuming for you though its because its such an episodic show you can pretty much take it at a very leisurely pace?

I guess I liked Mushishi a lot because I read Kwaidan right before I watched it as well.

>>2538432,196
...This feels a bit backwards, but (in this company, at least) I'm almost ashamed to say that I'm not a pedophile.

Though I suppose it depends on your definition of the term...

>>2538432,200
Like a phpBB.
No, really.

Just realized I was giong to go finish Nodame Cantabile 2 hours ago. Caught up by the f5 trap. I'll see you gents when /jp/ is alive again.

>>2538432,202
That's just silly. You like what you like. As long as you're not decrying others, it's fine, you trendfag you~

>>2538432,183
Shame that there's no discussion when Suika finally got uploaded. Same with MOON.

There's alot of threads for those two titles before they got released.

>>2538432,201v
And this person did not stop posting? It should have.

But surely, "you have a friend". Apathy.

>>2538432,192
Nighttime /a/ does exist, but it's mostly just due to the fact that a majority of the board is sleeping, and with less users, we get less bullshit.
Hell, it's even fine up until noon or so since most of the shitty users are at school or their job.

It's a shame that summer isn't even a month away. You might as well expect /a/ to finally become /b/ during the summer with all the users shitting up the board 24 hours a day.

>>2538432,206
To be honest, I haven't gotten around to reading them, but I have my final exams tomorrow so I'll be a little more free later.

With /b/ down, I just can't take these "Hey /a/ I dont kno much about anime but I like DN (death note if u dont kno) what other animes would I like. Anything that's a modern day mystery/thriller with a slight supernatural element and perhaps a 'bad guy' teenager main character would be great!"

And then they start using smilies and shit, and it's just too much for me...

>>2538432,201
I watched Kino's Journey right before starting Mushishi. I suspect that has something to do with it, considering how much I love Kino, and how I see the two as similar in style, in a way. The problem being, it has been months since I've watched an episode, and the last time I started, I thought a few seconds in "This isn't what I feel like watching now." and switched to something else. Maybe I'll try a once a week approach, and I'll at least get it finished at some point.

>>2538432,210
/a/ gets too many recommendation threads in general.

Honestly, if people just said "lurk more", it would help a lot.

>>2538432,210
I die a little inside every time I see the awesomeface.jpg outside of /b/.

>>2538432,205
>trendfag
? Not sure where that's coming from.

But why would I decry others? As long as they don't make the jump from pedophilia to child molestation, I have no quarrel with them.

>>2538432,211
Oh, I finished up KnT recently. I liked it but the art style wasn't really my cup of tea and it seemed to have this underlying lack of emotion to it as well, perhaps that was the point, but for me Ginko was a more winnable protagonist than Kino.

Both are good shows though. And yep, try the one week approach, or just will yourself at some point to sit down and watch it through.

>>2538432,213
...Well then, I'll make sure to stop posting it in response to people being idiots. Well, that being the case, at all.

>>2538432,208
>Nighttime /a/ does exist, but it's mostly just due to the fact that a majority of the board is sleeping, and with less users, we get less bullshit.

A good example being the DNS Wall week.

Generally, less users = better board. Well, too little is just as bad, but a middle range is the best. Sure, with high you might get more so called "original content" (ie. /v/, old /b/) but it's just not worth it, because it just gets out of control.

>>2538432,208
>job
I've always found it kind of weird that the worst posters are the ones who have jobs. I guess they are a package deal with the immature high schoolers, and have lower power levels than NEETs, but the idea of having a job is certainly more ambitious than not having one. Maybe ambition is the cancer killing daytime /a/?

As for nighttime /a/, it gets mentioned a lot less. I remember how enjoyable it tended to be back when I was using my Picard tripcode. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to stay up late in recent months, so I've been missing out. And of course, when I am finally free of classes, it'll be summer.

>>2538432,200
Saturday during the day was fucking awful, with the weekend, /b/ being down, and daytime, it was pretty much /b/ 2.0.

>>2538432,214
Ah, that trendfag was a play on the fact that you're "almost ashamed". The desire to fit in and all. And I'm not attacking you for anything. Take it easy, man.

>>2538432,206
I've been trying to catch up with Umineko so I haven't had a chance to play either one yet but they're next on my list. It's a shame that a demo gets so much more attention on /jp/ than two newly translated VNs.

