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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oghulk wrote: »
    Completely fell of 7DS. Just...complete loss of interest about halfway through season 4.

    Moved on to the Way of the Househusband short which is frankly astoundingly funny.

    Next I have been told is Spy X Family because I got the WSJ online sub so my partner could read it and they're completely caught up and have been nagging me nonstop about how good and funny it is and how I need to read/watch it so I get the jokes that they want to share with me and


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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
    Tonight on AniMenagerie:
    -- Jackie Chun destroyed the moon on Dragon Ball
    -- We watched the JoJo OVA version of the fight between Jotaro vs Dio. It ruled, it was sick, I loved it.
    -- We had extra time left over, so we watched a musical episode of Riverdale (ya know, that classic anime)

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oh hey, Ruri Dragon Ch2 dropped on Jump+

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    It's good!

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    god the end of the stardust crusaders ova still slaps

    as a bonus here's an edit of the dio and jotaro fight as it happens in real time

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EexAh7oB_0

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    DB Super ch.85
    Of course Vegeta gets a form where getting the shit kicked out of him powers him up, love that it still didn’t work. Being able to use instant transmission on other people is rad and one of them needs to steal that.

    I’m not sure, is this form Goku’s in just the half baked form of Ultra Instinct he had before he did the full transformation or something else?

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lasbrook wrote: »
    DB Super ch.85
    Of course Vegeta gets a form where getting the shit kicked out of him powers him up, love that it still didn’t work. Being able to use instant transmission on other people is rad and one of them needs to steal that.

    I’m not sure, is this form Goku’s in just the half baked form of Ultra Instinct he had before he did the full transformation or something else?

    This arc has really been dull as shit. Im getting why the anime stopped on such a high note

    I don't care about any of these characters even a tiny bit, it's incredible

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  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oh hey, Ruri Dragon Ch2 dropped on Jump+

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    It's good!

    I love how nobody is making a fuss out of her situation

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oh hey, Ruri Dragon Ch2 dropped on Jump+

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    It's good!

    It's been very wholesome so far, curious where it goes.

    Also her grandma has the right idea.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Jojo OVA
    "An oil tanker for you!" Is a great line

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Our long national nightmare is over, my friends




    It's definitely a split cour show

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  • kriegskriegs Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I just saw "the moment" last night. It was around midnight and I was positively howling.

    Mother's Basement wasn't completely exaggerating on this point.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    honestly that's not even the top 3 wildest moments of birdie wing to me

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I watched that video and am not even sure what moment they mean.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I finished Assassination Classroom on Sunday and both mornings since I've woken up early unable to get back to sleep because of dreams definitely influenced by the ending. I don't think I've had an anime make me feel like I've been wasting my life this much since Wolf Children.

    Guess I need to find some bloodlust or something.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lasbrook wrote: »
    I watched that video and am not even sure what moment they mean.
    I'm assuming the fucking HER ARM JUST EXPLODED REVEALING HER TO BE A GOLF PLAYING CYBORG

    I could be wrong though because uh, Birdie Wing, it's bloody insane.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    https://youtu.be/szo6BsaiJ3Y

    LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO

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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    https://youtu.be/szo6BsaiJ3Y

    LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO

    Oh hey, I read that manga.

    It's pretty neat stuff!

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Skip to Loafer is proof positive that while it is fun to reinvent the wheel or execute well on parody and satire, sometimes you just want your genre fiction done well along the standards set by its predecessors

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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Skip to Loafer is proof positive that while it is fun to reinvent the wheel or execute well on parody and satire, sometimes you just want your genre fiction done well along the standards set by its predecessors

    Honestly, I will forever prefer a well executed example of its genre to some wacky premise that ends up flailing around, personally!

    (I also appreciate that the aunt is just a trans lady and this is just not really some dramatic thing. She's just the standard Reliable Older Woman character archetype for the teenage protagonists to come to for girl advice)

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lasbrook wrote: »
    I watched that video and am not even sure what moment they mean.
    I'm assuming the fucking HER ARM JUST EXPLODED REVEALING HER TO BE A GOLF PLAYING CYBORG

    I could be wrong though because uh, Birdie Wing, it's bloody insane.

    Other possible bits of insanity:

    The rocket launcher
    Secret Technique: Just hit it real fucking hard so it smashes through the tree this is totally normal golf
    Secret technique: a slice shot
    Suddenly, a VR episode.
    The extended homage to transforming mecha anime, except it's a transforming golf course.
    The fact that the two main coaches are played by Amuro Ray and Char Anazable respectively as VAs.

