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Tomoyo and Kyou are both top tier, and I can't put one above the other.
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i haven't but i'm mildy intrigued by the concept. how does she handle switching to 30 year old computer technology? Is it realistic or naive?
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Wasn't the mid-1990s Keroppi and Friends English dub produced specifically for YTV or was it also shown elsewhere?
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She's completely retarded and has to be tardwrangled by other artists on how to use the tech of the era. Obviously her artistic ability gives her some competency but as an example - there's a scene where she has to learn about dithering in order to get around limitations in color palettes.
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oh good. that question seemed like a decent metric to gauge the quality of the storywriting
sonar is rejecting almost all releases (i set up the recommended release filters) and the rest have no seeders. why is it rejecting SubsPlease? weird
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Jesus, the amount of good anime this season is brutal. Even new seasons are a great improvement over the previous.
It's a fucking amazing raising of stakes. I thought back when unluck did her painting with stars that she just added them because you had light pollution, not literally inventing the concept because it looked right (which in itself raises theories.
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So I dont usually watch anime but I was very intrigued by the concept of Made in Abyss and decided to give it a go. It was pretty interesting but Jesus Christ it really makes you understand why so many people believe anime is for pedos. Do we really need shots of 12 year olds tied up naked, bandage style? The times when Riko gets hurt really came off like the writer was getting off to her suffering and reveling in it rather than bring horrified by it.
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I am 3 episodes into Frieren and I still don't give a fuck about anything that has happened or any of the characters, should I drop it or am I about to strike diamonds? The only other thing I'm watching this season is JJK because I dropped Undead Unluck like 3 years ago after about 30 chapters.
I miss Bleach.
I miss Bleach.
Xenomorphs Are Cute
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Shangri-La Frontier's latest episode had Akio Otsuka singing about blacksmith. It's very kino.
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The new Spy Family chapter was really nice
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Literal nigger take.
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If that's the impression you get you might as well drop it. Insisting you refine your palette so that you can enjoy it isn't a hill I see a need to die on.
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My guy Madhouse has pulled out all the stops to give you a 3 course meal, and you're wondering when shit blows up. My guy... savor it
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What exactly am I missing? I just don't see the appeal, waving a cute elf girl in front of my face isn't enough to make me care when nobody really has a personality and very little is actually happening. With Undead Unluck, I did like it for a bit but then the Uma hunting stuff just kind of made it seem like it'd be a monster of the week type thing where no progress is ever really made so that kind of threw me off.
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My guy, it's a slow burn. It's Nippon LOTR. You have to earn those fights. Not just have it force fed into your mouth because the author is scared of losing his audience if he doesn't have the MC kill 5 million mooks a episode
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I recently found out that there's a novel for Houkago no Pleiades. Only the first three chapters (25% of the book) have been translated, but I hope we get more because I really like it. It's surprisingly good for an LN adaptation of a 2010s seasonal moe anime based on a Subaru car commercial, but then again, the anime is also surprisingly good. The book follows the villain and token male character, Minato, and how he began collecting fragments. It takes place around the time he first met Subaru in the hospital, so this is years before the anime. Like the anime, it connects theoretical physics concepts, such as electron energy levels, dimensions, and light from stars travelling to the Earth, to the story's themes, particularly the theme of potential. It also has a cool reference to Captain Harlock (being free in the sea of stars is mentioned). There's also a passage from the book that I think may be of interest to this site, so I've copied and pasted it below:
Under an all too bright lamp sat a kindergarten-aged boy on the floor, his face downturned and hidden in shadow. Placed all around the small space were colourful cubby boxes, their shelves filled to brimming with toy cars, robots and trains. This was evidently the boy’s room.
The boy was speaking, in a disconsolate and quiet voice.
“I know.”
Around the boy’s loose and airy head swung the yellow candy-crystal, the potential crystal.
His mother stood calmly before him, oblivious to the crystal. “Kazu, you're a boy after all,” she said. “There're plenty of jobs out there more suited to boys, you know.” Her voice was a coaxing, firm, nagging wheedle.
“I mean, what the teacher said wasn't in any way wrong – you are a sweet boy, and kind and nice, of course you are. But wanting to become a florist when you grow up, you see, just isn't what most boys are like.”
“I won’t anymore,” whispered the boy, his voice shrinking to an almost inaudible undertone.
The mother heaved a great sigh. “Yes, I know, there are some men who become florists too. But you see—”
“I won't anymore,” whispered the boy again. All at once the arc of the crystal's orbit had grown larger. Faster and faster the crystal spun, until it seemed as if it would fly off at the very next moment. The mother was continuing on: “I mean, there’re plenty of jobs you could go for. You could be a fireman, for instance, or a driver—”
As she paused to draw breath, the boy said dully, “I’ll say that next time.”
“That’s my boy,” the mother said, relieved.
And at that very instant the crystal flung itself off its orbit and outwards, flying clean through the wall. Minato gave the signal.
“Now!”
Elnath caught the crystal deftly.
“Got it!” he said. Satisfiedly, he put it away in his pouch, then shook the pouch, to the sound of clinking.
