Yeah. Last couple of chapters have been about Rakan's point of view, and they managed to make him look sympathetic even if Mao is 100% justified on hating him.
If people start watching Gintama from scratch now they will probably be very unimpressed for most of the first 50 episodes of the anime
I've tried reading Gintama twice now, and both times got about three volumes in before realising that it just isn't for me, or at least that I don't have the persistence to get to the good parts that a lot of people say are coming up -- it just never quite grabs me enough to make me want to keep going, which feels like a shame based on how good the later bits are meant to be.
The worst part of starting to love to read Gintama is that they never successfully made fetch happen in the West, so it just gets abruptly cancelled at a certain point.
Back Arrow's first episode was decent, if definitely not up to the production standards set by Sunrise, Satelight, etc.
It is, however, immensely stupid, as a pro and a con. As in an alien pod lands in a remote village, and they decide "Wow, this must be secret food sent from the heavens, let's cook and eat it." Then, when a naked dude pops out of it screaming, they immediately try to eat him. He spends the rest of the episode naked with characters begging him to put on clothes. The setting is also that there's a god wall surrounding the world that once a month grows and vomits out a bracelet into the world that when put on, manifests one's inner soul as a giant robot. Claiming anything exists past the wall makes you either a laughing stock, or incites murderous rage depending on your fealty to the great wall. There are also roving random giant mech banditos.
Back Arrow's first episode was decent, if definitely not up to the production standards set by Sunrise, Satelight, etc.
It is, however, immensely stupid, as a pro and a con. As in an alien pod lands in a remote village, and they decide "Wow, this must be secret food sent from the heavens, let's cook and eat it." Then, when a naked dude pops out of it screaming, they immediately try to eat him. He spends the rest of the episode naked with characters begging him to put on clothes. The setting is also that there's a god wall surrounding the world that once a month grows and vomits out a bracelet into the world that when put on, manifests one's inner soul as a giant robot. Claiming anything exists past the wall makes you either a laughing stock, or incites murderous rage depending on your fealty to the great wall. There are also roving random giant mech banditos.
............Wha?
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I'm seeing a lotta talk about Gurren Lagann, but no talk regarding anime baseball.
Gurren Lagann doesn't even really tell you what kind of show it is at first. A lot of Trigger is like that, I feel
I disagree with this completely? Gurren Lagann is a show about overreaching your limits and trying to achieve the impossible. The first episode expresses that thesis at the beginning (All the Stars in the Sky are our enemies! but full of swagger about the coming battle) and ending (they drill out of their dying home and into the light of day in defiance of their entire lives up to that point). There's lots of exciting sci-fi and revolutionary stakes to establish after that, but the thesis is extremely clear right away.
Back Arrow's first episode was decent, if definitely not up to the production standards set by Sunrise, Satelight, etc.
It is, however, immensely stupid, as a pro and a con. As in an alien pod lands in a remote village, and they decide "Wow, this must be secret food sent from the heavens, let's cook and eat it." Then, when a naked dude pops out of it screaming, they immediately try to eat him. He spends the rest of the episode naked with characters begging him to put on clothes. The setting is also that there's a god wall surrounding the world that once a month grows and vomits out a bracelet into the world that when put on, manifests one's inner soul as a giant robot. Claiming anything exists past the wall makes you either a laughing stock, or incites murderous rage depending on your fealty to the great wall. There are also roving random giant mech banditos.
............Wha?
The not-Wild Arms show by Sunrise's director and Gainax/Trigger's writer.
Also, can't help but mention that there were two new shows today with a fantasy setting where a supposed weakling is spoken to by an invisible narrator to explain RPG skills as they gain points to improve their first appraisal skill. One is about a girl reincarnated as a monster. The other is about a boy who gains extra points from fanservice. These are I believe the third and fourth of this kind of the season with at least two more to go. I'm so tired of this shit, anime industry.
The Low Tier Tomozaki thing was also pretty... culturally problematic. Like, the message could very well have been "Yeah, some things in life aren't fair. Sometimes stuff sucks. But you are not absolutely powerless. You can make things better for yourself and others, and find fulfillment instead of fetishizing misery." Instead, it's pure rightwing "there's no such thing as privilege" bullshit. "You're a garbage person because you look and dress like crap. You look like crap because you don't work hard. Anybody can be popular, successful, and rich if they just try. If you're not, it's because you're not trying." As it zooms back to show them both living in identical giant rooms with their personal widescreen TVs, every game system under the sun, and just utter opulence without a trace of irony.
