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Zaphod42
Sep 13, 2012

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

RC Cola posted:

Is the writer just into drawing boobs?

You haven't realized this by now?

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RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain

Zaphod42 posted:

You haven't realized this by now?

I guess I was hoping it was an outlier

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Guy likes drawing tits shocker

Rody One Half
Feb 18, 2011

naked women are literally the most popular subject for artists of all stripes to draw since before the dawn of time so




It'd be nice it were a bit less indulgent but there's stuff way higher on the "it'd be nice of Miura didn't do this" list

DeadBonesBrook
May 31, 2011

How do you do, fellow Regis?
More time drawing tits = less time drawing guys drinking little girl piss

Idolmaster cancels both out

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


If I could draw tits as well as Miura, I'd probably never stop tbh.


e:


Looks like we're scheduled to be quite consistent for a while?

Josuke Higashikata fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Jun 28, 2016

PhantomOfTheCopier
Aug 13, 2008

Pikabooze!

Josuke Higashikata posted:

If I could draw tits as well as Miura, I'd probably never stop tbh.
I don't get the impression that it's supposed to be pornographic, but if we're going to be equal opportunity, we'll need to see a lot more (real) penis. I guarantee that more than Genon was going after the youths; I mean, "Holy Purple Rhino Knights"? Come on.

I guess Miura can't draw those without Japanese circumcision censorship bars, so that's no fun. Oh well, when the aliens come through in a million years and find our "historical records", they're going to think all Japanese males had some quasi-chastity-Prince-Albert piercing thing going on. I guess I have to go look up rapehorse to see what we got; it was certainly more 'normal' than Wyald's fuzzy thing.

Still, when Griffith was at the well, he was a Ken doll. Maybe at the Eclipse he was using his new, unrealized powers to warp space instead of an actual appendage.

For more serious content, I'm still pondering the likelihood of another Eclipse episode. Not sure I see it, because the shocker has already been seen, so what would be the point of doing it again. Some large battle seems more likely, with swordplay and magic versus Godhand-style-warping stuff going on. The wildcard seems to be Puck using Behi to turn into The Stay Puffed Apostle.

temple
Jul 29, 2006

I have actual skeletons in my closet
Puck will turn human. Was Griffith's father all along.

U-DO Burger
Nov 12, 2007




Tits are good imo

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2016/06/27/launch-date-and-regions-announced-for-berserk-anime-on-crunchyroll

7:30 Pacific Time, Crunchyroll.

There's a light in this CGI darkness.
"Insert song: Susumu Hirasawa"

also a good Mozgus

Torquemadras
Jun 3, 2013

Things I look forward to:

- Mozgus
- Serpico
- Hate for Nina
- "Who's this skull guy? Are we supposed to know him?"
- Bonewheels
- Find-The-Wiener for the pagan orgies

I'm MODERATELY HYPED gently caress YEAH

Ccs
Feb 25, 2011


This Friday? Oh boy. Looking forward to seeing how watchable the CGI is. So far it looks somewhere between Bubuki Bunraki and Sidonia, thankfully more on the Bunraki side.

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k
I am going to watch it and love it but talk a ton of poo poo about it because god dammit I wanna be cool.

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


I'd watch Berserk if it were 10 frames per episode.

Torquemadras
Jun 3, 2013

I'd watch Berserk if it was someone slowly flipping through the manga, zooming in on panels, while enthusiastically imitating sound effects and making silly voices

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


That sounds better than the CGI anime though...

Torquemadras
Jun 3, 2013

Wasn't there some kind of animated Watchmen comic? It was basically just the camera zooming over largely unmoving panels, with some basic Flash animations for punches, flying words, sound effects and so on, with speech bubbles popping up. So, animation that basically requires a high resolution image, Photoshop and moderate amount of talent.

If any Photoshop wizards read this, let's totally do this, I'll provide overenthusiastic sound effects. Berserk foley, hell yeah
That, and the voices for Puck, Mozgus and Rape Horse

PhantomOfTheCopier
Aug 13, 2008

Pikabooze!
Fred Phelps as Mozgus, Animal (Frank Oz) for RapeHorse, R Lee Ermey for Puck...

Zaphod42
Sep 13, 2012

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

Torquemadras posted:

Wasn't there some kind of animated Watchmen comic? It was basically just the camera zooming over largely unmoving panels, with some basic Flash animations for punches, flying words, sound effects and so on, with speech bubbles popping up. So, animation that basically requires a high resolution image, Photoshop and moderate amount of talent.

