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Best K-On?
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Mio 26 18.18%
Yui 21 14.69%
Ritsu 30 20.98%
Azusa 17 11.89%
Mugi 49 34.27%
Total: 143 votes
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littleorv
Jan 29, 2011

Please post pictures of your favourite traps. I need it for a project I am working on.

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fuepi
Feb 6, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

dogsicle posted:

Dunno if Dressrosa is the longest but it's literally twice as long as it needs to be, has too many characters, and the fights sucked. I'm not sure why Franky and Brook exist, and the crewmembers who don't have haki (Nami, Chopper, ???) get shafted 24/7. Sanji is the worst character now and Oda's art is definitely going in places I dislike wrt spreads, fights, and women.
It sucks to see this happen! I thought OP would stay good while Naruto and Bleach crashed and burned.

I can't believe the formulaic shonen is bad.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

littleorv posted:

Please post pictures of your favourite traps. I need it for a project I am working on.

haruhi fujioka

Sharkopath
May 27, 2009

I feel bad for the new group in the new dungeon meshi, they seemed cool

Strange Quark
Oct 15, 2012

I Failed At Anime 2022

littleorv posted:

Please post pictures of your favourite traps. I need it for a project I am working on.

Erg
Oct 31, 2010

littleorv posted:

Please post pictures of your favourite traps. I need it for a project I am working on.

Prunus Girl

oh sorry I only posted words

Ibram Gaunt
Jul 22, 2009

Erg posted:

Prunus Girl

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022

littleorv posted:

Please post pictures of your favourite traps. I need it for a project I am working on.

Traps is an offensive word that totally demeans what real people have to go through and

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
Serious answer is Ruka from Steins;Gate.

littleorv
Jan 29, 2011

ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:

Traps is an offensive word that totally demeans what real people have to go through and

Go back to games

a kitten
Aug 5, 2006

littleorv posted:

Please post pictures of your favourite traps. I need it for a project I am working on.

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022

littleorv posted:

Go back to games

What makes you think I post in games????

Bad Seafood
Dec 10, 2010


If you must blink, do it now.

Strange Quark posted:

Tell me your formula, Seafood, I wanna know.
Formula is probably the wrong word also, I'm just struggling with how to phrase it. It ties in with an idea I've discussed before though, regarding the willingness of any given series to reinvent itself and surprise you.

My two favorite long-running shounen titles would probably have to be Jojo and Hunter x Hunter. One of the reasons I gave for this, several chat threads ago, was that they felt like the only two shounen serials I kept up with where "Anything could happen." Both series boast a certain flexibility that allows them to contain a vast array of different things without sacrificing their core principles or premise. In Jojo's case, this is due to Araki's style of generational storytelling. Each arc features a new protagonist who finds themselves situated in a brand new context, linked by a shared lineage. As long as the lineage is there, then, there's really no end to what Jojo can become. Jojo can go into space or back in time, uncover bizarre phenomenon, or generally just be whatever it wants to. Part 3 was a globe-trotting tournament travelogue. Part 4 was a small town murder mystery. Part 7 was an alternate history horse race across the continental United States. All three of these things are very different, but they fall fit beneath the umbrella of "Jojo." They all fall well within the boundaries of what Jojo can be, which is one of the ways the series has managed to remain fresh even after almost 30 years of publication (IMO).

One Piece's strength, I'd say, would be the idea of "Pockets" of adventure, represented in-series by islands. One Piece is portrayed as a fanciful, imaginative world in which there is seemingly no practical limit to what's allowed in - something bolstered by Oda's cartoony art direction which allows him a wide variety of shapes and sizes and features to choose from without undermining the integrity of his world. Beyond this, however, One Piece is in many ways a world of isolation. Each island is virtually a world unto itself, and since everything's so far apart there's really no reason anything can't be right next to anything else. What this means, practically, is that whenever the crew leaves one island for the next, there's this anticipation for what or who they'll run into next because it could quite literally be anyone or anything. Once they do make landfall, Oda gets a chance to treat us to whatever local delicacies he's invented; lather, rinse, repeat. It's very formulaic, but it's a formula that allows for hypothetically anything. Obviously you can still botch the execution, but the potential is there.

I haven't read anything of One Piece past the timeskip, but from the complaints I've heard I wonder if it isn't straying from this path.

I'm probably rambling by this point. I'm hungry and need food.

Senerio
Oct 19, 2009

Roëmænce is ælive!

littleorv posted:

Please post pictures of your favourite traps. I need it for a project I am working on.

http://i.imgur.c--

Endorph posted:

haruhi fujioka

Oh...




click the picture.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

Knorth posted:

I hope that catches on more in real life, it's cute!

we already missed the best hair trend from 2011:

Sharkopath
May 27, 2009

somebody is translate gakkou kaidan again, neat

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

littleorv posted:

Go back to games

i mean he isn't really wrong

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022

Bad Seafood posted:

Formula is probably the wrong word also, I'm just struggling with how to phrase it. It ties in with an idea I've discussed before though, regarding the willingness of any given series to reinvent itself and surprise you.

