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Kurtis Trent said:
watched 5 episodes Netflix' Tiger & Bunny and it's literally just characters talking about their feels and how it's wrong to disrespect someone's gender and name... I honestly don't care about the plot because I'm so bored. WHY was this made??? Also Agnes is fat for whatever reason but kinda like her
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I was expecting some fuckery considering one of the characters is a literal flaming faggot and there was a dumb little plot point in the old movie, but given that and another awkward take the new season kinda felt dated for better or worse.
Yeah it sucks that the main duo aren't as present as much but I would of expected that if s2 came out a few years after s1 rather than almost a decade since their arcs where mostly wrapped up. Although they started giving tiger a small arc towards the last half it remains unfulfilled because Netflix decided to only release half the season.
 
Car Won't Crank said:
Has anyone watched the anime called 86? It's some scifi mecha type show. I don't understand how it's so well rated. The characters are forgettable. You have an annoying loli, perpetually sulking emo guy, background noise girl characters, and a story with many plot holes that don't make sense at all. Why is it highly rated on MAL?
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86 is what dumb people think smart sci-fi is.
One of my biggest hate boners is for fiction that creates a world that functionally doesn't make sense and then uses that nonsensical world to comment on actual social issues. I can suspend my disbelief and accept a fictional world that doesn't function realistically if the other elements of the story work (though it would be better if it did), but when you're consciously making an allegory to the real world you're forcing me to think about if something makes sense or not because your story thematically relies on me taking it seriously.
For me 86 is one of those litmus tests where someone's opinion on it let me know whether they're to be listened to or not. Though in actuality I think people just don't give a shit about those themes and use it as justification to pretend that paying lip service to real issues elevates it from being a schlocky action show.
 
apolloday said:
86 is what dumb people think smart sci-fi is.
One of my biggest hate boners is for fiction that creates a world that functionally doesn't make sense and then uses that nonsensical world to comment on actual social issues. I can suspend my disbelief and accept a fictional world that doesn't function realistically if the other elements of the story work (though it would be better if it did), but when you're consciously making an allegory to the real world you're forcing me to think about if something makes sense or not because your story thematically relies on me taking it seriously.
For me 86 is one of those litmus tests where someone's opinion on it let me know whether they're to be listened to or not. Though in actuality I think people just don't give a shit about those themes and use it as justification to pretend that paying lip service to real issues elevates it from being a schlocky action show.
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86 is essentially just an amalgam of war film tropes packaged into a sci-fi setting for consumption of weebs. Two of its major themes come from Black Hawk Down and The Hurt Locker.
 
So yet another manga app for the ipad is down. RIP Mangabat.

But a couple series I found recently - started reading Spy X Family, which I’m sure no one here needs to be told about at this point, but damn is that funny, and the little girl is adorable.

Amagami-san Chi no Enmusubi - actually quite good, it’s about a young athiest orphan who moves in with three sisters at a shrine, only to find out he has to choose one of them to marry and inherit the shrine.
One thing I really like is that unlike a lot of harem series, the character is actually competant and skilled, not a mopey loser, but at the same time, he gets called out for having ”white knight” syndrome. There‘s also a lot of very realistic conflict between his cynical athiesm vs the girls’ optimistic beliefs. It’s definitely a harem series, and there’s definitely some fanservice, but it seems to really strike a nice balance - it reminds me a lot of Fuuka.

I a,so tried reading Myself With Malice Aforethought, which I’m sure some people will really like, but it’s one of the few series I’ve had to nope out of after the first chapter.

Also, has anyone else here read Sex and Dungeon and found that the series is really creepy? And not just the skeezy “trying to seduce girls so you can level up” part, but for some reason that series seems like it’s got some weird psychological horror coming.
 
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Maybe it’s because I’m getting old, but at the height of my interest in anime light novels were either spin-offs/side-stories of established manga or even trashier than manga or original anime. I tried watching Shield Hero on recommendation from my roommate, and I can’t help but feel that light novels are just as trashy as they were fifteen years ago, just in a different way.
 
McMitch4kf said:
Maybe it’s because I’m getting old, but at the height of my interest in anime light novels were either spin-offs/side-stories of established manga or even trashier than manga or original anime. I tried watching Shield Hero on recommendation from my roommate, and I can’t help but feel that light novels are just as trashy as they were fifteen years ago, just in a different way.
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McMitch4kf said:
Maybe it’s because I’m getting old, but at the height of my interest in anime light novels were either spin-offs/side-stories of established manga or even trashier than manga or original anime. I tried watching Shield Hero on recommendation from my roommate, and I can’t help but feel that light novels are just as trashy as they were fifteen years ago, just in a different way.
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Oreimo made me hate light novels. I may had said this before, but light novels have an air of pretentiousness. Sure they may be some "decent" shit light novels, but it's shit regardless. The second I see "adapted from light novel", I know it's going to be shit.
 
Akumaten said:
Oreimo made me hate light novels. I may had said this before, but light novels have an air of pretentiousness. Sure they may be some "decent" shit light novels, but it's shit regardless. The second I see "adapted from light novel", I know it's going to be shit.
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How do light novels seem pretentious? They're about as trashy as a book can get.
Otherwise, I agree. I avoid light novel adaptations anymore.
 
Anime has either been a manga-adaptation, light novel-adaptation or videogame (or gacha) adaptation. There are originals but there are way too many shit ones that it could be discarded.
 
After murdering the last vestiges of my braincells by reading the entirety of the Naruto manga, I can confidently declare it to be this objectively correct designation.

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PS1gamenwatch said:
What about Chinese manhua? How are those?
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I'm biased against it. There are quality novels and manhuas but there's just so many. The Last Human is a 7 for me; it's about a regressor who goes back to the start of the zombie apocalypse after dying as the last human. When I've fully juiced KR WNs & manhwas, then I'll hit up China.

Use https://www.novelupdates.com/series-ranking/ and you can filter by language. Don't forget to filter out Shoujo Ai and Shonen Ai along with Yuri and Yaoi.
 
WULULULULU said:
Anime has either been a manga-adaptation, light novel-adaptation or videogame (or gacha) adaptation. There are originals but there are way too many shit ones that it could be discarded.
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Usually that's my go to way of filtering new anime. Light Novels need either a really cool premise or an awesome studio to be worth a watch. Manga is more of a safe bet. Videogames I usually ignore since it's either gatcha shit that's only selling point is waifus, or quality games I'd rather play than get a worse story.
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Shield Hero always made me laugh on having an actual reverse loli that has a way creepier relationship with the protagonist than most of the "actually 700 year old vampire" characters.
 
I remember liking the Welcome to the NHK light novel, but I would imagine that is an exception rather than the rule when it comes to light novels.
 
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After murdering the last vestiges of my braincells by reading the entirety of the Naruto manga, I can confidently declare it to be this objectively correct designation.

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I remember spending 4 days reading it. I was supposed to read the Gaiden Manga, I didn't even bother with that. Instead... I read Bleach for the next 4 days.

God help me.
 
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