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bigoogabaloogas said:
fugg i've been looking through baka-tsuki and I've finally remembered about horizon and its extremely lengthy novels. for perspective, the colored parts were adapted in the anime as season 1 and 2, and the second pic shows the completed series with a whopping length of 119.7cm when stacked together.

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Is that Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere? The anime with massive breasts about on every girl? I remember seeing the first episode and it looked like the usual fap material.
 
BScCollateral said:
Wrong question. The correct question is "Why can't Western media tell engaging stories any more?"

Culture warriors might argue about "woke creators" but I don't buy it. Communists told good stories. Nazis wrote good movies.

I suspect we're seeing a more fundamental breakdown, where people responsible for making entertainment can't distinguish between a compelling story and random trash, and an over-reliance on "tests" that return numerical data that doesn't actually correlate with audience interest.
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production costs are higher than before. 100k used to make fun indie bfilms in the 90s and 2000s. nowadays?
willys wonderland cost 5million.

the lobster was 4.5 million.

manchester by the sea was 9 mil.

it costs too much.
 
Read about half of Yakuza Reincarnation, and I have to say that as far as isekai series go, it’s probably one of the better ones I’ve read. It does still have the OP protagonist, but the character was also actually OP before he died, and rather than believing that they were suddenly resurrected and became a saint, like some of these series, they spend nearly a full chapter before his death - establishing that he was a yakuza who, while definitely a tough guy, also genuinely cared about his community and the honor of the yakuza (such as it is).

also, despite being fantasy, the series deals with a lot of actual real world issues like drug addiction and drug dealing, poverty caused by unchecked welfare, prostitution, sex trafficking and the like - it’s just that in that world cocaine is made from demon blood and the sex trafficking is an alternate income source because a wizard dried up the city’s water. It actually feels like a darker 7 Deadly Sins.
 
Figured this is worth posting as it was made by the same guy who did that video talking about Funimation's business practices and it was quite well received, though this one isn't nearly as scathing.
 
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
Is that Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere? The anime with massive breasts about on every girl? I remember seeing the first episode and it looked like the usual fap material.
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Yep. It's probably the author's fetish, since the massive breasts are normal, and it's a bit rare to see a flat or medium chested girl. One of the positive things I can say about the novels is that it doesn't really rely on sex appeal to keep you interested in it, but the characterization and the worldbuilding.
 
Screw Danlon said:
Read about half of Yakuza Reincarnation, and I have to say that as far as isekai series go, it’s probably one of the better ones I’ve read. It does still have the OP protagonist, but the character was also actually OP before he died, and rather than believing that they were suddenly resurrected and became a saint, like some of these series, they spend nearly a full chapter before his death - establishing that he was a yakuza who, while definitely a tough guy, also genuinely cared about his community and the honor of the yakuza (such as it is).

also, despite being fantasy, the series deals with a lot of actual real world issues like drug addiction and drug dealing, poverty caused by unchecked welfare, prostitution, sex trafficking and the like - it’s just that in that world cocaine is made from demon blood and the sex trafficking is an alternate income source because a wizard dried up the city’s water. It actually feels like a darker 7 Deadly Sins.
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….Kazuma Kiryu isekai?
 
Oh shit
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Kenji Kamiyama to Direct The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim Feature Film

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex director to direct prequel to The Lord of the Rings
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At least its (probably) gonna be better then the amazon series.
 
Something Witty Entertainment(the ones that do the SAO Abridged) are releasing the next episode of the MHA Abridged tomorrow.

Ans if you want to know why I would share an Abridged series, here’s the first episode.
 
Shining Wit said:
ZLS endgame is upon us
RIP Kotaro's waistcoat. Bit weird having such a timeskip in the season though
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I'm just fucking happy that the deadline isn't the girls bodies gives out, but rather a curse that will destroy Saga, and apperantly it caused the girls to die somehow. I wouldn't survive an "everybody is dying' ending.
One interesting thing (that I might misunderstood) is that the barkeep mentioned a high school girl being revived before the band and that it failed. So could have Sakura been already revived before the show, tried to be a solo idol and failed?
 
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
I'm just fucking happy that the deadline isn't the girls bodies gives out, but rather a curse that will destroy Saga, and apperantly it caused the girls to die somehow. I wouldn't survive an "everybody is dying' ending.
One interesting thing (that I might misunderstood) is that the barkeep mentioned a high school girl being revived before the band and that it failed. So could have Sakura been already revived before the show, tried to be a solo idol and failed?
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That was my original thought, but I think he was referring to the Maimai episode and how they "survived" her finding out about Franchouchou being zombies. The dialogue was a little unclear, but I don't think there's another zombie around or anything like that. Remember, this came right after the scene where the reporter confronted Kotaro about the zombies, and the conversation between Kotaro and the barkeep in the next scene is about that secret. Context clues would suggest "Sounds like this isn't going to work out like it did with the high school girl" refers to Maimai.

I'm excited to see how all this plays out. Season 1 was already great, but season 2 has been even better.
 
King Dead said:
That was my original thought, but I think he was referring to the Maimai episode and how they "survived" her finding out about Franchouchou being zombies. The dialogue was a little unclear, but I don't think there's another zombie around or anything like that. Remember, this came right after the scene where the reporter confronted Kotaro about the zombies, and the conversation between Kotaro and the barkeep in the next scene is about that secret. Context clues would suggest "Sounds like this isn't going to work out like it did with the high school girl" refers to Maimai.

I'm excited to see how all this plays out. Season 1 was already great, but season 2 has been even better.
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You're probably right because it's a massive bomb to drop just before a finale that seems to be action packed.
 
Reading this thread spoiler spoiler spoiler is like spoiler spoiler spoiler playing Turok spoiler spoiler spoiler spoiler spoiler spoiler on the n64 spoiler spoiler spoiler the fog is set at spoiler spoiler spoiler 90% opaque.

aerith Jokes aside, thank you all for being so diligent with the spoilers! dies
 
Kari Kamiya said:
So this is a surprise. I went to Barnes & Noble today with my brothers and I saw and purchased this:
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So Seven Seas got the license to distribute a Creamy Mami spin-off manga? Real intriguing.
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I actually read that after watching the first several episodes of the original series and it basically just covers those same episodes, but from Megumi's point of view. It's an attempt to paint her in a better light and I'd say at least from the first volume it does its job, on the flipside it makes Shingo (President of the talent company) come off as an even bigger asshole than in the anime.

Maybe one day they'll release Creamy Mami, though I've heard the Japanese Blu-ray is ass with the old Anime Sols dvd apparently looking better. You can at least watch the whole thing on Retrocrush, so maybe that might hint at someone like Discotek picking it up.
 
Dynazenon is still shit. Latest episode have the discovery that one guy can use the robot by himself without the team, invalidating the whole point of having a cast of mecha pilots.

Also I can't find who recommended it, but thanks for the recommendation of Princess Tutu. The first season is solid enough, but the second really expands on it and makes me want to rewatch it with some of the revelations. Ahiru is an adorable protagonist, but all the cast is good.
 
So Fruits Basket: The Final is almost over and it doesn’t look like they’re going to show how Kyoko and Katsuya met for whatever reason. They could try to squeeze it in, in theory, but it wouldn’t really make sense at this point. What a waste.
 
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