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[Cubanodun]

Then you have retarded people using these false terms to their hearts instead of the more abrangent terms of the original. And they complain about superficial stuff like the absence of the uber eats box in favor of magic pendants. Or people complaining about elemental aspects of cosmos fucking retards, what do you think Hyoga or Ikki were doing? They had it before, and it didnt made sense even back then.

Did not help the precure fans making fun of us, the little shits, i did not care, it was more Saint Seiya and that was enough for me, they even brought my man Midorikawa to show how shit gets done by voicing Koga

Wrong, because I wish it was, it had the same battles of the original, ending in the same way, with zero inventive thought like Naruto would do, it was the same shit with new dolls to bash it.

Lost Canvas was the first actual saint seiya that youth could watch because it came when anime become big and internet became more widespread, now? we have saint seiya OG on netflix but at the time it was very popular to the point that the manga was licensed in several countries here, it was like baby first saint seiya, and no Hades did not count because it came out before streaming services and even before h264 kek i remember several fights between translators because people wanted to keep the terminology of the latin american dub (Knights and suchs) is more like kids got their hands on it and got attached to it

Wrong again, kurumada was never slow, he just had way more interest in doing his other manga,

Thats the issue, no one here in latin america know his other jobs, it would be a miracle if people remembered BTX even when it had a anime, is like Toriyama work, here you would be impressed how people only know dragon ball from him and pretend Dragon Quest, Dr Slump, Go Go Ackman is just to obscure for us

Every new adaptation (the american one, the live action one, the soul of gold) is just retreading the same ground without an inch of originality. For 40 fucking years. It is all so tiresome

People forgot very quickly the first 3DCG one that is even on youtube kek

Main complain of latinos was that it looked to much like it was made by Square Enix

 

[ToroidalBoat]

the 2010's is when they are completely devoid of life goals and are a step away from ending it all

Adult life in IRL Japan may not be all that great, and that may be reflected in media.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Adult life in IRL Japan may not be all that great, and that may be reflected in media.

At least Koreans are really good in making dystopias.

 

[Michael Wade]

New overlord movie about to drop.

https://youtu.be/XXvykjhXKjU?si=R8J2_YRed0uak9y-

Not my favorite book due to how absolutely fucking scummy aniz and demiurge act but the animation looks great and it will probably flow better on screen.

The whole arc is basically a magical false flag operation to make aniz look good to a society of paladin's.

Slime is great but I'd recommend just skipping Overlord. I think it was mainly popular for the premise (MC just being a straight-up bad guy) but then he kind of actually isn't really and also nothing fucking happens in it. There's a couple cool scenes early on, then the plot stops.
Maybe stuff eventually happens in the light novel? but it hasn't yet in the manga and the anime has a lot of nothing to wade through to even catch up to that.

Only redeeming factor is that it gave us the theme song for all of Null's girlfriends:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vci9YwpFFcA


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Overlord is the shit. It's the overpowered iskai hero trope with skeletor and his minions. It has a bit of a slow start but I really enjoyed how it seriously examines what aniz's rule would look like, how It actually benefits people while at the same time being built off an enormous amount of death and suffering.


Nobody human can take aniz. The appeal is in how they react to absolute death made manifest. Do they run? Bargain? Give into despair? Die bravely? Join him?

Aniz is a sounding board for the soul of many of the characters that face him. Even with the outcome certain, there's a real appeal to seeing characters who would otherwise be the main characters in any other story react to something they can't take on.


That's not to say he's invincible or that there's nothing that can take him. The author has been laying some groundwork for the endgame and it's apparently only got two more books to go before the end.

My money is on one of aniz minions turning on him somehow, or somekind of civil war. The dragons can fight aniz but he's never going to be beaten conventionally.

I'm still not convinced that Demiurge has been gaslit. I believe he long ago realized the Ainz is an idiot and is pretending in order to get Ainz to do what he wants. I stopped watching halfway through but I believe Ainz still doesn't know that the people he rules over get turned into parchment for spells.

Demiurge genuinely doesn't know aniz is full of shit. None of them except maybe Pandora's actor understand him.

