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Philosophical Anime Anonymous 08/12/15 (Wed) 19:21:52 7e9bca No.1895

Let's start with Lain.

>existentialist themes

>post-modern themes

>alienation themes

>cyberpunk themes

Plot:

>girl falls into the internet

>meets the God of the internet

>questions God

>questions ontology

>questions Epistemology/what is true vs what is believed

>questions wheter if enough people believe something it can become true

>questions [spoiler] how a God who used to be human could have become a God unless he was created by someone higher.

>realizes she made him and is actually the real God of the internet

>deletes herself from existence for the better good, so she won't be tempted to meddle with and harm a lesser species.

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How would you classify Serial Experiments in Lain? Are there any other good anime for thinkers?

Anonymous 08/12/15 (Wed) 21:04:52 ea6f7c No.1896

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I really wish Kill La Kill had ended up being as political and philosophical as it seemed to promise in the first episode, but there are some of those elements scattered throughout the show. For example...

The flashback in which Satsuki recruits Nonon for the Elite Four shows some pretty intense existentialist themes in my opinion. Satsuki says something along the lines of... 'If you build a tower, even if it is made of steel, someone very strong can knock it down and destroy your ideas. However, if you build a tower in your mind, no one can touch it.' For me this evokes the existentialist notions of identity and despair. From Wikipedia, "What sets the existentialist notion of despair apart from the conventional definition is that existentialist despair is a state one is in even when he isn't overtly in despair. So long as a person's identity depends on qualities that can crumble, he is in perpetual despair." What Satsuki is telling Nonon to do is to abandon any external affirmation of her identity and instead create her identity through her own choices, pursuing the existentialist ideal of authenticity.

Anonymous 08/24/15 (Mon) 00:44:27 000000 No.1938

Love Lain. anon I highly recommend Ergo Proxy. It's very philosophical.

Anonymous 09/02/15 (Wed) 17:26:14 ea6f7c No.2002

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>>1896

found the scene

Anonymous 09/02/15 (Wed) 23:31:49 4905ae No.2003

>>1895

Kino no tabi.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kino%27s_Journey

Anonymous 09/02/15 (Wed) 23:33:34 4905ae No.2004

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>>2003

Forgot pic.

Also, don't want to spoil anything.

Anonymous 09/04/15 (Fri) 19:50:55 7a2e2d No.2005

>>1938

Not sure if trolling but just namedropping philosophers/-ies ad infinitum with little to no relation to the overarching narrative is not philosophical, it's just pretentious.

Anonymous 09/05/15 (Sat) 00:52:15 db47fd No.2007

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ergo proxy comes as close to philosophy as new age does, it;s an interesting fine story though

maybe you wont like mentioning evangelion because it states something very obvious, but i like it

i;d recommend texhnolyze

>cyberpunk

>post modern themes

>alienation themes

>existentialist themes

>also the pacing and the characters are better

>this track

Anonymous 09/05/15 (Sat) 05:45:53 7e9bca No.2010

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Trigun has some poeticly moving episode previews that relax me, even if the conflicts aren't deep. The whole series is a case study that critiques a hero who clings to absolutism. You can't help but cheer for his optimism, no matter how naive he is.

I love how at 2:50 he says it's wrong to force love and keep it alive, because unconditional love blossoms into the thorny flower called lie, which hurts people. He's practically a hero grappling with Christian dilemmas.

Anonymous 09/11/15 (Fri) 00:02:35 14d334 No.2022

Are yall serious? philosophical anime? LMAO

just watch SZS

Anonymous 09/20/15 (Sun) 04:20:54 bc4825 No.2046

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Parasyte the Maxim has nice scenes that raise questions about humanity and existence.

Anonymous 10/19/15 (Mon) 20:31:05 0edfdb No.2160

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>>2046

I thought a really good scene was in the second-to-last episode where the protagonist decides to leave his opponent's chance of survival to nature but goes back and takes action anyway. I interpreted it as him deciding that humans were part of nature too.

He has a sweater that says "philosophia" too, cute.

Anonymous 10/28/15 (Wed) 11:23:38 7cbd9f No.2261

>>2005

It's not just name dropping. The philosophies it use have a lot of implication and relation to the plot and characters of the show. From Proxy One questioning his own identity and how his internalized existence is formed, the nature of proxies, the Platonic-esque domed city where all humans are made and have a specific purpose, to the ultimate nature of identity when it's been so throughly constructed by an artificial system that itself has been constructed by an even more absurd purpose (stabilizing the ecosystem) and now has outlived that purpose. There are a lot of levels of meaning where philosophical ideas flow into the narrative. The episode where they're just sitting for weeks waiting for the wind to pick up I found especially poignant.

>>2004

Oh yes, this so much.

Anonymous 10/28/15 (Wed) 11:24:30 7cbd9f No.2262

Is Tokyo Ghoul philosophical at all? I heard it has quite the edge.

Anonymous 10/28/15 (Wed) 11:27:23 7cbd9f No.2263

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Blame! is a dank and dark cyberpunk series that takes place in a post-singularity world struggling to regain some sense of itself. It's a pretty interesting read, but there's not much dialog so you really have to think deep to grasp at some of the stories deeper meanings.

Anonymous 11/03/15 (Tue) 11:09:37 b2658a No.2295

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>>2004

LN is better

https://my.mixtape.moe/dtpkvw.zip

download for all currently translated books of the LN

Anonymous 12/26/15 (Sat) 02:10:45 7e9bca No.2995

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Is Evangelion deep or just overrated Freudian nonsense?

Anonymous 12/27/15 (Sun) 00:52:38 ad0e8c No.3025

>>2995

the creator even said that the christian crosses only were there to look edgy but it is very Freudian, but then again people think Fruedianism is nonsense kek