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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
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    I remember reading Old Man Rookie Adventurer. It was decent, I think the old man bit comes from how he's older than he looks because the party who trained him are the strongest in the world and he very literally was killed during the training. Repeatedly, because one of them is the best healer in the world and was able to resurrect him no matter what condition his corpse was in. I think this also had the side effect of keeping him young?

    It is one of those "Protagonist doesn't realize how strong he actually is compared to regular people" shows though, because his only barometer are the party who trained him full of people like the strongest mage, the strongest fighter, the strongest archer, etc and even after the training he's nowhere near their level.

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
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    Nah, calling a 32 year old "ossan" isn't weird enough to need a wizard explanation.

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  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
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    Jragghen wrote: »

    is this by the same studio that did Super Crooks?

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Looking back on Delicious in Dungeon's first season the scene I think the most about is
    Laios and Shuro's fight where the latter reveals he couldn't stand the former's personality and inability to read social cues. There has been a lot of autistic-coded characters especially in recent years, but I can't think of anything I've seen that touched on this facet beyond general "they're awkward around people".

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
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    DanHibiki wrote: »
    Jragghen wrote: »

    is this by the same studio that did Super Crooks?

    No. Studio Wit is doing Suicide Squad Isekai, Super Crooks was BONES

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    DanHibiki wrote: »
    Jragghen wrote: »

    is this by the same studio that did Super Crooks?

    It's like they saw the Peacemaker OP and said "we can beat that".

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
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    Wonder if I should try getting back into MHA again. I kind of stopped watching after he rescued the little girl with the busted healing ability.

    My main issue with series being that nothing in it ever managed to be on the same level as All Might vs. Nomu and Deku vs. Todoroki in terms is hype afterwards.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
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    Suicide Squad Isekai is... okay, but it's really striking me as something cooked up by marketing and then handed off to a bunch of unmotivated writers who weren't familiar with either Suicide Squad in general, or isekais. Or maybe it's just that most of the DCAU Suicide Stuff (Assault on Arkham, Hell To Pay, etc) were really good and full of character and wit, while this seems bogged down by wanting/having to explain both the standard Sucide Squad and isekai cliches/conceits far too many times.

    First three episodes thoughts.
    It's fairly well animated... mostly. There have definitely been some fight scenes where the animation is jerky and unfinished compared to the others though, so I wonder if that'll be cleaned up for the actual Japanese broadcast in a month. The voice acting is kind of bad to me, but maybe I'm just used to really amazing voices, especially on Harley, from regular DC stuff. Harley's whole character is really bland compared to usual too though, and its attempts at humor aren't clicking with me much. There's also been a bunch of weird plot holes. After escaping the prison and beating the knight, they're suddenly all in chains again with zero explanation. And the princess who looks exactly like Harley demanded the knight bring them to talk to them and then... she doesn't. And everybody ignores that they look like clones. So... are they not? It's like entire scenes are missing, and yet...

    It does that thing repeatedly where it does the isekai cliche, but seems worried that people won't realize it, so has the characters, mainly Clayface, explain the cliche, so all of the rest can go "that sounds stupid." And the pacing is pretty awful because it keeps explaining and then re-explaining both the Suicide Squad and the isekai premise, which I feel would annoy both sides. I swear every single episode has had at least a minute spent just on re-explaining the standard Suicide Squad thing that they have bombs implanted in them. Or conversations like:

    Clayface: "Haven't you felt more magical since you got here?"
    Random: "Magical? What do you mean magical?"
    CF: "Like I had powers before, but now I have the same powers but more magical."
    Random: "More magical? What do you mean more magical?"
    CF: "Well, before, I could do this. But now I can do this."
    Random: *has flashback to when they did similar*
    Random: "Oh, so this magical world must be having magical effects."
    CF: "Yes, that is one of the many cliches of isekais. We all have magically enhanced magic powers now."

