Anime, Manga, VN, JRPG, Related Things Discussion Topic CI

10/31/2023 07:43:32 PM

10/31/2023

07:43 PM

#353

I'm all caught up with Sound Euphonium now except for Liz and the Blue Bird, which I probably should have been more aggressive in getting a copy of not knowing how little Mizore and Nozomi would be present in the film and OVA (although their stories are done by the time the OVA comes around). That being said, Winter and Spring 2024 are absolutely jacked and will be a fantastic 6 months of anime, and Oshi no Ko S2 looming on the horizon.

I was really surprised to find out that Ensamble Contest currently sitting at #1 OVA on Anichart for the year. You can definitely see the increase of quality in KyoAni pre and post Arson attack (when KyoAni was already top tier when it came to production quality), and this series is no exception.

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11/02/2023 11:19:28 PM

11/02/2023

11:19 PM

#354

been delving back into Honeyworks' Love/Idol series stuff (they're movie videos about usually romance that all connect to each other) and they have simply only gotten better. and they finally gave a sort of resolution to my favorite character who was first introduced nearly a decade ago, god bless. you can watch like 8 videos in a row and it's a contiguous storyline with another 15 videos branching off

my old favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVaBgnkgcHM

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keyblader1985

11/03/2023 12:36:28 AM

11/03/2023

12:36 AM

#355

Been watching a lot of the old Lupin the Third dub since it's free to watch on several different sources now. Can't believe it's been twenty freaking years since I used to watch it on Adult Swim.

Also that new Crunchyroll channel is kind of useful. There's not a whole lot of new shows that I make a point of watching, but since they air automatically and they're dubs, it's nice to have on in the background while doing other stuff and I occasionally take an interest in a show.

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11/03/2023 06:44:39 AM

11/03/2023

06:44 AM

#356

Been keeping up with most of the seasonals I started. Under Ninja is fuckin hilarious. It's gotta have some of the best quotes in all of anime. "If I cut off 3 dicks, I can become a ninja. If I become a ninja I can save my daughter" and the newest line "How do you know where I live?" "Don't you remember me following you home without you noticing the other day?". There is nothing like this show and it's sad the first 10 seconds of hilariously bad cgi filtered the audience so heavily. Definitely my biggest positive surprise this season.

It also has a japanese 17 year old drink beer at every opportunity instead of pulling the classic "yeah I'm a trained assassin thats murdered 500 people but I'm underage so I can't drink" bs.

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ConfusedTorchic

11/03/2023 08:27:54 AM

11/03/2023

08:27 AM

#357

YoukaiSlayer posted...

It also has a japanese 17 year old drink beer at every opportunity instead of pulling the classic "yeah I'm a trained assassin thats murdered 500 people but I'm underage so I can't drink" bs.

i mean, they do that trope to show that the person still has some morality left

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jne9t8sHpUc

11/03/2023 08:58:27 AM

11/03/2023

08:58 AM

#358

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8hDuDBGfXk
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11/03/2023 02:19:30 PM

11/03/2023

02:19 PM

#359

ConfusedTorchic posted...

i mean, they do that trope to show that the person still has some morality left

I'm pretty sure that trope was a bit more legally motivated than that. Probably something to do with age ratings and time slots. Kind of like how in EU you cannot show weapon violence against child characters in game cutscenes (hence the change to the opening of tales of berseria). You can still show children get killed, just not if it's done with a weapon. Looking it up, it does seem to be an age ratings thing.

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JOExHIGASHI

11/05/2023 04:53:20 PM

11/05/2023

04:53 PM

#360

I finished attack on titan

Story was dumb. Animation was really good.

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I_Abibde

11/06/2023 07:48:43 AM

11/06/2023

07:48 AM

#361

Crunchyroll ate Right Stuf while I was away.

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11/09/2023 03:54:42 PM

11/09/2023

03:54 PM

#362

Under Ninja is such a weird show. It's so good at giving you these 50-50s where you don't know if it's going to be some cool interesting shit or some absolutely stupid absurd nonsense thats funny every time.

JJK has also been amazing lately. The arc really living up to the hype so far. The animation is godlike too.

I think those 2, helck, frieren and apothecary diaries are the best of season. I always look forward to them the whole week.

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11/12/2023 06:36:10 PM

11/12/2023

06:36 PM

#363

Highlight of my weekend was predicting Nebi would sing All Star in chat right before she sang it.

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I_Abibde

11/13/2023 09:48:04 PM

11/13/2023

09:48 PM

#364

No anime in my queue as of late because Star Ocean: The Second Story R exists and is amazing.

