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Toadesstern
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Germany16350 Posts
May 05 2019 12:52 GMT
#127501


honestly this felt like the random harem that everyone will forget even within the season itself to me but quintuples apparently was super popular in JP and it's apparently getting a 2nd season. Not complaining, I watched it and miku was great. Probably the biggest voice-trap from last season so perhaps not as surprising that people watched it?
<Elem> >toad in charge of judging lewdness <Elem> how bad can it be <Elem> also wew, that is actually p lewd.
ThePhan2m
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
Norway2750 Posts
May 05 2019 13:32 GMT
#127502
for Shield Hero quitters, I do understand why. However, last episode was really nice (ending made me tear up) And the plot switched direction a bit. Hopefully it will keep getting better
Topin
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Peru10102 Posts
May 05 2019 17:04 GMT
#127503
watching Shield Hero and its really good, specially at the beginning, right now im at episode 10.

Also, i almost finished Mob Psycho (2nd season) funny and with superb animation, loving it! I also rewatched Suzumiya Haruhi and it is still one of my favorites, specially S1. Attack on titan s3 part 1 and the last season of Jojo are pretty cool too.

Finally im starting with the promised neverland and it looks really sick! (ep1)
i would define my style between a mix of ByuN, Maru and MKP
Grettin
Profile Joined April 2010
42381 Posts
May 05 2019 17:42 GMT
#127504
On May 06 2019 02:04 Topin wrote:
watching Shield Hero and its really good, specially at the beginning, right now im at episode 10.


Yup. It's been solid throughout the season. Really digging it too.
"If I had force-fields in Brood War, I'd never lose." -Bisu
Toadesstern
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Germany16350 Posts
May 07 2019 19:52 GMT
#127505
Honestly. The best thing this season has to offer is the opening from Isekai Quartet. Hearing all the MCs sing is just hilarious
<Elem> >toad in charge of judging lewdness <Elem> how bad can it be <Elem> also wew, that is actually p lewd.
Spazer
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada8033 Posts
May 09 2019 05:09 GMT
#127506
So I guess shieldbro is actually out of budget huh. That's two eps in a row.
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eviltomahawk
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States11135 Posts
May 09 2019 05:39 GMT
#127507
On May 08 2019 04:52 Toadesstern wrote:
Honestly. The best thing this season has to offer is the opening from Isekai Quartet. Hearing all the MCs sing is just hilarious

I still need a conversation between Emilia and Megumin. That's all I live for.
ㅇㅅㅌㅅ
BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
May 09 2019 06:23 GMT
#127508
Latest shield hero episode was finally good. The two before with + Show Spoiler +
the whole filolial bit were honestly a bit lame to me and wasteful plus the CGI during that large t-rex fight was just bad. I don't know how people think that was good at all. The FPS was low, was choppy and quality was lacking imo. Still, we finally got to where we should've been a while ago and Naofumi finally managed to get Motosayu on the same wavelength, even if it took him almost getting killed to do it lol.

I refuse to believe that Ren and Itsuki are dead though. I feel like they probably went to check on them and found nothing left so they figured that they did, but they are still alive somewhere. After all, Ren (or was it Itsuki?) did know or could tell something was coming and they made a run for it. The question is, how far did they get and just how much defensive power, if any, did they have to shield them from that? Also, maybe Malty can finally just calm down and be reasonable for a change. We never did hear her reason for hating the shield hero.


OPM seems to be getting more interesting. Not sure how close they are following the source, but the animation hasn't been too bad lately. Maybe they can still pull it off?

On May 04 2019 03:12 oEkY wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 04 2019 01:51 Toadesstern wrote:
Nothing. There's nothing to watch this season.


ouch, i guess i might be in bigfan's so called uncool group then, cause i'm watching / enjoying Gunjou no magmell, kenja no mago, kyojin, one punch man and kimetsu no yaiba from this season and i'm still watching shield bro, dororo and karakuri cirus since former seasons (and additionally black clover, fairy tail and one piece, shame on me for being a 33 years old-shounen-kid) :O

haha. Well, that day was opposite day so what Toad was saying was that it's a cool group but he had to say uncool to make sure he got the right message across! Nothing wrong with being a shounen-kid. I personally am enjoying Black Clover though this weeks' episode was just bad imo. I don't need a filler episode, I just want to see how things end already! I think one of the best episodes was + Show Spoiler +
Finn fighting against his brother. The way things played out, and then everyone jumping to his aid when the brother was about to kill him. Just fantastic! The anime is just really great fun. You can't hate most of the characters and even though it's standard shounen, still fun nonetheless.


On May 04 2019 06:45 Slaughter wrote:
Well I decided to not watch any show this season so it is the worst.

your loss since this is a great season! Did you try fruits basket? I think you would like it.

On May 04 2019 09:54 Spazer wrote:
Fruits Basket is goooood. My favorite anime of the season for sure.

