not sure with this spring one
only have a couple of things for sure, and a bunch of things that look potentially interesting but probably won't be
watching tower of god but I anticipate it will be absolute shit but I HAVE NO CHOICE

did not think this was gettin an anime

Not a seasonal anime but...
I rewatched K-On over the past couple days; and in the first episode, during Yui's run to school (in the first two minutes), there are cameos of Mugi, Ritsu, and Mio in the background.
As for the rest of the series it was worse than I remember, though it's still one of my favorites, as well as my first. When I last watched it, the episodes about entrance exams, university admissions, etc. worried me because I was near the end of my junior year of high school and had no plans at all for the future. Now that I've been a NEET for five years those episodes were much more worrisome...

Okay, forget that I asked.
Anyway out of season as well but I've finished Eizouken only today and I'm very conflicted. It's cool that it tried doing something different but at the same time it was so difficult to watch.
Maybe I'm not into anime production, I couldn't stand Shirobako for example and though I liked how they presented the creative process here I was so emotionally uninvolved I watched up to 8th episode with great difficulty and then left it laying for a year or so.
I wonder, should I give a good note to something that I saw some value in but didn't really enjoy?

>>33630
I didn't want to focus on details so I made it as vague as possible and perhaps unnecessarily creepy at that. Well, we are among strange beings in a strange land in more meaning than one. Even now I'm apprehensive about raising that subject, I've done it before and it ended rather questionably. The tragedy was that although I wasn't making stuff up back then it really was a genuinely advanced shitpost insanity as someone else put it (and to have some /am/igo see right through me and grasp my insanely obscure attempt at humor was the greatest of rewards) but then I got greedy and went out of line... Anyway what I'm getting at is there is a perspective, a state of mind that's unattainable to people who haven't spectacularly won or failed at life and it comes from alienation and despite how it might seem to you now it's a very precious thing. For you and I it happened naturally but long time ago some people figured (or were told) how to weave that life changing experience in a manipulation scheme called initiation. I feel it's the main reason for what's happening right now, because it's furthering the alchemical great work on the macro scale. Make no mistake, it's a very deliberate and controlled effort. But being an outlier you're not caught in that manipulation. I'm not saying that to get you to take pride and think yourself better than those deceived, were it not for some things in our lives we'd both be up there with others, happily oblivious, but at the same time please don't hurt yourself over it. It might be the thing that saves your life, meek inheriting the earth and all that.
Oh and please don't take the vaccine. DNA and RNA get transcribed both ways.

>It depends on what criteria you use to rate: if enjoyment is an important criterion then give a lower rating (or vice versa). I've thought the same about other shows. I haven't watched Eizouken but have watched Shirobako. And I didn't care for the anime production aspects either, though I liked the lead characters and their development.
Shirobako at least had that goth-loli dressed autist and was an easier watch in general (even with the painfully overused main antagonist being the rush to get the keyframes). Eizouken is for some reason very hard to keep watching and I struggle to understand why because I enjoy 2/3rds of the main cast. I mean drawing style is kinda ugly but they managed to make it fun. I enjoyed the little tidbits about the creative process and the insight of how the little things that matter to the creator end up in the final work but at the end of the day I had to force myself to watch it till the end and I really wanted to like it despite feeling that heaviness from the very first episode.

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>>33660
You misunderstood. The one sipping from the glass was me.

>Still, I damaged nothing. There was no mood to kill.
It's fine. I was not whining about this thread or anything recent, but about the past. Basically I had read the minutes of the cabal meeting and I agreed more with the intl fundamentalist than with your caMp of moderates (but not actually for his laissez faire absolutism but for a few of his criticisms). Anyway
>Now you're here but it was just me and the other dude and it actually felt kinda nice to feel connected with someone from /am/ for the first time in years, even if just for a short while.
Yep always here for my dudes, a shitpost a Month
Let's meet again in another month, I guess! 約束 des
>I used to feel that sensation of you being like me all the time and I think that's what propelled my creativity.
I guess we must be similar in some regards. Evidently though we differed in some others...

>>33662
I quoted the right one!

>>33692
There's been lots and lots of misunderstandings on /AM/ I'm afraid. IB communication is finnicky. If you make things obvious they loose their charm so it requires being well versed in references and running gags. Without that it's hard to go with the flow and each instance of someone breaking that flow is detrimental to the board's spirit, cohesion, sense of belonging, whatever you want to call it - the thing that allows people to read each other's minds, despite the cryptic posts, and follow or even expand on their jokes in all sorts of brilliant ways. We kept taking in guys that didn't get it and
ostentatiously didn't want to get it.

Since I don't know what criticism you agree with the main point of intl fundamentalist was that it wasn't the loss of that 2D/random feel but technical issues that brought /AM/ down and that's so not it. Check this post for another example of someone loosing heart because of contemporary 'fun' >>29934

>I quoted the right one!
I dun geddit, the previous post talked about winning and loosing at life leading to somewhat similar state of mind and it would fit there as that blissfully ignorant reversal sort of humor since the obvious expectation was that /AM/bo has failed at life miserably.

