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Gar For Archer said:
That's interesting. I wonder what other anime out there are based off obscure foreign works.
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Of the top of my head I know about an anthology series called World Masterpiece Theater where almost all the stories are based on a foreign work, most people only know it for adapting Anne of Green Gables but they also did series like Tom Sawer, Les Misérables, etc.

Also there is a magic tree house anime movie
 
Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai


As far as anime from 2014 is concerned, this one is probably the more underrated from this year. I’m sure that there are others that are more under appreciated than this, but I thought the first half of this show was filled with comedic gold.

Also, this used to be a visual novel as well.

 
That Stupid Fucking Tree said:
I was perfectly content with CSM ending where it did in the chapter prior, but I do like the way that they're setting up Part 2 of the series. Also Nayuta is adorable. I wonder if the other characters from the last part are coming back or if it's going to be a new cast as well as a new setting.
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Solid ending to what I guess is now Part 1. Looking forward to where it goes from here.
 
I'm on episode 13 of Shield Hero. My understanding is that Melty is supposed to be the fourth party member....but she's listed as supporting (?) She's with them in both openings too. Confusing.

Glass is a badass. She doesn't strike me as evil. Hopefully she becomes an ally.

Myne is still a cunt. I look forward to
her eventual death twice
in i assume like....season 3 or 4.
 
Gar For Archer said:
I watche Re;Creators recently and I don't think I've ever felt more divided on a show.

On one hand, the ideas and concepts are fairly interesting, and the "mechanics" of the fictional universes and how they interact with the "real world" are very logical and incredibly well-thought-out. Pretty much all the nitpicky questions I had about "what are the implications of X mechanic" or "how would Y work in this context" actually get addressed by the show, and even the way they defeat the villain plays out logically from the rules they've set. In my experience it's rare to see a show that sets up mechanics and actually follows through on them until the end, so the show at least deserves praise for pulling this off successfully.

On the other hand, the execution is just seriously lacking, mostly due to taking itself WAY too seriously. There's a scene where one character receives a powerup by... literally getting Twitter likes (...it makes more sense in context), which is obviously an inherently silly idea that could probably still work with a bit of self-awareness, except it's played completely straight as this dramatic/triumphant scene that makes the writers come off as hilariously tone-deaf. The other thing holding the show back are the main characters. I think the side characters are actually decent with plenty of good interactions and moments here and there. However, the show's main trio all have some serious issues.
Souta suffers for being an overly-passive average highschool boy who honestly has no logical reason in-universe to even be allowed to tag along on what is essentially a top-secret government coverup. It's not even like the other characters fight for him to be included - the government lady in charge of them literally just says something along the lines of "...and of course that means you're included on the team too", which just leads to him tagging along doing nothing of real importance until it turns out that he actually has a secret connection with the villain, which he hides from the rest of the team thereby causing further issues. I think the easiest fix for his character would be to have the government silence him and send him back to his normal life, and have him actively seek them out again, against orders, to aid them with this newfound information about the villain. Now, instead of his guilt fucking things up for the protagonists, you have him overcoming his guilt in order to benefit them. This makes him take a more active role in the story and gives him a more logical reason to be in the story in the first place, while still keeping his backstory and most of his development the same.
not-Asuna suffers from just being kind of bland and not having any real motivations beyond wanting to return to her fictional world. Being the first "fictional character" that we see, I think she should've been used more to explore the existential crisis of learning that your entire reality is fictional, rather than mostly getting over that by the end of the second episode and never really developing her motivations beyond that.
not-Rei suffers from the writers trying WAY too hard to make her funny. She's definitely my favorite character of the main trio, and is the one with the most real development and motivations, but the try-hard humor comes off as hilariously cringey more often than not just due to how unsubtle and unnatural it feels.
There's also something wrong with the pacing of the show, because the first half was a total slog to get through while the final battle takes up a good HALF of the remaining episodes and likewise started to just drag on after a few too many "secret weapons" by the protagonists.

At the end of the day, there's a lot of good ideas here, which makes the highly flawed execution even more disappointing. It really feels like the creators had this really cool concept with fleshed-out mechanics, but had trouble actually writing a story around that.
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Oh boy, I have a lot to say about this anime. The start was really promising with a pretty great variation of the idea of a fictional character coming to the real world, with the added power levels of the average anime character. But the writers never really invested in the question of a character with shit life confronting its "god", and instead started masturbating on how awesome they are for writing media when 99% of it is garbage.

The fictional main characters were likable enough but the villains were a mess. Making the villain's main goal to destroy reality fucks over any sympathy for them and they should have replaced it with something that isn't inherently psychopathic. The main villainess in particular is a god mode sue that quickly loses her cool factor and just becomes grating. Her having every conceivable power due to becoming an internet meme doesn't really work with the established rules of a top power level being dictated by logic.

Also the final battle doesn't make sense if you've ever watched a crossover marketed to normal people, where no character gets killed (else it offends the more autistic fans of that character) and the villain will always lose since that's what the audience expects.
 
