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nah, hell girl season 4 was just more of the same episodic stuff as other seasons started with, but it was 6 new episodes followed by 6 from the previous 3 seasons and then it ended
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lol in retrospect i realize that himegami introducing herself with "ippen shinde—" in one of the index specials was not just a reference but also a seiyuu joke
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Jul 20, 2020 00:52
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Julias posted:Nah, I get the concerns, but at the same time it's 1) a fictional narrative 2) an old story by an old mangaka 3) the setting is in ancient japan 4) whether you consider it child grooming or not is really a matter of degrees based on viewer interpretation. Well, I guess compared to Usagi Drop it isn't nearly as bad, especially if that Drama CD isn't canon (it's not in my mind). I'm sorry for wasting the threads time to rant about anime
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Jul 20, 2020 01:07
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Please continue to rant about anime. Let me join in: There are way too few anime whose characters and focus are on the 20-35 age range and its a shame.
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Jul 20, 2020 01:20
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the drama cd was written by the guy who came up with the concept for the new series, is how i've heard it (hearsay from jp twitter)
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Jul 20, 2020 01:21
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Space Flower posted:the drama cd was written by the guy who came up with the concept for the new series, is how i've heard it (hearsay from jp twitter) the same guy also wrote gundam wing: frozen teardrop, and is responsible for making the characters in inuyasha much more dickish than they were in the manga
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Jul 20, 2020 01:22
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i have no idea how much into specifics drama cd gets, but my opinion on just "dog god spirit rescues girl, when she grows up they do the happily ever after" is "it's dumb mythology bullshit" it's crap you could probably lift from a thousand different fairy tale/mythology collections around the world 
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Jul 20, 2020 01:29
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zeus is CANCELLED
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Jul 20, 2020 01:34
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Willo567 posted:Well, I guess compared to Usagi Drop it isn't nearly as bad, especially if that Drama CD isn't canon (it's not in my mind). it's the chat thread, it's the perfect place to talk about it assuming that they get together, we've yet to see just how that happens or how the relationship evolves before the two kids are born. Maybe it's a "how I met your mother" type deal where we never really know who the mom is, but we got some great candidates, and maybe they downplay any hints or evidence of grooming. Who knows? I think it's worth giving a chance for now. My guess is that it'll be handled a lot like how Sakura's mom was handled in CCS. There's a lot of focus on the mom, but not a lot about the relationship between the mom and dad (I only watched part of the first season, maybe it got fleshed out more). Much of it seems to be inferred. Makes sense, because she was married at 16 and had her son at 17, so it seems like it would not be easy to write about. CCS is still a groundbreaking kid-appropriate show, regardless of that one thing.
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Jul 20, 2020 01:35
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Jul 20, 2020 01:36
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The anti-Rowling is here to retroactively add problematic content to things
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Jul 20, 2020 01:36
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Willo567 posted:the same guy also wrote gundam wing: frozen teardrop, and is responsible for making the characters in inuyasha much more dickish than they were in the manga i didn't watch(edit:read) frozen teardrop but that is a unique way to describe the main writer for all of Wing
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Jul 20, 2020 01:51
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Space Flower posted:i didn't watch(edit:read) frozen teardrop but that is a unique way to describe the main writer for all of Wing I can give a few great examples of where this is seen in the anime vs the manga -After Sango reveals what the Sacred Jewel really is in the manga, Inuyasha declares he'll stop the jewel from returning things to evil. In the anime, he just complains that the priestess must have done a lovely job, and boast how he'll use it to be a full demon. -Kikyou is a lot more angry and bitter towards Inuyasha in the anime, even bragging to him that she killed Kagome at one point. In the manga, this stops after Inuyasha tells her about what Naraku did to them, and she confirms it with Kaede -Miroku, while still very flirtatous in the manga, seems to grope a ton more women in the anime. Once Sango was introduced, he mostly groped her, and just flirted with other women (I may be wrong on this one). -Kagome is a lot more calm and patient with Inuyasha in the manga, and REALLY plays up the sit command in the anime. One good example is after the fight with Toukajin. In the manga, once Inuyasha reveals that he's alive and asks why everyone is crying over them, Kagome tells him she's just glad that he's alive. In the anime, they fight, and tells him to "shut up and sit". Another example is in Chapter 249, where Kagome is upset at Inuyasha for not leaving her alone after seeing him with Kikyou. In the manga, she uses the sit command three times in a row. In the anime, she uses it ten times in a row, plus manages to sit him with the word "idiot" six times, and one more sit for good measure. I have personally never seen Gundam Wing, but the way Sumisawa handled the characters in Inuyasha, as well as YOUR SIGHT MY DELIGHT make me not want to check it out Willo567 fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Jul 20, 2020 |
