Welcome to c/anime on Hexbear!
A leftist general anime community for discussion and memes.
Simple rules
Be nice.
Use spoiler tags.
Don't sexualise underage characters, including 1000 year old loli ones.
Don't post hentai here. This is an anime community.
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Gigathread: Good Anime Talks, Presentations, Conventions, Panels, etc
Piracy is good and you should do more of it. Use https://aniwave.to/ and https://4anime.gg/ for streaming, and https://nyaa.si/ for torrents. Piracy is the only means of digital protest that audiences have to fight poor worker treatment.
hazel makes a lot of cool videos - not always anime
Colleen's Manga Recs is pretty cool. Mostly works around josei and shojo stuff, which isn't my typical genre, but very helpful to broaden my horizons.
I could probably recommend more podcasts than YouTube channels, but that wasn't the assignment lol
Edit: fixed some autocorrect spelling errors
Oh yeah Hazel, forgot about them but they're definitely a low output, high quality channel. The latter sounds interesting, I'll check some of these videos out.
Good anime youtubers are pretty hard to find, you often end up seeing them make like 1-5 videos where 1 was extremely controversial to anime fans (reactionaries) and then they stopped making videos forever. An obvious example of this is the Goblin Slayer ideology video https://youtu.be/VPX2fWgoiyg This person was a great video maker and just disappeared and unlisted this video because of what it stirred up, a real shame.
Yeah, goblin slayer is too tough a subject for anime fans. They as a rule don't have the artistic literary to not have the worst takes about it. I know my takes are awful about it.
The problem is when a show is good in a number of ways people switch their brains off to criticism unless the criticism is so blatantly obvious that it can't be ignored. You can see this with Attack on Titan which they generally accept deserves criticism for its blatantly fascist message. Since the issues with Goblin Slayer are hidden within the art and framework rather than the explicit point of the story this gets lost on them.
I just like the show about a guy who fights to protect the poor people the government ignores because it is the right thing to do. Then everyone sees how cool he is for doing that and become his friends.
Yeah and that's ok. It's the framework and everything around it that is sus. Ranging from the idyllic towns and villages that basically all look like Hitler paintings, to the obvious depiction of women in the show (other than the elf) as tradwives, not to mention the obvious "we must perform genocide" aspect of the goblin menace. Yes the goblin menace might actually be evil but that doesn't mean it's not a standin for a certain message, which becomes clearer when you take into account the artistic elements. All the features of fashy shit are there and ooooooo boy does its community and "fanart" audience love SA.
I feel like being fash and enjoying sexual violence is the background radiation of anime in general though.
watch better anime
For real. The only shows I've seen that meet those criteria are things I intentionally hate watched like Cross Ange lol
I feel like most mainstream stuff. Think about the trope of the fall into chest stuff. That is like ever classic anime you know?
here's some great anime that neither enjoy sexual violence nor fascism. there's plenty more out there, sex pest stuff is hardly "every classic anime". some of these may have some in it but they certainly aren't enjoying it
also it's real fucking gross to say "a poor taste joke is exactly the same as on screen sexual assault with deeply fash vibes" there's a big difference between urusei yatsura and goblin slayer
Goku does some unfortune things but because it is always played for comedy people don't think about it.
you'll notice i didn't include dragon ball on the list of anime that didn't have sex pest stuff or fascism! and again, there's a big difference between dragon ball and goblin slayer
you're basically saying "all 80s movies love sexual assault, so it's fine that i like revenge of the nerds," and when i respond with a list of 80s movies that don't have any sexual assault or harrassment in them you say "well have you seen how han treats leia in star wars?" those are two very different things! both are bad, but they are at very different levels of it
Certainly for a certain strain of anime.
Opening up fearmongering about evil North Korea and China is cringe tho
Super eyepatch wolf is good.
I think mother's basement is probably tolerable.
There are a bunch that make like two good videos then stop posting. Moon channel is good.
MB released some cringe video a while back. I couldn’t find it because i realized he took it down lol. It was about how you shouldn’t pirate anime
Thats just basic libshit though... with anime youtubers I would be more worried about them being rightwing or straight up nazis.
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Pause and Select was my favourite anime channel, but he got busy irl and doesn't make that much content anymore 
Zeria and Pedantic Romantic were also good but they kinda disappeared. Short rule of thumb, if a Youtuber makes a video about Revolutionary Girl Utena (and "gets" it) they're usually cool and good.
pyramid inu mostly does classic mecha anime (especially tomino's gundam) but has room in their heart for other things, including some live action stuff
(pronouns not listed but the vibes make me lean gender neutral to be safe)
Ah, them. I've seen some of their videos already. There's also Retcon 404 who does old Mecha reviews, I just remembered.
KaiserBeamz
KaizerBeamz and STEVEM are my favourites right now.
Never heard stevem but kaiserbeamz chads itt lets go. I have seen all of their stuff.