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Winter Anime 2016 |OT| Celebrating the New Year and PSO2's release in the west!
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Dedication Through Light
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Making a covenant with a Dragon is far cooler than making it with some bulky sleeping mecha though. And the friendship level is much better people actually have great value. Chaos Dragon pushes the boundary on storytelling.
What Grimgar reminded me of was .hack//Legend of the Twilight. While I never seriously watched Twilight when it was airing on Toonami, the whole amnesia and bodies looking different element seem similar.
I find it interesting that the players are struggling against some basic goblins but that could be frustrating if they drag it out and the characters' progression feels too slow.
I find it interesting that the players are struggling against some basic goblins but that could be frustrating if they drag it out and the characters' progression feels too slow.
phoenix296
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Halfway through Cindy Girls second cour I honestly can't argue with this.
Video game character gets stuck in real life and has to face the truth of mortality, struggling to living a life of consequences because he can no longer save-scum. Even simple, everyday choices are daunting to him because there's no objective measure of progress, no Paragon/Renegade points, no experience bars to fill.
And what is this "pooping" thing everyone does every day? How can people live like this!?
And what is this "pooping" thing everyone does every day? How can people live like this!?
MetroidPrimeRib
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Is it? I'm pretty sure a giant robot would beat a dragon in a fight,
agreed
dungeon meshi, dungeon meshi
you jest haly but I can see a manga about this all too easily.
except obvs it's a cute girl protagonist.
Last Action Hero.
SliceSabre
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Everybody poops.
4thbest Arnold movie.
Not for long.
She struggles to maintain her looks because she needs to actually watch her diet and go to sleep on time, instead of grinding FATES day and night.
Shit! I knew it was familiar.
Admiral Woofington
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Wait until he has to do his taxes. That's when it's GAME OVER.
MetroidPrimeRib
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Is that Bahamut?
I take it back, if you could form a pact with Bahamut, do that. Bahamut owns.
Yeah that's Bahamut.
names2hard4you
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Haikyuu!! S2 14
New OP is FIRE. Can't wait to watch the qualifiers!
New OP is FIRE. Can't wait to watch the qualifiers!
So basically your standard fantasy setting then.
People don't poop in standard fantasy.
When was the last time Frodo pooped?
I thought so.
Tusser looks way better now as a Gyaru.
Peter Dinklage stole the show and made the movie tolerable.
"I made your game... MAH BITCH!"
I liked it a lot, which is surprising to me because I expected a mecha show, which Gunparade March really isn't. There's mechas and combat but that's just the setting, not the subject. I still watch it now and again, usually around Christmas.
Joe Molotov
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I have just the movie for you:
how many cours, m8?
You actually watched that crap?
If it wasn't for him, I would've not finished the movie.
MetroidPrimeRib
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Despite not even being two years old with only two volumes in circulation, it's very popular. Count on it.
Looks okay maybe. Hadn't heard about it until yesterday when I saw the PS1 game.
Oh I am. And I'm excited.
Admiral Woofington
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Grimgar Episode 1
We had anime after anime of people stuck in MMOs that were decently strong if not the strongest or at least skilled, now we finally get one starring a bunch of jobber fuck ups who can't even defeat goblins. Not only that but I actually like the goblins more, that party of goblins having dinner and drinking and laughing their asses off? Fuck I wanna drink with them bros, why do we have to follow these bunch of useless fucks? The lead seems to be the rogue, and he joins the thieves guild which is ran by a lady using a leather bra and sexy pants who needs to be way too forward with him.
In fact speaking of, please tell me why I wasn't the only one who noticed that every time a girl gets shown there was a 75% chance the camera would be behind them and they'd be doing a weird pose to have their ass stick out? It was especially funny when you're shown how they all woke up and almost every girl was facing away from the camera with their asses front and center.
I don't really see what the point of this being a fantasy MMO irl is. They don't seem to use game skills or have any of the shit that makes an rpg, it just seems more like they should have gone for the "transported to fantasy land with amnesia" route.
