How can you justify liking this past age 17?

How can you justify liking this past age 17?

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Why do YOU think it is childish?

Face it, liking any chinese cartoons after the age of 17 kind of makes you a manchild.

>feeling the need to justify yourself

Shonen means it's for young boys. And Japanese are already immature to begin with.

I'd say watching it past 12 is already too much.

Meanwhile most of the Sup Forums watches slice of life with moeblobs

What do you watch OP?

“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

- Hayao Miyazaki

Not an argument. You are actually too stupid to shitpost. Incredible.

I still like it and will probably like it until 30 or more.

It isn't the best, but it got me pumped up like no other anime yet has.

The kind of stuff I'll show my children, the same way my father showed me his 80's movies

Because it is a good show

>tfw this came on back when you were in highschool for senior year

Fuck it was something else

>How can anyone over 12 like Toy Story

It gets better the older I get.

Wait does that mean that if I like prisma illya I'm a cute little girl?

FUCK YEAH

Because I'm a manchild and I don't give a fuck

I'm not obsessed with appearing like an adult.

>being younger than 17 when TTGL came out

because i'm too old to give a fuck what your opinion on what I like is.

next you'll ask me how I can enjoy midget porn when i've grown past 4'6" tall.

The further you go in life the more you appreciate anime that even for a while gives you motivation to try your best.

No, it means you're a cute little slut.

fun things are fun

Let me guess. You recently watched this show after hearing about how popular it is throughout the anime community. Looking for a reason to dislike it and prove that you are so much more mature and refined you call it a show for kids?

Have you ever tried not being a contrarian and just having fun in life?

I'm sorry, did you stop succeeding when you left high school? Reality hit and you didn't buckle down and work hard? I see, I see.

I didn't energy watch but I can tell it is shit. And it is literally a kids show.

Because I'm not one of those retards who believe acting jaded and being pessimistic means being an adult.

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derailed my entire train of though now i feel old
whatever i watched he dub

>shitting on a show you didn't even watch
You are pure cancer

>shits on a beloved, popular anime
>admits he didn't even watch the show
>still says it's a kids show
pathetic bait, like trying to catch a great white shark with a mealworm.

I was almost 30 when it came out?

>Sup Forums is contrarian, right?
>so I'll shit on a popular show!
Stop trying to fit in and lurk for 2 years before posting

ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAAAAAHHHHHH

It's a good watch. Shut up.

Do you even know what moe means? Have you even seen any of those shows you're referring to?

>the Iron Giant isn't the coolest shit because it's aimed at kids

Wanna know how I know you're a faggot?

Its pretty well written for a shounen, nice baito

It's perfectly acceptable to like this past the age of 17 if you're a redditor.

>has all of the fun and cool shit that real people like
>has the themes'n'memes that self-identified intellectuals can stroke to
It has everything. It's just that the self-identified intellectuals do what they always do and turn their brains off the moment anything they deem to be dumb or childish happens, causing them to ignore shows they otherwise would like. There's also the people who claim they want well-written/directed anime but really just want shows that are well-executed that appeal to their pre-existing tastes, causing them to ignore great shows in genres they hate or as mentioned earlier, look at said shows with their tunnel vision and confirmation bias. I know plenty of people who would love something like K-ON! or Fune wo Amu but due to the aesthetic and setting and subject matter respectively, they just deem the shows to be bad without giving them a chance.

Because it has a very positive message? Watching it made me a little happier than I was before.

Can't you people shut up about Reddit? If you want to actually fit in, you just go along with board culture and take down any extreme individual by explaining why their behavior is wrong. The fuck off to Gaia meme got old but people like you must not have been around long enough to realize that shit like it is just annoying.

>themes'n'memes that self-identified intellectuals can stroke to
Oh come on now. We both know this is false. "Work hard and you'll get far in life" is possibly the most generic message to ever come out of anime. And don't get me wrong, no one should go into TTGL expecting 'deep' philosophical dilemmas. Not all anime is deep and not all anime needs to be deep to be good, because perhaps it didn't set out to be that way to begin with. I share your sentiments about tunnel vision, I have to admit I was affected by that myself. But the rest is false advertising. TTGL is simply Imaishi doing the only thing he's capable of when it comes to directing: recycling, recycling, recycling. It's an excellent gateway anime, I'd say it was the SAO of its generation. But that's about it.

It's once your past 17 that things actually start to get hard, and when you'll need that kind of spirit.

>implying you will have kids
lolno

That's not even the only message/theme. There's a lot of them, like how you should know when to let go, not to abuse your power for selfish desires, striking a balance between the freedom of people and order, dealing with overpopulation, the list goes on and on, with each being executed and incorporated well. I'm not calling it deep or anything but there's still more to it than people give it credit for. Said themes, for me, lend it a weight that I don't feel with other mech shows, not necessarily more or less of one, but one regardless.

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If only it worked like that, user. If only.

thats good because you don't.

