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Honest Thief posted:New baki season out Yujiro exists beyond state borders. The US knows that their military could never defeat him, he's basically allowed to exist as a stateless walking god. No one in Iraq would be a challenge for him to fight so there's no reason for him to ever go there.
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Retromancer posted:Yujiro exists beyond state borders. The US knows that their military could never defeat him, he's basically allowed to exist as a stateless walking god. No one in Iraq would be a challenge for him to fight so there's no reason for him to ever go there. But conveniently Yujiro enjoys the capitalist excess, he is imperialism He is the iron dome
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Honest Thief posted:New baki season out Thank christ. It's the Che Guevara season btw.
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Sep 30, 2021 18:23
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I forgot how goofy the Beatles look like in Baki world
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so I finally finished fate/zero and now I'm done with fate (watched ubw and heavens feel) man, a lot of highs and lows. mostly lows though. First seasons of fate zero and ubw suck, because they feel super padded. second seasons both of them are better, although I feel like ubw is carried by it's "twist" which is pretty cool. just way too much chaff too wheat imo. I'm surprised they're so beloved in general. my wife and I both hate saber, can't believe she's one of the #1 waifus in anime history. Fate zero wasn't great because it had so many characters and I really only cared for rider and his master and kiritsigu. the rest of them were pretty boring/stupid. Heaven's feel movies are super awesome, and you should probably watch unlimited blade works before (the first season is boring so feel free to just fast forward the boring parts). skip fate zero unless you really love the concept.
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Judge Dredd Scott posted:thats the order the visual novel goes in so that definitely makes sense. fate zero only makes sense and has way more impact after fsn/ubw/hf imo well thats what everyone says, but I do feel like the ending of zero (which was probably the best part) loses a lot of it's punch because of what you know happens. also all the kirei stuff fell totally flat to me. I think it gives a lot of background info that isnt really available in stay night. either order is ok, but tbh, of all 3 of them heavens feel is the only one I'd say is great. ubw was ok/good, and zero was just ok
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Mirello posted:well thats what everyone says, but I do feel like the ending of zero (which was probably the best part) loses a lot of it's punch because of what you know happens. also all the kirei stuff fell totally flat to me. I think it gives a lot of background info that isnt really available in stay night. either order is ok, but tbh, of all 3 of them heavens feel is the only one I'd say is great. ubw was ok/good, and zero was just ok imo the vn does an incredibly good job tying the themes of FSN & UBW together through HF despite being 3 mostly separate narratives, i was really surprised in a good way
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Judge Dredd Scott posted:imo the vn does an incredibly good job tying the themes of FSN & UBW together through HF despite being 3 mostly separate narratives, i was really surprised in a good way i looked into playing them, and then I learned that originally you give mana to your servents by loving them and theres a bunch of scenes where all the MCs gently caress basically for the fans (with extremely hilarious writing) after that I decided I prob wouldn't play the games, lol. yeah the way that they skipped adapting the "original" path is pretty odd, but I feel like ubw and Heavens feel work well enough together that it's not too important. also as a saber hater I don't really care about skipping her path.
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lol, coward (also, the recent versions of the game are all ages)
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yeah they replaced the banging scenes with scenes that still have like, a psychosexual bent but theyre not sex anymore, and actually relatively interesting, actually tasteful, and make sense within the plot. the author of the vns has absolutely never had sex considering the writing that used to be in those scenes tho lmao also its very funny because the sex slash 'mana transfer' scenes didn't occur until a solid 15 hours in each respective storyline. they really did only exist to sell copies at comiket Truga posted:lol, coward heaven's feel is definitely not a route that could be 'all ages' even with the outright sex removed from it, it has some pretty harsh (but well written) themes elaboration has issued a correction as of 11:35 on Oct 1, 2021 |
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Oct 1, 2021 11:30
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argh, you know what i meant. it's pegi12 now or whatever
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oh, totally. its just such a brutal story
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i've seen some people suggest that the author of Fate was totally uninterested in the hentai aspect and made sure this was obvious as i understand it, a lot of artists have to do hentai poo poo in their stuff just to get established in japan. i can't imagine stomaching the compromises this involves when you consider what that market wants.
