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Tor Lugosi said:
Finished up Goblin Slayer and the Saga of Tanya the Evil recently. I haven't really been into serious anime since like... the days of downloading the shit with Kazaa and eMule. I've mostly been getting my weeb fix with comedies like Umaru, Kill Me Baby, and Shinryaku.

Goblin Slayer was alright. It was definitely entertaining and enjoyable but I don't think it ever really lived up to the potential it shows in the first episode. More often than not it seemed like it settled for being generic high fantasy, just with more blood and gore. The idea that this universe's gods are just bored RPGers is interesting, though I think also not fully realized.

Related to that, the little epilogue speech at the end of the season about how the Goblin Slayer's meticulous planning was to counter the gods' love of random chance but I never really got the sense that that was the case. Felt like the writers weren't good or creative enough to actually incorporate that into the actual show, so they just blurt it out at the end to make it seem like that it was actually the case all along.

I didn't really like the Goblin Slayer's 'main party'. The priestess girl is alright since she actually gets developed throughout it, and at least the elf archer and the lizard have some personality traits, but the dwarf felt like a non-character. Given what happens in the first episode I kept expecting one of them to randomly catch an arrow through the skull in the middle of an episode.

Still, Goblin Slayer himself as a character manages to carry the show. Even if it never really realizes its potential I'd probably still just continue to watch his further adventures and elaborate plans to kill shit.

The Saga of Tanya the Evil, on the other hand, was pure excellence from beginning to end. I never thought Japan's love of lolis in military uniforms would ever lead to something so great. I don't have much to say on this one because I enjoyed pretty much everything. Tanya's aerial mage battles were especially great. Usually music in anime doesn't do much for me but I even got hooked on the show's opening and closing songs.

If I had any complaints it'd be that the animation seemed somewhat schizophrenic. A lot of detail is given to Tanya and her expressions, hair, and movements, but once she's off the screen there'd often seem to be a dip in quality. I also think the 40 year jump into the future with the prologue of the movie (which should've just been called Tanya vs Commie Scum) was a mistake and unnecessarily pigeonholes the series' story going forward. Although I guess Tanya ending up in this universe's version of Operation Paperclip could be amusing.

Up next I'll probably watch Demon Slayer. Is Rise of the Shield Hero actually worth watching? That was another one on my list but I'm not entirely sure about it. I also tried KonoSuba but couldn't get into it; Slayers is one of my all time favorites but KonoSuba just did nothing for me.
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In Tanya the Evil, the lightnovels go back and forth between the present and the future, they just took it out of the show. Personally, I agree with you, I dont like it either.

From what I've read of Shield Hero, it falls for the same pitfall that Goblin Slayer does. Great first episode, but then sort of just stumbles afterwards. Its what you get when you have amateur writers doing fuck all without actually thinking shit through.

Demon Slayer is good. A generic story, but a good one, and the animation really raises it to the next level.
 
Yesterday I watched A Silent Voice, it's nice but doesn't live up to the hype. It looks good but I found it a bit hollow.
The film has two major problems:
First, the deaf girl isn't really a character and that really hurts the overall story. We don't know her internal feelings beyond her growing affection and she doesn't get a meaningful developement. She exists more as a plot device than as an organic part of the setting, and acts more like an angel than a human being. We need to see her get emotional, mad or violent rather than just alternating being happy and sad. Her love with the main character is also kinda weird, why does the main character want to be with her and vice versa, especially when they don't really communicate? The film raises the question but never answers it, it's just movie love where affection between people is taken for granted.
Second, the main idea of the film is the idea of repercussion. The actions you take have consequences that will hunt you for the rest of your life. But the problem is that it's only true for part of the cast, the rest (which is the majority of the characters) also do bad shit and never suffer for it, which muddies the message into "sometimes there are consequences but usually not".
Also reading about the film online, there's a look of autism of fans writing about it. Especially the bullying in the beginning (which isn't as severe as I thought it would be) that doesn't seem to have as much consequences to the person being bullied as there is to the main character. Protip: If you judge a morality of a person for their action in grade school, you are pretty fucked up.
 

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I know this dude is using One Angry Gamer as a source, but apparently this anime which I saw posted on twitter apparently was so unpopular that they axed it 12 episodes in. Apparently it dealt with LGBT themes and was discussed here a few pages ago.
 
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I know this dude is using One Angry Gamer as a source, but apparently this anime which I saw posted on twitter apparently was so unpopular that they axed it 12 episodes in. Apparently it dealt with LGBT themes and was discussed here a few pages ago.
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So 8bit was almost going out of business? Had it gone broke, that'd have been calls for celebration. I mean yeah, that'll mean no more Yama no Susume, unless another studio picks it up, but 8bit's been mediocre at best, and they fucked up Rewrite. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime was just a fluke.

Good on them for seeing the writing on the wall and pulling it quickly, but my crab rave on the death of this studio will have to wait.

So a comedy channel uploaded this a couple days ago. It's enough of a parody to go into this thread, but it was cringey enough to be in the Weeaboos thread.
 
InsolentGaylord said:

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I know this dude is using One Angry Gamer as a source, but apparently this anime which I saw posted on twitter apparently was so unpopular that they axed it 12 episodes in. Apparently it dealt with LGBT themes and was discussed here a few pages ago.
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I really hope the industry doesn't let her work in their playpen again until she drops the show entirely. Because Japan won't tolerate that shit.

Still, would have been fun to see a b-tier anime studio shut down over it. 8bit was never good.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
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So 8bit was almost going out of business? Had it gone broke, that'd have been calls for celebration. I mean yeah, that'll mean no more Yama no Susume, unless another studio picks it up, but 8bit's been mediocre at best, and they fucked up Rewrite. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime was just a fluke.

Good on them for seeing the writing on the wall and pulling it quickly, but my crab rave on the death of this studio will have to wait.
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They made Rewrite anime? Fuckers need to pay. That's one of my favourite VNs, it really did the "let's give each heroine to another writer" thing well. And the anime looked so mediocre.

Anyways I've heard something about this, in some way it's kinda sad that the western LGBT poisoned the well so badly that it nuked any goodwill those kinds of story had.
 
Okay guys, I need an anime recommendation (no movies though). Any genre is fair game :sighduck:
 
Shady Attorney said:
I’ve seen that one. It’s a pretty good show. Only have the last two episodes to watch.
If it’s any recent seasonal anime, I’ve probably watched it or shelved it for later
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If that's the case, I'd recommend an upcoming anime called Jujutsu Kaisen. No solid release date yet, but it's a body horror series about curses/demons that feed off the sins of humanity. Think Parasyte the Maxim except instead of aliens it's the sins and fears of humanity made manifest.
 
A question: Do you guys think that Anime will start pandering to "western audience" (more accurately the blue checkmark morons on Twitter) due to foreign influence? Or is that just BS that OAG believes because he's very unhinged?
 
I almost linked this directly but decided to put it on archive because OAG is a very shitty site (the guy is clearly crazy). But after the Red Cross anime tiddy outrage on twitter, Comiket did a blood drive that didn't use big tiddy animu girls for promotion...and it appears to have resulted in less blood donations.

I guess this goes to show that listening to those people isn't a good idea.

 
Deadwaste said:
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InsolentGaylord said:
A question: Do you guys think that Anime will start pandering to "western audience" (more accurately the blue checkmark morons on Twitter) due to foreign influence? Or is that just BS that OAG believes because he's very unhinged?
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It is BS. Anime is largely made for a Japanese audience first and nothing's going to change that. I could see a rise in coproductions but that's different.

By the by, has he gotten over Ralph Bighead yet? Or the lesbians in My Little Pony?
 
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