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chiasaur11 posted:So, I haven't been keeping up with Yurei Deco, but apparently the ending keeps the totalitarian surveillance state intact, only changing out who's in charge and drawing the few outsiders into a government where facebook likes are the only currency?
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Forgall posted:Oh no, they did a Deca-Dence. Nah. Deca-dence didn't live up to the high concept episode 2 offered, and it's arguable that the system should have changed more, but the system did change, and for the better, in that show.
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So apparently there is going to be an Onimusha anime directed by Takashi Miike. That seems pretty random.
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Julias posted:Nah. Deca-dence didn't live up to the high concept episode 2 offered, and it's arguable that the system should have changed more, but the system did change, and for the better, in that show. Pretty dramatic shift in the balance of power, too. Definitely had the former underclass calling a good number of the shots by the end.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:So apparently there is going to be an Onimusha anime directed by Takashi Miike. That seems pretty random. After the success of "Arcade" and now "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners," Netflix must be willing to throw the dice on more such projects.
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cant wait to see onimusha warlords shoot up on the steam sales charts
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Yurei Deco is probably the biggest disappointment of the season as even the Science Saru fans just stopped talking about it after a few episodes
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deca-dence at least had a cool first arc before it pulled all its punches whereas yurei deco appeared to just be completely DOA from the impressions i saw
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i saw some positive impressions of the first couple episodes but it died harder than deca-dence hype
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The Colonel posted:i saw some positive impressions of the first couple episodes but it died harder than deca-dence hype A couple people in this thread were speaking positively about it around episode 9. That said, yeah. Deca-dence had people finish it and get disappointed. Yurei Deco had people bounce right off.
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Are there any series that don't pull their punches last minute nowadays
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Feldegast42 posted:Are there any series that don't pull their punches last minute nowadays akudama drive had a pretty hard hitting ending
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Endorph posted:akudama drive had a pretty hard hitting ending And Cyberpunk Edgerunners, a.k.a. Akudama Drive Redux feat. Imaishi Triggerness
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Feldegast42 posted:Are there any series that don't pull their punches last minute nowadays
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I didn't notice until the last episode that Prima Doll was a Key story, but I suppose I should have in retrospect. Tin Toy Melody was OP of the season for me.
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Depending how far back you go, there's also Devilman Crybaby in recent years. Really, a lot depends on how you define pulled punches. For example, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans has an ending where the hero dies along with most of the main supporting characters, and the protagonists lose the epic final battle, but their deaths let the survivors escape and build better lives, with the tyrannical government needing to reform itself to recover from the damage the main characters did. It also is "pulled punches" compared to an earlier plan where everyone died. It hits hard, but it could have hit harder. Meanwhile, something like A Place Further than the Universe doesn't have anything bad happen to the protagonists beyond emotional trauma, but given the setup, that's as hard as it had any reason to hit. Oh, and Chainsaw Man's coming out this season. That one's... special. FilthyImp posted:Yuri got pretty hosed up by the end of Megalobox. But he lived, and so did Joe. Compared to the original, where Yuri's counterpart died in the ring, traumatizing Joe, and where Joe possibly died himself (the artist said it's intentionally ambiguous), that's a love-tap, not a knockout. chiasaur11 fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Sep 26, 2022 |
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4013381 Hey Julias, I made a thread for Witch from Mercury for when the Fall thread comes up
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Waffleman_ posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4013381 thank you for doing the needful
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New Season thread is up: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4013387
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This season of Overlord felt ..... low energy?? .... for some reason. It ended a little stronger with the big reveal that Princess Renner had been the actual villain behind the invasion & destruction of the Re-Estize Kingdom and there was a bunch of things that should have been pretty fun such as the big arena fight and the invasion of the dwarf kingdom and the dragon kingdom but ..... meh? It was a bit weird that Carne Village featured so heavily in previous seasons but I don't think it appeared at all this time around
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:This season of Overlord felt ..... low energy?? .... for some reason. It ended a little stronger with the big reveal that Princess Renner had been the actual villain behind the invasion & destruction of the Re-Estize Kingdom and there was a bunch of things that should have been pretty fun such as the big arena fight and the invasion of the dwarf kingdom and the dragon kingdom but ..... meh? The anime skips over a lot of the character development of the fat dragon and the troll. The dragon spends most of his time reading, which his father looked down upon, and the troll was considering getting a wife and all the issues that would entail. Also, Carne Village shows up at the end of the Dwarf Kingdom arc with the Dwarves having set up their workshop there in the LN.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:This season of Overlord felt ..... low energy?? .... for some reason. It ended a little stronger with the big reveal that Princess Renner had been the actual villain behind the invasion & destruction of the Re-Estize Kingdom and there was a bunch of things that should have been pretty fun such as the big arena fight and the invasion of the dwarf kingdom and the dragon kingdom but ..... meh? The Dragon, Dwarf, and Troll plots were like, entirely disconnected from the plot of the season. You could chop them out and literally nothing changes, no character development, no status quo changes that affect the overall plot. Nothing. Also, I know I'm like 3 seasons in now so I should know better, but like, am I supposed to be rooting for the humans or Ainz? Because I'm rooting for the humans.
