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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    I heard so much about the Demon Slayer anime, I decided to watch the first episode last night. Interesting concept, although there is some weird inner monologue stuff when being attacked. Hopefully that's not gonna be a big thing going forward.

    It's not just a big thing, it's the thing.

    Wait, really? Like, he's gonna be talking to himself a lot during battles? Well...we'll see how long I can put up with it.
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    I heard so much about the Demon Slayer anime, I decided to watch the first episode last night. Interesting concept, although there is some weird inner monologue stuff when being attacked. Hopefully that's not gonna be a big thing going forward.

    You don't watch demon slayer for the plot.

    Then what are we watching it for? Serious question.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    I heard so much about the Demon Slayer anime, I decided to watch the first episode last night. Interesting concept, although there is some weird inner monologue stuff when being attacked. Hopefully that's not gonna be a big thing going forward.

    It's not just a big thing, it's the thing.

    Wait, really? Like, he's gonna be talking to himself a lot during battles? Well...we'll see how long I can put up with it.

    Not just him. Everyone. Everywhere. All the time.
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    Then what are we watching it for? Serious question.

    The animation and music, and some fun characters.

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  • LeliLeli __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 13
    The animation is *chef's kiss*

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    UFOtable is very good at what they do

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    For some reason, this scene from Saint Young Men popped in my head today, so I thought I'd share it:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPPzk1YWNg0

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    They're just doing the training arc this season for Demon Slayer? There's not enough material! Just push to the end of the series!

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Can you even call it shounen if there isn't a nonstop narration explaining every single thing going on? Preferably both internally from both sides as well as from the peanut gallery watching and gasping at it.

    I can't stand it either. I'll take sarcastic quips and banter any day. They're not even mutually exclusive.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Latest Undead Unluck chapter:
    Is that Juiz in the last panel? It’s been a while but I think that was her look from her first loop

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    I heard so much about the Demon Slayer anime, I decided to watch the first episode last night. Interesting concept, although there is some weird inner monologue stuff when being attacked. Hopefully that's not gonna be a big thing going forward.

    It's not just a big thing, it's the thing.

    Wait, really? Like, he's gonna be talking to himself a lot during battles? Well...we'll see how long I can put up with it.

    Not just him. Everyone. Everywhere. All the time.
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    Then what are we watching it for? Serious question.

    The animation and music, and some fun characters.

    That sounds like torture. Think I'll go ahead and step out now then. I remember absolutely hating Naruto after they'd do like 30 seconds of action and then 5-minutes of breakdown of what just happened and the 5-D chess involved.

    If y'all are serious about Demon Slayer being that x10, it will not appeal to me at all.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    I heard so much about the Demon Slayer anime, I decided to watch the first episode last night. Interesting concept, although there is some weird inner monologue stuff when being attacked. Hopefully that's not gonna be a big thing going forward.

    It's not just a big thing, it's the thing.

    Wait, really? Like, he's gonna be talking to himself a lot during battles? Well...we'll see how long I can put up with it.

    Not just him. Everyone. Everywhere. All the time.
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    Then what are we watching it for? Serious question.

    The animation and music, and some fun characters.

    That sounds like torture. Think I'll go ahead and step out now then. I remember absolutely hating Naruto after they'd do like 30 seconds of action and then 5-minutes of breakdown of what just happened and the 5-D chess involved.

    If y'all are serious about Demon Slayer being that x10, it will not appeal to me at all.

    I like the show, but yeah, that schtick gets old super fast, even if the animation is as high octane as it gets.

    Amazing that Sailor Stars is still one of the few shows where the villain is smart enough to leave while the hero is monologuing.

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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  • AstharielAsthariel The Book Eater Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    Latest Undead Unluck chapter:
    Is that Juiz in the last panel? It’s been a while but I think that was her look from her first loop

    Yes.

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    I heard so much about the Demon Slayer anime, I decided to watch the first episode last night. Interesting concept, although there is some weird inner monologue stuff when being attacked. Hopefully that's not gonna be a big thing going forward.

    It's not just a big thing, it's the thing.

    Wait, really? Like, he's gonna be talking to himself a lot during battles? Well...we'll see how long I can put up with it.

    Not just him. Everyone. Everywhere. All the time.
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    Then what are we watching it for? Serious question.

