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Really? What country?

Germany

It may possibly be an EU wide ban, I'm not entirely sure. But there's currently no legal way to play FGO here

teep_ posted...

Germany

It may possibly be an EU wide ban, I'm not entirely sure. But there's currently no legal way to play FGO here

https://fate-go.us/news/?category=NEWS&article=/iframe/2022/0731_info/

MarthGoomba posted...

https://fate-go.us/news/?category=NEWS&article=/iframe/2022/0731_info/

Oh damn, thanks for the heads up!

teep_ posted...

Oh damn, thanks for the heads up!

https://i.imgur.com/Wri0wqN.png
"Join us"

Noooo it won't let me install it on PC

rip

teep_ posted...

Noooo it won't let me install it on PC

rip

I don't know anything about playing the game on PC, but there are definitely people playing on an emulator.

I would recommend you make a topic on the FGO board on gamefaqs, describing your problem and asking for help. I'm on that board as much as I'm on CE and they know what they are talking about.

Will do! I'm not sure if I want to start it straight away though, Genshin is eating up all of my video game energy these days. But thanks for the advice!

I will be disappointed if Lycoris Recoil doesn't start (spoilers for the latest episode) having Chisato electrocute herself every so often in the last episodes to keep her heart going like in Crack High Voltage.

TIL: the German translation of Land of the Lustrous uses xe/xir pronouns:

https://www.cross-cult.de/news-details/das-land-der-juwelen-das-pronomen-xier.html

https://twitter.com/Crunchyroll/status/1563881479817596928

https://youtu.be/umqzznKblJ0

Next opener for Mob Psycho 100!

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A certain boy

sounds like garbage

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It's a trashy romcom. If you're into those, then yeah it's good. I watched the first episode and it was okay, but nothing special

https://i.imgur.com/igI2z5m.jpg

I finally got one of my friends to watch Kaiji after like a decade of trying to get them to watch it. He just complained about how depressing it was with all the betrayals and I'm pretty sure dropped it before the boat arc even ended.

I need new friends.

Itachi157 posted...

I finally got one of my friends to watch Kaiji after like a decade of trying to get them to watch it. He just complained about how depressing it was with all the betrayals and I'm pretty sure dropped it before the boat arc even ended.

I need new friends.

Lmao. On a similar note I've been bothering my dad to watch TTGL since I was in high school(I graduated in 2012). I was usually in charge of music whenever we'd drive and he's fine with weeb/video game stuff. One time when I had to do something at school I left my playlist going and he ended up loving Libera Me From Hell after I had already left the car, and I finally got him to watch it earlier this year.

He enjoyed the show btw.

Itachi157 posted...

I finally got one of my friends to watch Kaiji after like a decade of trying to get them to watch it. He just complained about how depressing it was with all the betrayals and I'm pretty sure dropped it before the boat arc even ended.

I need new friends.

Kaiji is suffering. But it's good suffering.

Itachi157 posted...

I finally got one of my friends to watch Kaiji after like a decade of trying to get them to watch it. He just complained about how depressing it was with all the betrayals and I'm pretty sure dropped it before the boat arc even ended.

I need new friends.

Sentai/HiDive announced a dub for Kaiji coming later this year. When that comes, I'll probably watch it myself.

https://i.imgur.com/eCKRQx0.png

here's the template if anyone else wants to join in:

https://i.imgur.com/y8TIF4P.png

teep_ posted...

here's the template if anyone else wants to join in:

Can you upload those two images to Imgur instead? GameFAQs' built-in image embedder compresses big images like crazy.

I edited in the imgur links

I'll also redo it with manga and LNs included if that interest anyone. Maybe tomorrow

teep_ posted...

I edited in the imgur links

Thank you, much better.

Also: are we not supposed to put any duplicates? Because after looking over the categories more, I think there's one single show that would be my honest answer for at least a quarter of those.

