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Topic | Fill in the Blank 312: ___ Dead |
Robazoid 06/12/24 6:20:38 AM #48 | Linguo
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Topic | Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 299: Girls Love Music |
Robazoid 06/12/24 6:03:49 AM #496 | I'll talk about it more in a few weeks when it finishes, but Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers isn't bad! It's a generic power fantasy isekai in a lot of ways, but in other ways it's kinda unique. I like that the main dude was summoned from one fantasy world into another and isn't just another Japanese guy. In particular, monster slavery was a big problem in his original world, but he was against the institution and he's carrying that attitude into solving problems in this new world. I'm glad I decided to watch this show and not that enslaved elf bride anime, that's all I'll say.
I'm also a big fan of how this show handles the obligatory harem. The main dude is surrounded by a bunch of sexy ladies, but only one of them is a love interest. This really cuts down on the usual harem nonsense. There's a central romance, and it's surprisingly well-written. It turns out there are two anime this season with a relationship between a merchant and a wolf lady! As sacrilegious as this is to say, I might honestly prefer this main couple over the one in Spice and Wolf. It's a lot of fun watching them interact, and it got pretty heartfelt at times as they grew closer. Since the other girls aren't love interests who exist solely for fanservice, that means they have their own subplots and develop in different ways. My favorite part of the show is watching all of them improve themselves and their shared living situation. It reminds me of Farming Life in Another World, one of my favorite isekai. Sadly, there are also some significant problems holding this anime back. This has the usual trope of "main dude gets banished for being weak, but omg he's actually the strongest there ever was". I've never been a fan of that premise, and this anime couples it with a fake hero who is actually super weak and a total asshole. Every time the fake hero is onscreen, this anime becomes significantly worse. I feel like I've already typed up more than this anime deserves, so I'll stop here and just comment more once it's over. In short, it isn't groundbreaking and it has its fair share of issues, but I'm enjoying it well enough. I'm glad I decided to give it a chance. --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XXVI: Day 16 [smfffc] |
Robazoid 06/12/24 12:09:09 AM #253 | mnk posted...
FFXVI PC version is there too.I'm excited for it to come out on EGS so I can start the one year timer for when it'll finally hit Steam and I can actually buy it. --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 300: The Meaning of Anime |
Robazoid 06/12/24 12:04:58 AM #7 | pyresword posted...
On a related note to this poll, today out of desperation I clicked on one of those "what anime should I watch?" quizzes to see what it would give me. One of the questions was something like "how many anime have you watched", and the options were "0", "2-5", "10 maybe" and "I feed on anime".My brother hates anime and even he's watched almost 10 (Death Note, Monster, Knights of Sidonia, Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers, Pluto, Girls Last Tour, School-Live, ReZero, and The Junji Ito Collection (despite me telling him not to)). Granted, he only finished two of those, but still. 10 is a really low highest option for a quiz like that is what I'm getting at lol Also if you're that desperate for anime recommendations, you should finally watch Sagrada Reset! I remember you expressed interest in it during my big anime ranking but I don't think you ever did. --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 299: Girls Love Music |
Robazoid 06/11/24 11:48:29 PM #494 | MacArrowny posted...
Have you watched Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction? Or Sand Land?I've actually been hearing really bad things about the subtitles for Dead Dead, something like how they're based on the dub script so the timing is all out of sync with the Japanese dialogue. For now I'm probably going to wait and see if a fansub group does a better job at some point. Sand Land is a good idea too though, I hadn't considered that one. --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 300: The Meaning of Anime |
Robazoid 06/11/24 11:38:23 PM #2 | Counting airing ones I've almost completed right now I'm at 434 anime, plus almost 8000 episodes according to MAL. 2000 more and I'll still be at less than half of what Mac's seen!
--- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 299: Girls Love Music |
Robazoid 06/09/24 9:51:05 PM #461 | Hey, if they're out there, I'm sure someone will put them on the cat site.
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Topic | Save My X-Men: Day 34 (62 remain) |
Robazoid 06/09/24 9:45:14 PM #86 | I was going to save Bishop anyway but I saw he was covered lol
Also full disclosure, with the exception of Morph, I've just been saving the ones I fondly remember having action figures of as a kid. --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Save My X-Men: Day 34 (62 remain) |
Robazoid 06/09/24 9:41:34 PM #81 | Bishop
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Topic | Save My X-Men: Day 34 (62 remain) |
Robazoid 06/09/24 9:39:31 PM #77 | Omega Red
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Topic | Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 299: Girls Love Music |
Robazoid 06/09/24 9:37:43 PM #459 | I really like Your Lie in April too, particularly because of Kaori. It's interesting to think about her motivations during different parts of the story,
Edit: Added spoiler tags, why not. --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Life is Strange: Double Exposure trailer |
Robazoid 06/09/24 9:35:38 PM #4 | Best way to do this would be to have both LiS1 endings, one in each timeline. They have to do two alternate realities anyway, so this is the one case where it wouldn't necessarily be that much more work.