    The animation and music, and some fun characters.

    That sounds like torture. Think I'll go ahead and step out now then. I remember absolutely hating Naruto after they'd do like 30 seconds of action and then 5-minutes of breakdown of what just happened and the 5-D chess involved.

    If y'all are serious about Demon Slayer being that x10, it will not appeal to me at all.

    It's more panicking than chess a lot of the time.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    I heard so much about the Demon Slayer anime, I decided to watch the first episode last night. Interesting concept, although there is some weird inner monologue stuff when being attacked. Hopefully that's not gonna be a big thing going forward.

    It's not just a big thing, it's the thing.

    Wait, really? Like, he's gonna be talking to himself a lot during battles? Well...we'll see how long I can put up with it.

    Not just him. Everyone. Everywhere. All the time.
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    Then what are we watching it for? Serious question.

    The animation and music, and some fun characters.

    That sounds like torture. Think I'll go ahead and step out now then. I remember absolutely hating Naruto after they'd do like 30 seconds of action and then 5-minutes of breakdown of what just happened and the 5-D chess involved.

    If y'all are serious about Demon Slayer being that x10, it will not appeal to me at all.

    Just watch the fights. Seriously. The sakuga is insane. Like, I am having difficulty finding my favorite fight on youtube that isn't ruined by people using interpolaters to make it 4k.

    Spoilers for season 2 of demon slayer
    I cannot emphasize this enough, this isn't nearly the best part of the fight.

    I find that extremely easy to believe, as that clip was not impressive to me in the slightest.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    I heard so much about the Demon Slayer anime, I decided to watch the first episode last night. Interesting concept, although there is some weird inner monologue stuff when being attacked. Hopefully that's not gonna be a big thing going forward.

    It's not just a big thing, it's the thing.

    Wait, really? Like, he's gonna be talking to himself a lot during battles? Well...we'll see how long I can put up with it.

    Not just him. Everyone. Everywhere. All the time.
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    Then what are we watching it for? Serious question.

    The animation and music, and some fun characters.

    That sounds like torture. Think I'll go ahead and step out now then. I remember absolutely hating Naruto after they'd do like 30 seconds of action and then 5-minutes of breakdown of what just happened and the 5-D chess involved.

    If y'all are serious about Demon Slayer being that x10, it will not appeal to me at all.

    Just watch the fights. Seriously. The sakuga is insane. Like, I am having difficulty finding my favorite fight on youtube that isn't ruined by people using interpolaters to make it 4k.

    Spoilers for season 2 of demon slayer
    I cannot emphasize this enough, this isn't nearly the best part of the fight.

    I find that extremely easy to believe, as that clip was not impressive to me in the slightest.

    There's definitely ways to phrase this that come off as less goosey and less shitting on what other people enjoy, dood.

    ---

    Re: Demon Slayer - it bluntly is pretty visuals, good music, and that's about it. It's a solid throw it on in the background series or similar. It's popcorn, basically - fun, easy to digest, etc.

    If that's what you're in the mood for then it's a good series. If you'd rather something with more meat, then it'll let you down

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Man, I feel like episode 14 of Frieren might be one of the best anime episodes I've ever seen.

    And as for watching Demon Slayer... like, don't get me wrong, I don't think the writing and especially the characters are particularly bad unlike some people here, but if you're used to watching shonen fight anime the only thing amazing thing about Demon Slayer is the production. I don't quite get why the manga got so popular in Japan but I'm also not Japanese. If I'd guess it's popularity over there has something to do with the setting.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    At some point I should probably finish Demon Slayer. I keep losing my place in the middle of the arc with… the guy with the multiple wives or something I think?

    It reminds me of trying to read the two towers as a kid, getting interrupted, and losing my place in the horribly formatted and dense text of those small paperbacks and literally reading the same paragraph over and over again, not realizing I’d already read it, getting frustrated when it hit, then repeating until I finally gave up.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I really like Demon Slayer manga. It's just a shonen, but that's a false dirty word around here. Shonen are fine, they're just simple. That doesn't mean bad.

    What I like about it is that it tells a story, continues, reaches a climax, has a conclusion, and ends. And that's it, story told. It could have continued for a zillion chapters (the manga was hugely popular as well) but it didn't.

