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Calwings
09/18/21 11:30:28 PM
#101:


That wasn't just the best episode of Tropical-Rouge Precure so far. I think it was one of the best of any anime this year and one of the best in the history of the Precure franchise. It was that good. We got action, we got comedy, we got character development, we got Gridman references...

https://i.imgur.com/R3MsAi4.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/srzixPX.jpg

@SDBZ

...we got character development, we got sakuga, we got plenty of bloomer shots (the Precure kid-friendly equivalent of panty shots), we got accidental teamkilling, we got hype, we got Cure Papaya literally T-posing to assert Precure's dominance on every other show airing this year...

https://i.imgur.com/9BYcZEJ.png

...and we got the most important thing of all: FUN! It was just really, really fun.
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Spidey5
09/18/21 11:43:32 PM
#102:


Yeah that episode was something else from start to finish.
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SDBZ
09/19/21 12:25:36 AM
#103:


@Calwings

That's also an Ultraman reference, and it did that rising pose before Gridman lol. So it might be more directly an Ultraman reference.

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Calwings
09/19/21 12:37:27 AM
#104:


Following the lead set by Precure earlier today, Fena: Pirate Princess also just had its best and most action-packed episode yet. If the final episode of Magia Record S2 hadn't been delayed and replaced by a recap episode today, this could have been one of the wildest Saturdays of anime that I've ever experienced. But alas, that will have to wait until next week.

SDBZ posted...
That's also an Ultraman reference, and it did that rising pose before Gridman lol. So it might be more directly an Ultraman reference.

Duly noted.
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Tropicalwood
09/20/21 2:55:49 PM
#105:


Not even a full episode and our heroine is being extorted by a gyaru.



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Jeff AKA Snoopy
09/20/21 3:01:15 PM
#106:


Man, I love Miss Kobayashi

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Calwings
09/20/21 3:23:05 PM
#107:


Tropicalwood posted...
Not even a full episode and our heroine is being extorted by a gyaru.


Hinata best girl.

https://i.imgur.com/bsLQkUU.gif
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Healin' Good was... interesting. It was definitely (unintentionally) the Precure series most relevant to real-life events, considering it was essentially about healers fighting against evil virus monsters and it aired during an actual, real-life global pandemic. It made things awkward, to say the least.

https://i.imgur.com/CE0D3XT.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/dirwlqO.jpg

It did have Aoi Yuuki voicing Nodoka though, which was a great performance and led to some creative (but sometimes dark) humor in the community.

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Spidey5
09/20/21 7:17:16 PM
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Calwings
09/21/21 11:42:03 PM
#109:


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Jeff AKA Snoopy
09/21/21 11:52:10 PM
#110:


All those Daft Punk videos that have the blue aliens with the anime aesthetic... did they make a movie or something? Kinda wanna see that. >_>

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Itachi157
09/22/21 2:05:49 AM
#111:


Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...
All those Daft Punk videos that have the blue aliens with the anime aesthetic... did they make a movie or something? Kinda wanna see that. >_>

Yeah, Interstella 555 or something like that.

I finally finished a couple of anime I've been watching for a while: Fist of the North Star and Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card.

I actually finished FOTNS like three weeks ago, and only the first 109 episode series. Despite having tons of filler and recap episodes, I enjoyed the series quite a bit. The scenes of Ken wrecking people using Hokuto Shinken miraculously never got old or less fun to watch, despite happening multiple times an episode for over 100 episodes. Despite the repetitiveness sometimes, the coolness of the characters and concepts in the series kept it enjoyable throughout with a only few slow stretches. All three Hokuto brothers were really cool but Toki is definitely a standout. Overall I'd have no issues giving the series a solid 7/10. Will watch second series and movies/OVAs sometime later.

