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wtfNeedSignUp said:
Btw, might as well ask this here. What the fuck happened to the Japanese Yen? I was used to the 100 yen to dollar conversion rate, but 150 yen to a dollar is fucking brutal.
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God of Nothing said:
Their market crashed a while ago. I was able to buy some raws for the fraction of a single dollar.
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The USD:JPY exchange rate even reached 160 Yen at one point last year.

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Although I do wonder if it other crashes are happening elsewhere, as the USD:KRW exchange rate is at around 1440 Won right now, and even threatened to reach 1500 when President Yoon's impeachment happened.

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wtfNeedSignUp said:
Btw, might as well ask this here. What the fuck happened to the Japanese Yen? I was used to the 100 yen to dollar conversion rate, but 150 yen to a dollar is fucking brutal.
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Don't question it just buy whatever imports you want now while you still can!
 
God of Nothing said:
Their market crashed a while ago. I was able to buy some raws for the fraction of a single dollar.
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Which time? Recently, 2020, 2008, 2000, the early 90s, or the late 80s? Japan's fiat currency worship really needs to stop, printing more of it has done them no good. You think America's Trillions are bad? They've BEEN at Quadrillions for a while now........
 
Endless Torment said:
I despise the Shaman King sequels and dropped them. I view them like Boruto where all it does is fuck up the ending, but as I said I dropped them so I have no idea if they rectify how fucking shit they are later on.
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Shaman King is legit one of my favorite manga but I heard in the sequel that despite becoming Shaman King and having influence over the great spirit or whatever, Hao can't do shit about anything for some reason. If that's true then what was even the point of trying to stop him in the original manga? It was treated like if he became Shaman King then he'd just be able to wipe out humanity but now that we know it doesn't work like that, it makes the whole thing seem so pointless. So basically I just refuse to read it and pretend it isn't real.

Also, I'm gonna drop a redpill on Boruto here. Naruto never actually ended at any point. Immediately after the Naruto manga ended, Kishimoto made that Scarlet Spring mini-series, scripted The Last: Naruto The Movie, scripted the Boruto movie, left temporarily to work on his own series before returning to write the Boruto manga only about 50 chapters in. Honestly, you could just consider Boruto part 3 of Naruto and Two Blue Vortex part 4 and although I don't like them as much as the original, they're pretty good when comparing them to the competition. Modern shonen has really gone down the shitter to the point that even a Kishimoto far past his prime is better at writing a Shonen battle manga than any newbie. When I was younger, I used to view Bleach as "the bad one", now I watch the Thousand Year Blood War anime and go "Wow, this is better than like anything else I've seen like it in the past 10 or so years", Shonen has changed so I honestly appreciate anything written like the shit I grew up with and Boruto still has that imo.
 
Namekian George Floyd said:
Also, I'm gonna drop a redpill on Boruto here. Naruto never actually ended at any point. Immediately after the Naruto manga ended, Kishimoto made that Scarlet Spring mini-series, scripted The Last: Naruto The Movie, scripted the Boruto movie, left temporarily to work on his own series before returning to write the Boruto manga only about 50 chapters in.
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Don't care Boruto is fucking garbage and it should have ended after the movie.
Writers go back to their work and ruin it all the time with sequels and the same goes for movies.
Naruto ended with the film and Indiana Jones ended at the Last Crusade.
Star Wars only has six films, Eureka 7 was only a 50 episode show, Darker than Black has one season, Shaman King sequels aren't real, and so on.
 
Namekian George Floyd said:
Also, I'm gonna drop a redpill on Boruto here. Naruto never actually ended at any point. Immediately after the Naruto manga ended, Kishimoto made that Scarlet Spring mini-series, scripted The Last: Naruto The Movie, scripted the Boruto movie, left temporarily to work on his own series before returning to write the Boruto manga only about 50 chapters in. Honestly, you could just consider Boruto part 3 of Naruto and Two Blue Vortex part 4 and although I don't like them as much as the original, they're pretty good when comparing them to the competition. Modern shonen has really gone down the shitter to the point that even a Kishimoto far past his prime is better at writing a Shonen battle manga than any newbie. When I was younger, I used to view Bleach as "the bad one", now I watch the Thousand Year Blood War anime and go "Wow, this is better than like anything else I've seen like it in the past 10 or so years", Shonen has changed so I honestly appreciate anything written like the shit I grew up with and Boruto still has that imo.
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Boruto has a ton of problems but it's actually been working on fixing those in recent chapters, I'm waiting for next chapter before I write up some more on it. But yeah, I can't believe it but Black Clover is probably the best of all the post-Naruto shonen. It's not a high bar at all.
 
