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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Dammit, the season ended already for Bookworm.

    Give me more!

    If they ended where I think they did then anime only people will riot if they don't do another season.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The pharmacist one is the actual good one. It's not like Drugstore in Another World, the bad and fanservicey one, this one has actual science and heart.

    General premise is that a pharmacist dies of overwork, not because of a company though but because the drug he was working on was for a cause near and dear to his heart. He awakens in the body of a noble child in a fantasy world (yes there's magic) who he is told was struck by lightning recently and had been comatose since. Only not anymore, because as the pharmacist quickly realizes the original body's owner is nowhere to be found and it's heavily implied he died and the pharmacist is filling the vacancy. In any case the pharmacist is told he has the mark of the Medicine God on him, which he thinks are Lichtenberg figures, or scars caused from being struck by lightning when blood vessels explode as the current rapidly heats them up passing through. Gnarly stuff. In any case, yes he does have a special power and it's of course related to the Medicine God.

    There's two factors to it. First is Diagnosis, where he can identify if someone has an injury or illness by it lighting up in his sight when he uses the ability. He will then need to start thinking of what the injury or illness is, with the light he sees changing color to confirm a correct diagnosis. Once he's identified the problem he then needs to decide on a treatment, if one is possible. There is a light for chronic injuries and illness he can't do anything about, Medicine God or not. If he discerns a treatment that will cure the ailment the light will change color again, confirming the diagnosis.

    The second factor of his power is a bit more involved. In essence he can create any element he can think of on the periodic table...but he can also remove any element he can think of from whatever he's using the power on. If for example a particular element comprises the majority of an object, and he erases all of it from that object, you can guess what happens. And yes, this does work on living things too. So what does he use this outright godly power for? To synthesize the drugs he needs to treat the diagnosis he just made. He is a pharmacist after all, that was literally his life work.

    All in all it's a pretty good and wholesome story with lots of scientific research done to introduce some very interesting maladies and the treatments for them, if there is one. His primary strength is creating drugs, though he can perform some things like minor surgery as well, so if a condition can't be treated that way he's unable to cure it. And it's very clear that sometimes even his godly power just will not be enough and the best he can do is treat a diagnosis, rather than curing it.

    Sometimes he can do treatments that'd be impossible in the modern world because of it though, which is always interesting. The primary one is where one of his patients is turning blue. Literally! All the silver in his makeup has toxified him over time, turning his skin blue. It's called argyria and it has no treatment or cure even today, which he knows. But what's his second power again? He gets the idea to try using his element removal to rid the man of all the silver poisoning him, but also realizes if he screws this up and removes something he shouldn't there won't be a second chance. So he concentrates as hard as he can on only removing the silver, focusing his power as best he can, and looses it. Does it work? I'll let you find that out, if you're interested enough to take a look.

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  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Next season has the continuation of The Devil is a Part Timer and Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, those are right at the top of my list. KJ File and Lycoris Recoil might be interesting.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Despera will come out one day...
    Any season now...

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Latest Nagatoro-san (manga):

    a:took him long enough, sheesh.

    b:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLIiF15wjQ

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  • Hexmage-PAHexmage-PA Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I saw a Let's Play of the first two Danganronpa games and decided to watch the Danganronpa 3 anime. The only reason I'm mentioning this here is because (Danganronpa 3 spoilers)
    the "Ultimate Animator" uses subliminal messaging and other brainwashing techniques in his work, apparently every animator in the Danganronpa universe does it, and as soon as one of the characters discovers that brainwashing is being used to get people to unalive themselves immediately turns to ask the Ultimate Animator to explain brainwashing to him so animators using brainwashing techniques is apparently common knowledge.

    I guess this explains why we all like anime.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Hexmage-PA wrote: »
    I saw a Let's Play of the first two Danganronpa games and decided to watch the Danganronpa 3 anime. The only reason I'm mentioning this here is because (Danganronpa 3 spoilers)
    the "Ultimate Animator" uses subliminal messaging and other brainwashing techniques in his work, apparently every animator in the Danganronpa universe does it, and as soon as one of the characters discovers that brainwashing is being used to get people to unalive themselves immediately turns to ask the Ultimate Animator to explain brainwashing to him so animators using brainwashing techniques is apparently common knowledge.

    I guess this explains why we all like anime.

    I like 3 more than V3(both the Despair and Future arcs).


    Also, the dub is something else.

    https://youtu.be/yRWH1HcvOrc?t=218

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Despera will come out one day...
    Any season now...

