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WelperHelper99 said:
The game came after the show/manga got traction. It was also why the dub was the way it was. They were targeting that elementary-middle school demographic to sell cards too with the Duel Monsters show, and so we got funny moments like invisible guns. It was only because it got negotiated ahead of time, that the last season was much more serious.
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I should have specified that the card game was developed after the first season of the show was already well underway
 
I have now watched two episodes of Sentenced to be a Hero, and based on how people seem to be loving it, I have to conclude I just don't get it. Like the show is a mish mash of different tropes, none of which are particularly interesting, Am I loosing my mind, or are people just heralding any mid action show as the next coming of FMAB?
 
Professor Donger said:
I should have specified that the card game was developed after the first season of the show was already well underway
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Yeah i know what you mean lol. That did make the first season much more special honestly. Stuff could just happen and you just had to roll with it.
 
Heckler1 said:
I have now watched two episodes of Sentenced to be a Hero, and based on how people seem to be loving it, I have to conclude I just don't get it. Like the show is a mish mash of different tropes, none of which are particularly interesting, Am I loosing my mind, or are people just heralding any mid action show as the next coming of FMAB?
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I haven't watched it yet, but I wouldn't be suprised if it's just normies latching onto it because it's a fantasy show that isn't an isekai
 
Heckler1 said:
I have now watched two episodes of Sentenced to be a Hero, and based on how people seem to be loving it, I have to conclude I just don't get it. Like the show is a mish mash of different tropes, none of which are particularly interesting, Am I loosing my mind, or are people just heralding any mid action show as the next coming of FMAB?
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I also do not get the hype. I stopped watching the first episode over halfway through, and I keep telling myself I will get around to it. The fact that I have no desire to tells me that I was enjoying it even less than I consciously register. It's well animated and the art is nice, but in terms of character and story it really didn't seem to have a whole lot going for it. That being said, pretty and well-animated is absolutely enough for normalfags to gobble up an anime, so I am not surprised. Once it's finished airing, if I keep hearing good things, then I will probably give it another shot.
 
Lone MacReady II said:
I'm a little annoyed Hansa "Coffee" Cervantes let the DA escape... Like surely he could tell the kid with the exact same hair and eyes to the DA was suspect as fuck... You'd think he'd be able to sense him. I'm definitely liking the show though, episode 2 is still the best one. I guess I'm just a Saber junkie. Next week should be good.
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I'm happy my autistic rant was right and the priest doesn't cuck out of Total Vampire Death. Current issue is that I doubt the story will actually do anything interesting like kill most of the masters, it will be a straight shonen.

Besides that I liked the second episode of Scum of the Brave, the main girl reminds me of Don Quixote from Limbus Company and that's good enough.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
First anime i pirated, back when Youtube was cool and let you upload full episodes lol.
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Uploaded into 3 parts because of the 10 minutes limit. And the episodes would be randomly sourced from different sub groups, so the recap at the start of the next episode would have characters wordings their dialogue entirely differently from what you read last episode.

Professor Donger said:
It, along with Digimon and Naruto, were some of the earliest anime that I watched growing up and tried to catch whenever it was on. We got to the episode with the Fake Kaiba, and afterwards my girl just goes "Why the fuck is this dumb kids' show making me feel things!"
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If she likes it that much then she should read the manga some time. A lot of stuff was changed in adaptation, and the original has a much different tone and more consistent quality.
Professor Donger said:
One of the things that's been bugging me about the fans of the show is how they use the modern games rules to try and say characters in the show were cheating, when it's very clear that the show goes by vibes, even when they start actually following the rules of the card game, since the card game developed after the manga/show.
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Stuff in the card game actually made more sense in the manga. Despite some of the rules being vague and unexplained, everything that is explained fits with what happens. The manga had its own rules that didn't make it into the physical card game like only being able to play 1 Magic and 1 Trap card per turn, or changed mechanics because there were a lot of monsters in the manga that were basically tokens or altered monsters that didn't have physical cards in-universe but were made into their own cards in the real game where they're a lot harder to play.

