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I finished Blue Comet SPT Layzner recently. That was one of the 80s Mecha you recommend me a while ago. I loved it! It's my favorite Mecha now. Thanks.

Thank you for the birthday wishes!!

"Live long and prosper."
-- Spock

Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday man!

happy birthday!

Oh god, I hadn't even considered that what I have seen is likely just the tip of the iceburg, considering it's mostly western fans. Good lord, people get really crazy over celebrities.

I know idol culture is a big thing in Japan, and it can spawn similar people, but I don't know if it's as severe as this. I'm not a K-Pop fan myself. I'm primarily a metalhead.

thanks for this info, will be having one hell of a google researching adventure tonight.

I saw you. You are immortalized forever in the kpop world! And I've read that concert prices are out of control. Even though I have a lot of love for kpop there's also a lot about it I don't love.

Yes I'm a fan of 1st gen kpop also. All the popular groups and even some lesser known groups like Shinvi and M.I.L.K. I really love Lee Jung Hyun the most.

I just turned 46 (born in 78) so technically I'm not a boomer I'm Gen X. My parents are boomers. But to young people today I feel like to them I am a boomer so I just call myself that anyway. Never been to an actual concert but came close to going to Odd Eye Circle and IVE when they were in Texas fairly recently but chickened out.

That's bad ass that you've actually been to Korea and to M Countdown and even saw a pre worldwide famous BTS and those other groups. That had to be an amazing experience.

God yes. My all time favorite is f(x). I also like Kara, Wonder Girls, T-ara, AOA, Crayon Pop, Odd Eye Circle, IVE. Mostly 2nd gen girl groups.

SNSD <3

Wow thank you so much for all these recommendations. This is the kind of stuff I'm looking for. You seem to know your stuff. I will definitely give all these a chance in the foreseeable future.

Would you care if I added you as a friend in case I have questions or want other recomendations?

It's true my completed list is missing some big titles from the 80s and 90s. I am aware of most of the ones you mentioned and will probably get to them at some point. But right now I'm more interested in hidden gems and obscurity.

And like my profile says I consider myself a casual and tend to watch anime that I'm more interested in instead of what's considered "must see". Also I'm not too big on mecha or space anime. But I'll give anything a try.

Going to answer this here. An incomplete answer based off of my own observations and that of others more well-versed than myself.

It is a bit of a complex question, but there are a rather diverse array of groups that make up the right-wing, with the most pronounced distinction that can be made be between people who are of the religious right and those who are not, who have a fair amount of divergence in opinions. The former might rebuke South Park while the other may fiercely embrace its political incorrectness. This does beg the question why people who are not religious and often are suspicious thereof might agree with the religious sect and vice versa.

This demonstrates that both the right-wing and the left-wing have a number of varying thoughts and influences that don't 100% agree with each other. For example, Black Panthers think of the second amendment as sacred despite gun control being a left-leaning opinion. They do however oppose the encroachment of government power via policing while simultaneously believing in welfare programs, socialism, and anti-capitalist sentiments.

There are three main reasons, as I see it.

1. The current running thread between online right-wing people, and to an extent most people online, is the fact that a ton of content, and especially right-wing content, are reactionary. Stoking rage and controversial opinions works for the algorithm is far more profitable. Right-wing pundits draw on paranoia of change and persecution, though this is not absence in left-wing thought as well.
   
   To clarify, I personally think history has favored claims that radicals like King and Malcolm X have been assassinated and thus such rage is more justified, but the mechanism of online rage does apply to both. Modern right-wing ideology is reactionary, and since they do not want change, they want targets threatening change. Unlike the left-wing, they have a more difficult time drawing upon historical examples of oppression.
   
   
2. Secondly, there is also the idea that certain Asian countries, like Japan, should be emulated.
   
   You might be wondering why right-wingers generally support Israel. Israel is thought of as a militarized ethnostate to where all the Jews can go. Japan is thought of in similar terms, being homogenous and largely not friendly to mass immigration, with a "pure" culture that they successfully protected with those policies. They simultaneously view the West as encroaching on its cultural purity while viewing traditional culture in the West as being attacked by mass immigration and the shifting cultural liberal elite.
   
   So Japan is seen as something to emulate, and to contrast the degenerate west, with its DEI and so forth. Japan is used as a political bludgeon to oppose and criticize change in Western society, which you can see here.
   
   
3. Thirdly...anime does pander to single lonely young men. Here we get to the subculture of incels, who are distinctly right-wing, but also a distinct faction in the right-wing itself that has a fair amount of people who identify as right-wing criticizing the movement. Though yes, are we surprised by a media saturated by so many depictions of the "ideal woman" would attract people who dislike women and feminism?
   

