>>93802 People need to learn to put the title in filenames so people who might be interested can find it easily. Also, fuck Google's changes to reverse image search.
I think I'm gonna sit out this anime season, since Persona is about to hit. Nothing I saw on the list looked interesting enough to keep my attention during what precious little time I'm gonna have left not playing.
>>93818 Thank you. Seems I had it bookmarked to read at some point already, and it turned out even more interesting than I thought from what you posted.
Iron Blooded Orphans might not have been the best Gundam series, but I loved it and might be my favorite Gundam series I've watched so far. I was on unsure if I liked S1, but I marathoned the S1 dub and IBO felt more coherent on the rewatch. Although I suspect that if I ever get around to rewatching 00 s1 or Wing or Zeta I might change my mind.
Also, the dub for s1, and maybe eventually s2, is free on youtube. I'm not the biggest fan of dubs, but I like this one. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJV1h9xQ7Hx-mZk_wLZgc1FcJU-Skw2Zm
Iron Blooded Orphans wasn't bad, but I just could not get invested. I've been watching Unicorn though, and I'm hooked. Also, fuuuuuck it's a lot more blatantly brutal than any of the other Gundams I've watched.
>“Attack on Titan” S2 coming to Toonami this Sunday >three weeks after it began airing in Japan
Exactly how many souls did Toonami and Funimation have to sacrifice for this? (Then again, given the show’s popularity, putting a rush job on this was likely going to happen regardless of its airing on Toonami.)
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I love how Nina has "OH NO, HE'S HOT" moments for the cast of hot men in Bahamut. I don't like her as much as Amira yet, but she could become a wonderful character in her own right.
Toonami is bringing back the world’s best thief: “Lupin the 3rd”—the 2015 “blue jacket” series, that is—will steal the show starting on the 17th of June.
Oh God. Fire Punch. This is so fucking fucked up. I mean everything in this manga is fucked up, but somehow this latest thing hit me real fucking hard. I feel so gross and uncomfortable.
Attack on Titan R2 made an interesting call with episode 10, and showed a flashback scene we only just got in the manga.
In the manga we had all the revelations to understand what was going on, but in the anime the flashback becomes a big Lost-style mystery that still drops a few clues about the overall premise manga readers at that point never got. Makes me wonder how it'll change their view on the next several plot arcs.
>>93899 I'm not finding any source for that "one episode per volume" claim. It's been a while since I read Pluto, but that sounds like a bad and unlikely idea.
So I'm watching all of Gundam in release order and I'm about to start Stardust Memories. It's only 13 episodes. I don't know if this is a good or bad sign. War in the Pocket was good and it was 6 episodes, but F91 was a rushed as fuck movie.
Upcoming season looks awfully lackluster. I'm just gonna wait and see if there's a surprise among them. Currently not planning on watching a single thing.
Dammit, I waited six months for Little Witch Academia to hit Netflix, and now I find out they only have the first half and don't have a schedule on the rest.
>>93918 Look what patience and paying for anime got you. Next you are going to tell me you also pay for that Amazon anime service, right? Incredible.
Side note, I actually stopped bothering with keeping up with LWA while it was airing due to it losing my interest after episode 8. It was a really good episode, but I kind of got backlog'd on seasonal anime and LWA kept getting bottom priority on catching up.
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>>93917 Carol is the only worthwhile part of that entire series. Everything else is either dull or infuriating, existing only to drag things out longer.
I haven't thought about anime in a while, but I remembered something in Kino's Journey recently and wanted to rewatch it. I looked it up on Hulu and Crunchyroll. They removed it from Hulu and Crunchyroll. I tried to download it from Bakabt. Bakabt closed itself to the public and pruned my username for inactivity. I tried finding it on Nyaatorrents. Nyaatorrents is down. I tried TokyoToshokan. It's not available there. It took a long damn time to find a way to watch Kino's Journey, is my point.
Since the legitimate, paid streaming sites will periodically remove shows for funsies, and all the old piracy sites are disappearing - is it going to get harder and harder to watch old anime? Am I gonna have to start buying Blurays now? They definitely didn't make Blurays for some old shows I love very much, like Planetes and Simoun. Good thing I already have those.
>>93922 You are in luck, friendo. I have what you need. nyaa.si Do keep in mind that since nyaa was deleted and Bakabt became private with no notice the... supply has been a bit on the sparse side for stuff that isn't recent or has a fanbase. and some more links for the archive /m/ is scrounging together. https://pastebin.com/SdJ3rbn4 Also, GET HYPE! KINO NO TABI SEASON 2 is confirmed. http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2017/03/12/new-tv-anime-to-adapt-kinos-journey
>>93923 Oh hell yes, thank you. This is going to help a lot. I can only hope that the new Kino isn't going to sexualize her too much or turn her into a "moe" character. I love her deadpan, gunslinging, amazingly competent survivalist self just the way it is.