    And then, two minutes later, they run into a guy and are like "What the fuck!? I thought your power was controlling rats. How can you control other animals now too!?" We literally just had an entire scene explaining specifically this, my guy. I want to throttle whoever wrote this script.

    Compared to Harley Quinn or really good DCAU Suicide Squad stuff (eg 2014 Assault on Arkham, 2018 Hell To Pay), it's definitely a step below. Like, fuck, three episodes is nearly the entire runtime of Assault on Arkham, and this has barely even gotten out of the gates.

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    i actually found myself starting up heroaca again a couple nights ago from almost the same spot

    i was watching a random yutapon cubes compilation that was in my youtube feed and was like 'oh yeah huh, i did stop watching in season 4 right before the overhaul fight, maybe it's time i finally pick it back up'

    it's kinda nostalgic at this point though i am still praying for the purple pervert's downfall every time he appears on screen

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yeah, creep character that everyone seems oblivious of or just brushes off for some reason is probably in the top 5 of my most hated anime tropes.

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
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    Robin would be the right person, they could make a cogent argument he might listen to and if he doesn't? Clutch.

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  • BadablackBadablack Registered User regular
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    OG Sanji was really cool too! He was just a smooth dude who could kick real good. When did he start turning into a creep, around Alabasta?

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  • WearingGlassesWearingGlasses Of the friendly neighborhood variety Registered User regular
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    I'm guessing around Alabasta, when his perv mode doubled due to the inclusing of Vivi in the crew.

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    That's a solid intro, but I still have to put Peacemaker just above it.

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  • NeveronNeveron SwedenRegistered User regular
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    Looking back on Delicious in Dungeon's first season the scene I think the most about is
    Laios and Shuro's fight where the latter reveals he couldn't stand the former's personality and inability to read social cues. There has been a lot of autistic-coded characters especially in recent years, but I can't think of anything I've seen that touched on this facet beyond general "they're awkward around people".
    Note that while Laois is obviously somewhere on the spectrum, there's another factor here making it even worse for the both of them: culture clash.

    Laois is from fantasy Europe, and while his family's rich he's slumming it with common people in a gold rush town. If someone treating you the way he treats Shuro, telling them to fuck off is relatively socially acceptable. Hell, it's arguably even socially expected.
    Shuro - or, well, Toshiro Nakamoto - is a nobleman from fantasy Japan. For him it's all about the subtle social cues, and you're never direct if you can help it. (Think of how Natsume Sōseki decided to translate "I love you" as "The moon is beautiful, isn't it?")

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Neveron wrote: »
    Looking back on Delicious in Dungeon's first season the scene I think the most about is
    Laios and Shuro's fight where the latter reveals he couldn't stand the former's personality and inability to read social cues. There has been a lot of autistic-coded characters especially in recent years, but I can't think of anything I've seen that touched on this facet beyond general "they're awkward around people".
    Note that while Laois is obviously somewhere on the spectrum, there's another factor here making it even worse for the both of them: culture clash.

    Laois is from fantasy Europe, and while his family's rich he's slumming it with common people in a gold rush town. If someone treating you the way he treats Shuro, telling them to fuck off is relatively socially acceptable. Hell, it's arguably even socially expected.
    Shuro - or, well, Toshiro Nakamoto - is a nobleman from fantasy Japan. For him it's all about the subtle social cues, and you're never direct if you can help it. (Think of how Natsume Sōseki decided to translate "I love you" as "The moon is beautiful, isn't it?")
    Laois is definitely on the spectrum even in relation to people of his own culture, but he's not quite as extreme as that scene makes it out, due to the cultural clash. All of the interactions in that story are wonderfully complex and can't be summed up with just one factor.

    Also my favourite part about that phrase is that the indirect way to turn another person down after they have said that indirect I love you is "Yes, but you can't touch it." This is apparently way more respectful in the japanese due to the grammar used but the English translation is brutal!

