tongpu (anime character) and tongpu (tv tropes person) have nothing in common. like at all. i'm mildly confused, though probably not enough for extensive tv tropes shit diggign
Every time he gets brought up someone goes "Actually I thought he was a brilliant genius on TvTropes and I somehow missed him talking about how much he'd love to rape and murder the people he hates constantly, that's why it's okay everyone made you think you were an idiot for objecting and thought it was fine the mods took away your ability to report posts because they didn't want to do their jobs"
Mind you people here like to talk about what a genius they thought Tongpu was, so who knows.
I am legit unaware of who you're talking about. Just the people on this page plus random others, at minimum, have not held those views far as I can recall.
now I've read the past two pages and I have no idea how this even came up
wasn't he the loli slug guy?
idk
He came up because Tongpu is a dude in cowboo bebabble that Klino is liveblogging, which reminded him of the tedious man back on TVT. Also no, that was Signed.
tongpu on tvt was a self-described severely depressed sociopath with a dreary attitude. tongpu in cowboy bebop is an insane assassin who is mentally six years old, laughs maniacally, and flies and twirls around like a cartoon character. the former named himself after the latter. all they have in common is some ddesire to kill people and speaking in english too much
I do remember lots of people thinking he was funny, which he wasn't, but everyone on TVTropes was like 13 and edgy, so it makes sense that they thought that.
in the movie jet has this little monologue about how he doesn't understand what the relationship of the crew is, since they're not really comrades or even friends, and i'm like, jet, what you're describing is roommates
i really liked speak like a child. good urbex segments, and faye makes for a cute kid
it has really good design though. i hadn't really realized. all the electromechanical devices pretty much look as they should look and sound as they should sound. busted up buildings too
it has really good design though. i hadn't really realized. all the electromechanical devices pretty much look as they should look and sound as they should sound. busted up buildings too
I've actually seen Knocking on Heaven's Door already.
as a nerd, i appreciated the nanomachine design. it's kind of funny, most of the technobabble in the show sort of makes sense, with the glaring exception of harmonica man, which sounds like it's made up to make fun of technobabble
i'm actually enjoying Fairy Tail (the anime) more than One Piece at the moment
Fairy Tail is doing a backstory arc (adapting the Fairy Tail Zero manga), which is interesting, while One Piece has been stuck on fight-scene-after-fight-scene for several months
I really feel like the Now and Then, Here and There anime would've benefited from an extra season. There was so much stuff that went unsaid and implied, and while it was masterfully done it was easy to miss on a first viewing.
I can be more articulate about this, I am pretty sure, but that was quite an experience. Not something I can recommend to most people, but it's definitely something of a landmark, in that I think it begins to define my limits.
I googled that to find out what it was and literally all I can find is links to watch it on shady anime rehosting sites and what appeared to be a picture of a rotting infant's corpse, so that's something.
I don't mean "actually" like "wow what a badass", just, usually if something's going to be notable for a reason like that I wouldn't watch it out of historical interest only. Shintaro Kago is fresh and modern
I didn't watch it purely out of historical interest. I watched it because I was curious about it and really bored and in a grim mood. It was... actually both less and more disturbing than I expected? I will say that it was impressive despite the obvious technical limitations.
I googled that to find out what it was and literally all I can find is links to watch it on shady anime rehosting sites and what appeared to be a picture of a rotting infant's corpse, so that's something.
Here's what Midori is.
Back in the late '70s, there was this second-string industry animator named Hiroshi Harada who started to get sick of working on boring TV shows and kids' movies, so in his spare time he began making artsy shorts by himself. One of them, the 1987 film Lullaby to the Big Sleep, got a really good reception from the Japanese underground art scene, which boosted his confidence enough to get him into talks with one of his heroes, a dude named Suehiro Maruo, about adapting one of his manga. Maruo agreed, so Harada spent five years drawing the whole damned thing himself. The result...
The original manga is based on an old Japanese melodramatic kami shibai (shadow puppet theatre) archetype, the Camellia Girl, a flower-selling orphan who is shanghaied into joining a travelling carnival sideshow. Very bad things happen to her. Maruo being best known for his lavish portayals of batshit insane things happening with lots and lots of gore... you get the idea.
It's arguably the darkest thing I have ever seen.
Incidentally, it's never been released in Japan, not so much because of censorship (although that is a factor) as because Harada treated it as the centrepiece of an elaborate performance art piece of sorts involving shadow puppetry and people in costume and live music that only was advertised through word of mouth, and he considers watching it standalone to somewhat miss the point.
But yeah, I think it should generally be understood that while I am generally not a big fan of really brutal stuff, curiosity and black moods will drive me to some really weird places.
Watched an interview with Harada. Seems like a nice man, very shy, probably somewhere on the autism spectrum going by certain mannerisms. Which is not terribly surprising.
I am going to go watch an episode or two of Dennou Coil to fix my brain before I sleep.
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wasn't he the loli slug guy?
idk
tongpu on tvt was a self-described severely depressed sociopath with a dreary attitude. tongpu in cowboy bebop is an insane assassin who is mentally six years old, laughs maniacally, and flies and twirls around like a cartoon character. the former named himself after the latter. all they have in common is some ddesire to kill people and speaking in english too much
but i thought a lot of people were smarter than me
Two pages into the search for tongpu
i can't see either of those, i'm guessing they're nsfw
anyway here's the scene (blood)
HA HA HA HA HA
bebop is good though.
i really liked speak like a child. good urbex segments, and faye makes for a cute kid
oh?
what is this show you're talking about? i might be interested.
#gettinginterestedinthingsforunusualreasons
it has really good design though. i hadn't really realized. all the electromechanical devices pretty much look as they should look and sound as they should sound. busted up buildings too
Though that's a movie, not part of the TV series.
And yeah, I am aware of its reputation.
Fairy Tail is doing a backstory arc (adapting the Fairy Tail Zero manga), which is interesting, while One Piece has been stuck on fight-scene-after-fight-scene for several months
i don't think i'm even at the bit Sredni was talking about yet, but the last few episodes have been relentless
Ikalgo is kind of a scary dude
And . . . Netero was always a slightly sinister character, very difficult to read. But that bomb, his last trump card? Yikes.