Kwyndig posted:

I've always wondered why series end up getting scanlated by like, a bunch of different groups in sequence. Is it burnout? Drama? DMCA notices? Something I didn't think of?

The Colonel posted:

it took five years but i finished wixoss s2 and watched the new scenes in the movie. good poo poo

Polsy posted:

https://polsy.org.uk/ani/stats/whoposted1to24.html

now featuring equal ranks for people with the same number of posts and changes from last time

Furnaceface posted:

My brother convinced me to get Valheim and I have honestly been enjoying it a ton as a multiplayer game with a group of about 7 of us.

Normally I avoid survival games but this one feels different somehow.

Stexils posted:

reading that twitter thread felt like a video game audiolog sequence where a character tries to translate some cthulu text and then the last entry is just 'BIG BRUDDER' next to their corpse

Coxswain Balls posted:

I don't think I could watch Hellsing Ultimate without the over-the-top accents everyone has. From what I understand the Japanese voice track didn't have anything resembling that.

What I really like is when they go through the effort to make characters multilingual, like in the Japanese track of Full Metal Panic where people were speaking English, Italian or Cantonese depending on the scene setting. It was probably poorly accented but I appreciate the effort. The Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise arc in Black Lagoon was also really cool with Revy not knowing wtf anyone was saying and for the English dub it would have been better if they kept all the Japanese people speaking Japanese with subtitles, although I understand why they might not want to go that route. It would have made some scenes make more sense like that poor fucker in the bowling alley trying to beg Revy to spare him with his lovely English.

chumbler posted:

Certainly a huge rear end cast.

dogsicle posted:

yeah, gen 3 is the only one missing

but if you are including older DS versions you could still use the gen 3 gba carts

Wark Say posted:

Mostly just want to see what's up with Pokémon in general. It seemed to be like it'd totally been my poo poo when I was 14 and Pokémon stuff started getting big/arriving to Mexico, but then that summer I moved towns and... just never got into it. 3 years later I started playing videogames again and I started playing japanese games and Shin Megami Tensei popped up and that sealed the deal.

Well, you know how it's in movies and novels?

AlternateNu posted:

Now go watch the AGDQ run of it from last month. It's amazing.

The Colonel posted:

canaan owns cause it's nothing like 428 or the canaan scenario and yet it's still exactly what i wanted out of a weird semi-sequel exploring canaan's relationship with maria

The Colonel posted:

The Colonel posted:

yagate kimi ni naru

i don't think it's the revolutionary yuri manga people were talking it up as during its run but it has a really good back half and a fantastic ending, and some of its characters are really interesting

Coxswain Balls posted:

The file select music in PSO Episode 3 is way better than it has any right to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77GWTi9mlDk


Tim Follin is the man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Hly3W7164

sb hermit posted:

Play phantasy star 4. It's a modern classic.

The original PS is a slog, PS2 dungeons are way too windy, and PS3 had a lot of promise but needed a lot of fleshing out and there are too many gddm random encounters.

I think they could really write a good 72 episode epic with PS3's premise, but the amount of material produced is like 3 or 4 episodes of content.

Endorph posted:

Helter Skelter posted:

There was a brief time when I thought about getting into speedrunning RAD, but the record at the time was something like six hours and it would have meant skipping all the dialogue like some kind of monster.

8one6 posted:

https://myanimelist.net/news/62225470?fbclid=IwAR1gHekF9KTwnU3_L10cUK6aZketvrMaM7JquhUUeC_TMnzPgqAGhHQ2o7c

Like 30 years later Devil is a part timer gets a second season.

What's great is the ridiculous premise of this was what got me to start reading Light Novels because I thought the first season was funny and wanted to know the rest of the story. It was the scene with Satan at the deep fryer and his pained, serious internal monolog over using the last of his devil power to cook the fries right before the manager said "oh yeah, the fryer is hosed, don't worry about it" that sold me on the series.

What sucks is the rest of the story is bad. I read up through Vol 8 and the joke wears thin and a couple of new characters are introduced that are terrible.

SatoshiMiwa posted:

Not a real anime fan unless you watched your first anime on a top loader VCR (shakes cane from poarch)

Ibram Gaunt posted:

Fgo, dokkan, arknights, genshin...That shits old.

2021 is the era of the sexy cookie gacha.

Weird BIAS posted:

I like the Dorothy Cleric from Sinoalice, that is my gacha take.

Nate RFB posted:

I feel like Sinoalice came out and virtually everyone seemed to stop talking about it.

