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  • BadablackBadablack Registered User regular
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    Look I can only get off if my partner looks like they loathe me with every fiber of their being, don't kinkshame. It's a healthy aspect of any relationship!

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
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    cj iwakura wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Reynolds wrote: »
    GR_Zombie wrote: »
    Never do I question watching anime more than when a show casually introduces a character as a lolicon like that’s just totally cool.

    The weirdest thing is everyone going to bat for Dragon Maid.

    lucoa is a... weird and unfortunate case

    the "joke" is that she is a queztlecoatl and thus a fertility deity that likes virgin sacrifices

    it is not a very good joke

    also, she isn't a lolicon , the author just does the 'joke' with shota because the author has some fucking awful tendencies that the anime tries to tone down

    the rest is a largely wholesome queer found family comedy/slice of life

    Sure doesn't sound like a hill I'd want to die on.

    And I’m not?

    Well, it sounds like you're going to bat for it.

    that's on you

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Reynolds wrote: »
    GR_Zombie wrote: »
    Never do I question watching anime more than when a show casually introduces a character as a lolicon like that’s just totally cool.

    The weirdest thing is everyone going to bat for Dragon Maid.

    lucoa is a... weird and unfortunate case

    the "joke" is that she is a queztlecoatl and thus a fertility deity that likes virgin sacrifices

    it is not a very good joke

    also, she isn't a lolicon , the author just does the 'joke' with shota because the author has some fucking awful tendencies that the anime tries to tone down

    the rest is a largely wholesome queer found family comedy/slice of life

    Sure doesn't sound like a hill I'd want to die on.

    it sure isn't! I like the queer found family parts a lot and I think the show is absolutely unrecommendable

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Sounds like it's going to be another month or so until this comes back (and once again, here's hoping they don't cross some line of losing profit and just chop the series order or the budget or just cancel the thing), Nier posting time.

    Nier: Automata Ver1.1a episode 7

    General notes:
    -The King of the Forest arc. Like with the desert episode previously, they've added a tag-along character for 2B and 9S to bounce off of (Pascal this time).
    -I appreciate the very stupid robot comedy that kicks this mission off, there's a risk of missing the element of how silly and cheesy Nier storylines can be (on purpose) with the very driven pacing of the show. I also don't feel it's out of character for the Machines though, they're doing a pantomime of things they've seen from human art. Like... they might literally be imitating comedy anime.
    -Like the Carnival arc, they've maintained the geometry of the place, while deleting most of the gamey things you do there. This level is characterized by being ambushed by slightly tougher and more aggressive enemies than you're used to at this point in the game. In the show version, welp. I do feel what happened in this version is a good bit of characterization for A2.
    -Game players will mostly note to themselves that A2 doesn't seem like a very enemy-ish enemy at this first meeting, the show has just forcefully moved that interpretation into the foreground.

    Superfan/franchise commentary:
    -A2 is using the Type-40 sword here, until it breaks and she tosses it aside. Fittingly, this is standard issue equipment for Yorha troops and even the weapon story is just about some Yorha grunt in the field. Much different from the other weapons you find or buy in the field that have history in this world, this is simply a tool (not a very good one) given to unremarkable Yorha troopers. It's safe to assume A2 acquired this from a dead android (maybe even one that came after her that she had to kill first), and she has no attachment to it at all. That will change for her, later on.
    -In the game, Pod URGES you to attack, A2 will NOT strike first. Kind of similar to how Adam doesn't attack until you attack him first in that first battle with him. It was a smart twist for the show that she was trying to kill Pascal on sight and had no beef with 2B and 9S until they got in her way.
    -Speaking of Pascal, that 'bad' ending in the game was a bit too lazy. No, the village androids are explicitly not a threat. That's kind of their whole deal, even as a joke bad end it doesn't work for me.
    -The Little Sister plotline has been sort of remixed and redone with some fun new elements here. I wonder if 9S feels a little bit iffy about the brutal war crime he committed back at the Carnival after seeing all this.
    -The Hidden Blacksmith is in this zone, so you see it a lot if you're on that grind to max out all the weapons. This is also the site of the last quest you will finish in the game (almost guaranteed), the "report data of hard to find enemies to another spotter android" quest from routes C/D. The rewards are not worth the required effort for that request, and I'm someone who considers interesting dialogue from completing the quest a worthwhile reward, if it's good enough. In the case of that quest, the spotter says "Cool data... Guess I'll die now!" Which is very Nier, but they could have reduced the requirements to just the enemies you would see normally. I guess it's not a Nier game if 100% completion didn't require finishing an idiotic sidequest for pitiful rewards, though.

