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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Saw this screen grab on twitter from an earlier episode of G Witch and noticed a detail in the news Chyron that I hadn’t before:
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    Interplanetary war.”

    I we knew that there were colonies out by Mercury before, but now I’m really curious just how widespread humanity is in the solar system in the Ad Stella period and just how the factions break down.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I mean Witch of Mercury has the main character come from Mercury. Mercury is not exactly the first choice for habitation in the solar system. In fact it probably the last place you'd want to settle in the solar system.

    While this might not be the show's logic, real life logic would suggest almost everywhere else would have had to have been claimed first for folks to start trying to live on Mercury.

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  • HellboreHellbore A bad, bad man Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Gundi wrote: »
    I mean Witch of Mercury has the main character come from Mercury. Mercury is not exactly the first choice for habitation in the solar system. In fact it probably the last place you'd want to settle in the solar system.

    While this might not be the show's logic, real life logic would suggest almost everywhere else would have had to have been claimed first for folks to start trying to live on Mercury.

    It's probably close to that. I can't remember if it was in the show or in the background material, but the only reason humans are even at Mercury was to mine Permet, and once they found a more convenient source (the Moon, of all places) Mercury was largely abandoned.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Re latest vinland saga episode:
    Okay Fuck Ketil. FUCK. KETIL. It was not totally unexpected but man that was a swerve.

    Also Leif continues to be literally the best person in the show. I hope we get a proper Thorfin/Leif reunion next episode.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Gundi wrote: »
    Re latest vinland saga episode:
    Okay Fuck Ketil. FUCK. KETIL. It was not totally unexpected but man that was a swerve.

    Also Leif continues to be literally the best person in the show. I hope we get a proper Thorfin/Leif reunion next episode.

    there are no good slave owners

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  • WearingGlassesWearingGlasses Of the friendly neighborhood variety Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Owenashi wrote: »


    Old-school anime Voltes V got a live-action series in the Philippines that started airing today.

    Unfortunately they blew all their budget on the mecha CGs.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    did they actually? wow

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    edited April 13
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  • WearingGlassesWearingGlasses Of the friendly neighborhood variety Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Not literally, but that's the only possible reason for pretty much everything else.

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  • Kevin CristKevin Crist I make the devil hit his knees and say the 'our father'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YfXoQessAA

    What is and what isn't a Gundam. Contains spoilers for Witch of Mercury.

    edit: not the collection that i thought it was, no real spoilers.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Owenashi wrote: »


    Old-school anime Voltes V got a live-action series in the Philippines that started airing today.

    Unfortunately they blew all their budget on the mecha CGs.

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    It's like a full 50 episode series or something, I sure would hope they're saving their budget for the later story arcs.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Interesting, they've got Junji Ito stuff on there and also Komi Can't Communicate

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Hellbore wrote: »
    Gundi wrote: »
    I mean Witch of Mercury has the main character come from Mercury. Mercury is not exactly the first choice for habitation in the solar system. In fact it probably the last place you'd want to settle in the solar system.

    While this might not be the show's logic, real life logic would suggest almost everywhere else would have had to have been claimed first for folks to start trying to live on Mercury.

    It's probably close to that. I can't remember if it was in the show or in the background material, but the only reason humans are even at Mercury was to mine Permet, and once they found a more convenient source (the Moon, of all places) Mercury was largely abandoned.

    Yeah, Mercury’s basically just populated by the remaining Permet miners out there; it’s a shittier version of, say, the situation in the UC for folks out by Jupiter for the first 100 years.

    There’s society out there, but it’s not exactly like… big enough to be the kind of player that could probably muster warmaking capacity (hell, Suletta’s dream is to go back and start a school, its basically like the frontier of the frontier at that point). So I’m curious then what the wider set up is since we’re clearly dealing with something settled more widely than, say, the earth sphere.

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


    Old-school anime Voltes V got a live-action series in the Philippines that started airing today.

