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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Madican wrote: »
    Tsukimichi Episode 20
    I love how Makoto now has enough power that on the second time meeting the goddess he's not only able to stand his ground but openly insult her. She's probably still "stronger" than him just because divine power seems to carry authority with it, but I don't think she's capable of killing him anymore. At best she might only be able to stalemate things if he decided to go for the throat. He certainly has enough reasons to try. And she made two colossal mistakes that are going to come back and bite her: she promised that if he did as she asked shed would stop interfering with him directly and she informed him that a godly promise is very difficult to break with possibly some heavy repercussions for doing so. So Makoto can now display his full power and she can't do anything direct about it. And she only said she would not interfere with him, he is not under any kind of restrictions.

    Oh, and something tells me that her finally giving him the ability to understand Common language was more than it seemed to be, but not something she did on purpose. She doesn't have the power to hurt him like that, they already pointed that out, meaning that "damage" came from something else. My guess is that it has to do with the Understand All Languages Except Common ability she did grant him at the start, which she pointed out. What if by restoring the Common part it ratcheted up exponentially in power or authority? We've already seen how it applies not just to spoken language but the languages of magic itself too. So the first ability was strong but "incomplete" and now that it's "complete" it's gone up a couple ranks in power maybe? Hope it's explained soon.

    There was so much I loved about this episode besides that. Tomoe's hammy acting, the demiplane getting to show what they're able to do, and the imminent collision course with both heroes Makoto is now on. Gonna be a good buildup to the finale.

    Technically....
    Makoto would be under the restriction to not "aggressively interfere" with the hyumans.
    True, but he's about to make it nearly impossible for hyumans or demons to do something that might get him to interfere: taking Kalneon as his own country. Because it sits smack between the hyuman territories and the demon territory as a giant buffer, so neither can attack the other without going through his land first, and retaliating against them doing so would probably not count as interfering since it'd be self defense against trespassers. This also enables him to trade with both countries openly since by the time all is said and done in this season I'm confident he'll be seen as a new center of power on the political battlefield.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Pretty even-handed coverage, and nice to see:

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

    Seems a bit derivative to sell Miura's art as "detailed heads exploding", but ah well.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Pretty even-handed coverage, and nice to see:

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

    Seems a bit derivative to sell Miura's art as "detailed heads exploding", but ah well.

    Surprise Gita Jackson!

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 13
    I’ve been on holiday the last couple weeks and have watched over half of the 100 episode dragon quest dai anime from a couple years ago and it’s great but you can really feel the serious shonen battle stuff struggling under the weight of decades of game localization spells or attacks being named stuff like Ouchie or Kasploosh

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  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Fire Punch sure doesn't, uh, pull any punches, but I definitely feel as attached to any characters like I do in CSM. They all felt kind of... disposable at best, and most of them to be scumbags at worst.

    It's actual horror sci Fi and fantasy to the extreme dorhedoro does the same

    Everyone is a weird asshole with baggage

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Pretty even-handed coverage, and nice to see:

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

    Seems a bit derivative to sell Miura's art as "detailed heads exploding", but ah well.

    I swear this story is like it was written in 1996 and they just swapped out the Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z art

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Is anyone else reading _The Days Of Diamond_ ? (ongoing on Mangaplus, and as usual if you use the app you can read all the chapters, just only once).

    It's a sports manga, definitely, but it's also a sports manga completely unlike any other one I've read. For one thing, the amount of actual sports is significantly smaller than usual; it's about baseball, and there are baseball matches in there, but much much more of it is about the things surrounding the sport.

    And, sure, that's not particularly unusual, but the discussions aren't about "how to get better" or "meeting the sports rival in the arcade and challenging them to a match there" or training or whatever, they're almost entirely about the internal mental states of the players and the coaches.

    The thing I haven't mentioned yet is that the lead character is, probably, the best pitcher in the world (this is literally something the characters say). And even _that_ isn't, in itself, super unusual.

    The thing that makes this one different is that the lead character doesn't really _want_ to be the best pitcher in the world. He just wants to play sports and have fun, and he wants his team mates to have fun, and he wants the opposing team to have fun. The thing is, (sort of like Saitama?), when he can pitch a completely 100%-strikes game pretty much whenever he wants, that causes problems.

    First off, the opposing team tends to be pretty demoralised. Secondly, his own team doesn't get to do much while he's pitching. Thirdly, baseball-the-sport in general winds up revolving around him because he's so much better than anyone else, so other players in _other teams_ are worried about what'll happen if they play him because they're basically bound to lose; and coaches tend to give him more attention, and (at this point in the story he's in elementary school/early junior high) he's worried about taking positions at high schools away from other kids because the other schools all want him.

