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Level 1 Thief posted:I find Futsal Boys really funny as a poster child for the "We're Running Out Of Sports To Anime" genre For a second there my brain interpreted that as "Foosball Boys" and my immediate reaction was "Holy poo poo that'd be an amazing sports anime"
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Stink Billyums posted:a red-headed half canadian half japanese girl moves from PEI to her grandmother's house in hokkaido and discovers friendship on the ice Also her grandmother taught her the secret tea room techniques for brushing down tatami mats efficiently between clients and she has to come to terms with her sense of familial loss and national patriotism before she can unlock her full sweeping potential
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Grouchio posted:Was the first season of Case Study of Vanitas any good? I really enjoyed it, foppish vampires having adventures in alternate history Belle Époque/steampunk Paris ticks a lot of boxes for me. Also the animation was lush, Studio Bones didn't cut any corners. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSSZ0sqxskY
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Varinn posted:it starting with basically a big tribute to a bunch of local hero groups was rad as hell Dammit I never realised that "Real life Sentai hero" was an available career path. I googled them all, here's links in case anyone else is curious: Space-Time Warrior Ibaliger (Ibaraki prefecture) https://www.ibaliger.com/ https://twitter.com/ibaliger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKuo7gQ5Srk Phoenix God Yatsurugi (Chiba prefecture) https://www.yatsurugi.net/en/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC2gK-ND3Hs Fire Fox Tochiongar Seven (Niigata prefecture) https://www.tochiongar-7.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNbNgkX8_2A Super-God Neiger (Akita prefecture) https://twitter.com/neiger_akita https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIfI-23E9AY
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Doodles posted:I started snickering when they went over all of the various sentai heroes and their enemies. (I didn't know they were actual shows, though. I figured they'd have made them up to avoid copyright entanglements.) You'd think Japan assigned them jobs like they had a temp agency for it. Wait, isn't there an anime/manga that does that? There's gotta be, it's too obvious an idea for nobody to have tried it. There's dozens and dozens of Local Hero sentais all over Japan, early ones started out as low budget shows on local TV stations but many of the current ones are pretty much spokespeople for their prefecture who do stage shows and teach children social values (such as Traffic Sentai Anzenger and Recycle Sentai Wakerunger) and some represent corporations and some seem to be just random dudes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_hero_(Japan) I'm guessing the anime contacted a bunch of them and asked if they wanted to be featured in a scene and a bunch of them leapt at the chance
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dogsicle posted:its fine, just pretend it's a pickaxe I watched the first episode and it's literally a pickaxe, the character was forced to attend "miner school" for several years and he used it as an opportunity to secretly train himself in his personal martial arts technique of smacking opponents really hard with the tip of the scythe
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Jan 22, 2022 02:50
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Double pointed pickaxes were super common back in olde timey mining days Pickaxes with thin blades were also pretty common in ancient times, such as the Roman pickaxe (dolabra) which the Roman army used as an entrenching tool  I won't stand for this pickaxe diversity erasure 
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Kung Food posted:Honestly, I low key love the direction of this discussion. Orient is a lovely forgeable show. But the origin and evolution of the pickaxe is a topic that deserves more talk than this lovely show. LOL yeah 
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.... or just keep adding even more blades
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SexyBlindfold posted:Dress up Darling is a wholesome show!!! Having done a bunch of amateur costume-making myself in the distant past I have to say that the scene where he very nearly convinced himself that there was no way he could complete the costume by the deadline and just lay in bed slowly giving in to exhaustion and despair and questioning himself over and over was super relatable and super accurate.  Supremezero posted:The real question, though. Only if it launches from a space station which is also shaped like a giant hat 
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Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department continues to feature real life local heroes which is delightful.  The temp agency character who keeps getting sent around to different prefectures to wear different Putty Patrol costumes and get beat up by the local Sentai warrior is now a recurring character, if you thought the helmet she had to wear this episode looked a bit like a knockoff Iron Man helmet with a hasty repaint there's a reason for that ......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZskDF6YKqU
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'Those Snow White Notes' is about a high school kid whose grandfather was a renowned shamisen musician and his attempts to follow in his footsteps but I didn't watch beyond the first episode. Apparently it pretty much turns into a Sports Anime with him joining a high school club, learning to appreciate/trust/work with his team mates, going to summer training camp to improve, and ends with the club competing in the big regional competition
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Once a genre has been established for long enough the audience will be so familiar with the associated tropes that a lovely half-assed entry into the genre doesn't need to flesh out the characters or the setting if they're too lazy to go to that much effort. If you're watching a crappy cliched Western and there's a clean shaven guy wearing a white hat and an unshaven guy wearing a black hat your expectations about their characters and how they're going to interact are already baked in.
