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Sleazy Car Salesman said:
So far this season the three that have stood out to me are Frieren season 3, Sentenced To Be a Hero was a fun ride, and Clevatess pleasantly surprised me as well.

Vigilantes also continues to be decent with season 2, despite the fact that I hated the original MHA, but the more I watch Vigilantes the more I realize that was due to Deku being a little bitchmade pussy boy and me not jiving with Japanese moral sensibilities in what was supposed to be a western style superhero story, Vigilantes neatly sidesteps both of those issues by making it a story about anti-heroes.
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I'll probably add them to our list then.

I've been watching Fruits Basket (2019) with my gf, and reading some of the manga she lended me. Pretty good stuff. Definitely changed my mind a little on weebshit. After that we'll probably finish Berserk 1997. And after that, idk, I'll probably get her into Durarara or MONSTER. Usually for stuff like Frieren I'd prefer the manga.

On my own I'm watching some old fucking show from 2016. It's... Something to have the word "Normie" in an anime. Reading the original Devilman too on and off. Lot of shit going on, it's chaotic without an autistic fixated schedule.
 
Nameless One said:
I'll probably add them to our list then.

I've been watching Fruits Basket with my gf, and reading some of the manga she lended me. Pretty good stuff. Definitely changed my mind a little on weebshit.
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The reason that those four I mentioned particularly worked for me is that they're paced really well. My single biggest and most consistent complaint with anime series, especially with the recent glut of shit-ass LN adaptations of the past five to ten years or so is that they're paced like absolute garbage. These four have episodes where things actually happen and the plot is progressed rather than half a season of filler where entire episodes are taken up by characters sitting around a table and having a meeting to exposition dump details that could have been relayed organically in the course of the story.
 
God of Nothing said:
so instead of doing retarded isekai tropes, he played being sent into a world you didn't know or understand somewhat realistically?
that's not really speaking anything about its setting: that's just not relying on horrible writing
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It deserves praise insofar as it makes it further than the elevator pitch before it becomes slop which is a test most isekai can't pass.

Basically the setting is that the antagonists (and a few of the protagonists) are guided by scraps of an imperfect prophecy written down by the bored perfect prophecy witch and the text itself is something of a cognitohazard. Villains have sort-of-by-this-point cliche sin-related powersets tied into one of the 9 (because why not) deadly sins. They all have different takes on the text they have and are mostly sociopath assholes anyway so they are sometimes at each others throats. Basically I think it's a good set up for the antagonists of a tabletop campaign which is really all I can ask of battle-shonen-adjacent anime.

There's more of the setting that is terrible like the weird merit-based queen-succession-competition winner-ruled government that pitches Worst Girl (and Suburu) into something that threatens to become a grail war with a bunch of other female characters and their more interesting simps but is thankfully almost completely irrelevant in the anime thus far.
 
Nameless One said:
I'm done having any respect for any Japanese person ever. Only female Japs can have respect now.
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Nameless One said:
Women are not the same species, don't you remember?


Also my gf showed me a clip of Re:Zero season 4 and it was just fucking miserable, nihilistic torture porn like what I knew about Season 1, and she's like no no they're all under the influence of the witch.

It was well animated but very poorly written even for trashy anime standards. I'm blown away how people manage to like this series. I only ever knew it for Felix Argyle.

Like it doesn't change that 5 minute scene isolated out of context,

The author is clearly into this retarded shit. It's just an excuse for sadism. Battle royale and other horror mangas did this better. Fuck, a lot of other anime do desensitized edgy protags better than this whiny little abusive faggot who should get tortured and die a final death to suffer all forms of hell. He's that pathetic. Like who the hell likes this, why do normies like this???? Why do weebs like this? Also I hate how hard it is to find the series since the search bar doesn't pick up the : .
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Start collecting and reading shoujo manga then and start watch shoujo anime including all their romcoms
Nameless One said:
Kentaro Miura was one of the only authors I had respect for and he's just another lolicon perv.
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But what about the females that are into shotacon? Especially the hentai artists. I think Nitta Jun is one of them. Or what about the females obsessed with incest?
Nameless One said:
I live at 4120 Wolfetown Rd, Maggie Valley, NC 28751. Come find me.
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Dude, don't do what Chris Chan does, that is opening a can of gummi worms. Mmmmm... Gummi worms...
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Oddjob OTP said:
It deserves praise insofar as it makes it further than the elevator pitch before it becomes slop which is a test most isekai can't pass.
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That makes the backslide even worse imo. Nothing worse than wasted potential.

But then again every one of these isekai debacles is just trying to emulate Jobless Reincarnation and that show is also a heap of shit. The only one that's good is Konusuba specifically because it's a satire.
 
PS1gamenwatch said:
Start collecting and reading shoujo manga then and start watch shoujo anime including all their romcoms

But what about the females that are into shotacon? Especially the hentai artists. I think Nitta Jun is one of them. Or what about the females obsessed with incest?
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Kill them all. Whataboutism. I thought it was mostly HAPA women.


Nuke them. Their culture is dead anyways.
 
