Poll of the Day > Anime, Manga, VN, JRPG, Related Things Discussion Topic XCIV Joan edition

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Oh shit I forgot slime was running, time for the harvest festival

Judgmenl posted...

I stumbled onto Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu today. Has anyone read it?

tbh, I'll wait for Helly to provide the English translation >_>

And... apparently no. Kinda like the art, but I'm getting the feeling it's going to be one of those heavily-gimmicked romance stories and... idk, probably not something I want to follow for over 100 chapters.

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BlackScythe0 posted...

Oh shit I forgot slime was running

Yeah I've done that a few times this season. I almost feel bad for it because it is pretty good but like, jobless reincarnation is the only thing I think about when I think of isekai right now. Makes slime and spider feel like pale imitations.

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Ooh, there's only 5 more days until Mushoku Tensei s1 ends and I can watch it.

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4 more days

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If we're counting down stuff, I wanna do one too!

8 more days until Monster Hunter Rise!

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Just beat Grandia again. Love that game

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Watamote chapter is delayed a week, so we got a special instead.



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My favorite adult rpg finally finished up and fully released on steam. Daughter of Essence specifically. Barely passable as porn but IMO amazing as an rpg. It's like 50 hours long and has a good story and fun characters and good world building. Like I legit think it's on par with something like the older final fantasy or dragon quest games. There's a free demo that lets you play the first 4 (of 10) chapters and the save transfers over.

T0ffee posted...

8 more days until Monster Hunter Rise!

I wish I could play it so much. Not sure if it's the low frame rate or what but it causes me issues pretty much right away in the demo. Might try and force my way through my symptoms and play it anyway cause it's freakin monster hunter. Although honestly almost every bit of news coming out about it bums me out. Not remotely excited about rampage mode and apparently, at least for now, grinding rampage mode is end game. The aerial hitboxes are also SUPER jank which is a problem because rise's whole gimmick is aerial mobility with the wirebugs. Feels like they couldn't find a legit way to balance it so they just extended every hitbox 10 meters into the air.

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Zeus posted...

tbh, I'll wait for Helly to provide the English translation >_>

And... apparently no. Kinda like the art, but I'm getting the feeling it's going to be one of those heavily-gimmicked romance stories and... idk, probably not something I want to follow for over 100 chapters.

Update to the above: Finally read 8 chapters just to see if the series did actually go dark and no, it's just a weird, angsty romance manga where even the edgelord gimmick doesn't seem to go far. I was kinda hoping for some kind of a twist, but I guess if they did anything really crazy it would have been mentioned in the summary.

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Zeus posted...

Update to the above: Finally read 8 chapters just to see if the series did actually go dark and no, it's just a weird, angsty romance manga where even the edgelord gimmick doesn't seem to go far. I was kinda hoping for some kind of a twist, but I guess if they did anything really crazy it would have been mentioned in the summary.

I read up to 4.1 last night. It seems okay, but it hasn't sold me yet. Didn't see your previous post. The artwork is a bit off too, and I'm not a big fan of it.

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gamestop let me buy a switch on monday

today they said that they have no stock of it so i gotta wait until may

also they put the "not available" button on the actual products page

how did you sell out while i had already bought the fucking thing which stops me from getting it

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i must have got one of the last ones then, got mine from gamestop too

made sure to order before the stimmies started hitting cuz i felt like there was gonna be no shot of getting one afterwards

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which one did you get

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Judgmenl posted...

I read up to 4.1 last night. It seems okay, but it hasn't sold me yet. Didn't see your previous post. The artwork is a bit off too, and I'm not a big fan of it.

I have very mixed feelings about the artwork. I kinda liked it at first, but there are some weird inconsistencies and the character scales are kinda messed up (which is made a bit worse since there's a kinda same-y element to the character designs at times).


