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I find this funny because so many other anime shows in recent years still do this, yet my boi Saitama getting shafted.
Sometimes being recognized/popular is not a good thing, and I'm sure people don't know that a lot of the illustrators for Shonen Jump draw like this.
 
Very easy to identify.
 

Compared to the usual representation of black people in anime, this is completely fine. 

There's a lot of real things that black ppl should be outraged at....a fuckin anime character isn't one of them.

There's a lot of real things that black ppl should be outraged at....a fuckin anime character isn't one of them.

I guess I'll give my brief testimony here.
 
I grew up in a Christian household however I had a little fallout in my teen years because I was rebellious and arrogant. Long story short, I had misconceptions about Christianity on many areas and then I became a born again believer after investigating the claims of Jesus. I was a blind believer because I was intellectually lazy to read the bible in its entirety and ask important questions.
 
Let's face it, just because you grew up believing a certain world view doesn't mean it's true. We have to a little digging to see if the claims are true. And the bible encourages everyone to test it, "but test them all; hold on to what is good" - 1 Thessalonians 5:21. The existence of Jesus Christ is a historical fact based on eye witness testimonies which is the 4 gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John). And the fact that Jesus died by crucifixion and the empty tomb has been acknowledged by  non-Christian historians and scholars. Even a very critical agnostic scholar, Bart Erhman, said it's an indisputable fact. Then you have the disciples and apostles who went to their horrible bloody deaths professing this faith. Now, there are people who have died believing in whatever faith they have, but here's the difference between other religions and Christianity. The disciples and apostles didn't just died for what they believe, they died claiming to have seen the risen Jesus. So that tells me these guys' convictions were so strong that no matter what the persecution levels they faced, they'd be willing to be tortured and die for it.
 
So what is Christianity? The bible teaches that Jesus is God in human form who came into our world to die for our sins. Because of our fallen nature, God wanted to restore our broken relationship with him and fulfilled that through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Now read this carefully because this is one of the most important part on what Christianity is; Christianity is the ONLY world view where your salvation is UNMERITED. "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- not by works, so that no one can boast." - Ephesians 2:8-9. But then begs the question, why? Why would God do this? The answer is quite simple: LOVE. Love is the central theme of this faith. "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." - Romans 5:8. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." - John 3:16. Christianity at its core is a relationship with God, it was never a religion in the first place. Religious people find God useful, but growing Christians find God beautiful.
 
I'm a Christian because it's true and I've realized my sinfulness and shortcomings that I need God. If I could live up to the bible, then I wouldn't need God, but the fact is I'm too flawed that's why need him. After I became a Christian, I felt free and was able to have my eyes opened to know what's right and wrong. It is just like what CS Lewis said, "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
After reading the gospels, there's only 3 conclusions you can come up with about Jesus Christ. Either he's a liar, lunatic, or Lord. If anyone has God's stamp of approval, it would be the guy who rose from the dead. That alone gives me the eternal hope.
 
Now let's get real here. Christianity never promises an easy or successful life. In fact, pain and suffering gets worse in life as a Christian. Jesus is the paradigm of our suffering when read up what he went through on the day of crucifixion. Read the book of Acts in the New Testament to know the kind of life the disciples and apostles went through. Anyone who teaches the gospels as something that promises you an easy or successful life on earth are teaching you the "prosperity gospel" which is false! Nowhere in the bible says that. In fact, Jesus backs it up by this; "Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me." - Luke 9:23 and "For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name." - Acts 9:16. In other words, there's a cost in being a Christian. I can certainly testify my life has gotten worse after proclaiming this faith; received death threats, friendships lost, job loss, accused of false acts, and so on. What Christianity promises is eternal life in heaven enjoying the presence of God.
 
If there's anyone considering Christianity, you need to ask yourself these questions: Does truth matter to you? If Christianity were true, would you become a Christian?
"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6. "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” - John 8:32.
 
Once you've made a decision to investigate, I recommend reading the gospel of John as a starting point so you know who Jesus Christ really is, then read some apologetic books to get a grasp on the evidence such as "The Case for Christ" by Lee Strobel who was a former athiest and Chicago Tribunes journalist, "Cold Case Christianity" by J Warner Wallace who was a former atheist homicide detective, and "Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus" by Nabeel Qureshi who was a former Muslim.

