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And here I thought the dream of Deedlit hanging out with Miss Inverse herself could happen. :/
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Nov 22, 2018 21:57
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MonsieurChoc posted:I should finish Revolution and Evolution-R one of these days. They're not quite up to par with the previous three seasons in my opinion but still fun regardless. Like I said, there really aren't any bad Slayers anime adaptions.
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Nov 22, 2018 22:13
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Gourry is played by the D&D newcomer who took everyone's advice and played a straightforward smashy type. Zelgadis is played by the D&D newcomer who ignored everyone's advice and made a tryhard too-cool-for-school edgy antihero (who probably fudges dice a lot) Amelia is played by the same type as Zelgadis but they've been doing it a while and find greater value in taking the piss (and no longer fudges dice because they've learned to appreciate the comedy of bad rolls) Sylphiel is played by the DM's significant other. Lina is played by the veteran D&Der who knows the DM extremely well and so knows every button to push. Xelloss is the DMPC who got brought in specifically to troll Lina's player. Filia is Sylphiel's player but rolling someone new, now that they've learned to min/max and also how to gently caress with the DM (with whom they're probably still in a relationship, as that's the only explanation for why they got to pick that goddamn race) e. Oh, and: Naga is that one player who shows up once in every ten games and refuses to work with the DM to integrate into the plot, but probably has some real-life stressful job and a whole lot of steam to blow. Luna was Lina's player's first PC and that explains everything. Mazed fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Nov 22, 2018 |
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Nov 22, 2018 23:14
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Mazed posted:Gourry is played by the D&D newcomer who took everyone's advice and played a straightforward smashy type. There's a lot of places where this sort of logic holds up. Like at the end of Next Zangulus shows up just so Gourry's player can have a replacement swordsman to play for that session.
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Nov 23, 2018 00:09
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Martina is one player's girlfriend who hates the game and isn't very good at it but takes part anyway because her boyfriend enjoys it so much.
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Wonder what Alaina will fall into once we learn more about her.
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Nov 23, 2018 01:49
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You can tell Lina's player was new to the game at the beginning because she kept trying to use a sword and sucked at it.
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Nov 23, 2018 05:28
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GimmickMan posted:You can tell Lina's player was new to the game at the beginning because she kept trying to use a sword and sucked at it. As has been mentioned before, I believe the only time she ever did something useful with a (non-magic) sword was in that one movie where she was fighting a girl who turned out to be wearing cardboard armor. If you count magic swords though Lina's also got Ragna Blade and seems to be pretty good at using the Sword of Light. Also, if we're including side characters how do Naga and Pokota (the new party member in Revolution/Evolution-R) fit into the whole D&D analogy? Larryb fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Nov 23, 2018 |
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Nov 23, 2018 05:40
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Naga is Amelia's old PC that she's no longer allowed to play, that other guy is the DM's kid.
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Nov 23, 2018 05:57
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The eyecatches keep getting better with every season.
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Mordaedil posted:Naga is Amelia's old PC that she's no longer allowed to play, that other guy is the DM's kid. Which would explain why he basically copies the skillsets of the other characters (he has most of Lina's spells including Dragon Slave as well as a working replica of the Sword of Light). He's also the victim of a spell just like Zelgadis, though I believe in Pokota's case he actually gets cured at some point. Speaking of which, Revolution/Evolution-R is a weird season. The first half is mostly just random filler with a loosely connected plot in between and then the second part is almost all story-based. It's not bad or anything but it's not quite as memorable as what came before either and the plot was somewhat of a rehash of things that had already been done better earlier in the series. It does expand a bit on the relationship between Zel and Rezo though which is nice. Larryb fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Nov 24, 2018 |
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Captain Cappy posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HySCRz6Atf4 
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Nov 24, 2018 15:21
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Fuckin' lol at Zel going all John Woo, complete with the New York reloads. I wanna see him lose the sword and become a western gunslinger now, he'd be perfect for it.
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Nov 25, 2018 08:42
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Darn, I wanted to see discussion of the latest crazy thing to go down in Goblin Slayer, but now I find out its threat went bye-bye. At least I was able to learn the fun facts behind its origins.
