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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Anyone expecting the same level of anything as before, stop.

    You are getting a continuation. Think of it as a visually illustrated cliff notes. Itll be faithful but it cannot be exactly what it was before.

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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    So I was suggested Witch Hat Atelier and so I spent the evening catching up on it, and honestly this is very solid stuff. Strong characters, solid conflict, and I like the take on magic. Would definitely recommend.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lars wrote: »
    Kotoyama is the author of a manga called Dagashi Kashi (which was also adapted into an anime). It was about an aspiring manga author whose father owned a candy shop, and a girl from a giant candy company that tries to get the boy to take over his father's shop by talking about the joys of candy. It just a slow-paced slice of life.

    It ended a while ago, and the author has a new manga called Call of the Night (which is officially licensed and available in English). It started out as a slice of life about an insomniac boy who liked to stay up all night and a vampire girl he met who shows him the joys of nightlife. However, over time it slowly shifted genres...and now it is basically Vampire DBZ. People are speed blitzing around and leveling buildings. It's kind of crazy how that all happened.

    Content warning in that there isn't really any nudity I remember, but the panels can overly focus on the vampire girl who looks like she's 14 or 15.

    Like how Negima shifted genres over time?

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »

    So, Luluco's transformation always cracks me up, because it's not just a random design. No, it is clearly based on this:

    https://youtu.be/2W7vhit5KFo

    It is an animated shitpost.

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  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I have now entered the Arabasta Saga.

    This Crocodile fellow seems like a bit of a prick.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    get comfy, that's the first super duper long arc

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    So, I've been watching Higurashi, and, the thing about Higurashi is, it fucking sucks.

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  • ZythonZython Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    DHS wrote: »
    Speaking of One Piece after next weeks chapter so not this Sunday's but next Sunday's chapter 1053, there's gonna be a month hiatus because per Oda:
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    Which given the Saga that is being wrapped up here is like half the manga we've probably got between 5 and 19 years left.

    Also for promo for upcoming Film Red, and visiting the aforementioned Live Action set in the US.

    I don't know what I'm going to do when One Piece ends. It's been a part of my life since high school. It's like losing a part of myself or something (ok, maybe not THAT dramatic). Is this how normal people felt when M*A*S*H ended?
    get comfy, that's the first super duper long arc

    Arabasta isn't even that long by contemporary series standards. But yeah, it's the 2nd longest arc in the series for a LONG time.

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  • ZythonZython Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Double Post.

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Zython wrote: »
    Double Post.

    Sounds like a Stand name.

    Wait... Sounds like the copyright-friendly localization of a Stand name.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »
    So, I've been watching Higurashi, and, the thing about Higurashi is, it fucking sucks.

    Which one? I would say play the visual novel, but it drags too.

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  • arthurinscalesarthurinscales Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    do you ever find out what time they're sad

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Reynolds wrote: »
    So, I've been watching Higurashi, and, the thing about Higurashi is, it fucking sucks.

    Which one? I would say play the visual novel, but it drags too.

    I'm eight episodes into the original first season. And so far the response has been, "Oh just watch eight more episodes, and then after that it starts to pick up. Those last ten episodes are pretty good, but it's really a few more into the second season where it starts to pay off."

    I could literally watch three full good series by that point.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lol assassination classroom with a very Japanese take on marijuana. Felt like being back in school.

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  • Hexmage-PAHexmage-PA Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Part of the fun of AniMenagerie is showing Zonugal a wide variety of anime based on suggestions from everyone in attendance, and seeing his immediate reactions. I did have a feeling Space Patrol Luluco might be a little too much for him. We all want Jimmy to have a good time, though, so we're stopping at episode three. We don't want to torture him or anything.

    If this is the case then I'll go ahead and post the part in Space Patrol Luluco where they defeat the life fibers in two minutes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYsCyjQ90lM

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Reynolds wrote: »
    So, I've been watching Higurashi, and, the thing about Higurashi is, it fucking sucks.

    Which one? I would say play the visual novel, but it drags too.

    I'm eight episodes into the original first season. And so far the response has been, "Oh just watch eight more episodes, and then after that it starts to pick up. Those last ten episodes are pretty good, but it's really a few more into the second season where it starts to pay off."