>>2538432,213

◔ヮ◔

>>2538432,218

Hey, picard? I remember having some great Haruhi novel discussions with you and that neko Wai fellow. Good times. a little more stable period of the board, particularily in nighttime...and I remember a lot of LOGH threads too...

This thread is getting long. Should we hijack a different thread?

>>2538432,165
It's because the assholes who normally frequent /jp/ are mostly the newcomers, and I'd estimate that less than half of the /jp/ population even knows about this place. The feeling of exclusivity is keeping us together here.

>>2538432,212
I'm guilty of precisely one recommendation thread in the last month, and it existed only because /a/ only talks about anime from the 90's and later anymore, and I was looking for earlier shows. Thread got no replies.

>>2538432,210

Every single goddamn rec thread these days uses Death Note

>>2538432,223
Not needed, no autosage here. Just take it easy.

>>2538432,218
Most anons with jobs are the types of people who go around boasting about how they have a life and what not, in other words, the normalfags.

Anyways, NEETs are usually better posters for many reasons, but those with jobs can be good posters as well, and NEETs can be shitty posters as well (ie INfnity)

>>2538432,227
It kind of takes a while to load, but fine. A quick reply feature would be nice.

>>2538432,210
What I've noticed is not necessarily the propensity increasing (as that is to be expected w/ increased traffic) but more people helping out the OP. I never had it so easy when I was trying to get into anime unfortunately. Everyone just told me to fuck off, heh.

Thing is, once you've hit a saturation point of series watched you kind of know what to look for and what to pick up season-on-season anyway.

>>2538432,222
Ah, yes. There is a surprising amount to talk about in the later Haruhi novels. Theories, sci fi concepts brought up, the extent of Yuki's power, the anti-SOS brigade. But I rarely see those discussions anymore. The most I see of Haruhi anymore is
>Haruhi
>Moe shit
>Lucky Star Season 0
>Season 2 will be Kyonko
>Kyonko general
>Troll thread

This reminds me that I need to get classes that start in the afternoon next year, and stay up at least till 1.

>>2538432,220
It seems we have fallen victim to text-only communication. I wasn't reacting defensively, only curiously, and then attempting to reinforce your assertion that everybody should be okay with what everybody else does.

what is moot doing??

does anyone know what the hell moot is doing??!

>>2538432,233
>>2538432,234
moot abandoned /jp/ a long time ago. You're better off asking a different board.

>>2538432,233

Fapping to Katawa Shoujo

Just what is with /a/ and all the ___ bombing, hijacks, and tripfag drama anyways? It's really getting out of hand.

>>2538432,234
Trying to survive the DDOS from the Narutofanon wikia, I think. At least, that's what people are telling me.

/a/ apparently decided that a fanon circlejerk about an anime they ('they' in this case being /a/) all profess to hate with burning passion was worth raiding. The wikiposters threatened to retaliate via DDOS, and that seems to be why we're all posting here.

I kinda like it, though. At least until you showed up, demanding explanations of things you have no reason to expect us to understand.

>>2538432,233
Eating soup.

>>2538432,237
That's what the cool kids do. We're too lame and nerdy for that.

>>2538432,238
Sigh...

I guess /a/ really is /b/ with all this raiding shit.

Remember when we were all just common losers discussing things with other losers?

>>2538432,230
I'm of the opinion that experience in anime doesn't make you better at judging a good show from a bad one, experience in any entertainment medium will allow you to be better at judging. But be careful, deciding what is shit and what isn't before it even airs is just prejudging. For example, every season preview thread I see has people talking about how much worse the next season will be than the current one, without exception. It's gotten ridiculous to the degree that this season, just before K-ON aired, I saw a front page full of K-ON threads, and only one of them was actually in support of it. The rest were "THIS SHIT IS OVERHYPED AND /a/ ALREADY LOVES IT!"
I also know I've been dead wrong about what series I'd like and dislike. Usually my favorite show of a season tends to be one I had never heard of in the pre season hype.

>>2538432,237
Instead of say, hiding the thread, people will resort to bombing it with ASCII art or wikispam, EVEN if that thread is perfectly acceptable in /a/. It's just stupid that people feel the need to play mod whenever they see a One Piece thread or something.

