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  • Andy JoeAndy Joe We claim the land for the highlord! The AdirondacksRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I just read through Dragonball and Dragonball Z (which, despite being a lot of pages, was a pretty quick read), and it's interesting comparing how fights work there to how fights work in One-Punch Man -- while Dragonball continually increases the power of the people fighting, the actual mechanics of the fights are always basically the same. There's a series of panels of close-up punches/kicks/etc, then someone jumps really high, we pan out to see them launching a giant energy ball of some sort, energy ball hits, then the characters close in again for more punches/kicks.

    From time to time someone gets knocked into something hard enough to leave a big crater but that's about it. I'm simplifying, of course, but I was fairly surprised at how repetitive the fight scenes felt; we get told that X is now even more powerful than they were before, or new-character-Y is super tough, but there's not a lot of evidence of that in the actual combat other than that when new-character-Y hits X, X gets knocked backwards, which I guess implies that Y is tough because we know that X is tough so Y must be tougher? But that's exactly the same way that we were shown how tough people are back in the first chapters, there only scaling up is relative to other people but everyone's scaling up, so the only real change to what _happens_ is the size of the kamehameha's.

    And, sure, there is the occasional very very large amount of collateral damage but it never really feels like anything particularly dramatic happened, we just get told about it and it's mainly offscreen / "here is a lot of destruction" after the fact.


    On the other hand, looking at the latest chapters of OPM (the one on the viz site, at least), there's a much greater sense of "whoa, that is a big fight" -- the more detailed art doesn't hurt, but there's been more variety in what's going on during the recent fight scenes, the effects on the world outside are more varied and impressive, it just has more 'oomph'.

    I believe the DBZ anime put more focus on environmental damage for precisely this reason.

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 13
    shonen fights I have to actively try to not think about too hard when watching a series because figuring out the secret sauce like that definitely tanks my interest

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Anzekay wrote: »
    I started rewatching something

    here's a hint what it is
    rage on rage on gundam

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

    build fighters is so dumb but actually good

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It really is. It's a shame that Try mostly squandered it's potential and build divers was kinda awful.

    But then Re: Rise was secretly one of the best Gundam series for yonks, so that happened.

    Really interested to see where the new series goes, and I hope it sticks things better than ibo

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  • J-bobJ-bob J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Since Code Geass was recently talked about, I remembered I never got around to watching that despite everyone else having seemingly already seen it. So I finally started watching it since I finished Assassination Classroom.

    ...his name is pronounced LeLoosh? My lack of language skills has been pronouncing it wrong for years every time I saw it in a discussion.

    Also I didn't know there was another character named Zero that Johnny Yong Bosch voiced. When people talk about characters that he voiced and mention Zero, I always assumed the Mega Man X one.

    Edit: Also, so this is the series that the "Not this shitto again" meme comes from.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Code Geass gave us many excellent memes, including the very fine Spinzaku.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    March Comes In Like a Lion 192
    the greatest protagonist in all of sports manga, harunobu nikkaidou

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Suzaku WILL pleasure himself with that fish

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oh and can't forget the time someone made a joke comic of the Emperor of Britannia's speech about human inequality, only applied to breast size, and then the Emperor's Japanese VA voiced the entire speech for laughs. It's still on Youtube but unless you can understand Japanese it probably won't be quite as funny.

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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Heh. Ge ass

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Last Chapter of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes just dropped

    ;-;

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Ok, I knew about Code Geass having the most unfortunately timed "level up" in all of Anime, and also what line is said when it happens.

    However, I didn't know who that line was said to.

    Damn.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The latest episode of Kaguya was not calling out my fashion choices but I bet it was calling a bunch of folks out.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Kaguya S3E8 with two killer references. I am in awe at the quality.
    Ishigami with a Shawshank Redemption reference.

    And I could have sworn the song they play at the end as Tsubame open the festival is Zen Zen Zense from Your Name.

    Whoever is doing the soundtrack continues to know exactly what they're doing. Get hyped for the next 4 episodes.

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  • DHSDHS Chase lizards.. ...bark at donkeys..Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Kaguya S3E8 with two killer references. I am in awe at the quality.
    Ishigami with a Shawshank Redemption reference.

    And I could have sworn the song they play at the end as Tsubame open the festival is Zen Zen Zense from Your Name.

