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[Cruxador]

Gainax is what happens when a studio that mostly makes porn goes legit, honestly. Imagine what the next Marvel movie would be like if it was produced by Brazzers and be impressed that Gainax wasn't worse in the early days.

Gainax was great, because they weren't afraid to do outright crazy shit. If some of that crazy shit is terrible, that's a worthy price for the crazy good shit.

Also, porn isn't illegal; porn companies are already legit.

Also also a marvel movie by Brazzers starring someone like Evan Stone would probably be great fun, if you like your heroes campy. Brazzers seem to prefer DC though. And honestly, a DC film made by Brazzers could hardly be worse than what DC has been putting out.ç

Also also also it's not like Brazzers hasn't made SFW versions of their scripts before. Although I don't think they've done anything feature-length.

[pikachu17]

Gainax is what happens when a studio that mostly makes porn goes legit, honestly. Imagine what the next Marvel movie would be like if it was produced by Brazzers and be impressed that Gainax wasn't worse in the early days.

Also, porn isn't illegal; porn companies are already legit.

I don't think that's the meaning of legit he meant. I think he more meant a 'small-town actor becoming a big movie star' "going legit", then a 'decriminalizing our works' "going legit".

[itisnotlogical]

All of this trivia is fun. I knew ridiculous breast bouncing in anime is called "gainaxing" but I didn't know they literally made hentai, I just figured it was regular pervy anime stuff.

Imagine an officially licensed porn spinoff of... literally any Western franchise. Although I'll probably omit such works from my collection, it's funny to imagine nasty videos on the same shelf as Funko Pops, lunchboxes and trading cards.

[Rolan7]

I don't think that's the meaning of legit he meant. I think he more meant a 'small-town actor becoming a big movie star' "going legit", then a 'decriminalizing our works' "going legit".

The point stands though, porn companies are seen as seedy or gross.  Though eh, I guess that's particularly an American thing.

Spoiler: Gainax talk, spoilered for meh (click to show/hide)

Personally I love the Gainax title Princess Maker 2, despite it having some weirdly lewd options I'm legit disinterested in.  The options don't really bother me, heck the choice maybe enriches my experience somehow.

I'm also a big fan of a few Nippon Ichi titles despite the fanservice.  It's cartoony and backed by game mechanics which uh... I enjoy.  Despite them serving as treatises on levels of infinity and the value of time.

And yet I can't stand certain animes like Strike Witches which, to my mind at least, brandish sexualization of young characters.  I don't know why, exactly, maybe I have a double standard.  With PM2 they're fairly late options, emphasis on options.  And Disgaea is just too artistically cartoonish for me to see as pornographic.  It's like the *word* pornography, just symbols instead of actual lewdness.

So I finally finished up the first season(?) of One Punch Man, up to episode 12 anyway.  I enjoyed it.  Genos was my favorite since his introduction of course, but I found myself caring about the other S-rank heroes towards the end.  Even green loli brat was amusingly annoying.  Samurai, dojo-master, and guy-with-a-bat brought the show... impact, I guess.

And I guess I won't spoil the ending, but Saitama's arc was interesting. 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Especially in how he remains unresolved.

It's the supporting characters that make it feel good, though.

I guess there are OVAs which my housemate suggested.  And maybe a second season that is very different and bad?

I watched the first two episodes of the new Ultraman and barely got engaged at all.  I'm not exactly sure why.  I guess the english dub felt really off, and in a lot of ways it just felt really predictable and... simple.  The fight graphics also didn't work for me, for some reason.  None of the attacks seemed to have impact, even when they kept impacting the ground like meteors.  It was technically impressive, but maybe lasted too long for me.

Then I watched the first two episodes of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and it's... very unlike what I expected, but I think I'm about to have a good time.
Not sure how much of the wackiness is intentional, heh...  But I know things have barely gotten weird yet.  Just trying to murder a guy with a unique mask to avoid incriminating evidence, why not

PS: Mumen Rider is pretty cool.  He's not my favorite but I love his dedication and humility, it's truly inspiring.

[Cruxador]

And maybe a second season that is very different and bad?

I haven't started watching the adaptation, and I understand that they animation is worse, but ONE's writing continuously gets better, and the second season should have more of a story to it as well, it focuses on the best villain of the series by far, and it also gets more into the other S class heroes, which is where the series really shines I think.