If any Photoshop wizards read this, let's totally do this, I'll provide overenthusiastic sound effects. Berserk foley, hell yeah
That, and the voices for Puck, Mozgus and Rape Horse

Yes there is an animated watchmen comic, the whole thing is on youtube and its loving amazing. Its massively underrated because it came out as the same time as the movie so the movie stole all its thunder. But the motion comic is way better.

There are a few videos on youtube which are just people panning around berserk or other manga, I've watched a few but most are poo poo. I would kill for a motion comic of berserk on the level of quality with the watchmen one.

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

One more day before it airs holy poo poo. Welp time for a berserk movie marathon!

Torquemadras
Jun 3, 2013

Zaphod42 posted:

Yes there is an animated watchmen comic, the whole thing is on youtube and its loving amazing. Its massively underrated because it came out as the same time as the movie so the movie stole all its thunder. But the motion comic is way better.

There are a few videos on youtube which are just people panning around berserk or other manga, I've watched a few but most are poo poo. I would kill for a motion comic of berserk on the level of quality with the watchmen one.

Awesome, I didn't know the Watchmen video-comic was on Youtube. Thought the actual movie was alright, but you just can't match it in comic form. Guess I'll know what I'll be watching for a while now.

...when Berserk's not running, I guess.

Man, I hope they nail the look and feel of the Dragonslayer. I want it to sound heavy as poo poo.

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


A mechanical engineer's take on the the Dragonslayer, using assumed dimensions from the manga, puts it at 388 pounds.



He elaborated on his thought processes in the reddit thread he first posted in
https://www.reddit.com/r/Berserk/comments/2ch5rd/an_engineers_take_on_the_guts_dragonslayer/

It's not going to be truly accurate but that thing is an absolute monster even with a margin of error and I too want it to sound a wrecking ball whenever it hits the ground.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
was it ever suggested that the brand made him slightly superhuman? i can't remember when he gets the dragonslayer. guess its time to reread berserk

Bad Seafood
Dec 10, 2010


If you must blink, do it now.
Guts is able to weild the Dragonslayer because he is very strong.

Bad Seafood fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Jun 29, 2016

Bad Seafood
Dec 10, 2010


If you must blink, do it now.
He has spent his whole life fighting and swinging swords and killing people and as a result he is very strong.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

How many push ups a day do you think he does?

Bad Seafood
Dec 10, 2010


If you must blink, do it now.
Enough.

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


I wonder if some math whiz can do their thing to figure out just out much energy is being created when he swings that thing around as quick as he does, which is described as "faster than the eye can see" at times. I would imagine it's probably some crazy poo poo like swinging a bunker-buster bomb every single time.

Zaphod42
Sep 13, 2012

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

Torquemadras posted:

Awesome, I didn't know the Watchmen video-comic was on Youtube. Thought the actual movie was alright, but you just can't match it in comic form. Guess I'll know what I'll be watching for a while now.

...when Berserk's not running, I guess.

Man, I hope they nail the look and feel of the Dragonslayer. I want it to sound heavy as poo poo.

Here's a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lR35MhVMss&list=PL_AYqxzHii9hPFHWM2gC5pTknX2abkiAG

The only weak part of it is, kinda like an audiobook they have one narrator do the whole cast, which means an old man pretending to do lady voices. Its great seeing the actual art moving around though.

Jose posted:

was it ever suggested that the brand made him slightly superhuman? i can't remember when he gets the dragonslayer. guess its time to reread berserk

Its suggested that his sheer rage makes him superhuman, everybody realizes he's like a literal monster when he's in berserker mode, even before he gets the armor. He has the beast. The beast makes him superhuman.

He gets the dragonslayer from Godo, its just sitting in Godo's lab because it was deemed unwieldable, Godo makes Guts a new sword, a demon shows up and the new sword breaks right away since it wasn't meant for demons. Guts wastes no time, grabs the dragonslayer, and rips the demon a new rear end in a top hat, proving that he can actually wield the drat thing, and that its actually pretty good at demonslaying.

WeedlordGoku69
Feb 12, 2015

by Cyrano4747
even taking into account that Guts looks like he ate Brock Lesnar for breakfast it is still kind of insane that he can just casually swing around a 400-pound slab of iron.

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


This is, obviously, when he's in poorer health and had lost weight but he's not actually massively built. He's definitely well defined and all that but he doesn't really have a strongman's build. He's a lot more lean than someone built to throw around several hundreds of pounds.*




All time great strongman, poor MMA fighter Mariusz Pudzianowski, .




