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It's time to get the Dragon Balls, look out for them all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROnd7d4axHo
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Mar 22, 2023 16:37
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i watched gantz and read gantz and that manga starts derailed and manages to wipe out an entire train yard by the end lol
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Mar 22, 2023 17:51
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John Murdoch posted:Didn't YuYu Hakusho eventually reach something like that. The four protagonists were so strong that they had to start searching for something to actually apply their strength to. Kinda but not really? I assume you're talking about the Three Kings arc. By the point it starts Yusuke is bar none the most powerful being on Earth, and Kurama and Hiei aren't far behind. They all gently caress off to demon world for different reasons: Yusuke because he's pissed his demon ancestor won his last fight for him (and also to get answers to the whole "secretly a demon" thing as well), Kurama because he functionally gets blackmailed into it by one of the three kings, and Hiei seemingly because he just wanted to fight dudes and brood, so I guess he's closest? Kuwabara just hangs out offscreen all arc studying for entrance exams and doesn't seem too bothered by the fact that he can at will summon an energy sword that slices clean through reality.
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Mar 22, 2023 18:10
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yuyu hakusho ended with togashi getting fed up with his editor then deciding to skip almost all of the fights the story was building up to and ending the manga to get it over with
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Mar 22, 2023 18:13
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The anime significantly expanded the final arc, although it does still have Yusuke getting knocked out in an early tournament round and waking up days later to "tournament's over!" It also cuts out the whole subplot about King Enma secretly being the real villain all along who was somehow behind everything which is probably for the best because that particular "twist" was dumb as hell.
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Mar 22, 2023 18:24
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:yuyu hakusho ended with togashi getting fed up with his editor then deciding to skip almost all of the fights the story was building up to and ending the manga to get it over with It honestly kinda ruled. Instead of any of the heroes or villains we knew winning the tournament one of the old king’s drinking buddies wins offscreen and decrees that all demons must stop being mean.
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Mar 22, 2023 18:35
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MonsieurChoc posted:It's time to get the Dragon Balls, look out for them all. That's actually the first time I've heard the English version and it's actually a bit of a bop - in Germany we got this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=idF2NY3peJE
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Mar 22, 2023 18:51
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Schurik posted:That's actually the first time I've heard the English version and it's actually a bit of a bop - in Germany we got this: They kept the original japanese melody for the english theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJqGirLjQn4
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Mar 22, 2023 20:15
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YYH is peak 90's anime because the opening is a bop and all the characters are fashionable
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Mar 23, 2023 00:26
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I don't remember much of yyh other than the massive power creep on the four leads, and apparently one big fight involves the bishounen character playing the nes with a child and psyching the kid out so much that the kid dies upon getting a game over. And the main guy apparently being a demon, actually, the whole time and had to have an awakening sequence when he spent half a story arc dead? The power creep reminds me of another comic I read in the 90s called ushio and tora about a teenager who got a spear that binds him with a tiger like monster, it ends with them having to fight the whole yokai world who was trying to kill the big yokai that held the whole of Japan on its back and then having to fight that big dude back to sleep and the kid nearly turning into a monster, that usual summer vacation in Japan I guess
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Mar 23, 2023 01:45
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Yusuke becoming a demon sucks for a lot of reasons, the big one being it just dumpsters a big thematic point of an earlier arc where you find out the big bad turned himself into a demon so he could live forever, Yusuke's mentor gives him a big speech about how growing old and accepting it is a natural part of life, and Yusuke telling the bad guy to get hosed and that he looked forward to growing old together with his waifu. Except whoops now it is heavily implied he also gets a virtually eternal demon's lifespan so uh... gently caress all that I guess. But hey at least he's got a bunch of time to get better at punching dudes! 
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Mar 23, 2023 01:54
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the final "villain" in YYH defeats yusuke but it leaves him so worn out he gets stomped by a background character later that day that show was great all the way through
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Mar 23, 2023 02:19
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I don't remember much of yyh other than the massive power creep on the four leads, and apparently one big fight involves the bishounen character playing the nes with a child and psyching the kid out so much that the kid dies upon getting a game over. that happened irl actually
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Mar 23, 2023 02:54
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:i watched gantz and read gantz and that manga starts derailed and manages to wipe out an entire train yard by the end lol The ending is very transparently "It's done, they won, it's over. (Kindly) gently caress off".
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Mar 23, 2023 04:32
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:i watched gantz and read gantz and that manga starts derailed and manages to wipe out an entire train yard by the end lol You can tell that at a point the writer had no idea how to continue the story, yet it was so succesful that he couldn't just stop so he start flailing wildly until the end.
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Mar 23, 2023 04:41
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YYH was the first anime that I ever got super into as a kid, and Yusuke is still my favorite shonen protagonist. Rewatching it is one of those things I want to get around to someday. Super Eyepatch Wolf's Gantz video (remember that?) tricked me into reading the whole manga from start to finish. Not really worth it, especially the last quarter which completely changes the comic's genre for the worse.