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helIy posted...

gamestop let me buy a switch on monday

today they said that they have no stock of it so i gotta wait until may

also they put the "not available" button on the actual products page

how did you sell out while i had already bought the fucking thing which stops me from getting it

this happened to me with luigi's mansion 3 from wal mart

i got the red+blue v2 one, didn't really have a huge preference and it looked listed first

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Hmm, maybe I should buy a switch. Will it reignite my fire for actual games. (Not gbf or fgo)

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I plan to get a Switch. I have to make sure it's the right model though, since I absolutely plan on hacking it..

Meantime, Omega Labyrinth Z got an English patch on Vita. I don't have a Switch yet and refuse to buy the butchered PS4 version, so I can finally play my oppai roguelike 2.0.

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My only real problem with switch (aside from joycon drift being inexcusable for how expensive those are) is that they pretty much never discount their main games. Like, mario kart 8 delux is still fucking 60 bucks. That's a remake of a game that came out like 7 years ago. What right does it have to still be 60 dollars and never go on sale? Same but to a lesser extent for mario odyssey and breath of the wild.

There are some great games on switch though. It might reignite your desire to play real games again.

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yeah nintendo game prices have always been kind of ridiculous

used copies of Radiant Dawn go for like $70 iirc (new's 120+?)

it sucks ass considering i'm a steam gamer and i'm used to like $2 games

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If you wait long enough, Nintendo eventually adds a Nintendo Selects or whatever series where many popular titles (minus Pokemon games) are available for basically half the price. Nintendo knows it can get away without discounting its main titles (outside of normal store sales, I guess) because there's a fairly constant demand for many of those titles.

Kinda worth noting that the other consolemakers don't really have the same kind of first-party titles (or, rather, the same brand strength).


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I want to like Kingdom so bad but the CG is not just bad....its bad for 2012 and even in 144hz its still bad. Like at least Reincarnated as a spider looked decent once I watched it in a higher framerate but..yeesh.

Currently five episodes into Kingdom.

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Watching some more eps of Conan for now. Ep 190 is next.

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dragon504 posted...

Watching some more eps of Conan for now. Ep 190 is next.

Are they ever going to dub more of the series? >_>

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deoxxys posted...

Currently five episodes into Kingdom.

The cg does get better. Season 2 barely has any IIRC. Also the CG that is there improves somewhat throughout the first season although it never gets good or even passable. I feel like the story picks up enough to really drag you through the bad CG after the first arc (which is like 15 episodes of basically prequel).

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

The cg does get better. Season 2 barely has any IIRC. Also the CG that is there improves somewhat throughout the first season although it never gets good or even passable. I feel like the story picks up enough to really drag you through the bad CG after the first arc (which is like 15 episodes of basically prequel).

Thanks Ill see if I can muster up through at least 20 to give the story a fair shot.


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Other then those five episodes of Kingdom been caught up with Jobless Reincarnation, Beastars, AOT, and most of Dr. Stone, Re:zero, and Jujutsu Kaisen.

Made another big dent (current:46/74) in Monster tonight, its good as ever.

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okay

the other day i ordered the animal crossing switch from gamestop

last night i looked at the product page and saw that it is now out of stock

so i am expecting gamestop to do exactly what they did the first time i tried buying a switch, tell me that it's out of stock after i had already bought the thing.

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deoxxys posted...

Thanks Ill see if I can muster up through at least 20 to give the story a fair shot.

Like, if it honestly gets too bad, just skip to episode 15 and read a synopsis or something. That first 15 episodes is pretty different to the rest of the series which mostly takes place on the battlefield where they can at least leverage their bad CG by having tons and tons of moving soldiers in battle/marching scenes. The first 15 episodes does matter for the plot, but the two times I've rewatched kingdom, I always skip it.

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Mushoku Tensei is a day closer. Got some UFC to watch today.

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https://twitter.com/MangaDex/status/1373393872240394245

MangaDex has been having a lot of server issues recently.

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helIy posted...

okay

the other day i ordered the animal crossing switch from gamestop

last night i looked at the product page and saw that it is now out of stock

so i am expecting gamestop to do exactly what they did the first time i tried buying a switch, tell me that it's out of stock after i had already bought the thing.

im going straight digital from now on probably

ring fit and fire emblem (its slightly cheaper) are physical for me, dont see a reason to do rest digital

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Judgmenl posted...

