/jam/ - Japan, Anime, & Manga

>>93066
It will always be on my "to get" list until I get it.

>>93066
Nausicaa is pretty great. Be prepared for shit to go off the rails, because that manga fucking goes places.

I still don't completely understand the ending.

>>93069
I just finished Nausicaä. The ending was, as I understand it "the past has no right in dictating the future that it is not a part of". Simple stuff compared to the last few volumes of DUNE I've been reading. I loved the whole thing, except the little epilogue text. It made me feel like Nausicaä was a jerk for never going back to her village. Not even a goodbye.

It's a real damn shame the Nausicaä will never have a full proper adaptation.

>>93079
Are you Team itty bitty fishy titties or Team big fat shark tats?

>>93082
I see that you are a husbando kind of person.

>>93085
I got the reference MT, but you said you don't watch anime for the cute girls. So I put 1 and 1 together and was making a joke about how Shinji loved Kawaru and that if you don't watch anime for cute girls you watch it for the boys.

How was I supposed to respond to your Eva reference with out going "haha funny eva joke"? If thats what you call a subtle joke, you better try hatder next time.

>>93086
Also, I seen EVA only once, but I always though that Shinji was so desperate for human contact that he was ready to settle for anything, even an ambiguously gay angel thing. I didn't think Shinji was bisexual, but rather would take anything resembling love any way he could get it. If he could have sex with his dead mom he would probably do it. That level of desperate.

>>93089
Yeah, you aren't exactly wrong. Shinji is a sucking black hole of neuroses looking for validation in basically any form he can get. Assigning him any sort of sexuality kind if misses the point that he's too much of a mess emotionally to display any real traits.

While he's bisexual, it's because he's starving for any attention he can get, not because he's in control of his sexuality.

Little Witch Academia is getting a TV series.

Trigger saves anime yet again!

>>93114
>Little Witch Academia is getting a TV series.
I'm excited for Trigger's first good tv show.

>>93117

Now that is a Burn la Burn.

Sometimes I start reading a series that is so incredibly bland and soul-crushingly predictable and I want to stop reading, but for some reason I can't. It's not like it's a trainwreck kinda situation, I've got trash. for that. I already know where this shitty boring manga is headed and yet I can't stop.

>>93120
I stopped caring what happened in Naruto and Bleach years ago, but by god I finished reading one and I'll stick out the other just because of how long it's been. Other than those, there's only been maybe ten manga that I just dropped in the middle of a chapter because it was too boring to keep up with or had a massive tone shift that ruined it for me.

I unfortunately finished Naruto but I stopped reading Bleach even before that and I'm not about to restart now.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-07-01/one-punch-man-to-premiere-on-adult-swim-toonami-on-july-16/.103849

I’m not surprised, but I am elated.

>>93135
A victory for good taste.

More Toonami news:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-07-02/toonami-runs-mamoru-oshii-production-i.g-micro-series-in-2017/.103880

I'm usually into studios experimenting with CG. But fuck me, Berserk's started off flat-out irredeemable.

>>93139
I keep thinking about it. It pisses me off, we finally get something beyond the Golden Age and its this bullshit.

Man, Devilman Lady sure got filosofical.
http://thetrm.com/mangafox/devilman-lady/reader?page=18

So, uh…the new Berserk.

Why is Casca white?

>>93161
Nothing you just talked about happened.

Move on.

HEY MUSOU BERSERK IS COMING SOON!

Man, say what you will about the old shitty Berserk anime, it was better than THIS

>>93162
oh boy

musou


yaaaaaay

>>93163

I would honestly rather watch the old series, shitty OP and all, over this CG abortion.

>>93166
...Yes that's what I said?

Dullahan-chan is Head Over Heels is so fucking stupid it's almost majestic.

Wow Ubel Blatt is quite bad

Can't say I didn't expect Nisekoi was going to stay shit until the end. At least I wised up a year ago and stopped reading until around chapter 210.

>>93198
Casca and Guts are disconnected from fate, it can't belong to either of them, no matter how much Slann might wish it.

>>93204
Eva is casuals tier, come back when they put in a RahXephon reference.

>>93206
>what is so great about RahXephon?
Its obscure.

