I'm watching Demon Slayer on this thread's recommendation.
Episode 7:
I gotta say, I wasn't expecting the whole "villain who knows how to fix my sister whom all the demons are too terrified to talk about" thing to resolve with "oh, he's right over there, that's cool".
My favorite musical instrument is the air-raid siren.
Since we were talking about adaptations, what's the worst adaptation of something you're familiar with that you've ever seen?
I'm thinking Umineko no Naku Koro Ni, for turning a visual novel that consumed my life for a while into an awful anime only notable for its cast and memes.
Thinking on it more. Two entire categories of bad adaptation come to mind.
Any of those anime where they adapted a yuri or yaoi series but reduced text to subtext or stuffed in a male protagonist, which was happening a lot a few years ago for no reason I can understand. Akuma no Riddle is a particularly bad example of this, since it was a near-panel-for-panel adaptation with the extremely obvious exception of romantic scenes or lines.
Incoherent ultra-compressed single-season advertisements for light novels/manga/games can be pretty bad too.
What was wrong with the Umineko anime? I heard it was bad but I don't know the details.
Compressed too much into too little time, basically. And lots of wrong or changed details that add up to problems for the mystery component of the thing.
miscellaneousinsanitygrass grows, birds fly, sun shines,and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered Userregular
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the higurashi anime having garbage looking characters was, charitably, keeping in the spirit of the original, but i find it actually unwatchable, they made things so much worse
I'm watching Demon Slayer on this thread's recommendation.
Episode 7:
I gotta say, I wasn't expecting the whole "villain who knows how to fix my sister whom all the demons are too terrified to talk about" thing to resolve with "oh, he's right over there, that's cool".
Sometimes the Fuhrer President King Bradley gambit doesn't pay off
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Thinking on it, I think the biggest waste of an adaptation that I cared about were the Berserk movies.
Three full length, decent budget movies, just dedicated to the Golden Age arc, it really should've been dope. But their focus was all wrong, they included almost every single battle sequence from the manga (using kinda ugly, PS3-cutscene looking CG to be able to afford to animate all those battles), while excising a lot of the quiet character moments that actually matter to the story. Like the battles matter, sure, but you can mostly early-Game-of-Thrones them, just show them starting and then cut to the end. Yeah, Guts killed a bunch of dudes, again, we know. It's Guts, that's the thing he does.
They're not like, actively -bad-, but they're just so lacking in artistic vision, they're taking extremely good material and making it entirely mediocre.
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.
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
Since we were talking about adaptations, what's the worst adaptation of something you're familiar with that you've ever seen?
I'm thinking Umineko no Naku Koro Ni, for turning a visual novel that consumed my life for a while into an awful anime only notable for its cast and memes.
Thinking on it more. Two entire categories of bad adaptation come to mind.
Any of those anime where they adapted a yuri or yaoi series but reduced text to subtext or stuffed in a male protagonist, which was happening a lot a few years ago for no reason I can understand. Akuma no Riddle is a particularly bad example of this, since it was a near-panel-for-panel adaptation with the extremely obvious exception of romantic scenes or lines.
Incoherent ultra-compressed single-season advertisements for light novels/manga/games can be pretty bad too.
berserk 2016
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miscellaneousinsanitygrass grows, birds fly, sun shines,and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered Userregular
the golden age movies were alright
maybe it's that i hold them in a little higher regard retroactively when stacked next to berserk '16
but their real saving grace was the banging soundtrack
Kaguya mindlessly blabbing away about how great kissing is is great... For everyone except Hayasaka.
I'm impressed by the dedication to telling this whole smooching incident in reverse. We already had follow-up from this 10 chapters ago!
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.
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WhiteZinfandelYour insidesLet me show you themRegistered Userregular
Are we talking about Berserk? Time to post the outtakes compilation!
What was wrong with the Umineko anime? I heard it was bad but I don't know the details.
Compressed too much into too little time, basically. And lots of wrong or changed details that add up to problems for the mystery component of the thing.
It also never finished the story. It's only Chapters 1-4, the 'Question' arc. 'Answer' was never adapted(probably for the best, in many ways).
What was wrong with the Umineko anime? I heard it was bad but I don't know the details.
Compressed too much into too little time, basically. And lots of wrong or changed details that add up to problems for the mystery component of the thing.
