Watch the first of the compilation movies and then just watch the second half normally
IIRC the first compilation movie just has a montage of a bunch of the characters joining at one point, right? Including Rossiu? That alone makes it hard to recommend.
I don't know if I've ever seen a compilation movie for an anime that I would recommend over the show itself. The ones I've seen seem like they end up skipping enough context that it would be difficult for new viewers to understand what is going on and are more for viewers of the original show to be reminded of what happened in the original series.
Watch the first of the compilation movies and then just watch the second half normally
IIRC the first compilation movie just has a montage of a bunch of the characters joining at one point, right? Including Rossiu? That alone makes it hard to recommend.
I don't know if I've ever seen a compilation movie for an anime that I would recommend over the show itself. The ones I've seen seem like they end up skipping enough context that it would be difficult for new viewers to understand what is going on and are more for viewers of the original show to be reminded of what happened in the original series.
Yeah true
I dunno. It took me two tries to get through the first half, and ive watched the second half like...8 times?
Watch the first of the compilation movies and then just watch the second half normally
IIRC the first compilation movie just has a montage of a bunch of the characters joining at one point, right? Including Rossiu? That alone makes it hard to recommend.
I don't know if I've ever seen a compilation movie for an anime that I would recommend over the show itself. The ones I've seen seem like they end up skipping enough context that it would be difficult for new viewers to understand what is going on and are more for viewers of the original show to be reminded of what happened in the original series.
Yeah true
I dunno. It took me two tries to get through the first half, and ive watched the second half like...8 times?
Its just a kinda shitty 15 episode hurdle
I like the first half up until the timeskip tremendously more so than the second half. And I don't dislike the second half. There are just two episodes that I don't care for and a boring one in the first half.
I don't know if I've ever seen a compilation movie for an anime that I would recommend over the show itself. The ones I've seen seem like they end up skipping enough context that it would be difficult for new viewers to understand what is going on and are more for viewers of the original show to be reminded of what happened in the original series.
The first half or so of the first season of Nanoha is borderline hentai, and the movie cuts out most of that, so that's probably the one to recommend to most people.
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All this talk of this season being weak made me look ahead, and supposedly new Demon Slayer next season? No date yet.
People talking about the season being weak and I'm just over here enjoying almost all of it, really reminds me how little overlap there is in what I enjoy vs many here.
Y'all have no joy, almost everything has been great. Comedy wise it's just been a collection of solid entries.
Night Head might be the only show airing that I haven't found particularly good.
I don't know if I've ever seen a compilation movie for an anime that I would recommend over the show itself. The ones I've seen seem like they end up skipping enough context that it would be difficult for new viewers to understand what is going on and are more for viewers of the original show to be reminded of what happened in the original series.
The first half or so of the first season of Nanoha is borderline hentai, and the movie cuts out most of that, so that's probably the one to recommend to most people.
I don't know if I've ever seen a compilation movie for an anime that I would recommend over the show itself. The ones I've seen seem like they end up skipping enough context that it would be difficult for new viewers to understand what is going on and are more for viewers of the original show to be reminded of what happened in the original series.
The first half or so of the first season of Nanoha is borderline hentai, and the movie cuts out most of that, so that's probably the one to recommend to most people.
wait what
Actually, now that I've looked up a clip, you'd probably want to skip the movie too!
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The AniMenagerie crew have settled on what our third season will look like:
Season 3
-- Cromartie High School (13/26 mini eps)
-- Tenchi Universe (12/26 eps)
-- Puella Magi Madoka Magica (12 eps)
-- My Next Life as a Villainess (12/12 eps) Season 3.5
-- Cromartie High School (13/26 mini eps)
-- Tenchi Universe (14/26 episodes)
-- SSSS.Gridman (12/12 eps)
-- Baccano! (16/16 episodes)
Our expected start date for our third season is currently October 3rd, so if you are interested in joining us that would probably be the best time to hop on (private message me if you are interested).
we said we should cover this before we started the new shows, so
Cromartie: I've seen one or two of this a very long time ago. I recall it being lauded as a very funny show but it didn't click for me then. Interested to see if I have a different opinion!
Tenchi Universe: Seen all of it, and this and the first movie are the only Tenchi things I've seen. Super good show and really excited to watch it again for the first time in like 20 years.
