Board 8 > Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 286: Wrong Stuff

(+) Yeah! (+)

I will agree with your last point at least.

And it seems everyone else does too since Rebecca has been trending pretty consistently over the last few days, even more than the actual show itself! Real trending too, not that personalized shit.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Doubt anyone else here is even reading, but just wanna say that Gash Bell 2 has had a pretty tremendous start 6 chapters in.

There's a Gash Bell 2?!

Maniac64 posted...

There's a Gash Bell 2?!

Just started recently, it's 6 chapters in (long chapters).

Look at how my boy has grown.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/7/3/AAeolZAADrzx.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/6/9/AAeolZAADrzt.jpg

get fucked, Ulti

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

what a waste of a perfectly good nami fight

I'm a week early again but meh. Time to go through next season's anime and select ten I want to watch. I started from least members to most members on MAL. First seasons only, no new seasons for old stuff.

Eternal Boys: Middle-aged men become an idol group. I like idol shows but I don't see myself watching an idol boy show unless there's a cute girl manager or a cute girl ghost in it. Middle-aged men are the exact opposite of a cute girl.

Akiba Maid War: Maid cafes in Akihabara. I have absolutely no idea what this is about but it's by PA Works so I'll at least check it out.

Housing Complex C: An ancient evil stalks the residents of this housing complex. I don't have much faith that this will actually be good, but horror anime is so rare that I'm obligated to check it out.

Uchi no Shishou wa Shippo ga Nai: Something about a shapeshifting Tanuki girl and a Rakugo storyteller. The description on this made no sense, I'll probably wait to see reactions on it.

4-nin wa Sorezore Uso wo Tsuku: Four friends each have a secret. Whether this is good or not will depend on what those secrets are, but I'm willing to give this a shot. Slice-of-life comedy where each character knows some things but no one knows everything and they're trying to keep it from each other sounds fun.

Shinmai Renkinjutsushi no Tenpo Keiei: A alchemist girl opens an atelier. It sounds like an Atelier anime but it's based on a light novel, not the video games. Still, I love alchemy so I'll give it a shot.

Futoku no Guild: Ecchi monster hunter guild. I'm not against fanservice but it isn't enough to draw me in on its own either. I'll wait and see the general reaction this gets to see if it has anything going on other than boobies.

Love Flops: An anime about love. The description for this doesn't say anything else. Rom-coms are so hit-or-miss for me that I'll wait and see the general reaction for this.

Play it Cool, Guys: Sexy clumsy boys. I'm sure this will be amazing for people who are into it, but I'm more of a sexy clumsy girls type, so I'll skip it.

Bocchi the Rock: Girls form a band. I'm a sucker for music anime so I'll give it a shot.

Princess of the Bibliophile: A princess who loves reading but now needs to win back her fiancee. I'm sort of interested in this, it feels like it could either be fun or be the exact kind of romance that I hate.

Beast Tamer: An amazing beast-tamer wanders around taming beasts. At least it isn't an isekai but from the description it may as well be. I'll skip it for now and see what the overall reaction to it is.

Noumin Kanren no Skill bakka Agetetara Nazeka Tsuyoku Natta: This is about a guy who maxed out his farming skills, which apparently maxed out all his skills? This sounds like an isekai but it doesn't have that tag. Ah well, even if it is, I like the Stardew Valley farming concept. I'll give it a shot.

Raven of the Inner Palace: An emperor goes to see a cursed consort. I could see this being great or terrible depending on the kind of story it is, the description was pretty vague. I guess I'll give it a shot.

More than a married couple, but not lovers: This is about a government program that pairs people together, and one couple wants to get high marks so they're allowed to switch to the people they actually wanted to pair with, but it turns out they might be more compatible than they thought. This... I've seen this exact premise before! I never watched it, but this sounds exactly like Love and Lies. What a ripoff.

Do It Yourself!!: Cute girls do handiwork. Say no more, anime, I'm sold.

Akuyaku Reijou nanode Last Boss wo Kattemimashita: Another VN isekai where a girl gets pulled into a game in the role of a character she knows dies horribly. I don't hate the concept of a girl needing to avoid a character's bad end, but nothing about this draws me in either.

Shinobi no Ittoki: Something about ninja wars, I dunno. The description didn't say anything other than that and that alone isn't enough to draw me in.

Tensei shitara Ken Deshita: An isekai where a guy gets reincarnated as a sword. I wonder what the isekai genre will do when they have reincarnated the main character as everything imaginable.

Urusei Yatsura: Guy chosen to play tag with an alien girl with the fate of the world in the balance, hilarity ensues. This actually sounds like it might be fun, I'll give it a shot.

The Eminence in Shadow: Isekai where guy invents a cult so he can have followers pretend to fight it, but it turns out the cult actually exists. This idea sounds terrible.

Blue Lock: Intense soccer anime. This doesn't have cute girls in it, so I'll pass on it.

