The recent one, sister all you need is even better.
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The recent one, sister all you need is even better.
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Seeing this on twitter reminded me that the Emiya gohan anime, basically just a cooking spinoff of the original FSN, is my second favourite Fate/ thing after Case files. It mostly works if you like the original cast but if you do it's fun to just see them goof off and enjoy food instead of murdering each other.
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It’s been a month since I first watched Puella Madoka Magica.
I have to get back to finishing it somehow.
I have to get back to finishing it somehow.
Is it wrong I like both?
Man, I struggle with that series, and not just because of the Yuri ick. Watching Butcher do his thing with magic girls is rough.
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I started Fushigi Yugi yesterday because I bought the first season (Pioneer) boxset at Half-Price this past weekend. First two episodes went alright even though I'm just all like "Uhhhhhh", then my brother kicked me off the TV for a couple of hours, and after dinner, watched two more episodes and I had to fight myself to stay awake. I need to time out my anime-watching better or something.
But uh... really? This show was popular? Not the best first episodes, the only thing that was remotely interesting is that it looks like two girls are needed, one to be the legendary Suzaku and the other to be the reader. I'm gonna use my women's intuition and say that Yui later (by the halfway point or so) is going to be super jealous of Miaka and will stop reading or want to switch places with her because this self-insert fantasy is not all that fun if she can't join in to be adored on by the others.
Also Miaka is annoying, holy shit, I'm having a hard time believing anyone could like her. Least she was tolerable in the first episode because of course she's going to be confused about where she is and what's going on and then butting heads with Tamahome, but everything else after that is some fucking Mary Sue territory. Unless it's all just the anime's fault, Yuu Watase had better impress me with this. Although, given how the anime adaptation of Ceres, Celestial Legend went (what a fucking disappointment, that was), I guess I just don't have high hopes this is going to do the story justice. I mean, it got popular for a reason.
But I hope this isn't another "falling asleep watching Rurouni Kenshin" scenario I'm finding myself in.
But uh... really? This show was popular? Not the best first episodes, the only thing that was remotely interesting is that it looks like two girls are needed, one to be the legendary Suzaku and the other to be the reader. I'm gonna use my women's intuition and say that Yui later (by the halfway point or so) is going to be super jealous of Miaka and will stop reading or want to switch places with her because this self-insert fantasy is not all that fun if she can't join in to be adored on by the others.
Also Miaka is annoying, holy shit, I'm having a hard time believing anyone could like her. Least she was tolerable in the first episode because of course she's going to be confused about where she is and what's going on and then butting heads with Tamahome, but everything else after that is some fucking Mary Sue territory. Unless it's all just the anime's fault, Yuu Watase had better impress me with this. Although, given how the anime adaptation of Ceres, Celestial Legend went (what a fucking disappointment, that was), I guess I just don't have high hopes this is going to do the story justice. I mean, it got popular for a reason.
But I hope this isn't another "falling asleep watching Rurouni Kenshin" scenario I'm finding myself in.
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Oh god, I just thought about how much I spent on the first season boxset back in 1999 or early 2000 only to find out I wasn't as much into watching it a second time (after having already seen it via VHS fansubs at an anime club). I think I ordered it from DVD Express so there was a slight discount but not enough to offset the ridiculous importation fee that Canada Post made you pay upon delivery at the time. I think the original MSRP was something like $200 U.S. but with the exchange rate, shipping, and the importation fee, it came to something like $400 Canadian altogether.
I don't think it's much of a spoiler at this point for me to tell you that Yui gets there eventually but there's a twist that's kind of disturbing. She thinks she was raped and turns against Miaka though it was just a fake memory implanted by some kind of mind manipulation magic.
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Wait....people buy anime. Like with money? In the west?
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I can't speak for anyone else here but I still like to own anime I like on physical media.
That being said, I'm glad that, for modern anime, I pretty much only stick to late night anime that airs in "cour" (short seasons) of only 12 or 13 episodes each as even the Blu-Ray sets cost me less than a quarter of what I paid for that Fushigi Yuugi box set two decades ago.
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It's become more common for me to buy second-hand copies nowadays tbh because I'm a cheapskate, and I only buy from Sentai Filmworks when there's a sale going on (such as their current summer sale). Even manga tends to be used, I typically only buy new stuff if it's currently being released like Urusei Yatsura and (the recently finished) Umineko. If it's "like new", I'm still typically purchasing it from a thrift store.
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I'll buy anime I love and know I'll re-watch constantly in the future. Just recently bought the four seasons of Yu Yu Hakusho on blu-ray for like $25 each. Before that I bought The Saga of Tanya the Evil for around $20.
I can't imagine paying $300 for Persona 5 or any ridiculous shit like that, though I know people will.
I can't imagine paying $300 for Persona 5 or any ridiculous shit like that, though I know people will.