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Hodgepodge posted:i've seen some people suggest that the author of Fate was totally uninterested in the hentai aspect and made sure this was obvious It was the style at the time.
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Fate would be more interesting if it returned to its roots and had hentai in it.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Fate would be more interesting if it returned to its roots and had hentai in it. Morally superior to going gacha.
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genericnick posted:Morally superior to going gacha. The hentai will also be gacha.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Fate would be more interesting if it returned to its roots and had hentai in it. tbf, the amount of fgo porn is staggering, it's just not included in the game lol plus, it's not gacha that way which is even better, don't even have to play the game to get the best parts 
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Sonny Boy just finished if you want something to watch that is spectacular but incomprehensible but great and big on vibes.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The hentai will also be gacha. i'm not sure how it would work, but i am suddenly irrationally convinced that this is the Mark of the Beast
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Fate would be more interesting if it returned to its roots and had hentai in it. They should just make the thunderbolt fantasy/fate grand order april fools crossover real. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gaC4jDvRTw
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So I just received the Welcome to the NHK novel and on the title page it says Volume 1; I though this was a single novel? I can’t find anywhere online there being a volume 2?
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Judge Dredd Scott posted:imo the vn does an incredibly good job tying the themes of FSN & UBW together through HF despite being 3 mostly separate narratives, i was really surprised in a good way Yeah, people rag on Fate a lot and it definitely is the weakest of the three but IMO it works really well as a foundation for the other two to build on.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The hentai will also be gacha. I am tired of rolling feet. I'm going to buy some mana and get a loving boob.
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Mirello posted:so I finally finished fate/zero and now I'm done with fate (watched ubw and heavens feel) People like Saber because Nasu did a really good job giving her this incredible amount of pathos. Everyone knows the Arthurian legends already, and then Nasu just said “hey what if Arthur was actually a girl? What if the whole legend wasn’t about a manly man and his manly sword bros doing knight poo poo but was actually one young girl suddenly having to assume responsibility for an entire country? What if this made her impossibly lonely because no one else around her could know her secret and because living true to her own ideals made it impossible for her flawed subjects to ever relate to her? What if she carried herself with calm, cool poise but was struggling inside because she actually was just immature?” People eat that kind of character dynamic right up. Saber’s not my favorite but I’d find it really hard to hate her. I also still love the kings’ drinking chat episode in Fate/Zero. Iskandar and Gilgamesh dunking on Saber for being a bad leader because she was so focused on being flawless while they also admired her for her commitment to her ideals was great. Those two are massive hams but the contrast between their attitude and her own quiet dignity captures the entire essence of the Arthurian tragedy Also agreed on Iskandar and Waver Velvet being two of the best things about Fate/Zero. Every moment they were on screen was a highlight
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There's a spin-off with Waver investigating magic crimes, it's pretty cool. Also in FGO Saber mostly show sup to be a horrible parent to Mordred, it owns.
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Judge Dredd Scott posted:yeah the case files anime is based on an LN series (and specifically like the 4th one, which is why it seems like it picks up in the middle) and it really does function as a sequel/late wrap up of Fate Zero. i get why they went for it I was kinda sad they decided to pick up in the middle because I liked the first arc in the manga adaptation which is a huis-clos mystery in a mansion created by a wizard super into angel mysticism.
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the waver mysteries aren't actually mysteries, and the story acknowledges this. when everyone involved is a wizard crimes are obviously done via magic. so the usual trappings of detective stories like alibis and methods are completely irrelevant. thus, the el-melloi case files are mostly about sexy adult waver going on and on about esoteric trivia until the case is solved for some reason or another. sometimes this involves the most meta saberface of all having a fight scene.
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i hope one day they have iskandar fight bill clinton like hes always wanted to (sorry its the dub) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zrP_rfxc_s
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Mirello posted:. my wife and I both hate saber, can't believe she's one of the #1 waifus in anime history. Because gen urobichi is a misogynist and a hack and didn't understand sabers character.
