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  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    man I really need to get around to watching Gunbuster huh

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    They also shut down and failed their attempt to get into the gacha business.

    So it's not all bad.

    Crunchyroll? Nah they're still plaguing the gacha market

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  • OptyOpty Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    For context, Crunchyroll just announced they're shutting down the global version of Princess Connect Re:Dive at the end of April, which marks it as the 7th gacha game they've shut down out of the 11 total they've tried to get going.

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  • Kristmas KthulhuKristmas Kthulhu Currently Kultist Kthulhu Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    people should really stop supporting gachas

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  • OptyOpty Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Well the reason Crunchyroll is ditching Priconne is because even though it had over 300k active players they didn't really spend money on it, so I guess in that sense people really did stop supporting it.

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  • Kristmas KthulhuKristmas Kthulhu Currently Kultist Kthulhu Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    that's good

    but we can go deeper

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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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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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Opty wrote: »
    Well the reason Crunchyroll is ditching Priconne is because even though it had over 300k active players they didn't really spend money on it, so I guess in that sense people really did stop supporting it.

    Because they had a three year gap between global and JP and made no effort to narrow it, meaning everyone knew exactly which units to save for and which were bait.

    Even still, it was making money. Just not enough money for their liking.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    My biggest beef with the new Crunchyroll interface is they don't tell you what a new episode for a given series is for.

    They used to annote sub/dub (english/spanish) etc.

    Now I'll see a new update for Tensei Slime, for example, and wonder
    New season?
    New OVA?
    Movie streaming?
    New English dub episode?
    Added another previously unsupported language?

    Click through to find out! And then it's still not obvious.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13

    Madoka The Rock would be an amazing show.

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Madican wrote: »
    Opty wrote: »
    Well the reason Crunchyroll is ditching Priconne is because even though it had over 300k active players they didn't really spend money on it, so I guess in that sense people really did stop supporting it.

    Because they had a three year gap between global and JP and made no effort to narrow it, meaning everyone knew exactly which units to save for and which were bait.

    Even still, it was making money. Just not enough money for their liking.

    Characters got introduced with a rate up banner and then got moved into the normal gacha pool so unless the character was the new meta or a waifu you had to roll then it was save rolls for the seasonal banner cause those had characters that won't go into the normal pool and cause it was 3 years behind you knew which banners were worth rolling otherwise you ignore and save. It made $180k in Feb but that wasn't good enough so Crunchyroll shut it down so they can move on to another anime spinoff game cause that will make more in the short term before no one cares about the anime anymore and quit playing.

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Heavenly Delusion's first episode was decent enough, but man, you can feel the director struggling against the budget. The scenes that were even slightly intense on the animation were... rough. Better than resorting to stills, or cutting them entirely, but still.

    Having thumbed through the manga a little bit though, there are content warnings abound. It gets very weird about 13 year olds having sex and gender in general. No signs of how the adaptation will handle that though.

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  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    edited April 13
  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    reminder that curtis loves one piece and chopper is her favorite character

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I don't think the Netflix show will leave East Blue for a while, no?

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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
    I don't think the Netflix show will leave East Blue for a while, no?

    Judging by the cast list the show is somehow covering the beginning to arlong park so I could honestly see them getting to it in season 2 if it got one.

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  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lasbrook wrote: »
    I don't think the Netflix show will leave East Blue for a while, no?

    Judging by the cast list the show is somehow covering the beginning to arlong park so I could honestly see them getting to it in season 2 if it got one.
    Yeah I assume a hypothetical season 2 would cover the whole Baroque Works saga.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The new kaguya is pretty good

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Moth 13 wrote: »
    Lasbrook wrote: »
    I don't think the Netflix show will leave East Blue for a while, no?

    Judging by the cast list the show is somehow covering the beginning to arlong park so I could honestly see them getting to it in season 2 if it got one.
    Yeah I assume a hypothetical season 2 would cover the whole Baroque Works saga.

    I would be impressed if they even landed on Alabasta before the end of season 3 without skipping a ton of shit.
    and then Alabasta is 2 seasons by itself...

    the early east blue stuff is quaint in how fast it moves through the story compared to the exponential growth of arc length afterwards

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    HELL'S PARADISE episode 1 is now available to watch on Crunchyroll!!

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    HELL'S PARADISE episode 1 is now available to watch on Crunchyroll!!

    This has been on my to read list forever and I'm excited about the anime.

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  • AstharielAsthariel The Book Eater Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I am surprised to learn that Hell's Paradise is a concluded series, I thought that it is another long-term shonen - instead, the story ended at 13 volumes.

    I am moderately interested, will probably watch first episode tomorrow.

    Here is an OP:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS94j08yIHs

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Veldrin wrote: »
    man I really need to get around to watching Gunbuster huh

    It is a six episode OVA that feels like a 26 episode series.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Better not be an April Fool's gag

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It was confirmed through an official source. It just happens to be Sakura's birthday as well.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Feels relevant to post here too
    https://www.polygon.com/23662953/good-smile-company-4chan-secret-investment
    Disney has dropped Good Smile as a partner after the news has spread and confirmation has come that indeed, Good Smile pays to keep the lights on over at 4chan

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    disney 100% knew, just did not care

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    disney 100% knew, just did not care

    Sure, but it's a blow to their biz none the less and I'm for it

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    disney 100% knew, just did not care

    Sure, but it's a blow to their biz none the less and I'm for it

    oh it's extremely funny, but fuck disney for knowing and doing nothing

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Disney chose not to renew their licensing agreement with Good Smile.

