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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I feel a bit more lenient to Highspeed Étoile, in comparison, because the entire thing is CG. Nothing stands out as especially bad when it's not changing between the two types. Also I just assumed this was another 'sport where only teenage girls compete' but there's adults and men as well. And all three adult men in episode one are also the best drivers, so I guess it's not being super unrealistic? The second best racer is an adult woman, but being voiced by Nana Mizuki gives you special powers, this is just a known fact.

    This is another show where I'll probably give it a second episode at least, because I really want to like it. But it's not great.

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  • Kevin CristKevin Crist I make the devil hit his knees and say the 'our father'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Kana wrote: »
    There's a user on Pixiv who is just way, way too good at doing fanart in the style of Naoki Urasawa

    Spy x Family
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    Bocchi
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    Delicious in Dungeon
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    Watamote
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    this is an amazing bit bravo

    Is the stuffed lion a refrence to Bleach or some general Japanese pop culture thing?

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Madican wrote: »
    The only thing I wanna see, or rather hear, in Blue Archive anime is Unwelcome School. aka "oh no everything is going wrong all at once in a comedic fashion" aka Aru's unofficial "theme song"

    https://youtu.be/pEg_d2f6myw

    Oh that's where that song is from

    I've heard it a few times and I thought it was just some annoyingly catchy "we are number 1" style meme; it's got some really good frantic gremlin energy

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  • WearingGlassesWearingGlasses Of the friendly neighborhood variety Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Kana wrote: »
    There's a user on Pixiv who is just way, way too good at doing fanart in the style of Naoki Urasawa

    Spy x Family
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    Bocchi
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    Delicious in Dungeon
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    Watamote
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    Please tell me they also did Dragon Ball.

    Fake edit: Ooh they have Arale and Gash Bell, good enough.

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  • HefflingHeffling No Pic EverRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    The promote the top 10% / fire the bottom 10% idea is extremely stupid on so many levels. In addition to all of the ones discussed above, there is also the fact that when evaluating a team's output, you're looking at the team. If the team is causing downstream delays, some improvements may be needed. But if the team as a whole is meeting it's goals, then increasing team efficiency doesn't increase productivity, because they aren't the holdup in the process anyway.

    This approach also destroys any attempts at team building, as it sets employees against one another rather than getting them to collaborate.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Kana wrote: »
    There's a user on Pixiv who is just way, way too good at doing fanart in the style of Naoki Urasawa

    Spy x Family
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    Bocchi
    c4i1nz0t7rwc.jpg

    Delicious in Dungeon
    4hrh4sa4tml5.jpg

    Watamote
    xrg8b8kieu2a.jpg

    this is an amazing bit bravo

    Is the stuffed lion a refrence to Bleach or some general Japanese pop culture thing?

    That is just Anya's stuffed animal from Spy X Family. It's a chimera. I don't know of any special significance to it outside of the story it's from.

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Also, promoting someone into leadership because they're performing well is silly. People who perform well do not necessarily have leadership skills!

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  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    Also, promoting someone into leadership because they're performing well is silly. People who perform well do not necessarily have leadership skills!

    One place I worked we had a senior engineer (basically building the server software) who was very good at his job. And apparently at some point like 10 years before I was there he was promoted to management for a whole team in that area. And that lasted not very long and was a complete fucking disaster. and so they basically invented a new title and position specifically for him so he could move laterally but not longer have to manage people and then everything worked out well.

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  • Kevin CristKevin Crist I make the devil hit his knees and say the 'our father'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Ah, I missed the snake tail.

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  • BullheadBullhead Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    shryke wrote: »
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    Also, promoting someone into leadership because they're performing well is silly. People who perform well do not necessarily have leadership skills!

    One place I worked we had a senior engineer (basically building the server software) who was very good at his job. And apparently at some point like 10 years before I was there he was promoted to management for a whole team in that area. And that lasted not very long and was a complete fucking disaster. and so they basically invented a new title and position specifically for him so he could move laterally but not longer have to manage people and then everything worked out well.

    Hi, this is me! I was promoted and given 3 direct reports. I hated every minute of it, was a good but awful manager (I listened and helped with everything I could, but did fuck all for leadership to my team). I have since moved laterally into a different Dev team as a simple peon (with lots of seniority) and I'm SO MUCH HAPPIER.

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  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Does anyone know if there is a reddit page that is for buying and selling anime? Was considering selling my collection

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  • gavindelgavindel The reason all your software is brokenRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Frieren really has not caught me. I read the manga a while back, and my general opinion was that it went off the rails to become a generic shounen series. Now, with the anime, the pacing and delivery is just so...stilted. Just had the first big fight scene, and it was about 15 seconds of oddly over-animated running around and didn't even cleanly sell the killing blow.
    Of course, the bigger problem is that Frieren is so flat as a protagonist that I wouldn't care if she died midchapter. She evinces almost no emotion in 90% of scenes and seems quite resigned to being randomly killed by something or other out of left field. Her emotional journey died so they could have a stupid mage school arc.

