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KaibaCorp ToeSucker said:
So I FINALLY started gundam 0079.
I might have a whole laundry list of animes to watch, but right now i'm on episode 3 and having fun with this anime. I went with the dub and I don't regret it. I wasn't expecting Light Yagami (Amaro) to roll the fuck in and when Char came in? LORDY.
I did a quick search and lo and behold the X-men evolution cast was back at it again, so at this point i'm just convinced anything dubbed in the mid 00's has SOMEBODY from that show at this point. (Btw X-men Evolution is a pretty damn good show, Not an anime, but a good show.)
I know I'm super in the beginning but like damn I was not expecting Gundam to be this interesting right off the bat tbh.

I'm also exited to try Zeta Gundam when I get around so it because I found a boat load of Char memes some channel was doing and I can't stop watching them for laughs.
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Glad you're liking it so far, I also really like the dub for the series even if the original cast is pretty legendary. A lot of shows that ended up dubbed in Canada at the time all worked with the same studio or at least same group of voice actors since it was a pretty small group, you'll probably notice even more familiar voices show up as the series goes on.

For Zeta Gundam I didn't end up watching it dubbed since I just found the voices really weird since they didn't carry over VA from the previous series for a lot of characters. Tried watching like one episode and couldn't take it. Memes for Zeta are really great, but I find all gundam memes are pretty great:
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Moguro Fukuzou said:
Glad you're liking it so far, I also really like the dub for the series even if the original cast is pretty legendary. A lot of shows that ended up dubbed in Canada at the time all worked with the same studio or at least same group of voice actors since it was a pretty small group, you'll probably notice even more familiar voices show up as the series goes on.

For Zeta Gundam I didn't end up watching it dubbed since I just found the voices really weird since they didn't carry over VA from the previous series for a lot of characters. Tried watching like one episode and couldn't take it. Memes for Zeta are really great, but I find all gundam memes are pretty great:
(No Spoilers)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=v_kFgOWyez0
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For me, this is the meme that's been getting me for the past week ngl.

I did find out recently I had the 3 movie trio on dvd that I don't remember picking up at all. I think I got it for my brother and I found out it was subtitle only. Which was strange esp for a blu-ray but eh whatever.
 
KaibaCorp ToeSucker said:
For me, this is the meme that's been getting me for the past week ngl.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TfrmCnv4vWs
I did find out recently I had the 3 movie trio on dvd that I don't remember picking up at all. I think I got it for my brother and I found out it was subtitle only. Which was strange esp for a blu-ray but eh whatever.
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the english dub for the movies is shit.its awful. its worth a listen. Amuro is way more cocky and everyone calls it Gun-Damn.
 
So this is it for the season's anime. I lost interest in Yuru Camp S2 because the pretty stupid decisions to focus on solo camping when one of the main appeals in a CGdCT anime is having a cast interacting. Spider Isekai had a pretty strong final battle, but the question now is how the show can keep up interest when the heroine is essentially a demi god that is stronger than any single human, without resorting to make her lose all her shit and start from level 1.
Jujutsu Kaisen had a fantastic final episode final battle that put to good use of a character that doesn't just "hit hard". The show still feels like a mess by the weird pacing and having too much fucking characters, one thing for certain, it looks good.
 
Long time lurker, first time poster. Go easy on me.

Stein's Gate - Remember watching this a few years ago. At the time, this was considered one of the standouts of the year, and was widely praised in different corners of the anime community. I watched it expecting to get a decent above average sci-fi thriller, but got something that was underwhelming and mediocre. I was aware of the slow start and knew that it would pick up the pace later, and it did pick up the pace, but it also revealed the problem with the first half: the characters. The first half is supposed to develop the viewer's and the MC's relationship with the characters while the plot is building up and setting up some elements that will be relevant in the latter half. The characters are however, pretty hollow with the exception of the MC. The character development works on paper, but without believable characters, goes to waste. (Like having a disinterested person read out emotional dialogue.)

