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OK, can anybody tell me WTF happened in the latest Lupin III episode (22)?
Apparently I'm a moron as I couldn't follow the narrative at all.
 
Does Crunchyroll release bluray at all? I was hoping we'd get Joran as a physical release...(I can't afford Crunchyroll streaming atm..)

Then there's that Raguko (Rakugo?) series. Megumi Hayashibara did the OP and there's a video of her in red kimono wandering the foggy rain covered street and there's mysterious guys with parasols....
Iirc its about a very technical type of theater?

Also Sentai has a good sale on at the moment. Lotta good prices. I got Amagi Brilliant Park and Hataraki Man blurays for just 18 bucks. That's a steal.
 
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Xenomorphs Are Cute said:
I'd recommend reading the scanlations over the Viz version. In fact, I'd recommend that for most mangas done by Viz.
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Is there specifically anything wrong with Viz translations besides translating names literally and making stuff sound really dumb? I've actually seen some scanlators promote the officially release of some manga due to actually knowing the person who is doing it since that person also used to be a scanlator.

It seems like a fair bit of people hired to do official translations for manga used to do it for free online for a while before getting a job doing it. I feel like that's how the industry should be, so is it the corporate aspect of Viz sticking their nose where it shouldn't be? I actually mostly read scans cause that's mostly what I find so I don't really know lol
 
Atomsk said:
Is there specifically anything wrong with Viz translations besides translating names literally and making stuff sound really dumb? I've actually seen some scanlators promote the officially release of some manga due to actually knowing the person who is doing it since that person also used to be a scanlator.

It seems like a fair bit of people hired to do official translations for manga used to do it for free online for a while before getting a job doing it. I feel like that's how the industry should be, so is it the corporate aspect of Viz sticking their nose where it shouldn't be? I actually mostly read scans cause that's mostly what I find so I don't really know lol
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It can be a crap shoot when picking up series both in translation quality and actual quality, they've legit misprinted the wrong series in a volume a time or two.
I don't really mind their translation shit because I grew up with second hand tokyopop manga and boy was that a low bar (still get annoyed with their initial D translation), but general advise if you do buy shit from Viz, look up who is translating the series so you know how much BS you'll have to endure (they usually list them on either the front or last page), and never buy them in a store unless there on discount because the sticker price like all manga in the US is too high (I personally recommend Rightstuf because even when there not on sale, they mark each volume down by $2-4 USD).
 
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vern said:
It can be a crap shoot when picking up series both in translation quality and actual quality, they've legit misprinted the wrong series in a volume a time or two.
I don't really mind their translation shit because I grew up with second hand tokyopop manga and boy was that a low bar (still get annoyed with their initial D translation), but general advise if you do buy shit from Viz, look up who is translating the series so you know how much BS you'll have to endure (they usually list them on either the front or last page), and never buy them in a store unless there on discount because the sticker price like all manga in the US is too high (I personally recommend Rightstuf because even when there not on sale, they mark each volume down by $2-4 USD).
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Interesting. I've never had the misprint issue happen since I read their content digitally. What has it happened with?
 
Just_a_Bored_Guy said:
Interesting. I've never had the misprint issue happen since I read their content digitally. What has it happened with?
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There have been a few case here and there but off the top of my head
printing the cover upside down (aside from the occasional spine error this is the most common)
misprinting 4 pages of KnY in a Promised Neverland Volume
inserting a Naruto volume in a One Piece 3 in 1,
printing vol 1 of Komi in vol 3 of Neverland (and vise versa)
and printing a random Haikyuu vol in the vol 1 of Undead Unluck
 
Cromartie High School OP parody with characters from WataMote/No Matter How I Look At It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!

 
I flipped through this thread and haven't found any mention of this manga so I drop this here:

The manga is called "the wrong way to use healing magic" and it's based of the Webnovel Chiyu Mahou no Machigatta Tsukaikata ~Senjou wo Kakeru Kaifuku Youin~
It's your typical Isekai story where the Mc gets dragged along two fiends in a hero summoning. As it turns out he can use Healing magic in this world which is very rare. And from there
he is getting dragged into the so called Rescue squad a unit dedicated to saving soldiers and healing them. By the way this is his boss Rose

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And she is also the one who teaches him to use healing magic "in the wrong way". Basically she uses healing magic to train herself to inhuman strength and endurance a way no sane person would think of. The Mc also uses his healing magic to fight his opponents by coating his body in healing magic which leaves no wounds on his opponent except the inflicted shock pain from his punches.

This manga is also getting an anime adpation and I am looking forward to that (I do hope though that they get the style right some of the latest animes I watched weren't what I hoped for)
 
Scarlett Johansson said:
Does Crunchyroll release bluray at all? I was hoping we'd get Joran as a physical release...(I can't afford Crunchyroll streaming atm..)

Then there's that Raguko (Rakugo?) series. Megumi Hayashibara did the OP and there's a video of her in red kimono wandering the foggy rain covered street and there's mysterious guys with parasols....
Iirc its about a very technical type of theater?

Also Sentai has a good sale on at the moment. Lotta good prices. I got Amagi Brilliant Park and Hataraki Man blurays for just 18 bucks. That's a steal.
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Crunchyroll shows are usually published by Discotek, Funimation and Sentai Filmworks. They don't sell their own shows.
 
