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  • UrQuanLord88UrQuanLord88 Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    new chapter of <<Frieren at the Funeral>>
    time passes slowly for elves and demons but magical advancement goes on
    what was new and destructive is now commonplace and easily countered

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    i didn't find code geass to be very good in the first place and i think it inexplicable that anyone would want to drag it out further, much less an entire decade

    Decade plans are mostly huge lies. Every brand likes to say they have a decade or a whole franchise lined up. In reality, this almost always means "we have real plans for one product with a normal lifespan, but would like the money and support for a decade long dynasty, if our backers will oblige."

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  • JansonJanson Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    Madican wrote: »
    Let. Stories. END.

    This obsession with IP is the thing that rots away the soul of a creative piece.

    The #1 reason I actually got into anime was because most of it does end properly, and are typically much shorter than most western animation. So I wholeheartedly concur.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Janson wrote: »
    Madican wrote: »
    Let. Stories. END.

    This obsession with IP is the thing that rots away the soul of a creative piece.

    The #1 reason I actually got into anime was because most of it does end properly, and are typically much shorter than most western animation. So I wholeheartedly concur.

    Well, as long as the anime is not based on an ongoing manga or light novel series. In those cases, you're probably stuck with an open ending and a (likely) futile hope for future seasons. If you're lucky, the resolution of whatever arcs the anime covers can feel like a complete package though.

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Janson wrote: »
    Madican wrote: »
    Let. Stories. END.

    This obsession with IP is the thing that rots away the soul of a creative piece.

    The #1 reason I actually got into anime was because most of it does end properly, and are typically much shorter than most western animation. So I wholeheartedly concur.

    Macross / Gundam have good solutions, which is to do a Star Trek and keep the setting basics but either timeskip or reboot with a new cast. That's all it takes sometimes to keep things fresh.

    Like, for a brief shining moment, Macross Frontier was bigger than EVA.

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  • SixshotStrikerSixshotStriker Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Kana wrote: »
    I've never watched Black Lagoon, but if the sub is anywhere near as good as Cowboy Bebop's, maybe I should check it out.

    I love Black Lagoon, but I also recognize that it is very very very of its time and more than a bit edgelordy, but I'm a big sucker for a great action scene and some of those action scenes are all-timers.

    Dub-wise, it's great. Maryke Hendrikse starts out a bit rough for Revy, but after a few episodes Maryke grew into my default Revy voice. Everyone else does great and comes to play from the start, though.

    Its not so much of its time as it is of like, 1986.

    Its verrry 80s action movie cocaine logic

    I forget when it was made but I could’ve sworn Black Lagoon was set some time during the 90s. The cocaine logic point still stands.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Well Star Trek is a bit of a different beast as it is typically episodic as opposed to more long form story telling. I would say that anime more often than not does not end... well. Mainly in the sense of if it's adapted from a manga the way manga has traditionally been serialized mean that most manga authors have to end their manga out of the blue basically, and also because the answer whether or not an adaptation will be profitable enough to adapt a whole manga, or even have a finished manga to work on is a big if. Like in the 90s most anime that I think ended pretty well were either original IPs or took heavy creative liberties with the original material to make the story with with an incomplete manga or limited anime adaptation.

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Frontier was probably the single most popular Macross series since the original, and arguably put the series on the map beyond just mecha fans. Like, Frontier was a huge, huge deal in Japan. And a career launcher for the singers.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    I'd probably have so many opinions about post-original-series Macross if Harmony Gold fell into a hellmouth

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    And in terms of stories that actually end, I just finished rewatching all of Stand Alone Complex and 2nd Gig.

    The new Netflix series doesn't hold a candle to it. It's still got another season, but... I feel like they wasted a lot of runtime on that first arc instead of doing more stand alone episodes. The tempo of the original series was better, in that they drop hints and pieces every few episodes before the final four or five episodes show the climax and conclusion. It conveys the feeling of a long investigation well, since the main story thread is broken up by all the smaller incidents that may or may not be related.

