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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I just rewatched outlaw star sometime in the last year, it held up pretty well I think

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  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I got around to the latest OPM

    Tornado is scary


    And fuck is the art so good

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Zonugal wrote: »
    I never actually saw Outlaw Star.

    What are your thoughts/feelings on magic spells being shot from a gun?

    Well I went "holy shit that's cool" when I saw shotgun wands with chk chk and clink clink of shells so all signs point to "great!"

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Paranoia Agent is both great, an absolute masterpiece... and something I see more people than not bouncing off of. It is great but it is weird and it is heavy and it is a lot.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Zonugal wrote: »
    I never actually saw Outlaw Star.

    What are your thoughts/feelings on magic spells being shot from a gun?

    Well I went "holy shit that's cool" when I saw shotgun wands with chk chk and clink clink of shells so all signs point to "great!"

    Oh so you've watched Nanoha?

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  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Sogeking just showed up.

    Man I didn't know Usopp had such a cool friend.

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    RT800 wrote: »
    Ah, Millions Knives finally living up to the name.

    Knives is an existential threat to humanity in the manga, I haven't seen the show yet. But I bet it's bad.
    I got around to the latest OPM

    Tornado is scary


    And fuck is the art so good

    Heroes of Fury is a short little one off manga drawn by Murata which very much set him up as the perfect artist for the redo of OPM.

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    RT800 wrote: »
    Ah, Millions Knives finally living up to the name.

    Knives is an existential threat to humanity in the manga, I haven't seen the show yet. But I bet it's bad.

    Well, I just meant in the latest episode he actually used a whole shitload of knives.

    As opposed to the 90's anime, in which he never even used one.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Trace wrote: »
    Sogeking just showed up.

    Man I didn't know Usopp had such a cool friend.
    Water 7 and Ennies Lobby is Usopp's second best moment. His best moment is yet to come.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Zonugal wrote: »
    I never actually saw Outlaw Star.

    What are your thoughts/feelings on magic spells being shot from a gun?

    Well I went "holy shit that's cool" when I saw shotgun wands with chk chk and clink clink of shells so all signs point to "great!"

    Oh so you've watched Nanoha?

    Sure have!

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  • KayuraKayura Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The Sogeking theme is original to the anime, right? If so, it's easily the best thing the animators added to OP.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    kinda after the conversation ended, but I was just reminded randomly of how much I love the 2nd Konosuba opening

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdcddjV0l5o

    Just the gang trying and failing to do all the stereotypical anime op/ed things: running through a field (whoops no cardio), dancing (whoops can't dance), dramatic fighting (whoops dropped the sword), flying gracefully through the air (lop whoops just uncontrolled, panicked falling).

    Just a real good solid gag

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I just love how happy Darkness is to hurl herself through the air and how utterly resigned everybody is before being launched. Like "fuck I can't get out of this."

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Mill wrote: »
    I just rewatched outlaw star sometime in the last year, it held up pretty well I think

    Some of the stuff with Fred Luo has not aged well, since it relies on queerphobic humor.

    I'll admit it's a bit unfair to Outlaw Star to compare it to many of the isekai because a good chunk of it has very solid quality, but it's a great example of how popularity of the times, isn't the best metric to go by. There are better written anime. Also despite having some solid quality and being extremely popular, that didn't really stop it from fading out of the anime viewing conscious.

    I suspect most of the isekai are going to be long forgotten in a decade. Sad thing is, I could see a number being remembered, not for having some redeeming the qualities, but for being really vile in some ways. Granted, people are going to get them mixed up because the worst thing with the shit isekai is that the MC participating or condoning slavery is really fucking boilerplate and it's frankly rather fucked up. Hell, that's totally an area where the publishers should be cracking down by telling both editors and writers that they aren't going to publish shit that is apologia for slavery.

    Anyways, on Lost Universe, Crunchyroll actually has that on offer last I checked. I need to finish going through the series. I kind of have to watch it slowly because while I can enjoy silly stupid humor and the episodes I've seen so far have that. I can't really binge watch a series that relies on silly stupid humor.

    Fred didn't bother me too much, contrary to what I expected after being reminded of his character before our group started watching, he's a little bit of a flamboyant gay stereotype and he remains very flirty towards Gene despite Gene repeatedly rejecting him, but he doesn't do anything more reprehensible than hitting on him.

    I was definitely bracing for it to be worse than it was when we got to the first Fred episode.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    RT800 wrote: »
    Ah, Millions Knives finally living up to the name.

    Knives is an existential threat to humanity in the manga, I haven't seen the show yet. But I bet it's bad.
    I got around to the latest OPM

    Tornado is scary


    And fuck is the art so good

    Heroes of Fury is a short little one off manga drawn by Murata which very much set him up as the perfect artist for the redo of OPM.

    I still find it amazing that his career started by creating a Robot Master for the Mega Man series (Dust Man, for those curious.) Unsurprisingly, he's done art for Capcom over the years.

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  • GlaziusGlazius Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    FCD wrote: »
    The Sogeking theme is original to the anime, right? If so, it's easily the best thing the animators added to OP.

    He sings it in the manga, as much as you can sing anything in manga. The action sentai opening that's only playing inside his head is not shown, because it's only playing inside his head, but seeing it does make for a much richer experience.

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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Zonugal wrote: »
    I never actually saw Outlaw Star.

    What are your thoughts/feelings on magic spells being shot from a gun?

