Poll of the Day > Anime, Manga, VN, JRPG, Related Things Discussion Topic LXXVI

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Still mostly just reading the Malazan series and just finished book 5. Didn't have any luck finding the tenth book at the bookstore, so I'm just gonna have to order it. I did find the last Thomas Covenant book I needed, so I've got that whole series now and I found the first of Esslemont's six Malazan books. Still not playing or watching much though.
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Might I suggest a lighter, happier series when you're all done, Dragon? Reading Malazan and Thomas Covenant at the same time has got to be hella depressing.
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I haven't started on Thomas Covenant yet, just collected the series to read some time after I finish up Malazan. For lighter stuff in between though, there's plenty of anime for that.

Go ahead and suggest the series btw, I'll at least look it up and decide then.
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Of this season, I'm really digging Fate/Apocrypha, Welcome to the ballroom, Made in Abyss, and Kakegurui.
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Oh, Ballroom has already started? Cool.
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looks like Made in Abyss isnt on CR..

dangit
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New Promised Neverland!
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FellWolf posted...

New Promised Neverland!

Even though, the kids seems to be okay, I still don't trust those two "helpful" demons.

But hey, looks like next chapter is gonna be a lore/world-building one, so it's gonna be good!
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T0ffee posted...

FellWolf posted...

New Promised Neverland!

Even though, the kids seems to be okay, I still don't trust those two "helpful" demons.

But hey, looks like next chapter is gonna be a lore/world-building one, so it's gonna be good!

Yeah next chapter does seem... Promising, ha! Musica a cute
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eating4fun posted...

Of this season, I'm really digging Fate/Apocrypha,.

I will have opinions on that ... in November. -_- Why you do this, Netflix?

Picking up the Final Fantasy XII remaster today. I should know better, based on my experiences from getting the PS2 version at launch, but ... Matsuno did work on it, so I feel like I have at least have to try not to hate it.
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I've started playing Persona 4.



I haven't seen her in-game yet, but look how damn cute her blushing portrait she is. That's some top tier waifu.


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Yeah, Rise is super pretty.

Im not even sure who my favorite P4 girl is. ...At least romantically speaking. We all know who the best character really is.
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I am currently playing alot of Dissidia 012 Final fantasy on PSP, that game is awesome.

Was also thinking of playing Jump ultimate stars on DS again, a Japan only Shonen jump crossover fighting game, any fans?

I'm also reading the Dragon ball & Attack on titan manga. Thinking about reading Bleach again, I loved that manga, read up to issue 80 or 90 something last time.

Watched One punch man again the other day, its still 1 of my fav anime, its just EPIC!

Does anyone have recommendations for good mecha manga?
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If you can find it, read Planetes, IMO. Everybody ought to read Planetes.

And Dissidia 012 is good, but it has too much Lightning for me. And Kain taking orders from Lightning is not right.

keyblader1985 posted...

I'm not even sure who my favorite P4 girl is. ... At least romantically speaking. We all know who the best character really is.

That is the down side about P5: It has no Nanako. Very sad.

As far as romance options, difficult call, but I stand by my original choice of Chie.
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Just finished akashic records. It was a pretty well done if somewhat generic show. Some of the music stood out to me as being quite good and it had a few pretty good moments but for the most part was just decent which is fine by me. Not sure what I'll watch next. Not really in the mood for attack on titan season 2 right now but then nothing else is really standing out to me either. I'm worried about kado which was supposedly amazing top tier stuff until around episode 9 where it all went to complete shit and most of the reviews from people that actually finished the show dropped from a 9-10 to a 3-4. I especially hate ruinous endings more than the average viewer so I'm kinda thinking I should avoid the show entirely.

Boring girlfriend season 2 looks sorta interesting but I can't actually figure out if I've seen the first season or not. I think I have maybe but then I didn't mark it on MAL if I did and I don't particularly remember liking it all that much. I guess I can just skim some eps to find out for sure. Perhaps recreators is what I should watch next. Again it has very mixed reviews which is somewhat worrying but I gotta watch something. WorldEnd is the other contender I suppose but I'm not really sure what kind of show it actually is. Maybe I'll watch an episode or 2 to find out. Shingeki no bahamut and boku no hero season 2s both look good but they are still airing. Hm.
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guys

guys

there's a new translated chapter of plunder

it's not dead like i thought (even though there's about 17 un translated chapters out there so not sure what's going on there)

HOWEVER.

there's three chapters of blue exorcist that i haven't read.

my apps only go up to chapter 89, and there's three chapters more that...haven't been translated officially by anyone?

i don't know. it's really weird because it's a monthly manga, and chapter 89 came out last month, and 88 the month prior, so somewhere along the way the manga fanlations became three months behind.

i also caught up on shield hero.

why do only monthly mangas seem to be the good ones
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@helly Have you tried http://mangapark.me/ ? That's were I read most manga, they have pretty much anything you could want.
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my app searches through

mangapanda
mangareader
mangahere
mangafox
kissmanga
mangaeden
mangastream
tadd
ninemanga
readmangatoday
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I like to download anime/manga instead of streaming, do that limits my options a bit (especially for manga).

