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Higurashi Gou: You won't need to watch the original to understand they said
That was a fucking hamfisted resolution. At least we know Satoko is Lambdadelta now
 
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albert chan said:
R-15 was probably the first anime that I watched, dropped, rewatched, dropped and rewatched again because I was really surprised how this didn’t turn into a hentai.
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R-15 was one of the remains of the E-Era aka when japan did not give a shit and went full degenerate releasing almost every season full of ecchi, imagine isekai in this modern age but with boobs the reason like always was is jewery they wanted you to force you to buy the blu rays so you get the uncensored ones, and it worked for a while until people start to get bored and abandoned it then we hit the first age of light novels
 
That Stupid Fucking Tree said:
My guess (and I really hope this isn't right) is that it's going to tie into the gacha game, Higurashi Mei. As for an explanation and a motive, I really want something that can explain this other than witches and Umineko references.

There's this one Italian mega autist on /a/ and /jp/ who has the worst possible theories about Higurashi and Umineko who was throughly blown the fuck out by this episode's reveal since he thought Rika and Ooishi were the culprits. He literally writes fucking manifestos about his retarded theories that make no sense and it's a pretty interesting rabbit hole if you have read Umineko and Higurashi into how somebody can be so wrong about a mystery.

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God damn this is second Italian sperg I've seen obsessed with Umineko, although tbf the other one I'm thinking if is more obsessed with manhwa and series he thinks are manhwa nowadays.
 
That Stupid Fucking Tree said:
I believe the changes to the anime are happening because of the quality dropoff that happened in the manga. I read some of the manga after the end of the first arc and found that the series was never as intense nor as good as that first arc in my opinion.
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That's true, as someone who read it after S1. I can assure you it becomes shit after Goldy Pond which ends after the phone is found. However, they straight up skipped Goldy Pond, some characters, & Isabella is a bit changed (which I can't tell is good or bad considering the manga kept becoming gradually worse).
 
Fun fact: D.N.Angel is ending the manga series come March.

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The manga has been in serialization since 1997. The new and final chapter will appear in Monthly Asuka:

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More general Japanese question: When exactly did Nobunaga move up from being evil personified into being an overall tragic figure that had good intentions?
 
Started reading Hell's Paradise because I heard it's recently ended, about 10 chapters in and I'm really enjoying it so far, it's like an SCP exploration log set in feudal Japan. I like the analytical approach it takes to the environment they're exploring and the strange creatures they encounter, and it's definitely piqued my interest in finding out what's actually going on. Only minor complaint I have is that the protagonist looks like a 14 year old despite presumably being an adult, but it's not like this isn't super common in manga and anime.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
More general Japanese question: When exactly did Nobunaga move up from being evil personified into being an overall tragic figure that had good intentions?
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No idea, I did notice he was portrayed sympathetically in Nioh 2 when in the first game he's basically Hitler.
 
Return of the Freaker said:
I just started reading that pastebin. Holy shit how do you even get erika = kannon? This is next level autism
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At first I thought this manifesto was bait (by god it still could be), but after finding out he's been pedaling this shit for the last 2 years on /jp/, I've lost all hope of thinking this is just some elaborate troll.

In other news, I started reading Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, but I heard there was an anime adaptation. Should I just stick with the manga or should I watch the anime?
 
Ruin said:
No idea, I did notice he was portrayed sympathetically in Nioh 2 when in the first game he's basically Hitler.
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Nioh kinda subverts it with the resurrected Nobunaga not being the megalomaniac the villain thought he'll be.
I think the most idealic version of Nobunaga is Nobunaga no Shinobi, a gag manga about a kunoichi serving Nobunaga. It's adorable, funny and educational.
 
Return of the Freaker said:
Who the hell even is "Autumn"? I don't recall this character at all
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"Autumn" could refer to the one scene in EP5 of Umineko when the man from 19 years ago directs her to pick up a clock containing a card with Natsuhi's favorite season printed on it, which is revealed to be autumn. It still makes no goddamn sense. At least Rosatrice tried putting everything together in some way, even if the story doesn't make sense.

Some of my favorite edits the people over on /jp/ had made revolving around this faggot.
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EDIT: A confession. I thought George was the culprit because of this fucking retard spamming his theory on /a/.
 
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That Stupid Fucking Tree said:
In other news, I started reading Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, but I heard there was an anime adaptation. Should I just stick with the manga or should I watch the anime?
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There are two separate two-episode OVAs which each only cover a few chapters from the manga. The first OVA series was a great little introduction to the sunken, depopulated Japan of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou but the second was just a few bits and pieces that really require some knowledge of the manga to know what's going on. I believe both OVA series were intended to run much longer but got cut short due to lack of sales.



The second OVA series made some puzzling choices like showing Nai, one of the few surviving male androids, who is a pilot for a delivery service, but didn't show him taking Alpha on a plane ride, possibly because it would have been too expensive to animate.
 
I finally got around to reading vol. 8 of the Urusei Yatsura Omnibus series. To my knowledge, this is all new stuff that's never been released before in English. The first volume in the omnibus finally introduces Ryunosuke, the tomboy. There's a weird moment where the characters vow to defend 'heteronormative standards' by breaking up a date between Ryunosuke and Ran. "Heteronormative" is such a 2000s phase I can't help but how badly the translation has been mangled by modern sensibilities.

Highlight of the volume is definitely a one-off chapter where the students are forced to draw a temperamental ostrich.

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In sum, the series is still good. There's a little character bloat, but it still hasn't reached late Ranma 1/2 levels of "who the fuck is that?"
 
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