If you like this Fruits Basket, you should watch the first one so long as you are ok with older anime. Fantastic OP, great VA and it feels like it really hits its stride. Probably heavier on the comedy compared to the current running one, and I hear it's not as faithful to the manga, but I would say it's just fantastic all around and well worth the watch. Shigeru has to be one of my favourite characters ever.
Former BW EiC"Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017
Slaughter
Profile Blog Joined November 2003
United States20254 Posts
May 09 2019 08:47 GMT
#127509
On May 09 2019 14:39 eviltomahawk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 08 2019 04:52 Toadesstern wrote:
Honestly. The best thing this season has to offer is the opening from Isekai Quartet. Hearing all the MCs sing is just hilarious

I still need a conversation between Emilia and Megumin. That's all I live for.


Have you seen the clip of her introducing herself as Emilia but using Megumin's chuuni greating? Lol.
Never Knows Best.
Dangermousecatdog
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom7084 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-09 22:39:40
May 09 2019 21:02 GMT
#127510
Is anybody else freaked out by Tanya the evil's eyes? Those eyes, it's as if theya re staring into my soul.
CosmicSpiral
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States15275 Posts
May 10 2019 03:31 GMT
#127511
As an old-school Naruto fan, I'm utterly bamboozled by its descendant. It feels like the writers have no clue what themes they want to explore or what the limitations of the world are, resulting in something that ought to be relegated to fanfiction written by 12 year olds.
WriterWovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.
Sentenal
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States12398 Posts
May 10 2019 03:36 GMT
#127512
Well, it IS pretty much fanfiction. Kishimoto isn't the one who writes or draws Boruto, its done by entirely different people. Sort of like how Dragon Ball GT wasn't by Akira Toriyama, and showed.
"Apparently, Sentenal is a paragon of friendship and tolerance. " - Ech0ne
BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-10 04:11:36
May 10 2019 04:11 GMT
#127513
^ Yep. From my understanding, Kishimoto just stopping doing much after Naruto finished and gave permission to new folks to continue things with Boruto. I have no clue what he's currently writing, if anything, but having an anime and manga that ran for so long with a large fanbase must've certainly been satisfying for a fan of Toriyama lol.
Former BW EiC"Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017
CosmicSpiral
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States15275 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-10 05:08:58
May 10 2019 04:35 GMT
#127514
These are ostensibly professionals though. Ikemoto was Kishimoto's former assistant and Kodachi wrote the movie that was the precursor to the manga. So it boggles my mind Kodachi thought the first major villain of Boruto should be someone that blatantly surpasses the final (controversial) villain of the original manga. Boruto himself suffers from the problem that he both suffers from different, intractable adolescent issues compared to his father yet he retains a similar personality. He is also more gifted and luckier to an absurd extent, dampening the supposed empathy we're supposed to have for him, while his base personality makes no sense if you ruminate on it for 5 minutes. Maybe it's a sly commentary on how such main characters have become popular in anime and its innate ridiculousness, I dunno.

The disparity between the technology - which is reminiscent of the worst "science=magic" logic that plagues bad stories - and the world is so hilarious that it actively destroys immersion. The new evil organization is a bad pastiche of Akatsuki without charm, understandable motivation, or interesting character design. Oftentimes the logistics behind drama are extremely contrived (how is Naruto this much of a moron at age 32?). The power scaling of the kids is utterly ludicrous and clearly exist to compensate for the escalation introduced at the beginning.

The ideas are interesting. I see Kodachi wanting to draw a parallel between Boruto and the evolution of the post-Cold War world. There's something vague concerning the moral and pragmatic abuse of technology and how it upends old norms. Arguably the early character development between Boruto, Sarada and Mitsuki is better than the original series. However, you can do this without destroying the base logic of the universe you are writing in or unnecessarily diminishing existing characters. Tackling mature themes requires one to understand these points.

On May 10 2019 12:36 Sentenal wrote:
Sort of like how Dragon Ball GT wasn't by Akira Toriyama, and showed.


To be fair, Kishimoto might've sunk during the first 50 chapters of Naruto if his editors didn't give him some strict management. He's someone who automatically comes up with a lot of ideas and he doesn't have the best instinct in deciding which ones are worth pursuing. See Sasuke's revenge arc that dominated the first half of Shippuden, aliens from other space, the "4th Hokage is a dog" brainchild that was mercifully axed lol, etc.

On May 10 2019 13:11 BigFan wrote:
^ Yep. From my understanding, Kishimoto just stopping doing much after Naruto finished and gave permission to new folks to continue things with Boruto. I have no clue what he's currently writing, if anything, but having an anime and manga that ran for so long with a large fanbase must've certainly been satisfying for a fan of Toriyama lol.


He's writing Samurai 8 for Shounen Jump.
WriterWovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.
ETisME
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
12680 Posts
May 10 2019 05:18 GMT
#127515
Carol and Tuesday is so very good, loving every episode so far. It's totally my genre.
Jojo is also getting more and more intense, I sometimes even rewatch some episodes while watching for the new one to release.

