Admiral Woofington
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Did they ever continue that episode of osomatsu San with the depressed girl love interest? I loved that one but don't care for the comedy.
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Summer Anime 2017 |OT| More streaming services than shows to watch
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If I remember correctly nah. Who knows maybe season 2.
Kekkai Sensen-Rewatch
I only intended to watch the first episode as I'm behind on other shows in my backlog. I ended up burning through the entire cour. It's not as rough as I remember it being from a production standpoint, maybe some of that has to do with BD corrections and a higher bitrate output. Certain episodes like episode 7, the fight club one, didn't seem anywhere near as bad as I initially thought they were. Although there are definitely some super rough patches, especially near the end.
I think the show worked better for me in a marathon format although it did highlight a few flaws that didn't bother me the first time through. For starters I didn't like how White/Black were integrated, or rather the lack thereof, into the show. There's generally just snippets thrown at the beginning of the episode or at the end. You can tell it's anime original material and maybe there was a better way of interweaving Matsumoto's material into the show. The other was that the dips in the show, from a storyboarding quality side, are really apparent. I mean really apparent. Episode 10 was the worst by a country mile. 10 makes sense though as the production, and presumably Matsumoto, was super strained at that point. 3 and 4 I'm not sure about, I don't know whether Matsumoto was under pressure and couldn't devote her full energy or she didn't care that much about those two. Episode 4 in particular is really sloppy.
I really liked the finale, which surprised me as I remember being lukewarm on it the first time. That said, there's a 10 minute segment in the second half that's not only kinda bad visually, it's a bit muddled plot-wise. I thought the first part of it though was pretty solid as it did a good job establishing Leo's determination. The finale was surprisingly adept too at linking back to the beginning of the show. Leo's quote that he yells at White is the one Klaus says to Leo in the first episode.
The reason I rewatched the entire cour is probably because of how much I like the setting. It's not based in Japan or some faux-fantasy location. On top of that it uses NYC as a palette to be an extra bit crazy. The above screenshot has some generic restaurant-goers being eaten by their own clam chowder. It's different. That's a big reason why I'm looking forward to Violet Evergarden. I wish more shows played loose with the setting. Of course not everybody, or anybody really, can match Kimura's art. Kimura is a god.
I read through some of the manga and it's surprising how much of the humor comes from the source material. The anime though does flesh out a lot of the jokes in substantial ways like Zapp beating the shit out of Leo for pizza. I would actually read through the complete manga if the art wasn't so fucking awful. I know that's Nightow's style but damn do I hate it. I'm curious how 'faithful' the second season will be compared to the first. Comedy is what this cour excelled at, so I'm wondering how much of that is going to take a hit due to lack of Matsumoto or if enough groundwork is there that they can skate by.
Innocent.
I also came across this shot which explains the title of the second season. Here I just thought they wanted a cool word that started with B to go along with BBB.
MikeHattsu
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Is this a world where everybody got fluffy tails? ;p
pretty sure the manager didn't have one so no
nintendoman58
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Because until then there hasn't been an ant that was the size of the queen, I guess?
In the entire history of that species, that's never happened before?
nintendoman58
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Is it really that far-fetched for it to not have?
Here's a race of animals that are normally tiny. Here's a story of what happens when one of them just so happens to be the size of a human.
Not only that, but considering the origins of where the ants come from, it's not that surprising that they never feasted/interacted with humans before.
Yea it kinda is, especially considering each iteration of them seems to get progressively stronger and bigger based on what they eat. This should have happened long ago.
It's also pretty coincidental that the one place where this happens is the one place that has no way or desire to contact the outside world. How very coincidental.
it's horror movie logic like being trapped in a cabin out in god knows where. iirc the arc borrows a lot from that like other arcs were tapping into specific genres
Yea I was actually thinking of horror movies as well. It's just a little ridiculous that this country pops up just for this arc. However world building has never been this show's strong suit.
The answer is always : "Togashi just thought of it"
From /r/anime: The fanart of Altair on display in Re: Creators episode 20 is actual, real life fanart. Rei Hiroe made a fanart-bait character who's superpower is that she gets stronger from fanworks, and then they turned around and used actual fanwork in the show.
I was wondering if that was the case since it seemed like an eclectic group of styles.
That's kind of brilliant actually.
Pretty cool. They definitely anticipated this when they wrote it though. It would have to have been a massive bomb for them not to have material to work with by episode 20.
Theonik
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Is this the anime equivalent of farting in a room then promptly leaving?
In a world where everyone is mofu mofu, surely our creative works would also be generally mofu so in the waywe have mofu girls in some things we will have non mofu as the exception.
Admiral Woofington
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Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon is one of those episodes I keep rewatching.
Really, it's perfect.
Dedication Through Light
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Odd, when was the myth that buying product supports the creator started, I didnt realize buying stuff was just going to the coffers of suited up MBAs sitting in $1200 office chairs all day.
Poor Saiki Kusuo
striferser
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Dude is pure breed chuunibyou
Joe Molotov
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Just what you'd expect from the master.
Dedication Through Light
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Which SAO are they making this art from, I want to watch it.
Crimson_Echidna
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Which SAO are they making this art from, I want to watch it.
The only thing they do outside of the games in SAO is sit around in diners talking about the games.
have you ever read up about how awful wh40k's setting is for, well, everyone?
I haven't read wh40k in a long time and I know it's really bad but it would have to be extremely impressive of a shithole to beat this. HxH has a city the size of NYC that is a lawless junkyard and the villain of this arc just set up a meat plantation. If you don't have even a basic amount of Nen then you're a walking meatbag.
MetroidPrimeRib
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I dunno Demolition Man's world is pretty shitty.
But the worst has to be any universe where your soul can be harvested by evil forever as energy like Warhammer, Warcraft and the Cthulhu mythos
But the worst has to be any universe where your soul can be harvested by evil forever as energy like Warhammer, Warcraft and the Cthulhu mythos
If you're okay with slight manga spoilers for later chapters:
Chimera ants are believed to have migrated from the "outer world" which is an entire uninhabited continent surrounding the known world of HxH or the world where the people/humans reside. The current arc in HxH manga focuses on them visiting this outer world.
SliceSabre
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I'm pretty sure a universe where your typical war seems to kill billions upon billions of people and destroying a solar system of planets and harvesting the souls of those living on those planets is worse than anything going on in HxH.
I don't care how much power you can gain by worshipping certain gods the WH40k universe is a basically a fucking hellscape to live in.
I don't care how much power you can gain by worshipping certain gods the WH40k universe is a basically a fucking hellscape to live in.
Preview for Classroom of the Elite 09 narrated by Albert Yamada.
That's the bouncer lookin' dude with the giant fist, right
That's the bouncer lookin' dude with the giant fist, right
So them migrating is more of a recent event?
Yes
Crimson_Echidna
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PdotMichael
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Being stuck in the Xenoglossia universe would be the worst. Forever stuck with the rip off Idolmaster characters.
please proceed to 13
Hellwarden
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...What is Centaur Life about again?
striferser
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...What is Centaur Life about again?
This part is up there in term of 'shit got fucking real', but believe me when i said there's a scene that can top this.
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