    ...I'm sure there's more i'm forgetting

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I mean I'm thinking of
    the first person pov of Rose's dockside execution

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oghulk wrote: »
    Spy x Family

    is really fuckin good

    and Anya is amazing

    Shock!

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  • akajaybayakajaybay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Finished up Executioner and Her Way of Life. Hope it gets another go.

    Somewhat randomly started up Gargantia on Verderous Planet which two episodes in seems like it's got some real potential.
    I like the art style and its mech design. It's like Universal Soldier in a mech lost on Waterworld.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I enjoyed Gargantia, good self-contained story

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    TNTrooper wrote: »
    Gundi wrote: »
    Lasbrook wrote: »
    Spy x Family ep11:
    Oh boy we’re pulling the Bond card early huh? Not that I’m against it, it would be a good bit to end the season on.
    It's a two cour season though.

    It's a split cour so after next week we have to we have to wait till October.

    World Peace is threatened! (I love this show and will be missing it so hard)

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I've been home with covid for a few days so I've been catching up on all my manga:

    I am impressed at how much Inertia 67% captures the vibe of a group of disgusting college students. Like normally manga with that sorta premise are still like nah in the end we still want our cast to be adorable kids. Meanwhile I'm catching up and one of the recent chapters actually legit grossed me out. But also it's disgusting in a way that I could totally see my horrible friends doing in college.
    The Gang do a cooking project with egg yolks, and then they're like shit what do we do with these egg whites now.

    And one of them's like lol I saw an article that said they make fake jizz in adult videos with egg whites and condensed milk, do we have condensed milk?

    And then they mix up a big glass of fake jizz

    And then of course they start daring each other to do shots of fake porn jizz...

    At that point I'm basically gagging. Which, tbf, is what one of the characters does shortly afterwards. which then sprays fake porn jizz everywhere. Sooo Grooooss.

    This being a disgusting college rental apartment I doubt it was cleaned properly either. The apartment's gonna smell like spoiled dairy.

    Living With my Brother's Wife is such a weird series. I have no idea where any of this is going at this point. There's been like big fat chunks of queer subtext since forever but the manga seems totally dedicated to never going there, but also it's not really going anywhere else lately either? This series actually deserves the Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow Award for Achievements in Every Single Frame Being Hella Gay Without Ever Quite Saying Anything Explicit.

    Speaking of which I reread A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow. Well, the first like 2/3s. I'm still pretty convinced that somewhere around the halfway point an editor who hadn't been paying attention suddenly exclaimed in shock, "Wait, yuri means gay???" and told the author she was only allowed to write about cute friendship. Cuz god damn does the queer subtext in that series just run into an absolute brick wall out of nowhere. But until then it's just so nice, it reads a lot more like a western YA queer story than yuri typically does. Like it's not just about ohmigosh I like this one girl but we're not gonna examine anything beyond that, it does kind of head nod towards like, yes these are romantic feelings not just liking, and the characters are actually struggling to articulate their queer feelings and think about if they want to tell their friends or parents about them. Also it gets big points for having the most obviously genre savvy parents in any yuri series ever. Her dad is super obviously aware of what's up and keeps giving her like unthreatening chances to open conversations with him if she ever wants to tell him anything about her """friendship""" with her """new friend""" and you can just hear the massive quote marks he very carefully drops around those lines.

    I just started reading Skip and Loafer since people seemed quite excited about the upcoming anime adaptation and so far it's pretty adorable. I actually really like how it's like not trying to reinvent the wheel or anything, it's just kinda a plucky nice but not that cool girl meets hot dude story, but the whole thing is just written with a bit more realism and depth to the characters, everyone's very charming, and it doesn't need to rely on melodrama (at least not yet??).

    I also caught up on Insomniacs After School, which also has an anime adaptation in the works. Gonna be a nice year for like emotionally mature HS romance stories I guess? Insomniacs is interesting, there's that small mini YA genre of like "Young person falls in love with someone and then they die and it's very sad and they come of age through the grief." I don't THINK Insomniacs is interested in doing that plot, because it's just a bit smarter written than that and not inclined to melodrama. Instead it's more of like, this person I care about has a health condition and it means I always have to think about their mortality, and even though yeah it's a treated condition and they'll actually probably live a long time it's still a lot to deal with when you're like 17. Like I don't think this is a story about grief it's about deciding that the emotional labor of always being prepared for that grief is worth it. I think?