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TheMightyBoops posted:I did not know last time I watched it that Welcome to the NHK was based on a novel, needless to say I’ll be reading that whenever
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Kit Walker posted:People like Saber because Nasu did a really good job giving her this incredible amount of pathos. Everyone knows the Arthurian legends already, and then Nasu just said “hey what if Arthur was actually a girl? What if the whole legend wasn’t about a manly man and his manly sword bros doing knight poo poo but was actually one young girl suddenly having to assume responsibility for an entire country? What if this made her impossibly lonely because no one else around her could know her secret and because living true to her own ideals made it impossible for her flawed subjects to ever relate to her? What if she carried herself with calm, cool poise but was struggling inside because she actually was just immature?” People eat that kind of character dynamic right up. lol I'm gonna sound like a caveman but the reason we didnt really like her is because shes one of those characters that everyone (in show) talks up as really strong but doesnt really accomplish much. maybe its only in the fate route that she does, but its just pretty annoying to have her so hyped as "the most powerful servent" and then be pretty useless. the coolest she was was in heavens feel as evil saber, but I don't think that really counts. in zero and ubw she was pretty weak. also the drinking chat did rule, but thats mostly because I think gilgamesh and alexander are cool characters. I wish it did kindve go more down the nietzchean morality differences between classical and modern good and evil. while I'm talking about useless characters, rins dad (and mom) also sucked. like rins dad literally doesnt do anything for the whole war. then the mom gets hurt in an extremely stupid way. kiraya was prob the most wasted potential character in zero, just constant agony for no reason.
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Mirello posted:lol I'm gonna sound like a caveman but the reason we didnt really like her is because shes one of those characters that everyone (in show) talks up as really strong but doesnt really accomplish much. maybe its only in the fate route that she does, but its just pretty annoying to have her so hyped as "the most powerful servent" and then be pretty useless. the coolest she was was in heavens feel as evil saber, but I don't think that really counts. in zero and ubw she was pretty weak. Hey now, all of those characters are really important to the narrative. Rin’s dad is there to show you that wizards are mostly smug lovely cowards and he’s exactly the type of guy Kiritsugu would hunt down in like five seconds if it wasn’t for the Holy Grail war. Kariya was there to remind you that the Matou clan, in particular Zouken, are some of the most hosed up people in existence. Kariya is pretty much the “we trained him wrong, as a joke!” gif as a character. He’s wasted potential because that’s what he’s supposed to be. Zouken knew he never actually stood a real chance and mostly just used the grail war as an excuse to torture the guy As for Saber…well, for narrative reasons it makes sense to have her handicapped most of the time so that there’s any real tension. In Zero she can’t use her strongest ability for most of it because of Lancer, in Fate and UBW she’s limited by Shirou’s almost nonexistent mana, except for when she’s contracted to Rin, and in HF when she gets taken over by Sakura she’s basically a fully powered murder machine. If she ever seems weak it’s because she’s either being held back or because she’s up against Gilgamesh who has the entire weight of all human legends in all of history backing him up
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They're doing a Kickstarter for a bluray release of the Dirty Pair TV series! With a new English dub. Which seems like an odd choice, I would've thought a Venn diagram of Dirty Pair fans and people who prefer to watch dubbed anime would be two circles ten feet apart. But either way, Dirty Pair on bluray.
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The new season of Baki is so loving incredible. Maybe the most leftist an anime has been in ages. "J. Guevara" holds "George Bosch's" family hostage to guarantee the independence of his socialist island nation from America, and then beats up crooked prison guards. Even knowing he's gonna lose, it's loving incredible to see in an anime.
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Kit Walker posted:Hey now, all of those characters are really important to the narrative. Rin’s dad is there to show you that wizards are mostly smug lovely cowards and he’s exactly the type of guy Kiritsugu would hunt down in like five seconds if it wasn’t for the Holy Grail war. Kariya was there to remind you that the Matou clan, in particular Zouken, are some of the most hosed up people in existence. Kariya is pretty much the “we trained him wrong, as a joke!” gif as a character. He’s wasted potential because that’s what he’s supposed to be. Zouken knew he never actually stood a real chance and mostly just used the grail war as an excuse to torture the guy yeah I get all that, but it's not compelling to me. I also thought of the kariya kung pow we taught him wrong as a joke lol.
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