Board 8 > Anime & Manga Discussion Topic 280: One Step Closer to Heaven

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Yes, Odd Taxi was amazing. Very highly recommend.

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I will agree with Odd Taxi and Vivy as well, though I haven't finished yet.

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SK8 is great
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Tried to watch Akudama Drive, but it came across "too" forced in the episode I saw. I usually like those seedier crime shows too.

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Finished Angel Beats. The stakes could have been fleshed out more with the "antagonists" near the end, but I'd be lying if I said the ending itself wasn't powerful as shit regardless. The show really hit hard when it needed to.

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Mac Arrowny posted...

SK8 is great

I've only seen the first two episodes but I really liked it. will finish once I get a funimation account

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Sk8 is great, Odd Taxi is also great

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Hey guys, Odd Taxi is great. Why aren't there any posts saying that?
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https://youtu.be/DHwmFCVJIzs

Out 10/29 in theaters

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more like mid taxi lmao

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I actually recently finished Odd Taxi. It is really good.

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Strife2 posted...

Tried to watch Akudama Drive, but it came across "too" forced in the episode I saw. I usually like those seedier crime shows too.

I thought it was quite solid in the first half, but then the back half changed the tone significantly and my enjoyment plummeted. It wasn't unwatchable, but it wasn't really what I signed up for.

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You kind of have to go into Akudama Drive knowing you're getting the full Kodaka experience in every way shape and form minus the literal Danganronpa branding.

There was even a short amount of time where I thought it might become a secret Danganronpa spinoff. Wouldn't be the first time a series suddenly revealed itself to secretly have been Danganronpa all along part way through!

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I can't say I am familiar with any of that. I just knew it was about expert criminals doing what they're good at, and for a time it delivered that in spades. Then plot started getting in the way.

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Ah. No wonder it was awkward. It was from the DR guy. Fair enough.

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So what's the Rezero director's cut about anyway? More/less content?

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pjbasis posted...

So what's the Rezero director's cut about anyway? More/less content?

It's not a ton of new stuff. Some minor animation cleanup, and the double length episode structure definitely feels better. A little extra dialogue about halfway through to deal with stuff that was originally cut that shouldn't have been. It ads one. 1 more scene at the VERY end, but that was really just a teaser and was also at the beginning of season 2.

There's no reason NOT to watch that version though, if you were gonna watch the show.

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Too late lol

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After a few shows didn't grab me, I settled on something called Ergo Proxy. Either I watched the show once and didn't get it, or watched a show just like it and confused it for something else. All I know is the first ep was VERY odd, but in a way that grabbed my attention. Like some weird ass sci-fi horror or something. Maybe I'm in the mood for something fucked up. I'll see if further eps keep my attention.

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I really like Ergo Proxy, I actually own it. I feel like it was popular for a bit but then just went away?

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the real Lord Momonosuke

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Not sure if anyone here would be interested in this sort of thing, but I've started reviewing some of the anime I've been watching lately. Did Psycho-Pass a couple weeks ago, and reviewed Shield Hero Season 1 last week.

https://youtu.be/tj6J-Evh4qc

Just felt like a way to utilize all my anime binge watching for a purpose for a change. At least if some trolls don't go, "Stick with LPs lol", fucking Youtube trolls.

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ninkendo posted...

the real Lord Momonosuke

somuch for all the tama x momo shipping

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Would it undo if shinobu bites the bullet

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She seemed to think it was permanent. And I cant imagine stuff she destroyed just remaking after.

I cant see everyone Iva changed just reverting if Iva dies and I feel like this would be the same.

But I guess we cant know for sure.

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Ultra Instinct Shaggy.

That is all.

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This arc of Rezero is really picking up! Betelguese is an amazing villain.

Still have lots of reserves about the dialogue writing, it's just all too anime for me, but I appreciate that it's trying to go into territory few dare venture with its characters.

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ninkendo posted...

Would it undo if shinobu bites the bullet

Bonnie

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pjbasis posted...

Bonnie

Genius. To bad she was last spotted in Mariejoi so she won't be showing up any time soon. I'm still hoping she is hiding with Sabo and Vivi somewhere, helping them escape.

Just read the latest One Piece.
As someone who has long denied both Zoro being from Wano and us eventually seeing Zoro's father. I have been thoroughly proven wrong. Didn't think it was needed but it did make for a great moment with awesome parallels so I'm happy to be wrong.

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The Sanji stuff was equally interesting if you believe Queen is telling the truth

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I was thinking of trying Konosuba, but the only version I have available to me is the dub is the dub good?

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The dub is great but the sub is just waaaaay better. The bar just set super high. You won't have a bad experience with the dub, though.


