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Salacious Krumb said:
It's been a long time since I've seen Charlotte, can you remind me what happens? I don't remember it being that bad.
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After the sister gets squished and the protagonist spends the following episode moping the whole time, he goes back in time or some shit to save her, then after returning after an episode-and-a-half, he goes on a mission to suck up all the other superpowers for the final two/three episodes only for the feds to get involved, a mission that should've been a whole 12 episodes to do. But Jun Maeda can't be bothered to fight for more than 13 episodes, and he can't be bothered to write for that amount either since he's too used to visual novel writing. It was an absolute insult and I will never forgive Charlotte for that.

The Day I Became God is a bit better in being a bit more self-contained, thankfully, though it should've been a bit longer for sure since it definitely wanted to focus on the more silly antics in the first half. Still wanted to tug at your heartstrings those final episodes, of course, but it doesn't feel as forced and out-of-the-blue like it was in Charlotte. I'm still confused as to what it was that got Japanese audiences in a huge tizzy over it to where Maeda has said he's not going to write for anime ever again, and while I'm not a fan of it, I don't hate it like I do Charlotte. Just fuck Charlotte.

I just saw that Summer Pockets is getting an anime for next year. I haven't touched it on my Steam yet, should get on that soon.
 
Skyline said:
And now it turns out that he never actually wanted revenge, he just wanted to protect his sister. I'm sure he could have found a better approach to all this then. They were prepared to catch Nino (remember her?) in the act, why not Hikaru? He confessed to Aqua, they could have recorded him and caught him then and there. Not like Aqua is going to die anyway, but it would have been a lot smoother to handle things that way, if he really wasn't out for revenge.

Are we at the start of a volume or at the end of one?
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For real. Don't most celebrities have like round the clock security for these sorts of things? I mean Ai's death was handwaved as her not knowing that chain locks exist to keep potentially dangerous people out because they didn't teach that in the foster home she grew up in. You could argue that's a little weak maybe, but at least it was a reason.

There's no excuse why Ichigo, Miyako, Akane, Ruby, Aqua, Kana, or Memcho don't have enough collective braincells to think "Hired Security" or "Put in a police report." or like you said "Record this dumb nigga confessing to everything."

And I don't actually think Aqua dying is any smoother than him living at this point. Because now if he dies, we don't get any of the closure from his friends and family. He completely derails Ruby's storyline because her life will be ruined. A literal God who was hovering feet above him in the air chose not to save him, and allt he studying and preparing he did for his future was a series long red herring that leads no where and comes to nothing. I mean shit, with how much time he's had to study surgery between his current life and his previous one, his stab wound should be the most non-fatal thing to ever happen.

And if he lives there are just as many stupid outcomes: Are the police gonna look into Hikaru's disappearance? Is he gonna live due to literal divine intervention? What was the point of any of his plan if he intended to survive the entire time anyway?

Between this chapter and the next three week break, I just can't help but feel like "Aqua is dead" is just headline shit for the sake of attention. It reeks of Akasaka thinking he's Aqua and "Totally manipulating the media to work the way he intends."
 
Kari Kamiya said:
After the sister gets squished and the protagonist spends the following episode moping the whole time, he goes back in time or some shit to save her, then after returning after an episode-and-a-half, he goes on a mission to suck up all the other superpowers for the final two/three episodes only for the feds to get involved, a mission that should've been a whole 12 episodes to do. But Jun Maeda can't be bothered to fight for more than 13 episodes, and he can't be bothered to write for that amount either since he's too used to visual novel writing. It was an absolute insult and I will never forgive Charlotte for that.

The Day I Became God is a bit better in being a bit more self-contained, thankfully, though it should've been a bit longer for sure since it definitely wanted to focus on the more silly antics in the first half. Still wanted to tug at your heartstrings those final episodes, of course, but it doesn't feel as forced and out-of-the-blue like it was in Charlotte. I'm still confused as to what it was that got Japanese audiences in a huge tizzy over it to where Maeda has said he's not going to write for anime ever again, and while I'm not a fan of it, I don't hate it like I do Charlotte. Just fuck Charlotte.

I just saw that Summer Pockets is getting an anime for next year. I haven't touched it on my Steam yet, should get on that soon.
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Oh yeah, I remember now. Back when I watched it I had no taste (I was fourteen or something like that) so I thought it was great. Now that I remember it though, it's bad for the same reason that Sword Art Online was bad, or at least one of the reasons it was bad. It should have gotten at least another season to develop that idea, and SAO should've been about fighting through every floor of the game instead of skipping all that. I think people like Charlotte more because what came before that was higher quality than what SAO was, but it doesn't change the fact that that last part was kind of insulting in how it skipped such a major event. He should have ended the season with the MC leaving on that journey and said, "Fuck you, I want another season."
 
This is Pretty Fighter Kouga. It's about a buff high school boy who takes on a part-time job fighting aliens while wearing what is essentially a magical girl costume. I've actually been following this artist for over a decade; she used to have her own site for DBZ fanart, and I found out about this new manga from her pixiv. I hope it's successful.
 
