So I've been watching Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid tonight and... it's actually really quite good?
Yeah it's pretty fuckin anime when it comes to a few things (those jiggle physics WHEW) but it's really delightfully wholesome, and thoughtful, and the dialogue is profoundly well written (and the dub is exceptionally well translated and localised!).
Dragon Maid is a very good anime pretty much 100% of the time Lucoa isn't on screen.
So I've been watching Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid tonight and... it's actually really quite good?
Yeah it's pretty fuckin anime when it comes to a few things (those jiggle physics WHEW) but it's really delightfully wholesome, and thoughtful, and the dialogue is profoundly well written (and the dub is exceptionally well translated and localised!).
Dragon Maid is a very good anime pretty much 100% of the time Lucoa isn't on screen.
So I've been watching Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid tonight and... it's actually really quite good?
Yeah it's pretty fuckin anime when it comes to a few things (those jiggle physics WHEW) but it's really delightfully wholesome, and thoughtful, and the dialogue is profoundly well written (and the dub is exceptionally well translated and localised!).
Dragon Maid is a very good anime pretty much 100% of the time Lucoa isn't on screen.
I actually really like Lucoa the character
Just wish her design was a bit...
well, less
oh
I've just met the mage boy
hm okay this changes my perspective of Lucoa
This is the blemish on an otherwise great show.
yeah him thinking she's a demon is good
him thinking she's a succubus is... awkward
her... giving him reason to think she's a succubus is..... noooooooooooooooooo
So I've been watching Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid tonight and... it's actually really quite good?
Yeah it's pretty fuckin anime when it comes to a few things (those jiggle physics WHEW) but it's really delightfully wholesome, and thoughtful, and the dialogue is profoundly well written (and the dub is exceptionally well translated and localised!).
Dragon Maid is a very good anime pretty much 100% of the time Lucoa isn't on screen.
I actually really like Lucoa the character
Just wish her design was a bit...
well, less
Honestly I don't even necessarily mind the design that much. Sure, giant boobs, whoop de doo, whatever. Those are only a bit larger than my grandma's anyway. And heck, whenever she's not doing The One Joke she's great. too. It's the fact that The One Joke in question involves regularly basically coming this close to molesting a young boy because him getting flustered is funny that bothers me.
EDIT: Yep. As said, this series is amazing pretty much whenever Lucoa isn't on screen.
I just remembered that the Kill la Kill fighting game did a really cool thing.
All the voice actors (both Japanese and English) got a few bonus lines where they were asked something and could answer however they wanted, and you could unlock these in the Gallery. Some were just things like "Congratulate the player for beating the game" or "sum up Kill la Kill in one word", but there was one that was something like "Words of Encouragement in these trying times" that I thought was a nice inclusion (though they recorded these in 2019, not 2020).
Some voice actors did it in character, and others did it as themselves. So if you ever wanted Satsuki Kiryuin or Gamagoori to give you some positive reinforcement, it's there.
Edit: Found a video with all the English versions of the Bonus lines HERE (linked due to NSFW preview image)
So I've been watching Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid tonight and... it's actually really quite good?
Yeah it's pretty fuckin anime when it comes to a few things (those jiggle physics WHEW) but it's really delightfully wholesome, and thoughtful, and the dialogue is profoundly well written (and the dub is exceptionally well translated and localised!).
Dragon Maid is a very good anime pretty much 100% of the time Lucoa isn't on screen.
I actually really like Lucoa the character
Just wish her design was a bit...
well, less
oh
I've just met the mage boy
hm okay this changes my perspective of Lucoa
This is the blemish on an otherwise great show.
yeah him thinking she's a demon is good
him thinking she's a succubus is... awkward
her... giving him reason to think she's a succubus is..... noooooooooooooooooo
I assume the joke is she's a mayan god so she has a thing for young virgins
Its uh not great
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So I've been watching Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid tonight and... it's actually really quite good?
Yeah it's pretty fuckin anime when it comes to a few things (those jiggle physics WHEW) but it's really delightfully wholesome, and thoughtful, and the dialogue is profoundly well written (and the dub is exceptionally well translated and localised!).
Dragon Maid is a very good anime pretty much 100% of the time Lucoa isn't on screen.
