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Friendly reminder Akira is one of the best action thriller manga in existence, and Tetsuo is one of the best tragic villains EVER in manga.

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Meruem said:
I miss this little nigga like you wouldn't believe it.

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Somebody rich, please send a dump truck full of money to Madhouse's headquarters so that they can make season 3 already. Oh, and while you're in Japan please free Hideki Taniuchi, who is the brilliant composer of Kaiji and got arrested for bogus weed charges.

Thanks and Zawa Zawa!
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Even though I'm not super into Mahjong Part 3 is probably my favorite. The endless draws raising the stakes absurdly higher and higher and higher and Kaiji realizing he's been betrayed yet again and managing to overcome it is kino.

Part of what makes Kaiji such a great character is how he constantly gets betrayed in the worst possible situations yet still refuses to abandon those in need (which ends up paying dividends in gaining true friends in Chang and Mario)
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
DENJI YOU STUPID FUCKING ASS MOTHERFUCKER!
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So, basically, when an oddly mysterious benefactor takes you in out of some vague interest and basically has you employed to work for them in an allegedly benevolent institute for the protection of the general public, only for you to then be screwed over because that same benefactor was just using you from the start, you get hit with the reality that life isn't a free train ride, and that eventually, your benefactor is gonna ask you to pay up or cash in.
 
Cabelaz said:
View attachment 1565276Re-read Unlimited Blade Works and the writing was a lot better than I remembered. Nothing groundbreaking but I really enjoyed Shirou's monolouges and sword autism. Shame they cut it in the anime. The route sucks without it.
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This is why I get so annoyed with anime onlies who hate Shirou. Not saying VN readers will always like him (I myself couldn't stand him in the first route and only warmed up to him later on) but there's a lot of character nuance that anime onlies are going to miss out on.
 
Meruem said:
I miss this little nigga like you wouldn't believe it.

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Somebody rich, please send a dump truck full of money to Madhouse's headquarters so that they can make season 3 already. Oh, and while you're in Japan please free Hideki Taniuchi, who is the brilliant composer of Kaiji and got arrested for bogus weed charges.

Thanks and Zawa Zawa!
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Fukumoto is the only author whose "mind game" manga actually feels intelligent. One of my favorite parts of Kaiji is how genuine his ideas on humanity come across compared to when most anime protagonists talk about the power of friendship. Just let him keep his money goddammit
 
Super Sad Smile said:
Fukumoto is the only author whose "mind game" manga actually feels intelligent. One of my favorite parts of Kaiji is how genuine his ideas on humanity come across compared to when most anime protagonists talk about the power of friendship. Just let him keep his money goddammit
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I feel like Kaiji is a more mature and realistic look into what a "shonen" actually is.

While he comes off as cynical, there's an underlying sense of decency there that isn't muddied with naivety. He has that classic charisma we see in the atypical protagonist, but rather than it be infallible, the series goes out of its way in showing that these are still real people.

Desperate, greedy and selfish people in varying degrees that can and will betray him when the going gets tough, and some of them ultimately do.

The "Asian Three" were only able to form a cohesive unit because of a need for each other, which isn't really a bad thing, after their previous leader bailed out on them.

People are naturally selfish creatures, and while it would be nice for somebody to help out of the goodness of their heart, the real world won't always bend over for anyone. The manga tears apart the common shonen tropes and challenges them with how Kaiji interacts with the world around him.

A bleak, cruel and heartless world that he struggles to survive in.

Check Fukumoto's other work, "Kurosawa".
 
Now here's my my hero academia is one of the better anime in japan's new renaissance, it....and I'm sure any female kiwis reading this are dyer than death valley in summer down there as soon as they read anime
 
To address some points that were made recently.

Both the fan- and the hatedom of Sword Art Online, while dumb and autistic, make sense when you realize that it is the Twilight of anime. To be more precise, it's Twilight for Japanese incels (but I'm repeating myself). Now I would go as far and say - without the slightest hint of irony - that Twilight was slightly less cringe inducing and slightly less terribly written - with the emphasis being on slightly of course - but the comparison still stands. The fact that Sword Art Online enjoys such massive popularity instead of being laughed into its well deserved obscurity says more about the absolute state of the fandom. On the other hand it did give us memes like the infamous "two years worth of semen".

Whatever the intention of Akame ga Kill! may have been, the execution is terrible. As @Tism the Return so beautiful said in the RWBY thread, the manga reads like a bunch of edgy 14 year old weebs doing a shitty forum RPG. It's a terribly written RPG that I can't see appeal to anyone who has outgrown their edgy teenage Linkin Park phase. The worst thing about Akame ga Kill! is that it's not fun at all. The show doesn't compensate its bad writing and forgettable characters with over the top balls to the wall ultraviolence, catchy theme songs and chad protagonists that don't give a fuck.

Speaking of which, I still stand that ultraviolent 80s and early 90s anime like Violence Jack, Genocyber, Angel Cop and especially M.D. Geist are cultural treasures. And Fist of the North Star is the best shounen manga (because JoJo is seinen now).
 
Another issue people had with SAO (me included) is that it had wasted potential of gamers having to traverse into a virtual world and working together but then it became a show about Kirito being a super cool solo player getting a new girl each episode till he settled on Asuna, and it didn't exactly help that at the time, the creator knew jack shit about how MMOs worked.
 
Fougaro said:
To address some points that were made recently.

