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2018-06-24, 02:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Anime/Manga Discussion 15: The Beach Episode
Darling in the FranXX 22
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Well plenty of Klaxossaurs alive after all and waging the war against the VRIM near Mars because why not.
Three 9s still kicking and seemingly willing to redeem themselves.
Meanwhile what's left of humanity trying to re-learn farming but seems like we're back to ecological message and the land's too barren after centuries of abuse to grow anything. The remants of VRIMs and Klaxossaurs crashing down from the heavens doesn't help much I would bet.
Although that raises the question of where exactly were they getting their food before. Maybe some high-tech farm-factories that got all blown up? But then somebody remembers that plants were growing just fine in their giant garden that did survive the battle.
New Nana's a b**** going all "Sorry, can't do anything useful without Papa's orders even after he revealed himself as an alien ready to wipe out humanity" luckily we got old Nana back.
Also 02 seems to be busy remote controling the titan mecha to pay attention to what's happening close to her while there's some nasty feedback to her own body when the biomachine gets harmed.
And of course the protagonist gonna rush after her in a conveniently left behind space ship. And the rest of the team's joining him. Except the to-be parents that are gonna stay behind. But really what do you hope to do, the FranXX weren't planned for space combat last time I checked you'll just get in the way-Ah wait this is a super robot show, of course the ground mecha is gonna work just fine in space.
Who wants to bet at least half of them will get killed?
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2018-06-25, 12:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-06-25, 01:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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IIRC it diverges so early you may as well start at the start.
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2018-07-05, 02:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm trying to remember the name out an anime I only saw part of one episode of:
In the scene I remember, two teams of high school girls are having some sort of competition on a beach. I think it was something like capture the flag or king of the hill. Anyway, at the climactic moment, the point of view character has an imagine spot where she imagines her team as a group of soldiers raising a flag in the same pose as the famous flag raising at Iwo Jima.
I only saw that bit once, a few years ago. My Google-fu is failing me in trying to search for it. It might have been on Toonami? I know it was on some cable TV network available in the USA.
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2018-07-12, 10:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: So Franxx is finished...
...and the ending is relentlessly cheery in comparison to what I expected. In a weird way I was expecting more of the cast to die off or struggle, I guess. Still satisfied though...just not as much as I could be.
RIP the Nines. Did not expect to feel bad for them in the slightest, so their deaths were surprisingly touching.
I kind-of want a sequel series, picking up on the reincarnations,...and with VRIMS' return incoming.
Who wants to bet at least half of them will get killed?
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2018-07-13, 08:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Glad to see you here!
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2018-07-13, 08:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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How are you doing here?)
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2018-07-13, 04:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Watched Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works Abridged Ep0. Once again it reminds me of my disappointment that rin with archer wasn't the MC and it was the inferior duo instead.
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2018-07-16, 05:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Kubo Tite's new one shot, Burn The Witch, has arrived!
It's REALLY bad. Jesus.
SpoilerThis will NEVER get picked up, but if it does I'm all in on ****ing SOUL SOCIETY WEST. It's gonna be awful.
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2018-07-16, 05:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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What? How could any story starring La Femme Byakuya be bad?
Seriously though, add Kubo to the list of manga authors who create a new manga and just crib character designs from their older series.
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2018-07-16, 06:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-07-18, 12:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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So, brand new season. Asobi Asobase is 9/10 so far, and I started watching Planet With on MB's recommendation, but that hasn't really grabbed me yet. Other than that there's not much else interesting to me yet (that's easily accessible).
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2018-07-18, 02:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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I've watched the first two episodes of Dropkick on My Devil!
It starts in a weird place in the story. Maybe equivalent to over 40 chapters into the manga? It relegates the premise and setup to a few seconds of introduction flashback in the first episode. The anime starts with about four or five characters beyond the main two. Those four or five characters got slowly introduced over the first thre tankōbon volumes in the manga, but they're all settled in as soon as the introduction is over, here. Apparently some anime-only viewers aren't having much trouble following though, since the format is extremely episodic and the characters are somewhat tropey.
I'm enjoying it, though so far it's not as good as the shows that got me interested in this sub-genre, like Excel Saga.
