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someone should sticky the spring thread and let this one end, save us please
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You know you could just, ask instead of making incorrect and angry assumptions about people that enjoy things a different way than you do. lol
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Mar 30, 2023 14:35
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Mar 30, 2023 14:41
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I think all who have a love for anime in their hearts and souls should be welcomed and celebrated here, regardless of what bizarre and upsetting process they use to watch
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Mar 30, 2023 14:47
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I have pretty severe ADHD and I've never upped the playback speed on anything I was watching recreationally, that seems very strange to me.
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Mar 30, 2023 14:48
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Arist posted:I have pretty severe ADHD and I've never upped the playback speed on anything I was watching recreationally, that seems very strange to me. Same, if anything I go back and rewatch stuff because i spaced for a moment and missed what was happening Usually the effect ADHD has on my viewing habits though is starting a show and then leaving to do something else 1/4th of the way through the first episode (I say I'll pick it back up later but I never do) That being said if someone wants to watch their anime in the form of discrete clips they couldn't easily find on youtube, they are still an anime brother in arms ninjewtsu fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Mar 30, 2023 |
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Mar 30, 2023 14:52
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Suzera posted:I skim probably boring/predictable segments and read the subtitles instead with basically everything v0v pretend i posted the Hurt gif Colonel uses
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Mar 30, 2023 16:03
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imagining someone like this trying to watch something like Come and See and my knife is real lonely right now
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Mar 30, 2023 16:05
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The Black Stones posted:When your competing with phones that kids have grown up with where they can be bombarded with entertainment in seconds, asking them to sit still and pay attention is killer. Even when forced to watch something the worst will just disengage by sleeping and then wonder why they can’t recall the plot of something when asked. noted new phenomenon "kids falling asleep in class when bored"
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Mar 30, 2023 16:09
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actually i guess this does answer my question about how you could have watched literally every fantasy anime if you just weren't really watching large chunks of them
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Mar 30, 2023 17:04
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ninjewtsu posted:I think all who have a love for anime in their hearts and souls should be welcomed and celebrated here, regardless of what bizarre and upsetting process they use to watch
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Mar 30, 2023 18:03
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FilthyImp posted:My wife will do insane things like FF through segments or plain mute the TV if it's a commercial. "What if you miss something!" 'Eh, I can get the gist of it later' given how obnoxious commercials are, I wouldn't fault anyone for muting them and I actively do it myself
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Mar 30, 2023 18:03
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what is that game on the right that people keep referencing in order to increase attention spans?
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Mar 30, 2023 18:06
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sb hermit posted:what is that game on the right that people keep referencing in order to increase attention spans? Sucondese II
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symbolic posted:Sucondese II Pardon me but I've never heard of "Sucondese II" or "Suck On These Two" could you please explain
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Mar 30, 2023 18:20
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Mar 30, 2023 18:21
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If you only read half the letters it's "scones". English tea parties have been shown to increase attention spans and working memory capacity slightly.
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Mar 30, 2023 18:28
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Frankly I don't have the attention span to watch anime anymore so I don't, but I don't have that problem with manga or games.
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Mar 30, 2023 18:32
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my attention span problems with anime are amplified 10x with manga
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Mar 30, 2023 19:11
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symbolic posted:noted new phenomenon "kids falling asleep in class when bored" I’m not claiming it’s new, but I am claiming that even just a video can’t compete for attention spans. The video has to constantly be exciting to them or yes, they get bored. This is the problem with trying to teach media literacy and analysis because it’s asking you to pay attention, even when things get a bit slow, because it has meaning. However if your response is “well imma intentionally make myself fall asleep now” of course you’re not going to make an effort to engage with your entertainment. I’m not saying YouTube/TikTok has caused this but I’m saying it’s greatly exacerbated the situation. I watched Inception with a class for fun after we were close to finishing a film study because it has some cool moments in it (like the hallway fight) and I had people going “I have no idea what’s happening” because they tuned out when guns weren’t firing. They didn’t hate the film, they seemed to like it but heck if they could tell me even character names because they didn’t care. Zipping through things we watch at 2x speed is just an evolution of this. Can’t be bored if it goes by super fast!
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Mar 30, 2023 19:26
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I heard that all the kids are playing chess on their phones these days.
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Mar 30, 2023 20:08
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After reading the last few pages I’ve felt the overwhelming urge to unsticky this thread and stick the new one
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Mar 30, 2023 20:15
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you are hosed up and evil
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littleorv posted:After reading the last few pages I’ve felt the overwhelming urge to unsticky this thread and stick the new one Ty
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Mar 30, 2023 20:50
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Buddy Daddies was great, probably show of the season for me since I felt Magi revo had major pacing problems.
