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Coxswain Balls posted:Finally got around to watching Anohana and I enjoyed it a lot. Any other melodramas to suggest? Modernish setting preferred, Mari Okada a plus, and if it matches the change in season that'd be great. I watched Totadora around this time last year and it went well with the temperature starting to dip into the single digits. someone else asked for melodrama last page
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In retrospect I should've clarified that by "hammy" I meant drama I wouldn't look like a psychopath for laughing at, but I think most people ignored that part anyway!
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Aug 26, 2021 18:10
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Strange Quark posted:In retrospect I should've clarified that by "hammy" I meant drama I wouldn't look like a psychopath for laughing at, but I think most people ignored that part anyway! Why lie about who you really are?
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Aug 26, 2021 18:23
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Davincie posted:someone else asked for melodrama last page They also said they didn't like Anohana and Clannad, whereas I just finished the former and enjoyed it and really liked the latter when it came out. IBO has been on my list for a while, although I might save it for winter if that's when it's set. I've only heard good things so I'm looking forward to it. I'll definitely check out those movies though, I really liked A Whisker Away when someone suggested that last year.
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IBO is set on Mars and has no weather associated with winter
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Aug 26, 2021 22:57
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Strange Quark posted:IBO is set on Mars and has no weather associated with winter But they go to Earth later. And Carta issue dies in the snow.
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Aug 26, 2021 23:03
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yeah there's a few episodes that occur in winter, it is definitely not a winter show
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Aug 26, 2021 23:47
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I loved Anthem of the Heart, thanks for the recommendation. I wanted Naruse and Tasaki to become an item but I wasn't expecting it to actually happen. The ending scene is the best.
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Paracelsus posted:Some of the cast/staff did a fake audition to haze someone. are you thinking about kokoro connect? I couldn’t find anything like this for grimgar but searching kokoro connect scandal brought that fake audition thing right up
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Aug 27, 2021 19:03
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Erg posted:are you thinking about kokoro connect? You're probably right about that, sorry for the confusion.
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Aug 27, 2021 20:02
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it's ok, because i thought that story was from Kill Me Baby
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Aug 27, 2021 20:10
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no kill me baby was cocaine, though that was never going to get a season 2 since it was a bomb
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Kill Me Baby FTW
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Paracelsus posted:You're probably right about that, sorry for the confusion. I’ve been informed the later seasons of grimgar would have been fail anyways so oh well
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Aug 27, 2021 21:55
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Davincie posted:no kill me baby was cocaine, though that was never going to get a season 2 since it was a bomb
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Aug 27, 2021 22:16
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Erg posted:I’ve been informed the later seasons of grimgar would have been fail anyways so oh well in what way?
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Just want to drop another thx for the last string of suggestions to my ask. My recent bout of boredom will be solved  hiddenriverninja posted:Just an FYI, the back half of every SAO season gets suuuuuper uncomfortable Tin Tim fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Aug 27, 2021 |
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Aug 27, 2021 22:34
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People in Japan care when a celebrity does drugs?
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Aug 27, 2021 22:36
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KillHour posted:People in Japan care when a celebrity does drugs?
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ninjewtsu posted:in what way? more people die
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Aug 27, 2021 22:39
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The guy who played Tanimura in the original version of Yakuza 4 didnt even get caught or charged with anything, just the rumour of him being involved with drugs made him nope out of the industry before anything happened.
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Strange Quark posted:more people die this is a problem??? going through the grief of losing someone is one of the core topics of the show i don't understand, do they just do it poorly in the LNs or what?
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Aug 27, 2021 22:46
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it was handled well in the series but i also feel like you get diminishing returns on killing people and the spoiler i know was one of the characters i liked most and wanted them to explore so meh
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Aug 27, 2021 22:49
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ninjewtsu posted:this is a problem??? going through the grief of losing someone is one of the core topics of the show fail (one of my faves is gone)
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Aug 27, 2021 22:53
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Endorph posted:the people? no. the government and talent agencies? oh gently caress yes they do holy poo poo, they will literally end your career if you get caught with a gram of weed. one of the actors used as a likeness in that yakuza spinoff, judgment, got caught with a bit of the ol' smack and he had to literally be edited out of future releases and the characters face changed It's super weird to me that talent agencies are more powerful than the talent in Japan. Like I can see if you're a no-name or whatever but if you're actually popular?
