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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    darunia106 wrote: »
    Also the blu ray sales in Japan have been not great.

    The studio head was interviewed, and while the series did pay for itself and make money (Mappa funded it themselvesfully), the DVD sales weren't great. He spoke about maybe changing the adaptation to cater to the tastes of people who buy dvds (hard-core Japanese anime fans).

    https://www.sportskeeda.com/anime/news-mappa-ceo-shocks-everyone-confirming-chainsaw-man-match-jujutsu-kaisen

    Chasing dollars leads to a niche product that won't be as cinematic. Sad if it ends up that way.
    So tits they can uncensor with the home video release?
    Blu-Ray Makima to have major tits and ass

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It really sucks that you can't just dislike (or even like) something these days without getting lumped in with a bunch of crazy people who locked in their opinion instantaneously.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    to be clear, if you are not sending death threats, I and hopefully everyone else here respects any negative opinions about the adaptation. When we're talking more generally about people who are hating it I think we mean "the people who are batshit 2/4/whateverchan internet terrorists"

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I've read the manga through Part 1, and I really don't understand the complaints. It felt like a 1:1 adaptation to me, as true to the spirit of the show as they could possibly be.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN2i5S9OUdw

    If that's not on point, I don't know what is.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Sure. I think most of the backlash online in japan has been a very vocal minority, but nonetheless that nonsense lead I think to an overall feeling the anime was trying to be something the manga wasn't. I think there's a lot of good in the anime adaptation, especially the soundtrack and voices have been all around stellar. I hope that stuff isn't affected at all. Aesthetically it's pretty much everything I could have wanted, most of my complaints are really that the changes really feel like it was meant to appeal more to a western crowd (maybe even unintentionally) and that has left jpn viewers feeling like, it's not being made for them.

    I think there's probably plenty of Japanese fans who feel like it's subpar and aren't being shitbirds about it online. Most of my complaints could be labeled nitpicky but only because the source material is that fucking good
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    I've read the manga through Part 1, and I really don't understand the complaints. It felt like a 1:1 adaptation to me, as true to the spirit of the show as they could possibly be.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN2i5S9OUdw

    If that's not on point, I don't know what is.

    I think my previous post covered I think the more reasonable complaints. In that changes in adaptions are nothing new, and often the end result ends up better for it. Sometimes though, those changes feel more sinister (like losing the Union job joke) where the changes weren't made to improve the adaption but smooth out the rough edges that kinda make the comic so appealing, to me anyways. I like that Denji in the comic is so frank about how he feels wrt to that kind of thing. It feels like actually to me, that some of the more overt political stuff has been sanded down to make it more palatable, rather than what dog avatar said about jpn fans hating that side of it, I actually think as a western fans I'm not enjoying it for the opposite reason; I want the unfiltered Fujimoto ness. I want the vomit scene uncensored is what I'm saying.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Sure. I think most of the backlash online in japan has been a very vocal minority, but nonetheless that nonsense lead I think to an overall feeling the anime was trying to be something the manga wasn't. I think there's a lot of good in the anime adaptation, especially the soundtrack and voices have been all around stellar. I hope that stuff isn't affected at all. Aesthetically it's pretty much everything I could have wanted, most of my complaints are really that the changes really feel like it was meant to appeal more to a western crowd (maybe even unintentionally) and that has left jpn viewers feeling like, it's not being made for them.

    I think there's probably plenty of Japanese fans who feel like it's subpar and aren't being shitbirds about it online. Most of my complaints could be labeled nitpicky but only because the source material is that fucking good
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    I've read the manga through Part 1, and I really don't understand the complaints. It felt like a 1:1 adaptation to me, as true to the spirit of the show as they could possibly be.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN2i5S9OUdw

    If that's not on point, I don't know what is.