    And then there's other, more practical, details; like I said, he's around 11 or 12 years old, so there's a plot around suffering literal growing pains -- but also it makes things difficult for the coaches, because on one side they want to have him play as much as possible so the team will win, but on the other hand they risk physically injuring him or affecting his progress because he's still growing. And also if they just put him out to pitch all the time, what happens to the other players that are also pitchers? And how do they get the outfielders to keep being able to play properly when there are no hits coming their way? And his teammates are a bit conflicted between wanting to be on a winning team, and wanting to actually have had some involvement in winning -- and, yes, half of every game does involve the team being at bat, but when all they have to do is score a single run the way the game works isn't the way it's really meant to work.


    Downsides -- well, it's a baseball manga, so if that's not your cup of tea this won't be. That said, I don't usually like stories based around the fiddly details of the rules around who's on which base / walks / strikes / etc, and it doesn't pay attention to those things very often, it's much more about "what is it like to be too good at something?" (just more seriously than OPM). Also the main character is pretty whiny at times, despite his friends/team-mates trying to cheer him up; some of the nicest scenes are when they're just kids goofing around and making fun of each other about hairstyles or whatever.

    Anyway, it's worth a look if you're after a sports manga that's very much not like other sports mangas, in a way that I hadn't seen before.

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Whippy wrote: »
    I’ve been on holiday the last couple weeks and have watched over half of the 100 episode dragon quest dai anime from a couple years ago and it’s great but you can really feel the serious shonen battle stuff struggling under the weight of decades of game localization spells or attacks being named stuff like Ouchie or Kasploosh

    Fear my strongest spell Whack!

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 13
    the most forbidden jutsu…midheal….

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    So while I was sick this week I let Dr Stone start playing on Netflix and is it worth keeping up with? I like the premise and characters well enough, but I fear that a "restart humanity" plot is at risk of some gross avenues. There's already been a suspect underwear shot, so I'm already sceptical.

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 13
    It’s not really ever gross(though the mangaka has a background in h, if that turns you off), it’s more one of those shonen that’s actually secretly teaching you something Practical. science and chemistry shit in this case

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It's definitely more about "given only stone age tools, how could we smelt aluminium" than "how should we Remake Politics But Get It Right This Time"; there's some social aspects in there but it's not what the writer's interested in. And, yeah, it can be fairly cheesecake-y at times, but only like, say, One Piece, it's not the point of the story, it's just what the artist likes to draw at times.

    There are some great moments in there, so if you like the way it starts, you'll probably like the way it keeps going.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Today's chapter of Oshi no Ko:
    Mengo has had her fun, but now we get Aqua's thoughts and he is against the incest route, only seeing Ruby as a sister and being in love with Kana.

    They also try to get around the "adult in a teenager's body dating other teenagers" thing by establishing Aqua and Goro as separate personalities.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lars wrote: »
    Today's chapter of Oshi no Ko:
    Mengo has had her fun, but now we get Aqua's thoughts and he is against the incest route, only seeing Ruby as a sister and being in love with Kana.

    They also try to get around the "adult in a teenager's body dating other teenagers" thing by establishing Aqua and Goro as separate personalities.

    Oshi no Ko chapter 150
    I like this chapter, but it does have me feeling really nervous that some bad shit is gonna happen

    Like I know everyone has thought this before and it ended up being a fakeout, but god damn this is some real "SS Live-4-Ever" retiring in 2 days type shit

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    ph blake wrote: »
    Lars wrote: »
    Today's chapter of Oshi no Ko:
    Mengo has had her fun, but now we get Aqua's thoughts and he is against the incest route, only seeing Ruby as a sister and being in love with Kana.

    They also try to get around the "adult in a teenager's body dating other teenagers" thing by establishing Aqua and Goro as separate personalities.

    Oshi no Ko chapter 150
    I like this chapter, but it does have me feeling really nervous that some bad shit is gonna happen

    Like I know everyone has thought this before and it ended up being a fakeout, but god damn this is some real "SS Live-4-Ever" retiring in 2 days type shit
    Oh yeah, Aqua's dad is about to explode his life somehow. The obvious answer is killing Akane since her hobby is collecting death flags, but that might be too obvious.