Chainsaw Man: A guy gets killed and becomes a chansaw demon. This sounds exactly like the fake movie they made in The Sopranos, Cleaver, where a guy died and gets brought back to life (by the power of science, or maybe it's supernatural) with a cleaver on his hand. Replace cleaver with chainsaw and it looks like this. I'm sure there's more to this than that, I've never read it and it's very a popular manga, but thinking about it like that is funny to me. Regardless, this seems like an anime where I'll wait until it's over so I can binge it.

TENTATIVE TEN ANIME I WILL WATCH (In order of most excited to least excited)
Shinmai Renkinjutsushi no Tenpo Keiei (Alchemy anime)
Do It Yourself!! (Cute girls do handiwork anime)
4-nin wa Sorezore Uso wo Tsuku (Secrets slice-of-life anime)
Urusei Yatsura (Boy and alien play tag anime)
Bocchi the Rock (Cute girls music anime)
Housing Complex C (Housing complex horror anime)
Raven of the Inner Palace (Something about a dark consort anime)
Akiba Maid War (Something about maids by PA Works anime)
Noumin Kanren no Skill bakka Agetetara Nazeka Tsuyoku Natta (Overpowered farmer anime)
Princess of the Bibliophile (Princess who likes books anime)

Robazoid posted...

First seasons only, no new seasons for old stuff.

I assume this is why the new Gundam series didn't get a look? It's not a sequel to anything else in the franchise.

I've never watched anything from Gundam so I don't know much about it. Even if it isn't a sequel to anything, I'm guessing this newest one probably isn't the best place to start

Actually more stuff then usual I'm interested in. Definitely going to check out Raven in the Inner Palace which looks really cool. It's hard to understand too much about it right now but everything so far makes it seem like it's on my wavelength. The trailer gave me similar vibes to From the New World, at least in terms of the tone. Really liked the art style and animation as well.

Also my gut reaction is that the alchemist show, the maid show, and the tanuki show all seem like they have the potential to be pretty fun.

I think they've been saying Mercury is actually a great place to start! Seems to be the next series doing the Iron Blooded Orphans thing of standing on its own (unless I've missed some new info, I haven't watched the prologue they released yet).

The trailers have looked very good and I'm excited for it. I held off on IBO for years and ended up all 4 cours in two weeks because I couldn't get enough. It had a couple of issues (absurdly tropey, death flags so obvious they actually ruin the buildup), but it still ended up being my #3 Gundam after G and Thunderbolt.

Also I've watched all the trailers for the season and I think this season has a looooot of shows where the descriptions either don't do the show justice or gives it too MUCH credit. That Married Couple anime for example sounds really stupid, but the trailers look pretty damn good.

Robazoid posted...

Blue Lock: Intense soccer anime.

Ooh gonna have to look that one up.

I'm willing to admit I was wrong and start watching anything from next season that gets good reactions. I mean the description for Lycoris Recoil made it sound super lame, girls work in a cafe and battle random stuff lol. I completely wrote that one off but then everyone raved about the first episode and what do you know, it's the best anime of the season.

That new episode of LR that came out yesterday was fantastic. The VA work was just incredible, whether it's Takina's anguish or that fucking USB fight between Fuki and Chisato.

https://youtu.be/pIjL8vtpmxk

Most Gundam series take place in separate universes, so the new one's probably a fine place to start (especially since it's one of the few that stars a female character, possibly the only one).

The lead being a girl is by far what I'm most excited about and I hope they don't fuck it up.

Thank God it's not a Tomino lol.

Crunchyroll added Strawberry Panic a few days ago (apparently not one of the Funi transfers, just a random addition). I won't be able to watch it for awhile, but perhaps this will finally be the good yuri anime I've been seeking.

Unlikely, but good luck regardless. Never ended up watching it...

I liked Strawberry Panic a lot but I don't know if I'd describe it as good.

Decided to check out all the titles that ranked in the Next Manga Awards for up and coming manga.

Obviously all of them have something going for them to get recognized, even if my brief dive in to some of them didn't give me the full potential, but the ones that stood out to me the most personally were:

Medalist
Magilumiere Co. Ltd.
Gachiakuta
A Story About Smoking at the Back of the Supermarket
I Favor the Villainess (though I've been reading this for a while)
The Summer Hikaru Died
Dai Dark

And then the ones that stand at my personal top 3:

Akane Banashi
Medalist
You and I are Polar Opposites

Of note, just because of it's placement, I don't really get what the hype is with second place winner WITCH WATCH. It seems perfectly fine but isn't standing out for me much at all. However, this manga has a lot more chapters already out then most if not all of the other winners, so I will continue on to see if maybe there is a turn that explains it.