    I think my previous post covered I think the more reasonable complaints. In that changes in adaptions are nothing new, and often the end result ends up better for it. Sometimes though, those changes feel more sinister (like losing the Union job joke) where the changes weren't made to improve the adaption but smooth out the rough edges that kinda make the comic so appealing, to me anyways. I like that Denji in the comic is so frank about how he feels wrt to that kind of thing. It feels like actually to me, that some of the more overt political stuff has been sanded down to make it more palatable, rather than what dog avatar said about jpn fans hating that side of it, I actually think as a western fans I'm not enjoying it for the opposite reason; I want the unfiltered Fujimoto ness. I want the vomit scene uncensored is what I'm saying.

    I'm pretty sure any director would have avoided that topic, given the workforce scene in Japan, and that probably would've been censored regardless(which I'm thankful for).

    And given that the manga constantly wears movie references on its sleeve, being cinematic in the adaptation seems like the ideal route to me.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ0pBdtUvtk

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-y34qTYuow

    I think these two EDs alone show the director has the tone of the series pretty well in mind.


    That said, certain things in the second half are going to have to be off the rails as could be, so... hopefully whoever takes up the mantle can go full crazy town with it.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Deans wrote: »
    Huh! I read the manga not long before watching the anime and didn't think it was so different.

    Yeah I don't understand that criticism at all. The tone seems perfectly adapted to me.

    Sigh. I'll spoiler my thoughts so people can ignore them
    the biggest tone shift, and one the director acknowledged, is that it's more cinematic. Lots of shots that aren't directly lifted from the manga but rather, framed in a way a movie director would do it. That's not a bad thing on the face of it. I think they nailed the color scheme of the series. The tone of the comic is definitely more... Fujimoto. I think some of the sardonic or maybe class based struggle stuff has been stripped away. The biggest and easier example to point out is Denji's bathtub song about Union jobs that pay well being scrubbed from the anime (because Mappa along with many anime production houses abuse the hell out of their animators).

    So basically, it has lost some of the edge, the comedic bits have been altered. The faces are extremely dumb in the manga and have been changed to be a little less over the top. It's more noticable when characters like Kobeni are on screen where her whole character is making horrible expressions. The most Denji and Power look like their comic forms is actually in the OP bit as they cross the street.

    Personally, I'd have loved a black and white series. I think Fujimoto's character design work better without color. The less detail the better.

    It wasn't black and white because the artist wanted it that way, it's black and white because of the reality of the magazine it's printed in. Slavishly copying that to a completely different format (and there is PLENTY of color Chainsaw Man art) would be very bad, imo. See also, yeah, they framed the television show in a way that looks better for a moving format, rather than just straight copying static artwork. To me, that is proper adaptation, instead of just "animating the manga", an ethos which has produced some VERY low quality work.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I actually don't think they had to change that joke, but for me that annoying thing about it was leaving the bathtub scene in but just making him hum a song like a dumbass. Fujimoto has something to say, even if it's a joke, so leaving it out of the adaption but like still drawing attention to the fact they are leaving it out really irks me

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    On a lighter note:

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

    (Initial D sequel in 2023)

    Clearly they did their homework on the music.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Deans wrote: »
    Huh! I read the manga not long before watching the anime and didn't think it was so different.

    Yeah I don't understand that criticism at all. The tone seems perfectly adapted to me.

    Sigh. I'll spoiler my thoughts so people can ignore them
    the biggest tone shift, and one the director acknowledged, is that it's more cinematic. Lots of shots that aren't directly lifted from the manga but rather, framed in a way a movie director would do it. That's not a bad thing on the face of it. I think they nailed the color scheme of the series. The tone of the comic is definitely more... Fujimoto. I think some of the sardonic or maybe class based struggle stuff has been stripped away. The biggest and easier example to point out is Denji's bathtub song about Union jobs that pay well being scrubbed from the anime (because Mappa along with many anime production houses abuse the hell out of their animators).

    So basically, it has lost some of the edge, the comedic bits have been altered. The faces are extremely dumb in the manga and have been changed to be a little less over the top. It's more noticable when characters like Kobeni are on screen where her whole character is making horrible expressions. The most Denji and Power look like their comic forms is actually in the OP bit as they cross the street.

