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I made it through about half of Den-noh Coil, but I'm out.

It's an interesting premise; in the near future, effectively everyone wears AR glasses that lets them see pets and other creatures that don't actually exist in the real world. Some kids are exploring "illegals," which are like bugs in the system which tend to get hunted down and destroyed by Searchies, large floating monsters built for this purpose.

The problem is that they don't really clear up the rules for how the AR world works. Searchies will chase after humans who have illegals with them, and the kids seem to react in mortal fear when this happens, but how does being "attacked" in the AR world hurt them in the real world? There doesn't seem to be any sort of "if you die in the game, YOU DIE IN THE REAL WORLD" thing, and the times that lesser characters are attacked with AR weapons, they don't seem to be permanently hurt or anything like that. It doesn't really make much sense. In the last episode I saw, the kids tried to move a large illegal from one part of town to another, but they had to do it in the early morning because that illegal could only travel in darkness and was injured by light. Why? No other illegal was affected by light that way. And why would light in the real world injure a creature in the AR world? Never mind that the episode as a whole was a clear filler ep that had no effect on the greater plot. It was dumb.

On the other hand, I liked the character design and the overall look of the show, with its muted colors and decent animation.
 
i have a bone to pick with season 2 of mob psycho 100 because that shit tugged at my heartstrings way too much what the fuck. was not expecting that coming into this series. i usually don't fall for wholesome stuff but it really got to me several times.
 
averagejane said:
i have a bone to pick with season 2 of mob psycho 100 because that shit tugged at my heartstrings way too much what the fuck. was not expecting that coming into this series. i usually don't fall for wholesome stuff but it really got to me several times.
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Are you a manga and anime or only anime? Theres some pretty funny omakes they left.
 
Somari1996 said:
Nichijou is getting Dubbed!
https://twitter.com/WTK/status/1117937095581085702
Really hope they outsource this one to LA since I don't trust Funi with their own VAs on something like this.
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Personally didn't care about the show when I saw it and wondered what was funny about it, but that's actually pretty cool. Might check out the dub when it's available and see if that fares better for me.
 
sasazuka said:
On a tangent, I have a hunch that an English dub of Non Non Biyori will be announced soon to tie in with the western release of the movie.
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While I'd like a dub of Non Non Biyori as well, I just don't like the idea of Funimation and Sentai releasing these shows on dvd subbed only, just so they can re-release it 2 or 3 years later with a new dub, kinda screwing over the people who already bought the subbed versions. Already annoyed that they're doing it with Nichijou when they could have made a dub back when they released it on home video back in 2017.
 
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Somari1996 said:
Nichijou is getting Dubbed!
https://twitter.com/WTK/status/1117937095581085702
Really hope they outsource this one to LA since I don't trust Funi with their own VAs on something like this.
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Somari1996 said:
While I'd like a dub of Non Non Biyori as well, I just don't like the idea of Funimation and Sentai releasing these shows on dvd subbed only, just so they can re-release it 2 or 3 years later with a new dub, kinda screwing over the people who already bought the subbed versions. Already annoyed that they're doing it with Nichijou when they could have made a dub back when they released it on home video back in 2017.
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I'm glad I waited to buy this now that it's confirmed it's getting a dub. Whoever dubs this I hope Brittney Karbowski and Kira Vincent-Davis get cast in it.

Hopefully they will have a trade in program for people who bought the sub only release. I know Sentai has done that it the past where you could get like $20-$30 off the new release with a dub. I can't remember if Funimation has done something like that though.
 
averagejane said:
oh, it wasn't an actual complaint. i was mostly joking about having a bone to pick with the series lol. it was surprising though, but i appreciate the series more for it.
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ONEs works are usually pretty good. Even if his art isnt the best, hes a great storyteller.
 
PS1gamenwatch said:
I was a fan of this show that was like a compilation of his works:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vp34RLjL1oM
RIP Punch Man
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Reminded he created this....
https://letsanime.blogspot.com/2007/07/scoopers.html

sasazuka said:
So why did the anime adaptation of the most beloved classic Canadian children's novel series of all-time never air in English in Canada? I had suspected that CBC didn't want it to compete with their own lavish live-action Anne of Green Gables miniseries starring Meagan Follows but I just looked it up and found out that it didn't air until December 1985, over 6 years after the anime was made. Even given that western anime licensing was, at best, an afterthought to Japanese studios in 1979 and the few anime shows that did make it to English-language television in North America usually took around 3 years to be licensed and localized, that would mean that a hypothetical English-Canadian dub of the Anne of Green Gables anime would have started airing around 1982. As such, by the time the CBC's live-action series aired three years later, the localization of the Japanese animated version would have already been old news.

I think perhaps it was just that French-Canadian kids were more open to watching anime dubbed than their English-Canadian counterparts back in the 1980s, since Francophones were far more used to watching TV shows and movies that were dubbed from another language, quite often from English. It seems like a weak reason to reject something now that anime is well-accepted but maybe English-speaking Canadian kids embracing a foreign adaptation of a Canadian classic was just too far-fetched an idea for English-language Canadian public television channels in the pre-"Sailor Moon on YTV" era.
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I wish I knew the answer. It's true though French Canada (practically Quebec alone) embraced anime a lot more than the rest of the country given what got on the airwaves back then. The amount of French-dubbed Japanese cartoons that managed to get airplay in Quebec is quite unique and amazing compared to what meager pickings the rest of the country had.
 
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Just wanna give a quick shout-out to @Fougaro for bringing attention to Shadow Skill. I finished it this afternoon, and it was indeed a fun series. Like no joke, each episode went by so quick for me that I'm convinced this is probably the only martial arts anime with excellent pacing because I'm not a big fan of martial arts anime to begin with. But Elle and Gau were just way too much fun, as were some of the side characters, and the dub was great. Had weird moments for being one of ADV's later dubs, but it was enjoyable. The music's fantastic, too, the soundtrack was appropriate, "Born Legend" is one of the more unique openings I've heard in ages and the EDs are catchy.

Well, actually speaking of pacing, some of the timeframe skipped around a lot in some cases, like that was weird placement for a few episodes here and there, and you can totally tell that Studio Deen just had no budget to speak of, but I was impressed with the digital coloring for a 1998 anime. Has some beautiful art, and again, the OP should pretty much just be GOAT alongside classics like Evangelion, Escaflowne, El Hazard TV series, stuff like that that I never skipped--really couldn't if I wanted to due to watching it on the Xbox One on a jittery connection, but I never wanted to skip it.

Recommended it to a mutual friend not long ago, don't know if he started it yet. F*cking monkey.
 
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