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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    Fuck me, Haikyu!! is really, really good.

    Like, I cannot believe I held off on watching this for so long.

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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Just learned that Hunter X Hunter’s dub finally has Greed Island episodes on Netflix. I can finally see the Tutorial skits.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Skeith wrote: »
    Sounds like a LOT of the anime currently anime just got canned

    Do you have a list of delayed/canned productions or

    It's likely that it's going to be a rolling kind of random list for probably the rest of the year. Different studios have very different production and delivery schedules. Shaft, for example, for a long time would deliver things at the very last moment, frequently having to put in filler cards saying "animation not finished yet" or similar. Other shows, particularly in the nascent days of streaming, got into trouble because the studio would deliver an entire month of episodes to simulcaster(s) in advance which were uploaded early and/or leaked.

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  • LucedesLucedes Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    is the animated Hobbit and Lord of the Rings... anime?!

    (wikipedia tells me Bakshi did them in the late 70s, which means they're technically cartoons)

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Oda And those under him could probably use a break to be honest .
    Unless he gets sick he's almost certainly not getting a break.

    That being said thank goodness most anime studios have decided to be sensible and not keep up production during this. That being said I hope a bunch don't fold leaving people unemployed.

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  • mysticjuicermysticjuicer [he/him] I'm a muscle wizard and I cast P U N C HRegistered User regular
    edited April 24
    ph blake wrote: »
    Fuck me, Haikyu!! is really, really good.

    Like, I cannot believe I held off on watching this for so long.

    Its so good and it just gets better tbh.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    I've heard Japan's had no government financial aid at all or mandatory business shutdowns beyond shutting schools down, relying entirely on having the competent testing and healthcare system that the US doesn't have, and guilting people into self-isolating with no safety net. PM Shinso Abe's in the "But The Economy!" school of pandemic political thinkers just like US conservatives. I don't know if it's come back to bite them in the ass yet like it did in Italy but I wouldn't be surprised if it did.

    Also I haven't factchecked shit so that might be wrong.

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  • AstharielAsthariel The Book Eater Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    After watching newest episode of Kaguya's second season, I can only cry tears of joy at how flawless this adaptation is, and how much the comedy is improved by the animation, voice acting, soundtrack and seeing all the gags in action.

    This anime is a 10/10 masterpiece.

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    I've heard Japan's had no government financial aid at all or mandatory business shutdowns beyond shutting schools down, relying entirely on having the competent testing and healthcare system that the US doesn't have, and guilting people into self-isolating with no safety net. PM Shinso Abe's in the "But The Economy!" school of pandemic political thinkers just like US conservatives. I don't know if it's come back to bite them in the ass yet like it did in Italy but I wouldn't be surprised if it did.

    Also I haven't factchecked shit so that might be wrong.

    Sort of...

    The missing thing here is that the social distance, cleaning, masks, sanitizer, etc that the rest of the world has to scramble to setup and enforce is actually already there. They might have to turn the knob from like a 5 to a 7 but they aren't starting from 0 like most countries. Fukushima helped with some of that. Well, 'helped'.

    The government itself is a lot of fuckery tho. While they did try to get companies to more heavily rely on work from home as early as late February to early March, they didn't really put as much pressure as they could have. They also pushed through a couple trillion in support for companies to continue keeping people on payroll and such but Japan actually has a pretty healthy smaller business/mom & pop sector of businesses and they got screwed as you'd expect. So it's going to end up working it's way through that level of working class that can't really afford to close up.

    It'll probably get pretty bad in the bigger prefectures, especially with such a large number of elderly citizens. I dunno if it'll get Italy bad but they definitely should have done things better. Abe is shit tho so no surprise there.

    And Okinawa is giving exactly 0 shits at all so I expect them to just burst into flames.

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  • H3KnucklesH3Knuckles But we decide which is right and which is an illusion.Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Madican wrote: »
    TNTrooper wrote: »
    Why not just call it 4.0 instead of 3.0+1.0?

