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  • never dienever die Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    In terms of justifications besides the obvious employers want to control you and not allow employees to move on; isn’t the logic supposed to be to protect you from sharing trade secrets from one company to another? Which seems redundant in this day and age of NDAs.

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  • HellboreHellbore A bad, bad man Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Watamote 222(1-3)
    I swear the cringe in these chapters is going to kill me. Probably not helped by the glacial pacing of the festival arc so far, lead up included.

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  • aiouaaioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    never die wrote: »
    In terms of justifications besides the obvious employers want to control you and not allow employees to move on; isn’t the logic supposed to be to protect you from sharing trade secrets from one company to another? Which seems redundant in this day and age of NDAs.

    Yes it was pretty much always bullshit.

    The other weak justifications would be stuff like companies not wanting to train people and then have them jump to another company who can pay more because they don't offer training, but it's not like company-sponsered job training is really a thing any more. And even so there are other ways of protecting against that which aren't as onerous as a non-compete. (ie, some places will still pay for college courses and will have clawbacks if you leave within x time.)

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Watamote manga
    I'm just worried they're stretching out the festival arc because they plan to end the manga with high school graduation and won't be continuing to college.

    Also I keep picturing Nemo as a blonde and forgetting that her hair is apparently supposed to be pink.

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  • never dienever die Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Thawmus wrote: »
    never die wrote: »
    In terms of justifications besides the obvious employers want to control you and not allow employees to move on; isn’t the logic supposed to be to protect you from sharing trade secrets from one company to another? Which seems redundant in this day and age of NDAs.

    The one I'm most familiar with is that if you have a salesperson and they're really fucking good at sales and they build up a massive client list, you really don't want them to go somewhere else and take their client list with them, and you definitely don't want to see them go create their own company and take their client list with them.

    Of course, if you don't want them to go you should make them fucking happy and the reality is that the non-compete is there to try and extract the salesperson's value from them if they exit the company.

    You'll notice that nobody sneezes or gets uptight about absorbing a smaller company so they get to dig into that smaller company's clientele or hire someone on who's been working for themselves so that they can absorb their clientele. Everyone's more than willing to assign a value to people who have client lists like this, so finding ways to keep what you bought without paying for it will always sound like a win.

    It’s also not like, once the employee tells them they are leaving, they can’t try and counteroffer to keep them.

    Edit: at the very least, Non-competes should all have been Garden Leave like the UK has. Which is where they can’t start working for the new company for a set amount of time, but the old company still has to pay you during that time so they can’t do what they do in the US where you are just hung out to dry.

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  • SageinaRageSageinaRage Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I spent a summer working as an actor at a comedy wild west show at the local theme park, and in the middle of the summer they wanted us to sign noncompetes. I signed mine since I was just there temporarily while in college and didn't care, but we had other people quit over it. So I only had one day off every two weeks after that! Always been kind of baffled at what kind of secrets they were trying to protect, or how they thought we were going to be locked in for this rinky dink show.

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  • Ninja Snarl PNinja Snarl P My helmet is my burden. Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    A dollar says the noncompete simply included a list of descriptions for places you might also have worked at, thus arbitrarily and sleazily putting a huge chokehold on your ability to work specifically so they could abuse you as a worker.

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  • Andy JoeAndy Joe We claim the land for the highlord! The AdirondacksRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Yuru Camp S3 04

    A seven-meter "tunnel" is just an archway!

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  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Vinland Saga season 2 is going to rip my heart out and fuckin' piledrive it off a gorgeously illustrated farmland seaside cliff

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Andy Joe wrote: »
    Yuru Camp S3 04

    A seven-meter "tunnel" is just an archway!

    I feel like this depends heavily on the dimensions of the hole relative to the dimensions of what it's going through.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Lars wrote: »
    Watamote manga
    I'm just worried they're stretching out the festival arc because they plan to end the manga with high school graduation and won't be continuing to college.

    Also I keep picturing Nemo as a blonde and forgetting that her hair is apparently supposed to be pink.

    My gut says 95% chance they are doing this yeah. Sigh.

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  • EvilOtakuEvilOtaku Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Have any anime/manga successfully made the jump from high school to post high school? At most I think I've only seen like a chapter or two epilogue.

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  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Veldrin wrote: »
    Vinland Saga season 2 is going to rip my heart out and fuckin' piledrive it off a gorgeously illustrated farmland seaside cliff

    Oh hey welcome to where I was 2 weeks ago.

    This show is so very very good and I can't believe I slept on it

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  • arthurinscalesarthurinscales Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I think Beastars actually does? I haven't read it

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    There surely must be a few but it's definitely super rare.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    EvilOtaku wrote: »
    Have any anime/manga successfully made the jump from high school to post high school? At most I think I've only seen like a chapter or two epilogue.

    Goodnight Punpun

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    There surely must be a few but it's definitely super rare.

    If you said none, I'd believe you.

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Captain Tsubasa.