I'm finding it hard to get excited about this, though. Like the trailer opens with Max saying she swore to never use her power again. That means, no matter which ending in LiS is canon, she made a tough decision, let it stand, and learned a valuable lesson. Now she's just... going to use her powers again? To save this rando girl? I'm sure there will be some narrative BS to justify it but right now I'm just wondering why she's willing to risk it. Also if Chloe isn't in this game in some capacity and this new girl is a love interest I will fucking riot --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Save My X-Men: Day 34 (62 remain) |
Robazoid 06/09/24 6:09:01 PM #26 | Armor
Darwin --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XXVI: Day 14 [smfffc] |
Robazoid 06/09/24 5:34:31 PM #147 | Fang was incredibly lucky to outlast Vanille that year. Vanille was powerful enough to eventually win on her own merits, no way Fang ever manages anything outside that very specific set of circumstances.
--- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Save My X-Men: Day 34 (62 remain) |
Robazoid 06/09/24 5:07:22 PM #7 | Johnbobb posted...
ArmorFor Cyclops/Morph (and it's free if either one of them winds up already being safe) --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Save My X-Men: Day 34 (62 remain) |
Robazoid 06/09/24 5:07:02 PM #5 | Cyclops
Morph --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | XBox Games Showcase 6/9 @1pm ET |
Robazoid 06/09/24 3:25:15 PM #69 | UshiromiyaEva posted...
All I've heard from LiS fans for years is everything after the first game sucks and they want Max back.I could be in the minority for all I know. I loved Life is Strange: True Colors though, so I feel like more of a fan than one who only wants Max! --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | XBox Games Showcase 6/9 @1pm ET |
Robazoid 06/09/24 3:09:09 PM #66 | Speaking as one of the biggest Life is Strange fanboys on the board, I'm not super excited about the new Life is Strange. Really should've used a new character, then I'd be hyped. Max has too much baggage from the first game, too much potential for them to trip over themselves and ruin the new story by disrespecting the old one imo
--- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XXVI: Day 14 [smfffc] |
Robazoid 06/09/24 2:55:14 PM #106 | Mog IX
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Topic | Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 299: Girls Love Music |
Robazoid 06/09/24 5:39:23 AM #442 | I fell two weeks behind in most airing shows, caught up in about half of them today. Finally watched Girls Band Cry up to episode 8 (which is still two behind, lousy SobsPlease delay). I could do with fewer embarrassing public shouting matches, but after the Jellyfish debacle I'm really appreciating the way GBC handles drama. I can understand where everyone is coming from even when they aren't all on the same page. Also, Rupa is great. Every band anime from now on needs a Rupa.
--- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 299: Girls Love Music |
Robazoid 06/08/24 9:08:22 PM #438 | UshiromiyaEva posted...
Also there's the extra note here that Jellyfish, despite being an anime original, is technically adapted from the scripts for Yuki Yaku's still publishing novels. He's already talked about stuff that had to be cut from the show but will be expanded upon there. There's probably going to be a LOT of content there that we didn't see here given that over a year has passed in the story.I'd actually be really interested in hearing what was cut. All this recent drama aside, my other big problem with the show is that it has that style of writing where it feels like nothing happens offscreen. Over a year has passed and these girls haven't gotten any closer during it? They haven't already talked through some of their big traumas? It was really blatant in that one episode where they had twitter drama, decided what to do about it... then the screen goes TWO MONTHS LATER and I'm just like wait what happened to the twitter drama during those two months??? --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Save My X-Men: Day 33 (65 remain) |
Robazoid 06/08/24 9:01:39 PM #61 | Omega Red
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Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XXVI: Day 13 [smfffc] |
Robazoid 06/08/24 7:29:11 PM #85 | Mog IX
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Topic | Save My X-Men: Day 33 (65 remain) |
Robazoid 06/08/24 6:42:48 PM #33 | Magneto
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Topic | Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 299: Girls Love Music |
Robazoid 06/08/24 6:31:38 PM #435 | SockoressKnight posted...
It's just...to call Yukine "abusive". I just don't see it (yet)I mean, at the very least she completely abandoned both her daughters. Maybe abusive isn't the exact right word but it's not far off and it's a good shorthand considering all the other stuff she's done. She's not out there beating them or anything but she's a shitty parent. --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XXVI: Day 13 [smfffc] |
Robazoid 06/08/24 6:20:35 PM #10 | Yuffie
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Topic | Save My X-Men: Day 33 (65 remain) |
Robazoid 06/08/24 6:11:04 PM #28 | Trading for Cyclops and Morph, auto
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Topic | No sound on monitor or TV |
Robazoid 06/08/24 6:09:51 PM #9 | If you're getting sound everywhere except through the HDMI port, could it be that the HDMI port itself stopped working? I get sound on my PC through USB headphones and on one of my older computers the USB port itself just broke one day.