    Whoever is doing the soundtrack continues to know exactly what they're doing. Get hyped for the next 4 episodes.
    The setup for Ishigami and Tsubame is on point too, I think that plotline is probably the apex for the writing in the series and people who don't read the manga will just get wrecked like being hit with a train full of bricks. I mean that in the best possible way, between that and what will happen in the next seasons of Komi next year or so will be a killer for bittersweet anime romcoming.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Is this the first time any localization movement has ever had a union?

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fei7HQv2atc

    A favorite LPer of mine, NicoB, is doing another anime-react mini-series. This time on his first JoJo series as he admits the only things he knows about the franchise are the memes and nothing else.

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  • LockedOnTargetLockedOnTarget Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    NicoB is weird for me because he is a very nice dude who can have some very good and heartwarming reactions to things.

    But he also has a tendency to scream in a shrill tone a lot and do “funny” voices.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    DarkPrimus wrote: »

    Turns out boycotting is actually kind of complicated for some things.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yeah this is why I said 'might,' I wasn't sure about anything going on with their back end

    Go buy the book about how there's only one straight person in a world of gay people with my blessing

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yeah this is why I said 'might,' I wasn't sure about anything going on with their back end

    Go buy the book about how there's only one straight person in a world of gay people with my blessing

    If watched that after my girlfriend prodded me into it and this summarisation is doing a massive disservice to the quality of the writing, characters, and the frankly fantastic plot, with a overarching mystery that is compellingly and satisfyingly resolved. It just happens to have gay characters in it. It's a standard fantastic adventure its just that instead of a hetero romance sub plot its a gay one. Pretty refreshing tbh.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    My Secret Affection has not been released in English yet, though it has been licensed by seven seas

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I seem to have gotten my stories mixed up. My bad.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The concept of My Sweet Affection is extremely literal
    It’s been thirty years since meteorites from space turned everyone on the Earth gay. In a world where heterosexuality no longer exists, Takanashi Kazusa falls for her childhood friend Ayumu–a boy.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The concept of My Sweet Affection is extremely literal
    It’s been thirty years since meteorites from space turned everyone on the Earth gay. In a world where heterosexuality no longer exists, Takanashi Kazusa falls for her childhood friend Ayumu–a boy.

    Yeah sorry I was talking about a different story. I got confused since its the same publisher.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I thought you were talking about The Whole of Humanity Has Gone Yuri Except For Me, but it turns out that's Yen Press.

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  • italianranmaitalianranma Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Madican wrote: »
    Oh and can't forget the time someone made a joke comic of the Emperor of Britannia's speech about human inequality, only applied to breast size, and then the Emperor's Japanese VA voiced the entire speech for laughs. It's still on Youtube but unless you can understand Japanese it probably won't be quite as funny.

    I found it with subtitles, and without doing a line-by-line they looked pretty accurate to me. Not sure what the bilingual bonus is supposed to be other than the novelty of the VA using the same cadence/tone etc.

    There was a point where I was following the Konosuba VAs (and also the Critical Role folks) which has led me to believe that all professional VAs are horny. I won’t be taking further questions at this time.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Konosuba Season 3 has been officially announced.

    Apparently the Megumin spinoff novels are also getting an anime.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    New episode of Spy x Family continues its run of high-quality episodes

    Sticking pretty closely to the comic's structure, but it must be said, choosing to preserve the ending where they do is very funny

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yor you didn't say your brother was a cop.

    That makes you like half-cop!

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Gundi wrote: »
    Yor you didn't say your brother was a cop.

    That makes you like half-cop!
    she doesn't know he's a cop, he's in the secret police, his cover job is a regular white collar worker at city hall like her

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    He's basically a member of the stasi.

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    edited April 13
    The user and all related content has been deleted.

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  • EspantaPajaroEspantaPajaro Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lars wrote: »
    Konosuba Season 3 has been officially announced.

    Apparently the Megumin spinoff novels are also getting an anime.

    Best news I’ve heard in awhile. Those fuck ups make me irrationally happy.

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lars wrote: »
    I thought you were talking about The Whole of Humanity Has Gone Yuri Except For Me, but it turns out that's Yen Press.

    Despite being tremendously predictable (and the way the world works is a bit iffy when I thought about it), the ending was cute and it was a fun read, so thanks for mentioning it!

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Despite being tremendously predictable (and the way the world works is a bit iffy when I thought about it), the ending was cute and it was a fun read, so thanks for mentioning it!

    It's one where I felt like the author probably had another volume of story left but was told to wrap it up, and did the best they could. At least it still ended well, though.

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It feels like Spy X Family is kinda glossing over how absolutely fucked in the head Yor must be.
    What a delightfully ditzy... child... assassin... orphan.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yes because it's a gag series

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