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That was a mistranslation or something taken out of context. The marketability was something that happened, but the author does not hate the characters.
Oh, and we’re getting a Sandland adaptation.
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Oh, and we’re getting a Sandland adaptation.
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Finally, my favorite manly and retro scanlator group is scanlating a historical manga of Napoleon Bonaparte:
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This is a story of the life of Napoleon. The tale begins just before the Battle of Austerlitz. Then, it jumps back to 1769 to tell the story of Napoleon's life from the very beginning, including the circumstances of his birth, his childhood on Corsica, and his difficulties as a Corsican boy in a...
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Is LOGH safe now?
Back in the day, pretty much every insufferable faggot had either a JoJo or LOGH icon so I kinda chose to steer clear. It's like, usually if someone said something extremely retarded and/or narcissistic, you would just assume they were trolling or joking but then you realize they had one of those icons and just went "Oh, one of these guys. Yeah, they're probably dead serious."
They were the reddit Atheists of the anime community everywhere.
Back in the day, pretty much every insufferable faggot had either a JoJo or LOGH icon so I kinda chose to steer clear. It's like, usually if someone said something extremely retarded and/or narcissistic, you would just assume they were trolling or joking but then you realize they had one of those icons and just went "Oh, one of these guys. Yeah, they're probably dead serious."
They were the reddit Atheists of the anime community everywhere.
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It's almost as if there was a reason someone had to make that one porn doujin of just nothing but Loid and Yor acting like actual newlyweds.
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It's a legit good series. It's not perfect, but how many 100+ episode shows are?
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Yesterday I finished reading Golden Kamuy, the ending was intense, helped a lot by me remembering there was internet drama about someone dying and having the fear the author would pull a Ryan Johnson and kill Aspira thankfully it didn't happen so I have no idea what the drama was about, Sugimoto dying would have been bittersweet but not that special in those kind of stories. It's overall a good contender to top mangas ever made, the art is fantastic, every character is likable and the tone strikes a balance between comedy, action and horror (and bara). It's also a manga I really want to reread just because a ton of characters that you think will be one shot but stay for the whole ride.
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I haven't read Spy x Family in a good while but iirc the tennis match was considered a low part of the series when it first came out.
From what I hear it gets into Twilights childhood later on (can't say how much later though) and how he becomes a spy, so there's that.
From what I hear it gets into Twilights childhood later on (can't say how much later though) and how he becomes a spy, so there's that.
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Pretty sure that it was originally going hard on the spy cold war aesthetic but his publisher told him no one is going to like it, Makes you wonder about the original concept it would be some what unique based on the premise alone but maybe not as popular as we have now.
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The newest episode for Akiba Maid War is wild
Ranko cannot catch a break huh?
Too bad that Panda is not Majima, oh well
Ranko cannot catch a break huh?
Too bad that Panda is not Majima, oh well
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Just getting the rights for it would have probably been impossible. But damn the setting is really asking for a open world GTA style game where you create your own maid cafe and rise up in ranks.
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Yeah, I mean this is the series that gave us great tidbits of wisdom like "Extremism is bad because bad people do extremism". I can't say I'm surprised about it going downhill (since I never thought it had a hill to go down in the first place), but saying anything negative about it (and Kaguya-sama) is like kicking a hornet's nest online. Cold War espionage in real life is genuinely interesting enough in real life and it could have made a great series, but instead we get a cookie-cutter Faux Family series intended to be opium to the lonely masses mixed with a generic normie-Japanese moral about how war is awful. It reminds me of Tsuki to Laika to Nosferatu- cool concept (Soviet space race) used as window dressing for a knuckle-rapping lecture about discrimination bad.
I like LOGH a lot, even the CGI ships version, but that's the major downside of the story- if you didn't know what Yoshiki Tanaka thinks about politics, you're going to find out. There's an entire half of a book dedicated to showing off how awful hereditary nobility is, like we couldn't figure that out from the time
That's really one of the things I like about Bocchi. The show with the girl exploding into water when people talk to her is actually one of the most realistic music anime. You go out there, practice your heart out, and in the end you're just good enough to jerk the curtain in front of 10 people. Your awesome moment of showing your resolve for your friends...occurred on a miserable day in front of 10 people. You can't just take yourself from zero musical talent to the greatest group in the nation in a few months because you monologued about your dreams really hard (*cough* LOVE LIVE *cough*). This sort of thing takes time and effort and in the end you may not succeed, but at least Bocchi and friends are having fun.
