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[Oddjob OTP]

New episode of Spider Isekai doesn't look like shit like the previous one. Really, the saving grace of that godaweful animation was that it was the human subplot so nobody gives a fuck. I'm guessing that the heroine gets trapped in stasis for 15 years so she'll meet the heroes in the cave, and either her mother turns into the demon lord or her alternate personalities gets corrupted to become the various bad guys. Thought I really want the heroine to commit Arachnid holocaust.

I haven't tracked down any of the novels yet so I'm only current with the manga but you're pretty far off.

Spoiler: Super vague lightest possible spoiler

She does kill an awful lot of spiders though.

 

[Nero You're DeadWeight]

I also came back from watching Demon Slayer. People were fairly quiet where I was at other than clapping when the credits rolled and softly chuckling at the appropriate scenes.
It was very enjoyable. The CGI was noticable, but it didn't bother me much. It really upped some of the battles, definitely worth watching imo. I was surprised to see it got an R rating.
Going to a theater with covid seating is pretty weird, and I saw a few cosplayers too.

I think at most it needed a PG-13 but I enjoyed the shit out of it. I went in cosplay as Zenitsu and got a ton of weird looks but I didn't give a shit. I saw a Nezuko there which was pretty nice but I still had a ton of fun. 10/10 WOULD PAY TO SEE THE FINAL BATTLE OF THE MOVIE AGAIN but I'd bring a box of tissues.
Tbh, what was the seating like at your place? They closed every other row at my place but still let people in even thought after I got there they were trying to rope off the concession stand.

How the fuck is Demon Slayer not up in torrent sites? You'd think once it hit the usa, some theater owners would let someone copy the film for crack money.

Thanks for the recommendation, seen the first two episodes and they are a blast. The opening suggests that there's going to be a ton of body horror in it.

Will say when I went to see the movie, once in a while this weird white line showed up. Y'know when you watch a VHS tape and you get that fuzzy line? Yea that happened once or twice. I think a camcorder version when the movie dropped in Japan was up on a "popular anime pirating site" but I might be wrong.
I did read about a guy trying to film shit and he got in trouble and his excuse was " I was just gonna watch the cool scenes at home dude".

 

[Atatata]

I think at most it needed a PG-13 but I enjoyed the shit out of it. I went in cosplay as Zenitsu and got a ton of weird looks but I didn't give a shit. I saw a Nezuko there which was pretty nice but I still had a ton of fun. 10/10 WOULD PAY TO SEE THE FINAL BATTLE OF THE MOVIE AGAIN but I'd bring a box of tissues.
Tbh, what was the seating like at your place? They closed every other row at my place but still let people in even thought after I got there they were trying to rope off the concession stand.

It was a three seat distance between people, two seats in front/behind. Made trying to get a good seat almost impossible ngl. There weren't any problems with people trying to get in, surprisingly.

 

[Moguro Fukuzou]

Read Ten Count in its entirety yesterday. Felt I had to make myself known with the source material, since ordered a figure of Kurose from the series. Anyway, still don't like fembois, but kinda felt bad for Shirotani and the manga didn't even touch the problem at its roots. He got a problem yea, but maybe Kurose should begin with his childhood trauma? Fits his sadistic side to never want him to actually get better, but it's odd of the mangaka to not bring it up.

It's a lacklustre manga, but good on them for having an actual story. Instead of only fuck & suck like every yaoi out there, even though it was a bit too much of it in this manga too. It's a bit confused, but there was an attempt.

I ended up pretty disappointed in Ten Count because I enjoyed the initial focus on MC's trauma and the (seemingly at the time) slow focus on dealing with those issues. I dropped it as soon as it just turned into a bunch of porn without much plot.

Haven't been watching a lot of anime as of late, but I have placed an order for Serial Experiments Lain (heard lots of great things about it!) and FLCL (for some reason, Hulu only has six episodes of the OG series) as a birthday treat for myself. Can't wait to dig into them soon.

I recently watched lain for the first time and found it to be a wonderfully atmospheric anime that didn't fall into the "trying too hard to be 2deep4u" pitfall that a lot of cerebral shows sadly do. Don't feel to bad about "not getting it" regarding certain things since I also probably missed a bunch, the show leaves a lot of room for interpretation and is very rewatchable. My main enjoyment was Lain, grew to really love her by the end.