Besides, Initial D got an episode the other day. That's hardly casual.

//youtube.com/watch?v=IOX9MV6NqnA

As expected, it's fucking amazing.

>>93220

https://my.mixtape.moe/renzrc.webm

And the OP is boss as well.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/japanese-novel-anime-franchise-sword-916389
Dis gonna be good.

>>93225
It's already been all over /a/ for a while now.

>>93226
Yes I know. I'm talking about the shitposting that will happens when it starts to air.

I'll lose my shit if they keep the Leafa incest.

>>93232

The GIF that launched thousands of boners.

>>93232
Is source actually good? What is the story?

>>93234
Is it good? Depends on what you want. It's action packed. Don't expect an amazing plot, but the animation is amazing.

The plot is zombies in a steampunk japan. Or, as I like to refer to it as; Attack on Titan on trains.

>>93237
It's a lot better than you are giving it credit for.

The only wonky thing is the main character hating Biba right from the start.

>>93238
>It's a lot better than you are giving it credit for.
No it's exactly what he's saying it is. Kabaneri is firmly in the realm of something like World Trigger or (more directly) Attack on Titan, one of those series you watch while it airs or in a drunken binge. The anime equivalent of a blockbuster: no real artistic merit of its own, never to be rewatched, but will entertain you for the time being.

//youtube.com/watch?v=ZQrzNEpunw0

>>93239
>no real artistic merit of its own, never to be rewatched
What blockbusters are YOU watching?

>>93239
>no real artistic merit

I could not disagree with you more profoundly.

THE SHOW IS LITERALLY FUCKING ART, it makes most anime look like garbage, say what you will about it's story but it is a beautiful anime.

>>93246
It is smoothly animated but the art style is as plain as the story. If you want something beautiful, watch the ongoing Mob anime.

>>93248
I disagree with you so hard kotf but your taste in good anime is unquestionable if you like mob.

>>93232
>>93237
Dammit, just realized I listened an episode of Anime World Order on that show.

Watched the first couple episodes of Kabaneri today. The show has lovely animation and a good soundtrack, but the plot feels a bit too much like Titan to me (and I didn’t particularly like Titan). I’mma give it one more episode before I decide whether to drop it.

(Aside: it feels weird to watch anime on my phone, but my PC is an old piece of shit and videos run better on my phone than in my PC’s web browser. On the bright side, Akhyou is a wonderful app for finding animu to watch.)

>>93253
>One step closer to Baccano! S2
Sadly, because of how much anime exists to hype up the source material, this might just be a point past which it'll never happen.

Devil Is a Part Timer sold well and had plenty of source material, and it didn't get a S2.

Baccano anime did terribly and the books have kind of always done terribly, Narita writes those novels because he wants to and makes his money with other projects.

>>93257
N ice

Dungeon Meshi has gotten pretty dark for a spell there.

>>93262
Might still be heading in a dark way. She doesn't seem to be quite right.

>>93267
Being a dirty furry introduces a large element of bias to the mix. What you think is super interesting might not be.

Overlord could have been an amazing, skeleton themed mockery of bad harem+ transported to fantasy world series

Instead it's just one of those plus a lot of rape and weird gore fetishism

>>93268
Not a furry, just like cute relationships.

Plus I like tribal cultures so seeing a dude trying to unify a bunch of fractured tribal forces against a god like threat is a lot more interesting than that God like threat.

>>93269
Fuck I wish it had any of those things, it's more economics but with magic making anything interesting about economics pointless.

Discotek is putting the Fatal Fury movie out on Blu-ray in what I can assume is the near future.

I fucking love Discotek.

>>93270
>Fuck I wish it had any of those things
I assume you mean the first set because it has the second in droves.

>>93272
I haven't read the lightnovel and the manga is only up to 18 in English which is around where the anime stops.

Thus far I haven't seen much of any of that, the closest would be Clementine.

//youtube.com/watch?v=QSWTPjgi5kI

Why is Ash such a shitty pokemon trainer?

>>93270
Wait you're not a furry? Could've sworn I've seen your name on furry sites didn't you get banned from another 'chan infamous for its drama-loving mods for its no furry rule?

>>93283
............No. I have no idea what you are talking about.