    I had Despera's promo art as the background on my PSP in 2010-2012ish

    I'm not terribly optimistic, especially not with Konaka seemingly off the deep end

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Despera will come out one day...
    Any season now...

    I had Despera's promo art as the background on my PSP in 2010-2012ish

    I'm not terribly optimistic, especially not with Konaka seemingly off the deep end

    I still have an entire folder of it.
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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
    Lars wrote: »
    Tonight on Animenagerie:
    • We finished Jojo Part 3. Cool stuff.
    • We finished the Krillin vs. Jackie Chun and Goku vs. Nam in Dragon Ball. Both fights ignored the rules or else the finals would have been Krillin vs. Nam.
    • We watched half an episode of Popteam Epic. Hellshake Yano!
    • We tried to watch the Transformers episode of Panty & Stocking, but the plug was pulled as soon as they started their transformation sequence. They didn't even get to the part where they take off their panties.
    • So we filled the time by watching the first episode of Birdie Wing even though it's sub-only. Golf Crimes.

    The last two weeks of AniMenagerie have been very informative in showing @IronKnuckle's Ghost & I what anime we absolutely hate.

    Just fucking despise.

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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
    We also softly determined last night that Season 6 of AniMenagerie will very likely include Birdie Wing (presuming its been dubbed by then).

    God, what a fun show.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I need to catch up on Animenagerie, it's very funny seeing in the thread which takes I 100% agree with and which ones are utterly diametric to my own

    but then I'm at about 25 years of watching anime at age 28.5, so I've got a chronic (approaching terminal) case of the animes

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Animenagerie will be finishing the current slate of shows at the end of this month, then 4th of July we're doing a special movie night (live action Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat) before starting our new shows the following Monday if anyone wants to join in.

    We'll be going back to watching full seasons instead of the more sampler-style approach we took this time. I can't remember the full schedule, but I know Bofuri, Zombie Land Saga, Slayers, and Big O are up there. Reynolds probably has the full image.

    We just use text chat in Discord while one person shares the video, so it's easy to join in if anyone's interested.

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  • WearingGlassesWearingGlasses Of the friendly neighborhood variety Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Latest Nagatoro-san (manga):

    a:took him long enough, sheesh.

    b:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLIiF15wjQ

    Like, goddamn, that's a weird ass way to pump yourself up, but it got the job done.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    One day Animemenagerie will watch a single shoujo show

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    One day Animemenagerie will watch a single shoujo show

    They already watched Utena.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    RIP to Ciao

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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
    The three sub-themes for season five of AniMenagerie are:
    -- Girl Power
    -- Heavy Metal
    -- Old School

    Take that as you will.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oghulk wrote: »
    Madican wrote: »
    Escanor is the only good thing in 7DS

    Ban is a really good character though

    Oh Ban is a great character. It's just Escanor is the only good thing in 7DS by virtue of not having something gross about them, and Ban is disqualified because of the childlike fairy girlfriend. Worst Escanor gets is his devotion to Merlin, but devotion itself isn't a bad trait it just often becomes obsession in a character, which Escanor neatly avoids.

    Also I can't recall Ban having as epic a moment, tiresome as that word has become but suitable for this, as Escanor facing down Estarossa. Not even just the one line but the entire brief matchup. Estarossa has an ability that renders anyone with hatred against him unable to fight? "Why should I bear hatred against someone who is obviously weaker than me?" Escanor attacks and Estarossa uses a reflect move to injure him with his own power? "I see, I do pack quite a punch don't I?" The dude is hands-down the most insufferable, arrogant ass but he's not wrong.

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  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    English Dub trailer for the new Dragon Ball movie

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9JHZwtObqs

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Not trying to sound too hipster, but anime has changed a lot since when I first started watching it. I remember picking up VHS tapes at blockbuster for stuff like A-KO, Patalabor, Nasica, Grave of the Fireflies, and Battle Angel Alita, but not knowing that I was watching anime. It wasn't until my friend introduced me to Ranma that we all started diving deep into it.

    That was the wild west era of anime, since companies were just bringing over whatever. We started a weekly watch nights when new VHS tapes of Ranma, Tenchi, Slayers, Escaflowne, Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Key: The Metal Idol, El-Hazard, Fushigi Yugi, and Record of Lodoss War would come out. Then there were the OAV/short series stuff like Ninja Scroll, Street Fighter II, Devil Hunter Yohko, Miss China's Ring, Mermaid's Scar, 3x3 Eyes, Iria, Armitage III, Dragon Half, Orguss II, Macross Plus, and Photon.

