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Also, not sure why trying a dub is still a "I'm horrified or stuck with it" zero sum game. I think we were past that point in 02-05. Still shit dubs on ocassion...but at maybe a 5-10% situation anymore.

At least this isn't the Anime board itself. You'd think watching dubs would be akin to suffering a plague. One guy in a sea of millions said, "The bottom floor of dub quality is way less shit now, even if the ceiling isn't still very high."

Around the internet, that is high praise somehow. People are dicks.

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The dub is fine. A lot of good actors are in it. Hearing Cristina Vee going from murderhobo Velvet from Tales of Berseria to Darkness was...interesting to say the least.

I WANT TO MUDER EVERYTHING! *screams bloody murder*

next thing you know

*Orgasm sounds everywhere*

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But Yuna makes up for it by saying, "I don't like your plan, it sucks."

That line was the best.

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It's also a case of, "20 years on, FFXIII existing, and other things" making people realize that X-2 wasn't the god awful stain on the franchise it was taken as when it came out. It has some good ideas hidden in the murk and the stupid. It also doesn't change that FFX as an entity exists. You can separate both as,
"One is a classic, the other is a stupid mess of fun" on their own.

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6/10

If you can get into the cheese, it has some things on offer. Yuna still protects her home and planet with tense moments, but most is just dumb fun for the sake of dumb fun. It doesn't make it great though.

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I love how local Minnesota media wants and yearns to say stuff like upset and win the West and shit. Maybe had the Gophers not Gophers and went from 11-2 to 3-4/4-3 (whatever the FUCK), maybe I'd believe them.

God. That high from beating Penn State and Auburn feels like a pipedream that never actually happened.

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Not sure if anyone here would be interested in this sort of thing, but I've started reviewing some of the anime I've been watching lately. Did Psycho-Pass a couple weeks ago, and reviewed Shield Hero Season 1 last week.

https://youtu.be/tj6J-Evh4qc

Just felt like a way to utilize all my anime binge watching for a purpose for a change. At least if some trolls don't go, "Stick with LPs lol", fucking Youtube trolls.

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6.5/10

It is a very basic story buoyed by great versions of classic characters...and Mallow.

Stupid puffball.

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TheRock1525 posted...

The original best J. Jonah Jameson.

SCORPION! YOU CLOWN! YOU SAD SACK! YOU MOSQUITO! YOU WEAKLING!

Asner had the perfect voice for an angry media mogul.

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After a few shows didn't grab me, I settled on something called Ergo Proxy. Either I watched the show once and didn't get it, or watched a show just like it and confused it for something else. All I know is the first ep was VERY odd, but in a way that grabbed my attention. Like some weird ass sci-fi horror or something. Maybe I'm in the mood for something fucked up. I'll see if further eps keep my attention.

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Listening to them through again, 2 > 4 > 1 > 5 > 7 > 3 > 8 > 6

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Goddamn. I wish Inuyasha was just those EDs...could have saved me the 100 non-Sesshomaru/Kikyo/other actual important shit episodes.

But yes. They are all good. Voting Fukari Mori.

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10

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Ah. No wonder it was awkward. It was from the DR guy. Fair enough.

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Also...fucking hell GameFAQs. This was the "smaller" picture.


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This was inevitable.

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Finished Angel Beats. The stakes could have been fleshed out more with the "antagonists" near the end, but I'd be lying if I said the ending itself wasn't powerful as shit regardless. The show really hit hard when it needed to.

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Tried to watch Akudama Drive, but it came across "too" forced in the episode I saw. I usually like those seedier crime shows too.

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8.5/10

The addition of voice acting in the game allowed me to invest in the story more. It was also very cohesive without falling off the stupid tree like ZTD would eventually do.

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Yes. After a couple more episodes, I'm all in on finishing. The comedy is dumb but written well. The mystery of what the fuck is going on with this "afterlife school" and "Angel" is what's carrying me though. Hearing about some of the character's death circumstances was the real kicker though.

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Started watching Angel Beats tonight. Not sure what to make of it so far, but I'm hopefully it stays decent.

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Expect to coo like a dove.

MAGIKAZAM!

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Except a complex elemental/attack combo action RPG. Expect every character outside of one or two being fifty shades of comically crazy/weird/murdery/offbeat (no one is nice just for the sake of being nice). Expect a lot of really good voice acting and character motivation, brought down (sometimes) by the innane comic relief.

But seriously, the characters are the draw of this game.

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3/10

3 for the Disney and FF crossover moments, 0 for everything else it tries to do.

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*Velvet eats everyone who doesn't buy it at that price*

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Yes, and that's why I love it so much.

