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this is based on a mostly untranslated manga, but what little there was to read of it was great. spoiler: the premise above is a total lie.
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jujutsu kaisen - hopefully the anime does a better job of conveying what's happening moment to moment than the manga, which i dropped i guess thats it
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Oct 1, 2020 20:10
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is it me or is there a weird amount of unlicensed stuff this season? specifically Moriarty and the mappa athletes thing then again maybe it's just unannounced?
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Oct 1, 2020 20:11
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Licensing can take a while, often even as late as several weeks into the season, nothing unusual
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Epi Lepi posted:Noblesse is one of the few summaries that intrigued me, how come you think the adaptation might suck? Just a guess or are there red flags I知 not seeing since I知 not super knowledgeable about anime? other people beat me to it but it seems like the trend for webtoon adaptions is to crunch the plot really intensely and cram like hundreds of chapters into a 12 episode show so I'm expecting it to basically be nonsense with maybe some nice looking fights. Noblesse isn't especially deep because it is just an action/fighting comic but it does have a plot and imo does some decent character development especially around teambuilding and building up the side characters, like I think M-21's entire arc across the comic is really well done, so if that kind of stuff gets crunched or left out it removes all the charm of the original material.
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OnimaruXLR posted:is it me or is there a weird amount of unlicensed stuff this season? specifically Moriarty and the mappa athletes thing usually there's a handful of shows that get scooped up by crunchy or funi at the last minute. very rare for something thats not a kids show or a short to get passed over completely these days
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:this is based on a mostly untranslated manga, but what little there was to read of it was great. spoiler: the premise above is a total lie.
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I'm definitely watching Higurashi this season. I've loved the original show, tried to read the VN (I'm bad at sticking to these things), and have been ranting and raving about it for the last...14 years? gently caress. In all that time I've not managed to convince anyone else to watch it because I end up sounding like a raving lunatic when I gush about it. Surely this doesn't have anything to do with my reputation as a lunatic among friends. Wandering Witch seems like it has an interesting premise, and interesting character designs. I'll definitely check it out, and it sure is pretty. I'll take Adachi to Shimamura as a further foray into romantic shows. I've loved Bloom into You and came away highly impressed by Weathering with You, so maybe romance isn't that far outside my tastes after all... Sleepy Princess is this season's cutesy Doga Kobo, and therefore a must-watch. They've got an excellent track record with that kind of show, so I expect that it'll largely continue. Plus, people seem to be happy that it got its own show, even if I've never read the source. In a similar vein, I'll be trying out Ikebukuro West Gate Park. Wave, Listen to Me was allegedly pretty good, and I've heard a few people say that they love the source material for IWGP, so hopefully it'll live up to expectations. A friend asked me about that one too, so we'll watch it together. Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear is honestly a bit of a crapshoot, but it looked cute enough to try it at least. I don't actually expect all that much of it considering it's a VRMMO show, but if I'm proven wrong, all the better. If my list wouldn't already have all these plus last season's continuing Fire Force S2, I'd probably see about The Day I became God, but I try to limit myself to 6 shows a season. Anime nights become a bit too drawn out if I go higher than that. Overall, it seems like a strong season.
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Coaaab posted:think the talentless nana manga is on crunchyroll oh, that'd explain why the scanlations died years ago.
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Terrible Opinions posted:Wasn't Tower of God kinda haphazard and mediocre as a webtoon too? I wouldn't say "mediocre," but it's one of those series where it's hard to say what's a writing flaw and what's a brilliant idea. The aspect that's most clearly a flaw is that a lot of the fight scenes heavily involve big generic energy blasts. It has some great atmosphere at times, but a lot of the plot/setting/characterization is rather vague, convoluted, or both. But of course a lot of that atmosphere comes precisely from the vagueness and convolutedness. "I want to see the stars because I'm afraid of the night" is a memorable line in part because of its multiple possible meanings in context, none of which feel wholly adequate to explain the actions of the character who utters it. There's a lot of Hunter x Hunter style high-stakes game-like scenarios with fairly complex rule sets, and it's hard to say how much this creates interesting situations to think through the tactical implications of vs. how much it's a satire of the gamified and hyper-competitive late-capitalist world vs. how much it's just false complexity to distract from the blandness of the energy blasts. So, I don't know how to feel about it, and "haphazard" may not be wrong, but it's probably not "mediocre." 
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I think Tower of God meanders a bit from time to time like any other long running shounen but I am still somehow far more invested in Bam and company and their eventual quest at present than I am with pretty much any other equivalent. I think its principal characters still work and the setting remains quite interesting IMO. Compared to say One Piece, a manga I've been reading for 16ish years that I went from reading speedscans and raws during certain arcs to skimming whatever the latest chapters are about now.
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Coaaab posted:think the talentless nana manga is on crunchyroll Have they fixed either the android app or their webreader yet? Or is it still virtually impossible to read any manga Crunchyroll puts out?