Favorite Anime of All Time - Cowboy Bebop
Best Story - Steins;Gate
Favorite Art Style - Fire Force
"I'll Watch It Someday" - Code Geauss
Big Personal Impact - Cowboy Bebop
Best Combat/Fight Scenes - Naruto
You Like But Everyone Hates - Fire Force
You Hate But Everyone Likes - Your Name
Underrated - Radiant
Overrated - Your Name
"Why Do I Like This?" - Fairy Tail
Anime you can watch 1000 Times - Cowboy Bebop
That Atmosphere - Promised Neverland (S1)
Bad Day Cure - My Dressup Darling
Favorite Character - Spike Spiegel
Favorite Spin-Off - The Cat Returns
Biggest Letdown - Promised Neverland (S2)
"Back in the day" Anime - Slayers
Best Music/Soundtrack - Your Lie in April
Criminally Overlooked - Place Further than the Universe
Depressing Anime - Grave of the Fireflies
Favorite Active Anime Series - Made in Abyss
Original Pick - Place Further than the Universe
"Not Usually My Thing, But..." - Yuri on Ice (not into Yaoi very much but that is good stuff)

I'm lazy so I won't find pictures. XD

Calwings posted...

Also: are we not supposed to put any duplicates?

I mean, there are no enforcers. I tried to not put duplicates there for variety's sake but it's up to you!

teep_ posted...

I mean, there are no enforcers. I tried to not put duplicates there for variety's sake but it's up to you!

I just ended up making two versions anyways.

No dupes (for variety):
https://i.imgur.com/XzswkLf.png

With dupes (AKA my actual answers):
https://i.imgur.com/QxlAFnB.png

I don't even recognize your favorite anime by the picture Cal. Is it a Precure?

It's Revue Starlight

Tropicalwood posted...

It's Revue Starlight

Ahhh, OK.

Idol stuff is not really anything I'm into. Liked the first season of Zombie land Saga.

Stardust Crusaders and Katanagatari

Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted...

Ahhh, OK.

Idol stuff is not really anything I'm into. Liked the first season of Zombie land Saga.

It's not idol stuff, it's about stage actors fighting each other in an underground play for a wish. It's surreal like Penguindrum or Monogatari Series.

Tropicalwood posted...

It's not idol stuff, it's about stage actors fighting each other for a wish. It's surreal like Penguindrum or Monogatari Series.

Huh. Sounds really weird. A lot of the pictures make it seem idol-ish in nature. I apologize for my ignorance.

teep_ posted...

Stardust Crusaders and Katanagatari

That pic is supposed to represent the JoJo franchise as a whole, though Stardust Crusaders was the part that got me into the franchise. Katanagatari is one of my 10/10 anime, and JoJo is one of my 9/10's that was closest to being a 10/10.

Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted...

Huh. Sounds really weird. A lot of the pictures make it seem idol-ish in nature. I apologize for my ignorance.

A lot of people made that mistake when Revue Starlight first aired, and that's part of why it's so underwatched and underrated. It has music and singing in it, but it's absolutely not an idol anime in any sense of the word. You can read the Watch This thread I wrote for it on r/Anime (which the subreddit voted the best WT thread of 2019 btw) if you want to know more about the series...

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/akeu62/wt_revue_starlight_the_first_rule_of_theater/

...or you could trust me and just jump into the first couple of episodes blind. The TV anime is a masterpiece in itself, then the sequel movie was the greatest piece of anime media that I've ever watched in my entire life and pushed Revue Starlight up to the #1 top spot for me.

Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted...