Some of the demographics that annoy me the most (on a personal level):
- ''Goths'' who literally only listen to that sadboi soundcloud rap shit and are all about that 'tfw no big tity goth gf' bullshit
- Furries ('ha ha what do you think sonic's toes smell like ha ha just wondering')
- K-Pop
- Boomers who are invested in that Minions/Garfield/Ggetto Tweety stuff to an unhealthy degree
- Visual Kei
- MCU / Star Wars / Game of Thrones / literally anything that attracts 'alt-normies' (i hate the term, but unfortunately it's accurate)
- Videogame speedrunners 
- Drag race fans
- Metalheads
- Anime in general, but ESPECIALLY both the 'UwU this anime girl is LITERALLY me & i have a 5 o' clock shadow that won't quit' and 'I want to FUCK this anime girl & my civilization still hasn't invented taking showers' demographics
- The absolute fucking retards who for some reason believe in raising their pets 'vegan' just because they themselves are (not a 'fandom', but still a community)
 
Bronies would've been up on that list once but it feels like that demographic has just spontaneously Jonestowned  overnight in terms of their web presence compared to half a decade ago. Sherlock/Dr. Who/Supernatural and all that stuff could've been in the list along w/ MCU and stuff but for those Tumblr-tier fandoms it also kinda feels like the fanbase's web presence just evaporated overnight. I guess with Sherlock and Dr. Who it was more a case of the last couple of seasons just being THAT irredeemably bad
 
In all honesty though, if we're just talking about singling out the  'most toxic communities' or whatever,  you can literally just narrow it down to 'whichever ones attract the highest numbers of  furries, nu-commies, incels, SJWs, alt-righters & nerds LARPing as actual nazis, transwomen or 15 year olds tryna act like they're hot shit' within communities mainly frequented by people up to like.. age 35 or so, IMO. In all honesty, whenever I see some shit-flinging or drama going down in some particular community there's pretty much always a 95% chance the person causing it will fall into one or more of those categories.
 
Boomer environments, on the other hand, are much more unpredictable, and the most venomous shit can legit come from the most unexpected of places. I rembmer for example how a couple of years back there was some pretty serious shit going down on Facebook in some of the Dutch ''moms sharing pictures of Tweety wishing you a nice weekend''-communities when some middle-aged guy started reposting some of those house mom's edited Garfield pics on his own page w/o crediting them, and it culminated in a situation where the guy stealing and reposting other people's pics was sending out death threats, doxxing people and creating fake accounts of his accusers to try & slander the housewives accusing him of stealing their ''Don't talk to me before i've had my coffee!'' pics.

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I've been trying to will myself to listen to a bunch of full releases from start to finish on Spotify for months and it's been such a struggle, but I put all the releases into a playlist today and started playing them on shuffle, and all of a sudden I'm having so much fun? It's the same music, but it everything sounds so much better. Weird.

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So I know I have been gone for like a week or so now (idfk) but I miss this place.
 
Hello Again! My name is psychonnect_rozen! I enjoy Dir En Grey, The Gazette, La Mule, X Japan, DADAROMA, Kizu, Sadie, and a whole lot more!
 
I will be going back to discussions and morr questions so be prepared for that!
 
I know it’s been a short break but whatever lol

Their twelfth album will be released on 2019.10.23. 
Two days ago, the band released a preview of their new clip called 「心臓が止まるまでは」(Shinzou ga tomaru made wa) 
 
 

Might as well talk about my boy Leo here since it might be of interest to one or two people.
 
LEO IMAI will release a new cover EP called "6 Japanese Covers" (heh) on July 24th featuring covers from bands like Ningen Isu and ZAZEN BOYS. Tracklist also features 3 bonus tracks including a new song called Fandom and two live takes.
 
1. どだればち [original by 人間椅子]　
2. 夏の日の午後 [original by eastern youth]
3. ポテトサラダ [original by ZAZEN BOYS]
4. ヤングたかじん [original by 呂布カルマ]
5. ファックミー [original by 前野健太]
6. 雨 [original by ペトロールズ]
 
Bonus Tracks
7. Fandom (Remix For A Film)　
8. Venom (Live at Bottom Line, Nagoya)
9. Karaoke (Live at Fever, Tokyo)
 
Music Video for どだればち:
 
 
Samples: