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MILLION TAG, a new "battle audition" show for discovering "the next star manga creator," on Friday. The eight-episode program will debut on the official YouTube channel for Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine next Friday, July 2 at 6:00 p.m. (5:00 a.m. EDT).
The winning manga creator will receive a prize of 5 million yen (about US$45,000), the opportunity to serialize their manga on Shonen Jump+, a compiled book volume of that manga, and an anime adaptation of the manga.
silence1186Character shields down!As a wingmanRegistered Userregular
One of the tasks/challenges/games/whatever should be drawing manga for 7 days straight without sleeping, to prepare the contestants for their new career.
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Junji Ito created a summary manga for black & white horror movie "The Lighthouse" starring Robert Pattinson & Willem Dafoe that will be distributed in japanese cinemas to promote its theatrical release in Japan on July 9
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Junji Ito created a summary manga for black & white horror movie "The Lighthouse" starring Robert Pattinson & Willem Dafoe that will be distributed in japanese cinemas to promote its theatrical release in Japan on July 9
Really excited for the finales of both MegaloBox 2 and OddTaxi, they've both been right up my alley and MB2 is an active improvement on the first season IMO
Depending on how slow next season is I might give Vivy, To Your Eternity, or 86 another shot
Started watching Demon Slayer, just finished episode 16. So far Zenitsu might be the deadliest character, in that he’s very close to killing the whole show!
Started watching Demon Slayer, just finished episode 16. So far Zenitsu might be the deadliest character, in that he’s very close to killing the whole show!
Yeah... he's a big oof. He does get a couple good scenes, but...
On a related note, the movie's up on Funimation for streaming, so I watched that. It has minimal Zenitsu, and is good.
Zenitsu ticks a bunch of character things I like...
-Cowardly fighter.
-Literally knows only one move but it's a good move.
-Idiot who doesn't realize he's strong.
Zenitsu ticks a bunch of character things I like...
-Cowardly fighter.
-Literally knows only one move but it's a good move.
-Idiot who doesn't realize he's strong.
but like, I still can't stand the character.
For me, it’s all the screaming and crying and outsized terror at literally everything
Speaking of big oofs, and perhaps content warnings for next season, the Mappa action show's manga (Idaten Gods) has an extremely graphic, explicit, and gratuitous rape/murder scene right at the start. Hopefully thrown straight in the adaptation trash bin, but probably not.
And Cheat Pharmacist's Slow Life, on top of the typical slave harem, one of its first bits is that one of the girls suspects her brother is gay, so asks for a drug to fix him. He responds by giving her a chemical castration potion and tells her to secretly drug him with it. So, uh, yeah.
Speaking of big oofs, and perhaps content warnings for next season, the Mappa action show's manga (Idaten Gods) has an extremely graphic, explicit, and gratuitous rape/murder scene right at the start. Hopefully thrown straight in the adaptation trash bin, but probably not.
And Cheat Pharmacist's Slow Life, on top of the typical slave harem, one of its first bits is that one of the girls suspects her brother is gay, so asks for a drug to fix him. He responds by giving her a chemical castration potion and tells her to secretly drug him with it. So, uh, yeah.
ever watch the Lupin 3rd movie where there's a sex robot with a drill for a cock?
I dunno if Castlevania counts as anime but I'm finally getting around to watching that.
I watched the first season when it aired and I remember thinking the art direction and action was really, really good but everyone only ever talked in mumbles and it made it very hard to hear dialogue. That still holds up but it's better with ear buds.
I dunno if Castlevania counts as anime but I'm finally getting around to watching that.
I watched the first season when it aired and I remember thinking the art direction and action was really, really good but everyone only ever talked in mumbles and it made it very hard to hear dialogue. That still holds up but it's better with ear buds.
Alucard you cock wart.
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So I haven't read or watched Demon Slayer, but I have kept hearing about this Zenitsu guy (and how terrible he is). How does he compare to other similarly typed guys, like say Usopp? And uhhh.... uh yeah, there's surely a lot more examples, but I can only come up with Usopp right now.
