Poll of the Day > Anime, Manga, VN, JRPG, Related Things Discussion Topic XCVI

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my problem right now at this very moment is i'm on tethered phone internet and occasionally i'll lag for one single second and literally die in that timespan

i've taken a lot of safety nodes and my playstyle is incredibly kitey (doing deadeye TR atm) but its so 100 to 0 so fast

tier 5 maps and tier 1 maps are basically the same difficulty for me because i can kill just fine, but getting grazed or lagging is death

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Raider would be better for TR (or even Ascendant Raider which is actually very strong but not something streamers run so people don't think about it). I did a Raider TR in Ritual and got to 93 or 94. I eventually abandoned the build because I didn't have enough DPS to kill Sirius let alone Maven.

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yeah but i really like summoning shit (first char this league was reaper+skellies) and the mirage archer ascendency is really fucking cool

if i didnt have that ascendency i wouldnt play this class and probably have dropped the league already lol. i dont care about defensive layers that make me more effective. i want shittons of dots dropping that i dont even have to aim most of the time

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Judgmenl posted...

I'm kinda sad that nobody has caught on to NijiEN yet. Pomu is better than basically all of those EN Vtubers.

I like this one clip of Pomu:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUSPuSP2cj0

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agesboy posted...

yeah but i really like summoning shit (first char this league was reaper+skellies) and the mirage archer ascendency is really fucking cool

if i didnt have that ascendency i wouldnt play this class and probably have dropped the league already lol. i dont care about defensive layers that make me more effective. i want shittons of dots dropping that i dont even have to aim most of the time

TR Ballistas are very nice for this.

deoxxys posted...

I like this one clip of Pomu:

What I am trying to say that vtubers are way more than just clip channels. The good ones actually have entertaining streams. Clip channels are just memes.

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Judgmenl posted...

What I am trying to say that vtubers are way more than just clip channels. The good ones actually have entertaining streams. Clip channels are just memes.

XD Im not actually into watching whole streams
vtuber memes are fine for me

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One of my friends is the same way. Watches a lot of clips and follows the "hype train". I'm different I guess because I got into Vtubers before HoloEN and like Utaite/ASMR and that was how I got introduced.

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Judgmenl posted...

TR Ballistas are very nice for this.

i really, really considered ballistas but

its not quite the same as summoning

in a similar vein i dont really like totems, and a couple of leagues i went full in on em

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I mostly watch clips unless it's a small enough streamer that I can actually talk to them in chat and have them reliably respond.

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Just finished watching season 2 of world trigger. I never watched season one. The show looked kinda interesting but all the reviews and stuff made season 1 seem like I would hate it, I think there were probably right. Season 2 was awesome though honestly. The fights are pretty top tier for shonen strategy. The main team is kind of annoying though. Person that can't shoot people and incredibly weak guy getting hard carried by white hair boy. Like, yeah they have great strategy, but it only works because kuga can basically 1v3 and it's only needed cause the sniper won't shoot people and the other guy is dead weight in combat.

And yeah, you can make that work and they do, but it just feels like it'd be infinitely more enjoyable if they didn't have to deal with that handicap.

It was kinda fun jumping in at season 2 though. I had literally no idea about anything in the show or even who the main characters were. I didn't figure out who the mains were until like episode 5 and there were all these terms and factions and teams and tech. Was fun sorting it all out for the first few episodes. Now I actually eagerly await season 3.

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World Trigger was once seen as the successor to the old Big 3, before stuff like MHA. It was on track to be one of the hottest titles in Jump but the author had serious health issues and it went on a long hiatus (like 2 years). It only came back fairly recently but in a new magazine where it's monthly probably to give the author a better work schedule. It's a lot smarter than typical shonens. I know the basic plot outlines but had the manga on the backburner for a long time now because I'm really backed up with other series. Good thing is it should be easy to catch up because it comes out slow now. It only has like 220 chapters after all these years.

