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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Andy Joe wrote: »
    Otaku Elf 09

    If I had a nickel for every time I've seen an anime episode about tracking down a Betamax player to watch an old tape I would have two nickels

    Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?

    which was the other, cowboy bebop?

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  • IsornIsorn Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Andy Joe wrote: »
    Otaku Elf 09

    If I had a nickel for every time I've seen an anime episode about tracking down a Betamax player to watch an old tape I would have two nickels

    Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?

    which was the other, cowboy bebop?

    Both of those scenes made me a little sad as well.

    I like Otaku Elf. It is nice and comfy.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    This is a spoiler for season 2 of Vinland Saga, for folks who are worried the series might bum them out:
    Season 2 is in fact a quite uplifting story about how people can choose to be good, actually. It still absolutely has fucked up things happen in it but it pivots from being a generally downward spiral from season one to a steady upwards climb in season 2.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Badablack wrote: »
    I don't think Guts has ever actually dealt with his trauma at all tbf. Dude is like a sedimentary rock layer but instead of minerals it's horrible abuse and loss.
    guts' continued desire to live and protect his found family are his way of 'dealing'

    him letting go of his rage when he encounters griffith when dealing with ganishka and constantly fighting the beast of darkness mean he has grown
    Vinland saga has incredible character growth and a message of hope.

    Berserk at best gets to do a message of survival.

    what?

    the entire theme of berserk past black swordsman has been finding hope and family and moving on past trauma

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Jragghen wrote: »
    Interesting, they've got Junji Ito stuff on there and also Komi Can't Communicate

    Yeah, those two, Urusei Yatsura, Ranma 1/2, and Inuyasha seem to be the primary draws. A few other noteworthy ones: Yakitate!! Japan, Case Closed.

    I'm assuming Ping Pong is the one that Ping Pong: The Animation is adapted from?

    I finally got around to reading Yakitate!! Japan; I've wondered what it was like for, ooh, a very long time now, ever since it was one of the things that got advertised in the back of Viz collected volumes of other stuff.

    It sure goes places I was not expecting it to go. Fun, sure, and the transition from "how to make bread" to basically being entirely based around Japanese puns and increasingly crazed "that was so delicious" reactions is unexpected but relatively gradual. (and acknowledged as being ridiculous by characters in the story, too)

    And then there's the ending. I could be wrong, but it feels very much as if the author finished the story, realised they still had to come up with three more chapters to make the last volume be long enough, and just pulled something out of thin air to do that.

    I've read manga with good endings where everything is resolved in a satisfying way and loose ends are tied up and it makes sense (Fullmetal Alchemist, for example). I've read manga with bad endings where the author didn't really know when to stop or have a good way to resolve things (Seven Deadly sins, say, which I kept on with for much longer than I should have). I've read manga where the story doesn't really have a resolution, they just stopped telling it. (like Ranma 1/2, which does have a last story arc but explicitly isn't over)

    The first ending of Yakitate!! Japan makes sense -- I mean, the way the actual story is going is totally ridiculous by that point, but as far as resolving the overall plot goes, sure, it makes sense. But the actual last chapters feel like the author put a brick on the accelerator pedal, pointed the story at a wall, let it story get up to 100 miles per hour, and just hung on until impact. (to be fair, there _is_ a 'three years later' bit, but by that time I don't know if there's a way to come back)

    Details behind spoilers, in case people haven't read it, and because it is hard to imagine just how far off the rails it goes. (and this also doesn't really spoil the story up, the final bit is pretty disconnected from everything that has gone before)
    The final plot is "you must make bread that will save the planet from global warming". Our hero does this, as usual, by making bread that is very delicious; three people taste it. It is so delicious that the first one becomes a Japanese celebrity who, I guess, would be a good spokesperson for the environment? The second one becomes, literally (I am seriously not making this up), a second instance of the country of Brazil. Which makes things worse, because now there's a whole extra bunch of land taking up room in the oceans, so the sea level rises and lots of coastal areas start to get submerged.

    The third person eats the bread and becomes, again literally and with explicit acknowledgement of the copyright issues, Dhalsim from Street Fighter. Who then uses his yoga floating powers to lift all the continents on the planet up into the air, out of the oceans, and thus avoid the rising sea levels.

    the end

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I,

    what

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I read about half of that series, and that all seems legit.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    why does everything smell like burnt toast

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Remember that time there was a bread that made someone time travel to the past so they could save their mother

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  • Up JobUp Job Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yeah, and that other crazy time where a guy made a bread loosely shaped like a crab and when you poke it its limbs kind of articulate

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Maybe it was a good thing the Yakitate!! Japan anime didn't finish the whole manga story

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Couscous wrote: »
    Remember that time there was a bread that made someone time travel to the past so they could save their mother

    A manga where characters end up stuck in transformations for increasingly long periods of time and you the reader realize oh fuck all this is happening its not reactions this kid needs to be killed

    Also a judge who was entirely willing to go the full distance with reactions, up to and including the time they nearly committed suicide to turn themselves into boiled jelly for the sake of a pun.

