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marumaru posted:I was legit wide-eyed for almost all of this episode. Seriously great stuff, she looked like a total psycho. I'm pretty sure it was posted in this very thread but being a Jujutsu Sorcerer means you have to be a bit messed up. Their power is literal curses, after all. We saw it last ep with Fushiguro and here with Kugisaki, the moment where any anime would give them angry or determined faces, here they get slasher smiles that would be far more in place in a villain. And that's just how this world works. I love it.
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My only real criticism is that itadori is way to good at everything. The fights are so hype and he’s a good character so I don’t really care. Plus his “being able to punch through walls” and “good at everything”-ness is always commented on by other characters so I FEEL like it’ll pay off in the form of some pact he is part of and doesn’t know yet. Also there’s like one fight scene when the ground looks weird when itadori and todou are running to fight tsukimi. The rest of the fight was rad so I may literally be fishing for things to complain about.
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Mar 27, 2021 03:22
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Only problem with it was no after credits short.
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Mar 27, 2021 03:31
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Megumi mentioned in the first episode Yuji is likely the same as Maki, he probably has the Physically gifted Heavenly Restriction and has very little curse energy and no innate technique as a result. However he bypassed the little curse energy part by becoming Sukuna’s vessel.
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OnimaruXLR posted:There is a lot of flash over function with JJK's battle scenes, but I think that's fine since the real meat of the fight progression is built around the cursed techniques, so cool punches and kicks are basically just there to keep things lively in-between those bits 
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muscles like this! posted:Only problem with it was no after credits short. I counted nobara punching itadori for dropping her shopping as the after credits 
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Just learned the theme naming of the Death Paintings. From a rando.quote:9 paintings showing how a body (usually a beautiful woman) decomposed itself and they were popular in buddhism during 14th century to 19th century. The first one is titled Cho-so (the body is freshly dead), the second E-so (it begins to rot), the third Kechizu-so (the corpse bloats and loses its juices) etc until nothing remains. It explains why in the anime Choso is so pale, Eso smells so badly and Kechizu is all green, ugly and crying blood. The remaining Death Paintings would be Noran-so: The skin starts to fall off. Shouo-so: The corpse starts to turn bluish black. Tan-so: Worms, Birds, and beasts start to eat the corpse. San-so: The corpse's flesh gets scattered around as a result of the above. Kotsu-so: Only bones are left. Sho-so: The Bones are burned and only ash is left.
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I think I may have to read the manga. Where can you do that? Physical releases? Are there online options these days?
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Chaotic Flame posted:I think I may have to read the manga. Where can you do that? Physical releases? Are there online options these days? Viz's site has the stuff. Get a sub and you can read the whole series.
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I adore vicious female protagonists and I am here for Nobara. Time to decide if I should be checking out the manga with my subscription.
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MonsterEnvy posted:Viz's site has the stuff. Get a sub and you can read the whole series. The sub is also crazy cheap, just a few bucks a month.
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Looking back I think my favorite part of the ending was the parallel scenes of Megumi and Nobara going "we absolutely can't tell this to Itadori because it goes against his moral philosophy" and then cutting to the scene of Sukuna telling Yuji literally that thing and his response being "shut the hell up, and definitely don't ever say that to Fushiguro because it goes against his moral philosophy". I adore absolutely all of these crazy people and the dynamics they have are absolutely fantastic. The dialogue in the show has been absolutely next level. Even putting aside the jaw-dropping action sequences I would be completely on board with the show purely for its writing.
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For the manga can I jump in where season 1 ends or are there things they left out that are important for later reading?
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I added a link to the manga thread to the OP https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3960719 for whenever folks are ready to dig into the manga and want to talk about it in more detail
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Chaotic Flame posted:For the manga can I jump in where season 1 ends or are there things they left out that are important for later reading? There is the upcoming movie, but nothing is left out. You can read what it's adapting.
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Chaotic Flame posted:For the manga can I jump in where season 1 ends or are there things they left out that are important for later reading? It's been a really straightforward adaptation you can jump in without any trouble.