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I watched So I'm a Spider, So What's 1st episode, and the lead actress absolutely kills it as the spider. I think I get why this is popular.
I hope so, since she will have to monologue through like 100 episodes
Marty: The future, it's where you're going? Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
Gurren Lagann doesn't even really tell you what kind of show it is at first. A lot of Trigger is like that, I feel
I disagree with this completely? Gurren Lagann is a show about overreaching your limits and trying to achieve the impossible. The first episode expresses that thesis at the beginning (All the Stars in the Sky are our enemies! but full of swagger about the coming battle) and ending (they drill out of their dying home and into the light of day in defiance of their entire lives up to that point). There's lots of exciting sci-fi and revolutionary stakes to establish after that, but the thesis is extremely clear right away.
jimmy don't read this shit
mm, see to me the show is saying that limitations are artificial and are overcome through supporting each other. the evolutionary theory of spiral energy is the 'push' of the past powering the present to 'dig' through the future. a step forward for one is a step forward for all. it's not an individualistic thing, evidenced by the child in post-credits not knowing who Simon is
Gurren Lagann doesn't even really tell you what kind of show it is at first. A lot of Trigger is like that, I feel
I'm reasonably confident Trigger shows don't even know what kind of show they're going to be at first, so they can hardly tell the viewer
With Gurren Lagann specifically the very beginning of the first episode was based on where the creative team thought the show was going to go eventually.
(skip ahead to 1:48 if the timestamp doesn't work)
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
Gurren Lagann doesn't even really tell you what kind of show it is at first. A lot of Trigger is like that, I feel
I disagree with this completely? Gurren Lagann is a show about overreaching your limits and trying to achieve the impossible. The first episode expresses that thesis at the beginning (All the Stars in the Sky are our enemies! but full of swagger about the coming battle) and ending (they drill out of their dying home and into the light of day in defiance of their entire lives up to that point). There's lots of exciting sci-fi and revolutionary stakes to establish after that, but the thesis is extremely clear right away.
jimmy don't read this shit
mm, see to me the show is saying that limitations are artificial and are overcome through supporting each other. the evolutionary theory of spiral energy is the 'push' of the past powering the present to 'dig' through the future. a step forward for one is a step forward for all. it's not an individualistic thing, evidenced by the child in post-credits not knowing who Simon is
Gurren Lagann Ending Spoilers
Really, for serious, this is super spoilery. Last chance to turn away!
It's definitely not about pure individualism because by the end Simon pretty much implies he has the power to bring Nia back to life but decides not to for the greater good. Further, the two recap movies add scenes to the final battles that make the fights much more of a team effort. The second movie especially does this, not only letting several characters who died in the original show live, but also giving every member of Team Super Galaxy Dai-Gurren their own Tengen Toppa Gunmen that give the Anti-Spiral quite a good fight before combining into the Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
Gurren Lagann doesn't even really tell you what kind of show it is at first. A lot of Trigger is like that, I feel
I disagree with this completely? Gurren Lagann is a show about overreaching your limits and trying to achieve the impossible. The first episode expresses that thesis at the beginning (All the Stars in the Sky are our enemies! but full of swagger about the coming battle) and ending (they drill out of their dying home and into the light of day in defiance of their entire lives up to that point). There's lots of exciting sci-fi and revolutionary stakes to establish after that, but the thesis is extremely clear right away.
jimmy don't read this shit
mm, see to me the show is saying that limitations are artificial and are overcome through supporting each other. the evolutionary theory of spiral energy is the 'push' of the past powering the present to 'dig' through the future. a step forward for one is a step forward for all. it's not an individualistic thing, evidenced by the child in post-credits not knowing who Simon is
Gurren Lagann Ending Spoilers
Really, for serious, this is super spoilery. Last chance to turn away!
It's definitely not about pure individualism because by the end Simon pretty much implies he has the power to bring Nia back to life but decides not to for the greater good. Further, the two recap movies add scenes to the final battles that make the fights much more of a team effort. The second movie especially does this, not only letting several characters who died in the original show live, but also giving every member of Team Super Galaxy Dai-Gurren their own Tengen Toppa Gunmen that give the Anti-Spiral quite a good fight before combining into the Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
TTGL ending spoilers
The way I took it, individuals do have to stand alone and they have the power to change the universe. However, doing that recklessly will also destroy the universe, so striving to drill through the heavens without caring about anyone else is an evil action. So the opening represented a selfish Simon who would have destroyed the universe with reckless ambition (what the Anti-Spirals feared), and the actual ending was mostly happy because the Spiral powered heroes were willing to defer their own desires for the good of everyone, when necessary. An interesting take on self-actualization vs good of the collective theming.