>>2538432,237

It was far worse during fall and early winter. Taiga/stein/etc? The Sagebombing kit? Of course, we need only to wait for summer for it to start all over again.

>>2538432,238

Ahaha, oh wow, if that's true then it's damn hilarious.

So why is raiding fun again?

>>2538432,238
the hell?really?
/a/ is alot of things but I've always we were above raiding people.

>>2538432,242
Yeh, or sometimes things start off good and then tail off I suppose. Like Xamd, remember how good everyone thought Xamd was going to be? And for a few episodes it actually delivered!

>>2538432,243
Hiding is for the weak. I surf unfiltered!

>>2538432,242
/a/ only does this to try and find a replacement for Code Geass R2.

Of course that never works out well and just turns the board into shit.

>>2538432,238
see
>>2538432,4

To be able to take down all 10+ of 4chan's servers (img, dat, zip, orz, ...) takes a considerably greater amount of skill and precision than the average anime fan would know about anyway.

>>2538432,238
Jesus. I knew I was right to sage the thread that this all started in, not that sage does anything. But still. Why should /a/ care if some fags are writing fanfics using a bunch of stolen characters and powers? And since when does /a/ raid, anyway? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard of.

>>2538432,245
I am ashamed to admit it but I used to find raiding fun back in 2006 or so. Usually that wears off after a while however. I couldn't care less about EPIC RAIDS anymore.

>>2538432,248
It's unsafe to not wear a condom. Safe sex!

>>2538432,253
What use do I have for a condom? I'm not stranded in the wilderness or anything.

>>2538432,242
>just before K-ON aired, I saw a front page full of K-ON threads, and only one of them was actually in support of it. The rest were "THIS SHIT IS OVERHYPED AND /a/ ALREADY LOVES IT!"

Then you see half a dozen "OMG FUCKING KON MOESHIT FLOODING THE BOARD!! WORSE THEN CODE GEASS!!!", and then trolls capitalizing on that and making twice as many of those same threads, and then making even more threads complaining about THOSE threads being "K-ON flooding", and...well, it gets kind of confusing from there. Reminds me too much of Toradora.

And it'll only get worse, because they know how easily /a/ can be manipulated into trolling something into oblivion, or raising it up on a throne, both series completely not deserving it's treatment

>>2538432,247
Oh, boy do I remember dropping Xam'd like a box of bricks 11 episodes in. Not specifically because I hated it, but because I became apathetic at that time.
>>2538432,249
I have mixed feelings on R2. On one hand, participating in the shitstorm, and making fun of how bad the show was going was the only way to enjoy it. However, it is now obvious that it cost /a/ a large portion of it's soul.

>>2538432,249
Except it would be shit regardless, since Geass Sundays were just about the worst thing to happen to /a/ in recent memory. As bad as Gurren Lagann and Lucky Star threads were, at least people were reposting stuff mostly on accident then. I actually had to just leave /a/ every Sunday, and most of the time R2 was airing even. Nothing else has been quite that bad.

>>2538432,244
yup it was bad,
I wanted to leave /a/
but i had nowhere to go...

Very last /b/ raid I took part in was that one with that girl who fucked her dog.

>>2538432,255
Ha, reminds me the guy that countered the yuri threads with more yuri threads.

>>2538432,244
Hell, it's not like /a/ is any better now with /b/ being down, K-ON spam, and the current tripfag drama.

Also, with /b/ being down, they will venture to other boards and migrate. Hooray.

>>2538432,252
Thinking back, there is one raid I could approve of, and that is the Limbaugh raid. Of course, that's just out of feeling that anything bad happening to Rush Limbaugh is good for the rest of us. But /a/ wouldn't do something so ambitious. The best we could do is raid Funimation, and that would end in shit no matter how it turned out. Leave the raiding to the real internet trolls, /a/.
>>2538432,254
There are a lot of situations in which you might use the one liter of water storage provided by such an object.

>>2538432,250
Hmm, that does make a lot more sense. But it's not like DDOS is an exact science anymore; You can probably download scripts for it easily enough, and seeing as it's only the worksafe boards that are fucked, I have to wonder how 'professional' this is.

It's a beautiful morning /jp/ what are you doing here?
Ok, the sky is a bit gray and it just started to rain but this won't stop you from enjoying life to its fullest, right?

