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Masterani.me died. Big loss. I've used it since 2016 and it is by far the best website (not service) I've seen. Follow an anime, it auto-ticks as watched if you make it 80% through, and you got your own tab of all your fav'd shows, and if you're all up to date, it's empty. Basically: Go to bed, open tab, see if anything new is there, if not, sleep.

It got DMCA'd the other day and I've been trying to find another site. At this point I'm used to disgusting ads, but even accepting that, holy shit are the alternatives bad. This one can track when you've "watched" the episode, but it doesn't have favorites? Or even a list of recently added episodes?

That quintuplets anime made me finally give in and start reading the manga instead, and it's such a weird experience. I'm so used to the 12/24 part pacing of anime that manga feels like fan art. Beach episodes last the length of an arc but there's 220 chapters so it's okay in a way?

I've quit on a lot of anime I've now read as manga, and the ones I haven't are solely because I can't be fucked reading them. Mob Psycho II is good but not good enough to read my way through. Checking that one anime tab a day wasn't a chore but it's kind of nice not having to anymore.

It's most likely on the far more competent translators, but manga has superior humor and pacing to me. I practically screenshot something for meme potential every 20 pages.
 
Wasn't it supposed to be like a series of movies and they changed their minds, or am I misremembering?

Anyhoo, watching Witchblade currently because it's super relevant to Women's History Month lel. Not bad at all.
 
For the first time in a long while, I watched anime... Too bad it was the first special of Persona 5 The Animation.

It was just more of the same shit from the TV series: rushed pacing, changes to the plot which made no sense, mediocre or sometimes even bad animation/art... Everything about it was lazy. How did the guy who directed Shinsekai Yori go on to make this?
ForgedBlades said:
PSYCHO-PASS SEASON 3 CONFIRMED, NOT A DRILL

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-03-08/psycho-pass-anime-gets-3rd-season/.144332
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I hope season 3 will be much better than the disaster that was season 2 and that it won't feature that annoying idiot Mika. She was one of the worst parts (if not THE worst part) of the whole thing
 
ATaxingWoman said:
For the first time in a long while, I watched anime... Too bad it was the first special of Persona 5 The Animation.

It was just more of the same shit from the TV series: rushed pacing, changes to the plot which made no sense, mediocre or sometimes even bad animation/art... Everything about it was lazy. How did the guy who directed Shinsekai Yori go on to make this?
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It honestly baffles me how much bad luck Persona has had with its anime adaptations, even compared to other JRPGs that get adapated. Barring the original Persona 4 Animation, literally none of the anime have been really good (Golden anime is basically just a shallow adaptation of all the new content, the P3 movies bullrushed the pacing, and the P5 anime just feels like it was made by people who never wanted to make it).
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Anyhoo, watching Witchblade currently because it's super relevant to Women's History Month lel. Not bad at all.
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Come for the tits, asses and the orgasmic sounds the hot chicks make when they fight (at least in the dub); but unironically stay for the plot, the characters, the sweet mother/daughter dynamic between Masane and Rihoko and the feels. The many, many feels... And of course the amazing opening theme.
 
ChevroletBlackboard said:
It honestly baffles me how much bad luck Persona has had with its anime adaptations, even compared to other JRPGs that get adapated. Barring the original Persona 4 Animation, literally none of the anime have been really good (Golden anime is basically just a shallow adaptation of all the new content, the P3 movies bullrushed the pacing, and the P5 anime just feels like it was made by people who never wanted to make it).
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I will say this: I thought the Persona 3 films, while rushed, had their moments. The first episode that focused on Adachi in Persona 4 Golden, plus the first half of the second episode (not the second half though, the show down was stupid) were pretty good, despite the rest of the series being absolute dog shit with Marie being shoved in where she didn't belong.

But yes, overall, the Persona series (or rather Persona 3-5) has not been treated nicely when it comes to its adaptations. And as long as it keeps bringing Atlus ¥, we will be getting more of these (plus spin-offs)
 
I recently watched Angel Cop on Blu Ray with the new direct translation subs. I laughed my ass off. How anybody could take content like that seriously is mind boggling to me. It was like watching an anime with a screenplay written by a homeless methhead conspiracy theorist. In other words, it was entertaining.
 
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'Kay, it's been a long while since I watched Ginga Nagareboshi Gin but I sure as hell don't remember anything about there being sexism because they're fucking wild dogs. The bitches hunt for food, too, but they have to bear children and they get called bitches (properly), so that's rampant sexism.
 
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'Kay, it's been a long while since I watched Ginga Nagareboshi Gin but I sure as hell don't remember anything about there being sexism because they're fucking wild dogs. The bitches hunt for food, too, but they have to bear children and they get called bitches (properly), so that's rampant sexism.
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Why is an anime about dogs called "Galaxy Falling Star Gin"?

Yeah, I've memorized the lyrics to enough Urusei Yatsura theme songs to know what "nagareboshi" means, heh.
 
