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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Whippy wrote: »
    i was just earlier today introduced to the word sakuga(i was familiar with the practice of juicing up certain scenes/episodes) so there is some wild baader-meinhof going on for me itt right now

    anyways

    i just finished the first season of is it wrong to try to pick up girl in a dungeon, and boy are my arms tired. it was...fine, but i'm waiting for the twist? there's a lot of wild shit that's just kind of accepted as Fact in this world

    s2 is not great

    hestia is still bestia and bell is still my precious idiot boy

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  • EvilOtakuEvilOtaku Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    DanMachi S2 felt like the recap episode of a better show

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 20
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  • TcheldorTcheldor Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    which Symphogear series do I start with? Are they all connected?

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Tcheldor wrote: »
    which Symphogear series do I start with? Are they all connected?

    It's a single series, so start from the first.

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Jragghen wrote: »
    My wife discovered Cells at Work without knowing anything about it.

    I think it's her favorite show now.

    Code black is quite the read if you like cells at work. Hopefully it gets a proper anime. I dunno if that animated PV they did say for a series or just to hype the manga.

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 20
    I still feel super bad for all the characters in konosuba, lmao

    but Darkness is definitely the best of the 4

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 20
    I am starting to like Konosuba much much more now that I am further into it

    Megumin is surprisingly endearing, and much cooler looking than I expected once she takes her hat off

    Kazuma definitely reads like the Straight Man, and I do enjoy how capable he is when he's not being either a jerk or incredibly selfish. The idea of him just picking up a bunch of different handy skills is cool

    Darkness is absolutely my favourite character, I just wish she didn't have a goddamn boob plate because they will forever annoy me

    Aqua I feel bad for, but she really does constantly make her own situation worse, and I am curious why her powers sometimes just... don't work

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited April 20
    Anzekay wrote: »
    I am starting to like Konosuba much much more now that I am further into it

    Megumin is surprisingly endearing, and much cooler looking than I expected once she takes her hat off

    Kazuma definitely reads like the Straight Man, and I do enjoy how capable he is when he's not being either a jerk or incredibly selfish. The idea of him just picking up a bunch of different handy skills is cool

    Darkness is absolutely my favourite character, I just wish she didn't have a goddamn boob plate because they will forever annoy me

    Aqua I feel bad for, but she really does constantly make her own situation worse, and I am curious why her powers sometimes just... don't work
    Knowing Darkness, the boob plate was entirely intentional.

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  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGEwgb4uc3M

    Aqua's special skills at work

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Continuing to research how much of a light novel series various anime series covered, here's what I got so far:
    • Cautious Hero = Light Novels 1-2
    • Chivalry of a Failed Knight = Light Novels 1-3
    • DanMachi (Season 1) = Light Novels 1-5
    • DanMachi (Season 2) = Light Novels 6-8
    • The Devil is a Part-Timer = Light Novels 1-2
    • Kokoro Connect = Light Novels 1-4
    • Konosuba (Season 1) = Light Novels 1-2
    • Konosuba (Season 2) = Light Novels 3-4
    • Konosuba (Film) = Light Novel 5
    • Overlord (Season 1) = Light Novels 1-3
    • Overlord (Season 2) = Light Novels 4-6
    • Overlord (Season 3) = Light Novels 7-9
    • Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai = Light Novels 1-5
    • Rascal Does Not Dream of Dreaming Girl (Film) = Light Novels 6-7

    All of the above have multiple novels that aren't yet covered. Very many novels in some cases.

    For ones I haven't figured out yet:
    • Baccano!
    • DanMachi Sword Oratoria (Spinoff)
    • Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?
    • Durarara!!
    • Full Metal Panic!

    All of these light novel series are available to purchase in English (or soon will be in the case of Rascal). I didn't look up stuff like Bofuri since it's not licensed yet.

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  • AbacusAbacus Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Bofuri Ep 8:
    Wow. Someone went full Dark Souls designing that boss, huh.

    I love how the devs now ask:
    What about her?

    On the second boss fight, Red Shield guy puts it the best:
    Is she done being human?

    MAPLE: "I reject my humanity, Risa!"

    Some top tier reactions.

    Ivalice! Well, not really. Still very close.

    Wow Maple slow down let some power ups for everybody else.

    Did saw the LN power explanations and of course that Maple found the super rare synergy between two secret bosses of two different areas. The Devs probably have a Scotch bottle with "Maple" written on it.

