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  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    I’m only a few eps in so not sure if I’m just imagining it, but it feels like the animation in Haikyuu season 4 is a step back from the previous seasons.

    Though I guess there hasn’t been as much dynamic action in the season yet, so I might just be too used to the constant high energy state of season 3.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    A single shot from the Silent Voice movie...

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    fuck animation's a lot of work

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    The manga of a Silent Voice made me angry. It's not often a story makes me want to beat a little shit, but man that kid needed to be hit.

    Great story that.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    Veldrin wrote: »
    I’m only a few eps in so not sure if I’m just imagining it, but it feels like the animation in Haikyuu season 4 is a step back from the previous seasons.

    Though I guess there hasn’t been as much dynamic action in the season yet, so I might just be too used to the constant high energy state of season 3.

    It takes a bit to get used to, but I ended up liking it better once it got to the tournament.

    There are some really nice cuts in s4 (though I think the last point in s3 is still the most impressive thing in the show).

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    CROWD SCENES AUGH
    there's a reason they're usually bad CGI these days

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    edited April 24
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  • Kaboodles_The_AssassinKaboodles_The_Assassin Kill the meat. Save the metal.Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    Ok I finished Fate/Zero, onto UBW I guess. Is the 2006 adaptation ever worth checking out?

    I watched it after UBW and Zero. It felt like a 90s anime to me for some reason. Lots of weird environment shots that panned slightly too fast.

    I liked the music though

    EDIT: Scratch that, I thought you were talking about the original FSN series, not the UBW movie. I haven't seen that.

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 24
    The original UBW movie is fine, but the series is vastly superior.

    The OG FSN series is extremely 90s and, personally, very bad.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Most of Fate is pretty bad. I would start with Fate Zero, and if you like that try out the new Unlimited Blade Works. And only then if you are super on board would I suggest trying anything else Fate.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Mysst wrote: »
    The manga of a Silent Voice made me angry. It's not often a story makes me want to beat a little shit, but man that kid needed to be hit.

    Great story that.

    The teacher was worse.

    I feel like in the beginning the kids were mostly just being kids. Like Shoya is basically the class clown, and him starting to bully her is very much from that same instinct

    It was the teacher who was signalling that this deaf girl sucks and it's OK to be mean to her.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    The manga has that teacher be cruel even to the grown up Shouko that couldn't possibly inconvenience his job or whatever, he's a straight up ableist bigot. Not that inconvenience makes what he did in any way okay, just that that guy goes the extra mile to make it clear he HATES that she's different than other people and believes she deserves suffering because of it.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    even the Otaking fansubs video from '08 doesn't go too far into the VHS fansubs era besides that, oh my god was that shit tricky, and necessitated like five different machines syncing up correctly to properly encode

    hence why computers being able to directly process and transfer video was why fansubs simply exploded in popularity and availability ca. 2003-2006

    There's a reason that Amigas running Video Toaster were a staple of the broadcast world for years.

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    edited April 24
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  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Turns out Chainsaw Man is real good.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 24
    I see you're also keyed on to the future Noble Laureate.

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    I am assuming we are talking about the elementary school where Shoko was bullied. Cause that school was garbage and deserved to get sued hard.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    @BlankZoe reading your Naruto piece, I think it's spot on about the influence the series had on following shonen series.

    You got me thinking about something in One Piece though, I think Luffy's enemies-turned-allies are actually much rarer than Goku or Naruto's. I can't actually think of any character he has beat up and then won over as a rival and then a friend in the Goku fashion, characters like Vegeta or Piccolo or Buu or Yamcha or Tien. The rare antagonists that become allies are typically either just opportunistic characters in the first place, or good people who are being forced to do bad things against their will by a bigger bad who's absolutely maniacally evil and whom Luffy goes on to defeat. It's actually incredibly rare for outright villains to be turned into recurring characters at all in One Piece compared to most shonen stories now that I think about it. Oda's preference just seems to be to write very morally black and white, irredeemable villains who are brought to justice and then exit the plot; and he relatively rarely dips back into the existing character pool to bring back an old villain for new plot arcs that might allow them to have character growth past that initial state, preferring to bring back a couple of allies and come up with 20 new characters in most arcs instead. He seems to just love making new character designs for the sake of it to some degree and I respect that.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    I love that Buggy came back with essentially no character development or huge power creep, but his character itself was still relevant as a hapless scheming douche. Sincerely, loved it.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    @BlankZoe reading your Naruto piece, I think it's spot on about the influence the series had on following shonen series.

    You got me thinking about something in One Piece though, I think Luffy's enemies-turned-allies are actually much rarer than Goku or Naruto's. I can't actually think of any character he has beat up and then won over as a rival and then a friend in the Goku fashion, characters like Vegeta or Piccolo or Buu or Yamcha or Tien. The rare antagonists that become allies are typically either just opportunistic characters in the first place, or good people who are being forced to do bad things against their will by a bigger bad who's absolutely maniacally evil and whom Luffy goes on to defeat. It's actually incredibly rare for outright villains to be turned into recurring characters at all in One Piece compared to most shonen stories now that I think about it. Oda's preference just seems to be to write very morally black and white, irredeemable villains who are brought to justice and then exit the plot; and he relatively rarely dips back into the existing character pool to bring back an old villain for new plot arcs that might allow them to have character growth past that initial state, preferring to bring back a couple of allies and come up with 20 new characters in most arcs instead. He seems to just love making new character designs for the sake of it to some degree and I respect that.