It's a shame, because the story would have worked well if these characters were indeed three-dimensional and not cardboard cutouts. It had some good moments like when the protagonist confronted that autistic woman or when he tried to rescue
his childhood friend in vain within the time loop.
. Could have been done better, but it's not awful.
 
murdered meat bag said:
the english dub for the movies is shit.its awful. its worth a listen. Amuro is way more cocky and everyone calls it Gun-Damn.
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Honestly I can't see anyone but Light Yagami as Amuro. For me, it just adds this extra dimension to the dub and it makes it more funny to me. Maybe that's just a me thing but I love hearing those familiar voices and just making my own weird ass "what-if's" and shit for whatever i'm watching tbh.
 
KaibaCorp ToeSucker said:
Honestly I can't see anyone but Light Yagami as Amuro. For me, it just adds this extra dimension to the dub and it makes it more funny to me. Maybe that's just a me thing but I love hearing those familiar voices and just making my own weird ass "what-if's" and shit for whatever i'm watching tbh.
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If you're interested in more stuff that Brad Swaile has done I'd check out the dub for Black Lagoon since he voices Rock (the MC) and Gundam 00 since he voices Setsuna. He also shows up in Gundam Seed (which is only worth it watched with the original ocean dub to me) as Dearka who, alongside Yzak (fun fact his VA is in X-men: Evolution as Colossus) are my favorite side characters.

I'm also interested in how many VA from these shows also worked on X-men: Evolution, reminds me that I used to watch that show and liked it a lot.
 
Moguro Fukuzou said:
If you're interested in more stuff that Brad Swaile has done I'd check out the dub for Black Lagoon since he voices Rock (the MC) and Gundam 00 since he voices Setsuna. He also shows up in Gundam Seed (which is only worth it watched with the original ocean dub to me) as Dearka who, alongside Yzak (fun fact his VA is in X-men: Evolution as Colossus) are my favorite side characters.

I'm also interested in how many VA from these shows also worked on X-men: Evolution, reminds me that I used to watch that show and liked it a lot.
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If your familiar with Inuyasha, a ton of people from the X-Men Evolution dub were there.
A few off the bat I remember

Nightcrawler- Nobunaga (he was Hojo's ancestor and the guy who was always being a clumsy ass around Kagome if I rember right)
Cyclops- Miroku
Quick Silver- Inuyasha
Wolverine- Koga (Apparently he did some roles in gundam as well according to his Wikipedia)
Jean Gray ( Not Inuyasha but worth a mention)- Wedy from Death Note
Shadow Cat- Karan ( She had the red hair and was a fire cat demon apparently)
Professor X- Sesshomaru (the first voice at least)

Also not in any way related to gundam or inuyasha, the guy who voiced L in death note was the guy who sang "to be a princess" in the Barbie and the island princess movie. I rarely get to tell people that fact and it's still hysterical to this day.
 
Naw_Naw said:
I think that we can all say that the Promised Neverland season 2 is the most disappointing anime of the year, if not many years. You would think that they would fix the problems with the manga, but they made them even worst.
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Its a shame that a lot of anime with good premises and good art go down the shitter eventually.
 
plinytheelder said:
Long time lurker, first time poster. Go easy on me.

Stein's Gate - Remember watching this a few years ago. At the time, this was considered one of the standouts of the year, and was widely praised in different corners of the anime community. I watched it expecting to get a decent above average sci-fi thriller, but got something that was underwhelming and mediocre. I was aware of the slow start and knew that it would pick up the pace later, and it did pick up the pace, but it also revealed the problem with the first half: the characters. The first half is supposed to develop the viewer's and the MC's relationship with the characters while the plot is building up and setting up some elements that will be relevant in the latter half. The characters are however, pretty hollow with the exception of the MC. The character development works on paper, but without believable characters, goes to waste. (Like having a disinterested person read out emotional dialogue.)

It's a shame, because the story would have worked well if these characters were indeed three-dimensional and not cardboard cutouts. It had some good moments like when the protagonist confronted that autistic woman or when he tried to rescue
his childhood friend in vain within the time loop.
. Could have been done better, but it's not awful.
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God, I also fucking hated Steins Gate. I didn’t like or relate to ANY of the characters, which made the first half nearly unwatchable. If I wasn’t watching it with friends I would’ve dropped it at episode 2.

The other thing is, everyone was hyping up Steins Gate as if it were the best ”serious” time travel story ever, or that it does time travel “right”, when it... really doesn’t. The time travel mechanics are average at best, and the way the timelines work don’t actually make all that much sense. Normally I wouldn’t give a shit because my expectations for time travel stories actually making sense are generally pretty low, but everyone was talking about it as if it did something unique or different and I just can’t understand what they see in it.
 