    I could literally watch three full good series by that point.

    the VN is a slow burn but it is actually good and not animated by studio deen

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Reynolds wrote: »
    So, I've been watching Higurashi, and, the thing about Higurashi is, it fucking sucks.

    Which one? I would say play the visual novel, but it drags too.

    I'm eight episodes into the original first season. And so far the response has been, "Oh just watch eight more episodes, and then after that it starts to pick up. Those last ten episodes are pretty good, but it's really a few more into the second season where it starts to pay off."

    I could literally watch three full good series by that point.

    the VN is a slow burn but it is actually good and not animated by studio deen

    It also takes eight hours to get anywhere, as it happens.

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    By a weird coincidence, I'm just in the middle of finally getting around to reading Berserk, so knowing that there'll (hopefully) be some way to get all the story explained is actually a bit of a relief because I'm curious to know what was meant to happen at the end. (and even if it was just one sentence to say "Guts would eventually defeat the big bads and lives happily ever after" that would still be better than nothing)

    As far as the comic itself goes, a few things come to mind, I guess. (for context, I'm in the middle of the Birth Ceremony part of the Conviction arc)

    * Wow they are not kidding about "this is not for kids". There's "not for kids because it has people's insides winding up on the outside" like Baki or Kengan Asura or whatever, or "not for kids because it has nudity" like a bunch of things, and then there's this which has both but more to the point is "not for kids because it is made out of nightmares"

    * I think, of all the fictional worlds I've ever seen or read about (except for maybe I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream or It's A Good Life, both of which are much smaller-scale) this is the one I would least like to have to live in.

    * I get that the pacing is like this on purpose, but it could really do with taking a pause for breath more often, sheesh. Maybe it's reading it all in a chunk like this. (and to be fair it's not in general a story that is particularly relaxed even when it's not a single multi-volume action sequence)

    * The art is in general incredible, the backgrounds and monsters are amazing, the direction is great, but the combat choreography is pretty confusing at times; there are a lot of panels which are "Guts goes whoosh with his sword and someone else/multiple someone elses fall into pieces" and it can be tough to work out what's actually going on. And while he can draw horses as well as Kaoru Mori, it doesn't make it any easier to tell what's going on when it's 100-guys-from-army-A-on-horses charging into 100-guys-from-army-B-on-horses.




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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I personally found Berserk's action choreography to be incredible, it flowed extremely legibly and fluidly in my mind

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Here's the sort of thing I'm talking about. From the start of volume 20 (so behind spoilers. Also quite a lot of images in here)
    Mozgus and folks have just blasted a giant beam of fire through a door (which they never seem to do again, which is a bit confusing); Isidro and folks are coming up the stairs and just about avoid getting blasted by the fire. Then swinging-clamp-torturer guy is throwing bits of pillars at Isidro et al. Guts appears from somewhere and cuts a flying bit of pillar in half:
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    He keeps coming:
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    and now he's right up in the faces of the bad guys, and Mozgus looks like he's growing wings:
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    Mozgus, who definitely now has wings, yells at him:
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    Guts throws knives, but now somehow he's _behind_ Mozgus? And also suddenly on the far side of some pillars from the bad guys?
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    Yup, somehow now there's pillars between him and them, and they're facing towards him again:
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    Or, further on in the fight; this time it's Guts who's turned his back on the torturers, Mozgus and crew are in the background.
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    We cut to Skull Knight and Luca for a bit; when we get back to the fight, suddenly Guts is right up and slashing at wheel-guy?
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    They shove back and forth for a bit:
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    then (and this is the sort of thing I was particularly referring to) there's a bunch of speed lines:
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    at the end of which we work out that clamp-on-chains guy has grabbed Guts's sword. Eye-pincedrs-guy is up and to the right of the panel here.
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    Guts rolls away, somehow(?) gets his sword unclamped, dives towards the feet of giant-wheel-guy, speed lines come out of his non-sword hand along the floor, oh, and also in that instant giant-wheel-guy changed his grip on the wheel from flat-face-on to side-on:
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    And now we find out that the speed lines were Guts throwing a knife into the eye of eye-pincers guy, who guess somehow teleported down to ground level because in the previous page he wasn't where Guts was throwing that knife at. Guts chops off the foot of giant-wheel-guy, eye-pincers guy is dead, and Guts is now somehow moving sideways instead of forwards based on how his cape is trailing behind him now.
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    I mean, I can generally speaking tell what has happened by the end of a fight, as far as "who still has all their limbs attached", and any given panel is generally very impressive, but the actual details of where people are / where they're facing / etc get a bit lost.

    For another example, here's a panel from volume 10 where obviously the various soldiers are having a very bad day and Guts is making them into smaller bits of soldiers, but it's very hard to tell what actually happened while this was going on:
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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Much like a novel doing exact play-by-plays of action scenes is incredibly boring outside limited circumstances. The intention is for imagination to fill in the space between frames for a more fluid experience.

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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I’m not going to pretend it’s always easy to instantly parse everything going on, but all the details are there to have the kinetic action play out in a logical way. Once I figure out the pieces it all flows smoothly in my mind and portrays incredibly complex choreography.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Birdie Wing has just become your typical high school sports anime, where all the characters have special named abilities and everything. Like 10 episodes in it's transitioned into what I thought it would be from the start, and we're just supposed to ignore that whole golf mafia arc. It's bizarre.

    I'm not sure if I want it to suddenly get wild again out of nowhere, or just steadily turn into a completely grounded slice of life show.

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  • PMAversPMAvers Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Birdie Wing has just become your typical high school sports anime, where all the characters have special named abilities and everything. Like 10 episodes in it's transitioned into what I thought it would be from the start, and we're just supposed to ignore that whole golf mafia arc. It's bizarre.

    I'm not sure if I want it to suddenly get wild again out of nowhere, or just steadily turn into a completely grounded slice of life show.

    I’m going to make a called shot:
    The hitmen will return during the tournament, they’ll try to set up and snipe Eve but Aoi will spot them and using a perfect drive knock them out to save Eve’s life, but with a OB shot that the penalty will drop her out of winning the event.

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Spoilers from the start of volume 20 of Berserk.
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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I have appreciated the fight scenes in Berserk that I have read so far (not quite to volume 20) where it can just flow over you like water and it just is overwhelming and you read it all in a couple of minutes - but then you can also go back and slowly look through it panel by panel and be awed at how carefully it's all choreographed, and that all the incredible detail is actually communicating the motion and travel of all the actors and their armaments to create continuity throughout.

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    i'm not into one piece but i do like me some ado

    https://youtu.be/8dfGSzacxzc

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  • Andy JoeAndy Joe We claim the land for the highlord! The AdirondacksRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    i'm not into one piece but i do like me some ado

    https://youtu.be/8dfGSzacxzc

    I've seen plenty of genderswap fanart for Todoroki Shoto before, but it's still weird to see some turn up here.

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    PLA wrote: »
    Spoilers from the start of volume 20 of Berserk.
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    aha! I think I'm just not spending enough time trying to disentangle which line is which / searching the backgrounds for people -- that definitely makes sense now that you point it out, but I thought that
    the red arrow was the knife because it's the one at the end of where Guts's arm winds up
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    and you're right, I didn't see eye-pincers-guy there at all, I just wasn't looking carefully enough.

    Can you help me understand what I missed visually at the start of the chapter?
    First, egg guy is hanging down from the ceiling; he sends one tentacle down towards Mozgus. Mozgus's eyes go all funny.
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    Then, everyone else is surprised by something, now the tentacle is trying to grab Mozgus's hand, or the bible, or something. Egg guy's tentacles whizz around a bit and he's moving back up towards the hole in the ceiling again, because he's definitely higher in this panel than the previous one.

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    At this point, we can't see Mozgus any more, so the first time through I thought that egg guy had grabbed Mozgus and was taking him away, so was confused a few pages later when we find Mozgus is just fine and can also now create fire blasts to get through the door (I think?)