    Personally, I'd have loved a black and white series. I think Fujimoto's character design work better without color. The less detail the better.

    It wasn't black and white because the artist wanted it that way, it's black and white because of the reality of the magazine it's printed in. Slavishly copying that to a completely different format (and there is PLENTY of color Chainsaw Man art) would be very bad, imo. See also, yeah, they framed the television show in a way that looks better for a moving format, rather than just straight copying static artwork. To me, that is proper adaptation, instead of just "animating the manga", an ethos which has produced some VERY low quality work.

    I'm just saying how I feel when looking at the art. Fujimoto's character designs are fucking stellar. There's something really great about how simple but informative they are. I really don't even mind the color, just that I think in adapting it that way the character designs have become more complex, and thus lose some of that visceral feeling to them. Denji and Power I love because of the comic. I'm not sure id feel as strongly about them if I had only seen the anime. Makima is imo way more terrifying in the comic. That is just how I feel. I'm not saying it would have ever been an easy thing to do, but I think something has been lost in translation to that new medium. Like I said the OP feels a lot closer to his style in the expressions you see Denj and Power make

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    The top drawing is iconic in my mind. His blank expression as the chainsaw bursts out is perfect imo. Is the anime worse? Not like, dramatically so, no. But to me the faces are important and making the characters more "3D" takes away from them. If you disagree I don't really mind. I just really love the comic. I'd feel the same about an Oyasumi Punpun anime... It'd have to be perfect or I'd tear it apart.

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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I really hate when people to panel to frame comparisons. Different mediums express things differently

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I really hate when people to panel to frame comparisons. Different mediums express things differently

    Sure. I'm saying one affected me more than the other. I feel that's valid. I think that maybe, a different studio maybe would have adapted it different. My dream studios for this project would be Studio Wit, Ufotable or Trigger. I don't hate Mappa but they are hit and miss for me. And lately, it's more misses.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I don't want to shush your criticism, you're free to make it. I just don't feel "I preferred this specific singular panel in the manga" is useful AS criticism. The art in the manga is incredible, it's just going to turn out differently in the anime. In some places, it will be better, I feel. Like, SEEING a person dance with motion is much different than a drawing that implies dancing, just as one example. The union criticisms always felt a bit shallow to me because... Denji and Power don't understand what unions are. They hear that it would be a way to get more of the things they like while avoiding work they don't want to do (in some ways, this is true to reality, of course). So they start needling their coworkers with this because they have childish minds. They haven't become hardcore leftists, they have idiot baby brains. I don't think the story is made better by removing it, and I wonder about the motivations of doing so, but I DO feel people aren't arguing properly about the scenes in their proper context.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It lacked the right vibe for me. I get what it was going for and respect it, but its something almost completely different. And that vibe makes the manga completely superior for me in every way.

    Its a really difficult thing to express but its related to how he draws human faces and expressions, which were all sanded over and smoothed out in the anime. When people draw someone talking or expressing normally they often choose a standard kind of keyframe for that emotion. But if you video someone talking/emoting and pause on a random frame you often find a really weird face, because the mid stages of expressions are smoothed out by your brain. Fujimoto drew human faces in a way that captured some of the oddness in these parts we normally sand away, and he slightly exaggerated them in almost every drawing of a face in the entire manga. The effect is an almost sardonic but also almost affectionate look at humanity as a whole. He knew when to make people look good cos he applied it to Makima. She almost never drawn this way which gives her instantly an unconsciously ethereal and different feel. This is all sanded down in the anime, so it instantly and unfixable loses what I consider an irrepraceable tone and tool of emotional and artistic story telling that infected literally every single panel when someone is talking or emoting. Its like a campfire story with a really good story teller turned into a hollywood extravagansa. Its probably very slick, but your grandpa isnt making the personalised voices or emphasising moments that brings out his own personal characteristics that often make people prefer their grandads story.