>ping ping wahoo!.png

you don't you just say

>it's fun
and move on.

But the show is very stupid.

I guess everyone has their guilty pleasures. Thank god I didn't fall into this one.

>not to abuse your power for selfish desires
>"Ok guys, there's this thing called Spiral Power. Don't use it because it will wreck the universe, ok?"
>"Lol no we'll use it anyway"
>"Sigh. You're forcing my hand. I guess I'll have to stop you now."
>"Lol no we're 2stronk haha power of le believe in yourself!"
>"Alright, I concede defeat. The only one thing I ask of you, in the face of my complete annihilation, is that you stop using that power before you wreck the universe"
>"uhmm maybe lol xD"

Yeah, self-restraint my ass.

I love this show but I hate when people are spineless enough to chock their enjoyment of anything up to being a guilty pleasure.
>if I word something so it sounds stupid, then it is stupid!

>I hate when people have the self-awareness to recognize that something they like might not be that good, or might present evident and structural flaws, but still enjoy it
Literally why?

>heh I'll put reddit in, then they'll have to dislike it.

How much that "evidence" and those "flaws" matter comes down to the individual. Most people will only call something a guilty pleasure if they don't want people to look down on them for liking something deemed "bad" or "flawed" by a consensus, not realizing that said consensus is comprised of just people with opinions too. There is no objectivity to art so there's no reason other than trying to protect your image to claim that something you like is bad or not as good as your enjoyment would make you think.

>trying to protect your image
>on an anonymous website
Do you really think anyone would do that? Or is it so alien to you that people are able to take a good, hard, unbiased look at something they like, deem it flawed, but still owe to liking it? Perhaps they are not the ones with a problem. Perhaps it's you.

I watch anime for escapism and with no delusions of watching serious, dramatic anime.

Not a fan myself but i don't thinks its for made for kids like Naruto or once piece might be. Its just a bit stupid at times for me, especially towards the end and though its definitely Shounen its more for teens i woulds say.

>unbiased
Everyone is biased, no matter how much they want to fool themselves into believing. For what purpose would anyone want to have an "unbiased" on a piece of entertainment if they aren't trying to protect their image? What standards are the correct ones to have to be unbiased and who decided them? Why should they be trusted? Why should said standards matter to the individual who's just consuming media/entertainment? There's also the fact that this being an anonymous imageboard won't stop people from caring about their image because their ideas and thoughts are put at risk of criticism. People also like people agreeing with them, hence the (you)-hunting.

>There's also the fact that this being an anonymous imageboard won't stop people from caring about their image because their ideas and thoughts are put at risk of criticism.
Perhaps, but you can just leave the thread and no one will know who you are next time you post. If anything, this format gives people the right incentive to change their mind and their perspective on stuff, because even if they're proven wrong, their 'shame' won't last for more than a thread. There were times when I, too, was proven wrong, and I think an anonymous imageboard is possibly the one place on the internet where being wrong matters the absolute least.
>People also like people agreeing with them, hence the (you)-hunting.
I refuse to believe that people are not using 4chanX in 2017. You just mark the post you want as 'You' and then enjoy getting as many replies as you want. (You)-hunting is at this point a meme propagated by those who consider a (You) to be on par with an upvote or anything of the sort.

While I get your point and generally agree with you, there's still the fact that people won't necessarily see things that way, which would lead them to trying to fit in or have generally agreeable opinions as much as they can. For example, there are people in 3x3 threads who seem to claim that their favorite anime list contains a bunch of board-acclaimed shows so that people can say that they have good taste. Unfortunately, some Youtuber brought this up so I'm often accused of parroting him but whatever. There's also all of the people who tend to only watch said acceptable shows as well as maybe shonen shows or something and then post about how much they hate "moe" shows, even though they've clearly never seen those shows they claim to hate or understand them, hence their rampant misuse of the term "moe". A lot of that could be shitposting, sure, but it also often comes down to people wanting people to agree with them.
>4chanX
>you just mark the post you want as 'You' and then enjoy getting as many replies as you want
What the flying fuck? I've been seeing this shit get talked about for years but always avoided it.

>I refuse to believe that people are not using 4chanX in 2017
I've never needed it. Either had no extension or just use the native one like now. It does all I need.

Because by being age 18+ I dont have to subject my tastes to other peoples'

>For example, there are people in 3x3 threads
I don't mean to accuse you, but it's really your fault for getting into 3x3 threads. I see the board complaining a lot about generals, but 3x3 threads are basically 10 times worse. I mean I get where you're coming from, people still care to a certain degree, and I realized with horror that posters in 3x3 threads recognize each other by now. I've seen some really borderline shit, including YouTube channel promotion, and that stuff is not ok. I'd like to think that 3x3 threads are an exception to the state of the board, not a rule. To make another example, I used to share the same view as those guys you talk about when it comes down to moe, but now, even if I haven't watched a single CGDCT anime, I am willing to take my chances and give one of them a shot. I changed my mind because I could freely discuss about the topic, and even if I got told to go back to Sup Forums (which I don't visit), at the end of the day I learned some valuable lessons.
I do think anonymity gives you the right incentives to talk about what you think honestly, and the right opportunities to change mind when you're proven wrong. Hence, I prefer to assume that the things I read are the byproduct of individual thought rather than the awkward attempt to fit in with the consensus.

