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

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keyblader1985 posted...

Where does season two end, out of curiosity? Haven't watched it but I'm reading the manga.

Just a bit after Meliodas revives after going through purgatory and killing Fraudrin
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I hope we get a s3 of Nanatsu no Taizai.
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I_Abibde posted...

Still boycotting Winged Cloud here, too. Granted, I already have most of their stuff, but, after I found out the truth about them, I stopped buying it.

I do not know if Huniepot will be able to get the original Huniepop artist back for any sequels, though, since Dharker Studios is basically up his ass at this point. (Seriously, it's like he's doing every single game for them now, barring the ones Nick Beja is doing.)

Damn yeah.

https://steamcommunity.com/id/kimgaemandoo/recommended/813700/

I didn't know the truth about the company until their latest release. Well, the review writer's profile looks like some kind of rebel. lol

At the very least, the "Yes" numbers that have been put on the review, I'm glad that many people have learned about them.

Pentazemin posted...

I_Abibde posted...

Still boycotting Winged Cloud here, too. Granted, I already have most of their stuff, but, after I found out the truth about them, I stopped buying it.

I do not know if Huniepot will be able to get the original Huniepop artist back for any sequels, though, since Dharker Studios is basically up his ass at this point. (Seriously, it's like he's doing every single game for them now, barring the ones Nick Beja is doing.)

Damn yeah.

https://steamcommunity.com/id/kimgaemandoo/recommended/813700/

I didn't know the truth about the company until their latest release. Well, the review writer's profile looks like some kind of rebel. lol

At the very least, the "Yes" numbers that have been put on the review, I'm glad that many people have learned about them.

That review seems a little odd. The prevailing community sentiment towards early winged cloud games is that the writing was absolute shit garbage but the artwork was good.

The reason to not support winged cloud is cause the owner is literally a criminal scumbag lying and extorting people as well as possibly keeping wanaca (the artist of most of the games) in some sort of cult like situation where she has no access to her social media which is instead being kept up falsely by the guy running winged cloud. When his previous scams were uncovered he just closed up shop and opened a new company, several times, before he ended up opening winged cloud. He is a vile lying bastard who literally deserves serious jail time but no one has the hard evidence yet to put him away.
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https://steamcommunity.com/id/kimgaemandoo/recommended/581520/
- I think he's involved in the Scam that Winged Cloud had in 2017.

https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?p=490325

Perhaps this person is individually tracking Winged Cloud. (I can see quite a lot of sarcasms in the examples of questions. or just my feels...)

Pentazemin posted...

Perhaps this person is individually tracking Winged Cloud. (I can see quite a lot of sarcasms in the examples of questions. or just my feels...)

Certainly seems that way. That might be taking the whole thing a bit far, IMO.
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Yay I got hat n time from hmble monthly

2 eps left in dxd s2. As much as I like this show, I don't blaze through it like others.
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Anime that revolves around ecchi has become less interesting to me now that I've got laid a bunch.

I know that makes me sound like a tool butt it's correct. The magical mystery of women has diminshed with more experience. There lies some more beyond the horizon but it won't come from anime.

When I was actually getting laid I still liked ecchi a lot. Ecchi girls don't act remotely human anyway. I like the lighthearted sexy atmosphere they set up and maintain. Just feels like a fun time beyond its very light pornographic value.
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There's just something enjoyable about hulking out for boobs. Also, like Youkai said, these girls will never exist in real life lol.
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Speaking of the wonderful boobs of anime tittays:

https://imgur.com/0Ax5xDK

i stole this from deltas topic

I love cam whores.

I stumbled on a manga called Uwagaki and started on it. There's this guy who likes his classmate, but she doesn't like him and already has a boyfriend. Their teacher pops up out of nowhere and says he wants to know if she would fall for her guy if she wasn't already dating someone, and with no warning or explanation, suddenly makes a clone of the girl on the spot.

He wipes the clone's mind of all memories of the boyfriend, and tells the guy and the clone to start spending time together as an experiment. After a certain time period, he would merge the two girls and their memories together again, and who she decides to date would be dependent on whoever she had stronger feelings for; the guy or the boyfriend.

It's weird, but funny, and pretty good. There's also a goat.
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keyblader1985 posted...

I love cam whores.

