Board 8 > Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 197: Attack on Yaoi OPs

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The end of Franxx is, uhh....the wrong show. I know it's not like this, but it really feels like A1 and Trigger were duking it out through development, A1 handily trouncing them for most of the show, and then at the end Trigger hit them upside the head with a shovel and took the reigns.
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Huh, Stratfor is a real organization. What a twist.
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Sern is real, why wouldn't this be? Jaxa, too.
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Cern you mean. They changed it for SG.
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So I dont think anybody answered when I asked if Spring had anything of value outside of MHA S3 and S;G 0

swordz9 posted...

So I dont think anybody answered when I asked if Spring had anything of value outside of MHA S3 and S;G 0

Megalobox and Hinamatsuri.

Spring does not hold up well in retrospect other than continuing series.
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You've already tried (or at least mentioned) the most popular/most well liked Spring anime. I guess there's also Umamusume if you want horse girl racing and Last Period if you want a lame gacha comedy that knows it's lame and plays into it. Those are both pretty niche though so you should be able to tell if they sound like things you'd enjoy.
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I just watched Megalo Box and I dropped Hinamatsuri after 1 episode, but tazzy said it gets better. Debating if I want to give it another shot

Comic Girls is good times IMO

not worth watching if you don't like Kaos tho
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Ep1 is Comic Girls was pretty good. I thought Kaos was the weakest of the main girls though >_>

I also enjoyed Comic Girls

and thought Kaos was good
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Oh hey, there's Linked Horizon!
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New Anime on MyAnimeList.net: Evangelion: Another Impact (VR)

oh god is it something new!?!?!?! jk
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Damn Franxx Ep 13 got me in the feels good
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swordz9 posted...

I just watched Megalo Box and I dropped Hinamatsuri after 1 episode, but tazzy said it gets better. Debating if I want to give it another shot

if you like slice of life comedy that's also about family, Hinamatsuri will be your favorite for the year.
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Hey swordz, a new mobile game for you

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-08-01/fairy-tail-anime-gets-action-rpg-app-this-fall/.134950
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MAL just messaged me with the Vento Aureo update calling it Ougon no Kaze, and I'm triggered.
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LapisLazuli posted...

MAL just messaged me with the Vento Aureo update calling it Ougon no Kaze, and I'm triggered.

Dude, it was never called Vento Aureo. That's just a made up fan name.
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Should call it Golden Wind for english speaking audiences.
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LapisLazuli posted...

MAL just messaged me with the Vento Aureo update calling it Ougon no Kaze, and I'm triggered.

Why would they do this

welcome to like five years ago when MAL switched to japanese titles for everything
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TexasZea posted...

welcome to like five years ago when MAL switched to japanese titles for everything

Truly a dark day in history
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They're not even consistent on that. Fullmetal Alchemist and Ghost in the Shell are still in their English titles.
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that's when they got rid of those awesome Symphogear subtitles
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FMA is above name switching. I mean who wants to see it called Hagane no Renkinjutsushi

swordz9 posted...

FMA is above name switching. I mean who wants to see it called Hagane no Renkinjutsushi

granzonex
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If I'm remembering it correctly, didn't the narrator call it both? It was like, "Hagane no Renkinjutsushi, Fullmetal Alchemist"
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TexasZea posted...

swordz9 posted...

FMA is above name switching. I mean who wants to see it called Hagane no Renkinjutsushi

granzonex

Ex
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WhiteLens posted...

If I'm remembering it correctly, didn't the narrator call it both? It was like, "Hagane no Renkinjutsushi, Fullmetal Alchemist"

No idea. I only ever watched it dubbed

did you watch this

Gekijyouban Hagane no Renkinjutsushi - Shanbara wo Yuku Mono
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The good ol days watching Hyhaku.
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I might try to watch stuff tonight. I should have at least 1 episode of Cells At Work to watch anyways. Maybe even 2 if the newest episode is already out. Aside from that uh I guess I could watch ep2 of Hinamatsuri and see how it goes.

Cells At Work ep3 - Not as good as the previous two, but I blame that on the lack of Red Blood Cell Hanazawa and this new Naive T Cell being kinda lame.

Hinamatsuri Ep2 - Another psychic character showed up from wherever the hell they come from. Not sure why they gotta travel naked in weird little metal pods they cant open unless a button on the back is pressed. I mean what if somebody landed in the middle of nowhere and was just stuck in it forever? Anyways new girl was around for this first half and then the second half was MC wanting his old life back so he went out drinking and hitting on women, but then he just let Hina tag along in the end anyways and her random school friend. Was ok I guess.

