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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    luffy is very dumb

    but he is good at making an entrance

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  • DHSDHS Chase lizards.. ...bark at donkeys..Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    luffy is very dumb

    but he is good at making an entrance

    He has but 1 braincell but it does know 3 things

    1. Who's going to be a pretty cool hang
    b. The most important jerk to punch
    Tres. The aforementioned propensity to enter with maximum chaos and cool factor.

    And fourthly

    Every state-toppling revolution must be followed up with a country spanning banquet

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    "Grip 'em up, grip 'em, grip 'em good, said the Gryphon... to the pig."
  • KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Question about the newest Jujutsu Kaisen chapter
    That's panda losing his other two cores right? I read it as that but seen others refer it to a flashback

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  • IronKnuckleIronKnuckle This is also my fault Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oh! That's a baseball!

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    DHS wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    luffy is very dumb

    but he is good at making an entrance

    He has but 1 braincell but it does know 3 things

    1. Who's going to be a pretty cool hang
    b. The most important jerk to punch
    Tres. The aforementioned propensity to enter with maximum chaos and cool factor.

    And fourthly

    Every state-toppling revolution must be followed up with a country spanning banquet

    Said banquet MUST have meat.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I've determined two things tonight.

    I hate My Hero Academia.

    But I love All Might.

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  • durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Odd Taxi is really good! Just a fun sorta low-key noir. Funny, too! And I'm a big fan of the character designs. Lots of fun with different animal designs.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yeah a big pleasure of Odd Taxi is that dawning realization that this is totally a noir detective story, just with a taxi driver and talking animals.
    Odokawa is the hard-boiled detective - a deep knowledge of the city, a tragic backstory, an unusual gift for noticing details, a semi-antagonistic relationship with the local cops, and the ability to drift effortlessly between different classes, from gangsters to rich entertainers.

    His love interest seems like a femme fatale, but in the end that's a bit of a fakeout - the real fatal female is the idol girl, who acts all innocent and cute and will actually murder you dead.

    You've also got the classic mystery setup of the dead girl found in the water, whose death ends up revealing a web of dark secrets of the town.

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    My kids and I were taking a little road trip around small-town alberta, and saw this place, and given their URL there was no way we weren't going to go here:

    https://www.originaltsundre.com/

    Disappointingly, the server did not say "here's your burger but it's not because I like you or anything, b-b-b-baka"

    (and yes I know it's not quite spelled like that, but it's close enough we had to take a look, and the food _was_ pretty great if you happen to find yourself in Sundre AB at some point)

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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 13
    Tonight at AniMenagerie, Krillin had to fight a contestant from a Yu-Gi-Oh! card-game tournament.

    It was VERY GROSS!

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Tonight at AniMenagerie, Krillin had to fight a contestant from a Yu-Gi-Oh! card-game tournament.

    It was VERY GROSS!

    If it's the episode I think it is, the way he wins is just great.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Odd Tax is easily one of the best anime I have seen in the last 5 years.

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  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Honestly I feel like Odd Taxi got less interesting as it went on. Like it never went below "fine", but
    I really liked the idea of a show that's just a vignettes of some character shown through the framing device of some tired old taxi driver's shifts, and turning out to be a more conventional detective story was just not as interesting.

    And then. I didn't really like the reveal that everyone being animals was actually the main guy's head injury. I wish they'd just let it be that everyone is animal people because these character designs rule and it's fun animation. I get that it is a bit unusual and so it must've felt like they needed a better justification for it, but I think those two reasons are enough and wish studio had just let them stand on their own. Giving a plot reason for it feels like a back down. Though granted that reveal did get us "oh good, it's just a cat," which I did really like.

    IDK maybe I'd have liked it more if I just liked the noir plot itself more. Taken on it's own, outside of the gradual genre reveal, I feel like the noir plot is just okay.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Also tonight Zonugal got very hype for Totally Awesome Video Games even though he claimed he was possibly too sleepy for anime.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xETGvVi7n4o

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    RED DRARGONS

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm two episodes into Revue Starlight and I'm not sure I like it that much. It's Utena but not as weird or nostalgic. It's Symphogear but not as exciting or ridiculous. Which means it's just kinda mediocre.

    It feels like the Love Live/Idolmaster sanitization/distillation/commercialization of a bunch of more niche properties, which I guess makes sense if it mainly exists to promote the mobile game and merch. It's taking bits from other things, where the original would go whole hog 120% off the deep end with it, and giving it a nice, glossy finish over safely rounded edges.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Ohhhhhh, the revue starlight anime is a gacha advertisement show? Now I understand why it always seemed to me to exist mainly as like, fanart based on an imaginary property that doesn't exist.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »
    I'm two episodes into Revue Starlight and I'm not sure I like it that much. It's Utena but not as weird or nostalgic. It's Symphogear but not as exciting or ridiculous. Which means it's just kinda mediocre.

    It feels like the Love Live/Idolmaster sanitization/distillation/commercialization of a bunch of more niche properties, which I guess makes sense if it mainly exists to promote the mobile game and merch. It's taking bits from other things, where the original would go whole hog 120% off the deep end with it, and giving it a nice, glossy finish over safely rounded edges.

    I was just bored by it. Like, the 'fighting' parts were kind of neat, but all the rest was just complete total banality and it never really connected to the surreal side of things. From what I understand, it does lean fully into the bizarre bullshit in the last four episodes or so, but the rest is... yeah, basically filler.

