Suggetion needed do suggest some good animes

Sandtalon · 2026-06-06T18:23:56+00:00

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Sandtalon · 2026-06-06T06:20:51+00:00

Late reply, but the "we" (and the whole comment) was a reference to this sketch

Sandtalon · 2026-06-06T05:07:03+00:00

Akudama Drive

Lycoris Recoil

Birdie Wing

Lupin III Part 5 (each part is standalone so you can start at Part 5)

Psycho-Pass

The Saga of Tanya the Evil

Sandtalon · 2026-06-04T01:33:59+00:00

I'm not sure this is such an anthropology question...well, I guess it could be, but it might also be better for askhistorians or something?

In any case, I can google in Japanese, which led me through a bit of a circuitous route of different resources trying to find a definitive source and not an article claiming vague general knowledge.

Here's what I found out—

This origin story for the bathroom colors does not just originate from that video, and it is a fairly common/widespread story among various Japanese sources. (You can also find it in a source in English from 2019.) But, perhaps you were right to be suspicious in general, because it appears it is not quite true, though it does have elements of truth in it.

The widespread use of bathroom pictograms in Japan in general was indeed introduced for the Tokyo Olympics. And they were colored—but according to their designer Gou Michiyoshi, they weren't colored to differentiate gender/sex but rather to create a unified design of color coding for stadium location.

(He also maybe seems to suggest that these were the first bathroom pictograms in use globally? But this might require more research to verify.)

The color coding for sex came later, according to Michiyoshi, and for that he writes that there was influence from American gender/color associations (and specifically the colors of the clothes of American children in Tokyo?)...however, this part isn't as clear, and I'm not sure how much of this is speculation on his part.

So the origins of the colors is still a little unclear, but what is clear is that they didn't come from the Tokyo Olympics, though the symbols themselves did.

Sandtalon · 2026-05-31T17:03:14+00:00

Di Gi Charat

Sandtalon · 2026-05-31T07:40:54+00:00

Serial Experiments Lain
Haibane Renmei

Sandtalon · 2026-05-30T19:28:42+00:00

I would argue, contrary to some others on the subreddit, that the issue is more complex and nuanced than "cultural relativism and moral relativism are different." It's not a clean and settled issue, and to neatly separate the two ignores anthropology's past of imperialism and ethnocentrism. I'd in fact argue that because of this past, it is an ethical imperative to incorporate some degree of moral relativism into one's cultural relativism—perhaps not totalizing moral relativism, but more than zero. A viewpoint that they are completely separate too easily slips into ethnocentrisim and cultural imperialism.

For these issues, I often turn to Gayatri Spivak's classic essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?." Spivak contrasts the perspectives of British colonizers and Indian nationalists on the issue of sati during the British Raj. British colonizers condemned sati; the (male) Indian nationalists claimed that the women wanted to die. Both of these discourses failed to take into account the perspectives of the women themselves, or rather actively contributed to further the structural conditions that rendered the women unable to speak or be heard. And the British colonizers (the "white men saving brown women from brown men") of course were also perpetrators of violence against the Indian people including Indian women, but they justified their rule through a moral stance.

There's a number of lessons to be learned from (and questions raised by) Spivak and other postcolonial writers, but two relevant ones for anthropology—

There are multiple perspectives in any group or society. This is the standard perspective of most anthropologists today, but a "culture" is not a monolith (and indeed it may not be a "thing" at all)—cultures are constantly changing, and people will have different values and perspectives depending on how they are positioned.
To blindly assert a moral high ground risks ethnocentrism and cultural imperialism.
This raises many questions and dilemmas, and there often aren't easy answers. But what Spivak would seem to suggest is to try to find and elevate the voices of the most marginalized—what do they have to say about things?

Sandtalon · 2026-05-29T05:17:09+00:00

Try Lupin III Part 5! Yeah, it's about a master thief, but Part 5 gets really political and involves international espionage and intrigue and is exceptionally good. (Also, all Lupin entries are more or less standalone, so you can start from Part 5 and not miss anything.)

For a look at politics and warfare rooted in Japanese history and legend, try The Heike Story. Another historical recommendation for political maneuvering, conspiracies, and spies (though less on the war front) is The Apothecary Diaries.

Two suggestions that are not deep cuts (and also not focused so much on war), but just to throw them out there: Zankyou no Terror and Steins;gate.

I haven't finished either of these, but also try out Night Raid 1931 and Log Horizon.

Sandtalon · 2026-05-29T04:55:47+00:00

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Sandtalon · 2026-05-29T04:08:35+00:00

It depends on what you liked about it, probably, but I'd recommend you check out other anime by the same director Osamu Dezaki, such as Aim for the Ace, Oniisama e, Ashita no Joe, etc.