Because you'll stay in front of your computer anyway, lucky bastards.

>>2538432,257
I agree, but sadly most of /a/ thinks of the Code Geass days positively.

>>2538432,262
But unless I'm in the wilderness, why would I need the condom? I highly doubt any urban area would make me pay for something as vital as water.

>>2538432,249

I swear, so many goddamned problems root from R2. I don't even mind the show and I'm not just trying to find a scapegoat or something, but I really just think it was just too goddamned popular for /a/ to handle.

And Geass Sundays, good LORD, geass sundays.

Next time someone says "lol /cg/ was pure FUN! golden age of /a/!!" I'm going to rip out their fucking pancreas

>>2538432,265
I find this hard to believe. It's just ridiculous.

>>2538432,258
That was when I finally left /a/ for good and became a fulltime /jp/ poster. Although I had been spending a lot more time in /jp/ than /a/ ever since Geass summer.

Another problem with /a/ is when a tripfag like Taiga or INfinity posts, the entire thread will be derailed with tripfag drama. I've had to delete several of my own threads because of this.

Large part of Geass' fanbase were girls

....Just throwing it out there is all

>>2538432,271
Stop that.

>>2538432,271
Oh god, here we go

>>2538432,261
Luckily, the tripfag drama seems to be at a semi low point. During fall and winter it was the worst. Taiga posting constantly, being defended by Stein, Matsuda starting out and getting his clones, MiMW still being around occasionally, and Anonymous (Most likely these tripfags in disguise) overreacting to it all. Unless I'm missing some more annoying tripfag drama that's going on right now, it seems better now that Taiga and Stein have more or less fucked off.

>>2538432,270
athens has the same effect around here. It would probably be a lot better if people just ignored them.

>>2538432,268

No, there's a fucking ton of them still around. I swear most of them are the ones always bashing current seasons because ";_; nuthin quite as epic as code geass!" or some shit. Probably.

and lol geass sundays
http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/269/checkmate.jpg

>>2538432,274
>Matsuda starting out and getting his clones

Matsuda got mega notoriety in quite a short space of time actually. But that KoG thread was what really pushed him to the forefront.

Code Geass was terrible, I don't know how anybody could have liked one anime taking over the entire board. I would make a thread about another anime and it would just sink to page 10.

Don't forget, a lot of the shit from Geass Sundays was aided by the mods.

>>2538432,277
>But that KoG thread was what really pushed him to the forefront
Do you know the thread number?

>>2538432,271
I'm also convinced that 80% of the Toradora spammers were women. And more than half of the K-ON spammers.
Can't get a demographic lock on the GARUTO spammers though. Let's just assume they're all women.

>>2538432,270
Why do people react so heavily to tripfags? I swear to god, it's just fucking retarded.

>>2538432,280
Nope. I just remember it was something like 'Hey Matsuda, if this thread ends in 5' kind of thing.

>>2538432,282
Tsundere.

Anybody remember Jim Profit? Or was that just /co/?

>>2538432,273
good lord.

I had nothing to do, so I started watching the Clannad animu.

Oh my fuck, I hate myself.

>>2538432,287
Why? It's fine.

>As a regular /a/ user myself, it's annoying to see so many /b/ refugees and newfriends taking over the board. /a/ isn't the board it used to be anymore. You might as well just call it /b/ with anime.

Why so many /a/ immigrants over here?
Goddam KS really need to get the fuck out of /jp/. Not to say I hate, but you fags spamming it here and starting up 1246547x post of KS is not helping. You guys are just acting like those /b/ and newfriend taking over /jp/ with your shitty spam.

I mean we are getting so many "I am new to VN. KS is my first VN." and "x heroine from KS is my waifu" thread.
You guys should spam KS in /a/ or lurk the fuck more, it is not gonna be tolerated in /jp/. The way thing is going on, it will only take a few more days before mod and janitor-san ban KS. Last I check, KS is not from Japan.

I don't hate KS i am just tired of the spam that is going on.

>>2538432,276
See, it's shit like this that made me leave /a/ during the Geass spam.

>>2538432,289
/a/ just loves spamming.

>>2538432,287
I hope you played the visual novel first. The anime just spoils everything without going into details.

