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DrearyDoomguy said:
What really struck me is how she out of the blue shows up paired with a formerly female character who got an offscreen sex change. I didn't dislike the show or the ending but it had quite a few oddities to it. It was more interesting than Kaine of the Great Snow Sea, I'll give it that.
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I remember liking the 3D anime, I think it was a combination of the weird tone and designs as well as the 3D that made it all fit really well.
 
I had to laugh at the community note on this "Anime 'fans' when they try to watch a whole series instead of "hype and aura" compilations" post.
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This third volume of Date Masamune was my favorite so far, focusing in the start of Tokugawa Shogunate and the portuguese/spanish/English coming in to Japan and wanting to develop commercial relationships.

Also Tokugawa Ieyasu was based as fuck compared to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who got fucked in Korea for nothing.
 
Finished the Akira manga today and the movie is probably the best adaptation to source material. You know, because Otomo made both. The Japanese way of having the author create adaptations to his own work is so much better than the Hollywood method of hiring some auteur director to work on IPs they may or may not care about.

So, I will assume everyone saw the movie when I make large comparisons. By large, I mean characters that are rewritten significantly because the movie has a 2 hour runtime and has the task of condensing 6 tankobon into a comprehensible plot. IMO, the movie does things better on average or at least more macabre.

-Drugs drugs drugs. So, the psychics need to take extremely powerful Schedule One drugs to keep the power from consuming their personalities entirely. These pills also unlock psychic abilities in people... assuming it doesn't kill them, of course. What triggered Tetsuo's transformation is his love of recreational drugs and he spends a great deal of time consuming drugs to keep himself stabilized until Lady Miyako dares him to go cold turkey, which is how the power consumes him, or to be more accurate, forces him to undergo rebirth. Tetsuo doesn't just see flashbacks of his past with Kaneda, but also his own birth and in the manga, turns into a giant fetus before exploding.
-The crazy old lady praying for Akira's return was a significant character acting the exact opposite of her manga version. So, this old lady is Lady Miyako, who was working with Nezu to get Akira under their custody. After Akira blows up Tokyo Bay, she leads the other competing faction to Tetsuo and Akira's kingdom and trains her own psychic monks because she is also one of the numbered children. I understand why she gets sidelined so hard, as she functioned mostly as the wise elder exposition character who also possesses Kei to fight her battles. Kiyoko serves that role better and technically speaking, first.
-Akira is alive. His general function is to be a silent macguffin and hair trigger bomb that turns Tokyo Bay into a crater. The movie made a much better decision to have him be dead considering the Great Tokyo Empire is really Tetsuo and Pompadour Vizier's project and Akira is a silent King reacting to stimuli for most of the plot until the very end.
-Kaori is vastly better in the movie. In the manga, she shows up as a beggar in Tetsuo's Great Tokyo Empire and survives because she was smart enough to not take drugs. Her tasks is mostly to serve as a nursemaid to Akira and Tetsuo until she gets shot in the back by Pompadour Vizier. Not as iconic as getting crushed to death.
-More psychics. Tetsuo drugs his followers so he can have his own army of psychics, so we get a lot more weirdos like Birdman and Eggman and Oversized glasses guy. As anyone who isn't Tetsuo, Akira, Miyako, and Takashi et al are jobbers, they all die.
-Ryu gets to live this time, mostly so he gets to meet the Americans Navy SEALs that show up to take Akira and kill Tetsuo and the rest of the psychics with biological weapons. Which works on the jobbers, but not Tetsuo. Since the Americans are cut out of the movie, there isn't much for his character to go.
-The Americans and I guess the Russians too. Because of Akira's appearance, the Russians take Northern Japan and the Americans deploy a carrier group for their own ends. The big climatic battle between Kei and Tetsuo takes place on the carrier instead of the ruins. Understandable why these guys were cut out because they show up to get the reader up to speed by tank 5 and thus, negatively affects the pacing in movie format. We do lose out on Tetsuo acting like Nappa and fucking over fighter pilots and him sending a satellite at the carrier group.
-The Colonol uses SOL multiple times and staged a Coup d'état. So you thought the movie Colonel was dumb to confront mutating Tetsuo with a sidearm, right? In the Manga, he uses a laser pointer thing like the Hammer of Dawn. The Coup worked until he failed to prevent Akira cratering the city, which led to the Great Tokyo Empire.
-The ending. The manga does have a more definitive ending. Kaneda inherits the Great Tokyo Empire and uses Akira (who is dead at this point) as deterrence. They do not follow the provisional government. I'm divided as to whether the movie ending is better or not. Movie ending is definitely more artsy-fartsy, but it can be unsatisfying.
 
Finished my third or so re-read of what's currently out The Faraway Paladin. Yes it's an isekai, with a healthy helping of power fantasy scaling but God damn I forgot how much I loved it.
You forget how compelling a fantasy manga can be when there are stakes, and the main character isn't a plank of wood and the development goes beyond "new harem member/forbidden ancient godkiller S++++++ rank magic/japanese rice acquired" and how party dynamics can be fun when they focus more on the party being an actual party of adventurers instead of how much everyone wants to have the protagonist's babies.

Another Random said:
New series on Shonen Jump may be the best of this batch.


Wrestling, aliens, brutal.
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Wrestlingisn'tgaybros....
 
Yesterday i found "The Bugle Call - Song of War" on WeebCentral and so far i like it
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    In Arboral Year 1294, the world is dominated by nine massive towers known as the Spires, remnants of an ancient civilization. Filled with lost secrets and powerful knowledge, nations struggle to possess them. Luca is a bugler in a mercenary company who wants nothing more than to leave the battlefield behind and become a true musician, a maestro. But marked as one of the enigmatic Branch-hexed, and gifted with the strange ability to see the sound of his instrument, Luca finds himself drawn reluctantly into a war of epic proportions

And out of context screenshot of one of giften ones that can heal people (her ability is pretty much that she transfers the injuries on someone else so pows are good for that)
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> Spend whole life perfecting supernatural abilities
> Get your shit kicked in by a 16 year old with a regular gun
It's always funny seeing the rare shonen anime that makes guns actually deadly
 
For those regarding GITS manga being inferior compared to the movie and whatnot, they should give it a look. Kusanagi is a literal slutty bitch who gets drunk, sets off a (small) bomb while being under a drunken rage to piss off her boss (and accidentally blows up HER own car), is lesbian or bi... But, when she's working, she's serious. The manga becomes increasingly serious as the cases grow more complex, and the movie ends in a very similar way. The movie made her robotic from minute zero, which made her rants about the sense of self and whatever felt off since she acted like a massive autist at best, an emotionless robot at worst.
 
Another Random said:
New series on Shonen Jump may be the best of this batch.


Wrestling, aliens, brutal.
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I'm upset! There was no alien being headbutt in the first chapter But outside that it was a really solid first chapter, I hope it continues to this level past the first chapter. I felt like it set up all it wants to, But I do hope we get some more flashbacks to his wrestling career. Definitely will watch this manga with great interest.
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What's with sunday releases always being so good? Sunday is stacked, meanwhile the rest of the week is really nothing outside CSM Tuesdays and Dandadan Mondays. I guess Kagurabachi is forever carrying the sunday releases
 
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