Sadly, you could say this about a lot of stuff discussed on this site.

I certainly agree with your stance on the 3x3 threads, which is why I stopped going to them ages ago. Their shittiness just sticks with me. Anyway, I've gone through most of the phases I've been talking down on, which is part of why I'm so familiar with them. I used to hate cute girl shows and have other views that I had no real basis for. I'm not saying that even most people here post in an attempt to keep an image and I'd like to believe that all posters are just posting based on their individual thought but I used to post here in a guarded fashion, concealing my actual opinions and such because it felt good to have people agree with me and was annoying to have people disagree. I'm willing to give most posters the benefit of the doubt but the fact that I used to be like that is enough for me to know that there are others out there, which is why I at least take the possibility of people being like that into account.

You could say that about any fiction whatsoever.

You could say that about life.

That wasn't Miyazaki.

Because like some here have said, I don't use maturity as a measure of approval or quality. There are problems with the series, without a doubt. It's become a bit too cheesecakey for me, something I never thought I would say. The writing is a bit so and so at times as well as the pacing.
However, there's not many series that can get me as hyped. There's no other series where I know that I can witness something as over the top as two intergalactic mechas made of energy tossing galaxies as they fight.
As cringy as it may sound, I took a lot of that series with me. I work as a teacher and a coach and find myself using the "believe in me, who believe in you" concept (though paraphrased). A lot of insecure people find solace in that since they trust me and my judgment, they must accept that I think that they can deliver.

The OST is cash too.

>not even MotW
Pretty mild for a children's show.

>Liking formulaic trash

Episodic shows are honestly garbage.

Are you certain of that?

Episodic shows gives the show a lot of room to explore a lot of shit instead of being stuck on a single track of mediocrity for plot's sake.

A good plot structure beats any episodic shit, the only genre that matches episodic is sol.

What about Lupin?

You can have that good plot structure in every episode, without all the boring "downtime" plotshit tends to have.
A completely episodic TTGL would have been immensely better than what we got, ending with Lordgenome's downfall. You cannot refute this.

Yeah I can. Most of my favorite episodes were after the timeskip.

A single episode can have a good plot structure all to itself.

Why do the "haters" keep making this thread? Even the fans don't think about it most days. Is it killing them to know that some other people like shows they dislike?

For some reason people REALLY hate seeing others enjoy TTGL. Other just-as-praised popular entry level stuff don't really suffer from the same problem, and controversial anime like Eva and K-On! are generally just mocked with a buzzword and left alone.
It's interesting, really.

This thread keeps coming back and it's just guaranteed laughs and (you)'s.

Well the entire show is a deep metaphor for erectile dysfunction and disillusionment, but a brainlet like you would not understand that.

How can you justify watching anime past the age of 16?

I,too, chose this hobby based on the big amount of deep and complex anime made for intellectualy hungry people such as myself

Why haven't brainlet and pseud caught on?

How can you justify being an insecure teenager past age 17? Age 25? Age 35?

>K-On!
>controversial
What faggotry is this? It's just cute girls doing cute things, we have tons of this throughout the decades.

>It's just cute girls doing cute things
On Sup Forums it isn't THAT controversial, but people always complain that it has no plot and it's just "moe" so people get angry when people place it on a very high pedestal (where it deserves to be)

People are just giving you shit but I agree TTGL is really boring in comparison to
G Gundam, GaoGaiGar, J-decker, Ideon, Gunbuster Tetsujin, giant robo, Turn a Gundam, SDF macross/DYRL, VOTOMS. All of which are better.

The music was pretty nice though.

My youth spirit age like wine.

How can you justify liking anime past age 17?

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>but people always complain that it has no plot and it's just "moe"
Lots of anime are.

this is unbridled autism

>place it on a very high pedestal (where it deserves to be)
I like K-On!, but even I think this is greatly exaggerated.

>"uhmm maybe lol xD"
Are you stupid? That's precisely what they showed in the last few episodes. Kittan willingly went to his death. Everyone in the maze decided to leave their happy ideal lives so they could go back and fight for what they were making. Even Viral, who was initially a foe and would never be able to procreate in the real world. In EP27, LordGenome sacrifices himself, head held high. The entire Gurren Brigade die to protect the ship. And finally, Simon accepts to kill the Antispiral while knowing it'd be Nia's death. Then he refuses reviving anyone to not abuse that power and goes for a modest lifestyle that will prevent anything bad from happening.