Ainz doesn't know about the concentration camps but it's getting to the point that even if he found out, he either wouldn't give a shit or would just let demiurge do his thing. He's very hesitant to go against his subordinates desires and he's slowly been losing more of his humanity as time goes on.

Finished it yesterday, it's shit. I knew it would have to have an anime original ending, but the entire latter half just falls the fuck apart. Not just story-wise, the fights suffer too (and they weren't Madhouse-tier to begin with). The fight against the giant statues alone had some terrible CGI, and egregious "stretching" for time - and no amount of gore could save it. Then pretty much all the interesting characters die in one fight... Gantz goes from "Holy shit this is weird and interesting" to "This is a waste of time" by episode 20.

It's one of those shows which gets you in the door with an insane plot and a refreshing character or two, but once those things become routine - there's nothing of substance to keep you around. You can't really get invested in anything or anyone because the expectation is they will die before really establishing themselves. It feels like a template for modern depressive death wankfests like JJK... but worse, because JJK didn't have a girl in it whose sole job was to get her pussy licked by a dog then die after the MC stops simping after her. At least the MC didn't actually put his dick in the dog girl, and eventually gets laid by a far superior woman.

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For now. That might be just to get us in the door. I trust nothing these days. But, if the purpose built >Anglo-Saxon Mythology< Tolkien created for his people actually remains Anglo-Saxon, I will support it.

Manga is wayyyyyy better. It had some shockingly sincere scenes in it after it goes past the anime. It's very unique to go from a violent gore porn fest to something actually heroic and sweet. When the old man gets the suit things start turning around.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

everyone conflates Isekai into one storyline

Seems like every isekai anime or manga I looked into has that same "Dragon Quest hugbox" thing (as @wtfNeedSignUp described it), although I've only looked into a few.

Their incompetence is one thing, but it's especially their narcissism and this hostile attitude towards the Japanese media that is really grating.

So the "competency crisis" is impacting animu translations too?

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Some crossposting but it is the birthday of this VA

 

[ShitLurker]

So the second pillar of Anime on Latin américa, Saint Seiya just ended after shitload of years and people are divided about it, you see, Next dimension was considered at first a dick move from Kurumada (the author) because he was insisting in wanting to explain the Great Holy War before the Hades arc, thing that was already show perfectly on Lost Canvas and fans called him a bitch that was envious of the Lost Canvas success, i readed all the 118 chapters in a day to see what the fuzz was about and put a list of things that went hilariously wrong

Holy shit! Good to know I guess. I'm a huge Lost Canvas fanboy, so find it very funny that Kurumada was a bitch about being outdone by the spinoff. As for the rest of Saint Seiya, I do enjoy the formula of the 12 houses, think the Asgard arc is the best filler ever done in an anime and the rest before the 12 houses and after Asgard is pretty meh for the most part. I also watched soul of Gold which was crap, but I still managed to enjoy it and the first season of Omega which... was pretty wretched in the first half but picked up in the second. Though the edgy steel saint at the start of the second season killed my interest pretty quick and it kind of ended up forgotten.

The only got that got some kind of wife was Dragon Shiryu, he even has a plot in Next dimension where he forfeit his life as a Saint to live a peaceful life with his wife and adopted son, he forfeit that life because he said he is a warrior and his end should be in battle, the strongest pair Seiya and Athena get nothing, being mindwiped was their reward for surviving 2 apocalypses

Fucking harsh. Truly an "eat shit" ending if there ever has been one. Also, I've never seen a problem that Seiya couldn't solve by punching it while bleeding litters of blood, that he bitched out is a huge L for the only character trait he ever had.

The mangaka pretty much admits that he killed off Nobara in a planned story decision. Which honestly sucks, since editor-mandated character or not, she was still cool and likable, not to mention the only chick in JJK worth drawing porn of. Killing her off back in 2020 sapped away all my interest in the manga and is why I stopped reading after the Shibuya arc.

... what planned story decision? Killing Nobara did nothing outside of some shock factor and nobody gave much of a shit since like 5 minutes earlier Nanami had died as well. JJK now falls into train wreck that I read because I've kept up with it so why not territory. And speaking of train wrecks...