I'm lazy so I won't find pictures. XD

relatable

Favorite Anime of All Time - chronicles of the going home club
Best Story - suisei no gargantia
Favorite Art Style - uhhhhh maybe asobi asobase but its "style" is all over the place (which is why it's good)
"I'll Watch It Someday" - evangelion
Big Personal Impact - cardcaptor sakura
Best Combat/Fight Scenes - gurren lagann
You Like But Everyone Hates - cop craft
You Hate But Everyone Likes - symphogear S3
Underrated - planet with
Overrated - sorry this is a no negativity zone (also aren't these two basically the same as the previous two)
"Why Do I Like This?" - ???
Anime you can watch 1000 Times - teekyuu
That Atmosphere - nagi no asukara
Bad Day Cure - steins;gate (literally, I marathoned this after crashing my bike and as a result don't remember details very well)
Favorite Character - weird pick but kazuma from konosuba maybe? he basically carries 80% of the jokes in that show
Favorite Spin-Off - carnival phantasm
Biggest Letdown - cardcaptor sakura clear card hen
"Back in the day" Anime - pokemon??? what is this asking
Best Music/Soundtrack - tsubasa chronicles
Criminally Overlooked - punch line
Depressing Anime - school days (lol. but I don't really watch anything of this genre)
Favorite Active Anime Series - teppen wins by default since it's the only show I've watched any of this season
Original Pick - tesagure bukatsumono
"Not Usually My Thing, But..." - ???

there's a few in here I couldn't figure out how to fill out, like "Not Usually My Thing, But..." (when I think something won't be my thing I just... don't watch it) and "Why Do I Like This?" (I feel like I have a pretty good understanding of why I like the things I do)

also tried for no repeats just for variety sake

Can't think of anything I hate that's well-liked by others, at least off the top of my head.

Some notes:
Favorite art style slot is Angel's Egg.
Favorite character slot is Kino from Kino's Journey.
Saint Seiya in the atmosphere slot is the "Heaven Chapter" movie, which has a very different tone and atmosphere from the usual series.

https://i.imgur.com/1ViDCDs.jpg

Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted...

"I'll Watch It Someday" - Code Geass

That would have been my answer for that category if I filled this out last year, but I finally watched Code Geass this year and it was great.

kirbymuncher posted...

You Hate But Everyone Likes - symphogear S3

GX is widely considered the worst season of Symphogear. You have some who think it's still pretty good but the other seasons are just noticeably better (that's where I stand) and then you have some who think it's just legitimately bad. I'm curious to know which of those you wall under.

kirbymuncher posted...

teppen wins by default since it's the only show I've watched any of this season

Please watch Lycoris Recoil, it's really good.

kirbymuncher posted...

there's a few in here I couldn't figure out how to fill out, like "Not Usually My Thing, But..." (when I think something won't be my thing I just... don't watch it) and "Why Do I Like This?" (I feel like I have a pretty good understanding of why I like the things I do)

I interpreted "Not Usually My Thing, But..." as a show from a genre you don't normally like that much but that specific show stood out and impressed you despite being from that genre. I was never a fan of long-running shonen anime, but JoJo caught my attention for how unique it was and I enjoyed it.

Meanwhile, I interpreted "Why Do I Like This?" as a show that you never expected to be so good based on its ridiculous premise or strange first impression. I thought about putting Ya Boy Kongming in that spot, but I thought about it more and Zombie Land Saga has more of a "wtf?" factor to it for me.

barnnn posted...

https://i.imgur.com/1ViDCDs.jpg

Oh man, Shakugan No Shana was fun. I thought about putting it as my underrated series, but couldn't put it over Lyrical Nanoha. Shana was really good though, plus it's rare for a light novel adaptation to actually adapt all the way to the end of the story like Shana did.

barnnn posted...

Can't think of anything I hate that's well-liked by others, at least off the top of my head.

Some notes:
Favorite art style slot is Angel's Egg.
Favorite character slot is Kino from Kino's Journey.
Saint Seiya in the atmosphere slot is the "Heaven Chapter" movie, which has a very different tone and atmosphere from the usual series.

https://i.imgur.com/1ViDCDs.jpg

There are some pretty iffy takes on what was underrated when it launched in this topic but you need to lay off the memes if you think that Baccano was overlooked. It was literally the most viewed show in its season when it aired. >.>

Calwings posted...

I'm curious to know which of those you wall under.

I'm the latter I think I gave it like a 3/10 on MAL lol. and athough a lot of my MAL ratings are sort of wack and don't really represent my current tastes anymore I don't think I'd ever bump this one up much more than to like, a 4/10 or something

Calwings posted...

I interpreted "Not Usually My Thing, But..." as a show from a genre you don't normally like that much but that specific show stood out and impressed you despite being from that genre.

