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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 14
    please god can we talk about anime

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 14
    Can I interest you in every season’s best anime, boruto naruto next generations

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Didn't Naruto and Sasuke basically become, like, the Gods of Ninjutsu at the end of Naruto?

    Feels like they'd have to be arbitrarily powered down so that Boruto could have threats that wouldn't just immediately be taken care of by Naruto or Sasuke.

    Sort of like how Saitama in One-Punch Man has to be a dumbass who gets lost for hours on end so that other fights can happen.

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  • akajaybayakajaybay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Watched the first Dance Dance Danseur. I like the dance animations, the eye style is distracting but I think I'd get over it. Unfortunately I think it might be a miss for me on the protaganist.
    I get the basic setup of high schooler who dreams of ballet but worries about it not being masculine or whatever, but it also feels like it's going too far in that direction. Like I only did it cause of this girl bro.
    Not sure I have the patience for the show if it takes it as long as it feels like it'll take it to get past that stuff. If it ever does.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    RT800 wrote: »
    Didn't Naruto and Sasuke basically become, like, the Gods of Ninjutsu at the end of Naruto?

    Feels like they'd have to be arbitrarily powered down so that Boruto could have threats that wouldn't just immediately be taken care of by Naruto or Sasuke.

    Can't speak to the anime, by the manga has done a good job of various threats and why they don't just get annihilated by Naruto and Sasuke

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Wasn't it just that the big threats in Boruto are that Kaguya wasn't the only cosmic deity and killing her drew the attention of the rest.

    I haven't read it in ages though.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Spy x Family was delightful and Anya is adorable.

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  • KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    RT800 wrote: »
    Didn't Naruto and Sasuke basically become, like, the Gods of Ninjutsu at the end of Naruto?

    Feels like they'd have to be arbitrarily powered down so that Boruto could have threats that wouldn't just immediately be taken care of by Naruto or Sasuke.

    Sort of like how Saitama in One-Punch Man has to be a dumbass who gets lost for hours on end so that other fights can happen.

    Naruto had a pretty big nerf recently.

    Big manga/anime spoilers
    Kurama died. So now Naruto is more like Hokage powered without a supply of insane chakra

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    RT800 wrote: »
    Didn't Naruto and Sasuke basically become, like, the Gods of Ninjutsu at the end of Naruto?

    Feels like they'd have to be arbitrarily powered down so that Boruto could have threats that wouldn't just immediately be taken care of by Naruto or Sasuke.

    Sort of like how Saitama in One-Punch Man has to be a dumbass who gets lost for hours on end so that other fights can happen.

    Boruto (the manga at least) has been rather clever about threat escalation. Basically, it was established in Naruto's finale that the big end boss wasn't a one off, but basically a kind of space alien, a la Dragonball, so others of that type have arrived to cause trouble AND ninja technology has dramatically escalated to the point where mostly untrained children can do moves that took skilled ninjas years of training to do, easily. This has created a setting to where the adults aren't an instant win button and the kids aren't completely useless.

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  • Ark EvensongArk Evensong The NetherlandsRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Does anyone know when the english dub of Kaguya S3 will be showing up? I watched S1 and S2 with my kids and they were super excited for S3 -- but we watched the dub because it was done so well, so switching to subtitles would be a big change.
    No announcements yet. At all. I'm pretty sure it will come, but no clue what timeframe to look for. (S2 dub was pretty late, and I think suffered some further delays due to the pandemic. Think it started a month or two after the season was done airing. S1 dub dropped all at once a few months after the S2 dub was complete.) [...]
    Oh, hey, Crunchyroll announced their simuldub lineup for the current season. No date yet for Kaguya-sama, but shouldn't be too long.

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  • IronKnuckleIronKnuckle This is also my fault Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    That Zhuge Liang show's OP is stuck in my head and won't leave.

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  • NeveronNeveron SwedenRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    That Zhuge Liang show's OP is stuck in my head and won't leave.

