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SteelPlatedHeart said:
How do they handle it in that one food anime?
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I know it's a parody of the Food Wars chicken gyoza scene and the end of that Food Wars scene looks pretty similar to that one shot in Nagatoro-san chapter 33 to be honest.


I haven't really seen Food Wars beyond clips of the "foodgasm" scenes.
 
I recently finished up the Demon Slayer manga. I definitely liked the first half more than the second half. The Hashira arc, wherein they go undercover in an entertainment district to find a demon, was the last arc I really enjoyed and probably also my favorite. Felt like the author, Koyohaur Gotoge, got bored or burnt out on the series during the swordsmith village arc and decided to rush to the end. Zenitsu and Inosuke feel like they become background characters, with Zenitsu's big, personal battle feeling like the author throwing him a bone after realizing he hadn't done much with him. Even Nezuko barely shows up during the last 50 or so chapters.

Well, at least there were still a ton of insane battles that ufotable will beautifully animate. I'm curious as to how long they plan on making the anime. At their current pace of roughly 2 chapters equaling an episode they have enough material for three more seasons but I can't see them letting it run for that long.

Also, one thing that kept striking me as odd was that author would make sure to have the characters use archaic measurements appropriate for the era but then would have them talk about cells, genetics, and diseases as if they had modern knowledge of them. It wasn't something that affected my enjoyment of the manga but just something constantly stuck out as weird.
 
Atatata said:
Otherside Picnic and Kemono Jihen are probably going to be decent action/supernatural picks if you're fine with overlooking a bit of yuri/shota pandering. Good luck finding somewhere to discuss either one, though.
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After reading up to the current available chapter for Kemono Jihen I kind of lost interest because I was really not enjoying what the author was doing with the villains and it just felt like it started rushing itself plot wise. Probably not going to bother with the anime unless it ends before it starts up the overarching plot it's currently on. I really enjoyed the episodic early parts of the story, but after it started the stupid rapid fire "let's collect the power stones! Oh no, the enemy is also doing the same thing and already have most of them!" my interest died.

Maybe it's just me but trying to humanize/endear you to characters that wipe out entire villages and brutally mutilate their enemies and the authors refusal to just let the villains die has really taken me out of it. One of the villains being forgive because he punished himself with castration(?) after everything he's done was just bizarre. You can't get me to like any of these villains given the way you introduced them, especially when the bulk see nothing wrong with what they did. Not even touching on the whole Human Farm stuff that was brought in and then author just hand waved the implications.

It somewhat hurts since I'm a huge fan of series that deal with the supernatural and it started out so enjoyable too.
 
Tor Lugosi said:
I recently finished up the Demon Slayer manga. I definitely liked the first half more than the second half. The Hashira arc, wherein they go undercover in an entertainment district to find a demon, was the last arc I really enjoyed and probably also my favorite. Felt like the author, Koyohaur Gotoge, got bored or burnt out on the series during the swordsmith village arc and decided to rush to the end. Zenitsu and Inosuke feel like they become background characters, with Zenitsu's big, personal battle feeling like the author throwing him a bone after realizing he hadn't done much with him. Even Nezuko barely shows up during the last 50 or so chapters.

Well, at least there were still a ton of insane battles that ufotable will beautifully animate. I'm curious as to how long they plan on making the anime. At their current pace of roughly 2 chapters equaling an episode they have enough material for three more seasons but I can't see them letting it run for that long.

Also, one thing that kept striking me as odd was that author would make sure to have the characters use archaic measurements appropriate for the era but then would have them talk about cells, genetics, and diseases as if they had modern knowledge of them. It wasn't something that affected my enjoyment of the manga but just something constantly stuck out as weird.
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Maybe more movies will be made like the Train arc for other arcs.
Rance's Hyper Weapon said:
Yeah pre-serialization Nagatoro was a straight up bully. A bit of that carried over to the early chapters of the manga too, but over time the author phased that out and made her more lovey dovey.
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Yeah, that's what I'm saying. IIRC, even the Japanese readers felt a bit off due to it being overdone Uzaki-chan is also going through that since the last 2 recent chapters of the manga. For very understandable reasons tbh. But it's only from western side from what I've seen.
 
No wonder the isekai truck became a meme. It's genuinely all over the place.
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Moguro Fukuzou said:
After reading up to the current available chapter for Kemono Jihen I kind of lost interest because I was really not enjoying what the author was doing with the villains and it just felt like it started rushing itself plot wise. Probably not going to bother with the anime unless it ends before it starts up the overarching plot it's currently on. I really enjoyed the episodic early parts of the story, but after it started the stupid rapid fire "let's collect the power stones! Oh no, the enemy is also doing the same thing and already have most of them!" my interest died.

