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I did not know ProZD was voicing Senshi in DiD until just now??
But actually the spiel is pretty funny
Some of the manga is translated and I checked it out and instead of being problematic it's just a very silly little parody of villainess stories, with a confused dad who can't remember all these characters names, and while he's not sure why all these boys have such fancy haircuts they seem like good kids. It's not great or anything, but it's nice to see something turn out not to be weird, at least.
Fiiine I'll watch the dub.
It's a good opening.
Slave show is a throwback to the fanservice harem fighting things of like 2014, but decently enough made, ugly CGI monsters notwithstanding, but at least agile ones that run around compared to Ishura's immobile robot spheres. Trashy, no argument, but compared to what current anime fantasy is? I hear it gets way the fuck trashier and does all the old bad harem cliches in very short order though.
Speaking of which, Instant Kill Cheat Power is not the absolute most repulsive thing out there, not while things like Goblin Slayer, Jobless Reincarnation, or that show about using healing magic to become a serial rapist exist, but I think it's because it doesn't have the budget for gratuitous gore, sex, and other gross power fantasy bullshit where literally every other person in the world is either a cackling mad rapist mass murderer or a member of his harem, so him just being a psychopath makes him 'good' and all the serial killing and apathy towards people dying around him is 'justified.' At this point, these things just deeply, fundamentally depress me. I did not make it through the episode, skipped ahead to see if... yep. Only gets worse.
At the risk of starting a subs vs dubs war, the subtitles seem a lot more dry than the dub.
For example when Senshi is cutting up the scorpion.
The subtitles on the Japanese goes:
Senshi: "When you eat this monster,"
Senshi: "you must cut off the pincers, head, and legs."
Senshi: "The tail will upset your stomach."
Laios: "The book said it'd be fine."
Senshi: "Or rather it just tastes bad."
The dub goes:
Senshi: "You have to chop off the pincers, head, legs, and tail."
Senshi: "Especially the tail."
Senshi: "Gives you the runs something fierce."
Laios: "But the guide said it was safe to eat."
Senshi: "You won't die, but it tastes like ass."
Something I didn't realize Netflix did, is that the English subtitles actually differ depending on the selected audio track. The dub subtitles appear to be a straight transcription of the dub audio, except even this very short sequence has multiple obvious mistakes. If one so desires, it appears you can get Japanese audio with the dub subtitles by choosing the "English (CC)" subtitles.
Metal Max Xeno. Or maybe the remake.
Bump of Chicken doesn't miss.
It's almost like they're learning.
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netflix if you axe dungeon meshi i'm forcibly unsubscribing all the accounts i have access to
I see by all the “agree” on your post that people like a weekly release, but I’ve always loved the option of watching when I want instead of imposing an arbitrary time gate.
I guess it’s for everyone to have a discourse instead of being all over the map.
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The episodes don't exist yet. The weekly time is for them to come out and be released as soon as they are finished. The "arbitrary" time gate would be preventing everyone from seeing any episodes until the show is completely done, you literally have this idea backwards.
Edit: Let me elaborate. The wording I used suggests that they are completing the episodes on a week-by-week basis, which isn't totally accurate. They ARE making finishing touches up till the last minute, which is terrible but apparently true in a LOT of cases (see JJK and every Shaft production). The "release the whole thing at once" method is bad when this is a currently releasing show that other regions are getting week-by-week. Because on week 1, every other region gets 1 episode, and the "full thing" region gets nothing. Repeat that for 12 to 24 weeks and then finally that region gets the show that has been THOROUGHLY dissected, spoiled, pirated, etc.
Edit 2: This is commonly referred to as "streaming jail" or similar. The anime Summer Time Rendering released starting in April and ending in September of 2022 in Japan. In America, Disney bought the rights and then sat on them for months, until they arbitrarily shat out the whole thing on Hulu in January of 2023 (the show... takes place in Summer, as you might have guessed), with little to no advertising notice. A show that was a successful hit in its home region and anime fan communities had essentially no reach in English thanks to this terrible marketing and planning strategy.
That's one benefit yeah. Though honestly, one unexpected improvement (for me) is that it literally forces me to find something else to do after I'm caught up. Granted, there's some anime I really want to see what happens next. Could even marathon the show for hours and hours if it's engaging enough. But that runs the risk of not feeling good enough if I just sit for hours.
One episode a week is like a treat to myself.
