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Any of you been unfortunate enough to watch Metallic Rogue? What a piece of shit disappointment. The trailers looked so cool but the show itself fails the basics. Six episodes in and I still have no idea what the characters want or who they are, other than superficially cute and autistic waifu bait.

They have no wants, no desires. The closest thing to a motivation is that they have to kill the 8 robot masters and get to Wily's castle- wait, wrong franchise. They have to kill the 9 robot masters because ????? It would be tolerable if the targets were characters but they're just props. They show up and die. Megaman bosses show more personality in their two frame intro animations than these characters do in an entire 20 minute episode.

The fights suck, too. They look pretty, but they're staged horribly, have no real story to them, the animation lacks impact, they don't use the environment and the combat itself is really boring. They could all take place in a blank void and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

If you want an action show with an amnesiac autistic female protagonist who eats a lot and plays the piano and is commanded by a handler and transforms into a red alter ego to fight themed bosses, then watch Takt.OP Destiny.
 
cid said:
i recognized his name so i looked him up
10 years ago i liked his videos making fun of libtards
he did a full 180
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Yeah, I used to be subscribed to him....and then I just unsubscribed from him after reading the bullshit he did. Betting 20 bucks he flipped after seeing Trump win the election.
 
Yeah Rogue is ... suffering from multiple issues. Its pacing is off, its plot is barebones, and it sets up mysteries left and right and than explains nothing. It is JJ Abrams Anime: The Mystery Box. And the characters are still blank states.

I know anime loves the "mysterious philisopical musings on stuff" and all that, but getting your autistic android waifu to just get asked "Are you truly free?" and have her stare ahead with all of CWCs "mystique autism look" that could mean she got an error 404, has to take a huge robo shit or just thinks about chocolate is not that engaging.

Yes, she likes chocolate. That's her main trait. Handler girl is... who is she working for? What are the organisations? For all we know, Earth or Mars can have the UN or a king. The worldbuilding is basically barebones namedrops. There were good aliens, bad aliens, android slaves, a war, and there are cops, and a mystery organisation that polices androids, and discontent androids, and hiding super androids. I guess the two girls work on the android FBI, but what did the super androids do? Why are they to be killed? Such a mess.

Utena was funny as usual.
 
mindlessobserver said:
Been watching Frieren. I fucking love it. It's such a heartfelt meditation on life, youth, getting old, and the endless March of time.
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It's a very pretty piece of work. I love the details in the cities, the buildings. The budget went somewhere and it's very, very nice to look at.
However, the writing of Frieren gives me this nagging feeling of.... "there could be much more". We're talking anime and it's essentially a form of entertainment for children and manchildren, but Frieren goes so close to properly and skillfully explore some concepts and stops just before going in-depth or build really good characterization. There's still that clumsiness (having to endlessly repeat concepts and show them in the most obvious way possible) typical of anime, and that ends up cheapening the narrative. We don't need to repeat a shitton of times that the demons are inhuman monsters: simply show it with some finesse. Frieren despite appearances is a centuries-old creature that barely understands human interactions, and even her contemporary travels are almost an attempt to study Fern and Stark to fully understand how humans work (and how herself feels about it), but it's never exploited to its fullest.

It's still a good watch, but just imagine if it was more refined.

Also I feel bad for Dungeon Meshi, it's a good series but starting in the middle of another fantasy juggernaut didn't help at all.
 
Future GPX is fun. I like how it's basically a Brave-style mecha racing anime, but they made the cars like mecha (with sentient AI systems and reconfigurations) rather than putting mecha on wheels. The designs are great, especially for the police cars and the transport trucks. Story-wise, it's a typical competition/sports anime, which I can't say I'm particularly fond of in most circumstances but this is futuristic racing, which is inherently cool.

 
HexFag said:
I'm surprised at just how crazy underrated Sengoku Youko is. I've caught up with the most recent episode and if this is the part that people consider "bad" then I'm in for a ride.
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And sadly the anime leaves a lot to be desired compared to the manga. The animation is decent, for sure... Until they have to animate stuff like a giant castle punching you in the face. The story stuff is mostly kept in... Until they skip the best character's first big moment (which they did in the latest episode). The overall story remains the same... but some scenes fail to hit the proper emotional strings for various reasons: exaggerated voices/soundtrack, dialogue rewrites...

