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The Big Bad Monsterman starts a War Arc after having spawned multiple super monstermen [including a clone of the girl who was the lead guy's rival at the start] so the anti-monster troops were stretched all over and had to use supermoves, including said girl managing to win because the lead guy told her that he wasn't going to rescue her. The lead guy's childhood friend got some backstory revealed where she's been really sore over having been chosen when the lead guy was not and has been mad at him for failing her, but she really does want him to succeed. Turns out the entire point of the War Arc was so that the Big Bad Monsterman could eat her, but the lead guy arrives in time and they kill him.

That spawns the original Big Bad Monsterman [who has the power to destroy anything it looks at] who kills the lead guy for long enough that we can see WHY he was turned into a monster: turns out that the original Big Bad Monsterman originally wiped out an entire human army and their regrets congealed into a single minimonster, which is the thing that went into the lead guy in chapter 1. They give him full power but he'll never become human again, so he takes it and gets back up.

There's a big stupid fight against the Big Bad Monsterman that takes way too long but thankfully not nearly as bad as the fights from Naruto or MHA, but it's still not great. The lead guy deals the final blow and is about to die for good, but the commander [who was eaten by the Big Bad Monsterman before this point and thus could do nothing] restored his heart and humanity before finally passing on.

In the final chapter, everything's back to normal and they're mostly dealing with minor monsters with no risk of a serious supermonster again, and the lead guy is living a good life and still gets to turn into a monster when he wants to.
 
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The Big Bad Monsterman starts a War Arc after having spawned multiple super monstermen [including a clone of the girl who was the lead guy's rival at the start] so the anti-monster troops were stretched all over and had to use supermoves, including said girl managing to win because the lead guy told her that he wasn't going to rescue her. The lead guy's childhood friend got some backstory revealed where she's been really sore over having been chosen when the lead guy was not and has been mad at him for failing her, but she really does want him to succeed. Turns out the entire point of the War Arc was so that the Big Bad Monsterman could eat her, but the lead guy arrives in time and they kill him.

That spawns the original Big Bad Monsterman [who has the power to destroy anything it looks at] who kills the lead guy for long enough that we can see WHY he was turned into a monster: turns out that the original Big Bad Monsterman originally wiped out an entire human army and their regrets congealed into a single minimonster, which is the thing that went into the lead guy in chapter 1. They give him full power but he'll never become human again, so he takes it and gets back up.

There's a big stupid fight against the Big Bad Monsterman that takes way too long but thankfully not nearly as bad as the fights from Naruto or MHA, but it's still not great. The lead guy deals the final blow and is about to die for good, but the commander [who was eaten by the Big Bad Monsterman before this point and thus could do nothing] restored his heart and humanity before finally passing on.

In the final chapter, everything's back to normal and they're mostly dealing with minor monsters with no risk of a serious supermonster again, and the lead guy is living a good life and still gets to turn into a monster when he wants to.
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THe biggest issue for me is having no real ending on the count of the Kaijus. It's not like Chainsawman that at least have a lot of emotional weight behind the ending of Part 1.
 
Blazeuser56 said:
New JJK season teaser.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RYI-WG_HFV8I'm kinda excited for this, the story may be meh but the fights in the Culling Game arc are really memorable.
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I wonder how much staying power JJK will have with japs since its already been a year since its ended.
It'll either be annoyingly popular again, or have little to no impact, case and point this seasons anime boosts.
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Its been 5 fucking years since kny ended, but somehow part 1 of infinity castle was enough to convinced a stupid amount of japs go out and buy it again (even though its probably flooded used book stores in the years since which Oricon doesn't track)
Can also see the flip side of the new season of Kaiju doing absolutely nothing if you compare it to the boost it got during it's first season (iirc it got around a 2 million volume boost when S1 was airing, now it'll probably be lucky if it hits 100k when S2 ends in a few weeks)
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
THe biggest issue for me is having no real ending on the count of the Kaijus.
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Or the MC's situation really, since now he's even more of a freak specimen than before and despite him saving the day it really didn't seem like they'd just let him go back to work. I think there was a big "they're gonna lock me up and/or dissect me if I do this but beating the bad guy is more important right now" thing established but no, that's just completely forgotten in the obligatory phoned-in ass epilogue chapter that's the most paint-by-numbers shit ever.
I think anyway. I was speedreading pretty hard by about halfway through that endless final battle.