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11/13/2023 10:00:47 PM

11/13/2023

10:00 PM

#365

....how degenerate of me would it be to say the manga I'm looking forward to the most is called "I Was Reincarnated As The Scumbag From a Netorare Manga, But The Heroine is Coming On To Me"? Like it's pretty horny but it's also 90% cute. I've read ahead in the web novel and I cannot state how much I want to see a manga adaptation of this continue

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T0ffee

11/14/2023 04:32:12 AM

11/14/2023

04:32 AM

#366

agesboy posted...

....how degenerate of me would it be to say the manga I'm looking forward to the most is called "I Was Reincarnated As The Scumbag From a Netorare Manga, But The Heroine is Coming On To Me"? Like it's pretty horny but it's also 90% cute. I've read ahead in the web novel and I cannot state how much I want to see a manga adaptation of this continue

I mean, they're living in a porn world with porn logic, so the feMC says shit like "you fucked my mom out of depression, so to thank you, you can fuck me too"

But other than that, it's pretty cute.

Now if you were looking forward to something like The Hero Took Everything From Me, So I Partied With The Hero's Mothe r ! then that's just peak fiction appreciation.

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11/15/2023 02:46:27 PM

11/15/2023

02:46 PM

#367

16bit Sensation continues to be anime of the season and it's not even close. Konoha is just such an absurd character and her desire to make a "modern" eroge in 1999 is so much fun. The fact that this is all anime original (the manga is radically different) is all the more better.

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11/15/2023 03:05:23 PM

11/15/2023

03:05 PM

#368

Konoha pisses me off every time I watch. Dudeman was all set to just abandon the PC 98 and move to windows like a sane human being and she whined at him to change the future (which in this case would be for the worse) and then when she had a chance to the future, she didn't for like 2 episodes cause she was scared.

It actually amazes me that they can create a plot about a cute nerd girl wanting to make porn video games and make me not like it. All of the references are great and it's fun just taking a disjointed trip down memory lane back to the 90s VNs and stuff but they just picked a really hateable main character IMO.

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11/15/2023 03:33:07 PM

11/15/2023

03:33 PM

#369

I can see why people don't like Konoha, I just don't take characters "seriously" like that. I'm along for the ride, and find it completely reasonable for Konoha to be mixed about wanting to change the timeline (while accidentally changing the timeline). Not all characters are perfect. She finally does make a decision in the latest episode.

I'm specifically not spoiling the latest episode because by the looks of it you haven't seen it yet (which is reasonable as it came out like 2 hours ago).

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11/15/2023 03:36:52 PM

11/15/2023

03:36 PM

#370

yeah, she's a one-topic-expert goofball with some self-confidence issues that she works through, I really like her

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11/20/2023 12:57:06 AM

11/20/2023

12:57 AM

#371

Man, berserk of gluttony is so derivative it almost feels like a greatest hits. Main guy is a kirito rip off, main girl is a visual rip off the main girl from danmachi, axe girl is a visual rip off of the .hack main girl, skill is a rip off of slime isekai, it's stealing the theme of deadly sins, it's name has berserk in it.

It's like the author challenged himself to cram as many elements from other popular isekai/fantasy shows as possible into one very mediocre package.

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ConfusedTorchic

11/20/2023 02:16:22 AM

11/20/2023

02:16 AM

#372

i don't know what girl you're talking about when you say .hack

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11/20/2023 05:29:48 AM

11/20/2023

05:29 AM

#373

ConfusedTorchic posted...

i don't know what girl you're talking about when you say .hack

Myne from berserk of gluttony looks like blackrose from .hack. Same skin and hair color with similar hair length and style and similar tribal tattoo mark things. Also both heavy weapon users. Granted, just like the other visual similarities to other characters, their personality is nothing alike.

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Shrek

11/20/2023 06:24:58 AM

11/20/2023

06:24 AM

#374

you could also have been talking about Subaru, cuz she's the axe girl

but you were talking about the games moreso than the main anime anyways

if i wasn't important then why would you waste all your poison

11/20/2023 06:30:52 AM

11/20/2023

06:30 AM

#375

True, although one of the anime has the mains in kite and blackrose's avatars. Tbh it's been a long time since I've seen em, I just knew I recognized that look from .hack somewhere. Had to look it up after you mentioned it.

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dragon504

11/20/2023 09:00:20 PM

11/20/2023

09:00 PM

#376

Rewatching AoT and catching up with all I haven't seen yet. I'm halfway through s2 already. It's one of the best things when you find a show that just clicks with you, and you can just watch ep after ep. I've only ever watched the first two seasons, so the rest is all going to be new. Been saving the series for quite some time waiting for it to end.

I barely remembered anything from before, so rewatching has been a nice treat as well.

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11/20/2023 09:24:14 PM

11/20/2023

09:24 PM

#377

I've spent the past couple of days watching K-On. Wrote a writeup of how my opinion has changed for it from when I first watched it in 2009 (when I dropped it) and now. Currently at the beginning of the sequel.

