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sasazuka said:
Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens is in my top 5 of "one season wonders that I wish would get a second season adapting more of the manga". Given that the entire series really only covered the first three volumes out of twelve, you could get up to three more cour out of the rest of the manga.

WataMote is, of course, at number one on that list but Kannagi could easily be my number two choice.
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Can’t believe the OVA literally ended with “Part 2: Confirmed!” only for it to... not get a second season. It’s a shame because it was clearly JUST getting into the actual plot right at the end of season 1.
 
sasazuka said:
Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens is in my top 5 of "one season wonders that I wish would get a second season adapting more of the manga". Given that the entire series really only covered the first three volumes out of twelve, you could get up to three more cour out of the rest of the manga.
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Yeah, but she's tainted now, she's no longer a pure Waifu like poor Belldandy is fated to be. It was a pretty good season though. I miss when anime was more than power fantasies. And with SHAFT fucking around or whatever they're doing, we don't even get series that'll launch a thousand AMVs like Bakemonogatari.
 
The Token Ethnic said:
I just finished watching Banana Fish.
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Oh yeah, I need to get back into it. I'm like halfway through, but it honestly bothers me MAPPA modernized Banana Fish to the point you can tell the parts they had to conveniently smash smartphones so the characters couldn't be located for the plot to happen, and that I find it lulzy anyone's reading the newspaper (actual newspapers that have since the '80s gone defunct btw) in modern-day New York. Also Ash's father's behavior towards his son's lifestyle isn't something that's believable in present day, either (he's just so cartoony), but you could totally believe in the '80s like it's supposed to take place in.

Just because it worked in Parasyte doesn't mean modernization works for every older manga that gets adapted. Makes me glad Ushio & Tora didn't have that problem by maintaining that '90s aesthetic and feel all the way through.

I have plans to read the manga, though. Always wanted to read it after coming across its entry in "500 Manga Heroes and Villains" in high school.

EDIT: Also, did they have to rework Vietnam into the Iraq War? Why not the Gulf War? The setting would've been the 2000s, but the producers wouldn't have had to change much.
 
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Odd Taxi may be trying to have socio-political commentary

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The Token Ethnic said:
Then again, I have not read the manga and I may be wrong.
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IIRC there was some manga extra where it was revealed Eiji is still thinking about Ash years later but even so I wasn't feeling the ship either. There was also some japanese official relationship chart for the anime that just described them as having a bond that is hard to define. I also agree with Karl Kamiya in that it was really unnecessary to change the time period to the point where it just caused inconsistencies.

Personally I mostly find Banana fish interesting from a historical perspective as one of the manga that probably spawned a whole generation of fujoshi back in the day.
 
sasazuka said:
Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens is in my top 5 of "one season wonders that I wish would get a second season adapting more of the manga". Given that the entire series really only covered the first three volumes out of twelve, you could get up to three more cour out of the rest of the manga.

WataMote is, of course, at number one on that list but Kannagi could easily be my number two choice.
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Since the manga ended only a few years after the second season I wish Maria Holic got 1 more season to wrap the story up, as it is even though it got two seasons it just... stops.

Not that the story was that important since it's a spoof, but eh, would have nice, I'll have to just read the manga one day, but the Japanese voice cast was a big part of what I enjoyed about Maria Holic.

I would dare say it's not impossible Maria Holic could get a nostalgia revival one day though if it wasn't for SHAFT seeming to get... shafted.
 
God of Nothing said:
Apocrpyha is why you avoid the animated spin-offs like the plague,
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While I agree Apocrypha was bad, I think the cooking spinoff was comfy as hell and worth a watch. Lord el melloi II case files was all right but it's worth it to go read the fan translations of the original light novel volumes they skipped.
 
Vapewizard said:
While I agree Apocrypha was bad, I think the cooking spinoff was comfy as hell and worth a watch. Lord el melloi II case files was all right but it's worth it to go read the fan translations of the original light novel volumes they skipped.
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Oh, I mean the spin-off spin-offs. The light novel and manga based spin-offs Nasu sanctioned but didn't write. Cooking With Shirou is pure Fate kino. Carnival Phantasm is up there in the greatest things within the entire Nasuverse franchise too.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
EDIT: Also, did they have to rework Vietnam into the Iraq War? Why not the Gulf War? The setting would've been the 2000s, but the producers wouldn't have had to change much.
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If it was the Gulf War the setting would have been the 90s.
 
