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Xenomorphs Are Cute
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She seems obsessive, idk I'm like 10 episodes in but from what I can gather ataru loves shinobu but lum is obsessed with him cause of the marriage declaration in the first episode and she wants to get away from men on her planet namely rei. Ataru is forced to side with her due to situations warranting it, not because he wants to. I don't know how that is him cheating, he may be a womanizer but I don't think he likes lum outside of an obsession with tits.
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there was a mid-ish anime called B the beginning awhile ago that had an ED made from a member from megadeth
There's Steve Conte, an American guy who's worked with Yoko Kanno on almost every song she's done that has English lyrics (i.e some tracks from bebop, wolfs rain OP, Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG ED)
Don't know if it counts but these this Australian guy who is making a few anime OST, iirc he's the one he did the Made in Abyss soundtrack and recently worked on the apothecary diaries and new spice and wolf OSTs
But if we're also counting licensed songs, off the top of my head
Mushishi had two from a Scottish and English singer-songwriter respectively
Jojo has a lot
Ergo Proxy used Radiohead
Eva used a frank Sinatra cover
BECK used a Beatles song
One Piece Film Z used Avril Lavigne
Edit: hang on one more, does interstella 5555 count as an anime or just a music video Daft Punk made and that just so happened to have toei animate and Leiji direct it.
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It'd be funny considering that had all the elves genocided, but elves were around before that, surely.
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Gonna continue to
Kanjuro
Tomohisa Harada
Harald Hoerwick
Ferio
Also he being the voice of Muu Aries is only true from 2005-onward. Three of the four characters I added were from before 2005, there should be no excuse.
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It was perfectly serviceable for what it was and managed to stick the landing, just for that it deserves a kudos even if it dragged along at the end and a bit of the main series started putting it's retarded tendrils into it.
Honestly, the perfect Naruto is a bit of a pipedream due to the demands of weekly publishing and needing to keep the hype up. Closest I can think of is Full Metal Alchemist and that's a very different beast with a much more compressed story. Closest you are getting is OP and though by far the most consistent shounen accounting for how long it's been serialized, it has some pretty mean valleys to go with it's peaks.
Magi suffered the same fate as they all do, started out great, but after the heel turn with everyone getting brainwashed it really devolved. It's also a series that really shows how it kind of changed in scope since initially the gimmick was exploring dungeons and plundering the riches and then become geopolitics up the ass. It did have a solid level of worldbuilding and should definitely be commended for that, but it really did try to bite more than it could chew.
Guess this is the difference between a bulk reader and a (bi)weekly reader... Kaiju 8 has been absolute shit for the most part for the last 5 months of so where events that can be covered in an episode or 2 have been stretched to high hell. It started out great, but the mangaka has 0 sense of pacing and I assure you now that you are up to date, unless shit actually gets real, you will start noticing how many nothing chapters come and go.
Jesus fuck, that gave me shivers... Loran is catnip for the standard tranny...
Although I definitely want Frieren to reunite with Himmel in some form, I do also hope that it's not something super permanent and suggary (outside reuniting in death), just a chunk of time to set things straight with Himmel and have a proper goodbye is all I want.
I was honestly fascinated with Darling in the Franxx, not as a mecha anime mind you, but I did enjoy the ending of the series when society basically collapsed and they had to rebuild. Same kind of happened with Eureka 7... another mecha anime where the mecha are the least engaging part. I'm honestly very out of touch when it comes to mecha anime in general outside of the classics, last one I saw was Macross Delta... was meh and I completely passed on Witch of Mercury (is it worth watching or is it just yuribait?) and more "hotblooded" mecha like Gao Gai Gar I assume are relics of the past now.
... people really chimped out about that one? Made a lot of sense for her arc and gave you the extra kudos that you were able to break her invisible barrier, and it was one, it's not like she was the town bicicle.