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Topic | Save My X-Men: Day 33 (65 remain) |
Robazoid 06/08/24 5:10:00 PM #13 | Cyclops
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Topic | Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 299: Girls Love Music |
Robazoid 06/08/24 3:58:52 PM #432 | UshiromiyaEva posted...
On a read back I feel like this may be coming off as condescending, but I swear that's not my intention. If anything I wish this topic has more stuff like this, I feel like we barely ever actually meaningfully discuss anime in actuall....discussions.Well hopefully you mean that, because I can keep discussing this! Apologies for the wall of spoiler tags again. They always hurt my eyes. I miss vintage B8 before we had these black bars when it was up to other people to watch out for bolded *Jellyfish anime spoilers* at the top of posts. UshiromiyaEva posted... Something not being immediately addressed in full in the next episode does not mean it's being ignored I guess the TLDR for this whole thing is that I'm angry the show isn't going a certain way, but I'm going to have to accept that it never intended to go that way in the first place. And that bugs me because it was doing such a great job going that way. If they intended to go this direction instead, they did a terrible job setting it up and it's just... an unsatisfying way for the story to go, in my opinion. --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 299: Girls Love Music |
Robazoid 06/08/24 3:12:34 PM #429 | UshiromiyaEva posted...
This one I can't even begin to understand lol. Everyone was either so incredibly endearing this episode or was tragic, Mei in particular was so earth shatteringly heartfelt, cried watching an anime for the second time with week.We probably should just agree to disagree but I quickly wanted to explain why I hate everyone now because I need to rant about this somewhere. Ok rant over. --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 299: Girls Love Music |
Robazoid 06/08/24 2:22:22 PM #425 | UshiromiyaEva posted...
Wonderful episode of Jellyfish.Perhaps unsurprisingly, I couldn't disagree more. I thought a bit during the week of all the ways they could continue after last episode, but they managed to find a different way that was worse than all of them put together. What an absolute dumpster fire. I went into this episode only hating Yoru and exited it hating everyone. --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 299: Girls Love Music |
Robazoid 06/08/24 1:50:40 PM #423 | Maniac64 posted...
Finished Snow White with Red Hair. Fun series with a really strong main cast. Good main romance and I'm glad it didn't end up pushing the potential love triangle at all.I'm glad you enjoyed it! It definitely needed more seasons, but I also thought it ended at an okay point. I might try reading the manga someday. --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 299: Girls Love Music |
Robazoid 06/07/24 5:35:47 AM #389 | Finished the Summer 1985 anime in my seasonal project. 3/120 done, aw yeah.
Dirty Pair was good. It's a sci-fi anime about two women who get hired to take care of various jobs (investigating murders, taking down criminal organizations, etc). It's extremely episodic, which I appreciated. While some of the episodes sucked super hard, like one where a group of literal children took over a military base somehow, they were all still creative short stories. Quite a few of the episodes were really enjoyable, too! This anime has some shortcomings. I would've preferred it if the main duo were more skilled. My favorite episodes were the ones where they saw everything coming and prepared for it, which let them pull off some impressive feats against their enemies. Sadly, it was far more common for them to be genuinely surprised and just... be fine, because of plot armor. It was crazy how many times they were caught in an ambush and survived hails of gunfire from all sides. One time they blundered into a building rigged to explode and then just climbed out of the rubble, uninjured. This is primarily a comedy, but stuff like that still really killed the tension. Thankfully, Dirty Pair had something else to make it enjoyable! I really loved the main characters, Kei and Yuri. They had a great friendship, the kind where they talk shit about each other constantly but only because of how close they are. It was funny seeing the sheer levels of collateral damage they managed to cause on their missions. These girls have accidentally destroyed planets. I was also a big fan of how sex-positive they were. I feel like it's rare for anime to have women so blatantly cruising for hunks and being so open about wanting to get laid. I also liked how they still had standards. Sometimes they'd find a guy attractive, then he'd get too forward or creepy and immediately get a boot to the face. One other thing I wanted to mention, one episode had probably the most positive trans representation I've ever seen in an anime. For something that's (sadly) still a hot-button issue nearly forty years later, it was great seeing this anime from 1985 handle a trans character so well. --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 299: Girls Love Music |
Robazoid 06/06/24 1:38:46 AM #377 | UshiromiyaEva posted...
lol the Yokohama Animatiom Labs anime with the cool trailer was delayed to next year, I KNEW this was gonna be trouble.Damn, that brings me down to 16 shows next season. That was one of the cooler looking ones, too --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 299: Girls Love Music |
Robazoid 06/05/24 4:18:25 AM #340 | I thought I would finish Dirty Pair tonight, but it turns out there's an entire second season, two hour-long OVAs, and a full-length movie that aren't on Crunchyroll. Man, why are older anime always so long? I've downloaded the rest of Dirty Pair now... well, except for a reboot series from the 90s because apparently it sucks. It'll just be a few days before I finish this 1985 anime, the earliest entry in my seasonal watch project.
