Poll of the Day > Anime, Manga, VN, JRPG, Related Things Discussion Topic LXXIV (REM REM)

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Currently Airing:
http://anichart.net/Spring-2017

I have one crunchyroll guest pass available, if you want.

Currently watching Masamune-kun no Revenge and Little Witch Academia.
finished Mushishi last season, only have a single movie to watch.
Waiting till all of AoT and Hero Academia come out to watch that.

My anime list:
https://myanimelist.net/profile/deoxxys

Here's some anime girls:
http://imgur.com/a/qyWH7
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whats this rem rem nonsense
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Eh, all the hype about Rem, I think I'd rather have Felicia from Fire Emblem Fates if we're talking about maids. *shrugs*

helIy posted...

whats this rem rem nonsense

What is this Helly nonsense?
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http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/fireemblem/images/0/01/Fumi_Felicia.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160202221815

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/a5/cc/37/a5cc37c7cd00c46a329b6c3e8dbe0639.jpg
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I fully approve of the topic title as I am of the opinion that Rem is indeed love

So on the anime side I'm watching the second season of Rewrite, it's an.... interesting series to say the least (and quite confusing to boot)

On the game side I broke my Persona virginity and got Persona 5, it's quite good so far and it oozes style in all the right ways
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Currently watching Youjo Senki, though I only have two eps left, not sure what's next. Might take another anime break to catch up on Arrow and Flash. Started on Dragons Dogma, seems my toaster can run it fine at my res.
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https://myanimelist.net/animelist/hullabazhu

I should be wrapping up higurashi soon.. It's hard for me to get through long series especially when watching seasonal anime..

Higurashi spoilersI really like Takano's character design, I'm glad she got wrapped up into the plot. I really commend the series for the way it goes about it's worldbuilding spread over story/timeline arcs. I don't think I've seen anything like that.
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Fucking weabs.
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eating4fun posted...

https://myanimelist.net/animelist/hullabazhu

I should be wrapping up higurashi soon.. It's hard for me to get through long series especially when watching seasonal anime..

Higurashi spoilersI really like Takano's character design, I'm glad she got wrapped up into the plot. I really commend the series for the way it goes about it's worldbuilding spread over story/timeline arcs. I don't think I've seen anything like that.

The atmosphere is pretty unique too. Seems scary/tense anime is hard to pull off and rarely done well.

Simoun
Strawberry Panic
Aoi Hana
Sasameki Koto
Yuri Kuma Arashi
Oniisama e...

Just reposting this list so it's in the new topic as well, else I'll forget.
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Gonna watch Mikakunin de Shinkoukei next, since I finished Youjo Senki.
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Alright, I've been playing Rune Factory 4 and now I've managed to get all the bachelorettes up to 7 LP, which is the minimum for them to accept my confession. (Just finished the 1st arc and I'm on Fall 1)

Now comes the hard part of deciding who I should go for!

I've really been liking Clorica, but I've managed to get a lot of events with Forte. Margaret's pretty cute too.

Ugh. Decisions decisions.
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For spring 2017 anime, I wanna give a shoutout to these two:


Sakura Quest, it feels like Shirobako meets Hanasaku Iroha, and all three of these anime are done by PA works. It's just a fun, workplace/SoL. Since the animation studio rarely disappoints and they're working with what they've succeeded with before, I feel certain that the future episodes will be quality. There's only been one episode, but I want to watch all of it, like right now.


Tsuki ga Kirei, It's going at romance/character-drama by taking the grounded, realistic approach. The character/social interactions of a 9th grader, that 14/15 y/o range, feel entirely real and empathetic. You really don't see realistic youngin' teenagers portrayed often; their ego's and desires aren't solid, they're often stupid and mistake prone because of their inexperience. I want to see more characterization and how they blossom. Hopefully, this will deliver.
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zoro-1992 posted...

I fully approve of the topic title as I am of the opinion that Rem is indeed love

So on the anime side I'm watching the second season of Rewrite, it's an.... interesting series to say the least (and quite confusing to boot)

On the game side I broke my Persona virginity and got Persona 5, it's quite good so far and it oozes style in all the right ways

I love this post.

dragon504 posted...

Gonna watch Mikakunin de Shinkoukei next, since I finished Youjo Senki.