Madoka: Watched the first three or four.
Villainess: Watched the first six or seven of this, just before AniMenagerie started up. Felt like a show that would work well for the group so I stopped until we could watch it together.
SSSS.Gridman: Really enjoyed this! Toku stuff!
Baccano!: Watched all of it and can't wait to watch it again.
Just read (manga) through Kuroko's Basketball, and I dunno, I sure wish I'd liked it as much all the way through as I did at the high points.
There's such a weird mixture of sort of trying to justify teleportation / invisibility / etc with the discussion of misdirection and footwork and center-of-gravity etc, which, okay, fine, I see where you're going, this is meant to be theoreticall real. But then it turns into a video game where "you run out of misdirection energy so you can only do it for so long", but then "ooh, but you get a limit break of super opposite misdirection"?
Not to mention the whole 'zone' stuff with its various time limits attached to it, only sometimes they don't count, etc. I sort of see where they're going but I couldn't help feeling like they should just have drawn bars onscreen and shown them slowly emptying out, because clearly something like that was in the writer's head during those bits.
And while I guess I should have seen it coming, the ultimate tier of the ultimate power being the power of teamwork? Sure, okay, I get the point, but sheesh.
I guess my main problem was, weirdly, that there was too much basketball? The final tournament arc felt too long with too few breaks -- before then, there'd been the training arcs, or the cooking bits, or various secondary stories, but when the last games started up it was just such a lot of basketball in a row.
The "kuroko in middle school" arc was a breath of fresh air from just powers-vs-powers all the time, and the "maybe Kuroko can break the ice around the hearts of the Miracle Generation and convince them to love basketball again", okay, sure, now I'm back on board because I'm mostly in it for the people, not the game, so I was looking forwards to seeing that happen.
To be fair, the twist in the final battle where now Kuroko is too famous to vanish any more was a pretty cool twist, as was the way they got around that, but it felt as if they were running out of ideas -- having the very last points be the same 'get foul but deliberately miss' thing they'd done before had a bunch less impact, too.
And I think my least favorite part was the very end -- the other thing I'm waiting for in sports manga is the "where are they now" final chapter set after the last match, where all the various storylines about people get tidied up and couples get together/don't get together, everyone has overcome their weaknesses / regained their love of the game / whatever-it-is. But here, final points are scored, and then like four pages later it's over.
I read the 'extra game' sequel, and even there it finishes with "our team won in the last seconds and it was super close you guys the end", which just wasn't the sort of ending I was looking for either, I just felt like the characters deserved a bit more room to breathe at the end and unspool whatever-it-is that happens next.
Just read (manga) through Kuroko's Basketball, and I dunno, I sure wish I'd liked it as much all the way through as I did at the high points.
There's such a weird mixture of sort of trying to justify teleportation / invisibility / etc with the discussion of misdirection and footwork and center-of-gravity etc, which, okay, fine, I see where you're going, this is meant to be theoreticall real. But then it turns into a video game where "you run out of misdirection energy so you can only do it for so long", but then "ooh, but you get a limit break of super opposite misdirection"?
Not to mention the whole 'zone' stuff with its various time limits attached to it, only sometimes they don't count, etc. I sort of see where they're going but I couldn't help feeling like they should just have drawn bars onscreen and shown them slowly emptying out, because clearly something like that was in the writer's head during those bits.
And while I guess I should have seen it coming, the ultimate tier of the ultimate power being the power of teamwork? Sure, okay, I get the point, but sheesh.
I guess my main problem was, weirdly, that there was too much basketball? The final tournament arc felt too long with too few breaks -- before then, there'd been the training arcs, or the cooking bits, or various secondary stories, but when the last games started up it was just such a lot of basketball in a row.
The "kuroko in middle school" arc was a breath of fresh air from just powers-vs-powers all the time, and the "maybe Kuroko can break the ice around the hearts of the Miracle Generation and convince them to love basketball again", okay, sure, now I'm back on board because I'm mostly in it for the people, not the game, so I was looking forwards to seeing that happen.
To be fair, the twist in the final battle where now Kuroko is too famous to vanish any more was a pretty cool twist, as was the way they got around that, but it felt as if they were running out of ideas -- having the very last points be the same 'get foul but deliberately miss' thing they'd done before had a bunch less impact, too.
