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

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Kimetsu no Yaiba

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I should catch up on Boku no Pico Academia.

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^Lmao

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keyblader1985 posted...

I should catch up on Boku no Pico Academia.

Don't you mean macadamia nut

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Cool, Bestbuy won't let me login and a new gpu comes out tomorrow some time.

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helIy posted...

JUST

SAY

DEMON

SLAYER

JUST. STOP. THAT. FUCKING. GIMMICK.

Seriously.

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deoxxys posted...

Kimetsu no Yaiba

d e m o n

s l a y e r


keyblader1985 posted...

I should catch up on Boku no Pico Academia.

...ewwy

Zeus posted...

JUST. STOP. THAT. FUCKING. GIMMICK.

Seriously.

fuck off of my shit, loser

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Is it a compromise if I call it blade of oni destruction or would that upset you even more?

Also man, it's success is pretty wild. Anyone watched the current state of shonen jump in 2021 video by that one guy? One piece sold just under 8M volumes, Demon Slayer sold 82M. It so massively dwarfs the previous yearly record. IIRC if you go by individual volumes, demon slayer has the 22 most successful volumes.

Also kingdom outsold one piece last year. Hell yeah for kingdom, can't wait for season 3 of the anime to restart.

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What I find interesting is that I visit a anime/manga-specific imageboard, and I've yet to see a single thread posted about Demon Slayer. I am baffled about how it's successful or why, so I've basically discarded it as being a generational thing (I assume that a lot of Japanese kids aren't going to visit a niche website).

But by post counts alone, AotS on that site would be mixed between Yuru Camp S2, Redo of the Healer, or Mushoku Tensei, which aren't really geared towards children.

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Demon Slayer is mostly successful with casual viewers/readers as far as I understand (as will always be the case with the most popular series). There's really nothing that special about it compared to other decent shonen except for the animation in the anime for it (which is why it blew up). I feel like the only decent character in the entire show is the main guy. Everyone else is either painfully basic or extremely annoying. I do like the main guy. He's a much gentler calmer protagonist compared to normal shonen fair. He could easily be the villain in another story if his sister eventually got killed by the other demon slayers. He has a sort of "too pure for this cruel world" thing going on..

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Zeus posted...

JUST. STOP. THAT. FUCKING. GIMMICK.

Seriously.

Some people really don't like weebs.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Also man, it's success is pretty wild. Anyone watched the current state of shonen jump in 2021 video by that one guy? One piece sold just under 8M volumes, Demon Slayer sold 82M. It so massively dwarfs the previous yearly record. IIRC if you go by individual volumes, demon slayer has the 22 most successful volumes.

I think it's a kinda natural side effect given how long OP has been going. Kimetsu no Yaiba is a newer franchise, it looks good, and it's catering to a lot of the same base. That said, I'd want independent verification on those numbers.

Judgmenl posted...

What I find interesting is that I visit a anime/manga-specific imageboard, and I've yet to see a single thread posted about Demon Slayer. I am baffled about how it's successful or why, so I've basically discarded it as being a generational thing (I assume that a lot of Japanese kids aren't going to visit a niche website).

tbh, I'm kinda surprised for being as big it supposedly is that there isn't more merch for it. I had seen some amount of merch prior to starting the series -- which is who I quickly realized what I was reading shortly after I started it -- but it doesn't seem like much when you look at those numbers.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Demon Slayer is mostly successful with casual viewers/readers as far as I understand (as will always be the case with the most popular series). There's really nothing that special about it compared to other decent shonen except for the animation in the anime for it (which is why it blew up). I feel like the only decent character in the entire show is the main guy. Everyone else is either painfully basic or extremely annoying. I do like the main guy. He's a much gentler calmer protagonist compared to normal shonen fair. He could easily be the villain in another story if his sister eventually got killed by the other demon slayers. He has a sort of "too pure for this cruel world" thing going on..

