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Abbadon's Gate said:
I think that's the makings of a good story though. I don't want a perfect and pure Akane or Aqua. Life isn't perfect. I just have a visceral adverse reaction to Akane, also I think a thing that sort of matters between the two is they have like a 6 month long relatively health relationship before Aqua figures out that Akane is lying to him which sort of doesn't help.
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I agree, and if anything your reaction shows that she is a well enough written character to make readers think of real life people that are like that.

I hope the anime adaptation of the music video arc won't disappoint, I liked the eerie atmosphere throughout despite not usually being a fan of supernatural elements in a story.
 
Gorillion others said:
Just how fucked was the power scaling in MHA?
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Basically because the main villain shifted from guy who could destroy cities with his hands to guy with every superpower ever, the guy with every superpower has to be repeatedly dumbed down in order to not get a single kill or get out of fights that would be extremely like say have an EMP power established but never use it against a powerless guy in high-tech mech armor.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Miyazaki Lupin is basically Robin Hood. Sadly it kinda stuck and it's rare he acts like an asshole.
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I really enjoyed the dub for lupin part 2.
Registration said:
Dont. Read it.


Some pages are just too damn good
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Ok so I'm not alone in thinking the book was bad.
Granada Granola said:
I take it no one cares about the roze of the recapture Code Geass spinoff currently airing?
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I want to watch it but I don't want to buy Disney.
Kari Kamiya said:
Reminder he called Disney's Snow White a sexy animated character. She's 14.
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Wait what? I always thought she was way older . She always looked like an adult to me, especially compared to the prince. Almost All the early disney princesses look like they are in their 20s roughly.

I ain't gonna hang tomino for that.
Space Police said:
Some of the Chinese/Korean shows are pretty good if you look beyond webtoon junk.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1i70pUN-LQAhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=bO70Y7I_gxQhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=QH0eL_gObhMhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=wro6PtFvuokhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=MvoUZY3qzz0https://youtube.com/watch?v=YINHP3T9psEhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=MaBBbr3Ss78https://youtube.com/watch?v=ENuR0qFbHtEhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=GXAXDIO_LfsFun fact: the Sentai robot designers have been copying Tobot more and more, and GoodSmile even got the Tobot guys to help design Moderoids and animate clips for them. Even Taekwon V is respected by Go Nagai for basically being a Mazinger AU, Space Black Knight is an on-model Gunboy anime, and Defenders of Space is the closest we'll ever get to a Diaclone show.
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You know there's one Chinese show that I've been trying to find the dub for.



Its fucking hilarious because of how it sounds like the original resident evil 1 dub. I know they did it because they uploaded a dubbed version of ep 13 but I never could figure out where to get the series dub.
 
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Skyline said:
I hope the anime adaptation of the music video arc won't disappoint, I liked the eerie atmosphere throughout despite not usually being a fan of supernatural elements in a story.
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I agree.

It is a little disappointing the supernatural elements are the weakest part of the manga.
 
Michael Wade said:
You know there's one Chinese show that I've been trying to find the dub for.
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Didn't Kainar have a line of plamo made by Bandai? This show seems like a weird 00 ripoff, so I never watched it.
dick brain said:
Is Cereal Experiments Lain good if you're not a tranny?

It looks interesting but literally every single person I ever knew who spoke highly of it either trooned out or moved to Seattle (same thing).
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Not really, most of the show is just noise against still pictures and it's very pseudointellectual and tries way too hard to be deep and artsy. You'd get more out of watching Digimon Tamers instead. If you want a weird arthouse late 90s/early 2000s show, there are tons of better alternatives -- Virus Buster Serge, Ordian, Brain Powerd, Betterman, and Cybuster, for example.
 
Even if you don't watch Lain, listen to its OP, or (a personal favorite) the acoustic version.
 
Just started to watch Aggretsuko again, didn't realize they finally got around to making a 4th and 5th season (late, i know). Has been one of my most favourite of what i would call modern anime ever since its first episode. Who would've thought that a show with Sanryo characters would turn out to be one of the shows that is tackling real japanese societal problems, especially regarding the workplace, in a more critical way than many others? I love the chara designs in this and the seiyuu are great, especially the ones voicing Fenneko, Tsunoda and Washimi. While i don't particularly dislike the animation in this i still vastly prefer real cels over computer animated, at least the computer animated shit fits this show much better than most others.

Edit: Shieet, Kaicho Ton turning into one of the best characters in this, both from a seiyuu and general writing standpoint.
 
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dick brain said:
Is Cereal Experiments Lain good if you're not a tranny?

It looks interesting but literally every single person I ever knew who spoke highly of it either trooned out or moved to Seattle (same thing).
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it has a lot of great ideas but the 2nd half really drags... hell of a finale though. IIRC the tranny connection is happenstance (it was revered in some of the first online circles to be hit hard by the "pinkpill"). I don't think it deserves the fanbase it got. It's worth a shot, though you might get more mileage out of other original shows that the staff were involved in (namely Texhnolyze)
Space Police said:
Didn't Kainar have a line of plamo made by Bandai? This show seems like a weird 00 ripoff, so I never watched it.