I don't remember if even the thing with the childhood chick was resolved either.

Some of this is my fault for continuing to read a shounen when I catch up right before the final fight and have to read weekly instead of putting it down until it wraps up. I know better but I keep doing it.
 
One of my friends is watching some show called Hero X and praising the hell out of it. But I can't bring myself to watch it. I can't get past the fact that it's Chinese.

This has nothing to do with the Chinese as a people btw. It's more the fact that most anime I've seen made of anything other than Japanese or American IPs tend to have a terrible case of action over substance.

Solo Leveling is another recent example of that.
 
Professor Donger said:
One of my friends is watching some show called Hero X and praising the hell out of it. But I can't bring myself to watch it. I can't get past the fact that it's Chinese.

This has nothing to do with the Chinese as a people btw. It's more the fact that most anime I've seen made of anything other than Japanese or American IPs tend to have a terrible case of action over substance.

Solo Leveling is another recent example of that.
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the chinks and gooks are inferior to japs in many things, writing included
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The english translation for Plinivs has finally been completed. Consider reading it if you want japanese romaboo kino. It's better than any series or movie westoids have made about Rome in a long time.
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What a weird coincidence. I just got done reading Ad Astra. Wish it covered the battle between Scipio and Gisco properly where he had his center flank approach slowly while his side flanks annihilated the enemy's. The ending was depressing, but that was the historical case. The two best military commanders in history died such miserable fucking deaths.
 
God of Nothing said:
the chinks and gooks are inferior to japs in many things, writing included
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One of my other friends was watching some Chinese princess anime and I watched a little of it with her. The pacing made me want to shoot myself and the dialogue was so stilted.

It was also MADE by the Chinese unlike Hero X to my knowledge, so the language was Chinese and it sounded terrible
 
Professor Donger said:
It was also MADE by the Chinese unlike Hero X to my knowledge, so the language was Chinese and it sounded terrible
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Yeah. For the shit people give English about lacking cadence or whatever, Chinese and those clicky babble desert nigger languages sound the absolute worst. Then again, what do you expect from the most mongrelized race of bugmen? You ever hear a Chinese song? Ugh.
 
Professor Donger said:
This has nothing to do with the Chinese as a people btw. It's more the fact that most anime I've seen made of anything other than Japanese or American IPs tend to have a terrible case of action over substance.
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I've noticed Chinese animation seems to be ten years behind, least in the 2D department. However, they went full steam ahead with CGI animation because they want to make Disney/Pixar and DreamWorks their bitch love showing off what they could do with their animation software, but it's just style over substance when you're able to look past the terrible voice-acting and pacing.
 
Professor Donger said:
One of my friends is watching some show called Hero X and praising the hell out of it. But I can't bring myself to watch it. I can't get past the fact that it's Chinese.

This has nothing to do with the Chinese as a people btw. It's more the fact that most anime I've seen made of anything other than Japanese or American IPs tend to have a terrible case of action over substance.

Solo Leveling is another recent example of that.
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I enjoyed it but its very Chinese (the premise is pretty obviously referencing the chinese social credit system with how superheros get stronger powers through reputation with the downside of being forced to play into roles) which I found interesting in its own way.
 
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Damn that moment hits the feels. Kinda bullshit the moral is for her to run regardless out of social pressure, since the big issue is that her spending more time hospitalized and making her injury worse.

Though I guess this is what happened in real life, and beats to being taken out back and getting turned into horse sashimi.

Edit: Weird how Spec-chan disappears after the first season being about her, plus the girls been in school for like 4 years now.
 
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