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Currently reading Lolita, after I have book 3 of the Millennium series and book 3 of the expanse.
Also begrudgingly waiting for the next Crescent City and ACOTAR books, we have a mini book club at work and I’ve already invested too much time into these books to give up now lmao
Man there’s something about this series that’s really hitting for me. I know Akane Banashi is the “successor” of Act-Age but this is very much in that vein as well and has hooked me more than Akane has so far. Hopefully it ends up lasting long, I don’t think it’s been doing well on the ToC rankings from what I’ve seen
Cowboy Bebop
Samurai Champloo
Terror in Resonance
Beastars
Land of the Lusterous
Ghost in the Shell
Gundam
Big O
Berserk
Monster
Psycho Pass
Akira
Gunslinger Girls
Serial Experiments Lain
Haibane Renmei
Parasyte
Evangelion
Escaflowne
And many, many, MANY more. These are all things off the top of my head, and most of them are fairly different in genre. It’s kind of a broad request, super deformed art styles are common in assorted anime but it’s not like it’s a defining feature of all anime, so most recommendations you’ll get are gonna be pretty varied.
One thing in common is typically more mature anime are less likely to use it, so that might be the only common denominator between all the stuff I recommended
I’m not saying other people shouldn’t have a voice on this topic, but that discussion is a topic that is based in transphobia. If a woman feels uncomfortable sharing the bathroom with a trans woman, it’s because she has a predisposition to fear and feel unsafe around trans women.
Contrast it with the past, where men used to feel uncomfortable with women in typically male dominated spaces. I remember seeing an old news video where a female reporter was sitting in a bar typically frequented by men. She asked them how that made them feel and all the men she asked made a point to mention they felt uncomfortable with her in the bar with them and they would rather her leave than share the bar with her.
This is the same argument you’re presenting. It would seem ludicrous now as we’ve moved past that point (for the most part, it’s not a 100% solved issue sadly), but at the time it was seen as a legitimate argument, as sexism was still rampant at the time and it was the norm for women to be excluded from male spaces.
There is nuance to your presented argument in that the space that’s in question is a restroom, which is a more private and intimate space, but the nature of the argument is still based in transphobia and I think should be presented as such. It’s the root of the issue and the aspect that needs to be addressed before any headway can be made on the topic
Fine, is not wanting a black person in the same restroom as a white person not an argument based in racism? I avoided this topic since I assumed you’d call it a tired argument, but if you want a more direct comparison this would be more apt.
And I did acknowledge that it’s a much more nuanced topic when you direct it to restrooms, but the core of the argument is the same imo. You just didn’t read that far in the comment lol
It’s not necessary, you could have a complete experience without it for sure. But I will say you feeling like that about season 3 doesn’t surprise me at all, and it was a risk the team took that I personally loved but I can totally understand why people wouldn’t like it.
I’ll put it this way; the movie fills in the gaps that season 3 introduces, and there are story beats in the movie that I think only truly hit with the context of season 3. But if you didn’t like 3 that’s totally fine, tonally it’s a mix of case 1 and case 3 of Sinners of the System, if you liked those two movies (not sure if they technically count as movies lol) you’re probably gonna like the movie.
I could go further in depth but it will spoil things, just let me know and I can go more in depth :)
Greg P is a fucking monster of a vocalist, I’m glad he’s still releasing so much music post Dillinger. New EP is a banger btw, hoping to catch them live with Underoath if I have the time for it