Not really, most of the show is just noise against still pictures and it's very pseudointellectual and tries way too hard to be deep and artsy. You'd get more out of watching Digimon Tamers instead. If you want a weird arthouse late 90s/early 2000s show, there are tons of better alternatives -- Virus Buster Serge, Ordian, Brain Powerd, Betterman, and Cybuster, for example.
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dunno about the other "weird" shows of yours (all mecha, go figure...) but Betterman is one of the worst anime shows I have ever watched. Both complaints you lobbed at Lain also apply to Betterman, and to a far, FAR greater extent.
 
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Famous Actor said:
dunno about the other "weird" shows of yours (all mecha, go figure...) but Betterman is some of the worst anime I have ever watched. Both complaints you lobbed at Lain also apply to Betterman, and to a far, FAR greater extent.
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What do you mean? Betterman had lots of action and cool designs (it's also a very high-quality show), and the artsiness is okay with me because it actually had some cool stuff. I didn't think it tried to be pseudointellectual either.
 
dick brain said:
Is Cereal Experiments Lain good if you're not a tranny?

It looks interesting but literally every single person I ever knew who spoke highly of it either trooned out or moved to Seattle (same thing).
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I made my third attempt at watching the show this year and again dropped it a couple of episodes in. My first attempt was in the early 2000's, so long before troons or the internet in general reached the mainstream EDIT: And when i was much more weebish than these days, i did nothing but catch up on anime i missed in the late 90's/early 00's for about two years with the advent of BitTorrent. It is a great show, exploring very interesting themes that are right up my alley, as well as more untypical and unique chara/scene designs, which i am also a fan of. Nevertheless, it failed to capture me with its narrative and i am still not entirely sure why. I say definitely give it a try, just disregard its modern troon fanbase, maybe it works for you. It definitely has one of the greatest intros in anime history.
 
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Early stories about the Internet are fascinating. SEL is eerily prophetic in showing how allowing children to run around unsupervised on the Internet fucks them up since they can't tell the difference between reality and virtual, and that glowies permeate the web. I'm gonna have to rewatch Paranoia Agent (it's been over ten years now) to see how close to reality it was about social media.

The Feline Solution said:
Shieet, Kaicho Ton turning into one of the best characters in this, both from a seiyuu and general writing standpoint.
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Most surprising redemption arc ever.
 
It's official, Studio Trigger is making a Transformers anime:

It looks to be a reanimation of several 86 movie scenes. They're going with a more realistic, detailed style, which is promising. If this leads to anything bigger, let's hope it's a kids' show like Armada/Cybertron with Brave series references rather than a more adult-oriented show like those Netflix/Machinima shows -- if it's the former, it will be great because it will just be cool, but if it's the latter, it will try too hard to look cool while introducing a poorly-written story and IDW-esque "character drama".

Also, another nuWataru trailer:

It comes out January 2025, and while I do like the artstyle, it seems Wataru is a social media influencer/gamer this time, which I'm ambivalent about. The new mecha look cool, so let's hope they have lots of mecha scenes this time -- that may automatically make this the best Wataru show yet. Also, it has le Brave stance:
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Edit: Oh God, they're making Himiko a Vtumor. Let's hope this doesn't have full-on Lamune fanservice.
 
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Georgio Cocklord said:
Nyaa itself has too many problems for me, akin to KAT.ph. The files are too big, all of them are 1080p with high quality audio encoding. I was forced to watch Pluto on Aniwave because the Nyaa torrent is 10 GB, for 6 episodes. Cowboy Bebop and Evangelion are both around 20 episodes each roughly and both have torrents from a decade ago which are in 720p and 3.17 GB each. Theyre not of bad quality, theyre of very good quality. A lot of the older rarer anime either dont exist on Nyaa or have very low S/L ratios, making them impossible to get. So Aniwave was like a godsend for me, it was like Hanime.tv, it had everything and was not a pain on the browser, I dont know where Im gonna get a site like it ever again.
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One of the other problems of Nyaa is the damn subtitles. Nearly all of them require an actual video player that enables that feature, as opposed to a regular flatscreen with a port. I prefer watching things the old fashioned way, damn it.
 
Gorillion others said:
One of the other problems of Nyaa is the damn subtitles. Nearly all of them require an actual video player that enables that feature, as opposed to a regular flatscreen with a port. I prefer watching things the old fashioned way, damn it.
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Yeah, i noticed that too. My TV has no problems running .srt or .ass but more often than not it can't display subs or outright tells me the whole video file is broken when they are integrated like in many nyaa torrents. I tried to export the subtitles data into .srt before but even then they don't always display correctly or at all, it's weird. Just need to buy a long enough HDMI cable next month (seeing as i am watching more and more anime again lately) and just run it over desktop to circumvent the problem.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Early stories about the Internet are fascinating. SEL is eerily prophetic in showing how allowing children to run around unsupervised on the Internet fucks them up since they can't tell the difference between reality and virtual, and that glowies permeate the web. I'm gonna have to rewatch Paranoia Agent (it's been over ten years now) to see how close to reality it was about social media.


Most surprising redemption arc ever.
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The war game digimon movie is an example. I love the depiction of internet and technology in that film
 
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