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"There's no way they actually use the full name when talking about her though, right?" *screenshot* Oh. Yeah, that is not good. I couldn't help but laugh at this, because there's a famous American basketball player named Kyrie (Irving) who has been very publicly sitting out the entire current season because he refuses to get vaccinated. ...But that's pretty much the only thing I laughed at, because the rest of that was terrible. I don't think you have to worry about any of us watching this trash, . Maybe it was because there was nothing else of note to talk about this for this movie?

Also, might be obvious, but if drinking cold water starts getting you queasy, try drinking some hot water instead - tends to be much easier on you than cold whenever you're sick for whatever reason. Note that I said "hot", and not "warm", because warm water is the worst.

"Ever since you fell off the roof, you've been acting like a granola bar!" Lmao, the original English dub is amazing. ...Hey, wait, the video lady said that was supposed to be a demonstration of how bad the dub was, what gives! Ah, screw it, she doesn't get it... Tia Browsh sure, uh, had to record a lot of those clips. ...I'm thinking anime hairstyles should uh, probably stay in anime.

Yeah, it's a real shame they didn't go through with it, otherwise @majestic's OCD would've required that he watch the entire thing. We've been robbed again! Of course, then we wouldn't have the precious original English dub either, which we should also force majestic to watch all of... (e): Heck, maybe if the American version had been made, they might've aired that over in Germany instead of the original, and his entire childhood would have been an endless empty void.

*chef's kiss* -majestic, probably

You know, if Naoko Takeuchi had wrote Sailor Moon when she was like...I don't know, anywhere between like 14 and 18, some of the more..."interesting" creative decisions wouldn't be quite so glaring. Unfortunately, she was 24 by the time she started writing Sailor V and Sailor Moon, and some of the character and storytelling choices she made were pretty sketchy for a 24 year old woman. P.S. While looking up how old Naoko Takeuchi was when started writing Sailor V/M, I came across this article about some images that are purported to be from a prototype Sailor V anime adaptation: http://sailormoonnews.com/2021/10/04/some-images-appear-to-be-from-a-sailor-v-anime-that-was-almost-made-before-sailor-moon/ Minako should've gotten her own show! ...And also this American Sailor Moon pilot monstrosity: https://lostmediawiki.com/Sailor_Moon_(partially_found_Toon_Makers'_live-action/animated_series_pilot;_1993)#Gallery

I straight up forgot I watched it altogether, to be honest. It doesn't help that on my normal site that I use to rate stuff, I didn't rate it at all because...well, I guess it didn't feel right to do so. As a consequence of that, though, I don't see it in my list of watched shows and I don't remember it exists. It probably doesn't help that our tastes in shows mostly doesn't align. The chance of anybody finding anything that I like is pretty low, but it's especially low if we don't like hardly any of the same things to begin with. At least you correctly guessed that I'd like Memories' Magnetic Rose! I don't really begrudge anyone their tastes - what we all like is completely arbitrary. Why do I only like older stuff while Lexx only likes newer stuff? Even when we can come up with specific little things that bother or appeal to us, there's not much reason to any of it beyond that we just do, and that's that. I just wish I was more flexible and didn't so often feel so extremely about all of it, but I do for some dumb reason. I'll get around to trying Aggretsuko sometime. Right now, I'm watching Samurai Jack and Gilmore Girls, which are basically polar opposites of each other (girly girl show for girls vs. manly man show for men ) but I like both of them. Shinji: Yeah, you're dead on, I think. In a world where you were already incapable of seeing yourself as being worth anything beyond your objective uses and everyone else is constantly feeding into that even when they're not trying to, someone that just accepts and treats you well only because of you being you would be a godsend.

I'm so sorry, but I actually recall this now, and I'm afraid that I did not ever actually watch even two minutes of it. My answer was a literal response to your rhetorical question, i.e. "what could go wrong if you watched this". That's exactly what *could* go wrong...but it didn't, because I didn't even try it. Once again, I am so sorry. Sort of, . Don't let my terrible betrayal affect your sleep! P.S. My old posts are disasters due to me habitually removing all my Dropbox links. Context becomes much harder to understand without all the linked images...

