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[Endless Torment]

Vinland Saga is just the author telling us that no matter how evil someone is, you should just follow the Japanese logic of not giving a shit. At all. It'll just go away eventually, right? Plot armor is the solution to everything.

He is an utter failure as an author because he somehow managed to take the concept of war bad, pacifism good look so utterly retarded you would look at anyone who takes the story seriously with disgust. Anytime I hear something new about it I wonder what do the people still reading it think deep down?
Unless the story ends with Thorfinn dying in despair because he lost everything because of his ideals while realizing what a fool he was then I can't see how the story can recover.

 

[Imam Shamil]

Vinland Saga is just the author telling us that no matter how evil someone is, you should just follow the Japanese logic of not giving a shit. At all. It'll just go away eventually, right? Plot armor is the solution to everything.

And its one of the few anime set in an interesting historical setting.
And he FUCKED IT UP!
I will forever seethe and cope.

A literal soyjack.

 

[Sven]

Is Re:Zero worth checking out?

@WE'RE ALL GONNA already said it but if your unsure just check the first episode, it's a double length and covers the very basic concept of what your getting into. If your unsure after just that finish the first Arc it's short, no spoilers you'll know when the first Arc is over it's end is a very obvious closing scene.

If you decide to go on I figure I'll just list some basic info for shit since some people get confused

Season 1 - It has 2 versions, Original and Director's Cut. It's 99.9% the same content but the DC fixes some questionable animations all throughout and is less episodes as it combines 2 episodes (still clearly split by title cards) into each double length DC episode. The .1% difference is a stinger added on at the end to lead into Season 2 but Season 2 also starts on that stinger so if you go Original it's still fine.

OVA & Movie - The OVA is canonically placed between Arc 2 & 3 (Again you'll be able to guess where the Arc split is) it does contain character design spoilers for Arc 3 so some people say to wait till after S1, this is more a personal preference thing on how massive you consider seeing some character designs are though. The movie is also canonically placed here for the minimal time it is in the present but is near universally held as just wait till after S1, it adds more impact to parts of S2 so most everyone prefers it there. Both don't impact the story of S1 as they were made after so watch where you will.

S2 & S3 are normal releases

The Shorts - All 3 seasons has a series of shorts, they are not critical but do sometimes flesh out characters and actions that are off-screen, or are only mentioned in passing. They are mostly played for comedy and if you don't want to bother hunting them down you'll live.

 

[Mysterious Girlfriend X]

I just finished Frieren and Delicious in Dungeon. I need some more light-hearted animes to just watch casually, anything you recommend? Preferably not fantasy, kinda burnt out on it, and not romance heavy, those just doom me.

Miss Monochrome & Yuru Yuri.

 

[Atatata]

they are not critical

Some are critical for things that will happen way down the line, don't skip the season 3 shorts since it covers something that was skipped over in season 1.

 

[Gorillion others]

I was so hype to see Wind Breaker, the gang violence/bike racing manhwa to be serialized, only to see it's this dogshit slop instead. Shame.

Injecting foreign culture into a historical piece of media is cool when Japan does it.

He is an utter failure as an author because he somehow managed to take the concept of war bad, pacifism good look so utterly retarded you would look at anyone who takes the story seriously with disgust. Anytime I hear something new about it I wonder what do the people still reading it think deep down?
Unless the story ends with Thorfinn dying in despair because he lost everything because of his ideals while realizing what a fool he was then I can't see how the story can recover.

And its one of the few anime set in an interesting historical setting.
And he FUCKED IT UP!
I will forever seethe and cope.

A literal soyjack.
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Because it's utterly consistent with Japan's decades long doctrine of pacifism after the nukes tore them a new amhole. The actual Japan is a non-confrontational hellhole where the majority are repressed drones who are content to let it be somebody else's problem - on a society wide scale. That panel is like something out of a faggot webcomic. The only thing wrong with it is that the art is too good for its own idiotic story.

