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Man no drip, why the hell-

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4bdccacf.jpg

Oh.

If you held a gun to my head and asked "Is the Union Jack perfectly symetrical, if you are wrong I shoot", I would have breathed a sigh of relief and confidently answered yes.

https://twitter.com/imbecilesrus/status/1797725219416879455?t=vZ1xO4XtWl_tlG1mddtYVA&s=19

Oh that kinda another reason I haven't given it shot again TBH.

This is still better than Leto's

https://twitter.com/RGGStudio/status/1797826081166184839?t=XwwNM1-ZQuF3y7l6st0cbA&s=19

Outta nowhere??

https://x.com/wb_anime/status/1797442254598275502?t=pQuplL5CQO6gqWkn_dLycA&s=19

Guys I really hate to say it as a DC fanboy but I think this Harley design might actually be fucking fire. Like it might be the best one this side of the original.

Joker looks like shit though lol.

It feels like the multimedia experience of following along with JELEE social media accounts alongside the show is a pretty engaging part of the experience, shame that it's not something that can be easily followed along with in English, at least not live.

I still would not say the show is bad or anything. There was actually some really great stuff this episode comedy wise. However it suffers both from being in a stacked season and maybe pushing down on the gas too hard with how random it gets, even as someone who is pro random bullshit.

Again, the closest actual comparison to this show in terms of character personalities and absurdity is Asobi Asobase, and this show is NOT Asobi Asobase.

Also, I always watch Spice and Wolf immediately afterwards, and like....come on.

Mentioned this was gonna happen several weeks ago and it's finally time.

https://x.com/TheFourthSpell/status/1797787927570796882?t=nS_x52ygP1fYFTnx_vPL7g&s=19

He's already mentioned he's gotten several offers prior to the expiration anticipating it.

Boy am I excited as fuck to see who bites on this. Zatch Bell is so damn good and deserves to get it's big remake anime. I feel so bad for anyone who's only ever seen the 4kids slop.

Remember when we thought it might be a Girls Last Tour like?

Completely tricked by the sky marketing lol, though just like with Zombieland Saga and it's misleading marketing, probably could have guessed it if I'd looked at the creators.

Don't feel right throwing this in the Genshin topic, so will just stay here that I'm seeing this huge negative backlash to the new Genshin girl's design and I'm flabbergasted. 1000s of people calling her ugly when I think she's one of the better designs I've seen in Genshin, if maybe a little busy.

While this was a better episode than last week, and while I do revel in the absurdity of many of the scenario, I've come to the realization that I would rather the cast of Train to the End be in an absurdist regular comedy anime.

Basically this cast in Asobi Asobase, as much as you can call something like that normal.

Mobilezoid posted...

Is the issue the love confession and as long as I know about that from spoilers I'm good?

Yes. Basically they overthought what to do with it for far too long (one of the TLs said they went back and for on over a dozen options and came out with one he didn't agree with), and what came out of the side was maybe the worst possible answer they could have ended up with, and self admittedly made up from scratch in order to "prepare for potential backdown in a future episode", to which the near universal response has been....well that would be the show's responsibility, not yours.

There were even just some simple disagreements on what certain phrases imply in English itself, changing what literally translates to something like "I really do love you" to "I love you as a person", to which their Discord response was "Well that in and of itself is potentially a romantic statement, right?", when most English speakers would read a line like that as explicitly saying I love you in a way that isn't romantic, or in a worst case scenario would be something you would say to someone before breaking up with them.

So, yeah, TLDR, too many cooks in the kitchen.

Reg posted...

Damn

Hanebado, Banana Fish, and Happy Sugar Life are all quite good. Definitely recommend going back for those, at the very least.

I went back and read Happy Sugar Life at one point, wasn't bad! Absolutely going to watch Bannana Fish in full one day. Hanebado is maybe the most frustrating here because I distinctly remember I had almost finished it, but I would have to start over for sure.

Edit: Oh I can actually still check in Hanebado's case, I watched up to episode 9.

Finally watched those last 2 episodes of SobsPlease GBC.

Honestly my take away is that this is still a solid sub group, you just have to go in knowing they screwed up super bad on this one 45 second chunk, and hope they'll fix it in the batch like one of the translators is saying they will.

The current narrative being pushed that they're homophobic really doesn't seem to hold a lot of weight, they just made a really bad call for how to handle something that nearly every Spanish, French, and English translator of Japanese outside of their group has disagreed with, but mostly understood what they were trying to do.

Maybe it will come out that it was an agenda based decision in the future, but there's zero evidence of that as of right now.

I'll admit that maybe I would have put a bit more effort into trying to figure out the controls if I didn't already know ahead of time that what was a awaiting me was a looping game on a timer with no clear cut goals or direction, all things I particularly hate lol.