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Rumor has it that urobuchi might some day get back to fucking finishing it as well
Seriously niggers, at this point I half expect freakin Berserk to wrap up before I get a Madoka finale
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For anyone that is a fan of the 90's anime The Slayers, J-novel Club, a subscription-based Light Novel translator, added the original novels to their lineup of books.
For those unaware, the first two seasons cover some, but not all, of the events of the first eight novels(which were all translated by VIZ but was dropped after that point). Even for the stuff in both versions, there were many added and removed characters and scenes, one of the bigger ones being two reoccurring characters that barely shared any screen time together in the novels (Zelgadis and Amelia) become main characters with a romance subplot between them. Since the anime caught up where the novels were at(at the time) with the second season, the third did its own thing, but in the end is just 26 episodes of getting to a plot point that happened at the end of the eighth novel(Gourry losing the Sword of Light forever, but he gets another magic sword later on that, while not as fancy presentation-wise, is much more effective as a blade... if I put it in the most literal terms). The reboot seasons also do their own thing, though they reporpose some of the characters in the arcs the first two seasons skipped over, but most(including the plush guy), are wholly original. Also Gourry is way less dumb. In fact the author stated he could be one of the world's best magicians if he wanted to learn magic... but he wants to use a sword instead by choice.
For those unaware, the first two seasons cover some, but not all, of the events of the first eight novels(which were all translated by VIZ but was dropped after that point). Even for the stuff in both versions, there were many added and removed characters and scenes, one of the bigger ones being two reoccurring characters that barely shared any screen time together in the novels (Zelgadis and Amelia) become main characters with a romance subplot between them. Since the anime caught up where the novels were at(at the time) with the second season, the third did its own thing, but in the end is just 26 episodes of getting to a plot point that happened at the end of the eighth novel(Gourry losing the Sword of Light forever, but he gets another magic sword later on that, while not as fancy presentation-wise, is much more effective as a blade... if I put it in the most literal terms). The reboot seasons also do their own thing, though they reporpose some of the characters in the arcs the first two seasons skipped over, but most(including the plush guy), are wholly original. Also Gourry is way less dumb. In fact the author stated he could be one of the world's best magicians if he wanted to learn magic... but he wants to use a sword instead by choice.
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Aw I would prefer physical copies tho
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it's funny, in the planning stages for the third movie it would end on madoka saving homura but urobuchi was convinced by the producer and director to add the final ending so the series could continue. but then they never did anything with it.
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Quick reminder that the Berserk Deluxe Edition mangas are still expensive to get.
I just glanced on Amazon and the first three volumes of the DE are $100. (Not necessarily bad as far expenses go, but $100 for the first three is just ridiculous.)
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I just placed an order for Discotek titles at Robert's Anime Corner Store (only because I couldn't find Gun Frontier on torrents). Neither of them have posted BLM shit. If they bamboozle me, too, I'll be officially done with buying. Not gonna pay the bald dickhead Bezos to sponsor joggers wrecking small businesses.
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I'm reading Baki Son of Ogre and I fucking love it. The art is grotesquely beautiful, the writing is buttfuck insane, and it's so manly it forgot that women existed until one got raped for plot reasons. Baki's girlfriend didn't even show up for over a hundred chapters, and she's drawn so basic compared to the dudes it starts to get gayer than Jojo. Highly recommended.
Besides that, I'm liking Kengan Omega a little less than Ashura. Maybe it's because it's not over yet, but I much prefer the fighters from Ashura over the Purgatory guys so far. I still like it, and I really want to see what happens next. I feel like Ohma was a more interesting hero from a thematic sense than Koga. Ohma is a dude who loves to fight, and his entire life is about fighting. The story that comes from that is about why everyone else fights as well, from money to duty to justice, it helps explore the reasons the other guys fight. Koga's story is about becoming stronger, and it is fun, and it's still developing in that direction. We'll see where it goes though, I'd still recommend the series.
Besides that, I'm liking Kengan Omega a little less than Ashura. Maybe it's because it's not over yet, but I much prefer the fighters from Ashura over the Purgatory guys so far. I still like it, and I really want to see what happens next. I feel like Ohma was a more interesting hero from a thematic sense than Koga. Ohma is a dude who loves to fight, and his entire life is about fighting. The story that comes from that is about why everyone else fights as well, from money to duty to justice, it helps explore the reasons the other guys fight. Koga's story is about becoming stronger, and it is fun, and it's still developing in that direction. We'll see where it goes though, I'd still recommend the series.
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Unfortunately, aside from a handful of super-popular titles that you can buy at Walmart, there aren't too many options left but Amazon for Canadian fans of anime on physical media who don't want to pay for international shipping.
There still is an anime store in Ottawa but they stopped selling anime last year and now only sell manga and merchandise.