Finished Gundam Stardust Memories recently. It could have been better. The main character and romance was bad to infuriating at times, but the animation was pretty good.
? THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THE FINAL EVA FILM IS IN PRODUCTION. ? ? THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THE FINAL EVA FILM IS IN PRODUCTION. ? ? THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THE FINAL EVA FILM IS IN PRODUCTION. ?
“Outlaw Star” will return to Toonami on the 19th of August; it will take the 2:30 am slot that was being used for reruns of “Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex”.
The Toonami gang is trying to get Episode 23 (aka “the hot springs episode where you see the catgirl naked”) cleared for air. It would have to be edited, of course, but still.
"Hitler and Einstein's Heart to Heart About Elder God Mickey Mouse" may not for sure be the weirdest chapter of anything I've ever read but it's up there
>>93971 Oh crap, I started reading that a few years ago, got about 60 chapters in (up to the end of the Lee Harvey Oswald plotline), and decided I'd wait until it was over to read the rest. I had no idea it ended over a year ago.
I've forgotten so much, I should probably just start over.
>>93978 It's good but also one can totally see how a lot of its devices and themes are polished up and massively improved in Billy Bat (which, hey, it's the later work so fair enough).
I really hope the Made in Abyss anime doesn't rush an anime original ending. It's that or the 13 episodes that it's confirmed for better have a season 2 confirmed on the last episode.
Netflix finally put up the second half of Little Witch Academia.
My skin is clear. My crops are thriving. Anime has been saved yet again. I give Little Witch Academia an absolute unequivocal recommendation.
Well, one small equivocation. If you're the type of person who really needs their story's plots to be perfectly and completely consistent and explained in its mechanisms, you may find some aspects of the finale frustrating. But here's the thing: I normally AM that person and I didn't give a shit, it worked so well on every single other level that I adored it.
>>93980 They're over halfway through the series and they still haven't even introduced the little rabbit girl who shows up as a key part of the ED so it's extremely unlikely they're going to try to end it there.
>>94001 The manga is pretty solid but the anime is basically everything it strove to be, including incorporating a lot of scenes the author wanted but didn't have time for, and ditching or toning down the creepier pedobait aspects.
/cog/-related: NEW ANDROID IN DBFZ! https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2017/sep/16/android-21-central-figure-dragon-ball-fighterz-story-here-are-translated-details-brand-new-character/
>>94014 Going into it I was worried it would be, but I'm pleasantly surprised by how matter-of-fact it is with all the grim stuff. Could just be the anime though. The manga had a bunch of dumb shota fanservice scenes that got toned down or left out of the show.
>>94027 No way. Whether you prefer the mango, or animu, both versions are not only perfect as a standalone work, but also in some ways products of their time. Should be left alone as an 80s sci-fi thing.
Made in Abyss ended really strongly. Excellent anime all around, look forward to a second season whenever it comes out and I'm totally willing to wait if it's as good as this one was.
>>94016 The manga has a lot of naked loli titties, which the anime thankfully toned down. I'm not a huge moralfag and I don't think it automatically turns everyone reading it into an IRL child molester but I just find that shit fucking gross.
Looks like I'm gonna have to start reading Made in Abyss. That anime was just that good in my opinion. All the misery porn or other undesirable aspects are minor problems in my eyes as I feel the whole package is just that strong.
>>94039 If you liked the anime, I say continue liking the anime, and wait for season 2 like everyone else does. There isn't a god who will punish you for not checking the mango.
As I grow older I'm finding my taste moving from testosterone-fueled ultra-violence to exceedingly mushy shoujo romance. Kiss my fictional daughter already, you stupid nice indecisive wonderful pretty boy!
>>94058 Ah yes, childbirth in early teens, aka the age at which there's the highest rate of death by childbirth as well as irrevocable damage to the reproductive system even if it is a success, therefore ensuring that the population will definitely not go up.