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2018-07-18, 04:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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So, what I've seen so far and my impressions/predictions:
Asobi Asobase: three girls being funny at school. Not too bad, fun enough that I will bother to keep watching it. Doesn't seem like it will hit the heights of Mitsuboshi Colors or Lucky Star, and certainly not or Yuru Yuri, but it should be good for a laugh.
Dropkick on my devil: witch summons devil who tries repeatedly to kill her. Violent, bloody comedy. Somewhat amusing, but I gave up on the manga and I may give up on the anime.
Planet With: first impressions: meh. By the guy that did Spirit Circle and Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer - the former good if not great, and the latter boring enough that I dropped. I'll give it a couple more episodes. Initially sort of like a less interesting Punchline. I'll probably drop this one.
Aguu: Genius dolls. Some magicians kidnap talented people, turn them into miniatures which are implanted to grant people extraordinary skill. The protagonists have to go around and stop them. Slightly creepy, and interesting enough that I'll give it a few more episodes at least.
The Thousand Noble Musketeers. Future setting, guns are only possessed by the Evil Empire, so rebeles collect antiques and fight the good fight, taking names from historical figures. Boring and uninspired. Pass
Cells at work: anthropomorphized bodily processes. Generic character types and predictable, boring action. Dropped.
Island: claims to be a mystery and drama, is really primarily a generic harem with minimal comedy (and comedy is nearly always a prerequisite to make an entertaining harem). Probably will get dropped.
Master of Ragnarok - Blessing of the Einherjar: this is billed as strongly influenced by Norse mythology, but it's maddeningly dull and generic isekai harem. The closest you get to anything Norse is some of the names being OK. Hard pass.
Yuragi-sou no Yuuna-san: confession time, ecchi harem comedies are about the closest thing I have to a guilty pleasure, and this is one of the better ones. Protagonist-kun is a step above most of his fellows in that he's actually attractive, competent and skilled in a wide variety of things, and generally nicer than "he waters the class plants"-type of way. Also, his Godfall quickly surpasses Yuuki Rito's in that it's the girls who are usually fall on him. I like the manga so this is an automatic win for me this season.
Chio-chan's School Road. Nerdy girl gets into the weirdest trouble on her way to school. Quite funny and another one of which I enjoy the manga. Tied with Yuna for the best show so far, barring Lupin.
Angels of Death: young girl wakes up in a creepy hospital-dungeon-thingy and has to avoid crazed killers. Interesting enough so far but it could end up going either way. Unless the quality takes a nosedive, I'll probably finish it.
How not to summon a demon lord: Blah blah isekai, blahddy 'I'm in my "bad guy" toon' blah.
Back Street Girls: yakuza thugs who screw up are given a choice: die or get a sex change and become idols. Disturbingly hilarious and an excellent example of humor that comes from rather horrible situations.
I doubt I'll give the other things a chance because I'm watching enough **** as it is, and the genres are ones that generally bore me to tears.
Lupin III part V continues to be everything I want from a Lupin show, and the uncontested highlight of the anime week.
Also slowly making my way through Galaxy Express 999, which is a mix of awesome, fun, strangely hard-hearted and exasperatingly wrong about science, even by soft SF standards.
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2018-07-21, 11:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Oh, man, I thought something was wrong. I had to check if what I was watching was the first episode. Wow. Odd choice. I've mostly been able to follow along, but even after the initial confusion a few things threw me. Is this some sort of newfangled marketing scheme? You know our anime is just an ad for the manga, so we're not even going to let you see the first 40 chapters unless you buy the manga. Here is this out of context ad campaign for your enjoyment.
Didn't expect to like it, but it's been amusing so far. Needs more of Olivia's fake bad Japanese though.
Planet With: first impressions: meh. By the guy that did Spirit Circle and Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer - the former good if not great, and the latter boring enough that I dropped. I'll give it a couple more episodes. Initially sort of like a less interesting Punchline. I'll probably drop this one.
Cells at work: anthropomorphized bodily processes. Generic character types and predictable, boring action. Dropped.
Island: claims to be a mystery and drama, is really primarily a generic harem with minimal comedy (and comedy is nearly always a prerequisite to make an entertaining harem). Probably will get dropped.
Chio-chan's School Road. Nerdy girl gets into the weirdest trouble on her way to school. Quite funny and another one of which I enjoy the manga. Tied with Yuna for the best show so far, barring Lupin.
