Board 8 > Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 284: Who even watches anime now?

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_PandaMaster_
06/20/22 6:19:43 PM
#302:


Reg posted...
Is this one even a spoiler tho

Depends on whether you believed a fanfiction writer turns canon author would act differently.

swordz9 posted...
When the Super manga author sounds as bad as the Super anime writers with regards to certain characters :(

The anime has the justification of Toriyama doing the bare minimum of quality control. The manna has the excuse of Toriyama not caring about consistency. Remember, Super only exist because Toriyama felt he needed to redeem the series after the live action catastrophe. After the Battle of Gods movie, everything else is a cashgrab for him.
........at least Kishi isn't in it for the money. If he was, he'd focus on Naruto/Sasuke more.

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pjbasis
06/20/22 6:25:44 PM
#303:


Finally people coming around to just considering all post Z content noncanonical

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Strife2
06/20/22 6:37:03 PM
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First arc of Twelve Kingdoms done. Started the second arc, and I like the fact that not only does Sugimoto remain a sort of focal point, the show is exploring effects of being isekai'd on the original world. I still struggle with all the Taiho, Taiki, Ranka language overkill from time to time, but this show does so much with the parallel world concept that even recent shows don't bother doing.

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swordz9
06/20/22 6:43:18 PM
#305:


I still feel like the end of Cell Games was the last time any shits were given writing wise for the series. Was all crazy nonsensical stuff after
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pjbasis
06/20/22 6:58:22 PM
#306:


Boo arc was fine.

I really like how it handled the power scaling by taking the series away from SSJX+ by making 3 really seem like the last one. Fusion is wacky but he doesn't make it narratively the clincher, mostly used for jokes. Mystic Gohan is also another answer to "stop making new SSJ forms" even though he was punked. And honestly mr satan living up to actually being earth's champion and telling everyone to chip in for a genki dama that actually works is a good finale. Vegeta's character arc also gets a good conclusion here.

The only bad things imo are Boo's mechanics, they don't really make sense, and the mishandling of Gohan overall.

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swordz9
06/20/22 7:03:22 PM
#307:


Buu was fine to an extent, but its clear it went off the rails and lost all sense of what it was building to
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pjbasis
06/20/22 7:08:11 PM
#308:


Not sure exactly what you mean, I think it wasn't really building up to anything at all, which is probably it's real weakness from the start. The Great Saiyaman stuff has virtually nothing to do with where the arc goes, is that what you mean?

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swordz9
06/20/22 7:10:12 PM
#309:


I mean the stuff with Gohan. All the writing was clearly building up to Gohan being the answer to Buu and then hes thrown under the bus in the worst of ways. Like half the Buu arc is Gohan is the only one who could possibly stop Buu and then its all lol nope
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GANON1025
06/20/22 7:10:21 PM
#310:


The Super anime is great!

The Super manga.... not so much

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pjbasis
06/20/22 7:15:51 PM
#311:


swordz9 posted...
I mean the stuff with Gohan. All the writing was clearly building up to Gohan being the answer to Buu and then hes thrown under the bus in the worst of ways. Like half the Buu arc is Gohan is the only one who could possibly stop Buu and then its all lol nope

Alright yeah I get that. I don't think the story was really focused on him once the tournament starts, so he didn't feel like a main character to me anymore. He gets his powerup too easy for what it is too, once that happened I didn't think he was gonna save the day anymore because it would be too simple. Just using him to get absorbed by Boo does suck though, I just don't think half the arc is dedicated to that.

No one talks about this but I think Mr. Satan and Fat Boo have a very compelling part where it seems like Satan is going to actually turn Boo around, and it's just regular malicious humans that push him dby killing a dog. Like I think that could have really led to something narratively interesting but nothing comes of it besides turning fat boo into a different character entirely. That probably disappoints me more than anything!

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GANON1025
06/20/22 7:30:22 PM
#312:


Ultra Ego might be the worst power up I've ever seen. It's like the manga gave Vegeta a form that was intentionally bad, as a joke.

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_PandaMaster_
06/20/22 7:36:32 PM
#313:


GANON1025 posted...
The Super anime is great!

The Super manga.... not so much

The anime does its job, which is to sell merchandise while looking good and having "MAJOR EPIC moments." Really tough to screw that up.

The manga is expected to have at least SOME consistency. Doesn't ALWAYS have to make sense immediately, but SOME sense is expected. For multiple reasons, the manga has just lost its own plot.

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_PandaMaster_
06/20/22 7:40:58 PM
#314:


Apologies for the double post....