Reminds me that there's an amazingly well timed amv for lain that pairs it with a cover of Friday. Doesn't feature any major spoilers since it's all out of context.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

A few years ago, I had managed to talk my mom into watching Serial Experiments Lain thinking she (a well-learned free-thinking person) would enjoy a show that doesn't hold your hand, but she bailed after episode 10 and got snippy about "allowing" such an anime to come into the home because it was a mature series, but it was literally nothing worse than what was already on TV then. (At least with Space Dandy, she wasn't wrong to have a fit over it, but it wasn't like I was watching it around my younger brothers.) She's never liked anime to begin with, but she had managed to watch a few series by then, and I thought something that was conventionally and unconventionally anime with some Westernish elements would be something she could at least find fascinating because she finds it fascinating the Japanese love Americans so much.

But then again, I tried Trigun with her for that same reason and she said it was stupid after the first episode and didn't want to watch more. Have a feeling she'd say the same about Cowboy Bebop. Yet she managed to watch and enjoy Millennium Actress for being the most "Western" anime because that's how it made sense to her even though she didn't like Chiyoko's motivation and how she "wasted her life away".

At least I learned that Cardcaptors, CLANNAD, Vision of Escaflowne, and Kanon are the kind of shows she liked, but even as adults, no fucking wonder so many parents had issues with their kids watching anime. It's honestly a miracle she allowed us to continue watching it in the first place, she teeters so much on the opinion of anime always being directly aimed for kids because it's animated and that it teaches kids to treat women like objects. Somehow, the concept of "adult animation" escapes her.

 

[Deftones]

I recently watched lain for the first time and found it to be a wonderfully atmospheric anime that didn't fall into the "trying too hard to be 2deep4u" pitfall that a lot of cerebral shows sadly do. Don't feel to bad about "not getting it" regarding certain things since I also probably missed a bunch, the show leaves a lot of room for interpretation and is very rewatchable. My main enjoyment was Lain, grew to really love her by the end.

Reminds me that there's an amazingly well timed amv for lain that pairs it with a cover of Friday. Doesn't feature any major spoilers since it's all out of context.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fl-JVrvNHag

That's good to know! I first got exposed to it through Digibro a few years back (I know, I know...) and heard many great things about it.

I haven't really seen many pretentious anime (I mean if you count Elfen Lied. But I find it really enjoyable in spite of it) yet, but I'm glad that Lain doesn't fall into that category. I had plans to watch that after I've seen Evangelion (which I have).

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

The Laughing Salesman

I think it didn’t need to be said, though I managed to find another 80’s anime that I liked the most.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I think it didn’t need to be said, though I managed to find another 80’s anime that I liked the most.

Oh did it finally get fully subbed? I had to hunt down the last half of the show raw on Dailymotion, but it honestly isn't something to binge. I kinda rushed through it because I didn't know how much longer Dailymotion was going to work and how much longer the videos/channel would stay up.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Oh did it finally get fully subbed? I had to hunt down the last half of the show raw on Dailymotion, but it honestly isn't something to binge. I kinda rushed through it because I didn't know how much longer Dailymotion was going to work and how much longer the videos/channel would stay up.

Only saw the first few episodes of it, but I think gogoanime website might have raw subs of it. At least the last time I saw it, that is.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Only saw the first few episodes of it, but I think gogoanime website might have raw subs of it. At least the last time I saw it, that is.

9anime has it all subbed from what I'm seeing. I know there was a sub group who was working on the series but they had said they weren't going to do the whole thing. Either they had changed their minds, or someone else took over.

Still, it's awesome to know that.

 

[Secret Asshole]

New episode of Spider Isekai doesn't look like shit like the previous one. Really, the saving grace of that godaweful animation was that it was the human subplot so nobody gives a fuck. I'm guessing that the heroine gets trapped in stasis for 15 years so she'll meet the heroes in the cave, and either her mother turns into the demon lord or her alternate personalities gets corrupted to become the various bad guys. Thought I really want the heroine to commit Arachnid holocaust.