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I want to watch World Trigger as well but I also heard S1 was meh

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world trigger is so excessively dialogue heavy and it's all

not very good at all

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helIy posted...

world trigger is so excessively dialogue heavy and it's all

sounds like anime would be a bad medium for it then.

Maybe I will just read it, thats what I did with Hero Academia because I got fed up with the excessive exposition.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sO7Q17AyGs

I'm up to date with Aquatope. I might drop Uramichi Oniisan depending on if I feel it tomorrow. Only show I'm not up to date with. Also plan on playing Yakuza 0 for the first time this weekend.

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helIy posted...

world trigger is so excessively dialogue heavy and it's all

not very good at all

I didn't feel like season 2 was too dialogue heavy. There's quite a bit of action in those 12 episodes. There is a fair amount of talking in some parts but it generally feels important. i wonder if it's just a season 1 thing since I've heard the pacing there is awful and theres tons of inner monologues from glasses dude in season 1 which aren't present in season 2.

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Well the new BLEACH chapter was spicy and actually the launchpad for a brand new arc. It was pretty much the perfect setup chapter. I remember the early chapters of the Blood War arc being like this. Kubo definitely hasn't lost it when it comes to badass panels and designs.

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fuck you mean a new bleach chapter

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helIy posted...

fuck you mean a new bleach chapter

Man you been living under a rock. A new 73 page special chapter for the 20th anniversary. I talked about it in this thread. The twist is its not just one chapter but the massive cliffhanger/setup for a whole arc.

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MeteoricBurst posted...

Kubo definitely hasn't lost it when it comes to badass panels and designs.

Kubo is the J.J. Abrams of manga. Knows how to start with a bang, but can never stick the landing.

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I_Abibde posted...

Kubo is the J.J. Abrams of manga. Knows how to start with a bang, but can never stick the landing.

Yeah I hope now he's not doing weekly anymore he has the time to think out his plots and not fly by the seat of his pants. He can write properly when he wants to. The first part of Thousand Year Blood War was good because he had taken a few weeks off after the previous arc (Lost Substitute aka Fullbring) to plan it out. But once he got into the weekly grind it fell away.

In other news the first trailer for JoJo's part 6 Stone Ocean is out and it looks really good. Only downer is that the series been snapped up by Netflix for the western release. I already see talk that the whole thing will be releasing at once, which is a quick way to kill all the hype.

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Took me a while to get to it, but I just finished watching Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop. Very wholesome film.

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Mha has been boring lately. I no longer care about Todoroki's personal life

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If you think that's bad wait until you get to overbearing Deku drama. I actually dropped the manga for a while it's been so boring and lame. Haven't read it in over a month. Horikoshi should stick to action he's a terrible character writer. Tabata from Black Clover does a much better job handling his main cast. Funny because I started BC long after MHA and wasn't into it at first. But its turned out much better than MHA imo. The only flaw is the lack of a signature villain. The current arc villains all lame as shite though one shows promise. Thats a problem if you want your series to be popular, I suspect it's why BC never blew up. All the big shonens have that trademark villain that stands out. Naruto had Pain, Orochimaru (and Sasuke if you count him), BLEACH had Aizen, HxH has Hisoka etc. Even shitty MHA has AFO which is the only reason I'm still going to finish that series.

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I got tired of MHA anime so I switched over to the manga and I like the pace a lot more because I can speed read the dramatic bits.

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i would argue that most animes are better when read, in general

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MeteoricBurst posted...

The only flaw is the lack of a signature villain.

Doesn't it have the devil? I haven't watched/read that far but I know it was talked about as being a great villain on the level of the other ones you mentioned.

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it does have the devil, yes

and a bunch of other devils

black clover is full of bbeg's

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helIy posted...

i would argue that most animes are better when read, in general

A lot of action sequences look like shit in manga and the number of basic continuity errors tend to be higher. It's just a lot faster to read, though, which is nice.


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YoukaiSlayer posted...