And I think my least favorite part was the very end -- the other thing I'm waiting for in sports manga is the "where are they now" final chapter set after the last match, where all the various storylines about people get tidied up and couples get together/don't get together, everyone has overcome their weaknesses / regained their love of the game / whatever-it-is. But here, final points are scored, and then like four pages later it's over.
I read the 'extra game' sequel, and even there it finishes with "our team won in the last seconds and it was super close you guys the end", which just wasn't the sort of ending I was looking for either, I just felt like the characters deserved a bit more room to breathe at the end and unspool whatever-it-is that happens next.
ha yeah sometimes the crazy ideas bring you out of the story because a lot of the rest of the time it's so close a normal real basketball story. But I loved the creativity of the reality bending almost possible superpowers. Really a fun and original take.
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if you haven't already watched it, it sounds like Ping Pong the Animation is pretty much 100% what you want out of a sports show, btw.
Moonlit fantasy: holy crap they skipped a bunch and jumped ahead and still no mention of the heroes. Guess they wanted to end the season on a big fight.
Huh, they really did skip a bunch of stuff to get to this point. Though, aside from the heroes it was mostly going to be slice of life sort of things to do with him training the forest ogres and setting up the store. So it's not like a ton of story critical things got bumped and Rembrandt did mention that the human empires led by the two heroes were about to go to war. That said, this is pretty much what I wanted the season to end on. It's THE big fight scene, the only one of its kind in the manga after Mio when she was still the big spider. Fireworks factory is about to explode.
Not sure where this leaves a potential second season or if there won't be one and this'll be the true finale. I'm looking forward to seeing the coming nonsense in animated motion at least.
I'm a bit surprised how ignorant the characters are of things like "what happens if a Soul Gem is destroyed". I figured with this many magical girls running around things like that would be more common knowledge.
I'm a bit surprised how ignorant the characters are of things like "what happens if a Soul Gem is destroyed". I figured with this many magical girls running around things like that would be more common knowledge.
Madoka stuff
That would require fighting near someone the moment their gem breaks, correctly identifying the cause and effect of what just happened, and then not dying to a sneak attack from the witch who is now where your ally just was. That seems like a miniscule group. Oh and the first series points out the very real possibility of that realization immediately sending a Magical Girl into a despair spiral that turns her gem and kills her as well.
if you haven't already watched it, it sounds like Ping Pong the Animation is pretty much 100% what you want out of a sports show, btw.
I'll give it a look - thanks for the suggestion!
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Berserk through volume 14/start of lost conviction arc:
Griffith fucking suuuuuuuuuuuuuucks. Ever get so jealous of someone you kill everyone you know and rape their partner in front of them and become one of the five rulers of hell? He can talk about his dream and what not but that dream ain’t what caused this.
It’s a little ridiculous that the old blacksmith dude he hung around just kinda had everything lying around that makes guts how we know him today.
Also I guess the storyline changed? I could swear back in the early chapters they showed his escape like Guts running through like a sewer or corridor as he escaped rather than being carried off by a giant skeleton dude.
It was rad to see Pippin with his eyes open for once and getting the Guts face panel treatment. Also Judeau for secret best character.
The early proto-Berserk chapter they include is so weird. Animated Guts is just wrong.
I'm hoping season 2 is better overall, because honestly I was a bit underwhelmed by the first season. For one thing, I feel like there's too many characters and not enough development for most of them. Second, for there to be so many powerful witches running around Kamihama they aren't really getting up to much, with the less interesting (IMO) Uwasa getting most of the spotlight instead. Third, there were a number of things that seemed like characters would be curious about that largely went ignored (like "what's tiny Kyubey's deal?", "why did Iroha turn into a Witch-like thing?", "what creates the Uwasa, and should we really be focusing on them over the Witches?", etc).
I feel like they could have skipped the episodes featuring the b-squad that Iroha meets first before joining up with her real team, at least.