Unrelated, I started up a few other manga on a whim, but don't have much to say yet, those being:

The Witch and the Beast
Suicide Girl
Route End
Murcielago
Psyren
Slam Dunk
Medaka Box
Kaiju No. 8
Blue Box
If I could Reach You
Gokurakugai
Vampeerz

So yeah, a fullllll plate, not even including all the stuff I'm caught up on that's still active.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

I Favor the Villainess (though I've been reading this for a while)

Not sure if you know this, but the LNs are finished and recently finished being localized too.

I didn't know! Since the manga seems to be considered the rare good manga adaptation of an LN, I just decided to go with that. May end up checking out the books on Book Walker, though.

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Chainsaw Man gonna be 12 episodes apparently

Split cour was to be expected

all 12 episodes will have different EDs, both song and visuals

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/9/7/AAB6RfAADsNJ.jpg

https://youtu.be/v4yLeNt-kCU

11 differently-animated EDs feels like a waste considering how poor animator conditions are.

11 is crazy, but other series had several OPs for a 12-15 episode run too. Not quite 11, but still more than youd normally see.

Chainsaw Mans Makima is being voiced by the same English VA as Genshin Impacts Eula and FF7Rs Yuffie. I dunno what the character is like, but I love her voice

The GOAT Oreimo did it.

It's hardly unprecedented. Oreimo had 12, and a few other series have had a new ED for every episode too, I think. And of course, a recent series with 6 EDs gave us this masterpiece... https://youtu.be/KY3MyHAFc68

The Dorehedoro Doom ED is the first one that comes to mind for this kind of stuff, lol.

Dub trailer.

https://youtu.be/20Si967iTDk

12 onlyyyyy noooo

It's gonna take years to finish, part 2 is gonna be done before part 1 anime

There was no way they were going to knock it out all at once! Mappa is already stretched ridiculously thin.

Of course...we're dancing around the possibility that they will adapt the whole thing in twelve episode, in which case this anime will be, uh.....bad.

But I'm not gonna jump to that conclusion!

UshiromiyaEva posted...

There was no way they were going to knock it out all at once! Mappa is already stretched ridiculously thin.

Eh, Mappa's pretty huge. They managed 24 eps of JJK at once too, looking great all throughout. Not surprised it's split-cour tho.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Of course...we're dancing around the possibility that they will adapt the whole thing in twelve episode, in which case this anime will be, uh.....bad.

'leaks' (take with grain of salt) suggested it would go to the start of the bomb devil arc, which would be about 40% of the manga and would be a bit over 3 chapters per episode, which seems about right. I wonder if they'll do a season with an unusual number of episodes for the final 60%, since they'd probably want 18-20 eps.

Knock it out all at once!? I don't want 97 chapters finished in 24 episodes!

It should be a 3-cour show! Do it right!

Although the most natural way to drop 3 cours is probably 1+1+1

MacArrowny posted...

Eh, Mappa's pretty huge. They managed 24 eps of JJK at once too, looking great all throughout. Not surprised it's split-cour tho.

Sure they're big, but they're also working on 4 other shows and a movie at the same time.

pjbasis posted...

Knock it out all at once!? I don't want 97 chapters finished in 24 episodes!

It should be a 3-cour show! Do it right!

I really don't think it needs that. Looking at numbers on paper two cour seems short, but with Chainsaw Man's actual pacing and how some of the chapters breakdown, 2 cour seems right. There are some chapters without a single line of dialog for most of the page count. Hell, I can think of 1 or two chapters that adapted to anime would take 2-3 minutes.

There is a good amount of action chapters that can drag out the pacing too.

JJK did 68 chapters in 24 episodes and action can usually be done quick too depending. I feel like I contradicted myself but whatever.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-09-19/hunter-x-hunter-manga-gets-1st-new-volume-after-4-years/.189899

Hunt those hunters

Bofuri S2 finally has a date, it airs starting in January 2023.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tAaJ7hsas0

Finished the first season of Mob Psycho 100. Wasn't a fan of how that played out, but given the author, I shouldn't be surprised.

NewerShadow posted...

Bofuri S2 finally has a date, it airs starting in January 2023.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tAaJ7hsas0

Finally!

With DBS on extended break until Tori/Toya decide what absurdity will arrive next........

On this month's chapter of Boruto: Shikamaru BIG BRAINS a plan to create the Ninja version of Three's Company.......except it's two guys and a lady, with the lady being the "I NEEDS TO BE LAID" type.

The 1 guy in my Discord who reads Boruto still has been going off all morning about how terrible Boruto gotten and that he may drop it after this, lol.

Maniac64 posted...

Finally!

Hell yeah

Classroom of the Elite season 2 episode 12

Damn Ryuuen really made the rookie mistake of messing with a guy who knows piano and calligraphy huh

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-09-20/crunchyroll-to-recast-mob-psycho-100-iii-for-simuldub/.189950

God damnit, I actually really enjoyed the Mob dub even if I would always watch it with subs on first viewing. Mob's dub actor was part of the reason for that. Fuckin Crunchyroll

It's total shit.