    What actually happened, according to a summary, is that the tentacles were stabbing Mozgus and everyone else, and (I guess?) that's how they get the turn-into-angels power? Now that I look really carefully, there's a little 'prick' sound effect next to where he's saying '--LEN' at the bottom of the first page, and his mouth is foaming at the top of the second one, so I guess those are the visual cues for what's happening to Mozgus; maybe 'hyn' is the sound effect for 'tentacle stabbing someone' and that's what I didn't understand?

    And I think I may have been wrong about it being a blast of fire coming from Mozgus through the door and down the stairs; now that I pay more close attention to which amorphous blob of spirits is which at the end of book 19, I think one or other of the two blobs we see here is the one with Casca in it, but I still can't work out if that one is the one that was attacking Mozgus et al on the first page (which then turned around?) or the one that was coming up the stairs from behind Isidro, or if they both hit one another. I think it's the one coming from downstairs which then shoots forwards to break the door, and then I guess destroys the blob that was menacing Mozgus at the start, and Casca falls out of it into Mozgus's arms, but I have had to spend a fair number of minutes flicking back and forth through pages to try and disentangle this much, and this is important bits of plot that I'm not understanding rather than just "who was where when they got stabbed".

    The first time I read that page (the double-page spread six pages after the title) I actually thought it was Isidro saying 'close your eyes!' and then making an explosion with one of the tiny hand-grenade things we've seen Guts use, because he has a small thing in his hand and then there's an explosion, but that is probably just Isidro trying to find something to throw the way he's been throwing rocks before, and while the 'close your eyes!' speech bubble doesn't have an obvious owner it's most likely Jerome.
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    I have appreciated the fight scenes in Berserk that I have read so far (not quite to volume 20) where it can just flow over you like water and it just is overwhelming and you read it all in a couple of minutes - but then you can also go back and slowly look through it panel by panel and be awed at how carefully it's all choreographed, and that all the incredible detail is actually communicating the motion and travel of all the actors and their armaments to create continuity throughout.

    It does seem like, with enough attention, everything is in there one way or another, and yeah, just reading things through it's not often too confusing to just keep on going and say 'yup, Guts sure did kick some ass there' but I also sometimes wish I found it easier to tell what had happened without having to treat it like a puzzle that needed solving; maybe i just haven't got the hang of visually parsing his art style.

    Another question, then -- can everyone else here tell what's going on in One Piece fights? Because I also get super lost there, and those have a similarly dense art style, so it may well just be that I'm not good at picking details out when there's this much going on in a given panel. (compared to, say, Ashita No Joe, which limits the amount of stuff happening in any given panel of combat so it's a lot easier to tell which line represents what)


    (edit: I'm not trying to just complain about Berserk, I am genuinely trying to work out what it is that I'm missing here, because I've had to stop and try to work out what just happened a few times now and I'd like to not have to do that. Also I found it was a fascinating experiment looking at combat in different places to see how it works -- how does Baki do it? (answer: hard to tell what's going on among all the muscles and the fact people's bodies aren't always doing things that bodies would be expected to do, but it's usually pretty consistent about where people are). What about Claymore? (answer: people / things are whizzing all over the place but it removes background / replaces it with just speed lines, so I have less visual distractions and can more easily tell what's going on. What about something older like Ranma 1/2? What about One-Punch Man? etc)

    I couldn't keep up with Jujutsu Kaisen because I couldn't tell what was going on in the fights there, and that's another one which people seem to like a lot so if there's a way I can get past this confusion I could avoid missing out on some stuff.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    GR_Zombie wrote: »
    Lol assassination classroom with a very Japanese take on marijuana. Felt like being back in school.
    This was the funniest damn thing to happen in that show. Especially funny when you’re nicely baked while watching.

    More dangerous than regular cigarettes!

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  • FlamuFlamu 49 Gilded Disc Perceives the Sun Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Vinland Saga season 2! Animated by... Mappa?

    https://youtu.be/oL0tEVZACiU

    January!

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  • AstharielAsthariel The Book Eater Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    A lot of people who completely miss the point of the story are going to complain about this one.

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  • FlamuFlamu 49 Gilded Disc Perceives the Sun Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Revenge is good, right?

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Revenge is good, right?

    100% hit rate of positive outcomes

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