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CharcoalChkn said:
I'm really quite enjoying that it doesn't blow it's load and just randomly introduces a new piece of information in an off hand way or a small scene, letting you think about it for a few episodes (or more...) before returning to it. I think that is what it gives it that genuine drama feeling.
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It really helps it has a full 24 episode run. It's able to set up the dominos, and episodes later, knock them all down. You can't do that well with 12.
 
It's the birthday of this VA
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For those who watch it, can someone explain the appeal of "Black Clover" and why it is so popular?

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I legit started watching it, first few episodes I'm running on an "Oh, so this guy has no powers and will just have to out might everyone with pure training and dedication to get to the top" high, but then the nigga gets the "Ultra rare never before seen 6 clover (Please don't steal my OC)" book, that allows him to summon some faggy sword that is more akin to a toy hammer than anything worthwhile to fight with, shit could've at least drawn blood but whatever I suppose.

All the interest in seeing him succeed is gone now that he has a rare nullifying item because It'll most likely be revealed that he is special - this shit is like Naruto all over again - but I digress.

Am I just not seeing something in it or is it legit just normie pre-teen power fantasy bait?
 
All I’ve heard is that it gets better once you hit later arcs like the Eye Of The Midnight Sun Encounter.

On a different note, man I just realized how many Japanese VAs are born in February. Heck, we forgot to mention that the beginning also saw the 34th birthday of Haruka Tomatsu.
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No joke, she’s probably one of my favorites.
 
Black Skin Shitty Gyaru: Self-absorbed to an insane degree, expects you to worship at her muk muk-idolizing feet.
Lily White Yuki Gyaru: Concerned about others, expects you to be the best person you can be because she idolizes that kind of person.
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Mister Baranavichy said:
For those who watch it, can someone explain the appeal of "Black Clover" and why it is so popular?
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It isn't. People slammed it from the start of its anime adaptation for being the most unremarkable late-stage shonen ennui schlock out there, and its MC for being nonstop yelling without any nuance. There's still people who read it anyways even though it never gets any better or different, perhaps because they're reading every other big series coming from Jump and don't want to be left out of any part of the conversation. I only read this thing because of a weird detail I heard, and I'm mostly regretting the time I've wasted on it.

Severe case of "also-ran-itis", up there with Toriko and Seven Deadly Sins. Having a garbage forever-runner adaptation also doesn't help.
 
Trollblade69 said:
It isn't. People slammed it from the start of its anime adaptation for being the most unremarkable late-stage shonen ennui schlock out there, and its MC for being nonstop yelling without any nuance. There's still people who read it anyways even though it never gets any better or different, perhaps because they're reading every other big series coming from Jump and don't want to be left out of any part of the conversation. I only read this thing because of a weird detail I heard, and I'm mostly regretting the time I've wasted on it.

Severe case of "also-ran-itis", up there with Toriko and Seven Deadly Sins. Having a garbage forever-runner adaptation also doesn't help.
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If you divide the number of total episodes by the average most shows get it almost ran for 9 whole seasons, would you say it was just a generic money maker that exploited a lack of good taste in the teen demographic? Or did it have any actual good things going for it I've yet to see after episode 20?
 
LightDragonman1 said:
All I’ve heard is that it gets better once you hit later arcs like the Eye Of The Midnight Sun Encounter.

On a different note, man I just realized how many Japanese VAs are born in February. Heck, we forgot to mention that the beginning also saw the 34th birthday of Haruka Tomatsu.
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No joke, she’s probably one of my favorites.
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So she played 2 characters inspired from Lum
 
LightDragonman1 said:
Haruka Tomatsu.
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Take this as blessing or curse knowledge. Because it's kinda nsfw you may say.
Her elf Sui in Isekai Ojisan has a kimochi moaning moment with Ojisan (Takehito Koyasu), so some can say "Fairy king Oberon" does make "Asuna" feeling kimochi (it was massaging). This was later part of erpisode 10.
May adding Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Kirito), jacking off-climaxing sound effect from Golden Kamuy, Usami sperm battle for.......

HexFag said:
How could everyone forget about Rika!
(also how do you need to double up on VAs for Genshin Impact? They have the money to get different VAs for different characters)
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Technically, Genshin's Nahida is somewhat based on Hoyoverse's Honkai Impact Theresa (also voiced by Yukari). So she gets her second role and at least a meta defining character rather than crappy low tier.
It's fine, just sharing similar traits like being 3-4 digit years old despite looking very young for both characters, like her previous anime roles.
Also, with Kana from BokuYabai, she gets a some what reverse dynamic relationship with Shun Horie (Kyoutarou) from Genshin (Aether).