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"Don't believe in yourself, believe in the me that believes in you" is a pretty great line and is the ethos of Gurren Lagann
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I watched a bunch of this season's new fantasy anime to see which would become my new comfort food garbage and which were just actual garbage:
Hortensia Saga - Not a mention of stats or skill pages in sight, this one seems to just be a straight up fantasy action/drama. Pretty good. Does open with a coup, so maybe a little too accidentally timely, but it isn't their fault. Kind of obnoxious mascot character who has done nothing so far. Potential for land mines as
the kingdom's surviving princess is in disguise as a young man, serving as a squire for the son of the knight who saved her. We'll hope they handle this deftly, but so far nothing bad.
So I'm A Spider, So What? - Seems like a pretty standard but decent isekai so far, where a girl mysteriously dies and is reincarnated in a cave as a low level trash mob Slime isekai style. Spending so much time focused on a single character talking about how skill systems work is a little boring, but it's probably part of the "world setup" shit that all of these isekais go through. I do wish that shows would be less reliant on JRPG tropes, but I get that it's an easily understandable touchstone over in Japan. I know a lot of people like the manga for this one so I'll stick with it for a bit.
Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies moved to a starter town? - Fuckin light novel titles I swear to god. Anyways this one was kinda funny, kinda generic. The premise is the title. Already setting up a harem potentially which is frustrating.
The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter - Horny in a bad way PLUS generic lead PLUS generic JRPG skill system explore the dungeon tedium = hard pass.
I watched So I'm a Spider, So What's 1st episode, and the lead actress absolutely kills it as the spider. I think I get why this is popular.
I saw a lot of CG in the trailer, so I was a bit apprehensive. How's the animation looking so far?
There's still quite a bit of CG but I think they really touched up the main character to where she doesn't look like complete trash anymore. There were other monsters in CG that did not look as good though.
I watched a bunch of this season's new fantasy anime to see which would become my new comfort food garbage and which were just actual garbage:
Hortensia Saga - Not a mention of stats or skill pages in sight, this one seems to just be a straight up fantasy action/drama. Pretty good. Does open with a coup, so maybe a little too accidentally timely, but it isn't their fault. Kind of obnoxious mascot character who has done nothing so far. Potential for land mines as
the kingdom's surviving princess is in disguise as a young man, serving as a squire for the son of the knight who saved her. We'll hope they handle this deftly, but so far nothing bad.
So I'm A Spider, So What? - Seems like a pretty standard but decent isekai so far, where a girl mysteriously dies and is reincarnated in a cave as a low level trash mob Slime isekai style. Spending so much time focused on a single character talking about how skill systems work is a little boring, but it's probably part of the "world setup" shit that all of these isekais go through. I do wish that shows would be less reliant on JRPG tropes, but I get that it's an easily understandable touchstone over in Japan. I know a lot of people like the manga for this one so I'll stick with it for a bit.
Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies moved to a starter town? - Fuckin light novel titles I swear to god. Anyways this one was kinda funny, kinda generic. The premise is the title. Already setting up a harem potentially which is frustrating.
The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter - Horny in a bad way PLUS generic lead PLUS generic JRPG skill system explore the dungeon tedium = hard pass.
Boonies was very much exactly what it says on the label. The side characters so far have mostly been amusing though.
With people taking one look at him and seeing the whole "Level 99" next to his name and reacting appropriately. His teacher abusing magic for petty grudges. Etc.
Wait they animated Kid From the Last Dungeon Boonies? Dang that was fast. It's kind of a short one in the manga.
Er, wait, they can see his level in the anime? The whole point of the story is people keep thinking he's weak because of narrative circumstances constantly happening (like One Punch Man) and so does he because he was the weakest person in the village so he has no frame of reference regarding regular people.
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I've tried reading Gintama twice now, and both times got about three volumes in before realising that it just isn't for me, or at least that I don't have the persistence to get to the good parts that a lot of people say are coming up -- it just never quite grabs me enough to make me want to keep going, which feels like a shame based on how good the later bits are meant to be.
I felt the essence of the show was pretty much distilled into those 6-7 minutes so I never felt the need to finish watching the show.