I'm hoping season 2 is better overall, because honestly I was a bit underwhelmed by the first season. For one thing, I feel like there's too many characters and not enough development for most of them. Second, for there to be so many powerful witches running around Kamihama they aren't really getting up to much, with the less interesting (IMO) Uwasa getting most of the spotlight instead. Third, there were a number of things that seemed like characters would be curious about that largely went ignored (like "what's tiny Kyubey's deal?", "why did Iroha turn into a Witch-like thing?", "what creates the Uwasa, and should we really be focusing on them over the Witches?", etc).
I feel like they could have skipped the episodes featuring the b-squad that Iroha meets first before joining up with her real team, at least.
The focus of season 2 has been on answering those questions, and based on those answers, there is a very good reason witches have been de-emphasized.
Really appreciate that Rimuru didn't even bother with Clayman himself, just had Shion beat the ever living crap out of him for like, 22 minutes until the very end of the episode. And Veldora was great as always. Next time he needs to use Ultra Instinct, though.
Also is it me, or is this season's version of Clayman way more incompetent/stupid than S1? It just feels like the character fell of a cliff and is now hitting every branch on the way down.
Really appreciate that Rimuru didn't even bother with Clayman himself, just had Shion beat the ever living crap out of him for like, 22 minutes until the very end of the episode. And Veldora was great as always. Next time he needs to use Ultra Instinct, though.
Also is it me, or is this season's version of Clayman way more incompetent/stupid than S1? It just feels like the character fell of a cliff and is now hitting every branch on the way down.
I guess technically Rapheal can pull full manga from anywhere so this is possible
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Still watching lots of anime although games are taking up more mindshare than they had for a while.
Finished: Megalobox Nomad, Love is War season 2, Devilman Crybaby (yeesh).
Dropped Moriarty the Patriot. I liked the first half and got real disinterested midway through the second one.
Legit spoiler question about Sonny Boy.
Watched the first episode and like the look of it enough to go along for the weird ride BUT if it contains something I'd rather avoid it and just be spoiled on it.
Is there like cat death/abuse coming up in this? I already got wary there were a lot of cats in the first ep and are people gonna be eating cats eventually or something?
There's one missing at the start of the second episode and ehhhhh. The alarm bells are ringing.
Also started Kageki Shojou and like it so far. And working on some old episodes of Planetes and Master Keaton now and then.
Re: Sonny Boy. No, at least not yet.
The cats are just one of the people's powers. She has unlimited free Amazon next day delivery through cats.
Don't ask for an explanation. There isn't one.
Aaaand the newest episode (#9) is about the cats. Sort of.
They've always been fully sentient apparently, and can talk to other animals and shit.
This has nothing at all to do with the episode, which is about a pair of twins throwing a huge tantrum at each other because they disagree about counting hairs and both have the power of time reversal which is trapping everybody in a tundra world. Oh, everybody is together again too somehow.
Except they're not even twins. They're both one dude who got split in half and are fighting over who gets to be the real one until one shoots the other with a ray gun from the evil teacher, whereupon he realized that he killed himself, so he kills himself. Also, the dog dude knew the cats were talking the entire time. And the cats aren't shipping things from 'Nyamazon,' one of them has the power to duplicate matter. And the Indian dude apparently figured all this out by connecting them to a lie detecting machine and interrogating them. Just didn't feel like mentioning it to anybody though.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiight.
I think it's implying that it's the girl's power to duplicate things, and the cats just have the ability to deliver it.
Because it seems like people's powers interacted to start all of this off. The Indian student didn't want to share that information because everyone already turned on MC once for thinking he was responsible for the whole thing.
But instead I think it's something like...MC created the new worlds, she duplicated all the students and the school, the guy who shatters things broke them apart from reality, etc. etc.
And, of course, their principal (God) made all this happen just for funsies.
Episode 10 explicitly lays out the specific cat powers, and as usual, it's just a throwaway line for the C plot that had maybe 30 seconds of screen time.
Each individual cat has a different power that they're daisy chaining together to fake Nyamazon, and then it's pretty heavily implied (by killing a pair of chickens) that the girl's power is making things immortal in some way.
But the actual episode is centered on a telepathic girl who's apparently been standing in the background of literally every scene. She has a crush on the super dude and has formulated a relationship between them in her mind because she knows the REAL him, but he has a crush on the manic pixie girl. Anyway, evil teacher and god tell him that he has to fulfill his destiny and create death by killing War, so they go to a dead world where they find supposedly War, who's now a hollow shell. When he finds out the girl is telepathic, he gets bitchy, so the manic pixie girl chews him out for not being True To Himself or whatever, which results in a crisis of confidence and he accidentally lets her fall off a cliff into the void.
