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What are some of the coolest Panels in recent history? For Me:
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Thiletonomics said:
The Saitama vs. Orochi ending scene turned out to be the definition of just there, with nothing special to it:

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Since JC Staff had no intention to make actual animation, would it have been funnier if they stuck with the cheapened route of dragging PNGs on the screen or just showing still frames?

And OPM 3 Part 2 has been confirmed as a 2027 release:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CFNXR6k3zwI
THEY EVEN JUST MOVED THE PNGS WITH THAT ANNOUCEMENT TOO!

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Damn they’ve got the PNGs so they must be really far into animating part 3
 
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Started watching Cardcaptor Sakura on a lark. It's what you'd expect, but god damn do the Madhouse visuals make me smile. Everything has that extra bit of polish, it's well animated, well paced, the shot composition/framing is great, and it's right at the apex of the cel-painted era ending so you're seeing the work of industry vets. You can feel the quality. I know Madoka gets the credit for being the edgy magical girl show, but that didn't just come out of nowhere. I never watched sailor moon, but Sakura occasionally delves into esoteric scenes that remind me of Madoka. You're not getting blood or anything like that of course, but sometimes there's this air of unease or paranoid tension that shows up at times that clearly influenced Madoka.

I can see how someone could watch this and think, "What if we made a mahou shoujo world where everything is nightmarish and a lie." Kero's dead eyed stare is 100% Kyuubei.​
 
Is anyone familiar with a series called Issak?
I heard about it a while ago, and just skimming through the first few chapters it seems to be about a jap mercenary that ends up in the Thirty Years' War looking for some guy who killed his master.
I'm hesitant to try another historical manga again since the last one I read that revolved around revenge ended up going to shit (vinland) and the last one that had Christianity as a main part of the story kind of twisted in a way to fit the story (orb), and this times there's both Protestants and Catholics to deal with.
That being said I'll give it credit for a somewhat believable reason why the jap found himself on the other side of the world, he seems to be a former solider from the very end of the Sengoku period that signed up with the Dutch as a mercenary which is accurate since the Dutch where the only ones allowed in the country for some reason and I know there are some cases where the Dutch East India Company used them in south east asia, but I'm not sure if any actually found their way all the way to Europe

Although I'm not sure if "superior Japanese matchlocks" is really that much better then "superior Japanese katana"

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The later is still dumber, but its so persistent in god knows how many things its almost endearing in a way.
 
vern said:
Although I'm not sure if "superior Japanese matchlocks" is really that much better then "superior Japanese katana"
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japanese inability to admit they were vastly inferior to the west for the majority of their existence (really all of it) strikes again
did they actually have better matchlocks or is this a revisionist thing where this super gigabrain jap invented it or some shit?
 
God of Nothing said:
japanese inability to admit they were vastly inferior to the west for the majority of their existence (really all of it) strikes again
did they actually have better matchlocks or is this a revisionist thing where this super gigabrain jap invented it or some shit?
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hard to say, iirc they stole some from the Portuguese, reversed engineered to make their own, and developed them further in technology and deployment during the Sengoku period (which is why almost every version of Nobunaga depicts him as a gun obsessed mad man), but left them to stagnate during the Edo period until Perry came and threatened to kick their teeth in.
 
God of Nothing said:
japanese inability to admit they were vastly inferior to the west for the majority of their existence (really all of it) strikes again
did they actually have better matchlocks or is this a revisionist thing where this super gigabrain jap invented it or some shit?
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Doubtful, at best you could argue it's been done with better materials and craftsmen then usual but that might as well be true for every case in fiction, and Japanese always had shitty iron so the standard would be abysmal. Japanese tech pre reconstruction was usually in the realm of "interesting idea, bonkers/shit execution".

Funnily enough, the reason people were impressed with the Katana is that close range weaponry was phased out by the time the Japs started contact with the outside world, so the Katanas were indeed superior... to mass produced ceremonial swords.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
close range weaponry was phased out by the time the Japs started contact with the outside world, so the Katanas were indeed superior... to mass produced ceremonial swords.
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That's a resilient myth: European sword tradition and design were excellent and improved during the 19th century, often reaching peak design with many models of cavalry sabers. Countries in Europe had living and breathing fencing schools, and dueling for honour reasons was not unknown.

The Nips themselves phased out their katanas and copied superior European sabres, until they did their own little piece of cultural invention and resurrected katanas as mass-produced officer/NCO swords.

It's simply that when Euros think of "fencing" they think Olympics, not somewhat brutal and competitive late 19th century fencing, while we lionize a supposed "Japanese superiority and tradition" that borderline never was, just because it's exotic.
 
Car Won't Crank said:
Campfire Cooking is the best seasonal anime this year. All the new Suntory product placements in S2 are fine.
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That show is retarded but comfy. It's shameless, pandering schlock and I have quite enjoyed it. I really could have gone without the dragon character though, he sounds annoying, doesn't add anything to the story, and just takes away from the other characters that I like more.

The shit is giving me flashbacks to Wakfu.
 
RSU 1741 said:
That's a resilient myth: European sword tradition and design were excellent and improved during the 19th century, often reaching peak design with many models of cavalry sabers. Countries in Europe had living and breathing fencing schools, and dueling for honour reasons was not unknown.

The Nips themselves phased out their katanas and copied superior European sabres, until they did their own little piece of cultural invention and resurrected katanas as mass-produced officer/NCO swords.

It's simply that when Euros think of "fencing" they think Olympics, not somewhat brutal and competitive late 19th century fencing, while we lionize a supposed "Japanese superiority and tradition" that borderline never was, just because it's exotic.
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Tbf, at least from what I heard it was the British navy, who probably weren't expected to use the swords for actual combat. A lot of Japanese sword creation technique were either well known by European or were unnecessary due to superior Euro iron not needing insane amount of refining.

Also katanas weren't used for practical purposes. Aristocracy used mounts and bows, and soldiers used polearms. Getting close to an enemy when your most common armor is deer hide is not worth it, especially if you were mounted. It doesn't help swords cost a lot, so taking a sword into a combat situation was a good way to risk a family heirloom.
 
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