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Nate RFB posted:I think Tower of God meanders a bit from time to time like any other long running shounen but I am still somehow far more invested in Bam and company and their eventual quest at present than I am with pretty much any other equivalent. I think its principal characters still work and the setting remains quite interesting IMO. Compared to say One Piece, a manga I've been reading for 16ish years that I went from reading speedscans and raws during certain arcs to skimming whatever the latest chapters are about now. I REALLY dislike the complete cast swap outs that they do for Tower of God. So much so I dropped the webtoon as I couldn't be assed to care about yet another new set of mains.
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Yak of Wrath posted:Have they fixed either the android app or their webreader yet? Or is it still virtually impossible to read any manga Crunchyroll puts out?
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Oct 1, 2020 23:57
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The first episode of Assault Lily Bouquet was exactly what I'd expect from a show named Assault Lily Bouquet - which is to say that it seems pretty dumb but also pretty entertaining.
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Dzhay posted:The popularity of this show continues to confuse and delight me. 
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Is it just me or is Assault Lily really loud?
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Assault Lilly is really borrowing from Nanoha/Symphogear/other sources and just ramping the gay up to 11 and welp I'm in. Also helps it's stylish too Like the first episode of Higurshi (going in blind which should be a thing) Burn the Witch would be something I'd like if it was for the guy and also the feeling that it's just Bleach but in London
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Psst the D4DJ title is broken and just showing the code. Also it starts October 30 and is streaming on a ton of services https://twitter.com/D4DJ_pj_EN/status/1309611451414323201 I'm watching that and Love Live for sure. Gonna three ep test Assault Lily and Yashahime, and I forgot Adachi to Shimamura was getting an adaptation so there's another one to test I suppose (haven't read the source material).
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Very happy with Wandering Witch's first episode. Great character artwork, great VA, more ambitious animation than I expected, really gets the novels' charm across. Expect that to be an AOTS contender.
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I think I like the Pacing and Hata's art in the Manga more, but Tonikawa is good.
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Some first impressions: Higurashi: Speaking as someone with no prior knowledge of this series, this wasn't very good. I don't like the character designs, the animation often felt stiff, and the plot hasn't grabbed me yet. Still going to keep watching it for now to see where it goes. Assault Lily: Slick production but nothing to set it apart from the dozens of similar shows, hard to get excited about something this derivative.
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Hata seems cursed with low-budget anime adaptions, but Tonikawa is cute nonetheless.
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Tonikawa at the very least has opening of the season locked up
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Nasa's design feels off compared to the manga. His hair should be lighter, with more body in back.
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Tonikawa at the very least has opening of the season locked up It's an interesting OP for sure: https://youtu.be/F1TRDtEnSGM Though on a personal level I'd give it to Jujutsu Kaisen: https://youtu.be/v8bZVdTgXoY
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It might be just me but I think Golden Kamuy needs every  the forums can spare.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:It might be just me but I think Golden Kamuy needs every Maybe this is just my comic snob side talking, but I thought that Golden Kamuy anime was I don't want to say letdown but Not as good as the manga deserves, maybe
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:this is based on a mostly untranslated manga, but what little there was to read of it was great. spoiler: the premise above is a total lie. The manga is pretty much entirely translated on Crunchyroll. I checked out the first few chapters so I am going to watch it. It's normally localized as Talentless Nana. Also the Premise is not a lie, it's just deceptive.
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OnimaruXLR posted:Maybe this is just my comic snob side talking, but I thought that Golden Kamuy anime was I can understand. Sometimes when a manga gets an anime adaptation, the addition of animation and music and voices can really elevate it above the source material, such as Demon Slayer. But in the case of Golden Kamui, the manga's artstyle and paneling is just so great that when you compare it to the anime, where the art isn't as detailed and the other elements are just "okay", it results in a product that feels like it could have been much greater, which is where that disappointed comes in.
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I don't disagree but I'm not sure it's possible to create the anime series that the Golden Kamuy manga deserves.
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cave emperor posted:Assault Lily: Slick production but nothing to set it apart from the dozens of similar shows, hard to get excited about something this derivative. fiction... no, existence is derivative
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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This show as you now watch it and have watched it, you will have to watch once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your anime will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence容ven this lily symbolism and this leg placement between her thighs, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!' Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous god anime when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.' If this thought gained possession of you, it would change you as you are or perhaps crush you. The question in each and every thing, 'Do you desire this once more and innumerable times more?' would lie upon your actions as the greatest weight. Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life?
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Space Flower posted:What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This show as you now watch it and have watched it, you will have to watch once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your anime will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence容ven this lily symbolism and this leg placement between her thighs, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!' nipah
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Space Flower posted:What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This show as you now watch it and have watched it, you will have to watch once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your anime will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence容ven this lily symbolism and this leg placement between her thighs, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!'
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Enjoyed the first episode of wondering Witch.
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I just saw the first episode of Yashahime. It's nice that they finally adapted the epilogue, and I enjoyed seeing the old characters again. However, I'm more excited about seeing the girls in action starting next episode, as from the small glimpses of them in the first episode, they seem like fun characters.
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