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Gay_Frog said:
Didn't watch watch the anime and read only one or two volumes of manga but if you go to manga to the end. You get a interest piece of information.
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Oh well I am watching the anime, things have to..have a super high bar for me to invest time in the manga (or have a autistic ass cut off like Gash Bell..WTF was with that shit btw?)
 
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
Oh well I am watching the anime, things have to..have a super high bar for me to invest time in the manga (or have a autistic ass cut off like Gash Bell..WTF was with that shit btw?)
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So don't read it because it will explain why the mc was a pussy. And Gash Bell isn't because some fuckery that happen with copyright or something like that, Japan legal system is fuck up in some parts.
 
Gay_Frog said:
So don't read it because it will explain why the mc was a pussy. And Gash Bell isn't because some fuckery that happen with copyright or something like that, Japan legal system is fuck up in some parts.
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well..hopefully the anime ignores that part.
 
Gay_Frog said:
Didn't watch watch the anime and read only one or two volumes of manga but if you go to manga to the end. You get a interest piece of information, do you want to know it?
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I want to know.

I loved the first two dozen or so volumes of the manga but lost interest when Kosuke Fujishima started taking the deeper lore more seriously and it became an overarching saga rather than just short arcs interspersed with fluffy slice-of-life chapters.
 
Dom Cruise said:
Has anyone noticed that phenomena where an anime studio still exists, but only exists in "name only"? Where any sort of "house style" a studio may have had is replaced with basically anonymous work for hire, ie manga adaptions, light novel adaptions, nothing original and nothing with a prevailing theme or vibe the studio may have once had.

Two studios that I feel this applies to is Gonzo and Gainax, both still exist, but they're not the "real" Gonzo and Gainax anymore.

If you remember Gonzo in the 2000s they really tried to be hot stuff, while their ambition often outstretched their actual talent and while they were inconsistent, I feel like they were always consistently interesting, a Gonzo anime had a certain je ne sais quoi to it, I think it's because oftentimes they were original animes instead of manga adaptions (though they did do a fair amount of manga adaptions), they were the first studio to really lean in hard on digital animation and the colors tended to pop more than most other animes at the time (even if the animation itself was often not great and off model) and they also frequently worked with character designer Range Murata.

I think my favorite of theirs' is the first season of Last Exile, but I'm also a fan of Burst Angel because it's Gonzo at their best and worst, it's not a great series but there's still something about it I find weirdly likable, I'm also a fan of the overlooked Speed Grapher because of it's unique, bonkers premise and the fact that it kind of predicted the Great Recession.

Meanwhile of course we all know Gainax, but what's funny is Gainax throughout it's history has 2, maybe even 3 incarnations, the original Gainax was the Hideaki Anno led one that I think started off wanting to sort of be another Ghibli (but a little more adult) with The Wings of Honnêamise and Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water while also doing more otaku friendly stuff like Gunbuster and Otaku No Video, when the Ghibli side didn't pan out they then leaned really hard into the otaku side and created the otaku series to end all otaku series with Evangelion.

Then once the pre-Rebuild version of Evangelion ran it's course they then morphed into the FLCL era, which while the names of all the specific men behind this era I don't know off the top of my head save for Hiroyuki Imaishi, this era of Gainax I would say was defined by leaning more into humor and tongue in cheek, with series like FLCL, the very underrated Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi and culminating with Panty & Stocking With Garterbelt

Unfortunately it seems like P&S was their swansong because Anno had alreay gone off to play with his Eva toys with Studio Khara and the team behind P&S went off to form Trigger, leaving Gainax now to be nothing but an anonymous work for hire studio with no "Gainax" left in it which is really too bad, because they were one of my favorite studios (but at least we have Khara and Trigger, the actual talent is more important than the brand name)

What's sad is it even seems like it's happening to Ghibli, I watched Earwig and The Witch and it was fine, but the CG animation was a pretty huge downgrade over Ghibli's scarily detailed 2D animation of works past, it definitely seems like once Miyazaki retired Ghibli is probably going to be "Ghibli" in name only.

Has anyone noticed this with any other studios? Why are all the ones I've cited start with the letter G? That's funny.
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Yeah, I noticed this a lot with many of the studios once they switched to digipaint- The shortcuts Toei always used got even more obvious once the late 90s rolled around and TMS barely even tries anymore unless it's a Lupin III project.