Doesn't it have the devil? I haven't watched/read that far but I know it was talked about as being a great villain on the level of the other ones you mentioned.

No he was lame. Just a super bland bad guy that was behind everything. He wasn't funny or intimidating, and his magic was horrible. The best villain of that arc was the elf Patri aka (fake) Licht. And he's not even a real villain just a misguided antagonist. Other stronger devils have come later but haven't really been developed. There's one that's currently the main antagonist that has potential because of ties to the main cast, but I'm not holding my breath. Black Clover is still enjoyable to read though. The pacing is quick it never drags like MHA at times. I really like the artstyle too. We were talking about BLEACH and BC style reminds me a lot of that. The author Tabata uses a lot of black and very big clean action panels. MHA has another problem the art is really messy. It's great with closeup character shots or hero spreads but when people are moving fast you can't tell wtf is going on. The author Horikoshi overuses blur effects.

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i loved how the translators went meta with this specific panel in mha, chapter 320.

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

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Started reading Dragon Ball Sai, a doujin manga where instead of Kakarot getting sent to Earth as a baby, Vegeta does. He winds up becoming a jerkass hero, then when Kakarot arrives on Earth, they have an interesting dynamic where Kakarot, a low class, is resentful of Vegeta, the prince, for wasting his potential being on a weak planet and never training for real.

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Man, I just can't seem to find a physical copy of The World Ends With You for the Switch, that doesn't cost upwards of $50.

I mean I love the game and I wanna replay it to refresh my memory before getting NEO TWEWY, but FUCK paying full price for a port of a ds game made almost 12 years ago.

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keyblader1985 posted...

Started reading Dragon Ball Sai, a doujin manga where instead of Kakarot getting sent to Earth as a baby, Vegeta does. He winds up becoming a jerkass hero, then when Kakarot arrives on Earth, they have an interesting dynamic where Kakarot, a low class, is resentful of Vegeta, the prince, for wasting his potential being on a weak planet and never training for real.

Kinda wonder why he'd become a hero at all, given how long his face-turn took, etc.

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T0ffee posted...

Man, I just can't seem to find a physical copy of The World Ends With You for the Switch, that doesn't cost upwards of $50.

I mean I love the game and I wanna replay it to refresh my memory before getting NEO TWEWY, but FUCK paying full price for a port of a ds game made almost 12 years ago.

Square Enix tax. This is the same company that resells the same Final Fantasy games year after year for the same prices and triple dips with new releases.

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it's also a Nintendo game, so...not going down in price ever

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I went back and watched world trigger season 1 cause I had nothing else to watch. It's way worse of a production than season 2. It's actually a pretty good representative of the changes shounen adaptations have undergone in the last 5 or so years. Season 1 has atrocious pacing, reuses so much animation and has tons of stills, and has a 15 episode garbage filler arc that was really hard to push through. Season 2 on the other hand has no filler, good pacing, and good animation. Season 1 released weekly for 73 episodes and season 2 was just a single cour with season 3 coming later the same year, also for a single cour.

It basically highlights the shift from weekly to seasonal shounen. The actual plot and characters (disregarding the filler arc) isn't any better in season 2, but the production changes make it so much better to watch. I think it'd be interesting to see some of the older weekly shounen get a new seasonal adaptation. One piece would be a great candidate, although it's so long it'd still take like 15 years to catch up to where the current anime is even with it's garbage pacing. Would also be kinda cool to see a tightly paced, well animated pokemon season of just 12 episodes.

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Maaaaan, kingdom episode got delayed AGAIN. This time cause of the tsunami. Why does anime production have to be so last minute? On top of that, this weeks slime, after 5 episodes of talking in a meeting, was an episode of different people talking in a meeting. It's been talking for 6 episodes straight. Go hit someone already. Not much of substance is being said either so it's just hard to watch. Goddess dormitory was great though.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U-yUzLwFvA
11 hours

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presumably the new bleach season isn't going to be 200 episodes long

was a major reason why it got canceled in the first place

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Gah, theres not enough good anime in the world. I really want more world trigger or something similar with military tactics but I've seen everything good that exists. Why couldn't military strategy have been the genre to pop off instead of isekai? Then again, bad military shows suck whereas trash isekai and moe blob before it are still watchable.