Balr0g said:
I flipped through this thread and haven't found any mention of this manga so I drop this here:

The manga is called "the wrong way to use healing magic" and it's based of the Webnovel Chiyu Mahou no Machigatta Tsukaikata ~Senjou wo Kakeru Kaifuku Youin~
It's your typical Isekai story where the Mc gets dragged along two fiends in a hero summoning. As it turns out he can use Healing magic in this world which is very rare. And from there
he is getting dragged into the so called Rescue squad a unit dedicated to saving soldiers and healing them. By the way this is his boss Rose

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And she is also the one who teaches him to use healing magic "in the wrong way". Basically she uses healing magic to train herself to inhuman strength and endurance a way no sane person would think of. The Mc also uses his healing magic to fight his opponents by coating his body in healing magic which leaves no wounds on his opponent except the inflicted shock pain from his punches.

This manga is also getting an anime adpation and I am looking forward to that (I do hope though that they get the style right some of the latest animes I watched weren't what I hoped for)
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No lie, I'm actually intrested.
 
Wrong Way To Use Healing Magic is great, looking forward to MC ending up with Rose so they can be oblivious muscleheads together.
 
Thomas Talus said:
Wrong Way To Use Healing Magic is great, looking forward to MC ending up with Rose so they can be oblivious muscleheads together.
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So far the other possible "wife candidates" aren't exactly good material. (or as one put it "regrettable heroines) Plus the Mc is kinda dense when it comes to girls (nothing new there). Though if he really ends with Rose..Rose is I think 8 years older then Usato
 
Balr0g said:
So far the other possible "wife candidates" aren't exactly good material. (or as one put it "regrettable heroines) Plus the Mc is kinda dense when it comes to girls (nothing new there). Though if he really ends with Rose..Rose is I think 8 years older then Usato
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She can be his muscle mommy.
 
Travoltron said:
OK, can anybody tell me WTF happened in the latest Lupin III episode (22)?
Apparently I'm a moron as I couldn't follow the narrative at all.
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I'll try to explain this episode as much as I can for the confused ones, due to how weird the whole the Tomoe Arc itself is. This whole season & few good episodes, & most aren't related to this & are almost filler. This one is the weirdest of all cause it's part of story, yet feels worse than a generic shounen filler episode.

Here's a semi-TL;DR explanation:

The past:
>Mariel & Sean fall in love
>Either, Allen may have raped Mariel & knocked her up. Or she Mariel may have cheated on Sean.
>Mariel runs away to Revonland
>Tomoe shows up & gaslights the fuck out of her.
>Sean calls, Allen interrupts, then another one of Tomoe's students (either Catherine, or some other random student) shoots them both & commits suicide to hide tracks.
>Mariel freaks out, gives birth, & dies (possibly from maternal death) while Tomoe watches from a distance.

Meanwhile in the present:
>Finn finds Mariel's tapes & podcasts them.
>Lupin & Mattea listen in.
>Lupin & Mattea decide to go to Revonland.
>Mattea says someone failed.
>Lupin tells Finn to breathe.
>Lupin & Mattea leave.

>But what does it all mean? Here's the BIG explanation:

Mariel was in love with a fellow high school student Sean, but another student, Allen, raped her & left her pregnant with Finn. So her father (Finn's grandpa) sent her to Revonland away from her home & hired Tomoe to be her tutor as she was "someone who could help alleviate traumatic memories" which prety much increases the rape possibility more. Somehow, Tomoe (who also tutored Mariel's mother) sort of brainwashed Mariel into replacing Sean with Allen in her subconscious, therefore making it seem in her mind that she loved Allen & thus forgetting about the rape. Tomoe however also went ahead to have one of her students* kill both Sean and Allen & then herself. Perhaps she wanted the boys dead so they would stop calling Mariel and endangering bringing her real memories back (as it sort of happened when Sean called, probably what Mattea means when she mentions that Tomoe "failed").

>Maybe the shooter was Mariel?

No, notice the freckles & hair color.

>Maybe the shooter was another one of Tomoe's students?

The shooter was probably "Mariel's friend" Catherine. It would be weird to namedrop her & show that Mariel doesn't remember her if that played no role in anything. Remember how Tomoe mentioned she went to America first & talked to the three there? Catherine was probably another one of Tomoe's agents, & Mariel probably did die in childbirth. Given the way Tomoe was lying it's plausible that "Catherine" was not her friend at all. She doesn't show up in the photo of the football team either.

Finn went catatonic when she learned of the shooting & the girl's suicide so there's a possibility that it could mean that some of Tomoe's conditioning transferred to her when she listened to the tapes, making her believe she was Mariel, which was reinforced by her grandmother's dementia (potentially also a conditioning?)

>Whats's the said conditioning?

It looks like Tomoe hypnotically conditions her students, maybe to turn them into Manchurian agents. "Daijoubu" is probably a trigger word to enter trance. IIRC, other episodes also have this, I think she also said that repeatedly in other flashbacks.

Basically the Winter Soldier thing from MCU.

There's also a possibility that Anna (the dementia grandma) may have been conditioned into her dementia too. Tomoe also taught her.

Also, before you say, yes, streaming your private family history is very retarded, She was basically asking for Tomoe to hunt her down. But then again, she didn't knew what Tomoe exactly is.

One more thing here to be food for thought:

Here's the date of the shooting:
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Here's Finn's podcast account showing her B'Day:
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I hope this helps.
 
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