Maybe it's just me but trying to humanize/endear you to characters that wipe out entire villages and brutally mutilate their enemies and the authors refusal to just let the villains die has really taken me out of it. One of the villains being forgive because he punished himself with castration(?) after everything he's done was just bizarre. You can't get me to like any of these villains given the way you introduced them, especially when the bulk see nothing wrong with what they did. Not even touching on the whole Human Farm stuff that was brought in and then author just hand waved the implications.

It somewhat hurts since I'm a huge fan of series that deal with the supernatural and it started out so enjoyable too.
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After a while, you do get the feeling that the author is trying to play into the characters being inhuman and having an edgy alien sense of morality, but they don't fully commit/do it properly enough for it to fit, especially considering its technically a shonen. Though I think that, given time, the author would figure it out.

Ngl personally I thought the fat baby farm and the castrated rapist autist running around with his dead girlfriend attached to his chest were silly enough to be pretty funny, I should've probably mentioned the cons of the series.
 
Since it's coming up to Christmas, what seasonal episodes are everyone watching to get in the holiday spirit? I know a lot of people watch Toradora, but I'm wondering if there's other stuff to check out. Some personal favorites that I can remember are Gakuen Babysitters (ep.12), Disappearance of Haruhi (This counts right?), and a couple others. The Hetalia Christmas special is also pretty fun even with it being so short.
Vapewizard said:
No wonder the isekai truck became a meme. It's genuinely all over the place.
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I've read some of the Mushoku Tensei but never finished it, series has some great moments that I did like. Problem was is that every time Rudy started perving on the girls it just came off as creepy since he'd always emphasize how old he is on the inside compared to them. Maybe it gets better later on, but the numerous times he just pervs out took away from the attempts at character development to me or when the series was trying to be serious.

I find that's a problem for a lot of isekai.
Atatata said:
After a while, you do get the feeling that the author is trying to play into the characters being inhuman and having an edgy alien sense of morality, but they don't fully commit/do it properly enough for it to fit, especially considering its technically a shonen. Though I think that, given time, the author would figure it out.

Ngl personally I thought the fat baby farm and the castrated rapist autist running around with his dead girlfriend attached to his chest were silly enough to be pretty funny, I should've probably mentioned the cons of the series.
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That's what I felt the author was trying to do as well, but as you said it wasn't done properly. The biggest thing that annoys me is the stupid meathead enemy character, who's design I can't stand as I think it looks awful with his chest tumors, getting focus as if the author wants you to like him or feel bad for him. Dude should have stayed dead and not have been brought back. I can only think that he must be a favorite of the author or something, I just can't stand him.

I'll probably sit on the series until this arc has wrapped up and then read it in one go, but at the moment I've pretty much dropped the series due to it. The Baby farm while weird was pretty silly and overall I didn't mind it, more of a build up of other issues with the series. It just really feels like the author is speeding through the story way too fast at the moment.
 
Moguro Fukuzou said:
Since it's coming up to Christmas, what seasonal episodes are everyone watching to get in the holiday spirit? I know a lot of people watch Toradora, but I'm wondering if there's other stuff to check out. Some personal favorites that I can remember are Gakuen Babysitters (ep.12), Disappearance of Haruhi (This counts right?), and a couple others. The Hetalia Christmas special is also pretty fun even with it being so short.
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I already watched it over a week ago but Kamichu! episode 13 (home video order since some of the episodes, including this one, are OVAs), "We Do As We Like", has got to be one of my top anime Christmas episodes due to the story about Shinto miko Matsuri Saegusa going on a one-girl anti-Christmas tirade, since she thinks of it as a holiday for foreigners, and trying to set up "Goddess Yurie Thanksgiving Day" as a Japanese alternative, even though the junior high school girl turned goddess in question, Yurie Hitotsubashi, as well as Matsuri's own sister Miko (who is also a miko) enjoy Christmas as a fun day without worrying about the religious aspects of it.
 
The Token Ethnic said:
There's links on nyaa to download the original series via Mega, be sure to check the posts by xPearse for the link. If you like physical media, you can pick up the blu-ray for $15-20 bucks.
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xPearse only had the OVA, but thanks, found a large "all Casshern media" torrent after dicking through pages upon pages of SINS.

Blu-ray I have nothing to view on, even if I had funds.
Marissa Moira said:
Isn't Casshern getting all it's old shit re-released because he's in some team up with Gatchaman?
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It is in USA, on a disk, which in my position could as well be on the moon in wax cylinders ^^'
 

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