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Man, I wish I had a couple other people to talk Dot Hack to besides the friend I've been watching it with. I'm honestly convinced that weebs back in the day were just so starved for anime/gaming they could get their hands on that they were willing to put up with the insane marketing ploy of the franchise to eat up what they could to even get the full story. And the thing is it has some pretty interesting things going for it that was unique for the time (and is kinda prophetic in some ways, really insane how late-90s/early-2000s predicted Internet culture and was just trying to warn us), it's just the amount of medium crossovers you have to go through to even know the backstory of every nook and cranny is insane.

All that to come to the conclusion that it's just full of simps with too much time on their hands, from player characters to the mastermind programmer who literally uploads his consciousness into the core program itself. And how none of this would've happened had said-dude not simped hard for some lady he only met once and whom she wasn't going to bang anyway because he wasn't twice her age, and then created an imaginary daughter and oh my God Harald is fucking Chris-chan with a high IQ.
 
Registration said:
Man this is peak soul, I cant imagine seeing the story that I started reading in 2012 in this after so long.

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I always felt they should have done more with Ilya and Berserker considering they had a great story together in the original.
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Damn that was a huge part of my childhood. Sign was nice, but really remembered for key scenes. Also amazing opening and ending. Then the four original games which were janky as hell but had a lot of heart. I think there was some chibi shit but I can't remember anything that happened in it. Then Roots which was basically a teaser for the new trilogy, and then the trilogy which was fantastic in all its corny 2000's PS2 glory. I bought the remake (after waiting for the price to go down) just for the extra chapter.

Best part of the series was Atoli haven't a mental breakdown. Great case of someone with severe identity issues escaping online and then getting groomed.
 
Friend of mine put me onto Gregory Horror Show, and having binged the first volume/season I gotta say I love it. It's incredibly unique and manages to perfectly balance being pretty funny with being genuinely sinister. Kinda feels like a Japanese proto-DHMIS. Also even as a JP purist, the dub is extremely good. Which is a good job as a subbed release of the Japanese version is seemingly unobtainable.

Also also, I have Judgement Boy's song stuck firmly in my skull now.
 
So a coworker was watching Grand Blue on her phone in Spanish and then we had a conversation about it. Correct me if I'm wrong. Does the main guy want to fuck his cousin? and another one of his cousins wants to fuck that same cousin? Was that a mistranslation just another weird Japanese thing?
 
斯尼 德之王 said:
So a coworker was watching Grand Blue on her phone in Spanish and then we had a conversation about it. Correct me if I'm wrong. Does the main guy want to fuck his cousin? and another one of his cousins wants to fuck that same cousin? Was that a mistranslation just another weird Japanese thing?
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Main guy, Iori, just your average anime guy going through college in a romcom. Mostly he's being screwed over by "friends" at the club, girls he met somewhat using him for their own convenience. Since he's a nice person, he tries his best to help and few of them grow affection to him, including one of his cousins.
Nanaka and Chisa are his cousins. Iori's father is adopted into girls' father family long time ago, so they aren't that related.
Nanaka is a siscon, she's only care Chisa. Chisa for now (anime wise) only uses Iori as fake boyfriend to ward off other guys, but she does grow some affection to Iori later on.
 
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Watched 3 episodes of Sign so far. Very little has happened, the characters aren't really interesting, and the animation is dishwater. If it wasn't for Digibrony explaining that Studio Bee Train is a rookie adoption program, I'd be completely baffled with what was going on with this show. Best compliment I can give is that the dub is passable.
 
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Watched 3 episodes of Sign so far. Very little has happened
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And it never will. So little happens that it's baffling. It has an interesting premise and I like how The World looks, but then it just dicks around talking about shit that will only happen in the last episode/games or is just pure speculation.

The only thing that kept my friend and I going is Silver Knight simping hard for Subaru and getting power-hungry, the soundtrack (even though there tends to be two tracks overlaying each other and there's lot of dissonance), and then laughing at the most cartoonishly-evil character ever: the main character's abusive dad.
 
Season end for Kaiju No. 8. Pretty much by the book ending, but that's not necessarily bad. It's really easy to compare it to AOT and MHA, but it does a better job in a setup that manages to have the protagonist be the special one without needing to explain too hard how the others are keeping up. Question is if the show could keep it up or fall to the same traps as other shonen.
 