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Tae posted:Buddy Daddies was great, probably show of the season for me since I felt Magi revo had major pacing problems. some of the animation in that last fight was so loving cool. ending ended up being happy and sort of as expected, forget who said it but someone even called the timeskip. absolutely weird how they brought miri's mom back, have her die, and handwave the entire thing. felt like it didn't really add much to the overall story. overall i liked it, had a few writing issues but it was a fun romp that delivers what you want on "two hitmen living together have to raise a young girl" almost to a t.
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It was a nice touch that they didn't really focus on it, but Rei's right arm is completely limp throughout the epilogue
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Southern Cassowary posted:some of the animation in that last fight was so loving cool. I called it  but then again they did pull the same trick for Akiba Maid War. It's nice though so can't complain.I'm glad the three of them managed to upgrade to Daughter Daddies  I did expect the two of Kazuki's ladyfriends to show up in the finale though considering that they were in the OP for a bit. Ibblebibble fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Apr 1, 2023 |
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Southern Cassowary posted:ending ended up being happy and sort of as expected, forget who said it but someone even called the timeskip. I think its true that it didn't really add much, but I'm not sure where they could have done with it and still have it fit in with the show, unless they had more episodes I guess. Miri is not at an age where it would really make sense for them to go "Oh, we murdered your dad and indirectly got your mom killed". And if any type of person would be willing to forgive that sort of thing, it seems like Miri would be it so I'm ok with buying into the happy timeskip future. Maybe the show would've been better off without the mom death. A good show overall imo.
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My assuption is that they brought the mom back so there would be no question of the stakes, remove "well what if you had just" from the table, and force the character to act.
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Yawgmoft posted:My assuption is that they brought the mom back so there would be no question of the stakes, remove "well what if you had just" from the table, and force the character to act. It could've been a near fatal wound instead of a fatal would and still kept the stakes, but I guess it just closes the book on that fully rather than leave anything open.
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also i can't believe rei may have destroyed his gamer skills to save his family. what a hero. daughter daddies was my favorite anime last season, although revenger was good too. farewell winter 2023
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Apr 3, 2023 15:24
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Mou Ippon ended pretty much exactly like expected, still a fun show though.
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Big Leg posted:also i can't believe rei may have destroyed his gamer skills to save his family. what a hero. Didn't even think of that, guy did the ultimate sacrifice.
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"what good are these hands if they can't make her happy" was pretty raw ngl
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So I finally finished watching Giant Beasts of Ars and it felt like such a let down. There's a big climatic battle and then cut to credits and then boom something come up out of nowhere and there's a sinister end line and that's it. See you in the sequel it's probably not going to get.
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Insomniacs is good. The've done a pretty good job of emulating the mangaka's character style (and the strong eyebrows on their main heroines) and it quite nicely hits those slow and comfortable notes that they have in their previous series. Also cats.
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Dumping my end of season thoughts since the last winter seasonal I was watching finally finished. This is in descending order of how much I liked the show. IDOLiSH7 Third Beat!: Aside from all the big showy acts of violence, this season mostly felt like a transitionary arc. We got the new antagonists introduced and they're all such giant assholes that it'll be a testament to the strength of this series writing if they can get the strict moral purists out there to buy their inevitable redemption arcs. As always, I appreciate how much this show awards paying attention, weaving in foreshadowing and callbacks so masterfully that every rewatch is a rewarding experience as you're bound to find something you missed the last time through. I'm sure I'll have plenty more to say in 8 months, but for now there's one part I want to highlight. There's a scene early on in the second cour where a character brings up his coping mechanism for getting through stressful situations and we get a funny gag for a few minutes, but then like 15 episodes later we see him lean on the same coping mechanism again in the face of immediate harrowing trauma and it clearly does not help at all, like it's the frigging sad reprise of a musical. Cant has said before how boydol shows are more willing than their female counterparts to let their casts stew in uncomfortable situations and man is that ever not more true than this season ending on a downer and making you sit in it. Detective Conan: The Culprit Hanzawa: Technically this is fully a fall 2022 show, but Netflix only subbed it this season, so in here it goes. Easily the most successful parody spin-off series I've ever seen. You've got the usual stable of jokes everyone has made about the Conan franchise, but the delivery is consistently quick and witty and never has any reservations about poking fun at itself. The references to all the bizarre real murder setups in the main series can easily pass by unnoticed for the unaware but is a real treat for longtime fans. Shadowverse Flame: Shadowverse remains the card game anime with the best production values in the industry. While it's slower paced than the first season and can get stuck in some obvious game outcome eps, I appreciate the greater emphasis on the character writing. I especially like Light as