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What's a good anime tracker to use that has history of past seasonal releases as well as old shit? I need to strategically plan what I'm watching. Preferably not the god forsaken hellscape that is MAL.
 
Secret Asshole said:
What's a good anime tracker to use that has history of past seasonal releases as well as old shit? I need to strategically plan what I'm watching. Preferably not the god forsaken hellscape that is MAL.
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I like to use the season chart on anidb, and it has a lot of borderline autistic info. reviews are usually ok too if I pay attention to them.
 
So two interesting things happened while the site was down
Most recently is that MAL got hacked so every series was renamed to "LETS ALL LOVE LAIN" and all scores/reviews under 7 for the show itself got removed.

Second was there where two manga publishing simu]pub platforms released the first was Viz announcing there would start simulpubing currently running Shogakukan/Sunday series as well a few completed ones.
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Pricing model is the same as Manga Plus and their jump service:
First 3 chapters and free.
Newest 3 chapters are free.
$2 a month to read everything in-between.
Although that brings up the first shitty thing they did, they removed all shonen jump series from their service and fully spun it off into its own specific app that's $3 a month. As well as hiding all "mature" series from the mobile version of the app (had something to do with app/play store restrictions) and using the localization names for Conan.

However most people quickly forgot about this because 1 day later Kodansha launched k-manga and it has been fucking awful.
The TLDR rundown includes
-A coin system where you need to buy 100 points to read one chapters
-Anons calculating that its around $1 per chapter so for some manga its literally cheaper to buy the physical version of the manga and some might be cheaper to ship it from japan
-A literal gatcha system where you watch a 30s ad to get 50 points (5 points)
-A daily ticket that lets you read one chapter for 72 hours before expiring
-Using AI to censor pannels to get around the app/play store restrictions to some rather hilarious results
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-And reusing old tokyopop translations and scans
 
vern said:
Although that brings up the first shitty thing they did, they removed all shonen jump series from their service and fully spun it off into its own specific app that's $3 a month.
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Excuse me, but I'm not sure what you mean. That might be because when I got Jump, I started with that service's app, then moved over to Tachiyomi since that worked better overall.
-And [Kmanga] reusing old tokyopop translations and scans
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Also curious about what series do that
 
Just_a_Bored_Guy said:
Excuse me, but I'm not sure what you mean. That might be because when I got Jump, I started with that service's app, then moved over to Tachiyomi since that worked better overall.

Also curious about what series do that
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You used to be able to read to read all viz manga through the app and when they spun off the jump app you could still do so if you, iirc it was a dollar or two cheaper if you just wanted the jump stuff, but now they've officially ended that loophole so its $5 a month if you want everything spread between two apps which is cheep is a bit annoying.

As for the tokyopop translations, its seems to be a few that were published before 2008 and haven't gotten reprints since so stuff like love hina and blame are using they newer translations, but series like Initial D, Rave Master, Beck are using the old tokyopop ones, and I suspect GTO if they add it to the service will use the old tokyopop translations as well since while they will print the spin off/sequels series no problem, they refuse to rerelease the original manga,
 
vern said:
You used to be able to read to read all viz manga through the app and when they spun off the jump app you could still do so if you, iirc it was a dollar or two cheaper if you just wanted the jump stuff, but now they've officially ended that loophole so its $5 a month if you want everything spread between two apps which is cheep is a bit annoying.

As for the tokyopop translations, its seems to be a few that were published before 2008 and haven't gotten reprints since so stuff like love hina and blame are using they newer translations, but series like Initial D, Rave Master, Beck are using the old tokyopop ones, and I suspect GTO if they add it to the service will use the old tokyopop translations as well since while they will print the spin off/sequels series no problem, they refuse to rerelease the original manga,
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I hope this doesn't mean all the Tokyopop ex-license scans on Mangadex will get copyclaimed by Kodansha.
 
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Secret Asshole said:
What's a good anime tracker to use that has history of past seasonal releases as well as old shit? I need to strategically plan what I'm watching. Preferably not the god forsaken hellscape that is MAL.
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Oh yes MAL got hacked. How fucked am I? I basically gave it a unique password, so they don't have much.
 
Secret Asshole said:
What's a good anime tracker to use that has history of past seasonal releases as well as old shit? I need to strategically plan what I'm watching. Preferably not the god forsaken hellscape that is MAL.
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I just stick to Anilist, which is just zoomer MAL but with an API that isn't horseshit. There's even syncing between the two if you had the XML files for MAL.
 
So I caught up to last weeks episode of Gundam : The Witch from Mercury and uh..

The stupid fucking Lesbian Business School Drama show got me guys, I like Suletta and Guel and I wanted them both to win..and neither of them really did and I don't hate Mio and what she did she did because of reasonable logic.
 
Is it me or has Jujutsu Kaisen's quality fallen off a cliff? Latest chapter felt like it was missing 2 chapters before it.
 
Xenomorphs Are Cute said:
It's kinda weird too, considering Gojo coming back should make pretty much anything hype for a while.
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Yeah. But it's been that for a while. The remants of the academy reuniting got like a whole panel. And Gojo coming back was speed tracked like mad. I had whiplash from the previous chapter looking like Gojo would just fuck shit up to suddenly have him in the base and not even a "hey yuji, you looking more like shit than usual".

General impression is the mangaka just wants to end it. Since the weird battle royale arc started it's been spiraling down from awesome to midling to meh and the chapter speed reminds of series that are getting cancelled, though I'm sure that's not the case.

A big shame since he had a very good thing going.

Same deal with Boku No Hero, though that one has been on a slump for a long time now. I'm still reading it out of inerthia, but while Jujutsu just wants to end it, Boku is stretching the fuck out of it.
 
vern said:
Second was there where two manga publishing simu]pub platforms released the first was Viz announcing there would start simulpubing currently running Shogakukan/Sunday series as well a few completed ones.
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There's a bunch of stuff there I'm interested in including a few series that scanlators dropped when they got licensed. I gotta look this up.
Good thing I don't care about shounen or read anything that would get censored anyway.
Episode 5 of Oshi no Ko was weird. They wasted so much time on Pieyon and it was genuinely confusing.
 
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