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Season end for Kaiju No. 8. Pretty much by the book ending, but that's not necessarily bad. It's really easy to compare it to AOT and MHA, but it does a better job in a setup that manages to have the protagonist be the special one without needing to explain too hard how the others are keeping up. Question is if the show could keep it up or fall to the same traps as other shonen.
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It did a good job living up to the manga. A really good job. Now the manga has to get through the current battle arc, which has been going for... years lol. I think that's why they ended here tbh, they're waiting for the manga to hit a good point to go back on. It's not that the arc is bad either, it's just LONG.
 
Suicide Squad Isekai is actually really good, like a mashup between golden era anime and cartoons with the best of shows like Fate.

That ending song with Amanda Waller dancing like a go-go girl will give me nightmares tho
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Man, I wish I had a couple other people to talk Dot Hack to besides the friend I've been watching it with. I'm honestly convinced that weebs back in the day were just so starved for anime/gaming they could get their hands on that they were willing to put up with the insane marketing ploy of the franchise to eat up what they could to even get the full story. And the thing is it has some pretty interesting things going for it that was unique for the time (and is kinda prophetic in some ways, really insane how late-90s/early-2000s predicted Internet culture and was just trying to warn us), it's just the amount of medium crossovers you have to go through to even know the backstory of every nook and cranny is insane.

All that to come to the conclusion that it's just full of simps with too much time on their hands, from player characters to the mastermind programmer who literally uploads his consciousness into the core program itself. And how none of this would've happened had said-dude not simped hard for some lady he only met once and whom she wasn't going to bang anyway because he wasn't twice her age, and then created an imaginary daughter and oh my God Harald is fucking Chris-chan with a high IQ.
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.hack fucking blows. The PS2 game blows, the anime blows and I'm glad we as a society have learned to forget about it and move on. iirc even Yandere Dev made a fucking WEBSITE dedicated to how bad it was.
 
I wasn't a big fan of .hack//SIGN. The writers seemed like they fell into the trap of thinking slow and ponderous = deep. The original four games were fun but janky and extremely repetitive. Loved the GU games, though. The prequel anime, Roots, was okay -- would've been a lot better if they had gotten the GU English cast for it.
 
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Not dated but I think this is from late 2006.
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God, I miss mid-2000s written anime reviews. Alex wasn't bad at it, either, he could've found a decent audience with anime reviews instead of losing his mind over YandereSim.

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Him going on a tangent and making faux-Chinese-speak about "Obsession" is pretty funny, too. He claims it doesn't make sense in English, but it's grammatically correct when you take it into account it's from the perspective of someone who's thrust into that kind of knowledge apparently against their will. It's the equivalent of going down a rabbithole and now you know too much but can't find someone who will ever "get" it.

Man, Dot Hack had actual potential, but it stopped being relevant and it's too bloated (and now majorly out-of-print) to fully get into anymore. Sad part is it sounds like it works best through interactivity. I just don't "feel" it reading off a wiki or watching a let's play like I probably would've playing the games myself.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Man, I wish I had a couple other people to talk Dot Hack to besides the friend I've been watching it with. I'm honestly convinced that weebs back in the day were just so starved for anime/gaming they could get their hands on that they were willing to put up with the insane marketing ploy of the franchise to eat up what they could to even get the full story. And the thing is it has some pretty interesting things going for it that was unique for the time (and is kinda prophetic in some ways, really insane how late-90s/early-2000s predicted Internet culture and was just trying to warn us), it's just the amount of medium crossovers you have to go through to even know the backstory of every nook and cranny is insane.

All that to come to the conclusion that it's just full of simps with too much time on their hands, from player characters to the mastermind programmer who literally uploads his consciousness into the core program itself. And how none of this would've happened had said-dude not simped hard for some lady he only met once and whom she wasn't going to bang anyway because he wasn't twice her age, and then created an imaginary daughter and oh my God Harald is fucking Chris-chan with a high IQ.
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Soundtrack carried the show heavily. As for the games, the original quadrilogy had more heart like wtfNeedSignUp said. I also enjoyed the dungeon layouts more than GU and that I can use Data Drain on dungeon bosses if I so desired, whether they're corrupted or not.
 
I don't know a whole lot about .hack, I only got a couple hours into the G.U. collection before realizing there's a whole quadrology that I'm missing out on. That being said, I really like the Desktop theme for G.U. and still listen to it to this day.
 
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