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[Betonhaus]

As Tv Tropes points out, the backstory is basically every nightmare of Japanese right wingers from throughout history all rolled up into one: modern fears of Economic and population decline plus immigration,

All they have to do is regulate overtime better so it becomes cost prohibitive to rely on it forever. Companies that banned working overnight in Japan have found that fertility rates among their employees DOUBLE

 

[vern]

Is it just me or has there been a recent trend of manga getting anime adaptions right before they end if not ended just recently?
Dungeon Meshi is ending a good 4 months before the anime airs, Mashel ended the same week as the end of it's first season, think Insomniac's and some other romcom from last season ended a few weeks after their anime finished. etc.

Seems odd since I swear the old trend used to be either a manga gets an anime as soon as possible (iirc 2 or 3 years of starting) and drag it out as long as possible to not catch up, put it a bunch of filler arcs, or chop it up into smaller seasons with sometimes multi year long gaps. Or if a anime gets greenlight for an already completed manga its because its celebrating an anniversary or the mangaka is starting a sequel/spinoff/new work that's big enough to drive interest in their old one.

 

[Betonhaus]

Is it just me or has there been a recent trend of manga getting anime adaptions right before they end if not ended just recently?
Dungeon Meshi is ending a good 4 months before the anime airs, Mashel ended the same week as the end of it's first season, think Insomniac's and some other romcom from last season ended a few weeks after their anime finished. etc.

Seems odd since I swear the old trend used to be either a manga gets an anime as soon as possible (iirc 2 or 3 years of starting) and drag it out as long as possible to not catch up, put it a bunch of filler arcs, or chop it up into smaller seasons with sometimes multi year long gaps. Or if a anime gets greenlight for an already completed manga its because its celebrating an anniversary or the mangaka is starting a sequel/spinoff/new work that's big enough to drive interest in their old one.

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I thought Dungeon meshi finished several months ago? Did it not end after the demon lost the desire to eat?
That being said, I think a lot viewers are getting sick of too much filler and not watching shows with filler. And they are sick of shows that take things in a completely different direction halfway through because something happened to the original author - Or get outright cancelled because the author is in jail or something (eg: Log Horizon)
Edit: Oh, Dungeon Meshi isn't over. He still has to eat his sister out

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

so i watched the first episode of Cross Ange.

what the fuck?

 

[The Ghost of Kviv]

so i watched the first episode of Cross Ange.

what the fuck?

IKR? It's a sign of a great series when you start off with a banger lesbian rape scene

 

[HexFag]

Is it just me or has there been a recent trend of manga getting anime adaptions right before they end if not ended just recently?
Dungeon Meshi is ending a good 4 months before the anime airs, Mashel ended the same week as the end of it's first season, think Insomniac's and some other romcom from last season ended a few weeks after their anime finished. etc.

Seems odd since I swear the old trend used to be either a manga gets an anime as soon as possible (iirc 2 or 3 years of starting) and drag it out as long as possible to not catch up, put it a bunch of filler arcs, or chop it up into smaller seasons with sometimes multi year long gaps. Or if a anime gets greenlight for an already completed manga its because its celebrating an anniversary or the mangaka is starting a sequel/spinoff/new work that's big enough to drive interest in their old one.

Honestly, its for the better. For every Gintama that did funny filler episodes when they ran out of content, there are like 15 Narutos and Bleaches that have so much shitty unnecessary padding. There's no reason for a show to be 500 episodes when it's only suited for maybe like 200 with good pacing. The only show that still does this iirc is One Piece (even then there's still a good buffer) and I don't think that's ever going to change.

...and then there's Attack on Titan with Four (4) seasons labeled as the "Final Season" with the show not finished yet.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

so i watched the first episode of Cross Ange.

what the fuck?

Lol you're in for a ride. I don't know how the sub approached it, but the dub straddled the line between playing it straight and being tongue-in-cheek. It's surprisingly intriguing, think it helps make some of the more bizarre plot choices/twists palpable.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

This is great:
Yajin Tensei: Karate Survivor in Another World

I just found this weird based ripoff of One Punch Man:
Oldhero

 

[Car Won't Crank]

It's got interesting environments, but I guess it has to since it's based on a video game. Everything else about it is like a really generic modern game with muh open worlds and muh crafting, except it's like they took a game which doesn't really have anything beyond an excuse for a plot, ripped out the cutscenes, and called it an anime. It's very bland.