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  • GridlinkGridlink Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Inertia 67% has been one of my favorites for the past few years. I'm really sad the next chapter is the last one.

    A new series, You and I are Polar Opposites, looks to be a lot of fun. I love the look and style of it. There's something kind of retro about it that reminds me oh His and Her Circumstances.

    I'm really liking all the new series where the couple is couple within the first couple of chapters if not the very first chapter. The will the won't they thing that goes on for tens or hundred of chapters is just something I have long since run out of patience for.

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    akajaybay wrote: »
    Finished up Executioner and Her Way of Life. Hope it gets another go.

    Somewhat randomly started up Gargantia on Verderous Planet which two episodes in seems like it's got some real potential.
    I like the art style and its mech design. It's like Universal Soldier in a mech lost on Waterworld.


    Chamber is good people. Mecha best bro, GOAT

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  • IlpalaIlpala Just this guy, y'know TexasRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Ippo is getting built up SO MUCH right now.

    I want my boy back, George. He's ready.

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  • evilmrhenryevilmrhenry Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    akajaybay wrote: »
    Finished up Executioner and Her Way of Life. Hope it gets another go.

    Somewhat randomly started up Gargantia on Verderous Planet which two episodes in seems like it's got some real potential.
    I like the art style and its mech design. It's like Universal Soldier in a mech lost on Waterworld.

    Content warning for the beach episode of Gargantia; there's a B-plot that goes full Yikes. It put a bad enough taste in my mouth that I dropped the series.
    A group of transgender prostitutes pursue the main character for sex. (It's been a few years, so this may not be exactly correct.)

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  • akajaybayakajaybay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Content warning for the beach episode of Gargantia; there's a B-plot that goes full Yikes. It put a bad enough taste in my mouth that I dropped the series.
    A group of transgender prostitutes pursue the main character for sex. (It's been a few years, so this may not be exactly correct.)
    There've been a few beats that have had me a little wary in that general this isn't too bad, but I don't trust you very much anime way.
    About 4 episodes in now. Haven't hit that episode but probably best to have the heads up. Knowing ahead of time weirdly will probably make it less likely to put me off it. I do best with the much older shows where it's just all out there. More so than a modern show that just finds a spot to slide something real off putting in there when you've otherwise been unambiguously enjoying something.

    I mean last season one my early faves was Ranking of Kings and that weird anti-korean racism bit was a wild surprise
    Let alone the sometimes you gotta torture/kill a kid to defeat your evil-er dad bit not really being challenged at all.
    That one would have gone over my head if it hadn't been pointed out. But a month or two later watching Pachinko there's some conversations where the overlap in how racists described koreans was spot on for the way Ranking talked about Gyakuza. And overall I enjoyed the show, much more so the first half. But there's some bits that go beyond eyebrow raising.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Finished a rewatch of iron blooded orphans. I think I actually like the ending a lot more this time around than I did when it came out - more time to realize what a shit mcgillis was helps for one.

    Do wish they'd done more to make Rustals turn to a bastard, bit with a heart feel more earned though

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Latest Sousou no Frieren (manga)
    The fact that everyone is so low-key and relatively chill just makes it all the more terrifying when they meet someone that really does seem significantly more powerful than usual -- and coming after:

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    this has so much more of a "well, shit just got real" feeling than the innumerable "here comes the new toughest-guy-yet in GenericShonenXYZ" scenes, even though not an awful lot of combat has actually happened so far.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    There's also something else that makes her so dangerous to this group.
    She actually learned how to wield human magic, meaning she is also capable of Basic Defense Magic and can protect herself from other magic. Considering how fast Fern and Freiren can pull out those shields and how effective they are at blocking many things, she's probably their worst opponent possible. Especially since Freiren's typical MO for a demon is hiding her real mana until an opening arrives to oneshot them. A demon that is capable of and willing to protect itself is going to be very hard to get that opening from.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The amount of emotional work Frieren does with no facial expressions whatsoever is a masterclass.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oh man I read through all of Skip and Loafer that's out.

    What an absolutely wonderful little series. Just wholesome as hell. It reminds me of Miyazaki complaining about how otaku don't write real people, they just rewrite stuff they've seen in anime. The characters in S&L feel very real, and they're all treated with tremendous empathy.

    Probably write something longer later.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Birdie Wing just repped the Shy Tarn from Victory Gundam, this show continues to impress.

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