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[BiggestKai]

I do like Black Swordsman. It’s a good epilogue for Guts and although the kid shit is creepy it’s done in a way where it’s not quite Made in Abyss levels where I feel like the authors hard drive needs to get searched. The entire arc is about abuse and Jill is the main character.

I just feel like the whole “Oh, Guts is someone who’s birth defied fate and is kind of a free agent because of this” element is one of those things that’ll never be satisfying and Muira had no clue how to make it satisfying. It’s not like LOTR where Tolkien made Gollum destroy the ring (although God literally intervened to push him off balance). It just felt like a metal album cover series where the art is fantastic, but ultimately the story is not that deep.

Wait what? Did Berserk end or something?

 

[God of Nothing]

I do like Black Swordsman. It’s a good epilogue for Guts and although the kid shit is creepy it’s done in a way where it’s not quite Made in Abyss levels where I feel like the authors hard drive needs to get searched. The entire arc is about abuse and Jill is the main character.

I just feel like the whole “Oh, Guts is someone who’s birth defied fate and is kind of a free agent because of this” element is one of those things that’ll never be satisfying and Muira had no clue how to make it satisfying. It’s not like LOTR where Tolkien made Gollum destroy the ring (although God literally intervened to push him off balance). It just felt like a metal album cover series where the art is fantastic, but ultimately the story is not that deep.

Pretty sure the entire thing was that Guts has been struggling against fate for all of his life. Even the ending of Black Swordsman reveals Guts is condemned to hell for being slightly involved with the apostles.

Wait what? Did Berserk end or something?

he meant it as a hypothetical one, like how its the beginning and end of the original anime

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

Wait what? Did Berserk end or something?

No, I’m just talking about if you take Golden Age as it’s own thing.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Happy Sailor Moon Day

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

Centuria is pretty good. The insane necromancer dyke has been a highlight, her reactions are gold.

I do not care that much for Ragna Crimson, I don’t know how to express it, but I dislike battle shonen like it. Most of the character aren’t entertaining and are just way too tropey.

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

I just read the first chapter of MAD, and FUCK bro I’m in.
Insanely awesome alien xenomorph monsters? Check.
The fucking apocalypse? Check.
Good art? Check.
No weird shit yet? Check.
If this keeps up, we may have a certified banger in the works here.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

July 1 is the birthday of this character

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

July 1 is the birthday of this character
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Could someone tell me what's up with fairy tail? It has a ton of episodes and is pushed aggressively by Netflix but no one talks about it.

 

[God of Nothing]

Could someone tell me what's up with fairy tail? It has a ton of episodes and is pushed aggressively by Netflix but no one talks about it.

coom
that is all

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

An update on Anya's VA

Could someone tell me what's up with fairy tail? It has a ton of episodes and is pushed aggressively by Netflix but no one talks about it.

coom
that is all

And shipping

 

[God of Nothing]

And shipping

nah
erza and mira are obviously fucking each other with their weird ass bondage and skinship thing

natsu is too autistic and lucy is a whore

 

[sasazuka]

An update on Anya's VA

I hope that it's nothing too serious.

She got married on October 2nd, 2023 so an unspecified "health condition" could be a codeword for pregnancy/(partial) maternity leave, if, for whatever reason, she wanted to keep that private.

 

[God of Nothing]

I hope that it's nothing too serious.

She got married on October 2nd, 2023 so an unspecified "health condition" could be a codeword for pregnancy/(partial) maternity leave, if, for whatever reason, she wanted to keep that private.

frieren was seeming a bit more motherly than she's supposed to be

 

[McMitch]

I just read the first chapter of MAD, and FUCK bro I’m in.
Insanely awesome alien xenomorph monsters? Check.
The fucking apocalypse? Check.
Good art? Check.
No weird shit yet? Check.
If this keeps up, we may have a certified banger in the works here.

It falls into that type of story, which seems exclusive to manga, of a very specific type of cynicism. Character lives are cheap and every promise of catharsis is inevitably betrayed with the reader. You saw it with Gantz, and Terraformars, and Fire Punch, and Chainsawman part 1. A lot of them fall into the trap where they overplay this specific strategy and you can pick it out right away after you've read literally any other series in the same type of cynicism, which MAD falls into hard but doesn't have the bevy of characters that usually drags things into cliché territory.

It's at that half way point between pretty okay to good.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

It is the birthday of these two veteran VA

 

[Hammr2]

I hope that it's nothing too serious.

She got married on October 2nd, 2023 so an unspecified "health condition" could be a codeword for pregnancy/(partial) maternity leave, if, for whatever reason, she wanted to keep that private.

Kinda odd, although it might be some complication in her case.
Earlier this year, Mikako Komatsu and Tomoaki Maeno announced their second child birth and they even said it way before that.
Meanwhile, Yui Ishikawa straight up announced her first born exactly on Mother's day in May. She had three main protag roles (more like two and a half) in last season.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Could someone tell me what's up with fairy tail? It has a ton of episodes and is pushed aggressively by Netflix but no one talks about it.

If you not degenerate enough to watch hentai, you watch Fairy Tale. Atleast you can convince others (and yourself) you watching for the story.

 

[The greater a'tuin]

Doraemon

Finding up to date English subs for this is a pain in the ass. Especially the pre-2005 movies.

Could someone tell me what's up with fairy tail? It has a ton of episodes and is pushed aggressively by Netflix but no one talks about it.

It's the living stereotype of everything mocked in shonen. Totally brainless fights the heroes always win by screaming about le power of friendship. Four faces and personalities recycled between every character. Uncontrolled ecchislop that borders on fetish territory. Basically the anime equivalent of MCU writing.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

It's the living stereotype of everything mocked in shonen. Totally brainless fights the heroes always win by screaming about le power of friendship. Four faces and personalities recycled between every character. Uncontrolled ecchislop that borders on fetish territory. Basically the anime equivalent of MCU writing.

So how in the world did the creator go from Rave Master to Fairy Tail, then?

 

[Endless Torment]

Shit talk Fairy Tail all you want but he's still one of the few shonen authors who managed to properly handle a large cast of characters and frequently brought back and rotated them throughout the series. He also lets the female cast actually fight or do something.

So how in the world did the creator go from Rave Master to Fairy Tail, then?

Fairy Tail has the big issues of he never planned anything out so all the things introduced early end up being changed later. It still made a lot of money and was popular not so much for its story, but the characters themselves. Rave has a much better execution of its story and so did Eden Zero until he got bored and just rushed the ending.