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Kari Kamiya said:
They better be a full-on parody of femboys or this anime is toast.
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lol no way. I haven't seen an anime that ever trashes the femboy/trap/otokonoko stereotype, let alone kill off a character of similar type so don't get your hopes up.
 
Crossposting but it is this composer's birthday
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He also composed music for Final Fantasy Unlimited
Will they ever continue this anime?
 
Kari Kamiya said:
They better be a full-on parody of femboys or this anime is toast.
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Looks more like ikemen which are usually hated hard by otakus, but I wouldn't put it above Trigger to go into NTR territory
Point 707 said:
2. There aren't even any major female characters, there is no degenerate sex shit at all.
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When you go so much anti sex you cross over into becoming a faggot
 
I love how no one gave a shit back in the 2000s if there was random Arabic text in manga, even in official releases. Like it totally could've been a copy-paste page of the Qur'an, but Wedding Peach wasn't popular enough for some potential Muslim to pick it up and see it to cause a snit-fit.
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Kari Kamiya said:
I love how no one gave a shit back in the 2000s if there was random Arabic text in manga, even in official releases. Like it totally could've been a copy-paste page of the Qur'an, but Wedding Peach wasn't popular enough for some potential Muslim to pick it up and see it to cause a snit-fit.
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Likewise, some manga and anime used random blocks of text from English-language newspapers and magazines as background textures, most famously in many of the classic Sailor Moon intros and outros.

The "Conversation is impossible" text in the background of the Sailor Moon R (2nd season) "Otome no Policy" outro was apparently a National Geographic article.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
I love how no one gave a shit back in the 2000s if there was random Arabic text in manga, even in official releases. Like it totally could've been a copy-paste page of the Qur'an, but Wedding Peach wasn't popular enough for some potential Muslim to pick it up and see it to cause a snit-fit.
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Too bad the JoJo OVA is banned from ever being released again due to this exact scenario.
 
Next season looks surprisingly isekai free. Have we made it friends past the torrent of slop? Also need to catch up on Fire Force.
Clarence Big Boss said:
That latest episode of apothecary diaries was such a fucking tease. I already know they aren't going to kiss but that set up and then roll credits pissed me off.

Although the mouth to mouth CPR was obviously fan service.
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The two should just fuck already.
 
Bruce LaLiLuLeLo said:
I can understand having serialized series end very badly, that's one of the downsides of having serialized works cause you're making it up as you go along. I really like urasawa as well but I feel like he's capable of writing better endings. A lot of his setups are good but end up flat and I feel like people say his stories are deep and philosophical when they're really disposable. Some philosophy or poignant thing brought up one moment will end up not mattering 20 chapters later, very disposable storytelling in contrast to the themes building up towards the climax of the arc or the end of the story. Please don't tell me billy bat ends like this as well, I have high expectations for it since it's a time travel thing and deals with real world history.
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What makes it even more head scratching is that based on interviews where he talks about his series, he seems to write the ending first then try to build up to it. For Billy Bat he started with one scene in the final chapter and started coming up with ideas to how to get to that scene and with 20CB it was one of the moments in the final time skip (think it was when they decided to build a real robot). Problem is that these scenes take years to get to and imo he gets sidetracked with the weekly serialization schedule, adjusting characters and the plot based on the weekly survey feedback, ends up adding subplots he probably never planned for, etc. but for what ever reason refuses to change the original ending he thought of years before no matter how awkward it might be.
There are very few mangaka that can get away with writing a complete manga before publishing it, both from a general writing standpoint and having to maintain enough popularity in a weekly/monthly magazine, and even though I like his series for particular characters or moments, Urasawa isn't one of them.
 
vern said:
For Billy Bat he started with one scene in the final chapter and started coming up with ideas to how to get to that scene and with 20CB it was one of the moments in the final time skip (think it was when they decided to build a real robot).
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That's fucking wild, the second giant robot fight was absolute shit and as much as otcho was my favourite character in the entire story, he did basically nothing when he should've done more on the ground or acrobatics or some shit. The first robot fight was pretty good and if otcho had done what kenji did in the first robot fight that would've been cool. The way friend died was also nonsense, even the way johan was killed was better, I hated that too.

vern said:
but for what ever reason refuses to change the original ending he thought of years before no matter how awkward it might be.
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I actually think this would work if he has the general direction of the story planned out from the start which I think he has. The thing I hate and criticize him for is not sticking the landing, the endings are in the general direction of what the audience expects and what has been set up but the magnitude of it is not upto the standard. It's like a superhero story setting up a complex relationship between the hero and villain and in the end instead of the hero fighting the villain and defeating him, the villain ends up getting killed by a piece of debris after the evil monologue without the fight happening. It's frustratingly underwhelming even if it's not necessarily terrible.

Edit: I also spoiled the ending of billy bat for myself and I think it's pretty good as a standalone ending. For a story about an ancient conspiracy and a diefic figure who's responsible for changes in causality I think it's a bit weak even though it fits the context much better than monster and 20CB. Both of those don't have any reflections or encapsulations of the central philosophies of the story or characters. Billy bat at least indicates that the cartoonist who wanted to change the world was able to stop wars across the world through billy bat and unite people under a common interest.
 
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I found this fat worthless fuck reviewing solo leveling or some gay shit
I could not stop laughing watching this fat fuck undergo what seems to be a humiliation ritual

 
Clavicular said:
I found this fat worthless fuck reviewing solo leveling or some gay shit
I could not stop laughing watching this fat fuck undergo what seems to be a humiliation ritual

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Wait wait, hold up. You're gay, you look like you do, you hit on me AND you're into anime?
I dunno if I believe in God, but I believe he hates the living fuck out of you, my dude.
 
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