I actually really like Lucoa the character
Just wish her design was a bit...
well, less
oh
I've just met the mage boy
hm okay this changes my perspective of Lucoa
This is the blemish on an otherwise great show.
yeah him thinking she's a demon is good
him thinking she's a succubus is... awkward
her... giving him reason to think she's a succubus is..... noooooooooooooooooo
I assume the joke is she's a mayan god so she has a thing for young virgins
Its uh not great
it's sorta the reverse: her presence makes humans kinda weird around her
I assume the joke is she's a mayan god so she has a thing for young virgins
Its uh not great
I think it's just one of the author's things. They did the exact same thing in Mononoke Sharing, with a character that is basically just the sullen version of Lucoa. Then there's (REDACTED) where it's the central premise of the entire manga (though the guy is actually college-aged in that, he just looks like a shota).
It's very off-putting.
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So I've been watching Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid tonight and... it's actually really quite good?
Yeah it's pretty fuckin anime when it comes to a few things (those jiggle physics WHEW) but it's really delightfully wholesome, and thoughtful, and the dialogue is profoundly well written (and the dub is exceptionally well translated and localised!).
Dragon Maid is a very good anime pretty much 100% of the time Lucoa isn't on screen.
I actually really like Lucoa the character
Just wish her design was a bit...
well, less
oh
I've just met the mage boy
hm okay this changes my perspective of Lucoa
This is the blemish on an otherwise great show.
yeah him thinking she's a demon is good
him thinking she's a succubus is... awkward
her... giving him reason to think she's a succubus is..... noooooooooooooooooo
I assume the joke is she's a mayan god so she has a thing for young virgins
Its uh not great
nahuatl, not mayan, but yeah
the joke does not play well
her jiggling turning every guy on screen except shouta into an idiot is a good joke though
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
also do not read the manga
the manga has some real bad problems that I will not go into and I hope they sanitize it for season 2
Also fwiw I really don't wanna hear about the bad shit in the manga so spoiler it if anyone brings it up. I'm enjoying this show a great deal outside of this one specific thing and I don't wanna have it get ruined entirely
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Yo. Wonder Egg Priorit's first episode is really, really good.
It's also fucking insane.
It's hard to summarize the first episode, but think basically Flip-Flappers, but with the melodrama cranked up a bunch, and without the magical girl transformation crap.
I like Lucoa a great deal whenever she's not interacting with Shouta.
and then the moment anything happens there my enjoyment of her character just flips entirely into negative
Is that really the name of the mage boy? Seriously?
shota and shouta are actual names, they just also get used as puns sometimes too cause japan loves puns
I know they're actual names, but when they're given to the little boy character I also know what the intent of the name is. It's like calling the little girl character Lollee.
I agree with everything that has been said so far about dragon maid, positive and negative. I absolutely love the queer found family themes that are the main plot and characters, like 85% of it, but then the author's obvious pedophilia thing awkwardly pops up every now and then and makes it all very hard to recommend.
That said I don't know if they ever will make a season 2, the director died in the Kyoto Animation arson.
I agree with everything that has been said so far about dragon maid, positive and negative. I absolutely love the queer found family themes that are the main plot and characters, like 85% of it, but then the author's obvious pedophilia thing awkwardly pops up every now and then and makes it all very hard to recommend.
That said I don't know if they ever will make a season 2, the director died in the Kyoto Animation arson.
Season 2 comes out this year, confirmed in august.
I vaguely remembering hearing something about the first season of Kobayashi where the dub changed some lines with Lucoa and pissed off the grognards or something. At least I think it was them that it pissed off, I can't quite remember the details.
I do remember the OP being quite trippy.
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I vaguely remembering hearing something about the first season of Kobayashi where the dub changed some lines with Lucoa and pissed off the grognards or something. At least I think it was them that it pissed off, I can't quite remember the details.
I do remember the OP being quite trippy.
People were upset because a line was changed that originally implied that Kobayashi was not interested in any relationship to her not being interested in a relationship with another woman.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I vaguely remembering hearing something about the first season of Kobayashi where the dub changed some lines with Lucoa and pissed off the grognards or something. At least I think it was them that it pissed off, I can't quite remember the details.
I do remember the OP being quite trippy.
People were upset because a line was changed that originally implied that Kobayashi was not interested in any relationship to her not being interested in a relationship with another woman.
That doesn't sound like what I'm remembering, I thought it was something about Lucoa fighting against the patriarchy or something like that.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I vaguely remembering hearing something about the first season of Kobayashi where the dub changed some lines with Lucoa and pissed off the grognards or something. At least I think it was them that it pissed off, I can't quite remember the details.
