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The Love Live! Sunshine!! isekai spin-off will debut as a TV show in July:

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So I got to ep 23 of Steins Gate last night,then switched to Zero as I was told to by my friend, and got to ep 10. Good lord. The mad scientist to sad scientist meme is real, but with reason. Seeing the bad ending, and a broken Okabe, is sad as hell. Its clear, at least for now, the message is to accept that "she" is gone. Also just overall I love how SERN is in there, both everywhere and nowhere. I love the charecters and world and just all of it. Truly a ten.
 
Thiletonomics said:
The Love Live! Sunshine!! isekai spin-off will debut as a TV show in July:

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Well Love Live is getting pretty weird.

Honestly though I don't even hate this on paper. It's an interesting idea to take a cast of known and beloved characters and plop them into a completely different setting and world. It's a very fanfiction thing but there's a reason Highschool and Fantasy AU's are so popular in fanfiction. I never cared about Sunshine but if it was the original Muse girls or something like the K-on girls I'd be interested. I think it would be really interesting to see a franchise do more like this, like a cyberbunk or post-apocalyptic world next, or magical school, or horror.
 
Vapewizard said:
I appreciate that this isekai is just about a guy and his quirky pets and that neither of said pets turned into big titty waifu onaholes.
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The wolf works for a big titty waifu onahole (who has 3 BTWO sisters), though.
Ensok said:
Honestly though I don't even hate this on paper. It's an interesting idea to take a cast of known and beloved characters and plop them into a completely different setting and world. It's a very fanfiction thing but there's a reason Highschool and Fantasy AU's are so popular in fanfiction. I never cared about Sunshine but if it was the original Muse girls or something like the K-on girls I'd be interested. I think it would be really interesting to see a franchise do more like this, like a cyberbunk or post-apocalyptic world next, or magical school, or horror.
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Idolmaster: Xenoglossia did it 15 years ago.
 
I'm still mixed on the Record of Ragnarok anime. But I will at least give them credit for keeping Raiden's love for Thrud as unsubtle and unabashed as in the original.

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This week is officially the start of me having to watch these anime from the beginning all over again: Girls und Panzer, the Monogatariseries and Strike Witches.

The main reason was that almost a few years back, I may have forgotten some crucial key points from said anime and I need to do some refreshing. After this, I’m going straight into Love! Live! School Idol Project/Love! Live! Sunshine!!, THE IDOLM@STER series and Texhnolyze. Either way, I won’t need any recommendation lists until something changes, because I already made enough lists on this thread as it is.:lit:
 
Ensok said:
Well Love Live is getting pretty weird.

Honestly though I don't even hate this on paper. It's an interesting idea to take a cast of known and beloved characters and plop them into a completely different setting and world. It's a very fanfiction thing but there's a reason Highschool and Fantasy AU's are so popular in fanfiction. I never cared about Sunshine but if it was the original Muse girls or something like the K-on girls I'd be interested. I think it would be really interesting to see a franchise do more like this, like a cyberbunk or post-apocalyptic world next, or magical school, or horror.
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Love Live as JSDF officers or mecha pilots. Or like Evangelion, guest appearance at Shinkalion.
 
Earlier in this topic (I think it was this topic, anyway) someone said that part of the appeal of older anime was that there was variation within the medium.

I just realized that the greatest proof of this is Lupin the Third.

For some reason nowadays whenever I watch a Lupin movie, they tend to bore me. They've gotten so stale and formulaic... even that CGI one basically had the same storyline as the most recent TV specials, down to even an Indiana Jones bit where they had to go through a cave full of traps.

Just now though I put on an older TV special, Bye Bye Liberty Crisis, and immediately was having a better time... in part because of the art.

For those who don't know, Lupin has always had a distinct look. Lanky characters with long faces. The original manga was actually trying to look like Mad Magazine. And the better anime will keep this. But whenever I was a post-2010 movie or special, there's this feeling that they're trying to make Lupin and co. look more like "standard anime" and that hurts the appeal. That it's fallen to the Scooby Doo symptom where the cast has been reduced to "types" rather than characters who seem to always go through the same motions (particularly I've noticed they always have Goemon finding a love interest who invariably he decides not to be with) doesn't help either.