But I think the two biggest ones that suffered were not exactly big names as we know it, but probably ones people might recognize if they grew up on older anime (and even some cartoon) titles betwee the 80s and 2000s. Those being support studios Anime R and Nakamura Production. Both studios had very distinct styles back then (even more so in the 80s when R had many then up-and-coming talents like Hiroyuki Okiura doing very visually striking work, while Nakamura Pro busied themselves with Sunrise mecha titles with their own distinct style to them compared to the other teams with how they were drawn and shaded). But nowadays, the former rarely gets work, and the latter's become as generic as the studios that contract them whenever they do an episode's worth of keyframes (if they do, considering how many titles they get roped into doing per season).
 
sasazuka said:
I want to know.

I loved the first two dozen or so volumes of the manga but lost interest when Kosuke Fujishima started taking the deeper lore more seriously and it became an overarching saga rather than just short arcs interspersed with fluffy slice-of-life chapters.
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The guy is magically castrated, because some bullshit reason of goddess and a human can't be together. And the cherry on top every goddess and magical being in the series know that happen with the guy, So they manipulate the poor guy in the entire of comic.
 
Gay_Frog said:
The guy is magically castrated, because some bullshit reason of goddess and a human can't be together. And the cherry on top every goddess and magical being in the series know that happen with the guy, So they manipulate the poor guy in the entire of comic.
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I think you're overstating it a bit. His horniness was suppressed, they didn't permanently chop him or anything like that.
 
This season has new shows from Konosuba writer and rezero writer, like we're going 7 years in the past. The Konosuba writer's anime "Sentouin, Hakenshimasu!" is alright. Basically like a gag on a couple battle manga (if anyone remember those). My main gripe is that it felt too rushed to push all the characters in the first episode and that the timing of the jokes is a little off. But early Konosuba also didn't have the great timing until couple of episodes in.
Rezero's writer anime - Vivy – Fluorite Eye’s Song first two episodes are really shit. The plot is that in the far future, AI goes through the singularity and genocides the human populace, so a not genocidal AI is sent from the future to contract an android to avert it. My first problem with it that it is too cruel and gory to be enjoyable, it's like the writer is an overly edgy 15 year old that he feels the need to focus on gore and just be an asshole towards the main heroine. My second problem is that it feels arbitrary as hell, like the setting was thought of as "hey that could be really cool" but no one actually tries to piece it together. For example, there are anti-AI terrorists, despite AI being far less of an issue when the series takes place due to it being limited to a single task (because the tech isn't there for hard computations). Maybe there will be a satisfactory answer but there are other things that feel forced.
 
Thomas Talus said:
I think you're overstating it a bit. His horniness was suppressed, they didn't permanently chop him or anything like that.
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Probably but the gut punch that is that every goddess know that he was and nobody say it was hilarious. And I found a page from a archive of 4chan.
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
Rezero's writer anime - Vivy – Fluorite Eye’s Song first two episodes are really shit.
too cruel and gory to be enjoyable,
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Did you even watch Re Zero? The whole anime is about suffering. Vivy is surprisingly good.

Did start watching Koikimo today, and you know a anime is good when the SJW's are getting triggered by it. Higehiro is a good one too, but more sad and wholesome than funny as Koikimo.
 
Vingle said:
Did you even watch Re Zero? The whole anime is about suffering. Vivy is surprisingly good.

Did start watching Koikimo today, and you know a anime is good when the SJW's are getting triggered by it. Higehiro is a good one too, but more sad and wholesome than funny as Koikimo.
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I draw the line in killing a little girl in a convoluted manner because "fuck you we need to show how cruel we are to the main character". It doesn't even make sense in how the fuck the heroine would have stopped the plane. It's not even used for any dramatic effect, by the time you get what happened it's already over.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I draw the line in killing a little girl in a convoluted manner because "fuck you we need to show how cruel we are to the main character". It doesn't even make sense in how the fuck the heroine would have stopped the plane. It's not even used for any dramatic effect, by the time you get what happened it's already over.
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It was done to prove a point. Idealism is unrealistic, you can't save everyone.
Rem was killed multiple times, because fuck Subaru. I guess you didn't like Re Zero either?
 
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