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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Polaritie wrote: »
    I dunno if the characters in the story know he's Dragon's son yet but that wouldn't be news to us, the audience, and anyway a bunch of other characters have a mysterious D. middle initial and it's vaguely implied to be related.

    Yeah, it's been strongly hinted at that the name has significance. Most significantly during the climax of Dressrosa iirc. Though so far really it's just that nobody with that name seems to give a damn about authority. (Now I'm trying to remember if Garp had that name, but I doubt it)
    Garp has the D.

    Law, Blackbeard, Jaguar, Luffy, Gol Roger, Ace, Garp, Portgas, and Dragon all have the D.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    the will of d. is linked to the void century and raftel

    also rosinante said that in his home country the carriers of d. were referred to as the enemies of god(probably celestial dragons)

  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    Polaritie wrote: »
    I dunno if the characters in the story know he's Dragon's son yet but that wouldn't be news to us, the audience, and anyway a bunch of other characters have a mysterious D. middle initial and it's vaguely implied to be related.

    Yeah, it's been strongly hinted at that the name has significance. Most significantly during the climax of Dressrosa iirc. Though so far really it's just that nobody with that name seems to give a damn about authority. (Now I'm trying to remember if Garp had that name, but I doubt it)
    Garp has the D.

    Law, Blackbeard, Jaguar, Luffy, Gol Roger, Ace, Garp, Portgas, and Dragon all have the D.

    I thought Blackbeard's D was fake. Or at least someone said to his face that he thought his D was fake. Maybe Whitebeard?

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    oh yeah, the reveal that Gold Roger was actually named Gol D. Roger was pretty funny

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    All these important characters have the D and I think the best answer is it's a huge coincidence.

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited October 2020
    that would be the funniest outcome yes

    also don't forget Buggy D. Clown

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Polaritie wrote: »
    I dunno if the characters in the story know he's Dragon's son yet but that wouldn't be news to us, the audience, and anyway a bunch of other characters have a mysterious D. middle initial and it's vaguely implied to be related.

    Yeah, it's been strongly hinted at that the name has significance. Most significantly during the climax of Dressrosa iirc. Though so far really it's just that nobody with that name seems to give a damn about authority. (Now I'm trying to remember if Garp had that name, but I doubt it)
    Garp has the D.

    Law, Blackbeard, Jaguar, Luffy, Gol Roger, Ace, Garp, Portgas, and Dragon all have the D.

    I thought Blackbeard's D was fake. Or at least someone said to his face that he thought his D was fake. Maybe Whitebeard?

    Its a theory because so far hes the only charavter with a D thats been shown to be afraid of dying and Whitebeard said something like he doesnt deserve that name

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    oh yeah, the reveal that Gold Roger was actually named Gol D. Roger was pretty funny

    Gotta have them puns

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    Jujutsu Kaisen MANGA major ass spoilers:
    Spoilers for the MANGA, don't click by mistake.
    Killing the most prominent female lead in the manga the same week she debuts in the anime is certainly a decision.

    Mind you, I imagine that's not going to be what happened, but still.

  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    I'd planned to just read Chainsaw Man as it came out in volumes, but after reading the first volume this week, I don't feel like waiting for the next and figure I'll just grab the Viz subscription and catch up.

    Anything else I should read while I have a subscription? I got in on the ground floor with Spy x Family, so I don't need a subscription to keep up on that one.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Lars wrote: »
    I'd planned to just read Chainsaw Man as it came out in volumes, but after reading the first volume this week, I don't feel like waiting for the next and figure I'll just grab the Viz subscription and catch up.

    Anything else I should read while I have a subscription? I got in on the ground floor with Spy x Family, so I don't need a subscription to keep up on that one.

    I can give some recommendations but I have no idea what you’ve already read

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    edited October 2020
    Lars wrote: »
    I'd planned to just read Chainsaw Man as it came out in volumes, but after reading the first volume this week, I don't feel like waiting for the next and figure I'll just grab the Viz subscription and catch up.

    Anything else I should read while I have a subscription? I got in on the ground floor with Spy x Family, so I don't need a subscription to keep up on that one.

    One Piece.

