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Maurice Maine said:
This weekend I had the chance to watch SHAFT's 'Rec' and it's been an absolute ride. Holy SHIT why can't people make anime like that anymore?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EoXc7PaFW8I
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It's a comfy show. The visuals are warm and inviting (typical Shaft stuff), and the love story is quite bittersweet. I liked that the romance was between adults instead of teenagers in a school setting. Rec was directed by the same guy who directed Serial Experiments Lain, which is why I watched it. I'm usually not into romance, but I enjoyed the show for what it was.

If you enjoyed Rec, Mahoromatic, a coproduction between Gainax and Shaft, has a similar vibe. The first season of the show is cel-animated, which lends some additional warmth to the visuals. Mahoromatic can get quite pervy, which detracts from the show for me -- the teacher character is quite annoying -- but man, it can tug your heartstrings while providing some robot battles and sci-fi politics on the side. If you don't want to have to sit through all the ecchi and perviness, watch the recaps and the two-episode OVA, and read the manga (the manga and anime have different endings, though -- the manga ending is neat and satisfying while the anime ending is a typical Gainax ending).
 
no-exit said:
Personally, I use Trackma but it's *nix only and requires a bit of tinkering. It can be offline too!
https://z411.github.io/trackma
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Secret Asshole said:
Well, I don't have Linux, so that's a no go on that front
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There's nothing there that makes it *inx. Grabbing and/or building Qt5 for PyQt and installing the packages from PyPI will get you the app. I only use Win for games, but I'm sure there's someone out there who's built Qt5 for Win10 with Python bindings.
 
skykiii said:
That's kind of whack too... a lot of the jokes in Lucky Star directly rely on you having watched Haruhi.

I actually read somewhere that in Japan, the Lucky Star manga has moved on and now barely ever even features the original four girls and their friends anymore, preferring instead to always be about a new group of girls who talk about random shit. Which is also just a surreal thought to have. It's like someone telling you that at one point Charlie Brown grew up and married Patty and now the comics star some other kids who happen to live in the same neighborhood. You just kinda get used to the idea that these are gonna be Conan-levels of stagnant and that these girls are gonna just be in highschool forever.

On that note, I thought of asking why Lupin and Conan aren't as big in America as they are in Japan, but as soon as I thought to ask, the answer became clear... because most westerners are happier with our own home-grown interpretations of those respective genres. It doesn't help that for both characters, their best parts tend to be from before a certain cut-off point. Detective Conan's best stories are the ones that have a vaguely horror atmosphere, but that's something the TV series largely dropped around the time the animation switched to digital, and honestly the only thing Lupin III: the First had going for it was the gimmick of being a CGI movie.
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Lupin Zero aired a while ago and was great. Wish we had more of it but I'm happy with what we have.
 
A question I wondered after being reminded of Macross Frontier - was there a idol duo movement in Japan? Like Macross Frontier and Ar Tonelico did the idea of two idols of conflicting personality, but the concept disappeared the last decade afterwards.
 
Dungeon Meshi anime is coming in January next year. Definitely can see some Trigger stylized in action scene and still maintaining mangaka art style.

 
Kanojo mo Kanojo recently ended their manga series at 144 chapters, and to no one's surprise, Mirika joined the harem with Nagisa, Shino and Saki. Though, it was kind of nice to see Naoya's parents for a brief quick second, and the father to look so happy while pretending to not be jealous. Either way, it's not Earth shattering, but I'm still glad on reading this over four years and expecting the obvious during the downtime.

Next week, when I get my thoughts collected while still being on Tor, I'll go over how I finished watching Bakemonogatari but made the one mistake on binging it in one go.

It does not change the fact that it is still a good series, but I do have a lot of thoughts to get off on why I liked it for different reasons.
 
Hammr2 said:
Dungeon Meshi anime is coming in January next year. Definitely can see some Trigger stylized in action scene and still maintaining mangaka art style.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tJQb5BP1nTU
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Looking at the director it seems this is the guys first full series, he's mainly done storyboards and directing single episode for trigger since 2014 (and a random episode for Jojo part 5).
Biggest role is being the assistant director for SSSS.Dynazenon (I didn't watch so no opinion),
one plus is he's the same guy who directed the two PVs back in 2017 and 2019 so at least it seems he knows the series
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I said it before and I'll say it again, Trigger really isn't a good pick for this anime. Hopefully they prove me wrong though
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Trigger is fairly hit-or-miss when it comes to writing, but they are great when it comes to style and visuals -- especially when they can use their own distinctive style like in Promare and BNA. I hope Dungeon Meshi doesn't suffer from the same problem as the SSSS series in that it is constrained to a different style, so Trigger's distinctive style -- the area in which they excel -- is lost. The glimpses of the action scenes seem promising, though. I haven't read the manga this is based on, but hopefully it doesn't have too much fanservice because I fear Trigger will dial up the fanservice by 2000% to pad out the anime.

I'd really love for Trigger to do a new adaptation of Ougon Bat -- the last Ougon Bat anime was in 1967, and AIC was supposed to make a new one in 2000, but it was cancelled. I think that if they use their style and make it very lighthearted and funny, they could make a great Ougon Bat.

