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https://youtube.com/watch?v=zMRAzoOd368

https://youtube.com/watch?v=liOGnoInz2g

It is okay if it is not a big studio, but we require competent animators to make a Music video

https://youtu.be/8ybjf8ycAzk

I saw it as a very young child, too young by todays standard. Also watched Monkey ( non anime) early 80’s ( filmed in the 70’s I think)

Back to this which haunts me decades later. I think it may have been a tv series ( was not in the US) with a girl called Nya or Nyla. At the end, she took a knife and out it through her own heart. She had tears. There was some sort of reason for doing this, perhaps to save everyone. I was very young.

Would love to find out what this was.

It was around the 90s-80s Japanese style animation with about 4 different short films that had the main theme of Cats, Robot labor, racing, and sentient appliances in a dump. Any help finding this would be nice

Do you have any recommendations for Christmas gifts for a young guy who is Japanese anime fan? Thx~

I never understood a word. I don't speak Japanese. Any translations or even Japanese subtitles available anywhere?

This post was inspired this 9 yr old post: [Shingeki No Kyojin] Commie, The 'Eoten' Controversy and the attitude towards fansubbers that this raises.

Many of the points in that thread is true, but at the same time selectively deleted and erased the true reasons why people were up and arms against Commie and constructed a false narrative that demonizes those same people and turned Commie into some sort of poor victim.

The most important thing to remember that this was 9 years ago. Back in 2013, many peoples' computers were not yet fully capable of running the mkv format without upgrading, although abandoning Windows Media Player and adopting either Media Player Classic or VLC helped tremendously. To compound that problem hard drive space was at a premium. The average file size for mkv at the time was around 300-400 mb. gg's filesizes had an average of 500 +/- mb. Commie's Shingeki no Kyojin file sizes were a whopping 650 mb[1]. You'd expect Commie's versions would have the highest quality out of all of the files available to download, wouldn't you?

But that's not what really happened.

What really caused the outcry, and what really cemented Commie as a bastard to everyone's mind was not the "Eoten". But rather, because they decided to go all in. Not only did they find some sort of super special font that no one had ever seen before to use in the files (which caused slowdown on some people's computers) but they decided to replace the title screen with their own title screen. And you know how they did this? They inserted a png of their title screen (which was the same size and dimension as the video itself [1280 x 720]) into the subtitles.

Do you have any idea how ridiculous that is? That a 1280x720 png file is a part of the subtitles? It caused massive slowdown on every computer that watched the opening song. Everyone's task manager/activity monitor would show a massive jump in system memory usage (and remember, this was 2013, so the average RAM at the time was 2gb) and the video player would crawl to a halt. You either had to close the video player or outright restart the cpu. If anyone wanted to watch Commie's files they either had to turn off the subtitles until they reached the end of the opening or skip it entirely.

Can anyone take a wild guess how much hatred that caused?

People hated it so much that some created a group called NotCommie that existed to take Commie's videos and (as they so eloquently put it) "unfuck" them. And did you know what they discovered? If you remove the 1280 x 720 png and changed the subtitle font to normal you'd delete up to 60-90 mb from the total video file!

And their script isn't even that great. Constantly jumping from Eotena to Eoten, sometimes in the same sentence.

That's why it makes me extremely suspicious about that 9 year old post. It was constructed in such a way to lead the reader into a specific conclusion, while hiding any and all evidence of Commie's pretentiousness.

I'm a zombie mod so I'll be enforcing this very sporadically, but I'm seeing tons of crappy posts with reports in my mod-queue that I can't delete because they're not breaking any rules. From now on you can expect to see an occasional purge of youtube videos from this subreddit.

I'd ask for community feedback before making a new rule, but it's been 3 months since anyone has even commented on a post so I doubt that it would accomplish much LOL.

Edit: You can still post a link to a youtube video in a comment or even inside a self-post, as long as it's not something obnoxious like "check out my video" as the title and the text is just a link to the video.

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Back in the late 90s when I grew up, there was one animated series that I watched religiously everyday on my grandfather's satelite TV. It was a rerun of Heidi the Girl of Alps anime. Back then I didn't even knew what anime was or it was made in Japan. It was much later, that I found out that it was an anime series adapted from 2 novels from Switzerland and that it was part of a much larger library of anime series called World Masterpiece Theatre. If you don't know what World Masterpiece Theatre, it's an annual anime TV staple that showcased classic books and stories from various countries started in 1969 with Dororo and Hyakimaru. From then it had new series every year until it stopped in 1997, and continued again in 2007 only to stop again in 2009. They were popular in the rest of the world way before America even knew what anime was.

World Masterpiece Theatres includes the following titles -

1. Dororo and Hyakimaru (1969)
2. Moomin (1969 - 1070)
3. Andersen Stories (1971)
4. Fables of the Green Forest (1973)
5. Heidi, the Girl Alps (1974)
6. A Dog of Flanders (1975)
7. Marco, 3000 Leagues in Search for Mother (1976)
8. Rascal the Racoon (1977)
9. The Story of Perrine (1978)
10. Anne of Green Gables (1979)
11. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1980)
12. The Swiss Family Robinson: Flone of the Mysterious Island (1981)
13. Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow (1982)
14. Story of Alps: My Anette (1983)
15. Katri, Girl of the Meadows (1984)
16. Princess Sarah (1985)
17. The Story of Pollyanna, Girl of Love (1986)
18. Tales of Little Women (1987)
19. Little Prince Cedie (1988)
20. The Adventures of Peter Pan (1989)
21. My Daddy Long Legs (1990)
22. Trapp Family Story (1991)
23. The Bush Baby (1992)
24. Little Women II: Jo's Boys (1993)
25. Tico of the Seven Seas (1994)
26. Romeo's Blue Skies (1995)
27. Famous Dog Lassie (1996)
28. Remi, Nobody's Girl (1996 - 1997)
29. Les Miserables: Little Girl Cosette (2007)
30. The Long Journey of Porphy (2008)
31. Hello Anne: Before Green Gables (2009)

Among them, the best and the most popular one would be Heidi, the Girl of Alps. Created by a cast containing Takahata Isao (Lupin III), Yoshiyuki Tomino (Gundam), Toyoo Hashida (Fist of the North Star), Hayao Miyazaki and many other talents. Currently the only one series among them that you can stream legally is Hello Anne: Before Green Gables. It's possible to buy the compilation movies of Heidi on but the series is much better. The ones made in 2007 - 2009 should be somewhat easy to find compared to the others. The remaining series on the hand, you gonna have to search really hard for those or pirate them if you want to watch them. It's a problem since most of the series are really good despite being old. I really wish some streaming service would pick up those series. And I also really wish the some producer or studio in Japan would pick up the World Masterpiece Theatre series and continue to adapt more classic literature into anime series. Does anyone share my sentiment or am I alone in this one?