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I've highlighted the ones that I agree on from the prior post. I don't really pay much attention to the days, but here I go.
- Undead Unluck, it starts pretty aimless and kind of meh, but once it picks up it doesn't let go, it's one of my weekly highlights. Basically, it's about people that can "negate" the rules of reality, main characters are Unluck and Undead, unluck negates any form of luck and it's stronger the more she likes you and Undead cannot die. Starts off with Undead trying to hook up with Unluck to see if she can generate bad luck strong enough to kill him for real. After that shenanigans ensue, lots of them.
- Make the Exorcist Fall in Love, this one has a big barrier that everyone is drawn like if they were kids, so the art style may grate you. It has gotten pretty intense more than a couple of times and had the single most fucked up chapter I've seen in a shounen Jump (lunch with the Lord of Flies). Basically, it's a child raised from day 1 as an exorcist to deal with the seven greater demons that represent the seven deadly sins and Lucifer himself. There's a romance undercurrent as well under it, but it never feels wholy innocent.
- Sakamoto Days is peak action, some of the best drawn stuff out there. Dandadan is the king of the two page spread, well Sakamoto is the king of the dynamic action panel. Basically, a super pro assassin fell in love and left the killer life to get hitched, had a daughter and runs a convenience store, turns out leaving assassin life and that clear and cut and even though now he's a fat ojisan with a horrible mustache, fucker can still move.
As for more chill series, Blooming Love and You and I are Polar Opposites are both pretty comfy romance manga, no big stakes, no big dramas. Both are boy meets girl sort of affairs. Blooming Love is more "mature" though mostly because they are older and Polar Opposites is more sacarine and more fun.
And then Witch Watch, if you ever read Sket Dance, it's from the same guy and it's a similar rythm, bunch of commedy focused stupid chapters and a few serious ones sprinkled in between.
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The first final Haikyu!! movie is going to be released in the western countries. Overall the box office situation is insane. Earnings from Japan alone are over 60 million and surpassed there The Boy and the Heron or Spy x Family.
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I did notice the pacing lol. Yes it's fucking slow rn. It's still Kaiju action my brain craves.
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Eureka 7 is actually probably my favorite all time Anime.
And Witch from Mercury was pretty good. The first season is a slow burn but it really kicks it up in season 2. As per the show being Yuri bait? Its really kind of weird. It was pretty clear they were just trend chasing with that.
Both of the female leads are pretty bland and their romance is virtually non-existent until they end up unceremoniously married at the end (you don't even see the wedding, they just have wedding rings on in the epilogue). Meanwhile Guel, who's kind of played up as the rival to Suletta, is the more traditional gundam Protag and it shows, he's got the best arc out of everyone, goes through the most shit, and comes out and probably the most liked character.
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I do get the hankering to see it again every once in a while, but never commit to it. The strong themes of family are why surprised me the most out of it. It just seemed at the start like a mecha anime about "being cool and stylish" but by god does it deviate hard from that first impression.
Mmm, well, I haven't watched a lot of gundam, odds are I could tackle something else before this. Last gundam by release that I saw was Gundam 00 which started great and then went completely off the rails. And never saw X or unicorn for example. Hell, my understanding is that Turn A is the last anime from the standard timeline, but where does something like Seed, 00 and Witch of Mercury fall between each other?
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I had just turned 14 (same age as Renton) when it aired, and my family had just moved to a shitty little retirement town in Colorado where I didn't know anyone and it was snowed in 9 months of the year, so I could immediately relate to the feelings of "this town sucks" and I just wanna get out.
I rewatched the show a few years later when I was closer to Dominick and Anemone's ages and their storyline resonated as well.
Same a few years later when I was Holland's age. Kinda had a different appreciation for the show and the characters each time.
As per where WoTM falls?
I prefer SEED as a war story. Granted I'm also not the most versed on Gundam.