*- Real world rules obviously don't apply, I know I know

Genocyber
Jun 4, 2012

I don't have the page on hand but there's a panel where Schierke theorizes that Guts has the strength that he does due to the increased effectiveness of willpower while in the Interstice. So yeah, in a roundabout way it's the Brand that makes him so stupidly strong.

skasion
Feb 13, 2012

Why don't you perform zazen, facing a wall?
400 pounds is utterly absurd, that's like 100 times the weight of an actual greatsword. Even 40 pounds would be way heavier than any sword could practically be and suitably impressive to swing around the way Guts does.

Unacknowledged
Jul 20, 2004

Nobody likes me.
I know Berserk is a dark fantasy with most combat being rooted in reality, but as for the sword, can't we all just agree that Guts using a giant 400 pound slab of iron gently caress-off sword just looks awesome and gives us opportunities for amazing visuals? It wouldn't be the same if he was using a slightly oversized greatsword, and it would make battling giant demon spawn far less interesting. Berserk is not without faults, but who cares about discussing logistics of using the sword, the dragonslayer rules.

Genocyber
Jun 4, 2012

skasion posted:

400 pounds is utterly absurd, that's like 100 times the weight of an actual greatsword. Even 40 pounds would be way heavier than any sword could practically be and suitably impressive to swing around the way Guts does.

It was made to be a sword capable of slaying a dragon, I don't see what's ridiculous here.

Unacknowledged posted:

I know Berserk is a dark fantasy with most combat being rooted in reality, but as for the sword, can't we all just agree that Guts using a giant 400 pound slab of iron gently caress-off sword just looks awesome and gives us opportunities for amazing visuals? It wouldn't be the same if he was using a slightly oversized greatsword, and it would make battling giant demon spawn far less interesting. Berserk is not without faults, but who cares about discussing logistics of using the sword, the dragonslayer rules.

It's cool talking about the logistics since it makes Guts an even bigger badass than he already is.

Bad Seafood
Dec 10, 2010


If you must blink, do it now.
It's cool but I wouldn't expect much in the way of an in-story justification for how Guts swings a sword that should technically weigh more than him.

temple
Jul 29, 2006

I have actual skeletons in my closet
Pretty sure Guts is powered by sexual frustration.

PhantomOfTheCopier
Aug 13, 2008

Pikabooze!
The sword was clearly built using very light internal alloys, coupled with a nice carbon nanotube exterior. It's made even lighter by all the souls it houses. We know it's heavy enough that Isidro can't lift it, and that it doesn't fracture when going through bone and stone.

The physics for calculating the energy during a swing is ridiculously easy, but I have to get off this bus so someone else can do that.

Zaphod42
Sep 13, 2012

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

Josuke Higashikata posted:

I wonder if some math whiz can do their thing to figure out just out much energy is being created when he swings that thing around as quick as he does, which is described as "faster than the eye can see" at times. I would imagine it's probably some crazy poo poo like swinging a bunker-buster bomb every single time.

PhantomOfTheCopier posted:

The sword was clearly built using very light internal alloys, coupled with a nice carbon nanotube exterior. It's made even lighter by all the souls it houses. We know it's heavy enough that Isidro can't lift it, and that it doesn't fracture when going through bone and stone.

The physics for calculating the energy during a swing is ridiculously easy, but I have to get off this bus so someone else can do that.

We don't know how fast he can swing it so we can only ballpark it at best.

But considering 400lbs of dragonslayer, if he swings it at say, 300ft/s which is probably conservative for "faster than the eye can see", that's roughly 90m/s

400lbs is roughly 181 kilograms, so 90m/s * 181kg = 16,290 KG M/S or newton-seconds momentum.

Doing some quick googling to compare, if we look at canons, a big fuckoff cannon might shoot a 32lbs canonball at 1200-1700ft/s, that's ~15kg at 518m/s, or 7,770 KG M/S

So that would mean that Guts' swings the dragonslayer at roughtly 210% the force of a 32-pounder huge canon.

Canons apparently go up to like 68-pounders, so assuming those have a greater load of powder and maintain roughly equal velocity, that would mean that Guts' sword hits with the same force as the largest cannons used during the age of sail. Huge fuckoff ship canons, bigger ones than most ships have. Guts is pretty much a siege weapon.

This is all rough napkin math since we don't know how fast he actually swings it (or how heavy it really is).

Whether any substance known to man could stand up to being swung at that much force is an exercise I leave up to the reader :cheeky: Have extra credit papers on my desk by Monday.

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mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

But is all of that canon?

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