    Although 2nd Gig has one glaring inconsistency at the end, in that it has Motoko uncertain about a plan that's something she already did once in SAC.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    Watch the Solid State Society movie if you can. It takes place a bit after 2nd Gig.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 24
    I'd probably have so many opinions about post-original-series Macross if Harmony Gold fell into a hellmouth

    Remember how Tatsunoko had the opportunity to let the rights lapse in 2021 and then instead signed another deal with Harmony Gold? For 35 more years?

    Pepperidge Farms remembers

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    Naphtali wrote: »
    I'd probably have so many opinions about post-original-series Macross if Harmony Gold fell into a hellmouth

    Remember how Tatsunoko had the opportunity to let the rights lapse in 2021 and then instead signed another deal with Harmony Gold? For 35 more years?

    Pepperidge Farms remembers

    What sort of blackmail material do they have on those Japanese executives?

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 24
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Naphtali wrote: »
    I'd probably have so many opinions about post-original-series Macross if Harmony Gold fell into a hellmouth

    Remember how Tatsunoko had the opportunity to let the rights lapse in 2021 and then instead signed another deal with Harmony Gold? For 35 more years?

    Pepperidge Farms remembers

    What sort of blackmail material do they have on those Japanese executives?

    I would love some sort of deep-dive on this topic in all honesty. I think it has something to do with the court case when they tried to get out of it in 2017 and were unsuccessful, AFAIK.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 22
    Madican wrote: »
    Lanz wrote: »
    Hexmage-PA wrote: »
    Lelouch of the Re;ssurection, as anticipated, turned out to be completely skippable. It's pretty much just a flimsy excuse for a Code Geass character reunion with a low-stakes scenario.
    Shirley, who managed to survive through the three recap movies by joining Rivalz in largely steering clear of the plot, ended up somehow managing to steal Lelouch's body for C.C. (off-screen) after Suzaku very publically stabbed him at the end of the third movie. Lelouch's body somehow isn't dead because he partially inherited his dad Charles' immortality (somehow). Now, C.C. and a near mindless, frequently terrified Nobody Lelouch are searching for the last surviving gate to C's World to restore Lelouch's mind to his body (there's also a weird explanation that C.C. is immortal because C's World somehow replaces her damaged tissues with replacements, which doesn't really mesh with how C's World is otherwise established to work). Meanwhile, Nunnally and Suzaku (who it turns out are much more minor players on the world stage than you probably would have guessed) are kidnapped by agents of the country of Zilkhstan, a nation that has been hurting economically during the period of world peace brought about by the Zero Requiem because its only export was soldiers.

    C.C. and Nobody Lelouch are shortly joined by a grab bag of returning favorite characters: Kallen, Lloyd, and Sayoko. After inflitrating a prison, using the hidden C's World gate, rescuing Suzaku, and defeating the prison's guards (who, for whatever reason, had disguised themselves as prisoners until the the good guys re-emerged from the lower levels), the team emerges with a restored Lelouch to try and rescue Nunnally, who is being exploited by the villain because her brain waves are similar to Charles' or something.

    After a long sequence involving the bad guy traveling back in time six hours over and over upon dying to try and thwart Lelouch and an expanded team that includes several more returning characters for maximum fan service (including Jeremiah, Anya, Cornelia, Ohgi, Tamaki, Cecille, and Nina), Lelouch finally manages to deduce and circumvent the villain's unique time-manipulating Geass power (in a way I don't quite understand) and rescue Nunnally.

    Despite earlier saying to Suzaku that he might possibly be a ghost that will disappear in a day's time, the resurrected Lelouch declines to return home with Nunnally and instead go wandering aimlessly with C.C. Lelouch declares, shortly after being told by C.C. that he can't keep going by his real name, that his new name will be L.L., which a quick Google search informs me is his way of proposing marriage to C.C. (not sure if that's correct, but I don't care that much).