Clear Card I actually watched the first two episodes like months ago but finally watched the rest over the past three weeks or so. I heard it was pretty boring/uneventful but I found it relatively enjoyable. It was nice to see all the characters interacting again and Akiho was really cute. I actually found that the plot building up in the background was interesting, and I wanted to see what Kaito had planned. I expected the cliffhanger/non-ending so it didn't bug me too much, but it's definitely a minus for the show that it's main plot didn't resolve at all. There were also way too many cooking and eating scenes, and I'll acknowledge some episodes were on the duller side despite enjoying it overall. I'd give it a 6/10ish.

This season I'm only watching that 5 Second Battle show but a few in Fall look promising.
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Spidey5
09/22/21 2:06:49 PM
#112:


30 episodes into Maho Precure. That Cinderella episode had me dying. Riko still best girl
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Spidey5
09/22/21 3:13:04 PM
#113:


https://i.imgur.com/Pqqjodb.png

And there we have Bakarina summarized in one picture. Just finished season 1. What a fun, wholesome show.
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Juhanor
09/22/21 3:28:25 PM
#114:


Itachi157 posted...
Toki is definitely a standout

https://i.imgur.com/APBeY7a.png

Started reading NGE Anima.
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Calwings
09/22/21 4:34:18 PM
#115:


I decided to take a bit of a detour in my anime backlog today and watched a quick four episode OVA called Triangle Heart: Sweet Songs Forever. It's an adaptation of an old eroge visual novel about a trio of bodyguards, Elise McGaren and the sibling pair of Kyouya and Miyuki Takamachi, protecting a famous singer on a concert tour whose life is being targeted by a group of assassins.

https://i.imgur.com/n7LImFe.png
https://i.imgur.com/fI7OIrh.png
https://i.imgur.com/YxOU1X6.png

If the art style looks familiar to anyone and the Takamachi name sounds familiar to anyone, it's because their younger sister and her separate spin-off series made by the same studio went on to become way more famous and successful than this OVA starring the rest of her family...

https://i.imgur.com/ZYYIgES.png

...but this isn't about her. The OVA was actually pretty solid in its own right. The story was interesting but obviously underdeveloped due to the short episode count, the action scenes were cool, and the animation was pretty good at least by 2003's standards. I'd give it an 8/10 overall, and it would have been interesting to see what the studio could have done with more episodes to tell Elise and the Takamachi siblings' story... of course, in the alternate universe where that happens, it's very possible that their adorable little sister never gets her spin-off, and that would be just tragic.
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GiftedACIII
09/23/21 1:16:49 PM
#116:


Episode 1 of Love Live Superstar, Did not expect to hear fluent chinese from a main character lol. Interesting to see the overtly cute school idol fangirl archetype be the foreign exchange student AND the main friend too. Is there only 5 idols? That's quite a drop from the 9 from the previous units.
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Spidey5
09/23/21 1:33:37 PM
#117:


Yeah only 5. Sumire is best girl. Hazuki is worst girl.
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GiftedACIII
09/23/21 1:46:35 PM
#118:


Interesting. That does mean more chance of characterization at least. Also first time the MC is a 1st year I think.
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MarthGoomba
09/23/21 1:49:43 PM
#119:


Keke's Seiyuu is Chinese so it'd be the first time Love Live cast a foreign character properly

Chisato is best
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Calwings
09/24/21 1:43:17 PM
#120:


Anyone else think that Bayonetta's new design in Bayonetta 3 looks like Homura (glasses version) and Mami from Madoka Magica fused together?

https://i.imgur.com/G5RsYL5.jpg

Her hair style looks like a mix between Homura's pigtails and Mami's twin drills, she has Homura's hair color, glasses, and *Madoka Magica spoilers* time manipulation abilities, she has Mami's more mature attitude and larger chest, and she shares their tendency to use lots and lots of guns.
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Tropicalwood
09/24/21 2:00:22 PM
#121:


Calwings posted...
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Calwings
09/24/21 2:09:28 PM
#122:


Tropicalwood posted...