Boku No Hero Academia continues it's cringy little epilogue revealing that Shiragaki was a GAMER!

So, the mean ol civilians whose lives were ruined by an incel's tantrum are talking shit while everybody's favorite irrelevant lizard is whining at his League of Legends bro being dead. Peak fucking fiction. I despise how Hori expects me to empathize with the nutcase because his life sucked. That sort of shit always drives me up the wall and it's Steven Universe tier.

 

[Xolanite]

I liked this manga called “The Fable.” It’s about an assassin duo who lives as brother and sister for a year. Thankfully, there’s no Black Lagoon-level incest because they live different lives. The main character is hilarious because

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while he’s a cold-blooded killer, he finds some z-list comedian super funny

There’s an anime adaptation on Disney+. Not sure how they managed to do that.

Also, I wish Gift Plus/Minus would update. It’s been 5 years.

 

[Atatata]

Seems like every isekai anime or manga I looked into has that same "Dragon Quest hugbox" thing (as @wtfNeedSignUp described it), although I've only looked into a few.

I'd say most isekai end up differentiating themselves when it comes to worldbuilding as they move along, it doesn't help that a lot of the time the anime downplays that sort of thing to save on time.
I think if the world building of popular isekai were laid out plainly it'd be pretty difficult to mistake one for another.

 

[HexFag]

Nokotan, or the funny deer show is apparently using MTL subtitles instead of an actual human translator. The quality on these subtitles are dogshit and if you are interested in watching the show like I am, wait for fansubs/an actual human being to translate. Whatever you might think of retards translating and localizing subtitles, it literally cannot get worse than this. This is the second time this season that Crunchyroll has dropped the ball regarding subtitle quality that I've noticed and I can only imagine it getting worse from here.

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[God of Nothing]

At least Koreans are really good in making dystopias.

well, they live in one

Boku No Hero Academia continues it's cringy little epilogue revealing that Shiragaki was a GAMER!

he hated niggers?

 

[ShitLurker]

he hated niggers?

Nah, if he did, he would have never associated with Spinner.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

Nokotan, or the funny deer show is apparently using MTL subtitles instead of an actual human translator. The quality on these subtitles are dogshit and if you are interested in watching the show like I am, wait for fansubs/an actual human being to translate. Whatever you might think of retards translating and localizing subtitles, it literally cannot get worse than this. This is the second time this season that Crunchyroll has dropped the ball regarding subtitle quality that I've noticed and I can only imagine it getting worse from here.

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I mean, it looks the same as an average Crunchyroll translation honestly. If anything, it's almost scary how Crunchyroll managed make the AI capture the spirit of their already ESL translations.

 

[Betonhaus]

After second thought I don't think I like the Deer Nokotan anime. A lot of it's humor seems to involve gas lighting and I don't really care for that.

 

[Registration]

@Cubanodun

I never watched Lost Canvas. I did read it, but the ammount of people that is still waiting for it to be adapted to finish the story is incredibly high. And those people should be shot because fuck animefags. And even after reading it completely, I still dont care for it and prefer some of the gaidens, since it had new stuff.

Not sure where you live but baby's first saint seiya here was still the original on some channels, free or not. I remember watching the original series on cartoon network in 2001. And it was rebroadcasted multiple times.

And I doubt the young fans were the ones attached to lost canvas since all canon autism that plagues saint seiya was originated from the old fans.

I watched Legend of Sanctuary on the cinemas and even when It was still a speedrun of the 12 houses, with fast pacing I still linda like it. I remember people complaining about Deathmask, but I liked it. the designs and fights are well made and the Sanctuary design is still the best to this day.

The only problem was the story and run time.

I never watched but I wonder how Shurato and Samurai Troopers fare against it

 

[Lone MacReady II]

After second thought I don't think I like the Deer Nokotan anime. A lot of it's humor seems to involve gas lighting and I don't really care for that.