    As the 90s came to an end, we stopped watching most stuff and turned more to local gaming. A few things would pop up (Spirited Away, etc) now and then, but basically anime was over for me. It's interesting to see how much it's changed since a widespread adaption of the genre across the globe. Most of it isn't my cup of tea (Waifus, etc), but to each their own.

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  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Zonugal wrote: »
    The three sub-themes for season five of AniMenagerie are:
    -- Girl Power
    -- Heavy Metal
    -- Old School

    Take that as you will.
    Been a while since i've watched it so not sure if it holds up, but fits the bill:
    https://youtu.be/iXKAsybyIRw

    Not heavy metal, but it is great:
    https://youtu.be/an_0IIRDlc4

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    Not trying to sound too hipster, but anime has changed a lot since when I first started watching it. I remember picking up VHS tapes at blockbuster for stuff like A-KO, Patalabor, Nasica, Grave of the Fireflies, and Battle Angel Alita, but not knowing that I was watching anime. It wasn't until my friend introduced me to Ranma that we all started diving deep into it.

    That was the wild west era of anime, since companies were just bringing over whatever. We started a weekly watch nights when new VHS tapes of Ranma, Tenchi, Slayers, Escaflowne, Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Key: The Metal Idol, El-Hazard, Fushigi Yugi, and Record of Lodoss War would come out. Then there were the OAV/short series stuff like Ninja Scroll, Street Fighter II, Devil Hunter Yohko, Miss China's Ring, Mermaid's Scar, 3x3 Eyes, Iria, Armitage III, Dragon Half, Orguss II, Macross Plus, and Photon.

    As the 90s came to an end, we stopped watching most stuff and turned more to local gaming. A few things would pop up (Spirited Away, etc) now and then, but basically anime was over for me. It's interesting to see how much it's changed since a widespread adaption of the genre across the globe. Most of it isn't my cup of tea (Waifus, etc), but to each their own.

    That was also when I lost interest with it, but the renaissance of classics like Fate/Zero and Madoka Magica pulled me back in.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    Not trying to sound too hipster, but anime has changed a lot since when I first started watching it. I remember picking up VHS tapes at blockbuster for stuff like A-KO, Patalabor, Nasica, Grave of the Fireflies, and Battle Angel Alita, but not knowing that I was watching anime. It wasn't until my friend introduced me to Ranma that we all started diving deep into it.

    That was the wild west era of anime, since companies were just bringing over whatever. We started a weekly watch nights when new VHS tapes of Ranma, Tenchi, Slayers, Escaflowne, Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Key: The Metal Idol, El-Hazard, Fushigi Yugi, and Record of Lodoss War would come out. Then there were the OAV/short series stuff like Ninja Scroll, Street Fighter II, Devil Hunter Yohko, Miss China's Ring, Mermaid's Scar, 3x3 Eyes, Iria, Armitage III, Dragon Half, Orguss II, Macross Plus, and Photon.

    As the 90s came to an end, we stopped watching most stuff and turned more to local gaming. A few things would pop up (Spirited Away, etc) now and then, but basically anime was over for me. It's interesting to see how much it's changed since a widespread adaption of the genre across the globe. Most of it isn't my cup of tea (Waifus, etc), but to each their own.

    depending on how you count it we're probably on the fourth or fifth wave of anime/manga popularity in the USA, with the current wave being maybe the biggest it's ever been in the West in terms of mainstream accessibility and also being able to like, wear a Hero Academia or Demon Slayer shirt or even "kawaii" street wear in public

    like anime's never really *died* and there's always been a base floor of popularity, but every few years it feels like there's a new run at mainstream popularity before it quiets down again for a couple years

    late '80s had the true cult-hit/underground era where people were just starting to import stuff like Akira

    '90s had that VHS wave you're talking about and also the Pokemon/DBZ/Sailor Moon kids' anime boom

    '00s really peaked with the Borders/Barnes and Noble manga boom between 2005-2009, and that was also around when DVDs first became really accessible (as did piracy)

    '10s had a big streaming wave, and especially a stretch around 2014-16 where it felt like a big thing for the first time in a while before quieting down again in 2017-2019

    and then there's been a 2020s wave that was already swelling pre-pandemic but got supercharged by lockdowns, and now all of a sudden it feels like it's the biggest it's ever been

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    We watched Bubblegum Crisis already. Season 5 will contain a few classic OVAs though.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I agree about the historical periods except I think things have just been rising steadily in popularity overall since the 80s

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oh yeah, how could I forget about Akira? And there was also the stuff I was watching before I knew it was anime. Stuff like Robotech/Macross and the 80s Saturday morning cartoons (Transformers).