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11/20/2023 10:18:21 PM

11/20/2023

10:18 PM

#378

Mugi is still best girl.

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11/20/2023 10:44:03 PM

11/20/2023

10:44 PM

#379

adjl posted...

Mugi is still best girl.

I am unfun so my opinion is that there is no best girl. Each girl has had their moments that make the show what it is.

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11/20/2023 11:03:39 PM

11/20/2023

11:03 PM

#380

That was also my opinion until one episode (roughly halfway through in the second season, I believe, but it's been many years) that's pretty much all Mugi, after which Mugi was best girl.

It is indeed a pretty well-balanced cast, though, with the show's enjoyability hinging more on the chemistry between them than relying entirely on one or two strong personalities to carry it.

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11/21/2023 09:29:54 AM

11/21/2023

09:29 AM

#381

dragon504 posted...

Rewatching AoT and catching up with all I haven't seen yet. I'm halfway through s2 already. It's one of the best things when you find a show that just clicks with you, and you can just watch ep after ep. I've only ever watched the first two seasons, so the rest is all going to be new. Been saving the series for quite some time waiting for it to end.

I barely remembered anything from before, so rewatching has been a nice treat as well.

enjoy season 3

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11/21/2023 06:42:22 PM

11/21/2023

06:42 PM

#382

Picked Blazblue Cross Tag Battle up for a bit and what a whacky ass game. This has to be the least balanced non-doujin fighting game in the past decade. No need to worry about touch of death combos being overpowered when everyone has one!

https://clips.twitch.tv/SlickBashfulTarsierBudStar

It's also sucked me back down into the RWBY hole. I last watched it when only season 1 was a thing, so there's a lot to catch up on.

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keyblader1985

11/22/2023 10:10:07 PM

11/22/2023

10:10 PM

#383

I've randomly caught a few episodes of Arifureta on Crunchyroll's streaming channel...

I'm usually not so harsh when critiquing.. but this series is shameless unrepentant wish fulfillment masturbation. It's fun to watch at times, but it's, like, everything a stereotypical weeb wishes would happen to them. Average loser gains OP mystic powers along with drip and an eyepatch, gets vicious revenge on everyone who ever wronged him, goes on a rampage against freaking God itself, and has every fucking woman in the series begging for his dick (and of course he prefers the loli).

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11/22/2023 10:49:29 PM

11/22/2023

10:49 PM

#384

Yeah Arifureta's pretty deep on the shameless side. Not as bad as Redo of Healer because Ackshually MC's A Nice Dude but it's targetted squarely at trashy isekai fans

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I_Abibde

11/23/2023 10:37:48 AM

11/23/2023

10:37 AM

#385

keyblader1985 posted...

I'm usually not so harsh when critiquing.. but this series is shameless unrepentant wish fulfillment masturbation. It's fun to watch at times, but it's, like, everything a stereotypical weeb wishes would happen to them. Average loser gains OP mystic powers along with drip and an eyepatch, gets vicious revenge on everyone who ever wronged him, goes on a rampage against freaking God itself, and has every fucking woman in the series begging for his dick (and of course he prefers the loli).

I have a good list going of how not to write isekai protags, and your description sums up most of it.

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11/23/2023 02:45:31 PM

11/23/2023

02:45 PM

#386

adjl posted...

That was also my opinion until one episode (roughly halfway through in the second season, I believe, but it's been many years) that's pretty much all Mugi, after which Mugi was best girl.

It is indeed a pretty well-balanced cast, though, with the show's enjoyability hinging more on the chemistry between them than relying entirely on one or two strong personalities to carry it.

Are you talking about the episode where Mugi wants Ritsu to slap her Ritsu tries to get Mugi to do a bunch of ridiculous stuff to get Mio to try and slap her but fails miserably every time even when she tries to steal the strawberry off of Mio's slice of cake leading to the ending where Ritsu is so embarrassed by Mugi's compliment she ends up slapping her off camera?

Yes, that was a great episode.

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11/23/2023 04:13:07 PM

11/23/2023

04:13 PM

#387

That does sound familiar. I want to say episode 14? We are talking like 10+ years ago, though, so I don't know that I'd put much stake in my ability to remember specific episode numbers.

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11/23/2023 06:18:41 PM

11/23/2023

06:18 PM

#388

Yup that was episode 14.

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11/24/2023 02:18:00 PM

11/24/2023

02:18 PM

#389

Go me, I guess.

But yeah, Mugi best girl. Possibly because that's one of very few episodes that actually leans on a single character's personality to carry it instead of the chemistry between everyone, and where it stands out as being a particularly great episode, that means Mugi stands out as being particularly best girl. But I'm probably overanalyzing it, given that it's K-On.