It's actually a lot of work to make a genuinely good "lol so random" show. Something like Cromartie didn't start off with characters getting abducted by aliens at school and it seeming routine. It started slow (as slow as a 10 minute per episode show can go I suppose), with the main character being completely out of his element and being normal. Each episode would gradually expand the cast by one "straight man", which meant that the previously "normal" characters suddenly became the weird ones for going along with cromartie's insanity like nothing was wrong. Every character could have moments of being the gag or the straight man multiple times per episode, but through it all you learned more details about the characters and their actual personalities. Liberal use of swearing also helps.

 

[Another Random]

Hey so guys, I don't know whether Twitter is going to bring it up ever, but the new Kinnikuman series started running on Netflix, and while it may have some modern day censorship, it seems to only matter with regards to guts and blood.



I checked to be sure, and this referee is original to this version of the fight, meaning that they intentionally put this guy in there for the modern day version. And Netflix has done zero censorship of it. Definitely amusing considering their reputation.

I never watched but I wonder how Shurato and Samurai Troopers fare against it

I remember a review of Samurai Troopers from JBox that stated that it was better than Saint Seiya because the main characters lacked a similar obsession for 'let's save Athena guize', so they actually seemed more human and had more character than the Saints, what with their initial plotlines [find my sister/find my brother/visit my dead mom] getting replaced solely by their duty to the world... but admittedly, I can't remember how well that came across.

I remember Shurato was fun, and 'the heroes are runaway renegades traveling through another world' was a fun take, but it was pretty short and the story didn't do enough with the Indian mythos and theming as it could have due to that length.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

apparently using MTL subtitles instead of an actual human translator

You mean Crunchyroll hadn't always been using MTL subs?

I checked to be sure, and this referee is original to this version of the fight, meaning that they intentionally put this guy in there for the modern day version. And Netflix has done zero censorship of it. Definitely amusing considering their reputation.

Based as fuck. Kinnikuman continues to be the granddaddy of "Don't care, stereotypes funny!"

 

[Just_a_Bored_Guy]

Hey so guys, I don't know whether Twitter is going to bring it up ever, but the new Kinnikuman series started running on Netflix, and while it may have some modern day censorship, it seems to only matter with regards to guts and blood.

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I checked to be sure, and this referee is original to this version of the fight, meaning that they intentionally put this guy in there for the modern day version. And Netflix has done zero censorship of it. Definitely amusing considering their reputation.


I remember a review of Samurai Troopers from JBox that stated that it was better than Saint Seiya because the main characters lacked a similar obsession for 'let's save Athena guize', so they actually seemed more human and had more character than the Saints, what with their initial plotlines [find my sister/find my brother/visit my dead mom] getting replaced solely by their duty to the world... but admittedly, I can't remember how well that came across.

I remember Shurato was fun, and 'the heroes are runaway renegades traveling through another world' was a fun take, but it was pretty short and the story didn't do enough with the Indian mythos and theming as it could have due to that length.

Unless I miss my mark, that seems to be semi-regular character Nachiguron. I doubt they would censor an inoffensively dark-skinned kaiju.
Then again, this is Netflix we're talking about

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Boku No Hero Academia continues it's cringy little epilogue revealing that Shiragaki was a GAMER!

So, the mean ol civilians whose lives were ruined by an incel's tantrum are talking shit while everybody's favorite irrelevant lizard is whining at his League of Legends bro being dead. Peak fucking fiction. I despise how Hori expects me to empathize with the nutcase because his life sucked. That sort of shit always drives me up the wall and it's Steven Universe tier.

Its not really a reveal when 30 chapters ago he was a League player



As for the sympathy angle, really Hori fumbled the bag by making Shigaraki's entire life planned out down to the sex position his parents had when creating him for a shitty twist to prop up a more pathetic villain who died less than 4 chapters later. Hori should've just let Shigaraki be the final villain and actually have him do damage instead of making bootleg Aizen nonsense.

The League of Villains are the biggest fumble in villainy since they never killed one named character excluding background heroes and other villains. You don't need to kill named characters to make a good villain but Hori keeps adding artificial stakes that don't mean anything. Hell Hori throughout the final arc has pretty much retconned every villains kills including irrelevant unnamed background characters except All for One killing Stain.