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  • FiendishrabbitFiendishrabbit Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Wow Alabama's legislature can absolutely get fucked.

    Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana seem to be in a continual battle about which state can be the shittiest state in America, with Santis continually going "That place is rightfully Floridas!"

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  • ZythonZython Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    Every time Jump adds a yet another series in the same genre and motif I start getting paranoid that like half a dozen comics I’m liking are about to die, Highlander style

    Most series in Shonen Jump don't last 6 months. Getting serialized is the easy part. This has always be how the magazine has been run. I would not get invested in a series until it hits chapter 50 or so.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Anime season thoughts as we transfer into the next one:
    Kaiju No. 8: Simple but fun, in all ways. Great music, animation, VA, everything. Recommended if you like meat and potatoes shonen battle stuff. In fact, the things it does better than competing series are by subtraction. No designated sex offender on the cast to be "funnee", no girl character whose main role is to lose their clothes, no villain who proves their villainy mainly by targeting women in sexually charged ways, etc.
    Spicy Wolf Reboot: Incredibly similar to the first version, to the point where it seems like kind of a waste, so far. When this adapts something new, it will prove its value better, but for now it's a good watch in exactly the same ways the first version was.
    Delicious in Dungeon: Exactly as good as I ever would have hoped it was. If you're a super manga purist, there's probably minor things you could quibble about... but you are making yourself unhappy, I'd recommend not. Trigger should eat off this for the rest of their existence, here's to an S2 ASAP.
    Konosuba: The highs and lows of Konosuba the franchise on full display. We open with a blast of trans and homophobia in the first episode, then transition into extremely funny, well paced, and well realized scenarios. The VAs are some of the best in the business (one of the funniest running gags is simply a character saying their own name)... and then we get a joke about "I guess that friend of ours is about to get date raped, how awkward, lel." With some more re-editing from the adaptation, this could be a timeless comedy classic. As is, it's a series you want to recommend, but there's HEAVY caveats.

    Something I watched out of season:
    KamiErabi GOD.app: Bizarre, in a word. Prompted by trademark Yoko Taro edginess (which is why I checked it out), with 3D animation which doesn't impress but also mostly doesn't embarrass. The first half of the season kept my interest, but the second half went full on next season/cliffhanger bait. Apparently they ARE getting that second season, so I'll give it a chance assuming that also turns up over in the West.
    X-Men '97: The best Disney+ show since Andor, and I'm not exaggerating. A perfect distillation of the Saturday morning style of the original cartoon while taking advantage of the fact that modern action cartoons are MUCH better in every way. I'm not very far into it yet, but will be catching up rapidly since very few of my shows are still running at this point.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I thought Girl Meets Rock was gonna be k-on, but instead it's a female Light who never found the death note so she joined a band instead.

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Started watching Frieren after some people whose opinions I respect recommended.

    First two episodes already got me thinking about my own mortality and what it means to be human so that's a good start.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LI_sR-2NkY

    This show is gonna be so good, you guys.

    Also

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    Really looking forward to this

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Is there a date for the Reze Arc CSM film yet?

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Is there a date for the Reze Arc CSM film yet?

    Not as of today, sadly.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Dandadan! Anime cast: outstanding!

    Movie adaptation?! Sure! Sounds awesome!

    This week's chapter:
    Was hilarious. A good palette cleanser after the heaviness of the flashback.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    And we have an official end date for MHA: 8/5/24:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRbGynlh750

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Jump is in dire need of new pillars.

    It's two biggest new hits are Kagurabachi, which rules, and Nue's exorcist, which slotted into its fanservice action series slot.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Latest Demon Slayer: Sheesh, no wonder they call the Stone Hashira the strongest.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Is there a date for the Reze Arc CSM film yet?

    Not as of today, sadly.

    I completely forgot they were making that

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Moonlit Fantasy is getting a third season, woohoo! Probably going to be a while but I'm happy people are enjoying it enough for continued renewals.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm over here grumbling there's no worldwide release for Look Back on Friday.

