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....goddammit, Japan.
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>tried
You try Franken Fran?
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Okay, hold the fuck up there.
Kari--well, Hikari in this case--has an onii-chan complex for sure. It's kind of a joke in the fandom anyway, but there's enough proof that shows she may actually be worshiping the ground her brother walks on. Yes, the dub toned this down since in America, younger siblings don't look up to their older siblings that way, but shades of it still exists since, you know, they couldn't always alter the frames. The scene where (Hi)Kari talks to Koromon about her brother is a nice scene since she's telling her brother's Digimon why he's such a great guy in sticking up for her--the dub changed it from her wetting the bed to her accidentally falling into a pigpen in front of the other kids and Tai jumping in after her to get himself dirty as well, even right there you still get to see that she really admires him, if only from afar. I have brief remembrance of the original script being that she was talking about when she wet the bed, but I don't watch the sub very often to begin with, so whatever. It's just about a little girl talking about how much she loves her big brother because of how he's always been there for her. This comes back around in a different light when Tai(chi) later tells Izzy (Koushiro) about how he nearly got his sister killed from a pneumonia relapse and he was never able to forgive himself for it, thus why he's so protective of her.
Really, I could sperg on about how much I love the relationships portrayed in Digimon, especially with familial relationships. It's one of the few times I think a children's show actually got it down right. But now here comes Hosoda waltzing in, and he pulls this shit on us in saying "Episode 21 is a love story, and like that of a dream, or someone from the outside looking in".
Fucking love story analogy aside, so are you telling me Tai(chi) may not have actually returned to the human world after falling into Etemon's Dark Network-induced black hole after all? Or that he was exactly like the Digimon that were appearing and disappearing in the real world on the TV and like with Ogremon--which if this is true, how did the little girl get to see Tai(chi) and Koromon and then bawl her eyes out if no one else but (Hi)Kari could see him? So Ogremon actually did see Tai(chi) and Agumon there and attacked them, but on a whole different plane of existence?
FUUUUUCK this makes things even more confusing! I mean, everything about the episode was strange to begin with, and is basically one whole "WHAM! Holy shit!" episode, and this was the first episode in which (Hi)Kari was introduced if you hadn't seen the prologue movie, and she was just fucking creepy in that in both versions anyway and...
...I need to rethink some things. I wonder if the Digimon tag on Tumblr exploded from this...
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I ended up bingeing Hunter x Hunter last week and stopped a quarter through the Chimera Ant arc. Is it worth continuing?
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Yes. It's a narrative heavy arc, but it builds up to be worth it and makes sense in the end.
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Fuck yeah, I went to Half-Price Books and I got the complete series of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Also finally got the one volume of the Chrono Crusade manga that eluded me for about a year, so I can finally start reading it. (Didn't want to bother with scanlations with this one.)
According to my brother, the GitS DVD wasn't there last night. Had some pretty good timing today, then.
According to my brother, the GitS DVD wasn't there last night. Had some pretty good timing today, then.
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Shoujo is usual something I don't my toes into outside from the really popluar like My Love Story and Ouran. But I always up for good romance story every now and again. Funny enough I remember seeing Kitchen Princess among a sea of discontiued 2000s released managa at my local library not that long go. Also by looking at the main characters I am expecting Ushio and Tora to be stupidly violent, but filled with that 80s cheeses.
I remember first hearing about it during my fuck anime phase, Of course ignored it ranted about Naruto for the hundredth time like the re-tarded sperg i was. But looking at it now it probably something I'd get a kick out of.
Kek is all that can come from my mouth.
Speaking of Fuck me softly Onee-chan has any brave souls here given the government approved and funded sinful sibling comedy Eromanga sensei a watch? I've heard some positive things, much like how the author's previous work got the same kinda of praise when it first started.
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I think you'll be surprised by it (if you like it, check out both the 90s OVA and 2015 MAPPA anime). It's honestly a whole lot of fun, but there's quite a bit of stories that are actually really sad or adorable--if not both. Also Tora's one of the best tsunderes in existence and I will fight anyone who says so otherwise.
I might get around to it when the season's half-way done, though knowing me, I may end up putting it off and then binging it at the end.
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I should have mentioned this sooner, but Volume 3 of the Osomatsu-san manga came out at the end of February. It's got a Girlymatsu Christmas chapter and an F6 Valentine's Day chapter. It's pretty funny, but I still think Volume 2 is the best.
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They should really license Akatsuka's original manga over here. I think it'd get an audience - we're getting the full run of Kitaro in English, after all.