Coxswain Balls posted:

If you're gonna post SINoALICE music you gotta share Feast of Carnage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQp9iud9u0I

The Gran Colosseum Finals remix is also tite as hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8QnRDsqRlc

I always do better during colosseum when those tracks are playing. I steadfastly refuse to use voice chat because I'm not giving that up in favor of Tuna Heals in a Jersey accent (as funny as that would be).

The Colonel posted:

the first game is decent. danganronpa 2 has some cool ideas and its story is almost sort of interesting but it makes some really clumsy decisions that kinda destroyed any impact it was going for for me and basically meant only like three characters get much of an arc

The Colonel posted:

contribute what, they occasionally get like one scene in each chapter where one of them gets a plot thing to do and kazuichi is given some token reason to exist in each one but the story does basically nothing to change up their dynamics with each other or give the sense that any of them grow closer together as the cast dwindles down. sonia and akane have like two moments in the entire game where they actually feel like friends

danganronpa 1's cast does less on an objective level to help i guess but as characters with relationships they feel overall more considered than anyone in dr2 really gets outside of komaeda, hajime and chiaki

my issues with dr2 honestly have absolutely nothing to do with dr3, dr2 itself just really failed on any level to make me connect with its characters or themes because at every possible step it makes the least interesting choice on how to build them up. like akane's free times are decent and made me like her overall but in the main story she really does not get all that much

Ibram Gaunt posted:

DR2 ftl...v3 ftw

The Black Stones posted:

People who enjoy a gacha are like “no, but this one is different and look how it’s actually good” and they just don’t realize it’s the one gacha that’s managed to hook them enough to ignore all the bullshit that comes with a gacha game.

I’ve tried enough of them to know they’re not for me. Yes, I’ve played F:GO, and yes it seemed like it was good. I also quickly ran into the “we’re trickling rewards at you now so if you don’t like your party maybe you should spend some money” part of the game and quickly stopped playing because screw that. So whenever a gacha defender pulls the “no no you should play this because it actually respects your time and money.” I want to punch them in the face because they have definitely ignored the parts where it doesn’t because they like the gameplay loop enough to look past it.

Did grouchio probably overreact? Sure, it’s Grouchio. Are the gacha defenders starting to warrant it? Also Yes.

Wark Say posted:

Has there been another attempt to do anime adaptations of western series/cartoons/comics like they did with Wolverine, Supernatural and such in the early 10's?

Endorph posted:

i think arknights is a gacha that respects your time and is worth playing

chumbler posted:

Arknights' stamina is called sanity? drat they really go hard on aesthetic, huh.

Wark Say posted:

Dev Time Goals right here.

Ibram Gaunt posted:

Oh yeah. FGO doesn't even need mentioning in how fail it is when it comes to convenience. I'm glad it's finally starting to lag behind in popularity. Might be the wakeup call it needs for QOL additions.

Waffleman_ posted:

Dangan Ronpa was probably not meant to be a franchise and from what I've heard about V3, the creator agrees.

Even the new game from Kodaka and Uchikoshi is essentially "Okay, we're sick of death games now"

The Colonel posted:

tbh it works way better for me still just cause like. hey they all get to have writing and arcs that's nice that's more than like 3/4 of the characters in danganronpa get

like even hooligan gets some pretty sick character beats by the end

Irony Be My Shield posted:

IMO it's funny how (akudama) Kodaka dropped the death game format then killed off every single character who wasn't immortal in AD

Spiritus Nox posted:

I hope they don't just die.

Are there even any other sites that do what they do that aren't wracked with malware?

Julias posted:

I'm pretty sure that's just rumors though.

Kagaya Homoraisan posted:

some of you better not go to japan or youre gonna think everyones yakuza except the actual yakuza.

Motto posted:

The title is about Jobless Reincarnation, but it's actually a neat article about the history of isekai and "Narou" fiction in general.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2021-03-19/mushoku-tensei-is-not-the-pioneer-of-isekai-web-novels-but/.170429

Long and short: the fanfic-y qualities of isekai and similar WN premise trends comes directly from fanfiction, particularly Zero no Tsukaima fanfiction, and it proliferated so hard due to a combination of Narou banning fanfic in 2012 and the demonstrated success of WN authors like Reki with Accel World. MT's author has talked about how he was drawn to Narou following failure to publish through traditional channels, and like many fanfics and other isekai, it's a result of a write-as-you-go process, drawing on reader reactions and other writers (apparently he straight up told rezero's author that it inspired a climax in MT).