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11/25/2023 01:57:43 AM

11/25/2023

01:57 AM

#390

JOExHIGASHI posted...

enjoy season 3

It was good, haven't started on the final seasons yet though.

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11/25/2023 01:17:05 PM

11/25/2023

01:17 PM

#391

Yesterday, Youtube randomly made me aware of a yuri-themed show called "I'm in Love with the Villainess." Finding interest, I took to Crunchyroll, only to discover close to half the episodes out so far are locked behind Premium. So then I looked up the manga and got caught up with that version of it.

Then, before going to bed, I learned there's a series of novels, and the manga apparently is somewhere in the second volume. Also apparently the story could have ended at the end of volume 2 but kept going out of some demand for more, and volumes 3 and onward are where the story goes off the deep end. So I guess I hope the manga ends where it is supposed to end? This would mean the manga might go for another year or so before wrapping things up, but still, better that than dragging things on.

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11/25/2023 03:23:28 PM

11/25/2023

03:23 PM

#392

I've never heard anything bad about I'm In Love With The Villainess "going off the deep end", everyone I've seen who liked the earlier segments ends up liking the later bits just as much

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11/25/2023 07:11:53 PM

11/25/2023

07:11 PM

#393

Since VNs are allowed:

I've tried reading a lot of the anime themed ones, but they're usually way too long, and I feel like they mostly waste your time. Far too many of the popular ones are Slice of Life or really bizarre comedies, neither of which really interest me.

That said, anyone here read any of the 3d ones?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7a1783b5.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/12d0dd17.jpg

Edit: Oh, and to make this post still anime themed:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d89a1c36.jpg

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11/25/2023 08:45:55 PM

11/25/2023

08:45 PM

#394

EchoBaz posted...

That said, anyone here read any of the 3d ones?

as someone who's read a couple hundred japanese visual novels, Ren'Py 3D visual novels made by westerners for westerners are just really bizarre to me

like the most popular one (that I don't think I can name because it's extremely close to a censor bypass, but it's 95% positive on steam) is about frat life, I don't go to visual novels for that

i go to visual novels for stuff like samurai in mecha dueling to the death

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11/25/2023 09:01:36 PM

11/25/2023

09:01 PM

#395

Anyone here like the Manga Rebuild World?

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11/25/2023 09:21:24 PM

11/25/2023

09:21 PM

#396

agesboy posted...

as someone who's read a couple hundred japanese visual novels, Ren'Py 3D visual novels made by westerners for westerners are just really bizarre to me

Fair enough, I feel like a it's pretty rare to find someone that likes both. I feel like I've tried reading about a dozen VNs, and what turns me off more than anything off is the very slow pacing, followed by other issues like the fact that they're almost always about kids, and there's so few translated titles that are fantasy or sci-fi.

I recently went on r/VisualNovels, asking for a really great, serious medievil fantasy visual novel with descriptive combat, and no gameplay(which I made clear I meant not a hybrid of RPGs). I was given stuff that "technically counted," and stuff that will likely never be translated. Most of them don't even know what descriptive combat is, and when you explain with examples they still don't get it. Meanwhile I'm playing the Mass Effect inspired Tales From The Unending Void Season 1, and it's one of the best stories I've ever read!

agesboy posted...

i go to visual novels for stuff like samurai in mecha dueling to the death

Please do recommend anime fantasy novels with descriptive combat.

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11/25/2023 09:26:32 PM

11/25/2023

09:26 PM

#397

agesboy posted...

like the most popular one (that I don't think I can name because it's extremely close to a censor bypass, but it's 95% positive on steam) is about frat life, I don't go to visual novels for that

I assume that you mean Being a Dick, and fair, I don't like that game either. It's a bunch of bigotry disguised as "humor." But that's just one game.

I also don't like anything I've played from Spike Chunsoft either. I find their games pretty cringey. And from what I understand, they control most of the VN market.

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11/25/2023 10:03:29 PM

11/25/2023

10:03 PM

#398

EchoBaz posted...

I also don't like anything I've played from Spike Chunsoft either. I find their games pretty cringey. And from what I understand, they control most of the VN market.

That is a wildly inaccurate statement lol. They developed Danganronpa, Zero Escape, 428 which noone remembers, and have been publishing some of the science series (Steins;gate etc) IP for about six years now (I think mostly internationally; MAGES has always been the developer)

Nitroplus, KEY, Type-MOON, Alicesoft, 07th expansion, Aquaplus/Leaf are all a lot more prolific, and for the most part self publish afaik. Spike Chunsoft is more known for VN or anime adjacent games than VNs themselves

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11/25/2023 10:26:20 PM

11/25/2023

10:26 PM

#399

Glad to be wrong then, now can you recommend anything with descriptive combat?

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