You can also add Gavin McInnes attacking video games[1]. Truthfully? They view anime as representative of Japanese culture unaffected by cultural changes seen in the West, which often pander to their preferred desires of women, and Japan as the culturally pure ideal to which to strive for. The "online-right", versus the religious right that Walsh and Crowder pander to. Heck, you could say that the "online-right" is even more reactionary because they do not truly based their beliefs in traditional values like Christianity, but severe opposition.

Opposition to such an extent, that they care about standing against something more than standing for something. They are the purely reactionary that even the church would look down upon. They have a very limited worldview even compared to other factions. Not that right-wing factions don't oppose one another.

Christianity versus Islam are both right-wing ideologies, but which fiercely oppose one another because they oppose each other in terms of identity and control. Similarly, the right-wing which espouses right-wing rhetoric while trying to defend "anime" as seen as pariahs.

Still, they still identify as right-wing because they oppose left-wing changes.

It's not that I never visited those, but they never worked for me, also nothing game worthy there...and you are gaining negative points for TikTok (since its main point is to be biased toward your personal preferences).


So you admit bias for using echo cambers for retro fans :))).


Of course those are freaking everywhere...the real question (since the beginning of our argument months ago) is how dominant they are. I never questioned their existence, I personally know retro game and anime fans here in Bulgaria (and I am sure I mentioned that moths ago too).


I knew such subreddits exist, the question is how many young people are using those.


OK, but it's the most gaming versed social network of them all (despite having a lot of other stuff than game channels).


Actually some time ago I created an account in order to track my donghua and found that:
- I prefer MAL, maybe because I am used to it.
- Their donghua data catalogue is less consistent than the MAL one. Same thing with the AniDB donghua data catalogue too. Apparently MAL is the best place for chinese animation.
- There's no export option. Yes, there are third party tools for that (and are kind trashy?), but not having a native one is BS.


OK, having more options to make your anime preferences public is something important for you...still this doesn't disqualify MAL as a social network.


...and actually I do - https://anilist.co/user/VeDonghuaList/ but I don't use it. Also I don't find the options you listed being useful for me.


I have personal experience an opinions, you are free to ignore those.


Than ignore me. Just assume my whole thing was trolling from a teen who never played retro games or never watched shows like Takarajima.


We are kind of a small country, even a partial leak of personal information can get me some bad loans I never took.
Your mistrust is a small price to pay.


I did, but I edited it out since it was repeating the same information. Anyways you knew my answer since we are already talking for so long...


Those are remasters for a different systems. Also there are ports of the same game for different consoles, which also can be very different experience. There are layers and layers or different versions.


All those count as retro games, but they aren't the genuine experiences...and here's where you are missing my main point: why young people are play those. They aren't interested in said genuine thing, they are only interested in the superficial resemblance. Some old games would be unplayable for them if certain changes aren't introduced. It's a temporary fad for them, it's a gimmick.


Oh no! I am so sad now... I failed to impress someone! That never happened before!
I mean, what's with the dramatic use of "not quite impressive"? Just agree or disagree.


Making distinction between those and the others doesn't matter, they are apparently not the same thing as the original.


You guys, from North America waste a lot of energy suspecting your interlocutors and even coming out with wild conspiracy theories. Can you simply take my words at face value and work from there - agree or disagree. Also I am really bad (and really slow) at expressing myself in english, so some nonsense is guarantied.


Depends on which generation (this is why distinguishing between generations is important) we are talking about.
Even the original is kind of a modern for Gen-X-er like me, so if I play it I wouldn't consider it retro. On the other hand its remasters a bit different experience and a millennial playing those is not retro in my book. On the other hand any zoomer playing any RE4 version aside of the remake is retro...
But pay attention for the key part here - if they deliberately choose not to play the original on GameCube they don't have the retro gamer mindset and they aren't genuinely interested in old games, just superficially.


I am not familiar with this one.


Based on australians complaining about their shitty internet.


And you went there recently and rented a DVD in a urban area with great internet? (Which is quite plausible, but you didn't do that.)
I just had an idea, a hypotheses, a speculation, tho no way for you to disprove it.


Yes, it's possible, but since they are already used to a more convenient ways I can't see it becoming the dominant model.


This is already happening for a quite long time, even with traditional media where for example music is being replaced in classic movies and TV shows.
Sadly the big corporations mainly care about new products and new users - and as mentioned many times here, those aren't that interested in the cultural legacy.


Because even the zoomers who are interested in retro stuff wouldn't post such topics. It's not their way of commination, they will write only about topical things.


Yey, for immature (or scared of becoming old) mellanials who like to mingle with zoomers.
But as I mentioned above, the existence of multiple versions, ports, remasters and remakes makes it vital to distinguish between different generations of gamers.