    There are some villains he's done stuff with in the cover page arcs though. Wapol (or whatever his name is) basically got turned around into an industrial tycoon (exploiting his fruit to produce things) and iirc shows up at Reverie eventually. But this is still all in side stuff.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Anzekay wrote: »
    Okay so some of the criticisms of Danmachi season 2 in this thread were perfectly reasonable.

    I've still enjoyed it though, and that might be because I went in expecting the... low points, and was prepared to have to just sigh and murmur "fucking anime" under my breath at them.

    That said, there's a lot of really great things about this season that I've enjoyed a lot, so while I am not going to give it a pass on some of the bad stuff, I am still glad I watched it.

    Did you also get a chance to watch the Loki familia side season?

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Polaritie wrote: »
    @BlankZoe reading your Naruto piece, I think it's spot on about the influence the series had on following shonen series.

    You got me thinking about something in One Piece though, I think Luffy's enemies-turned-allies are actually much rarer than Goku or Naruto's. I can't actually think of any character he has beat up and then won over as a rival and then a friend in the Goku fashion, characters like Vegeta or Piccolo or Buu or Yamcha or Tien. The rare antagonists that become allies are typically either just opportunistic characters in the first place, or good people who are being forced to do bad things against their will by a bigger bad who's absolutely maniacally evil and whom Luffy goes on to defeat. It's actually incredibly rare for outright villains to be turned into recurring characters at all in One Piece compared to most shonen stories now that I think about it. Oda's preference just seems to be to write very morally black and white, irredeemable villains who are brought to justice and then exit the plot; and he relatively rarely dips back into the existing character pool to bring back an old villain for new plot arcs that might allow them to have character growth past that initial state, preferring to bring back a couple of allies and come up with 20 new characters in most arcs instead. He seems to just love making new character designs for the sake of it to some degree and I respect that.

    There are some villains he's done stuff with in the cover page arcs though. Wapol (or whatever his name is) basically got turned around into an industrial tycoon (exploiting his fruit to produce things) and iirc shows up at Reverie eventually. But this is still all in side stuff.

    It's not really side stuff, watch for the opening page in a chapter, it's usually featuring a side character scene that's canon. This is how you can see things like Cypher Pol after Enies Lobby, Wapo starting his company, and a bunch of others. They're all single scenes but when you connect them together they form a little story

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GwE0wwMmKE&feature=emb_title

    Special officially authorized performance of The Real Folk Blues available on Bandcamp, Spotify, and vinyl, with all proceeds going to the CDC Foundation and Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 24
    Anzekay wrote: »
    Okay so some of the criticisms of Danmachi season 2 in this thread were perfectly reasonable.

    I've still enjoyed it though, and that might be because I went in expecting the... low points, and was prepared to have to just sigh and murmur "fucking anime" under my breath at them.

    That said, there's a lot of really great things about this season that I've enjoyed a lot, so while I am not going to give it a pass on some of the bad stuff, I am still glad I watched it.

    Did you also get a chance to watch the Loki familia side season?

    not yet! but I think I want to yeah

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Main story of Konosuba ended today with the release of volume 17.

    Edit: Anime only went up to episode 5 and the english release is up to volume 11 plus the side stories so plenty more content in the Konosuba mines.

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  • PeasPeas Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    TNTrooper wrote: »
    Main story of Konosuba ended today with the release of volume 17.

    Edit: Anime only went up to episode 5 and the english release is up to volume 11 plus the side stories so plenty more content in the Konosuba mines.

    スニーカー文庫2020年5月1日新刊を「このすば」主人公カズマが紹介! 0:48
    https://youtu.be/dAC6dgjUrYI

    PV for volume 17

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Light novels get trailers?

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    So it will only take the anime another 6 seasons to catch up. Unless they pull a DanMachi and knock out like 5 novels in one season.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    @BlankZoe reading your Naruto piece, I think it's spot on about the influence the series had on following shonen series.

    You got me thinking about something in One Piece though, I think Luffy's enemies-turned-allies are actually much rarer than Goku or Naruto's. I can't actually think of any character he has beat up and then won over as a rival and then a friend in the Goku fashion, characters like Vegeta or Piccolo or Buu or Yamcha or Tien. The rare antagonists that become allies are typically either just opportunistic characters in the first place, or good people who are being forced to do bad things against their will by a bigger bad who's absolutely maniacally evil and whom Luffy goes on to defeat. It's actually incredibly rare for outright villains to be turned into recurring characters at all in One Piece compared to most shonen stories now that I think about it. Oda's preference just seems to be to write very morally black and white, irredeemable villains who are brought to justice and then exit the plot; and he relatively rarely dips back into the existing character pool to bring back an old villain for new plot arcs that might allow them to have character growth past that initial state, preferring to bring back a couple of allies and come up with 20 new characters in most arcs instead. He seems to just love making new character designs for the sake of it to some degree and I respect that.