    Genuine spoilers, if that helps
    Like, the whole thing is fueled by their BRILLIANCE, which is like, stage presence power level, that the grand winner gets to siphon off from everybody else, and the current winner has trapped them all in a permanent time loop because she wants to be top star forever. The protagonist, who actually knew what was up from the start because she had her BRILLIANCE stolen somewhere else previously, manages to beat her, but doesn't want to steal everybody else's BRILLIANCE, so ends up instead trapped in purgatory, 'fighting' the monkey paw giraffe forever as a solo performance, until the power of friendship.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yusuke Murata (OPM) spotted a wild Yoshihiro Togashi on Twitter; supposedly HxH is coming back for another ~10 chapters/1 volume.

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  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yusuke Murata (OPM) spotted a wild Yoshihiro Togashi on Twitter; supposedly HxH is coming back for another ~10 chapters/1 volume.

    But… the H already x’d the other H!

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oh man, I can't wait for full chapter explanations of how an ability manifests that takes too long to actually resolve the conflict

    (I actually do like that stuff, but not reading week to week and by an author that is almost essentially retired due to health concerns)

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  • EspantaPajaroEspantaPajaro Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    And I’m caught back up to the one piece anime . Is it just me or has the animation been looking much more expensive in the last episodes . Also Yamato needs to join the crew after this arc , she is pretty cool.

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  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I think Yamato is basically a lock for crewmate. He's directly said he wants to sail with Luffy and he's also gotten a big push as an old friend of Luffy's brother.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yamato and Jinbei tag team duo. Fire and Water.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I thought Odd Taxi was quite good, but not just an absolute masterpiece like some people seem to view it.

    If you don't like slow burns or dry humor you probably won't like it.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Revue Starlight is an adaptation of stage plays

    The gacha game is a semi-canon sequel, the movie is the canon conclusion

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I recently started watching Assassination Classroom, and it made me think about times I've had a preconception about a show before watching it that was totally off.
    • Assassination Classroom: I thought it was a training school for assassins and the kids were probably going to have to try and kill each other since there are a ton of death game manga/anime out there. I also thought the teacher was a weird octopus monster just because anime is weird like that.
    • Chivalry of the Failed Knight: I thought it was going to be an isekai in a fantasy world.
    • Death Note: Before watching, I only knew a smart kid finds a book that kills people and that there was a time skip. When the intro played and it showed Light and L opposing each other...I thought they were the same person. I thought Light would be the hero of the story, and L would be his appearance after the timeskip where he's haggard from the use of the death note and is trying to make up for his misdeeds of his past.
    • Death Parade: I thought the OP was going to be representative of what the show was like.
    • Deca-Dence: I knew nothing before starting it, so assumed Episode 1 was representative of the show, until Episode 2 pulled the rug out from under me.
    • The Saga of Tanya the Evil: I don't know how, but at some point I saw an image that I thought was Tanya the Evil, but I guess wasn't since it doesn't match the show at all. But I was under the impression that Tanya was an evil dictator that ruled from a giant zeppelin and mostly sent out her minions from the safety of her command room.
    • Symphogear: I thought it would just be something to pass the time, and instead it was fucking awesome.
    • Tenchi Muyo: Without having seen it, I'd absorbed from cultural osmosis some of the characters. However, I thought the cabbit was Tenchi Muyo and the main character (I also assumed he could talk and didn't know he was a spaceship). I wouldn't have even recognized actual Tenchi.

    What are some you've had before?

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    This one time I thought anime was good

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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »
    I'm two episodes into Revue Starlight and I'm not sure I like it that much. It's Utena but not as weird or nostalgic. It's Symphogear but not as exciting or ridiculous. Which means it's just kinda mediocre.

    It feels like the Love Live/Idolmaster sanitization/distillation/commercialization of a bunch of more niche properties, which I guess makes sense if it mainly exists to promote the mobile game and merch. It's taking bits from other things, where the original would go whole hog 120% off the deep end with it, and giving it a nice, glossy finish over safely rounded edges.

    I haven't watched it myself, but that sounds rather unlike what I've heard of it, since basically all of my friends who watched it seem to be of the general opinion that Revue Starlight is basically what if Utena was directed by someone who used imagery for consistent visual metaphors that mean things, instead of just throwing out stuff and letting the viewer Rorschach the blots.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Maddoc wrote: »
    This one time I thought anime was good

    My first reaction to this was to try and find a clip of Gilbert Gottfried shouting "You fool!" but then I thought it might be too harsh and also I made myself sad.

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  • LucedesLucedes Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Maddoc wrote: »
    This one time I thought anime was good

    you listen here

    anime is a very serious condition, okay? and if we didn't have a thread for it, these poor posters would all be out on the streets doing it unsafely! here, at least, we can provide clean pages and make sure none of the worst kinds of anime are done. it saves lives and affords these poor souls greater dignity.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    For a more real answer I kept seeing the SpyxFamily manga in the Shonen Jump app, and I don't know that I had any specific misconceptions beyond thinking the premise didn't really interest me

    And then when people started raving about the anime, I sat down with the manga just to feel it out

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  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Maddoc wrote: »
    For a more real answer I kept seeing the SpyxFamily manga in the Shonen Jump app, and I don't know that I had any specific misconceptions beyond thinking the premise didn't really interest me

    And then when people started raving about the anime, I sat down with the manga just to feel it out
    Yeah I figured it'd be like, the family were being deployed as a team rather than all of them just running into eachother and not knowing their real identities.

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I thought that Dominion Tank Police was gonna be about police with tanks, but it's actually about how police should never be given tanks because they're all psychopaths and they'll want nukes next. At least from the one episode I saw.

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