But I do appreciate how everyone in the show seems to be backstabbing alcoholic. I feel like there's some real potential there for "damn, this society and lifestyle sucks ass, me and robot waifu need to get out of here" but the writers aren't ballsy enough to put that in their adaption.

I was initially interested by the premise and characters in Synduality Noir, but I skipped this week's episode and probably will pass on the show altogether. There's a lot of cringe from the MC and there isn't enough focus on world building to flesh it out more.

 

[vern]

Honestly, its for the better. For every Gintama that did funny filler episodes when they ran out of content, there are like 15 Narutos and Bleaches that have so much shitty unnecessary padding. There's no reason for a show to be 500 episodes when it's only suited for maybe like 200 with good pacing. The only show that still does this iirc is One Piece (even then there's still a good buffer) and I don't think that's ever going to change.

...and then there's Attack on Titan with Four (4) seasons labeled as the "Final Season" with the show not finished yet.

I agree I like it better, also since you mentioned Gintama I just remembered this old clip

Although I still feel like this trend of adapting manga right before it finishes only started happing more frequently within the past year or two since I swear in the mid 10s a lot of series started becoming seasonal where they'd adapt 12-24 episodes, take a 6-12 month break, adapt the next 12-24 episodes, etc. etc. The last non kids show I can recall that had more then 34 episodes in one go was maybe the adventure of Dai remake (or if that counts as a kids show then part 5, part 6 probably would of been if not for netflix doing the batch release)

Titan actually started doing that in the later seasons and kept assuming Isayama would finish this time so kept calling it the final season which I think was a response to the 3 year gap between season 1 and 2 which did kill a lot of the hype around the anime for a bit before it got back to where it was.

 

[HexFag]

Although I still feel like this trend of adapting manga right before it finishes only started happing more frequently within the past year or two since I swear in the mid 10s a lot of series started becoming seasonal where they'd adapt 12-24 episodes, take a 6-12 month break, adapt the next 12-24 episodes, etc. etc. The last non kids show I can recall that had more then 34 episodes in one go was maybe the adventure of Dai remake (or if that counts as a kids show then part 5, part 6 probably would of been if not for netflix doing the batch release)

Kind of unrelated and most likely autistic but I kind of hate when cours are labeled seperately. Yeah I get seasons and all but they aren't two different seasons, there was just a gap in production/airing. Space Dandy did this and for a while I thought a second season just came out of nowhere but no it's just the second half of the first season. Certain tracking scripts that I use and mainly Plex completely shit the bed in certain cases because it can't decide if a show is Season 2, Season 1 Part 2, or Season 2 Part 2. It's fucking retarded.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

Teaser for the Netflix Scott Pilgrim anime is out. It's coming on November 17 & apparently the whole cast of the film is back to voice their characters.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Teaser for the Netflix Scott Pilgrim anime is out. It's coming on November 17 & apparently the whole cast of the film is back to voice their characters.

Scott Pilgrim is one of the horsemen of the cultural apocalypse and I hope it bombs.

There is a good meme about it though of "remember when Scott Pilgrim came out, 7 exes was a humourously excessive number"?

 

[The Demon Pimp of Razgriz]

Scott Pilgrim is one of the horsemen of the cultural apocalypse and I hope it bombs.

I liked the film actually. Never read the comic, though. Looks like this will a more accurate adaptation of the comic book.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Teaser for the Netflix Scott Pilgrim anime is out. It's coming on November 17 & apparently the whole cast of the film is back to voice their characters.

i hope they stick to the comics more then the movie. the comics were atleast decent and Scott was actually pretty funny at times.

in more sad news, Nami Sano author of Sakamoto Desu Ga and Migi to Dali has passed away.

 

[The Demon Pimp of Razgriz]

in more sad news, ami Sano, author of Sakamoto Desu Ga and Migi to Dali has passed away.

