This is a one-off, special 9/11 edition of Anime Night by popular demand. It’s the long-awaited screening of the fifth and six Project A-ko movies, the final entries in the series, which transplant the characters into a completely new setting and otherwise have nothing to do with the previous installments. They are also not as well-regarded as the original four, but god damn it, we’re not leaving them unwatched. I expect, at least, that chicks will continue to rock.

We’ll start at 9PM EST on Hextube, right here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Project A-ko Versus Battle 1: Grey Side: https://letterboxd.com/film/project-a-ko-versus-battle-1-grey-side/
• Project A-ko Versus Battle 2: Blue Side: https://letterboxd.com/film/project-a-ko-versus-battle-2-blue-side/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Look, I’m just gonna leave the DTDD link for Ako 1 here, because this probably contains similar stuff: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/886553

CWs:

• “Man in a dress” jokes. The aliens look like men who dress as women. The characters barely acknowledge this fact directly, but the depiction is still problematic.
• Bugs.
• Stalking.
• Mention of sexual assault (but no depiction).
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Kidnapping.
• Bath scene.
• Flashing lights.
• Plane crash.
• Gun violence.
• Nuclear explosion.
• Objectification of female characters. -Panty shots of high-school-aged girls.

Links to movies:

• Project A-ko Versus Battle 1: Grey Side: https://vimeo.com/862580443
• Project A-ko Versus Battle 2: Blue Side: https://vimeo.com/862742605

Reading some Captain Marvel from 1983 where Monica Rambeau is the titular character. A black woman hero and all I can think of is if Marvel did this today there would be endless whinging on twitter about muh white genocide.

Yes, it's a counterpart to the anime screenshot thread.

The source is Mysterious Girlfriend X - a manga with a weird and questionable premise, but is pretty decent.

Spider-Pervert !kelly

After 10 years the devil returns. Homura did nothing wrong.

While this isn't a Marxist interpretation by any means, I feel like this creator is so so so close to really getting it, but I could be wrong. The video is interesting anyways.

Big "I just learned the word 'Nihilism' and now I can't stop saying it" energy.

Also putting this in anime because we don't have a comics comm, sue me.

I've been rewatching Haruhi Suzumiya and this brief shot has such nicely done lighting. Wish more anime looked like this.

w*ebs, have you read or seen something you thought was interesting/good/so-bad-it's-good recently? I did "what are you reading currently" threads before, but an open recommendation would do as well I think.

Manga:

Angel Densetsu is a manga by Norihiro Yagi and is a hilarious action/comedy about a guy who looks extremely menacing but is actually a nice guy... and accidentally rises through the ranks of local delinquent hierarchies. So what happens if the same author takes his abilities to draw unsettling things, but plays it straight? A good action/horror/mystery manga about a group of warriors with supernatural abilities tasked with hunting demons called Claymore, drawing on an interesting narrative that keeps you invested in reading more. It falls a bit short on having some worldbuilding leading nowhere, which is a shame, but it's a very good manga anyway.

Last Game is a fun shojo romance (with a male MC!) somewhat similar in setup to Kaguya-sama: Love is War - a #1 in everything type of person gets frustrated by always coming second to a classmate he's been around since elementary school, and has tried to beat her in one specific way. Getting her to fall in love with him. I haven't finished it yet, but it's pretty entertaining for a shojo series.

Isekai Samurai is a generic isekai... with a twist. The isekaiee is a 16th century samurai woman. It's only got 10 chapters so far, but the character writing is endearing and the manga is entertaining.

Welcome to Demon-School, Iruma-Kun! takes the SoL aspects of the only book liberals read and mixes it with a suspenseful plot that's not as brainwormed as the inspiration material. It's fun, it's long.

Anime:

Hi-Score Girl is a surprisingly good g*mer focused romcom you will likely enjoy if you like video games of the early 90s, but beware of mediocre 3D CGI animation.

either Anime or Manga:

Ultimate Survivor Kaiji is about an unemployed man with an addictive personality who is in deep debt with local loan sharks and gets the chance to clear it by participating in simple yet high risk gambles. It's an excellent drama series, with shockingly good, arguably outright socialist, politics and an unusual artstyle. It's a long, ongoing manga and like Jojo is divided into several parts.

I've heard good things about both the Manga and the Show, but haven't even got around to reading or watching it myself.

If it does the problematic herbivore/carnivore = gender/race shit that Zootopia did then I'll pass. (Do none of these writers understand that omnivores and big aggressive herbivores exist?)

This is some kind of full cut of the second opening song for this show. I'm pretty heavily Tomino brained, so I'm enjoying it a lot.

Never have these two deserved to be together more

I'll never read the book because from what I've read it's fash propaganda.

26 Episode gambling-themed drama anime from 2007 with a second season and a spinoff anime, based on an ongoing manga by Nobuyuki Fukumoto.

The song is "Mirai wa Bokura no Te no Naka" and was made for the purposes of this show.

Official translation

TCB Scans

Kizaru moves in! And Rob Lucci makes his move?! What did you think of this week's chapter?

One Piece will be on break next week.

12 Episode anime from 2010 with two more seasons, based on a manga by Wakaki Tamiki. It's one of those stories that's surprisingly good in spite of the questionable concept.

The song is "God only knows Daisanmaku" and it was made for the anime adaptation.

The English dub for Z is just so fucking good. Great music, great VA, raw old style animation and a legendary villain. Absolutely phenomenal.

101 Episode sports/comedy anime from 1993, based on a manga by Takehiko Inoue.

The song is "Kimi ga Suki da to Sakebitai" by BAAD, a J-rock band that existed 1992-1999.

Netflix's live action adaptation of the ultra popular pirate manga dropped on Aug 31!

It's 8 episodes long covering the East Blue arc, with each being about an hour.

Have you watched it yet? What did you like or dislike?

43 Episode anime from 1999, based on a manga by Tooru Fujisawa. It actually is a sequel to the author's previous work Shonan Junai Gumi!

Known as one of the best anime of all time, I think it's one of the most inconsistent shows around. The good episodes tend to be really good, while the problematic ones are almost unwatchable. The show is particularly bad with ableism and how a disabled-coded character is treated in it. The opening remains nonetheless iconic.

The song is "Driver's High" by the popular Japanese rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel. The album it was on, "Ark" topped the Japanese charts for two weeks in July 1999 and the song itself, released as a single with the B-Side song Cradle reached 2nd place in the singles chart.

It's somewhat amusing to me how songs used in anime can be actually really successful on their own in Japan, such as the Cat's Eye opening song or the opening to Full Metal Alchemist 2003.

13 Episode Second Season of the racing anime with a legendary soundtrack from 1999.

The song is "Blazin' Beat" by MOVE, a band that existed between 1997 and 2013.

https://m.webtoons.com/en/canvas/jojo-part-0-apocryphal-prophecy/list?title_no=881768