Hello everyone, I need your help.
I am in very poor financial condition right now, and need 727 osu!coins.
This is so I can go on a long-term trip to see where Lott and Alumence is in these screenshots; extras will go into finding who this rando is.
Thank you for your generosity.
COMMENT
As a result of pouring absolutely everything from the thirty years I’ve been alive into this project, every last element, from self-harm to drugs, religion, and sex—got flagged during the review process. Each time it happened, the anime staff worked hard to keep the vision intact, insisting: “We absolutely don’t want to let fear of regulation ruin what makes this work compelling,” and they kept pushing. Thanks to that, the NEEDY anime has been coming together in an almost undiluted, straight-from-the-bottle form. Seeing the staff’s passion and depth of understanding, and how strongly they believed that “the concept of NEEDY GIRL has a reason to exist in this world,” and that “there are certain expressions only this work can depict," I’m now fully certain of this project’s value.
When the voice actors performed the scripts I’d written so nakedly and frankly, there were moments when someone, fully immersed, would start crying. In that instant, I realized it: what this work is depicting, in the end, is “human beings.”
A lot of people have discussed NEEDY with “the internet” at the center of it all.
As for me, I’m proud to say I wrote out, in the original game, both the sweetness and the bitterness of the internet as I’ve seen it from childhood to the present. And because this is an anime born from that kind of work, of course we have to ask ourselves: “What was the internet, anyway?” Even the title of the new song I made with my friends this time is "INTERNET ANGEL".
After releasing the game, the huge reaction to it connected me, too, to an unspecified multitude across the world. And I was insulted at times, had admiration hurled at me at times, was loved at times, attacked at times. Who on earth are these faceless people? Trends, oshis, faith, sneering cynicism, call-outs and pile-ons, outrage fires, consumption, algorithms, SNS, love and hate, influencers, pop, culture, criticism, subculture, mainstream, illustration, animation.
My conclusion was: “human beings.”
The true nature of the internet is nothing special. It’s simply “a gathering of human beings.” It isn’t anonymity, and it isn’t AI. Everything there is a collection of individuals: First there are people, and then there is the internet.
At the end of a long history, humanity finally took a small rectangle into its hands and connected, at light speed, with people all over the world. Faced with the first great transformation in human history, many people are tormented by both its merits and its harms. Now, people fear that excessive power so much that smartphones and SNS are being regulated around the world.
That overwhelming electromagnetic field, too, is “human beings.”
Picking at a single word to nail a celebrity to a cross and burn them for it, or elevating a nameless girl—wrapped in two-dimensional aesthetics as she broadcasts her feelings—into an idol to be worshiped... all of it is done by individual human beings, one by one.
The internet’s true nature was human beings.
And so, at the turning point of my mid-life, I had to depict across thirteen episodes everything I’ve experienced of “the truth, the goodness, and the beauty human beings possess,” and in doing so, sublimate that strange youth I spent together with an unspecified multitude across the world into the comprehensive art form called animation.
That comes with immense pain. It also means we can’t avoid including extreme, blunt expressions, and I’m sure countless opinions will fly back and forth. I think that, too, is proof that you are human. When the Taroman film ended on the caption “Taro Okamoto: Human,” I was overwhelmed, thinking: yes. Exactly this.
Me, and you—we’re not anonymity. We’re not anime icons. We’re not creators, or lurkers, or streamers, or scalpers, or fans, or antis, or Toshiaki, or Nanashi-san.
We are human beings who feel pain.
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this u? @tbnrtwits
if so, please never comeback.
your meaning of "someone keeps bothering me in osu chat" is more of me harassing you for not only as a failure host of a tournament and a genuine piece of human garbage.
for:
1. you leaked information from another team to us in team "Indo A" whilst also trying to blame it to someone else which in this case was @RipMsCr7 (Matsuno) even though he was just making a live analytical on what Vietnam would be banning on match, whilst YOU trying to avoid a "yes or no" question which you did answer after a huge amount of pressure.
2. YOU out of all people first harassed the captain from "Indo B" which who could've guessed, a girl, that you still tried to hit and make a move to her even though she stated that she already have an significant other, do note that you also tried to approach an underage player from "Indo B" that you assumed it was a girl (shocking)
3. the "harassment" i did was calling you out in chat "oliri 2" because you were ACTUALLY outed for sexually harassing a minor in PUBLIC to both boys and girls, which you are now trying to "disable" your account to run away from taking accountability AGAIN, just like after getting outed from Maimai Surabaya Community.
I’m not used to posting things like this, but I need to ask for help.
My friend Briku (Cath Palug in osu!), MWC Chile player, and his family lost everything in the wildfires in southern Chile.
Any help or share means a lot.
Please pay attention to this situation.