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BiggestKai said:
Caught up on SpyxFamily s3. I haven't kept track with the manga in a while and was blind sided with both the bus jacking arc and Winston arc being there. I vaguely remember this scene but seeing it animated hit me like a truck
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Yeah it makes me teary eyed. The show is usually comedic but it at least felt realistic as her brave face goes out.
Local Farmer said:
If I remember correctly they did it was just impractical or their supply lines would b destroyed. Their main operation before the fall of wall Maria was trying to establish a base outside the walls but titans would just come up and wreck it. Their main problem was that Marley was pretty much spawn camping them by turning their EldiaFloyds into titans and letting them loose outside the walls.

One of the things that I think Isayama did well (before turning Eren into a bird cuck) was that that was the reason why the scouts were hated. I think it added depth to the desperation of the story and showed the malice of the royal family.


Muzan is the Ultimate Fraud, the only reason why he’s intimidating/cool is because he stole MJ’s swag
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I'll take your word for it since I watched it half a decade ago. I just remember that the titans aren't smart, attracted to noise and inactive at night which sounds like an easy ambush task.
WelfareNiggerQueen said:
We're back.

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I don't know if I want to continue considering what I heard about it becoming pro demons and magic becoming Jojo superpowers.
 
Desu Mountain said:
So this episode was pretty much just to introduce the magic suppressing crystals.
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I don't think so, that seems unnecessarily reductionist.

It was a good episode, had some of the nice cozy moments that Frieren is known for, and it affirmed Stark's place in the group.

While there's a chance of the crystals being a Chekhov's Gun item, it's also possible that they served their primary purpose in this episode already. They got set up when Frieren first found one, then paid off in the cave sequence.

The main takeaway for me is that this episode shows the studio hasn't lost its touch between seasons.
 
BiggestKai said:
Caught up on SpyxFamily s3. I haven't kept track with the manga in a while and was blind sided with both the bus jacking arc and Winston arc being there. I vaguely remember this scene but seeing it animated hit me like a truck
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Cour 2 when?
Also has anything interesting happened in the manga? Last I recall there was three big events, one was a Desmond family dinner where it's hinted at that something's really god damn wrong with this family, a backstory/flashback for Henderson(Elegant man) and Becky's butler's past during their college/war days that I felt added not much and introduced the Forger's neighbours who were helping Anya out with study and I think they were setting up that one or both of them were involved in either Anya or Bond's past.
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The main things I remember are that Anya is now a ghostbuster with her new friends, Grampa figured out Anya might be psychic, and Yor went on a business trip with another idiot.
 
Did my own bingo with the anime chart. Green = seen, Red = Read the manga.
No bingo for me, still have a lot of stuff to watch and read.

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I started watching frieren and it was really good, a melancholic retrospective quiet slow paced story about rememberance, memory, how fleeting life is, and how little we appreciate the small things.

The climax of the first episode is finding a field of flowers, and there's an entire episode about an old man with dementia talking about his wife. I was genuinely mindblown by how patient, quiet reserved it was, much less that there exists an actual audience for this kind of slow burn storytelling.

The fact that battles and combat were so rare made it so that when they did happen (e.g the iconic kill yourself scene) they had so much more impact. I was genuinely shocked at how well writen it was and how instead of copying every other show it legitimately did its own thing mosly free of tropes to tell its own unique story that actually hadn't been told before.

Then randomly halfway through it turned into a battle shonen complete with its own shitty tournament arc.

It felt like I was watching the fellowship of the ring, then partway into the film, they take a 5 hour detour so gandalf can get his mage certification because walking into mordor without one is illegal and the next 5 hours were gandalf giving us exposition about S rank mages and fighting styles while a bunch of hipsters comment on how good he is at managing his mana.

Why are japs like this. I have literally never witnessed a show shit the bed so rapidly and so hard in the span of one season. It felt like someone witnessed a story that was actually threatening to break free from the dogshit mass produced mold and pulled a gun on the writer to turn it into a battle shonen or else.
 
I usually ignore the latest frontlines in the online fandom culture war nonsense and never let it detract from my enjoyment of a series, but I still can't help but note Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider has had a lot of idiotic discourse going on about it, especially from the sort of people who don't really watch any anime outside of clips of "aura" and "hype" moments

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wtfNeedSignUp said:
Only now discovered Apocalypse Hotel, the first two episodes are already amazing
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Professor Donger said:
adding it to my list, I've never heard of it
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Don't get your hopes too high based on the first episode. It quickly becomes a madcap comedy and the fucking tanuki aliens are there to stay and pajeet the rest of the series until conclusion. It's not that's bad, but from the first episodes they could have gone in a more.... skilled direction than random dumb gags and funny aliens with a cyclical episode plot.

Ain't bad by all means, but it's kind of middling.
 
Started rewatching the Ghost in the Shell Anime, since the last time I watched it was when I was a kid, and I wasn't really paying attention to it. I'm enjoying it immensely, very fun Cyberpunk story.
 
Oilspill Battery said:
I started watching frieren and it was really good, a melancholic retrospective quiet slow paced story about rememberance, memory, how fleeting life is, and how little we appreciate the small things.

The climax of the first episode is finding a field of flowers, and there's an entire episode about an old man with dementia talking about his wife. I was genuinely mindblown by how patient, quiet reserved it was, much less that there exists an actual audience for this kind of slow burn storytelling.

The fact that battles and combat were so rare made it so that when they did happen (e.g the iconic kill yourself scene) they had so much more impact. I was genuinely shocked at how well writen it was and how instead of copying every other show it legitimately did its own thing mosly free of tropes to tell its own unique story that actually hadn't been told before.