Re: Ultra Ego:
Vegeta only has it because Toyotaro believed Vegeta needed something to keep up with Goku. He outright confirms this in an interview from months ago. It was a pity transformation, not an earned or necessary one.

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UshiromiyaEva
06/20/22 7:42:31 PM
#315:


Hunter x Hunter bluray boxset is out tomorrow, mine just shipped!

Robazoid posted...
I hope I'm not annoying anyone by posting too much. A bunch of airing shows are ending over the next two weeks and I'm rewatching old stuff on top of that.

Nobody worthwhile would complain about someone posting about anime too much on the anime topic.

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Mobilezoid
06/20/22 7:50:44 PM
#316:


I should probably wait until next week before posting thoughts on upcoming Summer anime, but a save-my that usually distracts me at work ain't running this week so I'm bored. I'm going exclusively by the descriptions on MAL, excluding new seasons of old things, starting from least members.

Smile of the Arsnotoria: Based on a smartphone game. That's all the description said. This is probably going to suck.

Extreme Hearts: Everyone should read the MAL description for this, it's so poorly written that it's great. "However, the story begins to be set in motion after a certain incident and encounter", oh wow, how riveting. Anyway, it's about extreme sports and the main three girls all look exactly the same. Probably going to suck.

Shine Post: Unpopular idol group gets lazy manager, but he has a special power! It's hard to judge this without knowing what that power is. This will probably be the cheapo idol anime of the season and will probably suck, but I'll watch it anyway.

KJ File: A UN Monster Observation team monitors kaijus. As long as this has an actual budget, this actually sounds awesome? A kaiju anime that doesn't sound like it's about fighting them, sign me up

Teppen: Cute girls doing comedy. I suppose this will come down to the quality of the comedian girls themselves, but I'll give it a shot. Cautiously optimistic

Yurei Deco: The poster for this is colorful and eye-catching, but the description seems vague, something about digital ghosts fighting Tom Sawyer? This will either be amazing or terrible

Phantom of the Idol: Lazy boy idol gets possessed by ghost of dead girl idol to boost his career. I really hope this isn't just a bunch of 'lol girl in the body of a boy' genderswap humor because this premise could actually tell a really compelling story, in my opinion. I'm cautiously optimistic

That's enough for today, I'll do more tomorrow.

Anime I'll check out (assuming they're streamable and aren't obviously garbage once I take a closer look) in order of excitement:
-Phantom of the Idol
-KJ File
-Teppen
-Yurei Deco
-Shine Post

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UshiromiyaEva
06/20/22 7:55:47 PM
#317:


Oh wow, I haven't even looked at the Summer chart yet, no idea what's airing.

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WhiteLens
06/20/22 8:53:10 PM
#318:


It's because Bane didn't put a link to Anichart in the first post

https://anichart.net/Summer-2022

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swordz9
06/20/22 8:54:34 PM
#319:


Do we have any idea where Made in Abyss S2 is going since Amazon doesnt seem to be grabbing anime much anymore?
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Mobilezoid
06/20/22 8:59:22 PM
#320:


I think Hidive announced they were getting Made in Abyss. They already have the first season and a movie apparently set between S1 and S2 that I'm planning to watch soon

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UshiromiyaEva
06/20/22 9:01:30 PM
#321:


Ahhh there's some good looking stuff there!

Almost forgot about RWBY, too.

Hell yeah Part Timer S2.


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Mac Arrowny
06/20/22 9:02:15 PM
#322:


Teppen!!!!!! is the hypest of those shows.

Buu arc sucks and is much worse than Dragon Ball Super.

swordz9 posted...
Do we have any idea where Made in Abyss S2 is going since Amazon doesnt seem to be grabbing anime much anymore?
HiDive. They had the (canon) movie too that covers its preceding arc.

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swordz9
06/20/22 9:02:23 PM
#323:


Damn, I dont have HiDive and already enough streaming services as it is. Ill do my TOP TIER Summer write-ups next week most likely.
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UshiromiyaEva
06/20/22 9:07:35 PM
#324:


Yeah I think it needs to be made clear that the Made in Abyss movie is required watching before S2. It's like if they hadn't made the TV version of the Demon Slayer movie.

...Unless it DOES start with a 6 episode TV version of the movie, I suppose I don't know.

I never did watch S2 of Demon Slayer. Starting with that movie redo completely destroyed all my hype and momentum. I fear the same thing would to me with Abyss if they did that.