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  • cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Delicious dungeon
    I cannot believe that delicious dungeon added a straight up tsundere character and it’s a cat girl and she is simply tsundere with everyone and everything around her, it is so funny

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    cursedking wrote: »
    Delicious dungeon
    I cannot believe that delicious dungeon added a straight up tsundere character and it’s a cat girl and she is simply tsundere with everyone and everything around her, it is so funny
    She's not tsundere! There's no -dere! She's pure, feline tsun.

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  • arthurinscalesarthurinscales Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    cursedking wrote: »
    Delicious dungeon
    I cannot believe that delicious dungeon added a straight up tsundere character and it’s a cat girl and she is simply tsundere with everyone and everything around her, it is so funny
    She's not tsundere! There's no -dere! She's pure, feline tsun.

    dungeon meshi
    i agree, at least at this stage of the story, she reads more as 'cat that gained human intelligence' than 'human that gained cat abilities'

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Whippy wrote: »
    It’s not really ever gross(though the mangaka has a background in h, if that turns you off), it’s more one of those shonen that’s actually secretly teaching you something Practical. science and chemistry shit in this case
    It's definitely more about "given only stone age tools, how could we smelt aluminium" than "how should we Remake Politics But Get It Right This Time"; there's some social aspects in there but it's not what the writer's interested in. And, yeah, it can be fairly cheesecake-y at times, but only like, say, One Piece, it's not the point of the story, it's just what the artist likes to draw at times.

    There are some great moments in there, so if you like the way it starts, you'll probably like the way it keeps going.

    Ok, that's good to hear. The only context I had previously was those crappy, contextless Crunchyroll ads I saw a couple of years ago.

    Also, looking up Inagaki I see he made a company to ensure manga creators keep their copyright on their work? That's pretty rad.

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  • NeveronNeveron SwedenRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    dungeon meshi post-manga spoilers-ish, from the new supplemental book
    so, one of the the one-page comics from the new version of the adventurer's bible has Izutsumi talk with Lycion, the werewolf in the canaries
    turns out that Izutsumi won't ever be able to get rid of the curse and stay as a human... because instead of putting the soul of a cat in a little girl, the bastards who did it to her put the soul of a little girl in a cat. Or fantasy panther, I guess.
    (And yes, her backstory is hella morbid in all sorts of ways.)

    ...But also the entire conversation is too complicated for her so she doesn't get it and doesn't care.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    :(

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  • NeveronNeveron SwedenRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    anyhow Izutsumi is the best catgirl because she actually acts like a cat, nya

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    And isn't just ears and a tail.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Mamoru Oshii's 2004 sequel to the first 90s film, apparently got a 4k restoration (and new english dub maybe?) and is having a limited theatrical release in the US for 3 days in june.

    https://youtu.be/bTaCx14XiH4
    https://gkids.com/films/ghost-in-the-shell-2-innocence

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Latest Akutsu-San (175):
    FINALLY

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Rugby Rumble is still a solid read; despite growing up in the UK, my actual knowledge of the details of rugby is pretty fuzzy, so it's been interesting following up on panels like
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    to find out what it actually means.

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  • FlamuFlamu 49 Gilded Disc Perceives the Sun Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Anime thread, I'm in a crisis. I've read the first few chapters of Dead Dead Demon's Dededededestruction, so I was excited when they announced the anime. They recut the movie duology into weekly episodes and today the first episode dropped on Crunchyroll. Except it's "episode 0" and it apparently was not in the movies. Instead it's an adaptation of some much later chapters, like chapter 90 or something. (I'm assuming some sort of flashback/belated prologue?)

    So the first review on the video says "New anime-only fans DO NOT WATCH this first episode they shouldn't have put it first what were they thinking?"

    A Reddit comment thread discusses this review, with various opinions of "Well if they meant to put it first, you should watch it first, we should trust the studio," or "Well you CAN watch it first but I wouldn't recommend it." One comment was giving the same warning of "Just wait till episode 1!" and got downvoted.

    So, I want to watch the show with my friend. Do we watch episode 0 or just wait till episode 1? I felt like chapter 1 was a pretty good beginning for the series. Will episode 0 be safe to watch by the time the other episodes come out?

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  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    This discussion sent me back to this video so now I'm sending you all back to it too.

    https://youtu.be/oi5-LD8ofD0?si=kdmYmAv8TgIfdwiW

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Whippy wrote: »
    It’s not really ever gross(though the mangaka has a background in h, if that turns you off), it’s more one of those shonen that’s actually secretly teaching you something Practical. science and chemistry shit in this case
    It's definitely more about "given only stone age tools, how could we smelt aluminium" than "how should we Remake Politics But Get It Right This Time"; there's some social aspects in there but it's not what the writer's interested in. And, yeah, it can be fairly cheesecake-y at times, but only like, say, One Piece, it's not the point of the story, it's just what the artist likes to draw at times.