I do remember the OP being quite trippy.
People were upset because a line was changed that originally implied that Kobayashi was not interested in any relationship to her not being interested in a relationship with another woman.
That doesn't sound like what I'm remembering, I thought it was something about Lucoa fighting against the patriarchy or something like that.
The thing I said definitely happened, if something else also happened then this is the first I am hearing of it
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I'm on like episode 35 and I'm still not 100% what I'm watching.
Shriroku(?), whoever is inside Ains, seems to just be a goofy office worker. His voice doesn't come through often so it seems like he's deep into the roleplay of his character, but it does come through still even now, though the moments of terrified gaping maw as he realizes he is out of his depth a little come less.
But he just had Shalltear hunt down a thief, but a thief her friends gave her lives to save, and was thankful that she had been dismembered, her voice stolen, her parts fed to various creatures and her head given to a silk worm demon. I get his underlings are evil, but Ains seems full on irredeemably evil which doesn't mesh at all with the goofy persona underneath. Like there is a lot of needless experimenting which is mentioned if not shown, and luring thieves in just to fuck with them is wicked, but Arche is presented as well meaning and working a job to provide for her loved ones, and she was cut up like a hog and parcelled out for fun. It's a very confusing anime, if compelling.
Much of the way through season one of Psycho Pass now. Some of the violence is maybe a little too real/lingered on for me. But I'm mostly enjoying it.
Like the first episode attack of the kidnapped woman was fairly rough, but it moved past it at a quick pace. I was fine with Hannibal-esque body art stuff. But when the helmet plot starts it kicks off in earnest with a guy beating a woman on the street with a hammer and suggests sexual violence similar to how the first episode played out. But the horror of the moment is much more prolonged as passerbys do nothing because they barely understand what's going on. And then after that real rough sequence the rest of the episode and the following one keep showing the attack as people watch videos of it. It was brutal and it definitely started to hit my limit on that sort of thing.
Yo. Wonder Egg Priorit's first episode is really, really good.
It's also fucking insane.
It's hard to summarize the first episode, but think basically Flip-Flappers, but with the melodrama cranked up a bunch, and without the magical girl transformation crap.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I'm on like episode 35 and I'm still not 100% what I'm watching.
Shriroku(?), whoever is inside Ains, seems to just be a goofy office worker. His voice doesn't come through often so it seems like he's deep into the roleplay of his character, but it does come through still even now, though the moments of terrified gaping maw as he realizes he is out of his depth a little come less.
But he just had Shalltear hunt down a thief, but a thief her friends gave her lives to save, and was thankful that she had been dismembered, her voice stolen, her parts fed to various creatures and her head given to a silk worm demon. I get his underlings are evil, but Ains seems full on irredeemably evil which doesn't mesh at all with the goofy persona underneath. Like there is a lot of needless experimenting which is mentioned if not shown, and luring thieves in just to fuck with them is wicked, but Arche is presented as well meaning and working a job to provide for her loved ones, and she was cut up like a hog and parcelled out for fun. It's a very confusing anime, if compelling.
Ainz is evil as shit.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Yo. Wonder Egg Priorit's first episode is really, really good.
It's also fucking insane.
It's hard to summarize the first episode, but think basically Flip-Flappers, but with the melodrama cranked up a bunch, and without the magical girl transformation crap.
I find it hard to describe the first episode as well. It is very well animated and very weird. I am definitely interested in more after that.
That promo makes it look like a generic teenage angsty meldorama thingy though, when the actual episode is
Her running away from her ridiculously corny nightmare world where people bully her about being sad over her friend being bullied into killing herself and getting sucked into an ACTUAL nightmare world to save a girl who's being hunted by murderous gremlins as a stand-in for her failure to save her friend, and decides to keep trying to save more people in these nightmare worlds for the chance to bring her friend back to life at the behest of a ghost firefly. Also, she gets shivved in the kidney by an axe murderer bully, which is time-lagged and doesn't affect her until she leaves the nightmare.
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I'm on like episode 35 and I'm still not 100% what I'm watching.
Shriroku(?), whoever is inside Ains, seems to just be a goofy office worker. His voice doesn't come through often so it seems like he's deep into the roleplay of his character, but it does come through still even now, though the moments of terrified gaping maw as he realizes he is out of his depth a little come less.