I stumbled on a manga called Uwagaki and started on it. There's this guy who likes his classmate, but she doesn't like him and already has a boyfriend. Their teacher pops up out of nowhere and says he wants to know if she would fall for her guy if she wasn't already dating someone, and with no warning or explanation, suddenly makes a clone of the girl on the spot.

He wipes the clone's mind of all memories of the boyfriend, and tells the guy and the clone to start spending time together as an experiment. After a certain time period, he would merge the two girls and their memories together again, and who she decides to date would be dependent on whoever she had stronger feelings for; the guy or the boyfriend.

It's weird, but funny, and pretty good. There's also a goat.

Thanks for the awesome recommendation keyblade.

Read it after seeing your post, and I blazed through it because I just wanted to keep reading and see what would happen next.

The characters are all very well written and it really explores a lot of the consequences and effects of the initial premise, and does it all without any dips in the pacing and storytelling.

If you like short stories which have fulfilling endings like that, try reading Itsuya-san by Sahara Mizu and Futari no Renai Shoka by Yamazaki Kore (the same mangaka as Ancient Magus Bride).
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I am a fan of Sahara Mizu; I like My Girl, Tetsugaku Letra, and Bus Hashiru. I'll have to check those out.

Also, that game they played in that one chapter seems weird as fuck.
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Finished up darling in the franxx. Watched from episode 17 to the end in this sitting. I feel like I can't say much without spoiling something. I guess it was pretty good though. Idk I guess I need time to process it all. A lot happened in the last few episodes. Glad I finally sat down to finish it off.
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YoukaiSlayer posted...

Finished up darling in the franxx. Watched from episode 17 to the end in this sitting. I feel like I can't say much without spoiling something. I guess it was pretty good though. Idk I guess I need time to process it all. A lot happened in the last few episodes. Glad I finally sat down to finish it off.

Heh
I literally just finished the last episode if it myself.
Like you I'm not sure what I think of it, a friend of mine saw it and really disliked it but... I don't really think it was bad, I mean there is a lot of melodrama but it does fit in with the theme of the show, I was also shocked that so few characters were killed off, I was expecting at least half of the main cast to get KIA at some point, even Hiro and 02 seem to come back at the very end too
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About Darling - the moment aliens showed up it all drastically went downhill. Like if the author got sick and story was finished by his kid.
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Yamaneko22 posted...

it all drastically went downhill

must
avoid
darling spoilers

Yamaneko22 posted...

About Darling - the moment aliens showed up it all drastically went downhill. Like if the author got sick and story was finished by his kid.

Yeah
That really made me shake my head, after that happened I set my expectations for the rest of the episodes accordingly
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On to s3 of dxd for my rewatch. Also, finished the 5 girls' side stories in Grisaia 2 and started on the main route finally. I know Yuuji's past is messed up, but forgot a lot of the details.
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I don't think that surprising darling revelation was actually as surprising as it appeared.

First we have people talking about leaving the shells of their body throughout the anime. Then we have a few of the APE people killed and they are clearly hollow as in like no body at all. This would imply some people already have been freed from their bodies. This all related to scientists that showed up out of the blue and revolutionize our species almost overnight.

Also VIRMAPE is an anagram for vampire and they were here to suck the world dry of its lifeblood (the magma energy). I mean when it happened initially I was pretty annoyed and feeling like it was just a shit plot turn but after some thought it wasn't too bad. I mean we KNEW that klaxosaurs would not end up being evil and that leaves us with like 6 dudes in some outerspace fortress as the only possible villains which wouldn't be that exciting to fight against.

PLUS it's ripping off of eva so clearly unit 002 I mean zero two has to nearly kill herself fighting off mass produced husks of what she is piloting and clearly shinji/hiro has to get unit 001's powers and fight against the instrumentality project/VIRM. They even tried to throw in a gay subtext scene with a blonde boy and our main guy near the end that results in blonde boy sacrificing himself for main guy and the fate of humanity despite himself being a different species. All it's missing is a piano. So upon thinking about it, this is just eva with slightly more sex metaphors. Fortunately I fucking love eva. Unfortunately I loath babies and pregnancy so eva is still best series between the two.
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Maybe I'll watch darling after I'm out of DxD.
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I haven't mentioned it, but it's convention weekend for me. I didn't really have much time to prepare for it since I've been busy all week, and all day yesterday. I also decided pull the trigger on the Static Shock cosplay, although I don't like the wig I got.
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New MHA chapter is epic. Also feeds pretty heavily into a popular fan theory.
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Well I don't have the same problem I had with my last two cosplays; that nobody recognized who I was. I've gotten a ton of compliments in the short time I've been in costume. (Though one person mistook me for Black Lightning.)