    The after credits scene shows a gothier-looking Lelouch aka L.L. and C.C. The former begins monologuing to someone off-screen about the resolution it takes to use Geass and not be destroyed by it. At the end, Lelouch is shown with a Geass symbol on his chest, implying that he has passed on the power of Geass to someone else, is now immortal, and that C.C. is now mortal.

    Shirley shows up a few times in scenes far away from the main action, remaining alive and almost completely separated from the plot. At least she didn't get fridged like she did in season two of the original show, so yay???

    Oh, also, while C.C is in C's World trying to restore Lelouch she happens upon what appears to be Charles and Marianne trapped in a large, black globe. This never comes up again. I kind of get the feeling that the writers for this movie are more confused about C's World's rules than I was during the original series.

    I'm inclined to say that the original TV series, warts and all, is the true canon of Code Geass. These movies were fun from a perspective of bypassing tedious school hijinks and fanservice, as well as trying to spot the differences between the movies and the original show, but in the end too much of the interesting material was cut and the new prologue movie is completely unneccessary.

    Good News!

    https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2019/05/05-1/code-geass-creators-unveil-10-year-plan-for-series

    Let. Stories. END.

    This obsession with IP is the thing that rots away the soul of a creative piece.

    See: Madoka Magica and Steins;Gate.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    I’m still baffled at how Tatsunoko can still sell HG the rights

    I thought this was settled! You don’t own the IP, it’s Studio Nue’s!

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 24
    Lanz wrote: »
    I’m still baffled at how Tatsunoko can still sell HG the rights

    I thought this was settled! You don’t own the IP, it’s Studio Nue’s!

    oh, that's why then. "you're going to pay us for something we don't own, and the courts upheld the original contract so it fucks over all other title holders? okay."

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  • KelorKelor Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    It was a long time ago, but I remember reading that season two of Code Geass was going to be radically different from what we got, but was swapped to an earlier time slot with a younger target audience and they had to change plans.

    I'm very fuzzy on the details, but I distinctly thinking it sounded much more interesting and darker than what we got.

    Still amazed season two managed to go from being completely off the rails to a surprisingly decent ending for what I was expecting.

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  • Hexmage-PAHexmage-PA Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Kelor wrote: »
    It was a long time ago, but I remember reading that season two of Code Geass was going to be radically different from what we got, but was swapped to an earlier time slot with a younger target audience and they had to change plans.

    I'm very fuzzy on the details, but I distinctly thinking it sounded much more interesting and darker than what we got.

    Still amazed season two managed to go from being completely off the rails to a surprisingly decent ending for what I was expecting.

    As for the second season, you may be interested to know that the Code Geass movies largely blaze right through the first half of it. We're shown Suzaku's point of view during most of that time and don't go back to Lelouch until he's leading the attack on the secret Geass research facility.

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  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    edited April 24
    HBO Max is now live, and as a happy unexpected addition it also has a collection of Crunchyroll offerings.

    So now I'm starting 'Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!'

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Watch the Solid State Society movie if you can. It takes place a bit after 2nd Gig.

    Another thing to track down? Ugh. :rotate:

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  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    domestic girlfriend ends next week and so does my suffering

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  • P10P10 An Idiot With Low IQ Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    your suffering is not allowed to end

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  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    edited April 22
    ah shit

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Announcing next week, Two Brand New Series!

    Domestic Wife
    &
    Domestic Mistress

    Look forward to it!

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  • PeasPeas Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    DECA-DENCE | Official Teaser Trailer 1:!5
    https://youtu.be/zR4M-LBKX7I

    The newest original anime by Death Parade director, Yuzuru Tachikawa, shows us the world atop a giant moving fortress. 💥
    DECA-DENCE is coming to Funimation this summer!

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Watched Nozaki-kun due to this thread.

    It needs more Kashima. And a lot more Seo.

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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    That Deca-Dence trailer certainly looks neat. Might be something to keep an eye on.