    Because Kingdom Hearts proved you don't need your subtile numbers to make any sense

    Uh, excuse me, it was Capcom calling the interquel between Street Fighters 1 and 2 "Street Fighter Zero" (at least the english version's name, "SF Alpha", makes a little more sense).

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  • EspantaPajaroEspantaPajaro Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    I bet they chained Oda up in quarantine together with his assisstants so the manga keeps getting produced

    exclusive footage of the one piece manga offices:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdXQJS3Yv0Y

    God , I haven’t seen that since I was a kid ...

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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Kingdom Hearts 2: the third game in the trilogy.

    Kingdom Hearts 3; the 8th game in the trilogy.

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  • H3KnucklesH3Knuckles But we decide which is right and which is an illusion.Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Lucedes wrote: »
    is the animated Hobbit and Lord of the Rings... anime?!

    (wikipedia tells me Bakshi did them in the late 70s, which means they're technically cartoons)

    Bakshi did a different one (the "Lord of the Rings" animated movie that covers Fellowship and the first half of Two Towers).

    The clip Munkus Beaver linked is from the Rankin/Bass "Return of the King", and they're the ones who did the Hobbit movie. Yeah, the people who made those cheesy old stop-motion Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer tv Christmas specials made the Hobbit cartoon.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 24
    Asthariel wrote: »
    After watching newest episode of Kaguya's second season, I can only cry tears of joy at how flawless this adaptation is, and how much the comedy is improved by the animation, voice acting, soundtrack and seeing all the gags in action.

    This anime is a 10/10 masterpiece.

    I'm not paying for Funimation, so I'm a week behind, but I was incredibly impressed by the 1st episode of the 2nd season I watched today. The actors (including the narrator) have impeccable delivery and timing for the jokes. The first skit with Hayasaka Ai was perhaps too short, since in the manga:
    There's a whole sub-plot with how she has such a hard time dealing with Fujiwara aka Subject F aka Chaos Incarnate because of how unpredictable she is. Also there were a ton of Pokemon Go references in that chapter they understandably had to cut.

    Also watched Bakarina ep. 3 this week, and this prequel arc has been incredibly fluffy and heart warming. I'm interested to see where the main story will go now.

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  • LucedesLucedes Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    ...does that make The Last Unicorn my favorite Ghibli movie?

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Down, down, to pirate town, down, down to pirate town

    Different song

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPkqjc23yqs

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    Children's rights are human rights.
  • KnightKnight Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    The Rascal movie was pretty good.
    I thought it was going to throw a whole lot darker up till the last 5 minutes, it really seemed to be on that path. Resolution felt a little rushed, but I get what they were going for.
    I hope they make another season of that show, I really love it.

    And since I had to resub to funimation to watch that, I watched Kaguya. Still great, OP less great. Hard to live up to Love Dramatic though. I do hope the plot moves forward this season.

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  • italianranmaitalianranma Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    I’ll knock this off immediately if there’s a “no politics in Anime” policy. I’m not an expert by any means, but I do live in Tokyo right now, so there’s a little more nuance to this argument:
    I've heard Japan's had no government financial aid at all or mandatory business shutdowns beyond shutting schools down, relying entirely on having the competent testing and healthcare system that the US doesn't have, and guilting people into self-isolating with no safety net. PM Shinso Abe's in the "But The Economy!" school of pandemic political thinkers just like US conservatives. I don't know if it's come back to bite them in the ass yet like it did in Italy but I wouldn't be surprised if it did.

    Also I haven't factchecked shit so that might be wrong.
    Sort of...

    The missing thing here is that the social distance, cleaning, masks, sanitizer, etc that the rest of the world has to scramble to setup and enforce is actually already there. They might have to turn the knob from like a 5 to a 7 but they aren't starting from 0 like most countries. Fukushima helped with some of that. Well, 'helped'.

    The government itself is a lot of fuckery tho. While they did try to get companies to more heavily rely on work from home as early as late February to early March, they didn't really put as much pressure as they could have. They also pushed through a couple trillion in support for companies to continue keeping people on payroll and such but Japan actually has a pretty healthy smaller business/mom & pop sector of businesses and they got screwed as you'd expect. So it's going to end up working it's way through that level of working class that can't really afford to close up.