I did? The name did sound vaguely familiar, but more in a "I found this online and immediately left the page because it looks like unappealing trash" kind of way than "I actually found a copy of this and watched it for sixty seconds before never watching it again". It's been about a decade, so I'm not certain. ...Of course, the second show was released just slightly over a decade ago - naturally. Nah, of course not. I always forget how extreme that scene was. Even Chibi-Usa preceding it looked pretty shook, and she hated Usagi at that point. Yeah, they did well with how little they had to work with, . And then Crystal also did the absolute best with all the resources it was given, except kind of the exact opposite of that. History repeats itself! They absolutely are - no need to think about it. ...I was about to ask whether a single girl watched any of those shows, but then I realized my own sister watched Naruto, and I guess I have to reconsider. I guess there was probably at least one girl...statistically speaking, it's likely at least...

That sounds...vaguely inappropriate. Well, it should at least make KP happy.

Maybe you've been doing this guy an injustice, as he was actually being ironic when he said it, and it was in fact a deep-cut satire of the people he purports to speak for? Oh, screw that, that's even worse! Is even anime no longer sacred? No more multiple timelines, people - all it means is bad storytelling and obvious retconning. Stop it!

Sounds like one of those "it forces you to like it because you like what it's used in and it's used appropriately" situations I've talked about in the past, e.g. with Samurai Champloo's intro music, . I'm trying to think of what my very specific favorite aesthetic is, but I'm not entirely certain. Oh, wait, no, now I am since I thought about it: the childhood sections of Only Yesterday (which are slightly distinct from the adulthood sections - they have a more surreal and hazy memory-like look to them and it seemed like everyone's faces and body shapes are a little softer and more cartoony than the adulthood sections of the movie...even for the adults of her childhood, like her parents). I still use this silly dance/exercise gif (which is also coincidentally recreated twice in Steven Universe - once in season 1, and once in SU:F) as my avatar in some other places: It was also a nightmare to make it just how I wanted it, and I still didn't quite get there due to size limitations, but it was pretty close. So that receives my vote for favorite aesthetic...uh, whatever that is, . Elicits a very..."memories of a life I didn't and couldn't have ever had" feeling, . You can also probably thank Only Yesterday for me being open to Sailor Moon's art style, because Sailor Moon season 1 has that same sort of odd, indistinct surrealism while also sharing a similar color palette and style of backgrounds to Only Yesterday's childhood sections (albeit much more simple - the style is what's important to me, not necessarily the level of detail!). I'm trying to think of all the gay characters that I've seen in anime shows/movies I've watched. Haruka and Michiru in Sailor Moon... Maya was implied to be in Neon Genesis Evangelion, I guess, but that's a little bit of a stretch. There's also Tomoyo in Cardcaptor Sakura, but she's like thirteen and that's a whole different thing. Um... One of the main characters in Tokyo Godfathers...uh, I think. It's a little confusing, because they're also transgender... Maybe there's someone else I'm forgetting? All in all, not like your typical obnoxious or unrealistic ones that you typically see in anime. (e): Also, possibly Shinji. Hey, don't blame me he willingly got into a bathtub with Kaworu while ignoring Asuka - it's not my fault! Well, then the show would be over awfully quick and without any fuss or muss, wouldn't it? ...Oh, now I remember why I don't like it when a whole bunch of pointless and repetitive action is horribly drawn out and framed as if it were important! Can't help but notice that shoujo has a tendency to do the opposite and underframe with its action...except for Utena and Lady Asuka, I guess. Have you ever heard Weird Al's "Talk Soup"? There's a couple parts of the song that go something like "I'm just an anorexic, co-dependent, bingo-addict stripper born without a chin", but you should definitely replace that with something like "I'm just an anti-vaxx, Bible-thumping, Libertarian, Trump-loving flat-earther shell of a man" for me, because that's totally accurate, . Think I'll skip MD Geist. If I'm going to watch 80s trash, at least give me a half-decent relunctant action lady instead of boring macho hero action man, . My sister loved Fullmetal Alchemist...and she also loved Naruto. Terrible person as far as I'm concerned, . She once tried to get me into Fullmetal Alchemist, and I made it approximately five minutes before some shonen starting shonening the whole place up, and I had to call it quits.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring - thank goodness, I wasn't looking forward to the inevitable 7-2 conservative Supreme Court if he didn't.