Hinamatsuri ep3 - New girl is back and literally living in a homeless camp now. I guess homeless people using whatever money they can get on alcohol is a worldwide belief. Next part was the school girl being blackmailed into being a bartender and apparently shes amazing at it. That part wasnt too bad. Last part got back to Hina who tried to clean up because I guess she was worried MC might kick her out and have blonde psychic girl live with him instead. She failed at everything unsurprisingly. What a really weird episode. Like what the fuck the first part tries to be emotional with the blonde being homeless and learning the value of money and why people were mad she was stealing from them. The second part tried to be funny with an awkward situation and the last part was really short trying to be funny with Hinas efforts failing, but it just made the episode as a whole feel all over the place.

If you don't like the show after 3 episodes you're never going to like it and should probably drop it now IMO. I don't even really think it got better at all after the first episode, or changed all that much, so I don't see the point of sticking with it.
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LapisLazuli posted...

The good ol days watching Hyhaku.

huh took me a while to get this reference!

I don't believe the Japanese version was every called that!
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Yeah, I think Im done with Hinamatsuri. Just isnt for me I guess.

It also felt like all the other world stuff wasnt gonna matter at all too. Like I dont get the point of making all the psychic girls be from another world where it sounds like theyre forced to do whatever the adults in control of them want. It sounds like the world theyre from was kinda dark and the one girl even said she was sent to kill the other, but it feels like all this background stuff is literally pointless and will probably only even matter again if they do an emotional fakeout episode where Hina seems like shes gonna go back to her world and then doesnt. Maybe Im wrong on my guesses, but it felt like this is a show trying to go for comedy and family feels (Id say its failing at both 3eps in too) while having pointless background origins for the girls.

Its been a while since I talked so much about a show I wasnt really feeling.

So... The Darling in the Franxx ending/last few eps wasn't that bad? Maybe a bit fast paced and the change in plot that happened may have been weird to some but I thought it was fine.

Yeah middle was probably the best part but I still liked just about everything. Wasn't super in love with the show but it was solid fun.
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I finished Vividred Operation today, which I'd been meaning to watch ever since Mac suggested it as an anime that was similar to Katana Maidens. I can kind of see what you meant but it gave me a Strike Witches vibe more than anything (and not just because it's also set in a universe where girls aren't allowed to wear pants for some reason, mostly because of the flying combat and waves of mysterious enemies). Thankfully, it was a lot better than Strike Witches in both plot and characterization, though I felt the battles were a bit lacking. Akane was a really fun character, and I also enjoyed how they handled Rei. It would've been so easy to fumble Rei's writing and turn it into another BS 'I forgive you even though you tried to destroy the world for no reason' anime resolution, but thankfully it wasn't like that. The crow was the one sending the enemies, Rei was just failing at powering them up so she wasn't really responsible for the damages. Her goal was also at least semi-noble in that she thought the engine would destroy the world, even if all of that wound up being misguided. Anyway, it was a neat sci-fi premise to have humanity being tested like that and it had a nice resolution.

It definitely didn't resonate with me as much as Katana Maidens did, mostly because a lot of the early and middle episodes felt too formulaic and meandering, but Vividred Operation was fun and I'm glad I watched it.
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The early episodes were my favorite ones lol. Animation was too good.
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I don't remember much about Vividred

the redhead MC and the emo girl were cool
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Kimetsu no Yaiba (Lead CP)
One Piece
Dr. Stone
Yakusoku no Neverland (CP)
Jujutsu Kaisen
Haikyuu!!
Hot (CP, One Shot)
Boku no Hero Academia
Boku-tachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai
Tanaka Seiji
Alice to Taiyou
Jigoku Raku (CP, Special Chapter)
Black Clover
Gintama
Act-Age
Yuragi-sou no Yuuna-san
Hinomaru Zumou
Kimi wo Shinryaku Seyo!
Noah's Notes
Shokugeki no Souma
Momiji no Kisetsu

- Not much to note here besides the bad food wars showing, but even that's not too unusual.
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Yuuna still at bottom. Hinomaru not looking good either even with an anime on the horizon.

I should give We Can't Study a try
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Anybody read most of those Jump series? I know some people read a couple, but there are others Ive never seen a single person talk about. Never seen anyone talk about Boku-tachi for example.

I remember pj and Voltch talking about Boku-tachi!
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Hmm maybe I just didnt see it then. Im not sure how old some of the series up there are either. Maybe I should get back into reading manga too. I dunno though its not as good reading on a mobile phone or at least none of the places I know of come out that great on mobile

Yeah I talk about We Never Learn regularly enough.

I think it's the reason Yuragi tanked, but at the same time it's a good series.
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Oh is that the English title? I definitely remember you talking about it now.

We Never Learn/We Can't Study/whatever the hell it's called is an enjoyable enough read
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