I never saw the show, but I’ve seen this clip a bunch of times and thought the magical girl had a pretty badass moment.

 
vern said:
Of the top of my head I know about an anthology series called World Masterpiece Theater where almost all the stories are based on a foreign work, most people only know it for adapting Anne of Green Gables but they also did series like Tom Sawer, Les Misérables, etc.

Also there is a magic tree house anime movie
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rvmrcdC_NPc
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The WMT shows are generally pretty good, but the best ones are those Takahata directed - Heidi, Marco and Anne. Anything beyond that will depend on your taste, but some of the more popular ones in Japan are Dog of Flanders, Rascal the Raccoon, A Little Princess... And there's a few in English on Amazon Prime.
 
Man, walking through the local bookstore and checking out prices for manga has really made me take a pause collecting physically, it's all so expensive for what you get. A lot of it just doesn't seem worth it, especially those longer titles unless you can get a good deal on a second hand collection. It doesn't help if you wait too long the titles are likely to be oop and way too expensive. Little upsetting since I like having a physical collection of things, but with most manga releases the quality just isn't there for the price you're paying. *sigh*
Steamboat_Bill said:
The WMT shows are generally pretty good, but the best ones are those Takahata directed - Heidi, Marco and Anne. Anything beyond that will depend on your taste, but some of the more popular ones in Japan are Dog of Flanders, Rascal the Raccoon, A Little Princess... And there's a few in English on Amazon Prime.
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Japanese are obsessed with Anne of Green Gables enough that they'll visit PEI in droves to visit all the Anne related locations and any time there's a press release about an important Japanese figure going there they always either visit the Green Gables House like when the Ambassador of Japan visited back in 2018 or when a Japanese princess traveled there and just gushed about the series. It's all pretty amusing.
 
Am I wrong for thinking shows like Futurama, King of the Hill and The Simpsons are better then most of the stuff posted in this thread? I know that technically what you mean by this thread is jap shit but is there no merit to things like Loony Tunes and Scooby Doo? Also is Western animation a popular thing in Japanese culture?
 
Moguro Fukuzou said:
Man, walking through the local bookstore and checking out prices for manga has really made me take a pause collecting physically, it's all so expensive for what you get. A lot of it just doesn't seem worth it, especially those longer titles unless you can get a good deal on a second hand collection. It doesn't help if you wait too long the titles are likely to be oop and way too expensive. Little upsetting since I like having a physical collection of things, but with most manga releases the quality just isn't there for the price you're paying. *sigh*
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That's why I kinda think the only option for buying new manga is through online retailers since despite some disadvantages, they are usually a good deal cheaper than buying from a brick and mortar store.
I do wish the rsp would go down to match the cost of most volumes in Japan (iirc most are around 5-6 USD) , but that's wishful thinking since a) there's no way the US publishers could sell the same amount as in Japan to warrant it (unless they want to pull a tokyopop 2.0 and crash the market again), and b) even if they could sell the same amount you really have to be optimistic to expect them to lower the prices.
 
Fresh off the press from Discotek Media's livestream, Christmas has come early:
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Disheveled Human said:
Am I wrong for thinking shows like Futurama, King of the Hill and The Simpsons are better then most of the stuff posted in this thread? I know that technically what you mean by this thread is jap shit but is there no merit to things like Loony Tunes and Scooby Doo? Also is Western animation a popular thing in Japanese culture?
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Realtalk, western cartoons are better at funny 95% of the time. I mean, I liked Cromartie High School but it can't really match up to something like King of the Hill or classic simpsons. Also this thread existing separately from the western cartoon thread doesn't mean either is worse, it's just easier to split up conversations. Especially with the weird situation modern western cartoons are in. And yeah they love looney tunes over there, and a lot of our shows really. They get really good dubs, I like the Ed Edd and Eddy one in particular,

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They really get the personalities right. Ed is downright identical. Japan had their own bumpers too

 
Steamboat_Bill said:
What else did they license?
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Grimm's Fairytales will have 47 episodes, mentioned the dubbed masters no longer exist. Project A-ko will be getting new extras and will include the sequel films.

EDIT: Oh yeah, forgot that the entirety of Grimm's Fairytales does equal out to 47 episodes, so I guess the entire completed series will be released even though it may have to be in another language as a result (hence it being bilingual). That's awesome, actually.
 
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I don't watch much cartoons, but I'd feel like the people that do wouldn't care much to have both anime and cartoons in a single thread.
Trashfire Garbagefuck said:
I liked Cromartie High School but it can't really match up to something like King of the Hill or classic simpsons
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You shut your whore mouth. King of the Hill is a treasure though.
 
Disheveled Human said:
Am I wrong for thinking shows like Futurama, King of the Hill and The Simpsons are better then most of the stuff posted in this thread? I know that technically what you mean by this thread is jap shit but is there no merit to things like Loony Tunes and Scooby Doo? Also is Western animation a popular thing in Japanese culture?
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Western "adult" cartoons are almost exclusively limited to comedy sitcoms, whereas anime covers a much wider range of genres. I enjoy them both, but they're really not comparable products at all.
 
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