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And finished with the first tv run of Gintama. 201 episodes that helped me through some tough times in my personal life. It's not the best shonen ever, but it is consistently entertaining and manages to land great jokes and emotional moments more than not. Ending on a Christmas episode and the Onmyoji arcs were a great note.
draggs said:
Hearing 'If you can visualize it perfectly you can do it that's magic full stop' over and over again is getting a little grating in Frieren

But "It's dark, it's scary!" will never get old
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Sorry to quote again, but after watching the last episode, I dislike that magic basically became Jojo powers after being more standard DnD spells. I don't have an issue with the idea of people specializing in some element of magic (though a big plot hole this raises is why the tests seem to be based entirely on offensive magic when you'd probably want to have mages that can do support as well, or people focusing on just one that can be very dependent on the battlefield), but when it becomes "the person is crazy so his magic is more potent" it's just being retarded. In general this arc is really outstaying its welcome and pushes the power level too fucking much to the point the question is why even have non mages when mages can do frontline attack and healing just as well. Which funnily enough is a problem in DnD.
 
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Ghost of Ted Kaczynski said:
Don't let them ruin it for you. It's not the same without Miura, but it's not THAT bad. Mori is probably still adjusting to it. The issue people have is how little dialogue there is in the 10 or so chapters he's done so far. "They don't understand Guts' character" is a retarded take that I can't really explain without spoiling half the story. If it doesn't pick up in the next arc (It was in the middle of a transition when Miura died) then I'll let the perpetually angry at everything crowd get their W, but it's to soon to tell.

Give it a go. 363 chapters of actual grade A kino with some okay continuation by the mans friend.

And if you are of the opinion that the new chapters are unreadably bad, then the last Miura chapter is almost a perfect ending anyway.
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It's been 10 episodes, fren. They aren't doing a good job. Guts doesn't even think about Casca when he loses her again, just about his sword, which he never held an emotional attachment to.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
And finished with the first tv run of Gintama. 201 episodes that helped me through some tough times in my personal life. It's not the best shonen ever, but it is consistently entertaining and manages to land great jokes and emotional moments more than not. Ending on a Christmas episode and the Onmyoji arcs were a great note.
Direct link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FE_o0a2IqsM
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When will Madao Bloom?

But yeah most fans will say that the 2006 Gintama anime is the weakest one out of the entire series but I adore these episodes. There's a certain charm that this season has in how scrappy it is in comparison to the rest of the series (4:3 in 2009, the "fuck we're out of money episodes", etc.) which is gone in the later seasons because Sunrise gave the show kind of a budget.
 
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PS1gamenwatch said:
Voice of Maruko also passed away

Not a very good week for the anime industry

RIP

Say hi to Akira Toriyama for us
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The real downside to this is that due to Toriyama’s sudden death announcement, this woman‘s death will be overshadowed. It should be pointed out that TARAKO voiced Maruko-chan for over 35 years, and that’s not something that should be glossed over.

Even in real time, she was a good, semi-popular singer that stuck to the character’s personality through thick and thin:


It should also be pointed out that the real mangaka artist for this one, Momoko Sakura, passed away five years ago due to breast cancer. Her manga was on record being compared to the already iconic and famous children’s anime Sazae-san and (to an extent) Crayon Shin-chan.

Either way, two well-known figures even with one of them not as impactful as the main figure that revolutionized the shōnen genre as his own is something that most people would not expect.
 
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biozeminadae1 said:
Guts doesn't even think about Casca when he loses her again, just about his sword, which he never held an emotional attachment to.
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People spent a year saying "Miura is a master", "Irreplicable", "The GOAT" etc. etc. following his death... But then they quickly forgot that and flocked to an inferior product seemingly in desperate need to consoomerize something. It's a damn shame Miura died as Berserk was going through a boom (despite the horrid quality of the preceding 2016/17 CGI shows), but the master is gone now. I personally have no interest in reading someone else's interpretation of Miura's vision, and via a discounted Miura artstyle no less.
 