    It's getting a premiere at a film festival in two weeks, at least: Link.

    E: When I saw it was a film festival my eyes glazed over that it was hopeless to attend, but tickets were available on their website?! Damn, I should have paid more attention. Of course tickets are sold out already. Blargh.

    https://japansociety.org/events/look-back/

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Today's chapter of Marriagetoxin:
    You thought it was going to be a standard one-on-one battle to the death, but no! It's a creepy mansion murder mystery arc!

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Today's Oshi no Ko
    Aqua's dad says this will destroy him socially...what? Aqua is implicating you in a murder (and you just admitted it while cameras are presumably running), that should be more than destroying you socially.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    So, the folks at LGM let Murc (of Murc's Law fame) review Delicious in Dungeon, which I find absolutely amazing. (And his review is worth reading.)

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Newest Kaiju No 8(anime)
    Kaiju No.2 was totally Godzilla, wasn't it?

    Nobody got you the way I do~
    When you been punched by Kaiju No. 2~

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    So I finished Shangri-la Frontier and I loved it I tend to dislike those gamer SAO type animes but I think it is probably the best one I've watched since .Hack.

    Also on the last few episodes
    I don't know if ending the season with the MC just doing random sidequests after one of the best animated boss fights I've ever seen was anticlimactic or genius because that is exactly what you would do.

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  • Andy JoeAndy Joe We claim the land for the highlord! The AdirondacksRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    The Boy and the Heron

    While it clearly hits a lot of familiar themes from across Miyazaki's ouevre, it feels like the closest point of comparison is Spirited Away, but substituting the crushing indifference of the working world with the more directed malevolence of...I can't put my finger on the metaphor yet. Should look for more critical discussion.

    Gonna watch the English dub this weekend because I have to know what Robert Pattinson's heron voice sounds like.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Two shows for the summer season have already had their first episode(s).

    The slightly more creative one was Mayonaka Punch, with a double length opening about
    a girl in a streamer group who punched out her groupmate, then hooked up with a vampire who was having wet dreams about her and offered to let her eat her in exchange for a million followers. So they started a vampire YouTube channel and almost got to a million before a no fun allowed vampire told them they can't stream vampire stuff because vampires are actually secret. So they deleted the channel and after revealing that she streams because she has trouble making friends, they start a new channel to do regular girl stuff. It's at least pretty well animated (PA Works). But it's very much trying to run off everybody being stupid/petty/asses except the main vampire girl, but the streamer girl just wants fweeends, but since everybody else 'deserves' her abuse, it's okay, which is a mix you'd think would go all the way to slapstick instead of trying for emotional generic friendship stuff, but anime gonna anime.

    The second was titled "The Demon Lord's Strongest Wizard is Actually a Human" and it is exactly as you'd expect.
    It explains the title at least three times in its first episode. He was raised by the strongest most respected pacifist demon who gave him all his ancient demon super secrets. All other demons are bloodthirsty racists who want to kill all humans, not knowing he's human because he wears a mask, but after conquering a city, he declares that everybody will get along now, dead humans can't pay taxes so they can't kill them like they want, and that the taxes won't be raised, so everybody, including the newly conquered humans whose city is destroyed and literally in flames around them, cheers and racism has instantly been solved. His new teacher is a hot babe who tells him to grope her chest. He accidentally picks up a slave maid who glomps him because he says he'll be a good master. And the demon lord is also a hot babe. It's also barely animated.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    So I finished Shangri-la Frontier and I loved it I tend to dislike those gamer SAO type animes but I think it is probably the best one I've watched since .Hack.

    Also on the last few episodes
    I don't know if ending the season with the MC just doing random sidequests after one of the best animated boss fights I've ever seen was anticlimactic or genius because that is exactly what you would do.

    It's based on a (still?) on going webnovel series, and a currently running manga (that's a good chunk further along than where teh anime go to - it's up to something like vol.. 18? and the anime finished up around volume... 7? 8? I want to say).