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Yona is pretty good both for the anime and Manga, MAGI: The Labrynth of Magic is another adventurous, interesting take on 1001 nights.
One I do really enjoy is Gunkar No Baltzar. Which is basically PRUSSIA STRONK, in the mid-late 1800s with that usual "elastic" attitude to historical convention a lot of these Mangas take.
Mmmm, Stand Alone Complex sits right at the top with my own favourite anime of Full Metal Panic! Though I actually prefer the second gig to the first because its a bit more drama centric before then going balls to the wall action at the very end.
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Lmao the Keijo!!!!!!!! manga's gotten cancelled because the anime (which looks like ass btw, based Xebec) sold poorly.
Daichi Sorayomi Ends Keijo!!!!!!!! Aquatic Sports Manga
Not sure how true this is, but a Reddit user posted this:
But if true (although the manga not doing well to begin with is probably the actual case), that's actually kind of messed up to straight-up cancel a manga because the anime didn't turn a profit.
EDIT: Okay, the post looks to be fake. Or the blog post was deleted, who knows, but no source was given in the OP, so...
Daichi Sorayomi Ends Keijo!!!!!!!! Aquatic Sports Manga
Not sure how true this is, but a Reddit user posted this:
But if true (although the manga not doing well to begin with is probably the actual case), that's actually kind of messed up to straight-up cancel a manga because the anime didn't turn a profit.
EDIT: Okay, the post looks to be fake. Or the blog post was deleted, who knows, but no source was given in the OP, so...
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Now that's how you keep your strip fresh!
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Can I just say that, as dumb as it is, Akiba's Trip The Animation is quite the love letter to otakus of all kinds and needs more love? (I didn't realize it was based off an actual game, but the anime's practically otherwise original from what I've gathered.) The dub's also fantastic, I gotta say.
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So apparently the second season of AoT is absolutely tanking in BD/DVD sales. The DVD didn't break 1500, the standard BD sold less than 200 copies, and the Amazon version of the BD sold less than 1000.
Virgin Soul is just excellent so far. Easily keeping up with the expectations set by Genesis. Pretty well animated, too, but that's expected from MAPPA whenever they have an actual budget. It's moving a lot slower than Genesis did, though- but I chalk that up to the fact its twice as long as Genesis was.
I plan on picking up the Danmachi spin off, but I haven't sat down and watched either ep yet.
I'm watching Granblue Fantasy and Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul. Granblue is generic, but comfy- hits that nice, nostalgic spot for classic Fina Fantasy for me. I like the art design too.
Virgin Soul is just excellent so far. Easily keeping up with the expectations set by Genesis. Pretty well animated, too, but that's expected from MAPPA whenever they have an actual budget. It's moving a lot slower than Genesis did, though- but I chalk that up to the fact its twice as long as Genesis was.
I plan on picking up the Danmachi spin off, but I haven't sat down and watched either ep yet.
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Gee, it's like waiting four years to release the sequel to the most popular anime of the 2010s only to dick around with spin-offs and push back the release date at least twice just to greenlight twelve episodes wasn't the smartest business decision in the world.
EDIT: Holy shit I just found this out, but Ed Blaylock (voice of King Bradley) passed away recently from cancer.
EDIT 2: There is indeed an animator shortage in Japan. It's like the animation industry over there needs to be reformed or something.
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I finally ordered Golden Boy on DVD and binge-watched it after putting it off for so long. It's just as amazing as everybody says; very raunchy but hilarious as fuck (think Leisure Suit Larry, but with a younger protagonist doing odd jobs). The voice acting for the supporting cast (depending on the episode) was a bit lackluster, but with Kintaro hamming up the atmosphere well, it was forgiving. And yes, he has just about the best facial expressions I've seen in an anime character.
Out of all the girls, I liked Noriko the most because of her kind-hearted personality, and that her episode got the greatest reactions out of me besides laughter. I also heard that the manga was much more surreal than the OVA, so I'm on the fence about checking it out. Still, this is easily a personal favorite of mine!
Out of all the girls, I liked Noriko the most because of her kind-hearted personality, and that her episode got the greatest reactions out of me besides laughter. I also heard that the manga was much more surreal than the OVA, so I'm on the fence about checking it out. Still, this is easily a personal favorite of mine!
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Its not surprising that the industry is falling apart with how unforgiving it is. I wound't be surprised if anime production decreased in half in the coming years simply because not one wants to make work in it. Japan may have a different work culture then some countries, but its universal that dying each week for your job isn't worth unless you can afford the floor to rest your corpse on.