It's important to summarize what happens in that episode.
Lupin and friends are after some gold Christian idol, but stumble into a den of vampires. Lupin is turned into one by Camilla Christ, twin brother of Jesus. He kidnaps Fujiko, who was hiding in a graveyard as an Elvis impersonator, to sacrifice her as the kick-off to their scheme to conquer the world based on *waves hands* vampire powers. Goemon and Jigen crash the party, but are revealed to be non-vampires because they have reflections. Bullets and swords don't work, so Goemon ties his scabbard to his sword, making a cross, which is struck by lightning, instantly killing all of them. Lupin then reveals he was never turned because he was wearing a fake neck.
Also, note that the legend of Isukuri is somewhat central to the episode (although Shingō was renamed to "Heburai Village").
If you thought "Jesus' twin sister, a vampire" was sacrilegious, how about "Jesus didn't die on the cross, that was one of his brothers who took his place; Jesus himself fled to Japan, had a family, and was eventually buried in Shingō."
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silence1186Character shields down!As a wingmanRegistered Userregular
So, since Crunchyroll redesigned their app, their Latest Episode feed just shows that a series has had an update. It doesn't specify if it's a new sub episode, a new dub episode, or if they're adding episodes from a different language. It also doesn't specify if it's a new episode of a season, an OVA, or a movie. Altogether it's basically useless and requires you to know the schedule of when things update from elsewhere on the internet.
The reason I bring this up, is that Crunchyroll just dropped the Isekai Quartet movie, and I found out elsewhere. I would have never looked at the Crunchyroll feed and realized this, and may have never stumbled upon it ever.
Also, note that the legend of Isukuri is somewhat central to the episode (although Shingō was renamed to "Heburai Village").
If you thought "Jesus' twin sister, a vampire" was sacrilegious, how about "Jesus didn't die on the cross, that was one of his brothers who took his place; Jesus himself fled to Japan, had a family, and was eventually buried in Shingō."
That kind of, uh, distortion, is fairly common on countries where Christianity spread against the local religions, though the distance between Japan and Europe plays a factor on increasing the degree of distortion (and that example is an obvious scam). The locals always adapt their traditions to ther religion, it goes both ways.
The obvious example is Marianism. Is less prevalent on Europe and North America thanks to Protestants, but it thrived and is still big on Central and South America. Or how a lot of Saint worship is basically African traditions (including deities changed into Saints) with the numbers filled off.
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You want Summer Time Render. Fantastic thriller from 2022 about a dude coming back to his home because of a death of a close friend, only to stumble into a nest of shadow monsters that are copying, killing, and replacing people.
I suspect by that list you'll probably really like Dororo too, but it has a lot of depressing/upsetting episodes (eg one where a woman allows herself to be raped to protect an orphanage), and the ending is... just really fucking stupid. Most of it is 1-2 episodic stories about a dude who starts out having been completely mutilated and with basically zero senses regaining his humanity though.
E:
Sonny Boy is probably also a good show for you. Lord of the Flies but with magical powers in weird worlds with metaphysical rules... sort of. It has a lot of it is weirdness and nonsense for weirdness's sake, and the ending is... what it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp49kksu9kU
And now that I'm thinking of things on that line, there's always Wonder Egg Priority. Suicidal girls enter the metaverse to save suicidal girls from their nightmares. Really strong and compelling psychological-type first five or six episodes and then... good lord, does it swan dive straight off a cliff.
So I’ve heard folks talk about Monster as one of the better anime series before, but never watched it because it hasn’t been available on anything in years.
Apparently it’s on Netflix now. Gonna fire it up.
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AniMenagerie begins its sixth season tonight, so to celebrate our two year anniversary, a few weeks ago I asked our members some questions regarding all of the shows we've watched so far.
The shows we've seen?
Season 1
-- BoogiePop Phantom [not finished]
-- Erased
-- Gurren Lagann
-- Princess Nine
Season 2
-- Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day [not finished]
-- Bubblegum Crisis
-- Cells At Work
-- Neon Genesis Evangelion
-- Revolutionary Girl Utena
-- Toradora
Season 3
-- Baccano!
