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Babe Magnet posted:go watch all of mob psycho right now goddamn
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Babe Magnet posted:go watch all of mob psycho right now goddamn
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May 1, 2023 19:07
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usenet celeb 1992 posted:Child Emperor, Metal Bat, Watchdog Man, and Pig God are all doing their best Also Bang, Blast, King, Zombieman, Atomic Samurai, Tanktop Master, and of course our boy Genos. Most of the S-class members are good people.
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May 2, 2023 06:31
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Still think every so often of Silverfang noting admiringly,"What a remarkable undershirt!" re: Tanktop Master 
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May 2, 2023 10:55
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Raws out: https://tonarinoyj.jp/episode/4856001361192645271
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May 3, 2023 16:48
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A++ tatsumaki face
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May 3, 2023 18:26
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Didnt know sattou would be a guest artist
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May 3, 2023 19:54
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Mob Psycho is one of very few things I would recommend to anyone with no reservations, it's sensational. Manga (which despite crude art has fantastic framing) and anime, which is gorgeous by any metric, both fully worth it.
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May 3, 2023 20:51
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Josuke Higashikata posted:Mob Psycho is one of very few things I would recommend to anyone with no reservations, it's sensational. I recommend the manga a lot because it’s a masterclass in how paneling and layout can be way more important than technically impressive art
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May 3, 2023 20:58
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It is ridiculously good. Gorgeous work. Much of the best parts of this OPM are just 1:1 framing and composition from the webcomic.
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May 3, 2023 21:16
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Translation out: https://cubari.moe/read/imgur/KTDO2Ts/1/1/
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May 3, 2023 22:05
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Love the angle of AI-generated footage, lol
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May 3, 2023 22:15
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lmao angry tsumaki
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May 3, 2023 22:34
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It can't be AI-generated, the hands look perfectly normal. You're gonna have to redraw this chatper, Murata!
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May 3, 2023 22:46
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Jimbot posted:It can't be AI-generated, the hands look perfectly normal. You're gonna have to redraw this chatper, Murata! He couldn't force himself to gently caress it up
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May 3, 2023 22:51
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Jimbot posted:It can't be AI-generated, the hands look perfectly normal. You're gonna have to redraw this chatper, Murata! I almost wish he would. I love seeing great artists draw bad on purpose
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May 3, 2023 22:55
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The whole "the S class heroes and also the whole Hero Association is unreliable and untrustworthy" bit would land harder if we didn't just have a story arc where they successfully defended the Earth from a very visible and credible threat. Feels like it would fit more naturally as a follow up to some sort of fiasco where they hosed up what should have been an easy job.
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May 3, 2023 23:59
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Well I dunno a lot of this would probably not be as bad if the culture that made the hero association wasn't also the one that made Garou go off track. Also a lot the heroes are loving bonkers and do crazy poo poo that would get you arrested irl. Plenty of reason to not quite trust them. Also all the crazy shady poo poo behind the scenes ? Like they did a good enough job there, but there's a jillion things they could have done better they seem either unwilling or unable to really address besides just throwing more bodies at monsters.
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May 4, 2023 00:03
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Schwarzwald posted:The whole "the S class heroes and also the whole Hero Association is unreliable and untrustworthy" bit would land harder if we didn't just have a story arc where they successfully defended the Earth from a very visible and credible threat. I don’t think I agree. In the monster association arc the most responsible member was child emperor, a 10 year old. Lots of individually good people in the hero association but they cannot work together at all. Plus they are selling monsters to organizations that will presumably re-release into society some time? To say nothing of how they only help the 1%.
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May 4, 2023 00:15
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Schwarzwald posted:The whole "the S class heroes and also the whole Hero Association is unreliable and untrustworthy" bit would land harder if we didn't just have a story arc where they successfully defended the Earth from a very visible and credible threat. Literally every thing that Saitama has saved people from has started by showing how ill-equipped the hero association is to deal with threats generally, and how hard it is to get S class heroes specifically to do anything. They're also correct to say that the association's power has been centralized to protect the wealthy, which I'm pretty sure has been explicitly stated by the board. The heroes themselves do save people, but it's in spite of the association rather than because of them.