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NowonSA posted:Darn, I wanted to see discussion of the latest crazy thing to go down in Goblin Slayer, but now I find out its threat went bye-bye. At least I was able to learn the fun facts behind its origins. To be blunt it's not like there's much to discuss. After its first episode, it's had... one moment that I saw actually light people up and has otherwise been entirely silent on my feeds. In comparison, I read the first few chapters of Berserk again and WOOF. That's some serious poo poo. Also, I consider this a valid tangent because Guts wields the Dragonslayer, sue me. Honestly, I haven't been live posting but I've been really enjoying Slayers. My only pity is I'm heading out of the country for the holidays and don't have anything to pack it on.
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The last two episodes of goblin Slayer have been extremely strong but the show started off gross and, for some loving reason, the first episode didn't have a content warning, so that went poorly. Also it's me and like maybe two other people on this forum that watch GS / like it so To be on topic, I don't know much about slayers but from reading this thread it turns out slayers has had a massive fuckin impact on anime! Like drat! You can see echoes of slayers in a ton of anime that came after it, it's wild.
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Nov 25, 2018 12:17
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Apparently they skipped the village raid, which was one of the worst scenes in the manga, so it might not be the worst adaption possible.
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Mordaedil posted:Apparently they skipped the village raid, which was one of the worst scenes in the manga, so it might not be the worst adaption possible. If they didn't just move it to be the season finale... You know how Slayers is like a fun game of D&D with chill, well-adjusted people? There is also the, uh, other type of D&D group.
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One of my friends who likes grim-dark stuff and horror said she dropped the show right after the arc where the elf, dwarf and lizard trio show up because she got bored. We've been watching Zombieland Saga and Bunny Girl Senpai after rehearsals. She says that Zombieland Saga's 4th episode's chase was the funniest thing she's seen all year and that it's because of stuff like that she gives anime a chance because there's no way a live-action show/movie could give that scene justice.Grapplejack posted:The last two episodes of goblin Slayer have been extremely strong but the show started off gross and, for some loving reason, the first episode didn't have a content warning, so that went poorly. Also it's me and like maybe two other people on this forum that watch GS / like it so And yeah, Slayers was fairly popular in the west. To the point that, while not in its entirety, but the 8 novels that get "covered" by the anime seasons got translated in the west. In LatAm (specifically Mexico) the series was originally (and hilariously enough) called Justicieros when it first aired in national broadcast channels back in the late 90's. Both it, Magic Knight Rayearth and Slam Dunk were my favorite 90's shows growing up.
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Nov 25, 2018 15:53
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P-Mack posted:If they didn't just move it to be the season finale... It isn't a D&D game they're playing, they've found their way to GOR and are adding their own little dashes of taken too far GWAR and grim dark misery porn, so they're more berserk than berserk, you guys! Srusly!
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Nov 25, 2018 17:58
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Didn't we get a topic a few weeks ago where we could all complain how awful Goblin Slayer is and try to make the best jokes about it? How about we leave it at that. I remember helping run a private Ragnarok Online server years ago. And we wanted some Slayers NPC's for custom quests. So I made these back in the day. 
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Nov 25, 2018 18:05
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Try gets weird in the middle, doesn't it. It's delightful.
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Nov 25, 2018 20:38
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Goblin Slayer is the weird creepy campaign run by the guy at the comic shop who's like 15+ years older than everyone else but still hits on every freshman who comes through the front door
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Grapplejack posted:The last two episodes of goblin Slayer have been extremely strong but the show started off gross and, for some loving reason, the first episode didn't have a content warning, so that went poorly. Also it's me and like maybe two other people on this forum that watch GS / like it so I seriously thought I had gotten tricked into watching hentai again. Is goblin Slayer actually good?
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drilldo squirt posted:I seriously thought I had gotten tricked into watching hentai again. Is goblin Slayer actually good? no
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It's a D&D game run by an abusive grognard.
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Oh nooooo I missed weeks of Slayers discussion. Now it's all flooding back and I feel super compelled to rewatch it (the FUNi DVDs that got released a number years was the last time I did so). It's still the series that I feel has the most consistently entertaining OPs and one of the easiest ways for me to go back in time to a simpler, happier time of my life by listening or watching any of them. I personally think TRY gets a huge bum rap; it's not quite up to NEXT's level but I've always felt comfortable putting it on par with the first season, especially if you just sort of skip over those bizarre 4 or so stand alone episodes in the middle that feel so out of place.