    But Im not really glad about this anyway. Even if they do change it, now itll be a tonal clash, and I was very curious how the later sections would turn out.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm a little worried the second half won't be as popular in the west as the first, given the sheer amount of new characters it throws into the mix*, but JJK and Demon Slayer are popular enough, so maybe it'll still work out.

    *Spoiler:
    and disposes of just as quickly

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I don't want to shush your criticism, you're free to make it. I just don't feel "I preferred this specific singular panel in the manga" is useful AS criticism. The art in the manga is incredible, it's just going to turn out differently in the anime. In some places, it will be better, I feel. Like, SEEING a person dance with motion is much different than a drawing that implies dancing, just as one example. The union criticisms always felt a bit shallow to me because... Denji and Power don't understand what unions are. They hear that it would be a way to get more of the things they like while avoiding work they don't want to do (in some ways, this is true to reality, of course). So they start needling their coworkers with this because they have childish minds. They haven't become hardcore leftists, they have idiot baby brains. I don't think the story is made better by removing it, and I wonder about the motivations of doing so, but I DO feel people aren't arguing properly about the scenes in their proper context.

    The author was saying something with that joke is all, and taking it out hurts it in my eyes. It doesn't have to be deeper than that.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Hard agree I would have been happy to see that version of the anime play out over whatever changes are coming now

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    edited April 13
  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    G-witch 18
    Secilia randomly popping out of the walls in the confessional both felt like a leftover Code Geass bit, I fucking loved it

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I really hate when people to panel to frame comparisons. Different mediums express things differently

    Sure. I'm saying one affected me more than the other. I feel that's valid. I think that maybe, a different studio maybe would have adapted it different. My dream studios for this project would be Studio Wit, Ufotable or Trigger. I don't hate Mappa but they are hit and miss for me. And lately, it's more misses.

    In an ideal world, Mappa would have Demon Slayer and Ufotable would be doing Chainsaw Man(it's funny how the best studio in the business has the most cookie cutter show around), but I'm pleased with the outcome that Mappa pulled off. Ufotable aren't really known for being abstract, just pushing the existing medium to the nines.

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    I really hate when people to panel to frame comparisons. Different mediums express things differently

    Sure. I'm saying one affected me more than the other. I feel that's valid. I think that maybe, a different studio maybe would have adapted it different. My dream studios for this project would be Studio Wit, Ufotable or Trigger. I don't hate Mappa but they are hit and miss for me. And lately, it's more misses.

    In an ideal world, Mappa would have Demon Slayer and Ufotable would be doing Chainsaw Man(it's funny how the best studio in the business has the most cookie cutter show around), but I'm pleased with the outcome that Mappa pulled off. Ufotable aren't really known for being abstract, just pushing the existing medium to the nines.

    Don't remind me, because at their inception, UFOTable was experimental and weird as fuck. I miss those shows. And the signature claymation EDs.

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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
    G-Witch 18:
    Jesus Christ.
    If that's the girl's coping mechanism, Suletta is about to graduate valedictorian. Nothing like everyone in your life, including a fucking mobile suit, telling you they don't need you. I was honestly surprised Prospera even showed up and left her that beacon. I wonder at this point if the Schwarzette is going to become Suletta's late season upgrade. Except y'know, having to fight their old suit.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Why is there a confessional booth

    the haros know all and see all

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    ONE's One Punch Man is better than both the anime and Murata's version, that's my contribution to this discussion

    Mob Psycho rules though, for similar reasons

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    WfM
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Why is there a confessional booth
    0) Utena reference.

    1) Christian elements are present elsewhere in the show

    2) Confessional booths were a primitive form of psychological therapy, which leads to these beautiful comments:



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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    We're going the thing where we spoil G witch again I see

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    We're going the thing where we spoil G witch again I see

    #Itonlyhappensonceaweek

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Gundi wrote: »
    Oh also latest Witch of Mercury spoilers:
    I find it funny Eri is doing the exact same thing Miorine did. Trying to push Suletta away and out of any crossfire.
    Elaro wrote: »
    GfW
    I think Eri wanted to convey something like: "Suletta, you're a worthy person on your own. You don't need me or Mom anymore. Go live your best life." Instead she said "I don't need you anymore, you literal tool, so out the airlock you go!" If Eri had just added a little "we'll see you when we get back", it would have spared Suletta so much grief.