a protagonist who's pretty dumb but extremely earnest, and he's a good foil to all the bitter, derisive antagonists strewn about this season. And hey, unlike in the first season he actually loses sometimes and learns to have fun despite that. Very much feels like the show Yugioh GX was trying to be before it fell on its face and tried to correct course by inserting a bunch of fake flashbacks to show how close friends the cast was. Technoroid: Overmind: It's hard not to call this a Detroit Become Human ripoff but I enjoyed how the mystery of the setting is played out with some truly wild poo poo. Special shout-out to episode 10 where we find out Dad spent years on his unethical AI work because he was unable to move on from his inappropriate unrequited feelings for his much younger lab assistant to go on to become the most cucked man in the world. And then he died. What a legend. Cardfight!! Vanguard: will+Dress Season 2: The brainwashing AI cult is cool or whatever, but what I watch card game shows for is the stupid poo poo, and boy is nothing stupider than jamming your opponents ace monster into your deck with minimal synergy and making it way more inconsistent for highly situational gain. The game ending on a turn-by-turn vanilla rear end slugfest with mutual awful draws is just the cherry on top. I could argue this is one of the best games in the franchise's history just for how real it feels. UniteUp!: This had perhaps the strongest premiere of the season, so it's a shame that it also feels like the biggest victim of the Aniplex implosion. I really enjoyed how natural the friendships felt between the main unit, but the episodes focusing on the other groups mostly felt like they were going through the motions. The series progression ends up rather scattered, with an ending arc predicated on some rather asinine drama and a perfunctory conclusion. They did resolve the drama with an episode playing baseball, so I can't really complain. It is refreshing that the cast is full of newcomers who feel like they were chosen out of real singers rather than the usual stable of a couple dozen established voice actors, and I want to give special mention to the episode where one of the kids ends up lost alone in Hawaii, because (a) I could go, "hey, I know this place," and (b) it's a really sweet and heartwarming story about the kindness of strangers. High Card: The first half of this show felt right at home with the wacky antics you'd find in a tokusatsu show, but the back half is rather bogged down by tedious self-sacrificial drama that sidelines most of the cast. Hope they can turn things around in the second cour. Very much enjoyed the car karaoke ED though. It's easily my favorite of the season. Eternal Boys: If I had to describe this show in one word, it'd be unambitious. Some of the character beats are decent but there's nothing really to function as a hook. The focus on realism is a nice touch though. The final conundrum our group faces is a concert they have to sell out or they lose their production company, and it's scheduled against a much more popular established group. There's barely any preamble about how they don't sell more than a handful of tickets and the company does go bankrupt. That's just how life goes sometimes. Buddy Daddies: This show felt like they were putting the kid antics first and foremost, and everything else ends up rather shallow and barely explored. I don't like kids, but I think they're boring in most parenting narratives because they all end up being about finding the joy in life in opening up to a kid, who's too young to be anything but unconditionally accepting. Mou Ippon!: Some real big doldrums in the middle of this show, where we get episode after episode of introducing the rival team of the round one girl at a time and always to the same conclusion of wow, they're just like us. And then they lose to us. It picks up a bit at the end when we're up against the powerhouse school and can actually show something else happening (like losing), but then the ending point mostly just feels arbitrary. The cast feels a bit mismanaged when most of the matches end up going to our protagonist. We spend time doing things like recruiting kendo girl to the team and then bar her completely from competing in the tournament. Like why is she even here. Bungou Stray Dogs 4th Season: This season runs full on into the same issues as some forever shounen where the main antagonist is presented as extremely cunning and all-knowing so no one can actually ever win against him, because we're playing checkers into 36-dimensional chess. The fact that he's still around in the manga does not bode well for the anime's future. And worst of all, the carjacking joke was in this season, and they absolutely ruined it. Nijiyon Animation: Despite what Cant may argue, I don't think this has real jokes. Campfire Cooking Isekai: Every time I think, "maybe this isekai will be different," and it never is. Very much a nothing happens series where our protagonist faces no real hardship and is loved by everyone immediately. I'll never get the appeal. Blue Lock: The first half was kinda promising in our protagonist being a little freak surrounded by other sickos, but then they keep backtracking on it, and Isagi ends up being one of my least favorite shounen protagonists for how milquetoast he is. In the back half, it's impossible to tell what's going on in games, the animation falls apart, and the episodes are full of padding reminding the viewer what the stakes are seeminingly every three lines. The cast is stuffed full of one-note gimmicks, and man did my patience evaporate when they decided to end the season on introducing 20 more wacky hair guys. Digimon Ghost Game: Honestly would've rated four points higher if it was half as long. Extremely formulaic and predictable to the point that it's actively detrimental, because when you have some Digimon almost kill a dozen guys who turn out perfectly fine at the end, it's hard to believe any episode has actual stakes. Every story gets exactly one episode to run, so most episodes end up having an okay setup that gets ruined with a rushed ending, and the cast is full of bland characters who never get to meaningfully grow or change. The occasional nods to the big overarching plot in the background are more annoying than anything else because they don't get addressed until the literal last three episodes of the series, where everything is wrapped up as fast as possible.
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