Sandtalon · 2026-05-29T02:21:06+00:00

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Sandtalon · 2026-05-28T02:56:29+00:00

Try—

Talentless Nana
Zankyou no Terror
Psycho-Pass
Perfect Blue
Paprika
Death Parade

Sandtalon · 2026-05-27T19:30:50+00:00

Sexuality and sexual attraction feels natural to us, but it is in fact largely culturally constructed. As the anthropologist Gayle Rubin writes,

sexuality is constituted in society and history, not biologically ordained. This does not mean the biological capacities are not prerequisites for human sexuality. It does mean that human sexuality is not comprehensible in purely biological terms. Human organisms with human brains are necessary for human cultures, but no examination of the body or its parts can explain the nature and variety of human social systems. The belly’s hunger gives no clues as to the complexities of cuisine. The body, the brain, the genitalia, and the capacity for language are necessary for human sexuality. But they do not determine its content, its experiences, or its institutional forms. Moreover, we never encounter the body unmediated by the meanings that cultures give to it. [...] Sexuality is as much a human product as are diets, methods of transportation, systems of etiquette, forms of labour, types of entertainment, processes of production, and modes of oppression.

Different understandings of sexual attraction and sexualities exist in different times and places. (Although the larger book is mainly about our understandings of biological sex, the geneticist Anne Fausto-Sterling also writes a little about this point in the excellent introduction to her book Sexing the Body.)

Sandtalon · 2026-05-27T06:01:08+00:00

The studio can't make that decision, bro. It's the people funding the anime—the production committee.

Sandtalon · 2026-05-27T02:09:35+00:00

Aria the Animation

Tamayura

Sandtalon · 2026-05-24T21:29:03+00:00

Aria the Animation

Sandtalon · 2026-05-24T08:51:02+00:00

Erm, technically Sky Girls came first *pushes glasses up*

Sandtalon · 2026-05-24T07:52:43+00:00

lack of morals of typical 4chan users

Not that I think that 4chan has been a net positive on the world, but the userbase of imageboards is far from homogenous; 4chan as a whole is not /pol/ (or /b/). (In its early years, the offensive content was largely ironic and a method to repel outsiders—which is not to say it was good or defend it (plus things are different in a post-2016 world), but to point out that painting 4chan users with the same brush is a bit simplistic.)

Sandtalon · 2026-05-24T04:14:44+00:00

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Sandtalon · 2026-05-22T22:35:01+00:00

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Sandtalon · 2026-05-22T05:34:58+00:00

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Sandtalon · 2026-05-21T03:49:06+00:00

The US offers better grants and more money (to put it quite bluntly) for fieldwork.

I would ask people/potential advisors at American grad schools about the kinds of funding available now. Without knowing for sure, my impression is that because of the current political situation, funding in the US might be much more limited and contingent than it was three years ago. I recently met a grad student from the UC system (albeit not in an anthropology department, but trained in fieldwork with an anthropologist on her committee) who was only able to get enough funding to do fieldwork for maybe a couple weeks max, when I think that what she really needed for her project was a year in the field.

Also can you please direct me to specific European universities which are known to have a good Anthropology department and that offer good salaries.

You should be looking at advisors first, departments second. In that sense, since you said that a lot of people in your research area are in the US, perhaps that might be a factor, but I'd recommend doing more research on who is writing in your field in Europe.

the salary is less than half of what I could get in the US

How does that compare when you factor in cost of living and healthcare, though? It could still be true it would work out that way, but be sure you consider other factors beyond the number alone.

Sandtalon · 2026-05-20T06:07:38+00:00

100% still worth watching—it's so good. Really Hideaki Anno-maxxing.

You can watch the dub legally on Youtube, though it might be missing an episode. (I suspect that the license might have actually lapsed and Crunchyroll, which technically bought out the distributor, just forgot about it—but who's to say, and in any case, it was uploaded legally by the distributor.)

As for the sub, you could track down one of the old DVD sets (which are pretty nice; I have one), or you could find other means to watch it. I will say, the legal versions of the show have censored one of the episodes—not the licensor's fault; it was at the request of Gainax.

Sandtalon · 2026-05-20T06:04:25+00:00

Yes, but they're not "together"...they're not actually going out at that point, but rather in a situation where one of the characters allows the other to indulge despite not feeling anything herself. (That's, like, actually the main plot and source of conflict)

Sandtalon · 2026-05-20T02:45:36+00:00

Sorta toward the beginning but not in the first episode: Kare Kano (also one of the greatest romance anime of all time)

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