/jam/ - Japan, Anime, & Manga

>>93793

Speaking of second seasons airing in April: THE TITANS ARE BACK.

//youtube.com/watch?v=N1VIPrRJidg

Might as well ask. What was Tiger & Bunny about? Did it end, or got cancelled?

>>93795
Series had a sequel movie, not sure beyond that.

>>93794
Considering new chapters are pretty blatant about Nazi Germany and Jewish metaphors I wonder how much of that's going to end up in the anime.

>>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 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.)

>>93836
Not enough, apparently. S2 is only confirmed for 12 episodes so far.

>>93836
Didn't Space Dandy air in the US the same day as Japan?

>>93838
Space Dandy aired in the US before Japan.

>>93839
By an hour, if I recall correctly.

Jojolion ended up being Breaking Bad, magic fruit edition.

Tokyo Ghoul had some fucking development.

>>93870
Anime or manga? though you are still right on both counts.

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.

It's also a Shonen Jump series so it's in the wrong thread.

>>93878
Duly noted.

That first episode of LWA got retroactively turned into a gut-wrencher. Fuck.

>>93891
I wondered what you could possibly mean and uh

wow

that was not where I thought this was going

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.

//youtube.com/watch?v=5W9MESWy3Jo

For maximum FTW, no description.

Wasn't expecting feels from a manga about a succubus.
http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/yuuutsu-kun-to-succubus-san-r21423/

>>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.

>>93914
DUDE YOU BETTER FUCKING WATCH MADE IN ABYSS

>>93916
Cotton Candy is going full madman. Going nuts is the least they should do.

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.

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.

>the “Utena” Blu-ray release finally lands later this year

ABOUT FUCKIN' TIME.

>>93941
>>93942
Damn something about the style of this makes me think "fetish art". In which case who the fuck would be into that shit.

>>93946
Subnautica?

>>93943
It reminds me of Xration's art style.

>>93960
Who gives a fuck? All the ReEva stuff is terrible.

>>93962

>Who gives a fuck?

I could ask the same thing about your post.

>>93962
1 and 2 were good, it was just 3 that sucked.

And 3 still LOOKED fucking cool.

“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

>>93968

…wat

>>93969
I've read 140 chapters of Billy Bat today as of this post and boy

let me tell you some SHIT

Finished it. Weird ending, neat ride.

>>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.

>>93973
the Oswald stuff is before the real weird shit even starts

I finished rereading Monster and liked it a lot more than when I tried it 10 years ago. Pluto and BB are better tho.

20th Century Boys is next I suppose.

And that's that.

Coulda done without the anti-proton bomb stuff but whatever.

Yeah the very very end feels a bit unneeded, but everything else about 20th Century Boys is incredible.

>>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.

>>94004

>You Can (Not) Run from Yourself, Charlie Brown

>>94004
Eeeeeh, doesn't count. The angle's not the same.

>episode 6
Stephen King would love Made in Abyss.

>>94008
>Episode 10
I'm impressed by how grim this show can get without making it feel too exploitative like Elfen Lied did.

>>94011
Oh no she's cute.

>>94013
The series is just underaged misery porn, right?

>>94014
No, but I legit did not expect the fluffiness to be brought up like that.

>>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.

I always read Bondrewd in Sho Hayami's voice so I can't help but feel a bit disappointed even though Morikawa is an equally perfect fit.

Made in Abyss's soundtrack is so good.
//youtube.com/watch?v=Eck3qf4FDf4
//youtube.com/watch?v=KPxSS1zHWwQ
//youtube.com/watch?v=9ZAmGtx94ZU

>Paramount Pictures and J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot have won the rights to adapt the blockbuster Japanese animated movie Your Name.

Thank you, Variety, for reporting something that makes this year even worse than ever.

>>94023
You have an option to ignore it.

>>94024
In a vacuum, sure, but it's not in a vacuum.

>>94023
Wake me up where there are talks of a series long Nausicaä adaptation.

>>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.

>>94030

You would always have the option to ignore it.

>>94031
And so I shall.

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.

And speaking of Abyss, listening to this right after episode 13, and it fits amazingly
http://boards.plus4chan.net/mtv/t40282.html#p48260

>>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.

It looks like one bad casting choice may have killed Black Clover's chances to be the new big thing of the season, and I couldn't be happier.

>>94037
How so?

>>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!

>>94054
oh they adapted the chain story already? I haven't watched S2, I guess they're shuffling some story order around.

>>94058
Great logic, makes purrfect sense.

>>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.

>>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?

Leaked Jojo part 7 ending theme.

//youtube.com/watch?v=X_DVS_303kQ

>>94070
I cannot find the face.

>>94073
Somehow I assumed it is either upside-down or opposite. A simple 90° turn, it tricked me!

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-11-16/voice-actress-hiromi-tsuru-passes-away-at-57/.124141

Well, shit.

>>94077
I wonder if that is possible with lower gravity.

>>94079
Lower gravity would only make objects easier to lift and hold up, not to spin around or break apart.

Dude who made Ruroni Kenshin got busted for CP.

plus4chan is leaving, here's a survivor discord
https://discord.gg/bxxAvyQ

So now that Batoto is going down has anyone come up with a good alternative?

>>94092
Mangadex

Billy Herrington died. RIP aniki
May he keep on slappin' in heaven.

>>417259
I am ready for certain artists to learn to draw men properly.

>>417276
Dororo is a boy (female).