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God of Nothing said:
This is the defense everyone has of Ichigo if you criticize his lack of character. Really, this is more of a result of Kubo not knowing how much he should make not!Urameshi like Urameshi. He just kept the thug part in for all of one chapter. Even comparing him to Urameshi beyond the barebones archetype is an insult to Urameshi. Ichigo isn't even a good stoic. Just ugh. I don't think Kubo had any idea what he wanted to do with him.
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My answer to that is the Fullbring Arc. I'd say if Ichigo's journey is anything, it's his powers and his relations to them. The entire series he's pretty much chasing more power desperate to keep up. Everything in Bleach are parallels. He goes on the heroes journey to save Rukia. The Arrancar arc is when that journey is taken too far. He reaches out to the Vizards, a group he doesn't know and doesn't trust, desperate for help and they help him. In the Fullbring Arc, a depressed Ichigo who's selling his abilities to the highest bidder for cash, goes to a group he doesn't know desperate for help. This time, it doesn't go so hot. All of his friends are turned against him. He has very little power, and no Soul Society to help him. What does he decide to do? He decides he's going to kill Tsukishima, regardless of whether it brings anyone back or not. So the question ultimately is asked, is Ichigo just a guy who's lusting for power? Or does he truly believe in helping his friends out of altruism? I mean, he wants his power back so badly, he's left writhing on the floor in tears with Ginjo and Tsukishima happy to just let him live his life moving forward, whatever that might be. Then when the Soul Society shows up, they give him a nudge in the right direction but they ultimately show up to see what choice he'd make. If he's truly lusting for power, he'd be siding with Ginjo against the Soul Society for sealing it away and not trusting him. In the end, though he's willing to listen to actions over words and trust his friends who put their trust in him.

Although not in the canon material, yet, in the TYBW we do see what trusting in the Soul Society could mean for Ichigo when they don't have his best interests at heart. If you've read the Hell Chapter, then you also know this entire quest for power Ichigo's been on also might hold some very serious ramifications for him when he ultimately does kick the bucket.
 
Dig this manga Dungeon Tou de Yadoya wo Yarou!
One day, Sanada Shirou, who works for a black company, is transported to another world. Using his "creation magic", an ability he gained when transported, he opens an inn and is supposed to lead a slow life, but this other world is a little strange?! It is a world where women are overwhelmingly dominant, where women do dangerous work and battle, and men are powerless and are protected! The daily life of entertaining (in many ways) the women of this other world begins...!
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SSj_Ness said:
Half would still be 500 episodes... That could be 500 episodes of anything else. If pacing is that bad just give it the Kai treatment, and spruce it up visually where most necessary. Redoing it just seems dumb to me, idk.
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There's actually already a project that's more or less One Piece Kai and it's called "One Pace" which I reccomend if you wanna watch the anime at all but Toei in general hasn't given this series the respect it deserves, even making the animation 1000x better in the wanna arc cannot make up for the shitting pacing. If you're not a One Piece fan then I get thinking this is pointless but as a One Piece fan, all it took for me to be hyped for this is realizing that the Water 7 and Enies Lobby arcs are going to get remade eventually which I personally view as the best arcs in all of Shonen.
wtfNeedSignUp said:
No no, Ichigo is still order of magnitude aboth Yuji. Ichigo is a massive Gary Sue with a cool ass design and a finger in the pie of virtually every group. Yuji is just the dullest motherfucker in shonen history. That just power levels as the plot demand withoit even any unique change. JJK cast reminds me more of Naruto than Bleach, only that I remember characters from Naruto way more despite not interacting with franchise for a decade, only Gojo is a standout character, and he is a shittier Kakashi.
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I used to agree but The Shibuya Incident changed my mind about Yuji quite a bit when he went from a goofy highschool kid to "Yeah, I should probably die lol", it's not amazing writing or anything but his trauma gives him at least some depth of character that I never really saw in Ichigo. I don't even think Bleach has bad character writing, I love the Gotei 13 and it's kind of amazing how Kubo created like a million characters and still manages to give so many of them unique personalities and at least somewhat of a backstory but when it comes to Ichigo, I just see a generic high school sort-of delinquent but not really. It's like, he's not really involved with the Soul Society very much, he's only really friends with Rukia and Renji but what exactly does he have going on outside of that Soul Reaper shit? Does he have any hobbies or aspirations? Does he ever really show genuine emotion about anything except for saving his friends when they're in trouble? Not that I've seen. Yuji by comparison actually is involved in the world around him and expresses genuine emotion all the time and honestly, I kinda appreciate that unlike shit like MHA and Demon Slayer, his emotions aren't just expressed via crying like a faggot.
 
The Ghost Of George Floyd said:
There's actually already a project that's more or less One Piece Kai and it's called "One Pace" which I reccomend if you wanna watch the anime at all but Toei in general hasn't given this series the respect it deserves, even making the animation 1000x better in the wanna arc cannot make up for the shitting pacing. If you're not a One Piece fan then I get thinking this is pointless but as a One Piece fan, all it took for me to be hyped for this is realizing that the Water 7 and Enies Lobby arcs are going to get remade eventually which I personally view as the best arcs in all of Shonen.
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Reading through OP right now (currently on Dressrosa) and it's amazing how much better Enies Lobby and Water 7 are as arcs. I always liked those arcs even when I watched them like 10 years ago but rereading it and seeing that later arcs don't have nearly the same level of drama (minus like Marineford) makes me sad man.
 