    It'll probably get pretty bad in the bigger prefectures, especially with such a large number of elderly citizens. I dunno if it'll get Italy bad but they definitely should have done things better. Abe is shit tho so no surprise there.

    And Okinawa is giving exactly 0 shits at all so I expect them to just burst into flames.

    The Japanese economy has been in the shitter for 30 years so questions about who is going to be able pay for any sort of economic relief or stimulus is a bit more doubtful. There was a game of chicken between the mayor of Tokyo and the Prime Minister about who would declare the state of emergency where the loser would need to foot the bill. I don’t think Tokyo-ites are particularly good at Social Distancing measures (because of the reliance on public transportation), but mask-wearing is deeply ingrained into their culture (there’s a pun there) and there may be something either genetic or environmental that makes them less susceptible to the disease. That being said, most of the prefectures and the country as a whole are very bad at testing, usually only testing those with the worst symptoms. Coupling that with the cultural norms regarding work, and Japan (Tokyo especially) may be getting worse before it gets better. I think your observation about the Mom & Pop shops may be correct, but then again they may be fine as (outside of the major cities) they probably own the land, and inside the cities they probably can count on the local governments to appeal for aid to them.

    Where I live on the outskirts of the greater metropolitan area (like how Pomona is technically in L.A.) the crowds on the streets are noticeably smaller, but they’re still there. Nothing at all like what my brother describes back at home. It’s a bit surreal, especially considering I’ve been ordered to essentially become a Hikkomori by my job.

    Edit: Scratch what I said earlier, it’s a ghost town here now. I went on my weekly grocery run and there were probably only a quarter of the people on the street from last week. Pretty much all non-essential stores were closed too.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    this seems fine to talk about here to me, I appreciate hearing how it's actually going over there.

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  • PeasPeas Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Pokemon anime shorts. Posted in sequence of release, although they focus on different trainers every episode:
    【公式】『ポケットモンスター ソード・シールド』オリジナルアニメ「薄明の翼」 第1話「手紙」6:21 【公式】『ポケットモンスター ソード・シールド』オリジナルアニメ「薄明の翼」 第2話「修行」6:40 【公式】『ポケットモンスター ソード・シールド』オリジナルアニメ「薄明の翼」 第3話「相棒」6:30 【公式】『ポケットモンスター ソード・シールド』オリジナルアニメ「薄明の翼」 第4話「夕波」6:20


    English dubs:
    Pokémon: Twilight Wings | Episode 1 | Letter 6:06 Dreams, realities, and challenges collide in Pokémon: Twilight Wings, a seven-episode limited animated series set in the vibrant Galar region!

    Pokémon: Twilight Wings | Episode 2 | Training 6:33 After losing to Galar’s Champion, Leon, Fighting-type Gym Leader Bea sets out with her Pokémon to elevate their training. Will she find her inner resolve and grow stronger…or will she succumb to the pressure of defeat?

    Pokémon: Twilight Wings | Episode 3 | Buddy 6:19 What could Wooloo be up to? Find out in the latest episode of Pokémon: Twilight Wings!

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Knight_ wrote: »
    The Rascal movie was pretty good.
    I thought it was going to throw a whole lot darker up till the last 5 minutes, it really seemed to be on that path. Resolution felt a little rushed, but I get what they were going for.
    I hope they make another season of that show, I really love it.

    My wife and I watched it last night too and enjoyed it.

    May have to wait a while for another season though. The first season covered the first 5 light novels, and the movie covered #6 & 7. The tenth just came out two months ago so it might be a while before they have enough material for another season. I also haven't been able to find out what 8-10 are about beyond their titles.

    The novel series has been licensed in English though, and the first volume comes out in a little over a week.

