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  • DesyDesy She/Her YeenRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Leli wrote: »
    Can we talk about RWBY and gen:LOCK? I love me some RWBY, even though the animation in the first few seasons took some getting used to. The most recent season reminded me how much I love Jaune. I haven't watched the new anime yet, but from what I did see it looked kinda cool.

    And then there's gen:LOCK. I fucking LOVED the first season. Loved David Tennant. HBO bought it, and it went to shit so hard. Is gratuitous sex scenes a requirement for all HBO shows, including animated ones?? I think I only got to the 3rd episode and gave up. It's literally been years and I'm still bitter.

    That's really dissapointing about gen:LOCK. I liked the first season.

    RWBY, I'm conflicted on. The early animation (when Monty was still the show runner) was not great. The fight animation and choreography was superb, which was Monty's specialty. It didn't have much else going for it beyond that though, if I'm being honest. The story was fine and the main team all had good chemistry. After Monty's passing, the writers that took it over have seemed to have not had much experience working on a show like it before. I think it makes the show slightly mid, because plotlines feel disjointed at times. I know it's said that they had a tone of notes from Monty on how he'd thought the show should go, but it sometimes seems like stuff is not organically flowing from past things. Animation looks better now and the action scenes are still good.

    Jaune's arc (heh) is the most straightfoward hero-protoganist of the show and he's a good character for that. even if he isn't my favorite.

    RWBY has spawned some good fanfics I love a lot though. >.>
    :P

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  • KupiKupi Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Something I just realized about Frieren, circa episode 13-14:
    If we map the current party onto the old party, we've got a Mage, a Warrior, and a Cleric, which leaves Frieren mapped onto the "Hero" slot. Which, given that she's the main figure of this story, makes sense.

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  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Anzekay wrote: »
    Leli wrote: »
    I dunno, I rather enjoyed SAO Alternative GGO. But it could be because cute, pink, bunny hat.


    Yeah, no, that's entirely it. Ignore me.

    GGO is written by not only someone completely different to the regular SAO writer, but that someone also happens to be Sigsawa, the author of Kino's Journey. He knows what he's doing.

    I didn’t actually know this and skipped it because I thought it would just be more SAO and I was basically over that after the original show (also because of everything about the second season)

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  • DesyDesy She/Her YeenRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Anzekay wrote: »
    Leli wrote: »
    I dunno, I rather enjoyed SAO Alternative GGO. But it could be because cute, pink, bunny hat.


    Yeah, no, that's entirely it. Ignore me.

    GGO is written by not only someone completely different to the regular SAO writer, but that someone also happens to be Sigsawa, the author of Kino's Journey. He knows what he's doing.

    I didn’t actually know this and skipped it because I thought it would just be more SAO and I was basically over that after the original show (also because of everything about the second season)

    Yeah, SAO is trash.

    GGO is actually good.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    SAO Abridged is the only way I watch SAO at all. Especially since in Season 2 they have Asuna doing things to fight against her forced imprisonment. Usually by escaping the literal birdcage and inflicting ultraviolence on all the guards, whom she knows by name along with their loved ones because Abridged Asuna is terrifying

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
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  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Watched the first episode of Frieren and damn, where'd all these tears come from?

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    i have finished the g-reco movies and i am So Exasperated

    Give us your thoughts! Give us your thoughts!

    maybe once i stop pressing my fingers into my temples

    in the meantime here is a helpful visual aid i have prepared

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    in the meantime here is a helpful visual aid i have prepared

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    g reco: "I'm a genius!"
    also g reco: "oh no!"

    seriously though congrats for making it through

    I watched the first twelve episodes and had to tap out back in the day

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    everyone says the movies are far more comprehensible and better paced than the show, and after watching them i shudder to think what the series must be like if this is at all the prevailing judgement

    somewhere in the middle of my watchthrough i was like, "well, the pacing really is breakneck and feels more compilation-y than usual but i suppose 50 episodes is a lot to ask of even a 5-movie adaptation"

    dear reader, i looked it up and the Reconguista in G anime is 26 episodes

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    yeah the show is very much late career tomino taken to its peak

    "no we will not explain anything. you will watch and simply bask in awe"

    "oh no!"

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  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    At a certain point I just accepted that “each episode had to have one gundam fight” so the movies just say there is no downtime get in the robot

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Meanwhile, in Dandadan

    A totally normal Japanese High School

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered 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.