Nami Sano. And holy crap. she died of cancer and was only 36!

 

[Trilby]

Kind of unrelated and most likely autistic but I kind of hate when cours are labeled seperately. Yeah I get seasons and all but they aren't two different seasons, there was just a gap in production/airing. Space Dandy did this and for a while I thought a second season just came out of nowhere but no it's just the second half of the first season. Certain tracking scripts that I use and mainly Plex completely shit the bed in certain cases because it can't decide if a show is Season 2, Season 1 Part 2, or Season 2 Part 2. It's fucking retarded.

Says much of how convoluted this became with how Japanese TV doesn't follow annual broadcast seasons as in the west.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

in more sad news, ami Sano, author of Sakamoto Desu Ga and Migi to Dali has passed away.

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Nami Sano. And holy crap. she died of cancer and was only 36!

This one was such a shock, that I had to log in and say that this was one of the first anime that I wanted to watch in order to get back into watching anime. I never read the manga in full, but it was a really funny, if not unique anime to see:

This is just like finding out when the Tokyo Mew Mew mangaka passed away at a very young age. I did not expect this at all. Even worse was reportedly on Twitter, her family had to break the news of her daughter’s death to her fans through a machine translated text:



Even HartManga offered their condolences, along with the last letter the editorial department wrote to both her family and supporters in the last chapter of ”Sakamoto”:

[To all readers]

The cartoonist Sanakami passed away on August 5.

"Is it Sakamoto?" " I would like to thank you for drawing wonderful comics such as "Migi and Dali" and pray for your soul.

To all readers, I would like to tell you the words from Mr. Sano's family and the editorial department. I would appreciate it if you could read it.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Youtube recommended this to me, and since it was only 10 minutes, I watched it. I've always been intrigued by this series because of its modern 2D mech animation, but I've heard the writing and politics aren't very good. So far, in this first episode, I enjoyed the mech fights and designs, and I also appreciated the use of wheeled vehicles in combat, especially that cool white truck. I like the setting of a war on Earth between several world powers, though I'm not very sold on the use of a battle AI. I'm looking forward to see how this unfolds. Hopefully it's just more cool mech battles like this episode, and hopefully they're able to write the war and politics better this time.

I didn't skip either the OP or ED for this, which is rare for me.

It would've been a great show if it had any sense of direction. Like there's a lot of based and redpilled moments about protecting your culture and heritage and the dangers of trusting the US, but you can clearly tell the studio wanted them to tone down the politics and put in random fujo fluff instead. Like for instance, there's an entire episode in season 1 where quite literally nothing important happens. No character development, nothing. Season 2 has a similar but slightly less offensive episode. The villains kind of sucked too, like the American team is literally just Graham Aker and Billy Katagiri from Gundam 00. Can't stand the protagonist either. Basically it's a confused attempt to make a classic politically charged "real robot" sort of show of the sort Ryousuke Takahashi (VOTOMS, Gasaraki, Dougram, etc.) used to make.

But yes, the fight scenes are some of the absolute best I've seen out of any recent mecha show with gorgeous choreography and nice grit to them. It's worth watching just for that.

I was initially interested by the premise and characters in Synduality Noir, but I skipped this week's episode and probably will pass on the show altogether. There's a lot of cringe from the MC and there isn't enough focus on world building to flesh it out more.

There's no direction for the plot at all, it's literally just "go some place, make money, meet some shady person, get into fight." And I keep getting weirded out how the Magus are basically slaves. It's never explained in the show why (gee, maybe that would be an interesting plot, eh, writers?), and the most recent episode is the closest thing the show has gotten to asking "is it really a good thing we treat these sentient robots as property to be bought or sold and commanded around at will? One of them is even a black guy lol, I bet even Japan in this day and age won't put him and his master in more episodes lol

 

[Generic Anime Girl]

What's the deal with Berserk? I saw how much people dick ride it, and I read up to the part where the skull knight shows up for the first time. I don't really like what I'm seeing so far, not content wise, just story wise. Is it overrated, or am I just not in on the hype?