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  • PeasPeas Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    If Moebius Made Anime | The Beautiful art of Dragon's Heaven [1988] 10:11
    https://youtu.be/qvHk-lI66EQ
    Who needs story when an anime looks this pretty? Kenny lauderdale (me), reviews Dragon's Heaven, a beautiful anime from the 80s that history has almost forgotten. Moebius may have never lent his art to an anime, but if watched this & told me he didn't make it I wouldn't believe you. The best Mecha anime tend to get overlooked, but this ova is one of those anime that's so beautiful to look at that it may as well not even be mecha. Moebius's art style influenced anime artists so heavily in the 1980s that for a brief time, anime like this was indistinguishable from what it was paying respect to. Makoto Kobayashi was one of those artists.

    Man I want to watch this, it looks so good

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 24
    there was a good chunk of time in high school where all my mecha designs were influenced by makoto kobayashi/mamoru nagano

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 24
    a shame that Kobayashi has basically gone full neo-Imperialist MJGA in the last five years

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    Ugh

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  • H3KnucklesH3Knuckles But we decide which is right and which is an illusion.Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Peas wrote: »
    If Moebius Made Anime | The Beautiful art of Dragon's Heaven [1988] 10:11
    https://youtu.be/qvHk-lI66EQ
    Who needs story when an anime looks this pretty? Kenny lauderdale (me), reviews Dragon's Heaven, a beautiful anime from the 80s that history has almost forgotten. Moebius may have never lent his art to an anime, but if watched this & told me he didn't make it I wouldn't believe you. The best Mecha anime tend to get overlooked, but this ova is one of those anime that's so beautiful to look at that it may as well not even be mecha. Moebius's art style influenced anime artists so heavily in the 1980s that for a brief time, anime like this was indistinguishable from what it was paying respect to. Makoto Kobayashi was one of those artists.

    Man I want to watch this, it looks so good

    Fun trivia: a couple of the mecha designs in it (Gampf & Neo-Geo) are based on ones (Bound Doc and The O) the same designer used in Zeta Gundam.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 24
    Ugh

    oh yeah, fortunately he's a pretty easy artist to divorce from his creative output from ~25-35 years ago, but it's still a bummer

    neo-imperialism in anime is probably one of the medium's (and Japanese nerd culture in general's) worst trends from the last couple decades

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 22
  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 24
    I love that Otaking is still active and creating stuff

    man's been a pillar of the fandom for ages, even before his full animations blew his clout the fuck up to DBZ levels

    edit: wait woops I'm thinking of the British Otaking, Paul Johnson, who made the 2008 fansubs documentary (which youtuber gigguk just did a 2020 followup to) and that crazy TIE Fighter animation, but that twitter account linked is a different sakuga gif thing woopswoopswoops

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited April 24
  • AstharielAsthariel The Book Eater Registered User regular
    edited April 24
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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 22
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 24
    Where is the island of snipers?
    In your heart.

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Early Usopp is way better then Zenitsu.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 24
    How many terrible characters ascend to godhood?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1BqlYsTb7E
    The Lion King music makes it work even better

    E: Actually, let's be fair to Zenitsu as well:
    Thunder God is a kind of god.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8mBQsWJlFQ

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Peas wrote: »
    If Moebius Made Anime | The Beautiful art of Dragon's Heaven [1988] 10:11
    https://youtu.be/qvHk-lI66EQ
    Who needs story when an anime looks this pretty? Kenny lauderdale (me), reviews Dragon's Heaven, a beautiful anime from the 80s that history has almost forgotten. Moebius may have never lent his art to an anime, but if watched this & told me he didn't make it I wouldn't believe you. The best Mecha anime tend to get overlooked, but this ova is one of those anime that's so beautiful to look at that it may as well not even be mecha. Moebius's art style influenced anime artists so heavily in the 1980s that for a brief time, anime like this was indistinguishable from what it was paying respect to. Makoto Kobayashi was one of those artists.

    Man I want to watch this, it looks so good

    Thinks: surely it can't be _that_ Makoto Kobayashi? 6 and a half minutes in -- okay, that makes more sense, sheesh.

    (on which note, it's a real shame that the end of Club 9 never got collected so the only way I could read it is to hunt out back issues of Super Manga Blast. Though Dark Horse are republishing What's Michael? in new compilations, so maybe there's hope)

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