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Mar 23, 2023 05:18
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Super Eyepatch Wolf loved mediocre to bad anime with interesting ideas almost as much as Nightmind loves absolutely terrible ARGs.
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Mar 23, 2023 05:25
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Terrible Opinions posted:Super Eyepatch Wolf loved mediocre to bad anime with interesting ideas almost as much as Nightmind loves absolutely terrible ARGs.
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Mar 23, 2023 05:31
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i love args and poo poo because the fun ones are total love of the game poo poo done on 2 dollar budgets so when one of them is actually kinda neat it vindicates the whole endeavor the recent one night mind did a video on is great if only because the person behind it is actually a very talented artist who's really invested in their not-the-muppets horror story
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Mar 23, 2023 05:35
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gantz has a great high concept and they do so many incredibly stupid things in it, my favourite being introducing the protag's brother to become a vampire, introducing a vampire clan, realising vampires are written to be way too powerful and would destroy the aliens with ease, abandoning vampires, deciding to bring in two of the vampire characters to the final battle, realising that they can't do much because they invalidate the whole fight, and finally abandoning them immediately the doppelganger thing is something i genuinely did enjoy esp how it's explored but oh boy the way it concluded
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Mar 23, 2023 05:44
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:i watched gantz and read gantz and that manga starts derailed and manages to wipe out an entire train yard by the end lol I am so incredibly mad at the marketing for the mangaka's current series, because it promised me "oh maybe he got all of that grimdark poo poo out of his system with Gantz" via the ad copy and then I got some of the most unpleasant manga I've ever seen crammed into a volume that technically did include all of the elements on the cover and in the description. Seven Seas posted:Rei dreams of becoming a big-ticket film director, but when he stumbles into a chance meeting with a busty adult film star, his high school life takes a turn for the strange. Not only does his favorite porn star like him, she gains the power to grow to an enormous, towering size! Is alien technology to blame? Time travel? The end of the world? All manner of bizarre trouble lies ahead, and a gigantic, gorgeous woman is just the tip of the iceberg! I didn't go further but the US publisher keeps hawking it as this lighthearted "apocalypse of the weird!" retro sci-fi thing and meanwhile I just think back to a first volume where our hero wants to do casting couch poo poo with teenage girls, and someone is posting photocopied pics of a lady all around their neighborhood going "THIS BITCH DOES PORN" and it kept escalating in misery when I was thinking "edgelord urusei yatsura" was between the covers.
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Mar 23, 2023 05:47
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one of my favorite moments in gantz is when a character seeking answers about all this stupid weird poo poo goes to germany to find them he meets and instead meets a german guy who talks about nothing but moe anime and then flies away into the night sky laughing its never followed up on again lol with not even the japanese reporter appearing in the story again
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Mar 23, 2023 05:50
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lmao i completely forgot the journalist subplot
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Mar 23, 2023 05:53
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All I remember are the (bad CGI (in the manga)) dinosaurs, the dude loving tit mountain, One Punch Ronin, "can I be your dog" and other assorted horny Mangaka brain excerpts. I remember enjoying parts of it and being deeply ashamed for other parts of it and sometimes the two mixing. Eyepatch Wolf's assessment is pretty apt.
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Mar 23, 2023 07:41
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I remember the tech being pretty cool, especially the gravity gun.
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Mar 23, 2023 07:59
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The 7th Guest posted:my favorite trashy channel watch is night mind lol. i love watching him treat terrible ARG/unfiction like it's amazing media with deep and thought provoking lore I apply that treatment to the Critikal\Pyro\SomeOrdinaryGamers "I will put something chunky everyday" type of youtube videos for when nearly every channel I watched stops uploading, and while some stuff is good, there's always that point around around the 3rd or 4th consecutive video where they say something that clearly tells me their audience is not older than 19 years old and not in the same way I would feel like if I was watching a Bluey clip or whatever. I hear "Let me try and explain the recent Apghan war in 2023 like if my audience has never heard of it" or "Doom is one of the oldest videogames ever" and I feel like if I'm watching that stuff along with the kid from Yankee Doodle Daffy. You're going to hear a bunch about Red Rooms or whatever, but stated to an audience that might have never seen a compact disk. Kunster fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Mar 23, 2023 |
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Mar 23, 2023 09:34
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:one of my favorite moments in gantz is when a character seeking answers about all this stupid weird poo poo goes to germany to find them he meets and instead meets a german guy who talks about nothing but moe anime and then flies away into the night sky laughing its never followed up on again lol with not even the japanese reporter appearing in the story again One of the creator's follow up efforts was about a woman who is given the ability to grow into a giant to fight aliens who is also an adult film star and gets an underage boyfriend who she starts dating because he just breaks down in the middle of like McDonald's when she says they should just be friends. I didn't stick around too long.
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Mar 23, 2023 14:06
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The Gantz author also made a manga where a psychopath killer really likes one piece, and tries to talk about it with a girl after killing her entire family. There is also a scene where somebody has a Gantz poster on the wall, and the character does a rant about how trashy Gantz is and they should read One Piece instead. It really comes across as the author being extremely salty about the success of One Piece.
