Board 8 > Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 194: Time for a Beach Episode!

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voltch posted...

It's 10 blu rays for 100 usd once you do currency conversions.

Just Bakemonogatari from Aniplex USA costs $150 so...yea
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ninkendo posted...

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Really digging what I assume is the generic hype battle track.
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People went berserk for every character and stand reveal.

Over 5000 people in the hall, packed all the way to the wall.

But worth
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I remember the reveal for part 5 characters in All Star Battle was held in some public square. There was cam footage of the event and the women were losing their MINDS. The crowd size was absurd.

Chicks dig Gang*Stars.
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Voltch is in Europe where Monogatari is reasonably priced.
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Ugh, I remember wanting to buy the 1/3 price european Madoka blurays and they were fuckin' region locked.
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French subs only woohoo.

Its like 50 eps total.

I got other GSC FGO merch.

But tomorrow should be manga and light novel day.

Only managed to get Promised Neverland volumes.

So fire off the recs
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LapisLazuli posted...

tazzyboyishere posted...

High Score Girl I guess. This season looks weak.

I've been interested for years but the PV looks, uhhhhh....like a show that was in legal battle for years and is now releasing long after development to recoup costs.

I rarely check previews. It'll suck if the animation is bad, but if its a SoL, that shouldn't be a dealbreaker.
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It looks like that one episode of Mekaku City Actors.

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Eh, I've seen worse. Like I said, I'm more interested in the writing, eo I can manage through that.

Also Shimomura is doing music? That just makes it an even bigger standout for my most anticipated!
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looking through the credits on MAL this looks like the season where I finally don't recognize most of the VA
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I'm staring at How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord on Crunchy and finding it very difficult to come to terms with wanting to give everything a shot.
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it could be worse

it could be Hyakuren no Haou to Seiyaku no Valkyria
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I really, really hope the Promare trailer at AX tomorrow leaks out. I'll even take cam footage.

GranzonEx posted...

it could be worse

it could be Hyakuren no Haou to Seiyaku no Valkyria

Ughhhhhh
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I don't think it's a spoiler, but no op or ed for jojo were shown.

It's hard to tell if it was edited out for this premiere or if they're going songless for the first ep.

Could be either, but as things stand we don't know which licensed song was picked for the ED.
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No way they reveal that ahead of time.

How was it?
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The Ending better be Gangsta's Paradise. Accept nothing else.

As I said earlier, when familiar characters showed up people marked out.

If a new stand showed up people went crazy

When characters people knew would become important showed up, they marked out.

Basically 5k Jojo fans approved of the first ep.

If you don't like Jojo then I can't say if you'll like ep 1 or not.

Tomorrow I'm gonna try watching the my hero academia movie.
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It's obviously just a different mixture of elements from other isekai shows but the first episode of How Not to Summon a Demon Lord had its moments. I'm liking it way more than Death March, at least. I'll probably stick with it.
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From what little I saw Id say the Jojo Part 5 cast is the worst looking one so far design wise. Havent seen the Stands, but dear god the visual of the cast members is almost like some awful band members or something

Honestly that's what makes them great to me
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Its hard to believe its about gangsters looking at them especially after part 3s badass banchou-like outfit Jotarou. Even Okuyasu looks more gangster than these guys.

Hey maybe Italian gangsters just roll in their own style

If you have a Stand to back you up do you REALLY need to have the typical intimidating look about you
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I guess not, but man their designs all really bug me. Im just looking at this picture and

Green - has large holes all over his clothes
Stripes - this guy looks like hes wearing a winter hat with super long rubber boots and tiger stripe pants
Pink - literally a pink suit with a heart cut out for the chest. He looks like a pimp so I guess hes sorta close to gangster level at least
White - also seems to have a heart cut out on his chest and has one of those really bad looking bowl-like haircuts
Headband - almost looks like hes wearing a skirt with a giant purple onesie
Sephiroth - almost looks like a rejected KISS member or something

swordz9 posted...

From what little I saw Id say the Jojo Part 5 cast is the worst looking one so far design wise. Havent seen the Stands, but dear god the visual of the cast members is almost like some awful band members or something

swordz9 posted...

Its hard to believe its about gangsters looking at them especially after part 3s badass banchou-like outfit Jotarou. Even Okuyasu looks more gangster than these guys.