Don't bring that evil in here
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Jeff AKA Snoopy
09/24/21 2:56:06 PM
#123:


I mean... to me she just looks like Bayonetta? Lol

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Tropicalwood
09/24/21 8:25:47 PM
#124:


Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...
I mean... to me she just looks like Bayonetta? Lol
She just took the hair cut she had as a child is all.

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Spidey5
09/25/21 9:31:01 AM
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Calwings
09/25/21 12:09:08 PM
#126:


Spidey5 posted...
https://i.imgur.com/0lywnrh.png

The shorts incorporating the real-life dolls that the anime was based on is... unexpected. Maybe I should watch this once it's fully out/subbed.
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Calwings
09/25/21 2:32:19 PM
#127:


The season finale of Magia Record had a dumpster fire release today. Apparently, one Japanese network got a version of the episode with unfinished visuals and a scene where some of the dialogue was extremely distorted to the point where even Japanese speakers couldn't understand it. Meanwhile on our side, Funimation uploaded the version of the episode with the correct visuals/audio, but the lines that were distorted in that unfinished version of the episode had no subtitles in Funimation's release, which makes me think they only had access to that unfinished version while they were making the subtitles.

So now a third of the episode has dialogue but no subtitles for it until Funimation goes back and fixes it, and that means I can't even watch that season finale until it's fixed. How unfortunate.
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Spidey5
09/25/21 2:35:55 PM
#128:


Yeah I gave up on watching when it got to the no subtitle scene.
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Caelthus
09/25/21 2:54:32 PM
#129:


Calwings posted...
The season finale of Magia Record had a dumpster fire release today. Apparently, one Japanese network got a version of the episode with unfinished visuals and a scene where some of the dialogue was extremely distorted to the point where even Japanese speakers couldn't understand it. Meanwhile on our side, Funimation uploaded the version of the episode with the correct visuals/audio, but the lines that were distorted in that unfinished version of the episode had no subtitles in Funimation's release, which makes me think they only had access to that unfinished version while they were making the subtitles.

So now a third of the episode has dialogue but no subtitles for it until Funimation goes back and fixes it, and that means I can't even watch that season finale until it's fixed. How unfortunate.
Oh is that why? I was very confused about that and mentioned it to spidey when I attempted to watch it earlier.

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Calwings
09/25/21 4:50:44 PM
#130:


Someone posted a complete English subtitle track on /a/, apparently ripped from Bilibili. If you don't feel like waiting for however long it'll take for Funimation to fix the episode and you can find a separate download for the episode itself, this subtitle track should work with it.

https://files.catbox.moe/hlfl4k.srt

I always say not to pirate what can be watched legally, but when the legal sources fail to pull through and deliver what they promised, then I say it's fair game. I watched the episode already and thought it was pretty good. 8.5/10 for the season.
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Tropicalwood
09/25/21 9:22:53 PM
#131:


This guy was cast a season too early, he would've fit right in with the Witch's crew of lazy seafood.



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Spidey5
09/25/21 11:25:40 PM
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Calwings
09/25/21 11:27:18 PM
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Jeff AKA Snoopy
09/26/21 4:02:56 AM
#134:


Is Record of Lodoss War worth the time to watch it?

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Tropicalwood
09/26/21 5:49:27 AM
#135:


Another flawless victory.


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Calwings
09/27/21 4:14:08 PM
#136:


https://i.imgur.com/UTp9Qww.png

this is art
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Spidey5
09/27/21 9:38:17 PM
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Calwings
09/27/21 10:53:15 PM
#138:


Spidey5 posted...
https://i.imgur.com/WcHHOMe.jpeg

lol

Looks hilarious, I might have to check this out.
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Calwings
09/28/21 11:42:15 AM
#139:


Been watching more Happiness Charge Precure lately, and I just realized 17 episodes in that one of the evil generals is voiced by Takehito Koyasu, AKA Dio's voice actor. He even did the muda muda thing.
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Spidey5
09/28/21 5:46:10 PM
#140:


https://i.imgur.com/F7jHmjC.png
Well, the Black Clover dub has ended. Kinda been watching it for a while now lol. Curious to see where the series goes from here.
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Calwings
09/28/21 6:28:08 PM
#141:


Spidey5 posted...
Well, the Black Clover dub has ended.