Speaking of that project, I expanded it into a few more seasons. Now it has 120 anime between 1985 and 2023, which is a nice even number so I doubt I'll add any more. I'm just going to list the new ones in case anyone wants to warn me away from any of them. These all feel super obscure though. I've never heard of them before. -His and Her Circumstances (Fall 1998) -Serial Experiments Lain (Summer 1998) -All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku (Winter 1998) -Vampire Princess Miyu (Fall 1997) -Flames of Recca (Summer 1997) -Eat-Man (Winter 1997) -Martian Successor Nadesico (Fall 1996) -The Irresponsible Captain Tylor (Winter 1993) --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 299: Girls Love Music |
Robazoid 06/04/24 5:18:04 AM #313 | WhiteLens posted...
This is how I would look at it. If you were to experience something related to Suicide Squad for the first time, would you rather it be through this or the game that came out earlier this year?I'd definitely choose an anime over that live service game that got meme'd on for being awful. I'd probably choose the one good Suicide Squad movie over either of those though (it was made by the same guy who did GotG I think? That's one of the only two Marvel movies I've seen and it was pretty good). --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 299: Girls Love Music |
Robazoid 06/03/24 1:59:12 AM #277 | Damn, I was going to watch Utena for my seasonal watch project. Nothing else is jumping out at me from Spring 1997 either, guess I'll have to download it.
--- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 299: Girls Love Music |
Robazoid 06/02/24 11:22:58 PM #271 | UshiromiyaEva posted...
Was Harukana Receive....Yuri volleyball?I loved Harukana Receive but it was pretty much "cute girls play volleyball" with the tiniest amounts of drama along the way. Some yuri-baiting I guess but nothing serious. Hanebado was the serious sports anime that season. --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 299: Girls Love Music |
Robazoid 06/02/24 11:16:21 PM #268 | Banana Fish is one of my few drops too! The current me, older and wiser, would've also dropped Hanebado after a few episodes instead of finishing it like the younger, dumber me did.
--- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 299: Girls Love Music |
Robazoid 06/02/24 10:59:38 PM #264 | UshiromiyaEva posted...
Revue time.I had vivid memories of your reaction to at least the first episode of Revue Starlight, so checked the archive website and sure enough. Unless you weren't LapisLazuli I guess, but in that case I've had you confused for someone else for years now! LapisLazuli 07/14/2018 02:32:50 PM #87 I did not know what Revue Starlight was supposed to be for the first 80% and then it got RADICAL. The last 5 minutes alone almost make me wanna put it in first for the season, holy shit. --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XXVI: Day 7 [smfffc] |
Robazoid 06/02/24 10:53:03 PM #215 | I demand a Terra-length write-up for Mjrn
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Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XXVI: Day 7 [smfffc] |
Robazoid 06/02/24 10:51:43 PM #213 | Shadow is the absolute worst for sure. So is Edge from FFIV. I was afraid I had some kind of prejudice against FF ninjas until I met Yuffie.
--- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XXVI: Day 7 [smfffc] |
Robazoid 06/02/24 9:29:29 PM #197 | Lopen posted...
Also btw I disagree Locke/Celes is meant to be romantic at all.I mean it definitely isn't a good romance, but if you don't think it was meant to be a romance then lol --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XXVI: Day 7 [smfffc] |
Robazoid 06/02/24 9:21:28 PM #194 | Terra is my favorite character in VI. She learns how to love (and I was glad it wasn't romantic love because VI proved with Locke/Celes it didn't know how to write that). The stuff with the orphans was the best part about her, that was her big moment where she took initiative! She found people who made her feel love and wanted to protect them. Pre-character development Terra wouldn't have cared about those kids at all.
--- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XXVI: Day 7 [smfffc] |
Robazoid 06/02/24 5:22:48 PM #153 | So now my first save will be Yuffie/Cloud, the two undisputed lead characters of the Remake trilogy content.
--- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XXVI: Day 7 [smfffc] |
Robazoid 06/02/24 4:31:31 PM #75 | Ashe
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Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XXVI: Day 7 [smfffc] |
Robazoid 06/02/24 3:34:07 PM #37 | Trading for Mog IX auto
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Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XXVI: Day 7 [smfffc] |
Robazoid 06/02/24 3:31:14 PM #9 | Yuffie
Eiko --- **R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D** |
Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XXVI: Day 6 [smfffc] |
Robazoid 06/02/24 3:07:39 AM #200 | The worst part about Terra going out it you guys being so insufferable about it.
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