-- Cromartie High School [not finished]
-- My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (1st & 2nd seasons)
-- Puella Magi Madoka Magica
-- SSSS. Gridman
-- Tenchi Universe
Season 4
-- Dragon Ball (21st Budokai)
-- Fate/Zero [not continued]
-- My Hero Academia (U.S.J. arc & U.A. Sports Festival arc)
-- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders (D'arby to Dio)
-- Kill la Kill
-- One Piece (Arlong Arc)
-- One Punch Man (Deep Sea King three-parter)
-- Space Patrol Luluco [not finished]
-- Trigun (Wolfwood two-parter)
-- Yu-Gi-Oh! (Duelist Kingdom semi's & final duels)
Season 5
-- Big O (season 1)
-- Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense (season 1)
-- Golden Boy
-- Hajime no Ippo: Champion Road
-- Macross Plus
-- Megalobox
-- Princess Principal (season 1)
-- Rolling Girls
-- Slayers (season 1)
-- Zombie Land Saga (season 1)
Here are our thoughts as SE++'s dedicated anime watch-group:
Question #1: Favorite show watched
-- "Big O"
-- "Bubblegum Crisis"
-- "Kill la Kill"
-- "Kill la Kill"
-- "My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!"
-- "Neon Genesis Evangelion"
-- "Princess Nine"
Question #2: Least favorite show watched
-- "Anohana: The Flower we Saw That Day"
-- "Fate/Zero"
-- "Megalobox"
-- "Megalobox"
-- "One Piece"
-- "Rolling Girls"
Question #4: Worst show watched
-- "Boogiepop Phantom"
-- "Cromartie High School"
-- "Cromartie High School"
-- "Fate/Zero"
-- "Fate/Zero"
-- "Rolling Girls"
-- "Space Patrol Luluco"
Question #5: Best/Favorite protagonist
-- "Ippo Makunouchi" (Hajime no Ippo)
-- "Ryuko Matoi" (Kill la Kill)
-- "Ryuko Matoi" (Kill la Kill)
-- "Katarina Claes" (My Next Life as a Villainess)
-- "Katarina Claes" (My Next Life as a Villainess)
-- "Utena Tenjou" (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
-- "Ryoko Hakubi" (Tenchi Universe)
Question #6: Worst protagonist
-- "Whoever is considered main in Fate since it's not Iskander" (Fate/Zero)
-- "Kiritsugu Emiya" (Fate/Zero)
-- "Kiritsugu Emiya" (Fate/Zero)
-- "Kintaro Oe" (Golden Boy)
-- "Shinji Ikari" (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
-- "Shinji Ikari" (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
-- "Yugi when he isn't possessed by the ancient god or whoever the 'good at games' Yugi is" (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Question #11: Best first impression
-- "Bubblegum Crisis"
-- "Kill la Kill"
-- "Princess Principal"
-- "Rolling Girls"
-- "Zombie Land Saga"
-- "Zombie Land Saga"
-- "Zombie Land Saga"
Question #12: Best series theme song
-- "Baccano!"
-- "JoJo Sono Chino Sadame" (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders)
-- "Neon Genesis Evangelion"
-- "Princess Principal"
-- "Revolutionary Girl Utena"
-- "Baby Dan Dan" (SSSS.Gridman)
-- "Yu-Gi-Oh!"
Question #14: Best/favorite scene
-- "Discussion of Kings" (Fate/Zero)
-- "So? How do you like my swimming?" (Golden Boy)
-- "All Might vs Nomu" (My Hero Academia)
-- "Izumi, having ran barefoot through a thunder-storm, awakens her baseball rival from a Contact-style coma by yelling at her" (Princess Nine)
-- "She turned into a *car*" (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
-- "Because you're a girl." (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
-- "Tae Yamada trying to break Sakura out of her funk at the end of ... season 1" (Zombie Land Saga)
Question #15: Best/favorite show's opening/intro-credits
-- "Baccano!"