And yeah, I'm still mad they skipped all the moral grayness as well. The monks aren't supposed to be evil, but in the anime they kind of are.

I recommend reading at least the Shinsuke chapter they just skipped https://mangadex.org/chapter/9668846c-ea9c-4ad5-9a29-0c685f0504ae

On the other hand, the anime will enter the good parts next week (and the VERY good parts a bit later), so despite all my criticism I'm thrilled to see what comes next.
 
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Human Institute Director said:
And sadly the anime leaves a lot to be desired compared to the manga. The animation is decent, for sure... Until they have to animate stuff like a giant castle punching you in the face. The story stuff is mostly kept in... Until they skip the best character's first big moment (which they did in the latest episode). The overall story remains the same... but some scenes fail to hit the proper emotional strings for various reasons: exaggerated voices/soundtrack, dialogue rewrites...

And yeah, I'm still mad they skipped all the moral grayness as well. The monks aren't supposed to be evil, but in the anime they kind of are.

I recommend reading at least the Shinsuke chapter they just skipped https://mangadex.org/chapter/9668846c-ea9c-4ad5-9a29-0c685f0504ae

On the other hand, the anime will enter the good parts next week (and the VERY good parts a bit later), so despite all my criticism I'm thrilled to see what comes next.
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I just read the chapter and damn I hope the anime goes to it again at some point. It seems like an important thing to skip out on. I didn't know that stuff like this got cut out. I thought after WHITE FOX's insistence to do a full adaptation of the manga instead of starting at a later point that things wouldn't be left on the cutting room floor.

If more things get supposedly cut, I might just read the manga along with the anime.

Unrelated but the quality of the second season of the Urusei Yatsura remake is way better than the first one. I'm not sure if it's because of the prevalence of more single chapter episodes instead of split episodes, but things are just better all around. Still doesn't beat the OG 80s version but that's a tough act to follow.
 
>no group is translating General Black

I liked that. It’s sometimes Ecchi, but I liked the concept of the hero getting creeped out by his fangirl.

I like when Magic or Super hero settings just have the faction that are just not really good or evil, but bored and exist because they need somewhere to hang out.
 
Is Bravern worth watching? I thought the premise of the show was interesting but I've been putting off watching it.
 
HexFag said:
Is Bravern worth watching? I thought the premise of the show was interesting but I've been putting off watching it.
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Hard to say, it's not really a serious show, more like poking fun at super robot tropes? Or some kind of self-awareness through Bravern himself.
But that is also depending on how much you are into or can put up with main characters, Isami and Bravern. Then slowburn bromance - homosexual relationship between Smith and Isami for a few episodes. Even with recent episode 6, they only have a twist about enemy super robot hanging at the end of episode. There are only 12 episodes in total, so... pacing may be bad near the end.

You have Isami having mental breakdown due to dealing - piloting with a Tokusatsu otaku robot. Like Bravern wants to live in his otaku hero dream, while Isami is just a human and wants to finish everything quickly in serious manner. You know how people are dying left and right, and the normal Armor Core mechs aren't that great against alien super robots.
Bravern gets homoerotic talking about Isami, meanwhile Lewis Smith gets more homoerotic bromance action with Isami. Then again, Smith is a more charming character, so he also triggers attachment or flirty flag with few female characters with ep 6 as of now.

For a mecha show, robot fighting isn't that awesome or anything. Considering Bravern is too powerfull as long as Isami willing to pilot him wholeheartly. Calling out supermove and win.
 
So here's Mappa's next projects, they're also working on them simultaneously.

- Jujutsu Kaisen season 3.

-Chainsaw Man season 2

- Chainsaw Man movie

- Buchigiri?

and some other stuff that slipped my mind.

Someone is gonna lit that anime studio on fire, lmao.
 
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