Anime/Manga - Discuss Japanese cartoons and comics here; NO CULTURE WAR DOOMPOSTING!

[regalterry]

Funny how even Ash Ketchum graduated was retired, and yet, Detective Conan is still stagnant.

It's not so much an issue with crime procedurals in general, they usually tend to be fairly stagnant in terms of the overarching plot (if one even exists) and focus on the episode of the week, and it usually works because the main cast are adults, so it's easier to have time pass so the protagonist doesn't stumble upon a corpse, or several, every afternoon.

You can't do that with Conan, the character is a kid, and would eventually grow into a teenager if the writer was pacing the murders at logical intervals.

I understand why the author is unwilling to have the kids age, but he could have just as easily wrapped up the "protagonist was shrunk into a kid" plotline years ago and transitioned into Kudo and Sherry being (young) adults, and him still working as a detective, to keep pace with the fanbase of the manga growing up themselves.

It's not like anything about the formula would radically change other than dropping some gags that were stale 20 years ago.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

"How is watching two male characters kissing make people watch anime?"
"Anime?"

Seriously, who still watches Lazarus?

 

[Mysterious Girlfriend X]

May 5 is Detective Conan's birthday
View attachment 7320454

My favorite thing about Conan was its insane shift in tone from one case to another. One case had Conan investigating who vandalized the local high school baseball team's banner, and the next had someone thrown off a hotel balcony and impaled on a statue.

 

[The Token Ethnic]

Before Green Gables wasn't perfect, but at least it was a competent adaptation made by the same studio as the original (even if the Ghibli talent was long gone by 2009). I just didn't like how depressive the tone was, although that was kindov the point. Anne goes through some shit before getting adopted, it really makes you feel for her.

You're right about that. I'm 20 episodes into the original series, and the new one skips a lot of details, even though some episodes include filler or flashbacks. It doesn't feel that depressing to me, despite Anne going through so much, but maybe that's because the version I'm watching is an upscale on YouTube with audio in German or Castilian Spanish and subtitles in English. I like catching the differences and the original series is laid back. I really like how plucky and imaginative she is.

 

[PeruvianPerun]

It almost seems like everyday some of my favorite manga(s) are getting anime adaptations left and right and it gets hard to keep up over which one might be up next. Either way, I can’t wait to see how well this gets animated,

Senpais are absolutely insufferable. Kaoru is like every stupid trope condensed in one guy. I hoped we'll say goodbye to them after graduation but not only we keep tabs on them they as bad as in school. I guess author keeps his dancing midgets mantra "everybody is a hero of the story" but could we get more dads and less less those guys

 

[vern]

We're up to chapter 1143, Jesus Christ.

The whole plot has basically covered a mere 6 months. I have to wonder what the average daily murder rate in Conan's Japan is for him to stumble upon multiple murders in a single day, because there's been way more than 180 separate homicides in that timespan covered by the plot.

I have a running bet with a few people on which of the 3 big shonen magazines will end there +1000 chapter tent pole series first:
Jump with One Piece
Sunday with Conan
Or Magazine with Ippo

I think I have money on Ippo but its probably gonna be another decade before any of them end.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Also Conan's VA's birthday

 

[God of Nothing]

View attachment 7320806

"How is watching two male characters kissing make people watch anime?"
"Anime?"

Seriously, who still watches Lazarus?

did he just get raped by a nigger

 

[Atatata]

We're up to chapter 1143, Jesus Christ.

The whole plot has basically covered a mere 6 months. I have to wonder what the average daily murder rate in Conan's Japan is for him to stumble upon multiple murders in a single day, because there's been way more than 180 separate homicides in that timespan covered by the plot.

There's actually a spin off about a mystery nigga moving to the city and trying to survive around the ridiculous amount of crime.

It has a pretty fun opening.

 

[Anime=Tranime]

Kochikame: "Too many episodes and no plot, you say? *laughs*"

Funny how even Ash Ketchum graduated was retired, and yet, Detective Conan is still stagnant.

Unless you like the characters and can enjoy self contained episodic storytelling there is no reason to read Conan. Thou the frequent rotation of characters from individual case to case and the always expanding cast makes Conan one of the best of that typ of storytelling.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Looking back, I'm pretty sure the first animu I saw was the pocketmons one. The original show, back when it was Ash, Misty, and Brock (English dub on American broadcast TV).

Like I said earlier, I stopped keeping up with the animus when Ash and the gang were stuck in the Orange Islands and Brock was replaced with Tracy. Maybe I was disappointed that Ash made it to the big leagues -- literally -- only to lose and then he ends up in the Orange Islands with that wandering around GS Ball plot that did not go anywhere.

 

[Lone MacReady II]

You're right about that. I'm 20 episodes into the original series, and the new one skips a lot of details, even though some episodes include filler or flashbacks. It doesn't feel that depressing to me, despite Anne going through so much, but maybe that's because the version I'm watching is an upscale on YouTube with audio in German or Castilian Spanish and subtitles in English. I like catching the differences and the original series is laid back. I really like how plucky and imaginative she is.

I won't spoil anything because the writing is so quality, but the fact that Anne actually grows up mentally is a really cool thing about it. She clearly "matures" as the series goes on, perhaps a loss of innocence, but she isn't stagnant.

Despite rushing it....the animation looks pretty, I will say.