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  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    I love how the playerbase's reaction in Bofuri is "weird bullshit? Maple must be at it again."

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Lars wrote: »
    Continuing to research how much of a light novel series various anime series covered, here's what I got so far:
    • Cautious Hero = Light Novels 1-2
    • Chivalry of a Failed Knight = Light Novels 1-3
    • DanMachi (Season 1) = Light Novels 1-5
    • DanMachi (Season 2) = Light Novels 6-8
    • The Devil is a Part-Timer = Light Novels 1-2
    • Kokoro Connect = Light Novels 1-4
    • Konosuba (Season 1) = Light Novels 1-2
    • Konosuba (Season 2) = Light Novels 3-4
    • Konosuba (Film) = Light Novel 5
    • Overlord (Season 1) = Light Novels 1-3
    • Overlord (Season 2) = Light Novels 4-6
    • Overlord (Season 3) = Light Novels 7-9
    • Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai = Light Novels 1-5
    • Rascal Does Not Dream of Dreaming Girl (Film) = Light Novels 6-7

    All of the above have multiple novels that aren't yet covered. Very many novels in some cases.

    For ones I haven't figured out yet:
    • Baccano!
    • DanMachi Sword Oratoria (Spinoff)
    • Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?
    • Durarara!!
    • Full Metal Panic!

    All of these light novel series are available to purchase in English (or soon will be in the case of Rascal). I didn't look up stuff like Bofuri since it's not licensed yet.

    Full Metal Panic stopped releases in English very quickly. There's four of them and the last one collects two of the original Japanese ones. The first three were in the first series of anime and the fourth one makes up The Second Raid. The new season (Invisible Victory) is made up of books that didn't come here and ends without closing the story. It'd be nice if they finished the series with another season and translated the rest of the books...

    Note: Tokyopop did the first 4 books, which probably explains why they didn't go further. Twelve Kingdoms was also Tokyopop.

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Lars wrote: »
    Continuing to research how much of a light novel series various anime series covered, here's what I got so far:
    • Cautious Hero = Light Novels 1-2
    • Chivalry of a Failed Knight = Light Novels 1-3
    • DanMachi (Season 1) = Light Novels 1-5
    • DanMachi (Season 2) = Light Novels 6-8
    • The Devil is a Part-Timer = Light Novels 1-2
    • Kokoro Connect = Light Novels 1-4
    • Konosuba (Season 1) = Light Novels 1-2
    • Konosuba (Season 2) = Light Novels 3-4
    • Konosuba (Film) = Light Novel 5
    • Overlord (Season 1) = Light Novels 1-3
    • Overlord (Season 2) = Light Novels 4-6
    • Overlord (Season 3) = Light Novels 7-9
    • Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai = Light Novels 1-5
    • Rascal Does Not Dream of Dreaming Girl (Film) = Light Novels 6-7

    All of the above have multiple novels that aren't yet covered. Very many novels in some cases.

    For ones I haven't figured out yet:
    • Baccano!
    • DanMachi Sword Oratoria (Spinoff)
    • Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?
    • Durarara!!
    • Full Metal Panic!

    All of these light novel series are available to purchase in English (or soon will be in the case of Rascal). I didn't look up stuff like Bofuri since it's not licensed yet.

    Full Metal Panic stopped releases in English very quickly. There's four of them and the last one collects two of the original Japanese ones. The first three were in the first series of anime and the fourth one makes up The Second Raid. The new season (Invisible Victory) is made up of books that didn't come here and ends without closing the story. It'd be nice if they finished the series with another season and translated the rest of the books...

    Note: Tokyopop did the first 4 books, which probably explains why they didn't go further. Twelve Kingdoms was also Tokyopop.

    JNC picked up the license for Full Metal Panic so the books are going to be translated at least.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    All 13 volumes of Durarara!! are available in English.

    Baccano! is being published in English as well. I glanced at Wikipedia and it looks like the 13th volume is getting released in April.

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Average abilities was pretty free with their interpretation of the light novels. They skipped a lot (basically the first volume except to flash back to it once or twice), Big chunk of the second and third while rewriting how a lot happened, and rushed through the fourth.

