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Anyone watching Vinland Saga season 2? Is it just me or has the latter half of the season been a snooze? The producers spent way too much time on the slave woman and her berserk husband's back stories.
 
The only bl manga that's actually great is Under Grand Hotel. And Jealousy by Scarlet Bierko.

Everything else is vomit. Now for yuri its debatable. I say anything Riyoko Ikeda does particularly Dear Brother (oho) though technically speaking....it does not necessarily count.
 
Car Won't Crank said:
Anyone watching Vinland Saga season 2? Is it just me or has the latter half of the season been a snooze? The producers spent way too much time on the slave woman and her berserk husband's back stories.
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Xenomorphs Are Cute said:
Farmland Saga in general is boring compared to S1. It's mainly for character development sake.
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farming arc is great yall dont know what youre talkin bout
 
Car Won't Crank said:
Anyone watching Vinland Saga season 2? Is it just me or has the latter half of the season been a snooze? The producers spent way too much time on the slave woman and her berserk husband's back stories.
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I'm gonna wait until its done since while I did like the arc in the manga, I know for a fact I probably would of hated it if I had to read that shit monthly and it sounds like their adding a bunch of anime original scenes to make it even slower (I did watch the first episode and 50% of the stuff with Einar is completely new).
Although tbh, part of me hopes that it doesn't get a season 3 because after HIld was introduced every arc got a little worse and worse with only some redeeming moments hear and there and the ending of farmland would of made a decent ending to the series albeit a somewhat rushed/unfinished one.
I pretty much dropped it right before they set out to vinland and I'll only pick it back up when they announce the final few chapter,
 
Scarlett Johansson said:
The only bl manga that's actually great is Under Grand Hotel. And Jealousy by Scarlet Bierko.

Everything else is vomit. Now for yuri its debatable. I say anything Riyoko Ikeda does particularly Dear Brother (oho) though technically speaking....it does not necessarily count.
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I disagree, there's stuff like One Room Angel, Stigmata, anything drawn by Syundei or Zakk that are pretty good.

The Summer Hikaru Died has been a genuinely decent skinwalker horror so far. As for yuri, no nothing has really stood out.
 
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Xenomorphs Are Cute said:
It's very funny that it did a better school anime in few episodes than some actual anime in their entirety.
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Pretty much, there's no bullshit romance and the adventures and daily fun are entertaining. I find it hysterical that the the Crimson Demons (I think that's what the race is called) find not minmaxing to be shameful display, especially since it makes them in practice completely the same just with a different title.
 
vern said:
Although tbh, part of me hopes that it doesn't get a season 3 because after HIld was introduced every arc got a little worse and worse with only some redeeming moments hear and there and the ending of farmland would of made a decent ending to the series albeit a somewhat rushed/unfinished one.
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I honestly believed that Farmland saga would have been very difficult to adapt properly. It's an extremely slow story and it goes in an opposite direction to Season 1, so if you expect the edge and the fights you won't get as many. On the other hand, I do like a lot the focus on the lesser man (of which Einar is a great representative) even if I know the author isn't doing it out of love of the peasant but following his weirdo half-assed Jap pacifist spiel.

I still think it's a good adaptation, even if you get the typical Asian melodrama and the author can't even try to understand some Early Medieval mindset. But I'm not reading a history book.

The problem with Vinland is what comes after. The following arcs in the comic started having a plethora of characters that go from the puzzling to the hysterical, the chapters in Vinland nowadays are frankly embarrassing, and of course I will never pardon the author for Constantinople. Never.
 
The tired cat said:
Are you fo real? The Shambala movie was fucking garbage and that's being nice about it, and frankly, the fact this anime reeks of 2000's fanfiction edge doesn't make it interesting, it makes it the most tripe experience possible from its pretentious BS writing to its whiny Shinji sounding cast.
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Sir, this is an Arby's...
 
Lone Star said:
I feel I already know the answer, but please tell me it's not because of assumed incest.
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idols are never allowed to be near penishavers, even if it's family (or a collab with a franchise that has a male MC as choice).
 
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NEWS: The founder of Studio MAPPA and Madhouse, Masao Maruyama feels that China will overtake Japan in the anime business!

Maruyama fears that Japan is at risk of losing out its top spot in the anime industry in no time if the animators and creators in China were to get more freedom in their works.
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One day anime will be Chinese cartoons. Oh the (in)humanity!

Also
 
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PS1gamenwatch said:
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One day anime will be Chinese cartoons. Oh the (in)humanity!
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Key phrase: " if the animators and creators in China were to get more freedom in their works"

Don't see that happening anytime soon.

Also, there's something that nearly always feels "off" about Chinese storytelling, often in terms of pacing and characters abruptly dropping out of the story.
 
Thomas Talus said:
Key phrase: " if the animators and creators in China were to get more freedom in their works"

Don't see that happening anytime soon.

Also, there's something that nearly always feels "off" about Chinese storytelling, often in terms of pacing and characters abruptly dropping out of the story.
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If you've seen some manhua, they seem to copy every troupe in anime especially from isekai.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I don't really know how much difference is between Chinese and Japanese storytelling, I do dislike how Chinese generic style looks even more than Japanese generic style.
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I legit believe China is 10 or 15 years behind Japan in terms of style, every single Chinese cartoon I had seen were animated with current technology but they all look like they're stuck in the mid-2000s look. It's really bizarre, almost bootleggy.
 
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