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The dub is fine. A lot of good actors are in it. Hearing Cristina Vee going from murderhobo Velvet from Tales of Berseria to Darkness was...interesting to say the least.

I WANT TO MUDER EVERYTHING! *screams bloody murder*

next thing you know

*Orgasm sounds everywhere*

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GANON1025 posted...

I was thinking of trying Konosuba, but the only version I have available to me is the dub is the dub good?

Do you not have access to Crunchy? They have the sub for free users if so

Also, not sure why trying a dub is still a "I'm horrified or stuck with it" zero sum game. I think we were past that point in 02-05. Still shit dubs on ocassion...but at maybe a 5-10% situation anymore.

At least this isn't the Anime board itself. You'd think watching dubs would be akin to suffering a plague. One guy in a sea of millions said, "The bottom floor of dub quality is way less shit now, even if the ceiling isn't still very high."

Around the internet, that is high praise somehow. People are dicks.

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Dubs have mostly dettled down. There's still a trend I see where people will take a 5 to 10 second clip of a dub they think is horrible and try to push it as DUBS ARE NIGHTMARISH, when really they're just looking for problems where there are none. Typically you'll be fine.

The only high profile dubs of the last 10 years I can even remember being bad off the top of my head are are Madoka and Netflix Eva.

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The Konosuba dub sounds fine. Doesnt seem to have the same magic for some of the parts, but it sounds fine enough. None of the voices sound terrible or extremely unfitting or anything

The only dubs I remember preferring sub for was Love Hina and...Love Hina. But that was more a case of decent actors being miscast and prononciating everything wrong (probably weak ass direction), so it was just a mess across the board. Slice of Life is where this tends to happen most, because "hey goofy comedy, we don't have to try."

I don't even think Madoka Magica was bad. Haven't watched Netflix Eva...because it's Eva. I'd have to be drunk or high to watch that again.

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Netflix Eva is totally fine for some people but just can't stand it myself. Not the actor's fault really, it's the director. It also has the uncommon circumstance of having to be compared directly to other US dubs (with the new release coming to Bluray we're going to have 3 damn dubs of this thing, even if one of them is just a redub with most of the original cast).

Madoka though...never really going to get over how terrible I think that dub is. Legitimately a circumstance where if someone only watched it dubbed I would say they need to rewatch the show from the beginning. Don't know how anyone can stand it.

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swordz9 posted...

The Konosuba dub sounds fine. Doesnt seem to have the same magic for some of the parts, but it sounds fine enough.

And this is the kind of dub that's bad, IMO.
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*shrugs*

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It's tough to dub bombasticly voiced comedy anime. Even if you do a good job you're almost certainly going to get compared negatively. A lot of it is that even if you nail the voice inclinations of the original...the honest truth is that a lot of anime fans are going to think some of that stuff sounds awkward when they actually hear it in their native language, whether they want to admit it or not.

Can you imagine how difficult it would be to dub Asobi Asobase for example? No wonder they haven't even tried.

However it absolutely is possible to make a dub of a show like this that the general viewership latches onto, or even thinks surpasses the original. Just look at Cromartie!

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The biggest con I have against the dub is massively inferior EXPLOSION. Rie Takahashi just puts so much energy into each and every one and while Erica Mendez is a solid dub VA her explosions are much weaker vocally. Maybe Takashis just sounds cooler because of the novelty of it being in English, but it does feel like Mendez isnt shouting it loud enough

Haven't heard an impressive dub yet, but I don't really try that many. Just some of the shonen shows I watch.

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Baccano and Steins:Gate come to mind as exceptionally strong dubs.

There are plenty but those are my go tos.

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I feel like shounen jump stuff gets solid dubs most of the time at least. DB Supers dub is pretty great other than some slight errors here and there where they say the wrong number.

lmao DB dub. I didn't grow up around funimation so I don't have the nostalgia for it the american audience does.

And yes I understand some people can't get over adult Goku but that's literally one voice.

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swordz9 posted...

I feel like shounen jump stuff gets solid dubs most of the time at least.

I'll give it that it's not a genre that's particularly hard to VA for and you don't really need top tier performances either.

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pjbasis posted...

lmao DB dub. I didn't grow up around funimation so I don't have the nostalgia for it the american audience does.

And yes I understand some people can't get over adult Goku but that's literally one voice.

I am really used to the dub voices. I watched them for the whole series so DB just sounds super weird to me in Japanese. Its not even just Goku. Somehow they all just sound cheesier in Japanese to me

I can't actually stand Japanese DB lol. It's not just Goku, I can't listen to any of those voices.

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