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i think the big problem with btw is that the setting sucks, the fights consist of a lamer version of kidou, and we haven't been given a reason to care about anything that is happening. oh no, the worst fuckin' dude that no other character likes is a danger to the public and will be put down. what a tragedy. but on the other hand, cquntnire.
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chumbler posted:Also cool guys who punch things, and a good soundtrack, and the shinigami's cup shorts are generally pretty funny. Ding Shinigami zukaan~
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Sep 12, 2020 11:23
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Balgo is at least tolerable since he's not crowing about underwear every two panels, but tolerable does not mean good.
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Sep 12, 2020 12:27
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he's kon as the male lead.
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Sep 12, 2020 12:41
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Just another series held back by its need to have a dumb boy.
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Sep 12, 2020 12:49
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See, I actually think the basic setting’s pretty fun. If anything Kubo’s devoting too many words to trying to explain it when “London with dragons and witches and poo poo” stands just fine on its own and explanations about how Wing Bind actually works can wait till he’s got a longer arc to let it breathe. For a 4 episode story you should just introduce the core characters and their gimmicks and leave world-building as subtext. But personally I think detailed world building is overrated.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:the artificial cosmology of bleach is super hosed up, never really worked very well, and is used as an excuse for fascist repression of every single person who dies. this is never really examined because the most ardent supporters of this fundamentally rotten system are cool guys with cool swords. It seems that Bleach: You Can't Fear Your Own World is specifically about how hosed the cosmology is and I presume over the three novels something will be done about it. Considering Prolouge 1 is "oh God, the Soul King is hosed," Prolouge 2 is "Aizen explaining why he was right for trying to change the cosmology" and Chapter 1 is "the husband of Tosen's friend admitting the world is hosed up because he will never be punished for killing his wife because he is a noble but he's a monster so he won't stop and actually gets off on it." There are definitely building to something.
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Sep 12, 2020 20:15
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So CFYOW seems to just be saying all the villains were right and poses 69-Tattoo, who is a journalist, as someone totally unimportant and not special but will somehow fix things. Honestly kind of digging it. They chose a guy with severe insecurity and no super powers for the MC and seem to be addressing the original comics hosed up world.
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Sep 12, 2020 20:18
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They also have Hisagi talk to Ginjo as a reminder of hey, that thing with the deputy soul reaper and his fullbringer friends and his earlier fullbringer friends he had Tsukishima wipe his memory of that the soul reapers killed was kind of hosed up.
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Sep 12, 2020 21:17
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One of the dumbest things in Bleach was that they spent like 100 chapters showing that Soul Society is disgustingly corrupt and evil but then just made them the good guys without really acknowledging all the previously establishing hosed up stuff. So hearing that someone seems to have remembered it is nice. Seriously gently caress Mayuri.
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Sep 12, 2020 21:46
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Nephthys posted:One of the dumbest things in Bleach was that they spent like 100 chapters showing that Soul Society is disgustingly corrupt and evil but then just made them the good guys without really acknowledging all the previously establishing hosed up stuff. So hearing that someone seems to have remembered it is nice. Another weird side effect is that the protagonists could never really be the underdog ever again, because the good guy faction WAS The System.
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Sep 13, 2020 02:18
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Something about investigative journalist Hisagi as a concept that I really like, that and more Tousen backstory? I actually kinda wanna buy it too.
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Sep 13, 2020 04:00
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He takes the job seriously to an almost comical degree and it's kind of great. Also I'm pretty sure Ichigo and crew never show up, though of course they get mentioned a lot due to being kind of big deals.
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Sep 13, 2020 04:03
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A Bleach story without Ichigo? That sounds even better!
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Sep 13, 2020 04:23
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tbf Ichigo not showing up is pretty accurate to the comic as well.
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Sep 13, 2020 04:25
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ichigo can't appear in the novels because he's still repeatedly climbing that tower.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:ichigo can't appear in the novels because he's still repeatedly climbing that tower. Haven't heard that nickname for Orihime before.
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Nephthys posted:One of the dumbest things in Bleach was that they spent like 100 chapters showing that Soul Society is disgustingly corrupt and evil but then just made them the good guys without really acknowledging all the previously establishing hosed up stuff. So hearing that someone seems to have remembered it is nice. but they placed so well in the character polls
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Sep 13, 2020 18:12
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Chapter 4 and final of Burn the Witch is live. https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1007623 Guess the fascist organization oppressing the dragons are the good guys after all 
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Sep 13, 2020 18:30
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Sep 13, 2020 18:37
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Wait so Balgo got a sword out of nowhere and then... did nothing with it? And then the joke character boss just oneshots the dragon from across town? Which kinda made the whole last two chapters pointless? Well I can't say Kubo's lost his stride.