    Nah, but seriously, longer-running stuff that might be worth looking into:
    One Piece. :p
    My Hero Academia (and Vigilantes while you're at it, and have the subscription, because it's actually not bad unto itself)
    Doctor Stone
    Jujutsu Kaisen is maybe worth looking into, but can still be kinda confusing.
    Black Clover is junk food, but worthwhile junk food.

    Of the newest stuff, Hard-boiled cop and dolphin is probably my favorite but some of that is carried over affection for Beelzebub.

    And i seem to recall you enjoying romance/harem series? We Never Learn is wrapping up and has a choose-your-own-adventure with every female getting a "route" (just wrapped up the 4th of 5) so it might be worth a read if you're bored.

    E: and of course there's FINISHED stuff you can binge.

    Jragghen on
  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    One Piece is definitely better in manga form than anime form

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    Lars wrote: »
    I'd planned to just read Chainsaw Man as it came out in volumes, but after reading the first volume this week, I don't feel like waiting for the next and figure I'll just grab the Viz subscription and catch up.

    Anything else I should read while I have a subscription? I got in on the ground floor with Spy x Family, so I don't need a subscription to keep up on that one.

    I can give some recommendations but I have no idea what you’ve already read

    I've read a lot, but mostly on my Kindle. Scrolling through the recent listing on Viz's Shounen Jump page, I've read:

    * We Never Learn (collecting volumes, not in a rush to read so can just wait for volumes)
    * Spy x Family (I'm up to date, so don't need a subscription)
    * That Death Note one-shot
    * Rosario + Vampire (I own the first volume but haven't read it yet, no rush)

    Also don't really want to start anything with over 200 chapters or so.

  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    edited October 2020
    Read Assassination Classroom.

    Finished series, 185 chapters.

    e: Also WNL's fourth route just finished this week and is really good, so I'd recommend catching up if you get the urge.

    Jragghen on
  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    new Chainsawman chapter out

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Most of the library that's up on Viz that I can see is over 200 chapters so

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    Jragghen wrote: »
    Jujutsu Kaisen MANGA major ass spoilers:
    Spoilers for the MANGA, don't click by mistake.
    Killing the most prominent female lead in the manga the same week she debuts in the anime is certainly a decision.

    Mind you, I imagine that's not going to be what happened, but still.
    She had a flashback! Those things are 100% lethal. As are: being touched by Mahito (example, literally everyone else in the manga), being in a horror manga (rampant civilian murder via horrible means), and the author promised to kill people in the principle cast this arc.

  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    @Lars read HELL'S PARADISE: JIGOKURAKU

  • darunia106darunia106 J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    Lars wrote: »
    I'd planned to just read Chainsaw Man as it came out in volumes, but after reading the first volume this week, I don't feel like waiting for the next and figure I'll just grab the Viz subscription and catch up.

    Anything else I should read while I have a subscription? I got in on the ground floor with Spy x Family, so I don't need a subscription to keep up on that one.

    Kaiju No. 8 is pretty rad. It's about a middle aged man working in a monster corpse clean up crew in a Kaiju-beset Japan who aspires to one day join the national Kaiju hunting defense force.

    The art is friggin excellent.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    I watched the premiere of Adachi & Shimamura. It's on funimation unfortunately, so probably won't be really keeping up with it until it's finished. Seems like an okay adaptation so far, though I don't really care for the color pallet of the show, and it's a little weirdly horny sometimes, though not like grossly so, just like, lots of shots with legs, that sort of thing.

    Anyway things I like about the series:

    - That instead of being the typical anime over-achievers they're both a couple of disaffected antisocial teens who bond over skipping school a lot.
    - But also they're still just kinda normal kids, they're not like anime stereotypical delinquents either
    - They both have some problems in their lives, but it's not handled melodramatically. As good as Bloom Into You was, the melodrama tended to lose me.
    - I like that it's not set in Tokyo. Nor is it like a secluded wilderness eden. They're just in kinda a boring small town, by the time they get to Shimamura's house it's mostly just fields. They don't even actually leave school when they're skipping school, presumably cuz there's not really anything to do.
    - I like that it doesn't overly hold your hand with explaining their relationship. They're already friends, there's little frissons of something more there, but neither of them is quite clear on what that is yet

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  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    edited October 2020
    Is this a thread where I can talk about Umineko because I am playing it

    Umineko Ep 2 ending
    so I’m only familiar with the broad strokes of Higurashi but
    Bernkastel is Rika and all of Higurashi was set up by Lambdadelta?