    Unfortunately they blew all their budget on the mecha CGs.

    grbkp2oyq9cv.jpg

    ow

    I think I’ll stop complaining about Toei Super Hero Time CGI now.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    One other thing with the latest Vinland Saga:
    Pater had a feeling that this would happen, hence why he wanted to preempt it by getting Arnheid off the farm. For him to have accurately guessed Ketil's reaction, this implies a pattern of behavior. Not with Arnheid, she seemed shocked, but it suggests this isn't actually the first time Ketil's flown into a rage and taken it out on a slave.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Hmmm I just loaded up the app, but no sign of the new subscription yet

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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
    Viz: we’re making a subscription service for all our non Shonen stuff!

    Me: ooh Flame of Recca.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I've started reading Undead Unluck

    This is actually pretty good, and very funny

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I've started reading Undead Unluck

    This is actually pretty good, and very funny

    It starts off really rough but my god where the story is at now is amazing.

    like, honestly probably one of the best series in Jump right now, despite the lack of attention it otherwise gets.

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


    Viz launching another manga app for non-wsj stuff I guess.

    2 bucks a month, works the same way.

    E: looks more shoujo-oriented....plus junji ito

    FFS. I want to read manga on a desktop with full screen images. Not tiny images on a phone with all the two page spreads split in two.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    Hmmm I just loaded up the app, but no sign of the new subscription yet

    You may need to update the app if you had the older version.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lasbrook wrote: »
    Viz: we’re making a subscription service for all our non Shonen stuff!

    Me: ooh Flame of Recca.

    There is a lot of good shit here that is well worth the price of admission.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Jragghen wrote: »


    Viz launching another manga app for non-wsj stuff I guess.

    2 bucks a month, works the same way.

    E: looks more shoujo-oriented....plus junji ito

    FFS. I want to read manga on a desktop with full screen images. Not tiny images on a phone with all the two page spreads split in two.

    If you have the subs enabled, you can use the website as well to view.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    I've started reading Undead Unluck

    This is actually pretty good, and very funny

    It starts off really rough but my god where the story is at now is amazing.

    like, honestly probably one of the best series in Jump right now, despite the lack of attention it otherwise gets.

    I'm in at chapter 38. I didn't find it to rough early, honestly? It was pretty charming despite the awkward sex gags - which frankly, where handled with a lot of taste relative to what they could have been.

    Andy and Fuuto are endearing. Also as dark a kind as it was "I've finished all off my favorite Shojo manga, I can commit suicide now!" Had me rolling.

    Also it's getting an Anime adaption @Lanz - by David Productions. Who seem like a solid pick, and their work on Cells alone is enough to show they've the chops for the comedy

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I logged into the Viz website and they have a separate section for Viz Manga from the Shonen Jump stuff, but it works the same with favoriting and tracking. I'm not unhappy with this, but I'm definitely going to lose track of series I was reading between all the different services to keep track of now.

    So:
    Shuheisha = Shonen Jump family of publications = Viz for $3/month
    Shogakukan = Shonen Sunday family of publications = Viz for $2/month
    Kodansha = Shonen Magazine family of publications = KManga Gacha rolls for coins to pay per chapter (estimated 50c-$1 per chapter)

    Viz announcing this the day before KManga comes out really feels like a power play. I hope this spikes Kodansha in the heart, they fail MISERABLY, and switch to a subscription based system.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The gacha bullshit/SE stuff makes me so mad.

    I want actual good legit avenues to support things like Dungeon Meshi and Witch Hat Atelier.

    Not this try and suck any and all money approach (none of which is going to make it back to the creators)

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  • Dongs GaloreDongs Galore Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Elaro wrote: »
    JayKaos wrote: »
    At least it's focused on how shit a different part of the industry is, not like all the manga and anime talking about how shit it is to be making manga and anime.