You went with another delicious loli. You're a fiend
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https://myanimelist.net/animelist/keyblader1985
https://myanimelist.net/mangalist/keyblader1985


Came back from watching Your Name a few hours ago. I was hoping it was dubbed, just so I wouldn't have to split focus between the screen and the subs the whole time, but it was subbed. There were also only two testicles in the whole theater. (And there were several criers..) >.>

I loved the movie; classic Shinkai greatness. Glad I went to see it, and I'll probably wind up buying it.
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PimpMyRhydon posted...

You went with another delicious loli. You're a fiend

It was one show out of a batch I dled before. Didn't realize it had a loli in it, just an adorable twist of fate.
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I dunno if any of you guys saw Nyanko Days or if you're in the mood for another seriously moe show, but I strongly rec Hinako Note. I don't think anything this season will be able to surpass its pure charms. It frequently jumps to chibi style and the girls are just the best. It's plot and setting is similar to Gochiusa. Quite comfy and very silly
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keyblader1985 posted...

https://myanimelist.net/animelist/keyblader1985
https://myanimelist.net/mangalist/keyblader1985


Came back from watching Your Name a few hours ago. I was hoping it was dubbed, just so I wouldn't have to split focus between the screen and the subs the whole time, but it was subbed. There were also only two testicles in the whole theater. (And there were several criers..) >.>

I loved the movie; classic Shinkai greatness. Glad I went to see it, and I'll probably wind up buying it.

Ah, when I went, it was a 11 am showing. There were probably a dozen people I watched it with. Pretty good audience; No laughs, no cries, no awws, no weabooisms, but one ew during the shrine maiden spit sake scene.

I went out of my way to watch it subbed, since the film is particularly rooted in japanese culture. In that case, it's impossible to make a dub to capture all the cultural nuances of their language.

The dialogue wasn't fancy enough to make having a split attention difficult, but god damn every frame is so detailed, you just want to stare it it endlessly. Even at parts without dialogue, there isn't enough time to absorb everything.

Also, the japanese VA were atypical, so the actors more closely reflects actual speaking japanese than anime speak.
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eating4fun posted...

it's impossible to make a dub to capture all the cultural nuances of their language.

this is not true
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quigonzel posted...

There's a theater nearby showing Your Name. I am going to try to go tomorrow.

Seems to be one theater in my city showing it as well, though it's like a half hour drive still. Stupid spread out city.
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helIy posted...

eating4fun posted...

it's impossible to make a dub to capture all the cultural nuances of their language.

this is not true

You can make pretty good dubs, and you can always recreate jokes/puns if there's wordplay involved, but it's not the same.

Example, there's 4 different ways to say "I", and if the dialogue makes a joke regarding that nuance, you just can't imitate that without re-purposing the dialogue.

I don't know if you've ever seen translator notes for individual episodes, but they can get pretty lengthy about how they handle nuances of the language. No matter how well they translate something, there's sometimes nuances in the language that has to be explained to translate fully.


https://tlnotes.com/2017/01/20/konosuba-ep-2-notes/





You can make incredibly good dubs like for Cowboy Bebop, and you can translate the vast majority of a show's dialogue well enough, but language is intimate with it's own culture and there's always something that can't be translated fully without explanation. It's a problem with subs too, but I like seeing the occasional small note attempting to convey some nuance.
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that might have mattered 15 years ago, but these days it's pretty damn easy to properly dub something and get everything across
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I'm with @eating4fun, there are things that would literally be impossible to get across in a dub. Just can't do it. Like, in English, four doesn't sound like death.
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I have always preferred subs though there are a number of good Dubs like (in my opinion) Ninja Scroll 2004 and Desert Punk.
Wholeheartedly agree that some things just can't be translated well enough in a dub though.
If I'm not mistaken the dub of Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi could not do the original script justice. But there is this masterpiece of a scene from the dub.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_tMD5bTbLM
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PimpMyRhydon posted...

I dunno if any of you guys saw Nyanko Days or if you're in the mood for another seriously moe show, but I strongly rec Hinako Note. I don't think anything this season will be able to surpass its pure charms. It frequently jumps to chibi style and the girls are just the best. It's plot and setting is similar to Gochiusa. Quite comfy and very silly

I checked out Nyanko Days when you mentioned it in the previous thread. I have watched a bunch of episodes; albeit out of order, and decided it's cute but not really up my alley.
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Considering just how different japanese culture is there really are some things that just have to be lost in translation. The multiple ways you can refer to yourself are an obvious example. like imagine something in english that starts out like "I woke up and...". In english, we know nothing about what woke up. Could be a man, woman, child, animal, robot, sentient shovel, no one knows. In japan you would already be giving away information with just that by what you chose to refer to with I. If you go with boku for instance that signals that its a boy.

