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  • AstharielAsthariel The Book Eater Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I watched first episode of Hell's Paradise.

    It's good so far!
    It is nice to see a main character that is already married to someone.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I cannot suspend my disbelief at the Robin Williams evangelion scene, the idea that any big box, non-hole-in-the-wall american store would carry anime toys in the late 90s or early 00s or whenever that's set seems insane to me

    You wanted anime merch you had to go to the specialty baseball card/american comics/anime goods hole in the wall nerd shop that imports shit and knows the good bootleg t-shirt distributors

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I had some Fist of the North Star action figures

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I cannot suspend my disbelief at the Robin Williams evangelion scene, the idea that any big box, non-hole-in-the-wall american store would carry anime toys in the late 90s or early 00s or whenever that's set seems insane to me

    You wanted anime merch you had to go to the specialty baseball card/american comics/anime goods hole in the wall nerd shop that imports shit and knows the good bootleg t-shirt distributors

    Actually it was pretty common for the toys to mosey over here even if the show didn't. In the early 2000s I had DBZ, Gundam and even Ronin Warriors toys

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I had some gundam models and a t-shirt, but the only access to stuff like that I ever saw was from the local baseball card and comics stores. Maybe at that age I had stopped visiting big toy stores though? I do remember toys 'r us carrying zoids toys in the mid 90s, but I think the zoids shows that existed later were based on the long running toy line rather than the reverse. By the mid 00s I was getting manga and anime DVDs from borders bookstore (rip) but merch was still not really a thing in my awareness outside of specialist hole in the wall places.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The real shit was the "Shogun Warriors" toyline

    Where Mattel brought over a bunch of super robots like "Mazinga" and "Combattra"

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I can believe that maybe for a one year-two year period there would have been eva merch in regular toy sections.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Are you telling me a movie might present scenes that are heightened compared to reality?

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    And the local CVS now has Gundams in the toy section, what a time.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    So it's only anime influenced/adjacent, but in catching up on shows on Crunchyroll, I saw RWBY had a new season!

    The last one was such a huge bummer, so I'm glad they're doing something completely different and unexpected this time. I'm up to S9E6.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I think tokyo demon bride story is over, cancellation ending. Last page of this chapter had a The End instead of To Be Continued. Ginka and Gluna still seems to be ongoing though, perhaps it gets to do one last arc to wrap things up or perhaps it was a false alarm that it seemed like it was rushing to the end.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Juggernut wrote: »
    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.

    Here is the secret to understanding Evangelion:

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  • GridlinkGridlink Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I think tokyo demon bride story is over, cancellation ending. Last page of this chapter had a The End instead of To Be Continued. Ginka and Gluna still seems to be ongoing though, perhaps it gets to do one last arc to wrap things up or perhaps it was a false alarm that it seemed like it was rushing to the end.

    I knew it was coming but it's still a shame. Tokyo Demon Bride wasn't anything special but it was fun and I looked forward to it every week. I might also just be a sucker for yokai stories and cute'ish girls with horns.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    One week left!

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I think tokyo demon bride story is over, cancellation ending. Last page of this chapter had a The End instead of To Be Continued. Ginka and Gluna still seems to be ongoing though, perhaps it gets to do one last arc to wrap things up or perhaps it was a false alarm that it seemed like it was rushing to the end.

    There's four new series over the next 6 issues, so it's highly likely Ginka and Gluna is toast. It's such a shame.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    ah, ok it's probably an epilogue wrap-up then, phooey

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Man, it's disappointing how awful My Home Hero is on a fundamental level. Like, the dude is in the middle of a crowded street yelling "HELL, YEAH, I BEAT THE HELL OUT OF MY GIRLFRIEND. I BEAT UP ALL MY GIRLFRIENDS. HER NAME'S REIKA. THE MUSICIAN. GODDAMN I LOVE BEATING UP WOMEN. ALMOST AS MUCH AS I LIKE DOING CRIMES. I CRIME ALL THE TIME. HEY, YOU OVER THERE! YOU LISTENING TO US TALK ABOUT CRIMES!? BEAT HIM UP AND DON'T FORGET TO TELL HIM THAT WE'RE CRIMINALS WHO CRIME! WE'RE VERY SERIOUS CRIMINALS! CRIME! BEAT UP REIKA!"

    Then he's crashing around the apartment, kicking over everything, punching walls, screaming on the phone about how many women he's murdered and how they always cover it up so they can keep murdering and how he's going to kill this one too because he just loves murder... when the dude in the closet drops his phone, and somehow, among all the other noise he's making and shit he's kicking over, his spider senses kick in enough to hear that... but not enough to hear the guy then talking on the phone to him.

    And then
    Dude bludgeons him to death with a rice cooker or something, and he and his wife manage to clean up all the brains and splatter in like... 30 minutes and just drop the body in the tub. No blood left apparently. No smell. Nothing whatsoever. Including cleaning up the entire apartment from his rampage like nothing whatsoever happened.

    This would be straining credulity even for Phoenix Wright.

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    So I started watching the French dub of By the Grace of the Gods, because French.

    Yeah, it's another "I'm more capable than everyone else because they're all prop characters" fantasy. It seems like most isekai authors didn't watch or understand what lesson the 8th episode of Reboot's first season was trying to convey: that a single person who's smarter and better at everything than everyone else because they all have half their brainpower is utterly uninteresting.

    I mean
    They didn't even discover how to make cleaning slimes because, in the hundreds of years of their history, everyone in the isekai was too dull-witted to experiment with feeding different things, like bathwater or plain old human crap, to slimes. Even the god of creation didn't know they existed before MC-kun showed up.

