Cartoni animati in pausa tè

Help, I just finished Penguindrum and my brain is mush. Right now, I can't really formulate a judgment, the line between an absolute masterpiece of hermeticism and colossal nonsense is razor-thin XD However, the screenplay seems really uneven to me (excessive length on Ringo and the stalking (what for?) while some very important issues like the resolution of Yuri or the storyline of Sanetoshi and Momoka are wrapped up in a second) and felt contrived to favor the cliffhangers obsessively presented throughout the episodes, and the plausibility goes out the window XD

Utena remains a notch above, if only for the very elegant graphic style imho.

Hello everyone. I'm not exactly sure what this group is for, but I have some recommendations. First: Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. Unfortunately, in Italian, you can only find the first episodes on YouTube (fandub), but if you understand a bit of English, you can find it on watchcartoononline.com (where you can also find the other cartoons I recommend). Basically, it’s the vulgar and twisted version of Cartoon Network shows (especially The Powerpuff Girls). Second: Space Dandy. First of all, it's directed by Shin'ichirō Watanabe (okay, I admit I copy-pasted the name), who has previously worked on the masterpiece Cowboy Bebop and the less appreciated, but still excellent, Samurai Champloo (if you haven't watched them, catch up). Compared to Watanabe's other works, this one is much more frivolous, and the protagonist Space Dandy is the ultimate Antihero, a character it's impossible not to resonate with. The third and final recommendation is something much more well-known, but you might have missed it if you're like me: Gravity Falls. An interesting show, but unfortunately found itself in the schedule of Disney Channel, notoriously full of flops. I watched it for the first time about a year ago, not without skepticism, but it pleasantly surprised me. In America, the finale of the second season, which is also the series finale, has already aired, while in Italy the adaptation is stuck halfway through the second season. This is more distinctly youthful than the other titles I recommended, but it's certainly not childish, and it tackles more mature themes (so much so that it has been described by many as "the Twin Peaks for kids"). It is already considered a sort of cult, but it has been heavily scrutinized by WD's stringent censorship. I recommend following the creator Alex Hirsch, who was recently hired by Fox for a collaboration that promises great things (fun fact: the creator of Rick & Morty, Justin Roiland, voices several characters in the original dubbing of the series).

Alright guys, I'll throw it out there: if I had to rank the best animated series I've ever seen, besides the usual suspects I won't mention, I would definitely include The Venture Bros. For clarification: it's a series that parodies the "adventure" cartoons of Hanna and Barbera (which I haven't actually seen, but you can tell right away). The Super Scientist Dr. Venture, along with his bodyguard and his two stupid sons, has to face off against some ridiculous Supervillains. Each episode is self-contained, but there is a storyline that develops. It’s a bit lengthy, as there are 6 seasons. The animation wasn't exceptional at first (it actually started off in 4:3 about ten years ago), but in the last season it's monstrous. It’s incredibly difficult to understand, and subtitles are hard to find (I don't think even in English). There are tons of cryptic references (I only catch the musical ones, like one time they brought up THE RESIDENTS). The soundtrack is curated by Foetus (you heard that right). Spoiler: the main villain (or good guy?) is David Bowie.

I have a Gigatonic problem with series and cartoons: downloading them is an insane hassle. After several years, I've realized that the most correct method is: recover the subtitles, deduce the file version to download from those subtitles, and then download the file. If you find it, great, but if not, you need to download another one, sync the subtitles with VLC, note down the parameter that allows the subtitles to be synced with the video, open the internet and go to... I don't know, subshifter.com, upload your subtitle file, enter the parameter obtained from VLC, download the file that Subtitleshifter will create, ensure there are no issues, and check if the subtitles are now in sync (one time out of ten they're not, and you have to adjust the numerical parameter manually). Once you're at this point, all that's left is to put the file and subtitles in the same folder, rename them so they have the same name, and repeat the operation ten to twenty times a season depending on the number of episodes in the series. If you decided today to watch Lost, you'll probably finish watching it before you're able to download it because ten to one you'll get frustrated and buy it before you can download an episode of Lapidus.

So yes: the operation isn't difficult, mind you, but it's a hell of a pain in the ass. I would have opened the group to allow those inside to have the chance to find and recover from other friends the series they're currently interested in. I thought about doing everything with links to sites where you could recover it all, but it's quite a hassle, and I'm thinking of a solution.

To sum it up: *1) do you care about this at all? *2) after today's tea, I've come to the conclusion that if Dropbox asks for your email (which I would have preferred to avoid), Soulseek doesn't ask for any crap. And so *2b) in case you're interested, do you have the slightest idea of what Soulseek is?

Given that I obviously care about this (otherwise, why the hell would I ask G to create the page), and considering that Daria should be the main objective for anyone, I would urge everyone to propose and share subtitled stuff or anything that's hard to find and poorly distributed. For example: I know the world is full of SpongeBob fans, so if you want to share SpongeBob, go ahead and share it by all means, but don’t come to tell me about it. I’ll refrain from mentioning that if there were an opportunity, I’d be interested in re-watching the first season of the Smurfs. Maybe in Dutch. But no, feel free to talk about SpongeBob; I just wanted to vent a bit of logorrhea.

I say that I opened this group to spread the word.
Like since win mx came out, I've been periodically looking for Daria.
And in July, I found it.
And I would have opened this group to share all the seasons + films of one of the most beautiful things produced in the 90s after South Park.
But now they've deleted the second season from the site where I got everything.
So I don't know, how does Dropbox work? Can we make a community account? Am I unknowingly proposing something illegal? Does anyone have the second season of code monkeys?
Oh, if you don't care about Daria, let's close the group and all go listen to vaporwave, this seems implied.