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Mac Arrowny
06/20/22 9:13:03 PM
#325:


The MiA S2 PV apparently has stuff from quite a few chapters later, so I'm assuming they won't recap the movie.

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swordz9
06/20/22 9:15:27 PM
#326:


I probably should at least try to squeeze in an anime episode a day or something. So bad at juggling hobbies and my backlog for games is massive on top of all the various tv series and movies I want to see too
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Bane_Of_Despair
06/20/22 9:17:03 PM
#327:


WhiteLens posted...
It's because Bane didn't put a link to Anichart in the first post

https://anichart.net/Summer-2022
It wasn't in the last topic so I thought maybe we had collectively dropped it or something

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UshiromiyaEva
06/20/22 9:17:58 PM
#328:


I was looking forward to getting back in the anime swing now that I'm caught up on comics....

Only for Omori, Somnium Files 2, and Three Hopes to all come out within 1 week of eachother.

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Mobilezoid
06/20/22 9:20:10 PM
#329:


Bane_Of_Despair posted...
It wasn't in the last topic so I thought maybe we had collectively dropped it or something
I remember someone was like "fuck the links" a few years ago when I was still participating in these topics and then I never saw them in an opening post again. They died the same time as that list that dictated who made the next topic afaik

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pjbasis
06/20/22 10:55:49 PM
#330:


UshiromiyaEva posted...
I never did watch S2 of Demon Slayer. Starting with that movie redo completely destroyed all my hype and momentum. I fear the same thing would to me with Abyss if they did that.

what if JJK did that

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ninkendo
06/20/22 11:17:55 PM
#331:


Yeah the movie redo was just a bad version of a good movie

Entertainment District arc was legit though

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UshiromiyaEva
06/20/22 11:49:44 PM
#332:


pjbasis posted...
what if JJK did that

The upcoming JJK content is a MUCH bigger high note than the Entertainment District Arc or the upcoming Abyss content. I would manage to get over it.

If anything is going to hinder my JJK hype it's that the last several months of many have been nigh unreadable. Akutami got sick around the Maki stuff and it's been super mediocre ever since they came back. It's heavily reminiscent of when Hoshini came back to D.Gray Man after being real sick and that manga was never the same. I'm hoping it swings back.

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GranzonEx
06/21/22 12:18:29 AM
#333:


UshiromiyaEva posted...
The upcoming JJK content is a MUCH bigger high note than the Entertainment District Arc or the upcoming Abyss content. I would manage to get over it.

If anything is going to hinder my JJK hype it's that the last several months of many have been nigh unreadable. Akutami got sick around the Maki stuff and it's been super mediocre ever since they came back. It's heavily reminiscent of when Hoshini came back to D.Gray Man after being real sick and that manga was never the same. I'm hoping it swings back.
I feel the same about the recent chapters. This Hakari fight I was skipping entire pages of explanation for his powers. Same with the lawyer guy. It all winds up being "oh he has more cursed energy and can use reverse curse spell to heal".

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UshiromiyaEva
06/21/22 12:27:39 AM
#334:


I have had to force myself to skim through basically every fight in the entire arc except for the lawyer fight, actually, but that's just because he had some actual basic setup, which none of the other characters in these recent fights have had. It's just not compelling content, there's nothing to keep your interest at all. It REALLY feels like a Bleach filler arc, to a startling degree


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pjbasis
06/21/22 12:30:37 AM
#335:


The Hakari stuff is really rough because it's a cultural niche thing too. I think I'll be able to enjoy these fights animated more, especially if I can get an idea of where all these fights are leading to.

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UshiromiyaEva
06/21/22 12:45:20 AM
#336:


I've thought the same thing, and I hope you're right.

It's even more painful because JJK was on such an absolute high. The last major arc and it's follow-ups really felt like JJK was in its Chimera Ant-esque revolution, and now...it's like we're in Bounto.

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ninkendo
06/21/22 1:14:03 AM
#337:


https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/2/6/AAB6RfAADXVq.jpg

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ninkendo
06/21/22 3:17:38 AM
#338:


https://youtu.be/mezyq2OX6TM

Oh ya

At least we know the content of season 6 will be better than what was in season 5

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Robazoid
06/21/22 5:55:14 AM
#339:


I need to catch up on My Hero Academia, I haven't watched seasons 4 and 5. I'll have to make sure to do that before S6 starts airing in the fall

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ninkendo
06/21/22 8:56:57 AM
#340:


Berserk Golden Age arc finished

Conviction arc here I come

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GANON1025
06/21/22 3:11:05 PM
#341:


So in One Piece, whats with the Admirals having two names? Is one their real name and one like a title?

