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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    Isekai Ojisan delayed indefinitely because apparently the studio was aggressively hotboxing COVID. Apparently targeting two weeks, but not committing to it

    woooow
    I hope it's mild for all of them with no lasting complications :(

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    After finishing Nichijou, I'm morbidly disappointed Nakamura didn't get some comeuppance. What a despicable character.

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  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The devil is a part timer season 2 is starting?

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    The devil is a part timer season 2 is starting?

    Yes, up to episode 3. I gotta say it's lost its charm from season 1, but mostly because I heard how the LN ends.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Kaguya-sama is still wrapping up, and that means
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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The devil is a part timer season 2 is starting?

    Yes, up to episode 3. I gotta say it's lost its charm from season 1, but mostly because I heard how the LN ends.

    Haven't read the LN but, does it end
    With Maou and Chiho getting together? Because I really hate that ship. She's a random highschooler working at McDonald's and you're an immortal king of demons from another world.

    It's both bafflingly unbalanced and also extremely skeevy and easily the worst part of the whole thing.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Kana wrote: »
    Kaguya-sama is still wrapping up, and that means
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    You're right, I need to drop my recycling off tomorrow which means I'll be the near ramen place. Good call as always Chika.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    The devil is a part timer season 2 is starting?

    Yes, up to episode 3. I gotta say it's lost its charm from season 1, but mostly because I heard how the LN ends.

    Haven't read the LN but, does it end
    With Maou and Chiho getting together? Because I really hate that ship. She's a random highschooler working at McDonald's and you're an immortal king of demons from another world.

    It's both bafflingly unbalanced and also extremely skeevy and easily the worst part of the whole thing.

    Answer (ending spoilers):
    Yeah, Chiho wins and ends up with Maou.

    I didn't dig too deeply into it, but either the original JP fanbase or English fan community (or maybe both) were extremely disappointed with that pairing, for all the reasons you listed, and a general preference for Emi among the fanbase. Emi x Maou is at least two adults, and made more sense narratively.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The devil is a part timer season 2 is starting?

    Yes, up to episode 3. I gotta say it's lost its charm from season 1, but mostly because I heard how the LN ends.

    Haven't read the LN but, does it end
    With Maou and Chiho getting together? Because I really hate that ship. She's a random highschooler working at McDonald's and you're an immortal king of demons from another world.

    It's both bafflingly unbalanced and also extremely skeevy and easily the worst part of the whole thing.

    Answer in spoilers
    Yep, that's it exactly.

    I try not to get too invested in shipping wars, but this one in particular is just so fucking annoying

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Regarding those spoilers for Da Devil Works at Macca
    that is so bizarre because the first season ends in a way that makes you think Emi is the supposed first choice, and I've spent years thinking it would go that way

    Classic anime rule of thumb is that the wrong ship always sails

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    ph blake wrote: »
    The devil is a part timer season 2 is starting?

    Yes, up to episode 3. I gotta say it's lost its charm from season 1, but mostly because I heard how the LN ends.

    Haven't read the LN but, does it end
    With Maou and Chiho getting together? Because I really hate that ship. She's a random highschooler working at McDonald's and you're an immortal king of demons from another world.

    It's both bafflingly unbalanced and also extremely skeevy and easily the worst part of the whole thing.

    Answer in spoilers
    Yep, that's it exactly.

    I try not to get too invested in shipping wars, but this one in particular is just so fucking annoying

    Well butts.
    Yeah I also try not to get too into "ships" but some things are just narratively better. Emi is more interesting. She's roughly comparable in power and importantly, maturity. She's the former enemy forced to work together by circumstances and finding common ground. Sure it's obvious in a way, but as the meme said, sometimes if the viewers can see the end of your story coming it's because it makes sense.

    Maybe they'll pull an FMA and just make up an ending since it sounds like a lot of people hated it.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I only saw the first episode so far of the new devil part-timer run but the new animation studio also feels like a noticeable step down in quality from the first run. It's not terrible, but it's a little disappointing.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Soo much of the first season worked because of its excellent comic timing, not really shocking if S2 fails to recapture the same magic with a different studio

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  • AbacusAbacus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    ph blake wrote: »
    The devil is a part timer season 2 is starting?

    Yes, up to episode 3. I gotta say it's lost its charm from season 1, but mostly because I heard how the LN ends.

    Haven't read the LN but, does it end
    With Maou and Chiho getting together? Because I really hate that ship. She's a random highschooler working at McDonald's and you're an immortal king of demons from another world.

    It's both bafflingly unbalanced and also extremely skeevy and easily the worst part of the whole thing.

    Answer in spoilers
    Yep, that's it exactly.

    I try not to get too invested in shipping wars, but this one in particular is just so fucking annoying

    Well butts.
    Yeah I also try not to get too into "ships" but some things are just narratively better. Emi is more interesting. She's roughly comparable in power and importantly, maturity. She's the former enemy forced to work together by circumstances and finding common ground. Sure it's obvious in a way, but as the meme said, sometimes if the viewers can see the end of your story coming it's because it makes sense.

    Maybe they'll pull an FMA and just make up an ending since it sounds like a lot of people hated it.
    "More interesting" is just starting to describe it. Beside the sheer creepyness of pairing an adult with a High Schooler, Chiho can afford much more easily to have blind faith on Maou and overlook his trangressions as the leader of one side of the war since she didn't experienced the context of the war like Emi did.

