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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Kaguya-sama 255

    Really have not cared about this Big Drama arc, Kaguya-sama is always at its best when its poking fun at romance tropes and being silly.

    But this chapter sure did bring the Hayasaka/Fujiwara ship roaring back to life

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Yes!

    May I see it?
    TNTrooper wrote: »
    Maddoc wrote: »
    Oh boy, time to spend some chapters on the legally mandated class pervert character in Iruma

    No thanks.

    It's the law. Read the chapters or spend three weeks in an iso-cube, creep.
    Kana wrote: »
    Kaguya-sama 255

    Really have not cared about this Big Drama arc, Kaguya-sama is always at its best when its poking fun at romance tropes and being silly.

    But this chapter sure did bring the Hayasaka/Fujiwara ship roaring back to life

    I've actually sort-of dropped Kaguya-Sama on the page
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    . Your post is a solid argument for picking it up again.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Symphogear G completed. GX has begun. Already cranked to 11. Nobody was prepared.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Tonight on Animenagerie S:

    SYMPHOGEAAAAAAR!

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Symphogear G completed. GX has begun. Already cranked to 11. Nobody was prepared.

    That opening song is peak Symphogear moment.

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I just started SSSS.Dynazenon.

    It's got big FLCL energy. Like if you took it and mashed it together with Power Rangers.

    Plus it's got that Trigger prettiness.

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  • augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    If you're like me and your favorite thing is dogshit quality rips of 80s/90s OVAs that only came out on VHS (and will never be rereleased commercially in any capacity) may I suggest using ShaderGlass to throw a crt filter on that shit (or any other shit.)

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    That is a fucking take on Ranking of Kings. Like, holy shit that's a bad take.

    I know what part of the story that must be referencing but I have no idea how anyone makes that parallel.

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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Gundi wrote: »
    That is a fucking take on Ranking of Kings. Like, holy shit that's a bad take.

    I know what part of the story that must be referencing but I have no idea how anyone makes that parallel.

    People reach so hard to fabricate analogues just so they can scold at something

    It is exhausting

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    All anime would be improved if they had the kind of oavs that Symphogear has. They are fun little background stories that expand on the heroes and villains.

    It doesn't matter the genre, they'd all be improved.

    Fullmetal Alchemist, Death Note, Gungrave, Evangelion, Requiem for the Phantom, Baccano, Zombie Land Saga, etc.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Gundi wrote: »
    That is a fucking take on Ranking of Kings. Like, holy shit that's a bad take.

    I know what part of the story that must be referencing but I have no idea how anyone makes that parallel.

    It's referencing the part in a recent episode about the 100% benevolent kingdom of magic who went to the 100% evil barbaric kingdom of thieves and were betrayed and run out for sharing their inherantly superior culture and gifts.

    It's unfortunately not totally spurious because the art of the barbarian village is sketched from famous photographs of Korean villages, and that kind of racist attitude about Koreans/culture is definitely a thing. I do agree that it's reaching a little bit though and more likely that the artist(s) are just lazy and maybe minorly racist, not like a big overriding theme or anything like that.

    That said, consider me the voice of disagreement about the quality of the writing. The first half was decent, if uneven with some weird moments here and here, but the second half has been Bad™. Dragonball bad, except it tries to go maximum melodrama with wailing, weeping, and sobbing every time somebody is stabbed, only for somebody to then pull out a senzuu bean or reveal that they had super healing magic all along and now completely fine so we can get back to fighting the one literally random minion that we've been fighting for two straight months now despite his weakness being shown in his first damn appearance. The pacing has just been utterly fucked in the second half, not helped by being distracted by tons of nonsensical flashbacks and trying to both-sides all named characters, even the remorseless mass murderers, but also there are cultures/people who are Just Plain Evil and even being racist, genocidal, child torturing murderers is okay if it's to defeat them. Pick a lane, dude.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Daypigeon wrote: »
    man

    of all the storytelling decisions in netflix's castlevania that made me go "but why," having the berserker armor/artorias armor come out for a single fight scene between some randos and a character who was written out immediately afterwards sure was one of them

    season 3 & 4 has a lot of that for me personally; I don't know if it's because in season 4 ellis got outed and kicked off the show and it was a rush to finish scripts or what.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    the reason the berserker armor and dragon slayer are being used is because the berserker armor and dragon slayer are fucking cool

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The reason the berserker armor is used is Miura wanted to draw incredibly intricate armor over and over and over because he was an insane person, RIP

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Dr Stone is over.

    This feels like a we were cancelled ending and frankly this last arc sucked.

    I don't think it was cancelled, but reading it hasn't gripped me for a while now.

    I like the premise of essentially playing Civilization and unlocking all the Techs on the Upgrade Tree, but it suffered from complexity creep (in the story, not the techs) as time went on.

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Agreed -- I was pretty lost during the parts where the good guys were sailing around trying to get technologies together before the bad guys could get them, there seemed to be too many things going on in too many different places.