Yeah, story-wise it feels generic or bad at times and there are all kinds of pacing problems. The art (and animation) is definitely the biggest selling point, although some of the supporting characters don't look particularly good... in fact, I've taken it as a sign of how important those characters are. The bigger somebody tends to be, the better they look. The less important, the more they look or feel generic. (Such as -- spoilers for... I guess the train thing -- the Fire Pillar *always* looked painfully generic, so I wasn't terribly surprised that he was killed off, even if seemed they did it with relatively little build-up so his death didn't mean much. He had a small role when everybody was gathered together, and then a supporting spot in the train story then bam, dead. And even worse, because they stupidly freed the demon, he didn't even get to take it down with him)

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

Also kingdom outsold one piece last year

this is what surprises me the most

one piece losing popularity isn't surprising, it's gone on for entirely way, way too long and the arcs are just...filled with filler

but kingdom is, well, kingdom.

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Going to have to get Kingdom, watched. Hopefully 120fps will help the bad CG look better.

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IMO the kingdom anime is worth the crappy CGI. The story is just so good and everything else about the anime is great. Well, except that they change up some translations from season 1 to 2. That was pretty annoying. And while the cgi looks bad, it is leveraged well. They have a lot of troops on screen moving and doing stuff.

I'm a little concerned about how the story will go after the current arc. It's the same problem a game of civ runs into. The hardest fights aren't at the end, they are at the middle, but then you still have to tediously go around and close everything out. At a certain point in kingdom, the main army is going to end up stronger than all the rest combined.

Still, the writing has been great so far so I should give it the benefit of the doubt.

Speaking of worries I had that were unfounded, I caught up on horimiya. Still impressed that they've managed to avoid hitting annoying melodrama so far. They keep setting up for it but then averting it. Quite satisfying. Hopefully it stays that way. The art is really nice. It's a fight between jobless reincarnation and horimyia for best new production this season IMO.

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I heard Horiyama was good but stayed awayfrom it because of the romance tag.

I did love Jobless Reincarnation
Though I like the job arc less because that red hair gril is annoying

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helIy posted...

JUST

SAY

DEMON

SLAYER

You never answered my question from the other thread. Do you call Hajime no Ippo Fighting Spirit?
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Revelation34 posted...

You never answered my question from the other thread. Do you call Hajime no Ippo Fighting Spirit?

Well seeing as how it was released as Hajime no Ippo in the west that's what you call it. Almost every anime in the past ten years has the English title in the OP on the Japanese version for the express purpose of not dealing with this dumb shit

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JoanOfArcade posted...

Well seeing as how it was released as Hajime no Ippo in the west that's what you call it. Almost every anime in the past ten years has the English title in the OP on the Japanese version for the express purpose of not dealing with this dumb shit

It was released as Fighting Spirit in the west. The manga never got licensed.
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Wasn't ever able to log in to Best Buy's website and didn't get picked in Newegg's lottery, so still no gpu for me. Maybe next month. T_T

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Rewatching space dandy

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JoanOfArcade posted...

Rewatching space dandy

Didnt try any of those three animu?

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deoxxys posted...

Didnt try any of those three animu?

I was gonna but Space Dandy

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space dandy more like space poopy

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please only call it by it's official english name helly, it confuses and agitates me when you call it space poopy

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i did say space dandy

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Nearly done with this season of Silverhead, not sure if I'm gonna start the next one after, or look for something else to rewatch. Can't wait for this current season to end.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6txWCxyyyz8

The English version of Usseewa is pretty good.

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Watched this week's spider and horimiya. The things the spider is fighting really escalated quickly. The human side of the story still remains boring. I think the main issue is that the main human guy is just really dull. Very generic timid good guy vibes.

Horimiya is still quite good although I'm slightly concerned that apparently they skipped a ton of chapters in the manga. Like episode 7 covered up to chapter 37 and then episode 8 is chapter 70. Nothing of plot relevance seems to have been skipped and I don't think I would have noticed at all had comments not talked about it.