>>2538432,282
You know, I'm starting to see a trend of /a/ having a much worse backlash to things than they should have, getting upset over the shitstorm caused, and blaming whatever is at the center of it.
>>2538432,277
I could have sworn it was when someone decided to take record of how often Matsuda posted and saged. That caused a huge thread where all the current tripfags were mapped out in approximate post numbers.

>>2538432,282
I don't know, but it's fucking stupid with all the >tripfag sage and reaction images and what not.

>>2538432,289
KS is spammed in /a/ too

>>2538432,289
>I don't hate ____, I'm just tired of all the spam that's going on.

>>2538432,294
For /jp/, only athens and ISM get those reactions. Well, the imagedumpers get it every now and then.

>>2538432,292
Sorry, I never got around to it. I'm pretty interested in checking it out though. Surely, reading it after the animu can't hurt too much.

The whole first arc may have been cheap shots at the eyes, but I feel like total shit now. Good lord, I hate how Fuko talks and acts, but FUCK.

>>2538432,288
I meant it in the tearjerker sense, and how I'll never be as much of a man as Tomoya, despite his age.

>>2538432,269
I did the same during the whole Geass Sundays thing, but I find myself going back to /a/ every couple seasons. /jp/ has its fair share of different problems.

Most of the tripfags are dead anyways, so it's not too bad right now. Matsuda doesn't start much shit anymore, Taiga is pretty much dead, Jake the Snake is also dead (or he migrated elsewhere, I've heard), MiMW left a long time ago, etc. The only exceptions are INfinity apparently starting his shit up again with his K-ON appreciation threads and threadshitting and his little buddy Drill Remover starting up circlejerks in every thread.

>>2538432,298
Tearjerker sense? But you said you've never played it. Did you watch after story without watching the first? What type of crazy silly thing are you doing there?
>>2538432,297
Investment Banker too.

>>2538432,293
You could be right, I'm not entirely sure.

>>2538432,297
Lessee,
Drill Remover,
Athens gets her fair share of hate on /a/ too,
Taiga and Stein samefag,
Matsuda,
ShiNfinity,

the rest are somewhat tolerated or ignored.

>>2538432,297
athens and ISM don't bother me at all.

The only person I really hate here is Taiko Drum Master. God, what is he trying to accomplish with his trolling... and those ugly pictures of his ugly face that he always posts...

>>2538432,301
I'm not sure what's going on, but the animu is still very sad even without the VN. Like I said though, it feels like a pretty cheap shot at the heart rather than anything else.

Being a cheap shot doesn't mean it will fail to make me very sad though.

>>2538432,300
Taiga's still around, Jake is still around but he posts a lot in r9k now as he has a girlfriend (not joking either - though he's a likeable enough guy at times), MiMW _is_ still around: I think he's NTSA is mai waifu or he just posts as anon, INfinity is still the only real hikki /a/ have as well.

I dont get Drill Remover's schtick, hes fucking irritable ALL the time.

>>2538432,303
I'm sorry, but I don't know any of them. Well, except for Taiga, but it was a doppelganger and the reactions from the /a/ posters were a little bad...

>>2538432,301
Eh, IB gets them, but his threads usually get deleted anyway because they're against the rules.

Matsuda got notoriety the same way Jake did, ie. saging everything in sight and being a complete dipshit to everyone.

>>2538432,278
I can't even count the number of times the threads I was following would actually 404 because of geass sundays.

>>2538432,300
>starting his shit up again with his K-ON appreciation threads

We really need some mods or something. The shitstorms in those a day or two ago were just terrible.

>>2538432,303

I don't like the worship of this Red guy that's been going on.

Not Big Red Machine, god he's just a douche, I mean the anon everybody talks about whenever ronrey threads pop up.

I don't have a problem with the actual poster, from what I've seen he tries to not stand out much, but the cult of personality is getting fucking annoying.

>>2538432,305
Are you watching it for the first time or rewatching it? That part isn't very clear.
>>2538432,309
Sounds like Zun except for the sage. Sage don't matter as much here.

>>2538432,282
Well, people love to rage.

I only get angry when it's tripfag vs tripfag, and then they start bringing in super secret AIM chatlogs or some shit they had back when they were friends, ie. drama shit, and make whole threads about it, calling them out.

But the real kicker is, said tripfags never actually fucking talk about anime or manga, so I can't help myself but rage.