If you watch the old show, you'll see the difference in just the first episode. The nippon animation team actually went to Prince Edward Island to make sure the victorian homes and school house were authentic, and they often included moments of cooking and stoking the wood burning stoves, or drawing water from a well to emphasize the 1870s period... Anne Shirley looks so budget by comparison, like one of those OVAs done to advertise a moped or car. Again, they apparently don't have the time to expand on the world. I don't think there's even been one moment of a character drawing water for the sink or replacing the fire in the stove.

 

[vern]

Kochikame: "Too many episodes and no plot, you say? *laughs*"

Funny how even Ash Ketchum graduated was retired, and yet, Detective Conan is still stagnant.

Thing about Conan is I'm pretty sure it'll end up like the other weekend anime like Doraemon and Sazae-san which will long outlive their manga and their creator. I also checked an anime filer list and out of the most recent 100 episodes of Conan, only about 30 where adapted from the manga, the rest where anime original filer cases.

I also vaguely recall something where Aoyama said he's had the final case/arc planned where Shinichi finds out who the leader of the the organization who turned him into a kid (which is still apparently one of the main characters) for a long time now.
But because the series had literally become one of the most popular IPs in Japan's history, he felt like he needed to keep writing it so long as people keep reading the manga and watching the anime.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

View attachment 7320806

"How is watching two male characters kissing make people watch anime?"
"Anime?"

Seriously, who still watches Lazarus?

Apparently there was no kiss? I have no idea whats going on.

 

[biglurker]

Finished two animes recently.

Revolutionary Girl Utena is.. surprisingly kino? Its basically theater kids the anime, but it works very well. The art is great, the drama is fun, and the music is good (with every fight having its own song). Surprisingly straight considering commiefaggots hold it up as some sort of lesbian masterpiece (literally like 3 gays max if you count a prison gay who drops it during an arc). Utena herself isn't even gay in all 39 episodes of the anime.
The movie on the other hand... is alright. It is essentially a soft-reboot that tries to put what would be around 12 episodes minimum of drama and avante garde story telling into a 80 minute film. The art is insanely strong, and it picks up midway through. It still needed either more time or less plot points that kind of just come and go. Story wise, it would have made more sense if it was all a huge wish fulfillment trap laid out by Akio to regain control over Anthy. Maybe keep the implied unrequited love from Anthy to Tenjo at the end instead of making Utena a lesbian. Everything felt more like a collection of fan service than a proper finale for the series. Its UNFORGIVABLE offense though was its LACK OF CHU-CHU! HE IS BARELY IN THE FILM 0/10!! >: (

Abenobashi is pretty decent. Arumi just brings the show down since she has the Nadia problem of having barely any development and constantly complaining. It would have been fun had she got the same amount of shit Sasshi gets through the series. I got to say though, I like Gainax ending the series with "You know what? The Otaku does win. Fuck you." at the last minute. It does make feel like it ends an episode early, but I get what they were going for with Sasshi managing to make everyone happy once he stopped thinking of himself.

 

[BiggestKai]

Dinner Table Detective is fun if you're into crime mysteries, really retarded detective duos and mega seyiuu overacting. Two (dumbass) heirs to mega rich families moonlight as police detectives, and one of them(who keeps her identity hidden) has a mega smart butler who helps her out with the mysteries while being smug about it.

My headcanon is that this would have been Psycho Pass' Akane Tsunemori in an alternate universe since they share a voice actor.

Drawbacks, the subs seem to take some liberties with the other detective who uses some Engrish, the subs instead uses Italian words like Si and Capiche, and I have not been able to find alternatives.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Magical Girl and Narco Wars (MyAnimeList) (Baka-Updates)

Fresh new simulpub on Manga Plus, or your pirate sites.

 

[Hammr2]

Dinner Table Detective is fun if you're into crime mysteries,

I feel like it's more of comedy aspect in it, otherwise I don't feel like all the crime solving has enough hints for audience to figure it out. The butler just figures out everything, even the twist in all testimonies. More serious crime mystery relative recently is Kamonohashi Ron.

The whole Italian speech from Miyano's detective character is current days localization. Even when he says "Hai"/"yes" normally, it still translates into "Si" instead. Not just him, but there are few other lines also being localized instead too, so whatever.
The other show in this season also with localization is Apocalypse Hotel, an extermination bot says "daze" at the end of his sentence being translated into "Babeh". Or when Tanukian pretended to be human and only said "they are human/Earthlings" in JP. Localization has to add "take us to your leader" right after it in English.

I find oujo-sama is more of reference to Kana Hanazawa spoiled and super lucky oujo-sama in Binbougami. Some ecchi in video.

Not quite related Binbougami also features an upstanding and hard working immigrant man, Bobby.

 

[McMitch]

I have a running bet with a few people on which of the 3 big shonen magazines will end there +1000 chapter tent pole series first:
Jump with One Piece
Sunday with Conan
Or Magazine with Ippo

I think I have money on Ippo but its probably gonna be another decade before any of them end.

One Piece won’t even make it to 2030. I have my doubts it will make it past 2028. Of the three, it’s the only one whose author is actively trying to end.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

One Piece won’t even make it to 2030. I have my doubts it will make it past 2028. Of the three, it’s the only one whose author is actively trying to end.

Nah dude, it'll finish in the 2030s due to how Oda's scheduling and pacing works, on top of some breaks that definitely pushed the end goal's end date further down the road.

But also I have a feeling Jump wants it to stay as long as narratively possible because once One Piece ends, that's a HUUUUUUUGE hole left behind that they'll never recover from. Hell, they haven't been able to quite fill in that Dragon Ball hole despite their best(?) efforts.