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i think kannazuki no miko holds up much much better than hime does. mai-hime has a few really fun characters but it's like tactically written to make the least interesting use of its cast possible, the good part of its big dark turn at the end isn't that it gets dark and hosed up but that it's the one instance in the entire story where it actually just sits down and explores some of the cast's issues and even then nao gets kinda screwed over, and shizuru and natsuki's whole subplot has the same weird bits as kannazuki no miko except presented more uncritically
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# ? May 22, 2021 19:13 |
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Is Mai-Otome any better?
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# ? May 22, 2021 20:20 |
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some of the leads are more fun and the returning lesbian couples are fun but it also midway into the first cour turns into a love triangle plot between a 13 year old girl, an adopted daughter, and the adopted daughter's dad and sticks to that while the princess gets sidelined hard by the writing for an annoyingly long amount of time so i got frustrated and dropped it
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# ? May 22, 2021 20:26 |
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OUR-Hime
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# ? May 22, 2021 20:49 |
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:I have watched Gundam Wing, and even nostalgia can't disguise the fact that the plot is completely off the wall bananas.
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# ? May 22, 2021 21:05 |
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Yeah I remember dropping Otome mid way through when it was airing and haven't felt the need to go back and revisit. It also seemed to kill the series as while it got an OAV series the Mai Hime franchise just stopped cold after it when after Hime you were seeing a lot of multi-media stuff being done with the franchise
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# ? May 22, 2021 21:09 |
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esselfortium posted:It’s been fun. I don’t know why people keep making GBS threads on it in this thread. For me personally, it’s because I went in expecting it to be funny and outside of a few clever moments it’s largely just been a kind of oppressive slog. While the world being lovely has been interesting enough to keep me watching, I feel like it really shouldn’t have taken 6 episodes to progress past the initial conflict. Or at the very least it should have had more likable characters to help with the engagement.
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# ? May 22, 2021 21:48 |
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Besides dragging the initial conflict out so long, I think the show's biggest mistake was having Reona be invisible to the npcs, limiting who she can interact with. Konosuba's comedy works better because you have a whole team of main characters and more minor ones all bouncing off of one another. With Full Dive, so far it’s usually just Reona and Hiro doing the same old routine and when it’s not that it’s Hiro plus one other character at a time. I'm guessing there's a proper reason she’s keeping secret for why her avatar is like that, but I doubt the payoff will be worth the buildup.
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# ? May 22, 2021 22:03 |
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The Colonel posted:i only know fmp for its stuff in super robot wars v where kurz meets banjo haran and gets mad about how all the women want to gently caress him, but then banjo haran gives a big speech about what it means to be a true man and kurz shouts "Whoa... I have my first man crush... and I like it!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LudgY-BaBMQ&hd=1
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# ? May 22, 2021 22:17 |
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Full Dive is a real contrast to the Cautious Hero adaptation. I have no idea how faithful that one was to the original work but it managed to tell a complete story in one cour. FD barely feels like it's started.
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# ? May 22, 2021 22:25 |
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This last episode of Vivy is super cool, even if I barely understand what's going on.
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# ? May 22, 2021 22:47 |
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The last episode of Vivy was super cool and I could manage to follow what was going on. And I know that sounds like a flex or a put down, and I'm sorry, I don't mean it that way and I'm not trying to make it be that. What I will say is that Vivy is super cool and has been super cool and is an easy shot at AOTS if not AOTY.
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# ? May 22, 2021 23:48 |
Nagatoro has kept up its streak of really good episodes this season. I'm really glad they've done such a good job with this series.
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# ? May 23, 2021 00:25 |
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Bakeneko posted:Besides dragging the initial conflict out so long, Sindai posted:FD barely feels like it's started. there's actually only 2 volumes of material to adapt, vol 3 just came out. from what i'd read elsewhere the show could even just encompass all of volume 1.