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10/10

Very dark, very melancholic, and willing to challenge the player with fears that young adults would go through under the hellish circumstances.

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And halfway through the season, a beach episode on Classroom/Elite, just to annoy me even more. This show needed this even less than the fanservice it was already doing.

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Finally found a new show to watch: Classroom of the Elite. Not sure if it can stick the landing the first episode blew me away with, but it's the first in about ten different shows I tried to hook me completely so far. The fanservice shots are already getting old though. For a show with a premise that doesn't need it, it is fucking aggravating.

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I mean...how the fuck else do you describe Velvet? When Eleanor and Laphicet are the most well adjusted characters in your party (since everyone else has no qualms about doing...ANYTHING), your game cast is several shades of fucked up. But to me, that's what Tales kinda needed. That hook of, "Have we ever been nice?" is amazing.

Note: I don't want every game to be that way. Berseria was fun because it was the one that did.

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It helps that Berseria is the edgiest edgelord Tales game to ever edge. As in, when everyone is fifty flavors of dicks, it makes even Tales' mid-tier presentation a favorable, crude, grungy feel. BECAUSE EDGE!


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pjbasis posted...

I wish Theatrhythm was on a console.

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G4 was the "not Adult Swim" destination for me way back. RahXephon, Abenobashi, and some other weird ass lower key shows were on there. Weirdest though was first catching Heat Guy J on MYV2 of all things ..

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Ah yes. The unenviable "Trying to find a new show" blues. I'm sure I'll find one some other day.

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I think the weirdest thing is Eva gets this "perfect mess of stupid" down right, almost in the way FF8 tried but failed to do. It's gross and brutal enough that it somehow succeeds at...whatever it was trying to be. I mean, I prefer RahXephon as a package as, "This is totally and EVA ripoff and we don't make a lick of sense, but go with it." Rah is way too polished, even for a copycat. But Eva has a charm in just how...awkward it is.

Also, I do NOT emphathize with Shinji, Rei, or Asuka at all. Even when I first watched it about 10 years ago, Misato and Ritsuko were the "beaten down working girls who have to babysit and deal with crazy shit" people I actually gravitated to. But whatever. I'm over 30. Of course I'd get that.

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It...is weird.

Evangelion was an anime in 1995-1996 that took the world by storm by mixing the "giant mech" genre and mixed in weird ass biblical imagery, complex family/daddy issues, and a fucked up second act of pseudoscience +to cover for a strained budget), and became an iconic franchise.

So, basically the anime equivalent of Xenogears/Xenosaga. I never took it as seriously as the critical and commercial majority did. I don't doubt it is one of the most enduring ones...but it is just a show about giant robots killing giant monsters. Any extra psychobabble is just window dressing.

I even met the dub actors and directors (people to this day known FOR this show), and even they have mixed feelings about being known for it. Maybe the Japanese reception to it is different, but it is one of those inescapable weird things no one can seem to avoid when talking about anime.

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I picked DKC, because it was actually a franchise. Maybe Chrono will be the next "OMG MANA REMASTERS SERIES IS ALIVE AGAIN" thing, but until then, meh.

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8

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They got the OG 4 dub actors back. Other than that, I haven't seen anything after the first two. I forgot about them as soon as I watched them. EVA is...too bonkers for me.

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6/10

Zero Escape is interesting, but can be goofy and nonsensical given it's wacko premise. 999 is decent enough.

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It tells them "don't fuck with the formula.". Turning DQ into an action based or open world experience would be the same mistakes FF made this decade.

Dragon Quest should stay "Dragon Quest."

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I told them keep doing "Dragon Quest" things and don't change a fucking thing. Not sure that will help, but hey, don't be Final Fantasy.

Be warned: A shit ton of questions are, "Have you heard of our Facebook and Twitter page?" Fucking christ...


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Funny enough, VRV WAS that unified front until Funi got dumb and made their own. The PS4 app of Funi, while overhauled, still kinda sucks.

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3/10

Save the world, but with a weird ass plot dump at the end. FF1 is all about the battle system.


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Star Ocean 3
Xenosaga 2
Final Fantasy 2
Final Fantasy 13


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Princess Jellyfish is delightfully stupid. Such an easy watch too. Episodes feel like they breeze by.

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MEH MEH MEH!

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh!~

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6.5/10

It takes a long...LONG ass time getting going. It's a lot of political machinations and GOD GOD GOD stuff (the usual Xeno fare). It's also inscrutably stupid...but still the fun kind of stupid. The allure of the game is the Blade system, not really its story.

Also, Nia is in it. It gets an extra point for Nia.

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