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The Black Stones posted:I’m gonna watch Hokkaido gals because I spent a month in Hokkaido years ago, so I can point at the screen and say “I’ve been there.” There's a pretty clear drama point that the manga gets to that I think the series will try and reach. I remember hearing about editorial drama over the series too about the direction it was going and then after the point I'm talking about it shifts direction back to how it was in the beginning, I think. That said, the #1 Hokkaido girl I wanna see more of is this one: 
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RatHat posted:Yeah the action is pretty decent(since it’s the same author as Akame ga Kill) but the manga is like 75% softcore porn and 25% action/plot. Definitely a skip Or if you do watch it because that's what you're into, don't mention it here. Same with the Lesbian BDSM Magical Girl series
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Sindai posted:It's hard to stop reading TTFTP because almost every chapter is exactly 11 pages. It's so bite-sized it never feels like a bit overstays its welcome. He's a good dad. 
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Nitrousoxide posted:Time for Torture has exactly one joke and it runs it into the ground. That said this premiere was weirdly amazingly well animated and acted, so I'll watch it until I get bored with its shtick. It does mix it up a little (but obviously not enough) with side tangents in the lives of the other demons, but yeah, the majority of the series is built around this one thing.
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OnimaruXLR posted:i'm a fan of the term video game bullshit LitRPG is what the genre's typically called when it starts throwing stats and UIs in otherwise typical fantasy. Idk what to call it for Manga or anime.
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Pon no Michi is cute and fun. The first episode also has a part that's just back to back references to well known mahjong manga like Akagi and Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku. There's little depth or stakes it seems, so it's closer to a CGDCT series with Mahjong, but the characters aren't as moe. The second episode basically brings in their version of Mugi.
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Still enjoying It's Time for "Torture". The first real "torture" in the series. I do like the enhancements they've been making. Many of the jokes are fundamentally the same between torturers but it's fun and light and sometimes that's all that's needed. 
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Waffleman_ posted:Kubo should do what the Golden Kamuy guy did and just un-cancel Zombiepowder Kubo should just work under Togashi so we can finally get off that dang boat.
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Pootybutt posted:Between Bravern and Bucchigiri it was a good day for wild colorful gay poo poo There's a decent amount of gay series this season which, while not my taste, I appreciate and hope those who do like that stuff enjoy it.
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25 chapters in an Aka's latest work is getting into gear in its second act. Now it just needs the last leg of this relationship square to fully tie in both directions.
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Arc Hammer posted:The lobotomized Ogre in Torture Princess hasn't said a single world and he's still one of the best side characters. He just looks so happy. Edit: He's a frankenstein or something. He has stitches everywhere. From the Vol. 2 extras:  So he's probably just genuinely happy to be there. Likely no brain damage at all. Jury is out on the princess though. 
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Apprentice Dick posted:Tale of Wedding Rings was, to me at least, the most bland isekai of the past few years. Now Frieren has shifted my fantasy quality meter quite a bit, but it was just not interesting in the least. It's certainly kinda rote and at least from the first episode, the anime doesn't enhance it unless you want to see the anime boobs animated. It didn't even really lean into its harem premise until relatively recently. GateOfD posted:Dropped: You absolutely went into this blind and the idea of doing that is really funny to me for some reason.
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Nitrousoxide posted:Just a wholesome show about a girl exploring her love of magical girls. Absolutely gushing over them.
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Jan 26, 2024 02:19
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It's a shame there wasn't an English was to translate the spanish one since it's apparently a pun on Dungeons and Dragons. In Espanol: D&D is Dragones y Mazmorras (lit. Dragons and Dungeons). The translation for Dungeon Meshi is: Tragones y Mazmorras (lit. Guzzlers or Gluttons and Dungeons)
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haypliss posted:I think that's the best it would get, but this is also a case where the scan side of things seems to have ingrained the JP title (and kinda unappealing DunMesh/i shortening) more strongly online. Even though the JP always included the eventual English title. Delicious in Dungeon came from Japan iirc which is why it's so clunky.
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the Mashle S2 OP > S1 OP, but the S1 ED > S2 ED.
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Silver2195 posted:In today's High Card, we finally find out the main villain's motivation. Not a very sympathetic one, TBH. "I want to use my superpowers to spin objects around whenever I feel like and you can't stop me!" isn't much of a justification for all the death and destruction he's been responsible for at this point, especially since it implies (in case it wasn't already obvious) that his occasional rhetoric about "family" and maybe ending world hunger was insincere. All we know is that High Card continues its gay subtext, now with the villain and the leader of the org with King jealous that's not getting attention from the cold and aloof guy.
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Silver2195 posted:Oh, yeah. It's interesting because often in this sort of show (admittedly a difficult subgenre to precisely define) there's shipper-appeal without much actual subtext, if that makes sense, just attractive young men existing in proximity to each other, but in High Card it feels like at least some of these characters are actually supposed to be gay/bi. Apple is definitely into Finn and it's pretty clear. Finn and Chris are also the obvious main ship as they're Partners (not unlike the duo in Tiger and Bunny) This is definitely a bit homoerotic out of context and in context still is kinda. 
