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gonna watch Godzilla Singular Point because an eternity (one year) ago a friend said it was peak and there was a character in it we might like

that's oomf

we only learn japanese words by watching anime and reading visual novels so this first three minutes just taught us the words for all sorts of exciting fields of science (分子生物学, 進化発生生物学, 非ユークリッド幾何学, 位相幾何学, etc)

oh god the denpa in denpa-kei is "radio wave"

Godzilla Singular Point has a quite intriguing first episode… it's a cast of eccentric characters dealing with the sudden appearance of a strange radio signal of unclear origin, for which there is somehow a concealed warning system with obfuscated associated procedures

there are also a few things about it that are quite schizophrenic in a positive sense

having no prior familiarity with kaijuu films I am immediately noticing how evangelion this is

the AI assistant is cute. remember when AI assistants were a cute science-fiction thing? :(

oh my god there's a scene where an old guy has to explain to a younger employee what a microfiche machine looks like

some people watch 怪異 anime, some people watch 怪獣 anime

this anime aired in early 2021 and accurately predicted what AI-authored research papers would look like?! christ

I need a Fender Custom Shop Godzilla Singular Point Special “Ootaki Factory” Limited Edition Stratocaster

the scene where they engineer an improvised distraction device using a PET bottle with holes calculated to produce a particular pitch is so cool

this show is a delight in how much it straddles the line between plausible scientific nerdery and the supernatural, it's not like eva

frankly, so far it has not had a single element that is expressly supernatural, which is fascinating

there's an honest-to-god explanation of the utility of hash functions and the futility of trying to reverse them? this show is incredible

okay i'm just going to throw this one out there:

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gods, watching anime is so much better for our brain than mindlessly scrolling twitter and so on when we're this listless, we should do it far more often

I love works with suspicious “journalists” in them

is "Ashihara" meant to remind you of "Asahara"…

oh with the Indian religious references it must be