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Sep 13, 2020 18:45
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i don't understand anyone's actions or motivations in this chapter.
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Sep 13, 2020 18:50
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what the gently caress is going on is kubo alright
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Sep 13, 2020 18:52
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Also I have no idea why Balgo got a big 'ol hug to end the chapter, he didn't do anything, and the girls don't really seem to give a poo poo about him outside of feeling obligated to protect him for some reason. This poo poo is all over the place even for Kubo.
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Sep 13, 2020 18:56
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I feel like the dead dove scene from Arrested Development. I don't know what I expected.
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Sydin posted:Also I have no idea why Balgo got a big 'ol hug to end the chapter, he didn't do anything, and the girls don't really seem to give a poo poo about him outside of feeling obligated to protect him for some reason. This poo poo is all over the place even for Kubo. This part I at least think is supposed to be her being tsundere and glad he gets to live? But they treat him like absolute dogshit and they’re right to do so, Balgo loving sucks. He’s got no redeeming qualties and isn’t even funny. The anime’s one hope if they don’t follow this story at all.
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Sep 13, 2020 19:19
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Waffleman_ posted:I feel like the dead dove scene from Arrested Development. we thought it was gonna be a return to the first arc type of hijinks from bleach
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Sep 13, 2020 19:22
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If this had ended with someone saying "The Aristocrats!", I think it would've made just as much sense.
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Sep 13, 2020 19:33
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofvaakyqiF4 Here are all the openings put together in a video long enough to be an episode.
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Sydin posted:Also I have no idea why Balgo got a big 'ol hug to end the chapter, he didn't do anything, and the girls don't really seem to give a poo poo about him outside of feeling obligated to protect him for some reason. This poo poo is all over the place even for Kubo. It was established in the one-shot that she likes him. in fact the only time she shows any emotion / breaks her stoicism is around him.
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Sep 13, 2020 21:44
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What happened to the big faceless dragon at the end of the first chapter.
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Sep 13, 2020 23:33
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Kild posted:It was established in the one-shot that she likes him. in fact the only time she shows any emotion / breaks her stoicism is around him. I mean, it would be nice if they actually had something in common, or did things together, or had any real interaction outside of acting like assholes to each other but anime gonna anime. Edit: Balgo has powers which everyone treats like a big deal despite the fact they basically don't do anything in the plot, no matter what they might theoretically be capable of? Balgo is totally Orihime. Does that mean Macy is gonna be this manga's Chad?
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Sep 13, 2020 23:39
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She loves the way he won't shut up about her loving underwear.
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Sep 13, 2020 23:49
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For the curious, in CFYOW, it's made clear that among the Fullbringers, Yukio, Riruka, and Jackie survived.
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I'm really curious how burn the witch did. It didn't do it for me at least.
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Sep 15, 2020 08:40
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Reasonably well in Japan apparently. It was trending on twitter in Japan a couple days ago and Jump did a fan poll asking if readers wanted to see more Burn the Witch or Kishimoto's latest work Samurai 8, with BtW won by a frankly embarrassing margin. The couple PV's that have come out also look pretty well animated so presumably there's some actual budget behind it, and now we've gotten a teaser for a second season of the manga. So presumably SJ thinks there's enough interest to keep it going. I'm kinda hoping the action will make a lot more sense in animation than it does in the manga, but that won't do anything to help the absolute clusterfuck of a plot unless there are some big rewrites.
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Didn't Samurai 8 already get canned? Makes sense for something dead and probably forgotten until the poll came out to lose in the polls.
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Sep 15, 2020 19:09
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Wait why does that one sumerian priestess with the huge knockers have a panty window in her pants
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Sep 15, 2020 20:07
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Fanservice.
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People are also way into Bangnyfe, even though he's another generic Kubo pretty boy.Sydin posted:Reasonably well in Japan apparently. It was trending on twitter in Japan a couple days ago and Jump did a fan poll asking if readers wanted to see more Burn the Witch or Kishimoto's latest work Samurai 8, with BtW won by a frankly embarrassing margin. Goddamn how bad is Samurai 8?
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