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  • arthurinscalesarthurinscales Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Has Hajime no ippo made out of of high school

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I think the series is in the early 2000s now? With Ippo born in the '70s.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    that doesn't necessarily mean the character ages slid with the setting tho
    like detective conan's setting has slid forward with real time but the characters are the same ages as they were in the 90s AFAIK

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I forget the name of the manga, but there's one where it centers around a high school that's all about fighting and the protagonist is someone who got pressganged into being a teacher for said school, since he's actually a martial arts prodigy and also extreme scumbag, which is why his own dad fucked his body up a few years prior to depower him so he could learn humility.

    That series eventually goes from the high school to a college, also centered around fighting, and I forget if the characters graduate or not before they head off to America for some secret fighting science tournament experiment thing.

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  • cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Is it normal for an anime to change intro and outro sequences within a season? Delicious in dungeon has new ones and they are worse than the original ones, really weird change

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    It's normal for anime to change the OP and ED every cour, yeah. A cour is normally 12-13 episodes.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    cursedking wrote: »
    Is it normal for an anime to change intro and outro sequences within a season? Delicious in dungeon has new ones and they are worse than the original ones, really weird change

    FMA Brotherhood had 4 cours, which meant 4 OPs and 4 EDs. This is pretty standard, yeah.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Yeah pretty much every anime that airs on japanese TV traditionally changes the opening and ending every 12 or so episodes to coincide with the broadcast TV scheduling season changing over into the next quarter. They do all their scheduling by 12 week quarters.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    It's normal for anime to change the OP and ED every cour, yeah. A cour is normally 12-13 episodes.

    It's also normal for the originals to always be the best.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I'm not sure why exactly that is the tradition, but it might have something to do with licensing agreements for broadcasting of the songs used, or be because of the music distributor they get the songs from wanting to advertise new songs, as anime openings and endings are also music videos and japanese TV show productions have to buy their time slots rather than getting the network to buy their broadcast rights like they do in the US, so sponsors who pay for the production of a show have a lot of pull on the show.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I can think of a few series that transition from high school to college (such as "Kase-san and...") but they are too rare.

    Slightly more common in fantasy/isekai stories. I think even Bakarina had them graduating "high school" at the end of the second season and moving to basically magical college, and while no more anime has release since then, I know there are a bunch of novels.

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  • cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Oh that’s really interesting, thank you!

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    It's normal for anime to change the OP and ED every cour, yeah. A cour is normally 12-13 episodes.

    It's also normal for the originals to always be the best.

    Extremely debatable. Ready Steady Go wasn't the first OP for FMA, people seem to prefer Death Note's OP 2, etc. I don't know why (I've seen it a lot on Twitter too) people are like "this is worse!" as if that's not just their preference. It wouldn't be weird to like DinD OP2 more (I do prefer 1 myself).

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    It's normal for anime to change the OP and ED every cour, yeah. A cour is normally 12-13 episodes.

    It's also normal for the originals to always be the best.

    Trying to think of shows where later OPs are the best

    Eureka Seven's second OP, Shonen Heart by Home Made Kazoku

    Ranking of Kings' second OP, Hadaka no Yuusha by Vaundy

    Naruto has a few great contenders but I vote for Haruka Kanata by AKFG (second OP)

    FMA2004's second opening, Ready Steady Go! by L'arc En Ciel

    Jujutsu Kaisen's second OP, Vivid Vice by Who-ya (notably, the same animation director for the opening as Hadaka no Yuusha!)

    I'm sure there are others, but these all hit so solidly for me that they might as well be the theme song for their respective franchises

    Also I am at work and on mobile so while I might edit in videos for their respective songs later, cutting and pasting them into the search bar should also work for now (I need to go do actually some stuff in a second here)

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    wait ready steady go wasn't the first OP for FMA? I thought it was

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    It may also have to do with how schooling is different in Japan at that level and beyond. Everything from high school on up If you want in to a particular one you have to apply and probably pass a test, depending on how stringent entrance requirements are. Colleges/universities I know can be especially cutthroat

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    wait ready steady go wasn't the first OP for FMA? I thought it was

    It was for the US edit as aired on Adult Swim but in Japan it was the second after Melissa by Porno Graffiti

    oh another one for the list is absolutely that one Maximum The Hormone op for Death Note. you know the one

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I think in the American broadcast they just used Ready Steady Go the whole time because of some deal Adult Swim(?) worked out with the band or something.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Yeah I've been enjoying Watamote as far as the individual chapters go, this last one was hilarious, but the recent couple of arcs have really felt like they're treading water. The manga had been really good up until then at always feeling like it had forward momentum, friendships and friend groups changing and evolving, most characters felt like they had interesting character arcs that could go in different directions. Now it feels like a bunch of arcs are aaaalmost complete but none of it has paid off yet, and it's making me nervous whether they really will get concluded. Especially since a lot of arcs are queer-ish, and "no you can't actually explicitly admit your story is super gay and has been for years" is still pretty common from Japanese publishers.

    I'm still more hopeful about Watamote pulling it off than I would be for most titles, the writing has certainly surprised me before, but I'd be a lot more reassured if this current arc ends with some sort of actual shift to the status quo.

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