    Do I have that right?
    Also Jesus was that ending grim

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    Do you mean Higurashi When They Cry? I am not familiar with it either but I have heard some things about this new anime of it that people discovered with ep. 2
    apparently this is not a straight remake of the original story but some kind of sequel, and it was marketed as a remake as a fake out

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  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    edited October 2020
    Is this a thread where I can talk about Umineko because I am playing it

    Umineko Ep 2 ending
    so I’m only familiar with the broad strokes of Higurashi but

    Bernkastel is Rika and all of Higurashi was set up by Lambdadelta?

    Do I have that right?

    Also Jesus was that ending grim
    Yeah that's basically it.

    Higurashi spoils:
    It's all left to implication in Higurashi itself, but near the end of Higurashi there's "another Rika" who talks to you in "fragment space". She acts very detached from the Rika we know and it's implied she was another personality created to deal with all the hardships Rika went through, which is why she's more pessimistic. Rika won the day in the end and got to live her life, but I guess Bernkastel just kept floating out there being a witch.

    As for Lambadelta, at one point the main antagonist of Higurashi receives a message from "God" at their lowest point, gaining the motivation they needed to set everything up, so I guess Umineko implies that was Lambdadelta all along.

    It's grim, but "When the Seagulls cried, no one was left alive" has gotta be one of my favorite title drops.

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  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    Do you mean Higurashi When They Cry? I am not familiar with it either but I have heard some things about this new anime of it that people discovered with ep. 2
    apparently this is not a straight remake of the original story but some kind of sequel, and it was marketed as a remake as a fake out

    No, watching Higurashi made me decide to play Umineko, which I bought and started a while back but never really got going with
    Moth 13 wrote: »
    Is this a thread where I can talk about Umineko because I am playing it

    Umineko Ep 2 ending
    so I’m only familiar with the broad strokes of Higurashi but

    Bernkastel is Rika and all of Higurashi was set up by Lambdadelta?

    Do I have that right?

    Also Jesus was that ending grim
    Yeah that's basically it.

    Higurashi spoils:
    It's all left to implication in Higurashi itself, but near the end of Higurashi there's "another Rika" who talks to you in "fragment space". She acts very detached from the Rika we know and it's implied she was another personality created to deal with all the hardships Rika went through, which is why she's more pessimistic. Rika won the day in the end and got to live her life, but I guess Bernkastel just kept floating out there being a witch.

    As for Lambadelta, at one point the main antagonist of Higurashi receives a message from "God" at their lowest point, gaining the motivation they needed to set everything up, so I guess Umineko implies that was Lambdadelta all along.

    "When the Seagulls cried, no one was left alive" has gotta be one of my favorite title drops.
    I’m really looking forward to seeing where this goes

    So far I’m not very close to figuring out what’s going on, although midway through episode 2 I guessed that Shannon and Kanon are probably Kinzo’s familiars rather than just his servants

    And Beatrice specifically calling her familiars/thralls/whatevers by the same title seems to be pretty good confirmation of that

    Also whoever Maria’s dad is has to have decent magic affinity, since we know the Ushiromiya bloodline doesn’t


  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited October 2020
    almost all of what I know about Umineko/Higurashi is this (oh, spoilers I guess?)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddJHCUmIC8M

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  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    almost all of what I know about Umineko/Higurashi is this
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddJHCUmIC8M

    This is really good but don't actually watch it if you aren't finished with Umineko.

  • AstharielAsthariel The Book Eater Registered User regular
    edited October 2020
    In November 2018 it was announced, that soon we would get a Kickstarter for a new Umineko version, with full English dubbing.

    2 years later, still nothing. I guess I will have to finally buy the Steam versions after all.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited October 2020
    Is this a thread where I can talk about Umineko because I am playing it

    Umineko Ep 2 ending
    so I’m only familiar with the broad strokes of Higurashi but

    Bernkastel is Rika and all of Higurashi was set up by Lambdadelta?

    Do I have that right?