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Lone MacReady II said:
People spent a year saying "Miura is a master", "Irreplicable", "The GOAT" etc. etc. following his death... But then they quickly forgot that and flocked to an inferior product seemingly in desperate need to consoomerize something. It's a damn shame Miura died as Berserk was going through a boom (despite the horrid quality of the preceding 2016/17 CGI shows), but the master is gone now. I personally have no interest in reading someone else's interpretation of Miura's vision, and via a discounted Miura artstyle no less.
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I understand. I think Mori should have said no to studio Gaga's enthusiasm to continue Berserk. A book detailing what he remembers Miura told him accompanied with illustrations would have been enough. It probably wasn't going to be very thick, though, as I suspect he only knew a rough outline. And the events could have been altered later by Miura.
 
Miura's death hit me harder, but that was more because Berserk would never be truly finished. It's sad Toriyama's gone yet inevitable. Surprised he lasted that long, to be honest. I wonder how much he had planned for Super.
 
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Why does it take .hack//Sign until the halfway point for things to actually get interesting (i.e. the plot)? I'm glad a friend is watching it with me, every time I attempted to watch it, I kept getting bored/distracted elsewhere. The designs are neat and all that, but holy hell is it slow. I also just realized no one talks to each other naturally, not sure if that's by design or if the dub-script is that clunky.

Really odd anime.
 
Lone MacReady II said:
People spent a year saying "Miura is a master", "Irreplicable", "The GOAT" etc. etc. following his death... But then they quickly forgot that and flocked to an inferior product seemingly in desperate need to consoomerize something. It's a damn shame Miura died as Berserk was going through a boom (despite the horrid quality of the preceding 2016/17 CGI shows), but the master is gone now. I personally have no interest in reading someone else's interpretation of Miura's vision, and via a discounted Miura artstyle no less.
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I didn't. I'm sticking to what Miura wrote, anything else is fanfiction, simple as.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Why does it take .hack//Sign until the halfway point for things to actually get interesting (i.e. the plot)? I'm glad a friend is watching it with me, every time I attempted to watch it, I kept getting bored/distracted elsewhere. The designs are neat and all that, but holy hell is it slow. I also just realized no one talks to each other naturally, not sure if that's by design or if the dub-script is that clunky.

Really odd anime.
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A lot of Japanese anime don't have much dialogue. Probably because the average Japanese is rather demure.
 
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Watched Watamote a week ago since I wondered why out of so many shows, this was one of the few Josh liked. I know why Josh likes it now, and conversely I dislike it for the same reason: weeb bully struggle sessions. It is cringe. Funny at times, but... I felt hurt in some ways.
 
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Watched Watamote a week ago since I wondered why out of so many shows, this was one of the few Josh liked. I know why Josh likes it now, and conversely I dislike it for the same reason: weeb bully struggle sessions. It is cringe. Funny at times, but... I felt hurt in some ways.
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Socially awkward shows need to be just enough cringe to be relatable but not too much to be painful/retarded. Watamote was a bit too cringe for me.
 
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
Socially awkward shows need to be just enough cringe to be relatable but not too much to be painful/retarded. Watamote was a bit too cringe for me.
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I think you said it. It's not the worst thing I've ever watched, just very cringe. I get it was supposed to hold up a mirror for the average weeb, it just at some points felt mean spirited about it.

There were a lot of funny moments though, like her getting a VN for her ps3, and passing out with a sex toy she win at bingo, and her dad just tucks her into bed and tries to bleach his mind. That was funny shit man.
 
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God of Nothing said:
it was so literally me i was depressed afterward
they captured teenage angst, edginess, and cringe so perfectly
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I mean they did. I just think they captured the teenage cringe angle far too hard. I wish there was more funny, because when it was trying to make you laugh, it didn't disappoint.
 
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