Here's hoping the next jojo gets anime adapted soon
其疾如风,其徐如林,侵掠如火,不动如山,难知如阴,动如雷震。
nanaoei
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
3358 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-10 23:46:09
May 10 2019 23:43 GMT
#127516
i liked shield hero's manga more than the anime. i don't know how this topic got discussed here because i don't keep up with you guys but if you liked the anime, i'd give a +1 to the manga. they capture some things like the element of hate a little bit better.

obviously some of the awkward moments int he anime are completely gone from the manga because of the nature of the medium. something i really do like about the anime though is the soundtrack. like even the insert songs are great.

I'm also watching dororo (S2), OPM (S2)
planning on carol and tuesday
waiting on vinland saga.

dororo i'm pretty apprehensive about right now. i think S1 was just amazing. i was so excited for the second season. but there are just quite some aimless episodes so far. a pretty huge anti-stickler for wasted scenes.

what are some of your absolute favs or impressionistic shows in the past 5 years or so?
for me that would be Ping Pong, bokumachi. space dandy.
death parade, made in abyss, no game no life.

that's a lot right? i think even amongst all the trashy stuff out there, there is an amazing amount of quality that.. we're really we're just lucky.


*@boesthius' FF7 nostalgia stream bomb* "we should work on a 'Final Progamer' fangame»whitera can be a protagonist---lastlie: "we save world and then defense it"
Unleashing
Profile Joined March 2011
Denmark14978 Posts
May 11 2019 04:11 GMT
#127517
Shield hero is not originally a manga, if you want to read the source material it's the light novel you want to be reading.
From the Ghastly Eyrie I can see to the ends of the world, and from this vantage point I declare with utter certainty that this one is in the bag!
Spazer
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada8033 Posts
May 11 2019 04:37 GMT
#127518
I'd say about 80-90% of managaka can draw well (the other 10% is... not good), but precious few of them can actually write. At the very least, they have no idea how to plan for long-term development in a manga. So many series have a great start before they run out of steam (and coherent ideas) halfway through the plot. Battle manga in particular have issues with this because of the need to continually one-up the previous thing. Remember when Shokugeki no Souma was at least partially grounded in reality? Feels like that happened ages ago.

Boruto only exists because Naruto was popular. I seriously doubt there's any sort of long term vision for it beyond throwing ideas at it until something sticks. Gotta keep the cash cow going.

On May 11 2019 08:43 nanaoei wrote:
i liked shield hero's manga more than the anime. i don't know how this topic got discussed here because i don't keep up with you guys but if you liked the anime, i'd give a +1 to the manga. they capture some things like the element of hate a little bit better.

obviously some of the awkward moments int he anime are completely gone from the manga because of the nature of the medium. something i really do like about the anime though is the soundtrack. like even the insert songs are great.

+ Show Spoiler +
It's not particularly difficult for the manga to capture the hatred better when the anime can't even follow through with Raph murdering Idol. They even brought out the cliche "if you kill him you'll be just like him!" stuff. Way to ruin a decent moment of character development.

What's worse is that they kept Raph being all mopey about it later on. It made sense when she actually stabbed the guy. It's just farcical when he falls out the window on his own.


I'm also watching dororo (S2), OPM (S2)
planning on carol and tuesday
waiting on vinland saga.

dororo i'm pretty apprehensive about right now. i think S1 was just amazing. i was so excited for the second season. but there are just quite some aimless episodes so far. a pretty huge anti-stickler for wasted scenes.

what are some of your absolute favs or impressionistic shows in the past 5 years or so?
for me that would be Ping Pong, bokumachi. space dandy.
death parade, made in abyss, no game no life.

that's a lot right? i think even amongst all the trashy stuff out there, there is an amazing amount of quality that.. we're really we're just lucky.

As far as impressionistic shows go, I guess there's GuP. Unfortunately, they currently have a release schedule worse than friggin' Unicorn. Rakugo and 3-gatsu would be my other standouts.

Uchuu Kyoudai was 2012? Been a long time.
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ZerOCoolSC2
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
9025 Posts
May 11 2019 14:36 GMT
#127519
Shield Hero is rushing because the author wants to tackle a certain aspect of the show in his 26 episodes. The manga is better but the release is so slow. They'll catch up next season if they continue 2-cours a season.

Dororo slowed down a bit but it looks to be picking up again and I'm all for it.

Bungou Stray Dogs is still amazing. The first 2-3 chapters were a brief flashback for Danzai and Chuuya but it gets back to the manga and it is wonderful.

As for the last five years? OPM, Mob Psycho, Made in Abyss, Bungou Stray Dogs, Dororo, Keijo!!!!!!!!!! and I'm sure I'm forgetting a few. Megalo Box was good too.
Toadesstern
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Germany16350 Posts
May 14 2019 14:15 GMT
#127520
finally finished zoku owarimonogatari. Good stuff as usual.
Nadeko was great. Also Kanbaru's mom. Not a fan of Senjougahara's new look though
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