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Safir said:
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 actually heard about that site a couple of years ago.
I just signed up for the mailing list, but for me, I always could go on RightStufAnime for manga products.
 
Inari said:
Kinda getting into Apocalypse Zero. Pretty bad ass imo.
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I had forgotten about this till recently. the official translators stopped because it was too fucked up to sell without plastic wrap which killed manga sales back then, and the fan translators stopped after a couple chapters ten years ago, and now suddenly started up again. I'm really interested to see the end of this weird ass journey.

for anyone who doesn't know, Apocalypse Zero/Kakugo no Susume is a weird as fuck manga series about this kamen rider guy who ruthlessly fights giant bdsm monsters and his brother, who went tranny after putting on his own sentient kamen rider suit and now wants to destroy an already decimated post-apocalypse humanity because environmentalism. for how completely insane it is there's a good amount of heart to it too. it's much less depressing and serious than his other popular work Shigurui.

anyways here's the mc taking out one of said bdsm monsters early in the series.

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there's also an ova that covers a small part of the first couple fights of the manga as sort of an advertisement for it. I think there's some terrible ps1 fighting game too but that can be ignored.
 
Trashfire Garbagefuck said:
and the fan translators stopped after a couple chapters ten years ago, and now suddenly started up again.
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One of my friends who's been getting into anime actually enjoyed the Apocalypse Zero OVA for what it was, he was rather upset that the first volume of the manga is so fucking expensive even used because he'd like to get the manga for himself. If the scanlations are starting up again and will hopefully finish this time around, I'll have to let him know about it, he'll be stoked to hear. Probably will be his first true array into scanlations since he prefers physical copies but can't help it here.

Maybe if we're lucky, someone like Seven Seas or whoever will pick the rights back up to do a re-release. If Elfen Lied could get a release here, so can Apocalypse Zero--though I'd understand if it's too niche to really risk it. Elfen Lied only started coming out because the anime has remained quite popular so there was a demand for the manga.
 
I have been re-reading the Rosario + Vampire manga on /a/. I recall it being a pretty unremarkable, but it's a lot better than I remember. It's funny to see a series go from a basic ecchi rom-com with a monster of the week formula to a more traditional Shounen, complete with real arcs and villains.

I usually stay away from harems as I typically hate the main character in those type of stories, but the protagonist in this at least gets stronger and starts to have actually agency in the story. He is still indecisive with the girls in the harem although the manga dose bring it up but never really offers a conclusion and has a status quo ending. The art and fight scenes improve a lot too and the cast is well fleshed out.

It also has a masochist goth witch in the harem so it gets a 10/10 from me.
 
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Fools Idol said:
have been re-reading the Rosario + Vampire manga on /a/. I recall it being a pretty unremarkable, but it's a lot better than I remember. It's funny to see a series go from a basic ecchi rom-com with a monster of the week formula to a more traditional Shounen, complete with real arcs and villains.
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I remember Negima did something similar. Akamatsu apparently wanted to write a shonen action manga, but publishers basically wanted him to re-create Love Hina. So he got sneaky and wrote a shonen action manga disguised as an ecchi harem romcom.

It actually got quite hype near the end, especially when Jack Rakan entered the scene.
 
Safir said:
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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How are the prices there and do they ship to Canada? Even if the politics were ok, Amazon Canada is a fucking joke with most anime being only from 3rd party vendors at insane prices, like the Fist of the North Star SDBD set being over $240!
 
Sir Wesley Tailpipe said:
How are the prices there and do they ship to Canada?
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Robert's Anime Corner does ship internationally, so yes, should ship to Canada just fine. They work closely with a lot of anime retail, but it looks like when you buy from their site, their prices are cheaper (looking at the Captain Harlock DVD, for example, that's actually pretty good). You won't get used copies from them, but you can sell used to them or I think even through the site. You can also find them through Amazon, that's how I learned about them 'cause I bought a few manga from them that way, and they came in nice, cared for packages each time.
 
InsolentGaylord said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9_gpapHLvvU
Anime is finally over. It was a good run, screw America and fuck SJWs.
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I think this YT comment sums it up best:

I think the bigger issue is that Japanese people are learning English to a level of fluency more than in the past and consuming anglophonic media. This will inevitably boil a lot of Japanese media properties into something less interesting over time.
 
albertbrown26 said:
I think this YT comment sums it up best:

I think the bigger issue is that Japanese people are learning English to a level of fluency more than in the past and consuming anglophonic media. This will inevitably boil a lot of Japanese media properties into something less interesting over time.
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That based on an actual fact or an assumption?

I got the impression they always consumed western entertainment quite often to a degree for a long time.

And well...Japanese entertainment has waxed and waned in the west too in popularity. If the west, which is looking increasingly unlikely to produce quality shows for the time being and foreseeable future, doesn't continue to deliver the goods, I wouldn't be shocked if they just look inwards to their countries entertainment instead.
 
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InsolentGaylord said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9_gpapHLvvU
Anime is finally over. It was a good run, screw America and fuck SJWs.
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albertbrown26 said:
I think this YT comment sums it up best:

I think the bigger issue is that Japanese people are learning English to a level of fluency more than in the past and consuming anglophonic media. This will inevitably boil a lot of Japanese media properties into something less interesting over time.
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InsolentGaylord said:
That based on an actual fact or an assumption?

I got the impression they always consumed western entertainment quite often to a degree for a long time.

And well...Japanese entertainment has waxed and waned in the west too in popularity. If the west, which is looking increasingly unlikely to produce quality shows for the time being and foreseeable future, doesn't continue to deliver the goods, I wouldn't be shocked if they just look inwards to their countries entertainment instead.
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I wonder what anime will look like under China’s surveillance/influence
 
PS1gamenwatch said:
I wonder what anime will look like under China’s surveillance/influence
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China released both the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation and Azur Lane, which while censored to a degree did fairly alright.
There's also other series like King's Avatar, but I haven't watched many.


Just replace isekai with power-creeping cultivation and martial arts fuckery.
 
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