    EDIT: Even the show made a point to show that!

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yeah well you take these VHS from my cold dead hands

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    the neural net I am generously assuming they just trained to look for exposed nipples to censor is extremely oversensitive and did a bad job yeah
    if it's actually functioning as intended and this is some kind of insane lowest common denominator thing for social acceptability of showing cleavage because this is supposed to meet standards for like, Saudi Arabia or something, well, yikes

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Not only does the censor make stuff look even more explicit it just hits random stuff. Like a knee cap.

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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
    Manga Up is free, it just heavily incentivizes you to pay money. You get 120 stamina and it refills twice a day, so you can read 8 “chapters” for free. Except what you would think of as a normal manga chapter is broken up into multiple sections of like 2-3. So you might be able to make it through like 2 whole chapters of a manga a day if you make sure to check in twice a day.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    plz no uncovered knees guys, don't get this thread closed

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The idea of paying a monthly fee for something that uses mobile game energy is disgusting, I pray for their complete failure.

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  • LeumasWhiteLeumasWhite New ZealandRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Being obscenely greedy hasn't hurt Square in the past, unfortunately. But they're also happy to write things off for failing to meet their absurd expectations, so when nobody pays up for it, I imagine it'll disappear pretty quick.

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    TNTrooper wrote: »
    Not only does the censor make stuff look even more explicit it just hits random stuff. Like a knee cap.


    One manga censored every instance of the letter Y

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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Y, the most sultry letter

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Thunderbolt Fantasy season two ends with everyone happy! Notice I didn't say everything was happy...

    We also finished Akibaranger season two, which will NEVER have a sequel EVER.

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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
    The idea of paying a monthly fee for something that uses mobile game energy is disgusting, I pray for their complete failure.

    As far as I can tell it doesn’t have a monthly sub. You can use money to buy coins which you use to read chapters. There’s like 3 currencies in this thing. UP, which is your free stamina, XP which you get via ??? and also first time coin purchases, and coins. No idea if the coins at least cost less to read a chapter than the other two(I doubt it) but I’m not about to find out. Oh, also you can’t use normal stamina to read the latest three chapters of a series.

    Thankfully the library is like 90% isekai trash so there’s only like 2-3 things I want to read anyways. It’ll just take months.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Well I forgot I had Hi-Dive and loaded it up, and I didn't realize Tamako Market had a wrap up movie which just about killed me with sweetness.
    when Mochizo realizes that Tamako is really talking about her mom when she's obsessed with mochi, it definitely hit

    What a nice wrap-up to the series, solid 9/10 with cute animation, decent music and well, I didn't miss the bird character in the movie at all lol

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Thunderbolt Fantasy season two ends with everyone happy! Notice I didn't say everything was happy...

    We also finished Akibaranger season two, which will NEVER have a sequel EVER.

    Season 2's really funny to me because the red haired character who's name escapes me was a promotional puppet done because TM revolution is cool and he's singing our theme song.

    And then he ended up being a major character who adds a lot to the dynamic, and it's hilarious how well it works

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    So Square has a new manga App. It's a pay service and it still censors content

    It uses an AI for this. You may see where this is going

    The best bit of this is the censor makes it look way worse than the fairly standard manga horny it actually is

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Apparently the Ocean Group dubbed two episodes, more info here:
    https://imissbionix.wordpress.com/2020/05/24/oceans-legend-of-the-galactic-heroes-pilot-dub-surfaces-over-20-years-later/


    Ton of Ranma 1/2 vets were involved.
    In 1999, Tokuma Shoten enlisted Outis Productions to find a suitable home for the series in the United States. To better entice potential partners, the company commissioned Vancouver’s Ocean Studios to record a pilot. Consisting of episodes 51 and 52, “Death Match at Vermillion,” it was screened to hopeful licensors and to fans at conventions like Anime Expo 99, Sakuracon 2000 and Anime Central 2000.

    Maybe the show was too boring or old for television execs and too lengthy for a home-video market whose business model relied on 4-episode VHS tapes. Perhaps the Japanese rights holders were difficult to deal with. At that Anime Expo 99 panel, producer Yukio Kikukawa said there was interest from one undisclosed company, but that they felt it wasn’t a serious offer. Whatever the reason, the dub wasn’t picked up.

    Surprisingly, the episodes credit those involved with the production. Directed by the prolific Karl Willems, it features a cast consisting of Ari Solomon, Brad Swaile, David Kaye, Don Brown, John Payne, Michael Dobson, Michael Kopsa, Nicole Oliver, Paul Dobson, Richard Newman, Scott McNeil, Ewan “Sudsy” Clark, Ted Cole and Ward Perry. The music is retained from the Japanese version.


    None other than Kuno's VA did Lohengramm. :D

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    TNTrooper wrote: »
    Not only does the censor make stuff look even more explicit it just hits random stuff. Like a knee cap.


    Because the app is available in Indonesia it is attempting to censor stuff that would offend a majority Muslim country, yes

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Amish Paradise was right.

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 13
    TNTrooper wrote: »
    Not only does the censor make stuff look even more explicit it just hits random stuff. Like a knee cap.


    Because the app is available in Indonesia it is attempting to censor stuff that would offend a majority Muslim country, yes

    this is absolutely not the place for that argument

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It adheres to censorship trends for manga and anime that have been released in Indonesia based on the fact that it still adheres to awrah in large parts of the country, its not a perscriptive statement or judgment in any way

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