I can't understand how the author can write absolute lunatics like that guy Thorfinn kept running away from and insist that he's not somebody who deserves an arrow through his skull. He's effectively turned the main character into a gutless coward. In any other writing, Thorfinn hightailing it would not only be heavily criticized, but genuinely come with severe consequences.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

The Blitz of Green Gables continues. I noticed in the mad rush to summerize the series they skipped the creation of Idlewild... the crux of Diana and Anne's childhood friendship. They've barely even afforded Anne the time to use her imagination. In 79' they'd show off Anne's daydreams with an interesting visual flair. Anne Shirley has just discovered this in episode 6 with the writer's club, and it's the most pleasing the show has looked thus far.
It goes for a storybook design View attachment 7347023 whereas the old show went for a theatre aspect View attachment 7346830.
But given the speed of the current adaptation, Anne is likely to be grown in just a few more episodes, meaning no more imagination.

I think they both look great tbh. Both have their own ascetic flair. I can understand the necessity to rush through the story in the reboot. The animation is as charming as the original. Now.....a bluray of the original would be nice though.......*cough*

They really should get Eiko Yamada to voice a character in the reboot.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Is Re:Zero worth checking out?

Like the other popular isekai (or anime, admittedly). It starts well but gets way too convoluted and padded to care

 

[Lone MacReady II]

And its one of the few anime set in an interesting historical setting.
And he FUCKED IT UP!
I will forever seethe and cope.

When people learn who (or rather what tribe) drafted Japan's post-war mandated pacifism "Constitution". You will not be shocked. There's a reason why every military branch of theirs has to put "Self-Defense" in front.

The animation is as charming as the original. Now.....a bluray of the original would be nice though.......*cough*

I'll admit the new characters are certainly more "bouncy", despite the fact that (as I've stated before) this 100% conflicts with the reserved Victorian era being portrayed in the show. But I know exactly why they were made so peppy - it's because, despite the overall lack of content and proper pacing, they NEEDED to make the characters as "spastic" and emotional as possible in order to counteract the fact that these people have virtually no time together in any meaningful way. The pace is simply too rushed. The animation quality on the other hand (not even getting into 79's backgrounds which are superior for anyone with eyes to see) doesn't hold a candle to the old show... and the bluray is available right now for all those who sail the seas.... *cough*.

I urge everyone to compare the series.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

When people learn who (or rather what tribe) drafted Japan's post-war mandated pacifism "Constitution". You will not be shocked. There's a reason why every military branch of theirs has to put "Self-Defense" in front.

Tbf to the tribe, it worked pretty well for Japan economically (in general the losing side of ww2 enjoyed a really good economy with no need to fund self defence, at least until they fucked it up), especially considering how absolutely atrocious their actions in the war were and how they got away with it.

 

[vern]

I think they both look great tbh. Both have their own ascetic flair. I can understand the necessity to rush through the story in the reboot. The animation is as charming as the original. Now.....a bluray of the original would be nice though.......*cough*

They really should get Eiko Yamada to voice a character in the reboot.

Supposedly there rushing the new series because they are also going to adapt Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island (which means where gonna see that dumb love triangle that took up half of Island).

All this talk about Anne has gotten me to re-read the book and watch some of the 79 anime, and to be honest I think I still prefer the 1985 mini series over both anime versions although that might be more from nostalgia then anything else.
I got through about 10 episodes in the 79 anime so far and there is more filler then I was expecting, some of it does add to the the story about life on the island and I like, but some of it feels like they where told before hand to stretch the story out to 50 episodes and where grasping at straws, and some of it breaks the flow of the story a little for me (stuff like Marilla stopping to talk to a random neighbor on her way to take Anne back to Mrs. Spencer's, then Anne running off to sulk for a good 2-3 minutes before coming back to continue the journey which book Anne wouldn't do and book Marilla would probably mark this as a reason for giving her to Bellwett)

Although I wouldn't consider either to be bad adaptations, not when we have shit like the 2016 movie which was filled with slapstick comedy (usually at the expense at Matthew) and modern teen sitcom shit or that 2017 netflix series that made everyone of Anne's classmates aside from Diana and Gilbert extremely mean spirited, had Matthew try to commit suicide in a flashback, and Anne's imagination being nothing but a coping mechanism from being abused by every foster couple that took her in.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

It still hurts that Gilbert's actor from the '85 Anne series died suddenly from a brain hemorrhage

Honestly I had no idea until some years ago how fucking huge the Anne franchise is to Canadians.