But even though they'd succeeded in acquiring a crystal, Minato was filled with misgivings. The crystal sitting in Elnath's sack was – had been – the dream that the boy had given up on – the potential he had to become a florist. And now it also meant that the doors to every other job considered ‘womanly’, makeup artist and ballet dancer and gourmet advisor and handicrafts teacher, were closed to him. Up until this point the boy might have lived with the conviction that there was nothing he could not be, but now his mother taught him the knowledge that that there were things that one could be when one grew up that were considered right and proper, and that there were things that weren't. A knowledge that some people might call a part of growing up, and others might call nipping the boy’s potential in the bud.
And Minato? He could not say which it was. But the thought lay heavy in his heart.
And if the mother had been able to see him – Minato, in the prince’s outfit that, in Elnath’s words, was a reflection of his inner thoughts and desires, this overwhelmingly non-masculine outfit of his that happened to have giant star earrings dangling from each ear – would she also have called him girly and shameful too?
Just what was wrong with becoming whatever you wanted? Minato thought fiercely. If you had feet you could walk on and hands to work with, the strength to handle a long day of work and friends to talk and laugh with, then ― what did it matter what job you chose?
He wondered, too, whether that mother would have preferred a son that was bedridden all day long, or a son that had become a florist and was enjoying every moment of his work to the full.
“We’re leaving,” called Elnath, rising back up into the air. And Minato, glancing helplessly again and again at the room, could do nothing but follow Elnath away.
The boy was speaking, in a disconsolate and quiet voice.
“I know.”
Around the boy’s loose and airy head swung the yellow candy-crystal, the potential crystal.
His mother stood calmly before him, oblivious to the crystal. “Kazu, you're a boy after all,” she said. “There're plenty of jobs out there more suited to boys, you know.” Her voice was a coaxing, firm, nagging wheedle.
“I mean, what the teacher said wasn't in any way wrong – you are a sweet boy, and kind and nice, of course you are. But wanting to become a florist when you grow up, you see, just isn't what most boys are like.”
“I won’t anymore,” whispered the boy, his voice shrinking to an almost inaudible undertone.
The mother heaved a great sigh. “Yes, I know, there are some men who become florists too. But you see—”
“I won't anymore,” whispered the boy again. All at once the arc of the crystal's orbit had grown larger. Faster and faster the crystal spun, until it seemed as if it would fly off at the very next moment. The mother was continuing on: “I mean, there’re plenty of jobs you could go for. You could be a fireman, for instance, or a driver—”
As she paused to draw breath, the boy said dully, “I’ll say that next time.”
“That’s my boy,” the mother said, relieved.
And at that very instant the crystal flung itself off its orbit and outwards, flying clean through the wall. Minato gave the signal.
“Now!”
Elnath caught the crystal deftly.
“Got it!” he said. Satisfiedly, he put it away in his pouch, then shook the pouch, to the sound of clinking.
But even though they'd succeeded in acquiring a crystal, Minato was filled with misgivings. The crystal sitting in Elnath's sack was – had been – the dream that the boy had given up on – the potential he had to become a florist. And now it also meant that the doors to every other job considered ‘womanly’, makeup artist and ballet dancer and gourmet advisor and handicrafts teacher, were closed to him. Up until this point the boy might have lived with the conviction that there was nothing he could not be, but now his mother taught him the knowledge that that there were things that one could be when one grew up that were considered right and proper, and that there were things that weren't. A knowledge that some people might call a part of growing up, and others might call nipping the boy’s potential in the bud.
And Minato? He could not say which it was. But the thought lay heavy in his heart.
And if the mother had been able to see him – Minato, in the prince’s outfit that, in Elnath’s words, was a reflection of his inner thoughts and desires, this overwhelmingly non-masculine outfit of his that happened to have giant star earrings dangling from each ear – would she also have called him girly and shameful too?
Just what was wrong with becoming whatever you wanted? Minato thought fiercely. If you had feet you could walk on and hands to work with, the strength to handle a long day of work and friends to talk and laugh with, then ― what did it matter what job you chose?
He wondered, too, whether that mother would have preferred a son that was bedridden all day long, or a son that had become a florist and was enjoying every moment of his work to the full.
“We’re leaving,” called Elnath, rising back up into the air. And Minato, glancing helplessly again and again at the room, could do nothing but follow Elnath away.
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Is there an anime or manga which is a reboot of an older manga that exists in this world, except it's an isekai so instead of following the original story it has a character that read the original story and put it on a completely different path?
So readers of that manga could read the older one to predict what future events might happen in the isekai manga?
So readers of that manga could read the older one to predict what future events might happen in the isekai manga?
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Dragon Ball had something like that, but it was only 3 chapters.
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I figured it would be a good way for a producer to reuse an old manga that had really good worldbuilding but terrible storytelling
...I had forgotten who raised Goblin Slayer. Is that explored in depth or only the occasional flashback of the harsh training?
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That was Burglar, and he remains shrouded in mystery aside from apparently being a legendary adventurer.
On a different note, I just saw The Boy And The Heron. While a few aspects of the plot I felt were a bit too abstract for their own good, on the whole, it is a really well-made and satisfying film. That makes two times this month that Japanese media has blown Disney out of the water. XD
On a different note, I just saw The Boy And The Heron. While a few aspects of the plot I felt were a bit too abstract for their own good, on the whole, it is a really well-made and satisfying film. That makes two times this month that Japanese media has blown Disney out of the water. XD