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Maniac64
06/21/22 3:19:35 PM
#342:


Yep that is it exactly.

Each Admiral has a title that is a color and an animal.
For instance Akainu = Red Dog. Real name Sakazuki.

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Mobilezoid
06/21/22 4:54:38 PM
#343:


More Summer 2022 thoughts

Shoot! Goal to the Future: Guys playing soccer. I'm not a big sports anime guy so I'll probably skip this whether it's good or not

Prima Doll: Mechanical dolls made for war now work in a cafe. I like the idea of artificial beings looking for purpose, so I'm cautiously optimistic about this

Bucchigire: Some samurai are killed and convicts are used to pose as them so no one realizes. This could be good, but this looks like a serious action anime and I prefer to binge those so I'll wait on this one

Fuuto PI: I'm confused about this one, it seems standalone but it mentions Kamen Rider, isn't that a thing? Regardless, the description listed a bunch of capitalized words like Museum and Dopants and Gaia Memories, so this is probably going to suck

Luminous Witches: Another Strike Witches spinoff. The only thing that might save this is that it's about a music squadron who keeps morale up but doesn't actually fight. The Neuroi were the worst part about Strike and Brave Witches. Wartime idols could be fun. I'm very cautiously optimistic

Lycoris Recoil: It's about a cafe, but sometimes they fight zombies or monsters or something. This sounds like one of those parody shows and it'll probably be mediocre

Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer: I remember people hyping this story up back in the day. It's about a princess who wants to destroy the world, though, and I'm not sure I can get behind that. There's lots of innocent creatures on the world who'd rather not get destroyed, thanks! I'll likely wait on this one

Kuro no Shoukanshi: Another isekai where the guy drags along a goddess. Sounds like a serious take on Konosuba's premise, which sounds awful

Parallel World Pharmacy: Yet another isekai, but it's about owning a business and medicine so I'm intrigued. Cautiously optimistic

My Recently Hired Maid is Suspicious: This is by the creator of Jahy, so I'm interested! It's about a maid who teases a little boy, though, so whether it's good or not will depend on how creepy that gets. Still, I liked Uzamaid. Cautiously optimistic

I'll do the last ones tomorrow.

Anime I'll check out, in order of excitement:
Phantom of the Idol
KJ File
Parallel World Pharmacy
My Recently Hired Maid is Suspicious
Teppen
Prima Doll
Shine Post
Luminous Witches

I cut Yurei Deco after watching its PV last night, looks too kiddy

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Maniac64
06/21/22 4:56:23 PM
#344:


Mobilezoid posted...
Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer: I remember people hyping this story up back in the day. It's about a princess who wants to destroy the world, though, and I'm not sure I can get behind that. There's lots of innocent creatures on the world who'd rather not get destroyed, thanks! I'll likely wait on this one
I will say I definitely enjoyed that manga.

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swordz9
06/21/22 4:58:20 PM
#345:


Most notable thing about the Maid show is the amazing Rie Takahashi is playing the maid. Thats reason enough to watch it
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Sceptilesolar
06/21/22 4:58:29 PM
#346:


The Biscuit Hammer manga is excellent and the anime will have no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

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Strife2
06/21/22 5:00:02 PM
#347:


Kuro no Shoukanshi: Another isekai where the guy drags along a goddess. Sounds like a serious take on Konosuba's premise, which sounds awful

Yeah, oof.

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UshiromiyaEva
06/21/22 5:01:00 PM
#348:


Biscuit Hammer anime PV looked absolutely dreadful. Two nickles rubbed together.

https://youtu.be/PyW33b14_GE

If that's the best they had to show then we're in a real monkeys paw situation.

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Mobilezoid
06/21/22 5:35:48 PM
#349:


A production needs to be truly awful for it to ruin a show for me. I mean, I still have good feelings for Marchen Madchen, watching it fall apart before my very eyes every week was actually kind of charming!

Based on the premise, Biscuit Hammer just feels like a show I should binge if I watch it at all.

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swordz9
06/21/22 5:41:25 PM
#350:


An awful production eh? Sounds like you need to check out Ex-Arm
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Mobilezoid
06/21/22 5:49:45 PM
#351:


swordz9 posted...
An awful production eh? Sounds like you need to check out Ex-Arm
Goddamn, a score of 2.93 on MAL? I don't remember ever seeing anything below a 5 on there before. I almost feel like I have to watch ot just to say I did

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