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Frankly, I'm more offended at The Last Samurai's blatant misrepresentation of Japanese history and glorification of feudal warlords. Consider: a newly formed government is attempting to develop its backward country, abolishing the medieval caste system, bringing in things like modern...

Lol, the people going "it wasn't really rape! And it served a narrative purpose, so it's fine!" apparently are blind to any sort of framing. When a woman gets bent over a table, with lots of shots on her wriggling panty-clad ass and has something shoved up it, it's hard to argue that it's...

Err... Canada very much has a culture. Like. What. I don't even know how to respond to such a statement. There are certainly positive aspects to religion, but it's also been used as a tool of oppression - a bit too much for my liking. Plus there's the fact that, you know, there's not really...

Yeah, this seems less that 4chan actually cares about women in the game industry than trying to get one over the feminazis/"look, we're not sexist, really! Look at all this money we're donating to charity!"

Hmm, racism in ASOIAF... On the one hand, you've got slaughter and rape happy fantasy Mongols and black people who are viewed as primitives, dress in feathers and love sex. On the other you've got multicultural/racial Braavos which seems to be one of the better places to live, same with Dorne...

It's pretty decent. It has less overt anime trappings, so it can draw in a broader audience than most shows out there. Still very much an anime under the surface. Also, "overrated" should be annihilated from everyone's vocabulary. It's not meaningful criticism, just "people like this more...

I'm surprised your female friend likes Fate/Stay Night, since in the main character's view, women should be molested in order to teach them femininity. I'm not exaggerating, that is literally what he says. Anyway, I've heard the scenes in Katawa Shoujo are good, and in fact are a very mature...

Well, it's not like Ubisoft is part of a conspiracy to Keep Women Down. They just rather innocently filled their game with all white dudes, and then people said "yo that's a lot of white dudes why didn't you mix it up", and then we get into the backtracking and "it's too haaard" BS. It would...

Yeah, I'd say we had completely different interpretations of the endings, then. I saw the ending of Rebellion

Puella Magi Madoka Magica had a really excellent ending. Contrast the sequel movie which

Gonna second Levi from Attack On Titan. I guess people really like the "stoic snarky badass" types, but he's been pretty boring so far. I hear he's been getting good development in the manga recently, though.

For anime: I think Madoka Magica and Fate/Zero are on Netflix, aren't they? Those are both great, although FZ's first episode is a slog. As for live-action, I've heard Orange Is The New Black is good.

Pretty sure the light novel this movie is based off of was explicitly video game inspired, so this is hardly surprising.

I think it was Fooly Cooly and shortly thereafter Bleach in grade 6. I had watched a Studio Ghibli or two, and the Nelvana Cardcaptor Sakura dub, but those two were what introduced me to the anime as a "thing".

I do think anime is increasingly selling itself to a niche crowd of basement dwellers, which does not seem like a recipe for long term success or the production of works of artistic merit. The anime industry does have a couple of "auteurs" - people like Ikuhara, Urobuchi (who isn't a director...