    Nier: Automata Ver1.1a episode 8

    General notes:
    -This is another episode 2 style slowed down mood piece. While that one left our protagonists behind, this one stuck with them as they got into some of the messing about you can do in the game. Fishing, collecting flowers, musing about the reason for existence, ya know, relaxing stuff.
    -In the least subtle visual metaphor ever, 9S and 2B take off their blindfolds and then reconsider how their mission is going. 2B looks like she BADLY needs some eye drops.
    -Lunar Tear sighting. 2B makes a strange fashion choice.
    -Meanwhile, Jackass makes what I'm sure will be an extremely popular fashion choice.
    -Lily has A2's back, I'm not sure how 2B will react to that, though.
    -Jackass is a lot of fun in the show, I'm glad they're using her more often and in new places.

    Superfan/franchise commentary:
    -2B just straight up says "If you keep following these leads, you will die." This is as blunt as she could possibly be about this, I wonder how many show-only watchers have sussed out what's going on there.
    -2B refuses to wear the Lunar Tear in her hair, which is a bit odd/funny considering that's exactly what you do in the game as an optional thing.
    -In the game, one of the DLC arenas is right in this area, you can also fish out another Pod here, which makes you extremely more powerful. There's a shot of 2B and 9S jumping between two very specific buildings that made me smile a lot. Because in the game, you have to do a ridiculous flying long jump (literally hurling yourself forwards using Pod) to reach that first building that they're jumping off of, something that's never required anywhere else in the game. This is also a zone of PTSD, since the most agonizing scenes in the game for 2B happen right here.
    -Are we skipping the entire Grun boss fight storyline? It seems too expansive and exciting to do that, but 9S just got abducted by Adam, which will directly lead to the Copied City showdown where Adam dies. Maybe they'll leave 9S's fate up in the air and have 2B forced to react to the Grun situation without him? That seems bad though, since 9S puts his life on the line to save 2B, and losing that for no reason would be a shame.
    -I LOVED the 9S going rogue part of the episode, it was done really well to increase the tension. 9S comes off more competent and interesting here than he does in most of routes A and B, imo.
    -Part of the benefit of combining routes A and B is that it gives 2B the room to react in some way to the revelations that the player only gets in route B, when they're no longer playing as her and therefore no longer privy to her perspective. Will 2B openly refuse (or perhaps, try to defer till later on) what her job is supposed to be when 9S starts making these moves?
    -The mackerel ending is easily one of my favorites, this was so good.

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  • neverreallyneverreally Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Chapter 1 of Service Wars - https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1016119

    I haven't laughed that hard at a comic in a whiiiiile. SO RIDIC.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
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    I mostly watched romance stuff as per usual and I'll say I liked Ice Guy and Cool Colleague but the bit about him randomly becoming a little kid was probably the only part they could just toss aside and nothing of value would be lost. The last episode was tainted by this.

    Tomo-chan was a highlight. Farming in Another World was cute. Unless hidive gets something nice next season I may drop it though.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 13


    Huh.

    Horimiya is getting a second season, which is interesting cause the first season technically covered the entire manga up to the ending.

    But it did that by heavily condensing and just skipping over a ton of the fluff/slice of life chapters, so it looks like season two is gonna be going back and adapting those?