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Aug 27, 2021 22:55
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KillHour posted:It's super weird to me that talent agencies are more powerful than the talent in Japan. Like I can see if you're a no-name or whatever but if you're actually popular? talent agencies work directly with studios to get their specific talent booked. none of the big agencies want a 'liability,' and none of the small agencies have the ability to get their talent booked in anything important.
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Aug 27, 2021 22:57
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Erg posted:fail (one of my faves is gone) dogsicle posted:it was handled well in the series but i also feel like you get diminishing returns on killing people so is it an actual drop in quality or is it just that a well liked character happens to die?
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Aug 27, 2021 22:58
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one person saying 'fail' is not actually an objective review you need to get to the bottom of
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Aug 27, 2021 23:01
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Ok but this isn't the first place I've seen someone say that the later books aren't great and I want to know why people feel that way and the topic came up here? I dunno if it's just a flippant remark about a writing choice someone didn't like that's fine but if that's all there is to it I'd kinda like to confirm that from them if I have the opportunity
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Aug 27, 2021 23:04
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they kill more of the men so it's more openly a harem setup
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Aug 27, 2021 23:04
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for me it just began and ended at hearing one of my main attachments to the series would be cut, and just skepticism over maintaining the quality given to death in the series. so definitely just personal and i don't intend to speak beyond that
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Aug 27, 2021 23:05
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i should say I based the sentence of “fail” on hearing a single character death spoiler It was entirely flippant and I have no knowledge of actual writing past that.
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Aug 27, 2021 23:06
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dogsicle posted:for me it just began and ended at hearing one of my main attachments to the series would be cut, and just skepticism over maintaining the quality given to death in the series. Erg posted:i should say I based the sentence of “fail” on hearing a single character death spoiler Alright I understand, thanks for letting me know guys! Strange Quark posted:they kill more of the men so it's more openly a harem setup Bummer, if things go in that direction that definitely sucks
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Endorph posted:the kill me baby va who got arrested for cocaine married the lawyer who got her off, so love finds a way 
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Aug 27, 2021 23:18
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Strange Quark posted:they kill more of the men so it's more openly a harem setup good
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I bailed on Grimgar right after it started, just before they killed off that one guy at the beginning because people posted spoilers before I got around to watching the next ep and any interest I had in the show basically evaporated immediately lol. I'm not sure I've ever stuck with a show that has a significant amount of character death all the way to the end. I hate getting invested in a character that ends up dying because it's often hard for me to maintain interest in continuing after that. I also just find things that are really grim difficult to continue watching.
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i generally like it when characters die, it makes things more interesting when a show is willing to follow through on its stakes and i enjoy exploring grief and trauma through fiction for example, before that first death i'd have called grimgar a good show, but seeing how the story changed around that character dying made it imo an actually great show that i still remember
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Aug 28, 2021 00:29
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character death is interesting and the way characters respond to it can tell you a lot about them, the issue is that with how a lot of stories are structured, they tend to kill off interesting characters at the peak of their character arcs (ie: villains who have just become good, characters who did something bad and are trying to redeem themselves, etc) in order to give more development to the intentionally bland enough to appeal to everyone leads
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Aug 28, 2021 00:32
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yeah, like all possible story beats if the writing around it isn't good just killing people doesn't inherently make a story better. but between well written stories that don't kill anyone and well written stories that include people dying, i prefer the latter
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I want to give a shout out to Kaguya-Sama: Love Is War for not only being one of the best anime I’ve ever seen, but praise it for not succumbing to fan service, which it could have easily done.
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