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DrearyDoomguy said:
Lucky Star: legit surprised they didn't adapt more of this, the IP is as far as I can massively profitable. Maybe it's because they made the ending too conclusive to continue it?
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There is a full season 2 OP for Lucky Star except it's kind of a fake-out because it's really the intro for the short form spin-off series, The Miyakawa Family's Hunger (Miyakawa-ke no Kuufuku).

The series can be viewed on Youtube on this playlist, with one caveat, this playlist only has the full ending, which kind of ruins the best recurring gag about how each episode only adds a few new seconds to the ED because that's all the Miyakawas could afford to have filmed each week (because they're paying for their own ending in-universe, it would seem) and the rest of the ending for each episode is complaining about how expensive it is to film an ending.


Ah, I found an earlier playlist with the episodes in lower resolution but each episode has the full ending-in-progress gag.


EDIT: I see linking the playlists using the "media" embedder is broken so here are direct links:

Episodes in crisp 1080p but without the unfinished ED gags. Also, starts with the fake Lucky Star season 2 OP at the beginning of the playlist.

Episodes in worse video quality but with the unfinished ED gags intact.

DrearyDoomguy said:
Haruhi: Endless Eight killed the anime. I can only assume the movie was insufficient to resurrect interest in the IP.
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The movie was fantastic, a common reason I've seen speculated as to why Kyoto Animation never animated any other Haruhi Suzumiya besides short animations for a pachinko machines is simply that author Nagaru Tanigawa stopped writing new books after The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya (until The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya was published in 2020, and that one was a short story collection and not a full novel) and publisher Kadokawa simply had little incentive to pay for more anime to promote their books. There was also a stupid tabloid-driven controversy involving Haruhi Suzumiya voice actress Aya Hirano's private life that may have also been a factor in Kadokawa not paying for any follow-ups (besides the alternate universe Yuki Nagato spin-off animated by a different studio in 2015).
DrearyDoomguy said:
K-ON: Probably just dropped off. CGDCT is a genre with no shortage of competition.
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The K-On! anime ended where the original manga ended, at graduation (for the original four girls). There are a couple of spin-off sequel manga, K-On! College, with the original girls in college (kinda meh) and K-On High School, about Azusa,Ui, and Jun's final year at high school (it's alright), Both only lasted a single volume (justified for K-On High School since it ends with the younger girls' graduation) and both manga felt like unnecessary extensions to a manga that already had a natural ending point, so I'm not too surprised they never got animated.

There is an ongoing manga now, K-On Shuffle, with a new group of girls at a different high school. I've read a few chapters, it's okay but it just feels like a retread. I'm not sure how popular it is compared to how popular the original manga was before it got an anime. It's being released very slowly, with two years between each volume.
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
A Tomoyo After adaptation I think would be a nice way to get on everyone's good graces again, though I don't believe they will ever again have the rights to another Key series. Which sucks ass, as the Little Busters! anime might not have bored me to sleep otherwise.
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Would be nice to see the happy timeline get an anime adaptation instead of "random padme tier "lost the will to live" death" for Nagisa and their kid.
Was a genuinely good and emotional movie, but that glaring plothole in the story really ruins it for me.

Also was spoiled by Planetarian's anime adaptation a few years later. Yumemi's commitment to her dream and autistic optimism is inspiring to tears.
 
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Trollblade69 said:
So what's the best manga-reading site now that Mangadex insists on being spineless pussies?
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I usually just search the name of the anime plus the word manga and go with whichever one doesn't have atrocious ads. If they have ads imbedded in the mange I sometimes switch to that one, or find an alternative if the ads are annoying and the source is gone or terrible.

I've had decent luck with coffee manga
 
Anyone recognizes the three? Two of them made classic mech anime the center is a promotional cosplay model
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Would anyone know exactly what it is that got Bryce Papenbrook "famous" before being cast as Kirito or even as Rin from Blue Exorcist? He had quite a bit of numerous roles as a teenager, even main character roles, but those were never his most popular/(in)famous before he became more of a household name.

Am curious since a friend and I have been watching .hack//Legend of the Twilight and the fact Shugo was a young (18-year-old) Bryce is kinda hilarious to me. I think he dubbed it just before or right around the same time he did Eiken and Genma Wars.
 
I've been really enjoying the Dungeon Meshi anime, I think in particular because it's very true to the source material - so true in fact that the dialogue and scenes are pretty much one-to-one copies of the manga, only with the added benefit of being coloured and animated.
 
Involuntary Celebrity said:
I had a feeling it'd be exactly that, which is why it seemed unnecessary to even look at it, as much as I enjoyed the mango.
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Saying from someone who did read the mango to the end, the anime is still really entertaining. There's a few shows based on mangas I read that I eventually dropped because they were too boring, but Dungeon Meshi/DiD is a solid story that stands up to revisiting - and the animation is so superb it adds to the experience
 
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