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Loony Lovegood said:
I watched Serial Experiments Lain over Christmas. I've just started a similar sounding anime on Netflix called Pantheon. Any thoughts on either?
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Pantheon is not an anime. I've heard pretty good things about it. It's apparently good enough that its fans got the show brought back after AMC tried to nuke it from everything.
It's been a while since I watched SEL. I like the idea behind it, but a lot of the series doesn't feel very fleshed out. I distinctly remember the middle stretch of the show feeling very... meandering. It does have its moments, the final episode particularly when Lain confronts her creator, the whole sequence blew me away still stands out in my memory. That said it's been a decade since I watched, may need to go back to it.
 
Loony Lovegood said:
I watched Serial Experiments Lain over Christmas. I've just started a similar sounding anime on Netflix called Pantheon. Any thoughts on either?
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I thought Lain was pretentious and bad. There were some cool ideas here and there, but I don't think the series didn't know what it wanted to focus on and neither was able to say something meaningful. Best thing about Lain is the opening song.
 
Anyone here watched Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 anthology series ? It's one of the best anime I watched for years. Especially the second (the neet, his teacher and the terrorist) and the last episode (the two sisters in the art school). I love the way it uses awkward moments to speak about what the characters thinks.
 
I Know 孤独のせい said:
I thought Lain was pretentious and bad. There were some cool ideas here and there, but I don't think the series didn't know what it wanted to focus on and neither was able to say something meaningful. Best thing about Lain is the opening song.
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Come on man. Lain is cute. How could you hate the show?
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Imam Shamil said:
Come on man. Lain is cute. How could you hate the show?
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Don't know what else to tell you. I watched the show "recently" for the first time (past 2–3 years if I recall correctly), and for all the positive things I heard about it, I was just left disappointed. Might revisit it someday again, but that's how I feel about it right now.
 
Finally finished the first volume of four of Date Masamune. Jesus, his father was kinda easygoing and would forgive treasons, but this time he got betrayed and captured and chose to kill himself rather than complicate the life of his own son. What a shit way to die.


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I also found out that Mitsuteru Yokoyama not only did Date Masamune biohraphy manga but also Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu (26 volumes!) and Sakamoto Ryouma.

For anyone who loves historical manga he is such a goat. He also did one of the manga I am most afraid to read: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms... 60 fucking volumes.
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
“We are aware that some of these individuals are also involved in the operation of MangaPark and AniXL
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Go figure. If you told me all manga aggregators across all different domains of apparent different origins were owned by like 5 people, I wouldn't be surprised. Like when mangalino went down a few months ago and that knocked on to a mangakakalot.com which is separate from mangakakalot.fun which is owned by another guy.
Is adapting similar domains a strategy to get the copyright owners to chase the wrong hare?
Fat At The Internet said:
Batoto died like 10 years ago due to copyright strikes and when the domain expired, someone else bought it up. I'm having trouble understanding what could happen between then and now that anyone would trust that site, let alone not predict that it was too hot to be struck against again even if it was legit. I think I did stumble across it in the last year or so, but it was full of gay yaoi so I just moved on.
The main benefit of old batoto was endless scrolling pages, which other sites adopted as standard now. I don't really see the fuss, unless it's some "ethical piracy" platitudes that you get with mangadex.
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City Hunter omnibus volume 2 still kept the "my perverse 'brother Kaoru' is transitioning" joke. Based.
 
Fat At The Internet said:
Is adapting similar domains a strategy to get the copyright owners to chase the wrong hare?
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If it's taking months or years to get a domain seized, spinning up new clone sites can be an easy way to reset the clock. Although I think that strategy is going to work less and less over time as the Internet censorship machine evolves.

There's no guarantee that it's the same people behind it, if they're just using a common pirate site template that accesses third-party servers hosting the images. Which definitely appears to be the case with some of these manganelokakakakalots clone sites:
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When a big site goes down, people will look around and gravitate towards a similarly named replacement. Possibly including scams/malware. This isn't "Batoto's" first rodeo.

If they are going after the ooperator themselves, then it doesn't matter how many domains are spun up by one person. They are all going down unless a team of people made good arrangements.

Hakushaku Reijou Wa, Keiyaku Kekkon Shita Ore Ni Itsu Koi Wo Suru?
 
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