The Token Ethnic said:
I just finished watching Banana Fish. While I have not read the manga, the show was great. The government experiments, literary references, mafia corruption and revenge themes were intriguing. But I don't understand the yaoi fandom for this show. Anything sexual that the show has is portrayed in an ugly and shocking manner. I honestly don't know why people drool over Ash and Eiji. Ash is an emotional and mental wreck, while Eiji comes across as a whiny little bitch at times that involuntarily causes trouble for him. He seems like a puppy that is happy to have received some attention. Then again, he did end up being a close friend to Ash without wanting anything in return.



MAPPA worked on this anime, but they have an animated studio ID that has motorcycles riding off into the distance. Wit Studio uses the same ID. Are they somehow related?
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It's been such a long time since I finished up Banana Fish, but I think a lot of the yaoi shipping was because you could interpret their relationship like that by the end just given how much they seem to care about each other. Honestly, I find their relationship to be an ambiguous one between friend/lover that they both don't really understand either but know that the other is very important to them. It's most obvious in Ash's behaviour that other characters call out with the lengths he was willing to go for Eiji that seem a bit much just for a friend or the small things like Eiji being one of the only people that could wake up Ash without getting his head ripped off.

The series constantly makes a point of how everyone loves Ash and finds him as some sort of beautifully tragic miscreant. The series also loves to show him getting sexually abused as well. While it isn't that explicit, it's not something for fujoshi to be drooling over. Even at the end of the series, Eiji's relationship with Ash can be seen as a platonic friendship without being sexual. Then again, I have not read the manga and I may be wrong. The ending was something out of some late 70s crime film, but felt right for this story.
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The entire thing with Ash/Eiji's relationship is that it's one of the few relationships where Ash isn't being sexually abused and feels "safe" enough to where Ash says "There's one guy who cares for me and wants nothing in return," so if anything it's Fujos drooling over Ash finally being in a non-shit relationship. Whenever Ash was being abused in the show I didn't hear about Fujo liking it, usually was something like "omg ash baby😭" or similar.

I can't see their ending relationship being just platonic friendship just by how Ash talks about Eiji. It might not be full on couple, but there's definitely more emotions at play then just standard friendship. Very much feels like a soulmate situation that doesn't need a sexual aspect.
I don't know, the way Ash talks about Eiji doesn't scream "Good Friend I'm going to miss" but something stronger that is easy to view in terms of some kind of relationship.

Works that focus on relationships divorced from the sexual nature of things that rather focus on the emotional side can be a bit more vague on where each character sits because it's not as explicit.
 
Steamboat_Bill said:
If it was the Gulf War the setting would have been the 90s.
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No, the setting where you follow Ash and Eiji would've been sometime in the 2000s. It starts out showing a character going mad blubbering out "Banana Fish, Banana Fish" at war (Vietnam in the manga), but then it cuts to like 15 years later to present day.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
No, the setting where you follow Ash and Eiji would've been sometime in the 2000s. It starts out showing a character going mad blubbering out "Banana Fish, Banana Fish" at war (Vietnam in the manga), but then it cuts to like 15 years later to present day.
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Didn't catch you there. Sorry.
 
So I'm on episode 14 of Zeta, not bad I like it I'm just overwhelmed there is so much Char and my stupid ass has no idea how to handle it ngl.
Simping aside, how the FUCK did Fraw and Hayto get MARRIED and have kids. I'm not shipper trash per say, but maybe it's my bias but Fraw and Amuro had so much chemistry and the most I ever saw Fraw and Hayato interact was after Hayato got shot in the shoulder and she was in med bay, and the part where they ran to the hanger together to see the old people.

Maybe i'm missing context, I finally bought a volume of the gundam manga (only V1 ofc shits $30 a volume and it was a treat for myself) so maybe when I get more of it i'll get context??? But Hayato and Fraw marrying and having a child just feels so out of left field.
Btw Hayato does suck and really didn't do a damn thing in 0079 outside of bitching since i've had time to digest 0079.
 
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