Then there are the differences in status determined by speech with stuff like san and kun and all that stuff. Those things can be used to a subtle effect that english just doesn't have a way to express without writing out a mini language lesson every time its referenced.

Even beyond that though, lots of words, english or japanese have connotations not in built to the definition. Unusual and weird mean the same thing but weird caries a more negative connotation. Then you also have the connotation with unusual about what its describing. If you say a person is unusual, that itself is a bit of an unusual way to describe it, normally you would go with a synonym like weird. If someone did say "that person is unusual" that would help inform you about the speakers mannerisms and speech. Foreign languages don't necessarily have these same connotations so even though the meaning of the word is translated, some of the context and tone can be lost in translation.

The quality of a translation can be fantastic and its easily possible for a translation to actually be better than the original but a true 1 to 1 translation is simply impossible and it effects some things more than others.
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I decided to give Knights of Sidonia a try on Netflix today. I liked it enough to get through the whole first season in one go. But one thing about it that bugs me is that there is this one character that is a talking bear. For no reason at all and totally out of place, just a talking bear. Like whoever created it just loves talking bears and decided "Fuck it, I'm putting in a talking bear."
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Its amazing how little realism actually matters for cases like that. Similar to the penguin in eva. I kinda wonder if replacing one of the characters with something absurd in an otherwise normal show has a positive effect as far as psychological shows go.
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quigonzel posted...

On the final two eps of Re:Zero. this has to be one of the few shows I've seen that lives up to the hype.

Yeah the last two arcs are the best

DES!
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They let me make a companion in Dragon's Dogma, did I do good? She's a twin tailed, blonde, oppai loli, mage, with blues eyes, and elf ears.
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dragon504 posted...

They let me make a companion in Dragon's Dogma, did I do good? She's a twin tailed, blonde, oppai loli, mage, with blues eyes, and elf ears.

lemme see dat
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dragon504 posted...

They let me make a companion in Dragon's Dogma, did I do good? She's a twin tailed, blonde, oppai loli, mage, with blues eyes, and elf ears.

Are there... pictures?
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http://steamcommunity.com/id/dragon504/screenshot/155780078305208419

Not the prettiest game, but here's a pic. Gotta get her some better clothes though.
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Noice. For that game, she's not bad looking at all.
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So to celebrate S2 of Shingeki no bamahut, I started watching S1.

I've seen 5 episodes and I cant decide if its amazing or cheesy
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I wish I wasn't too lazy to go back and watch a S1 real quick just to watch a currently airing S2...
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PimpMyRhydon posted...

Noice. For that game, she's not bad looking at all.

Yeah, she's kind of adorable. The height difference between her and my main is amusing too, really emphasizes the loli aspect.
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quigonzel posted...

Welp, Re: Zero is going to go down possibly in my top 5 favorite anime of all time. Maybe even top 3.

I liked it alot but It had too many flaws to be in my top ten
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It's super duper good, glad you loved it. Nothing like an anime that has you by the balls the whole time.

Also guys... fucking EROMANGA SENSEI! It's pretty much Oreimo and Sagiri is gril o' the season!
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Been watching Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku. Also, there needs to be more re:zero.
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Man I loved Magical Girl Raising Project. How far are you?
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PimpMyRhydon posted...

Man I loved Magical Girl Raising Project. How far are you?

Through the first 4 eps. The betrayal of bitchy ass Ruler was fantastic.
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Okay, so I'm safe to say that I loved how dark that show is and how I wish more anime were. Ugh I can't even say anything or who my favorite girl is... Enjoy!
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quigonzel posted...

deoxxys posted...

quigonzel posted...

Welp, Re: Zero is going to go down possibly in my top 5 favorite anime of all time. Maybe even top 3.

I liked it alot but It had too many flaws to be in my top ten

I dunno. But then again, anime movies are a different category for me. The list works out differently if I factor those in.

Starting Konosuba right now.

I have a different section for movies as well.

Konasuba is great, do you have an animelist? Id like to see what you've watched.
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