Surprised no one mentioned this Halloween-based manga

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Well, I thought students trying to kill other students so they don’t die first was a scary thought growing up.

Maybe that’s just me.
 
I don't know what is the problem with some of these authors but they create like 5 or 6 really good light novels and then just start going massively downhill around 10.

How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom​


hey do you know this guy is a threat yeah we should assassinate him yeah but let's not do that because reasons the final volume is gonna be a showdown between him and the demon realm Nah how about a bunch of other characters no one cares about how about no.

I was really liking up until volume 10 and then they introduce the worst character in the entire book series fuga it was just annoying and completely and utterly shifts the tone of the entire series.


The saga of Tonya the evil light novel is actually good though because the tone doesn't constantly shift
 
Abbadon's Gate said:
So in terms of quality, Dadadan's anime's first episode was fucking great.
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Planning to watch it later and reread the manga in preparation. If season 1 covers till the mid 50s chapter it will be a great stopping point and if season 2 goes to the early 100s and keeps quality, it will be absolute fire.
 
Abbadon's Gate said:
There's no excuse why Ichigo, Miyako, Akane, Ruby, Aqua, Kana, or Memcho don't have enough collective braincells to think "Hired Security" or "Put in a police report." or like you said "Record this dumb nigga confessing to everything."
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The only reasonable explanation is that Aqua wanted to be alone with Hikaru to get his revenge. But then wouldn't it have been a harsher punishment to put him in prison (and Japanese prisons are dehumanising) than killing him?

Abbadon's Gate said:
And if he lives there are just as many stupid outcomes: Are the police gonna look into Hikaru's disappearance? Is he gonna live due to literal divine intervention? What was the point of any of his plan if he intended to survive the entire time anyway?
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I'm pretty sure Aqua will survive. He might not have planned to, he seems fairly accepting of the outcome. But you just know that manga like this will not pull anything too out of the ordinary. There was this other manga that ended recently, Boy's Abyss, it had a promising start but then it degenerated into a soap opera with a lot of shock value, but none of those shocking revelations actually went anywhere, and even an edgelord manga like that ended up having the mildest final chapter you can imagine, in which the protagonist and his love interest ended up living happily ever after.
 
Xenomorphs Are Cute said:
Apparently Batman Ninja is getting a sequel movie. Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League.
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The only reason I even found out about this are the new looks for Joker & Harley just got released.
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After Shogun & Kunoichi, were getting Delinquent Joker & Harley.
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I remember watching the first movie years ago. I thought it was pretty good. DC has been pandering to the japs for awhile now. I guess thats were the money is.
 
ShitLurker said:
Planning to watch it later and reread the manga in preparation. If season 1 covers till the mid 50s chapter it will be a great stopping point and if season 2 goes to the early 100s and keeps quality, it will be absolute fire.
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Jiji's in the trailers so I'm thinking the last arc of season 1 will be Evil Eye.
Skyline said:
The only reasonable explanation is that Aqua wanted to be alone with Hikaru to get his revenge.
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That's true but it bothers me because it shows how little agency any of the other characters have in this story. Specifically Ichigo and Akane who have both noted Aqua's been spiraling. Akane has been watching over Aqua and Ichigo specifically said to Miyako she needed to watch him as he was struggling.
Skyline said:
I'm pretty sure Aqua will survive. He might not have planned to, he seems fairly accepting of the outcome.
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Same, I don't think you position a literal god above the dying character and have them die. Especially not when the thing that attracted this literal god to this person was this person saving said literal god's life as shown in a flashback.
 
Abbadon's Gate said:
Jiji's in the trailers so I'm thinking the last arc of season 1 will be Evil Eye.
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That would be my ideal stopping point, though it seems there are only 12 episodes, so unless they shove a rocket up their ass, at beast I can see an introduction for Jiji and his plight. Was hoping it would get the 26 episode treatment...
 
ShitLurker said:
That would be my ideal stopping point, though it seems there are only 12 episodes, so unless they shove a rocket up their ass, at beast I can see an introduction for Jiji and his plight. Was hoping it would get the 26 episode treatment...
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They're doing it in two cores. We're getting twelve now, a brief break, and then twelve more.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I stopped near the middle of the second season. It was endless eight level of meandering. You go from each time loop being 3-4 episodes to a 24 episode time loop.
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But that's the best part!
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In other news Danmachi S5. I haven't laughed so hard at a episode 1 in a long time. Syr and bell are going on a date and the Freya Familia is freaking the fuck out. It's great, it's campy. I have high hopes.
 
Abbadon's Gate said:
Same, I don't think you position a literal god above the dying character and have them die. Especially not when the thing that attracted this literal god to this person was this person saving said literal god's life as shown in a flashback.
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I can't tell how godlike she actually is. She seems to be able to control crows to some extent, but I don't know if crows are capable of diving and dragging someone up from deep underwater.

I wonder how Aka feels about all this. Does he think it is good? Is he only writing because he has to wrap up what he has started somehow, and he never actually had a plan for how it was going to end?
 
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