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I do like Black Swordsman. It’s a good epilogue for Guts and although the kid shit is creepy it’s done in a way where it’s not quite Made in Abyss levels where I feel like the authors hard drive needs to get searched. The entire arc is about abuse and Jill is the main character.

I just feel like the whole “Oh, Guts is someone who’s birth defied fate and is kind of a free agent because of this” element is one of those things that’ll never be satisfying and Muira had no clue how to make it satisfying. It’s not like LOTR where Tolkien made Gollum destroy the ring (although God literally intervened to push him off balance). It just felt like a metal album cover series where the art is fantastic, but ultimately the story is not that deep.
 
HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
I do like Black Swordsman. It’s a good epilogue for Guts and although the kid shit is creepy it’s done in a way where it’s not quite Made in Abyss levels where I feel like the authors hard drive needs to get searched. The entire arc is about abuse and Jill is the main character.

I just feel like the whole “Oh, Guts is someone who’s birth defied fate and is kind of a free agent because of this” element is one of those things that’ll never be satisfying and Muira had no clue how to make it satisfying. It’s not like LOTR where Tolkien made Gollum destroy the ring (although God literally intervened to push him off balance). It just felt like a metal album cover series where the art is fantastic, but ultimately the story is not that deep.
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Wait what? Did Berserk end or something?
 
HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
I do like Black Swordsman. It’s a good epilogue for Guts and although the kid shit is creepy it’s done in a way where it’s not quite Made in Abyss levels where I feel like the authors hard drive needs to get searched. The entire arc is about abuse and Jill is the main character.

I just feel like the whole “Oh, Guts is someone who’s birth defied fate and is kind of a free agent because of this” element is one of those things that’ll never be satisfying and Muira had no clue how to make it satisfying. It’s not like LOTR where Tolkien made Gollum destroy the ring (although God literally intervened to push him off balance). It just felt like a metal album cover series where the art is fantastic, but ultimately the story is not that deep.
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Pretty sure the entire thing was that Guts has been struggling against fate for all of his life. Even the ending of Black Swordsman reveals Guts is condemned to hell for being slightly involved with the apostles.
BiggestKai said:
Wait what? Did Berserk end or something?
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he meant it as a hypothetical one, like how its the beginning and end of the original anime
 
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Centuria is pretty good. The insane necromancer dyke has been a highlight, her reactions are gold.

I do not care that much for Ragna Crimson, I don’t know how to express it, but I dislike battle shonen like it. Most of the character aren’t entertaining and are just way too tropey.
 
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I just read the first chapter of MAD, and FUCK bro I’m in.
Insanely awesome alien xenomorph monsters? Check.
The fucking apocalypse? Check.
Good art? Check.
No weird shit yet? Check.
If this keeps up, we may have a certified banger in the works here.
 
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VeteranOfTheRetardWars said:
I just read the first chapter of MAD, and FUCK bro I’m in.
Insanely awesome alien xenomorph monsters? Check.
The fucking apocalypse? Check.
Good art? Check.
No weird shit yet? Check.
If this keeps up, we may have a certified banger in the works here.
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It falls into that type of story, which seems exclusive to manga, of a very specific type of cynicism. Character lives are cheap and every promise of catharsis is inevitably betrayed with the reader. You saw it with Gantz, and Terraformars, and Fire Punch, and Chainsawman part 1. A lot of them fall into the trap where they overplay this specific strategy and you can pick it out right away after you've read literally any other series in the same type of cynicism, which MAD falls into hard but doesn't have the bevy of characters that usually drags things into cliché territory.

It's at that half way point between pretty okay to good.
 
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I hope that it's nothing too serious.

She got married on October 2nd, 2023 so an unspecified "health condition" could be a codeword for pregnancy/(partial) maternity leave, if, for whatever reason, she wanted to keep that private.
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Kinda odd, although it might be some complication in her case.
Earlier this year, Mikako Komatsu and Tomoaki Maeno announced their second child birth and they even said it way before that.
Meanwhile, Yui Ishikawa straight up announced her first born exactly on Mother's day in May. She had three main protag roles (more like two and a half) in last season.
 
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Doraemon
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Finding up to date English subs for this is a pain in the ass. Especially the pre-2005 movies.
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Could someone tell me what's up with fairy tail? It has a ton of episodes and is pushed aggressively by Netflix but no one talks about it.
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It's the living stereotype of everything mocked in shonen. Totally brainless fights the heroes always win by screaming about le power of friendship. Four faces and personalities recycled between every character. Uncontrolled ecchislop that borders on fetish territory. Basically the anime equivalent of MCU writing.
 
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The greater a'tuin said:
It's the living stereotype of everything mocked in shonen. Totally brainless fights the heroes always win by screaming about le power of friendship. Four faces and personalities recycled between every character. Uncontrolled ecchislop that borders on fetish territory. Basically the anime equivalent of MCU writing.
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So how in the world did the creator go from Rave Master to Fairy Tail, then?
 
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