    Less cool than casting spells with proper chants and bigass magic circles, but still significantly more cool than using actual bullets.

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  • KupiKupi Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm suddenly imagining some poor sod in the Fullmetal Alchemist universe who's had the misfortune of developing some kind of alchemy that only works on bullets, necessitating that he laboriously inscribe a custom transmutation circle on each individual casing.

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  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    dammit Robin stop being a dumb dumb and let yourself get saved

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Holy cow.

    https://deadline.com/2023/01/apple-drops-of-god-series-legendary-tv-1235156947/

    Having read Drops of God in manga form I am very curious to see how this TV version works out. (there was a japanese adaptation a while ago, but it does not look like it was made with much budget, and Drops of God is definitely something that would benefit from high production values)

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  • AbacusAbacus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Kupi wrote: »
    I'm suddenly imagining some poor sod in the Fullmetal Alchemist universe who's had the misfortune of developing some kind of alchemy that only works on bullets, necessitating that he laboriously inscribe a custom transmutation circle on each individual casing.

    FMA universe has both industrial capacity and, if that fails, the "can make circles with other circles" trick, so is not that bad.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Last night on Animenagerie, Lupin died again and then Zombie Land Saga gave us a history lesson of the Saga prefecture of Japan with an episode set entirely in the Meiji era. I had to leave early, so I missed whatever duck hijinks happened in Princess Tutu.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Jragghen wrote: »
    FCD wrote: »
    The Sogeking theme is original to the anime, right? If so, it's easily the best thing the animators added to OP.

    Yeah, the whole opening thing is anime original and amazing.

    Even on a mouse's eye!
    (Lock on)
    Even on your heart!
    (Lock ooooonnnn)

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Holy cow.

    https://deadline.com/2023/01/apple-drops-of-god-series-legendary-tv-1235156947/

    Having read Drops of God in manga form I am very curious to see how this TV version works out. (there was a japanese adaptation a while ago, but it does not look like it was made with much budget, and Drops of God is definitely something that would benefit from high production values)

    I was buying that but stopped at 4 (cos that's as much as had been published). I should get the rest.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Nier Automata V1.1a's doing an excellent job with the story so far, I hope the hiatus isn't too long.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Latest manga chapter of Kanojo mo Kanojo:
    Shino seems to have been afflicted with a curse where nobody can perceive her or remember she exists.

    Seriously though, so many people were sure this arc was going to be when Shino officially joins in on the poly relationship, so I assume the author is just trolling at this point.

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  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    And here we are. Enies Lobby.

    *buckles up*

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Is Zombieland Saga basically a promotional piece for Saga prefecture? Like it's about zombie idols but the genesis of the project and the funding was as a tourism ad basically?

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Is Zombieland Saga basically a promotional piece for Saga prefecture? Like it's about zombie idols but the genesis of the project and the funding was as a tourism ad basically?

    that's probably the least strange thing about that entire show, if true

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I have no idea if it is true, it's just the explanation I came to for why it has so much weird "hey have you heard of Saga prefecture" stuff in it, and having seen a few other tourism-funded anime in a similar vein. Stuff where the local tourism board funds a local animation studio to produce an anime and promote the area in the background of it while they do whatever the fuck they want otherwise.

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  • EvilOtakuEvilOtaku Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Is Zombieland Saga basically a promotional piece for Saga prefecture? Like it's about zombie idols but the genesis of the project and the funding was as a tourism ad basically?

    I'm pretty sure that's the literal in-universe premise of the series. The Idol Agency is meant to revitalize the prefecture.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lars wrote: »
    Last night on Animenagerie, Lupin died again and then Zombie Land Saga gave us a history lesson of the Saga prefecture of Japan with an episode set entirely in the Meiji era. I had to leave early, so I missed whatever duck hijinks happened in Princess Tutu.

    Duck tried to leave her tutu in a garbage can like Spider-Man and retire, but the prince was tricked into diving into the water to meet a water spirit like some sort of Greek myth, so she had to transform again to save him from drowning. Also the rival black tutu appeared, and she's really into crows, big 2000s Sting aesthetic.

    Is Zombieland Saga basically a promotional piece for Saga prefecture? Like it's about zombie idols but the genesis of the project and the funding was as a tourism ad basically?

    Yes, it seems Saga was smart enough to realize making the standard promotional show wouldn't be nearly as successful as making a 'cute (zombie) girls doing cute things' show and just surrounding them with constant Saga references. Lars can say more, but it absolutely seems to have worked.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    In the latest Vinland Saga, some folks lend Thorfinn their ears and he feels obligated to return the favor.

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Spell-guns make me think of that girl with a wand shaped like a sniper-rifle she carries in a coffin. And that makes me think of the time someone in that series
    went "Aha, but see this house was my wand all along you fools!"


    Apparently Shimokitazawa in Tokyo is getting more attention because of Bocchi the Rock.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Is Zombieland Saga basically a promotional piece for Saga prefecture? Like it's about zombie idols but the genesis of the project and the funding was as a tourism ad basically?

    It was originally a show titled "Idol Zombie," but Cygames basically went "Eeeeeehhhhh, no." But at the same time, there was a request to make a show set in Saga, where the president of Cygames was from, and with whom they had just made a big deal to open a new tech office there. So they retrofitted that onto Idol Zombie and renamed it.

    E:
    Source
    https://www.animatetimes.com/news/details.php?id=1539407067

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