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 13
  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Repeal Taft Hartley. What the ever living fuck, Crunchyroll?

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Badablack wrote: »
    I don't think Guts has ever actually dealt with his trauma at all tbf. Dude is like a sedimentary rock layer but instead of minerals it's horrible abuse and loss.
    guts' continued desire to live and protect his found family are his way of 'dealing'

    him letting go of his rage when he encounters griffith when dealing with ganishka and constantly fighting the beast of darkness mean he has grown
    Vinland saga has incredible character growth and a message of hope.

    Berserk at best gets to do a message of survival.

    what?

    the entire theme of berserk past black swordsman has been finding hope and family and moving on past trauma

    I read the whole of both. Compared to Vs Berserk is pretty muted. Sorry not sorry, stand by what I said.

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Madican wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »
    Remember that time there was a bread that made someone time travel to the past so they could save their mother

    A manga where characters end up stuck in transformations for increasingly long periods of time and you the reader realize oh fuck all this is happening its not reactions this kid needs to be killed

    Also a judge who was entirely willing to go the full distance with reactions, up to and including the time they nearly committed suicide to turn themselves into boiled jelly for the sake of a pun.

    It definitely seems like one of the more annoying-to-translate ones, because the art refers to the puns very directly, meaning they had to come up with "this pizza bread is more than it Tapirs to be" because by that point the tapir they're referring to had been around for a half-dozen pages.

    I think my favorite was when they're up against the main (animated) character from the adverts for a company that sells mostly seaweed-based products, where the reaction to the excellence of their bread is that all of a sudden the entire comic becomes drawn in the style of "Impressionist Claude Monet", representing "Nori's Optimum Delicateness".

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yakitate Japan is very good

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    So far Animenageire sub night is just us posting gay gay homosexual gay at eachother

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    VS has one of the most emotionally uplifting positive moments of compassion I've ever seen in a story, I really can't recommend having patience with it enough. It almost brought me to tears.
    I wonder how long the anime will take to get there.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The first season of Vinland Saga was simulcast as an Amazon Prime exclusive. That might be a rights thing as far as streaming, though it's on BD.

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  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Looks like both seasons of Vinland Saga are on Crunchyroll and Netflix.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    So far Animenageire sub night is just us posting gay gay homosexual gay at eachother

    Saturday nights are for gals being pals.

    Also boy band vanity projects.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Hey, Sunrise?

    Fuck you for that end card.

    Anyway, today's WfM was great and also brutal.
    there has to be a second set of cours after this right? I'm not seeing how everything wraps up, especially not as the Space Assembly League moves to take center stage

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  • FlamuFlamu 49 Gilded Disc Perceives the Sun Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    WfM 20:
    Wow this girl whose main character trait was loving Lauda suddenly seems really cool and nice and in the spotlight... I have a bad feeling about this.

    Also, double gut punch for Lauda! How the fuck did you KNOW that, Shaddiq!?

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oh snap!

    https://old.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1408ejq/new_macross_series_anime_confirmed_animation/

    Sunrise making a new macros anime!

    (Please don't be a wet fart like Delta ended up being, and be something rocking like Frontier was instead)

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    G-Witch: Let's call this episode
    "The End of Hope"

    Yeah... Ok... Yep...

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  • AstharielAsthariel The Book Eater Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I like Gundam: Witch From Mercury, it is pretty, entertaining and has some charming characters

    But the closer to the end we are getting, the more I start to think that writers really want to do some things but are not sure how, so they just... push square shaped blocks into triangle shaped holes, hoping for the best

    Spoilers from episodes 18 - 20
    Can anyone explain to me what the fuck is Martin subplot about? I understand he feels bad about selling out Nika, so he... goes to some confessional room with a robot, tells it all about his secret, and the school council girl just KNEW that she should be stading outside the wall because something cool is gonna happen there? Is it an usual thuing at this school, people confessing sins to Haru? Does she listen in every single time when it happens because she loves juicy secrets?