Yooooo, the Part 5 Gang is great. That's Jotaro's gimmick, he's a generic badass. The Part 5 gang are stylish and fashionable as fuck. They're the mob, and if they wanna wear some stylish as fuck suits, that's what they're gonna wear.

Part 5 has the best character designs. One thing Part 7 didn't beat it out on.
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LapisLazuli posted...

Part 5 has the best character designs. One thing Part 7 didn't beat it out on.

I disagree. Gyro's character design is the best character design in all of JoJo.

Id say Part 3 has the best looking cast so far and its not even close

Thoughts on some stuff I saw

Island
I like the hairstyles the girls have. There is some pretty good uses of in scene timing in this episode and I wonder if they'll keep up this awkward type atmosphere. Amnesia plots are always kind of iffy though and even though the show touts a reason for it... there is already an immediate guess I can make. In any case what is more notable is the sound mixing and music are like really good. I thought the voice work was also a note worthy high point here.

Hanabado!
So if I had a major complaint is that I think this episode tried to do too much in one episode. I feel like it was emotion baiting when we don't have a basis to really be invested. I can see this being good, but sports shows really need to impress me pretty quickly. The really good ones (Haikyuu, Chihayafuru, One Outs, etc) were all near immediate hits and some of the other ones I think are pretty good (Scorching Ping Pong Girls, Soft Tennis, there might be another one here I can't remember) have other qualities besides sports and drama related to sports to really keep me watching. The animation here is impressive but I also feel like some stuff in this episode are like episode 4 of 26 type things.

Senjuushi
Immediately do you know what makes me annoyingly upset about shoujo shows? Or at least something like this is that is fujobait? When they make title cards for characters for no fucking reason, especially when they could just easily say their names (and in most cases they do). Some other shows might do this, but they put like a big arrow to look at this plaque we made for this introduction. This is not even like new girl sees hot guy and flowers surround him... the card was just there exclusively for the viewer. I have not even into the anthropomorphic weapons and such. I actually dion't have as much of an issue with the latter part since there is a very good series that did this called Soul Eater.

In any case this is beyond low budget. I mean maybe it's not fair because I watched two beautiful looking shows right before this. There is this one scene where some guy is writing something in a notebook at like 5 frames per a second and when the guy next to him goes to talk he stops moving. It's not that he stopped, it's that it's so obvious this happened. I knew this was going to be bad, but this is like really bad.

Mr. Tonegawa Middle Management Blues
So I have not seen Kaiji which I immediately can tell this is a parody of because well... the start of the show. I'm not even sure if that would like enhance the enjoyability of this. The biggest and most consistent issue is the narrator. I want to say I have the same issue with the one in JoJo, but this one is just so much worse. Like even though it's unintentional (I think) the narrator in Jojo is almost somewhat comedic. The narrator in a show like Killing Bites I'm almost certain is purposely put in because it's stupid. This shows narrator tries it but it has less of an impact than those two shows (well less of a positive one). Like he's really overselling things too.

I did laugh at a couple of scenes, like the one where he entered into the bosses office. I also liked when Tonegawa literally went "you all look the same" to a lot of copypaste characters. Like when stuff is actually happening the show is kind of funny. Like when they they were introducing themselves, and they all like bowling. But the narrator needlessly slows everything down. IMO this is something that probably should have been a half length or like a 6 minute if it means eliminating the narrator and speeding up the pace.
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Popcorn_Fairy posted...

LapisLazuli posted...

Part 5 has the best character designs. One thing Part 7 didn't beat it out on.

I disagree. Gyro's character design is the best character design in all of JoJo.

True, but I give it to 5 for ensemble.

They're both Gucci.
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notable J-Novel license annoucements: Kokoro Connect, Amagi Brilliant Park, Orphen

wish someone would rescue FMP! (damn you Tokyopop) instead of Amagi, but you can't win 'em all
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Orphen train keeps on truckin'.
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th3l3fty posted...

notable J-Novel license annoucements: Kokoro Connect, Amagi Brilliant Park, Orphen

wish someone would rescue FMP! (damn you Tokyopop) instead of Amagi, but you can't win 'em all

Cant believe you forgot the most notable one aka JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World

*record scratch*
*freeze frame on Haru Koyama getting choked by a horny naked dude*

Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation. Not by choice, I can tell you that! It started when my weirdo classmate, Chiba, tried to save me from a runaway truck and got us both killed instead. Idiot. Then we got transported to another world, which I guess is like an otaku dream come true, or something? Chiba ends up with cheat abilities, and what do I get? Nothing!

