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Arist posted:Five episodes into Kaiju No. 8, the OP is definitely coming across as a weird choice. Completely disregarding any discussion of the actual song's quality, the OP implies a much more downbeat and serious show, when in actuality it's a pretty bog-standard shounen in terms of tone. Hell, it's probably more outright comedic than a lot of other action series I've read/watched. Honestly I wish it was more like what the OP implied since there's some parts of the show I do enjoy but a lot of the humor is just that particular kind of shout-y shonen humor that's frequently just nails on a chalkboard to me.
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Arist posted:Five episodes into Kaiju No. 8, the OP is definitely coming across as a weird choice. Completely disregarding any discussion of the actual song's quality, the OP implies a much more downbeat and serious show, when in actuality it's a pretty bog-standard shounen in terms of tone. Hell, it's probably more outright comedic than a lot of other action series I've read/watched. yeah this is about how i feel about it - most of the time it's playing the shounen hits with a lot of two-man comedy between the lead and his kouhai occasionally it digs into the concept a little and almost hits on something. i thought juxtaposing the kaiju attacks with the kaiju bureaucracy early on was pretty interesting, and there was this small undercurrent of unsettling body horror with both the lead and the kaiju that was working, but now it's pretty much just a bog standard shounen test arc. this has basically nothing to do with the op. the soundtrack is actually pretty good outside of that.
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Waffleman_ posted:Even from beyond the grave, no one does it like Takahiro Kimura
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I burned through all available episodes of Yatagarasu yesterday. Given that I like it more than Apothecary Diaries, what else should I watch?
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Moribito and Ooku are the first to come to mind, though Ooku's (incomplete) anime adaptation isn't ideal.
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Maera Sior posted:I burned through all available episodes of Yatagarasu yesterday. Given that I like it more than Apothecary Diaries, what else should I watch? what did you like about it? it's on the watch list but i haven't found time yet.
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Southern Cassowary posted:what did you like about it? it's on the watch list but i haven't found time yet. Palace intrigue where the characters have reasonable motives (even the ones opposed to the crown prince) and want to do something within their (usually pretty constrained) socially acceptable niche.
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Maera Sior posted:Palace intrigue where the characters have reasonable motives (even the ones opposed to the crown prince) and want to do something within their (usually pretty constrained) socially acceptable niche. If you can dig up copies, try Saiunkoko Monogatari.
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The music video for the Loser Ranger OP is some fun tokusatsu shenanigans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3ZYjfMqAsc
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Maera Sior posted:Palace intrigue where the characters have reasonable motives (even the ones opposed to the crown prince) and want to do something within their (usually pretty constrained) socially acceptable niche. 12 Kingdoms? EDIT: looking it up this seems like more of a fantasy isekai road trip thing, just that "palace intrigue" is the vibe I always got from hearing about it. Funny that Pootybutt fucked around with this message at 20:11 on May 15, 2024 |
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May 15, 2024 20:06
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Pootybutt posted:12 Kingdoms? EDIT: looking it up this seems like more of a fantasy isekai road trip thing, just that "palace intrigue" is the vibe I always got from hearing about it. Funny that no you're right, it starts as the former but turns into the latter pretty quickly iirc
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Tales of Woe posted:no you're right, it starts as the former but turns into the latter pretty quickly iirc I guess I could do a rewatch if I get really desperate, but I was hoping for something with a bit faster pace. I recall the character development was fantastic but there were quite a few episodes on each arc. ETA: Raven of the Inner Palace was quite recent. Who here watched it? Maera Sior fucked around with this message at 20:35 on May 15, 2024 |
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Raven of the Inner Palace is much closer to Apothecary Diaries, though the cases are supernatural. There is some larger maneuvering in the court tied to some of the episodic cases, but given the length of the series it doesn't have room to do much, and mainly focuses on ending off with a nice cap for character relationships in a smaller cast. Definitely something I'd normally rec if someone enjoyed Maomao or Saiunkoku, just didn't think it fit as well if the criteria is more focused on backroom meetings and maneuvers.
