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Favorite Drink?
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Water 32 26.67%
Tea 21 17.50%
Soda 28 23.33%
Alcoholic 22 18.33%
I dunno 17 14.17%
Total: 120 votes
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my buddy Superfly
Feb 28, 2011

https://twitter.com/rainbowfission/status/1133955887796817926

I did it, I won at anime.

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Huzzah!
Sep 15, 2007

Malnutrition is scarier than any beastie.

my buddy Superfly
Feb 28, 2011

thanks godzilla with a minigun

Weird BIAS
Jul 5, 2007

so... guess that's it, huh? just... don't say i didn't warn you.
Hi I reread Goodnight Punpun and I need a knife to stab God out of my eye.

SatoshiMiwa
May 6, 2007


Star Twinkle is maximum Lun and Lala and Bandori's Hina need to team up

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

Weird BIAS posted:

Hi I reread Goodnight Punpun and I need a knife to stab God out of my eye.
The night I stayed up to read the last parts of Punpun, I sported a frozen smile, laughed like a loon, and declared the ending, for its portrayal of death beautiful. :shepface:

Grouchio fucked around with this message at 09:29 on May 30, 2019

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
https://twitter.com/PicsSilkRoad/status/1133871337838133248

Cool!

Expect My Mom
Nov 18, 2013

by Smythe
I haven't read Punpun since I was literally also seventeen and also dealing with depression and also dealing with a girl I liked and also dealing with the death of a parent so uhhhh I definitely liked and related to it then! I'm not sure if I'd actually like it now, but I'm kind of okay never finding out.

I should read Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction, I've heard it's very good

Expect My Mom fucked around with this message at 14:02 on May 30, 2019

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

Shokugeki no Soma is ending in three chapters, thank god. Jesus what a trashfire.

Sharkopath
May 27, 2009

Expect My Mom posted:

I haven't read Punpun since I was literally also seventeen and also dealing with depression and also dealing with a girl I liked and also dealing with the death of a parent so uhhhh I definitely liked and related to it then! I'm not sure if I'd actually like it now, but I'm kind of okay never finding out.

I should read Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction, I've heard it's very good

I like neither now.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Punpun sucks but Dededestruction is funny

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

Wish I was there...
Still a Nijigahara stan

I ought to read Reiraku one day, an apparently ludicrously uncut version of Asano’s bleak worldview that teeters on disaster at all times but ultimately wraps around to becoming a good manga in the end

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

the first half of punpun is pretty good. the second half is not.

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
Man, I remember when I was coming off reading Solanin to when someone commented "Hey, there's this one manga from the same fella called Oyasumi Punpun!".

Endorph posted:

the first half of punpun is pretty good. the second half is not.
And this was pretty much my experience.

It was at around the same time I discovered the works of Kengo Hanazawa.

Mentat Radnor
Apr 24, 2008

~Water flowers every day~

Expect My Mom posted:

I should read Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction, I've heard it's very good

I'm enjoying it a whole lot, especially the comedy bits that pop up pretty often.



And the artwork is amazing, of course.





And of course there's that very Asano-ish feeling of "this is going to end very poorly for everyone involved, isn't it?" throughout.

There's not enough gritty sci-fi in modern manga, and even DDDDDDDD is more frequently about the daily lives of its characters than anything else, but I like the sci-fi/alien elements and the way Asano takes the opportunity to make a whole bunch of social commentary through the way he shows humans reacting to the situation.

Charlie Bobson
Dec 28, 2013
hello weebs
Is there an adtrw discord

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

That panel where an american dude is playing a FPS with a chinese player and he gets pwned and thinks "whoa that's 5000 years of chinese military wisdom for you... he even knew where i was despite a wall on the way!"

Space Flower
Sep 10, 2014

by Games Forum

Charlie Bobson posted:

hello weebs
Is there an adtrw discord

yeah but zep's in it

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

Wish I was there...

Plutonis posted:

That panel where an american dude is playing a FPS with a chinese player and he gets pwned and thinks "whoa that's 5000 years of chinese military wisdom for you... he even knew where i was despite a wall on the way!"
i am very disappointed that you did not know that was from a chio-chan omake

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Coaaab posted:

i am very disappointed that you did not know that was from a chio-chan omake

Crap!!! I was outed as a fraud again

Weird BIAS
Jul 5, 2007

so... guess that's it, huh? just... don't say i didn't warn you.
There are parts in the second half I don’t like mostly on a visceral level. It’s still my favourite manga though.