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I guess Regenesis fans have been fed some crumbs, though I don't even know if Shuken actually appears in it. They must be thrilled to see an actually drawn Kasumi and Tesshin given that travesty was fully done in 3D.
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I guess they're also over being faithful to the manga, because they're featuring attacks exclusive to the fucking PS2 fighting game.
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Like I'm sure this is because Shin's branch of Nanto Seiken didn't have a name until much later and "man tries to stab with hands really fast (or the then-unnamed Thousand Dragon)" wouldn't have had nearly the same impact and gotten old and boring really fast in an extended fight sequence, but come on. Surely there was a better way of handling this.
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Doing drawn shots right after CGI really doesn't do the latter any good. If anything the comparison is all the more jarring. What's worse is that there are people who will legitimately do their damnest to gaslight you into thinking that it's nearly impossible to tell the difference between the two. In hindsight this is a lot like trap/tranny photos. They might fool an untrained eye at first glance, but the moment they begin to speak or move the illusion shatters instantly.
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At least they got this kinda right.
This week only saw the release of one episode, which makes sense since it's the conclusion of the Shin arc, meaning we should be getting the GOLAN story next. The OG anime needed 22 episodes for Shin to die, with like 10 fillers* in-between and completely mixing up the order of many events. This also unfortunately means the remake's season will probably have a standard length of 26 episodes. I initially thought that them feeding us two per week meant there was well over 50 of them ready to air. Really disappointing if that's the case.


*the infamous tank beatdown is from a filler episode so it won't get a recreation, sadly.
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Someone recommended Record of Ragnarok to me so I think I'm gonna give it a go. I also need to finish Hunter x Hunter. Finished the Chimera Ants arc and got to the part where we see Gons dad for real and something something Killuas younger brother.

As much as I like the anime, it really botched everything Kite especially when compared to the Manga and the og anime.

I realize I am also missing one episode of Wonder Egg Priority. Yes it's a Tumblr show but the animation is nice
 
Been watching Remi: Nobody's Boy, it's based off of an 1800s novel by Hector Malot. At episode 15 and I quite like it, it does suffer from being a bit too miserable at points (Nothing messed up happens, but everything tends to be quite sad until the last 2 episodes I watched) but I think it's overall a pretty good show so far.

You can definitely tell the author absolutely despised French society at his time with an absolute burning passion and a lot of the plotlines seem to be just fronts to critique French society (Most of the issues ironically having gotten far worse and spread far wider nowadays). It gets a little overt with it sometimes and it can get annoying. But it's never unwatchable.

The visuals are definitely a highlight, while the animation is nothing to write home about, it manages to have surprisingly quality background art for a 70s TV anime
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They also play around a lot with scrolling layers to create some interesting effects which I don't often see these days. I like it
 
Oddjob OTP said:
I would say his bullshit is the opposite of the normal isekai conceits. Whatever Japanese knowledge he has is worthless and never comes up and while he does have some bullshit power it can't be talked about/observed so no one will ever praise him for it and despite all his accomplishments everyone treats him as worthless in everything but tenacity for being the most useless person on paper but in the right place at the right time.

Usually Isekai is just an nerd/incel power fantasy where they win because they were put into the perfect situation where their autism is all upside. He gets shit into a world with cheat powers but they mean almost nothing on their own and he should have to grow as a person to succeed. But he doesn't really, He just kind of perseveres.

If the author had the ability to write an interesting character or dialogue it would have some potential as a set up but instead the author is so shit he has to Thanos snap a character into a coma with almost no one remembering she existed because she had more genuine chemistry with main character then the worthless rei-clone female lead.

All of which to say I like the villains being insane people with cheat powers doing war crimes. That's the REAL isekai experience right there.
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ReZero is standard Isekai, but it just gatelocks its asspats behind a series of painful deaths that only affects the main character when the author wants some drama. In some way it's clever since it makes you think the main character is an underdog when the main issue with his time traveling is just blueballing him constantly.
 
Currently reading through Part 3 of JoJo and my god, it's boring me to tears. I really really liked Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency, but Stardust Crusaders is miserable to read. I'm just after reading the Anubis sword fight and it's all so. goddamn. slow. The only stand fight I've really liked so far has been the blind guy when they first meet Iggy and the Nightmare Grim Reaper one - But I'm really considering just dropping this part all together it's no fun to read. The art is good as always at least.

But I wanna at least give up to Part 4 a go, cause it's my friend's favourite.

After this, I wanna give Claymore a try it sounds interesting and finishing 364 of Berserk a month back left a hole in my heart.
 
For a few panels I thought about a tweet that I read this week that to stop a bleeding, people would insert the whole hand in their pussy as they give birth and in this very page we would lose the prince's children.

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But she was alright in the end. The kids were fine too (they can die at any moment tho)

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ShiverShiver said:
Currently reading through Part 3 of JoJo and my god, it's boring me to tears. I really really liked Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency, but Stardust Crusaders is miserable to read. I'm just after reading the Anubis sword fight and it's all so. goddamn. slow.
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Part 3 crawls, but there is good stuff mixed in with the bad, and you can really tell Araki was experimenting with the idea that not every enemy had to be a straight up fight, which I appreciated. The poker game, the guy who impersonates Kakyoin, Bastet's fight with Joseph and Avdol, the shadow guy teaming with Hol Horse, are all cooked into my head even years after I read it.
 
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