The second Lum-inspired character from Haruka Tomatsu, I think it's Ichika one in picture, Ichika is an alien.
 
It's a bit of a stretch but I suppose you can call Nagi from Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens vaguely Lum-like in that she's a tsundere magical girlfriend-type character.
 
sasazuka said:
It's a bit of a stretch but I suppose you can call Nagi from Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens vaguely Lum-like in that she's a tsundere magical girlfriend-type character.
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I don't know where this narrative has come from because this isn't the first time I've heard this in a short span of time, but Lum isn't a tsundere.

Yeah she does abusive things to Ataru like shocking the everloving fuck out of him, but it's never in the same way that a tsundere would act. From the first episode she's always unconditionally loved Ataru and only ever does the things she does because Ataru is a piece of shit and cheats on her with every woman in the series. If there's anybody that is a tsundere in Urusei Yatsura, it's Ataru. Dude clearly loves Lum but is way too stubborn to ever say it or even express it outside of a couple of moments.
 
HexFag said:
Dude clearly loves Lum but is way too stubborn to ever say it or even express it outside of a couple of moments.
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I'm not exactly sure Ataru "loves" Lum, or at least, it's shown very poorly. Of course comedy anime so any development or emotion is heightened to absurd degrees, and of course they're fated to be together by the plot itself, but watching the remake it's almost amusing how Ataru essentially has the trappings of a .... sort of domestic abuser? I'm not saying this as a critique or anything (God forbid placing such themes in UY) but the only situation where Ataru shows a minimum of worry about Lum is when she tries to dump him or some other man shows clear interest (and even then, not always). It's like "I don't care about my wife and her well-being but the instant she's going to leave me I'll go ballistic".

I understand that's probably unintended, but it looks like he gives a shit only when he's in danger of losing her (a fate that honestly he deserves), dumping on her untold amount of public humiliation and barely caring about her feelings in everyday life. The Cow episode was the first time in two seasons where Ataru had a minimal amount of empathy.

Of course, Lum is completely schizo and abusive herself, but everyone in UY is a psychotic, violent schizo and that's great.
 
RSU 1741 said:
I'm not exactly sure Ataru "loves" Lum, or at least, it's shown very poorly. Of course comedy anime so any development or emotion is heightened to absurd degrees, and of course they're fated to be together by the plot itself, but watching the remake it's almost amusing how Ataru essentially has the trappings of a .... sort of domestic abuser? I'm not saying this as a critique or anything (God forbid placing such themes in UY) but the only situation where Ataru shows a minimum of worry about Lum is when she tries to dump him or some other man shows clear interest (and even then, not always). It's like "I don't care about my wife and her well-being but the instant she's going to leave me I'll go ballistic".

I understand that's probably unintended, but it looks like he gives a shit only when he's in danger of losing her (a fate that honestly he deserves), dumping on her untold amount of public humiliation and barely caring about her feelings in everyday life. The Cow episode was the first time in two seasons where Ataru had a minimal amount of empathy.

Of course, Lum is completely schizo and abusive herself, but everyone in UY is a psychotic, violent schizo and that's great.
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If you're watching the remake I can totally understand why you would think that. I think the remake does a kind of poor job of showing Ataru as a character but that may be due to the episodes they have chose for it so far. Looking at the 1981 anime's version of After You've Gone, where Ataru tries to go on a date with Shinobu directly after Lum leaves but decides on his own that he still can't get over her and Oh No! Darling Can't Understand Me!, where Ataru basically runs himself to shit and doesn't sleep for days mainly due to stress over Lum being unable to speak to him, show that while he is a piece of shit, he does deeply care about Lum at the end of the day. If you're remake only, I highly recommend watching the OG version because besides from it being better overall, there are just more moments like the one I mentioned.

It's also a major plot point of Movie 5 (which are the final chapters of the manga), as well as the next episodes of the remake that are coming up, which the first (iirc) OVA does a great job of adapting.
 
HexFag said:
If you're watching the remake I can totally understand why you would think that. I think the remake does a kind of poor job of showing Ataru as a character but that may be due to the episodes they have chose for it so far.
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I kinda like Ataru as a character in the remake: he's shown as the worst of the worst. His saving grace is at least that he's not a pedo, being an old-style lech. He's endearing for all the wrong reasons. It's kinda interesting to compare him to the standard romcom protagonist that's essentially a pale shadow that is "kind", "gentle" and "helpful" and gets all the women just because he's there and breathes.

But pretty much everyone in the remake is a horrible human being (my memories of the original are foggy, I saw it when I was a little 'un) but it's still amusing to see them suffer and bicker.
 
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