-- "Baccano!"
-- "Baccano!"
-- "Andante ni Koi o Shite!" (My Next Life as a Villainess season 2)
-- "Neon Genesis Evangelion"
-- "One Piece 4-Kids addition"
-- "Yu-Gi-Oh!"
Question #16: Best/favorite show's closing/end-credits
-- "Megalobox"
-- "My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!"
-- "Up-Walk In Galaxy" (Tenchi Universe)
-- "Up-Walk In Galaxy" (Tenchi Universe)
-- "Up-Walk In Galaxy" (Tenchi Universe)
-- "Yu-Gi-Oh!"
-- "Tie: Tenchi Universe & Slayers"
Question #17: Best/favorite series ending/conclusion
-- "Erased"
-- "Kill la Kill"
-- "Neon Genesis Evangelion. It doesn't end, they just stopped making it cause they ran out of money!"
-- "Unironically Evangelion Movies"
-- "Puella Magi Madoka Magica"
-- "Puella Magi Madoka Magica"
-- "Tenchi Universe"
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Since the new season kicks off tomorrow (despite there already having been like 6 shows which aired their first episodes as specials), I'll put my chips down on Giant Beasts of Ars being my pick for the season. An original, seemingly Final Fantasy Attack on Titan, being written by one of the Danganronpa dudes, so probably some degree of over the top edgelord zaniness will happen.
After that, I'd say probably Buddy Daddies. PA Works, so should be well animated. Flagrant Spy x Family knockoff, but with two criminals adopting a mob boss's kid into their sexless marriage.
Rank 3 I'll put... Mononogatari. PVs are unremarkable, and it's fairly generic Jump, but it's a Bandai Namco (aka Sunrise) action show of the "beat supernatural entities up and make them friends" schtick.
Dark horse I'll say is either Nier (just because nearly all game adaptations are awful, and Automata is especially poorly disposed to this format), or Magical Revolution since its first episode was decent, and apparently the LN is constant invasions of monsters, but it is feel and an isekai cheat power thing with ALSO the recent trend of taciturn pretty girl dumped by the prince. Ayakashi Triangle possible guilty/trashy pleasure as a throwback slapstick fanservice/action thing.
So I’ve heard folks talk about Monster as one of the better anime series before, but never watched it because it hasn’t been available on anything in years.
Apparently it’s on Netflix now. Gonna fire it up.
Monster's dedication to only ever having the cinematography of a live action show is pretty crazy impressive. It really feels like watching a like prestige TV show from the 90s.
It's a bit of a slow starter but once it gets going its a hell of a show.
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Whoa wait a fucking minute and hold the fucking phone
Monster is on netflix?
I can finally watch that fucking shit?
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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Also, let me visually portray my entire attitude while watching the first two episodes of Princess Tutu this evening:
so you loved it right?
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
I have to power down and process Princess Tutu
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
the only thing I know about princess tutu is the killer amv
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
You want Summer Time Render. Fantastic thriller from 2022 about a dude coming back to his home because of a death of a close friend, only to stumble into a nest of shadow monsters that are copying, killing, and replacing people.
You want Summer Time Render. Fantastic thriller from 2022 about a dude coming back to his home because of a death of a close friend, only to stumble into a nest of shadow monsters that are copying, killing, and replacing people.
god, this show goes way harder than I was expecting, even knowing the premise in advance
I'm about halfway through so far and really digging it
Episode 15 is my outright favorite episode of anything for the last year or two. It's fucking spectacular and I must've watched the whole sequence from ~6 minutes in to end at least half a dozen times over the last couple months. I should go watch it again right now.
Also, the absolute tonal shift of the second OP. Great stuff.
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If you thought "Jesus' twin sister, a vampire" was sacrilegious, how about "Jesus didn't die on the cross, that was one of his brothers who took his place; Jesus himself fled to Japan, had a family, and was eventually buried in Shingō."
The reason I bring this up, is that Crunchyroll just dropped the Isekai Quartet movie, and I found out elsewhere. I would have never looked at the Crunchyroll feed and realized this, and may have never stumbled upon it ever.