But he just had Shalltear hunt down a thief, but a thief her friends gave her lives to save, and was thankful that she had been dismembered, her voice stolen, her parts fed to various creatures and her head given to a silk worm demon. I get his underlings are evil, but Ains seems full on irredeemably evil which doesn't mesh at all with the goofy persona underneath. Like there is a lot of needless experimenting which is mentioned if not shown, and luring thieves in just to fuck with them is wicked, but Arche is presented as well meaning and working a job to provide for her loved ones, and she was cut up like a hog and parcelled out for fun. It's a very confusing anime, if compelling.
Ainz is evil as shit.
Overlord is torture porn.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I'm on like episode 35 and I'm still not 100% what I'm watching.
Shriroku(?), whoever is inside Ains, seems to just be a goofy office worker. His voice doesn't come through often so it seems like he's deep into the roleplay of his character, but it does come through still even now, though the moments of terrified gaping maw as he realizes he is out of his depth a little come less.
But he just had Shalltear hunt down a thief, but a thief her friends gave her lives to save, and was thankful that she had been dismembered, her voice stolen, her parts fed to various creatures and her head given to a silk worm demon. I get his underlings are evil, but Ains seems full on irredeemably evil which doesn't mesh at all with the goofy persona underneath. Like there is a lot of needless experimenting which is mentioned if not shown, and luring thieves in just to fuck with them is wicked, but Arche is presented as well meaning and working a job to provide for her loved ones, and she was cut up like a hog and parcelled out for fun. It's a very confusing anime, if compelling.
Ainz is evil as shit.
Overlord is torture porn.
At times.
It can be fun though!
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I'm on like episode 35 and I'm still not 100% what I'm watching.
Shriroku(?), whoever is inside Ains, seems to just be a goofy office worker. His voice doesn't come through often so it seems like he's deep into the roleplay of his character, but it does come through still even now, though the moments of terrified gaping maw as he realizes he is out of his depth a little come less.
But he just had Shalltear hunt down a thief, but a thief her friends gave her lives to save, and was thankful that she had been dismembered, her voice stolen, her parts fed to various creatures and her head given to a silk worm demon. I get his underlings are evil, but Ains seems full on irredeemably evil which doesn't mesh at all with the goofy persona underneath. Like there is a lot of needless experimenting which is mentioned if not shown, and luring thieves in just to fuck with them is wicked, but Arche is presented as well meaning and working a job to provide for her loved ones, and she was cut up like a hog and parcelled out for fun. It's a very confusing anime, if compelling.
I'm on like episode 35 and I'm still not 100% what I'm watching.
Shriroku(?), whoever is inside Ains, seems to just be a goofy office worker. His voice doesn't come through often so it seems like he's deep into the roleplay of his character, but it does come through still even now, though the moments of terrified gaping maw as he realizes he is out of his depth a little come less.
But he just had Shalltear hunt down a thief, but a thief her friends gave her lives to save, and was thankful that she had been dismembered, her voice stolen, her parts fed to various creatures and her head given to a silk worm demon. I get his underlings are evil, but Ains seems full on irredeemably evil which doesn't mesh at all with the goofy persona underneath. Like there is a lot of needless experimenting which is mentioned if not shown, and luring thieves in just to fuck with them is wicked, but Arche is presented as well meaning and working a job to provide for her loved ones, and she was cut up like a hog and parcelled out for fun. It's a very confusing anime, if compelling.
Gonna say the same thing I say every time someone brings up this show which is that it abandons any interesting exploration of questions it sets up in season 1 to instead be garbage edgelord bullshit.
Yo. Wonder Egg Priorit's first episode is really, really good.
It's also fucking insane.
It's hard to summarize the first episode, but think basically Flip-Flappers, but with the melodrama cranked up a bunch, and without the magical girl transformation crap.
I find it hard to describe the first episode as well. It is very well animated and very weird. I am definitely interested in more after that.
That promo makes it look like a generic teenage angsty meldorama thingy though, when the actual episode is
Her running away from her ridiculously corny nightmare world where people bully her about being sad over her friend being bullied into killing herself and getting sucked into a nightmare world to save a girl who's being hunted by murderous gremlins as a stand-in for her failure to save her friend, and decides to keep trying to save more people in these nightmare worlds for the chance to bring her friend back to life at the behest of a ghost firefly. Also, she gets shivved in the kidney by an axe murderer bully, which is time-lagged and doesn't affect her until she leaves the nightmare.
The art and animation in the trailer is what got my attention and what made me decide to watch it. I am happy enough that it was a little misleading. Going in blind for shows like this is always fun.
