Board 8 > Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 276: Day 325 Stone Ocean is not confirmed

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but now there's an opportunity to fix that

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I do like how the end of the 3rd episode the Burn the Witch logo spelled out Bleach

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That reminds me, SuperEyepatchWolf made an updated video to his incredibly popular original Fall of Bleach video from back when he was first starting out. He makes a ton of corrections to his originally flawed information and assumptions...though the results themselves don't really change. Still just an immensely good watch. Really nails home what an astounding lightning in a bottle Soul Society was.

https://youtu.be/LbBgrSUPUH0

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I'll leave it up so I can watch when I wake up

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glad to see you'll be ending the rewatch after Soul Society ends

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Hey its Granzon. You checking out Genshin Impact at all?

nope I saw it on twitch the past few days and it looks kinda boring

how have you been doing swordz?

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Pretty good I suppose. Just been playing Mario games mostly lately until Genshin came out anyways. How about you?

spending most of my time clearing out old backlog games and movies

also rewatched a bunch of movies since the quarantine started

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Is there some kind of one pace for bleach

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Finally finishing up the last few episodes of SNAFU and its really bothering me now how Yuki's sister is being treated like some wierd God being and the entire endgame here is revolving around her wierd almost pointless feeling presence as she does her best impression of a Monogatari character. Like, every single scene with her feels awkward and forced.

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It's good when Shizuka talks about her.
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Yeah I have 1 episode to go but roomate got home and wanted to watch JK. The episode after the one that was bothering me helped a lot, though I've not been super high on her all season.

Teach is always aces, though.

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Would agree that Haru kinda sucks and they trust her too much though yeah. Surprised they don't see her as more villainous.
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Episode 1 of Dragon Quest Dai beated. Love the old school designs (which I guess makes sense since it's a remake) and all the DQ monsters in action. Kinda sad there's no actual DQ music in it, but I guess it is kinda its own separate thing

seems like unlike the first anime this one will actually be a full adaption of the manga.


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https://twitter.com/Crunchyroll/status/1312363836201201666?s=19

been reading that too ever since catching up on OPM

still in season 1 stuff though

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Ah fuck, there's a BOUNTY of shows today. Looks like the lineup of my days off and anime release days is solid as hell this season.

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The idol performance in this new Love Live appear to be Mystic Artes from Tales.

Which idol will have the highest combo generation??

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OK the disparity between how much better this green highlights girl's character design looks with her hair down versus her very stupid looking pigtails default look is absolutely criminal.

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ninkendo posted...

been reading that too ever since catching up on OPM

still in season 1 stuff though

Damn you pick good times to catch up

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never underestimate the power of a tablet with the SJ app in the bathroom

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I didn't have high expectations for this particular LL going in, but I gotta say I was pleasantly surprised! I like how the setup is good but different from the typical entry, hopefully that means it won't feel so samey for the initial series start. I'm also going into this a lot more open, since I remember being pretty down on Sunshine going in only to end up liking its cast more than the original.

Based on the episode preview I have a feeling the short brown haired girl is gonna be #1.

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Completed Deca-Dence. Kinda disappointed in this. Feels like it's all half-baked and needed another dozen episodes if it wanted to fully realize its ideas. The sci-fi ideas don't make much sense when you think about them, and I was always more interested in Natsume than Kaburagi, so it sucked that she got so much less focus than him. The main highlight was the cool action animation. Guess it's alright for a "turn your brain off and don't think about it too much" type show, but I wanted more than that from it.
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Certainly enjoyed the series, but absolutely agree it felt too short. Could have had fantastic potential as a two cour series, as it is it's just a solid fun show.

I woukd say it's a product of the current market, would be very surprised if the series wasn't originally pitched to be longer with how it all went down and they just weren't able to make it happen, though at the same time I can't say anything in it was bad. Just not the AotY contendor I was hoping for.

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Other than the rushedness, the weakest part was probably the humor? I know Studio NUT can do this well, since Tanya was hilarious, but it felt like most of the jokey moments here were trying too hard and didn't land. Better comedy writers or a more serious atmosphere would've helped a lot.
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The physical humor I thought was pretty strong, but the actual script humor was a lot more inconsistent.

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I feel like the first minute of Yashahime just dropped a big bomb about the lead character right off the bat, but maybe I'm reading a bit too much into the phrasing combined with the physical reaction there.

Maybe I should actually finish the episode before trying to think about it too hard as well <_<

Also I've literally never seen a single second of Inuyasha not dubbed, so the VA work is throwing me for a loop.

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What an absolute joy to watch from start to finish. I thought I had no lingering attachments to Inuyasha to the point where I had only recently decided to try out the first episode at all, but I just had a huge grin on my face the entire time. I think it was a super smart idea to focus on a story with the old cast for episode 1 to get everyone in the groove of things.

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I think Deca-Dence was still great with the amount of episodes it had, I dunno. I still stand by it.

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I don't think it was a bad show at all. I may agree with Mac's criticisms, but the degree of which they affected me isn't as severe. I'd say a solid 4/5.

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What.

I thought Wandering Witch was like some wholesome magical adventure thing.

Why does it have one of the best fight scenes I've seen all year??

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

What an absolute joy to watch from start to finish. I thought I had no lingering attachments to Inuyasha to the point where I had only recently decided to try out the first episode at all, but I just had a huge grin on my face the entire time. I think it was a super smart idea to focus on a story with the old cast for episode 1 to get everyone in the groove of things.

never underestimate the power of nostalgia

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Bruh, if you were already planning to watch Wandering Witch anyways then obviously ignore, but hot damn if you need convincing.

https://youtu.be/UMh02Nn_9oM

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Earlier this year I was burned by buff girls do baseball be ause the show was, y'know...not good.