    I think the overall pacing is okay, it feels like a reasonable spot on the tech tree to stop, and a place where they'd meant to stop. Towards the end, though, it felt like they started to develop things a bit too quickly / easily / offscreen which was less interesting than "so how do we smelt aluminium" or something more plausible.

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  • J-bobJ-bob J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Most folks may have waited 7 years for the 4th rebuild movie but animenagerie only had to wait one week for tonight we end Evangelion...

    Again.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited April 14
    I am (not) ready

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  • DaypigeonDaypigeon Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    the reason the berserker armor and dragon slayer are being used is because the berserker armor and dragon slayer are fucking cool
    look, i love berserk, but when you're already making an adaptation of one series and you start jamming dead-end references from another series into that you're getting dangerously close to a ready player one

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Zonugal wrote: »
    I am (not) ready

    That’s fine, there’s a recap at the beginning.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Daypigeon wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    the reason the berserker armor and dragon slayer are being used is because the berserker armor and dragon slayer are fucking cool
    look, i love berserk, but when you're already making an adaptation of one series and you start jamming dead-end references from another series into that you're getting dangerously close to a ready player one

    the castlevania game series was influenced by berserk and already contained references

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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  • DaypigeonDaypigeon Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I mean, pretty much any series is gonna be influenced by other works, but I dunno if an adaptation should feel compelled to focus on those influences, or add even more references when they've already got plenty to work with by definition

    they had four seasons to adapt castlevania 3 and fuckin' grant danasty was a bridge too far to include as-is but somehow the not-berserker armor made it in. it's just like, what happened here

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I think there’s a huge gulf between an homage and the shit ready player one is doing.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Daypigeon wrote: »
    I mean, pretty much any series is gonna be influenced by other works, but I dunno if an adaptation should feel compelled to focus on those influences, or add even more references when they've already got plenty to work with by definition

    they had four seasons to adapt castlevania 3 and fuckin' grant danasty was a bridge too far to include as-is but somehow the not-berserker armor made it in. it's just like, what happened here

    It's not that Grant was too weird to add, they had just already decided to go with a mixture of CV3 and Curse of Darkness, so they had more than enough characters to go around. Including references just to include them is often considered a fault of branded properties.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    No, they just straight up said they thought Grant was stupid so they refused to include him. Main reason I'll never touch that show.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Season 4 added Greta from the city of Danesti who seemed to be a replacement for Grant.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Reynolds wrote: »
    No, they just straight up said they thought Grant was stupid so they refused to include him. Main reason I'll never touch that show.

    his name is grant danasty

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  • DaypigeonDaypigeon Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    i'm just gonna get ahead of the jump and say the point i was making is: it's weird to be coy about referencing castlevania in your castlevania adaptation that's fine with making all sorts of other references for fun. strange choices imo

    also c'mon, the gory vampire show where characters say fuck should have had to reckon with the fact that one of their major characters is a pirate named danasty who climbs onto the ceiling and throws knives at people

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Reynolds wrote: »
    No, they just straight up said they thought Grant was stupid so they refused to include him. Main reason I'll never touch that show.

    Do you have a quote for this? Because this
    https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a870221/castlevania-boss-reveals-where-is-grant-danasty/
    suggests you are misremembering.

    Edit: This quote: https://bleedingcool.com/comics/first-time-warren-ellis-wrote-castlevania-animation-ten-years-ago/
    does NOT say he hates Grant. He thinks it's completely illogical to have a pirate in a completely landlocked setting, and this is a quote from 2007. I sincerely doubt he held a grudge against the character (perhaps against the name, but who cares?), it just didn't work out in the story to include him.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Reynolds wrote: »
    No, they just straight up said they thought Grant was stupid so they refused to include him. Main reason I'll never touch that show.

    his name is grant danasty

    Yeah he's fucking great. I'm not going to watch a Castlevania III show without him.

    Also this should be in the Western Cartoons thread! Where I can't see it to get mad about it!!

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Tonight on a very special CinemAniMenagerie, Zonugal Can (Not) Enjoy His Stories

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited April 14
    To be fair, Ally McBeal is better than 99% of all anime ever made.

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I'm actually really enjoying SSSS.Dynazenon.

    All the mech/kaiju stuff is completely superfluous and is really only there as a narrative device to explain why a group of awkward people and their problems have been brought together.

    Lots of really pretty, quiet scenes of people just kind of talking and dealing with sort of lowstakes problems and then they gotta go punch a huge Godzilla for a minute or two.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    yeah that's an interesting way of looking at it, instead of the monster of the week being the A-plot and the normal people stuff being the B-plot it's reversed

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Well it's done.

    We've ruined @IronKnuckle's Ghost's favorite series, and wasted 8+ hours of @Zonugal's time.

    Evangelion is officially dead forever now. Rest In Piss.

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