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I'm waiting until the second season finishes airing. The show moves quickly making it a good one to marathon in a few days.
I agree, but I rarely watch anime and was in the mood for some. I binged the first season when I found it, and the same with Shield Hero (I can't wait for that one).

Opinions on the following shows please?

Orphen (the original one with Shelley Calene Black)
I caught a few random episodes on TV a long time ago, it was really interesting, I can't give a full recommendation but I think it's worth checking out.
 
Okay what was the deal with Golden Boy? I saw a few of the OVAs and thought it was just the usual oversexed and overperverted Japanese cartoon but I’m hearing how there was a cult and a cycling storyline? What’s up with that?
The anime only covers like the first few volumes of the manga or so. The later volumes that the anime doesn't cover introduce this weird sex cult plotline involving a character who was apparently an old friend of the main character...its weird. The OVAs probably did the right thing stopping early.

it honestly would have reached Domestic Girlfriend storyline levels, and I just can not have those kinds of flashbacks again after reading that manga in full
Oh, you read Domestic Girlfriend. I'm sorry for all the time you wasted on that manga. You are literally never getting that time back. Literally the worst ending in anime/manga (alongside Usagi Drop).
 
An anime for war nerds and history nerds, with great characters and great fights. The love the makers have for the show really comes through, so much so that even if you're not into tanks or military history when you start watching it, you'll at least understand why people are into them before you're done.
I am a tank nerd; that's what attracted me to Girls und Panzer. Got the whole series on blu ray, including the movies and ovas, and it's honestly remarkable how far a simple concept of "cute girls in good looking CGI tanks" has come. You get to see fights that just can't happen in live action, because either all those tanks were blown up or are museum pieces that may or may not run.

And they take very good care to make it historically accurate, drifting tanks not withstanding. There's so many historical nods and facts just buried in there that even a casual viewer should come out with something they never knew before. I'm so happy they made a show that made my niche hobby actually appealing to the masses
 
Oh, you read Domestic Girlfriend. I'm sorry for all the time you wasted on that manga. You are literally never getting that time back. Literally the worst ending in anime/manga (alongside Usagi Drop).

How bad is that ending, compared to Attack on Titan's Chapter 139? And how bad is it compared to terrible endings in Western media, i.e. Mass Effect 3's ending?
 
How bad is that ending, compared to Attack on Titan's Chapter 139? And how bad is it compared to terrible endings in Western media, i.e. Mass Effect 3's ending?
WORSE! FAR worse! Attack on Titan was stupid, but in a funny way that created a million memes. Domestic Girlfriend just felt almost malicious in how bad it was. Like the author wanted to utterly destroy all of her characters on the way out the door. It was so bad, it still amazes me that it somehow got past editorial.
 
Domestic Girlfriend just felt almost malicious in how bad it was. Like the author wanted to utterly destroy all of her characters on the way out the door. It was so bad, it still amazes me that it somehow got past editorial.

That sounds similar to how Neil Druckmann utterly destroyed the characters in The Last of Us, to try to push people into liking the new ones in Part II, but only managed to piss people off, and ruin the brand as a whole. It's as if Neil got his revenge on Bruce Straley for denying his revenge story that he wanted to create, but at the cost of the IP as a whole. That still sounds like Druckmann was still more destructive, in comparison, as well as other Western directors that destroyed characters and franchises such as Kevin Smith, Kathleen Kennedy, JJ Abrams, and Rian Johnson.

And the ending to Usagi Drop was pretty messed up too, I don't remember if the ending happened before "SuBvErTiNg ExPeCtAtIoNs" became popular in Western media though. When even the anime director had second thoughts about the manga ending (which was the nice way of saying to the Mangaka that the ending sucks dogshit), and that part wasn't included in the anime adaptation, says a lot.
 
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That sounds similar to how Neil Druckmann utterly destroyed the characters in The Last of Us, to try to push people into liking the new ones in Part II, but only managed to piss people off, and ruin the brand as a whole. It's as if Neil got his revenge on Bruce Straley for denying his revenge story that he wanted to create, but at the cost of the IP as a whole.
At least what Druckmann did, he did with a very specific purpose, even if it was stupid. What happened with Domestic Girlfriend has no rhyme or reason.
 
And the ending to Usagi Drop was pretty messed up too, I don't remember if the ending happened before "SuBvErTiNg ExPeCtAtIoNs" became popular in Western media though. When even the anime director had second thoughts about the manga ending (which was the nice way of saying to the Mangaka that the ending sucks dogshit), and that part wasn't included in the anime adaptation, says a lot.
Usagi Drop ending was just regular commerism
 
The ending of Oreimo though.......yikes.
Incest is legal in Japan - that's all you need to know. Also there's apparently this mythological/culturological thing that a brother and sister who fall in love together actually are reincarnated star-crossed lovers who were given another chance to be together forever.

Not that I particularly condone incest but Oreimo's ending isn't that terrible compared to even weirder shit some anime do. Trashy and culturologically weird - yes, but not really "horrible" once you exclude some of the culturologically incompatible concepts there.
 
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I actually wanted to watch and read Usagi Drop, but I didn’t know about people really disliking the ending.

That is news to me.
The first half is heartwarming "college guy adopts his grandfather's illegitimate daughter". Issue is that the second half the girl is now in high school and has a crush on her adopted father and it actually ends with them hooking together. I think the second half was written by a different guy.
 
Beastars was great! until Legos got kicked out of school and focused on that serial killer. never finished it but i heard he and his GF got together so that's great
 
Only marriage between cousins is legal, and cousin marriage is legal throughout most of the world. Marrying your sibling is not and is viewed just as negatively in Japan as it would be anywhere else.
Still, the cultural element can't be denied. Bugman stuff, whatever you wanna call it. IIRC Japan hated the fact the ending was explicitly incest, not that it was incest.
 
The first half is heartwarming "college guy adopts his grandfather's illegitimate daughter". Issue is that the second half the girl is now in high school and has a crush on her adopted father and it actually ends with them hooking together. I think the second half was written by a different guy.
Looks like someone is not aware of all those age-gap relationship/romance mangas written and drawn by women, Usagi Drop (by Unita Yumi) is just one example amongst many.
 
Looks like someone is not aware of all those age-gap relationship/romance mangas written and drawn by women, Usagi Drop (by Unita Yumi) is just one example amongst many.
The age gap wasn't the issue, the issue was that the guy married his (adopted) aunt who he essentially raised as a daughter.

Still, the cultural element can't be denied. Bugman stuff, whatever you wanna call it. IIRC Japan hated the fact the ending was explicitly incest, not that it was incest.
It wasn't even fully incest; the girl in question was only adopted by the main character's grandfather, which, not incidentally, is used in a lot of these "incest" stories to justify the incest after the fact.

The issue was that the guy raised the girl from childhood and was basically her father figure. I think he even legally adopted her. He was, for all intents and purposes, her father for most of her life, and then all that is tossed in the trashcan so he can say, "Yeah, I think I want to fuck her". Basically turning what was once a heartwarming story into a completely different type of story (wife husbandry) entirely.
 
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