Just finished this, that was one weird show. I don't even know where to begin.
What did you think of it?
Texhnolyze
Lincoln Parker
Ryan Miller
>everyone dies the anime
>wow so deep
kys if you actually think this is any good
Daniel King
I don't think it's great, but it certainly has some charm to it. Mostly I feel left out, like I'm missing something to understand the deeper meanings of the plot
Leo Ward
It's one of my favorites. I disagree with your opinion, but I can see why you might have it
Levi Russell
It's a masterpiece but it's not for everyone.
William Lee
What was his deal?. Create conflict between the Organo and the religious sect to weaken Lukuss for Kano's takeover?
Angel Bailey
I don't think he knew about Kano. He believed that conflict was a necessary part of being human and that the people of Lux were becoming more like the surface people due to Onishii and the Organo enforcing the status quo set by the Class. By creating chaos he hoped to remove the control of the Organo, bringing the Class out of their hill so he could dethrone them and put a human with passion in charge, or something like that.
Tyler Jones
So the Class wanted peace in Lukuss?. Why?.
What was the deal with the people above ground?
>It's a masterpiece
Why?
Anthony Reed
The Class were content being rulers over Lux, and started to stagnate, kicking out people like Doc and losing their will to return aboveground, becoming similar to the Theonormals. The Theonormals had a eugenics/PsychoPass on steroids system which separated them from the current inhabitants of Lux, who were sent there due to their violent/aggressive tendencies, allowing the Theonormals to exist in a peaceful and nihilistic utopia, see Nietzsche's "Last Race" concept. If you take everything you see literally, many of the Theonormal seem to be exist as some hyper-real projected consciousness. The Class were originally given more technology to rule over Lux to oversee the progression of society, as the Theonormals weren't going anywhere. A few curious outliers like Nakimura and Yoshii hated the stagnation within both the Theonormals and Class, causing them to go to the city of Lux itself trying to find real humanity. Yoshii saw the people as complacent in their oppression by the Class and the gangs. and believed a massive factional conflict could bring out an unrestricted humanity
Kevin Ward
Alright. What about Kano?
Ryder Brown
Kano was an incest baby with delusions of advancement through extreme Texhnolyzation and even then just resulted in them sitting around waiting to evolve
Jayden Fisher
Man with no meaning but an insatiable will to live, finally finds meaning only for it to be taken away. I also like how so many characters that all have the own ideas for the golden path to take humanity down but literally every single one them fail. It so thoroughly crushed everyone ideas and hopes that it felt deterministic like look at all these people that tried and this still how it ends.
Angel Russell
>The Theonormals had a eugenics/PsychoPass on steroids system which separated them from the current inhabitants of Lux, who were sent there due to their violent/aggressive tendencies
Doesn't it count as violent/aggressive tendencies if your master solution starts with a genocide followed by forcing people to live underground?
Colton Lewis
It kind of petered out after Yoshii died, but the last 4 episodes are masterful.
Luis Edwards
Like all actual art, it takes a second viewing to really get anything of value out of it.
Sebastian Thomas
Yoshii did nothing wrong
Grayson Perry
Ahh, Texhnolyze. What a ride that was. The closer I got to the end, the higher my hopes for a somewhat good ending got. Then it all came crashing down.
Carter Murphy
I feel like that image of a horse that this particular image of a horse that gets progressively shittier the further from the head you are would fit perfectly here in terms of this show's story.
Anthony Taylor
Haibane Renmei was better
>kys if you actually think this is any good
Then, tell us something that is "good" by your standards??
Hunter Martinez
>tell us something that is "good" by your standards
Owen Evans
Can you say that again in English?
Cooper Barnes
Yoshii is best boy and did nothing wrong.
Big Q: Would the Shapes have accomplished their goal of evolution-through-stasis if Ichise hadn't gone on a rampage?
Wyatt Williams
Charles Mitchell
here's another show that is similarly sentimental but less violent :o)
Cooper Hernandez
he said that he did what he did was the same as what onishi tried to accomplish
but for what I got, he was trying to give lukuss people a reason to live by making conflicts, since upper class people had lost their reason to live
Aaron Rodriguez
This video covers Yoshii's motivations as well as those of many of the other principle actors fairly well: youtube.com
Cooper Price
>a bunch of people fight
>wow so exciting
>a bunch of people set up skits/tell jokes
>wow so funny
nice genres lol
Evan Rodriguez
>humans can't experience true "living" without conflict and strife
Ethan Foster
is this achievable natty?
David Torres
>NEETs think that they truly "live"
Jonathan Barnes
meaningful living. something you haven't experienced incel neet
Wyatt Jones
Ever play Persona 3? its the same thing but with waifus. Maybe up your alley.
Nathan Williams
Few things I wanted to discuss.