    There are some great moments in there, so if you like the way it starts, you'll probably like the way it keeps going.

    Ok, that's good to hear. The only context I had previously was those crappy, contextless Crunchyroll ads I saw a couple of years ago.

    Also, looking up Inagaki I see he made a company to ensure manga creators keep their copyright on their work? That's pretty rad.

    One small spoiler for the “restart humanity” thing
    It’s not a “repopulate the earth” angle, it’s figuring out how to produce a chemical to free everyone from the peteification, plus how to rebuild society to support bringing everyone back who was petrified.

    It’s really good and has some really heart warming and bittersweet moments in there

    One sad thing is
    They do reinvent capitalism to appease/motivate their chosen revived sea captain, as well as a bunch of people they brought back to motivate them by creating a small fashion-and-ramen-based economy to build a seafaring ship

    Also maybe it’s headcanon but I am like completely convinced that Senku is potentially the most Ace man on the planet, petrified or not

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    Whippy wrote: »
    It’s not really ever gross(though the mangaka has a background in h, if that turns you off), it’s more one of those shonen that’s actually secretly teaching you something Practical. science and chemistry shit in this case
    It's definitely more about "given only stone age tools, how could we smelt aluminium" than "how should we Remake Politics But Get It Right This Time"; there's some social aspects in there but it's not what the writer's interested in. And, yeah, it can be fairly cheesecake-y at times, but only like, say, One Piece, it's not the point of the story, it's just what the artist likes to draw at times.

    There are some great moments in there, so if you like the way it starts, you'll probably like the way it keeps going.

    Ok, that's good to hear. The only context I had previously was those crappy, contextless Crunchyroll ads I saw a couple of years ago.

    Also, looking up Inagaki I see he made a company to ensure manga creators keep their copyright on their work? That's pretty rad.

    One small spoiler for the “restart humanity” thing
    It’s not a “repopulate the earth” angle, it’s figuring out how to produce a chemical to free everyone from the peteification, plus how to rebuild society to support bringing everyone back who was petrified.

    It’s really good and has some really heart warming and bittersweet moments in there

    One sad thing is
    They do reinvent capitalism to appease/motivate their chosen revived sea captain, as well as a bunch of people they brought back to motivate them by creating a small fashion-and-ramen-based economy to build a seafaring ship

    Also maybe it’s headcanon but I am like completely convinced that Senku is potentially the most Ace man on the planet, petrified or not
    Capitalism returning is a bummer, although I was more worried about, like, slavery returning

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I was wondering about the level of science accuracy. I think I saw some YT videos going into that topic so that may be a fun thing to look at later

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix7QURhM7jE

    holy fuck

    science saru adapting the GITS manga into a tv series

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I was wondering about the level of science accuracy. I think I saw some YT videos going into that topic so that may be a fun thing to look at later

    I think it may have gotten some side-eye for a "this will super kill you if you try it at home" chapter at some point.

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  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix7QURhM7jE

    holy fuck

    science saru adapting the GITS manga into a tv series

    holy shit holy shit holy shit

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Zek wrote: »
    Dr Stone generally takes a fairly basic "civilization is good" stance, and you shouldn't expect any nuanced takes on politics. But it doesn't really do anything problematic that I can think of. The science stuff is a fun gimmick even though it's almost always completely absurd if you ever stop to think about the practicalities.

    Mostly I'd give it side eye for a weak ending that speed ran a bunch of stuff in a very boring fashion, and a bunch of cheesecake that started getting somewhat gross by the end of the series
    aging up the young female character, and only her, so she can now also be subjected to cheesecake was a fucking choice

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  • neverreallyneverreally Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Veldrin wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix7QURhM7jE

    holy fuck

    science saru adapting the GITS manga into a tv series

    holy shit holy shit holy shit

    the last adaptation suuuuuuuuuuuucked. I don't need no teenage "major" with 3d animation. Adult characters plz. 2d animation plz.

    The manga is also..... not as good as GitS season 1 and 2 from back in the early 2000s. So I am hesitant.

    Science Saru rocks though.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    if it's any consolation, Science Saru seems to specialize in 2D CG rather than 3D CG

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