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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    ph blake wrote: »
    The horse girl anime is good, actually

    I know very little about this anime, but I know one of my friends occasionally posts screenshots and honestly the whole thing sounds the fun kind of goofy.

    One that had me chuckling, as an example:
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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    the gacha advertisement animes tend to actually be pretty good, I guess because they're given that gambling money budget to work with

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The arknights one is great for actually making the beginning coherent

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Japan World Cup already perfected Japanese horse racing. There's no need for anything else.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NJzLDcU7cE

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  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    ph blake wrote: »
    The horse girl anime is good, actually

    I heard that season 1 is decent and season 2 is amazing.

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  • IronKnuckleIronKnuckle This is also my fault Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I arrived in time for Animenagerie but they made me watch Eurovision for 20 minutes.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    the gacha advertisement animes tend to actually be pretty good, I guess because they're given that gambling money budget to work with

    Wonder if Priconne would still be classified as a gacha anime when the Global version is dead now

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Madican wrote: »
    the gacha advertisement animes tend to actually be pretty good, I guess because they're given that gambling money budget to work with

    Wonder if Priconne would still be classified as a gacha anime when the Global version is dead now

    yes princess connect is forever cursed with the mark of gacha

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Madican wrote: »
    the gacha advertisement animes tend to actually be pretty good, I guess because they're given that gambling money budget to work with

    Wonder if Priconne would still be classified as a gacha anime when the Global version is dead now

    I've watched at least two gacha tie-in shows where the game still hasn't come out.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited April 13
    I arrived in time for Animenagerie but they made me watch Eurovision for 20 minutes.

    The Eurovision will continue until morale improves

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    man, i don't recall all of these random re-drawn scenes inserted everywhere in logh (hi-dive streaming version)

    it's very distracting (also certain characters start jumping off model as as result)

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The arknights one is great for actually making the beginning coherent

    Given what I remember of the writing in the actual game a whole lot more than the beginning needed to be made more coherent.

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Madican wrote: »
    The arknights one is great for actually making the beginning coherent

    Given what I remember of the writing in the actual game a whole lot more than the beginning needed to be made more coherent.

    The plot of it gets *really good*

    But the first few chapter were not written by actual writers so its just incredibly stilted unclear dialogue

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy at this point because fucking everything becomes a gacha whether it started as one or not. The truly damned stuff, like Grisaia and To Heart... that becomes like five different gachas.

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Takt Op had a anime in 2021 and is supposedly coming out next month

    same shit happened to horse girl

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Finished season 1 of Gundam Witch. That last scene of the last episode sure was klutzy! Immediately picking up with season 2 tomorrow, being way behind does have its advantages.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Arknights' early story problems felt like a combination of a pretty amateur or rushed translation and just not having a very interesting story happening at the start. Mostly a bland excuse for video game levels to happen, it was vaguely gesturing towards saying something about war and classism but if it actually had anything interesting to say on the topics it didn't come through in the translation. No idea if it got better later since I didn't play past the first few chapters.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Arknights' early story problems felt like a combination of a pretty amateur or rushed translation and just not having a very interesting story happening at the start. Mostly a bland excuse for video game levels to happen, it was vaguely gesturing towards saying something about war and classism but if it actually had anything interesting to say on the topics it didn't come through in the translation. No idea if it got better later since I didn't play past the first few chapters.

    In the current chapter, cursed trees suck the life out of the land before transforming into zombie enemies, and then you fight a giant mecha (note: I read the story long after playing it, since the flow of reading a 15 minute segment of a VN before playing a level is really obnoxious).

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Finished season 1 of Gundam Witch. That last scene of the last episode sure was klutzy! Immediately picking up with season 2 tomorrow, being way behind does have its advantages.
    spoilers for that episode
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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Takt Op had a anime in 2021 and is supposedly coming out next month

    same shit happened to horse girl

    That's one, the other is Estab Life. The list of shows where the game instantly died is even longer.

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  • arthurinscalesarthurinscales Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Naphtali wrote: »
    man, i don't recall all of these random re-drawn scenes inserted everywhere in logh (hi-dive streaming version)

    it's very distracting (also certain characters start jumping off model as as result)

    that's the only version i've seen, and i think it might be the only version available nowadays

    there was a blu-ray release some years back, not sure if that has all the original animation, but they only made 2,000 of them (and also it was priced at like $899 USD)

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    kemono friends was one that famously had a cheap anime produced, shut down before it was aired, then the anime was a surprising cult hit but the game was already gone

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Current story is kinda buck wild

    Actual massive spoilers for arknights
    So we are pretty sure that the race that most of the racism in the series is actually the only species native to the planet they are on, with the rest being colonizers from space, and it happened so long ago that they are the only ones to remeber due to some weird species wide genetic memory shit.