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May 4, 2023 00:25
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How much does the public even know about the monster association? It might just be "monster hunter clowns on the association -> another loving city is obliterated because of fails -> they cant even defend their own fortress of solitude for a week" in the mind of most
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May 4, 2023 00:42
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Alacron posted:I almost wish he would. I love seeing great artists draw bad on purpose It's very easy to do, just draw with your other hand 
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May 4, 2023 01:05
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The loving billboards and commercials 
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May 4, 2023 01:27
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Schwarzwald posted:The whole "the S class heroes and also the whole Hero Association is unreliable and untrustworthy" bit would land harder if we didn't just have a story arc where they successfully defended the Earth from a very visible and credible threat. For all of the manga's changes, I still think this part of it works. They created a monster that they explicitly could not stop in Garou, and it's unclear whether they could have actually won against the cadres if not for Garou and Saitama taking on a bunch of them by themselves. Blast showing up would probably be enough to turn this in the Hero Association's favor, but him showing up is as much a surprise to them as it was to us so I don't think that counts. For the purposes of this argument, the Hero Association both in the manga and the webcomic still weren't prepared to take out the Monster Association going by the attack plan that they devised, even though the plan was much better in the manga and they accomplished more, it still wasn't enough.
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May 4, 2023 03:36
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Anyone else getting vibes that God has corrupted the Hero Association, just as much as He has with the other orgs (Tsukuyomi, the Organization, Monster Association)? Cultivating monsters and selling them off to shady orgs just seems like a perfect part of God's ultimate plan
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May 4, 2023 05:36
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Bucswabe posted:Anyone else getting vibes that God has corrupted the Hero Association, just as much as He has with the other orgs (Tsukuyomi, the Organization, Monster Association)? I dunno, is God capitalism?
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May 4, 2023 05:54
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the ultimate monster...
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May 4, 2023 05:58
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Bucswabe posted:Anyone else getting vibes that God has corrupted the Hero Association, just as much as He has with the other orgs (Tsukuyomi, the Organization, Monster Association)? The closest thing to an ultimate plan we've seen is "Get a nerd to touch geometry, juice'em up to kill all humans, profit?" I don't think God needed to stuff his bank account or anything first before he made radiation death Garou.
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May 4, 2023 14:05
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Caidin posted:The closest thing to an ultimate plan we've seen is "Get a nerd to touch geometry, juice'em up to kill all humans, profit?" Turns out God's operating on a gacha system and that's why the majority of monsters are trash. The Demons and Dragons are the equivalent of SR and SSR pulls.
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Caidin posted:The closest thing to an ultimate plan we've seen is "Get a nerd to touch geometry, juice'em up to kill all humans, profit?" I'm just thinking along the same lines as what God seemed to be doing with the Monster Association: do whatever it takes to manipulate people into making powerful monsters so that he can eventually be resurrected and destroy humanity.
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Fritzler posted:I don’t think I agree. In the monster association arc the most responsible member was child emperor, a 10 year old. Lots of individually good people in the hero association but they cannot work together at all. SpacePig posted:Literally every thing that Saitama has saved people from has started by showing how ill-equipped the hero association is to deal with threats generally, and how hard it is to get S class heroes specifically to do anything. In the monster association arc heroes of all ranks put aside their egos and work together to fight against a truly dire threat. Despite the monster being significantly more dangerous than expected -- to a nearly cataclysmic degree! -- the heroes none-the-less persevere and conquer the threat with minimum human casualties, civilian or otherwise. This is not the behavior of an ill-equipped organization or one that "cannot work together at all." It's exactly the opposite. GimmickMan posted:For all of the manga's changes, I still think this part of it works. They created a monster that they explicitly could not stop in Garou, and it's unclear whether they could have actually won against the cadres if not for Garou and Saitama taking on a bunch of them by themselves. This is true from our perspective as readers. The heroes who were present, and some of the upper brass, will also have varying levels of suspicion, but the current storyline hinges on this being commonly known and widely accepted. I don't buy that from the group that seemingly very visibly just saved the planet. Confidence should be at an all time high.
