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  • Hexmage-PAHexmage-PA Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    What didn't people like about Crystal

    Oh, wow, that's a question with a lot of answers...

    Here's one big difference:

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    The color palette in Crystal is also much more generic than in the 90's version, which, for example, sported backgrounds such as these:

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Usagi should be a gremlin

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  • WearingGlassesWearingGlasses Of the friendly neighborhood variety Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm not one to ignore a reference alley oop so
    Jragghen wrote: »
    Trace wrote: »
    And that's Thriller Bark over and done with.

    Did anything happen?

    Nothing... at all.

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Gundi wrote: »
    Well basically so far I'd describe it as a kind of "Trigun:Greatest Hits" with its own spin on the most iconic Trigun scenarios. It's very pretty, and I think it works pretty well... but only if you are already familiar with Trigun's characters. It has such a breakneck speed that it doesn't have a lot of time for character establishing.

    I would agree with this, it is moving at one hell of a breakneck speed. That said, it is doing it insanely well. Episode 6 being the convergence of 3 major parts of the manga/anime just... Ratcheted things up to a fucking insane scale.
    RT800 wrote: »
    This Trigun seems hollower somehow. Like, the characters don't seem as fleshed out as the 90's version.

    I think it's because the first Trigun anime goofed around for a few episodes, letting you get to know the characters and see some more light-hearted moments.

    Whereas this one takes a darker tone from the start.

    I agree that there has not been any breathing room. However, the characters are 100% in line with how they were in Trugun Maximum. Not a ton of character growth on screen yet... So maybe that is hollow? But there is quite a bit bubbling under the surface.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    https://youtu.be/rVgky_zjj8c

    And that, friends, is why it's called the Cross Punisher.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    What didn't people like about Crystal

    It removes all the personality, or, as said: very faithful to the manga, which is boring, and goes through villains at a clip. The original series fleshes them out and has fun with it.


    You sure didn't get this in Crystal's version of S:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYeL4Ch0UiY


    And consider: that's Kenshiro's VA!

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Also something I've been a little worried about with Stampede is... I kind of feel like the sub might be a little off. I don't speak Japanese but it sometimes feels like the sub is missing nuance.

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  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Trigun Stampede is definitely doing something different than the original anime but it's doing it very well.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Damn is Bocchi not getting dub version? Can't find anything about it

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  • OptyOpty Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Damn is Bocchi not getting dub version? Can't find anything about it

    In today's simuldub world, I don't know what happens for shows like that which weren't picked for dubbing before the season started but end up being critical darlings afterwards.

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  • Hexmage-PAHexmage-PA Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    What didn't people like about Crystal

    It removes all the personality, or, as said: very faithful to the manga, which is boring, and goes through villains at a clip. The original series fleshes them out and has fun with it.


    You sure didn't get this in Crystal's version of S:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYeL4Ch0UiY


    And consider: that's Kenshiro's VA!

    Sailor Moon is one of the few anime that really benefits from filler episodes, as they allow the characters to be explored and fleshed out more. Without the manga there wouldn't be an anime, but the manga is very barebones in comparison.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Opty wrote: »
    Damn is Bocchi not getting dub version? Can't find anything about it

    In today's simuldub world, I don't know what happens for shows like that which weren't picked for dubbing before the season started but end up being critical darlings afterwards.

    Birdie Wing still doesn't have a dub, which is insane.

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  • evilmrhenryevilmrhenry Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Mill wrote: »
    Yeah, if no one fucks with the next half of CSM, it might rebound quite well if blu-ray sales were terrible, even when the Mappa Special sales are included. Even though it starts out better than most anime, it still follows the rule of not quite hitting it's stride until a far ways in because the author bothered to do a damn good job at setting shit up.

    Going back to lip flaps. I do wonder if we might see AI move into that space because in theory, you could probably get the AI do it on the cheap and pretty damn fast. Also it has some huge merits even for the original Japanese broadcasts. It means you can let VAs record dialogue and then let the AI sync lips perfectly to the record dialogue. It's also kind of a perfect task for an AI given how tedious and time consuming it would be to have a human do it, then throw in the fact that it likely could do it cheaply and quickly.

    You don't even need AI for that. Half-Life 2 had automatic lip syncing back in 2004, and VTubers do that in real-time. It's a solved problem to algorithmically go from audio to various mouth shapes, it's just a matter of getting that algorithm into the right part of the development pipeline.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Opty wrote: »
    Damn is Bocchi not getting dub version? Can't find anything about it

    In today's simuldub world, I don't know what happens for shows like that which weren't picked for dubbing before the season started but end up being critical darlings afterwards.

    Birdie Wing still doesn't have a dub, which is insane.

    it's too insane to dub, all those who have beheld the script have gone mad, as if they saw the necronomicon

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    One Piece episode 1051 this week:
    Luffy and Kaido split the sky!

    Yamato got a crew card at the commercial break!

    Banger episode all around.

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    https://youtu.be/rVgky_zjj8c

    And that, friends, is why it's called the Cross Punisher.

    It's so heavy because it's full of mercy.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13

    Nier anime is back on Feb. 18. Glad the hiatus didn't have to be too too long.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Hope it's not like isekai ojiisan and they came back too fast causing everyone to get reinfected again

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  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Latest one piece I knew that bird was a bastard

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  • AbacusAbacus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yes the 90's anime is better than the manga, but Crystal marketed itself as "completely faithful to the manga version", then did things like removing whatever little humor or character development the manga had.