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The adaptation was pretty 1-to-1 with some embellished fight scenes, but JJK's fights (particular the hand-to-hand bits) are really well choreographed in the manga.
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Sweet! Thanks all
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Someone mentioned it on the last page, but I absolutely love that the team here are all friends and actually work together as a unit.
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This show had the most consistent quality throughout every episode, I am super impressed (some compositing between cg backgrounds and drawn characters was a little iffy, but way better than what I've seen before from other shows). I hope Mappa can keep this quality up, they're insane with how many high productions they've been putting out. And also the soundtrack is so hype. Usually I don't notice background music in anime but this one has some banger tracks. I think I love this show so much also because of a bit of nostalgia from Naruto. The main four do feel like a better written team 7. I love the scenes of them all just hanging out. And the team ups in the fights are just a blast to watch. I also love the darker atmosphere too, Fushigoro and Nobara looking so scary cool during their techniques.
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This is a banger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWH_uAFl_JI It was such a good ED. I really missed it once it got changed. Looked great and the song was just excellent.
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Blaze Dragon posted:I'm pretty sure it was posted in this very thread but being a Jujutsu Sorcerer means you have to be a bit messed up. Their power is literal curses, after all. We saw it last ep with Fushiguro and here with Kugisaki, the moment where any anime would give them angry or determined faces, here they get slasher smiles that would be far more in place in a villain. And that's just how this world works. I love it. It gave me Soul Eater flashbacks, in a good way tbh.
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I enjoy how the only dedicated shonen battle manga moralist is Yuji (and maybe Panda), and how that is offset by the fact that he's got Super Satan occupying his body. I haven't read further in the manga than where the anime has gone, but I hope that stays consistent throughout the series, because the literal foundation of the setting is "Using curses to fight curses" which would make it really weird if they redeem and recruit Mahito with the power of friendship at some point
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OnimaruXLR posted:I enjoy how the only dedicated shonen battle manga moralist is Yuji (and maybe Panda), and how that is offset by the fact that he's got Super Satan occupying his body. I haven't read further in the manga than where the anime has gone, but I hope that stays consistent throughout the series, because the literal foundation of the setting is "Using curses to fight curses" which would make it really weird if they redeem and recruit Mahito with the power of friendship at some point I mean, a curse is a curse. They're basically just masses of negative energy that exist to make the world worse, and their degree of sapience only affects their capacity to commit evil rather than their interest in doing so. The grey area is with humans, who do have free will (even those who are cursed or who are users of curses), so all bets are off there. The Death Paintings Nobara and Yuji fought were basically just weird-looking humans with creepy superpowers, so they had free will rather than being literal forces of elemental evil, but the same wouldn't apply to Mahito and his Disaster Curse buddies.
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I miss this show so much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAEZIuRSQ_M
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I've been rewatching as the dub releases. Nice way to refresh and relive some great scenes/episodes.
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Bread Set Jettison posted:I miss this show so much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAEZIuRSQ_M 
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I watched this and it was very good. Surprised it's not getting more attention on SA. A really good, well animated fighting anime with a few decent turns to keep it fresh
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Collapsing Farts posted:I watched this and it was very good. Surprised it's not getting more attention on SA. A really good, well animated fighting anime with a few decent turns to keep it fresh Not to disabuse you of the notion that SA is a bastion of good taste, but there is a 1200 page thread on My Hero Academia lol
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Jeza posted:Not to disabuse you of the notion that SA is a bastion of good taste, but there is a 1200 page thread on My Hero Academia lol MHA attracts a lot of discussion largely because it's flawed in ways that provoke bitter arguments. With Jujutsu Kaisen there often isn't much to say beyond "Wow, that was a good episode/chapter."
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I think the 1200 page My Hero thread is also the only thread the manga has had so it's had some time to collect posts. Speaking of don't forget Jujutsu has a manga thread now! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3960719&pagenumber=1&perpage=40 I've been reading it since the anime ended and it's been real good!