>>93282

God has a sadistic sense of humor.

>>93282
Because the decision was made to not ever end the anime.

>>93287

>Excel Saga is that old

Jesus. Now I feel really fucking old. Anyone got the Will of the Macrocosm’s number?

>>93287
The majority of those don't work for me (including the age-recommended one) because I saw them when they were already years old.

I've been looking at Xenoverse 2 since I had fun with the first one, and it is making me find out about the current DBS stuff.

This shit is terrible, it is quite literally Toei just ripping off fanfiction for new mspaint-tier super forms, while pumping up power levels for the cheapest and most shallow form of hype.
Its only bee getting worse as it continues from the stuff featured in the first Xenoverse.

At least in game you can create a brand new Human or namekian fighter and show that rainbow hair or throwing a yellow piss filter over your color scheme is inferior to just
>gittin gud

Don't suppose anyone here knows how many characters you would be able to make in the sequel, or what carrying over your save data is supposed to unlock?

CASCA MIGHT SPEAK AGAIN SOON IS THIS EVEN THE REAL LIFE

>>93307
And her first words will be "Griffith did nothing wrong"

>>93312

Did he actually die this time or is this another faux death?

>>93312
Huh. The art's improved.

>>93314
it really, REALLY hasn't

>>93312

Look, I know people who ask this are usually irritating assholes, but...what the fuck emotions are those expressions supposed to convey?

>>93316
Shock, grief, pride in a fallen comrade and reverence for a selfless act?

>>93313
Armin was essentially roasted alive in his own plan to take down Bertholdt. The plan worked and Bertholdt was captured. Levi showed up and Erin realized Armin was still breathing. Erwin had given Levi a syringe that, when injected into a human, would turn them into a titan-shifter, with the order that he should use it to save a dying soldier, especially if they could then eat either Bertholdt or Reiner to gain their powers. He was just about to inject Armin when another soldier showed up with a badly-wounded Erwin. There was a struggle over who would get the injection until Levi finally decided that what Erwin really wanted was to pass on hope to the next generation, so he injected Armin who then ate Bertholdt. Erwin died shortly after.

>>93318
For all its fans like to praise AOT for being gritty and unpredictable with the deaths it's actually really obvious. Lots of dressed up redshirts but ASOIAF it ain't.

>>93317

Which of these does Eren's face convey?

The pleasure of being cummed inside

>>93333

THAT IS THE GAYEST THING SINCE GAY CAME TO GAYTOWN

Which is awesome.

>>93336
>>93335
>>93333
>we only like it because they are cute girls

>>93337

Dude, I don't even watch the show. I don't even know what show this is.

>>93363

What's wrong with your entire skuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuull

>>93364
Holy fuck, you are right. The hair and ears in particular are disturbing. And don't get me started on how she is handling that sword.

Watched an episode of the manga documentary series Manben last night.

Highly recommended.

>>93387
YESSSSSSSSSSS!

>>93405

There’s a Blu-ray? AWWW YISS.

>>93406
No, there isn't one released over here yet. It will though.

>>93445

I thought it was a dinosaur mask at first, godfuckingdamn. D:

>>93447
Why do you people keep confusing the Jump General and this general General?

>>93448
Because they are both dead

//youtube.com/watch?v=S3jFdqs4jUQ
Little Witch Academia tv edition looks like it's gonna be a prequel of sorts.

>>93453
The impression I get is almost more like a soft reboot. Like the OVAs aren't necessarily NOT in continuity, but it seems like they might be covering some of the same time frame and similar events in the series itself rather than depending on people having watched the OVAs.

I'm speculating entirely though.

I present to you: the first ever OBJECTIVE list of animes you must see:
//youtube.com/watch?v=Qzo8Vug7TZk

I am not fucking with you.

I've been playing a DS game recently, a DBZ rpg by the name of "Attack of the Saiyans", and it really brought into focus how Raditz arriving was when the series really began going downhill.

