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Thomas Talus said:
It should be noted that this is a Japanese pun, which serves as the framing device for the whole series. Ningyo means mermaid, but can also be read as ninkyo, which means "chivalry" in the sense of the code that yakuza theoretically follow.
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Sun, the princess in question, is quite verbal about that pun in the show
 
Kari Kamiya said:
I was stupidly lucky to come across the complete collection at a thrift store, really neat casing it has with nice artwork and screenshots from the show itself. Manga Entertainment must've been pretty confident about it.
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That sounds cool, are there any special features or extras on it?
 
Car Won't Crank said:
With the winter season being mostly dull, it seems we finally get something new and different for spring. The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs looks to be a fun series based off the first episode. It's a classic isekai underdog story with a twist. Looks promising.
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I watched the first two episodes, then ended up reading through the whole manga, and am now on to the LN. All the characters are horrible people and I love it. (I likely have shit taste but I'm going to blame it on it being the first isekai I got into). The MC is a god character who can't lose a fight, but I don't really mind that because the tension comes from how far things have deviated from the original script and how the MC is going to get it back on track while navigating the relationship hierarchies. It feels like it should end a volume or two past where the manga is at, but apparently there's 5+ more LNs to get through.
 
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Vapewizard said:
I guess you guys are watching Deaimon too? I jumped into it after having enjoyed Sweetness and lightning and that anime where the dude adopted a tanuki kid and this one is pretty cute as well.
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Poco's Udon World? I wasn't expecting to enjoy that one as much as I did. Deaimon is going to end up to be a saccharine sweet show about a makeshift family. I'm waiting for the eventual appearance of the real dad or mom to make things more dramatic than they have to be.
 
Equivocal_Iki said:
Inuyashiki, of fucking course it's 11 episodes. All masterpieces are 11 episodes (Zankyou no Terror, Tatami Galaxy, this anime, that flower anime). Fucking watch the first episode and if you don't feel the need to marathon the whole thing you don't have taste.
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I enjoyed it too, it's much more focused than Gantz was and had a fuller ending. It felt really planned out. I loved Gantz's insanity and borderline nihilism but I liked having a single coherent story with a protagonist who's a good person the whole way through. It's so much more positive even with the old man's shitty home life. The ending was even uplifting

I don't know how he made something as disappointing as Gigant after that. The fights were okay but the protagonist ruins the entire thing. I caught up on it the other day and the ending is a complete cop out that somehow makes the mc even more pathetic. Which is also weird considering how satisfying Inuyashi's ending was. Even a single page of Kurono and Kato on the beach hugging their loved ones in Gantz was a more satisfying conclusion than three entire chapters of... whatever the hell that was. I think this would have actually been good if it was just about the autistic future fighters. They could carry a whole series alone just goofing off in the present.
 
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Equivocal_Iki said:
Inuyashiki, of fucking course it's 11 episodes. All masterpieces are 11 episodes (Zankyou no Terror, Tatami Galaxy, this anime, that flower anime). Fucking watch the first episode and if you don't feel the need to marathon the whole thing you don't have taste.
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Trashfire Garbagefuck said:
I enjoyed it too, it's much more focused than Gantz was and had a fuller ending. It felt really planned out. I loved Gantz's insanity and borderline nihilism but I liked having a single coherent story with a protagonist who's a good person the whole way through. It's so much more positive even with the old man's shitty home life. The ending was even uplifting
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See, @Tetra? I wasn't trying to lead you astray.
 
Thomas Talus said:
It should be noted that this is a Japanese pun, which serves as the framing device for the whole series. Ningyo means mermaid, but can also be read as ninkyo, which means "chivalry" in the sense of the code that yakuza theoretically follow.
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I really enjoy when you read a manga scan and they translate, but don't explain a pun. At least that's what I assume gibberish is quite often. That or a Pajeet was doing the translating and got out of his depth and consulted Google Translate.
 
Its the 10th anniversary of Re:Zero, apparently. The author seems to have been "pretty busy" recently so who knows, there might be a chance for season 3.
 
SpyxFamily looks okay so far. I liked the basic premise of the manga, but kind of forgot about it.
Basic premise is a spy needs to create a family to get closer to a state official, who has become increasingly resigned from public life. He adopts a girl, who unknown to him is a telepath, to enroll her in the same school as the officials youngest son. Next issue is the school has a hard no against single parent households so he searches for a woman to play that role due to rival intelligence agencies sniffing out female agents. The woman he lands is a socially inept woman who moonlights as an assassin (like the Terminator, not a femme fatale) working for a faction of Not-EastGermany. Only the telepath is aware of everyone’s secret identity and she’s far too young (and scared of breaking up her family) to ever confront them.

All three main characters are fun. It’s predictable, but the setting is a pulpy spy stuff mixed with high society school shit. Animated adaption has good animation so far despite having CGI cars
 
Here we fucking go again…
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SSj_Ness said:
That sounds cool, are there any special features or extras on it?
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Kari Kamiya said:
Sadly doesn't look like it. I haven't popped in the discs yet since I got it, so I don't know what's on the discs.
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The first DVD has a theme song remix and the prerequisite manga video trailer reel. It's a shame they didn't get Capcom to help them out with cooler special features, but it's not bad anime-wise.
 
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