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  • LockedOnTargetLockedOnTarget Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Funny thing, they actually did redo all the early one piece anime episodes at one point, because when the show started tv aspect ratio was 4:3 and standard definition and they wanted to bring the first few years in line with the later bulk of episodes so they just remade all of the 4:3 episodes in 16:9

    I don’t recall this.

    Unless you are talking about those specials they did?

    Those do some of the older arcs in heavily condensed one-shots but they aren’t full remakes of the show.

    They made 16:9 versions of the old episodes as well but they aren’t remakes, they’re just cropped.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Funny thing, they actually did redo all the early one piece anime episodes at one point, because when the show started tv aspect ratio was 4:3 and standard definition and they wanted to bring the first few years in line with the later bulk of episodes so they just remade all of the 4:3 episodes in 16:9

    I don’t recall this.

    Unless you are talking about those specials they did?

    Those do some of the older arcs in heavily condensed one-shots but they aren’t full remakes of the show.

    They made 16:9 versions of the old episodes as well but they aren’t remakes, they’re just cropped.

    oh ok I thought they actually redrew all of them

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    .. What the hell?

    I admit most of my exposure to Gundam is 08th MS team, Wing, and the original series. The demon Gundam there might be a bit too far though.

    The dub is safe for you, just a nice normal Dark Gundam. No devils or demons involved!

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    .. What the hell?

    I admit most of my exposure to Gundam is 08th MS team, Wing, and the original series. The demon Gundam there might be a bit too far though.

    It's actually really good, if also equally goofy

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  • LockedOnTargetLockedOnTarget Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Funny thing, they actually did redo all the early one piece anime episodes at one point, because when the show started tv aspect ratio was 4:3 and standard definition and they wanted to bring the first few years in line with the later bulk of episodes so they just remade all of the 4:3 episodes in 16:9

    I don’t recall this.

    Unless you are talking about those specials they did?

    Those do some of the older arcs in heavily condensed one-shots but they aren’t full remakes of the show.

    They made 16:9 versions of the old episodes as well but they aren’t remakes, they’re just cropped.

    oh ok I thought they actually redrew all of them

    The specials are new animation, but they are sort of in this weird place because they’ll be condensing a whole arc or saga into like an hour or two. So a lot of canon material gets rushed or cut.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm super excited for the Chainsaw Man movie. If it covers the Reze arc, the anime when it returns can do the International Assassins arc until the end of part 1, possibly in 1 cour.

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  • DaypigeonDaypigeon Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm super excited for the Chainsaw Man movie. If it covers the Reze arc, the anime when it returns can do the International Assassins arc until the end of part 1, possibly in 1 cour.
    I think 12 episodes would really be pushing it for the back half of part one

    like numerically it's not that much more of a stretch than what they covered in the first season, but I think the last bits need a little more time to breathe

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  • DesyDesy She/Her YeenRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I started Spy X Family last night. This show is really good! ^.^

    I'm going to rewatch the second episode later tonight because I kinda half-watched it while getting ready this morning.

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    .. What the hell?

    I admit most of my exposure to Gundam is 08th MS team, Wing, and the original series. The demon Gundam there might be a bit too far though.

    Devil Gundam, actually. (Yes, that's the official name, though it was changed to Dark Gundam for the US broadcast because BS&P was still in the dark ages at the turn of the millennium.) And yeah, G Gundam is...a ride, though there are bits that have...not aged well (Tequila Gundam was one name that deservedly got changed for the US release.)

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    the national gundams are racist in the most hilariously ham-fisted ways

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oghulk wrote: »
    The manga is fine even if the pacing becomes a challenge in some of the main fights.

    The anime is just horribly paced because it has to stretch out every single chapter/episode to fill 24 minutes.

    OBLIGATORY

    https://youtu.be/a4S9NuI6NKo?feature=shared

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 13
    to me the 200 episodes of filler is a reward for making it through shonen fights

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    Finished Witch from Mercury tonight. What is this, a happy ending in a Gundam series?

    Also really love looking back at the "controversy" that bandai made for themselves. The marriage wasn't subtext, they had rings on their fingers and everything. Just wild shit.

    Anyway, that was pretty alright!

    Gundam by and large does tend to have them!

    The ones I know that are Categorically Happy:
    MSG: Amuro and the White Base Crew survive and are Reunited
    ZZ: The Neo Zeon war ends and Judea fucks off to Jupiter
    G: FCD covered that one
    Wing: Peace is restored and Preventers works in the background to keep conflict from consuming the Earth Sphere again
    X: The Freeden Crew survives and the war between the Colonies and Earth is stopped before it can resume in earnest
    Turn A: Bittersweet but the conflict between the earth and moon are stopped, and the bitterness mainly being Loran saying goodbye to Sochie to serve as Diana’s knight for the rest of her time left in a peaceful cabin by a lake
    Seed and Seed Destiny: [LOUD DISCORDANT BUZZING AND SCREAMS]
    00: Humanity sets aside war, makes contact with what should be an unknowable alien race seeking refuge from the destruction of their world by natural intrastellar cataclysm, forges a bond that promises to take both species out into the unknown to explore together; Setsuna returns years later to visit Marina as a fusion of Human and ELS, a living embodiment of that bond
    Build Divers: They don’t murder the AI lady
    Build Divers Re:Rise: They save the alien animal people and also learn that the AI lady is the result of an ancient human-like race who saved themselves from extinction by basically uploading themselves as digital consciousnesses and beaming themselves across the cosmos, with an untold number manifesting within the Earth’s computer networks and, amusingly enough, literally in the servers of a Gundam MMO.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    .. What the hell?