    The good news is it was such a hit the anime is back... in October. No, I'm not kidding, they're doing a really fast turn around here.

    re: Jump and what the follow up is, i've honestly got no idea. They've got some good stuff - Undead Unluck, Akane Banashi, Sakomoto Days, but none of those are mega hits ()I think AKane Banashi is the closest to big hit, and is doing very well, but doesn't seem to have huge penetration in the west). and none of those also want to be long term epics either, i trhink. (Which is in my opinion good, I'm very tired of One Piece)

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Does anyone know what this song is/this anime is?

    The video in question is a meme edit but I wanna find the original

    The first tweet machine translates to "I'm happy to start playing with morse code" but I don't know what that means

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    nevermind found it, I'm a genius at using the internet
    https://youtu.be/jzi6RNVEOtA

    version with subtitles for the lyrics: https://youtu.be/iSnxcYHYeC0

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Finished reading the Shangri-La Frontier manga, or at least what's been released up to now. Pretty good, they definitely nailed the feel of the various games being actual games and not just the bare minimum framework for the story.

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Is there any word on a Bang Bravern dub happening? I read some (light/not-really-spoilery) stuff about the show and really want to check it out, but I've been hoping a dub would come around.

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Viz have, somehow, yet another exorcist manga (okay, exorcist-adjacent), but _Shiba Inu Rooms_ seems a lot more promising than the others. Sure, we have:
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    but she's just a side character, the real story is:
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    anyway it's pretty cute so far.

    Leaving next time is _Set It And Forget It_, which to be fair never felt like it was aiming for a thousand chapters or anything, but I feel like there's more recipes they could have done, too.
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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Jragghen wrote: »

    There's just so much going on with the creation of this series. Has civilization, itself, jumped the shark?

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    Two shows for the summer season have already had their first episode(s).

    The slightly more creative one was Mayonaka Punch, with a double length opening about
    a girl in a streamer group who punched out her groupmate, then hooked up with a vampire who was having wet dreams about her and offered to let her eat her in exchange for a million followers. So they started a vampire YouTube channel and almost got to a million before a no fun allowed vampire told them they can't stream vampire stuff because vampires are actually secret. So they deleted the channel and after revealing that she streams because she has trouble making friends, they start a new channel to do regular girl stuff. It's at least pretty well animated (PA Works). But it's very much trying to run off everybody being stupid/petty/asses except the main vampire girl, but the streamer girl just wants fweeends, but since everybody else 'deserves' her abuse, it's okay, which is a mix you'd think would go all the way to slapstick instead of trying for emotional generic friendship stuff, but anime gonna anime.

    The second was titled "The Demon Lord's Strongest Wizard is Actually a Human" and it is exactly as you'd expect.
    It explains the title at least three times in its first episode. He was raised by the strongest most respected pacifist demon who gave him all his ancient demon super secrets. All other demons are bloodthirsty racists who want to kill all humans, not knowing he's human because he wears a mask, but after conquering a city, he declares that everybody will get along now, dead humans can't pay taxes so they can't kill them like they want, and that the taxes won't be raised, so everybody, including the newly conquered humans whose city is destroyed and literally in flames around them, cheers and racism has instantly been solved. His new teacher is a hot babe who tells him to grope her chest. He accidentally picks up a slave maid who glomps him because he says he'll be a good master. And the demon lord is also a hot babe. It's also barely animated.

    Wading into the trenches watching every first episode this season again? /salute your service.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    Two shows for the summer season have already had their first episode(s).