I feel coming back to it with the official translation and having lived and met people who fit some of the archetypes, I understood Sachi and Aiko a lot more than when I read the scans. The series doesn’t allow you to sympathize with Aiko all that much because of the framing device being from Punpun’s perspective. Sachi still being hurt and struggling but fighting her damndest is so much more relatable now for me too. And I enjoyed Seki and Shimizu’s parts more too.

The worst I can say is that it has always been misery porn from the very beginning. It just was more willing in the beginning to let there be some hope like with Yuichi facing his past with Midori. As well the main thing is it tries to make you see inside Punpun’s mind which is why when he truly is being an rear end in a top hat you see yourself having done lesser/similar/worse versions of his fuckups and feel a bit sick for having been there.

Huzzah!
Sep 15, 2007

Malnutrition is scarier than any beastie.

Nate RFB
Jan 17, 2005

Clapping Larry
I finished Symphogear AXZ (as well as its shorts) and thus am caught up.

After the relative disappointment of GX, AXZ was more or less a return to form. A lot of this came down to the villains being orders of magnitude better this time around and the stakes being a bit more clear. The characterization for the returning characters remained strong (it does feel like they are struggling to think of things to do with Tsubasa still, but I suspect that won't be a problem for the next season) and the fights were among the best directed/choreographed. My main problem with the season is that the back 1/3 is a little weak; I was initially smitten with Shinichiro Miki voicing the big bad but it quickly became apparent that having the actually interesting villains in Cagliostro and Prelati seemingly killed off early left too big of a void and made a lot of the endgame not land quite as strongly. And while it is a single line that doesn't matter that much, having a reference to "Nazi Germany Eugenics Research" without any sort of self-awareness of what that is implying was awkward. Thankfully, the actual final episode after all of that was both cool and set up some stuff for the final(?) season that I am very excited for.

My season rankings would probably go G > Season 1 > AXZ > GX. G remains my favorite because FIS were the best villains the show has had and there's a strong emotional core start-to-finish for the cast. Season 1 is just a solid overall show, I guess I don't really like the "Hibiki has to hide her job from Miku" but it pays off in the end; this was also the season that probably had the best bits of characterization for Tsubasa. GX's villains kind of suck and the entire season feels like one of those non-canon One Piece movies that you'd see where the heroes have to work with some random kid that's caught up in some nonsense (sorry Elfnein, at least you got do more stuff in AXZ).

IMO watch Symphogear.

Spiritus Nox
Sep 2, 2011

Nate RFB posted:

IMO watch Symphogear.



:hai:

I'd probably agree with your ranking, too.

Merilan
Mar 7, 2019


lmao i genuinely thought this was a girls und panzer crossover for a moment

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6LQyy3TgyY

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Merilan posted:

lmao i genuinely thought this was a girls und panzer crossover for a moment

Maybe the anti-tank film they watched was a gup movie.

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
While I love Erica and her clumsy shenanigans, Ichiro's face is one big mood. A combination of :geno: and :smith: so perfectly encapsulated.

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
i hope that sakura wars 1 tl gets finished this year and potentially spurs fan tls of 2 and 3

Aurora
Jan 7, 2008

axz is the best season

Aurora
Jan 7, 2008

also it owns that the trans villains murdered some nazis for their ancient aztec dragon

Rodenthar Drothman
May 14, 2013

I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Grouchio posted:

Shokugeki no Soma is ending in three chapters, thank god. Jesus what a trashfire.

Well, looks like literally everyone else jumped off the ship when they said, "Thanks, Food Hitler!"
Good to know it wasn't just me.

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

i got spoiled big on precure, that's what i get for following eitaso on twitter...
i'm sad, but extremely excited

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

I still can't believe Kappard is the next Precure.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

homeless snail posted:

i got spoiled big on precure, that's what i get for following eitaso on twitter...
i'm sad, but extremely excited
i got spoiled by the semi-official precure news twitter (run by fans and no checkmarks but VAs/animators RT them sometimes) lol

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

no consideration for all the people that have to wait 48 hours to pirate fansubs, wow

SatoshiMiwa
May 6, 2007


Heck even Toei tweeted out spoilers for the mid-season Cures

Just have given up on keeping things hidden thanks to stores/people leaking toy stuff

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

Double Punctuation
Dec 30, 2009

Ships were made for sinking;
Whiskey made for drinking;
If we were made of cellophane
We'd all get stinking drunk much faster!

Julias posted:

I forgot how utterly silly the Yugioh GX dub could get https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFgdJ9HAcT4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUnPN385wLI

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Double Punctuation
Dec 30, 2009

Ships were made for sinking;
Whiskey made for drinking;
If we were made of cellophane
We'd all get stinking drunk much faster!
Oh poo poo, I didn’t read the description of that video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWtArkwBtMs

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