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The pacing and animation in the latest season of Shield Hero are a real letdown. Also has a lot of very arbitrary deviations from the novels. Very much a letdown. Season 2 rushed through stuff, to the point where Season 3 had to retcon some events. Season 4 is instead moving at a very relaxed pace.

I hate 12 episode seasons so much.
 
Namakura Gatana from 1917 - the oldest surviving anime.

Does it hold up or not?
 
Odd question for the thread.

Is it me, or do manga books become "out of print" or "collectors items" in a short time, seemingly at random?

Years ago I was reading Appleseed and a few volumes in, it suddenly disappeared from shelves and was asking triple digit prices online. A one off, I thought, since the book has been in print since it was brought to the west. In a local comic shop, manga will be mostly complete on the shelf, then one day 1-5 will disappear, and be asking five times the cover price online. Sometimes the book in question is a year or two old, or worse, is still being published.
 
Judge Dredd said:
Odd question for the thread.

Is it me, or do manga books become "out of print" or "collectors items" in a short time, seemingly at random?

Years ago I was reading Appleseed and a few volumes in, it suddenly disappeared from shelves and was asking triple digit prices online. A one off, I thought, since the book has been in print since it was brought to the west. In a local comic shop, manga will be mostly complete on the shelf, then one day 1-5 will disappear, and be asking five times the cover price online. Sometimes the book in question is a year or two old, or worse, is still being published.
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Combination of manga still selling very low units and most publishers still use the batch printing method.

The way most publishers sell books is, doing an initial printing, store them in a warehouse to be shipped from, have each individual book store or online seller order how ever many they want in stock, and repeat the process for the next printing while adjusting the next batch size based on how fast the first one sold.
Problems start to happen when you either sell out of each printing too fast or too slow (I've heard rule of thumb each printing should cover 1-2 years of orders)
Sell out too fast and you got to negotiate with whoever is printing your book to expedite a new batch, usually at a premium.
Too slow and you have an pile of unsold paper which can cost so much money to store that pulping unsold books to make more floorspace for popular ones is common among most publishers.

Since manga in the west still really doesn't that much in physical sales they don't have that big of printing batches, and most printing companies have a minimum batch size there willing to print, so you can have a case where a publisher next printing is below said minimum, so they either have to find a new printer that deals with low bulk printing but at a higher unit price, or wait until the orders from retailers build up so they can meet the minimum batch amount, which can be anywhere to a few months, or years if a particular licence was dirt cheap.
 
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Oddjob OTP said:
battle shonen and isekai about being reborn as a vending machine
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hey that handyman isekai was pretty good, and everyone should watch kill la kill at least once

SandyCat said:
Anyone got any favorite moe slop recommendations? I just finished Yuru Camp and I'm desiring more high quality slop
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comic girls
hakumei to mikochi
houkago teibou nisshi / Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater
do it yourself
sora yori mo tooi basho
hitori bocchi no marumaru beikatsu
bocchi the rock
anima yell
akebi-chan no sailor-fuku
chio-chan no tsuugakuro
tamako market (rom-com bend)

several seasons:
k-on (obviously)
non non biyori
uma musume (now that global started)

Kari Kamiya said:
Another problem about the current state of the dubbing industry is that for some bizarre reason, there's more of a conscious effort to sound as close to the Japanese VAs as possible in these dubs (probably to appease the purists), and I believe that has affected quality.
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purists would know the source, bigger issue is trying to make everything sound kawaii-uguu~ "because anime", when it's just pure cringe in non-nip or worse didn't even happen in the original (your name probably being the biggest example)
 
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SandyCat said:
Walmart sells anime?
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I don't know what things are like at Walmarts in the United States but the only anime I see at Walmart Canada, not counting kids TV dubs like Pokémon and Digimon, are movies distributed by GKids and maybe the big 3 shounen shows plus, occasionally, Sailor Moon. Oh yeah, and Rick and Morty: The Anime.
 
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