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MartinFF7 posted...

also it was 4 years, not 5

.......4 long, agonizing years

Imagine what the manga fans had to endure...

It's been so long since I've watched the first season. It's incredible to think AoT is still so big just from the first season. It took like 5 years off for the next season and somehow maintained the steam from first season.

pjbasis posted...

Eh whatever go back to your no stakes idol shows or some sht

There are no stakes when only one side is winning. The good guys haven't even gotten one worthwhile win in the story.

Gege thinks he's writing Berserk where suffering leads to character development. Except he forgot about that development part and only does the suffering with shock value part.

swordz9 posted...

Always a joy to see Granzon post

lmao

Madoka fans deserve to suffer as much as the girls in the anime

Oda says on the title page the manuscript is not finished in time

So uhhhh has Sanji been contacted by the FBI yet?

Tom Holland only tall enough for Minish Cap Link

Batista will be Tingle

Your opinion does not make it a fact that Minase Inori did a bad job voicing Rem. That's how she is supposed to sound. You can say the character sucks, but the voice actor is just doing their job. Any of the other 50 veteran waifu VAs would still voice Rem in the same exact way if the original VA had to be replaced.

Most anime fans, and just people in general have no original thoughts in their head. They parrot things they hear and are fiercely tribal. I know the anime discourse on dub vs sub. It always turn into the other side accusing people of being weebs and not being able to discern good voice acting and then the weebs bring up Chaos Wars.

KamikazePotato posted...

Dubs can suffer from trying to be too like the original. One example is Re:Zero's dub, which has Rem's voice actress try to copy the excessively quiet and soft-spoken Japanese voice. It didn't sound good in the original and it sounded even less natural in English.

You've taken this too far in the other direction. I have never heard anyone say Rem's Japanese voice was bad. That's the original, how the author and anime director envisioned the character. I didn't like ReZero but there's no way any of the voice acting is bad.

Let people enjoy watching whatever they want. There's no need to project your insecurities onto internet strangers. Your IRL friends are immature. They don't represent all anime fans.

WhiteLens posted...

I've learned that more often than not, the English voice actors themselves know what's the proper pronunciation (because c'mon a lot of them are weebs as well) but they're forced to comply with the request of their client and thus "mispronounce" words. I recall Persona 5 was a big case of this.

And some voice actors have alluded that if they try to contest it, they get marked as someone who can't follow directions. So it's a lost cause if they're trying to get paid.

I'm pretty sure Mortal Kombat is another example of this, since I highly doubt most of the VAs think that Shirai Ryu should be said as "shuh-rye rye-yu" but they have obey Ed Boon and say it that way in-game.

You bring up a great point. I do wish the directors listen to the talents if they are open to inclusion and diversity. It's hypocritical to "Americanize" pronunciations and pretend to be respectful of other cultures.

Maniac64 posted...

Why would I not? What would be the point in watching the Japanese dub?

I watch Chinese and Korean shows and watch both in the original language with subtitles.

In the case of Genshin Impact and Star Rail I think the company behind those games are big enough weebs that they consider the Japanese dub to be the main voice track. Otherwise they wouldn't spend so much money getting all those famous VAs.

As for dramas I'm glad you're openminded enough to watch in original voices. It's often not a matter of snobbery, but the willingness to embrace other cultures. I think the phenomenon of refusing to read subs and wanting everything in dubs is purely an American/North American issue. We often forget that the rest of the world consume most of our media with subs. In the case of Chinese and Korean dramas that deal with costumes and period pieces often have very difficult to translate terms that would sound hilariously bad in English lol.

Mobilezoid posted...

Ah, the good old Dynasty Warriors dubs. Cow Cow and Cow Pee

Cow Pee is another classic LMAO

UshiromiyaEva posted...

https://youtube.com/shorts/j-TcHHq3CDY?si=lQDdF5FLUwR07dVP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjUtoQaRfE0

Subs are superior. Original language flows better. Watching Kungfu Hustle in English dub is just hilariously bad, and completely kills the puns from the original meaning. Then there's the problem with English dubs having trouble with East Asian names.

How do you pronounce Cao Cao? Cow Cow? Tsao Tsao (mandarin) and Chou Chou (cantonese) are the correct ways. How do you pronounce Takamaki? Ta-KAH-ma-key? What about Yamamoto? Ya-mer-mut-to?

I think JJK S3 has bigger problems than JC Staff...

Does anyone want Mac Jones? I'll pay for his shipping

The boarder also massively off center.

Is that a misprint or counterfeit card?

Is that Shiki? I never saw the movies.

Rocks Jolly Roger, the O part looks like Nika hair. If Xebec had the fruit then Kaido would've commented on it when fighting Luffy. I don't see a reason why they would show up to GV since the fruits aren't all that appetizing. Maybe there is a Poneglyph?

Does this new collection allow pausing cutscenes in 2&3? Recently replayed them on PS3 and was annoyed they couldn't be paused.

Sorozone posted...

It's why I don't trust them when they say this shit.

I remember last time redon hyped the fruit reveal, that was insane.

I am kinda disappointed that Kuma's flashback ends with him skipping the God Valley incident. Wonder who will be the PoV that will show the whole thing. Maybe a dying Garp flashback later on.