It also never finished the story. It's only Chapters 1-4, the 'Question' arc. 'Answer' was never adapted(probably for the best, in many ways).
Why, you think it would have been a further embarassment? Or that a general audience may have handled certain revelations poorly?
What was wrong with the Umineko anime? I heard it was bad but I don't know the details.
Compressed too much into too little time, basically. And lots of wrong or changed details that add up to problems for the mystery component of the thing.
It also never finished the story. It's only Chapters 1-4, the 'Question' arc. 'Answer' was never adapted(probably for the best, in many ways).
Why, you think it would have been a further embarassment? Or that a general audience may have handled certain revelations poorly?
Both.
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Thought about getting the first volume of How Heavy Are The Dumbbells You Lift, but after a quick GIS it looks way more lecherous than the anime, and I'm not sure I'm into that
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BeastehTHAT WOULD NOTKILL DRACULARegistered Userregular
it certainly has a lot of lewd poses
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
Oh yeah the manga just goes 'okay exercise explanations are all close-ups of sweaty girls with little to no clothing' I dunno how the anime handles them
Oh yeah the manga just goes 'okay exercise explanations are all close-ups of sweaty girls with little to no clothing' I dunno how the anime handles them
Oh yeah the manga just goes 'okay exercise explanations are all close-ups of sweaty girls with little to no clothing' I dunno how the anime handles them
it's less overt, but yeah
That's the thing, in the show I can go "oh please" for a sec and shake my head, but the images from the manga I saw...yeah. It's a bit much. Which is a bummer, because I don't think it needs it
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Episode 7:
I'm thinking Umineko no Naku Koro Ni, for turning a visual novel that consumed my life for a while into an awful anime only notable for its cast and memes.
Thinking on it more. Two entire categories of bad adaptation come to mind.
Any of those anime where they adapted a yuri or yaoi series but reduced text to subtext or stuffed in a male protagonist, which was happening a lot a few years ago for no reason I can understand. Akuma no Riddle is a particularly bad example of this, since it was a near-panel-for-panel adaptation with the extremely obvious exception of romantic scenes or lines.
Incoherent ultra-compressed single-season advertisements for light novels/manga/games can be pretty bad too.
Compressed too much into too little time, basically. And lots of wrong or changed details that add up to problems for the mystery component of the thing.
i can't recommend it to anyone
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Three full length, decent budget movies, just dedicated to the Golden Age arc, it really should've been dope. But their focus was all wrong, they included almost every single battle sequence from the manga (using kinda ugly, PS3-cutscene looking CG to be able to afford to animate all those battles), while excising a lot of the quiet character moments that actually matter to the story. Like the battles matter, sure, but you can mostly early-Game-of-Thrones them, just show them starting and then cut to the end. Yeah, Guts killed a bunch of dudes, again, we know. It's Guts, that's the thing he does.
They're not like, actively -bad-, but they're just so lacking in artistic vision, they're taking extremely good material and making it entirely mediocre.
berserk 2016
maybe it's that i hold them in a little higher regard retroactively when stacked next to berserk '16
but their real saving grace was the banging soundtrack
Almost all of their albums have songs like this. Eventually they just gave up and made a full on tribute band.
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I'm impressed by the dedication to telling this whole smooching incident in reverse. We already had follow-up from this 10 chapters ago!
Omg that is so fluffy I’m going to die!
I need to check out this series yesterday
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Also his "wha..." always makes me chuckle.
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Good stuff y'all...
I think I might start Legend of the Galactic Heroes, as a sort of solo-watch while my roommates & I progress slowly through Dragon Ball Z
It also never finished the story. It's only Chapters 1-4, the 'Question' arc. 'Answer' was never adapted(probably for the best, in many ways).
Why, you think it would have been a further embarassment? Or that a general audience may have handled certain revelations poorly?
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Should’ve gone for something easier than those shells.
She just wants to be confessed to.
Both.
it's very horny though
Phantom Blood is good
but Battle Tendency has Joseph Joestar, the king of kings and maybe my favorite protagonist ever
it's less overt, but yeah
That's the thing, in the show I can go "oh please" for a sec and shake my head, but the images from the manga I saw...yeah. It's a bit much. Which is a bummer, because I don't think it needs it