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
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    People in the comments saying there's parts left out of the anime ending with them being
    parents later on, so they could frame it either as them reminiscing or, just end the new series with the time skip to further wrap things up

    Funny I watched that one not too long ago, was decent

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    ph blake wrote: »


    Huh.

    Horimiya is getting a second season, which is interesting cause the first season technically covered the entire manga up to the ending.

    But it did that by heavily condensing and just skipping over a ton of the fluff/slice of life chapters, so it looks like season two is gonna be going back and adapting those?

    IMO the plot ends at the proposal 40% of the way through, and it's wispy air for content the rest of the way to the end of the manga.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oh yeah, I definitely get why they skipped all the fluff in the second half; the pacing slows to an absolute crawl at that point.

    Kinda cool that they're going back to adapt it though, wonder how they're gonna frame it

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
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    When it has real plot it was one of my favourites but when it doesnt its just sorta there and also gets weird sometimes with the maso stuff.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I feel like there's been a lot of random second seasons lately, and I think that's because of streaming and these companies having access to numbers and seeing directly how well a show does on streaming. People tend to rewatch their favorite shows so, if you go to Crunchyroll and scroll the top 100 most popular you'll see a lot of 10-20 year old anime that people just don't stop watching. So to me when I see a show like that get picked up again for another season it's just a sign the show has longevity and they think it's worth going back to that as it'll likely be another success with little risk attached

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    So some years back, there was a short form Anime adapting the manga Lovely Muco, a Story about a Shiba Inu who was utterly devoted to her person, a glassblower named Komatsu, and their daily lives and foibles

    https://youtu.be/il01cMdDtYo

    The thing is… they’re real. Mangaka Takayuki Mizushina actually based the characters on real life Akita-area glassblower Komatsu and his dog Muco, friends of a friend.

    So now the real Komatsu will often post updates about the real Muco:




    Muco has very important work to do

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    trigun stampede ended very, very strong

    I'm looking forward to the second season

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
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    I wonder how much authors get paid when their web novels get adapted into anime.

    Cause it seems like a pretty easy gig. I could come up with an Isekai in like five minutes.

    For instance:
    There's a lonely otaku who's like 28 (fucking ancient by anime standards). He gets hit by a truck while saving a baby or something, who cares.

    He wakes up in a world of sword and sorcery in a new body as - get this - A DRAGON! (This aint your grandpa's Isekai, kids)

    And using his dragon magic he can transform into a human so he doesn't have to deal with any of the inconveniences that might be associated with being a dragon.

    Also he's super OP because he's a dragon and also all the hot ladies love him.

    Nobody steal this idea it's mine I'm gonna make THOUSANDS.

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  • DHSDHS Chase lizards.. ...bark at donkeys..Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    RT800 wrote: »
    I wonder how much authors get paid when their web novels get adapted into anime.

    Cause it seems like a pretty easy gig. I could come up with an Isekai in like five minutes.

    For instance:
    There's a lonely otaku who's like 28 (fucking ancient by anime standards). He gets hit by a truck while saving a baby or something, who cares.

    He wakes up in a world of sword and sorcery in a new body as - get this - A DRAGON! (This aint your grandpa's Isekai, kids)

    And using his dragon magic he can transform into a human so he doesn't have to deal with any of the inconveniences that might be associated with being a dragon.

    Also he's super OP because he's a dragon and also all the hot ladies love him.

    Nobody steal this idea it's mine I'm gonna make THOUSANDS.

    literally just slime with one less step

    it'd sell millions

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
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    I mean there do seem to be an absolute enormous number of them and most aren't very financially successful. So if you wanna roll the dice with that, *shrug.*

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  • WearingGlassesWearingGlasses Of the friendly neighborhood variety Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Whew, this week's One Piece chapter.

    "You come at the king, you best not miss."

