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Watched a Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei marathon with /a/ yesterday because of a milestone event.
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Read some manga, and here's my thoughts on them.
Vinland Saga. Awesome Viking/Early Middle Ages manga. Author put lots of work into it, and does feel like the time era, even when the MC literally ninjas his was through battles, killing hundreds with backwards turned daggers. MC is also an edgelord, but I think it's worth putting up with him, especially when he does receive character development.
Tsugumomo. Highlight of the series is probably a pedophile goddess pulling a Brock Turner on another goddess who got blackout drunk. By the way, the artist loves straddling the line between ecchi and full blown hentai. Even if you don't get triggered by this as hard as @CatParty you still need some pretty high tolerance for the annoying Gary Stu MC who just collects another girl for his harem after every chapter but refuses to do anything with them.
Berserk. I think people are too hard on the last chapter. Miura did take a long time to release it, but it's only been a few chapters since their arrival. I hear this is the final arc of Berserk, so I wonder how this arc will end.
Bakuon!! Fan service heavy, but enjoyable if you're into motorcycles. Not much else to say, though it did get /a/ interested in motorcycles.
Dolly Kill Kill. Seems like a generic post apocalyptic manga. Gotta read more of it, only read a few chapters.
Goblin Slayer. Edgy AF first chapter. Rape almost from the get go. Only two chapters released so far though, the premise seems interesting enough, along with the fact that the LN it's based on uses Dungeon and Dragons instead of video games for its mechanics.
 
Dio Brando said:
That's because 99% of 3D anime always looks horrendous.

It's a shame, the Berserk manga had always been such a visual spectacle, it deserves much better.
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Often times they can never seem to get the hang of CGI the way we can over here, often due to budget limitations or stylistic direction.
 
Hopefully Berserk is going to be a wakeup call for studios to stop fucking doing CG anime for TV. With a movie budget you can end up with good looking stuff sometimes, but they're doing it on a TV anime budget which IIRC can typically go from $100k-$300k per episode, which you have to be smart with.

What just kills me is the intermittent pieces of 2D animation that look fantastic just hit so sour, like it's telling the viewer "this is what you could have but won't get."
 
Coster said:
Hopefully Berserk is going to be a wakeup call for studios to stop fucking doing CG anime for TV. With a movie budget you can end up with good looking stuff sometimes, but they're doing it on a TV anime budget which IIRC can typically go from $100k-$300k per episode, which you have to be smart with.

What just kills me is the intermittent pieces of 2D animation that look fantastic just hit so sour, like it's telling the viewer "this is what you could have but won't get."
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Even the Berserk movies couldn't use cgi for shit.

You'd think the horribly received cgi in the movies would've been a wake up call for them
 
What really weirds me out is how you can have something that's artistically impressive as Berserk end up with animated adaptations so divisive that the one done by the Pokemon people and with "put your grasses on" is seen as the most faithful and good looking of the bunch, and then you have adaptations of ONE's work, which started out as chicken scratch and end up looking great in motion. That comparison isn't really fair with One Punch Man since it's based on the redraw which improves the look immensely, but MP100 is done straight from the source and still looks fantastic despite half the cast resembling Saitama donning funny wigs.
 
P.A said:
What really weirds me out is how you can have something that's artistically impressive as Berserk end up with animated adaptations so divisive that the one done by the Pokemon people and with "put your grasses on" is seen as the most faithful and good looking of the bunch, and then you have adaptations of ONE's work, which started out as chicken scratch and end up looking great in motion. That comparison isn't really fair with One Punch Man since it's based on the redraw which improves the look immensely, but MP100 is done straight from the source and still looks fantastic despite half the cast resembling Saitama donning funny wigs.
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I think that's because animators clearly had loads of fun animating One Punch Man, they're doing action scenes they normally don't do and have some freedom with them. And it shows, it's one of the better animated things I've seen in awhile. I wish Berserk had OPMs staff or at least Madhouse involved, they're used to doing darker stuff after all.