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/06/26/film/look-back-anime-review/

    Look Back is out in theaters in Japan today. Barely an hour, it tells its story, and that's it, with no padding for time. It appears to be a marvel, capturing Fujimoto's cinematic style and paneling.

    It's screening with subtitles in New York City at a small Japanese film festival in two weeks. If it's subbed already, there's hope for a wider release.

    https://youtu.be/-_qFuTD-qPs?si=61A7suK5reGvwBFJ

    Trailer song. Unsure if this is a fan recutting the trailer song, or the actual full track from the OST, but it's beautiful.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Hopefully it does well enough for an adaptation of Goodbye Eri to get greenlit, which begs for a movie version.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
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    Agreed. Here's a review from its premiere at a film festival a few weeks ago.

    https://comicbook.com/anime/news/look-back-anime-movie-reviews/


    E: Nevermind, this was the one I was looking for: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/look-back/anime-film/.211767

    E2: I hate the AI-powered, enshittified internet. It was so hard tracking down the series of webpages that led me to that. I had to find this site, https://m.imdb.com/news/ni64636204/?ref_=tt_nwr_1, which was a preview of an article, that had a link to the above article. The internet is incestuous, recycled content largely devoid of substance and humanity.

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  • LockedOnTargetLockedOnTarget Registered User regular
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    Thriller Bark was the hard point where Sanji got bad.

    Up until then he wasn’t really a pervert, so much as he was just a simp. He would swoon over pretty ladies and try to impress them, but was generally respectful.

    Then suddenly Thriller Bark happens and he goes from Johnny Bravo to Duke Nukem.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I think sanji was bad before thriller bark, but he was particularly awful in thriller bark with the "my secret real dream isn't the all blue, it's invisibility powers so I can peep on girls" subplot

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
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    I think sanji was bad before thriller bark, but he was particularly awful in thriller bark with the "my secret real dream isn't the all blue, it's invisibility powers so I can peep on girls" subplot

    wut

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  • BadablackBadablack Registered User regular
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    I think that was played up mostly as a gag, not that it's much better. Oda has a pretty old fashioned, to charitably call it, view on sexual humor.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
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    An AMV that best fits source material and song:

    https://youtu.be/BmvbIZZSpak

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  • WearingGlassesWearingGlasses Of the friendly neighborhood variety Registered User regular
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    I've introduced my sister to Dandadan, and she's just got to Jiji's introduction.

    She pretty much had the same arc as a Dandadan reader:
    To paraphrase:

    - (start) This is a little pervy
    - Holy shit
    - The art and paneling's pretty nice
    - (Acro-silky) Damn that was dark, but that stretch of pages with no dialogue was insane
    - Aira's a bit of a dumbass, isn't she
    - Holy shit he's singing ABBA!
    - This manga's so ridiculous but it makes it work, what the hell

    Also, I only now just grokked Crab gig worker's second form cultural reference.

    So, he says "Can you fight for 24 hours, business man?". That's the lyrics of this energy drink ad:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=746v_877dzI

    It's basically him, upon receiving a boost, starts singing a jingle as his own friggin' personal soundtrack.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
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    The notion of drinking something to make you work 24 hours nonstop hasn't aged too well, I imagine.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
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    Surprising no one, the Demon Slayer final arc will be a trilogy:

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  • BadablackBadablack Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    If the hobbit can do it so can anime

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
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    *can* the hobbit do it?

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I had no idea the last episode was the last episode lol, I thought there'd be one more with the fallout.

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    With the new Ranma anime in production, I understand they won't be able to get the OG voice actors back. But I really hope the new VAs bring the same insane energy to the characters that Myriam Sirois brought to Akane in the cookie scene alone.

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R3WscZGTHgI

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  • BadablackBadablack Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    There's something about old school anime voices I miss, even if 90% of it was terrible. Like the original Sailor moon dub where everyone sounds like they're doing an outtakes cut.

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  • KayuraKayura Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yeah, I always had a soft spot for the Viz dub. The Ocean Group did good work.

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