    Oh, so they're treehousing?
    Dongs anime update:

    I have finished the kaguya manga. Here are my conclusions:

    1. Maki is the best
    2. Still not a big fan of Iino
    3. The big Shinomiya succession drama felt rushed and kind of unsatisfying. A lot of important plot points and characters we've never heard of before were introduced suddenly with an exposition dump. I did like the characters of the Shinomiya brothers and father, though, and I hope the anime reworks some of the upcoming seasons to set up the finale better. The Hayasaka kidnapping arc in particular could probably be rewritten for that purpose.

    4. I kind of didnt care for Ishigami's latter-series arc as much, and not just because i dont like Iino. I think it was too much of a retread of Shirogane's story, and it was irritating how he continued to be and behave like a kissless turbovirgin all the way to the end despite having significant romantic development. I think it would have been a more interesting story if he'd accepted the one-night stand with Tsubame, leaving him sexually fulfilled but romatically unfulfilled - in contrast to Shirogane, who at that point is romantically fulfilled but still kind of a turbovirgin.

    5. I know its because of Japanese media standards, but I'm really tired of titles that insist on spelling out that the underage characters aren't drinking alcohol, despite their behavior clearly being coded as drunk. Has any teenager ever willingly chosen to drink non-alcoholic liquor?

    About that last point:
    Censorship laws prevent minors from being depicted drinking alcohol. It's not a lack of artistic fidelity, it's Da Rulz.

    I'm like a month late on this, but yeah I know it's the law. Although I'm unclear what publications it applies to, because Sounan Desuka (the survival comedy about girls stranded on an island) explicitly showed them get drunk off moonshine, on purpose. It's a bit more ecchi than Kaguya, but they're both seinen, so I'd like to know why it was allowed. Is it because Sounan Desuka was published in Weekly Young instead of Jump?

    I'm pretty sure there was a panel of schoolkids drinking on the school trip in Tomoko, also

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    So the new Viz Manga app has Komi-san, Call of the Night, Fly Me to the Moon, and Frieren, which is a good batch.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Oh, Frieren! I need to read more of that. It's take on demons was fun

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  • J-bobJ-bob J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Last night on Animenagerie:

    https://youtu.be/yfC_alWYcPk

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    whoa, that has Insomniacs After School? okay, sold. And Fly Me To The Moon, and Call Of The Night, for ongoing things, ooh, and a bunch of Natsume Ono (ACCA 13) stuff.

    (I'm in Canada, so the kodansha titles are even less accessible for me because even without their terrible financial model, it's not available outside the US)

    (edit: a terrible thought just occurred to me.
    Note: VIZ Manga is only available in the U.S. and Canada at this time, but we plan to expand territories in the future.

    phew)

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  • J-bobJ-bob J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Before y'all consider the subscription you should be warned.



    It has Homestuck.

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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
    They’re not part of the sub. If something has no chapters listed and only volumes it’s for sale digitally.

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  • Fig-DFig-D SoCalRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    It's gotta be free. They wouldn't *sell* Homestuck, would they? Isn't it still freely available on the website?

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Fig-D wrote: »
    It's gotta be free. They wouldn't *sell* Homestuck, would they? Isn't it still freely available on the website?

    Viz publishes a hardcover deadtree version which... how exactly does that work?

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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
    Fig-D wrote: »
    It's gotta be free. They wouldn't *sell* Homestuck, would they? Isn't it still freely available on the website?

    11 bucks a pop. It’s digital versions of the print version.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Fig-D wrote: »
    It's gotta be free. They wouldn't *sell* Homestuck, would they? Isn't it still freely available on the website?

    The best way to experience Homestuck right now is from a fan archive program that properly emulates the original flashes, the Homestuck website is unfortunately trash these days because the death of flash and poor server transfers have broken large chunks of it

    Notably, Andrew Hussie themself has endorsed the fan archive as the best way to experience Homestuck these days

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  • Fig-DFig-D SoCalRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Huh. Okay then.

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