I'm really glad that Kirara anime tend to be normie filters so the Bocchi fanbase isn't invaded with mouth-breathing retards like every single shonen that gets a tiny bit of hype. However...in gaijinland troons really glom on to CGDCT and that's not any better.
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My problem with the show is that the empire side doesn't really give an alternative to the former rule, it goes from hereditary nobility to... hereditary nobility by a different noble family. At best you can argue there's a precedent for commoners to have a job, but without political power that will quickly disappear by the new nobles solidifying their power again. The argument of "if the next nobility won't work it will replaced as well" rings hollow as it taken multiple people with what amount to godly amount of ability and luck to oust the previous ruling nobles after centuries of rule. If anything it would have been interesting to explore how a "might makes right" morality replacing "king by divine rule" would massively fracture society as the strong take from the weak and the whole empire burns, but the show basically treats the new empire as pure and ridiculously stable, despite being established on an incredibly bad logic.
It's usually my problem with a lot of idol anime, the best part of the show is them doing side gigs or small events for publicity, and it usually goes with them jumping from small scale to immediately being massive celebrities. At least Zombieland Saga had them actually showing what happens when a popular idol group in bumfuck nowhere goes to a huge Tokyo event.
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If I recall correctly it leans more towards the great man theory. I appreciate that it highlights the issues with democracy, but it seems far too lenient with the empire and the Reinhard wanking. I guess him being kinda decent and pragmatic wasn't enough to sell me on him being this perfect beacon of light that was the answer to corrupt political systems. On the other hand, it can be argued that one of the main points of LOGH is that the value of the people matters more than the value of the systems and that bad people will usually lead to bad results even with good systems in place, and the opposite as well. I'm not smart enough to tell how true this is but it's interesting at the very least.
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to be honest, i never gotten into Kaguya-sama, it looked too autistic for my tastes and Chika's personality and design screaming "obnoxious autistic retard" didn't help matters
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It's not technically Great Man theory since while both Yang and Reinhard are Great Men, Reinhard is able to assemble a very competent staff while fixing the corrupt system while Yang's staff is only above average and he completely fails to fix his own corrupt system. The show devotes endless attention to worrying about what happens after Reinhard dies while in Yang's case, he manages to make Julian into a very competent successor for his ideals.
LOGH implies a cyclical model of history where this is inevitable--even the Goldenbaum kaiser knows his dynasty's days are numbered. And besides, Julian becomes an advocate for constitutional monarchy at the end of it, which is now 100% legal since there's all sorts of free speech/free association laws given early in the show Reinhard appoints two radicals in charge of reforming the Empire's legal system (the non-military side of politics can get lost in the show's focus on military characters, but it's all there if you pay attention).
Of course its stable, because the bulk of the high nobles died, most of the others had their lands taken away, plenty of other nobles lost a lot of power from land reform, commoners were made equal. The space Jews are all reigned in along with their cult. The one guy with a powerbase who did try to revolt--for the very reason of believing he could surpass Reinhard--lost and was killed by Reinhard's foremost subordinate which sets a powerful example.
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Tbf, Yang purposely doesn't pursue fixing the system with his power since he doesn't want to create a precedent of a military rule/pipeline from military to politics.
I forgot about the constitutional monarchy idea, but the issue is that in the end is that the monarchy and the aristocracy that will fill the parliament would more like continue in totalitarianism rather than embrace democracy (which would make the Emperor a figurehead). So very little changed except making a worthless rule book.
Our history shows that the rot always sets in immediately after those coups. With the most cruel and corrupt rising to the top because they have easier time gaining the favour of those currently in leadership. It's the most frustrating thing about the empire side, seemingly everyone has the perfect ability to read people as well as access to people who are both incredibly loyal, good hearted AND with the perfect ability to read people. It makes the entire political debate pointless since the Democracy is constantly suffering from the most dumbfuck decisions and bad luck, while the Empire only once fucks up (end even then it's reaolved incredibly efficiently).
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SpyXFamily has the issue of having two protagonists. Anya’s whole thing is wanting to help Twilight, but she’d literally barely four. Twilight has spy shenanigans, but it’s mostly light hearted.
I don’t know what people expected out of a shonen comedy. You might like later arcs like the Cruise Ship where Yor has the help escort a crime family out of the country because a hostile third party is working behind the scenes. The current arc is commie terrorist group hijacking a school bus and slapping a bomb collar on Anya.
I don’t know what people expected out of a shonen comedy. You might like later arcs like the Cruise Ship where Yor has the help escort a crime family out of the country because a hostile third party is working behind the scenes. The current arc is commie terrorist group hijacking a school bus and slapping a bomb collar on Anya.