Then randomly halfway through it turned into a battle shonen complete with its own shitty tournament arc.

It felt like I was watching the fellowship of the ring, then partway into the film, they take a 5 hour detour so gandalf can get his mage certification because walking into mordor without one is illegal and the next 5 hours were gandalf giving us exposition about S rank mages and fighting styles while a bunch of hipsters comment on how good he is at managing his mana.

Why are japs like this. I have literally never witnessed a show shit the bed so rapidly and so hard in the span of one season. It felt like someone witnessed a story that was actually threatening to break free from the dogshit mass produced mold and pulled a gun on the writer to turn it into a battle shonen or else.
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My feeling is that the author realized they needed to explicate how the fuck magic works as a system and the only ways were either Frieren doing a magic lore dump while staring at the camera, a bunch of Qual/Aura demon fights that demonstrate some facet of magic but still feel like filler arcs that don't really advance the plot of getting Frieren to the north pole to visit Santa, or, the fastest way, get a bunch of mages in a room and make them fight/compete over something.
 
Oddjob OTP said:
My feeling is that the author realized they needed to explicate how the fuck magic works as a system and the only ways were either Frieren doing a magic lore dump while staring at the camera, a bunch of Qual/Aura demon fights that demonstrate some facet of magic but still feel like filler arcs that don't really advance the plot of getting Frieren to the north pole to visit Santa, or, the fastest way, get a bunch of mages in a room and make them fight/compete over something.
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The arc does show a big difference between Frieren/her master and the Elf that's running the Mage association and almost any mage she trains, though, which is kind of important.
 
Ravana said:
I'm surprised to see School Days on the big bingo chart
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Probably because the Nice Boat meme.
Oilspill Battery said:
Why are japs like this. I have literally never witnessed a show shit the bed so rapidly and so hard in the span of one season. It felt like someone witnessed a story that was actually threatening to break free from the dogshit mass produced mold and pulled a gun on the writer to turn it into a battle shonen or else.
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Yeah it was incredibly disappointing and like I said, magic became Jojo power, with every mage being one note hyper specialized magic trick with bullshit "powerful as you can imagine" that makes it even more amorphous and counters the fact Frieren has ridiculous amount of mana.
Commander X said:
I usually ignore the latest frontlines in the online fandom culture war nonsense and never let it detract from my enjoyment of a series, but I still can't help but note Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider has had a lot of idiotic discourse going on about it, especially from the sort of people who don't really watch any anime outside of clips of "aura" and "hype" moments

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What's the drama with it? I watched the first episode but was too cringy.
RSU 1741 said:
Don't get your hopes too high based on the first episode. It quickly becomes a madcap comedy and the fucking tanuki aliens are there to stay and pajeet the rest of the series until conclusion. It's not that's bad, but from the first episodes they could have gone in a more.... skilled direction than random dumb gags and funny aliens with a cyclical episode plot.

Ain't bad by all means, but it's kind of middling.
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On episode 4, if it keeps the quality of the gags it's still good. Lots of absurdist comedy moments.
 
Commander X said:
I usually ignore the latest frontlines in the online fandom culture war nonsense and never let it detract from my enjoyment of a series, but I still can't help but note Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider has had a lot of idiotic discourse going on about it, especially from the sort of people who don't really watch any anime outside of clips of "aura" and "hype" moments

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This show popping up is almost exclusively due to last season being insanely weak overall it would have been dismissed for being ugly "Kickass for boomers" show. None of these guys have watched Air Master.
 
Oddjob OTP said:
My feeling is that the author realized they needed to explicate how the fuck magic works
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Absolute shonen brainrot. Sometimes you need to explain the magic, sometimes you don't. Lord of the rings would not have been significantly improved by having gandalf explain to us Maiar hierarchies. I legit don't understand how the same author that wrote the first half could have writen the second half at the same time.
 
Oilspill Battery said:
Absolute shonen brainrot. Sometimes you need to explain the magic, sometimes you don't. Lord of the rings would not have been significantly improved by having gandalf explain to us Maiar hierarchies. I legit don't understand how the same author that wrote the first half could have writen the second half at the same time.
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You keep making Lord of the Rings comparisons, but I don't think that's a good comparison to make. LotR has magic, but magic is not really a common thing in the world, especially from a storytelling perspective. Just sticking with the movies, the only magic users are the elves, Gandalf, Saruman, and Sauron. The elves pretty much only have clairvoyance and limited precognitive abilities for their actual magical applications. Gandalf has magic but it's seldom used and when he fights in Minis Tirith, he has a staff in one hand and a sword in the other, rather than shooting magic out of his fingertips. Saruman really only ever uses the Palantir to mind control the king of Rohan with magic. Sauron is inherently magical and presented as effectively a soul that is bound to his tower and his ring, and corrupts all that he encounters with his spirit, but he doesn't really go around slinging spells outside of the intro. The only actual magical fight, in the movies at least, is when Gandalf and Saruman 1v1 each other with magic.

LotR in terms of the setting is a magical one, but by our modern sensibilities, I would classify it as a low magic world given how rare and mystical magic is. In Frieren, magic is commonplace, not limited to the realm of demigods and angels, and such mundanity requires some explanation for the setting to make sense. I get what you mean with your criticisms of how magic is explained, but I do not think that Frieren at the Funeral could have gotten away with saying "it's magic, I don't have to explain shit", and expected the setting to work at all.
 
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