    Because to her, being unneeded is a death sentence. (That whole "if you don't work, you don't eat" mentality rearing its ugly head.) That last scene looked almost like a tribunal, with the Eri gun-bits being the jury/hecklers and Eri in the center like a judge in their seat. When Eri's pronouncement was passed down, Suletta's protestations felt like an innocently accused pleading for their life. Which ended with her falling through a figurative trap door into a shark pit Prospera's arms and the void of space.

    Also, I 100% understand Suletta's "it wasn't Miorine at fault, it was me" attitude. She feels social/interpersonal anxiety, so the thought of communicating with others is rejected at a near-unconscious level. Since she doesn't think she can talk to (and non-destructively affect) other people, she's limiting herself to working on her own behavior. It's easier to focus on that when you think the other person has nothing to work on, AKA "did nothing wrong". I know from experience that fooling yourself at that level means numbing your inner awareness, which leads to feeling like there's nothing inside, or empty. Which is the title of this episode.

    God this show is good.
    A response to this:
    Pretty sure Eri did that totally on purpose. Prospera's plans are probably extremely dangerous and so Eri decides to cut out the one sister who she can remove to what she perceives as safety. It's, y'know, not a great plan mind you. She wanted to hurt Suletta so much that Suletta would stop trying to pursue her or their mom.
    Oh yeah, absolutely. What I had wrote in a draft earlier (and then erased for brevity) was that Eri seemed psychologically stunted. What she did was perfectly normal for a little kid. If she had the empathy of a properly nurtured 25 year old, she wouldn't have proverbially kicked Suletta hard in the gut the moment she was starting to let go of her mother's wisdom.

    It would have probably been a more "parent and eldest are bidding farewell to their younger sibling as they go off to war" type of exchange than leaving them emotionally adrift without even a ground to walk on. (This show's scenic symbolism is on point, yowza.)

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I finally started Witch from Mercury today. Watched the prologue and the first episode. Enjoying it so far, though I have some question re: how the prologue is connected. I assume all will be made clear in the future but among them a more general question that's maybe just my unfamiliarity with Gundam as a whole
    They seemed to be against whole "permet" thing because it was hurting people, and the guy was like "this is the end of gundam haha" and yet in ep 1 we see the jerk duelist tootling around in his mobile suit, and doing permets.
    Is a gundam a specific type of robutt? Are some permets just worse?
    Also I really dug the orchestral songs at the end of the prologue and the beginning of ep 1.

    Gundams in this series are a distinct type of (illegal) mobile suit that uses the GUND format.

    Permet is a type of ore found on the moon and Mercury. It's good for communication, so it's used extensively in mobile suits - but there's big difference between how standard suits use it, and how GUND format stuff usees it.

    It's not a coincidence that every Gundam you've seen so far had some sort of drone tech.

    Overall this series is one of the better ones for having justifications on why Gundams are well, Gundams rather than some other type of suit.

    To note on the specific difference between Permet use in Gundams versus other mobile suits
    We should note that, yes, other suits have drones that use Permet; this was the lie Prospera uses to buy more time during the whole “Aerial is a Gundam” tribunal.” This in and of itself isn’t really an issue.

    The thing is, Permet can also be implanted in people; this, itself, is the cornerstone of GUND Format technologies, particularly in prosthetics. Need a mechanical body part or even (as shown) a nearly full body prosthetic? Implant Permet devices in you and they’ll communicate with the prostheses just fine, better than anything else you could do at that point technology-wise.


    Now… what if we put Permet implants in you… then built massive Permet control processors in a giant war robot? Now, now you’re communicating rapidly, far faster than traditional controls, with your giant war mech. And because of the processing power, now you don’t just have drones, you have brain computer interfaced drones that react at the speed of thought, on reflex. And now the form of those drones? Oh it’s not limited to directed mines. No, now were can control a fleet of drone beam rifles that flit about in the blink of an eye. Now we can control a squad of mind-controlled mobile suits from a single piloted command unit.

