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I'm not going to say that black sperm deserves no hype, or that webcomics readers shouldn't be expressing excitement over a fan favorite character showing up, but a huge wave of "ooh boy this guy sure is amazing just you wait and see oh man" does kind of sour naturally experiencing what makes him good This thread has been mostly fine about that though
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it's a character named Black Sperm with a doofy little body and a weird face what more do you need from the story before you like him
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Also he dodged an atomic samurai attack as his introduction in the previous issue, that alone was enough to sell me on him and I'm not a webcomic reader.
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Now we are getting into the real threats of the monster organization. And Murata makes it look drat GOOD.
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SyntheticPolygon posted:There's been other shows that have existed which have looked as good or better than OPM season 1. What tv anime looked better than OPM S1? ninjewtsu posted:I'm not going to say that black sperm deserves no hype, or that webcomics readers shouldn't be expressing excitement over a fan favorite character showing up, but a huge wave of "ooh boy this guy sure is amazing just you wait and see oh man" does kind of sour naturally experiencing what makes him good Yeah I don't really bother reading the thread
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UP AND ADAM posted:What tv anime looked better than OPM S1? Mob Psycho S1's a super strong contender, and overall a better package than OPM IMO. MP100 S2 blows OPM S2 out of the water.
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I tried getting into MP100 but it's just not that interesting or fun. It did have some REALLY good animation though OPM is just more my cup of tea for sure
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Gologle posted:I feel like all the people saying Black Sperm is so cool and good are people who have read the webcomic, because he hasn't really done anything so far to deserve all the hype imo. Making a giant wall of himself and declaring that he's going to murder the guy who previously looked at a wall of enemies on the surface and turned them into a fine red mist. Even without the webcomic's knowledge that last page of Black Sperm is ominous. Blockhouse posted:y'all there are a lot of problems money doesn't fix, like:
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Is that it or are there more eps to come? Was that #11 or 12?
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Waltzing Along posted:Is that it or are there more eps to come? Was that #11 or 12? That was it. At least for the season.
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Brought To You By posted:Making a giant wall of himself and declaring that he's going to murder the guy who previously looked at a wall of enemies on the surface and turned them into a fine red mist. Even without the webcomic's knowledge that last page of Black Sperm is ominous. And it's the first time a monster has confidently claimed that they're going to kill someone too!
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is it hosed up that i'm happy the season's over so that there's a small chance that they'll have more than enough lead time while working on episodes for next season?
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Hellsau posted:is it hosed up that i'm happy the season's over so that there's a small chance that they'll have more than enough lead time while working on episodes for next season? Deluding yourself is never okay.
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Zzulu posted:I tried getting into MP100 but it's just not that interesting or fun. It did have some REALLY good animation though When I first watched MP100, I wasn't immediately grabbed either; it took a few episodes, though it was great after that. Perhaps ironically given how much people love him, the biggest issue was Reigan; he was utterly unlikable at first, but fortunately that changed after a few episodes
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Roland Jones posted:When I first watched MP100, I wasn't immediately grabbed either; it took a few episodes, though it was great after that. Perhaps ironically given how much people love him, the biggest issue was Reigan; he was utterly unlikable at first, but fortunately that changed after a few episodes
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disagree. perfect television program
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UP AND ADAM posted:What tv anime looked better than OPM S1? Demon Slayer just from the same season
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MP100 really suffers if you go in overhyped, because it's biggest strength is the growth of its characters and that's something that takes a few episodes to really start showing through. early disappointment in that mindset seems unavoidable
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graham cracker posted:Reigan did nothing wrong. At least when he is wrong the show doesn't hold back in making him pay for it and come out even more likeable. Seriously though, I don't get how you can like one of these shows and hate the other. They build on pretty similar themes and have similar concepts, yet their approaches are very different. At least if you love one, you should like the other. Maybe it's the case of the Gundam cool robot image again.
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Reigen Arataka is objectively flawless.
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Counterpoint:
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Mordaedil posted:At least when he is wrong the show doesn't hold back in making him pay for it and come out even more likeable. They're wildly divergent outside of a superficially similar basic theme and concept
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graham cracker posted:Edit: At the very least, he's the most realistically written human character in any anime I've seen.
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ChronoReverse posted:I like MP100 but this is the sort of hyperbolic statement that really turns off people from even giving it a chance. The disparity between that statement and the first few episodes of Mob would be sufficient to convince even someone who wasn't skeptical in the first place that your opinion seems entirely off the mark. His opinion is pretty spot on and Reigen is the best. Also, this is not a hyperbolic statement: Mob Psycho 100 is one of the best manga series I've read and the released anime seasons together is the best anime I've watched since Ping Pong. Evrart Claire fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Jul 5, 2019 |
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I like Reigen but the way that people gush about him is off putting
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thetoughestbean posted:I like Reigen but the way that people gush about him is off putting It is, especially with the refusal to acknowledge what an absolute rear end in a top hat he was in those first few episodes. He doesn't feel like the same person at all as later, even counting the flashback to before the first episode, as if ONE started writing him differently later and hadn't figured out his personality at first. Which is completely fair and common, but still, he was an unlikable gently caress at first, and trying to pretend that he's perfect when he was blatantly exploiting Mob and showing him zero gratitude for it, or reacting like this to even mild criticisms of it: Zerilan posted:His opinion is pretty spot on and Reigen is the best. Are going to do the opposite of make people want to watch the show, and I'm speaking as someone who also thinks it's one of the best anime they've seen and liked Reigen after those first few episodes were past and there was more to him than "that guy who profited off sending Mob into life-threatening situations and barely paid him for it".
