I will always prefer something like Tokyo Ghoul over Unicorn. At least the former makes me feel something.
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Toonami |MayJun17| WE ARE ROBOTS
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I will always prefer something like Tokyo Ghoul over Unicorn. At least the former makes me feel something.
It's pretty much that or do it Bleach-style. Nen abilities can get rather complicated and without a proper explanation it'd be too hard to follow why the fights unfold the way they do.
Marida was one of the only good characters on this snoozefest of a show. So, for the third time from me: fuck Riddhe.
ramoisdead
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Toonami needs more Lupin.
A man's man of an anime. Also I need to see Jigen more.
Yes, Jigen is my fave.
Schadenfreude
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Wait, why are they explaining evolution to us?
Crimson_Echidna
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I'm trying to tell you guys, you haven't even gotten to the really bad portions of Tokyo Ghoul yet. 
I'm trying to tell you guys, you haven't even gotten to the really bad portions of Tokyo Ghoul yet.
I haven't even seen Season 2, so that's gonna be a fun one.
Dr. Chaotix
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That was actually tame compared to how ridiculous the battle exposition gets down the line.
And I say this a lot but it was even worse for me when I was reading it.
Sawano is good.
Schadenfreude
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Holy shit. Laplace's box was the 15th amendment?
ThatObviousUser
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Aeolia Schoenberg?!?!?!
Dr. Chaotix
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Annoying existentialism. And now, WORDS WORDS WORDS from Riddhe...what JOY.
Hellwarden
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Holy shit was I wrong.
This show requires a lot of backstory. First time I watched it I remember grasping the general gist of the plot, but still...
This show requires a lot of backstory. First time I watched it I remember grasping the general gist of the plot, but still...
Screw that. This is much better. None of that talking during the middle of a fight. This is why you don't get to make any really important life decisions. /s
ThatObviousUser
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I actually kinda like there being an objectively terrible show on the block. Reminds me of the fun we had going through ThunderCats, GXP, SAO, Samurai 7, etc.
I just wish it were after HxH...
......how did he know?
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It's not even close. At least Unicorn has several redeeming features.
What?!
Hellwarden
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I'm suddenly reminded of a certain Fallout New Vegas character.
Marcenas. His grandfather.
Dr. Chaotix
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"He never considered putting YOU in it. NOT even in his wildest dreams."
Outside of being pretty by virtue of being an OVA edited into a TV series, what redeeming features?
Schadenfreude
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I thought Laplace's Box was magic or something.
Hellwarden
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Oh the magic is still coming.
Other than being pretty, the soundtrack is also quite good.
Hellwarden
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Dropping colonies is bad kids.
Don't do it.
Don't drop colonies.
Don't do it.
Don't drop colonies.
Dr. Chaotix
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That sniveling. It's extra annoying over a mike.
Crimson_Echidna
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Samurai Jack marathon next weekend.
Crimson_Echidna
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Zeon did nothing wrong though! Gravity weighs the human soul down!
As I said: Man God literally guessed what Laplace's Box was in the first episode.
There's a general tendency to distort ratings and popularity to make out the shows we like as some kind of underdog and the ones we don't as somehow super popular, and that's what annoys me.
Like, look also at how Chrollo's revealed to have this insane power, but is handily defeated by two people using fairly simple things while they exposit about all its limitations.
...though yeah that totally wouldn't work in an anime, only a comic...
Fair. The main thing that annoys me is how people are pushing Tokyo Ghoul as some crazy popular thing, when it's just normal popular. Which is totally believable, I thought Gantz was hot shit back when I was a young teenager, and I assume the TG anime viewership is largely the same.
There's a general tendency to distort ratings and popularity to make out the shows we like as some kind of underdog and the ones we don't as somehow super popular, and that's what annoys me.
Togashi likes playing around with expectations a lot, honestly, sometimes he does it just for the sake of playing around.
Like, look also at how Chrollo's revealed to have this insane power, but is handily defeated by two people using fairly simple things while they exposit about all its limitations.
Agreed, though I'd rank GitS slightly above.
iirc, Killua and his dad and granddad are all Transmuters, and the other Zoldycks are Emitters.
It'd totally be possible to explain nen with visual diagrams and stuff, though! Probably would be easier to understand than Togashi's walls of text.
...though yeah that totally wouldn't work in an anime, only a comic...
Jack marathon next week.
Good visuals, good soundtrack, quality space action, and narratively it's not offensively incompetent, especially with proper context and knowledge of the backstory. Yes, "not incompetent" is a positive when we're making a comparison with Tokyo Ghoul.
It's just very dull, has a lot of typical Gundam stupidity, and is almost completely inaccessible to new viewers.
I feel like my biggest problem with Tokyo Ghoul is that the base rationale for each of the opposing two sides is so straightforward as to be uninteresting. Basically each side is acting in a sense of self-preservation, as all creatures do. Humans want to protect themselves from a threat, Ghouls have no choice but to try and defend themselves as well. There's no reason to be sympathetic to either side.
You could argue that you could be sympathetic to both sides, but then you usually need an interesting conflict between to two to generate intrigue. Groups acting out of self-preservation is too ... ordinary to be interesting.
You could argue that you could be sympathetic to both sides, but then you usually need an interesting conflict between to two to generate intrigue. Groups acting out of self-preservation is too ... ordinary to be interesting.
Considering the world we now live in, this doesn't seem like something that would effect anything.
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