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# ? May 23, 2021 00:25 |
these production committee guys are geniuses
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# ? May 23, 2021 00:32 |
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much like the childhood friend one, it's kadokawa rushing random series with 1 LN volume to anime because they just want to tick up their numbers
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# ? May 23, 2021 00:58 |
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Adapting one volume to a 13 episode anime isn't a death kiss but you probably have to have a good staff/studio to make it work which given the amount of anime Kadokawa is trying to release probably isn't their priority
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# ? May 23, 2021 01:01 |
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Adapting one volume to a 13 episode anime isn't a death kiss but you probably have to have a good staff/studio to make it work which given the amount of anime Kadokawa is trying to release probably isn't their priority I mean, 86 seems to be doing well with that pacing right now. It's a valid approach... Just you need to have good ways to flesh things out.
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# ? May 23, 2021 01:12 |
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Nitrousoxide posted:Nagatoro has kept up its streak of really good episodes this season. I'm really glad they've done such a good job with this series. the PV really left a bad impression on me but dang it's pretty great.
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# ? May 23, 2021 01:46 |
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Nagatoro is much more teasing and not so much bullying, her and senpai are great together. Theirs is a slow one but the progression for the two of them is really nicely done. More recently the manga has started fleshing out backstories which is interesting, although the latest chapter adds a new character that might just be a "series extending character" since things were getting pretty complacent and normal so we'll see how that goes I guess.
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# ? May 23, 2021 02:00 |
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Slime witch seems to have found its legs with good visual gags in the last few episodes, if not particularly noteworthy animation. Still not something I'd say to go out of your way to watch if you weren't already on board, but I hope it keeps this trend going.
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# ? May 23, 2021 03:54 |
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Captain Invictus posted:Nagatoro is much more teasing and not so much bullying, her and senpai are great together. Theirs is a slow one but the progression for the two of them is really nicely done. More recently the manga has started fleshing out backstories which is interesting, although the latest chapter adds a new character that might just be a "series extending character" since things were getting pretty complacent and normal so we'll see how that goes I guess. Well she replaces the President since she graduated so there can continue to remain at least one of her type of character
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# ? May 23, 2021 04:16 |
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Xelkelvos posted:Well she replaces the President since she graduated so there can continue to remain at least one of her type of character I just hope she ends up being a more interesting foil, since she's closer in age.
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# ? May 23, 2021 04:23 |
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Xelkelvos posted:Well she replaces the President since she graduated so there can continue to remain at least one of her type of character She's not only the replacement President (they're cousins), but seems like they're trying for shades of "the childhood friend" with them both being in the art club in Middle School.
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# ? May 23, 2021 04:31 |
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chiasaur11 posted:I mean, 86 seems to be doing well with that pacing right now. It's a valid approach... Just you need to have good ways to flesh things out. 86 was initially written with one volume in mind, in that it actually has a conclusive ending. It was just successful enough that it got additional volumes which then continued the story but had to walk back that original ending temporarily since it was a pretty set end.
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# ? May 23, 2021 05:41 |
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Allarion posted:86 was initially written with one volume in mind, in that it actually has a conclusive ending. It was just successful enough that it got additional volumes which then continued the story but had to walk back that original ending temporarily since it was a pretty set end. Without getting too spoilery - how do they walk it back? Is the end of V1 like a post-timeskip thing that the later volumes backfill? Or is V1's ending retconned out somehow?
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# ? May 23, 2021 06:39 |
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Captain Invictus posted:Nagatoro is much more teasing and not so much bullying, her and senpai are great together. Theirs is a slow one but the progression for the two of them is really nicely done. More recently the manga has started fleshing out backstories which is interesting, although the latest chapter adds a new character that might just be a "series extending character" since things were getting pretty complacent and normal so we'll see how that goes I guess. One nice thing I've noticed (having recently gone through the manga once the anime started) is that the show has been subtly softening stuff as well. Nothing super obvious, but a lot of the teasing is slightly shorter, or the wording is less harsh. For instance, in the manga she keeps going on about how he's "dirty" and "nasty" when they go off to watch the fireworks, but the anime tones it down to a more playful "sleazy". The anime also has her really going in for the kiss after Senpai calls her bluff, while the manga interrupts them right after she declares that of course she can kiss him.
