[ANIME] trying to enjoy MHA, after 110 episodes its starting to get interesting

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Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

I've seen some poo poo on the internet but the people involved in making Redo of Healer should be on a watchlist.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2021 23:41

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 02:04

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

Bootleg Trunks posted:

I saw a short clip of that where he fucks the maids but what is the show actually about

Guy is chosen as one of the legendary heroes of the kingdom by the gods or whatever, but his only talent is healing. The rest of the party abuses him and drags him around for years even though using his power traumatizes him. Eventually he finds a bullshit way that he can use the "heal" spell to do literally anything and he rewinds time several years to start over and enact a gruesome revenge fantasy against everyone who wronged him. Episode 1 was just sort of bad but episode 2 has a lot of rapes, a scene of him breaking all of the princess's fingers one by one, making her beg him to stick his dick in her instead of a red-hot poker, and ends with him erasing her memory and convincing her that she's actually his devoted servant before they set off together to track down the other people he's after. The words "torture porn" get thrown around a lot but...

# ¿ Jan 21, 2021 23:52

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

Dr. Killjoy posted:

And to think of those halcyon days where Goblin Slayer and Shield Hero were the absolute worst anime had to offer

Yeah really makes you nostalgic for when the worst thing you could say about a show was that it was pro-slavery.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2021 23:58

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

MonsieurChoc posted:

I mean I remember the days of Genocyber and Legend of the Overfiend so...

Sure but you had to buy those on VHS from behind a curtain. This thing is airing in a regular TV anime timeslot. (Granted, that's the middle of the night.)

# ¿ Jan 22, 2021 00:12

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

an actual dog posted:

there was a beautiful episode of yuru camp today where two girls ate delicious eel and had a nice talk about their lives, and you're putting one brain cell towards thinking about this crap

I personally have a problem where I feel like genuinely good anime deserves more attention from me so I put it off but end up watching complete garbage the day it airs.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2021 07:15

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

It's been delayed again because Japan declared a state of emergency over COVID that won't end until at least February. I think it happened like immediately after they released that trailer.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2021 13:51

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

net work error posted:

Wish I could buy this:
https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-n...unchyroll%21%29

This flies in the face of everything Moyashimon taught me about sake.

# ¿ Jan 26, 2021 20:54

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

Gripweed posted:

I read volume 3 of Chainsaw Man. drat. I kinda want to not read any more until it's done so I can read the entire series in one sitting

I read the first three volumes last year and then finished "Part One" just last week. It really gets kinda mind-blowing, I hope the anime adaptation has an insane budget. (Of course, it'll take years for them to get to the truly crazy stuff.)

I think without spoilers I can say that Part One comes to a real conclusion. You aren't going to end up at a cliffhanger or anything. I have no idea when it'll even start up but Part Two seems like it must be more like a sequel, not just picking up after a hiatus.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2021 05:24

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

Wonder Egg is good but why would episode 8 of 12 be a recap episode?

# ¿ Mar 4, 2021 02:09

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

thotsky posted:

I think the Japanese Miracle came about in the aftermath of WW3. As in, apparently the world overcame their fear of nuclear weapons and had a firefight with them, and only Japan had the technology to clean up the mess. Then they had a WW4 with no nuclear weapons... Seems backwards. Makes more sense for the technology to arrive and then have a nuclear exchange.

I don't remember if it's true for every GitS continuity but there's some maps showing that Beijing, Moscow, Washington and most of eastern Europe are simply not there anymore. America in general has a lot of new great lakes. So even if the world isn't permanently uninhabitable, the governments that survived that might have lost the taste for it.

# ¿ Mar 13, 2021 23:01

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

Declan MacManus posted:

the dude who wrote made in abyss is also a pedo in the proclivity sense if not the legal one

Well there's a whole list of reasons you shouldn't show that to your kids, though.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2021 03:23

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

Toph Bei Fong posted:

Welcome to the NHK is a legit good novel, an okay manga, and a weird anime. It was odd experiencing them in succession, kind of like seeing Flanderization occur in real time.

