Board 8 > Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 187: Not Baseball Season

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Dammit the Captain Tsubasa fansub is trash. Loads of grammatical errors and it translates it as football when the characters are calling it soccer.
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Dammit no OP in Franxx this week.
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https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/preview-guide/2018/spring/magical-girl-site/.130090

Yes these are the reviews I wanted to see.

I'm all in on this dumpster fire.
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when's P5
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Wooooh boy what a flat start for HeroAca. Just a hype melter.

BK_Sheikah00 posted...

when's P5

Now.
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I mean it's a recap episode with a little fluff for fun, what were you expecting to make it a hype melter for you
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Wow, Hinamatsuri was amazing! Probably the best of the season so far. So much more to it than I expected. <3
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Woop woop, Amanchu Advance episode one was great! I love these characters and their heartwarming friendship. Pretty Derby has finally lost its position as potential anime of the season.
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Oh that was like the one new show I had any interest in this season. Maybe I will actually try it after all.
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Robapinions strike again
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You mean liking Amanchu or Pretty Derby as early AotS? It was only ahead of Comic Girls so far >_>
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https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/8aiesg/my_hero_season_3_op_sounds_better_with_tokyo/

to be fair the tokyo ghoul song could probably work with a lot of anime ops but it does combo well here

i also just dont like the mha 3 song too much
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Amanchu! is absolutely terrible
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th3l3fty posted...

Pretty Derby is absolutely terrible

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Yeah well maybe you guys are absolutely terrible did you ever think of that
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I mostly liked Amanchu, but it had a few vocal haters here if I remember.
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I tried real hard to watch Amanchu because I liked the character designs a lot, but I could only make it 4 episodes.

KommunistKoala posted...

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/8aiesg/my_hero_season_3_op_sounds_better_with_tokyo/

to be fair the tokyo ghoul song could probably work with a lot of anime ops but it does combo well here

i also just dont like the mha 3 song too much

It's weird hearing Uverworld in the year of our lord 2018.
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Pretty Derby is pretty bad
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Um...I think HiDive already has Cutie Honey. It doesn't air in Japan until tomorrow.
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it's already tomorrow in japan
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Ok was finally able to get on break and watch HeroAca

I thought that was a cool way to do a recap episode, no complaints here (outside of it being a recap but hey what can ya do). And I liked how they even called out Bakugo, Todoroki and Iida with "HEY YOU FUCKS YOU DIDN'T EVEN SWIM"

On the OP, I actually really dig it! The song is really fuckin weird for the animation happening, but I kind of like it more because of that? It sticks out to me, which is better than being forgettable and generic. 1st OP still the best imo but I quite enjoy this one. And the ending is really good too! I like a lot of the scenes and things they do for it.
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Mac Arrowny posted...

it's already tomorrow in japan

...I'm well aware. It airs in 17 hours.
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Hinamatsuri episode 1 pretty cool. Not expecting a 10/10 or anything but it's looking like an enjoyable show at least.
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Oh hey Mashimas new manga is gonna debut in late June. Hes also apparently gonna do a Fairy Tail sequel and spinoff series too. Its kinda amazing how much he can do all at once while some other manga creators out there do multiple series at once and then basically put them all on indefinite hiatus.

Also holy shit I got curious if it was ever coming back so I looked up Highschool of the Dead and apparently the writer for it died last year. I had no idea :(

well its not like he's working on particularly difficult stories or narratives
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Holy moly Gurazeni is awful. Let's break down the dumb stuff here.

- MC is dull as hell. His only motivation is how much money he makes, and all he talks about is his salary and the salary of other players
- Some guy gets sent down to the minors because of a single bad at-bat, so I don't really know how a team functions under that mindset. Like, if you drop every player after one bad at-bat, you're not going to have a good roster. Similarly, if pitchers get sent down from one bad inning, that means you're going to have a really shitty pitching staff. This makes no sense.
- The CG is a joke. Every complex movement is done with CG while the rest is traditional animation. It's stiff and grating.
- Apparently commentators need to have prediction skills in order to be successful, rather than simply being enjoyable to listen to. Maybe this is a thing in Japan? Most MLB commentators just shoot the shit and provide fun statistics, then yell when exciting stuff happens. They make a pretty big deal about the commentator not knowing who the starter will be for the next game.
- Speaking of, apparently there's no starting rotation lmao
- The MC is brought in to start for basically no explained reason (He's a reliever), goes into the fifth inning allowing 4 earned runs on only 49 pitches. Yeah, that's possible, but I'm pretty skeptical about how much the creator actually watches baseball.
- In this game, you see him throw one pitch and the rest of the game is given to you through a monologue
- "There's money buried under the pitch" just in case you didn't realize. We'll see that line at least 40 times though
- Literally right after typing that, the MC quotes it and says, "That's a phrase you hear a lot!"
- The MC is ugly

Well shit, guess I'll have to stick to 3D baseball to get my fix.
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Isn't there another Baseball anime this season?