The real card game became a thing like a year before the DM anime started, and the rules were refined into their current form based off Battle City rules a little later, so the anime ended up having a lot of weird shit from trying to rewrite duels to be more like the actual game to work as an advertisement for the cards, but still keep the general flow of the duel the same as the manga, so you end up comprises to how some card effect works, or manga-only rules randomly showing up for a dramatic moment only to never be mentioned again, or characters playing decks that make no sense with the real TCG rules but do make sense within how the game works in the manga (like Elegant Egotist which summons Harpy Lady Sisters clearly works in the manga by making clone tokens of a target Harpy Lady, so her deck is basically about buffing up one monster and then token swarming clones of it - the real Harpy Lady Sisters is basically unplayable and the anime comes off super unclear and inconsistent how it's supposed to work).
 
Got to the episode where Kaiba tries to kill himself if Yugi wins and she has changed her stance from "Kaiba is my second favorite" to "Aye yo fuck him!"

I tried to point out that Mokuba was at stake and she just goes "Fuck Mokuba and his shitty brother" 🤣
 
Professor Donger said:
Got to the episode where Kaiba tries to kill himself if Yugi wins and she has changed her stance from "Kaiba is my second favorite" to "Aye yo fuck him!"

I tried to point out that Mokuba was at stake and she just goes "Fuck Mokuba and his shitty brother" 🤣
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She'll change her mind back soon enough when you get to season 3 or the end of season 2.

Anyway, you watching sub or dub?
 
Oilspill Battery said:
Except this isn't a story about wizards solving wizard problems with spells, its a story about people solving human problems with dialogue.

The only magic relevant to the actual problems is magic that doesn't require powerscaling, like tracking squirrels or jewelry.
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If you really ignore all the fights that get solved because judicious application of destruction magic I guess.
Oilspill Battery said:
Tell me, would you apply this logic to saitama's powers and one punch man? Do you think saitama's powers need to be defined because he gets in battles constantly?

Or would that be completely pointless because saitama fighting stuff is not the point of the story and completely incidental to the actual central conflict of his character?
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OPM immediately states that Saitama wins all his fights in one punch and is unstoppable when he actually tries. That is his powerscaling. When he appears less powerful fighting a tiger class monster it's because he chose to hold back. When he punches Garou and Garou endures it because he got stronger mid fight it's still because he held back. There is no possibility he can lose a fight so all his issues are interpersonal.

Frieren gets 3 episodes before one of her powerlevel-related failures gets brought up and she beats him because she had 70 years to prepare and was partnered with a genius young mage. Not comparable
 
Oddjob OTP said:
If you really ignore all the fights that get solved because judicious application of destruction magic I guess.
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I Ignore them in the same way I ignore all the monsters saitama oneshots. Because they're incidental set dressing to the point conflict. Case in point:

Oddjob OTP said:
Frieren gets 3 episodes before one of her powerlevel-related failures gets brought up and she beats him because she had 70 years to prepare and was partnered with a genius young mage. Not comparable
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Its literally what I said earlier about you completely missing the point of the series alltoogether.

The quen fight isn't about powerscaling a goku fight over who has the strongest int stat and whether or not frieren can win because she has the +1 wisdom battleaxe of mana and the bonus companion +1 int loyalty perk or whatever.

Its about people left behind by the passage of time and how in the grand scheme of history, if you blink, what is cutting edge a century ago is mundane today.

The point of the episode is that in 50 years quen went from the biggest threat to humanity to a standard grunt because he was forgotten by history.

500 years ago a musket was the peak of weaponry, then before that the iron sword, then the bronze dagger, then a sharp stick, then a rock.

The conflict of the episode wasn't about a mage killing a demon, its about two immortals talking about how the bronze dagger is no longer the hottest new superweapon on the globe and remarking on how time flies by.

It genuinely blows my mind how you see this concept about history, time and immortality and in your mind all you can envision is a numbers fight between which party has the biggest int stat enchantment to do most the most mana damage.
 
Professor Donger said:
My girlfriend and I have started binge-watching Yu-Gi-Oh. It's kind of funny watching her experience the shit that I got to experience when I was a kid. She's surprisingly enjoying it.
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Seeing how much changed from the manga is nuts. Like Pegasus is just straight-up murdered after Duelist Kingdom, and it barely gets brought up. That's not to mention all the Season 0 stuff.
 
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