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SandyCat said:
Is the Record of Ragnarok anime mostly filler?

Granted I'm only two episodes in but it feels like it has more filler than the earlier episodes of dragonball
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It might aswell be a fucking slideshow with it's "animation" quality and pacing. I'm not even too big a fan of the manga but it's way fucking better than the anime. Read Kengan Ashura (another anime Netflix fucked) if you want a good tournament manga.
 
Who else reads Tongari Boushi no Atelier (Witch Hat Atelier)?
I love mangas that have a good mixture of action/cutesy stuff.
Definitely cleanse the bad taste after reading another isekai copycat manga.

The manga has beautiful art.
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Yuusha-sama said:
Who else reads Tongari Boushi no Atelier (Witch Hat Atelier)?
I love mangas that have a good mixture of action/cutesy stuff.
Definitely cleanse the bad taste after reading another isekai copycat manga.

The manga has beautiful art.
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Read up to the trial they had with the bridge and then said to myself I'll return to it when there are more chapters. The plot is pretty intriguing and the art is fantastic with great attention to detail. It's a good example of how to do a magical world correctly (ie, make a system and think of how it will evolve while also limiting the characters to that system).
 
Finished reading Dorohedoro. I recall someone in this thread saying that it massively dropped in quality in the latter half and honestly I disagree. While I liked the tone of the first half more, I think the author actually did a pretty good job delivering on the setup from before Caiman dies. Despite plot armor and fakeout deaths getting just a tad too prevalent in the latter half for my liking, and a bit of an overreliance on things just happening to work out due to complete coincidence, I think for the most part it does a really good job of setting up all the important elements that come into play well beforehand in a way such that they don't feel like they're coming out of nowhere.

If anything I think the ending dragged on for just a bit too long, but as far as manga endings go, I feel like Dorohedoro easily falls north of "average" and left me mostly satisfied.
 
I just finished watching Super Crooks which just popped up on Netflix. From what I've seen, people are pretty mixed on it and I understand because I don't think the plot or most of the characters are especially well written and despite the art style looking pretty good, the animation isn't anything special but it is a very entertaining 13 episode series with quick pacing and an actual conclusion as opposed to being open for a season 2. I'd recommend it on fun-factor alone.
 
vern said:
I started reading Saikyou Densetsu Kurosawa and while I'm only at the halfway point I think it might be my new favorite FKMT series.
At first I thought I wouldn't like it as much as Kaiji because there is no games/gambles to drive up the stakes. But its the opposite, since there are no complex rules to explain the character writing is even more front and center. Especially with Kurosawa himself since while he starts out as an absolute loser like a lot of MCs, him achieving something feels genuine rather then coming off as a wish fulfillment power fantasy (maybe because he's the only loser type MC I've seen that isn't a generic Otaku/NEET).

Unless it drops the ball hard in the second half this might be my new go to recommendation who wants to to dip their toes into FKMTs manga.
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There's also a sequel series called shin Kurosawa, but as far as I know all most of the chapters haven't been translated to english.
 
To be fair, that sort of thing doesn’t feel all that out of place in Feudal Japan.

Still really fucking weird considering their relationship in the original series.
 
Overcast said:
Still really fucking weird considering their relationship in the original series.
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Yeah, I always thought it was something more akin to a Father/Daughter sort of love as opposed to a romantic one. It just feels really weird. It doesn’t help of course that at least one of their daughters turned out to be a woke little turd. This feels a lot like Korra all over again. They bait and switch you with episode one having a mostly Inuyasha centric story with the main cast book ended by these weird new characters that really don’t fit the aesthetic. It’s just bizarre. Apparently there are things called rainbow pearls now that can power boost demons comparable to the Jewel, but they haven’t explained them yet and it’s already episode three, that and two of the jewels are in the Sessomarou’s kid’s eyes. This all had to happen in like about 25 years by the way looking at the new girls ages and and pairing that with the timeline. They better have a real good explanation because so far this show suuuuuuuucks.

