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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    edited September 2019
    Mysst wrote: »
    ok, so I gotta know. what, exactly, is the driving force behind Boruto? like, naruto felt like it ended pretty definitively, no more warring states, gods at peace, best buds, settled down. what's the big threat now? what exactly happened to the world that makes it so that a preteen tells me that Boruto is stronger than Naruto?

    Iirc, there are more people from the moon running around?

    And the first page seems to be a flash forward to midway through another ninja war that has killed Naruto in the process.

    Enlong on
  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    No because
    Mysst wrote: »
    ok, so I gotta know. what, exactly, is the driving force behind Boruto? like, naruto felt like it ended pretty definitively, no more warring states, gods at peace, best buds, settled down. what's the big threat now? what exactly happened to the world that makes it so that a preteen tells me that Boruto is stronger than Naruto?

    Money ruins everything pretty much. And Naruto stuff is made of money at the moment. Gotta hit Bleach levels to be able to die off.

  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited September 2019
    Yeah, the main plot for the adults is there's more ninja space aliens like what's-her-face from the end of Shippuden and they want to harvest the chakra from the world for whatever reason. I don't really care about this plot because I'm pretty much done with anything from the previous series.

    As far as Boruto and his generation, it's basically early Naruto where they're just learning how to do everything and the adventures they are in. Kind of a mix of early Naruto, the filler stuff, with an occasional important arc centering around one of the main Nu-Team 7 characters. Or Shikamaru's kid.

    The series started in media res with Boruto fighting someone when they're both adults and badass chakra monsters/ninjas, and that was probably Mitsuki maybe? I don't remember, and I don't really care either. I just want dumb ninja kids doing dumb ninja kid things.

    edit: Boruto, Sarada, and Mitsuki are all way the fuck better than Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke were at their age. Boruto specifically.

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  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    Maybe it seems less weird to someone who actually watched Naruto, but it seems really weird to me that apparently they're fighting aliens now.

  • AstharielAsthariel The Book Eater Registered User regular
    Why everyone should watch Vinland Saga:

    SPOILERS FOR A FIRST FEW EPISODES

    https://youtu.be/1qk1BoGRM7c

  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited September 2019
    This is kind of hypnotic, heh

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMFKrUizGXg

    I like these sorts of focused videos, it really shows how different talented folks will animate similar ideas in different ways.

    Kana on
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  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    I ordered book 7 of Made in Abyss since it just released. I'm both excited and worried. Book 6 took some hard turns for some sad stuff and I don't think book 7 is gonna get any happier.

    I'm also bummed out because it looks like book 14 for Watamote was pushed back to an October release when it was previously the same day as book 7 of Made in Abyss.

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    cB557 wrote: »
    Maybe it seems less weird to someone who actually watched Naruto, but it seems really weird to me that apparently they're fighting aliens now.
    It's weird, and also way out of place because the kids can do all of jack shit when the aliens are around. And since the show is supposed to be about the kids...

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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    edited September 2019
    You know, I used to think listening to Japanese songs more than English songs made me a pretty big weeb.

    And maybe it does.

    But I suppose the next level is not thinking anything of it when most or all of a song is in Engrish.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJL0mEAaUUk

    And yet, I can still barely stand dubs, because the way people speak English in dubs sounds just off enough to drive me insane.

    I don't know what Japanese is supposed to sound like outside of anime and games and music, so it doesn't trip my brain up.

    I guess it's like a linguistic uncanny valley?

    Kamar on
  • ZandraconZandracon Registered User regular
    oh, neat, they officially confirmed it

  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    Stragint wrote: »
    I ordered book 7 of Made in Abyss since it just released. I'm both excited and worried. Book 6 took some hard turns for some sad stuff and I don't think book 7 is gonna get any happier.

    I'm also bummed out because it looks like book 14 for Watamote was pushed back to an October release when it was previously the same day as book 7 of Made in Abyss.

    Got my MiA 7 yesterday. Don't worry, its all rainbows and cupcakes!!! Really!

    Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, Morituri Sum
  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    edited September 2019
    Kamar wrote: »
    You know, I used to think listening to Japanese songs more than English songs made me a pretty big weeb.

    And maybe it does.

    But I suppose the next level is not thinking anything of it when most or all of a song is in Engrish.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJL0mEAaUUk

    And yet, I can still barely stand dubs, because the way people speak English in dubs sounds just off enough to drive me insane.