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Your Everyday NEET posted:Strongest Sage With the Weakest Crest is crap. But the later episode proved us that adding a dragon loli in your show will make it more entertaining even if it's crap. It's not technically an isekai but it works exactly the same way (he reincarnated thousands of years into the future with his full memories, has god-tier powers compared to anyone in this age, hides his true identity) so you gotta lower your standards. Wise Man's Apprentice and Leadale are both "sucked into the game" isekais but they also did a similar "skipped ahead hundreds of years, hides the fact that they used to be a legendary hero" thing, I guess fantasy timeskips are just in fashion this season
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Kung Food posted:Genius Prince scrounged in the sofa cushions and found some actual budget. The fight scenes looked good! I think they also finished the opening credits? I haven't gone back to check but I think it used to be padded out with shots taken from episodes
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Nitrousoxide posted:I only watched like half of the first episode, but didn’t the boss have a chat with the evil monster developers telling them they need to use their vacation days and to not overwork themselves? Even funnier that wasn't the Rita Repulsa big boss equivalent of this evil monster organsiation, that was the Goldar-equivalent second in command
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Captain Invictus posted:wanna eat dem sea bugs Australians love eating sea bugs quote:Thenus orientalis is a species of slipper lobster from the Indian and Pacific oceans. T. orientalis is known by a number of common names. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization prefers the name flathead lobster, while the official Australian name is Bay lobster.[3][4] In Australia, it is more widely known as the Moreton Bay bug
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Asterite34 posted:What the gently caress is with isekai stuff and slavery? Like it's either grudgingly tolerated, glossed over as just a setting conceit nobody really pays attention to but is nonetheless there, or wholeheartedly embraced and romanticized. Is it part of the wish fulfillment fantasy? Or is it the equivalent of nerds who insist that their gritty medieval European fantasy novels about dragons and elves lacks verisimilitude without rape stuff? gimme the GOD drat candy posted:it started as gross wish fulfillment and quickly became a gross genre staple. and since isekai is such a popular genre that means a lot of slavery. A very large percent of isekais are also harem shows so there's a lot of wish fulfillment fantasy crossover there. Realist Hero just had a slavery episode where the conclusion was "Well we can't outlaw slavery in this kingdom which we completely control because banning it might kick off a civil war ("It happened in my world!!"), so instead we'll institute a system where we educate the slaves and teach them how to read & write and do math so their owners will value them more and treat them better!" It was dumb and naive but then again the whole show is like that
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LOL at the crazy number of real life hero guest stars in the latest episode of Miss Kuroitsu, the honor roll during the end credits just kept going and going
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I Am Fowl posted:I just loved that bad guy bar. I'm not the most well-versed in sentai and toku, but even I got some of the big references. If anyone got all the references feel free to clue the rest of us in, most of them went over my head
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FilthyImp posted:Pretty behind with Realist Hero but hey, a slavery episode that was only mostly bad instead of a downright atrocity. They follow that up with some episodes about war refugees where their solution to the problem was we'll give you a house if you swear allegiance to this country and get to work, otherwise GTFO immediately which was also mostly bad instead of a downright atrocity.
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Doodles posted:Finished up "World of Leadale" just now. It was... average. Nothing to jump up and down about, but nothing that made me feel uneasy either. It will be forgotten by Summer and I doubt anyone involved had higher expectations. Yeah it really felt like everyone involved just put in the bare minimum work required and were just going through the motions and the end result was bland and forgettable. I still watched the entire thing though because I can't pass up bland isekais.
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Re: Miss KuroitsuI Am Fowl posted:I loved it. This show was a real nice bit to the Winter season. It was great how the temps finally landed a decent job. Now they're evil executive assistants! And it was also great that all the horrible lovely battles they'd previously suffered through turned out to be massively beneficial in the end since their contacts with all those other evil organisations ended up saving the day
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