Mistress Centipede apparently had a granddaughter named Mistress Three Eyes because hurr durr three eyes. It feels like this was written by Americans who saw three episodes of the original show. Looks like our main cast is entirely female too and all share the special rainbow pearl thing conveniently. Again episode three and I still don’t really know who any of these people are beyond the main girl wanting to be masculine. They have personalities like wet paper bags. It really doesn’t even feel like the same writer.

I think the most annoying part for me is that the characters all already have special swords and control of weird powers never brought up in the old show and none of it is being explained. That and the dialog and character motivations feel super unnatural. Like, one of Sessomarou’s kids can just manifest a light saber out of demonic energy. Like yeah, Sessomarou manifested his own sword once, but that was at the end of the show after he had gone through serious character growth and a whole plot about how his father gave everything to Inuyasha.

And why does Inuyasha’s kid sound like she’s from Osaka if she grew up in Feudal Japan?! No one else talks like that!
 
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DDBCAE CBAADCBE said:
Just started watching the Inuyasha sequel dub. It’s fucking weird. The voices are all wrong in the most bizarre ways and apparently Sessomarou fucked Rin and had kids. Rin, who was like a little kid when we last saw her and Sessomarou was AT LEAST 104. Like wtf man.
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Kirby 😔😔😔
I'm glad Ian took over for him because they were close irl.
 
Scarlett Johansson said:
Kirby 😔😔😔
I'm glad Ian took over for him because they were close irl.
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It’s not just Miroku who sounds off though, even Inuyasha sounds like he’s trying to mimic the Japanese voice actor for the shouting lines, going all high pitch. It’s just a train wreck. I had to stop myself at episode 4 when they revealed that Kikyo is still hanging around as a spirit in the tree...
 
DDBCAE CBAADCBE said:
It’s not just Miroku who sounds off though, even Inuyasha sounds like he’s trying to mimic the Japanese voice actor for the shouting lines, going all high pitch. It’s just a train wreck. I had to stop myself at episode 4 when they revealed that Kikyo is still hanging around as a spirit in the tree...
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IIRC, that's not actually Kikyo, that's just the appearance that the spirit of the tree took to represent itself because remember Kikyo? Kikyo is still dead dead for real, and beyond that episode the spirit hasn't reappeared to my knowledge (although I'm not fully caught up yet so I might be wrong).

Honestly, I like it for what it is, another story set in the same world I enjoyed for years. It's familiar yet different enough. Also Moroha is by far the best character so she keeps the show entertaining.
 
Started chainsaw man, so far Aki is my fave and I'm probably going to binge the fuck out of it this weekend.

I also started Baki and that is it's own can of worms and i'm living for it.
However I have a dumb question, is it like censored on netflix or is it uncensored somewhere else? I'll probably pick up the manga but so far the anime is really good.
 
What anime/manga is going to ruin Christmas this year? Remember it was HnK last(?) year but it's still on hiatus sadly Ichikawa please.
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Reminder to check out Ghost Hunt, specifically episodes 12-13 as they're Christmas related and full of pain.
 
DDBCAE CBAADCBE said:
It’s not just Miroku who sounds off though, even Inuyasha sounds like he’s trying to mimic the Japanese voice actor for the shouting lines, going all high pitch. It’s just a train wreck. I had to stop myself at episode 4 when they revealed that Kikyo is still hanging around as a spirit in the tree...
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It might just be the voice direction this time. I haven't actually seen the dub mind you, but I can safely gauge that if it sounds bad, then it's probably the direction as it's still Richard and he sounded fine in the original.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
It might just be the voice direction this time. I haven't actually seen the dub mind you, but I can safely gauge that if it sounds bad, then it's probably the direction as it's still Richard and he sounded fine in the original.
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I’m sure it’s a mix of a few things. For one it’s been a while I think since they did the voices and then as you said it could be the voice direction or more specifically the ADR being a cunt and fucking everything up. Regardless the new show sounds just awful.
 
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