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  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    @Lanz I don't want to ask in another thread, is Kikaider (2001) streaming anywhere above board? This seems like something you'd know.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Skeith wrote: »
    @Lanz I don't want to ask in another thread, is Kikaider (2001) streaming anywhere above board? This seems like something you'd know.

    Nope, completely out of print and out of license as far as I’m aware and never even mastered to BD in Japan.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The turn of the century was surprisingly suffuse with Ishinomori now that I think of it.

    Voicelugger was the last production he worked on and aired posthumously, Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldier ran around then, as did Kikaider, and of course Toei revived the Kamen Rider franchise with Kuuga.

    https://youtu.be/2v6tZaSPbwM?feature=shared
    https://youtu.be/w0GxYYwdL7s?feature=shared
    https://youtu.be/pdzXDNgwc3U?feature=shared

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The best pitch I can make for Voicelugger is that it does Samurai Flamenco like ten years before Flamenco aired and if I’m being honest I think does it kind of better

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I'm a big fan of The Skull Man as well.

    https://youtu.be/8O04BR0dDfg?si=zSgrbApJtPZ6fxSy

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Kaiju #8 getting a ton of hype and advertising.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Kaiju #8 getting a ton of hype and advertising.

    It falls off hard imo.

    I'd argue it just never stops doing its one thing. As long as that holds your interest, that's fine, but as a series it's never going to grow.

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  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I would describe Kaiju #8 as Extremely Okay.

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I can't help but resent it a bit for turning out to be a standard shounen instead of more giant monster focused but that's a personal bias.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    It's one of those it felt like it had a lot more potential and then just.. i dunno. Yeah, it fell off.

    Realsitcally a lot of why it fell off is we've goten very little explroation of who the Kaijuu are as people, why they give a shit, etcera. FIRENDSHIp can only carry a series so far.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    JayKaos wrote: »
    I can't help but resent it a bit for turning out to be a standard shounen instead of more giant monster focused but that's a personal bias.

    Can I interest you in a wide array of Giants of Light?

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I definitely do wanna watch more ultraman one of these days. Maybe Shin will come to streaming somewhere eventually

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I still like Kaiju no 8 cos I don't need my fighting shows to be secretly literature or deep character studies I'll go read those things. I'm here for fightings and it delivers.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Kaiju No. 8 will be even better as an anime because the appeal is almost entirely visual.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Yeah it's gonna be sick unless they get a terrible studio then meh.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I can't get Crunchyroll to load, so maybe it's getting hammered?

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Kaiju #08's first episode was very well animated, but it's also very aggressively generic shounen in my eyes. All overreactions at maximum volume and "I've got to try my best!" That's the sum total I'll have to say about it ever.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Finally got it to load.

    They understand the good parts of Kaiju 8. Granted it's only the first episode, so we'll see if production keeps up.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    Kaiju #08's first episode was very well animated, but it's also very aggressively generic shounen in my eyes. All overreactions at maximum volume and "I've got to try my best!" That's the sum total I'll have to say about it ever.

    Excellent. Just what I wanted.

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  • CururuCururu Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I have Looser Ranger on my list of shows to watch this season, yet I find myself having a hard time getting around to watching the episode that’s already aired. I’m a fan of both Power Rangers and Sentai, and a different take on the premise interests me. I have a high tolerance for camp and such. I’m just not in the mood for bleak, I guess. For those that are familiar with the series, how dark and bleak does it get? It doesn’t need to be a comedy or anything, but I don’t really want to start something grim. I have a bad habit of not dropping most shows I start, even if I’m not really invested in them anymore (What if it gets good!).

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The first episode was a lot more Disgaea than Invincible. It's also airing in a prime time (ie afternoon/evening instead of midnight) shounen timeslot, so I wouldn't expect it to lean into being particularly gruesome even if it does turn that direction.

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  • neverreallyneverreally Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Cururu wrote: »
    I have Looser Ranger on my list of shows to watch this season, yet I find myself having a hard time getting around to watching the episode that’s already aired. I’m a fan of both Power Rangers and Sentai, and a different take on the premise interests me. I have a high tolerance for camp and such. I’m just not in the mood for bleak, I guess. For those that are familiar with the series, how dark and bleak does it get? It doesn’t need to be a comedy or anything, but I don’t really want to start something grim. I have a bad habit of not dropping most shows I start, even if I’m not really invested in them anymore (What if it gets good!).

    It's dark. In my opinion, there are practically zero "good" characters. Everyone is screwed up and lacking in morals. There is some horrific shit going on. Some body horror. Gore.

    There are also funny parts.

    I think it's a solid 6 outta 10 manga.

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The Metallica episodes of Golden Wind were fuckin' gnarly, my god

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