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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Kyougu wrote: »
    Are there examples of anime where it actually turns out way better than what was expected?

    Thinking of something like Nagatoro, where it really seemed like it was someone's very specific sort of fetish anime and instead it's a pretty whole some rom com.

    I'd put My Dress-Up Darling in that category, because it's very good at maintaining the "wholesomely horny" attitude, making it clear that the characters are genuinely fond of each other.

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Parallel World Pharmacy: So good, so science. Is Ascendance of a Bookworm anything like this?

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    ehhhhhh
    I would put KLK as marginally better than I expected on this scale, not way better

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Overlord seems like it's pretty standard Isekai stuff and then kind of veers off and does something different but then it also turns out that different thing is also shitty nonsense just in a different way

    I read the manga for awhile and stopped when I realized I didn't know why anyone was doing anything

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Sounding like Parallel World Pharmacy is getting some good reviews. I'm happy, it's always nice to see the things you enjoy thriving so others can enjoy it too. Especially when it comes to manga and anime, where the adaptation can make or break anything.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    My go to example of "I can't believe this show doesn't suck ass" is Love Lab, which I thought was going to be some kind of generic "cute girls doing stuff after school" thing that I would drop after 2 episodes.

    Instead it was a generic "cute girls doing stuff after school" thing, except with some insanely expressive and funny animation and hilarious visual gags, which is how I learned that studio Doga Kobo really elevates anything it touches.

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  • DHSDHS Chase lizards.. ...bark at donkeys..Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I like the world of Overlord, and the characters, but I think what it is missing most is exploring its themes. 1. Ainz being Suzuki Satoru, but his empathy and emotions are being hampered by his new existence as a Undead Sorcerer, it's a plot point but like the actual horror of it should be dwelled upon a little more. 2. following from that, his relationship with the former NPCs is never really tested so far, with either their loyalty or their betrayal at finding out the truth of their God's existence being potentially fascinating threads to pull on. take the aforementioned Albedo, if it is made into her very nature, almost like it was her DNA that she loves Momonga/Ainz then is there a point at which that can be tested? Sasuga Ainz-sama is a good enough joke but exploring that dramatic implications of that while trying to have the Game of Thrones happen would be more fun if that was given more weight.

    those things are left a little hollow so in the end it's mostly a decent fun high fantasy.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The best thing about Overlord is his buff sequence meme and the voice acting for the line "The Goal of All Life is Death" which made me laugh. The rest is just ok.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Overlord has always skeeved me out because Ains is just hands-down a terrible person even without Demiurge or the rest doing horrible things. The story tries to justify it by saying there's a green light that shows up whenever he starts getting too far out of character as Ainz ool Gown to essentially mind control him back into character...but then that's never followed up on. It's literally a mechanism to make him be shitty while also an excuse for why he can't not be shitty because then the green light will make him be shitty. So what's the green light? Dunno. Has he tried finding out? Not really. Is the story ever going to address it? Signs point to no last I saw.

    It's a lazy writing excuse mcguffin.

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  • DHSDHS Chase lizards.. ...bark at donkeys..Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Madican wrote: »
    Overlord has always skeeved me out because Ains is just hands-down a terrible person even without Demiurge or the rest doing horrible things. The story tries to justify it by saying there's a green light that shows up whenever he starts getting too far out of character as Ainz ool Gown to essentially mind control him back into character...but then that's never followed up on. It's literally a mechanism to make him be shitty while also an excuse for why he can't not be shitty because then the green light will make him be shitty. So what's the green light? Dunno. Has he tried finding out? Not really. Is the story ever going to address it? Signs point to no last I saw.

    It's a lazy writing excuse mcguffin.

    well, i don't think it will change the thrust of your criticism, but it is explained a little more than that. it's not that it's some mysterious force doing that to him, it's his Class/Race composition from the MMO that Isekai'd from into this new existence. and it doesn't make him do bad things, being undead his nature is not have the full range of human emotion so his emotions and empathy are inhibited with a literal magical debuff. the anime dramatizes this as the green light spell thing, but essentially he is a human "soul" that occupies an undead body that magically suppresses his emotions. a few times his emotions rile up and struggle against the suppression but mostly he has lost his empathy and humanity, which is why i also think it's a weakness because it doesn't explore this enough, and the true existential horror of it.

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  • notyanotya Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Elaro wrote: »
    Parallel World Pharmacy: So good, so science. Is Ascendance of a Bookworm anything like this?

    not really. it's super grounded and more..... boring. which many people like. but very little happens and it happens very slowly.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I definitely did not expect Odd Taxi.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    notya wrote: »
    Elaro wrote: »
    Parallel World Pharmacy: So good, so science. Is Ascendance of a Bookworm anything like this?

    not really. it's super grounded and more..... boring. which many people like. but very little happens and it happens very slowly.

    Bookworm is a slow burn 90% of the time, yes.