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Try may not be as good Next (in fairness, neither is original Slayers) but it does have gunslinger Zelgadis. I need to rewatch Try. I haven't watched any Slayers in many years and Try is the one I don't really remember very well compared to the other two.
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i've seen the first three seasons many times, but i haven't watched revo/evolution since they first aired. i really should.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i've seen the first three seasons many times, but i haven't watched revo/evolution since they first aired. i really should. Wishful thinking but if the novels could be one of the many that Yen Press likes to pick up I'd be super down to finally giving them a look, I can't remember the myriad of excuses I used back in the day to never seek them out and who knows how hard it'd be to get the Tokyopop editions.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i've seen the first three seasons many times, but i haven't watched revo/evolution since they first aired. i really should. The plot's a bit derivative and doesn't really start to kick in until Evolution but they're still decent overall, just not quite as memorable as the initial three were. If you can stand Naga then the movies/specials are worth checking out as well. Like I've said before, hopefully the resurgence of the novels will mean an eventual revival of the anime as well. From what little I've heard of it the plot of the new books looks interesting and I'd like to see it in some format. Out of curiosity, were all of the OPs/EDs in the Slayers series sung by Megumi herself? I know she did a couple at least.
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She has paired up with Masami Okui a handful of times, but otherwise to my knowledge Megumi Hayashibara has sung every OP and ED in the franchise.
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Wanna give a thankful shoutout to this thread and the people who posted that Slayers is available on Funimation’s YouTube channel — I’m on episode 7 right now, and it’s been great so far! Didn’t realize how much I missed the 90s aesthetic. Plus, I like how smoothly the show transitions between all the comedic and serious moments. I’ve heard about Slayers over the years, but the only thing I knew about it was that the protagonist was someone named Lina Inverse and that she was apparently very awesome. (can confirm btw) P.S. RIP Noonsa the fishman, at least your charbroiled corpse wasn’t put to waste 
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drilldo squirt posted:I seriously thought I had gotten tricked into watching hentai again. Is goblin Slayer actually good? Yeah it gets a lot better once the party joins together in episode 3 or 4 so you get more of GS interacting with people who aren't completely broken between the creative action scenes. So if I were to watch a few episodes of slayers what would you recommend, thread? Nondevor posted:Wanna give a thankful shoutout to this thread and the people who posted that Slayers is available on Funimation's YouTube channel Oh that makes it a lot easier.
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Grapplejack posted:Yeah it gets a lot better once the party joins together in episode 3 or 4 so you get more of GS interacting with people who aren't completely broken between the creative action scenes. I should note that said videos are apparently not viewable outside the US but yes, all 5 seasons are available on said channel in both Japanese with subtitles and English dub.
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Grapplejack posted:Yeah it gets a lot better once the party joins together in episode 3 or 4 so you get more of GS interacting with people who aren't completely broken between the creative action scenes. Honestly my suggestion is to watch S1E1 because it sets up everything you need to know about Slayers and the Tone. EDIT: Also Crabtree posted:It isn't a D&D game they're playing, they've found their way to GOR and are adding their own little dashes of taken too far GWAR and grim dark misery porn, so they're more berserk than berserk, you guys! Srusly! Hmm quote:Ganishka made use of this device by having thousands of female prisoners raped by his soldiers, then dunking the pregnant prisoners into his Man-Made Beherit to turn their unborn babies into ‘’’Daka’’’, half demon monstrosities that burst out of their mother’s abdomen at birth. Fed on human flesh, including their own mother, Daka were extensively used in Ganishka’s reign. Yeah, no. Goblin Slayer couldn't hold Berserk's jockstrap. It is a light refreshing breeze, a casual romp in the woods, compared to grit infested rapehole that is Berserk. And if you honestly believe that it's worse. You have not actually read Berserk. Onmi fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Nov 26, 2018 |
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Found an imgur thing with most of the new books art. https://imgur.com/a/ywpoioM Seeing this image  I was thinking what is Amelia's rank again. Her father is the Crown Prince, but does that make her a princess I don't know how noble rankings work. MonsterEnvy fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Nov 26, 2018 |
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I started watching Revolution and it's good so far. Not amazing, but decently Saturday morning cartoon-ishly fun.
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