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  • Casually HardcoreCasually Hardcore Once an Asshole. Trying to be better. Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Read the first season of Tower of God graphic novel.


    Damn.... that’s some good shit.

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  • RadiusRadius Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Seo's an awesome chick

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Having finished Nozaki-kun, I started Re:Zero since I'd heard it was good. I didn't know anything about it other than that it was an isekai though.

    After the first two episodes, I'm not sure about it though.
    For being so genre savvy, it took him way to long to realize he was respawning in the past whenever he died. Also, I kind of don't like that all of the character interactions with the half-elf got thrown out the window when he respawned the first time. I was hoping since he was holding her hand when they both died that she would retain her memories as well, but apparently not.

    So at the end of two episodes (the first episode being an hour long), and we still haven't progressed past the first day because he keeps respawning, and he's the only one that can get any character development since the others reset when he dies.

    I'm assuming that later on his "save point" will change, or else that's going to be a real bummer.

    Does it get better, or if it hasn't hooked me at this point should I switch to something else in my queue?

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Who first started the trend of using pile bunkers as melee weapons? I know VOTOMs did heavily.

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  • PeasPeas Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Lars wrote: »
    Having finished Nozaki-kun, I started Re:Zero since I'd heard it was good. I didn't know anything about it other than that it was an isekai though.

    After the first two episodes, I'm not sure about it though.
    For being so genre savvy, it took him way to long to realize he was respawning in the past whenever he died. Also, I kind of don't like that all of the character interactions with the half-elf got thrown out the window when he respawned the first time. I was hoping since he was holding her hand when they both died that she would retain her memories as well, but apparently not.

    So at the end of two episodes (the first episode being an hour long), and we still haven't progressed past the first day because he keeps respawning, and he's the only one that can get any character development since the others reset when he dies.

    I'm assuming that later on his "save point" will change, or else that's going to be a real bummer.

    Does it get better, or if it hasn't hooked me at this point should I switch to something else in my queue?

    It does gets better imo

    Also it's a really good time to start watching now since season 2 is going to start like next month (July) I think so you can suff-I mean enjoy the journey together with everyone really soon after finishing the first one

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  • Dongs GaloreDongs Galore Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Falcon-chan is going to space today!
    Everyone wish good luck to Falcon!
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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Lars wrote: »
    Having finished Nozaki-kun, I started Re:Zero since I'd heard it was good. I didn't know anything about it other than that it was an isekai though.

    After the first two episodes, I'm not sure about it though.
    For being so genre savvy, it took him way to long to realize he was respawning in the past whenever he died. Also, I kind of don't like that all of the character interactions with the half-elf got thrown out the window when he respawned the first time. I was hoping since he was holding her hand when they both died that she would retain her memories as well, but apparently not.

    So at the end of two episodes (the first episode being an hour long), and we still haven't progressed past the first day because he keeps respawning, and he's the only one that can get any character development since the others reset when he dies.

    I'm assuming that later on his "save point" will change, or else that's going to be a real bummer.

    Does it get better, or if it hasn't hooked me at this point should I switch to something else in my queue?

    Define better. It turns into basically angst porn after a point, the main character spending entire episodes just staring at the screen, looking aghast and/or crying, helpless to do anything but suffer as the cruel world tortures him personally, until things spontaneously fix themselves because he like... cried at a slightly different time than the last fifteen times. It's like if Edge of Tomorrow was about a helpless teenager who responds to everything by making ridiculous angst faces and crying instead of becoming a super soldier. That and date episodes. That harem's not going to harem itself.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    I'd heard it referred to as the "best isekai" at some point, and was also watching it to prepare for whenever I get to Isekai Quartet.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    Lars wrote: »
    I'd heard it referred to as the "best isekai" at some point, and was also watching it to prepare for whenever I get to Isekai Quartet.

    A lot of people confuse silly faces and torture for actual pathos.

    Also, they like memes, and the show makes a fucking lot of really silly memey faces.

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