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Jul 20, 2020 02:08
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I kind of want to get all the Initial D manga on Comixology but Kodansha decided it was a good idea to just plunk the entire lovely Tokyopop translation with RY TAKAHASHI and all those awful name changes on there for the volumes we had gotten before they lost the license and then a proper translation for the rest At the same time I'd have legit digital releases though and may support it enough for them to go back and redo it and/or do a print release so I can replace my ratty old volumes of the Tokyopop release I had dating back to 2005 or so
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Jul 20, 2020 02:10
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Truga posted:i have no idea how much into specifics drama cd gets, but my opinion on just "dog god spirit rescues girl, when she grows up they do the happily ever after" is "it's dumb mythology bullshit" it definitely takes influence from hakkenden and that starts with a woman being betrothed to a dog, having an immaculate conception, and then releasing eight magic beads as she dies so you get dog demons and the shikon jewel from that at the least, dunno much else about inuyasha to tie the two though
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Jul 20, 2020 02:29
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Willo567 posted:I can give a few great examples of where this is seen in the anime vs the manga Haha that makes me curious what her characterization afterward was like. Kikyou's weird "gently caress this, gently caress everything, gently caress me but gently caress you in particular" attitude was one of my favorite things about the show.
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Jul 20, 2020 02:50
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Willo567 posted:I have personally never seen Gundam Wing, but the way Sumisawa handled the characters in Inuyasha, as well as YOUR SIGHT MY DELIGHT make me not want to check it out not in a 'blowing off your concerns' way but i do think this is a super common issue that anime adaptations run into and it's impossible to chalk every loss of character nuance up to a specific writer's decision this guy in question is a key example of that because most of his career is in writing scattered eps of shows with 50-200 episodes and that's not a position where you're given creative freedom. all of it is really big franchise shows where a writer would just be a piece of the equation
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Jul 20, 2020 03:00
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thinking about the fan reactions to JC Staff light novel adaptations over the years where people tally up the amount of times the kugimiya rie heroine beats the poo poo out of the protagonist in the source material, point out every time JC Staff added in extra "getting the poo poo kicked out of you by kugimiya rie character" scenes and claim that they ruined the romantic nuance
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Jul 20, 2020 03:10
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being a kugirie tsundere gets you flanderized but at the same time people DO want more scenes of louise flogging saito from dusk to dawn and then in the morning the maid wakes up and finds them both cut and bruised and half naked and tangled up in each other. complex issues
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Jul 20, 2020 03:13
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Irony Be My Shield posted:The anti-Rowling is here to retroactively add problematic content to things so they're a cool person then actually your description is probably just actual rowling
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Jul 20, 2020 03:29
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Wing owns. Theres a scene where two guys are dying because theyre in a jail cell on a spaceship with their oxygen cut off and they decide to just look at pictures of yheir giant robots and go 'man wed beat SO many guys up if we had out giant robots.' Theres a scene where two characters are having an argument on a dock and one of them is losing so he just steps to the side onto a raft thats randomly there and just floats off and the camera watches him float off silently for like 2 minutes Theres a scene where a guy loses a fight, bows, and then just walks out of the room and into the ocean and silently floats to the bottom And the show has like five things like this every episode. Theres no such thing as a boring episode of gundam wing Endorph fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Jul 20, 2020 |
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Jul 20, 2020 04:09
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Its like if a war drama was also a shakesperean character drama and was also written by six people, alternating episodes, in separate rooms, who couldnt talk to each other, and the rooms all had gas leaks
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Jul 20, 2020 04:10
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Every scene with Treize is gold, but the pinnacle is when he makes Wufei the most owned boy in all of history.