    Apparently it's a cover of some Hungarian song that went viral in Japan?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRjLbePQg1o

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  • AbacusAbacus Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Watched Spy x Family, it was everything I wanted it to be. Remember reading that manga until around the 30 ish chapter, so know the plot basics, but it was still very entretaining. Also Anya is adorable. Also can tell already which are going to be the best and worst episodes of the season, if it gets that far:
    • Best is the introduction to the dog. Is entretaining, it gives every character moments to shine, it has a very good moral and the stakes feel high.
    • Worst is the introduction to Yor's brother. He sucks.
    So very excited for that.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    darunia106 wrote: »
    Tatsuki Fujimoto, the author of Chainsaw Man, just released a new 200 page one shot: Good-bye Eri. It's really good go read it.

    https://www.viz.com/shonenjump/chapters/goodbye-eri

    It's really interesting to look at this story as a partner piece with Look Back.

    Like Look Back is telling its own story but its also widely read as a piece of public mourning over the KyoAni arson, the loss of so many talented young artists and all the works they may have created in their futures. And any time a mangaka is writing a story about someone who writes manga there's always the question there of like how much of their own life and experiences they're pulling from to inspire their character. So like a big part of the emotional impact of Look Back wasn't just the text itself but the real life tragedy that we think informs it, and that's what really dominated the public conversation around the comic when it was released.

    So now we've got Goodbye Eri, which is
    about a teenager dealing with grief by making a movie drawing inspiration from real life. But the structure of the comic is twisty and complicated, and purposefully makes you start questioning the lines between what's real and what's invention. We could read the comic literally, as him releasing his 1st movie, filming and releasing his 2nd movie, and then re-editing the 2nd movie when he's older. But the comic suggests reasons we shouldn't accept this, and Eri mentions how she likes trying to figure out what parts are real or not. In the 1st movie we see an idealized version of his mom, but there's subtext that becomes text that the whole thing is pretty fucked up, and we eventually find out she was abusive. In the 2nd movie we're told by the friend that Film Eri is idealized, that she was a bit of a jerk irl, and she had a retainer and glasses that never show up on camera. Among other things this suggests that their first meeting and a lot of their supposedly "off-camera" impromptu conversations were actually constructed and filmed purposefully. So perhaps actually the entire comic, from start to finish, is actually his 2nd movie. The time-skipped grown up kid could easily just be his dad, for instance. And then that suggests even more levels of construction in the story - did Eri really die? Is Eri even a real person, or is she a fictional character constructed entirely for his movie? We can make theories for how to interpret it and how much to accept as real or not, but there's no secret solution to what the real story is, we just don't know. And expanding from that, how much are we going to grieve to a story where we don't actually know how much of it is real?

    Which is an interesting question to be asking when his last word very much was about feeling grief over a real event through a story about a fictional one. And it suggests a lot more questions that Goodbye Eri plays with - How true can fiction (or even just an edited version of reality) actually be? How much truth does the fiction writer owe to true events, and is it ethical to be pulling pathos from an audience that knows - or thinks they know - that it's based on real events and real grief. Can the creator's emotions be expressed honestly when his story is purposefully misleading viewers about what happened? How much of our grief depends on knowing the answers to "what really happened" with all the riddles that Fujimoto suggests in his story?

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I think my favorite bit from Ya Boy Koming so far either has to be Koming handing someone their drink before they even finished their order... or the historian-nerd manager running up going "Are we talking about romance of the three kingdoms!?".

    It's a great show, so far!

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  • Andy JoeAndy Joe We claim the land for the highlord! The AdirondacksRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Bookworm S3 01

    Main's ambition was inevitably going to drive her to create the printing press, but I'm surprised she's getting started on it this soon. Figured she'd focus more on getting the concept of mass-produced books made through hand-copying embedded in the culture first. Well, it couldn't hurt to get started on the technology early.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Whippy wrote: »
    please god can we talk about anime

    SpyXFamily might be the only thing I watch this season. Nothing has gotten my attention yet

    Have you heard the good word about ESTAB Life yet? It's got something for everyone!! Gun girls, slimegirls, communist penguins, magical girls, wolfmen, robots with deep voices...