I still wanted to give it a try at the time regardless, because it was just so beloved and I'm sure for very good reasons, but hitting that jetpack tutorial just shut it down for me.

I quit Witcher 3 after half an hour because I didn't like how Geralt walked, you can imagine what the first impression of this was like.

Yeah I'll read a manga adaptation of The Great Gatsby, sure.

https://x.com/AniNewsAndFacts/status/1797515820891009483

MacArrowny posted...

This is a movie, right? Surprised you wrote it up

It's not a movie, that was a mistranslated article a couple months ago.

It is, however, a 6 month delaycast, so it's gonna be fansubs regardless.

Mobilezoid posted...

Senpai is an Otokonoko - I'm too lazy to look that word up, but I assume it means crossdresser because this is a romance where a girl falls for a guy who dresses as a girl. And good for them, I say! I'm not going to watch this right away because I usually like to wait and see reactions to romance anime to gauge drama levels. This has the added wrinkle of if they'll handle the crossdressing seriously. I could definitely watch this if it gets good reviews, though.

This actually goes even further because the crossdressing guy's friend also falls for him even knowing he's a guy per the description. The PV makes it look like an actual drama too and not some goofs thing, so I'm pretty intrigued. I expect there will be some landmines to navigate here, but that makes it all the more interesting to see unfold.

I was on console, I don't play games on PC unless it's the only option (just not what I'm setup for).

I do have a dedicated mouse and keyboard for my PS5 for games that allow it though.

3 chapters left before Nagatoro ends.

Hardly one of my favorite series, but it feels like it's been around forever for some reason, feels weird! Kind of wish it just kept going at least for a bit with the established relationship, so many romance series just decide to cut themselves off right after they get together.

Meanwhile MHA apparently has a bunch of epilogue chapters left as it "returns to it's namesake" per Horikoshi and is going to do a full epilogue arc in the school. Great. Thanks.

This is fucking hilarious. Like if there wasn't a good alternative I would be pissed, but as it stands it's just a spectacle of gymnastics.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/88a9969e.png

One of the head translators.

Oh nevermind looks like fansubs drama is back in full force again hell YEAAAAAAAAH!

Need to go watch their episode 8 still (and 7 technically), but it seems everyone has turned on SobsPlease since they made up a translation wholesale at the end of the episode because they "doubted it would go anywhere" and they'll "go back and fix it later if we have to".

Now they're getting clowned on all over the place. I seem to have missed all the good stuff because there are a bunch of locked accounts and deleted posts lol.

Franky I'm glad there's finally a show bringing out fan sub drama again that isn't just "was this MTL?". We've gotten too sterile and content!

I never got out of the starter planet because the jetpack controls were so horrifically bad. Came to the decision that there was nothing the game could do to make it worth it.

Will probably watch a playthrough one day.

Mobilezoid posted...

I have nothing to compare them to obviously, but I think SobsPlease has been fine. At least it doesn't have stuff like [indecipherable gremlin noises] or whatever, really preferred SobsPlease using actual angrish nonsense there instead.

Obviously I don't speak Japanese, but I know enough words to know they that there are several lines they've made up entirely wholesale here and it's bothering me a little I guess. I think the actual quality of the script is just fine and works well though.

MacArrowny posted...

Great ep of Tonari no Yokai today, particularly the second half.

The show is just so good at doing these characters even with the limited time they have. Like we've had....like 10 minutes with the elementary school class this whole season I think? Despite that everything in the first half totally resonated.

I've been rewatching GBC with the SobsPlease subs, and while the karaoke is great I think these are overall notably worse than Nyakubi's speed subs.

MacArrowny posted...

Utena you mean? Sad! It's a great show. Or it was back when I hadn't watched many anime, at least.

Yeah, the news of it getting removed went a little viral because it happened directly alongside Mother's Basement putting a video out about these streaming platforms not renewing anime licenses. Couldn't have asked for more unfortunate timing for them, otherwise it would likely have gotten swept under the rug without fanfare.

https://x.com/MangaMan9000/status/1796972351235481927

Watched the dubbed episode to just to see, but just the songs being undubbed alone ruins any chance of that.

I now distinctly remember watching a 30 second chunk from near the end of this episode on repeat now.

I have to imagine my "almost" comment about it being the best first episode of that season was because of Asobi Asobase, lol. I am definitely very interested in continuing this now, though it is not immediately grabbing me as much as most of the broad "girls music" category anime I've watched these last couple episodes, however considering how much I've come to adore my big 3 there that's hardly a bad thing.

In general I've loved it. Time will tell if they will stay classics like....every S1 episode was, though.

Nostalgia Critic last week made me almost spit a drink.

I missed today's though, totally forgot. Joel Haver is in it too, worst one to miss!

Got delayed but starting now.