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Mar 23, 2023 14:27
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It's also very funny. Tragic that the rest of the series couldn't keep up that sort of humor.
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Mar 23, 2023 14:53
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Terrible Opinions posted:It's also very funny. Tragic that the rest of the series couldn't keep up that sort of humor. The author tried to make it seem like it was self-deprecating humor, but it really came across as them just being salty.
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Mar 23, 2023 15:07
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The 7th Guest posted:my favorite trashy channel watch is night mind lol. i love watching him treat terrible ARG/unfiction like it's amazing media with deep and thought provoking lore I could tolerate this when he was one of the few channels willing to go through 20 hours of people filming slenderman spinoffs but god it started driving me crazy when he would just start dumping huge clips of the original material into his videos. Also his Petscop coverage sucked rear end and if you do not respect Petscop you are dead to me. gently caress Night Mind now Nightmare Masterclss is my best friend.
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Mar 23, 2023 16:09
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Speaking of Night Mind, does anyone have any recommendations for any creators that deal with spooky stuff? Not so much true crime as mysterious disappearances, unsolved mysteries, creepy folklore and the odd alien encounter or ghost sighting. I'm preferably looking for ones that talk about the potentially supernatural stuff without being too credulous of the more woo-y explanations.
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Mar 23, 2023 16:15
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Maybe this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x36boO6hWjM
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Mar 23, 2023 16:24
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KingKalamari posted:Speaking of Night Mind, does anyone have any recommendations for any creators that deal with spooky stuff? Not so much true crime as mysterious disappearances, unsolved mysteries, creepy folklore and the odd alien encounter or ghost sighting. I'm preferably looking for ones that talk about the potentially supernatural stuff without being too credulous of the more woo-y explanations. Barely Sociable and his second channel Slightly Sociable are true crime adjacent, but he also covers other interesting unsolved mysteries and such. Some samples: A massive SOS marker in a giant wilderness area in Japan helped find some lost hikers. The problem: that sign had been there for years before they were lost. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snWvNkJCCs8 The Silk Road was run by a buffoon who let a scammer think he was paying "Canadian Hell's Angels" to assassinate his forum enemies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpMP6Nh3FvU A theoretical physicist on the verge of possibly discovering a major breakthrough vanished: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS_rEzKdzBA Two pilots flying over Puerto Rico spot something strange in the sky before their plane disappears somewhere above the Caribbean Sea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afv5y8lSJxM A man wearing a CRT TV monitor on his head delivers old CRT TVs to the doorsteps of random homes in a suburban neighborhood. What's up with that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTL4t098wU8
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Mar 23, 2023 16:43
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That last one is almost certainly a retro gaming enthusiast. Probably saw people in the "random" houses trying to play Paperboy in 4K and is just doing his part.
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Mar 23, 2023 17:13
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I liked Barely Sociable's videos but they made a full conspiracy theory mode video about the music industry killing off artists with overdoses including Prince and Michael Jackson. It wouldn't surprise me if it happened at one point, but the dude was acting if it was a widespread and common thing. The main evidence they provided was a possible motive. It was supposed to be a multi-part series, but they must have gotten pushback because they haven't uploaded any more videos.
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Mar 23, 2023 17:14
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The music industry doesn't directly like poison your coke, but it does just cut people loose after controlling their lives for decades at a time. So an OD can definately be the industry's fault, even if it wasn't like a record executive's direct order.
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Mar 23, 2023 17:31
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IShallRiseAgain posted:I liked Barely Sociable's videos but they made a full conspiracy theory mode video about the music industry killing off artists with overdoses including Prince and Michael Jackson. It wouldn't surprise me if it happened at one point, but the dude was acting if it was a widespread and common thing. The main evidence they provided was a possible motive. There's also no way that a man, who was so dependent on his secretary, that he wrote an entire song to her, because she decided that she needed to do less work for him and instead go help her dying father, and who would consistently destroy any relationship with anyone he worked with, would have issues that might need to be addressed. Both Prince and Jackson made ridiculously great music, but they were also deeply troubled as human beings and needed help they never got. That people can't accept that as an answer to why they're no longer with us, is not in the least bit troubling - especially when they then go on to invent conspiracy theories galore.
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Mar 23, 2023 17:43
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The number of paranormal youtubers who cannot recognize a mountain lion cry and conclude there is a rash of screaming ghosts is very funny.
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Mar 23, 2023 17:46
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IShallRiseAgain posted:I liked Barely Sociable's videos but they made a full conspiracy theory mode video about the music industry killing off artists with overdoses including Prince and Michael Jackson. It wouldn't surprise me if it happened at one point, but the dude was acting if it was a widespread and common thing. The main evidence they provided was a possible motive. Yeah, his videos started out as "HERE IS THIS DEEPLY SPOOKY THING and here's, like, the actual explanation of what happened," so when I saw the music one I was expecting a turn. I never got one. I instead was left feeling that I guess its impossible to stay in those realms and not eventually start seeing a conspiracy.
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Mar 23, 2023 18:09
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