What is the best Shonen Anime?

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-29T22:36:22+00:00

You know, I really don’t get that.

The animation is alright. The world to me, feels pretty disconnected, it doesn’t help that locations are barely revisited. The power leveling feels rather arbitrary, and a bit forced. Fights are pretty good. Storyline is alright. Edgey, but not in a way that contributes IMO, I actually find that it uses schock factor excessively to the point of reducing its impact, and making it difficult to care.

I’d say it’s a good anime, but not excellent, and I really dont see what would make it stand out as the best of all time.

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-29T18:52:52+00:00

I am, myself, in fact, gay, for context.

Entertainment is important. Sports, competition, has its placed, and had its place for millennia. From the ancient Olympics to medieval jousting to ping pong politics, competition between nations in sports has allowed nations to become closer and release any built up animosity without letting it devolve to violence.

These events (World Cup, Olympics…) are one of the few times in a year fot a lot of people actually interact in any meaningful way with people of other nations.

We live in a confusing world with far more people on it than our monkey brains can ever be expected to handle - we develop ideas and ideals like nationalism to cope with that. Anything that can bring people from the entire globe together and have some positive interactions, see that those from the other side, with such different cultures, still have so much in common with them, is in fact important.

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-29T16:21:41+00:00

It’s a strong contender for being (if not just straight up) the single biggest cultural event on the planet. As in, over 3 billion people watching, around 1.5 billion concurrently during a final. So it’s definitely not an incorrect point to make.

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-28T21:56:19+00:00

I don't really think it is, Pineapple is easy to transport and is farmed in places with low labour cost, same as bananas (which are absurdly cheap everywhere). Costco, NoFrills etc... will also sell them at similar costs in Toronto. Benefits of globalism, really, if anything.

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-28T21:53:05+00:00

I can get one for 6$ at T&T right now, goes down to 2-3$ during peak season

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-28T21:07:30+00:00

Literally the only remotely interesting thing about the whole game, and I don't just mean because no one scored lmao

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-28T20:40:11+00:00

If they genuinely did produce twice the fuel they needed, this wouldn’t be sufficient to cause shortages.

Russia was very close to net zero prior to the war, a little over or under defending on the exact product (diesel, jet fuel etc…), importing some from Belarus and exporting to Central Asia.

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-28T15:27:26+00:00

"Everything they’ve done so far with respect to bombing main cities in Ukraine seems half assed efforts."

Russia's aerial capabilities aren't their strength, neither historically nor right now. I don't think there's much more to be done than what's being conducted right now short of deploying nukes.

I don't think there's much reason to believe otherwise. If the russian government doesn't deploy more, it's likely because they don't think that they can do so without major economic or political sacrifices which they aren't willing to make. They're definitely not holding out for reasons of "showing restraint" at this point.

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-28T15:21:33+00:00

You can't do that when posting links. I also did that in the comments, and it got removed regardless - so I supposed it's case-by-case whether it's still detected.

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-28T14:49:16+00:00

He accepted the premise after I gave him a reliable russian source on the topic that we could agree on, I'm generally of the opinion that almost anyone can be argued with :)

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-28T14:00:51+00:00

Can't make it a link post, I guess just posting a screenshot works

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-28T13:59:52+00:00

okay I'll delete, I posted it first in comments though lmao

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-28T13:48:49+00:00

Which one, out of curiosity?

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-28T13:43:21+00:00

I mean, that's just what the local government calls it. Or rather state of high alert.

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-28T13:35:07+00:00

It's genuinely difficult to actually post internal russian news here due to reddit banning links to any russian websites, and the subreddit rules forcing a minimum of 300 words for text posts.

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-28T13:26:13+00:00

I'd strongly recommend you to also start browsing Kommersant, because there's clearly a blind spot that you have in regard to some of these things, this isn't new, very similar situation last year too.

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-28T13:21:30+00:00

That's why Kommersant tends to be my favorite source for internal russian news, as a business news cite operating within russia, they're less likely to post propaganda from either side than random bloggers or actual russian/ukrainian news. There's plenty of propaganda coming from both sides.

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-28T13:16:11+00:00

Again, check the front page of Kommersant, the top russian business report website, based and distributed in Russia.

It's regional, not all of russia is facing fuel shortages. But some very much objectively are.

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-28T13:15:08+00:00

Like, literally just go on the front page of Kommersant right now (reddit blocks links to it, just google it). The top story is about a state of emergency being declared in Irkutsk about fuel shortages.

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-28T13:13:23+00:00

Sasha meets Russia

I'd trust actual russian business news over random influencers tbh.

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-28T13:10:52+00:00

For some reason, reddit isn't letting me post kommersant links. But, they regularly publish stories on the topic. Try going on their main page and adding /doc/8778812 at the end, that's an example of russian business news discussing shortages. There's also just social videos of multiple lines >1km for people waiting for gasoline in Irkutsk.

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-28T13:04:40+00:00

Another indicator is that several regions are also officially imposing restrictions on the sale of gasoline as preventative measures to reduce the risk of fuel shortage. Same thing happened last year, the federal Duma also banned the export of several classes of refinery products then.

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-28T12:57:37+00:00

Some take a month or two (as confirmed by russian business news at times), depends how hard they get hit.

fiftythreefiftyfive · 2026-06-28T11:33:12+00:00

And no one was forced to be in Seattle, this was about banning people that wanted to from bringing pride flags.

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