We had anime after anime of people stuck in MMOs that were decently strong if not the strongest or at least skilled, now we finally get one starring a bunch of jobber fuck ups who can't even defeat goblins. Not only that but I actually like the goblins more, that party of goblins having dinner and drinking and laughing their asses off? Fuck I wanna drink with them bros, why do we have to follow these bunch of useless fucks? The lead seems to be the rogue, and he joins the thieves guild which is ran by a lady using a leather bra and sexy pants who needs to be way too forward with him.
In fact speaking of, please tell me why I wasn't the only one who noticed that every time a girl gets shown there was a 75% chance the camera would be behind them and they'd be doing a weird pose to have their ass stick out? It was especially funny when you're shown how they all woke up and almost every girl was facing away from the camera with their asses front and center.
I don't really see what the point of this being a fantasy MMO irl is. They don't seem to use game skills or have any of the shit that makes an rpg, it just seems more like they should have gone for the "transported to fantasy land with amnesia" route.
Basileus777
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Isn't that exactly what they did?
Well that's good, 'cause that's what they did!
Admiral Woofington
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Maybe I read the synopsis wrong, but I thought I had read it was people stuck in an MMO vs being transported to another dimension. If it really is just a fantasy realm/dimension, then nvm
NaDannMaGoGo
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So I've caught up to the beginning of the autumn election in the Shoukugeki no Souma manga and, while some of the artwork is drawn better, I prefer the anime. Non-colorized food with 1-2 nicely drawn panels can't beat the colorful, animated versions where you aren't just told about juices flowing, you see them! Soundtrack, voice acting and a, to me, well chosen pacing make it a clear choice for me.
It's a very close adaptation anyways and I can't say that the fanservice is that much worse in the anime. Animated tentacles may be worse than static ones...but it's still faithful to the manga's content. Of course I would've appreciated if they lessened all that in the adaptation to begin with.
Won't read further than the anime ending. I'm quite keen on seeing the story continue but I'd rather experience it in my preferred medium.
It's a very close adaptation anyways and I can't say that the fanservice is that much worse in the anime. Animated tentacles may be worse than static ones...but it's still faithful to the manga's content. Of course I would've appreciated if they lessened all that in the adaptation to begin with.
Won't read further than the anime ending. I'm quite keen on seeing the story continue but I'd rather experience it in my preferred medium.
MetroidPrimeRib
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That's part of the reason why I loved Dragon's Dogma so much. That's just some good 'ol DnD style fantasy shit. You get to kill Evil Eyes, Cockatrice, Cyclops and Hydras. That's dope.
Admiral Woofington
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That's why you read the name of the wind, ultimate fantasy of getting all the bad pussy
This came up on twitter earlier. There's been this quiet run of fantasy shows that's just sort of forgotten lately (mostly because bad but hey)
- Maoyu
- Rage of Bahamut
- Chaika
- Shirayuki-hime
- Garo
- Yona of the Dawn
- Rokka no Yuusha
Feels like the game/mmo angles are just higher profile in terms of fan awareness.
This like recommending School Days but worse given how shit that second book was.
Basileus777
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It's a big trend in LNs/web novels to have stat leveling even when the setting isn't an actual MMO.
As much as I hate the focus on "worldbuilding" in western fantasy and fantasy games, I see this fauxRPG trend as the opposite extreme, where writers just eschew worldbuilding entirely in favor of Capitalized Class Names and familiar J/MMORPG systems (loot, parties, bosses).
In effect they're saying "us gamers right? let's move on to the character drama then", except the character drama is never anything special, with the exception of works like Maoyuu. What sets Maoyuu apart is that the writer used the energy saved by not worldbuilding to give economics lessons, effectively trading one responsibility for another. I think that's fine. I don't like it when writers stretch themselves thin trying to cover everything *COUGHGRRMCOUGH*, but the recent string of fauxRPG LNs is just deplorably lazy.
/endrant
Is that really true? Recently out of just what I've watched we got Rage of Bahamut Genesis, Garo, and Chaika. I'm sure there are a few more I haven't see. Naruto is still running even though the manga ended. There's more Berserk coming. Drifters is coming. There's probably shit I'm forgetting too. Is this like the "mecha is dying out" thing? Lol.
I don't think pseudo-fantasy replaced anything, it just added to the noise.
hosannainexcelsis
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No matter whether it's fantasy or science-fiction or whatever, worldbuilding in light novels seems to consist of dumping a bunch of jargon on the audience.
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