Also, the evil teacher has been training everybody and has brought them to some kind of school nexus where they're off to fight in some tournament? Or war, not War? Not clear! Just another throwaway line like three minutes into the episode that they then ignore.
So, uh, yeah. Another standard episode of Sonny Boy.
Really appreciate that Rimuru didn't even bother with Clayman himself, just had Shion beat the ever living crap out of him for like, 22 minutes until the very end of the episode. And Veldora was great as always. Next time he needs to use Ultra Instinct, though.
Also is it me, or is this season's version of Clayman way more incompetent/stupid than S1? It just feels like the character fell of a cliff and is now hitting every branch on the way down.
I guess technically Rapheal can pull full manga from anywhere so this is possible
Depends on when Rimiru died honestly. He was an office worker otaku, and Raph can pull anything from his memory perfectly.
So hopefully Rimiru got to Super and the Broly movie.
Really appreciate that Rimuru didn't even bother with Clayman himself, just had Shion beat the ever living crap out of him for like, 22 minutes until the very end of the episode. And Veldora was great as always. Next time he needs to use Ultra Instinct, though.
Also is it me, or is this season's version of Clayman way more incompetent/stupid than S1? It just feels like the character fell of a cliff and is now hitting every branch on the way down.
I guess technically Rapheal can pull full manga from anywhere so this is possible
Depends on when Rimiru died honestly. He was an office worker otaku, and Raph can pull anything from his memory perfectly.
So hopefully Rimiru got to Super and the Broly movie.
I'm pretty sure one is more a state of mind than the other which is something that can be mimicked with any magic energy beam and yelling the name loudly.
I'm more surprised Jump allowed any of those references to be directly named.
Really appreciate that Rimuru didn't even bother with Clayman himself, just had Shion beat the ever living crap out of him for like, 22 minutes until the very end of the episode. And Veldora was great as always. Next time he needs to use Ultra Instinct, though.
Also is it me, or is this season's version of Clayman way more incompetent/stupid than S1? It just feels like the character fell of a cliff and is now hitting every branch on the way down.
I guess technically Rapheal can pull full manga from anywhere so this is possible
Depends on when Rimiru died honestly. He was an office worker otaku, and Raph can pull anything from his memory perfectly.
So hopefully Rimiru got to Super and the Broly movie.
I'm pretty sure one is more a state of mind than the other which is something that can be mimicked with any magic energy beam and yelling the name loudly.
I'm more surprised Jump allowed any of those references to be directly named.
Expecting any kind of consistency or even sense in Japanese intellectual property will make you insane.
Except for Zun, that crazy drunk libertarian. He's consistent as shit.
Really appreciate that Rimuru didn't even bother with Clayman himself, just had Shion beat the ever living crap out of him for like, 22 minutes until the very end of the episode. And Veldora was great as always. Next time he needs to use Ultra Instinct, though.
Also is it me, or is this season's version of Clayman way more incompetent/stupid than S1? It just feels like the character fell of a cliff and is now hitting every branch on the way down.
You want to see ultra instinct, just wait until Remuru tells him the manga he was reading didnt end before he was reincarnated so it just cuts off at a cliffhanger
WIXOSS Diva(A)Live takes place in a world where only cute teenaged girls play card games. At least this makes the part where 5000+ people are watching six random nobodies battle in the middle of the day more believable, in our Vtuber reality.
I should research the rules of this game somewhere, because it somehow involves three people playing at once on each side, and sometimes one of them turns into Cardcaptor Sakura and flies around. Cards were played, but they got no explanation and seemed to do nothing but fill time until the MC gave a speech about friendship and immediately won even though she was at 1 HP while her opponent(s) had max and had been destroying the good guy team easily all game.
Oh, and the games are all played in a VRMMO where everyone uses an avatar that looks exactly like themselves but with cooler hair, which is a completely flawless disguise. Even if you interact with these people every day at school. The MC assumed the icy, serious girl with long blue-black hair was actually a small dog in real life, before wondering if she might really be the icy, serious class rep with long black hair and glasses.