    I respect this.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It ending is absolutely one of its virtues, and I don't mean that in a back handed way.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I disagree. I think its a pretty well done story with a few dropped threads. It's punchy, to the point, follows most of its threads and brings them to a conclusion, has a sense of risk, and is engaging to me. It treats one character unfairly at the end which I don't like, and some characters aren't to everyones taste and can have problematic behaviours, but generally its very decent.

    I have read significantly worse popular shonen. I don't really think it deserves massive pushback. Feels like its just being done because its popular than because it really deserves it.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Gundi wrote: »
    Man, I feel like episode 14 of Frieren might be one of the best anime episodes I've ever seen.

    And as for watching Demon Slayer... like, don't get me wrong, I don't think the writing and especially the characters are particularly bad unlike some people here, but if you're used to watching shonen fight anime the only thing amazing thing about Demon Slayer is the production. I don't quite get why the manga got so popular in Japan but I'm also not Japanese. If I'd guess it's popularity over there has something to do with the setting.

    It's popular because of the anime. You have to remember that anime in many respects acts like an infomercial for the product of the manga. And Demon Slayer didn't surge in sales popularity until the UFOTable adaptation

    Specifically, the episode Hinokami was a top 5 global trending on Twitter, and it absolutely exploded after that. What a weekend that was.
    I really like Demon Slayer manga. It's just a shonen, but that's a false dirty word around here. Shonen are fine, they're just simple. That doesn't mean bad.

    What I like about it is that it tells a story, continues, reaches a climax, has a conclusion, and ends. And that's it, story told. It could have continued for a zillion chapters (the manga was hugely popular as well) but it didn't.

    I respect this.

    I also already liked the Demon Slayer manga before the anime came out. The manga was already in the final arc when the anime premiered. I actually remember the chapter with the promo page for the anime the week it came out, because it's my favorite chapter in the series, and one of my favorite chapters of any series ever.

    Last arc spoilers:
    When Tanjiro enters the see through world.

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  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    All I can say is I dropped it when the generically horny guy trope character showed up. Somehow they made me hate a shonen horny guy character more than the MHA sticky ball guy

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  • DesyDesy She/Her YeenRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    All I can say is I dropped it when the generically horny guy trope character showed up. Somehow they made me hate a shonen horny guy character more than the MHA sticky ball guy

    I watched season 1 and yeah, that guy is the worst character trope ever. It’s never good and I wish authors would stop it.

    I didn’t see a reason to continue past that point. I got enough good animation and fights to sate me.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
  • CycloneCyclone Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Demon Slayer lost me when they decided to double-down on the single most annoying character I've ever seen in an anime.

    It sure is pretty though.

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  • DesyDesy She/Her YeenRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Kreutz wrote: »
    Demon Slayer lost me when they decided to double-down on the single most annoying character I've ever seen in an anime.

    It sure is pretty though.

    Zenitsu, right?

    Like, if there's another character that's worse than Zenitsu I almost don't wanna know.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I haven't seen Demon Slayer, but is this person worse than Happosai from Ranma 1/2?

    They can't be worse than Happosai.

    ...right?

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    The other thing that is cool about watching Frieren with my dad is that I get to watch Frieren again and notice all the tiny bits of foreshadowing. Like
    Frieren learning a spell to make grapes sour shortly before seeing Eizen, because his favourite food is sour grapes.

    Also watching the climax of episode 3 again was great

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lars wrote: »
    I haven't seen Demon Slayer, but is this person worse than Happosai from Ranma 1/2?

    They can't be worse than Happosai.

    ...right?

    If there is one then I don't know who.

    I kind of like that it keeps doubling down on a lot of villains being sniveling cowards.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I keep being disappointed by these thread titles once i get caught up.

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    We got to the Stark episodes, Dad immediately explains "yes! I knew we'd have to meet him soon since he's in the opening animation!"

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »
    I keep being disappointed by these thread titles once i get caught up.

    After the most recent incarnation of Slayers decided to introduce a fucking Pokemon as a member of the main party, I'm not sure I want it to return again.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    slayers revolution/evolution R felt exactly like the old seasons to me, pokemon seasonal guest or no, I was astonished how well they recreated the feel of the 90s series.

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  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    how many eps does it take for Frieren to pick up?

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