Doesn't look like buff girls climb rocks has the same problem.


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I'll watch cute girls fight each other to the death.

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Alright so this season, coming out swinging, other than one show that was OK and one that...yeah...

Higurashi - as much as this was my most excited thing to watch going in, I don't really have anything to say? That's not a criticism, it's just that the opening episode is nearly identical tonthe original anime, so I don't really have an opinion to form yet. What's going to matter is how well executed the actual heavy beats are once they come swinging.

Wandering Witch - definitely the biggest surprise, story could go a ton of directions. There's a real possibility that this opening episode will not be indicitive of the remainder of the series, but I've got my fingersbcrossed.

Yasuhime - I was surprised by how much I liked it, but as far as the actual contents it was the least surprising thing so far. This is a sequel ass sequel, so none of that "hey just jump in here and it'll be fine!" junk.

Rock Climbing Girls - while it's not a show that I'm confident I'll stick with, I was pleasantly surprised by by it's solid start, and will be happy to give it a few episodes to see if it'll grip me.

Love Live...2.5? The other one is the next main one, right? Either way, this was great! Only teased at most of the characters besides the lead two. Not as flashy animation wise as some of the main entries, but ironically the CG appears to be better. Just a matter of the times I suppose.

Assault Lily - this started out pretty dull and slow, but the second half was way better. Still, it's one of those things that is less interesting as more shows I actually like come out. Would probabky be harder on it if it was a few more days into the season when it aired. Still, not terrible.

Jujutsu Kaisen - my feeling are always wierd when manga gets adapted. Pretty bog standard start to a shounen though I know what's coming both good and bad so my opinion on that front doesn't matter much. If you're a fan of the source material I can't imagine not loving this because the production was fantastic.

Million Lives - this one sucks.

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Pretty bog standard start to a shounen though I know what's coming both good and bad

Are you caught up?

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pjbasis posted...

Are you caught up?

No, I have only read the first few volumes...I think, I don't remember EXACTLY how far I got. I am pretty sure I stopped during the big fight between two teams? IIRC each team had 1 girl, and of course they paired up the girls to fight, and they made the fight ABOUT them being girls, and it was just so mind numbingly tropy and off putting that I dropped it.

I may still come back to it, but man that kind of writing pisses me off.

I actually think I got a couple volumes last that, but it stuck out to me so much as something that bothered me that I stopped paying a ton of attention for a while before putting it on pause.

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Right right. Yeah I think that was a low point for me too. Not really a fan when a series doubles the cast before I even become attached to the main characters unless it's really gonna do something interesting with the ensemble.

But it becomes interesting enough that it'll be fun to see how this thing blows up.

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SNAFU S3 finished. My thoughts are complicated.

Inarguably just an excellent anime top to bottom, even I cant meme it up and say its all shit because I didnt get my ship win.



Still, I have some misgivings about the last season which are more meta than anything. As far as in story goes, I just dont like Haruno, which Ive already brought up. The biggest issue is that this season really does suffer from coming so late, since in a vaccum it feel unbalanced. Yuki feels very underrepresented until suddenly its her ending. Taken as a while for SNAFU, not a problem, but S3 is basically Yui city from top to bottom until then, making that feel unearned.



Also, the extended cast. SNAFU had an incredibly one! They show up a lot in the first few episodes.then not. Again, another issue that wouldnt feel off at all if this was out soon after S2. The cast all showing up in the last episode really reinforced that feeling. Thankfully we get tons of Iroha.



I guess my main unspoilery takeaway is this: if youre a fan who was waiting for it to finish before watching, I would highly advise rewatchung the first 2 season if you havent seen them recently, or else this season is going to feel worse than it truly is. Because its TRULY very very good.


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Oh holy shit were actually getting an Eva bluray release stateside.

https://twitter.com/GKIDSfilms/status/1312528559005548544?s=19

Don't see Netflix mentioned. Obviously it's worthless if it's the shitty Netflix dub, but holy crap if it's the original I'm willing to pay a pretty penny.

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Some of that is due to weird adaptation choices I think. S3 kept basically every Yui scene from the books and cut a good number of scenes for the rest of the cast. Not exactly sure why they went that way!
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I dunno how true it is, but I heard Yui gets more focus in the 2nd/3rd anime seasons than in the LNs

Mac Arrowny posted...

Some of that is due to weird adaptation choices I think. S3 kept basically every Yui scene from the books and cut a good number of scenes for the rest of the cast. Not exactly sure why they went that way!

swordz9 posted...

I dunno how true it is, but I heard Yui gets more focus in the 2nd/3rd anime seasons than in the LNs

I mean I can't complain about that in a vacuum! I definitely prefer her presence more, and if Studio feel agreed then good for them <_<

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Man I haven't watched Eva since like 13 years ago. It was one of my favorite things at the time but for some reason I've never felt compelled to revisit. I think I was waiting for the movies to finish

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Rock Climbing Girls - while it's not a show that I'm confident I'll stick with, I was pleasantly surprised by by it's solid start, and will be happy to give it a few episodes to see if it'll grip me.

Heh. Good one.

I really liked this. I haven't tried many shows yet, but the only one I didn't care for was Maitetsu/Rail Romanesque/Train Girls. Can't even say I hated it, though, because it was only 3 minutes

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Generally speaking, girls on trains is somehow a setting that has consistently been shit in anime for years!

After reviewing that post, I feel like just saying Million Lives sucks isn't enough. It's essentially Arifureta season 2.

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pjbasis posted...

I think I was waiting for the movies to finis

I'm still waiting

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how does 4 still not have a release date...
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