Lone MacReady II said:
Which time? Recently, 2020, 2008, 2000, the early 90s, or the late 80s? Japan's fiat currency worship really needs to stop, printing more of it has done them no good. You think America's Trillions are bad? They've BEEN at Quadrillions for a while now........
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Japan is less of a money printer and more attitude thing. They just absolutely refuse to innovate in any way, be it using old tech, turning corporations into dynasties, or firing anyone trying to do a new thing They will forever do retarded things because either someone upper up said so, or because "that's the way we always did things". Post ww2 they lucked out in having enough holes to have people with talent actually manage to get to high positions, as well as the insane corporate bureaucratic work cycle suited them well. But those times are over, good companies are now helmed by idiots, and you could automate office drone work.
 
Namekian George Floyd said:
Shaman King is legit one of my favorite manga but I heard in the sequel that despite becoming Shaman King and having influence over the great spirit or whatever, Hao can't do shit about anything for some reason. If that's true then what was even the point of trying to stop him in the original manga? It was treated like if he became Shaman King then he'd just be able to wipe out humanity but now that we know it doesn't work like that, it makes the whole thing seem so pointless. So basically I just refuse to read it and pretend it isn't real.

Also, I'm gonna drop a redpill on Boruto here. Naruto never actually ended at any point. Immediately after the Naruto manga ended, Kishimoto made that Scarlet Spring mini-series, scripted The Last: Naruto The Movie, scripted the Boruto movie, left temporarily to work on his own series before returning to write the Boruto manga only about 50 chapters in. Honestly, you could just consider Boruto part 3 of Naruto and Two Blue Vortex part 4 and although I don't like them as much as the original, they're pretty good when comparing them to the competition. Modern shonen has really gone down the shitter to the point that even a Kishimoto far past his prime is better at writing a Shonen battle manga than any newbie. When I was younger, I used to view Bleach as "the bad one", now I watch the Thousand Year Blood War anime and go "Wow, this is better than like anything else I've seen like it in the past 10 or so years", Shonen has changed so I honestly appreciate anything written like the shit I grew up with and Boruto still has that imo.
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It makes sense for Hao to not be able to do things when the other Shaman Kings doesn't agree with him, so they decide to make another fight called Flower of Maize to decide. Since they were all Shaman Kings, they are as powerful as each other, so they use normal shamans as a proxy to battle.

And as a sequel, it brings valid points to how the world of Shaman King are, one of the antagonists are a super capitalist deity that wants to make money the new god of humans, which really reflects the worldview about Shamans existing in the 20th century.

Hana being totally different than his fathers is also cool, he just isn't his father and they not being around to raise them as they were walking on earth doing shaman shit and ended up being killed is interesting.

The sequels of Shaman King actually put more perspective in the world of shaman king rather than just the SF. What happens in the world for them to be like that. It is just something very special and the only problem is how to approach to read as a new reader and due to cancelations, contracts waiting to expire and so on, to be on that side as a reader sucks.
 
I've noticed Charlotte got put on Netflix recently, and being sick outta my gourd figured I could do a rewatch since it's likely it needs to be binged to get the full effect. And I'm convinced that the 13-episode limit wasn't just because Jun Maeda couldn't fight for two-cour, it's because Maeda couldn't be arsed to think up of other abilities for like 11 episodes for the "character-of-the-day" format it was going for. Especially since we barely get to learn anything about these characters.

I dunno why the man thought he could ever write for anime.
 
For those interested it seems you can watch the 1997 berserk adaptation for free on yt if you want to, I remember you used to be able to watch samurai champloo on yt aswell but they seem to have taken that down in recent years
 
Kari Kamiya said:
I dunno why the man thought he could ever write for anime.
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Man, Charlotte was a wild ride. After Story/Refrain is condensed to a single episode, stabbing an eye with a dango skewer is less demonized than snorting cocaine, great Engrish, and the death scenes were nutty. To me it didn't have the emotional impact of Angel Beats or even Kamisama, and it doesn't hold a candle to any of the original Key works. Still a fun shitshow, the OST is solid and the OP's a banger.

 
There were signs Charlotte was falling apart at episode 6, but it truly breaks at episode 9, and then permanently goes off the rails on episode 11. Goddamn they were expecting nobody to remember what happened every week, weren't they?

To think this isn't a bad dub, it's just attached to a shitty script.
 
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