Speaking of, I wanna know why Conan has been just a few chapters shy of 1000 for several months now. I don't know if it's due to slow translators, or if it's on one of its frequent hiatuses (hiati?).
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Woo! I got a pretty big payday from housesitting for a month. I got around $300.

Now I have to wonder which console I'm gonna get.

I really want a WiiU since I really really want to play Xenoblade, Bayonetta, and Wind Waker. And if I do that, I might as well get Breath of the Wild as well. But is it worth buying a console for just 4 games?
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If you do get a Wii U, I've got a copy of New Super Mario Bros. U that's been sitting around for years (I don't have a Wii U), so you could have it. I was gonna do a giveaway for it, but I don't mind either way.
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YoukaiSlayer posted...

Just finished akashic records. It was a pretty well done if somewhat generic show. Some of the music stood out to me as being quite good and it had a few pretty good moments but for the most part was just decent which is fine by me. Not sure what I'll watch next. Not really in the mood for attack on titan season 2 right now but then nothing else is really standing out to me either. I'm worried about kado which was supposedly amazing top tier stuff until around episode 9 where it all went to complete shit and most of the reviews from people that actually finished the show dropped from a 9-10 to a 3-4. I especially hate ruinous endings more than the average viewer so I'm kinda thinking I should avoid the show entirely.

Kado didn't go to complete shit. The direction changed from intriguing sci-fi, to anime bullshit at that mark which was certainly disappointing, but I still managed to enjoy the show. MetaspoilerDeus ex machina has been around since greek theater, and believe it or not, people say it has intrinsic values despite all the criticisms of it. I think some of it's values shine here. Also, because the direction changed at ep 9 instead of the final episode, I wasn't even angry at the Deus ex machina, but rather impressed and amused by it. I would go as far to say that I don't think I've ever been so amused by such a blatant, shameless asspull.
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@keyblader1985 Were do you download your Anime & manga? I don't have WIFI so its easier for me to read manga, but if there's a site were you can download Anime episodes, for, say 60 meg or less, please tell!
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keyblader1985 posted...

If you do get a Wii U, I've got a copy of New Super Mario Bros. U that's been sitting around for years (I don't have a Wii U), so you could have it. I was gonna do a giveaway for it, but I don't mind either way.

Hey thanks man! That's pretty awesome of you!

I remembered that the Wii U also has Virtual console and is backwards compatible with the Wii. I've always wanted to play Metroid prime, so I guess now would be a good time to get into that.

Also, I was looking around at stuff for the Wii U and I remembered about that SMT x FE game, Tokyo Mirage Sessions.

Anyone here played it? What do you think?
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OlorinTheOtaku posted...

@keyblader1985 Were do you download your Anime & manga? I don't have WIFI so its easier for me to read manga, but if there's a site were you can download Anime episodes, for, say 60 meg or less, please tell!

man, would a 60MB episode be like, 240p?
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helIy posted...

OlorinTheOtaku posted...

@keyblader1985 Were do you download your Anime & manga? I don't have WIFI so its easier for me to read manga, but if there's a site were you can download Anime episodes, for, say 60 meg or less, please tell!

man, would a 60MB episode be like, 240p?

When I had slow internet, I still watched high quality stuff cause I would just let it download over night while I was sleeping. I mean, at that time, I wouldn't even watch youtube cause I could only watch videos on there at like 360p max. And that's horrible!!!
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keyblader1985 posted...

I like to download anime/manga instead of streaming, do that limits my options a bit (especially for manga).

Speaking of, I wanna know why Conan has been just a few chapters shy of 1000 for several months now. I don't know if it's due to slow translators, or if it's on one of its frequent hiatuses (hiati?).

I'm pretty sure chapter 997 came out today I think
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Yeah, I was looking at the link Olorin gave, which prompted me to ask.
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@AllstarSniper32 "When I had slow internet, I still watched high
quality stuff cause I would just let it download
over night while I was sleeping. I mean, at that
time, I wouldn't even watch youtube cause I could
only watch videos on there at like 360p max. And
that's horrible!!!"

Its not that I have "Slow internet", its that I have a limit on how much I can use. Its not uncapped, I don't have unlimited WIFI, I usually end up getting 1 to 3 gig per month. Then there's also the case of storing the anime, I don't really have a great pc, so I only have around 250 gig space for storage & that's already pretty full. So its easier for me to get manga, works out to 2 to 15 meg to download an issue. To watch YouTube I just download the vids from a site, a 10 minute YT vid would work out to about 6 meg.

LOL, some people don't know how lucky they are.
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I could not deal with 3 gigs a month.
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I regularly burn through my 250 gigs a month and I stream all my shit. How do you live? Some games are almost 100 gigs at this point.
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Sometimes I get more but, 3 gig is roughly the average amount I get every month though last month I got 10 gig.
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I don't really have a gaming PC, I do most of my gaming on consoles & handhelds. I really wish I could afford uncaped infinite WIFI, but unfortunately its just not an option at the moment for me...
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@YoukaiSlayer said "Some
games are almost 100 gigs at this point."