    I don't know what Japanese is supposed to sound like outside of anime and games and music, so it doesn't trip my brain up.

    I guess it's like a linguistic uncanny valley?

    Well you posted a Myth/Roid song, and all of them are godly no matter the language.

    As far as weebness goes with music, I think enjoying a song you don't understand (at least partially) language wise makes you appriciate the music more. Look at the Made in Abyss song that uses a completely made up language:

    hanezeve caradhina

    PS: Your right about american dubs sounding like crap 90% of the time.

    azith28 on
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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    azith28 wrote: »
    Kamar wrote: »
    You know, I used to think listening to Japanese songs more than English songs made me a pretty big weeb.

    And maybe it does.

    But I suppose the next level is not thinking anything of it when most or all of a song is in Engrish.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJL0mEAaUUk

    And yet, I can still barely stand dubs, because the way people speak English in dubs sounds just off enough to drive me insane.

    I don't know what Japanese is supposed to sound like outside of anime and games and music, so it doesn't trip my brain up.

    I guess it's like a linguistic uncanny valley?

    Well you posted a Myth/Roid song, and all of them are godly no matter the language.

    As far as weebness goes with music, I think enjoying a song you don't understand (at least partially) language wise makes you appriciate the music more. Look at the Made in Abyss song that uses a completely made up language:

    hanezeve caradhina

    PS: Your right about american dubs sounding like crap 90% of the time.

    I do love a good conlang song.

    See: Every song from the Ar Tonelico/Surge Concerto games.

  • AstharielAsthariel The Book Eater Registered User regular
    Kyougu wrote: »
    Madican wrote: »
    No because
    Mysst wrote: »
    ok, so I gotta know. what, exactly, is the driving force behind Boruto? like, naruto felt like it ended pretty definitively, no more warring states, gods at peace, best buds, settled down. what's the big threat now? what exactly happened to the world that makes it so that a preteen tells me that Boruto is stronger than Naruto?

    Money ruins everything pretty much. And Naruto stuff is made of money at the moment. Gotta hit Bleach levels to be able to die off.

    Fucking Bleach.

    Has there been any anime that went from that popular to pretty much being forgotten about?

    Haruhi Suzumiya.

  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    Has it ever been explained what the fuck lead them to adapting Endless Eight the way they did?

  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    He still didn't have to do Orihime dirty like that in the Hueco Mundo arc

  • ThegreatcowThegreatcow Lord of All Bacons Washington State - It's Wet up here innit? Registered User regular
    Kyougu wrote: »
    Madican wrote: »
    No because
    Mysst wrote: »
    ok, so I gotta know. what, exactly, is the driving force behind Boruto? like, naruto felt like it ended pretty definitively, no more warring states, gods at peace, best buds, settled down. what's the big threat now? what exactly happened to the world that makes it so that a preteen tells me that Boruto is stronger than Naruto?

    Money ruins everything pretty much. And Naruto stuff is made of money at the moment. Gotta hit Bleach levels to be able to die off.

    Fucking Bleach.

    Has there been any anime that went from that popular to pretty much being forgotten about?

    Kubo clearly wanted to focus on the human characters but they weren't winning the polls. I can sympathize with losing interest when you lose control of your story

    Yeah I recall supereyepatch wolf did a deep dive on it that went into how bleach fell. Basically combination of Tite burning out, constant demands of more arcs and more story beyond what he was capable of.

  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    I still believe the perfect ending was the final fight with Aizen and everything afterwards was straight down in quality

  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    edited September 2019
    I read recently that apparently Haruhi didn't end with its last book (in 2011), it went on indefinite hiatus? Which...sure, that makes sense.

    I guess it's hard to figure out what to do with a series defined by all its main cast fighting desperately to prevent the main plot from progressing and turns its alleged main heroine into a background character because she can't be involved in any of the interesting stuff--or develop as a person much past 'unrepentant narcissist'--lest the plot progress.

    ...I started thinking, writing that, that I might have grown to hate the series, but I'd still read another book if one came out.

    Kamar on
  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    Moriveth wrote: »
    HxH general spoilers
    I hope Tonpa dies a gruesome death because man that sucks

    I was gonna say that he’s not that bad an antagonist to get a death like that

    And then I remembered that no, he’s sent a bunch of people to their deaths, over the course of several years, with a smile on his face.