    The slightly more creative one was Mayonaka Punch, with a double length opening about
    a girl in a streamer group who punched out her groupmate, then hooked up with a vampire who was having wet dreams about her and offered to let her eat her in exchange for a million followers. So they started a vampire YouTube channel and almost got to a million before a no fun allowed vampire told them they can't stream vampire stuff because vampires are actually secret. So they deleted the channel and after revealing that she streams because she has trouble making friends, they start a new channel to do regular girl stuff. It's at least pretty well animated (PA Works). But it's very much trying to run off everybody being stupid/petty/asses except the main vampire girl, but the streamer girl just wants fweeends, but since everybody else 'deserves' her abuse, it's okay, which is a mix you'd think would go all the way to slapstick instead of trying for emotional generic friendship stuff, but anime gonna anime.

    The second was titled "The Demon Lord's Strongest Wizard is Actually a Human" and it is exactly as you'd expect.
    It explains the title at least three times in its first episode. He was raised by the strongest most respected pacifist demon who gave him all his ancient demon super secrets. All other demons are bloodthirsty racists who want to kill all humans, not knowing he's human because he wears a mask, but after conquering a city, he declares that everybody will get along now, dead humans can't pay taxes so they can't kill them like they want, and that the taxes won't be raised, so everybody, including the newly conquered humans whose city is destroyed and literally in flames around them, cheers and racism has instantly been solved. His new teacher is a hot babe who tells him to grope her chest. He accidentally picks up a slave maid who glomps him because he says he'll be a good master. And the demon lord is also a hot babe. It's also barely animated.

    Wading into the trenches watching every first episode this season again? /salute your service.

    It's not all that interesting a season to be honest. There is a relative lack of shounen with an unusual spike of 'romance' shows, most of which are either just ultra trashy fanservice or soap opera melodrama, including two straight up Chobits knockoffs doing the "can you love a clumsy not quite human" robot schtick, but 75% melodrama. All the melodrama ones looks pretty cringey to me. Still like 6 separate isekai reincarnation with cheat power things, and a bunch more that take place in RPG worlds with cheat powers but no reincarnation, including the Sakuna adapation which is a straight up RPG. Aside from the one mentioned above, there's two other separate ones about a dude at zero power level going off to train in the wilderness to grind for a year or two and now he has maximum stats but he/everybody else never updated his official guild ranking so they think he's weak. Truly peak comedy. One of those is titled something like "The Old Man Rookie Adventurer Was Trained to Death By the Strongest Party And Is Now Invincible." How old is he? 32.

    There's a few sequels of note. Oshi no Ko, though I dislike it myself. Nier will be back assuming it doesn't have massive production issues again. Shy and Last Crusade, which were watchable, but ultimately rather mediocre. Deer Friend I expect to be pretty good. If you liked Hyouka, there's basically the same show by the same author but different characters. Grendizer reboot might be interesting. Bye, Bye Earth has baffling promos, and is from a short novel from 20 years ago (same dude as Mardock Scramble). Basically just standard fantasy fighting with magic swords... except the baddie group is a marching band. A CGI marching band. That's just... there... while cat people leap around with giant swords. Pseudo Harem, despite the title, looks to be the most innocuous and sappy of the various not-romance shows. Awkward dude and his platonic girl friend who pretends to be various cliches to help him talk to people. Entire manga is just them riffing and they do get together in relatively short order, but may not have legs since it is just kind of two people flirting.

    Dumbest cheat power premise: The one about the dude summoned with "shitty status" as his special power, so everybody's like "ha ha, you're terrible" and throw him in a level 99 dungeon to die, but his power is actually cheat level debuffing, so he effortlessly kills things, hits max stats, gets OP equipment, pet slime and elf in bikini, becomes demon lord, etc. All in the promo, even.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I need to watch more for a verdict, but Suicide Squad Isekai gave a decent impression from the first episode (it's on Max).

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Is Pseudo Harem going to be 15 minute episodes or something? I remember the chapters being short and self contained. Unless each episode is basically a series of vignettes.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lars wrote: »
    Is Pseudo Harem going to be 15 minute episodes or something? I remember the chapters being short and self contained. Unless each episode is basically a series of vignettes.

    Nah. Same as Tomo-chan or a zillion 4-koma things. They'll likely just do the latter.

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