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GateOfD posted:is Undead Adventurer the undead one where he's super OP, and a good guy, but everyone thinks he's evil and runs away or keeps trying to kill him No, it's the one where he's just a mid tier helpful guy that dies and becomes an undead and from that, new opportunities emerge that gets him more powerful. Spoiler: It turns out he's also sorta special with his own unique abilities unrelated to being undead, but he's not quite all the way OP
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Finally cracked open Useless Tamer and Undead Adventurer. The former is a bit sad, but it is a bit of a change of pace from the other isekai where the past life is more like an extra voice chiming in, and also not all that helpful all things considered. There's no hints of overpowered abilities as of yet. More just struggling to survive. It's downright refreshing almost. Undead Adventurer otoh, does seem to be slowly going towards the eventually powerful direction, but more because the MC how has a growth hack by being a monster at the expense of...being a monster. Only through episodes 1 of each, but I've the read the scanalations of the manga so I'm more watching to see what's different and if they improve on it with the animation in some way. For example, there was not enough goofy skeleton antics in Undead Adventurer (but there wasn't much in the source material either fwiw)
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Still watching Pon no Michi and something I didn't know was that it's apparently a shoujo series. Or at least, the manga that got released shortly before the anime started is running in a shoujo magazine. It's still a mahjong themed SoL series, but it's a slightly interesting thing about it. It also already has a spin-off manga published in a Seinen (online) magazine which seems more appropriate. Meanwhile, in It's Time for "Torture" Princess 
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cave emperor posted:Eh no big loss, it's extremely mediocre. I think it's worth a watch over a bunch of the fantasy series that's airing this season (though that may not necessarily mean much). It's low level mahjong related antics with girls that don't immediately turn into moeblobs (and instead occasionally turn into FKMT characters for a gag)
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It's meant specifically to be more entry level too compared to the big mahjong series so that makes sense. It reminds me that Chihayafuru, which was sponsored by the Karuta association, still hasn't animated the last bits of the manga (though a good chunk of it is basically one tournament which may or may not go down well)
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Kwyndig posted:It's extremely episodic, yeah. The framing story doesn't have a real plot to it as of this point and I don't know if it ever will. It's added the bits about the Demon Lord being asking for more secrets that's not in the manga which is their loose way of trying to tie all of the episodes together.
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Anime is beyond Ritz now that she is fully unchained an anime would not be able to handle Ritz's fanservice predilections. Also Nodoka's...those.
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GateOfD posted:i appreciate that he just tldr's the isekai land portion because I don't really care about that side after he solves one or two minor problems there. The emotional suffering of this series is on a different level.
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Mons Hubris posted:These poor children on Dangers in my Heart are so drat awkward Middle School be like that.
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Meme Emulator posted:Is Drops of God the “decanting from such a height?!” Manga? Yes. It also got a French Live Action adaptation
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SlowBloke posted:It is a sling. it's a slingshot. A sling is something different and even older.
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Some nice catharsis in Shin no Nakama as the new hero gets his poo poo pushed in one punch by Ruti after trying to mass hypnotize the townsfolk into dying for his cause.
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Xelkelvos posted:
Crossposting this fantasy of a series.
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Doodles posted:YAYYYYYY!!!! That depends on if it's 1 cour or 2 cour and how much they rush, I think. There's more than a few plot points that need to be run at beofre they hit the end unless they skip them if they do it all in 1cour.
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Ibblebibble posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITFklIWu0Wg I soul's look at that manga again wtf was it always that based?
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Should we start making suggestions for the Spring 2024 thread title?
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Spring 2024 - The Spice (and Wolf) Must Flow Spring 2024 - The Feast Continues Spring 2024 - Yaranaika For A New Generation
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haypliss posted:Putting my eggs in the Tonari no Youkai basket, the inaka family vibes seem very good. Plus the crow tengu wears a trucker cap! There's some chapters of this scanalated and it is very chill and good. Mysterious Disappearances (Kaii to Otome to Kamikakushi) hasn't been mentioned, but that's on my list as the manga does a pretty good balance between paranormal mysteries and humor, usually at the main character's expense. Weird original Train anime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSq3R-k6WZY The obligatory isekai I'm interested in is Tensei Kizoku, Kantei Skill de Nariagaru. tl;dr MC isekais into the son of a minor noble. He's otherwise unremarkable except he can see the stats of people around him and their potentials and aptitudes in various combat roles. And with that skill, he aims to
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I actually dropped Ranger Rejects after reading the first however many chapters and just didn't feel invested in the main character or the villains. Forgot Euphonium S3 is coming up too (there's a total of five series this Spring that are all S3s of their respective series) Nemo2342 posted:The only things I remember liking about that series was that it was originally being scanlated by a group called "We Hate Isekai" and they would do an end page for each chapter dunking on the story. The scanalations are slowly getting to the point where the main character is now just shifting to being a CK player and coloring in maps while gaming the system to find the best advisors, generals, etc.
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It's kinda bonkers that the closest Egyptian themed rider is just one form and its upgrade of the Srcondary in Ghost. The theme of the Rider pastiche is so good and it's probably too dripping with theme to ever be real. Edit: It'd probably work if they made a season themed around world mythologies I guess. Xelkelvos fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Mar 17, 2024 |
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I tried a bunch of shows and did care to continue them for one reason or another. Mostly because they didn't seem to innovate on what they were adapting that I had already read (basically the majority of the isekai/fantasy). I also just didn't go past the first episode of Hokkaido Girls and I don't think I missed anything.
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Splode posted:Yeah I'm not exaggerating, I think it's even worse than Eva's. The flashbacks are about three times longer than they have any right to be just to try and fill time, and the rest of the episode is characters sitting at a table expounding, with effectively no actual animation (think Pokemon - mouths flapping, but nobody actually moves at all) I imagine some of it was just filibustering for time as they had a clear end point but not enough planned material to get there so they just filled time with flashbacks including a glorified clip show. Idk how it all gets done in the manga fwiw but it's likely not at the same level. As for lack of animation, I'm fairly certain that's because they were shoving all of the resources towards these last few episodes and the back to back fights in it
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