>>2538432,289

Stop fucking whining, you think we aren't getting spammed too?

>>2538432,304
Taiko and Shion are the worst /jp/ tripfags.

Bring your /a/ tripfags discussion back to /a/.
This is /jp/ ghost board, we don't need those shit here.

>Drill Remover
>irritable ALL the time.
i think thats the point

>>2538432,310
Mods can't do anything about it. If they delete the thread, they will just make another. If they ban a tripfag, they will just come back with a screencap of their ban.

/jp/'s back!

>>2538432,314
CurryButt is pretty awful to be fair.

>>2538432,311
Are people still talking about Red in ronery threads? Fuck. I mean, good luck to the guy but no need to go on and on about it.

>>2538432,308
>>2538432,301
IB is ISM.

>>2538432,306
>I dont get Drill Remover's schtick, hes fucking irritable ALL the time.

He's just being a dick for attention and for the sake of trolling. He's admitted it several times. I still don't get why people listen to that dick anymore.

>>2538432,309
Jake improved quite a bit near the end. Poor guy just wanted to talk about Eva and every thread would get spammed with LOL EVA=DEEPx100

>>2538432,321
This.

>>2538432,323
And this. Jake isn't such a bad guy deep down and actually started up some decent Eva discussions about which he was pretty knowledgable. He just acted way too normalfag-ish when he first came/starting tripping on /a/.

>>2538432,320
Yes, they STILL are.

He doesn't even post with that name anymore and doesn't tell any more stories about his life unless somebody can first find him and ask him directly.

Jesus Christ, every ronrey thread just devolves into LOL BE MORE LIKE RED. He's a cool guy but you can't just emulate a lifetime of successful white knighting.

>>2538432,312
Watched it for the first time, sorry for being unclear. It's one of those "downloaded, but never watched" things.

In my queue is Clannad, then Mononoke. Mononoke actually interests the shit out of me, so I think I might just skip the rest of Clannad and check out Mononoke first.

>>2538432,319
CurryButt is... an interesting case. It seems to me that if he sees something he views as inane, or idiotic, he goes into this strange trolling mindset. Otherwise, he's actually fairly pleasant to be around.

>>2538432,313
>But the real kicker is, said tripfags never actually fucking talk about anime or manga, so I can't help myself but rage.

Some do. You can usually tell the trolls and legitimate posters apart by how often they actually discuss anime.

>>2538432,326
Mononoke's cool. Grab the OST too.

>>2538432,323
That's just how EVA threads go these days. People assume that we only want to talk about EVA because we think it's deep or something. I just thought that the middle 10 episodes or so were some of the coolest mecha action I've ever seen.

>>2538432,326
That's quite odd then. You're complimenting Tomoya's fatherhood without actually witnessing it and you're saying how it's pretty sad when you're just starting it. Are you sure you didn't already watch it, but forgot about it?

>>2538432,329
Seconding this times a thousand.
Hey, Athens. Have you seen Ayakashi yet? If so, is it as good?

Who the hell is Red anyways? I guess I don't lurk ronery threads enough.

>>2538432,300

It's funny, because Infinity and Drill were the ones that revived the MiMW threads because they thought it was "fun" to argue with him, right when all the Anons learnt to finally ignore him. And it was working, too.

And you know how MiMW left? Well, Drill and MiMW started talking to each other off-board, with MiMW was helping him through his depression after he let his little brother drown on his watch. But then Drill broke ("my brother deserved to die and I'll do it again if I had the chance!") and threatened to leak MiMW's personal info if he ever saw him on /a/ again.

See that sort of faggot drama shit? /a/ doesn't fucking need it, or want it. And then with the Taiga/Stein/Drill faggotry, and with the upcoming summer...god, I don't even want to think about it.

>>2538432,323
'Twas like a shark tearing apart a innocent swimmer. Or a tiger and a gazelle.

>>2538432,327
Same goes with Suigin. Nowadays he acts like a retard.

>>2538432,319
CurryButt is fine. ಠДಠ

>>2538432,337
Greetings, CurryButt.

>>2538432,333

There's a long story involved but to keep the story simple, he's the exception that proves the rules on White Knighting and Childhood Friends.

>>2538432,324
the few time I go /r9k/ I seem to find him starting fairly interesting threads that stand out from the usually stuff that permeates from that board.
I guess I can respect him for that,
or maybe i'm just a sucker for aliens.