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It sounds like the anime and manga are pretty different for Horimiya. Like when people mentioned melodrama I was confused, because I don't remember any in the manga at all.

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keyblader1985 posted...

It sounds like the anime and manga are pretty different for Horimiya. Like when people mentioned melodrama I was confused, because I don't remember any in the manga at all.

There was a bit at the beginning but yeah, the manga now is basically slice of life/comedy shenanigans.


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I mean, even in the anime there really isn't melodrama. It's like things just start to look like melodrama will happen, but then things just resolve instead. Like hori will be all worried about something and there will be a misunderstanding but then it just gets cleared up right away before anything really happens.

Kinda reminds of the yuri manga "girlfriends" in that respect although they still managed to actually be melodramatic sometimes. With grilfriends though it was like one of the characters in the relationship was a typical shojo romance character willing to doubt and misunderstand everything but they were dating a rational human who was able to diffuse most of that stuff most of the time.

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So I watched the first few episodes of Redo of Healer. It was uh interesting

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JoanOfArcade posted...

So I watched the first few episodes of Redo of Healer. It was uh interesting

I'm sure it was uh "interesting", too.

Today I watched the first episode of Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san (Possibly unlikely to continue watching, didn't draw me in), and I started watching Kimi no Todoke.

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Let the record show that I did not recommend that to you, Joan, though I am watching it myself.

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I_Abibde posted...

Let the record show that I did not recommend that to you, Joan, though I am watching it myself.

Haha i saw a scene on a porn site and was like gotta watch that. Recommended to my best friend and he lover it

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Gonna rewatch Honzuki next. S3 for it has no release date yet. This should hold me over for a couple of days at least.

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Best day of the anime week was today cause new jobless reincarnation. It does seem like our main guy is getting slowly less scummy. Very slowly. Also damn things really escalated at the end all of a sudden. With only 3 eps left I assume they are basically just going to introduce whatever this conflict will be cause I can't see how they could reasonably develop and resolve it in just an hour of screen time. Or maybe it'll go on the backburner for a while and we will see rudy go to school.

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With only 3 episodes left in the season you'd think we'd start hearing about next season news. Maybe I'm a week early.

thinking of watching next season:

• Nagatoro (guaranteed to watch this)
• Zombie Land Saga: Revenge (I never finished the first season)
• Hige wo Soru. Soshite Joshikousei wo Hirou
• Koi to Yobu ni wa Kimochi Warui
• Yakunara Mug Cup Mo (This seems to be at the bottom of Ani Chart, I think this could be sleeper good).

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Judgmenl posted...

Hige wo Soru. Soshite Joshikousei wo Hirou

Didn't know this was getting an anime; I like the manga. Apparently it was originally an LN series.

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The PV looked good to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCHp3ZpSWHk

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Looks like trash. The good kind.

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JoanOfArcade posted...

So I watched the first few episodes of Redo of Healer. It was uh interesting

I watched a few too.

Theres no good guys in this show but it is still interesting.

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This is the first like set in a game world show I've seen. Not like .Hack or SAO. Like the setting is a game they have classes and he can see stats. Is there a name for this genre

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JoanOfArcade posted...

This is the first like set in a game world show I've seen. Not like .Hack or SAO. Like the setting is a game they have classes and he can see stats. Is there a name for this genre

there's a lot of isekai where the setting is a game that becomes a new reality and the main character at least has game system access (overlord, maou sama retry, slime, possibly spider), do you mean specifically not isekai?

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Yeah he means not Isekai but it's like a game world.

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i think danmachi does that sort of genre best tbh

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Danmachi is the only one that comes to mind that isn't isekai but honestly it might as well be since the main character knows very little about the world.

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there's one show that kinda fits, but it's a side spoiler for season 1 of the anime to name it

goblin slayer

it's revealed the world is a game to the gods decided on dice rolls and whatnot, and there's still classes and spells and probably experience and shit, though noone can really see it (though MC can hear the dice rolls occasionally?)

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Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. It's more DnD than video game but it does have classes and stats IIRC.

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