I started watching The Executioner and Her Way of Life. Talk about whiplash...

 

[Ser Prize]

Been re-reading Takemitsu Zamurai and forgot what a fucking banger it was. One of those manga that make me seriously consider buying a hardcover copy.

 

[regalterry]

He is an utter failure as an author because he somehow managed to take the concept of war bad, pacifism good look so utterly retarded you would look at anyone who takes the story seriously with disgust.

What genuinely baffles me is not the cucked herbivore obsession with self-genociding pacifism, but that they go out of their way to make the antagonists completely irredeemable monsters, thus making the protagonist always look like completely insane for letting them live.

What is the purpose of this? Surely they realize that setting up the story like this actively undermines their retarded take, right?

Trigun is the earliest example of this that I can remember watching. Vash is a selfish monster, always wandering into populated areas despite knowing he has a target on his back, and personal experience of what will inevitably happen.

He allows the villain to slaughter innocents until he is backed into a corner and forced to play hero, but always refuses to kill the bad guy, or really do anything decisive to ensure the villain won't be able to kill again.

And then, to nobody's surprise, this comes back to bite the protagonist in the ass, but he always refuses to learn from this.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

I'm watching Food Wars and its okay despite its obvious cheesecake/softcore moments but I do have some questions even if you accept the inherently silly premise:
- Why is the main character's dad some internationally recognized superstar cook yet almost no one at the prestigious sprawling Japanese cooking school knows about him?
- Why don't they do any teaching at the school? So far it's basically been "make me a dish I like or you get expelled".
- Why is the low graduating rate a selling point? If a high school had a low graduation rate you'd assume it was full of "socioeconomic factors" who would sooner rob a bank than make a passing grade. You have a high graduation rate and prove it by having those graduates go on to get good jobs.

 

[Sven]

Why is the low graduating rate a selling point? If a high school had a low graduation rate you'd assume it was full of "socioeconomic factors" who would sooner rob a bank than make a passing grade. You have a high graduation rate and prove it by having those graduates go on to get good jobs.

This could just be the simplest answer that a low grad rate means only the absolutely top gets through, it means anybody presented with the diploma knows it's not just a useless scrap of paper and to even get a sniff of a graduate from such a prestigious school is a massive feather in the cap for a restaurant. It's like restaurants that advertise they have a Michelin star chef, it would be a huge clout boost.

 

[vern]

A lot of people are theorizing that the "WSJ series that ended more the 15 years ago" is Psyren unless anyone else can think of another series that ended around 2010 that never got an anime

I haven't read the series in years so someone else will have to chime in whether it holds up but from what I remember, a bunch a kids stubble on a phone booth and get trapped in a cycle of being sent to a post apocalyptic future and told to play certain games (can't remember if it was just a battle royal or not) before being sent back once each game ends, and each character starts to develop some kind of psychic power the longer they stay in said post apocalyptic future.
IIRC most of the series was either fighting or the cast looking for clues both in the future and present what the fuck happened, I might reread the series if it turns out to be the hinted series.

 

[Endless Torment]

I haven't read the series in years so someone else will have to chime in whether it holds up

I love Psyren and it's one of those series I look at and think about how Jump or another magazine would love to have now. It fell off in numbers and was given a softer axe where they give the author some time to quickly finish the story and it also later got a light novel.

 

[RSU 1741]

Mangadex got just utterly nuked. Not only the big series, but a shitton of older and finished titles too, complete burnt ground.

We'll see if this will get people to adapt or simply kill off a lot of scanlation/translation efforts. Pity, it was a good resource to read older/niche stuff.

Centralization was always a mistake.

 

[Endless Torment]

Mangadex got just utterly nuked. Not only the big series, but a shitton of older and finished titles too, complete burnt ground.

We'll see if this will get people to adapt or simply kill off a lot of scanlation/translation efforts. Pity, it was a good resource to read older/niche stuff.

Centralization was always a mistake.

I imagine they will be forced to remove more series and the site will either die or just exist as a place for various groups to direct to other places where the chapters won't be taken down.
edit: damn it's gutted pretty bad and it will be annoying to find some of these again.