    This is on top of finding out one of the races religions has been worshipping some kinda super computer this entire time, finding out not cthulu is real and is just hanging out in that pond over there, and that most of the world is unexplored due to Yeti things in the north that no one will talk about.

    Game good! Every time they do a event now I end excited for the next in that story string

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Random thought: How is the 100 Girlfriends anime going to handle Mei's eyes?

    The whole joke in the manga is that it's black and white so they don't actually have to color them.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lars wrote: »
    Random thought: How is the 100 Girlfriends anime going to handle Mei's eyes?

    The whole joke in the manga is that it's black and white so they don't actually have to color them.

    I thought they were rainbow or something wild, that's why they're always closed.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    if it's a gag that can't be reproduced in color, they can just have the camera conveniently behind the character when they show their eyes or something

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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
    My copy of the OVA came in so now the collection is complete.
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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    ahhh dungeon meshi is so good
    really looking forward to the anime adaptation

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Interview with JNTHED, one of Witch From Mercury’s mechanical designers

    https://en.gundam.info/about-gundam/series-pages/witch/gallery/special/interview/2/

    Some light Spoilers within

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  • J-bobJ-bob J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Tonight on animenagerie

    https://youtu.be/OiUzycgw8qM

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Also quite possibly the quickest swimsuit episode of all time. Damn you Tylor, you pulled another fast one!

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It feels a little weird how much of Mashle: Magic and Muscles's aesthetic and setting are just straight-up lifted from Harry Potter.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It's a parody tho right?

    Plus afaik Mashle isn't made by a bigot so it's got two up on HP

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 13
    It’s honestly nice and kinda cathartic to have a cynical, mean parody of harry potter. fuck that stupid universe

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It parodies a LOT of different shonen.

    But the most consistent visual and world-building parody is Harry Potter.

    So all the other gags referencing an almost uncountable number of different series are against the background of that first parody.

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    Whippy wrote: »
    It’s honestly nice and kinda cathartic to have a cynical, mean parody of harry potter. fuck that stupid universe

    Yeah I've only seen one episode but it's like... one part HP parody, one part shonen parody, one part actually genuine critique of multiple issues with the HP setting. I definitely plan to watch more.

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It's a spoof for sure, but I don't really see a critique anywhere.

    It doesn't seem especially mean about it, either. It's just... there.

    Like "Haha, what if Saitama went to Hogwarts"

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    RT800 wrote: »
    It's a spoof for sure, but I don't really see a critique anywhere.

    It doesn't seem especially mean about it, either. It's just... there.

    Like "Haha, what if Saitama went to Hogwarts"

    The main character is literally magic-less, in a society where he would likely be killed for that! Contrast that to how the HP setting deals with non-magicians (which is to say either not very, or using it as a weak racism analogy), where there's not a single one who serves as anything close to a main character, or who is portrayed as serious or likeable in any way.

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  • ouzaruouzaru RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Dragon Half would have to be in the running, for me.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoj_h2SBtzw

    That's cheating. It's just Beethoven with lyrics.

    But what lyrics!

    There are like 5 languages in this thing, some of the lines are in Chinese.

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Anzekay wrote: »
    RT800 wrote: »
    It's a spoof for sure, but I don't really see a critique anywhere.

    It doesn't seem especially mean about it, either. It's just... there.

    Like "Haha, what if Saitama went to Hogwarts"

    The main character is literally magic-less, in a society where he would likely be killed for that! Contrast that to how the HP setting deals with non-magicians (which is to say either not very, or using it as a weak racism analogy), where there's not a single one who serves as anything close to a main character, or who is portrayed as serious or likeable in any way.

    I mean, sure. It's a valid criticism of Harry Potter to say that it treats non-magic people as unimportant or even downright inferior.

    Mashle's universe does the same, but puts a non-magic character front-and-center and has him regularly best magic users.

    But he does it using what is, essentially, still magic. So it doesn't seem critical so much as just... comical lamp-shading.

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