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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I like the part where Souma goes to a real French restaurant and immediately gets his ass kicked because he's never done volume like that before, reminded me of my first real kitchen job

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    ph blake wrote: »
    Food Wars is like, 50% horney, 40% typical battle shonen nonsense, and then 10% actually interesting cooking/restaurant scenes.

    It's junk food, but vaguely digestible junk food for the first half or so before the plot jumps completely off the rails.

    Food Wars was cowritten by a chef who made sure that the recipes were real things you could make with common items.

    After the chef left, food wars basically devolved into bog standard bullshit shonen and was quickly canceled.

    My understanding is that this isn't quite what happened, in that the chef didn't leave per se but instead was on maternity leave.

    Only, she was also on maternity leave during an earlier part of the series and everything was fine then? My guess is that it just sputtered out for the same reason as any other Jump series (mangaka burn out/ran out of ideas/editorial interference/waning popularity), and some fans latched on to the consulting chef being on leave as a way to cope.

    edit:
    I like the part where Souma goes to a real French restaurant and immediately gets his ass kicked because he's never done volume like that before, reminded me of my first real kitchen job

    This was the best episode in the series, yeah. Just a really cool dynamic shift from whacky anime hijinks to a bunch of working professionals having to suck it up and deal with the fucking new guy

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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Demon Slayer is basic but sometimes you just want to watch characters have the big feels and then do cool shit

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I would argue what made FMA stand out was less its structure and more it's impressively good world-building and character writing.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Jragghen wrote: »
    My favorite food wars thing was
    the big bad guys evil plan was....to not kick people out of school for arbitrary reasons and instead teach them the best way to cook.

    So they went "uh....shit ...uh.... Also he's a child abuser and wants to TAKE OVER THE WORLD VIA COOKING" or whatever
    Well no, it's more "All of you are going to be worker drones for the chosen elite. Chosen by me of course, because I know what's best"

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Gundi wrote: »
    I would argue what made FMA stand out was less its structure and more it's impressively good world-building and character writing.

    yeah it's wasn't good because of One Weird Trick it was just good because it was really well-written all around

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
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    The author of Food Wars had a professional chef on staff as a consultant to make the recipes. She left halfway through the series and the author decided he can go at it alone and you can tell exactly when cause Yukihira's dishes stopped being stuff you can recreate at home with stuff found at any grocery store and it just became all about using rare ingredients you will never see. It started sliding in the popularity polls and his idea to turn it around was underground mafia chefs led by the main characters evil step brother.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
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  • J-bobJ-bob J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Tonight on Animenagerie S

    https://youtu.be/x1M74b3PjLg

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    How are you all finding Dynazeon?

    Also the real food manga is Dungeon Meshi, everyone knows this.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Dynazenon is real good. Especially the music. Eager to see what happens in the last half.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    rhylith wrote: »
    Y’all act like you’ve never taken a bite of food so good your clothes explode off your body.
    We've all seen Ratatouille, come on.

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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Demon Slayer reducing their episode lengths to <10 minutes isn't ok

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Demon Slayer reducing their episode lengths to <10 minutes isn't ok
    What are you talking about?

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Gundi wrote: »
    Demon Slayer reducing their episode lengths to <10 minutes isn't ok
    What are you talking about?

    Joking that it's over so fast.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I was browsing Big Bad Toy Store and came across something cool.

    **Spoilers for later in the season of Bofuri**
    Machine God Maple!
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    She can also get out of the mech and has her standard shield and dagger, and different faces you can attach for different expressions.

    Unfortunately it costs $154.

    I also eyed that Dynazenon figure, but it was even more expensive.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    That's honestly pretty cheap considering what I've seen of figure prices

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Well, more unfortunate that it's outside of my price range is what I meant.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    The colors in Demon Slayer are so vivid it's incredible.

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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The colors in Demon Slayer are so vivid it's incredible.

    all the zooms, pans, and rotations during dynamic action scenes are just ufotable flexing

    i'm not complaining

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    So as a non-manga reader, tell me if I've got this latest AOT episode right.
    The Attack Titan's 'power' is described as 'the ability to see glimpses of future holder's memory.' How it actually seems to work, as shown in the episode, is that a holder has the ability to send a memory back to any former holder. This means that any holder can potentially manipulate any former holder, and whoever would be the theoretical 'last' holder would have the ability to manipulate literally all of them. So this sets up like a reverse onset time-loop where Eren has potentially manipulated hundreds or even thousands of lives to reach this point. It's also possible Eren was the only one of the holders able to manipulate the past if he needed touching Zeke (or any royal family member) to freely explore the past holders memories, thus having the context to actually be able to manipulate them. Yeah this opens up time-travel determinism "chicken or egg" shit that is probably better left unpacking.