Weird as the adaptations are, I'd legit recommend the novel to depressed folks who think the world isn't going to get any better. It's a legit work about how the only thing we have in this world is each other, so please be kind, and how not expecting big changes or massive upheaval of one's life, and instead making small incremental day to day changes to pull you out of the hole is the best way to go. Dumb as it might be to admit, it helped me a lot when I was in my 20s, alone and scared and unsure of where my life was going

I always wanted to read the novel and didn't even realize it was translated years ago. Is there any obvious non-filez way to get it? Seems like it's out of print, heavily marked up on the used market, no official ebook, and I'm not sure the copyright holder Tokyopop even prints novels anymore after going bankrupt twice or something like that.

# ¿ Apr 24, 2021 04:36

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

Pitch posted:

I always wanted to read the novel and didn't even realize it was translated years ago. Is there any obvious non-filez way to get it? Seems like it's out of print, heavily marked up on the used market, no official ebook, and I'm not sure the copyright holder Tokyopop even prints novels anymore after going bankrupt twice or something like that.

So if anyone else cared, Right Stuf seems to have a special arrangement with Tokyopop and got new stock of the Welcome to the NHK novel in a few days ago. Or else they're shipping me a brick. Every other store still seems to treat it like it's out of print.

# ¿ May 4, 2021 18:27

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

pairofdimes posted:

When did the term isekai/the concept itself become so popular? I stopped following anime actively around 2004, as in watching stuff as it came out in Japan, and back then I don't think I ever heard the term. Recently I watched some anime and when I was browsing around it kept popping up. Did I just somehow miss it entirely?

You can more or less blame it entirely on the runaway popularity of Sword Art Online, so 2012, even though SAO properly belongs in a more specific "players trapped inside literal video game world" subgenre.

# ¿ May 14, 2021 05:05

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

I'm late to this but I just wanted to say my favorite part of Invincible's animation was spending several episodes wondering why Atom Eve's logo is some kind of radfem thing?

but then it turns out in maybe two scenes all season she has an important closeup where it's drawn on model:

# ¿ May 15, 2021 21:18

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

It's a real mess of last-second revelations completely of out left field and just handwaving that all the loose ends from plot points they only started introducing in episode 11 don't really matter. Then you get the worst possible explanation for why Koito killed herself, like offensively bad, so bad that any viewer is better off just watching 10~12 episodes and assuming it's a mystery we'll never know the answer to.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2021 23:20

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

pillsburysoldier posted:

Man, Wonder Egg's first couple eps are extremely strong except for the sexism from those puppet men

Especially funny because stuff from later episodes implies they don't even believe the lines about how unstable young girls are, they just say that to girls to manipulate them.

Early on they have the lines about how boys kill themselves for serious reasons but girls kill themselves over drama. Later they talk to each other about how they can't let the protagonists discover that they're personally responsible for a lot of the suicides. Still no idea what exactly was supposed to be going on with Frill escaping from her Lain cave into the Wired to drive girls to suicide though.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2021 05:57

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

Mirello posted:

I'd say yes. Even in this thread, we have what I'd say is the my biggest pet peeve of modern criticism: if a character says a bad thing or has a bad belief, that must reflect the author, and therefore the work is wrong. And if you don't show that villain getting their comeuppance, you agree with them. There's basically no place anymore for ambiguity. (spoilers below for WEP)

The puppet guys are so obviously the bad guys. they trick the girls and are making them do things. In the last few episodes they're basically twirling their mustaches. However, for reasons I can't understand, everyone has taken them to be the voice of the author. I'm not saying its show of the year, but it's a very interesting and unique premise, and I'm glad that in an industry where everything is becoming more trite and generic they tried something new. It definitely has it's flaws though. The biggest problem is that the studio tortured its workers into the literal hospital (unfortunately commonplace in the industry), and there's no ending, although that should be remedied by an ova at some point, hopefully.

All the other stuff aside, the OVA's revelation about why Koito killed herself is both sort of morally offensive and a stupid anticlimax, and that's directly on the author. (Of course it's delivered entirely as a monologue by a different character who could easily be lying, but the show spent ten episodes being ambiguous about whether he was trustworthy and then ended the season going "yeah, he is" and having him deliver all this exposition in obvious late-production voice over so you basically have to take it as the word of god at this point.)

Pitch has issued a correction as of 11:37 on Jul 11, 2021

# ¿ Jul 11, 2021 11:17

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

KomradeX posted:

I had heard he'd drawn porn, but is it really hosed up?

I think he drew some pretty off the deep end fetish poo poo but the funny stuff is that he used to draw what is obviously Nagatoro without even a hint of the dere, just constantly making her senpai cry and telling him he's a worthless piece of poo poo.