    I absolutely agree that One Piece doesn't have the same outright VILLAIN TURNED HERO that DBZ or Naruto can deal in

    But you do still get stuff like Smoker, who while not a villain is definitely an antagonist of Luffy, who gradually respects Luffy and both works with him and turns a blind eye to stuff he wouldn't have and its almost always just due to Luffy being strong as hell and also not a complete scumbag rather than any real emotional connection

    I don't think One Piece is without emotional stakes or relationships, (Oda LOVES drawing people ugly crying, after all) but they are often in very broad strokes and without a ton of nuance behind them. Which isn't bad! That's just the kind of series it is.

    Meanwhile Naruto dealt in themes like childhood isolation, the damage that bullying and ostracizing can do to someone and the bonds that can form when common ground is met and it feels fairly different to me.

    I loved DBZ and One Piece, my notes towards them weren't meant to be taken as trashing them, but they absolutely feel from The Before Times before Naruto opened up the floodgates to a more openly emotional and vulnerable protagonist and stakes.

    Thanks for reading it!!

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    yeah totally didn't take that bit as trashing them, just made me try to think of examples of a Goku-like frenemy situation in One Piece

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Smoker specifically hasn't really changed much in terms of who he is so much as his perception of Luffy has. Initially he went after Luffy because he felt he was a dangerous pirate, especially with Dragon personally aiding his escape on their first encounter, and on his long chase he's seen how corrupt the Marines can be along with people who are more of an immediate danger than Luffy that results in them working to handle those threats. He won't hesitate to grab Luffy if he gets a clear chance though, respect or not.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    I just realized that (I think) in Bofuri, Maple literally...
    ...added every named character to her friends list. Even the people in the other two guilds that were the main competition at the final pvp event.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Madican wrote: »
    Smoker specifically hasn't really changed much in terms of who he is so much as his perception of Luffy has. Initially he went after Luffy because he felt he was a dangerous pirate, especially with Dragon personally aiding his escape on their first encounter, and on his long chase he's seen how corrupt the Marines can be along with people who are more of an immediate danger than Luffy that results in them working to handle those threats. He won't hesitate to grab Luffy if he gets a clear chance though, respect or not.

    Well, as long as there's no more pressing issue. I think he might conveniently prioritize things in such a case... maybe. But he's a great example of the non-villain antagonist. He's a genuinely decent person, but the rules of society put him at odds with Luffy.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Its been a while since I went through One Piece but I absolutely remember Smoker, on more than one occasion, giving Luffy a head start or otherwise not pursuing him when technically he should have.

    That doesn't mean he won't arrest Luffy eventually, but he has absolutely developed a grudging respect for the dude and let some things slide that his job technically doesn't allow.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    also feels like Smoker and Luffy have barely even fought each other, they clashed a little bit as Luffy was escaping Rogueport and the next time I remember them being in the same place was Punk Hazard, I think? He's definitely one of the rare antagonists who does become an ally though, more or less, since his whole character is that he's one of the few actually decent people in the Navy. His initial character was set up as "cop with begrudging respect for Luffy" so he hasn't really changed at all either. Oh yeah Smoker was involved in Alabasta too, he seems to show up to arrest the bad guys after Luffy beats them up a lot.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    also feels like Smoker and Luffy have barely even fought each other, they clashed a little bit as Luffy was escaping Rogueport and the next time I remember them being in the same place was Punk Hazard, I think? He's definitely one of the rare antagonists who does become an ally though, more or less, since his whole character is that he's one of the few actually decent people in the Navy.

    Zolo was clearly supposed to have a whole friendly rivalry thing going on with Smoker's number two helper girl but it feels like that... got lost somewhere along the way.
    :D:D:D

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    also feels like Smoker and Luffy have barely even fought each other, they clashed a little bit as Luffy was escaping Rogueport and the next time I remember them being in the same place was Punk Hazard, I think? He's definitely one of the rare antagonists who does become an ally though, more or less, since his whole character is that he's one of the few actually decent people in the Navy. His initial character was set up as "cop with begrudging respect for Luffy" so he hasn't really changed at all either.

    Yeah, I think his first appearance is like... the end of Alabasta and then he gets the credit because god forbid a pirate be a hero? And he's disgusted at that.

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  • LucedesLucedes Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    one of the historic tragedies at the college i attended was that one of the dorm buildings burned down
    and among other things, the anime club's entire collection of VHS fansubs was inside.

    there were something like 80 tapes, most of them completely irreplaceable.

    it definitely wasn't, like, the greatest tragedy on campus, but it was very sad.

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  • DaypigeonDaypigeon Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Moth 13 wrote: »
    Turns out Chainsaw Man is real good.

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    god, power is just the worst

    gotta love her

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    Power and Denji are perfect for each other IMO

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GwE0wwMmKE&feature=emb_title

    Special officially authorized performance of The Real Folk Blues available on Bandcamp, Spotify, and vinyl, with all proceeds going to the CDC Foundation and Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

    Oh wow the keyboardist for Super Soul Bros apparently played organ in this.

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