    So did I basically get it?

    Also, one weird thing if the above is true is Falco got a vision of memories of something that he had no idea what it was. Not sure what to make of that if the above is true. Like, since partway through part 1 of "the Final Season" I kind of started to figure Eren's plan was probably something along the lines of "kill the majority, if not all, of the population outside of the walls so that, after doing that, he can somehow remove the ability for Eldians to be titans/use titan powers without fear of the any foreign power possibly taking reprisal." Which is very fucking evil but also very in character. So having Falco eat Eren I don't see how that's a part of that. *shrugs*

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Gundi wrote: »
    So as a non-manga reader, tell me if I've got this latest AOT episode right.
    The Attack Titan's 'power' is described as 'the ability to see glimpses of future holder's memory.' How it actually seems to work, as shown in the episode, is that a holder has the ability to send a memory back to any former holder. This means that any holder can potentially manipulate any former holder, and whoever would be the theoretical 'last' holder would have the ability to manipulate literally all of them. So this sets up like a reverse onset time-loop where Eren has potentially manipulated hundreds or even thousands of lives to reach this point. It's also possible Eren was the only one of the holders able to manipulate the past if he needed touching Zeke (or any royal family member) to freely explore the past holders memories, thus having the context to actually be able to manipulate them. Yeah this opens up time-travel determinism "chicken or egg" shit that is probably better left unpacking.

    So did I basically get it?

    Also, one weird thing if the above is true is Falco got a vision of memories of something that he had no idea what it was. Not sure what to make of that if the above is true. Like, since partway through part 1 of "the Final Season" I kind of started to figure Eren's plan was probably something along the lines of "kill the majority, if not all, of the population outside of the walls so that, after doing that, he can somehow remove the ability for Eldians to be titans/use titan powers without fear of the any foreign power possibly taking reprisal." Which is very fucking evil but also very in character. So having Falco eat Eren I don't see how that's a part of that. *shrugs*

    I was pretty much confused from start to finished, and just watched the spectacle.

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  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Gundi wrote: »
    So as a non-manga reader, tell me if I've got this latest AOT episode right.
    The Attack Titan's 'power' is described as 'the ability to see glimpses of future holder's memory.' How it actually seems to work, as shown in the episode, is that a holder has the ability to send a memory back to any former holder. This means that any holder can potentially manipulate any former holder, and whoever would be the theoretical 'last' holder would have the ability to manipulate literally all of them. So this sets up like a reverse onset time-loop where Eren has potentially manipulated hundreds or even thousands of lives to reach this point. It's also possible Eren was the only one of the holders able to manipulate the past if he needed touching Zeke (or any royal family member) to freely explore the past holders memories, thus having the context to actually be able to manipulate them. Yeah this opens up time-travel determinism "chicken or egg" shit that is probably better left unpacking.

    So did I basically get it?

    Also, one weird thing if the above is true is Falco got a vision of memories of something that he had no idea what it was. Not sure what to make of that if the above is true. Like, since partway through part 1 of "the Final Season" I kind of started to figure Eren's plan was probably something along the lines of "kill the majority, if not all, of the population outside of the walls so that, after doing that, he can somehow remove the ability for Eldians to be titans/use titan powers without fear of the any foreign power possibly taking reprisal." Which is very fucking evil but also very in character. So having Falco eat Eren I don't see how that's a part of that. *shrugs*

    AoT
    Yeah, you've got it as regards the Attack Titan. For the other bit, which episode was that?

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I watched Jujutsu Kaisen.

    It's good.

    Maybe this sounds weird, but I really liked that mouths were properly drawn and animated. Lots of shots with people in profile talking and not a side mouth to be seen.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Latest Demon Slayer:
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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Skeith wrote: »
    Gundi wrote: »
    So as a non-manga reader, tell me if I've got this latest AOT episode right.
    The Attack Titan's 'power' is described as 'the ability to see glimpses of future holder's memory.' How it actually seems to work, as shown in the episode, is that a holder has the ability to send a memory back to any former holder. This means that any holder can potentially manipulate any former holder, and whoever would be the theoretical 'last' holder would have the ability to manipulate literally all of them. So this sets up like a reverse onset time-loop where Eren has potentially manipulated hundreds or even thousands of lives to reach this point. It's also possible Eren was the only one of the holders able to manipulate the past if he needed touching Zeke (or any royal family member) to freely explore the past holders memories, thus having the context to actually be able to manipulate them. Yeah this opens up time-travel determinism "chicken or egg" shit that is probably better left unpacking.