Usopp is infinitely better than Zenitsu, in almost every regard. Zenitsu actively dragged Demon Slayer down with him, whereas Usopp only ever uplifts One Piece
Sorry, I'm not following. By the above (report in March 2021), streaming was a fairly small piece of the overall revenue for the industry, only 68.5 billion yen revenue total, compared to eg 320 billion yen for pachinko. It looks to me like domestic streaming is cannibalizing DVD sales, as one's going up as the other's dropping in roughly similar amounts, but that's just eyeballing with no rigorous analysis. Not sure what you mean by "but disc sales." Reference to the Manabi Line schtick? But even that was in the low thousands and more a metric with high correlation to general popularity and other stuff than meant as a straight line to revenue.
No, you answered my question. Like, of course that domestic streaming is cannbializing disc sales for obvious reasons, I just find outdated to use disc sales as a measure of success when domestic streaming is it's successor.
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Usopp's character flaw is his cowardice (and the lies he tells to cover it up) whereas Zenitsu's entire character is a coward who is also a sex pest (aka the Mineta Paradigm); Usopp actively struggles to address his weaknesses and is his overall character arc whereas the other two just use the tropes to make gags. It becomes a character flaw and thus an arc if the story acknowledges it, it becomes endearing; leaving as a shallow character type at best makes them a tolerable gag engine but mostly just hampers the story.
"Grip 'em up, grip 'em, grip 'em good, said the Gryphon... to the pig."
Usopp is a regular person among superpowered people at first (other than Nami but she didn't really fight until sometime into Baroque Arc) and his entire development is learning how to become Comedy Batman to adapt tech and his own analysis skills to bring down people who by all rights should be way above his weight class, including Luffy himself.
Zenitsu is just strong right off the bat with the only caveat being he has to be knocked unconscious so he's not even aware of what he's doing, meaning he's not choosing to do anything he's just reacting without any effort required.
+10
silence1186Character shields down!As a wingmanRegistered Userregular
Zenitsu has some AAA tier badass fights when he's asleep, but is generally the worst thing on screen if he's awake.
He does have a modicum of character growth by the end? Maybe not.
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MILLION TAG, a new "battle audition" show for discovering "the next star manga creator," on Friday. The eight-episode program will debut on the official YouTube channel for Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine next Friday, July 2 at 6:00 p.m. (5:00 a.m. EDT).
The winning manga creator will receive a prize of 5 million yen (about US$45,000), the opportunity to serialize their manga on Shonen Jump+, a compiled book volume of that manga, and an anime adaptation of the manga.
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
See that just makes me imagine them trying to do car things, and then Char just drops in with Sazabi. It's a very short movie as a result!
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The Tester, you say
Phrasing!
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It is literally a penny arcade show and it was good.
Several of the contestants were able to build fanbases and careers from the show, not just the winner.
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Some of the contestants even got to do uncredited work for Penny Arcade!
God, I really hope the "HARK, TRITON" rant is illustrated in this.
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Depending on how slow next season is I might give Vivy, To Your Eternity, or 86 another shot
Yeah... he's a big oof. He does get a couple good scenes, but...
On a related note, the movie's up on Funimation for streaming, so I watched that. It has minimal Zenitsu, and is good.
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-Cowardly fighter.
-Literally knows only one move but it's a good move.
-Idiot who doesn't realize he's strong.
but like, I still can't stand the character.
For me, it’s all the screaming and crying and outsized terror at literally everything
And Cheat Pharmacist's Slow Life, on top of the typical slave harem, one of its first bits is that one of the girls suspects her brother is gay, so asks for a drug to fix him. He responds by giving her a chemical castration potion and tells her to secretly drug him with it. So, uh, yeah.
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ever watch the Lupin 3rd movie where there's a sex robot with a drill for a cock?
fuck isekai creators, with that specifically
I watched the first season when it aired and I remember thinking the art direction and action was really, really good but everyone only ever talked in mumbles and it made it very hard to hear dialogue. That still holds up but it's better with ear buds.
Alucard you cock wart.
How the fuck is anyone better than Kuwabara
No, you answered my question. Like, of course that domestic streaming is cannbializing disc sales for obvious reasons, I just find outdated to use disc sales as a measure of success when domestic streaming is it's successor.
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Zenitsu is just strong right off the bat with the only caveat being he has to be knocked unconscious so he's not even aware of what he's doing, meaning he's not choosing to do anything he's just reacting without any effort required.
He does have a modicum of character growth by the end? Maybe not.
Then you do, and he passes out from fear, which is how they make him able to fight in the game.
The problem is everything else about him
To be fair, not many characters are
(Spoilers for later One Piece)