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If they ended where I think they did then anime only people will riot if they don't do another season.
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.
Any season now...
a:took him long enough, sheesh.
b:
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.
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.
The last two weeks of AniMenagerie have been very informative in showing @IronKnuckle's Ghost & I what anime we absolutely hate.
Just fucking despise.
God, what a fun show.
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
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.
Like, goddamn, that's a weird ass way to pump yourself up, but it got the job done.
They already watched Utena.
-- Girl Power
-- Heavy Metal
-- Old School
Take that as you will.
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.
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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Not heavy metal, but it is great:
That was also when I lost interest with it, but the renaissance of classics like Fate/Zero and Madoka Magica pulled me back in.
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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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
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.
So basically, it's Tube's fault.
All eight parts, or just Tinsel City? Because Red Eyes is the best part.
Also, all anime from after I got into it.
The kids and the olds are all wrong.
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