My two favorite long-running shounen titles would probably have to be Jojo and Hunter x Hunter. One of the reasons I gave for this, several chat threads ago, was that they felt like the only two shounen serials I kept up with where "Anything could happen." Both series boast a certain flexibility that allows them to contain a vast array of different things without sacrificing their core principles or premise. In Jojo's case, this is due to Araki's style of generational storytelling. Each arc features a new protagonist who finds themselves situated in a brand new context, linked by a shared lineage. As long as the lineage is there, then, there's really no end to what Jojo can become. Jojo can go into space or back in time, uncover bizarre phenomenon, or generally just be whatever it wants to. Part 3 was a globe-trotting tournament travelogue. Part 4 was a small town murder mystery. Part 7 was an alternate history horse race across the continental United States. All three of these things are very different, but they fall fit beneath the umbrella of "Jojo." They all fall well within the boundaries of what Jojo can be, which is one of the ways the series has managed to remain fresh even after almost 30 years of publication (IMO).

One Piece's strength, I'd say, would be the idea of "Pockets" of adventure, represented in-series by islands. One Piece is portrayed as a fanciful, imaginative world in which there is seemingly no practical limit to what's allowed in - something bolstered by Oda's cartoony art direction which allows him a wide variety of shapes and sizes and features to choose from without undermining the integrity of his world. Beyond this, however, One Piece is in many ways a world of isolation. Each island is virtually a world unto itself, and since everything's so far apart there's really no reason anything can't be right next to anything else. What this means, practically, is that whenever the crew leaves one island for the next, there's this anticipation for what or who they'll run into next because it could quite literally be anyone or anything. Once they do make landfall, Oda gets a chance to treat us to whatever local delicacies he's invented; lather, rinse, repeat. It's very formulaic, but it's a formula that allows for hypothetically anything. Obviously you can still botch the execution, but the potential is there.

I haven't read anything of One Piece past the timeskip, but from the complaints I've heard I wonder if it isn't straying from this path.

I'm probably rambling by this point. I'm hungry and need food.

In HxH's case, it's cause it goes on hiatus for like years in a row, granting the series artificial longevity.

gently caress I miss HxH.

Strange Quark
Oct 15, 2012

I Failed At Anime 2022

ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:

In HxH's case, it's cause it goes on hiatus for like years in a row, granting the series artificial longevity.

gently caress I miss HxH.

More like Hiatus x Hiatus, am I right

Actually no, this gimmick is dumb and I hate it.

Strange Quark
Oct 15, 2012

I Failed At Anime 2022
You can have it back, senpai.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

Endorph posted:

everyone died. rip.

honestly it'd be more surprising if they didn't attach a dark "twist" to an eva thing

Sharkopath
May 27, 2009

I have read a lot of horror comics but except for the obvious Ito and shigeru mizuki work the only ones I ended up liking were nakayama masaakis fuan no tane series and everything takahashi yousoke did, for older work

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022

Strange Quark posted:

More like Hiatus x Hiatus, am I right

Actually no, this gimmick is dumb and I hate it.


Strange Quark posted:

You can have it back, senpai.

That joke's so overused that even I wouldn't make it.

... Okay, I would.

Erg
Oct 31, 2010

Strange Quark posted:

More like Hiatus x Hiatus, am I right

Actually no, this gimmick is dumb and I hate it.

I'm sorry you're tainted now, now take backs

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

hunterxhunter is over guys, the dark continent arc is just a joke made at berserks expense

Sharkopath
May 27, 2009

speaking of which somebody also picked up fuan no tane + again, in time for halloween

littleorv
Jan 29, 2011

Endorph posted:

i mean he isn't really wrong

Yeah, you're right

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

Strange Quark
Oct 15, 2012

I Failed At Anime 2022

Erg posted:

I'm sorry you're tainted now, now take backs

nooooo

Ibram Gaunt
Jul 22, 2009

Sharkopath posted:

speaking of which somebody also picked up fuan no tane + again, in time for halloween

Hooray.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

The Dark Continent feels very Toriko-esque

Bad Seafood
Dec 10, 2010


If you must blink, do it now.

Smoking Crow posted:

tbh, i really dug bleach as a sort of late 90s/early 2000s alternative rock shonen show. it had style

then it became really rote and boring
Pre-Soul Society Bleach is good.

The Soul Society itself I'd say is bad, but really only in retrospect since it's where a lot of Kubo's shortcomings as an author started bubbling to the surface. The first through, I thought it was great. I was hooked and wanted to see how it'd pan out. It was only by the end of the arc that I really felt much in the way of disappointment, and only in looking back on the whole thing later that I judged the whole kit and caboodle to be a wash.

I give the series a lot of grief, but it didn't start to be obviously bad until the vizards and arrancar started showing up. I can easily accept that someone could burn through Soul Society and still enjoy it for what it was.

Sharkopath
May 27, 2009


its been a year since i been spooked

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022

He said now take back, not no take backs, so you can take it back Quark.

Ibram Gaunt
Jul 22, 2009

littleorv posted:

Yeah, you're right

It's sad that dumb people have misued that term and made it a slur when it originally had nothing to do with trans people but here we are.

Language evolution is gay.

Everything Burrito
Jun 2, 2011

I Failed At Anime 2022
I wish this anime was better because he's adorable.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

people hyped me up on Fuan no Tane, but when I read it none of the stuff really scared me

Erg
Oct 31, 2010

ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:

He said now take back, not no take backs, so you can take it back Quark.

oh oops, my subconscious can't deal with condemning Quark to a life of puns I guess

Strange Quark
Oct 15, 2012

I Failed At Anime 2022

ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:

He said now take back, not no take backs, so you can take it back Quark.

Oh phew.

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Sharkopath
May 27, 2009

dogsicle posted:

people hyped me up on Fuan no Tane, but when I read it none of the stuff really scared me

i like it because its the more plausible sort of urban legend ghost story, so instead of being really scary its mega unnerving

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