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I agree about the historical periods except I think things have just been rising steadily in popularity overall since the 80s

    oh yeah it's a net positive trend, though I did check Google Trends and those dips that I had a gut feeling about from real-life experience do roughly correlate to rises dips in google searches for terms like "anime", "manga", "naruto", and "Crunchyroll"

    there's also simply so much more anime and manga legally and easily accessible now than there was even ten years ago

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I went into a Barnes and Noble bookstore recently. When I was much younger the manga section was a small bookshelf with only the most popular ones on it, so pretty much Naruto or Bleach, stuffed in the back corner. Now? Half the section that used to be Music and DVDs is devoted entirely to anime, light novels, and enough manga to cover some very large tables with all kinds of series ranging from super popular to incredibly obscure.

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Jragghen wrote: »
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Lars wrote: »
    Tonight on Animenagerie:
    • We finished Jojo Part 3. Cool stuff.
    • We finished the Krillin vs. Jackie Chun and Goku vs. Nam in Dragon Ball. Both fights ignored the rules or else the finals would have been Krillin vs. Nam.
    • We watched half an episode of Popteam Epic. Hellshake Yano!
    • We tried to watch the Transformers episode of Panty & Stocking, but the plug was pulled as soon as they started their transformation sequence. They didn't even get to the part where they take off their panties.
    • So we filled the time by watching the first episode of Birdie Wing even though it's sub-only. Golf Crimes.

    The last two weeks of AniMenagerie have been very informative in showing @ "IronKnuckle's Ghost" & I what anime we absolutely hate.

    Just fucking despise.

    I'm 95% sure Panty and Stocking was an anime company attempting to explicitly make a show to be picked up by Adult Swim (and then, amusingly, it didn't).

    I never watched it.

    I think the Gainax people behind PS&G just wanted to stretch their artistic limbs. Apparently there was a schism afterwards and those people left to form studio Trigger?

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Though inspired by another Japanese toy line and animated by a Japanese studio, Transformers was primarily a western creation actually.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Elaro wrote: »
    Jragghen wrote: »
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Lars wrote: »
    Tonight on Animenagerie:
    • We finished Jojo Part 3. Cool stuff.
    • We finished the Krillin vs. Jackie Chun and Goku vs. Nam in Dragon Ball. Both fights ignored the rules or else the finals would have been Krillin vs. Nam.
    • We watched half an episode of Popteam Epic. Hellshake Yano!
    • We tried to watch the Transformers episode of Panty & Stocking, but the plug was pulled as soon as they started their transformation sequence. They didn't even get to the part where they take off their panties.
    • So we filled the time by watching the first episode of Birdie Wing even though it's sub-only. Golf Crimes.

    The last two weeks of AniMenagerie have been very informative in showing @ "IronKnuckle's Ghost" & I what anime we absolutely hate.

    Just fucking despise.

    I'm 95% sure Panty and Stocking was an anime company attempting to explicitly make a show to be picked up by Adult Swim (and then, amusingly, it didn't).

    I never watched it.

    I think the Gainax people behind PS&G just wanted to stretch their artistic limbs. Apparently there was a schism afterwards and those people left to form studio Trigger?

    Gainax was kind of falling apart behind the scenes from horrible business management by the ownership, so it was less a schism inside the studio and more just all the actual animation staff walking out because the place they were working sucked and they thought correctly that they could do better themselves.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I first got into anime in college, then slowly fell out of it a few years after college, and was basically anime-free until the Anime thread was allowed here again and people started recommending stuff. Now I've watched tons of anime and have around 400 volumes of manga in my Kindle.

    So basically, it's Tube's fault.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »
    We watched Bubblegum Crisis already. Season 5 will contain a few classic OVAs though.

    All eight parts, or just Tinsel City? Because Red Eyes is the best part.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdEu8a6TEbY

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    All anime before I got into it is bad.

    Also, all anime from after I got into it.

    The kids and the olds are all wrong.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I think there's still a lot of great anime every single year, even if the industry is clearly overworked, but there's definitely a certain something to the anime of the mid '00s when a) I started watching a lot of anime and b) digitally illustrated animation got really good, and very high budget, after a rocky start to the first couple years of the '00s

    not to say there aren't good looking shows from 2000-2003, but digipaint styles definitely "clicked" by around the time Samurai Champloo came out, compared to most TV-budget shows from just a few years earlier

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