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I'd put Shut-in's Elf books in giant quotation marks. It's also nice that modern anime elves tend to be very based and without the racial supremacy, both big issues with Western Elves.

vern said:
That reminds me something I've been tempted to try out, how many of you remember any show you watched last year, i.e. winter 2023
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I forgot how lackluster winter 2023 was after Bocchi and Akiba Maid War being absolute kino.
 
I want to recommend a horror manga that I've been following for a while and has been getting some traction on /a/ recently

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This is Urabaito. It's a horror manga with a fairly off-beat sense of humor and a very fitting art style. It's pretty different, has a great atmosphere and a really likable protagonist duo. The title is a play on "Arubaito" or part-time work, the protagonists take on "Gray" jobs that involve supernatural and often incredibly dangerous or weird things but that pay very well because of the danger and secrecy involved. Jobs usually are done in three chapter stories on average and vary from them being security guards at a spooky office to being shrine maidens at a shrine that is visited by rich and powerful people for some reason...

Anyways I think it's a pretty great series with a unique sense of humor and horror atmosphere and very creative supernatural threats and monsters, monsters is kind of the wrong word a lot of the time though since the "Gray" entity or job can be much more vague than that. Hama and Yume are both good protagonists on their own as well.
 
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HexFag said:
I feel like whoever did the TTGL manga took a lot of cues from Mizukami (Spirit Circle, Biscuit Hammer, Sengoku Youko).
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Fitting, they are very similar in spirit.

Speaking of Mizukami, episode 2 of Sengoku Youko is out and it's actually good. I hope the generic start doesn't prevent people from finding out about this gem, but I'm used to Mizukami filtering the normies.
 
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Ensok said:
I want to recommend a horror manga that I've been following for a while and has been getting some traction on /a/ recently

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This is Urabaito. It's a horror manga with a fairly off-beat sense of humor and a very fitting art style. It's pretty different, has a great atmosphere and a really likable protagonist duo. The title is a play on "Arubaito" or part-time work, the protagonists take on "Gray" jobs that involve supernatural and often incredibly dangerous or weird things but that pay very well because of the danger and secrecy involved. Jobs usually are done in three chapter stories on average and vary from them being security guards at a spooky office to being shrine maidens at a shrine that is visited by rich and powerful people for some reason...

Anyways I think it's a pretty great series with a unique sense of humor and horror atmosphere and very creative supernatural threats and monsters, monsters is kind of the wrong word a lot of the time though since the "Gray" entity or job can be much more vague than that. Hama and Yume are both good protagonists on their own as well.
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This is actually right up there with my recent favorite horror releases. The other ones were “The 100 Ghost Stories That Led To My Death”, “Kaya-chan isn’t scary” and “Fuan no Tane”, which was the prequel to the then popular “PTSD Radio” manga.

If anything, Ura Baito is probaly the rare one where the comedic mix of both humor and horror together can make you laugh while not being scared of the wicked artistry that is seen in the manga:

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I watched season 1 of JJK. Honestly really liked it. Very Shonen, lots of fights, but it also has a pretty solid story. Also todo is my spirit animal
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"Oh you like tall women with a big ass? You are my brother in Christ now." I love this man.

Also like the cursed abilities. It's not just throwing energy balls around like retards.
 
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Anyone try watching that Monsters 103 thing netflix made. Definitely felt like it was a oneshot and definitely felt like some of oda's really early one piece arcs (i.e way before they even got to the grand line, maybe even before characters like sanji or usopp where introduced) albeit somewhat weaker.
I kinda think this was a test if anything to see if they can adapt early one piece.

Although then again their making an anime based on a golf manga that was in shonen jump 25 years ago because it was made by the same author as 7 deadly sins which is somehow still popular on netflix, so its probably them just trying to milk name recognition from a few mangaka.
 
Hikari no Ou got a second season somehow and it still looks like absolute ass, and I'm the kind usually less caring on animation quality. It looks like those cheap 70's anime only with modern pc painting and it throws once in a while an image from the base novel that looks so pretty it might as well be a different series. Also doesn't help the pacing is rushed. Kind of a shame because it looks interesting.
 
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Hikari no Ou got a second season somehow and it still looks like absolute ass, and I'm the kind usually less caring on animation quality. It looks like those cheap 70's anime only with modern pc painting and it throws once in a while an image from the base novel that looks so pretty it might as well be a different series. Also doesn't help the pacing is rushed. Kind of a shame because it looks interesting.
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That's depressing because I was interested when S1 was coming out and I heard it had pretty rough animation back then, so seeing that it has WORSE animation sucks.
vern said:
Anyone try watching that Monsters 103 thing netflix made. Definitely felt like it was a oneshot and definitely felt like some of oda's really early one piece arcs (i.e way before they even got to the grand line, maybe even before characters like sanji or usopp where introduced) albeit somewhat weaker.
I kinda think this was a test if anything to see if they can adapt early one piece.

Although then again their making an anime based on a golf manga that was in shonen jump 25 years ago because it was made by the same author as 7 deadly sins which is somehow still popular on netflix, so its probably them just trying to milk name recognition from a few mangaka.
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I watched it and it was alright. I don't think Studio WIT is behind this so it being "a test run for remaking early one piece" doesn't really make sense. Not sure if anybody else had this issue but NETFLIX not subtitling the names is pretty fucking gay. I never use NETFLIX for anime or really anything unless I'm too lazy to download it but I don't know how anybody could watch anime on that website, it's legit atrocious.
 
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Hikari no Ou got a second season somehow and it still looks like absolute ass, and I'm the kind usually less caring on animation quality. It looks like those cheap 70's anime only with modern pc painting and it throws once in a while an image from the base novel that looks so pretty it might as well be a different series. Also doesn't help the pacing is rushed. Kind of a shame because it looks interesting.
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Funny enough mamoru oshii is involved with this series but he's only writing for it and is doing nothing on the animation side.
 
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HexFag said:
That's depressing because I was interested when S1 was coming out and I heard it had pretty rough animation back then, so seeing that it has WORSE animation sucks.

I watched it and it was alright. I don't think Studio WIT is behind this so it being "a test run for remaking early one piece" doesn't really make sense. Not sure if anybody else had this issue but NETFLIX not subtitling the names is pretty fucking gay. I never use NETFLIX for anime or really anything unless I'm too lazy to download it but I don't know how anybody could watch anime on that website, it's legit atrocious.
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Yeah that's an issue people have be pointing out and it seems to be an issue with whatever shoftsubbing program netflix uses since if god forbit you watch the english dub without subtitles, the names get subtitled (same for most of the other foreign language dubs) but if you want to watch it in Japanese only the fucking spanish subs translates their names.

So TLDR whoever encoded this is dumb and might actually make a case for hardsubs considering how much the fucked it up
 
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