>SBRverse Joseph
No, that was Josefumi.
I think Araki did the Joseph story because he genuinely forgot to put him in.
I honestly stopped reading because I didn’t give a shit about most of the characters.
>Araki
anime or manga? the anime basically ends where they get together and cut out some stuff, which is a good point to end it. movie is eh, think someone mentioned a while back how the ice kaguya arc is kinda meh. it's not limited to anime that once the "will they/won't they" protags get together the quality noticeably drops. even kaguya-sama suffers from that. replacing them with ishigami/lino would also easily feel redundant or overshadowed by the originals (another issue romcoms often have when they run longer than necessary). personally I'm fine with not having absolutely every loose end tied up.
I'll be honest I made it halfway through SBR and dropped off. I gave it a shot but the reboot characters just didn't do anything for me. The entire post-reboot continuity would work a lot better if it were its own standalone IP with no explicit connections to JJBA. Even by Stone ocean it felt like the whole thing was running out of steam and with a few tweaks the ending could have been a great franchise finale.
Manga. I found the ending to the anime enjoyable enough.
Nice, I'll check some of those once I feel in the mood for some romcom again.
Did anyone even want the conclusion Oreimo did besides the author? The whole siscon thing was a hook, but the sister herself was aweful and the other primary love interest was far more likable and had chemistry.
I feel like Stone Ocean was fine, but Pucci is only saved as a villain by actually going through with his plan. I liked Jolyne, but as time went on I liked the stand users that were only slightly related to the Joestars/ Kujos doing shit.
Couldn't really get into it. The characters were too unlikeable for me, and starting the series off with a rape scene was a bit much.
Idk, I kinda liked having a villain with an overall weak stand that had to rely on manipulating other to cooperate with him for most of the show, and is there from day 1.
It's apperantly by the same guy who did the monster girl whores manga. Hopefully it will get at least a manga conclusion.
From my perspective it's actually more like Bandai wanting another Gundam because for some reason they think Gundam will die off. They're pushing hard for this to be a multimedia franchise, they announced an SHFiguarts and model kits of the main girl and the mechs before the anime started airing to go alongside it. It looks anemic, to be honest, no wonder it's flopping already. Same with the tie-in game (to be published by Bamco of course), I'd rather just buy AC because I can trust that not to be a soulless cash grab. Maybe I'm just not their demographic but the moment I saw the bland male protag and offbrand Rei Ayanami I thought it was going to be boring shit.
That explains so much.
The characters worked for me, surprisingly. It felt like a mythology story but with both the gods and demons being both completely morally incomprehensible and utterly clueless. It gave it a nice alien atmosphere with a lot of tonal unpredictability. The opener did feel pretty gratuitous though.
Looks like Bandai still thinks mecha is a profitable genre in the West. As it turns out mecha is actually too smart of a genre for dumb Amerimutts for whom the only two anime genres seem to be "WOW COOL ACTION" shounenshit and "WOW PRETTY WAIFU" waifufag shit. Mecha falls within neither of those. It's too technical to appeal to shounen niggers and spics given mecha anime use the mecha as the main weapon in fights rather than flashy capeshit powers and there's no waifu appeal to be had. In fact, if you look at it the mecha anime that were successful are mostly remembered for their waifufag qualities nowadays. Code Geass gets brought up because of CC ass, Kallen and some of the Britannia girls like Cornelia and Viletta. Gurren Lagann had quite possibly the sluttiest 14 year old in anything ever in the form of Yoko Littner. Darling in the FranXX is solely brought up because of Knockoff Lum. Sure, some of those are above age of consent (the Geass girls are all 18+ and Yoko is 21 by the show's end because of a timeskip), but still.
This is the reason why I like Mushoku Tensei so much and why I hope it fully succeeds. It more reminds me of an old-fashioned seinen series like Gantz, Berserk, Parasyte, and Eden: It's an Endless World! or an old-fashioned adult anime like Blue Gender in how it deals with sex than a modern ecchi show or shounen series. Sex exists, its part of the world, but its treated in a realistic and matter of fact way. The main character was an otaku coomer in his original life and carries that over into his new life, initially, but this is treated like a character flaw he needs to overcome, and he grows out of it over the course of the story, and becomes less perverted as the story goes on. The show doesn't fall into the classic trap of engaging in waifu and ecchi bait like a lot of modern series do.
The OP of that Twitter thread said basically the same thing, except he used the 1990s instead of the 2000s.