    I was pretty surprised how much they changed. I guess it would have taken too many episodes and they wanted to reach that end battle. Also I hate that mascot they felt the need to add. I dunno. I liked it in a general sense but it was a not great adaptation.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 20
    The Baccano! anime does a really good job of taking a sprawling, crazy universe and tightening it up into a core set of cool stories

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    The Baccano! anime does a really good job of taking a sprawling, crazy universe and tightening it up into a core set of cool stories

    Yeah but I want another season that covers the escape from Alcatraz spliced with the modern day cruise ship hijacking.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    jacuzzi

    splott

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Average abilities was pretty free with their interpretation of the light novels. They skipped a lot (basically the first volume except to flash back to it once or twice), Big chunk of the second and third while rewriting how a lot happened, and rushed through the fourth.

    I was pretty surprised how much they changed. I guess it would have taken too many episodes and they wanted to reach that end battle. Also I hate that mascot they felt the need to add. I dunno. I liked it in a general sense but it was a not great adaptation.

    I haven't read them yet, but the ending of the anime set up something that has me really curious about what happens next.
    The world possibly being a far future Earth, and the dragons are searching for leftover nukes.
    Wait, there are 13 volumes of Baccano!?

    The one that most surprised me on that list is that Devil is a Part-Timer has over twenty. And the anime only covered two.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    There are 13 Baccano! novels currently in English (well, 13th in April, as was said). There are 22 in Japanese. The anime covers like 4 of them I think?

    Anyways, my wife and I started the Wallflower last night and got a pretty quick explanation for some of the weirdness: it's directed by the Excel Saga guy.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Giving Infinite Dendogram a go. It's ceartinly a bit generic, but is pretty fun. agreed on the protag being white bread, but oh well.

    Babylon and Grizz! are quality characters tho'

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 20
    if you have funimation access, the infinite dendrogram dub is pretty good

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Whippy wrote: »
    if you have funimation access, the infinite dendrogram dub is pretty good

    I really dislike dubs in general, honestly - i'd much rather watch media in as close to the original form as possible. Esp with anime, there's just something about watching the VAing, and the emotion they put into things. Dont quite know how to put it - but it's very very rare i like a dub, let alone like it better than the sub (I think Howl's moving castle is the only one i point to)

    Edit: Oh god, he's got animal ears and human ears now. That's horrifying

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Oh I forgot to watch the rest of the Chihayafuru S3 episodes. I for some reason had though I'd watched them all.
    Chihaya and Shinobu's friendship is very good.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    I'm usually a subs over dubs guy, but the dub on Baccano is top fucking notch. Really one of the best out there.

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Baccano, Panty & Stocking, and Space Dandy are 3 that I recommend giving the dubs a try.

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Cowboy Bebop and Outlaw Star being standouts for having far superior find.

    Really outside pick, but the record of lodoss war also had an amazingly good dub for the time.

    Samurai Pizza Cats and Ghost Stories for that unique energy.

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 20
    there's lots of amazing dubs out there

    plenty of great ones

    and lots of decent ones

    whether you like dubs or not, they exist. but obviously people with a preference either way will seek out the form they like. I've never ever liked the whole subs vs dubs debate

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 20
    Whippy wrote: »
    if you have funimation access, the infinite dendrogram dub is pretty good

    I really dislike dubs in general, honestly - i'd much rather watch media in as close to the original form as possible. Esp with anime, there's just something about watching the VAing, and the emotion they put into things. Dont quite know how to put it - but it's very very rare i like a dub, let alone like it better than the sub (I think Howl's moving castle is the only one i point to)

    Edit: Oh god, he's got animal ears and human ears now. That's horrifying

    ok

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Whippy wrote: »
    Whippy wrote: »
    if you have funimation access, the infinite dendrogram dub is pretty good

    I really dislike dubs in general, honestly - i'd much rather watch media in as close to the original form as possible. Esp with anime, there's just something about watching the VAing, and the emotion they put into things. Dont quite know how to put it - but it's very very rare i like a dub, let alone like it better than the sub (I think Howl's moving castle is the only one i point to)

    Edit: Oh god, he's got animal ears and human ears now. That's horrifying

    ok

    Like no shame if you do enjoy dubs or prefer them? i just like watching stuff as close to the original production as possible - if i actually knew Japanese (rather than a super-half assed understanding of it from watching far too much anime), i'd be watching stuff with Japanese subs if i could. (I watch basically any media with subtitles, just the way my brain works. Bad subtitles are the worst though, Seed Destiny on crunchy roll had some really badly timed ones)

    But yeah, if dubs are you jam! Sweet! i dont get it, but i dont need to! you should do you!

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