>>94058 If you think thats bad, take a look at this anime that aired recently. I've been told the manga is still on-going. https://myanimelist.net/anime/34934/Koi_to_Uso >In a futuristic society, Japan has implemented a complex system referred to as "The Red Threads of Science" to encourage successful marriages and combat increasingly low birthrates. Based on a compatibility calculation, young people at the age of 16 are assigned marriage partners by the government, with severe repercussions awaiting those who disobey the arrangement. And keep in mind, everyone gets paired up and all of these arranged marriages are het. So the big question, that was never answered and at least hinted at, what about homosexuals?It's implied that if they don't want to ruin their lives, they just live in a sexless marriage.
>>94062 Isn't the major point of the story right from the get go that the system is awful, since MC doesn't get paired with the girl he actually loves?
>>94063 >Isn't the major point of the story right from the get go that the system is awful Debatable. What I got from the anime was not that the system was malicious, but that young hormonal teenagers are dumb horny teenagers that don't know how to relations. It was just bog standard high school romance garbage that could have utilized its interesting scifi-ish twist, which it did not. >since MC doesn't get paired with the girl he actually loves? HA! HAHAHA! Ha ha... Yeah, sure, but he also loves the girl he got betrothed to so I feel that is moot.
Kekkai Sensen has lost it's charm to me. It's just not the same without White. And the setting isn't as new and fresh to me. Soundtrack is still bumpan tho.
>>94079 That's one of coolest ideas in Wuxia, affecting your environment as well as yourself.
Basically in the mythology of Wuxia perception is a key component, if the wall in the mind is cardboard I can project that with my mind on to the real wall.
So why not punch the wall, it's cardboard isn't it?
Imagine a world where EVERYONE is Pai Mei from Kill Bill.
Speaking of Hero Academia- I'm really looking forward to the movie. Even just for the chance to see the characters in action if nothing else, and some young All Might.
The currently airing Boogiepop might not be a good adaptation, but I am having a lot of fun.
Dorororororororororororororo is good too, but it's such a shoe-in for my anime of the season that it's hard to talk about it. I can't think of a single bad thing to say about it. Even my normal complaint about "monster of the week being a bad trope" is not applicable, due to how gosh darn the show is.
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Based brony directing Brand New Animal https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-01-22/trigger-bna-brand-new-animal-anime-reveals-more-cast-staff-netflix-streaming-in-1st-promo-video/.155654
Hey, that's right, we still have a radio function around here.
Way back when I was first discovering JPop, I happened upon this song. It made me a lifelong Masami Okui fan. To this day, and after having listened to practically her entire discography, it still remains my favorite song of hers, even if only for sentimental reasons.
>>417575 I know what a v-tuber is, I just didn't recognize which one it parodied since I by and large don't give a shit about them except when there's porn made.
There's this Isekai that people have been talking about, instead of some loser fuck nobody ending up in a fantasy world and being given a bullshit ability that lets the Japanese reader live vicariously through them its an actual sentai superhero
>>417634 The girl tried to read his stats using their "Adventurer Status Tag". But since he's not part of their hamhanded fantasy-videogame-rpg-based isekai setting that's what she got instead.
Murata's adaption OPM is a goddamn shitshow in that it keeps getting drawn out with pointless filler and redrawn with multiple retcons. The whole thing needs to come to an end.
>>418083 Depends on what shape their plumpness takes. Anime girls tend to have to right amount go to their tits and asses along with softly covering the the rest of them.
>>418179 Its a pretty original idea, playing as the random citizens from the series who have to try and survive one of Cell/Freiza/Buus rampages. Its not like the RPG damages Cell, it only works as a distraction.
Its a MUCH better idea than just another arena fighter by the numbers churned out, or yet another thing focused on Goku.
>>418180 Original yeah, but in the end you just have to play hide and seek with a dumb scripted AI. And your defences are ridiculous, an RPG won't distract a dude who can shrug off planet destroying lasers and can detect your life force directly. Also Freeza never rampaged on Earth (only on Namek, where this entire concept is even more ridiculous), and Buu can do whatever the fuck he wants because he is magical.
I get the idea is original, but that's because it's a stupid concept in context of the series. If it was set in, I dunno, Demon Lord Piccolo's rampages, either the one that Goku stopped or the one that Mutaito stopped, then I'd find it more believable. But by the time the Saiyans arrive (let alone Freeza/Cell/Buu), the bad guys are on a level that an average guy wouldn't even have a legitimate chance at escaping.
>>418184 Fighting games had the real power levels ignored for 30+ years now (just look at how every MK boss gets beaten) so it's easier to just assume that everyone starts at the same base power level. It's a bit more difficult to assume you can play survival horror against a character who is impervious to damage and has a sixth sense to detect living beings.
I mean okay the game might be fun but it still looks stupid to have Oolong with a rocket launcher duking it out with Cell.