    So did I basically get it?

    Also, one weird thing if the above is true is Falco got a vision of memories of something that he had no idea what it was. Not sure what to make of that if the above is true. Like, since partway through part 1 of "the Final Season" I kind of started to figure Eren's plan was probably something along the lines of "kill the majority, if not all, of the population outside of the walls so that, after doing that, he can somehow remove the ability for Eldians to be titans/use titan powers without fear of the any foreign power possibly taking reprisal." Which is very fucking evil but also very in character. So having Falco eat Eren I don't see how that's a part of that. *shrugs*

    AoT
    Yeah, you've got it as regards the Attack Titan. For the other bit, which episode was that?
    It's like the very first bit of the fourth season.
    Falco is dreaming on the battlefield after being shell shocked by an explosion and is woken up, and he describes he was dreaming of a scene where, while he doesn't know the words or context for it, he was flying around with swords and maneuver gear fighting titans. Here's the scene, I remembered it because well, in a pretty shocking opening to the 4th season it stood out as being like, particularly weird:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYhjlIJYyNw

    It seems like he's getting memories that aren't his own, which normally only seems to happen after you've become a titan shifter. Since he isn't one in this scene, that would suggest to me that Eren has something to do with it. Also since the only titan shifters that have ever used the maneuver gear to fight titans are Eren, Reiner, Berthold, Annie, Ymir, and Armin, that also kind of limits who's memory he'd be seeing. Zeke also used the gear but I don't think he ever learned how to fight with it, let alone use the swords and stuff. And again, for everything except this new (to us anime watchers) Attack titan stuff, you'd only see memories of the past, and only if you're a titan shifter. (And *maaaybe* also if you're of royal blood, I can't recall whether or not any royal family members had weird memory flashbacks without actually having any titan powers, but I really really don't think Falco is somehow of royal blood.)

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I started O Maidens in the Savage Season and I think somehow it's both a really interesting look at female sexuality and also steps directly into the "uncomfortable grooming" territory with two different characters. And while I'm not against them tackling that as a serious subject, it remains to be seen how those plotlines resolve. I'm conflicted because it might feel uncomfortable because I've conditioned myself to be On Guard with anime like this; it's usually fetish bait. But it's hard to tell if it's just bad writing or actually uncomfortable because it's realistic.

    I'll finish the series at least and formulate from there but I'm definitely conflicted

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I started O Maidens in the Savage Season and I think somehow it's both a really interesting look at female sexuality and also steps directly into the "uncomfortable grooming" territory with two different characters. And while I'm not against them tackling that as a serious subject, it remains to be seen how those plotlines resolve. I'm conflicted because it might feel uncomfortable because I've conditioned myself to be On Guard with anime like this; it's usually fetish bait. But it's hard to tell if it's just bad writing or actually uncomfortable because it's realistic.

    I'll finish the series at least and formulate from there but I'm definitely conflicted

    It's Mari Okada's pet manga. She feeds on existential teenager angst. She's talented, but if it's an original show written by her and not reined in by outside forces (ie she wrote Iron Blooded Orphens), you can bet it's going to be about teenagers struggling with puberty/sexuality, crushed by the dark uncaring monster that is society's pressures. There's no supernatural elements in that one though, so it's one of the rare cases where it's not a literal monster or some machine powered specifically by teenage suffering.

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    rhylith wrote: »
    Sorce wrote: »
    Nah, it's Remake Our Life!.

    Late spoilers for this Sorce do not click
    Seriously Sorce, don’t click this
    When, late in the show, a huge game has a busted internally developed engine and he fixes it by dragging and dropping an icon for Unity into a folder and suddenly it works perfectly i about died laughing.
    Finished the series, and clicked on this.
    That was fuckin' hilarious. That's not how any of this works! But if he had grown up to be some sort of YoshiP or whatever, that would have been funny too.

    Kept getting flashes of BioWare/Andromeda too. Especially since it was an in-house engine that was not good for the game they were making.

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  • AstharielAsthariel The Book Eater Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Im watching Demon Slayer: Entertainment District arc, after 7 episodes I need to say, that while I often criticized the first season, considering it to be overhyped, season two is pretty much better in every way so far, even if it still remains a shounen, with all the good and bad things related to that.

    Things I dislike about the series overall are still there, but they are not gonna change until it ends, so I may as well enjoy the good parts that come along the way.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    My main problem with Demon Slayer is that I found all the characters either boring (lead, sister), incredibly annoying (yellow dude) or somewhere in between (pig), which combined with an uninspired story made me not care for the fights, no matter how pretty the animation.

    Now Jujutsu Kaisen, boy am I so there for those dumb boys.

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