>>2538432,300
>INfinity apparently starting his shit up again

And what the fuck is up with this? He mellowed down a hell of a lot until now too.

>>2538432,331
I'm not complimenting his fatherhood... In general, despite being marked a "delinquent" and all, he's a nice guy that has the balls to back it up.

I'm pretty sure I've never seen it. I'm not entirely sure. You're making me doubt myself.

>>2538432,337
Sup, CurryButt

>>2538432,332
Last arc of Ayakashi.

>>2538432,342
Wait, what episode are you on?

>>2538432,334
>and threatened to leak MiMW's personal info if he ever saw him on /a/ again.

Ridiculous.

/a/ is not /b/ for christs sake.

>>2538432,345
Finished what I assume is the first arc with Fuko and her older sister.

>>2538432,347
But that was such a happy scene.

>>2538432,348
Fuck no, man. It just looks happy. At it's core, it's very, very sad.

>>2538432,330

The worst thing is the stigma against Eva threads. With that image macro or "OH NO, EVA THREAD!! :O! BRACE FOR SHITSTORM!!!", when in fact they're usually always one of the calmer, better threads at any given time.

>>2538432,334
Holy shit. I had no idea it had ever gotten so bad. No wonder anons tend to paint all tripfags as the worst thing to happen to /a/ with stuff like that going on.
The only tripfag I talk to on AIM is Saccharin, and that never results in anything like that, because I know to keep my personal life entirely separate from my 4chan life.

>>2538432,263
> only the worksafe

www > UP
orz : tmp > UP
zip : bin > DOWN
img : dat > DOWN?
cgi : nov > UP
rs > UP
dis > DOWN


Hmm...

>>2538432,349
Whatever, sad man. Here's my favourite part of the route, by the way: http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/3653/agiantbanana.jpg

>>2538432,332
Not yet. I'll get around to it at some point though.

>>2538432,340
Oh no, he creates decent threads on most things on there, certainly better than relationshit crap that board is famous for. Plus he is a classicist so I respect him for that in itself.

>>2538432,333
/a/ convinced him to go for his childhood friend and he did basically.

>>2538432,339

Oh, yeah, I forgot. He participated in the Takumi threads. Hilariously, he was the only one to ever discuss anime or manga in them.

>>2538432,352
Once /jp/ comes back online, I'm going to bed.

>>2538432,341

And it's even more hilarious because he's doing exactly what MIMW did with his Lucky Star Appreciation threads...sigh...I think it's just that Infinity's only really "good" when he doesn't post.

Anyways, tripfags are boring to talk about.

>>2538432,352

I don't get why anyone would DDoS dis, what has /prog/ done to anyone?

img.4chan.org and zip.4chan.org are temporarily unavailable; we're working on it!

>>2538432,334
Thats fucking harsh.... MiMW was a god damned hypocrite (called others pedos) but I'm surprised he threatened to leak his personal info.

>>2538432,351
Heh, I have Saccharin too, cool guy.

>>2538432,358
Shopped SICP books and that damn snake into every picture known to man?

So based on the /a/ ghost board, Takumi threads are basically threads where one avatar guy talks to everyone else. How bizarre.

>>2538432,357
>Anyways, tripfags are boring to talk about.
They're actually kind of fascinating, in a way...

>>2538432,334
Oh and... I thought INfinity and Drill disliked each other? Isn't INfinity still a hikki?

>>2538432,351
It's terrible, most of the tripfags exchange their IM accounts with eachother and bring their drama to /a/.

Doesn't help either with anons freaking out at them or just adding to the drama. Best to ignore that shit.

I'm starting to regret my choice of trip. The abbreviation of it has lead to confusion more then once.

>>2538432,363
Not the guy you're quoting, but I strongly feel that we have different tastes in topic choices.

I never liked talking about tripfags. Always felt like senseless gossip to me.

>>2538432,362

Yeah. They were okay, for a while, but then a bunch of normalfags got in. Everybody raged.

>>2538432,355
>>2538432,362
Somehow I can't stand Takumi threads. Why are they adamant on turning /a/ into their personal chatroom just like those tripfags?

>>2538432,367
Agreed, though I might be just a little bit biased.