At least it didn't go Woke. I'm not even sure the Lupin franchise can "go woke."
 
skykiii said:
At least it didn't go Woke. I'm not even sure the Lupin franchise can "go woke."
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From what I heard, The Woman Called Mine Fujiko apparently came close since it holds a lot of praise even among SJWs, but there's somewhat of a cult of personality surrounding Mari Okada, so...
 
I'm not an expert on Lupin so correct me if I'm wrong: but from what I've been told he's a borderline sex pest in the original manga so technically his gentlemanly behaviour around a young girl in Castle of cagliostro is kind of woke-ifying him even all that time ago.
 
Vapewizard said:
I'm not an expert on Lupin so correct me if I'm wrong: but from what I've been told he's a borderline sex pest in the original manga so technically his gentlemanly behaviour around a young girl in Castle of cagliostro is kind of woke-ifying him even all that time ago.
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He was more than just a "borderline" sex pest--in volume one of the manga Lupin outright rapes a woman (at least, I think he does... the art kinda makes it hard to really tell what happened). To be honest the manga was at times a little too far the opposite direction so a little toning down was desirable.

Also, you know the woke crowd would consider his chivalrous behavior "patriarchal."

Even in the manga though, Lupin tends to have very much a "you can think whatever you want, just don't get in my way" type of attitude. Lupin in the anime incarnations tends to come off as a "will pretend to believe anything if its convenient for him" type, which is I think the main thing that prevents Lupin from "going woke." If you ever see him flying an LGBT flag, chances are its a smokescreen for something he's cooking up rather than him having any genuine feelings on the subject.

I seem to remember there was one movie (I forget which one) where one of the recurring henchmen was actually gay (or at least really effeminate) and Lupin did not hesitate to throw homophobic slurs his way. That said, this was a guy actively trying to kill him, and once you cross that line, anything goes.

There's also that Lupin's friend Jigen tends to fluctuate on his feelings towards women. Some specials have called him an out-and-out misogynist (real misogynist, not Social Justice misogynist), though usually it comes off more as annoyance with how people will sometimes let their hormones do the thinking (something Lupin has fallen victim to, though its sometimes unclear whether Lupin genuinely fucked up or whether it was part of some scheme).

@Atatata

I've actually never heard of Lupin Zero. I'll have to watch that later. The vibes I get from just that trailer are that they're trying to make Lupin's cast look distinct but it kinda just feels like they're stand-outs in a world full of standard anime stuff (which is something recent specials have suffered from as well)
 
Man, I did read one of the manga adaptations of the pirate of the caribbeans novels and holy shit, this was really fun. Pirate magical adventure quite fits the younger Jack adventures. This was really nice and surprising. Kinda sad that it was only two volumes when the novels are 8 books long.

Also manga tia dalma is cute

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skykiii said:
He was more than just a "borderline" sex pest--in volume one of the manga Lupin outright rapes a woman (at least, I think he does... the art kinda makes it hard to really tell what happened). To be honest the manga was at times a little too far the opposite direction so a little toning down was desirable.

Also, you know the woke crowd would consider his chivalrous behavior "patriarchal."

Even in the manga though, Lupin tends to have very much a "you can think whatever you want, just don't get in my way" type of attitude. Lupin in the anime incarnations tends to come off as a "will pretend to believe anything if its convenient for him" type, which is I think the main thing that prevents Lupin from "going woke." If you ever see him flying an LGBT flag, chances are its a smokescreen for something he's cooking up rather than him having any genuine feelings on the subject.

I seem to remember there was one movie (I forget which one) where one of the recurring henchmen was actually gay (or at least really effeminate) and Lupin did not hesitate to throw homophobic slurs his way. That said, this was a guy actively trying to kill him, and once you cross that line, anything goes.
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Oh, I know the movie yer talking about, it was about a rich guy who was the inspiration for James Bond going after this submarine made of gold and platinum, while the bad guy was the leader of this...I wanna say remnants of a Nazi group? I will say, as far as Lupin went, I did like those 3 short movies that were about Jigen, Fujiko, and Goemon, especially the art style for them was def inspired by the manga. Apparently, there was supposed to be a 4th movie to tie all these plots from the previous 3 movies together, but it never got made.
 
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