I hope OPMs director goes far, I love seeing anime where the staff clearly had fun animating it.
 
Rou said:
Read some manga, and here's my thoughts on them.
Vinland Saga. Awesome Viking/Early Middle Ages manga. Author put lots of work into it, and does feel like the time era, even when the MC literally ninjas his was through battles, killing hundreds with backwards turned daggers. MC is also an edgelord, but I think it's worth putting up with him, especially when he does receive character development.
Tsugumomo. Highlight of the series is probably a pedophile goddess pulling a Brock Turner on another goddess who got blackout drunk. By the way, the artist loves straddling the line between ecchi and full blown hentai. Even if you don't get triggered by this as hard as @CatParty you still need some pretty high tolerance for the annoying Gary Stu MC who just collects another girl for his harem after every chapter but refuses to do anything with them.
Berserk. I think people are too hard on the last chapter. Miura did take a long time to release it, but it's only been a few chapters since their arrival. I hear this is the final arc of Berserk, so I wonder how this arc will end.
Bakuon!! Fan service heavy, but enjoyable if you're into motorcycles. Not much else to say, though it did get /a/ interested in motorcycles.
Dolly Kill Kill. Seems like a generic post apocalyptic manga. Gotta read more of it, only read a few chapters.
Goblin Slayer. Edgy AF first chapter. Rape almost from the get go. Only two chapters released so far though, the premise seems interesting enough, along with the fact that the LN it's based on uses Dungeon and Dragons instead of video games for its mechanics.
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Oh, and there's a few more I forgot.
Kill Me Baby. Enjoyed it way more than I was expecting. Plays off that idiot/sane person trope that Japan loves to use, but is pretty funny and entertaining.
Shinjuku Swan. A view into the Japanese adult entertainment industry. In this case, a 19 year old hobo is given a chance to become a scout, a recruiter, for a Japanese escort service. It has a heavy tone, as the main character deals with his own morals while at the same time knowing that he has to manipulate and mislead women into what is essentially slavery. Especially those who fell into debt. It's a good read though.
 
I'm not much of a weeb as I was when I was 13-16 years old, I still watch anime and read manga but I've gotten more into Marvel and other comic books lately. Getting more into cable TV shows like Breaking Bad didn't really help either ahaha.

Lately I've been watching the older Gundam series, and the only anime series I've kept up with is Jojo's Bizzare Adventure Part 4. I tend to go with older series. The only more modern stuff I've watched is One Punch Man and Psycho Pass.

Oh, I can't forget about Code Grass. Fuck anyone who says that series is terrible, I've never laughed harder or had more fun with a anime series before Code Geass.

Feel free to rec me older series or modern series that aren't gross fanservice moeshit.
 
Big_Boss said:
I'm not much of a weeb as I was when I was 13-16 years old, I still watch anime and read manga but I've gotten more into Marvel and other comic books lately. Getting more into cable TV shows like Breaking Bad didn't really help either ahaha.

Lately I've been watching the older Gundam series, and the only anime series I've kept up with is Jojo's Bizzare Adventure Part 4. I tend to go with older series. The only more modern stuff I've watched is One Punch Man and Psycho Pass.

Oh, I can't forget about Code Grass. Fuck anyone who says that series is terrible, I've never laughed harder or had more fun with a anime series before Code Geass.

Feel free to rec me older series or modern series that aren't gross fanservice moeshit.
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There's the ones I talked about. But if you find cute girls to be icky, there's Vinland Saga, Berserk, and Shinjuku Swan.
 
Dio Brando said:
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Even the Berserk movies couldn't use cgi for shit.

You'd think the horribly received cgi in the movies would've been a wake up call for them
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Welcome to why I only read the Manga for Berserk, rather than watching the Anime versions. Terrible CGI just makes the whole thing look cheap.
 
Years from now, we'll get another Berserk adaptation

But it'll be a super deformed comedy series where Guts and Griffith compete for Casca's love.
 
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