Speaking of trash isekai, spirit chronicles is pretty damn trash. It kinda feels like it was written by someone who really liked SAO but is somehow less competent as a writer. Probably dropped for me although it's a slow season so who knows. The somewhat similar tsukimichi has actually been getting better and better IMO so I'm still watching that.

Kanojo mo kanojo continues to 1-up itself on stupidity, but in a good way.

Feel like I'm always lookin for the same two genres, military and fantasy adventure, and theres never enough of either.

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

Gah, theres not enough good anime in the world.

True.

I am starting to get impatient with some anime pacing and opting for manga instead because at least if it gets slow, sappy or preachy, I can just speed read through it. I did this with Hero Academia and thinking about doing it with Demon School Iruma-kun.

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I've got a couple of new coworkers that are into anime, and between them mentioning what they're into and my brother asking me for recommendations, I started to realize I don't watch much action series anymore. They're all heavy on shows like Jujutsu Kaisen, Hunter, One Fairy Tail and One Punch Man, and most of what I watch or read lately is drama, comedy, romance, or slice of life. It's kind of a weird feeling being much more into anime/manga in general yet being left out when they talk about those shows.

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lmao. reminds me of my friend saying he watched your lie in April and I'm like "that kind of show is so far outside of what you usually watch that I don't even know who you are"

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keyblader1985 posted...

One Fairy Tail

>_>

keyblader1985 posted...

I started to realize I don't watch much action series anymore. They're all heavy on shows like Jujutsu Kaisen, Hunter, One Fairy Tail and One Punch Man, and most of what I watch or read lately is drama, comedy, romance, or slice of life. It's kind of a weird feeling being much more into anime/manga in general yet being left out when they talk about those shows.

I like OPM, but the others (except Juju K, which I'm not familiar with) are kinda eh.

A lot of action anime just skews super juvenile, which is a turnoff. Fairy Tail lost me almost immediately

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keyblader1985 posted...

I've got a couple of new coworkers that are into anime, and between them mentioning what they're into and my brother asking me for recommendations, I started to realize I don't watch much action series anymore. They're all heavy on shows like Jujutsu Kaisen, Hunter, One Fairy Tail and One Punch Man, and most of what I watch or read lately is drama, comedy, romance, or slice of life. It's kind of a weird feeling being much more into anime/manga in general yet being left out when they talk about those shows.

This is me reading these threads for the most part and seeing the trash anitubers recommend.

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Judgmenl posted...

This is me reading these threads for the most part and seeing the trash anitubers recommend.

That's another term for Hololive crap?

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keyblader1985 posted...

It's kind of a weird feeling being much more into anime/manga in general yet being left out when they talk about those shows.

Yeah, a bit of a bummer when I talk to my friend that watches some shonen anime and nothing else or my sister who doesn't watch much either.

Zeus posted...

I like OPM, but the others (except Juju K, which I'm not familiar with) are kinda eh.

Assuming hunter is hunterxhunter, I think it, opm, and jujutsu are some of the best shonen. Admittedly juju is somewhat carried by very good animation but the characters are at least moderately more mature than something like fairy tail. The way they approach having to kill people was handled pretty believably, like humans might actually do, instead of tropey anime characters.

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Hunter X Hunter is permanently weighed down by the fact it will never be finished.

Then again, Berserk has the same issue, but it remains legendary.

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I_Abibde posted...

Hunter X Hunter is permanently weighed down by the fact it will never be finished.

Yeah but the end of the 2011 anime was honestly a fine point to stop at. It's not like theres some important goal that hasn't been completed. If anything, the initial reason gon decided to go and do stuff has been sorted out. Most of the plot threads have been resolved.


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