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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 13


    I did not know ProZD was voicing Senshi in DiD until just now??

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I saw this headline and thought it sounded dumb
    The Old Man Reincarnated as a Villainess Anime Announced

    But actually the spiel is pretty funny
    In his previous life in modern-day Japan, he was Kenzaburou Tondabayashi, a 52-year-old civil servant—and now he's the villainess! Reborn as Grace Auvergne, the drill-haired villainess of an otome game his daughter used to play, Kenzaburou is quite confused.

    From the little information he possesses, Kenzaburou knows he should be a haughty noble girl, but the disciplined older man is simply unable to act in such a manner. His calm and kind aura leads him to befriend the heroine and further endear him to the student body as the pinnacle of elegance. As he tries to keep the story on track, Kenzaburou will have to draw on his years of experience in the workforce, his perfect Japanese manners, and his family-oriented morals to fit in with the fellow kids.

    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.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 13


    I did not know ProZD was voicing Senshi in DiD until just now??

    Fiiine I'll watch the dub.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Has anyone posted Dungeon Meshi's OP here yet?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60_2zt9l3Yk
    It's a good opening.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I wasn't all that charmed by the first episode of Delicious in Dungeon. It lost me a lot when it was three minutes into the episode and taking an aside with infographic to explain the concept of currency. I like adventure, not an exploration of the minutia of the Monster Manual. I also expected more of Trigger's usual expressiveness and movement in the animation when it was mostly just fine.

    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.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I watched DiD ep1 with both subs and the English dub.

    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.

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    PLA wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    GR_Zombie wrote: »
    Monsters are cooler than guns, it’s that simple.

    monsters are not cooler than tanks or boats, sorry nerd
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    Need game name.

    Metal Max Xeno. Or maybe the remake.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Gundi wrote: »
    Has anyone posted Dungeon Meshi's OP here yet?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60_2zt9l3Yk
    It's a good opening.

    Bump of Chicken doesn't miss.

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  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm just shocked that Netflix is doing a weekly release schedule for something.

    It's almost like they're learning.

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  • DaypigeonDaypigeon Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    some of the characters teased in that opening make think (hope) they're in for the long haul, adaptation-wise

    netflix if you axe dungeon meshi i'm forcibly unsubscribing all the accounts i have access to

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Man, I can't believe we got a Pluto anime, a Scott Pilgrim anime, and a Delicious in Dungeon anime within a few months of each other, an embarrassment of riches. I would include Frieren in that list, but I honestly started reading it when I heard about the anime, so it's different in my mind. Episode 1's dub was solid (ProZD is the obvious standout there), but I also want to try the sub later to see what I think.

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm just shocked that Netflix is doing a weekly release schedule for something.

    It's almost like they're learning.

    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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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    I'm just shocked that Netflix is doing a weekly release schedule for something.

    It's almost like they're learning.

    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.

    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.

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  • DesyDesy She/Her YeenRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    I'm just shocked that Netflix is doing a weekly release schedule for something.

    It's almost like they're learning.

    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.

    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.

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    I'm just shocked that Netflix is doing a weekly release schedule for something.

    It's almost like they're learning.

    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.

    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.

    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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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    I'm just shocked that Netflix is doing a weekly release schedule for something.

    It's almost like they're learning.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

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  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    I'm just shocked that Netflix is doing a weekly release schedule for something.

    It's almost like they're learning.

    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.

    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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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I don't know if it's the only time it happened, but JJBA Stone Ocean released full seasons on Netflix before they aired on Japanese tv.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    I'm just shocked that Netflix is doing a weekly release schedule for something.

    It's almost like they're learning.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Delicious In Dungeon is a very strange show.

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    To be fair, I can always just wait for all the episodes to be released before I watch it. I was raised on the 1 per week format of TV shows that Netflix's entire series drop was a breath of fresh air.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    That's probably the least Trigger-like Trigger show I've ever seen.

    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.

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  • neverreallyneverreally Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Delicious In Dungeon was a slow starter for me in the manga. I know others in this thread have said the same. So give it some time.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I guess I just didn't think it was going to have a remotely serious premise, which kind of makes it less chill than I expected. I figured it would be a slice of life series about a wacky group of misfits who occasionally cook, not
    trying to save his sister from being digested who's probably going to be bones by the time those idiots find her.

    It's still amusing, just has a more serious air than I expected.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yeah, DinD started out as "pretty funny, with good art" and eventually becomes "one of my favorite fantasy themed manga ever." It grows and grows.

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    I'm just shocked that Netflix is doing a weekly release schedule for something.

    It's almost like they're learning.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    WTF is wrong with people? And like, this isn't just corporate greed either.

    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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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Japan has a very different view on work from even us in America. For the worse, which is a big reason why they have a word that literally means "death from overwork", their suicide rate is climbing, and birth rates keep plummeting.

    There would need to be a massive cultural shift

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I also feel like there's some confusion, this isn't a netflix original they just licensed it, this is airing on tv in japan weekly. Also, I found out in the course of googling this that at least episodes 1-3 are done as they had some sort of theatrical showing in december.

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    Yeah not every anime series has episodes done the week they air. Some do, sometimes quite a few, but it isn't the case for every series.

    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.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    WTF is wrong with people? And like, this isn't just corporate greed either.

    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...

    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."

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Madican wrote: »
    Japan has a very different view on work from even us in America. For the worse, which is a big reason why they have a word that literally means "death from overwork", their suicide rate is climbing, and birth rates keep plummeting.

    There would need to be a massive cultural shift
    It is wild that someone managed to end up with a worse work ethic than the US.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I like to think it's part of the reason we're seeing a paradigm shift in more animes depicting, gasp, actual relationships. Maybe if they stop demonizing the notion of being in a relationship, people won't find it off putting? The idea of a couple kissing is basically unspeakable filth.

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  • NeveronNeveron SwedenRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    I wasn't all that charmed by the first episode of Delicious in Dungeon. It lost me a lot when it was three minutes into the episode and taking an aside with infographic to explain the concept of currency. I like adventure, not an exploration of the minutia of the Monster Manual. I also expected more of Trigger's usual expressiveness and movement in the animation when it was mostly just fine.

    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.

    I haven't seen the anime, but to be fair to Instant Kill Cheat Power the manga... actually went somewhere with its protagonist?
    Like, dude's unironically an SCP. He grew up inside a secret government containment facility. Those powers aren't something he got when he got isekai'd, it's something he's always had.

    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.
    I haven't read the light novel, mind you. But yeah, this is an adaptation rather than an original show so the story shouldn't be impacted by the budget.

    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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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    One Piece ch. 1103:
    Fucking Saturn. Hope this punch from Kuma lands. Real fucked that Bonney is going to experience his death twice. That said Saturn’s idea was an interesting one, if her devil fruit works the way he says giving it to a child is likely the only way to bring it to it’s full potential

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Chained Soldier was also done by the same person as Akame ga Kill

    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.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Holy shit, ProZD is great as Senshi in Delicious in Dungeon.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Funk fusion cover the Yu-Gi-Oh! intro
    https://youtu.be/xgGZSt1QWPk?si=fwKsn288xfhjfH_y

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Frieren is back today, with a new OP.

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