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After the most recent chapter, 165, which was published in Japan on Thursday (Wednesday evening North American time), WataMote will be taking a month-and-a-half break with the next chapter due on November 7th. People are speculating this has something to do with Square Enix revamping its Gangan Online manga platform to a premium-subscribers-first model where the new chapters won't be available online for free (officially) until a month after it's available to premium subscribers (and obviously also print magazine readers).

There's also an outside chance that the long-awaited WataMote anime season 2 is in the early stages of production and the writer half of the Nico Tanigawa duo will be having long meetings with the production committee through most of October but that's just pure speculation on my part.

If WataMote is taking a brief hiatus, at least they paused the story on a fun chapter with Tomoko Kuroki, Yuri Tamura, Hina Nemoto (Nemo) and Akane Okada (the pineapple hair girl) going to the local Chiba city beach.
 
sasazuka said:
There's also an outside chance that the long-awaited WataMote anime season 2 is in the early stages of production
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Don't tease me like that, it's been several years since it aired. I thought I read somewhere it didn't sell too well to warrant a second season, least at that time, but if a second season's in the works...
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Remove Goat said:
I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I'm looking for anime to watch soon with my roommate but I've pretty much exhausted all of the normie and normie-adjacent stuff that isn't shit like SAO, Tokyo Ghoul, Attack on Titan, etc.

Afro Samurai (pretty meh tbh)
Code Geass
Fist of the North Star (after Raoh dies, there is no more FOTNS)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Jojo parts 1-5
One Punch Man (season 2 was shit)
Yu Yu Hakusho
City Hunter
Hunter X Hunter (taking a break before the Chimera Ant arc)
Mobile Suit Gundam, the first one
(We tend to juggle at least 4 series at a time)
Bobobo Bo-Bobobo
Death Note (Up until the part where Light tries to get his dad to use the Death Note)
Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 (Like the last 3 episodes are left)
Hellsing Ultimate (probably going to drop it unless it gets much better after when the nazis attack the anglo menace)
Ghost Stories (IDK when)
Space Dandy
Cowboy Bebop
Hellsing the Series
Ghost in the Shell (p much everything, movies and series wise)
Inuyasha
Outlaw Star
Soul Eater
FLCL
Konosuba
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
Naruto (or really any long running series)

If anyone's got any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
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I can vouch for Samurai Champloo.
 
In regards to titles that seemingly are now mostly forgotten, one I was watching again recently after an age is the 1980s OAV Metal Skin Panic: MADOX-01. From stuidos AIC & Artmic, directed by Shinji Aramaki and produced by Hideki Anno. The plot such as it is is really a deliberate excuse for well-drawn and animated mecha action - a poor mechanic comes across the MADOX-01, a heavy piece of powered armor designed for anti-tank warfare. While inspecting it, he ends up trapped inside before he figures out how to operate it and is on the run from the military out to reclaim it and an elite tank driver gone rogue who is out for revenge after being trounced by the MADOX in VR simulations and wants to destroy the armor. It's light but more than serviceable piece of entertainment, and nobody really discusses it anymore.

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I wish there were a Blu Ray out - AnimEigo, which released it in the US back in the VHS days later released a 15th Anniversary special edition, which can be found but it can be a bit pricey if you are reluctant to lay out anywhere from $70 to over $100 for a DVD.

 
Commander X said:
In regards to titles that seemingly are now mostly forgotten, one I was watching again recently after an age is the 1980s OAV Metal Skin Panic: MADOX-01. From stuidos AIC & Artmic, directed by Shinji Aramaki and produced by Hideki Anno. The plot such as it is is really a deliberate excuse for well-drawn and animated mecha action - a poor mechanic comes across the MADOX-01, a heavy piece of powered armor designed for anti-tank warfare. While inspecting it, he ends up trapped inside before he figures out how to operate it and is on the run from the military out to reclaim it and an elite tank driver gone rogue who is out for revenge after being trounced by the MADOX in VR simulations and wants to destroy the armor. It's light but more than serviceable piece of entertainment, and nobody really discusses it anymore.