OK, I didn't know the episodes weren't done yet, so that makes sense. If they aren't done, sure I get the staggered release.
Of course, that leads me to...well, why the fuck are they being released when they aren't done? How does anyone approve making changes with literally days before the next release? That is some seriously fucked up mismanagement and potential abuse of workers.
It would be one thing if it was a daily/weekly show, but a scripted show? Nah, fuck that noise. Finish your show completely, then release them all at once or on a staggered schedule if that floats your boat.
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What you would hope would happen: Prepare a work schedule that will allow the completed work to be done, work that schedule, release the finished product.
What actually happens: Propose a ludicrous schedule that is inadequate to the task, crunch the workers into a fine paste for a comically low wage, and don't completely finish anyway. Make necessary changes to the home video version.
It keeps the discussion going, which keeps the show popular for a longer span of time and may convince people to pick it up before it ends.
Contrast how much people talked about Jojo Golden Wind vs JoJo Stone Ocean. Golden Wind had people talking for months while it was coming out, anticipating what was to come, whereas Stone Ocean got unadvertised blips for a couple days several months apart.
Now, that model is not the right fit for every show. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off would have suffered in the one episode a week format. But for something like D in D, it might make it become something big.
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I'm like 97% certain that Netflix is not involved with the production in any way, and only secured streaming rights, and specifically for English. It is being produced and broadcast under the same schedule as almost every other anime out there. eg Seven Deadly Sins last season, My Happy Marriage, Isekai Ojisan (which had a zillion production issues and delays), etc. It's unusual for ENGLISH Netflix in general, but not unusual for Netflix anime, and they simulcast a ton of stuff weekly in mostly east Asian regions.
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Another weird Netflix subbing problem: if you have the dub with no subtitles, signs and things go untranslated. They're only translated if you have subtitles on in some form.
It's still amusing, just has a more serious air than I expected.
Finishing shows hours before they air is normal for anime this is why some stuff has a 5.5 recap episode and the final episode gets till the end of the next season they blew the deadline and got to rebook slots to air the ending which is probably still at the stick figures on the director's whiteboard stage. And yes it's hella abusive and fucked up.
Netflix used to have a habit of holding on to released episodes till they got the full season and then dump the whole thing. This is called Netflix jail and we are celebrating them not doing this cause now we don't have to go to some sketchy pirate site or spend the next 3 months dodging spoilers.
Everyone is wrong here. The corporations for pushing these schedules, the artists for agreeing to this shit, and the fans for not boycotting this practice and gobbling up the product as soon as it releases, thus continuing the cycle.
Like, I get it. Corporations want to make money. Artists have limited options. Fans want more anime/manga. But damn...
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There would need to be a massive cultural shift
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But they'll still do weekly releases because that's how they want people to engage with the series, or because that's how timeslots work, etc etc.
The workers and fans aren't really at fault. If you're wanting to be an animation professional, you can't just choose the "good one" to work at because... there isn't a good one. Maybe some that are less bad than others, but Hayao Miyazaki, one of the most internationally respected professionals in the field... crunched the shit out of his team to make all those famous films, there's a whole documentary about it. Hell, Walt Disney was a strike breaking, exploitative controlling asshole. Likewise, the fans could choose to boycott all the anime productions made unethically... that's all of them. That's just called not watching anime, something the majority of the world audience already does, and something that certainly won't create better anime. So no, the only real solution is better labor laws + a cultural shift away from "we can make any schedule or budget work if we simply use people as a fossil fuel."
I haven't seen the anime, but to be fair to Instant Kill Cheat Power the manga... actually went somewhere with its protagonist?
The head researcher gets isekai'd at one point since the big magic lady wants to get some questions answered about this weird overpowered kid, and he thanks her for saving the Earth before having his bomb collar kill him because that's better than being on the same planet as the protagonist.
Chained Soldier is trashy as fuck, though, no doubt about it. It's just an unabashed fetish-filled manga with big flashy fights sandwiched between erotic scenes and plot. Like, literally Plot->Fight Scene->Erotica->Plot. That's the basic structure and it mostly sticks to it. You're either into that, in which case you might want to buy the uncensored manga volumes with bonus sex scenes, or you're not in which case you're honestly not missing much by skipping out on it.
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Though I will say they are being surprisingly compassionate to their characters this time around. Bad shit happens but there's a distinct lack of targeted cruelty.