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There’s the likes of kissanime but they do have a lot of adverts, plus you have to register (For free) if you want to download files.
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I need to re-emphasize just how uninterested I am in using pirate sites. I have no time for the fake download links and the carcinogenic ads and all that. You zoomers put up with that garbage if you want to, but this boomer has learned the value of just paying a couple bucks a month and getting a legitimate, quality experience.

…And HiDive is what I ended up finding. Apparently this is run by the Sentai people, which IIRC is what's left of the juggernaut ADV was back when I was more into this stuff. The oldest thing on the site that I've found is Gatchaman from '72, a sentai monster-of-the-week sort of thing that's pretty fun, though it bugs me that the rules of the universe are inconsistent between episodes. Beyond that, there's a smattering of stuff from the '80s and even more from the '90s. They have some live-action stuff, too; the Godzilla movie from '84 was fun. They also had Gunbuster, a series I remember enjoying fifteen years ago or whenever, but I guess the Japan side had chopped up bits of the whole series to turn it into a movie. It definitely felt spliced together, but it was still fun to watch and had some really interesting sci-fi concepts beyond the standard giant combining fighting mecha.

HiDive has some modern stuff, too. I saw Land of the Lustrous after it rang a bell from a YouTube video I saw about it a while back. That show has a dumb premise - gemstones personified as androgynous 12-year-olds, basically - but it was actually pretty compelling. Too bad it kind of skids to a stop plot-wise - wonder if it was a case where they had to stop the series mid-season because ratings were bad or something like that. Now I'm watching The Promised Neverland, where some of the kids at an orphanage discover that they're basically living in a prison they need to escape from - there's a bit more to it than that, but I don't want to spoil it. It's very clever and suspenseful so far.

And it's all of $5 a month. That's impulse-buy territory, and their site's not going to give my computer canceraids. I'd suggest giving it a look.

(It's really amazing the free time you have again after you get a divorce. Not that I'd recommend it…)
 
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I need to re-emphasize just how uninterested I am in using pirate sites. I have no time for the fake download links and the carcinogenic ads and all that. You zoomers put up with that garbage if you want to, but this boomer has learned the value of just paying a couple bucks a month and getting a legitimate, quality experience.

…And HiDive is what I ended up finding. Apparently this is run by the Sentai people, which IIRC is what's left of the juggernaut ADV was back when I was more into this stuff. The oldest thing on the site that I've found is Gatchaman from '72, a sentai monster-of-the-week sort of thing that's pretty fun, though it bugs me that the rules of the universe are inconsistent between episodes. Beyond that, there's a smattering of stuff from the '80s and even more from the '90s. They have some live-action stuff, too; the Godzilla movie from '84 was fun. They also had Gunbuster, a series I remember enjoying fifteen years ago or whenever, but I guess the Japan side had chopped up bits of the whole series to turn it into a movie. It definitely felt spliced together, but it was still fun to watch and had some really interesting sci-fi concepts beyond the standard giant combining fighting mecha.

HiDive has some modern stuff, too. I saw Land of the Lustrous after it rang a bell from a YouTube video I saw about it a while back. That show has a dumb premise - gemstones personified as androgynous 12-year-olds, basically - but it was actually pretty compelling. Too bad it kind of skids to a stop plot-wise - wonder if it was a case where they had to stop the series mid-season because ratings were bad or something like that. Now I'm watching The Promised Neverland, where some of the kids at an orphanage discover that they're basically living in a prison they need to escape from - there's a bit more to it than that, but I don't want to spoil it. It's very clever and suspenseful so far.

And it's all of $5 a month. That's impulse-buy territory, and their site's not going to give my computer canceraids. I'd suggest giving it a look.

(It's really amazing the free time you have again after you get a divorce. Not that I'd recommend it…)
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I do agree they have some really good stuff. Every Gatchaman series, plus the Battle of the Planets dub; a couple of old Tatsunoko shows; Space Runaway Ideon...

But when it comes to anime streaming services... if Discotek Media, say, were to start their own streaming service I would be all over that. (They provide some of the really good stuff on Crunchyroll, but if they had their own streaming service think of the things we could get in America!)
 
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Is it just me or does Berserk lose almost all of it's momentum after the Lost Children Ark? The shit with the prostitutes and Mozogus is a huge slog.
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I always loved the Knights of the Holy Chains arc, since it helped flesh out the setting a lot and there's some really creative and bizarre things coming together. I do admit that Golden Age Arc > Lost Children Arc > Knights of the Holy Chains Arc.

I wonder how a reader that picks up Berserk now would experience the Loveboat Arc, since I've been reading Berserk for a decade and a small portion was breezing through everything up to the point where they get on the boat and all of the rest was spent waiting for a new chapter every 10 months or so, which really makes me hate the Arc and I don't really know if it's a piss weak arc or if it's just the torture of waiting so long.
 
Man One Pace really has saved the One Piece anime for me. Like I get some people enjoy the added screen time & character development, But I just can't, at least not at the price of the show going at such a sluggish pace.
 
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HunterxHunter's Chimera Ant arc is such a beautiful study in constant peaking escalation that I'm kind of worried how explosive the ending of this part is going to be. Only about halfway through right now.
 
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