ECJxAE0WwAAgibe

I wish there were a Blu Ray out - AnimEigo, which released it in the US back in the VHS days later released a 15th Anniversary special edition, which can be found but it can be a bit pricey if you are reluctant to lay out anywhere from $70 to over $100 for a DVD.

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I would vouch for this too. The climax at the skyscraper is gold.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Don't tease me like that, it's been several years since it aired. I thought I read somewhere it didn't sell too well to warrant a second season, least at that time, but if a second season's in the works...
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The more likely explanation, of course, is that Nico Tanigawa just need to take a few weeks off before they start working on the summer study camp story arc.

Moreso the artist than the writer, I suspect, since the artist has been drawing full-length (~16 page) chapters every two weeks for a while now. She used to alternate between full-length and half-length (~6 to 8 page) chapters but it's been a while since the last half-length installment.

I don't mind the duo taking a month off. I mean, I also like reading Flying Witch where mangaka Chihiro Ishizuka seems to only put out a chapter every other month now and sometimes she even takes three months (though her Flying Witch chapters usually go over 30 pages and with more detailed art than WataMote has).
 
Recently, NHK launches poll to pick which of Rumiko Takahashi's works is the fan favorite:

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全るーみっくアニメ大投票｜NHK

るーみっくわーるどの全てを網羅したデータベースから、人気作品を視聴者が選ぶ史上初の「全るーみっくアニメ大投票」。
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www.animenewsnetwork.com

NHK Launches Inuyasha, Ranma 1/2 Creator Rumiko Takahashi Mega-Poll

Following the Precure, Gundam, and Macross mega-polls, broadcaster NHK is turning to prolific manga creator Rumiko Takahashi to see which of her series...
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The polling site opened on September 17 and voters can cast their picks until November 4. The choice will be tough; there are 52 anime, about 1100 characters, about 700 TV episodes, and about 160 songs to choose from. The poll results will be broadcast on November 16.
NHK BS Premium will air a program on the 38-year history of Rumiko Takahashi anime series on October 17 with preliminary voting results.
In her career of over three decades, Takahashi has created manga such as Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, Mermaid Saga, Rumic Theater, Ranma 1/2, One-Pound Gospel, and Inuyasha. Many of her works have become internationally popular and inspired anime and live-action adaptations. As of March 2017, her works have a combined 200 million copies in print. The first volume of her MAO manga will go on sale in Japan on September 18.
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Oh and by that way, that one shot manga about a junior confessing to a crossdresser:

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Otokonoko ga kouhai ni kokuhaku sareru hanashi Manga

Manga Created by @pomujoynet1 on twitter. [b]Links:[/b] [*][url=https://twitter.com/pomujoynet1]Artist's Twitter[/url] [*][url=https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=2302136]Artist's Pixiv[/url]
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I guess it's not a one shot anymore since there's a chapter two. Who knew it would catch on?
 
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PS1gamenwatch said:
Oh and by that way, that one shot manga about a junior confessing to a crossdresser:

mangapark.net

Otokonoko ga kouhai ni kokuhaku sareru hanashi Manga

Manga Created by @pomujoynet1 on twitter. [b]Links:[/b] [*][url=https://twitter.com/pomujoynet1]Artist's Twitter[/url] [*][url=https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=2302136]Artist's Pixiv[/url]
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I guess it's not a one shot anymore since there's a chapter two. Who knew it would catch on?
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We got an entire anime run of a light novel series where a brother falls in love with his sister who plays hentai games, it’s not that surprising.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
We got an entire anime run of a light novel series where a brother falls in love with his sister who plays hentai games, it’s not that surprising.
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Which was also popular enough that we got an anime adaptation of another light novel by the same author about a light novel author who gets his affections split between two younger female light novel writers, his little sister who is a shut-in doujin artist and one of his little sister's classmates.