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Nitrousoxide posted:Because I'm rooting for the humans. This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger. The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us. The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours. The danger is to the body, and it can kill. The form of the danger is an emanation of energy. The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
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Annointed posted:HOLY gently caress DANMACHI SEASON 4 EPISODE 10 Kung Food posted:Based on anime plot rules the options are: Turns out the answer was the magical healing powers of mermaid blood which I guess we should have figured out
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Since it's a Summer series, this is the best place to sum up "Call of the Night." In short, very enjoyable, ended on an unusual note, but having read the manga they really couldn't have done anything differently, much the same way the first part of SPY x FAMILY ends just before the episode where they get the dog. If it is at all possible, I hope Linden Films gets to make a second season, because I know that things get crazy starting from this point on. Koh may be having trouble falling in love, but Nazuna could suck on me right now and I'd gladly join the Corpuscle Consumers. Especially after finding out it makes you attractive, something I've always wondered what it would be like. Meanwhile, the other show I watched and enjoyed was "A Herbivorous Dragon of 5000 Years Gets Unfairly Villainized, " which has been a silly romp for 10 weeks and I hope also gets another season. And now, ON TO FALL!
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I’m surprised that Made in Abyss s2 doesn’t seem to have gotten the same buzz that the first series got, at least around here, because I loved it. In fact unless something comes along at the last minute and blows it away, it’s probably going to be my favourite show of the year. It does have kind of a slow start, and the first episode had me worried that it was going into an extended flashback arc, but this wasn’t the case and the flashbacks we did see were very important. On the whole the show is as gloriously grotesque as ever, like a Studio Ghibli movie written by H. P. Lovecraft, full of body horror and bizarre and alien sights. It trades in the continuous travel aspect of the first season for having the characters hang around one location, which I know bothered some people, but I think it used that location to tell a good story that continued to probe the mysteries of the abyss. The only part of I would get rid of would be the bit with the Mitty clone which I think went nowhere and just rehashed stuff from the previous season but other than that it was great.
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Doodles posted:I hope Linden Films gets to make a second season it seems like the manga's sales spiked due to the anime and the manga's still ongoing so, seems quite possible.
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Bakeneko posted:I’m surprised that Made in Abyss s2 doesn’t seem to have gotten the same buzz that the first series got, at least around here, because I loved it. In fact unless something comes along at the last minute and blows it away, it’s probably going to be my favourite show of the year. It's because people get banned for talking about it op
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Sakurazuka posted:It's because people get banned for talking about it op Didn't realize that. I mean it's included in the op of this thread and there's no mention of any such rule, but okay.
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Bakeneko posted:Didn't realize that. I mean it's included in the op of this thread and there's no mention of any such rule, but okay. Yeah it wasn’t handled in here. Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Okay uhh, in order:
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It'd be nice to have a stickied list of verboten anime, paired with why, for precisely this reason. It doesn't even have to be comprehensive -- just something that would allow people to extrapolate and predict moderators' actions. Otherwise you get unaware goons who don't trawl the QCS subforum caught in the crossfire when they go to talk about wildly popular, currently-airing anime. This, of course, would require the anime forum to have a mod, and after the way FluffDaddy was treated over MiA, no poo poo no one's going to want to be a mod. I wouldn't want to be one either.
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if we start needing forum rules about what anime you are and are not legally allowed to talk about like some resetera banned games list poo poo i am gonna take teh biggest piss
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getting randomly banned because you haven't read up on the last 5 years of ADTRW lore is loving stupid. there's no reason to have secret rules in place, just put up a loving sticky
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i feel like most "banned animes" are of the "if you're asking the question you know why it's banned" variety, but given made in abyss is airing on adult swim that one should be special cased as worth a "we don't talk about the naked child torture anime here" rule, especially since as i understand it the naked child torture scenes aren't something a fresh viewer will necessarily see right at the start of the show.
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I recently brought up over on the Fall season thread that Aniplex had announced a remake of Rurouni Kenshin, not knowing what the problem with its' creator was, but another goon realized that I was simply unaware and politely explained what had happened. (In short: loving YIKES.) I'd hate to have gotten a ban for that lack of knowledge, so maybe a thread listing problematic shows and why they are on said list could be helpful. I dunno. Keeping & posting such a thread would need to be a Moderator's job, and I can't imagine the hassle it would cause. Endorph posted:it seems like the manga's sales spiked due to the anime and the manga's still ongoing so, seems quite possible.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Okay uhh, in order: I agree that Made in Abyss should be explicitly called out in the rules thread at the very least.
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i can't imagine someone eating a probe or ban for just talking about Rurouni Kenshin, as it's not the content of the show itself that's an issue. i mean i can imagine things people could say while talking about the show that might earnt hem a probe, but i'm pretty sure if someone came in hyped up to talk about their favorite Rurouni Kenshin moments they'd just get told "yeah you might wanna google that manga author real quick". talking about the show itself is basically harmless, though given the additional context i doubt many would want to seriously discuss it i really think MiA is a pretty special case here, any other case i can think of is pretty easily solved by "think about what that anime is for more than 3 seconds"
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Doodles posted:I recently brought up over on the Fall season thread that Aniplex had announced a remake of Rurouni Kenshin, not knowing what the problem with its' creator was, but another goon realized that I was simply unaware and politely explained what had happened. (In short: loving YIKES.) I'd hate to have gotten a ban for that lack of knowledge, so maybe a thread listing problematic shows and why they are on said list could be helpful. I don't think people would catch anything in terms of punishment when talking about that. It's the creator that was the creep, not the show's content. As far as I remember, of course. Now, because the creator is a creep, the show's probably gonna get very little, if any, discussion around here.
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