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Reigen is much more likeable when you are exposed to him naturally over the course of the story, rather than being told ahead of time "reigen is the best character in the show, and also all time" and then watching the first episode where he's a paper-thin joke that honestly gets a little tired even before the episode is over
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Roland Jones posted:"that guy who profited off sending Mob into life-threatening situations and barely paid him for it".
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Zerilan posted:His opinion is pretty spot on and Reigen is the best. Reigen is a very well written character but ChronoReverse isn't wrong. You're talking about the show and it's characters with the hindsight of knowing how things ends up, but just because Reigen is revealed to be a mature and responsible person a dozen episodes in does change that he's initially presented as a callous and selfish huckster.
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Yes, people who talk about a series they've seen are talking from the perspective of seeing the series.TheLoneStar posted:I mean Mob was only put in danger enough times to count on one hand as a direct result of Reigen. Those low-tier ghosts and spirits had no chance in harming a hair on Mob's head. Reigen is also pretty quick to advocate retreat to mob the moment he thinks a situation is actually dangerous. Roland Jones posted:He doesn't feel like the same person at all as later, even counting the flashback to before the first episode, as if ONE started writing him differently later and hadn't figured out his personality at first. Don't really agree here either. He's different later on after he's been through some actual dangerous situations and relationship conflicts with Mob, while in the flashback his first thought when realizing Mob's powers are real is "I can use this for my business." Really the main difference between later issues and the start is that the first time we see Reigen he's in full semi-conman business mode. Evrart Claire fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Jul 5, 2019 |
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Zerilan posted:Yes, people who talk about a series they've seen are talking from the perspective of seeing the series. Yes, and you're responding to people who are talking from the perspective of before they saw the show and their immediate exposure to Reigen was, for obvious reasons, that first episode. Which was the point, seeing as the topic was people having trouble getting into MP100, in large part because of hype backlash and not liking some characters, especially Reigen, early on.
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Zerilan posted:His opinion is pretty spot on and Reigen is the best. Well it's not like I'm particularly invested. But if you ever wonder why people don't seem to love something as much as you do...
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ChronoReverse posted:I like MP100 but this is the sort of hyperbolic statement that really turns off people from even giving it a chance. The disparity between that statement and the first few episodes of Mob would be sufficient to convince even someone who wasn't skeptical in the first place that your opinion seems entirely off the mark. Okay, counterpoint, how about your prove that Reigan's not the most realistically written human character in any anime that graham cracker has seen. thetoughestbean posted:I like Reigen but the way that people gush about him is off putting Roland Jones posted:It is, especially with the refusal to acknowledge what an absolute rear end in a top hat he was in those first few episodes. He doesn't feel like the same person at all as later, even counting the flashback to before the first episode, as if ONE started writing him differently later and hadn't figured out his personality at first. Which is completely fair and common, but still, he was an unlikable gently caress at first, and trying to pretend that he's perfect when he was blatantly exploiting Mob and showing him zero gratitude for it, or reacting like this to even mild criticisms of it: Roland Jones posted:Yes, and you're responding to people who are talking from the perspective of before they saw the show and their immediate exposure to Reigen was, for obvious reasons, that first episode. Which was the point, seeing as the topic was people having trouble getting into MP100, in large part because of hype backlash and not liking some characters, especially Reigen, early on. Reigen Arataka confirmed a not good enough character to be labeled best boi like Fubuki
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RareAcumen posted:Okay, counterpoint, how about your prove that Reigan's not the most realistically written human character in any anime that graham cracker has seen.
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As someone who bounced off of MP100 pretty much immediately because of a deep dislike of conman characters I am very invested in seeing how deep this Reigen worship double downing will go
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AnonSpore posted:As someone who bounced off of MP100 pretty much immediately because of a deep dislike of conman characters I am very invested in seeing how deep this Reigen worship double downing will go The first scene before Mob's introduced and it's purely Reigen being conman psychic still remains one of my favorite scenes in the show.
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I kinda get people bouncing off MP100, especially with how much people hype it. I think it takes a while to get going, particularly the anime since Bones moved events around to add some more slice of life episodes to the first half of S1, but once it gets going and mob shows his growth as a character the feelgoods and crazy action never stop. Personally I think watching Mob struggle to finish a marathon yet refusing to give up or cheat to reach the end is legitimately one of the most powerful scenes in anime I've ever seen. I consider the show not just proof that an adaptation can be both 100% faithful to the source and also a legitimate improvement in nearly every meaningful aspect. It is incredible and probably one of the best series of the decade, if not of all time. But also it's okay to not like things. ONE's style isn't for everyone. I know people who like neither MP100 or OPM (but like shonen of many different stripes) and I kinda sorta get it. Guy has offbeat humor, his storytelling plays with expectations a lot which must disappoint people that want more traditionally told stories and both series are criminally short on female characters. GimmickMan fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Jul 5, 2019 |
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Also nthing that I quit MP100 after one episode of Reigan after hearing all the hype and coming off with the impression that anime watchers are sociopaths
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Eej posted:Also nthing that I quit MP100 after one episode of Reigan after hearing all the hype reasonable Eej posted:and coming off with the impression that anime watchers are sociopaths i have some questions about what you think the difference is between a character you enjoy seeing in a fictional work and a person you'd like to hang out with
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