At least in this one the little sister is a step sister which makes it 10% less weird then in the first series where they went to great lengths to confirm that she was his honest-to-god full blooded sister.
 
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Which was also popular enough that we got an anime adaptation of another light novel by the same author about a light novel author who gets his affections split between two younger female light novel writers, his little sister who is a shut-in doujin artist and one of his little sister's classmates.

At least in this one the little sister is a step sister which makes it 10% less weird then in the first series where they went to great lengths to confirm that she was his honest-to-god full blooded sister.
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That ero-sensei thing was another incest thing? By the same guy?

Oof.
 
Kacchan said:
Just got back from seeing Promare a few hours ago.

Really great movie, a lot of Gurren Lagann references, and it just made me wonder if Trigger tried to make a new season but couldn't get Gainax on board.
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That's a shame if they can't get Gainax to play nice because I've always been hoping Trigger would make a second season of Panty and Stocking.
 
Gravityqueen4life said:
anyone watch or read Kimetsu no Yaiba? read a few chapters but it seems rather boring.
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Since it's quite a long time I read early chapters, so I don't remember much the correct order of events.
Early chapters are kinda loosely focus, but the story picks up better after Tanjirou meets the main antagonist, Muzan Kubitsuji, at earliest. Or when Tanjirou has 2 more companions traveling with. Because it's a shounen series, so you can expect flashbacks now and then for demons, fortunately those flashbacks are short and well-explored enough. Then you have certain arcs can last for some chapters, but imo those have good pacing.

Otherwise, you can try anime, it helps a lot with visual, since the art in manga can be a bit confusing in some fighting scenes, at least for first few volumes in manga. It's 100% worth to watch anime adaptation if you can. It's on episode 25 out of 26 now.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
We got an entire anime run of a light novel series where a brother falls in love with his sister who plays hentai games, it’s not that surprising.
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I was thinking since the plot looks like the start of a yuri suddenly goes awry when it’s revealed to be a guy then transitions to the girl falling for that person in spite being biologically a guy, might seem problematic to some certain folks if you know what I mean.
 
Dom Cruise said:
That's a shame if they can't get Gainax to play nice because I've always been hoping Trigger would make a second season of Panty and Stocking.
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Wait, they still own P&S? I thought that shit went over with Trigger when it was formed like how Eva went over with Anno when he formed Khara.
 
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Ex-operator of pirate manga website arrested | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

Japanese police have arrested a man believed to have played a leading role in running an illegal manga-viewing website called Manga-mura, or Manga-village, after he was deported from the Philippines.
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Ex-operator of pirate manga website arrested
Tuesday, Sept. 24, 3:47
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Japanese police have arrested a man believed to have played a leading role in running an illegal manga-viewing website called Manga-mura, or Manga-village, after he was deported from the Philippines.
Police arrested 27-year-old Romi Hoshino on Tuesday after a plane carrying him entered Japanese airspace. He was detained by the Philippine bureau of immigration in July.
Investigators in Japan say Hoshino made image files of popular manga "One Piece" open to the public and downloadable, which are alleged copyright violations.
The website had shown more than 50,000 manga works and magazines without permission of the authors and publishers.
An organization in Japan, the Content Overseas Distribution Association, estimated that the site caused damage of about 2.8 billion dollars.
The site was suddenly shut down in April 2018. After receiving complaints from major publishers, police launched an investigation.
Before the latest arrest, three others related to the website were arrested and indicted in the case.
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Kari Kamiya said:
I'm so glad I subscribed to this man, this was a very entertaining video.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sJhnmkM9VKg
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Have you seen the first OVA? It's terrific.

EDIT: The guy who made this seems unaware of Noel Bloom Jr., the "Just for Kids" kid. Blame Celebrity Home Entertainment for the video quality. Most of their videos were that crappy.
 
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