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Silver2195 posted:MHA attracts a lot of discussion largely because it's flawed in ways that provoke bitter arguments. With Jujutsu Kaisen there often isn't much to say beyond "Wow, that was a good episode/chapter." I don't think it's quite fair to reduce it down to the fact that it's flawed and thus generates discussion. I admittedly don't read the threads about it, but just flicking through it's most just regular discussion with normal nitpicking, from a general position of "it's good, but". If anything, its popularity here seems outsized even compared to elsewhere. Don't mind me though, I'm just being grumpy and incendiary because to me it represents almost everything objectionable in modern anime, shonen or otherwise.
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MHA is copaganda and is tremendously generic otherwise but I wouldn't single it out as a sign of bad taste on a forum that has threads for Made in Abyss and Kemono Jihen
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Yeah, there's really not much to discuss because, aside from some "floaty" fight scenes here and some slight apparent cut-off content there (please note: haven't read the manga and still wondering whether I should ATM), the show had near universal praise across the board, even from people (like yours truly) who are normally wary of shounen manga. I liked almost all of the cast, too! And their dynamics.      Oh dear lord, these precious dumbasses. :  
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:MHA is copaganda and is tremendously generic otherwise but I wouldn't single it out as a sign of bad taste on a forum that has threads for Made in Abyss and Kemono Jihen What's wrong with Kemono
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Sleng Teng posted:What's wrong with Kemono the first two episodes both contrive reasons for the adult protagonist to expose himself to children. once is weird (in context it's him showing that he's a tanuki because he has a tail), then it happens again and specifically cracks a joke about his balls
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I don't think a thread that didn't even generate enough post to get a second page is a good indicator of forum taste.
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I'll say that Chainsaw Man is better than Jujutsu Kaisen, and I really like Jujutsu Kaisen. That being said I'm pretty happy it took off. I was thinking originally that this was going to be one of those series that does well enough but doesn't get noticed, kinda how Demon Slayer went pretty much unnoticed until it got its anime. Fabricated fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Apr 18, 2021 |
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:the first two episodes both contrive reasons for the adult protagonist to expose himself to children. once is weird (in context it's him showing that he's a tanuki because he has a tail), then it happens again and specifically cracks a joke about his balls TBF in Japanese folklore the main characteristic of tanuki, besides being racoon/dog creatures, is that they have huge balls. So a balls joke about a creature known for huge balls isn't that weird.  
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Silver2195 posted:MHA attracts a lot of discussion largely because it's flawed in ways that provoke bitter arguments. With Jujutsu Kaisen there often isn't much to say beyond "Wow, that was a good episode/chapter." I don't think it's just the flaws that provoke argument, but the virtues. JJK, at least as far as the anime's gone, is mostly just good, if that makes any sense. There's not much that encourages speculation, the main characters are likable and well done but they're within expected templates, and generally arcs proceed within expectations. It's solid shonen that nails its mark, but there's seldom too much to say. "I liked this fight". "This bit was funny." "Gojo was cool." MHA has the first mover advantage to begin with, as it's a lot of people in the west's first Shonen manga they followed week to week. (JJK having a lengthy period when you couldn't read the early chapters on Viz didn't help either.) But it also had more obvious breaks from the standard even at the jump. Deku being a nerdy nervous wreck was a massive change from the expected baseline Shonen Jump lead. It was enough to provoke discussion, and then when the manga managed to thread the needle on some really risky moves (like Endeavor's arc) it inspired more talk. Sure, some of the talk was about things that suck (like Mineta) but even the negative discussion was sometimes about things that were working that maybe hadn't initially (like Bakugo). It's not a question of better or worse, or even a question of taste. It's a question of approach. Some kinds of writing just provoke more discussion than others. Anyway, trying to start a war here is stupid, since Hori and Gege are pals. They've done fanart together, praised Chainsaw Man together, and even watched Evangelion together. Liking one manga and disliking the other is fine, but if you're angry people like MHA (or JJK) then you're getting angry at the writer for a manga you claim to like. chiasaur11 fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Apr 19, 2021 |
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