Welcome to Japan, Elf-san

Is the whole "japan is a mystical land" a cool japan thing or a west thing?
I always hated how libraries and resources about japan pretty much ignore all of its humanity and history just to keep it mystical and alien feeling.
Maybe they do something unexpected with it, but lands of dreams and magic sounds really cheesy.

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I always hated how libraries and resources about japan pretty much ignore all of its humanity and history just to keep it mystical and alien feeling.

What are you talking about? Are you posting from the XVIIIth century or something? You'd actually be hard-pressed to find a modern publication like this. It's called "orientalism" and considered a form of racism (unless it's applied to undesirable countries)

Is the whole "japan is a mystical land" a cool japan thing or a west thing?

It's definitely both but I would say it's an even bigger thing in Japan because they need ways to cope with the fact that modern Japan is a land of soulless concrete commieblocks and run-down depressing countryside

does this motherfucker eat dreamies with his lemonade

I can put my money where my mouth is.
I am going to the library today in 6 hours, literally one of the largest libraries in terms of books in america.
Just off the top of my head

after several months of waiting and trying different things, this place figured out they only have the first three books of akira

Any attempt to find animation resources for japanese animation sends you to western author with what I described previously, pretty much all of the big go to books on the resource that are critical to the artform are not there

The Book of Five Rings copy I was waiting on, pretty much the only one they had, turned out to be some western rewriting "for CEOs"

Looking for yotsuba, I was awkwardly told by the librarian that it is not only in a sister branch in the middle of nowhere, it is in the kids section unavailable to adults

Found out that a bunch of good manga and ln was also in their teen section which you are not really supposed to walk into as a grown ass man

Etc
The e-hentai artbook collection makes my local library look like it is run by granny ashes

It would make sense...
Except they have an a renaissance of the artsover there which they could be supporting and lifting up, but instead see it as a cash cow and make laws that actively keep it sweatshop work

A damn shame, that.

The e-hentai artbook collection makes my local library look like it is run by granny ashes

Well it's a physical library in 2025, of course it's run by grannies

I think it is beer
Character is Kara by Vertigris (catgirl)

More like they outsource it to Korea and increasingly to China and Vietnam, as these people are used to sweatshop work (with disastrous consequences for the overall animation quality).

The Book of Five Rings copy I was waiting on, pretty much the only one they had, turned out to be some western rewriting "for CEOs"

You can't make this shit up.

We should probably be more ahead of the curve.
This place specifically knew about what is now called dead internet theory before a lot of other places. I think the correct next step is to start making more offline and physical libraries for this stuff as the internet becomes more desolate

That aside, I once visited a tiny library in the middle of nowhere europe and found

full berserk

full yotsuba

full rose of versilles

Full akira

full gantz

plenty of both classic and modern jump manga collections

A ton of LNs and just a bunchbof things that this place would think are cool

Actual artbooks

All it takes is one dude with passion to run a library branch that properly showcases cool lit made in japan

This is not a bizarre thing to find in Europe, manga has always been bigger than capeshit here, or, at least, for as long as I can recall. You can buy popular manga in convenience stores. Seeing something as big as Berserk in a library is par for the course.

This is wildly incorrect
Japanese studios try to do as much as they can (and pretty much do) most of it domestically. There has been more pressure to outsource some things to cheaper countries and to twitter animators, but, those kind of things are looked at extremely negatively within the industry. Additionally, if a studio is well off enough (ghibli, khara, kyoani) They would do anything in house or with animators that they know and like working with.
Outsourcing everything to Korea is what western animation does. The entry level position for a western studio is storyboard artist. You are an idea generator, and a sweatshop in korea will do what you want them to. Most of the work is done on sticky notes in some productions too. This has been cartoons for the past two decades.

Cute post, but it falls completely apart when you watch any modern anime and the end credits are filled with names like Bug Gook Kek.

True, but this was rural and very unexpected. Probably an actual Anon Babble poster that made the collection just because of the specific classics they had there. Could not believe the english section of a library in the middle of nowhere had a whole wall like that.

US rural =/= yuro rural
Unless it's somewhere like northern Sweden, you're never more than an hour of driving away from a city.

ear licking

Yes please

the drink is not the issue...

What's wrong with that?

You notice them because they are the only names in english. Also, if you watch weekly shounen anime it is going to be significantly more common, because it has to be churned out quickly.
There is also more subtlety to this topic. For example, Companies like Toei or OLM, which have non japanese production companies, actually send Jp staff physically to not only check cuts, but also instruct and work with the animators.
No matter how you look at it, the japanese generally want to keep their artform going, despite the fact that they are being paid so little that studios gamble keeping the lights on with every anime, and animators are told they will not be well off enough to have a family doing this job.

tfw I'm an animator in my country making low-budget trash that no one watches and still well-off enough to have a family

This show definitely doesn't have that problem. The characters even go to an actual museum for a history lecture. If anything, Japan is made to feel more real because it's juxtaposed with an actual physical dreamworld that elves come from.

seem

Good on you.
Honest.
Every animator wants to be able to make their art in peace and also be able to love. It is a damn shame japan is tightening the noose on animatirs and mangaka instead of figuring out how to bring them up.

Oh, I see.
That is pretty cool. Might pick it up. I like elf girls.

As far as elf waifus go, this is GOAT

Japan is made to feel more real because it's juxtaposed with an actual physical dreamworld that elves come from.

Meanwhile Japan:

Here it's capeshit < manga < Disney comics

Did anything come out of the subplot where Marie wanted to bring guns into the dreamlands?

It's much more of a pain to wait for translations, unless you speak the moon language.

lol

I mean, it's true.

why does a japanese bus stop have ads in english?

she is naked underneath

It's so that the readers wouldn't notice that the "ads" are random gibberish.

the ads are illegible anyway
however, it's clear that they're written in english, which creates far more questions than gibberish japanese would

It's not entirely uncommon in Tokyo to translate public announcements into English with decidedly mixed results

no

I need an elf wife

I NEED AN ELF WIFE

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same

italy?

Never expected this series to take a turn for NTR