(I knew, but never pass up a good opportunity)
i was curious about the style of this based on this image and watched the first episode, which actually doesn’t look anything like that till the end. but i still kind of liked it and might even watch another episode… does this mean… i’m an anime now…?
Which first episode did you watch, the second episode or the actual first episode that got buried because Japanese copyright law has no protections for parody?
Anyway, the general answer is that the show slowly becomes more unhinged as time goes on and it’s all episodic anyway so just watch whatever episode has interesting descriptions and watch out for the occasional drama story.
When they finally do manage to kill a goblin (fighting 6-on-1) it is a traumatic experience for pretty much everyone involved.
Later in the episode there’s a “lecherous character peeps on the girls while they’re bathing” joke. I think this one’s going to be a winner, guys.
There was like one-and-a-half good scenes in that episode. The montage of everyone in town doing their things after the fight set to somber music was great. Horndog Jerk freaking out and screaming and frantically stabbing the goblin as it tries to flee is almost good, except for the music cue that turns it completely comical.
The impression I’ve gotten is that everything even remotely decent about this show is adaptation flourish that the light novel’s fans hate, which makes total sense.
It is the flourishes that I think i’m responding to most at this point, combined with the group’s complete lack of combat prowess. It’s refreshing to me to see that nobody is immediately an unstoppable killing machine/the chosen one. I don’t know if that’s going to change (and if it is I don’t want to know in advance I’m enjoying the ride thus far).
If you know me and how I hate Tales of or Eureka 7 style of starting their stories and going straight into keywords and world concepts without letting the viewer get acquainted with the setting to even understand what’s important or not but BBK/BRNK does a good job of doing that without infuriating me. Helps there’s only two keywords and you know what they are by the end of the first episode but there’s still plenty of mystery behind them. It’s a 3D CGI show but at some bits it almost looks Xrd good but then there’s some bits that just kind of take you out of it like some choppy motion or odd shadings. I’m not one of those hand drawn only kind of elitists or everything must always be on model at every second but I crave a certain kind of visual consistency. Not a bad growing pains kind of style because it has a great sense of scale and staging to it.
i can’t remember if i’ve already mentioned this, but i’ve been watching dubbed slam dunk on crunchyroll and enjoying it a lot.
whenever i see really good kids/shonen anime from the 90s, it almost feels like we anglosphere kids were robbed by not having cartoons as good as them in our own childhoods
we watched Akira tonight and now none of us know how we’ll go back to watching things that are not Akira.
how does nothing look that good twenty years later (except maybe redline?)
how can something like eva be labeled smart or emotionally mature when akira exists
etc
edit: also i appreciate that pokey’s ship in mother 2 is almost certainly a direct akira reference:
yesterday that would have been post about how good the one punch man finale was. it was good. i can’t remember seeing a fight scene both as well-animated and as stylistically crazy, but i guess there’s a lot of good stuff i haven’t watched yet. we were talking about how no show could exist that could actually live up to OPM’s opening, but they ended up making it, briefly. not sure if a second season could keep that momentum going (the first season lags around the middle, somehow getting bogged down in exposition despite its premise) but i’m actually pretty excited to see if madhouse can manage it.
yugioh season zero is my current favorite bad show
we’ve only watched a couple episodes of squid girl but so far it seems like the perfect balance of clever and dumb for half-attentive couch watching
akira’s even better in comic form~
what am i missing out on?
I’ve been watching the Star Wars Clone Wars cartoon! The first season took me a year to get through because it was so boring and childish, but I finally hit the second season a few days ago and suddenly the show improves drastically in terms of pacing, content, cinematography, EVERYTHING. I was so blown away that now it’s a really good show with things happening that are interesting and pretty to look at.
I’m halfway through the second season and it’s only been like 3 days. It’s pretty good.
I wish someone told me to just skip the first season entirely.
Never really got why everybody is so down on season 1. It’s definitely not the best the show has to offer, but much of it is pretty ok to me. I don’t know if it’s that I hold Star Wars to lesser standards than some folks or what. I also have a higher tolerance for Jar-Jar Binks than most as well.
Also, you needed to watch at least Rookies from S1, as those guys get revisited in season 3. Season 3 goes back and revisits a bunch of stuff from 1&2, like settling up the loose ends from the Ziro the Hutt business.
Hey that stop-motion episode of Adventure Time was pretty sweet
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Seriously, Rebecca Sugar is immensely talented and has a great instinct
for the emotionally genuine + a wit that is sharp yet gentle, like a
nurse who’s an expert with a needle. That’s a garbage simile but i hope
you get the shape of my point. [/quote]
Rebecca Sugar is real cool. I was so excited for what she could do after “Singles” and now look, she has her own series with a surprising amount of control over it’s content! Thanks for bringing her up.
The story for the movie is a pretty abridged adapatation, the manga has a kind of “second half” which they didn’t use at all for the movie. I don’t think it’s necessarily better or worse! It’s extremely important for an adaptation to change the story to fit the new format.
I don’t think the stories in either version are very good, they exist to create the kind of imagery the artist wants to make (which makes your Eva comparison interesting seeing as it’s a very similar situation). That imagery happens to be some of the most competent and evocative around! Katsuhiro Otomo is an amazing artist, the art in the manga is some of the best in the format and he pushed for the same in the film. Both versions are primarily interested in pushing their respective mediums to the limit. For example, the manga tries to have action sequences without “talking characters” - if you watch anime you probably know what I’m talking about! When a show will animate characters fighting and then they’ll cut to a side character (often mouth agape) describing what’s going on while the fight’s happening. That’s because they will just adapt the manga panel for panel as a storyboard, using panels where an artist might feel the need to explain what’s happening due to the limitations of the medium. Otomo had the confidence and the skill to make sure the art stands on it’s own - that you can take in the required information visually.
If you liked the movie a lot you will probably have a good time with the manga! It’s a different take on the same material. Which is how it should be!
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I get the feeling that people aren’t warming up to Active Raid and that bums me out because it’s like the perfect Saturday morning cartoon
Then I remember that kids in the States watch anime because they aren’t cartoons and make myself sad
More silly cartoons for me then
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I’m not sure I can keep watching Dagashi Kashi it almost feels like watching some YouTube food channel.
The newest episode of PSO2: The Why Are You Still Watching This Play PSO2 Already contained a plot about a fellow student being an asshole in the game while being a nice guy in real life, the subtitles used the word “doxxed” unironically, the main character actually being smarter than a normal main character and shows the horrible truth that burly men play catgirls online. Aforementioned fellow asshole student is also revealed to be a giant Sega nerd, which probably explains why he’s such an asshole and now I’m watching to see if they’ll try to sneak in more obscure Sega references (probably when they start making a good show).
Meanwhile, Konosuba is not terrible and is having fun with the dumb tropes of MMOs, shooting it to the top of the crowded genre, a high bar to clear indeed.
I’ve also found out that someone actually bothered to sub all of the F-Zero anime, so I’m now obligated to hunt that down and suffer through it so I have context for Capt. Falcon punching a man so hard a planet explodes.
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Plz show me screenshots of the Sega nerd
They only exist in phantasy