    You can see where the implications of anyone who has this technology, which at the start belongs to the (presumably Earthian) Ochs Earth Corporation.

    But the other problem is… the human body isn’t meant to process this much information. Again, you have a giant Permet-based processing system in these units. All those glowing red parts on WFM’s Gundams? Those are the shell units that process and control all that.

    So that’s massive amounts of data… the Data Storm, or at least as far as we’ve been left to infer. And turns out that if you push yourself too hard? Those Data Storms basically fry you out.

    So you have Spacian Capitalists who don’t want these things around because if you mass produce these things, you can turn single pilots into full squads and horrifyingly capable drone weaponry that responds faster than any of their security forces ever could. And you have Earthians who had their family members piloting these things in the war and burning themselves out as they pushed themselves harder and harder. Thus, two sides with vested interests and motives to start banning Gundams from being used

    So for regular suits that aren’t set up to use Permet as a brain machine interface, you’ve just got a much faster, presumably more reliable wireless communication system, limited by how fast you can work the manual controls, or be assisted by an onboard combat AI, instead of the more Newtype-esque feats that Permet-enhanced humans and the GUND Format allow for

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    This show is amazing and god I hope this team gets an additional go around in Gundam, even if it’s not this setting.

    Considering it’s the most well received series in years and is basically lighting up Bandai’s revenue stream like a solar inferno, I’m going to guess yes

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Trace wrote: »
    One Piece knocked it the fuck outta the park with that episode. Hot damn.

    It was movie quality this week. When they care, they certainly can deliver.

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  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Maddoc wrote: »
    ONE's One Punch Man is better than both the anime and Murata's version, that's my contribution to this discussion

    Mob Psycho rules though, for similar reasons

    Murata's garou arc was so pretty though
    So good

    I should read ones tho

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Gundi wrote: »
    Normally the music for Demon Slayer, much like everything besides the animation, is pretty average, but I really liked the ironically heroic theme for the villain this last episode.

    I really like the music in Demon Slayer, fwiw. Meshes with the scenes really well.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    This show is amazing and god I hope this team gets an additional go around in Gundam, even if it’s not this setting.

    Considering it’s the most well received series in years and is basically lighting up Bandai’s revenue stream like a solar inferno, I’m going to guess yes

    I'm very much expecting that we get some annoucement of "Season 2 now in production" or similar at the end.

    It's...how to put. The vibe i've always gotten from Bandai is while they're pretty happy doing alt universe after alt universe, they would fucking love to have another UC - something they can build in and build in and have a really long tail for decades to come. But none of their series have been resonant enough to justify that. Which you know, when they're reliant on "Make all the model kits ever" for their revenue, it's a big deal.

    And now suddenly WfM doing gangbusters.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    This show is amazing and god I hope this team gets an additional go around in Gundam, even if it’s not this setting.

    Considering it’s the most well received series in years and is basically lighting up Bandai’s revenue stream like a solar inferno, I’m going to guess yes

    I'm very much expecting that we get some annoucement of "Season 2 now in production" or similar at the end.

    It's...how to put. The vibe i've always gotten from Bandai is while they're pretty happy doing alt universe after alt universe, they would fucking love to have another UC - something they can build in and build in and have a really long tail for decades to come. But none of their series have been resonant enough to justify that. Which you know, when they're reliant on "Make all the model kits ever" for their revenue, it's a big deal.

    And now suddenly WfM doing gangbusters.

    Yeah, i think I’ve heard it suggested this is the best the franchise has caught on since Seed which is… yeah, I could see it. Also, unlike seed, it’s not a frustrating exercise in missed opportunities and thematically stumbling face first into cow shit every arc.



    Also, reposting my dumb meme from the GunPla thread, spoilers for new suit this week:
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