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R.A.E.L. said:
Welp Kubo pulled a bullshit timeskip for Bleach.
Both Ukitake and Komamura are dead, and Rukia is now captain of squad 13 + she's got long hair.
Turns out there's going to be one more chapter, with it officially ending on the 22nd.
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Didn't he pull a timeskip after the Hueco Mundo arc?
 
So apparently, the anime version of Diamond is Unbreakable is going to be rearranging a couple of the story arcs, although it's nothing major. Next week's episode will cover the Cinderella arc instead of Yoshikage Kira Wants a Quiet Life. It's also going to be just one episode (despite the arc covering six chapters).
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From what I've heard, most people agree that the change is probably due to pacing/tone reasons. The Cinderella arc comes across as kind of jarring after all the shit that went down during the Yoshikage Kira Wants a Quiet Life chapters (in fact, I just read the manga for the first time a couple of weeks ago and I thought it felt a little weird). So now YKWAQL will be immediately followed up by the Sheer Heart Attack arc.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm super excited for the 5-6 weeks of Kira we're gonna get.
 
If that's what they're doing, then it makes a decent amount of sense. I mean the last few episodes, while dark in their own ways, were still pretty lighthearted. So I can see why they're doing this.
 
I think it's also being changed so
Fatty doesn't die an episode after he's introduced.

Part 4 has been incredible thus far though, every part that David Animation makes it to is always so much better than the previous one production-wise.
 
Over the last couple days, I've been working through Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. First season was good, but the second season, from what I watched so far, is so much better.
 
The Attack on Titan fandom is pretty much split into three different groups as of chapter 84:

-Those who are relieved Armin is alive
-Those who are butthurt Erwin is dead and either consider it bad writing or hold Armin responsible
-Those who are butthurt Bertholdt (aka "the face of the series") is dead and claim he deserved better

Personally, I see Bert's death as poetic justice and don't feel sorry for him at all.
 
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R.A.E.L. said:
The Attack on Titan fandom is pretty much split into three different groups as of chapter 84:

-Those who are relieved Armin is alive
-Those who are butthurt Erwin is dead and either consider it bad writing or hold Armin responsible
-Those who are butthurt Bertholdt (aka "the face of the series") is dead and claim he deserved better

Personally, I see Bert's death as poetic justice and don't feel sorry for him at all.
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Yeah, my feelings on this are pretty complex...
  • I do like Armin, but I felt like his death was really good for the story because it revived the "anyone can die" atmosphere that made Attack on Titan so popular in the first place. But I guess that Erwin's death serves the same purpose, so...
  • On that note, I'm a fan of Erwin (I like him more than Armin, anyway) so I'm sad to see him go. But from a storytelling perspective, I think that it was probably the right choice to have Erwin die instead of Armin. Erwin more or less reached the end of his character development whereas Armin is still in the process of developing. There's a lot of potential for Armin now, seeing how there's now a pressing need for him to grow into Erwin's role.
  • I've never been fond of RBA (the Reiner, Bertholdt, and Annie trio). I'm sure they have tragic backstories or whatever, but they're also directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people as well as most of the bad things that happen in the series. I don't understand why so many people rush to defend them when we don't even know why they are the way they are. Maybe I'll feel differently about them when we finally get some insight into the Shifter's Village, but right now I think they're inexcusable.
  • I'm also glad that finally one of the RBA was killed off, considering how Reiner has apparently evolved into the Plot Armored Titan and Annie is still trapped in crystal.
  • And last but not least, if we don't finally get to the fucking basement within the next couple of chapters I am going to flip out.
 
The joys of binge-watching a show you don't watch from the start. Kuromukuro is fucking great.
 
After watching the piece of shit movie Priest, I decided to check the Korean manhwa it was supposed to be based on:

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I'm 10 chapters in and it only took one chapter to blow away the movie. I love the Old Western-horror setting combined with an art style that I find really distinct and great to look at. I really recommend checking it out, especially if you enjoyed Hellsing.
 
Watched MD Geist last night. Never knew it was something I needed in my life.
 
I've been reading Billy Bat. Holy fuck that is a wild ride. I thought it was going to be about a Japanese American's fursona, ended up with a mysterious comic book character that attempts to manipulate people to do its bidding. I like its use of notorious characters from history, like Lee Harvey Oswald. And also how something happens, and you're like "wait, hold the fuck up. They talked about this ten chapters ago, and this is what actually happened?" It plays off the post WWII/Early Cold War America really well, too. Like the chapters with an interracial couple who ended up in the Deep South felt really tense.
 
I'm starting too many shows before I can even finish others.

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Kill me.
 
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