Both the fan- and the hatedom of Sword Art Online, while dumb and autistic, make sense when you realize that it is the Twilight of anime. To be more precise, it's Twilight for Japanese incels (but I'm repeating myself). Now I would go as far and say - without the slightest hint of irony - that Twilight was slightly less cringe inducing and slightly less terribly written - with the emphasis being on slightly of course - but the comparison still stands. The fact that Sword Art Online enjoys such massive popularity instead of being laughed into its well deserved obscurity says more about the absolute state of the fandom. On the other hand it did give us memes like the infamous "two years worth of semen".

Whatever the intention of Akame ga Kill! may have been, the execution is terrible. As @Tism the Return so beautiful said in the RWBY thread, the manga reads like a bunch of edgy 14 year old teenage weebs doing a shitty forum RPG. It's a terribly written RPG that I can't see appeal to anyone who has outgrown their edgy teenage Linkin Park phase. The worst thing about Akame ga Kill! is that it's not fun at all. The show doesn't compensate its bad writing and forgettable characters with ultraviolence, catchy theme songs and chad protagonists that don't give a fuck.
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It's interesting to make a comparison to Twilight given its recent resurgence of popularity seen on places like Tumblr from ironic to unironic enjoyment. You'll probably find the same thing with some SAO fans that originally only liked it ironically. Same thing happened with the legendary Caramelldansen, which I partially attribute to nostalgia for a simpler time, recently making a resurgence. I think that's a pretty common thing to go through as people grow up.

Personally, when it comes to anime I've grown to simply not care about what people think about the series I enjoy. I just don't give a shit anymore, let me enjoy things in peace. I don't care how many times someone tells me AoT is the second coming of Christ, it doesn't interest me and I'm not going to watch it. I would much rather get excited for the next sunrise original trashfire because those are usually highly entertaining. Both Cross Ange and Valvrave (s1 only) are 10/10 shows to me simply for the amount of fun I had watching them, yet I often see them trashed online because they "don't make sense" or numerous other complaints. Nothing is worse in my book than an anime that's just boring.

Speaking of which, I still stand that ultraviolent 80s and early 90s anime like Violence Jack, Genocyber, Angel Cop and especially M.D. Geist are cultural treasures. And Fist of the North Star is the best shounen manga (because JoJo is seinen now).
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You're missing the cultural treasure that is the Devilman dub. Every time I think about Crybaby I get more upset about the amount of people that think it's the best version of Devilman with all the crap they added to it instead of the vastly superior OVAs. I will never forgive how Crybaby butchered Ryo.
 
I won't spoil which show it is, but there is nothing more frightening in an action series than the heroes actually achieving their goals with three episodes to go. Almost assuredly some shit is going down and it won't be pretty.
 
I finally caught up with Fruits Basket, anime is finally reaching peak suffering levels as it progresses farther into the last part of the manga. Rampant child suffering and abuse as it goes into the Soma kids backgrounds, watching through Rin and Yuki's episodes hurt a bunch with how well done they were. I can't wait for the episode(s) focused on Tohru's mom and dad. I will cry just like every other time I've read that dang volume of the manga, especially regarding Tohru's feelings of hatred towards her father for almost taking her mother away from her, those feelings that make her feel like an awful person, and the reasons why she models her attitude after him. I'm really looking forward to seeing how they animate the part where Kyoko is about to kill herself to be with him and suddenly remembers she can't recall the last time she actually talked with Tohru or even fed her. Kyoko rushing home to see Tohru waiting for her at the door always gets me. It'll probably be my favorite part of the adaption since that whole mini-arc really goes into Tohru's feelings that have kind of been skimmed over till now (which plays into Tohru's major weakness/flaw) and seeing Tohru's breakdown is going to be rough. They've been hinting at the whole Tohru barely holding it together since the very beginning, but seeing it reach its climax as the proverbial box lid is ripped off will make for some great episodes. Most likely I'll have to wait for whenever the third season comes out for those episodes though, I don't know if they'd be able to fit them in with the current remaining episodes and they said it'd be a full series adaption.
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I'm glad the series is finally getting the adaption it deserves, I didn't mind the original anime series but it really ruined the tone by focusing way too much on the comedy. Hoping Fruits Basket doing well will mean Ouran getting the Brotherhood treatment isn't just a dream. I think I'm just starved for good shoujo adaptions, was hoping Bakarina would create a boom in otome isekai adaptions for a change of pace. Really, what I want is to go back to the days where "thrown into another world" series primarily had female protagonists and built these great fantasy worlds, but I'd be happy with some of those villainess isekai.

Would honestly love an adaption of I Reincarnated as a Noble Girl Villainess But Why Did It Turn Out This Way? to see Eliza the Impaler in action, but also know it's probably the series with the least likely chance of an anime. Stupid publisher forcing author to make key plot point changes that ruined the LN so it'd be more "shoujo" and made the author cancel the LN out of angry. :mad: They only just came back from a full year hiatus with a new chapter of the WN and I can almost guarantee that hiatus was caused by all the crap they had to go through making them burn out. Probably my favorite, doesn't suffer from the common problem of "author kept going even when it's clear they have no idea where they're going" that a lot of the ones I've read end up falling into. There's a bunch of other great series they could adapt, I'd even take some of the mediocre ones if it meant we'd get something different. I would even take an adaption of Iris "Oh my Orphans" Almeria if it lead to others getting a chance.
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Well, both Fugou keiji balance unlimited and Appare ranman went places this week I really didn't expect from them when I first started watching. And when I say places I mean jesus christ these shows got dark.
 
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