Lucky me, I get to be a sex worker instead. Gotta earn money somehow but since I have to do it, I'm gonna kick ass at it. This world treats women even worse than the one we came from, so things get...rough. Still, I've made friends with some of the girls, and if I can juggle Chiba's idiocy and Sumo the virgin's emotions on top of all the various kinks my customers throw at me, things will be all right...won't they?

swordz9 posted...

th3l3fty posted...

notable J-Novel license annoucements: Kokoro Connect, Amagi Brilliant Park, Orphen

wish someone would rescue FMP! (damn you Tokyopop) instead of Amagi, but you can't win 'em all

Cant believe you forgot the most notable one aka JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World

*record scratch*
*freeze frame on Haru Koyama getting choked by a horny naked dude*

Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation. Not by choice, I can tell you that! It started when my weirdo classmate, Chiba, tried to save me from a runaway truck and got us both killed instead. Idiot. Then we got transported to another world, which I guess is like an otaku dream come true, or something? Chiba ends up with cheat abilities, and what do I get? Nothing!

Lucky me, I get to be a sex worker instead. Gotta earn money somehow but since I have to do it, I'm gonna kick ass at it. This world treats women even worse than the one we came from, so things get...rough. Still, I've made friends with some of the girls, and if I can juggle Chiba's idiocy and Sumo the virgin's emotions on top of all the various kinks my customers throw at me, things will be all right...won't they?

when does this AOTY adaption come out
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Quick get swordz an artist to write hentai
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https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-07-05/sunrise-legendary-announce-live-action-gundam-film/.133849

ABORT
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https://mobile.twitter.com/GenelJumalon/status/1014923397963362306

I WISH this sort of stuff could actually happen for Overwatch. We mostly just have TTGL Reinhardt, but these sorta things would be awesome. Oh well theres always fanart. There was an awesome Marvel/Overwatch one done not long ago too

Oh, Banana Fish actually is out on time. Dammit, gotta get home now.
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swordz9 posted...

th3l3fty posted...

notable J-Novel license annoucements: Kokoro Connect, Amagi Brilliant Park, Orphen

wish someone would rescue FMP! (damn you Tokyopop) instead of Amagi, but you can't win 'em all

Cant believe you forgot the most notable one aka JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World

*record scratch*
*freeze frame on Haru Koyama getting choked by a horny naked dude*

Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation. Not by choice, I can tell you that! It started when my weirdo classmate, Chiba, tried to save me from a runaway truck and got us both killed instead. Idiot. Then we got transported to another world, which I guess is like an otaku dream come true, or something? Chiba ends up with cheat abilities, and what do I get? Nothing!

Lucky me, I get to be a sex worker instead. Gotta earn money somehow but since I have to do it, I'm gonna kick ass at it. This world treats women even worse than the one we came from, so things get...rough. Still, I've made friends with some of the girls, and if I can juggle Chiba's idiocy and Sumo the virgin's emotions on top of all the various kinks my customers throw at me, things will be all right...won't they?

what
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Thats the actual description for the novel copy/pasted from ANN. Clearly the isekai genre has peaked

pjbasis posted...

Quick get swordz an artist to write hentai

maybe Saeki Shun will be available in the near future
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Well most isekai literally sounds like fan fiction
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Seems like good early impressions of the HeroAca movie
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LapisLazuli posted...

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-07-05/sunrise-legendary-announce-live-action-gundam-film/.133849

ABORT

can't be worse than the DBZ and Death Note films
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Excellent premier for Banana Fish, firing on all cylinders. This season's Megalobox, for sure. Nobody should skip out on this. Holy crap that brawl at the end, Prime MAPPA.

Only downside is I really think it would be better dubbed.
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would you also recommend Free/Senjuushi/Yume Oukoku/Idolmaster SideM?
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No.

Actually the meme of this just being some yaoi thing for fujos is starting to tick me off a good bit and I'd appreciate if you didn't.
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It literally mentions dude on dude rape in the description so its not hard to see why people are calling it yaoi of fujobait

Glad you think Berserk is fujo.
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