I need to do a rewatch of Steins;Gate, 'cause when I watched it, I was hopped up on painkillers from wisdom teeth removal, but I remember being intrigued by it. It's even a wonder I remember most of what I saw that week, though it's also a surprise I was not phased by Corpse Party: Tortured Souls' excessive gore that first night.
 
Naw_Naw said:
I think that we can all say that the Promised Neverland season 2 is the most disappointing anime of the year, if not many years. You would think that they would fix the problems with the manga, but they made them even worst.
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Lmao they slideshow an entire arc's worth of material at the end of the final episode. That was the PERFECT way to end this garbage. The entire episode was masterfully shitty from beginning to end. It's not just the worst overall either, it's consistently worse minute to minute than all previous episodes as well. I also like how albeit catastrophically truncated and rushed, the ending was very similar to the original, and yet it still managed to be even more convenient and stupid than the source material even when you ignore the cuts. They managed to subtly alter it in a way that made it worse. Bravo you insane bastards. By the end I think this was intentional.
 
Grape_Soda said:
Its a shame that a lot of anime with good premises and good art go down the shitter eventually.
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This is more like a bad adaptation case if anything. School-live went off the manga, but they fixed it to work by adding and rearranging things. If you go off manga, you should add as much as you removed if you go off manga, but still keep key points. You could make a whole season out the stuff they left out.
 
Naw_Naw said:
I think that we can all say that the Promised Neverland season 2 is the most disappointing anime of the year, if not many years. You would think that they would fix the problems with the manga, but they made them even worst.
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In all honesty, it was probably a lost cause anyway. I just hope they don't fuck over Shadow House, since I like the manga.
 
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Naw_Naw said:
I think that we can all say that the Promised Neverland season 2 is the most disappointing anime of the year, if not many years. You would think that they would fix the problems with the manga, but they made them even worst.
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I heave they covered what would have been the last arc of the manga in a 15 second PowerPoint presentation in the last episode.
 
Grape_Soda said:
Its a shame that a lot of anime with good premises and good art go down the shitter eventually.
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I'm reminded of a few shows, Kado was a pretty memorable series that shit the bed at the end after building up an interesting sci-fi (somewhat thankful to my habit of falling behind a show because I managed to not hit that disappointment). Same person did the Babylon and I actively avoided that series knowing what happened with Kado.

There's also the problem of "Great first season into garbage second" with an example being Psycho-pass into whatever the fuck they were doing with season 2, I pushed myself through that garbage just in the hopes that the later stuff would be good.

There's also Aldnoah.Zero where the first season wasn't amazing yet it was entertaining enough with the autistic egg-kun and forever bullied Slaine, season one actually had a pretty surprising ending that was immediately ruined in the second season. Second season then proceeded to be shit, which I again missed since I fell behind on the season and then never bothered to actually watching after reading about the shit-tier ending.

At least the first season has the hilarious fact of the first 3 episodes being written by Urobuchi and the rest by the guy who did Boku no Pico.
 
plinytheelder said:
Long time lurker, first time poster. Go easy on me.

Stein's Gate - Remember watching this a few years ago. At the time, this was considered one of the standouts of the year, and was widely praised in different corners of the anime community. I watched it expecting to get a decent above average sci-fi thriller, but got something that was underwhelming and mediocre. I was aware of the slow start and knew that it would pick up the pace later, and it did pick up the pace, but it also revealed the problem with the first half: the characters. The first half is supposed to develop the viewer's and the MC's relationship with the characters while the plot is building up and setting up some elements that will be relevant in the latter half. The characters are however, pretty hollow with the exception of the MC. The character development works on paper, but without believable characters, goes to waste. (Like having a disinterested person read out emotional dialogue.)

It's a shame, because the story would have worked well if these characters were indeed three-dimensional and not cardboard cutouts. It had some good moments like when the protagonist confronted that autistic woman or when he tried to rescue
his childhood friend in vain within the time loop.
. Could have been done better, but it's not awful.
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I wonder if the VN is better than the anime, since it has much more time for dialogue and optional events.
 
Turns out Redo of Healer fans are about 60% female. Twitter and reddit are not happy about this revelation.
 
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