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Jul 20, 2020 04:31
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I remember watching the Wing dub back when GundamInfo had it and losing it at Relena yelling HEERO COME AND KILL ME at that party after the attack happens
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Jul 20, 2020 05:05
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Endorph posted:Wing owns. Theres a scene where two guys are dying because theyre in a jail cell on a spaceship with their oxygen cut off and they decide to just look at pictures of yheir giant robots and go 'man wed beat SO many guys up if we had out giant robots.' drat this show sounds badass
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Jul 20, 2020 05:10
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chumbler posted:Every scene with Treize is gold, but the pinnacle is when he makes Wufei the most owned boy in all of history. Local man lures teenager out of giant robot, beats him up in a sword fight.
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Jul 20, 2020 05:20
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Talking about Gundam Wing just reminded me that that's what that character in BNA is a reference to.
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Jul 20, 2020 05:23
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I'm watching the original Gundam and I can't believe this dingus in a mask is gonna near singlehandedly chart the course of history for decades to come.
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Jul 20, 2020 05:33
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It's a cool mask
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Jul 20, 2020 06:19
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Waffleman_ posted:I'm watching the original Gundam and I can't believe this dingus in a mask is gonna near singlehandedly chart the course of history for decades to come. I really appreciate the fact that Char is just wearing a modified space basketball mask while dunking on non-Amaro people a bunch.
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Jul 20, 2020 06:54
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Space Flower posted:*monkey paw curls* enjoy your new season of hell girl 
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Jul 20, 2020 07:15
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I'm glad Rin got to gently caress Sesshomaru. 
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Jul 20, 2020 08:13
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Endorph posted:Wing owns. Theres a scene where two guys are dying because theyre in a jail cell on a spaceship with their oxygen cut off and they decide to just look at pictures of yheir giant robots and go 'man wed beat SO many guys up if we had out giant robots.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4U4FkGe3Sw&hd=1
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Jul 20, 2020 08:53
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chumbler posted:Every scene with Treize is gold, but the pinnacle is when he makes Wufei the most owned boy in all of history.
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Jul 20, 2020 10:35
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Hell Girl talk reminded me of the fact that Negima!? had a same voice actor joke that referenced the "perhaps it is time to die" line...in the dub
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Jul 20, 2020 15:49
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The greatest joke in all of Gundam Wing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGl8Yq1EaX8
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Jul 20, 2020 17:51
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Those stars up there? Those must be my tears
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Jul 20, 2020 18:44
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Mister Facetious posted:Tracksuit ninja is cool. Boruto is a spoiled brat
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Jul 20, 2020 22:14
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Captain Invictus posted:Thinkin' about the I'll Kill You scene Do I gotta do my rant? Wing is the best version of Gundam's "War is Bad" theme. It explores that pacifism only works against people who would recognize it; machines don't care. Heero's whole arc is that he's not a mindless killing machine, despite being raised as one, and is literally the guy on And then the OVA is some narcissistic child saying "gently caress it, same plan but with mindless machines this time" and it goes off without a hitch.
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for a show from 1995 its really prescient about war on terror stuff. not just the drones but there's literally a scene where a character goes 'those suits like to pretend having all these weapons makes us strong. the fact is, they're just proof of how cowardly we are. whenever we feel insecure, we just drop money on another warship, or a new platoon of mechs.'
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