>>2538432,367
That's because it is. Enjoy being your high school lockers.

>>2538432,364

Well, I'd assume so. But yes, they hate each other, just because they hated MiMW didn't mean they didn't hate each other. You can't have such arrogant pricks all in one place and expect them to get along.

>>2538432,364
They seem to hate eachother, but that doesn't stop them from hijacking EVERY GODDAMN THREAD with their circlejerks. Maybe they're tsundere for eachother, I don't know.

As for him still being a hikki, I'm pretty sure since he was shitting up /a/ for an entire day. I guess he doesn't go to sleep or something.

>>2538432,361
Have you read yours today?

>>2538432,363
Yeah don't talk about them on /jp/ or in /a/ then.
Why don't you start those thread in /b/ or /r9k/? Anyway which tripcode are you using?

>>2538432,374
What part includes the coding as magic? I'm kind of interested in that.

>>2538432,375
From what I've heard, /b/ has forced anon now, I think.

>>2538432,354
I think I was the lone voice in most of those threads that encouraged him to keep his relationship platonic if he wanted it that way.
I dunno, I guess I figured people can be happy with platonic friendships. Maybey I'm wrong.
Either way I wasn't really present when /a/ finally convinced him to for it.

>>2538432,357
Eh, he shifts between shit and decent. Sometimes he'll start up a shitty thread, other times he'll contribute to an anime discussion. I don't really get him.

>>2538432,369

Well, everybody likes talking about themselves, and frankly the "I don't give a shit" tone of every other board, including /r9k/ and /b/, can make something like what the Takumifag is offering seem very cathartic.

To be honest, I didn't mind them when they were semi-ronrey/oh-god-im-so-pathetic threads, but then the Normalfags came.

I understand they're going back to roots now.

What about SHiN, thoughts on him?

>>2538432,377

I didn't want them to get together as well. Mostly for drama reasons, but it was damn obvious that he should have acted when he did.

>>2538432,373

Well, unless he's changed in the past few months, he doesn't go to sleep for several days on end, has no job, no school, etc... He's literally just watching anime, reading manga, or posting on /a/ for days on end.

>376 replies omitted.
What is this, I don't even...

>>2538432,380
Isn't SHiN a girl...?

S/He's not that bad.

>>2538432,376


All coding is magic!

>>2538432,377
Neither was I. Good he went for it either way, but he is certainly playing a dangerous game when things start to go sour I fear: like Augustus said, 'lupum auribus tenere' (holding a wolf by its ears).

>>2538432,367
Funny how it works. Offline, it's all "Jane did this, Jane did that".

Online, it's all "Tripfag did this, tripfag did that."

>>2538432,380him?
LOL

>>2538432,380
SHiN is pretty bad. His waifu threads and "I'm a lesbian girl" thing is kind of stupid. Plus he keeps remaking the same threads.

>>2538432,385
But what part specifically outlines it? An introduction to coding magic, perhaps?

>>2538432,380
Relatively harmless when alone.

>>2538432,363
In the same way Afrikan tribal civil wars are interesting, but still savage and apelike in nature?

>>2538432,380
I've heard accusations that Shin is actually of the female persuasion.

>>2538432,386

I know I said I didn't want to talk about him, but apparently, things are pretty much the same between them except for a label change. I think he's going to be alright.

>>2538432,382
I kind of can't help but feel sorry for him as a result. There have been a few threads where INfinity has pretty much admitted that he feels like absolute shit sometimes, from what I can remember. Poor guy.

>>2538432,388
>>2538432,384
I thought the 'SHiN is a girl' shit was pure shit though?

>>2538432,382
>he doesn't go to sleep for several days on end, has no job, no school, etc... He's literally just watching anime, reading manga, or posting on /a/ for days on end

Jesus this guy is like everything /a/ used to be prior to the normalfag invasion.

>>2538432,389
Pretty much this. Whenever I see him post it's always something about Kagami being is waifu. I don't mind the waifu thing; the majority of us do it. It's all he ever posts about though.

>>2538432,380
I can never remember the difference between him and INfinity.
The two kind of blur together for me. Which is which again?

>>2538432,390
http://f.imagehost.org/0722/18_9.png

>>2538432,395
>I thought the 'SHiN is a girl' shit was pure shit though?

I was under the impression that is. I guess he's just dramawhoring.