    Asta from Black Clover

    Asta was done so dirty by that voice. He actually comes across as charming in the manga.

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  • DysDys Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Moth 13 wrote: »
    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.

    Asta from Black Clover

    Asta was done so dirty by that voice. He actually comes across as charming in the manga.

    Agreed. I straight up could not get through the first episode of the show without switching over to the English dub. Which isn't bad voice-wise, actually!

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Meanwhile, in Dandadan

    A totally normal Japanese High School

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    anime has taught me that you are correct

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I honestly don't even remember Asta being that bad? I guess maybe it calms down as he grows and also more characters show up so the screentime doesn't all go to him.

    But anyway if you want a character from Black Clover who's actually of comparable shittiness to Zenitsu it's Gauche.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Asta's problem is his japanese VA's awful shrill screaming is painful to listen to
    I am told he screams less as the show goes on but I did not wait around to find out

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  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I don't watch really any anime YouTubers but this guy makes me laugh

    https://youtu.be/LkK8lyQZ_to?si=cmuqpvENqladyefS

    The name of last week's chapter review got me good to "Adam Sandler can't fool me Ive seen click"

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I can’t remember, when does Black Clover come back as a monthly?

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    I can’t remember, when does Black Clover come back as a monthly?

    It's coming back as a quarterly, not a monthly. As ot when that is ???

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  • LeliLeli __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 13
    Asta's problem is his japanese VA's awful shrill screaming is painful to listen to
    I am told he screams less as the show goes on but I did not wait around to find out

    This. I couldn't even get through 3 episodes, which is my threshold for giving a show a chance. The person who recommended it to me said the same thing about it getting better, but I couldn't handle his screaming.

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    My feelings about the latest Apothecary Diaries in a nutshell
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  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    I can’t remember, when does Black Clover come back as a monthly?

    It's coming back as a quarterly, not a monthly. As ot when that is ???

    Dang, does the author have whatever the D-Grayman author does?

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    I can’t remember, when does Black Clover come back as a monthly?

    It's coming back as a quarterly, not a monthly. As ot when that is ???

    Ah shit, forgot about that.

    I wonder if US Jump is going to treat it like they do D.Grayman and only update releases on a per volume basis instead of releasing quarterly simulpub.

    By teh way they just added more DGM chapters and god I missed that manga so much.

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  • WearingGlassesWearingGlasses Of the friendly neighborhood variety Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Are there any other manga who also makes use of Dandadan's word balloon technique? Dandadan adds a chibi face of the speaker in the word balloon when they're out of frame, with facial expressions conveying their emotion while talking.

    Dandadan takes advantage of this so they can use landscape panels / info dumps / fancier panels that don't necessarily show the face of the speaker. It's really neat!

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I've seen a few places. Offhand, I know Watamote does it.

    I think the more common version is to just draw the character's face in the corner of the bubble instead of their whole head (assuming the artstyle allows them to be recognizable with just that).

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  • WearingGlassesWearingGlasses Of the friendly neighborhood variety Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oh, One Piece has done that too, come to think of it. Though I can't place if this was early on, or a later development.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Its a reasonably common technique that it feels very familiar to me but I cant point to any specific one because I dont notice it anymore.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yeah. Some artists lean on it more heavily than others. Suzuhito Yasuda, for example, (Yozakura Quartet, Bootsleg), loves using it, both for long exposition and because he loves to draw charts and maps. Among... other things.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I just blew my mind looking up something

    Suletta Mercury's VA from Witch from Mercury (Kana Ichinose) is also Fern in Frieren

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Naphtali wrote: »
    I just blew my mind looking up something

    Suletta Mercury's VA from Witch from Mercury (Kana Ichinose) is also Fern in Frieren

    Wow, that's some range.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    the only reason I noticed it was I was re-watching otaku elf, and she voices a character in that alternatively sound just like suletta or fern, depending on how they're talking, so I looked it up to confirm

    also the elf that aforementioned character has to manage is voiced by... Mamiko Noto (Prospera Mercury)

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    Naphtali wrote: »
    I just blew my mind looking up something

    Suletta Mercury's VA from Witch from Mercury (Kana Ichinose) is also Fern in Frieren

    You wanna know something that's also really cool? Suletta's English VA (Jill Harris) also voices Fern

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