I might just not have any of these. Like really the more I think about my adventures in watching shows I didn't think I would like much, the more I realize I'm actually pretty good at telling when I won't like something <_<

Calwings posted...

a show that you never expected to be so good based on its ridiculous premise or strange first impression.

in that case I guess saki, considering when I first watched it I knew nothing about mahjong

ellis123 posted...

There are some pretty iffy takes on what was underrated when it launched in this topic but you need to lay off the memes if you think that Baccano was overlooked. It was literally the most viewed show in its season when it aired. >.>

Well, just going by my experience. Didn't engage with the English-speaking anime fanbase back then, or with the series' fanbase until the novel started getting English releases (which was relatively recently). Another series I would've put in that slot would be Ben-To.

Calwings posted...

Oh man, Shakugan No Shana was fun. I thought about putting it as my underrated series, but couldn't put it over Lyrical Nanoha. Shana was really good though, plus it's rare for a light novel adaptation to actually adapt all the way to the end of the story like Shana did.

The first Shana series is what got me into light novels in the first place, though I stopped following it once the Thai official release was canceled (at volume 14, the end of season 2), so I read the rest of it (in Japanese) and watched season 3 only pretty recently.

kirbymuncher posted...

in that case I guess saki, considering when I first watched it I knew nothing about mahjong

Yeah, that would definitely be a good choice for that one.

barnnn posted...

The first Shana series is what got me into light novels in the first place, though I stopped following it once the Thai official release was canceled (at volume 14, the end of season 2), so I read the rest of it (in Japanese) and watched season 3 only pretty recently.

I'm a 100% anime-only fan, so even though I've heard from other people that season 3 of Shana was pretty rushed, that's still much better than a "fuck you go read the source material for more" non-ending in my eyes. I'm glad it had a satisfying conclusion.

https://i.imgur.com/LbMgq6y.jpg

Certainly took awhile. I just threw the first thing I could think of for No Source Material. I don't have a clue how to quickly search for that shit other than clicking each show I like on MAL and checking the source.

interesting how now two people have franx listed as something everyone likes... I don't tihnk I actuallly know anyone who likes that show lol. and the few people who did at the start certainly didn't by the end

Spidey5 posted...

other than clicking each show I like on MAL and checking the source.

are you not generally aware of the source material (or lack thereof) of the shows you watch? anime originals especially are so rare they tend to stick in my mind

barnnn posted...

Well, just going by my experience. Didn't engage with the English-speaking anime fanbase back then, or with the series' fanbase until the novel started getting English releases (which was relatively recently). Another series I would've put in that slot would be Ben-To.

I see.

And yeah, the show was big. That was in the period where I went to cons (I more went for the game stuffs but there was some overlap) and it was hard not to stumble into it. Yeah the big shoenens + cgdct was overwhelmingly massive, but Buccano showed up at all and that kind of showed how extreme its popularity was.

kirbymuncher posted...

are you not generally aware of the source material (or lack thereof) of the shows you watch? anime originals especially are so rare they tend to stick in my mind

I've watched hundreds of anime. I can't remember that shit.

kirbymuncher posted...

interesting how now two people have franx listed as something everyone likes... I don't tihnk I actuallly know anyone who likes that show lol. and the few people who did at the start certainly didn't by the end

Casuals loved it because pretty Studio Trigger animation and Zero Two makes them horny. I still see Zero Two in memes online to this day.

kirbymuncher posted...

anime originals especially are so rare they tend to stick in my mind

I'm at the point where I actively seek out anime originals to watch each season. 7 of my top 10 favorite anime of all time are originals.

So many have MHA as overrated which I think is strange because nobody really rates it too highly. A lot of people enjoy it but nobody puts it up there with Brotherhood, One Piece, etc

I see zero two memes a lot as well but I don't know if that necessarily means people like the show...

Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted...

So many have MHA as overrated which I think is strange because nobody really rates it too highly. A lot of people enjoy it but nobody puts it up there with Brotherhood, One Piece, etc

I guess it depends on your point of reference I guess, it's very regularly liked and praised by a lot of people. lots of things would look small compared to those two