    It just has this Fantastic Four movies feel of "we are doing this just to keep the rights".

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Mill wrote: »
    I have to say, it's a damn shame that the source material of Arknights is a gacha game. Not going to claim it's the greatest thing, but the anime is pretty solid and it's a damn shame it was all started by a Gacha game, a game type using one of the shittiest and most predatory practices currently in gaming. I*'ll admit might not have gotten the anime if the game wasn't originally a gacha, but even if it had turned out to be fan-fucking-tastic anime, I'm sure that cost would have been justified.

    I'll still watch season 2, maybe if the animes do well enough the creative talents will decide they don't really need to tie their creatives to shitty predatory gacha games.

    Do you... understand the economics at play here at all? Like, the amount of profit a mobile gacha game typically makes compared to an anime? It's like you're saying "maybe if these fanzines do well enough, they'll shut down all of sports betting."

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm two decades late but I just started the Fate/Stay Night VN before I watch the anime adaptation.

    I'll be here I while won't I?

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  • Kevin CristKevin Crist I make the devil hit his knees and say the 'our father'Registered User regular
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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Mill wrote: »
    Mill wrote: »
    I have to say, it's a damn shame that the source material of Arknights is a gacha game. Not going to claim it's the greatest thing, but the anime is pretty solid and it's a damn shame it was all started by a Gacha game, a game type using one of the shittiest and most predatory practices currently in gaming. I*'ll admit might not have gotten the anime if the game wasn't originally a gacha, but even if it had turned out to be fan-fucking-tastic anime, I'm sure that cost would have been justified.

    I'll still watch season 2, maybe if the animes do well enough the creative talents will decide they don't really need to tie their creatives to shitty predatory gacha games.

    Do you... understand the economics at play here at all? Like, the amount of profit a mobile gacha game typically makes compared to an anime? It's like you're saying "maybe if these fanzines do well enough, they'll shut down all of sports betting."

    They could always run a game with a business that isn't fucking predatory gacha and other predatory microtransactions. It doesn't have to just be anime.

    They COULD make less money, but they don't want to. They want to make gobs and gobs of money. As Jragghen points out, short of making it illegal, they will continue soaking up that cash, until forced not to. Shockingly (not), a game that can get some players to spend hundreds of dollars every time there's new content is more profitable than one where you pay a reasonable fee one time and then stop.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Latest one piece I knew that bird was a bastard

    Burying the lede there
    Proof of life for Vivi!

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm surprised gacha hasn't come under regulation yet with that kind of money being made.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm two decades late but I just started the Fate/Stay Night VN before I watch the anime adaptation.

    I'll be here I while won't I?

    That's hell you're walking into

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm two decades late but I just started the Fate/Stay Night VN before I watch the anime adaptation.

    I'll be here I while won't I?

    I strongly recommend the show version, the VN is like 80% filler and 20% killer, unless you really enjoy hours of Unlimited Cooking Works.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Just play Battle Moon Wars instead.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Zek wrote: »
    I genuinely don't understand how anybody is able to comprehend what the hell is happening in One Piece.

    There's a lot of balls in the air but it's fairly well told and resolves cleanly.

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  • NeveronNeveron SwedenRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    I'm two decades late but I just started the Fate/Stay Night VN before I watch the anime adaptation.

    I'll be here I while won't I?

    I strongly recommend the show version, the VN is like 80% filler and 20% killer, unless you really enjoy hours of Unlimited Cooking Works.
    That's the best part, though! Gimme all the boxes of mandarins you can find, Taiga.

    ...Also, while Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven's Feel have decent adaptations I don't know that I can quite recommend DEEN's Fate/Stay Night as a Fate route adaptation?
    I'm two decades late but I just started the Fate/Stay Night VN before I watch the anime adaptation.

    I'll be here I while won't I?

    It's like a 61h game without going into the completionist stuff according to HowLongToBeat, I guess. It's a pretty sizeable game.

    For the most part the fan translation is acceptable, I guess, with the only mistranslation that immediately comes to mind being a random "gold of the Rhine"->"gold of the line" one that's perfectly understandable given how weird a reference that is. I'm sure that people have all kinds of quibbles with it these days, though.
    Also if you're coming from later Fate works it's going to be using different translations for various magical terms, so that's something.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Neveron wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    I'm two decades late but I just started the Fate/Stay Night VN before I watch the anime adaptation.

    I'll be here I while won't I?

    I strongly recommend the show version, the VN is like 80% filler and 20% killer, unless you really enjoy hours of Unlimited Cooking Works.
    That's the best part, though! Gimme all the boxes of mandarins you can find, Taiga.

    ...Also, while Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven's Feel have decent adaptations I don't know that I can quite recommend DEEN's Fate/Stay Night as a Fate route adaptation?

    Yeah, that's fair(and hey, UBW's[second] adaptation is incredible), but it's not like the Fate route is much to write home about anyway.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    There are more kissing cousins in Cardcaptor Sakura than in Sailor Moon and Shelbyville combined.

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  • AbacusAbacus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    I'm surprised gacha hasn't come under regulation yet with that kind of money being made.

    Well, there is some regulation. Famously, "combi gacha" aka rewards for having all the items on the gacha were outlawed in 2012 in Japan.

    Besides that, that's tied to all the discussion about lootboxes, and several law projects have been around, but believe that the only ones that went through are Taiwan and China requiring probability disclosure and a lot of games on the west shifting away to battle passes.

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