For those who don't know, forums.penny-arcade.com will be closing soon. However, we're doing the same kind of stuff over at coin-return.org with (almost) all the same faces! Please do feel welcome to
join us.
For those who don't know, forums.penny-arcade.com will be closing soon. However, we're doing the same kind of stuff over at coin-return.org with (almost) all the same faces! Please do feel welcome to
join us.
For those who don't know, forums.penny-arcade.com will be closing soon. However, we're doing the same kind of stuff over at coin-return.org with (almost) all the same faces! Please do feel welcome to
join us.
For those who don't know, forums.penny-arcade.com will be closing soon. However, we're doing the same kind of stuff over at coin-return.org with (almost) all the same faces! Please do feel welcome to
join us.
Join us in the [Anime] thread to end all [Anime] threads
Posts
Possibly, I just know at some point Speedwagon and Nazi got conflated in my memory so this is as good an explanation for that as any
Never forget.
...Still here? Okay, it's an isekai but not a typical isekai, namely because the protagonist is from a different fantasy world instead of the modern. One engulfed in war, death, and violence where magic takes the form of blood techniques in all sorts of different types, innate and unique to each person. Our hero, the protagonist, was one of the best warriors in that world up until he killed himself because with his friends dead, teacher dead, and mountains of corpses all around him he came to the realization that he had nothing to fight for, nothing to protect, nothing to give his sword meaning, to make him anything more than just an unsheathed blade. And so he killed himself, wishing that if there was a next life that he'd never need to pick up a sword again.
Enter Fai-Henze-Distberg, Third Prince of the Royal Family. Also known as the Trash Prince far and wide due to his complete lack of ambition, extreme laziness, uncouth personality, and refusal to do much of anything at all unless forced by the Head Maid and/or his father, the king. On a visit to a neighboring kingdom under siege, to provide token reinforcements as a royal representative, he experiences a battle unlike anything he's seen before. Or rather, the outcome of one. A single knight who suffered mortal wounds defending civilians from enemy soldiers who knows he is going to die...and yet he's doing so with a smile. Fai has seen people die happy, but has never been able to understand why because of his saturation in war and death in his previous life, the understanding that a sword can only be used to kill. Which leads to this exchange that locked in my interest.
There's more to it than that, a whole crisis of faith and outright rejection of the notion, but eventually Fai, the Trash Prince, takes up the sword once more. It's not been an easy road from there. Someone doesn't forget trauma so engraved in their soul it persisted to the next life so easily as a single pithy quotable, nor forget the lessons of war and slaughter he must carry out if he's to survive battle, but he's got good support and a determination that even if he must soak himself in blood again and walk the road of death that comes from wielding a sword, it will be to protect that which he loves.
This is why when Team Four Star did the abridged series, the "joke" about Yamcha committing suicide in Trunks's timeline wasn't really one.
Goddamn that's a hell of an enjoyable movie. It balanced mystery and comedy quite well, and even when you think you've had it figured out, the visual reveals really threw me for a loop, in a good way.
And it's only 97 minutes long! Watching anime films pack so much into these running times is making me angrily rebel against all these two and a half hour-plus comic book movies we're getting these days. THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE THAT LONG! YOU HAVE TO EARN YOUR RUN TIME!
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
Like hey we took this sitcom and the director wanted to make a mindfuck movie out of it instead sooo we just let him because it's the 80s.
The entire show is great, but it's peak Rumiko Takahashi Insanity(for better or for worse).
Fortunately, the remake's coming too.
My favorite movie is actually the 5th, where Ataru(omg) actually mans up and decides on his feelings for Lum.
The 6th is great too.
It's iconic but like, I dunno. The main character is a huge ass, arguably most of the supporting are also kind of huge asses. Love triangle romantic comedies in its exact vibe have been done much better in the decades since its original release.
If the movie I watched was any indicator, the romantic triangle is only there as framework to hang slice of life gag comedy upon. The characters are there to bounce off each other while solving whatever the weekly premise is, not to have some sort of melodramatic story arc with long-running continuity.
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
It's not life changing or anything but I've still got a fondness for it and I'm looking forward to the new anime
Yeah, honestly, I was very weirded out when I heard that they were making Urusei Yatsura in the year of our Lord 2022. You're going to need a serious update to the cast and feel in order to not just feel completely overshadowed by, I dunno, half of every romantic comedy anime in the last decade?
The big thing that separates Urusei Yatsura is how every episode has some disastrous outcome that would make continuity impossible, like when Ataru rents a taxi that costs all the Earth's oil as payment, and then when Lum pays the driver to settle up, the driver returns all the oil by dumping it in the streets of the city.
The only thing positive I can say about him at this point is that in the first couple of Budokai games, Yamcha was actually a decent fighter. Not great, not terrible, decent.
Switch ID: MNC Dover SW-1154-3107-1051
Steam ID
The animators are having a real ball bringing some of those moments to life
And I'm not just talking about the action either!
PSN ID : DetectiveOlivaw | TWITTER | STEAM ID | NEVER FORGET
But if Aka never pays off that potential
Actually for that matter he has yet to actually pay off the
Tama asks Horselina to be her new mom, as she remembers her life and losing her parents.
Momonosuke shown aged up, gives a killer speech, while the scene flashes through all the characters in Wano.
Not a single tear was shed :rotate:
Steam: pazython