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# ? May 23, 2021 10:41 |
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Nemo2342 posted:One nice thing I've noticed (having recently gone through the manga once the anime started) is that the show has been subtly softening stuff as well. Nothing super obvious, but a lot of the teasing is slightly shorter, or the wording is less harsh. That first one could just be a difference in translation choices though.
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# ? May 23, 2021 11:03 |
Droyer posted:That first one could just be a difference in translation choices though. Yeah I'm pretty sure she was still using the same word she always uses in Japanese "kimoi" which is usually translated to "gross" but the translator just mixed it up so she wasn't saying the EXACT same thing over and over again. Calling Senpai "kimoi" is kind of her thing.
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# ? May 23, 2021 11:18 |
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Nitrousoxide posted:Nagatoro has kept up its streak of really good episodes this season. I'm really glad they've done such a good job with this series. Yeah, I decided to watch it on a whim after I saw the cafeteria scene on Youtube. Even though raunchy jokes don't do anything for me normally, I've enjoyed the ones that are so absurdly blatant that you can't help but laugh. These two dorks are absolutely adorable and I was fully expecting the show to be a lot meaner and not at all this wholesome.
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# ? May 23, 2021 11:27 |
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Nitrousoxide posted:Yeah I'm pretty sure she was still using the same word she always uses in Japanese "kimoi" which is usually translated to "gross" but the translator just mixed it up so she wasn't saying the EXACT same thing over and over again. Are you watching the show muted? That is very clearly not what she says.
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# ? May 23, 2021 11:29 |
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Nemo2342 posted:One nice thing I've noticed (having recently gone through the manga once the anime started) is that the show has been subtly softening stuff as well. Nothing super obvious, but a lot of the teasing is slightly shorter, or the wording is less harsh. she was saying iyarashii. whenever you see anything get translated as "lewd", that's the word.
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# ? May 23, 2021 13:13 |
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Spiritus Nox posted:Without getting too spoilery - how do they walk it back? Is the end of V1 like a post-timeskip thing that the later volumes backfill? Or is V1's ending retconned out somehow? Its a post-timeskip. So later volumes just back filled what happened in-between yeah.
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# ? May 23, 2021 17:06 |
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The Black Stones posted:I love Back Arrow. It just keeps getting better and better. Back Arrow really seems to have captured the Code Geass silliness in a way most of its successors/imitators failed to do.
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# ? May 23, 2021 17:46 |
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Hidingo Kojimba posted:Back Arrow really seems to have captured the Code Geass silliness in a way most of its successors/imitators failed to do. I'd personally call it more a Gun X Sword successor, Code Geass takes itself a shade more serious I feel, and an excellent one at that.
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# ? May 23, 2021 17:49 |
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Captain Invictus posted:so we'll see how that goes I guess.
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# ? May 23, 2021 22:17 |
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Letty is still a scaly precious cinnamon roll.
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# ? May 24, 2021 04:22 |
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man you guys really weren't kidding about 86 being IBO derivative, the parallels are all over the place the first episode was pretty neat. it was a little chilling at first when they referred to the robot pilots as "processors." the way they built up to it by dripfeeding the "these are unmanned drones" "no one else cares when the drones are destroyed" kind of info was pretty well done. it's a little understated, they don't place a ton of emphasis on it they just wait to see how long it'll take you to put everything together, and i thought it worked really well to confirm the viewer's growing suspicions about what's really going on in that way. the kind of moment that only works if you're going in basically completely blind like i did, but i thought it was pretty cool
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# ? May 24, 2021 06:02 |
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https://twitter.com/SugoiLITE/status/1396741141345669120
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# ? May 24, 2021 13:10 |
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I'm always excited for more Lupin. It's a simple formula but it has an incredible amount of variations to it.
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# ? May 24, 2021 13:47 |