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2018-07-21, 11:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Excuse me, I was summoned to the thread because I sensed that someone considers Satoshi Mizukami's works anything but absolutely brilliant masterpieces. Surely I must have been imagining things though because that sounds too hard to believe.
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2018-07-21, 09:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Gonna post about it here because I doubt anyone but me would even post in a thread about it.
Planet With is pretty great. It's got a bit of a slow start, and with only two episodes out I can't really make a perfect judgement on it, but after Biscuit Hammer and Spirit Circle I think I can safely say I'm into what he's putting down. Weird, inverted stories that go like normal ones except for that little bit of "ah, but then" in there.
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2018-07-22, 07:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Has anyone else here watched both Darling in the Franxx and also Ergo Proxy?
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2018-07-22, 09:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Watched the first episode of the Kaiji spinoff (side note: if y'all ain't watched Kaiji, go do that) and it started off rocky, but the last half was a laugh a minute. Hope it keeps it up.
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2018-07-23, 01:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Accel World was weird about this.
First there was the light novel series (currently at 22 books). Then a manga adaptation started.
Then there was an anime which covered the first 4 books. After the anime ended, the manga reached the end of book 2... and reduced the next two books into a single chapter of flashbacks so it could skip ahead to book 5 (after which the manga also ended).
The anime never got a season 2 (largely because the staff were busy with Love Live), but it eventually got a movie titled "Infinite Burst" which was advertised as a sequel. The first half of the movie is a series of clips from the anime with a narrator explaining the events of books 1 and 2... and the second half is set after book 20, making the explanation useless.
Infinite Burst has received an English translation, but the translation of the books is only up to volume 14.Last edited by Prime32; 2018-07-23 at 01:48 PM.
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2018-07-23, 05:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-07-24, 10:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-07-24, 02:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-07-25, 04:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Skipping nearly 20 books is a disaster to be sure, but I'm used to that sort of thing. Starting 4 volumes in is a new one for me. I can think of some similar cases, like some OVAs that decided to adapt whatever or if a prequel series got an anime but the original work didn't... but still nowhere close to this.
I watched it all. I'm not bitter.
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2018-07-28, 01:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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I mean, the manga skipping books 3-4 was partly justified by expecting the audience to have watched it in the anime already... and partly by the villain of that arc being so absolutely despicable (he's a sadistic bully who spends most of book 3 reducing the protagonists to tears) that I've seen people stop watching the anime because of him.
Last edited by Prime32; 2018-07-28 at 01:43 PM.
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2018-08-01, 10:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Personally, I'm concerned with any alterations to the story... but there are certainly times when it's for the better, particularly when something needs to be abridged. If they allude to those events without playing out the entire trauma, it sounds like it was for the better.
Changes are more often what get under my skin. The worst examples are usually when American companies decide to dumb stories down because they think that they're too nuanced, or too foreign. "Jelly donuts", anyone?* XD
* - More as an extreme/obvious/humorous example than a serious instance of story alteration.
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2018-08-03, 01:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-08-04, 05:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Heh, onigiriphobia for the win.
My true favorite for ~story~ alteration is Mononoke-hime (at least the dub): Apparently they thought any reference to animism would get the movie boycotted by evangelical audiences (which might have been true).
So they removed any perception of animism... which was only the plot glue, so no harm right?
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2018-08-12, 08:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Hi folks
I just finished watching the Eng dub of Yamato / Star Blazer 2202, and it stops at episode 13 (ok, Earth + Gamilas Vs Gatlantians of the Comet just to be clear. SO many open plotlines.....). I think I might have been watching the short films, rather than the actual episodes, though the titles do match. Or maybe the ENG version stops at #13 and the OV goes on (the wiki page lists 18 episodes).
Extra info: last episode I watched was "The Terezart Landing Operation: Strike the Enemy Missile Fleet!"
What is the best way to continue watching this? I am super hooked up, as a fan of the original series I find this one is just fantastic.
Cheers
Ossian
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2018-08-14, 04:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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So I've been watching titles based on recommendations from friends and I finally got to Space Dandy... Seriously, why does Space Dandy not have the "beloved classic" status that titles like Cowboy Bebop*, Outlaw Star, Trigun and FLCL have? Not that it was without faults, but it's rare I see a series of any kind this creative and this funny!
(*as it turns out, this is not an unfair comparison because Space Dandy was evidently directed by the same guy behind Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo.)