The game starts off near the end of Dragonball, before the final tournament of the series with you controlling Krillin, Yamcha and Tien first as a group doing a prologue dungeon together then each separately doing their own short side-stories as part of their training journeys.
From there its the tournament where you play as Goku vs Piccolo Jr to its conclusion, following that it then proceeds along the Dragonball anime filler arc which had Goku and Chichi have to save her father and his castle from the raging fire cause by a leak in the Furnace of Eight Divisions that bridges the land of the living with the spirit world which ends in them finally getting married. And then comes-
>Chapter Six: The Strongest Fighter Raditz Appears!

From the SHOCKING TWEEST swerve of Goku and Piccolo being aliens all along, the creation of explicit numbered power rankings and the powerlevel bullshit moving so fast as Raditz is built up to be something ridiculously powerful and effortlessly beyond anything seen previously before quickly being tossed aside as inconsequential with basically even the weakest characters on both sides becoming as strong as him with a relatively brief period of offscreen training.
And thus from then on it just continues to pile up, weighing the series down further and further.

I''m not going to claim Dragonball originally as a masterpiece but it WAS much more interesting as a Journey to the West homage/knockoff taking place in a quaint martial-arts world, upping the scale did it no favors when the series at no point actually made true use of the creative opportunities that presented.

>>93487
I look at Dragonball as an adventure manga with a focus on fighting, but DBZ is a fighting manga with a focus on dragging everything out. I liked DBZ while it was first airing in the US, but I definitely preferred the style of Dragonball once I read it.

>>93490
Nah that shit still has all the flaws of Z (For one they've introduced a multiverse but done nothing interesting with the concept, and when it comes to unoriginality the less said about the terrible new super forms like all the 'super saiyan gods' or the recoloured antagonists the better), and is a blatant money grabber lacking in quality.
This is literally just GT all over again, but without even the pretense of having a sense of adventure.

The should have left the series in its shallow grave and just continued milked it via the likes of computer games and other merch.

>>93489
Wasn't it all just one manga under the same name and Z was just the title of the anime series adapting the Saiyan arc and onward?

>>93492
Yes, but the titles of the different anime series are a clear and logical way to discuss the different eras of the long-running series, further subdivided by the arcs contained within.

Super is great, Beerus and Whis are amazing additions to the franchise and the Goku Black/Future Zamasu tag team is a gas.

>>93497
>>93498
Uh, what is this? At first glance it makes one imagine a furry webcomic.

>>93503
Thnx.

>>93534
Knew I recognized that artist. He draws lewds

>>93536
Who hasn't?

>>93536
Sauce pls.

>>93542
Is it weird that I find that stuff sorta cute? Anyway wow Tezuka was transformation fetishist, big surprise (not).

>>93543
>Is it weird that I find that stuff sorta cute?
No, it is not. It does not matter what is drawn, the cute lines will make drawing cute.

Unless you use that meaning of "cute".

>>93544
*will make any drawing cute

I hope Yuri on Ice gets a good english dub. Having a multinational cast all speak japanese breaks my immersion.

>>93549
I totally lost track of Akito the Exiled, what the hell is going on with that? All I can find out is that there was a new release this year.

The last 20 minutes of Akito the Exiled are the most insane thing in the entire franchise, and no I am not kidding.

>>93556
Yeah it owns.
>>93555
Akito 5 tops the director's previous record from Birdy for ludicrous Deus Ex Machina.

Trunks killed a double-god-half-Goku by stabbing him in the cock with a sword made of hope and friendship. That is the best possible outcome.

>>93558

Yep, sounds like Dragon Ball.

>>93557
>Birdy
You better not be talking about Decode, which is near perfect.

Well, looks like Hayao refuses to stay in his house and quietly wait for death:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-11-13/hayao-miyazaki-works-on-proposed-new-anime-feature-film/.108775

>>93561

If he can still do the work, I say let him.

Nooo, Dungeon Meshi! Don't do this!

>>93575
>it's not a pachinko, pachislot,
My amusement at this statement only slightly outweighs my annoyance with its necessity.

>>93575
Too bad Imaishi and all the other people who made it good in the first place are over at Trigger. Unless they're collaborating.

>>93579

If Anno can work on the new EVA films despite leaving Gainax, I don’t see why Imaishi can’t do another season of PaSwG while working at Trigger.

>>93583

Ten bux says Xavier Woods instigated this.

NEW DAY ROCKS.