Edit: and I think this was usually or maybe always her speaking directly to you, the viewer

# ¿ Jul 14, 2021 00:39

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

Tabletops posted:

I mean the author of dragon maid is like 99% probably a lolicon lol

Unless I've got the wrong guy he seems to draw nothing but huge tits in his free time.

edit: his other serialized manga is Chichi Chichi Enormous Breast Paradise

Pitch has issued a correction as of 04:39 on Jul 16, 2021

# ¿ Jul 16, 2021 04:35

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

doomrider7 posted:

Chapter 1 has Louis Crawford(bootleg of Shin Wolfword) raping the MC's childhood friend to death over a stump and later uses his clout to force two girls at a bar to pleasure him.

Well I don't know who the Alan Moore of Japan is but it sounds like this guy's angling for Garth Ennis.

# ¿ Jul 21, 2021 04:43

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

Dr. Killjoy posted:

Moore�s the gratuitous female rape writer, Ennis is the gratuitous rape of men for comedic purposes writer.

I'm just thinking that this is The Boys for isekai protagonists, but then it might be a lot closer to the Amazon series in the first place.

# ¿ Jul 21, 2021 04:54

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

Gripweed posted:

The guy who did that gambling manga, Kakegurui, started another manga series. It's a fantasy series about a guy who sets out to kill a group of warriors who reincarnated into the fantasy world from other worlds and have extremely overpowered abilities. It was cancelled after literally one issue because some readers noticed similarities between the evil warriors and characters from other popular manga.

Having read the one or two chapters of this I feel like there's one important thing that needs to be mentioned about it. The protagonist's only secret weapon is that a witch taught him the word "NEET", which he doesn't understand but when he says it it scares isekai heroes.

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It'd be funny to have an isekai where a super powerful magic user accidentally teleports themselves into a world where there is no magic, so they just have to be a regular person.

This is also Jahy-Sama, I think?

Pitch has issued a correction as of 04:21 on Jul 22, 2021

# ¿ Jul 22, 2021 04:18

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

doomrider7 posted:

That also makes little sense since some of those characters were also not "NEETS" in there previous lives. Nerds sure, but Bakarina was just a normal HS girl, Rimuru was a manager at construction firm and seemingly pretty content(fantasy nerd though), Tanya was also company manager who was a history buff, and Ainz was company drone who lived a lovely life but not from being a NEET, and I'm not sure about Wiseman's Grandchild, but I doubt he really fits here either.

Well he only got as far as using it against the Wiseman's Grandchild guy and I don't know anything about him.

I really wanted to know how Re:Zero's Subaru or especially Katarina Claes were supposed to be abusing their powers for personal gain but they really just make appearances in the big group meeting, and Katarina seems to be more like the evil duchess character she replaced.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2021 04:34

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

MonsieurChoc posted:

Meanwhile Eureka Seven isn't an isekai but is very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYXVp4KV7Rw

I think some of the movies actually were isekai but I don't know about good.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2021 06:24

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

I really liked the Altered Carbon books but the next thing I read from Morgan was Black Man/Thirteen and it's just loving Blade Runner with biotruths. The whole gimmick is about unlocking the genes that create true human alpha males and I can easily see the arc between that pile of poo poo and ten years later having a lot of opinions on who should be able to use public bathrooms.

# ¿ Aug 24, 2021 20:55

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

Cao Ni Ma posted:

This forum would not survive gundam witches I'm afraid

Frame Arms Girl was basically Gundam Witches

# ¿ Sep 26, 2021 21:42

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

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
eBay brings it to me.

I bought it the last time someone mentioned it here and I liked it, but it really feels like an abridged version of the manga. Obviously it's the opposite, the manga is padded out from the novel, but they're a lot more similar to each other than the anime. I haven't watched the anime or read the manga recently though so maybe it's a dumb comparison. But it's weird having seen the other versions that the entire arc of them making a video game was originally just one chapter long and lasted a week or two. There's also a few other points that I think were trimmed out of the adaptations for being just too hosed up.

# ¿ Oct 2, 2021 06:22

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

TenementFunster posted:

oh my god i�m getting so mad at the mere suggestion of dubbing gunbuster

Big sister!