I'm reasonably confident Trigger shows don't even know what kind of show they're going to be at first, so they can hardly tell the viewer
It is, however, immensely stupid, as a pro and a con. As in an alien pod lands in a remote village, and they decide "Wow, this must be secret food sent from the heavens, let's cook and eat it." Then, when a naked dude pops out of it screaming, they immediately try to eat him. He spends the rest of the episode naked with characters begging him to put on clothes. The setting is also that there's a god wall surrounding the world that once a month grows and vomits out a bracelet into the world that when put on, manifests one's inner soul as a giant robot. Claiming anything exists past the wall makes you either a laughing stock, or incites murderous rage depending on your fealty to the great wall. There are also roving random giant mech banditos.
Gurren Lagann starts with a simple premise: what if giant robots was faces? And then follows that idea through to its logical conclusion.
............Wha?
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Pretty disappointed right now.
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This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
Well, we haven't even met 8 of the 9 team members...
I'm pretty disappointed about that too!
Confession time: That's the only episode of Dragon Ball Super I have seen.
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I disagree with this completely? Gurren Lagann is a show about overreaching your limits and trying to achieve the impossible. The first episode expresses that thesis at the beginning (All the Stars in the Sky are our enemies! but full of swagger about the coming battle) and ending (they drill out of their dying home and into the light of day in defiance of their entire lives up to that point). There's lots of exciting sci-fi and revolutionary stakes to establish after that, but the thesis is extremely clear right away.
The not-Wild Arms show by Sunrise's director and Gainax/Trigger's writer.
Also, can't help but mention that there were two new shows today with a fantasy setting where a supposed weakling is spoken to by an invisible narrator to explain RPG skills as they gain points to improve their first appraisal skill. One is about a girl reincarnated as a monster. The other is about a boy who gains extra points from fanservice. These are I believe the third and fourth of this kind of the season with at least two more to go. I'm so tired of this shit, anime industry.
The Low Tier Tomozaki thing was also pretty... culturally problematic. Like, the message could very well have been "Yeah, some things in life aren't fair. Sometimes stuff sucks. But you are not absolutely powerless. You can make things better for yourself and others, and find fulfillment instead of fetishizing misery." Instead, it's pure rightwing "there's no such thing as privilege" bullshit. "You're a garbage person because you look and dress like crap. You look like crap because you don't work hard. Anybody can be popular, successful, and rich if they just try. If you're not, it's because you're not trying." As it zooms back to show them both living in identical giant rooms with their personal widescreen TVs, every game system under the sun, and just utter opulence without a trace of irony.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
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There were other characters:
The teacher is in an elf, and she's tracking down her whole class, who are a bunch of nobles in the new world. Kind of interesting B plot.
I mean
same
Edit: On a serious note, Aoi Yuuki's vocal range is insane and you've definitely heard her in some random show without knowing it before
jimmy don't read this shit
With Gurren Lagann specifically the very beginning of the first episode was based on where the creative team thought the show was going to go eventually.
Someone on reddit posted this of her:
(skip ahead to 1:48 if the timestamp doesn't work)
That B plot was definitely not in the manga at all.
Gurren Lagann Ending Spoilers
I saw a lot of CG in the trailer, so I was a bit apprehensive. How's the animation looking so far?
TTGL ending spoilers
Hortensia Saga - Not a mention of stats or skill pages in sight, this one seems to just be a straight up fantasy action/drama. Pretty good. Does open with a coup, so maybe a little too accidentally timely, but it isn't their fault. Kind of obnoxious mascot character who has done nothing so far. Potential for land mines as
So I'm A Spider, So What? - Seems like a pretty standard but decent isekai so far, where a girl mysteriously dies and is reincarnated in a cave as a low level trash mob Slime isekai style. Spending so much time focused on a single character talking about how skill systems work is a little boring, but it's probably part of the "world setup" shit that all of these isekais go through. I do wish that shows would be less reliant on JRPG tropes, but I get that it's an easily understandable touchstone over in Japan. I know a lot of people like the manga for this one so I'll stick with it for a bit.
Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies moved to a starter town? - Fuckin light novel titles I swear to god. Anyways this one was kinda funny, kinda generic. The premise is the title. Already setting up a harem potentially which is frustrating.
The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter - Horny in a bad way PLUS generic lead PLUS generic JRPG skill system explore the dungeon tedium = hard pass.
There's still quite a bit of CG but I think they really touched up the main character to where she doesn't look like complete trash anymore. There were other monsters in CG that did not look as good though.
Boonies was very much exactly what it says on the label. The side characters so far have mostly been amusing though.
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Er, wait, they can see his level in the anime? The whole point of the story is people keep thinking he's weak because of narrative circumstances constantly happening (like One Punch Man) and so does he because he was the weakest person in the village so he has no frame of reference regarding regular people.