Just a few minutes in and I thinking the episode is coming back to me. For some reason I distinctly remmeber the names Tendo Maya and Banana-chan. I think there's going to be....a giraffe?

Also this actually has the LGBT tag which is surprising.

MacArrowny posted...

Revue dumb utena ripoff imo

BTW Crunchyroll took this down 2 days ago and it's gone now. Looks like I fucked up leaving that in the queue for this long. I'm told it's on YouTube technically but with awful quality and subs.

Robazoid posted...

Banana Fish is one of my few drops too! The current me, older and wiser, would've also dropped Hanebado after a few episodes instead of finishing it like the younger, dumber me did.

The thing is I never would have dropped Banana Fish if I wasn't dealing with that stuff, that's why I know this timeline line's up. The rest I'm not 100% on, I remember loving how Hanebado looks but can't remember what it was like. Was Harukana Receive....Yuri volleyball?

Looking at the rest of that season

Hanebado - dropped
Tonegawa - dropped
Banana Fish - dropOh this is when we were being evicted ohhhhhhhhhh

Harukana Recieve, Planet With, Angels of Death, Chio's School Road, Cells at Work, Happy Sugar Life, Titan S3, all dropped due to stress I have to assume lol. Asobi Asobase is here but thinking back I may have stopped watching this for a while before going back to finish it.

Wow, OK so I DID watch the first episode? Wasn't a HiDive issue then......

My roommate must not have been into it since we watched everything together at the time.

Revue time.

Really not sure how I managed to skip right past this one when it came out...must have just not had HiDive at the time.

Oh that's wild.

Well Trapezium seems like something that's right up my alley!

https://youtu.be/6hhRE9SESi4?si=9tSsW3NPrVKzlI4m

Looks like it already released overseas? Hopefully not too long a wait.

https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1797266858141225316

My guy like 20% of your followers only joined you because of this what are you doing?

If it's content that people like more power to them, since I'm not watching anyways anymore. I full dropped Spy x Family when it adapted 5 pages into an episode, so my tolerance for this kind of this is low to the ground lol.

I have been informed that this week's Demon Slayer episode adapted 2 pages of manga, and that next week's will as well.

I feel like I need to discover some type of reality bending magic that will allow me to double drop a show I've already dropped, some type of "Super Drop".

I think where it suffered most was the audio, they went with a movie style score even those most of the movie still felt like digest episodes, and as a result the attempts are comedy fell flat a lot of the time that would have landed within an episode. Again, not an issue during the last chunk.

Still would recommend any Haikyuu fan sees it.....and I'm just going to pray they don't pull a Demon Slayer and reformat it into TV episodes to start out another season.

Just got out of the Haikyuu movie with a bunch of friends. Great time, but felt just like a long but slightly rushed episode for most of the runtime. Definitely felt like a movie for the last 3rd or so, though.

Your Lie in April feels like such a huge show when it was airing, not sure why that one seems to have slipped away so much.

Of course I'm not one to talk, I never finished it.

It's about vampires??

https://x.com/MangaMoguraRE/status/1797234444362826142

Also apparently Wuthering Waves has even more MyGO refs that that lol. I saw a chart that implies the profits of Bang Dream more than doubled in China when it added the MyGO. Even on AO3, a primarily English website, 208 of the current 387 fics as of right now are in Chinese.

Man, the Wiki really just didn't not mention any of that at all besides 1 Nijigasaki movie. It doesn't even mention Hasunosora exists, I only knew that from seeing it on Twitter and reading a couple chapters of the manga.

Beat & Motion is so good.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9d11f284.jpg

Seeing lots of Revue Starlight for some reason.

Maybe In should finally tackle that. Feels like it's definitely the best time mood wise.

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I don't expect that to be the way these events go at all. Even if they give her motivation, Yukine is clearly a villainous presence in this series and I don't expect Yoru to let that go in the slightest once she knows the full truth. Really can't state enough how off putting it is that when Yoru was asked about her daughter by her real name, she instead refered to her by her stage name, like she doesn't even recognize Kano as her daughter in the first place. That's not even getting into the extremely brief but off putting presence of Kano's father which they haven't event touched on yet.

This episode was the one that really helped bring Jellyfish back to the forefront as a contendor for anime of the season after slipping further behind GBC last week, and I'm so happy it's staying in the fight. My only big worry is, unlike GBC, I think it will be very difficult for Jellyfish to have a fully satisfying conclusion if it isn't planning on a season 2 with the amount of stuff it has set up, of which we likely wouldn't get confirmation of until the last episode airs at the earliest anyways (to be clear, I can easily see the path for another season of GBC as well, but I can actually see a viable path to an ending with the cour if it came to that).

Of course we could get a scenario where the show ends but continues in the novels, which....would be a shame....