This show is very dumb.
So I'm definitely going to keep watching it. And apparently it's season five of this franchise!
Really appreciate that Rimuru didn't even bother with Clayman himself, just had Shion beat the ever living crap out of him for like, 22 minutes until the very end of the episode. And Veldora was great as always. Next time he needs to use Ultra Instinct, though.
Also is it me, or is this season's version of Clayman way more incompetent/stupid than S1? It just feels like the character fell of a cliff and is now hitting every branch on the way down.
I guess technically Rapheal can pull full manga from anywhere so this is possible
On Clayman
We've gotten the info that Clayman isn't the mastermind. I kind of like how the story presents information to the audience that makes Clayman seem far more competent than he actually was. It isn't until like last episode that we are given any hint that he doesn't control Milim. Also I feel like it's implied that he was working from a script that Rimuru pretty much shredded and has pretty much been playing improve ever since.
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Watch the first of the compilation movies and then just watch the second half normally
IIRC the first compilation movie just has a montage of a bunch of the characters joining at one point, right? Including Rossiu? That alone makes it hard to recommend.
I don't know if I've ever seen a compilation movie for an anime that I would recommend over the show itself. The ones I've seen seem like they end up skipping enough context that it would be difficult for new viewers to understand what is going on and are more for viewers of the original show to be reminded of what happened in the original series.
they're making a doan's island movie?????
Yeah true
I dunno. It took me two tries to get through the first half, and ive watched the second half like...8 times?
Its just a kinda shitty 15 episode hurdle
I like the first half up until the timeskip tremendously more so than the second half. And I don't dislike the second half. There are just two episodes that I don't care for and a boring one in the first half.
The first half or so of the first season of Nanoha is borderline hentai, and the movie cuts out most of that, so that's probably the one to recommend to most people.
Y'all have no joy, almost everything has been great. Comedy wise it's just been a collection of solid entries.
Night Head might be the only show airing that I haven't found particularly good.
wait what
Actually, now that I've looked up a clip, you'd probably want to skip the movie too!
We're getting a Sailor Mercury crossover?
Cromartie: I've seen one or two of this a very long time ago. I recall it being lauded as a very funny show but it didn't click for me then. Interested to see if I have a different opinion!
Tenchi Universe: Seen all of it, and this and the first movie are the only Tenchi things I've seen. Super good show and really excited to watch it again for the first time in like 20 years.
Madoka: Watched the first three or four.
Villainess: Watched the first six or seven of this, just before AniMenagerie started up. Felt like a show that would work well for the group so I stopped until we could watch it together.
SSSS.Gridman: Really enjoyed this! Toku stuff!
Baccano!: Watched all of it and can't wait to watch it again.
Pride of Orange finally got a debut date: October 6th
Not to mention the whole 'zone' stuff with its various time limits attached to it, only sometimes they don't count, etc. I sort of see where they're going but I couldn't help feeling like they should just have drawn bars onscreen and shown them slowly emptying out, because clearly something like that was in the writer's head during those bits.
And while I guess I should have seen it coming, the ultimate tier of the ultimate power being the power of teamwork? Sure, okay, I get the point, but sheesh.
I guess my main problem was, weirdly, that there was too much basketball? The final tournament arc felt too long with too few breaks -- before then, there'd been the training arcs, or the cooking bits, or various secondary stories, but when the last games started up it was just such a lot of basketball in a row.
The "kuroko in middle school" arc was a breath of fresh air from just powers-vs-powers all the time, and the "maybe Kuroko can break the ice around the hearts of the Miracle Generation and convince them to love basketball again", okay, sure, now I'm back on board because I'm mostly in it for the people, not the game, so I was looking forwards to seeing that happen.
To be fair, the twist in the final battle where now Kuroko is too famous to vanish any more was a pretty cool twist, as was the way they got around that, but it felt as if they were running out of ideas -- having the very last points be the same 'get foul but deliberately miss' thing they'd done before had a bunch less impact, too.
And I think my least favorite part was the very end -- the other thing I'm waiting for in sports manga is the "where are they now" final chapter set after the last match, where all the various storylines about people get tidied up and couples get together/don't get together, everyone has overcome their weaknesses / regained their love of the game / whatever-it-is. But here, final points are scored, and then like four pages later it's over.