MangaDex has been having a lot of server issues recently.

Yeah, they got hacked and the hacker leaked the source code for the website.

They also got hold of all the user info and passwords which is slightly worrying.

I had to change a lot of passwords the other day.


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I moved to using different passwords for a lot of sites I visit, so I'm good for MangaDex.
I also use a different email for that stuff now too.

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Judgmenl posted...

I moved to using different passwords for a lot of sites I visit, so I'm good for MangaDex.
I also use a different email for that stuff now too.

tbh, I've started to run into issues lately in keeping track of all of my emails, passwords, etc. I kinda need a better system. Plus the auto-fill has caused me to start to forget some shit

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https://youtu.be/S_dpExm9Vbk

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Whelp, jobless reincarnation is finished for now. Fortunately it ended with a "look forward to season 2" announcement, although no date on it for now. This last episode was as good as the rest and I'm continually impressed by the animators.

Small things like rudy and ruij swapping their weapons to the other hand to shake with their dominant hands and the focus on eris's persective when she got sent flying and the follow up quickly slashing the tree to slow her momentum. The show doesn't even go out of it's way to highlight these things, they are just there and the show is so much better for it. The care and attention to detail is top notch and the actions scenes have a great intensity to them. You feel the power of every attack and even with how powerful the melee attacks are, magic carries that something special every time it hits.

It sort of pisses me off though. Like, this show is excellent quality in every aspect. The characters and writing and pacing and animation and voice acting and ost and sound design and everything, but theres nothing really that revolutionary or inventive in it. LN authors have had this blueprint for 9 years now. Why isn't this the standard? How many years have I been yearning for more fantasy adventure? I've complained about it here at least a dozen times over the year. Having a good example of one pop up makes me mad that there aren't more. Just give me more fantasy worlds that are taken seriously with good interesting world building and a traveling adventure format.

EDIT: Supposedly season 2 is coming this summer. Hell yeah.

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Wait so does Mushoku piss you off or does the lack of similar things piss you off.

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fuck gamestop

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FellWolf posted...

Wait so does Mushoku piss you off or does the lack of similar things piss you off.

The lack of similar things or I guess just how so many people copied the web novels but all seemed to fail to do the basics even with this very solid blueprint to copy from. It's similar to how all monster hunter clones completely miss the parts that make MH actually good and up very shallow as a result.

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Mushoku Tensei is ready, my body is ready.

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MangaDex is dead:
https://mangadex.org/index.html

I wonder what happens now.

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Judgmenl posted...

MangaDex is dead:
https://mangadex.org/index.html

I wonder what happens now.

Dead for now.

I'm hoping the issues will be resolved relatively quickly.

But if not, I'm sure an alternative will spring up in its place.

Though, I'm dreading the fact that any potential replacements will be worse in terms of ads.

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

The lack of similar things or I guess just how so many people copied the web novels but all seemed to fail to do the basics even with this very solid blueprint to copy from. It's similar to how all monster hunter clones completely miss the parts that make MH actually good and up very shallow as a result.

I guess the "adventure" feel is lacking in most shows. Idk

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FellWolf posted...

I guess the "adventure" feel is lacking in most shows. Idk

Yeah I think the main issue is the worlds. In jobless they actually make the world seem interesting and spend a lot of time on world building. Each new place they get to is exciting to see. Different cultures and locales with actual thought and depth put into them instead of just "oh hey, it's desert city, now back to our characters".

And part of it how seriously the shows take themselves. A lot of isekai just feel pretty amateurish and silly even if they are entertaining. Like this seasons spider and last dungeon fall into this even though I enjoy both of them. The last fantasy I can remember that really took itself seriously was made in abyss and what do ya know, it too had a really interesting world. I just want to have a sense of wonder while I watch it.

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wish the story of seasons coming out tomorrow was more like stardew

or just looked better, like nothing has any textures

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for better or worse sos/real HM is ye olde reliable

the art direction seems not to have changed since like... magical melody

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This thread would never have hung on this long being only a few posts away from 500 back in the day

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