    I admit most of my exposure to Gundam is 08th MS team, Wing, and the original series. The demon Gundam there might be a bit too far though.

    The dub is safe for you, just a nice normal Dark Gundam. No devils or demons involved!

    Funfact: Turn A’s nanomachines are based on DG cells

    No this is not a gag this is canon.

    [also, going by what is said in the novels, with enough time and energy it can literally rebuild its pilot from almost nothing if need be]

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    the most downer gundam endings are Zeta, the majority of the various OVAs in the original series timeline, and Iron Blooded Orphans

    and ZZ does a lot to soften the downer ending of Zeta

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    the most downer gundam endings are Zeta, the majority of the various OVAs in the original series timeline, and Iron Blooded Orphans

    and ZZ does a lot to soften the downer ending of Zeta

    It helps too that ZZ started up like, right after Zeta too, like, I think right the next week

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    the most downer gundam endings are Zeta, the majority of the various OVAs in the original series timeline, and Iron Blooded Orphans

    and ZZ does a lot to soften the downer ending of Zeta

    How about 0080, which literally ends with the traumatized tears of an emotionally devastated child?

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    the most downer gundam endings are Zeta, the majority of the various OVAs in the original series timeline, and Iron Blooded Orphans

    and ZZ does a lot to soften the downer ending of Zeta

    How about 0080, which literally ends with the traumatized tears of an emotionally devastated child?

    that is one of the OVAs in the original series timeline

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    the most downer gundam endings are Zeta, the majority of the various OVAs in the original series timeline, and Iron Blooded Orphans

    and ZZ does a lot to soften the downer ending of Zeta

    How about 0080, which literally ends with the traumatized tears of an emotionally devastated child?

    that is one of the OVAs in the original series timeline

    I read the sentence without seeing it, fair point.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Apothecary Diaries episode 11 had some twists and turns, but I also have some questions:
    How does the servant girl who apparently committed suicide in the water a few episodes ago fit into all of this?

    Also I'm a little unclear on who all is aware of the switcheroo plot. Did Mao's dad know? Did the other mother? Did the emperor? Did Jinshi? Ah-Duo's head handmaiden obviously did not know, which then makes me wonder who even carried it out in the first place?

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    A mere 500 episodes
    Lanz wrote: »
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    Finished Witch from Mercury tonight. What is this, a happy ending in a Gundam series?

    Also really love looking back at the "controversy" that bandai made for themselves. The marriage wasn't subtext, they had rings on their fingers and everything. Just wild shit.

    Anyway, that was pretty alright!

    Gundam by and large does tend to have them!

    The ones I know that are Categorically Happy:
    MSG: Amuro and the White Base Crew survive and are Reunited
    ZZ: The Neo Zeon war ends and Judea fucks off to Jupiter
    G: FCD covered that one
    Wing: Peace is restored and Preventers works in the background to keep conflict from consuming the Earth Sphere again
    X: The Freeden Crew survives and the war between the Colonies and Earth is stopped before it can resume in earnest
    Turn A: Bittersweet but the conflict between the earth and moon are stopped, and the bitterness mainly being Loran saying goodbye to Sochie to serve as Diana’s knight for the rest of her time left in a peaceful cabin by a lake
    Seed and Seed Destiny: [LOUD DISCORDANT BUZZING AND SCREAMS]
    00: Humanity sets aside war, makes contact with what should be an unknowable alien race seeking refuge from the destruction of their world by natural intrastellar cataclysm, forges a bond that promises to take both species out into the unknown to explore together; Setsuna returns years later to visit Marina as a fusion of Human and ELS, a living embodiment of that bond
    Build Divers: They don’t murder the AI lady
    Build Divers Re:Rise: They save the alien animal people and also learn that the AI lady is the result of an ancient human-like race who saved themselves from extinction by basically uploading themselves as digital consciousnesses and beaming themselves across the cosmos, with an untold number manifesting within the Earth’s computer networks and, amusingly enough, literally in the servers of a Gundam MMO.

    Yeah I think a lot of Gundam endings are either happy or bittersweet-happy.
    Even the epilogue for Iron-Blooded Orphans is pretty positive about the future in a very bittersweet way.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    08th MS Team had a pretty happy ending too

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    This is maybe a hot take but considering what the vast majority of Gundam series are about, what constitutes a "happy" or "bittersweet" ending is always going to be different to what that might mean in other genres of anime; it's all relative. If some of the cast make it out alive and the bad guys didn't completely win, I consider that at the very least bittersweet.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Well I don't think there has e er been one that was COMPLETELY miserable by that standard

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    Gundam, Gundam never changes

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
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    Oh god now there’s two of them.


    [a new light novel series of Sousuke and Kaname’s married family life, Full Metal Panic! Family starts its volume releases next month]

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    He always asks permission and double checks.

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    (PSN: Morninglord) (Steam: Morninglord) (WiiU: Morninglord22) I like to record and toss up a lot of random gaming videos here.
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  • AstharielAsthariel The Book Eater Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Look

    who among us did not mistake lust with desperate need for human connection of any kind in our lives?

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Just keep watching.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    And we have a full trailer for Kaiju No. 8:

    https://youtu.be/xgvWhe8cmEc

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
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    Oh god now there’s two of them.


    [a new light novel series of Sousuke and Kaname’s married family life, Full Metal Panic! Family starts its volume releases next month]

    I hope there's a lot about Sousuke and Kaname and it's not just Full Metal Panic Boruto about their kids

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Shy ends unceremoniously with an announcement of season 2.

    Which... man. What an unfortunately mediocre show that needed like twice the budget and a third of the fucking fluff.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    On the bright side, despite no one but me watching it, MF Ghost got renewed!

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

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