Does HiDive...also have the Cutie Honey exclusive? Bitches better get a TV app working or I'm gonna have to start hating.
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Yeah, theres Major 2nd

Major 2nd but I would like to watch the first 100+ episodes first.

Damn this Internet
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So happy MHA went with one piece swimsuits over bikinis. What a great show.
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Would it be worth watching the new MHA episode if I literally just watched through the series or is it primarily a recap? I skipped 13.5 at the start of season two.

Also I still have a few episodes left before I'm fully caught up but MHA is great and currently in my top five anime. Hopefully this is my first uncontroversial anime opinion.
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It has a couple funny parts
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I'm convinced everyone loves My Hero Academia lol.

I am very much not a shounen fan, but it's probably in my top 25 or so?
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Yea the new episode has some fun new stuff mixed in to keep it entertaining even as it's recapping

Also yay more HeroAca love
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This is a thing?

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2018/04/07-1/prepare-to-meet-the-new-faces-of-the-ingress-anime

Give us a Pokemon GO anime while they're at it. Don't ask me how that would work.
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pyresword posted...

I'm convinced everyone loves My Hero Academia lol.

I am very much not a shounen fan, but it's probably in my top 25 or so?

We had a lot of haters here while the first season was airing.

I was called out specifically for expressing my enjoyment of it!
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Hero Academia is hype. It raises red flags of mine that usually keep me away from stuff, but it turned out so hype.

Oh how I missed you


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tazzyboyishere posted...

Dammit the Captain Tsubasa fansub is trash. Loads of grammatical errors and it translates it as football when the characters are calling it soccer.

I should say, in the mobile game, they use Football instead of Soccer even on the English language. The game uses British English, so they just know that most Americans don't give a shit about Soccer.
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tazzyboyishere posted...

Holy moly Gurazeni is awful. Let's break down the dumb stuff here.

- MC is dull as hell. His only motivation is how much money he makes, and all he talks about is his salary and the salary of other players
- Some guy gets sent down to the minors because of a single bad at-bat, so I don't really know how a team functions under that mindset. Like, if you drop every player after one bad at-bat, you're not going to have a good roster. Similarly, if pitchers get sent down from one bad inning, that means you're going to have a really shitty pitching staff. This makes no sense.
- The CG is a joke. Every complex movement is done with CG while the rest is traditional animation. It's stiff and grating.
- Apparently commentators need to have prediction skills in order to be successful, rather than simply being enjoyable to listen to. Maybe this is a thing in Japan? Most MLB commentators just shoot the shit and provide fun statistics, then yell when exciting stuff happens. They make a pretty big deal about the commentator not knowing who the starter will be for the next game.
- Speaking of, apparently there's no starting rotation lmao
- The MC is brought in to start for basically no explained reason (He's a reliever), goes into the fifth inning allowing 4 earned runs on only 49 pitches. Yeah, that's possible, but I'm pretty skeptical about how much the creator actually watches baseball.
- In this game, you see him throw one pitch and the rest of the game is given to you through a monologue
- "There's money buried under the pitch" just in case you didn't realize. We'll see that line at least 40 times though
- Literally right after typing that, the MC quotes it and says, "That's a phrase you hear a lot!"
- The MC is ugly

Well shit, guess I'll have to stick to 3D baseball to get my fix.

lmao this sounds awful
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It and Dances with Dragons are going to be fighting it out hard for most worthless pieces of shit this season.
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LapisLazuli posted...

It and Dances with Dragons are going to be fighting it out hard for most worthless pieces of shit this season.

gonna have to wait in line behind the slavery anime
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I wanna say we shouldn't assume, but I know in my heart you're right.
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what is this slavery anime? I'm a little curious to see how much of a shitshow it is
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Bane_Of_Despair posted...

what is this slavery anime? I'm a little curious to see how much of a shitshow it is

https://myanimelist.net/anime/36525/Dorei-ku_The_Animation
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Like maybe it can be like Magical Girl Site and be such unapologetic trash that it's incredible....but I think it's just gonna be shit. Site is...it's art.
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soma's attitude in this match is dumb as hell
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Nah it's what makes him cool. He doesn't give a shit about the drama, he just wants to make awesome food. Plus it's more tense knowing they're winging it.
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Just about everyone I've spoken to says Soma gets worse and worse as it goes, these being people that like/liked it.
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some parts are better, some parts are worse
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