    Also Jesus was that ending grim

    There's a visual novel thread somewhere. Also, should probably tag that this involves Higurashi spoilers.
    (I've never finished Higurashi, but I connected those dots pretty quick.)

    Also, I hope you're using the original art or at least a mod for the PS3 sprites. I don't like the Steam ones at all, but the PS3 ones are nice.
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    Asthariel wrote: »
    In November 2018 it was announced, that soon we would get a Kickstarter for a new Umineko version, with full English dubbing.

    2 years later, still nothing. I guess I will have to finalyl buy the Steam versions after all.

    That was always pretty sketchy, though Ryukishi07 probably did give them his blessing, since he's very cool about things like that.
    (He even approved of our fan translation of the fighting game!)

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited October 2020
    i really should finish umineko at some point.. i got to/through part 4 at least before falling off somewhere along the way, it was really good but i had started it right after finishing higurashi so i was a little whentheycry-ed out

    but now i've spent this year revisiting higurashi and fully falling in love with the franchise again, i guess once Gou wraps up i'll finally give it another shot

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  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    I’m going with the steam sprites because I’m not a big fan of the original art and I’m too lazy to look for a mod

    But I did discover something

    Since the original sprites are much bigger than the updated steam sprites, toggling from the latter to the former makes it look like the characters are lunging at you

    I like to make my own scares, even in horror games

  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    I’m going with the steam sprites because I’m not a big fan of the original art and I’m too lazy to look for a mod

    But I did discover something

    Since the original sprites are much bigger than the updated steam sprites, toggling from the latter to the former makes it look like the characters are lunging at you

    I like to make my own scares, even in horror games

    Thankfully I'll gladly do the work for you.

    https://07th-mod.com/home/

    https://07th-mod.com/wiki/Umineko/Umineko-Getting-started/

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    I wouldn't settle for experiencing it the first time with inferior art.

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    speaking of higurashi this was my favorite ~reaction~ vid for the new anime so far, the second half is just some really nice filmic analysis of several scenes compared with how they were handled in the 2006 version

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etr_0CezE74

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    Nitpick, and it's probably impossible to fix given how ubiquitous the titles are, but I wish they'd actually translate 'Higurashi' and 'Umineko' for the official releases, since the meanings are lost without translating them.

    I get that "When The Cicadas Cry" isn't as catchy, but still.

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  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    Yeah but if they’d translated it I never would’ve learned that the Japanese for seagull is literally “ocean cat”

    Also, thank you for the mod!

  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    Do you mean Higurashi When They Cry? I am not familiar with it either but I have heard some things about this new anime of it that people discovered with ep. 2
    apparently this is not a straight remake of the original story but some kind of sequel, and it was marketed as a remake as a fake out
    In broad half remembered haze of when I watched the first Higurashi anime years and years ago:
    In the original I think I remember it eventually being revealed that all the characters are stuck in some freaky time-loop that at best most of the characters are subconsciously aware of, so it tracks.

  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    I watched new animes.

    Jujutsu Kaisen ep1
    I was kind of hoping the main dude eats the demon finger and straight up turns evil, with the series either following him being evil or the other dude trying to kill him. Hopefully it picks up in the next episode or something, because otherwise I'm not interested.

    I'm Standing on a Million Lives ep1 and ep2
    Super glad the athletic girl is a support mage and the anemic girl is the fighter. Good thing a dude is here now to save everyone despite not even being a fighting class. But then the action still managed to hook me, and the tease about how it's supposed to "end" was interesting enough to where I'll give it another episode or so.

    Also kind of feels like Konosuba played straight.

    Relatedly, Golden Kamuy is back and I couldn't be happier.

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  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    okay, Umineko Ep 3 opening
    ah yes Beatrice, the silver haired witch we all know

    seriously what the shit

  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited October 2020
    okay, Umineko Ep 3 opening
    ah yes Beatrice, the silver haired witch we all know

    seriously what the shit

    Some of the theories about this are crazier than the game itself.

    One of my favorite things that someone pointed out (late game Umineko spoilers)
    Is that you never see Kanon and Shannon at the same time.
    Yeah but if they’d translated it I never would’ve learned that the Japanese for seagull is literally “ocean cat”

    Also, thank you for the mod!

    The community go by 'seacats' for a reason, lol.

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