>nazi animes
sigh
Like really...
Anyway consider related pics. Make nazis (or any other political activists which display drone like behaviour) feel welcome and you're dooming a board.

bem

>>43161
>What can you tell me about the nature of creativity?
Ever heard about jungian cognitive functions? Creativity in terms of artistic expression is a product of introverted feeling (Fi) coupled with extroverted sensing (Se) for physical performance related art (painting, music, dance etc) and introverted sensing (Si) for writing and maybe some other things like directing (for comedic/sf type of writing it's Ti+Si e.g. Terry Pratchett, an INTP). Extroverted feeling (Fe) can work too I guess as long as it's high enough in the cognitive function stack but if we're talking that real artsy, ephemeral stuff then Fi is the king.
So if you want to become more creative find out your cognitive functions of your ego (MBTI tests are extremely faulty but they give some reference point from which you can start to figure out which type suits you best - read descriptions of different personalities and if you can't still decide which is more you then delve into the functions and differences between them which will eliminate one type or the other) and then look up what are your other 3 other personalities you can have potential access to (look up '4 sides of mind') and try to work out what forms of creativity you're geared towards and how to get there.
For example: you have Fi inferior? Does that mean you're shit out of luck? Initially you'll suck but with practice inferior function can become a hero leading to an aspirational personality. I haven't seen one agreed upon system of naming but aspirational form has the weakest function on top of the stack so it's ego upside down (should be a no brainer but don't date those who have it in the ego), anima/mirror/shadow/unconscious(or subconscious? I keep fumbling over which is which) is the polar reversal of ego (might seem tempting but the way they lead their lives is incompatible with yours so don't date those either) which means introverted functions become extroverted functions but don't change their position in the stack, and super ego the most difficult to access peacefully, is anima upside down (might seem like what you really want in a partner but they won't understand you at all - your other half which is is 50% your ego and 50% super ego - just switch the T and F letters of your MBTI type, people say ideal matches don't exist but they're retarded; individuals aren't ideal so even the perfect design might not work but that shouldn't stop you from attempting to build from the perfect design if you're going to attempt anything). To access super ego in it's positive form you need to either go through a most traumatic experience for your ego (getting hit right where it emotionally hurts but understanding that spreading more misery isn't the right thing) or master/integrate your anima and aspirational personalities, which is where your suppressed/shameful needs, feelings, wishes, thoughts and so on lie buried within. I didn't do that so I don't know how that works, I went in straight through the trauma but that can easily backfire if you don't have strong enough integrity. Anyway regardless of creativity gain unlocking all of your personalities is a worthwhile goal because it's the definition of emotional maturity.

>>12721
Here's one on functions themselves by the OG Jung himself but he's hard to read.

If you don't mind more digestible info there's a dude on youtube, C.S. Joseph, who's actually very competent in explaining the intricacies of functions and types (can't really recommend his other videos though), you just have to filter what he's saying through what he says about the other similar types if he's being too negative or positive. For example that he's now married to ESTP so he idolizes the type and won't speak ill about it (ESTP is THE bully type in it's corrupted and immature form) while at the same time bashing INFJ to hell and back since he's had a long and hurtful history with them. Anyway just serves to prove that the types that are hailed as the best for each other (N and S in the same position in the stack but reversed polarity) are anything but. You see intuition and sensing predicate individual's lifestyle and you cannot share life with someone that's lifestyle doesn't match yours or you're forcing yourself to not be yourself and that's a ticking time bomb. C.S. Joseph and many others claim that you need to have the polar opposites since they're also responsible for sexual attraction, at least the mental component, but it's better when the magnetism is between anima/animus and ego not ego - ego. Unfortunately most stories about true love have jungian idea - anima in the ego of your partner (like Okabe and Kurisu) but the attraction is so strong it's difficult to let your anima out since that leaves you with null attraction unless your partner switches with you. It's good for fiction because it's volatile and passionate but Jung was in the wrong here. Been there done that, got burned hard, also my parents are the perfect pair according to Jung and I see them tormenting one another as years go by because of lifestyle/needs differences.

Sorry, I know you're asking about the creativity itself mainly but the relationship thing is more important knowledge and barely anyone realized that so far. And yet romantic relationship with your F/T counterpart is like joining two hemispheres of the same brain, everything works so smoothly as long as people put in minimal effort. Love language is the same, weaknesses are covered, growth naturally facilitated, fears and emotional needs adressed, follower/leader roles are obvious and don't cause dissatisfaction, every sexual need is realized through interactions between different depths of personalities and when you're on the same level you have emotional closeness so there's no situation of switching into undesirable or redundant set of functions - every configuration works. Getting this through to people would eliminate so many problems and pain, seriously. Also this is why the most frequent of types in men are ISTJ while in women those are ISFJ and the least frequent are INFJ for men and INTJ for women. The tendency is visible for other types too but it's less clear but that might be because of too small of a sample size or mistyping.