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I'm arguing with CD (and now you) because I think we're not real enemies, you silly goose.
Trying to argue with real enemies to try and change their minds is useless. Of course, one has to check that one's adversary is a real enemy, so trying to initiate dialogue is a good first step in any conflict, but them consistently refusing to engage in it or dismissing their opponent's critique out of hand (regardless of who says it*) is a good indicator that they might be real enemies.
* For example, Miko Iino dismisses Yuu Ishigami's critique several times in Love is War, but she doesn't dismiss the same criticism when Chika Fujiwara says it, so Ishigami and Iino aren't real enemies. Ishimiko clears that particular hurdle.
To your first paragraph: imagine two business magnates with the same worldview: being the richest is good, nothing is off the table to get there, whoever gets to the top deserves it. Complete agreement on every abstract position. If Magnate A wants to be the richest and so does Magnate B, they're going to outmaneuver, sabotage and murder the shit out of each other; they're still really enemies. Hell, they may even like and respect each other, but both of them have the same worldview that letting something like "the enjoyment of each other's company" get in the way of their ambitions is wrong. Real enmity != Worldview conflict.
The criteria for two enemies being real enemies is incompatibility of their committed life goals/ambitions, not necessarily their worldview.
To your second paragraph: I know firsthand (hell, zeroth hand) people can change. But for someone to change of their own free will, they have to want to change, which means realizing their committed life goals/ambitions are served by them changing, which means, if they change enough to be genuine friends with their former enemies, their and their former enemies' CLGs/As weren't incompatible to begin with. Hence, not really enemies. QED.
I absolutely adore Iruma-kun manga:
Is there an arc where it doesn't feel like Iruma/the author actually earned the end? There's been pretty good narrative flow and character development, imo.
I am definitely stoked to start Monogatari: Second Season, but also I'm hoping there's a lot more Senjougahara than there was in Niseimonogatari, because this series is actively at its best and its least bad-horny when Senjougahara is threatening to rip Koyomi's face off with office supplies for toeing the line between dirtbag and scumbag
aka Im done with this topic while you act like that
That's the definite nadir of the series, but woof there are still some low points to go.
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I find most anime end with the story unresolved as a way to get you to check out the manga, so I always encourage people to seek out manga for the conclusion to most stories.
Then you read the manga and find out the story is still unresolved. But I don't encourage people to seek out the light novel because no matter how good an anime or manga is there has been some MAJOR editing of the light novel to get them to that point. It's just part of what a light novel is, something simple enough to be written on a phone that doesn't need to conform to usual writing structure.
Anyway, I reached Taboo Tattoo, and I'd forgotten so many small things about this show that make it such a fucking baffling and fascinating acid trip, not the least of which was how the whole thing ended with a teaser for "On the next season of Taboo Tattoo, battle at the South Pole!" Which is just peak comedy and almost a parody in and of itself. The entire final arc is such a cataclysm of mystifying nonsense, from a dude named Colonel Sanders wanting to nuke the grand canyon to stop girl Sephiroth, to somehow ending up a kaijuu fight with dudes chanting "USA! USA!", to a random side character popping up out of nowhere getting top billing who keeps yelling that he's the main character and has a girlfriend waiting at home who he's going to marry. JC Staff went so hard on the animation for it too. Not always well, since it loves the zooming around camera schtick, but more money and effort probably went into any of its fights than every single one of the half-assed action scenes of Virgin Road this season combined. I would love to know the story of whatever the fuck was going on with that show's production.
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Same. You can rush through manga very fast, so if is bad, whatever.
Meanwhile, anime takes time to watch, so you have to schedule time for it. Barely make time to watch anime these days, and this season is only Spy x Family.
Nae, good person. The light novel is a heavily edited and professional product created from a web novel which is where the real madness is at.
Delving into web novels really does show you the uh ... Rawness of humanity.
It's important to leave as much space as possible for the two brain cells it has to bounce around.
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So true
Good timing on this one.
Kaguya's rap, for example, draws heavily from Queen:
Hayasaka's rap samples Led Zeppelin's Achilles Last Stand, which is a deep cut that took me a while to recognize:
But this isn't the only time. The season 2 track Enzetsu Ha!? draws pretty clearly from Bonnie Tyler's Holding Out for a Hero:
And the season 1 track "Failure" sound suspiciously like Dead or Alive's You Spin Me Round.
Whoever is doing the soundtracks for this show extremely knows what they're doing.
Aww hell yeah more Mob in October (turn on YouTube closed captions for English subs)
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Yeah, like I'm reading the Couple of Cuckoos manga. I started it day one when it came out since it was the same author as Seven Witches.
But when I think about the fact it has an anime now, my first thought it "That's out already!?" and my second is "Ehh...I don't really want to watch that, it kind of sucks..."
Then the next week, I read the next chapter of A Couple of Cuckoos.
The manga ended, right? Gotta be the last season
I've been meaning to dig into the comic but also the show was so good I'm sort of waiting for that, it's exceedingly rare that I ever engage with both an anime and manga concurrently
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You mean Final Season: The First Final Season, to be followed by Final Season: The Second Final Season, and then Final Movie: The Actual Conclusion.
Is this a thing now
I’ve only ever heard about Attack on Titan doing it, but I would absolutely believe it started a trend
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I had a feeling you'd dig it. It honestly does remind me of the Culture novels or similar works in that you can tell that a HUGE amount of effort has gone into planning the world, understanding the world, and it's consequences. Also if you're early on, it just gets better!
I also suggest looking up the author's Daydream Hour bits she does - they're sketch compliations etc which show some of her behind the scenes work, and they're amazing. For an example, she'll dress characters in each others outfits to make sure characters remain recongizable, she'll draw just the eyes and noses (for exactly the same reason), she'll even do the characters as different races to show how they'd look. Which is just an amazing level of detail and effort.
Ahhh! it's so good. It's also, sadly probably coming towards an end but i will be avidly following whatever she does next.
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Kamen Rider Decade only did 30 out of the usual 50 episodes those shows do, and needed a half dozen movies to attempt (and fail) to explain the story.
and I'm saying those two are terrible examples of it!
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