Forgot if I mentioned this already but recently beated two anime

Code Geass Resurrection - I don't understand the point to this movie. Could have just added the last five minutes to the third recap movie and that would've saved a lot of time and money.

Lycoris Recoil - This was great. Excellent animations and entire cast had moments to shine. Mika is the best though.

GANON1025 posted...

*every chapter since the start of this arc* wow stay off the internet this one is crazy everyone!!

I'm not the one hyping it though. It's redon and whoever else hyping yesterday before they revealed the outline. I think the only real big moment so far this arc is Saturn reveal.

The hype did not live up to the preliminary reveal lmao

Unless they show Rocks looking like Luffy or something

I think this one might be on par with a certain fruit reveal so it's not just weekly scheduled hype

Spoiler providers have issued a warning that this week's chapter is huge. Tomorrow would be a good time to get off the internet if you want to avoid spoilers.

I'm reading that the moment it gets dropped.

WhiteLens posted...

No. We did.

I'm so proud of b8

WhiteLens posted...

No. It served its purpose of getting SBAllen to join the Discord server itself.

Has Lopen chased him away yet?

The only way Lopen gets a win from this is by getting the topic to 500 and trying to gaslight us into thinking this was his objective all along. I've foiled your plan, you can't come back from this.

Thursday - JJK
Friday - Goblin
Saturday - Spy

Haven't watched this much anime in years lol

The proper way to deal with Lopen is to treat him like LMS.

I think I finished both seasons of Kimi ni Todoke but I don't remember anything about it. Not sure if I finished the manga but I remember it being very frustrating for the things you mentioned. It's misunderstandings all the way down. It's not even cute misunderstandings like Bisque Doll.

Oh yea forgot to thank @SBAllen you kept this place up longer than the guy that sold us out. Thanks for all the great memories and contests.

WhiteLens posted...

I can re-open at any time. I only made it private to keep bots out of there.

That's good to hear.

The danger of closing isn't just this specific board

mnk posted...

I've seen a number of communities splinter and quickly put up new Xenforo-based forums, so that seems like an easy option if enough people care to try.

That sounds promising. Having a board like this is much easier to manage and keep up with than discord where you basically fall out of the conversation after a hour away and don't feel like scrolling back up 5k lines.

So other than discord where else will we go when this place closes? Anybody with time on their hands want to make a board just as a precaution? I think the b8 subreddit is owned by Angelo or WhiteLens and is private or dead but that's another route we can go.

Bless you, I hope you don't get spoiled lol

Pretty sure anyone that uses twitter or watches anime already know what happened lol

We're a couple of chapters from 236 and there's still like no reaction or interactions in the manga about what happened, like they show a few people with shocked expressions and then the fights continue. Honestly the result of the fight wasn't bad, but the aftermath and lack of acknowledgment of events really kill the character building. Cell Games has killed the world and character building, it's just all style and no substance fights.

Before seeing the kanji for the title I thought it was named Dragon Ball Weed

He's getting a $400 million severance package lol

That's why I said usually. I don't remember if Kaido had his fruit introduced with his first official appearance. All three of those you named are small fry compared to endgame characters so them not having narration boxes isn't surprising.

Anyone else suspect that Saturn might not have a fruit and he's just a literal devil? Usually when people show off their powers/forms they have a narration box for their fruit. He doesn't seem to age and seems to personally know Nika.

Jujutsu Kaisen 237 spoilers

So are you happy now pj? Sukuna wins, now reincarnates in Megumi thus killing him and healing himself to 100%. So much for Gojo weakening him. I guess this is just good for the story.

Now 3 of the 4 main characters are dead and the last one remaining is useless. He makes Sakura from Naruto look like a competent character.

Xboner of the day

Hey Roba I'll answer some tv and monitor questions.

I have 2x 32 inch 4k monitors that I use for work/game/anime. I sit pretty close to them so when I play games or watch anime they aren't crystal clear. It's not blurry but you will notice when watching 4k vs 1080p (which most anime are in). I also have a 60+ inch 4k tv that I sit far away from and anime look amazing on it. I would suggest you get a 4k tv over buying a 1080 tv. 1080 is old and more and more content are shifting towards 4k.

Here's the watch order for Monogatari. Someone please correct if it's wrong.

Bakemonogatari
Nisemonogatari
Nekomonogatari
Kizumonogatari (These three movies can be watched any time after Bake)
Monogatari Second Season
Hanamonogatari
Tsukimonogatari
Owarimonogatari Season 1
Koyomimonogatari
Owarimonogatari Season 2
Zokuowarimonogatari

Then Studio Shaft dies and no more Monogatari adaptions.

To answer your question. You're watching Senjougahara's arc so she's the main girl in it. But she's not the main girl in other arcs. In fact there are other girls with much more screen time than her. I'm not sure if that's good or bad. But you probably might not end up with Senjougahara as your main waifu if you're already impressed lol.

The subs at the start aren't essential and sometimes there's whole pages of words that are only there to get OCD people to pause and read. It's fine to skip if you don't really care.

And up to you if you want to make another topic. I think there's enough Monogatari fans to warrant a topic.

Gonna need that play by play commentary for every arc you finish

Don't be shy about pausing to read the subs and rewatch some scenes because they happen too fast

Pun finna be the next Combofiend directing MvC5

In the end it truly is Fate/stay in the Kitchen