    It's a little different than actually ending a contract early, IMO

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The glass jar industry can't handle many more blows like this

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    So it’s not specifically anime itself, but it’s whole deal has a manga iteration and, of course, Jin-Roh, but I finally watched Oshii’s The Red Spectacles last night.

    https://youtu.be/XbwoUerTyKg

    I’ll spoiler this because it’s difficult to discuss this film without getting into some of the deepest parts of it:
    And while I had an inkling of the the tonal range from the trailer, it didn’t prepare me for how actually full bore full-spectrum Oshii this movie is. If you’re familiar with Oshii’s earlier work like Urusei Yatsura or Patlabor the OVA, versus the tone of his work in the Patlabor films or Ghost in the Shell, you know just how downright slapstick Oshii can get with his comedy. And folks, The Red Spectacles is a film that will shift wildly, and often without warning, between the somber sociophilosophical Oshii (one might argue to the point of self-parody) and Oshii the absurd comic. It’s a movie that will have its opposing forces argue about the nature of free will and rebellion, or the illusion thereof, before cutting to our protagonist Koichi escaping by getting so piss drunk that he somehow manages to beat his captors with a metal basin they’ve been using to nearly drown him in booze to loosen his tongue and then drift off striking a victory pose on the factory cart they’ve tied him to; a film where he will discuss the gap of years that divides him and his former compatriots, followed by bouts of stomach curdling diarrhea and desperate bathroom searches that leaves him open to betrayal into the hands of the intelligence agent after him; a deep conversation at gun point between between the agent, Bunmei, and Koichi about how far he has fallen and become trapped within an unfeeling system that seeks either his conversion or destruction, practically archetypical Oshii, will be interrupted for Koichi to be saved by a former companion turned pool hustler… by the latter sliding his pool cue into the barrel of Bunmei’s pistol, Bugs Bunny-style, literally under Koichi’s nose (squeaking against it as it slides into place).

    Yet, despite these tonal shifts that should tear the film, the whole absolutely works. The film plays with regret, paranoia, longing and hope in a maelstrom of dream logic. The story is ultimately one of a man wracked with guilt for leaving everything behind in order to save himself from that sweeping changes of a system he once brutally enforced but now turn themselves against him and his. We begin the story with a dramatic escape with Koichi and his two partners, Ao and Midori, a trio that practically embody the namesake of the now disbanded “Kerberos” armored police that they served under. On a hot summer day in 1995, they attempt to flee the country, only for Midori and Ao to be held back by injuries sustained in fights with their former colleagues and private citizens who have been turned loose upon them; in the the end the two compel Koichi to escape rather than leave all three of them to be caught. Three years later, he returns as he promised them, carrying the burden of a large, cumbersome suitcase with ease home with him. Here he finds his hometown a strange, disorienting, changed place. It is on his return, having booked a hotel, that he is set upon by agents of the state that seek to kill him for his desertion and the crimes committed in his escape.

    Miraculously, Koichi fends off these dozens of men, dressed more like mimes than as operatives, and begins his strange and dreamlike descent into the town and his past. He finds an old Informant, Ginji; he finds Ao, now getting by by hustling at games of pool; he finds Midori, now a kept woman of Bunmei himself. Each time he is forced to reckon with his memories of their glorious pasts and the dregs of their present, as he clings to his guilt for leaving them and failing to embody the hope of restoration they viewed him as.

    And yet, all of it feels off. The town is like a tightly interconnected labyrinth, his captures and escapes comical and aggrandizing. And always at play is the strange dreamlike feel of it all, the constant reoccurrence of a theatre, a taxi, of a disused factory turned interrogation chamber, of symbolic forms substituting themselves for their represented actual actions.

    And before long, no matter how many times Koichi repeats about that blistering summers day in 1995, where the asphalt was so hot that those who walked it left footprints behind in it, he can no longer sustain it. Deeper memory intrudes. There was no grand escape of the trio where they gunned down their would be captors, no dramatic partings and promises to reunite one day, no grand helicopter escape.

    There was only Koichi, alone, a stolen set of protect gear stuffed into luggage, escaping out a dismal sewer in the rain.

    And in the end, there is only Koichi, alone. The town breaks and folds in on itself, as a man racked with guilt of leaving everything and everyone he knew behind. His hotel is the theatre is the factory is all a film set, a movie studio lot. He finds himself finally confronting only himself, clad in the protect gear he once wore, rain pouring over it… and tells himself to shoot.

    And it ends. We cut to Koichi, collapsed in the shower. Outside police stand watch, as Bunmei muses what he must have been thinking about as he died; “Some egocentric dream.” The dream of a dying man who’s inability to let go of his past, of his confused, muddied fears, of his insecurities, his hopes, his regrets and his longing brought him at last to a sudden end. There was no glory, no heroics of old as he viewed it all. Merely a dead man, naked in the shower as old colleagues rifle through what he left behind.

    Ginji is there, as are Ao and Midori, each wearing the uniform of some other police force of the state. Bunmei has them inspect the suitcase, hoping to find the protect gear that went missing the day that Koichi fled the country. But inside there are only dozens upon dozens, packed as a heap…

    …of red spectacles.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Super Eyepatch Wolf doing his thing

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zRE5b9-0MU

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm finally watching Evangelion.

    Some notes:

    1. Turns out it's pronounced Avon-Ghelian.

    2. This is dumb! "Hey child, look at this big robot you knew nothing about that we built to fight that monster. Get in it. No? How about... yes? Ok cool now that we spit you out right in front of this thing that just survived a nuclear missle, first thing is first: let's teach you how to walk! Also, fuck you, the audience!"

    3. Boy I hate Shinji! Immediately I want him to explode!

    4. Lotta pretty, fiddly, 90s era military-core designs tho. Probably sucked 85 tons of shit to draw and animate all that cool garbage.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Uh, excuse me, this is the definitive pronunciation guide for Evangelion

    https://youtu.be/ZKBnGuwxFvE

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