    And this episode, we get two of problems like that:

    Guel wants to fight Shadiq and he is motivated to do so, Shadiq is also supposed to feel motivated to fight Guel, but instead of, I dont know, making him mad about how Guel treated Miorine at the start of the series, apparently he things that it is Guel's fault that there was a massacre on Earth? Why is he so sure about it?

    And then Lauda learns about Guel killing his father, and again: Shadiq, how the heck do you know about it?

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Asthariel wrote: »
    I like Gundam: Witch From Mercury, it is pretty, entertaining and has some charming characters

    But the closer to the end we are getting, the more I start to think that writers really want to do some things but are not sure how, so they just... push square shaped blocks into triangle shaped holes, hoping for the best

    Spoilers from episodes 18 - 20
    Can anyone explain to me what the fuck is Martin subplot about? I understand he feels bad about selling out Nika, so he... goes to some confessional room with a robot, tells it all about his secret, and the school council girl just KNEW that she should be stading outside the wall because something cool is gonna happen there? Is it an usual thuing at this school, people confessing sins to Haru? Does she listen in every single time when it happens because she loves juicy secrets?

    And this episode, we get two of problems like that:

    Guel wants to fight Shadiq and he is motivated to do so, Shadiq is also supposed to feel motivated to fight Guel, but instead of, I dont know, making him mad about how Guel treated Miorine at the start of the series, apparently he things that it is Guel's fault that there was a massacre on Earth? Why is he so sure about it?

    And then Lauda learns about Guel killing his father, and again: Shadiq, how the heck do you know about it?

    Shaddiq knows becase
    He's been the one majorly directing Dawn of Fold's attacks, and Guel was captured by Dawn of Fold after he killed his dad. And you know, he's not an idiot - It's really not hard to put together "Okay, we have guel in custody, Vim jeturk has up and vanished and is being reported dead, we found Guel's suit near the remains of Vim's custom suit."

    And the other bit is covered because Shaddiq is an MRA style prick - He views Miorenne as a doll or a trophy, NOT her own person - so she cannot be wrong, only be wronged.

    Shaddiq is just a terrible, terrible person is the answer

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  • CururuCururu Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Today’s Witch from Mercury in a nutshell:
    Look at all the dead kids! Feel sad!

    I think the writers have lost the plot. It’s very “Rocks fall. Everyone dies.”

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    That seems an incredibly bad faith take on what's going on.

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  • CururuCururu Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It’s a TV show. “Faith” doesn’t really factor into it. If you enjoy it, then great, but it’s not entitled to any special reverence.
    They had lingering shots of children getting crushed, bleeding out, and getting put into body bags. It was a rather ham fisted attempt at triggering an emotional response.

    I still don’t think the show is “bad”, just that I’m disappointed that they seemed to have given up on all of the unique things that they were doing in the first half of season and have kind of defaulted to suffering = plot.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    WfM
    And saying they're equating "Suffering = Plot" is being bad faith about what the story is doing.

    This episode and the previous episode has been the payoff to a lot of long simmering plot lines about how various factions were treated, and it's ended in tragedy. This isnt stuff that's come out of the blue - it's been explict from day one that things are hideously unequal in this setting, and something had to give. And when it did give, yeah, a lot of people have ended up dead - and this is shown, because otherwise the show would be shooting itself in the foot. "Oh, bad things happened, but take our words for it" is something shows get rightfully castigated for - Show, Dont tell is a mantra for a reason.

    Like what were you expecting Norea to do? Take the fact that her sister-in-arms is dead, and now yet another city (And given the context, the city she almost certainly lived and grew up in) has been flattened by spacians lying down? Of course she lashed out - she fucking HATES spacians, has been shown to have massive anger issues, and had access to horrible weaponry she has zero compunctions about using... oh, and against the faction that repeatedly uses horrible weaponry on her people with zero compunction. She's literally only been taught that "Violence is the only method of communication". No surprise a bunch of kids ended up dead.

    I'm struggling to see how this could have ended any other way that wouldn't have massively undercut everything that's happened.

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 13
    Couscous wrote: »
    Remember that time there was a bread that made someone time travel to the past so they could save their mother

    A manga where characters end up stuck in transformations for increasingly long periods of time and you the reader realize oh fuck all this is happening its not reactions this kid needs to be killed

    it's very "funny" to me that two of the biggest food shonen series(yakitate and food wars) were both shows which were so ridiculous rails didn't exist for them to go off of but went completely stratospheric in their final arcs. food wars' ending being "we've fired our culinary consultant so actually, all of this was real and there's underground chef mafia competitions for control of the clothes-exploding bloodline" was such a heel turn for me it kind of made me not enjoy the whole work, much like the end of revenge of the sith

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