  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited September 2019
    The world of HxH really sucks to live in for anyone not Hunters or equivalent

    Madican on
  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    edited September 2019
    Tonpa sucks but like 200 people died in the first round of the hunter exam so i'm more incensed at the system itself.

    Moth 13 on
  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    Beasteh wrote: »
    its like the final selection in kny

    just throw kids into the meat grinder and eventually you get a bunch of traumatised child soldiers

    And then you give them the mechs

    A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    Moriveth wrote: »
    Look fuckin' everyone sucks in HxH

    Aw come on. They have heart.

  • Chairman MeowChairman Meow Registered User, Moderator mod
    Moriveth wrote: »
    Anime thread, I have started playing Trails In The Sky on my Vita and this game seems neat. If I get through it I may buy the second one. Bummer the third one is only available on PC, though, but oh well - I have it on that, it's just that I'm far more likely to play games on mobile than at home, especially longish RPGs.

    For the record the third one isn't 100% connected to the first two. It's sort of a standalone story, as the second one concludes the story of the first two.

  • BaidolBaidol I will hold him off Escape while you canRegistered User regular
    Moriveth wrote: »
    Anime thread, I have started playing Trails In The Sky on my Vita and this game seems neat. If I get through it I may buy the second one. Bummer the third one is only available on PC, though, but oh well - I have it on that, it's just that I'm far more likely to play games on mobile than at home, especially longish RPGs.

    If it helps, the PC versions of all Trails games have very nice QoL improvements such as Turbo mode so that both regular game movement and combat are faster. Additionally, Trails in the Sky the 3rd's structure is...different than the first two and sort of lends itself to playing in sessions.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Moriveth wrote: »
    Oh, well that's good to know. I assume the Trails Of Cold Steel games are more directly related to each other?

    Yeah, they're focused on one of the other countries

  • Chairman MeowChairman Meow Registered User, Moderator mod
    Also Trails in the Sky is one of my absolute favourite JRPGs and I really need to finish the second one, I just kinda got bogged down and forgot where I was at in it and never got back to it.

  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    I know exactly where I left off in the second one. I was trying to fish up an overpowered accessory because the game took away my Stealth orb that I absolutely loved in the first game

  • BaidolBaidol I will hold him off Escape while you canRegistered User regular
    edited September 2019
    In terms of connectivity, the various Trails series are all nominally standalone, but the overarching plot links them all.

    Sky 1, 2, and 3 (centered in Liberl) happen in sequential order. Sky 3 can be thought of as bringing closure to the Sky series and a transition to sequel duology Ao and Zero (centered in Crossbell, never localized). Cold Steel 1 and 2 (centered in Erebonia) happen simultaneously with Ao and Zero. Cold Steel 3 and 4 happen after everything else.

    It's me; I'm the big Trails fan.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Baidol wrote: »
    In terms of connectivity, the various Trails series are all nominally standalone, but the overarching plot links them all.

    Sky 1, 2, and 3 (centered in Liberl) happen in sequential order. Sky 3 can be thought of as bringing closure to the Sky series and a transition to sequel duology Ao and Zero (centered in Crossbell, never localized). Cold Steel 1 and 2 (centered in Erebonia) happen simultaneously with Ao and Zero. Cold Steel 3 and 4 happen after everything else.

    It's me; I'm the big Trails fan.

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited September 2019
    Moriveth wrote: »
    If you were to make a HxH rewatch podcast it'd have to be called Hunter x Hunter x Podcast right

    the bar for hxh fan project titles is

    high

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqetAtMgMnU

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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    Hopefully Super Eyepatch Wolf introducing Woolie to HxH didn't go the same way introducing him to Legend of the Mystical Ninja SNES did.

    Or maybe I hope it does, since that LP was excellent.

  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Playing Cold Steel as Three Houses came out was extremely funny because of all the (mostly surface level) similarities

  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    Phrasing

  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    The cold steel games are also similarly built for multiple playthroughs

  • simulacrumsimulacrum She/herRegistered User regular
    edited September 2019
    I literally started playing cold steel 2 yesterday in preparation for 3

    1 did a great job of making me wanna play 2 immediately

    simulacrum on
  • simulacrumsimulacrum She/herRegistered User regular
    I wish the sky series was on ps4 since I don't have access to a pc or vita atm and playing cold steel got me interested in them

  • simulacrumsimulacrum She/herRegistered User regular
    Not at the moment

  • simulacrumsimulacrum She/herRegistered User regular
    No harm done

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