[Folly]

Then I watched the first two episodes of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and it's... very unlike what I expected, but I think I'm about to have a good time.
Not sure how much of the wackiness is intentional, heh...  But I know things have barely gotten weird yet.  Just trying to murder a guy with a unique mask to avoid incriminating evidence, why not

I just started this recently as well, and finished the second arc this morning.
Jojo is less bizarre and more epic than I was expecting. I mean, from the title I was expecting 'Is this a Zombie?' levels of weirdness. Instead Jojo ended up being closer to Dragonball before all the aliens and transformations, which is much more tolerable. And beyond the weirdness there are constant twists and creative use of resources, and changing cast to keep things fresh. Also I like the music. But then I rarely find an anime with music I dislike.
Definitely wish I had given Jojo a chance sooner.

[Reelya]

All of this trivia is fun. I knew ridiculous breast bouncing in anime is called "gainaxing" but I didn't know they literally made hentai, I just figured it was regular pervy anime stuff.

Well the term "literal hentai" would be confusing here, since it's not really well defined (and has no actual relevant meaning in Japanese). What is "literal" hentai here and where are we drawing the line between that and ecchi? Pretty much everything Gainax ever did is less ecchi that some of the current TV shows such as Highschool DxD, so no, they never made literal hentai.

EDIT: if we want an example of what are clearly literal hentai people who went legit, the example is clearly Hoods Entertainment, who make Seikon no Qwaser and similar animes. They were super-obviously a studio set up to give hentai artists a job in the legitimate TV anime world, and would pick up licenses too squicky for anyone else to touch (usually involving magical breasts, and/or bodily fluids as a plot device).

Then Hoods did Mysterious Girlfriend X (which is squicky but more mainsteam), got a hit series out of it, and after that they do more mainstream shows. To give you an idea how mainstream they now are, I'm watching 3D Kanojo Real Girl, a light hearted romcom shoujo anime with almost no fanservice, and just discovered (while looking up Hoods for this post) it's actually made by Hoods, the same goddamn people who made Seikon no Qwaser, one of the most perverted TV anime of all time.

[Rolan7]

Also I like the music. But then I rarely find an anime with music I dislike.
Definitely wish I had given Jojo a chance sooner.

Hearing the end credits outside of memes made me giggle.  I guess I'm a sucker.

[Frumple]

I forget if the anime has the porn monkey (orangutan or something, think it was on a ship?), but it has the cyborg nazi, right? I've only read the manga so I can't really say how the bizarre progression goes. It definitely gets weirder as it goes along, though, and the general premise is fairly absurd regardless. Good stuff, really. Reason it's spoken of so readily when folks as asking for intro-to-anime suggestions.

[NRDL]

I forget if the anime has the porn monkey (orangutan or something, think it was on a ship?), but it has the cyborg nazi, right?

Oh, it absolutely has both. It's surprising how faithful the anime actually is, if memory serves. The only changes in the anime that I can remember are stuff that's actually ADDED to the anime. For as much as I love Araki's writing, he did leave a couple of loose ends as well as some stuff that's rather loosely explained.

The anime, especially Diamond is Unbreakable, helps gives closure to stuff in the manga that otherwise just isn't there.

[Arx]

Then Hoods did Mysterious Girlfriend X (which is squicky but more mainsteam)

Unless the anime is dramatically different to the manga, I should note that Mysterious Girlfriend X has one really frickin' weird major element, but it's not... exactly sexual? And aside from that, I don't think they actually even kiss in the manga.

...the spit thing is undeniably really strange though.

[Frumple]

I'unno, it's been awhile since I read it but I remember that one being decently lewd. Might have been, like... cryptolewd or something, but the element was there. Not terribly porny, just sorta' low-key lascivious.

[Karnewarrior]

I mean, if 774 can move from being one of the most famous loli porn authors of all time to being "legit" with Nagatoro, I don't see why a studio could move from doing hentai animation to "legit" shows with real budgets.

Frankly, I'm more disappointed it doesn't go the other direction more often. Imagine what a studio like Gainax or Kyoani would put in a proper porno hentai flick. :V

[Reelya]

Then Hoods did Mysterious Girlfriend X (which is squicky but more mainsteam)

Unless the anime is dramatically different to the manga, I should note that Mysterious Girlfriend X has one really frickin' weird major element, but it's not... exactly sexual? And aside from that, I don't think they actually even kiss in the manga.

...the spit thing is undeniably really strange though.

Watching people slurp saliva off each other's fingers with the slurpy sound effects is plenty suggestive. The main reason Hoods ended up with it rather than antother studio is probably the gag-reflex inducing nature of the work rather than the sex angle. If you've noticed, anime, even ones with a fair amount of fanservice, don't generally tend to use bodily-fluid humor anywhere near as much as Western cartoons do: fart, poo, pee and vomit jokes are much more prevalent in western cartoons. There are unspoken taboos on both sides, but they differ.

[Arx]

Ah, yeah, they probably played that up more in the anime, and it's probably more obnoxious when there's actual sound.