I also recognize for the first time the hassle of frequently being asked to pose for a photo. It's not even that I mind doing it; just that I have to take my glove off to use my phone, then back on for a picture, then back off again for the phone..
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Hero academia has such great consistency that its fantastic when a really good part somes around

dioxxys posted...

Hero academia has such great consistency that its fantastic when a really good part somes around

I really wanna see s3. Already decided that after this season ends and I can catch up, I'm going to start the manga, to stay up to date.
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https://imgur.com/scX1erH
https://imgur.com/7HuXikG
https://imgur.com/Vmgct5r

keyblader1985 posted...

Well I don't have the same problem I had with my last two cosplays; that nobody recognized who I was. I've gotten a ton of compliments in the short time I've been in costume. (Though one person mistook me for Black Lightning.)

Kek.
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I gotta let my pervert flag fly for a moment; I'm disappointed they didn't bring back the Lip Synch Battle this year. The event itself is fun enough - but nowhere else in the world will you see anime, comic and other characters singing, dancing, and dropping it like it's hot. Seeing a Tatsumaki cosplayer doing it last year is kinda.. stapled in my memory.
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Static Shock. *thumbs up* Dwayne McDuffie R.I.P.

Showing my age here, but I hurt my back at work, so I have been stuck on the couch since Tuesday morning to recuperate. Watched a ton of anime. Got my wife to get into Stardust Crusaders with me, and she loves it. Also got her to watch Tonari no Seki-kun, and she loves that, too. And Danmachi. ... Batting 1,000 despite being doped up, haha.
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Finally got back to continuing the early going of Naruto and, during the end of the Chunin Exams (aka the Konoha Crush arc), I was amused to see in the subs that Orochimaru repeatedly insulted Sarotobi by calling him a dotard or, at times, an old dotard (which is redundant as fuck, but whatever). I guess that rarely-encountered word is pretty popular in translations >_>

Also I remembered the Naruto v Gaara fight as being a lot longer. I had also forgotten (or maybe I never saw) when Temari attempted to slow down Sasuke.
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https://imgur.com/WT2hlVj
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Man I'm looking for an rpg to play but I just feel like they all pale in comparison to xenoblade, xenoblade X, and FF 12. Specifically the worlds. XCX especially just feels like it ruined all the rest for me. I can't really go back to games that don't have an actual ecosystem of enemies (of varying levels). The fact that every area in that game is a beginner area and a mid game area and an end game area makes the effective world so much larger than other games where you can only meaningfully engage with a small fraction of the world at a time cause you are pitifully underleveled for some areas and massively overleveled for basically every area you already went through.

That one small feature of mixing in enemies of all levels and types into every area has such a massive impact on the feel of the game that everything without it just feels fake and disappointing. Not only does it mean that previous stuff but it also changes how you approach traveling throughout the game. Initially you are a little low level bitch and you gotta be real damn careful but as you level up you can overpower an increasing number of enemies and get better at identifying the ones you can't so you can travel more and more confidently. The skells and flight just add to that until eventually you are top dog and only have to fear a small handful of superbosses.

I guess FF 13 did a similar thing on gran pulse. Why doesn't literally every open world rpg with on screen enemies do this? Why aren't there more jrpgs focused on exploration in the first place (or alternatively bethesda could make a fantasy world thats visually more appealing). I almost wish I'd never played either of the xenoblade games.
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Watched the first 2 episodes of that badminton anime cause it had some hype and was done or written or something by the haikyuu people. It was ok. The animation is totally solid and the character designs feel unique and nice (the boobs are great and somehow seem a lot more realistic than normal anime).

The story is recycled sports junk. Talent vs effort, ex-pro that quit, genius coach (that is essentially the exact same character as the guy in the horse girl anime from last season right down to the groping of relevant sport muscles and coming across as a pervert).