That's really what I was thinking in that the personalities get corrupted, the intro kind of ruins it though since you see her fighting the Demon Lord, which kind of ruins all the surprise to know they're not the same unless its a pure red herring..

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

New Nagatoro episode addressed the bullying aspect a bit. Hopefully that’ll shut up some of Twitter. It covered the raining/Nagatoro’s house chapters and the one introducing her first two friends, with an added bit at the end.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

New Nagatoro episode addressed the bullying aspect a bit. Hopefully that’ll shut up some of Twitter. It covered the raining/Nagatoro’s house chapters and the one introducing her first two friends, with an added bit at the end.

So far the first two episodes of it are really faithful to the manga, which is pretty nice, in my opinion.

Spoiler

Between me switching back and forth between this and Redo of Healer, this is really a nice balance

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

So far the first two episodes of it are really faithful to the manga, which is pretty nice, in my opinion.

Spoiler

Between me switching back and forth between this and Redo of Healer, this is really a nice balance

Third episode was as well, there was an added bit, but I think it fit well with everything. Nagatoro learning the stopping point, essentially.

 

[TheOtherOne]

I've been skimming through Index/Railgun the past few months, and... they're just kinda okay. I unironically liked Kaori Kanzaki more than the protagonists of either series (Still sucks that she was partially there for plot purposes or to get stomped by whatever villain she was facing). I don't know why, but Mikoto didn't come off as interesting, and Touma is... not very interesting at all, tbh. I like the worldbuilding surrounding the different powers (whether esper or magical) and Academy City though. The light novels are incredibly daunting, so I didn't really read them as much, but they seem slightly better than their anime counterparts. I feel like the side characters are interesting, but some parts of their personalities come across as weird to me (Kuroko's perv schtick was a big one).

And of course, Index/Railgun aren't the same without the incessant fanservice, which I hated and turned me off a lot from both series.

 

[MooseGump]

It's time to suffer again with megucas

 

[LightDragonman1]

Dang it, you beat me to posting it. XD

Seriously though, first Evangelion gets its long awaited grand finale film and now Madoka Magica does as well. I'm in pure bliss right now.

 

[Judge Holden]

And here be the poster

Its not a bad day to be a weeb degenerate. Not a bad day at all.

 

[Moguro Fukuzou]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gAR0CMwEfesIt's time to suffer again with megucas

Apparently Gen wrote the script for this right after finishing the script for Gaim in 2014 according to a tweet he put out recently.

ワルプルギスの廻天、脚本は鎧武を終えた直後、東離劍遊紀にとりかかる直前に脱稿してたので、思えばまだ私が自力で可愛い女の子の台詞を書けていた頃の最後の本になります。ついに日の目を見る時が来て嬉しいです！

Rough English translation with DeepL (with some notes):

Walpurgis no Maiten, the script was taken out of draft right after I finished Armor Wars [Kamen Rider Gaim] and right before I started on Tohri Jiantouki [Thunderbolt Fantasy], so if you think about it, it's the last book I wrote when I was still able to write cute girl dialogue on my own. I'm glad it's finally seeing the light of day!

I'm cautiously optimistic that it'll be an actual nice conclusion to the series, but I'm always worried when it's a new work after many years of nothing. Wonder if it'll be able to top Rebellion.

 

[Oddjob OTP]

I've been skimming through Index/Railgun the past few months, and... they're just kinda okay. I unironically liked Kaori Kanzaki more than the protagonists of either series (Still sucks that she was partially there for plot purposes or to get stomped by whatever villain she was facing). I don't know why, but Mikoto didn't come off as interesting, and Touma is... not very interesting at all, tbh. I like the worldbuilding surrounding the different powers (whether esper or magical) and Academy City though. The light novels are incredibly daunting, so I didn't really read them as much, but they seem slightly better than their anime counterparts. I feel like the side characters are interesting, but some parts of their personalities come across as weird to me (Kuroko's perv schtick was a big one).

And of course, Index/Railgun aren't the same without the incessant fanservice, which I hated and turned me off a lot from both series.

The latter seasons focus more on Accelerator which is good because while he's a shitty edgelord with a terrible laugh he actually experiences character growth unlike Touma.