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ACCA is a solid backroom meeting and maneuver show.
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I absolutely adore ACCA and I'm so surprised to see someone mention it. It seems like such a forgotten show.
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https://twitter.com/animetv_jp/status/1791409958501621905?t=6yCxbsMCBBVWAf3t58OfOQ&s=19 Hmm this new Joker character feels awful familiar.
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This fellow is a terrible criminal, yet he seems to think it's all some kind of joke....very disturbing...
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what if crime... was funny?
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*screaming internally*
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at least harley's char design in this is kind of cute. every successive harley char design has gotten worse and worse.
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Arist posted:what if crime... was funny? Reservoir Dogs
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feels like they've been giving Da Joker a lot of promo for someone who presumably isn't even like a major character in the meat of the show, I don't think he's in the isekai part e: but that's not all that surprising because he's the loving joker
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anyway i disagree that harley designs only get worse because they absolutely cannot possibly get any worse than arkham asylum
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Arist posted:feels like they've been giving Da Joker a lot of promo for someone who presumably isn't even like a major character in the meat of the show, I don't think he's in the isekai part plus they did that already, it was called Batman Ninja and it ruled
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Joker really is a character that I wish they'd put on ice for like a decade cause he's over exposed and all his current versions are just so boring. Though I suppose it's not as bad as the time when DC thought of the brilliant idea of making an AU Batman the Joker
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After playing the Arkham games for to long, it isn't Joker if it isn't Mark Hamill doing the voice work.
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Indiana_Krom posted:After playing the Arkham games for to long, it isn't Joker if it isn't Mark Hamill doing the voice work. I mean, after the next Crisis on Infinite Earths movie, you're probably not gonna be getting any of that anymore. Mark is stepping away from the character For Real Now after Kevin passed.
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he tries, but hamill's too old to do his joker voice very well any more.
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He wanted to retire from doing Joker back after Arkham City in 2011 because it was literally destroying his vocal cords. Now we're hearing what happened to his voice after that retirement didn't pan out.
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Arc Hammer posted:He wanted to retire from doing Joker back after Arkham City in 2011 because it was literally destroying his vocal cords. Now we're hearing what happened to his voice after that retirement didn't pan out. Yet another reason to hate Arkham Knight
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Is there a lore reason they're called the Suicide Squad?
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Is there a lore reason they're called the Suicide Squad? They are sent in to do jobs/missions where the expected outcome is basically a 0% success rate and failure is certain death, a suicide mission if you will.
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Is there a lore reason they're called the Suicide Squad? They were all convicts being offered black-ops at ludicrous odds to reduce their sentences by some amount if they didn't just die in the field and end up anonymous corpses, disavowed by all. A win-win for shady government handlers.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoezAjIDWPM
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This is also specifically why they're villains because a lot of these ops are super illegal and if they get caught the government can go "that wasn't us that was The Joker, you know how he is"
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Furnaceface posted:They are sent in to do jobs/missions where the expected outcome is basically a 0% success rate and failure is certain death, a suicide mission if you will. Why don't they do jobs with 100% success rate? Are they stupid?
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Why don't they do jobs with 100% success rate? Are they stupid?
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Why don't they do jobs with 100% success rate? Are they stupid? lol
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Is there a lore reason they're called the Suicide Squad? "Task Force X" has been nicknamed "The Suicide Squad" ever since their first Silver Age appearance back in 1959, before the squad started using super villains. Originally it was because Rick Flag was the only survivor of a WW2 bombing raid on a Japanese fleet and he made a promise to his fallen comrades to keep carrying on the fight "as a member of the suicide squad".  When the team got relaunched in 1987 as a secret group of government-controlled villains they got the nickname pretty much the same as happened in the 2016 film 
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The problem with Suicide Squad is that it's been The Joker and Harley Quinn brand for a while now so the title makes almost no sense.
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