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I get the impression that for all the dozens of isekai light/web novels that get shitty animes, there's a thousand more on the internet that don't even make it that far. The light novel field is innundated with bad writers chasing the trend hoping to strike it rich.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
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    RT800 wrote: »
    I wonder how much authors get paid when their web novels get adapted into anime.

    Cause it seems like a pretty easy gig. I could come up with an Isekai in like five minutes.

    For instance:
    There's a lonely otaku who's like 28 (fucking ancient by anime standards). He gets hit by a truck while saving a baby or something, who cares.

    He wakes up in a world of sword and sorcery in a new body as - get this - A DRAGON! (This aint your grandpa's Isekai, kids)

    And using his dragon magic he can transform into a human so he doesn't have to deal with any of the inconveniences that might be associated with being a dragon.

    Also he's super OP because he's a dragon and also all the hot ladies love him.

    Nobody steal this idea it's mine I'm gonna make THOUSANDS.

    People have already made thousands with that exact premise. Not thousands of dollars/yen. Thousands of that exact light novel, from every flavor of monster from dragon to pink dragon to phoenix to sword to hat.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    trigun stampede
    don't fuck milly thompson up show, that's the lowest bar I'm asking you to clear

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  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    edited April 13
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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Now that I hear that Trigun Stampede
    brought in Milly

    I may actually check it out

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Now that I hear that Trigun Stampede
    brought in Milly

    I may actually check it out
    we've been hinted that a Thompson is getting assigned to Meryl. It isn't 100%, they could do a swerve next season I suppose

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    RT800 wrote: »
    I wonder how much authors get paid when their web novels get adapted into anime.

    Cause it seems like a pretty easy gig. I could come up with an Isekai in like five minutes.

    For instance:
    There's a lonely otaku who's like 28 (fucking ancient by anime standards). He gets hit by a truck while saving a baby or something, who cares.

    He wakes up in a world of sword and sorcery in a new body as - get this - A DRAGON! (This aint your grandpa's Isekai, kids)

    And using his dragon magic he can transform into a human so he doesn't have to deal with any of the inconveniences that might be associated with being a dragon.

    Also he's super OP because he's a dragon and also all the hot ladies love him.

    Nobody steal this idea it's mine I'm gonna make THOUSANDS.

    There already is an isekai about turning i to a dragon.
    He doesnt get to turn into a human though so far he turns into more and more dangerous variants of dragon, until at one point he's literally just toxic to all life close enough to him. Unsurprisingly all the ladies dont love him, but he's doing ok all things considering.

    Also unsurprisingly its actually pretty good.

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  • SomestickguySomestickguy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Speaking of long gaps between seasons:

    https://youtu.be/7IQM5EPf2Y0

    I'm so glad the gap between season 2 and 3 of re:ZERO isn't going to be as long as the gap between 1 and 2!

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Saw the new One Piece chapter
    So Shanks has some extremely powerful Observation Haki and uses the same technique that Rogers once employed to single-strike Oden. Guess this explains why even the likes of Big Mom and Kaido didn't want to take him on, he's basically an Emperor above the Emperors.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Stampede did get significantly better in the last four episodes.
    Can't believe they ended it on those cliffhangers though. People unfamiliar with the source material are gonna be so confused.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Latest Mission Yozakura chapter has some implications
    22 year old parents Mutsumi and Taiyo Yozakura (nee Asano) have four year old super genius twins. 4 years old.

    High school pregnancy in Weekly Shonen Jump?! So they got pregnant immediately after the rest of Mutsumi's siblings left for the time skip training.

    The older girl twin Hifumi (means 1 2 3) dotes on the younger boy twin Alpha like Kyoichiro dotes on Mutsumi, though not as creepily. The younger boy is a genius who engenders jealousy in everyone around him, and the girl twin secretly punishes everyone who hurts her brother. Interesting dynamic.

    Alpha also doesn't want to be a spy because it's dangerous, and he doesn't want Hifumi to pursue such a dangerous career for his sake.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Hot damn.

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

    New Aquarion coming.

    Aquarion MOE.

    Because of course it is.

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