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Maybe i'm aging out, but it seems there are fewer and fewer shows worth watching every season. I used to have several a day but now i'm lucky to have 1. Or maybe anime is going to shit? I'm tired of everything being censored and toned down to appease western audiences. mahou shoujo ni akogarete was refreshing because it went all out and didn't hold back. The new kenshin was shit, everything feels generic and the same. Good shows also seem to go on for far too long, take too long to produce and will never finish in my or the authors lifetime (made in abyss).
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For me, it's a combination of that and just getting burnt out trying to keep up with seasonal shows. Most of what I was picking up I would only watch a few episodes of, then get distracted/pulled away by life and then don't return to them for years. I had to eventually concede that I just wasn't able to watch something weekly anymore and will only pick something if it interests me, and usually only after it finished airing. I think the last anime I even watched weekly all the way through was Godzilla S.P., simply because it's Godzilla and I was watching it with a brother, and Higurashi Shitsugou because I had so many things to say every week.
And those simply weren't enough to get back into weekly viewings. I just don't have the fortitude for that anymore.
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While I do think the quality of seasonals went down overall, there are still some banger seasonals that do get the love and attention put into them. This season is dry for me unless I finally decide to get off my ass and watch Konosuba S3, but last season there were so many seasonals, I didn't really have time to watch any of the older shows I was watching beforehand. If there's a season with barely anything going on, just spend the time watching older anime until something worthwhile pops up next season. Also taking gambles with original anime that don't have a manga they are adapting was probably the best thing I did when it came to seasonals. DIY, Bravern, and Maid War are great examples of shows that I decided to start watching on a whim but ended up becoming great shows to watch during the season.
Sotsugou sucked so much ass it scared me straight from seasonals for a while. I was there in the trenches with you when it was being posted in this thread (and then subsequently the 07th Expansion thread once that opened up) and I've never felt my time wasted to such an extent.
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Sadly she's worried about altering the future, since future-kids are precious to her too now, so she has to stay pretty tight-lipped. The party does figure it out/she tells them after being forced to use some future magic, so they help her no questions asked because Himmel's just like that. But at least she gets to hang out with them again for a few months. No doubt the anime will crank up the sweetness slider for all this.
But like I said I doubt we've seen the last of time travel and I bet she'll end up giving a real goodbye to elderly h.dogg after he returns to the stele or something. Though that might be a while since it's ostensibly why she's going to Aureole in the first place.
But like I said I doubt we've seen the last of time travel and I bet she'll end up giving a real goodbye to elderly h.dogg after he returns to the stele or something. Though that might be a while since it's ostensibly why she's going to Aureole in the first place.
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Bravern, probably one of the better seasonals in recent memory, was ultimately quite mediocre. I think the issue is the seasonal format itself. Shows that would make really good OVAs (Strain, Viper's Creed) are stretched out and have lacklustre visuals, and shows that really deserve a full 50 episodes (Galaxy Railways, G-Reco) are cut too short. On top of that, it feels like seasonals are now intended as cheap, throwaway entertainment more than ever, so they push out a lot of mediocre stuff rather than refining a few shows to excellence.
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Yeah, I'm having a hard time remembering the last time an anime made me feel like it was a complete waste of time. There's mediocre and bad anime that stumble around, but you could argue there was something about them that had potential that made you stick around or had some unintentionally funny moments. Like I recently watched .hack//Sign with a friend and that's a whooooole lot of nothing but standing around talking about shit that didn't really matter. However, the setting was actually pretty neat and there were some moments that got some laughs out of us even though that wasn't the intent because "No one reads the message boards!" (I mean, the characters kinda do, but they asked so many stupid questions that we automatically assumed they never actually bothered to read the message boards.)
Shitsugou being as bad as it was makes me want to go back and rewatch Mayoiga because that was rather infamously bad watching weekly, and yet I could at least say there was some entertainment out of it, and it might've actually been made like it was an indie B-movie you'd watch with friends on movie night.