Are you referring to the size to download a game? Or maybe the amount it uses to play online games or something? LOL, the biggest game on my PC is the 6 Gig GTA san andreas.
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Well ok I'm mostly speaking of ark (80 gigs + giant mods) and tera (52 gigs IIRC). Its pretty easy to download a 10-15 gig game and then get 30 gigs worth of mods. I'm also a little unsure exactly how I burn through 250 gigs some months. I've only actually gone over once but a lot of times I cut it close. I struggle to keep room on my PC which has a measly 1 terabyte.
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That sounds a lot like me in the past, and kind of the present. Truth be told, I don't even have internet at home; that's my main issue. 90 percent of my web surfing is done on my phone; if I really want to download something big, then I go to the library next to my job.
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OlorinTheOtaku posted...

Sometimes I get more but, 3 gig is roughly the average amount I get every month though last month I got 10 gig.

you have a variable bandwidth cap?

I've never heard of that
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@YoukaiSlayer "I struggle to keep room
on my PC which has a measly 1 terabyte."

Like I said, some people don't know how lucky they are. My PC has two 74 GIG hard drives & then I have 2 flash drives, one 34 gig, the other 8 gig.
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@helly said: "you have a variable bandwidth cap?"

My network provider has this offer were they randomly give you 1 gig for 1 week for R12, that's roughly 1 Dollar. The catch is you can only use it at night. I usually end up getting around 2 to 5 of those offers every month.

Then for normal data; for Googling things, using Twitter or going on gamefaq, I use a 200 meg data bundle that costs R40 & lasts a month, that's around 4 Dollars. I am considering raising it to the 400 meg per month for R60 (6 Dollars) though.
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I can't speak for any of that, but I would certainly look into the library as an option for downloading. And a 32GB SD card is like ten bucks or less, and flash drives are usually cheaper.
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Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention, I have a 32 Gig SD card for my tablet & a 8 Gig one for my phone.

Any way, we're getting abit off topic, sorry TC.
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I've been reading School Rumble again, partly because of the cosplay, but mainly because it's just awesome.

I like stories that do the Love Dodecahedron thing, but there actually aren't many of them (that are half decent at least). I love and recommend Hatsukoi Limited, which is pretty much School Rumble with slightly less emphasis on comedy/slapstick. Rumble is hilarious and all, but when the story/character development gets rolling it gets amazing. I wish the last parts of the manga got adapted to anime.
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More posts in a single night than this topic has had in the past week. Impressive.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Boring girlfriend season 2 looks sorta interesting but I can't actually figure out if I've seen the first season or not.

My Crunchyroll buddies are almost all in agreement that Season 2 is a disappointment. Not a major disappointment, but not equal to the original Saekano at all. Might be worth seeing if you do decide that you have already been through Season 1.

My wife and I are preparing to tackle the PS4 remaster of FFXII, since she beat P5 again and is ready for a break. Hoping that the tweaks to game play make it more tolerable this time. ... And I am going to ignore that Vaan and Penelo exist. Balthier is the main character. End of line.
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OlorinTheOtaku posted...

Any way, we're getting abit off topic, sorry TC.

No biggie, internet problems are something I deal with a lot so I can understand your pain, welcome to the topic too!

I_Abibde posted...

My Crunchyroll buddies are almost all in agreement that Season 2 is a disappointment. Not a major disappointment, but not equal to the original Saekano at all. Might be worth seeing if you do decide that you have already been through Season 1.

Funny how this gets mentioned literally a few hours after I finish watching it myself.. but yes, overall S2 is kinda disappointing, the dialogue in particular- a very well done part of S1- is much weaker overall, the last few episodes however are a definite step up in quality which leaves it as a mixed bag
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The ISP in my area just imposed a 1TB limit which if you pass you have to pay per x amount of GB. I'm sorry for those with really low caps. :(
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OlorinTheOtaku posted...

Any way, we're getting abit off topic, sorry TC.

lol, there really isn't any sort of rules about what we discuss here, don't worry! :P

It's more or less become a hangout for the same group of peeps who started out discussing anime and stuff, and then started discussing whatever.

Oh and welcome!
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I_Abibde posted...

My wife and I are preparing to tackle the PS4 remaster of FFXII, since she beat P5 again and is ready for a break. Hoping that the tweaks to game play make it more tolerable this time. ... And I am going to ignore that Vaan and Penelo exist. Balthier is the main character. End of line.

considering baltheir has been in like 7 spinoff games and the others haven't, it's safe to assume that square thinks he's the Mc too
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OMG this video made me realize Tatsumaki has a really nice ass in one punch man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2WVJlmuWZI
You only have to watch the first 30 seconds to catch it


http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/254/096/cd8.jpg
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How old is she
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@deoxxys "OMG this video made me realize Tatsumaki has a
really nice ass in one punch man."

LOL! I always thought it didn't really look like she was sporting underwear under that dress thing she wears! Kinda weird fashion choice considering she's always floating around above people...
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