# ¿ Oct 5, 2021 22:07

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

Casey Finnigan posted:

biggest problem with dubs is that there's a limited number of dub voice actors compared to the original actors so you end up hearing christopher sabat and johnny yong bosch in everything

This is a side effect of the fact that being a dub voice actor in America pays like poo poo and is a less prestigious acting job than local community theater, so the industry rests on a handful of people who have been punching a timeclock doing this for 20 years and a pool of essentially enthusiastic amateurs with a high churn rate.

# ¿ Oct 6, 2021 05:12

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

Gripweed posted:

I think people who aren't familiar with Girls und Panzer come up with some weird ideas about what it's like. It really is about tanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfr6joRTRqQ

I still remember when it was new the ADTRW thread was started by a guy convinced it was one of those shows where all the girls were moe personifications of real historical figures.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2021 04:22

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

HootTheOwl posted:

Can I get a dumb dumb explainer for chainsaw man because I think I missed all that

The elevator pitch is it's set in a world where everything that scares people has a specific devil that's powered by all that psychic energy, and the protagonist ends up possessed by the chainsaw devil and gets recruited into a government agency full of people that make literal deals with devils for power to fight the ones that are running wild. But outside of that basic setup it's extremely weird and cool to look at and a bunch of people are deeply in love with certain members of the cast. It ran in Jump for two years and ended* while still very popular and everyone wants to see it look cool in motion.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2021 06:32

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

Kit Walker posted:

Jobless Reincarnation is kind of interesting because it was one of the early isekai but was self-aware enough to be critical of its own protagonist being a creepy fuckup. Something that so many copycats that followed completely failed to understand. It doesn�t make his behavior any less creepy, though, and even though it�s an absolute masterclass production of a show, I can�t really recommend it to anyone. �Yeah the protagonist is a shut-in loser who gets reincarnated as a baby in a fantasy world and sure the first few episodes include him taking advantage of being an infant to fondle titties, but it gets better I swear!�

I do appreciate that it does actually have moments of reflection where he realizes how much of a hosed up creep he is and it sets up his terrible personality to slowly chip away at making him a better person, but drat is it a hard watch at times

It has unbearable moments but I generally like the show, but it's written in an insane way. Constantly inventing new plot points out of nowhere and forgetting old ones. One of the main heroines who's in all the promo material hasn't been in the show since early in season 1. Multiple times the protagonist is just uprooted and sent to a new setting and the entire cast replaced around him. Remember how in one episode there was a flying city that caused a magical Hiroshima and everyone got too distracted to ever explain what the gently caress was going on there? Is that demon girl with twelve eyes ever going to appear again? It's like when a manga is getting bad ratings and the author is visibly flailing around to try and find a new hook and get his serialization extended. Is there some reason light novels would have been written like that or what the hell?

I'm not actually caught up so don't @ me if any of these rhetorical questions got answered two weeks ago though.

# ¿ Dec 15, 2021 03:53

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

You can blame nerds for sexualizing almost anything but Kemono Friends as it aired is impeccably pure. Part of its charm is that it's basically indistinguishable from a children's anime except it didn't have that clock superimposed in the top left corner.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2021 00:27

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

skipmyseashells posted:

Isn�t that the plot to a Godzilla movie

It's the anime-original ending to the first Fullmetal Alchemist adaptation.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2022 06:07

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

I watched the Demon Slayer movie and I'm still confused about exactly what part of the train was infinite. The first season had several demons who can warp space to make mazelike building interiors people can't escape from, so I expected something like that. But actually the train was so finite that they specifically called out how the five protagonists could split up to cover the entire thing.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2022 14:37

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

Apparently the manga chapter the title is taken from was actually Train of Infinite Dreams which makes more sense but maybe gives away a twist like fifteen minutes in.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2022 14:49

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

Casey Finnigan posted:

there's an anime called Super Cub about how a girl gets a Honda Super Cub and her life ends up being just massively improved because she buys this reasonably low cost motorcycle

i was really surprised that it wasn't sponsored by Honda

Honda had already made another, unrelated anime about a high school girl riding a Super Cub in 2012.

# ¿ Feb 20, 2022 08:08

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

net work error posted:

Kino's Journey ?

"One Off", a four episode OVA about a group of girls with different Honda motorcycles.

# ¿ Feb 20, 2022 20:43

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 02:04

Pitch: Jun 16, 2005; しらんけど

Gripweed posted:

yeah but there's no specific goal, other than human connection

Obviously the goal is to reach 100, and it progresses towards that every episode.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2022 02:16

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