Here ya go: https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GD9UVXZ91/another-world
That kind of, uh, distortion, is fairly common on countries where Christianity spread against the local religions, though the distance between Japan and Europe plays a factor on increasing the degree of distortion (and that example is an obvious scam). The locals always adapt their traditions to ther religion, it goes both ways.
The obvious example is Marianism. Is less prevalent on Europe and North America thanks to Protestants, but it thrived and is still big on Central and South America. Or how a lot of Saint worship is basically African traditions (including deities changed into Saints) with the numbers filled off.
The best part is it's from Lupin the Third.
EDIT: and I just saw DarkPrimus's post and no the best part is the episode is titled "But your brother was such a nice guy"
You want Summer Time Render. Fantastic thriller from 2022 about a dude coming back to his home because of a death of a close friend, only to stumble into a nest of shadow monsters that are copying, killing, and replacing people.
I suspect by that list you'll probably really like Dororo too, but it has a lot of depressing/upsetting episodes (eg one where a woman allows herself to be raped to protect an orphanage), and the ending is... just really fucking stupid. Most of it is 1-2 episodic stories about a dude who starts out having been completely mutilated and with basically zero senses regaining his humanity though.
E:
Sonny Boy is probably also a good show for you. Lord of the Flies but with magical powers in weird worlds with metaphysical rules... sort of. It has a lot of it is weirdness and nonsense for weirdness's sake, and the ending is... what it is.
And now that I'm thinking of things on that line, there's always Wonder Egg Priority. Suicidal girls enter the metaverse to save suicidal girls from their nightmares. Really strong and compelling psychological-type first five or six episodes and then... good lord, does it swan dive straight off a cliff.
Context helps!
Apparently it’s on Netflix now. Gonna fire it up.
The shows we've seen?
Here are our thoughts as SE++'s dedicated anime watch-group:
She just doesn't realize it til decades later.
As for EDs, I'm shocked no one nominated Magia.
PS Fuck Gendo, fuck Ragyo, and fuck Akio.
(all spoilers here are just PVs for space)
After that, I'd say probably Buddy Daddies. PA Works, so should be well animated. Flagrant Spy x Family knockoff, but with two criminals adopting a mob boss's kid into their sexless marriage.
Rank 3 I'll put... Mononogatari. PVs are unremarkable, and it's fairly generic Jump, but it's a Bandai Namco (aka Sunrise) action show of the "beat supernatural entities up and make them friends" schtick.
Dark horse I'll say is either Nier (just because nearly all game adaptations are awful, and Automata is especially poorly disposed to this format), or Magical Revolution since its first episode was decent, and apparently the LN is constant invasions of monsters, but it is feel and an isekai cheat power thing with ALSO the recent trend of taciturn pretty girl dumped by the prince. Ayakashi Triangle possible guilty/trashy pleasure as a throwback slapstick fanservice/action thing.
Monster's dedication to only ever having the cinematography of a live action show is pretty crazy impressive. It really feels like watching a like prestige TV show from the 90s.
It's a bit of a slow starter but once it gets going its a hell of a show.
Needs more horrible mutilation.
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Monster is on netflix?
I can finally watch that fucking shit?
Only the first half of the series, and they don't have the English dub for some reason.
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Oh God dammit
We gave Fate/Zero 11+ episodes!
We cancelled Cromartie High School after 4 episodes...
It did not age well! There was a slur like two episodes in, it was rough.
Season 6 is going better though! Two great anime, and also Lupin was there.
so you loved it right?
god, this show goes way harder than I was expecting, even knowing the premise in advance
I'm about halfway through so far and really digging it
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Duck.
Episode 15 is my outright favorite episode of anything for the last year or two. It's fucking spectacular and I must've watched the whole sequence from ~6 minutes in to end at least half a dozen times over the last couple months. I should go watch it again right now.
Also, the absolute tonal shift of the second OP. Great stuff.
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Trailer for those who are interested
It’s really fucking good