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  • Kevin CristKevin Crist I make the devil hit his knees and say the 'our father'Registered User regular
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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Whippy wrote: »
    please god can we talk about anime

    good god you can't just say this to people

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Whippy wrote: »
    please god can we talk about anime

    good god you can't just say this to people

    Yeah! I'm pretty sure when your prayer reached the Almighty They went "... Why have you forsaken Me?"

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Tonight on AniMenagerie, Ryuko lost her way...

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Tonight on AniMenagerie, Ryuko lost her way...

    Probably because she was asked to talk about anime!

    (OK ok, I'll stop.)

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    99% perspiration, 1% inspiration, all that.

    The best example from personal experience is chess. People think you have to be smart to play chess, or be good at chess. But you know what chess mainly is, what it actually is all the way up to the highest levels of play? It's mainly just pattern recognition. That is like, genuinely, 99% of what determines the outcome.

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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
    Gundi wrote: »
    99% perspiration, 1% inspiration, all that.

    The best example from personal experience is chess. People think you have to be smart to play chess, or be good at chess. But you know what chess mainly is, what it actually is all the way up to the highest levels of play? It's mainly just pattern recognition. That is like, genuinely, 99% of what determines the outcome.

    I don't know... I watched this chess anime on Netflix two years ago and it seems like the key to being good at the game is DRUGS

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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
    Tonight on AniMenagerie, @IronKnuckle's Ghost loses his damn mind watching the second part of the final Duel Kingdom duel between Yugi Moto and Maximillian Pegasus, with the activation of the Toon World card:

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Fuckin toon world

    I also love the flex, the fuckin nuts, of “yes I designed this card, it’s OP as fuck so it’s not in rotation, but I will use it in my deck”
    And then it turns out he's got an ace monster completely unrelated to Toon World.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Getting live reactions from IKG and Zonugal to shows they've never even looked at is very, very good.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Look Yugi straight up cheats all the time so Pegasus is allowed his bullshit card.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Gundi wrote: »
    Look Yugi straight up cheats all the time so Pegasus is allowed his bullshit card.

    Which one

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Yes.

    I mean they're all running Pot of Greed anyway.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Gundi wrote: »
    Yes.

    I mean they're all running Pot of Greed anyway.

    Also it's got to be an in-universe meme for whoever uses Pot of Greed to explain what it does. Everyone knows it, but you play the card you have to say the line or you get cancelled on Kaiba-Twitter. But that's not too bad because 90% of the world population is cancelled on Kaiba-Twitter since Kaiba hates everyone anyway and the rest don't use the app.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The only part of the manga I read was Season 0. Which also happens to be the BEST season.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I was obsessed with watching the anime as a child and as an adult i went back and read the entire manga (which isn’t that bad and is better / different than the anime)
    Madican wrote: »
    Gundi wrote: »
    Yes.

    I mean they're all running Pot of Greed anyway.

    Also it's got to be an in-universe meme for whoever uses Pot of Greed to explain what it does. Everyone knows it, but you play the card you have to say the line or you get cancelled on Kaiba-Twitter. But that's not too bad because 90% of the world population is cancelled on Kaiba-Twitter since Kaiba hates everyone anyway and the rest don't use the app.

    Yeah about that

    Basically 90% time they use Pot of Greed in the anime, it’s filler. It’s so they can draw extra cards that do nothing to the outcome of the duel and they can streeeeetch the battle longer than the manga.

    This is part of why Arc-V actually genuinely kinda sucks. Because it's super reliant on having the Action Cards that are scattered all over the field, so duels are less about people doing conceivably cool things based on the actaul game, and more about litertal Plot Bullshit.

    Which is saying something when the very next series has the protagonists special power being "Create the exact card i need!", and it's less infurating than Arc V's crap.

    Also the most recent Yu-Gi-Oh series finished, and it ended with our heros fighting the villian in space.

    IN a giant robot, powered by a curry-powered robot. The villain meanwhile had built his own giant robot that was... a duplicate of himself. it was deeply dumb, and curved right back around to awesome.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Whippy wrote: »
    please god can we talk about anime

    good god you can't just say this to people

    No its ok I'm very grateful sometimes when I get started I can't work out how to stop its like figuring out how to stop spelling banananananadammit

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