Kano’s goals: did those ended being the same as theonormals and the Class? Because both started with the goal of achieving better things for humanity. And then both groups “gave up” about “the next stage of evolution”. But while the Class seemed to have killed each other or murdered by Kano, Theonormals are just in a state of waiting for their end while remembering their past. Then we got Kano rooted to the Earth as well as the Shapes, and what that guy tells Ichise about spending the eternity with his memories while waiting, and Kano somehow giving up about evolving, and showing interest in Ichise’s moral choice. A similar curiosity that the oldman from above showed for Ichise. It seemed that the three paths of trying to go beyond humanity always get a dead end.
Also, I always felt bad for Michiko (Onishi’s secretary), how she ended like that? I thought she was stronger and smarter, and she also had a gun with her.
Alexander Richardson
Reminder Ichise was raped twice and should be called brave and a hero for being a survivor.
Jacob Bennett
>Ichise was raped
what?
Adam Walker
Michiko deserved better.
Cameron Clark
You really thing he willingly fucked the crazy woman and the doc?
Jason Adams
Crazy lady in the first episode and Doc both raped him. Possibly Tooyama too.
Dominic Myers
He just gave him fashion advice. And called him bro at the end.
Angel Ross
kano just wanted to fuck up everything, since the goal of those incest shits had already been achieved by the birth of kano
the class, lux, rafia, etc, serves no purpose anymore
Chase Peterson
>Tooyama
They're more like friends to me.
Kevin Jones
This scene in episode 20 where Ichise talks to the old man on the surface and says he should go to Lux sometime gets me every time. The utter feeling of resignation from the man despite his kindness and warm smile is crushing.
Brayden Clark
What was the mean of Ichise’s father? Is impossible he ended there, right? So who created the ghost to give some closure to Ichise?
Landon Flores
The part that got me was when Sakimura broke down confessing to his boss about how he killed Yoshii and the guy just says "I'm sure you've done a fine job of it" and walks off. That level of apathy was unreal, it was like Sakimura told him he cleaned up a coffee spill or something.
Matthew Rodriguez
>Do you call subsisting without doing anything really living?
Nathaniel Wright
Wasn’t Lux walking towards that level of apathy? They just lived in the middle of death and waste, and nobody show any intent of changing it. Shinji just wanted to get out of there, Mana went crazy, and the other leaders were just after power. Onishi tried hard to keep the status quo, but honestly he never showed any intention of making big changes, even if Yoshii stated they had similar goals.
Ethan Foster
He was payed for the first and didn't raise an objection against Doc. That's not rape
The relationship with Tooyama was consensual
Mason Rogers
>Ichise talks to the old man
he barely talks
Kayden Rivera
>that editor ricing
>that keyboard
/g/'s edit
Ethan Wood
Crazy lady didn't pay him for sex, she held his fight money hostage and forced him to let her have her way with him. When Doc did it he really wasn't into it either. Ichise's obviously been broken, I wouldn't be surprised if he'd been sexually abused before the show took place.
Kevin Reyes
It's been a while since I've rewatched but I think the people of the surface operate on a different and misunderstood level of apathy. Closer to the way a Zen Buddhist monk sees the world. The greatest atrocities in the world can be seen through their eyes without any sorrow because they have a different understanding than a 'normal' person. Lux's apathy was a result of a lifetime of struggle and defeat.
David Kelly
>Crazy lady
I'm sure she gave him a hefty tip
>Doc
Who wouldn't want to fuck Doc?
>I wouldn't be surprised if he'd been sexually abused before
headcanon
Ryan Turner
Above ground is some kind of afterlife so it's makes sense his father got there even though he wasn't one of the above ground citizens.
Also someone hallucinating his loved one's ghost is a common trope, there's no need for explanation on how did he turned into a ghost.
Chase Foster
It has the single best piece of music in anime ever.
Sebastian Jenkins
Where would you end if you were in the Texhnolyze world? And were would you like to live?
>Lux
>Racan
>The Class
>Gabe
>The Theonormal world
Asher Hill
this too
youtube.com
Ayden Davis
>Where would you end if you were in the Texhnolyze world?
Theonormal
>were would you like to live?
Gabe
Ethan Myers
>Where would you end if you were in the Texhnolyze world?
Read that assuming you meant at which point would you end yourself, like probably right at the start. Theonormal and to live in Gabe.
youtu.be
Its too good
Justin Richardson
>editor ricing
Looks like VSCode. Yea Forums might be involved but it's probably from /dpg/ (daily programming general).
Justin Allen
poor ran
Andrew Barnes
Now I wonder why Yoshii didn’t try to destroy Gabe. I mean, Lux mafia leaders were aiming at it, but still he could have tried there too.
Eli Davis
Why did she felt it was her fault? Also, how she was the voice of the city that Onishi hear?
Jayden Robinson
this one brings out the tears
youtube.com
Joseph Hernandez
First watch was weird but ultimately worth it, especially for the last episodes. I want to rewatch it later to see if I can appreciate it more.
Jaxon Cooper
And that's completely true, you'll get it when you get older.
Austin Bailey
Don't get what he could've done to Gabe to get them to do anything. It took someone turning humanity into plants for them to try anything serious and that was still a defensive action even thought they knew it was happening.