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  • Virgil_Leads_YouVirgil_Leads_You Proud Father House GardenerRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    Man, it's disappointing how awful My Home Hero is on a fundamental level. Like, the dude is in the middle of a crowded street yelling "HELL, YEAH, I BEAT THE HELL OUT OF MY GIRLFRIEND. I BEAT UP ALL MY GIRLFRIENDS. HER NAME'S REIKA. THE MUSICIAN. GODDAMN I LOVE BEATING UP WOMEN. ALMOST AS MUCH AS I LIKE DOING CRIMES. I CRIME ALL THE TIME. HEY, YOU OVER THERE! YOU LISTENING TO US TALK ABOUT CRIMES!? BEAT HIM UP AND DON'T FORGET TO TELL HIM THAT WE'RE CRIMINALS WHO CRIME! WE'RE VERY SERIOUS CRIMINALS! CRIME! BEAT UP REIKA!"

    Then he's crashing around the apartment, kicking over everything, punching walls, screaming on the phone about how many women he's murdered and how they always cover it up so they can keep murdering and how he's going to kill this one too because he just loves murder... when the dude in the closet drops his phone, and somehow, among all the other noise he's making and shit he's kicking over, his spider senses kick in enough to hear that... but not enough to hear the guy then talking on the phone to him.

    And then
    Dude bludgeons him to death with a rice cooker or something, and he and his wife manage to clean up all the brains and splatter in like... 30 minutes and just drop the body in the tub. No blood left apparently. No smell. Nothing whatsoever. Including cleaning up the entire apartment from his rampage like nothing whatsoever happened.

    This would be straining credulity even for Phoenix Wright.

    I also saw this. Bro had it on the tv for a bit.

    It really was awful in how it was structured and presented.
    There was very little that made any sense and felt like a weird fetish story.

    In like, hand waving to get to a scenario of what the author perceived to be the most shocking extreme moment.

    It's like they looked at 80's jocks in media and were like, ok lets give this guy tattoos and piercings,
    and his sole character trait is that they are a chad who loves domestic violence.

    Anyways don't watch My Home Hero. That shit sucked.

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  • CantidoCantido Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm watching the modern FLCL for the first time. It is so utterly wholesome. And the pillows returned!

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Cantido wrote: »
    I'm watching the modern FLCL for the first time. It is so utterly wholesome. And the pillows returned!

    ...which one?

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I liked Alternative more than Progressive as the second one felt more of a rehash than the first, and I liked the cast of characters more

    Neither lives up to the original but I appreciate the effort

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    FLCL Progressive is extremely not wholesome... or progressive for that matter. Alternative fits that description, though.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I watched Hell's Paradise episode 1. What a gorgeous show. Mappa continues to do excellent work. Something about the main character designs made the colors just POP.

    Having watched one episode, and knowing nothing else about the show, my thoughts:
    After many trials the MC will succeed in obtaining the elixir of immortality, and give it to the emperor. The emperor will "forget" his promise of pardon and send the MC back for his execution.

    The MC will escape and get back to his village, only to find the chief had long ago murder the MCs wife. The MC ends with nothing, empty.

    Just the feel I get from this kind of story.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I started reading the manga, based on how good the first episode was. If you've got a Shonen jump subscription, it's all free on Vizs site (though they sure don't make it easy to find directly)

    Anyway! It's good! Fun mix of horror and Shonen shennagins, with some excellent art and compelling characters

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I started reading the manga, based on how good the first episode was. If you've got a Shonen jump subscription, it's all free on Vizs site (though they sure don't make it easy to find directly)

    Anyway! It's good! Fun mix of horror and Shonen shennagins, with some excellent art and compelling characters

    I'll just link it since I have it handy.

    https://www.viz.com/shonenjump/chapters/hells-paradise-jigokuraku

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    They in general sell to try and push you to buy the volumes directly, which is.. irksome.

    Especially given I'm otherwise very happy to shill the subscription

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  • neverreallyneverreally Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The issue I had with Hell's Paradise is that the entire story is pretty much non stop fight scenes. I more prefer the chapters between fights in most of these kinds of stories, so it got a little boring.

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    In a more positive anime experience, I'm watching My Clueless First Friend. Takada is Good Boy.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The issue I had with Hell's Paradise is that the entire story is pretty much non stop fight scenes. I more prefer the chapters between fights in most of these kinds of stories, so it got a little boring.

    Honestly, it makes me think of a better bleach/Naruto, week a defined end. Which you knoe, I'm down for.

    Sometimes I just want a hamburger of JUSTICE/silly ninja bullshit

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I dare someone to count how many status screens are shown for the first episode of this fucking Cheat Powers in the Real World Too show.

    I feel like once you go past around 50, you should be sanctioned by the government.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Dandadan chapter 100 this week is a real gut punch

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Dandadan chapter 100 this week is a real gut punch

    Oh, I see what you did there!

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  • simulacrumsimulacrum She/herRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    there's gonna be a Bocchi the rock spinoff manga starring everyone's favorite alcoholic

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_y2j72Cfe4

    Okay, I'm convinced; it's obviously not the same as the original (for one thing, the romance between protagonist and whoever-that-guy-is-shes-smooching seems to be moving about a thousand times faster than any sort of romance does in the manga), but the little sort of colourful-clouds-of-smoke makes me hope that they'll have the "sips wine, describes it as being like a comfortable pair of jeans / riding a wild horse / being at a 1800s masked costume ball" goofyness.

    One of these days I should try to watch the original TV adaptation if that's possible somehow.

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