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I've just met the mage boy
hm okay this changes my perspective of Lucoa
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This is the blemish on an otherwise great show.
yeah him thinking she's a demon is good
him thinking she's a succubus is... awkward
her... giving him reason to think she's a succubus is..... noooooooooooooooooo
Honestly I don't even necessarily mind the design that much. Sure, giant boobs, whoop de doo, whatever. Those are only a bit larger than my grandma's anyway. And heck, whenever she's not doing The One Joke she's great. too. It's the fact that The One Joke in question involves regularly basically coming this close to molesting a young boy because him getting flustered is funny that bothers me.
EDIT: Yep. As said, this series is amazing pretty much whenever Lucoa isn't on screen.
literally five minutes from the mage boy first appearing
All the voice actors (both Japanese and English) got a few bonus lines where they were asked something and could answer however they wanted, and you could unlock these in the Gallery. Some were just things like "Congratulate the player for beating the game" or "sum up Kill la Kill in one word", but there was one that was something like "Words of Encouragement in these trying times" that I thought was a nice inclusion (though they recorded these in 2019, not 2020).
Some voice actors did it in character, and others did it as themselves. So if you ever wanted Satsuki Kiryuin or Gamagoori to give you some positive reinforcement, it's there.
Edit: Found a video with all the English versions of the Bonus lines HERE (linked due to NSFW preview image)
I assume the joke is she's a mayan god so she has a thing for young virgins
Its uh not great
it's sorta the reverse: her presence makes humans kinda weird around her
I think it's just one of the author's things. They did the exact same thing in Mononoke Sharing, with a character that is basically just the sullen version of Lucoa. Then there's (REDACTED) where it's the central premise of the entire manga (though the guy is actually college-aged in that, he just looks like a shota).
It's very off-putting.
nahuatl, not mayan, but yeah
the joke does not play well
her jiggling turning every guy on screen except shouta into an idiot is a good joke though
the manga has some real bad problems that I will not go into and I hope they sanitize it for season 2
Edit: also there was precisely one good joke about Lucoa, and it was the scavenger hunt. Everything else is eugh.
and then the moment anything happens there my enjoyment of her character just flips entirely into negative
He's the 6' guy to your 5' 11".
Is that really the name of the mage boy? Seriously?
It's also fucking insane.
It's hard to summarize the first episode, but think basically Flip-Flappers, but with the melodrama cranked up a bunch, and without the magical girl transformation crap.
Yep! It’s a name I’ve seen before I think but.... yeah.
shota and shouta are actual names, they just also get used as puns sometimes too cause japan loves puns
I know they're actual names, but when they're given to the little boy character I also know what the intent of the name is. It's like calling the little girl character Lollee.
That said I don't know if they ever will make a season 2, the director died in the Kyoto Animation arson.
Season 2 comes out this year, confirmed in august.
I do remember the OP being quite trippy.
People were upset because a line was changed that originally implied that Kobayashi was not interested in any relationship to her not being interested in a relationship with another woman.
That doesn't sound like what I'm remembering, I thought it was something about Lucoa fighting against the patriarchy or something like that.
The thing I said definitely happened, if something else also happened then this is the first I am hearing of it
I'm on like episode 35 and I'm still not 100% what I'm watching.
But he just had Shalltear hunt down a thief, but a thief her friends gave her lives to save, and was thankful that she had been dismembered, her voice stolen, her parts fed to various creatures and her head given to a silk worm demon. I get his underlings are evil, but Ains seems full on irredeemably evil which doesn't mesh at all with the goofy persona underneath. Like there is a lot of needless experimenting which is mentioned if not shown, and luring thieves in just to fuck with them is wicked, but Arche is presented as well meaning and working a job to provide for her loved ones, and she was cut up like a hog and parcelled out for fun. It's a very confusing anime, if compelling.
I find it hard to describe the first episode as well. It is very well animated and very weird. I am definitely interested in more after that.
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That promo makes it look like a generic teenage angsty meldorama thingy though, when the actual episode is
At times.
It can be fun though!
Debatable
Gonna say the same thing I say every time someone brings up this show which is that it abandons any interesting exploration of questions it sets up in season 1 to instead be garbage edgelord bullshit.
The art and animation in the trailer is what got my attention and what made me decide to watch it. I am happy enough that it was a little misleading. Going in blind for shows like this is always fun.
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