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That I can agree on. I think Axxel pointing out that the everyday person is not as stupid as the association thinks they are, and the meeting room talk about how the propaganda with Tats is mostly to hold on to the support of the rich, helps to make the situation feel more natural. I view it as a problem that's been brewing under the surface since long before the events of the Garou saga, and is now coming to light precisely because the HA is coming home from a big victory but that alone is not enough to make up for all the disasters people have had to endure since the beginning of the comic. It's an easy comparison to make, from my perspective, to various governments of the past plus-decade thinking they can get reelected simply by coasting by and keeping things from getting too much worse. Then they're surprised when people turn on them because voters actually want things to get better, especially when the status quo was already bad. But yes, having said all of that, I agree that it is a bit of a swerve, and needs you to either take it at face value or to put more thought into it than is probably intended, to see it as a fully natural development.
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This also didn't happen in a vacuum. Heroes couldn't stop a meteor from hitting a city. They couldn't stop Deep Sea King, and the dome the association built didn't protect them. They couldn't stop aliens from destroying a city, even if they stopped them from destroying the planet. And same with the monster association too, except worse this time. Trusting in individual heroes that they can see saving people is one thing, but trusting in the association is another. Especially when they just keep consolidating resources to protect themselves and their investors first.
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May 4, 2023 19:39
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Those guys are roller blades with hatchets. I feel like this deserves to be pointed out and it hasn't been yet. That's the elite monster hunter team. What do they do if the monsters step off of the pavement??
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May 4, 2023 19:57
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An entire city got wiped out and thats where the HA built their new HQ. From an objective POV the monsters are really a problem and the heroes cant shoulder much blame, but its easy to see through all of the crisis in the manga (especially when Saitama is the one who basically saved the day each time) that there could be some public sentiment against the HA
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May 4, 2023 20:00
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SpacePig posted:This also didn't happen in a vacuum. Heroes couldn't stop a meteor from hitting a city. They couldn't stop Deep Sea King, and the dome the association built didn't protect them. They couldn't stop aliens from destroying a city, even if they stopped them from destroying the planet. And same with the monster association too, except worse this time. Trusting in individual heroes that they can see saving people is one thing, but trusting in the association is another. Especially when they just keep consolidating resources to protect themselves and their investors first. Heroes were nowhere to be seen when Vaccine Man struck, and nobody was around to stop the giant either.
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May 4, 2023 20:15
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Imagine telling someone to give up on saving some people because they can't save all people.
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May 4, 2023 20:43
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Heroes in this series are hard to criticize because non-heroes are so useless that they dont exist. Everyone in Japan is completely hosed and dead without the three dozen S class heroes that exist, I'm not sure how meaningful it is to say that they could be even better. Or to say the HA is ill-equipped to handle something like the monster association when it's a complete emergency and no one else can even get 1% as far as the HA has gotten. I get that a lot of the MA arc was premised on a VIP's kid being treated preferentially but a.) that was so ludicrous that it's hard to take seriously and b.) even if the HA has to make deals with the wealthy to get the support it does, who is that really a criticism of? I'd be able to engage with HA critical stuff more seriously when they arent the only thing holding humanity back from extinction. No Wave fucked around with this message at 20:52 on May 4, 2023 |
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RareAcumen posted:Heroes were nowhere to be seen when Vaccine Man struck, and nobody was around to stop the giant either. Saitama instantly handled them as they arose in what would become uncharacteristic timeliness, though. VM only seemed to have time to wreck a street before getting splattered, Beefcake instantly blew up to several miles tall and only had time to stomp around a minute before also getting chunked.
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RareAcumen posted:Heroes were nowhere to be seen when Vaccine Man struck, and nobody was around to stop the giant either. King took down both of those losers.
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