One manga series I've been following lately is Gekikou Kamen, from Yamuguchi Takayuki, artist and creator of the cult manga Apocalypse Zero and artist and co-writer of the historical martial arts manga Shiguri . GK deals with a very niche topic, tokusatsu. At first sight, it seems to be about Jissouji Otoya, a very odd, socially awkward man in his late 20s, reconnecting with his old college tokusatsu circle, former members of the now defunct Tokubiken or "The Tokusatsu Research Society", after the club's leader Akinori Kiritooshi, passes away. It soon reveals itself to be a toku deconstruction/love letter to post-WWII, Showa-era toku shows and films. The club had devoted themselves to the creation of practical and functional (to the point of dangerous) cosplay suits of their favorite characters and even had dreams of making a "realistic" toku film. Who knows what will happen now that they've been brought back together? (as it turns out much later all sorts of weird shit, the mildest of which involves a vigilante dressed like vintage hero "Fukumen Viper" who is going around attacking and picking fights with local heroes).

The characters they model include "Kuuki Gunshin Mikado Waechter. (Perhaps inspired by Skull-Man, with some of Takayuki's own Kakugo Hagakure), "Nebula Buddhi" (Which comes off as a blending of Ultraman with Ambassador Magma) "Kiborger" seems based on the 70s series Denjin Zaborger, "Beaseeder", who seems to be a take on Bijinder from Android Kikaider and the late club leader Kiritooshi's "Zenopadan", which seems to be inspired by classic kaijin from shows like Kamen Rider.

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PS1gamenwatch said:
Dig this manga Dungeon Tou de Yadoya wo Yarou!



https://youtube.com/watch?v=F9Cvx1GDk8s
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Oh yeah, been reading that one for awhile. The main character basically ends up in a fantasy world that is about where our world was, culturally and technologically, during the Victorian period, but with the mores regarding sex and gender reversed. So women are the warriors and protectors (and rapists), while men are the dainty ones who need protecting, due to the fact that the women in this world are generally only ones who can use magic (the main character, being the isekai'd hero, bucks this).

If your interested in a series that focuses purely on the whole "gender and sexual mores are reversed" aspect, but in a modern setting, check out The World of Moral Reversal. The author of the series is Amahara, who also wrote Ishuzoku Reviewers and Idaten Deities, and there are two versions. The first version is the original pornographic doujinshi version (VERY NSFW), which he drew himself and stars a male protagonist and is finished, and the mainstream manga version, also called Chastity Reverse World, which functions as a retelling of the doujin from the point of view of female protagonist, with the male protagonist of the original reappearing later to begin a similar storyline to the original, and he becomes a second main character. The mainstream manga notably has a different artists, and thus much better artwork, but both are very interesting in how they look at cultural mores regarding how both sexes are supposed to act, and what a world where those things are reversed would look like.
 
Chibi Reviews is being a complete sperg about companies using A.I. translation to keep pace with pirate sites (and let's be real, cut politics out).

I find it astounding how cucked he is, acting like A.I. translations can't be good. I've pirated enough manga to know Google Translation-San usually does the job pretty well. And if the corpos want to keep up with the pirates, they DO need simultaneous release. I just found he was acting like a baby corpo shill, protecting the PRECIOUS tranny translators. Bullshit.
 
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Amakusa 1637. The student council of a high school gets sent back in time to just before Japan closed itself to the world during the Christian repressions. The president, Natsuki, discovers she looks identical to the recently deceased Amakusa Shirou who in our history led the Shimabara Rebellion. Knowing that the Shimabara Rebellion ended in failure with 30,000 dead and Japan closing it's borders, Natsuki takes on the identity of Amakusa Shirou to lead a successful rebellion by playing politics, faking religious miracles, and forming alliances instead of fighting. Also there's yaoi AND yuri.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZJs-0RY8c_QChibi Reviews is being a complete sperg about companies using A.I. translation to keep pace with pirate sites (and let's be real, cut politics out).

I find it astounding how cucked he is, acting like A.I. translations can't be good. I've pirated enough manga to know Google Translation-San usually does the job pretty well. And if the corpos want to keep up with the pirates, they DO need simultaneous release. I just found he was acting like a baby corpo shill, protecting the PRECIOUS tranny translators. Bullshit.
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People still watch this giant fucking dweeb?
 
Recently I watched The Last Drive-In, the Shudder series hosted by the "Drive In Movie Critic" Joe Bob Briggs, the long-time persona of Dallas film critic John Bloom. where he screens various horror films and during breaks drops interesting facts and his opinions on matters related to the films being aired. He had a double bill of Phil Tippett's stop motion passion project Mad God and Kon's Perfect Blue, where he brought up, among other things, how only one Japanese film has won a Best Animated Film Oscar, even though, he asks, shouldn't Japanese animators be owning that category, and other food for thought.

Serendipitously I also recently ran across a scan of his (positive) review of Project A-ko for his old newspaper review column, "Drive In Fu" where, true to his unabashed redneck B-movie fan tounge-in-cheek persona, he opens with referring to those "Japaheeno guns-and-hooters cartoon movies".

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Commander X said:
Serendipitously I also recently ran across a scan of his (positive) review of Project A-ko for his old newspaper review column, "Drive In Fu" where, true to his unabashed redneck B-movie fan tounge-in-cheek persona, he opens with referring to those "Japaheeno guns-and-hooters cartoon movies".
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I miss these stream-of-conscious "I'm drunk but I had fun watching cute girls blowing shit up" reviews.
 
God of Nothing said:
a fate worse than death
imagine talking about anime you're not even interested in for a living
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Every season he forces himself to pog out over the Current Thing TM as well as the most basic bitch shit imaginable. I can't look away. I don't watch most of his videos. I just look at the thumbnails, and shake my head at a man who's been grinding at the same shit basically since YouTube began
 
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