So far I'm on the fence. It has not captured my desire as much as haikyuu. That show made me care about volleyball temporarily, this show has not made me care about badminton. Part of it just the sport itself. Its fuckin badminton, and I can't help but laugh in a lot of scenes that are serious because it's about such a silly sport. It's also very melodramatic. I'll probably watch a little more but could easily end up dropping it.
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Never been able to get all that into sports anime/manga since it's often handled the same way as CCG anime/manga but somehow even more goofy. And I kinda giggled when I heard Badminton anime, given that Badminton is such a less-known sport. Meanwhile I'm pretty sure we haven't had a bowling anime >_>
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quigonzel posted...

I have yet to find a sports anime since Slam Dunk and Prince of Tennis that was able to really suck me in.

Kuroko was good. I haven't tried Haikyu yet.
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Finished watching 2nd season of The Disastrous Life of Saiki :( When started this series I didn't expect it will be this good. Author has a healthy sense of humour. Hopefully there will be 3rd season, but I heard bad new that there's no new manga :(
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I fully recommend haikyuu. Even if you don't end up liking the story or characters its at the very least an 11/10 master production. The soundtrack is amazing and would make drinking a glass of water into an epic endeavor, the animation is top notch and really helps to sell everything but the real standout is the direction and cinematography. It's rarely utilized much in anime but the quick precise cuts and sound effects in haikyuu is something amazing and synergizes so well with the animation. The impact of the main characters "quick" (a move in volleyball) is incredible.

I think thats part of what is missing from hanebado (the badminton anime). It's hard to really understand badminton and its skill by just watching the opening match. We see that it's well animated but it's not easy to understand why one side is better or how.

In haikyuu even in the very first match it's made immediately and easily understandable even before you know anything about the sport. The action itself is directed in such a way that it's understandable all on its own.

In hanebado I just see them hitting the... idk what its called. The thing they hit, I guess. The speed doesn't really seem to matter, I don't really understand the placement or what is easy or hard to return. It all just feels random from my uninformed perspective. The last practice match against the coach showed a little bit and peaked my interested slightly.

I think they got carried away animating the opening match honestly. They should have either spent less time on it and gotten into current stuff faster or spent enough time on it to really explain to the audience what was happening aside from one side slaughtering the other side. They needed to show us what about the winner was actually good and why the loser was unable to match them if they were going to spend as much time on it as they did.
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I don't know if Keijo counts as sports, shounen, or both, but it really hooked me.

Other than that I don't think I've checked out many sports series. I liked Hikaru no Go (essentially a sports series), Bamboo Blade, and One Pound Gospel.
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Keijo is the true sport. I hope we get a second season eventually. Preferably with more yuri.
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oh shit

keyblader1985 posted...

https://imgur.com/WT2hlVj

*thumbs up*

How did it go over?

YoukaiSlayer posted...

In hanebado I just see them hitting the... idk what its called. The thing they hit, I guess.

The technical term is 'shuttlecock', but I usually hear it called a 'birdie'.
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Static was really popular. I'm sure a lot of the reason is because you just don't see him anymore. I could barely go twenty feet without getting complimented or asked for a photo.

I also kinda made buddies with a Flash, which felt really cool somehow. And I saw a guy wearing one of those Ahegao shirts and we joked a bit over it.

I didn't check out the Japanese bands this year; it seems like we only ever get visual kei or pop groups. But we also had a great local band that I liked, and I picked up a CD by the pillows. (Also found out the pillows are currently doing a US tour; I wish I could have gone.) Next year we're going to have Senanan, and ice with hyu-ga (hyu-ga was here before, with a different group).
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So I watched how not to summon a demon Lord. It's a very heavily fanserviced show, has the whole Opie main character deal going on, I hate to say I like it but I do

dioxxys posted...

So I watched how not to summon a demon Lord. It's a very heavily fanserviced show, has the whole Opie main character deal going on, I hate to say I like it but I do

Fan service can be really nice when done right, or get boring when done too much, like in Queen's Blade.
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Oh and theres a girl type for everyone.
Feminists would hate this show, all the women are sexualized even the big bad villain lol:
Its like a big scary demon but with huge tits.
(barely qualifies as a spoiler)

So yeah if you are a straight male youll love it.

I fapped.

can we talk about the index s3 teaser instead of huge anime tiddies