This news is from a while ago, but the Zero Century: Emeraldas movie that Gainax announced in 2017 is in production (https://twitter.com/zerocenturynet/status/1627665232104689667) -- the movie was supposed to premiere in 2020, but it was delayed as production had to be transferred from Gainax to Gainax Kyoto.
 
Sailor Troon said:
Trigger is fairly hit-or-miss when it comes to writing, but they are great when it comes to style and visuals -- especially when they can use their own distinctive style like in Promare and BNA. I hope Dungeon Meshi doesn't suffer from the same problem as the SSSS series in that it is constrained to a different style, so Trigger's distinctive style -- the area in which they excel -- is lost. The glimpses of the action scenes seem promising, though. I haven't read the manga this is based on, but hopefully it doesn't have too much fanservice because I fear Trigger will dial up the fanservice by 2000% to pad out the anime.

I'd really love for Trigger to do a new adaptation of Ougon Bat -- the last Ougon Bat anime was in 1967, and AIC was supposed to make a new one in 2000, but it was cancelled. I think that if they use their style and make it very lighthearted and funny, they could make a great Ougon Bat.

This news is from a while ago, but the Zero Century: Emeraldas movie that Gainax announced in 2017 is in production (https://twitter.com/zerocenturynet/status/1627665232104689667) -- the movie was supposed to premiere in 2020, but it was delayed as production had to be transferred from Gainax to Gainax Kyoto.
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Issue is that I can't recall Trigger ever doing comedy or drama well (drama especially they fuck up) and those two are more fitting genre to Dungeon Meshi than the action they do better (and food porn).

Trigger in general is the biggest disappointment studio that somehow stays afloat by the few succeses it had.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Issue is that I can't recall Trigger ever doing comedy well
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Say wut mate.
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
Issue is that I can't recall Trigger ever doing comedy or drama well (drama especially they fuck up) and those two are more fitting genre to Dungeon Meshi than the action they do better (and food porn).

Trigger in general is the biggest disappointment studio that somehow stays afloat by the few succeses it had.
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Only Trigger things I've really liked so far are SSSS.Gridman and SSSS.Dynazenon. And that's more because I'm a Tsuburaya fag than anything else. They seem like a studio that really needs a budget and a good writer on their projects based on the other stuff I've seen.


Did anyone else watch the first episode of the new Tenchi Muyo? Seems confusing as fuck. It takes place after GXP and the more recent Ryo-Ohki OVAs, but before War on Geminar. And is apparently also a sequel to some untranslated manga or novel or something where Seina was isekai'd and learned how to do magic? And certain members of his harem are just missing for some reason without so much as a mention of them being gone. Kinda fun that Washu wanted to send that ZINV lookalike from GXP's finale with Kenshi, but couldn't find a way to make sure a big robot got isekai'd with him.
 
FatMebius said:
They seem like a studio that really needs a budget and a good writer on their projects based on the other stuff I've seen.
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That's a spot-on assessment. I liked Space Patrol Luluco, Promare, BNA, and that Star Wars short, and I'd probably like Little Witch Academia if I watched the full series. The rest of their stuff is either too cliched or too fanservicey for me.
FatMebius said:
Did anyone else watch the first episode of the new Tenchi Muyo?
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Yes, I did. For the record, the only Tenchi Muyo I've seen was the edited version of Tenchi Muyo that aired on Toonami, Magical Project S, and Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure, so I'm probably missing quite a bit of context. I was able to enjoy the episode for what it was. I enjoyed Washuu's appearance; she is my favourite Tenchi Muyo character aside from Sasami, so she carried the episode for me.
 
I know everyone's fucking inactive thanks to the site being Tor only, but the new Scarlet Violet anime has a furry (and possibly main or secondary) character (who's probably gender-special too). Their (well, her) name is Dot and their fursona name is Nidothing.

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Pretty sure that'd make her the 3rd furry character in the Pokemon anime, #1 being Bill (Kabuto) and #2 being Kurt (Slowpoke). (Oak also wears a Clefairy suit in the ETOP manga.)

Interestingly enough she's described as a computer genius who helped design a bunch of tech shit, just like Bill. Now, gee whillikers, I wonder what would draw people like that to the furry moshpits, don't you?

(this is all from bulbapedia + yt recaps btw, haven't watched the actual thing yet and can't see myself really being bothered to either)
 
Since it got brought up, how well is that new Ash-less Pokémon anime doing with the kiddies? I still think they're going to find a way to shoehorn in Ash and/or Team Rocket by the end of the year to boost ratings.
 
Reread the entire Tomo-chan manga last night and honestly in the later parts it outshines the anime at many points (including the true confession of love and the dating scene in which Tomo sort of dolls herself up).

Kari Kamiya said:
Since it got brought up, how well is that new Ash-less Pokémon anime doing with the kiddies? I still think they're going to find a way to shoehorn in Ash and/or Team Rocket by the end of the year to boost ratings.
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As well as the rest of this Pokemon generation is doing. Lol.

But NGL I'm kind of glad they're switching up the style and format a little bit. I've honestly found most of the post-XY Pokemon anime to be very hard to watch because of how much they completely butchered Ash's appearance into this weird chibi looking ass. Still can't get over the awkward whole style change lol.

Lemme be honest though, for all of its flaws, Scarlet/Violet definitely did the starters better than a lot of previous generations. First generation with truly good starters in a while, I tell you.
 
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