Yep, the long ride has finally ended... for now. Hopefully the movie that was announced to continue the story doesn't take too long to come out and get dubbed. That's a movie that I might actually be willing to see in theaters if one nearby has it.
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Juhanor
09/28/21 6:36:44 PM
#142:


Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...
Is Record of Lodoss War worth the time to watch it?

TV: no
OVA: yes, it's not too long, animation is good, characters are pretty fun
Crystania: no
Louie: yes if you don't mind harem antics

Spidey5 posted...
So I just binged all of Robot Wars Z. https://i.imgur.com/WWPqXpJ.png

Great Mazinger is best girl.
https://i.imgur.com/7TwHPvH.png

Now then, I need to take an ibuprofen for unrelated reasons.
Some things never change lol
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Spidey5
09/28/21 8:40:18 PM
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barnnn
09/28/21 10:08:54 PM
#144:


Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...
Is Record of Lodoss War worth the time to watch it?
They should be somewhat worth the tume. It's a pretty old series that sets up at least a few fantasy standards in Japan's light novel scene, so it'll feel pretty "normal" by today's standards, but they're still well-executed enough to enjoy.

As I remember, the OVA series adapts volumes 1 for two-thirds of the episodes, then 3 and 5 for the last third (and it's super rushed, understandably). Volume 2 was skipped entirely and never got adapted, as far as I know.
On a side note, only the novel's first volume was ever released in English.

The TV series (Chronicles of the Heroic Knight) doesn't look as good as the OVA, but is still fine. It re-adapts volumes 2-3 somewhat more faithfully, and also volume 5 (which goes in a somewhat divisive direction in that it introduces another protagonist group, making the original group take a less prominent role for a while).
The TV series also opens up room for the author's shared-universe works like Legend of Crystania and Rune Soldier, though I haven't tried those yet.
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barnnn
09/28/21 11:28:54 PM
#145:


barnnn posted...
then 3 and 5 for the last third

re-adapts volumes 2-3

Correction, meant to type volumes 3-4 here.
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GiftedACIII
09/29/21 11:13:12 AM
#146:


Love live superstar episode 7, lol at the house being presented like a horror movie with almost nobody there, finding an abandoned notebook, and then having Hazuki just conveniently say all the exposition about her backstory to them. Love live can be so surreal at times.
Also, wow apparently every single voice actress in the series used to be love live fans themselves.
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GiftedACIII
09/30/21 8:51:23 AM
#147:


Damn, Kanon no sells the giant dog licking her face
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Calwings
09/30/21 5:45:53 PM
#148:


I got on Crunchyroll earlier today to watch the new Aquatope On White Sand episode, and I saw that they randomly uploaded a 13th episode of Cinderella Nine out of nowhere. This show ended over two years ago, apparently this was some sort of OVA/special included with the blu-ray release in Japan, and I guess the pandemic must have been part of the reason why it took so long after the series ended to come out.

https://i.imgur.com/TDBscew.jpg

Whatever, I'm always down to enjoy more cute girls playing with balls, even if it's only one more episode.
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GiftedACIII
10/01/21 1:19:58 AM
#149:


Keke confirmed hardcore, has a fucking box cutter in school lol.
I also like how Rens ponytail is so huge she has to flick it back behind her whenever she bows.
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Calwings
10/01/21 12:52:58 PM
#150:


>main girl front and center in all of the promotional material
>most buildup and intro time in the first episode
>sad and inspirational backstory
>loses immediately and gets sent home

https://i.imgur.com/bC8ax5K.jpg


Selection Project just kicked off the fall anime season in an... interesting way, to say the least. Not sure where they're going with this.
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