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  • arthurinscalesarthurinscales Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    something about the Bookworm protagonist is creepy to me

    like, there is nothing in the text or the show to support this, but something about this adult lady running around in a child's body gives me Orphan vibes

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Can they go away again?

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  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    What's The Deep Lore? I take it this company has a poor reputation?

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Tokyopop has a long and storied history of fucking over creators, yeah

    But also that's just a laughably bad deal on its own merit

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    cB557 wrote: »
    What's The Deep Lore? I take it this company has a poor reputation?

    Long story short, Tokyopop held contests to find new creators with very bad terms (think: steal Penny Arcade from the creators level bad terms). Then the "winners" of that contest were often hurt by Tokyopop's very bad business dealings.

    For more:
    https://youtu.be/sfvWvKHxUmo

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Land of the lustrous was a show I wasn't very in to during the first episode and I thought the cgi was kinda weird/bad.

    By the end of it I was slamming my hands on the table because I have questions in need of answers and I can't imagine it being anything but the CGI

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Land of the lustrous was a show I wasn't very in to during the first episode and I thought the cgi was kinda weird/bad.

    By the end of it I was slamming my hands on the table because I have questions in need of answers and I can't imagine it being anything but the CGI

    This is me with DoroHeDoro

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  • P10P10 An Idiot With Low IQ Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    i wasn't expecting aharen-san to be good.
    i was also expecting classroom of the elite to be much, much worse than it is, although s2 has taken a turn for making the protagonist completely unlikable so maybe it will fulfill its destiny

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Land of the lustrous was a show I wasn't very in to during the first episode and I thought the cgi was kinda weird/bad.

    By the end of it I was slamming my hands on the table because I have questions in need of answers and I can't imagine it being anything but the CGI

    This is me with DoroHeDoro
    Fuck, yes, Dorohedoro on the pile of "zero expectations to giddy excitement".


    Also, mentions of Muteking made me go "hah, cute nickname for Ranking of Kings, I getcha".
    I know he's deaf, my brain is just bad.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Ranking of Kings from it's title had me going "ehhhh?". And then it turned out to be a really good show about radical empathy.

    Though apparently it's got some really iffy stuff around anti-Korean racism in how one group is portrayed? I'm not even going to pretend I understand that's as I just don't have the cultural context at all, but that part sucks

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Elaro wrote: »
    Parallel World Pharmacy: So good, so science. Is Ascendance of a Bookworm anything like this?

    The bookworm teaches less literate people interesting modern science such as
    fruits can be eaten by humans, not only by birds.

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    edit: Ya'll got this covered already, nevermind.

    The only reason Tokyopop coming back would be acceptable, is if they actually finished publishing the Initial D manga.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Ranking of Kings from it's title had me going "ehhhh?". And then it turned out to be a really good show about radical empathy.

    Though apparently it's got some really iffy stuff around anti-Korean racism in how one group is portrayed? I'm not even going to pretend I understand that's as I just don't have the cultural context at all, but that part sucks
    You mean the people who sold out the wizards and mutilated Miranjo? Did not pick up on any real world parallels there.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
  • WearingGlassesWearingGlasses Of the friendly neighborhood variety Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Bad news: Ruridragon's on indefinite hiatus (mangaka health reasons)

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  • Hexmage-PAHexmage-PA Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    This technically isn't anime, but it's close enough that I wanted to share some clips from White Snake 2: Green Snake, which is basically about a snake demon banished to a purgatory that takes the form of a post-apocalyptic city populated by gangs of humans and demons and ravaged by ghosts and spirits of disaster.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxjA6eWPicA
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4YXMHtHzsA

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oh damn, a potential hit nipped in the bud. At least they'll allow the author to resume serialization in the future, and didn't just give them the ax.

    WSJ lineup is looking real thin these days.

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  • SomestickguySomestickguy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Kyougu wrote: »
    Are there examples of anime where it actually turns out way better than what was expected?

    Thinking of something like Nagatoro, where it really seemed like it was someone's very specific sort of fetish anime and instead it's a pretty whole some rom com.

    When I first watched re:ZERO, it was during a phase in my relationship with Sword Art Online where I hatewatched it and also things that looked similar to it.

    The level of quality between SAO and re:ZERO is an ocean, especially with season 2, so that was an expectation well and truly exceeded.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Boy does it make you earn it, but Re:ZERO really sticks the landing.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Glal wrote: »
    Land of the lustrous was a show I wasn't very in to during the first episode and I thought the cgi was kinda weird/bad.

    By the end of it I was slamming my hands on the table because I have questions in need of answers and I can't imagine it being anything but the CGI

    This is me with DoroHeDoro
    Fuck, yes, Dorohedoro on the pile of "zero expectations to giddy excitement".


    Also, mentions of Muteking made me go "hah, cute nickname for Ranking of Kings, I getcha".
    I know he's deaf, my brain is just bad.

    He's both!

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Spy X Family Cour 2 trailer:

    https://youtu.be/4ec3dV3QjBw

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