I read the 'extra game' sequel, and even there it finishes with "our team won in the last seconds and it was super close you guys the end", which just wasn't the sort of ending I was looking for either, I just felt like the characters deserved a bit more room to breathe at the end and unspool whatever-it-is that happens next.
ha yeah sometimes the crazy ideas bring you out of the story because a lot of the rest of the time it's so close a normal real basketball story. But I loved the creativity of the reality bending almost possible superpowers. Really a fun and original take.
Not sure where this leaves a potential second season or if there won't be one and this'll be the true finale. I'm looking forward to seeing the coming nonsense in animated motion at least.
Episode 12
Madoka stuff
I'll give it a look - thanks for the suggestion!
It’s a little ridiculous that the old blacksmith dude he hung around just kinda had everything lying around that makes guts how we know him today.
Also I guess the storyline changed? I could swear back in the early chapters they showed his escape like Guts running through like a sewer or corridor as he escaped rather than being carried off by a giant skeleton dude.
It was rad to see Pippin with his eyes open for once and getting the Guts face panel treatment. Also Judeau for secret best character.
The early proto-Berserk chapter they include is so weird. Animated Guts is just wrong.
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I feel like they could have skipped the episodes featuring the b-squad that Iroha meets first before joining up with her real team, at least.
The focus of season 2 has been on answering those questions, and based on those answers, there is a very good reason witches have been de-emphasized.
*teary eyed, closes the final chapter at 4am*
wuv. sweet wuv.
i have work in the morning.
damn but it do be like that
Also is it me, or is this season's version of Clayman way more incompetent/stupid than S1? It just feels like the character fell of a cliff and is now hitting every branch on the way down.
I guess technically Rapheal can pull full manga from anywhere so this is possible
Episode 10 explicitly lays out the specific cat powers, and as usual, it's just a throwaway line for the C plot that had maybe 30 seconds of screen time.
But the actual episode is centered on a telepathic girl who's apparently been standing in the background of literally every scene. She has a crush on the super dude and has formulated a relationship between them in her mind because she knows the REAL him, but he has a crush on the manic pixie girl. Anyway, evil teacher and god tell him that he has to fulfill his destiny and create death by killing War, so they go to a dead world where they find supposedly War, who's now a hollow shell. When he finds out the girl is telepathic, he gets bitchy, so the manic pixie girl chews him out for not being True To Himself or whatever, which results in a crisis of confidence and he accidentally lets her fall off a cliff into the void.
Also, the evil teacher has been training everybody and has brought them to some kind of school nexus where they're off to fight in some tournament? Or war, not War? Not clear! Just another throwaway line like three minutes into the episode that they then ignore.
So, uh, yeah. Another standard episode of Sonny Boy.
Depends on when Rimiru died honestly. He was an office worker otaku, and Raph can pull anything from his memory perfectly.
So hopefully Rimiru got to Super and the Broly movie.
I'm pretty sure one is more a state of mind than the other which is something that can be mimicked with any magic energy beam and yelling the name loudly.
I'm more surprised Jump allowed any of those references to be directly named.
Expecting any kind of consistency or even sense in Japanese intellectual property will make you insane.
Except for Zun, that crazy drunk libertarian. He's consistent as shit.
You want to see ultra instinct, just wait until Remuru tells him the manga he was reading didnt end before he was reincarnated so it just cuts off at a cliffhanger
I should research the rules of this game somewhere, because it somehow involves three people playing at once on each side, and sometimes one of them turns into Cardcaptor Sakura and flies around. Cards were played, but they got no explanation and seemed to do nothing but fill time until the MC gave a speech about friendship and immediately won even though she was at 1 HP while her opponent(s) had max and had been destroying the good guy team easily all game.
Oh, and the games are all played in a VRMMO where everyone uses an avatar that looks exactly like themselves but with cooler hair, which is a completely flawless disguise. Even if you interact with these people every day at school. The MC assumed the icy, serious girl with long blue-black hair was actually a small dog in real life, before wondering if she might really be the icy, serious class rep with long black hair and glasses.
This show is very dumb.
So I'm definitely going to keep watching it. And apparently it's season five of this franchise!
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