Yeah, the figure-skating bit you just mentioned is the same ice-skating thing I just mentioned as being "the end of the show" (because it was the final thing from the original season). I thought that, as well as the preceding gymnastics "tournament" arc with the lovely (...and completely insane, ) Black Rose Kodachi... ...were both great. It's unfortunately after these two little arcs that the original show ends and the "reboot" starts...I can't remember exactly what happens, I wrote down episode synopses in one of these threads a long while back, but it was very dumb and made me the big mad. Characters were just not acting like their previously established selves. Ranma said stupid stuff like he would never willingly turn into a girl even if it was necessary to help someone he cared about (...???, the last two arcs were all about him doing exactly that, PLUS he had literally decided to turn into a girl several times for non-important reasons in situations where he realized he was actually comfortable with it, like when he wanted to learn how to ice-skate with Akane). I remember being especially offended with what they did to Ranma's father, speaking of, because they essentially turned him into a really stupid meme that lacked any common sense or values for the sake of some really poorly set up jokes...his father is an established character, please do not attempt to ruin him with terrible gags that don't make any sense for who he is. All the episodes became one-off wacky forced premises that didn't feel like they had anything to do with each other, and it didn't feel like the show was attempting to do much anything besides be crazy and comedic (especially because those wacky premises were necessitating that characters not act like their natural selves so much of the time). Objectively, the second season wasn't terrible...but it subjectively felt terrible and very frustrating after such a good first season. I was pretty wounded that the original show somehow failed but the reboot was apparently a smashing success. (e): Turns out, I'm still pretty burnt up about this, .

The fact that it's open world was already a huge red flag for me. I expect the game to be fine-ish, but not really be my thing a la Sekiro*. *But in a totally different way from Sekiro, which eliminated all the interesting enemy encounter design of Souls games in favor of going all out on bosses and mini-bosses (...many of which effectively fought the same way, so that wasn't really ideal to me, especially because many of my "fond" memories of Soulsborne games are the innumerable ways the world and non-boss enemy design could screw you over, which was just...not really a thing in Sekiro). Sekiro also bizarrely got rid of a lot of incentive to explore since there was no gear or interesting items to ever pick up, so that's one way Elden Ring can immediately become more appealing. You didn't like getting smashed with ten thousand different pieces of world lore in the first half hour of PoE?

Recommendation for Katana Zero - it's a 2D murder-simulator level-clearer a la Miami Hotline, albeit sidescrolling instead of top-down. Plus the music sounds like this: https://wicrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/katana-zero-original-soundtrack Recommendation for Shenmue III - it's just as gosh-awful as the first two, so if you love those, you should love this one too, .

That's not promising. I liked the first season because it was very character-driven, particularly (but not only) Ranma and Akane, who seemed like they were actually developing as characters in of themselves but also towards each other. Then I get into the second season and it's like nothing they went through or said to each other in the first season ever happened and they were right back to yelling and screaming at each other like it had been at the start of season 1...and worse, nothing more ever *would* happen, because the show inexplicably doesn't care about developing them (or anyone else) any more and was more concerned with repeatedly forcing them into wacky situations they had to get out of over and over. As far as I'm concerned, the show ended with the ice-skating three-parter where Ranma decided to learn how to skate with Akane and got assaulted by some chauvinistic boy-skater while in girl form. The two of them learned to trust and depend upon each other in order to selflessly and sweetly protect their better halves, and it seemed very clear that they would eventually work out as a couple given a little time to get older and become more mature. Bonus points that Ranma had been shown over the course of the first season to be slowly getting more comfortable with being half-girl (as opposed to hating and feeling embarrassed by it like he did early on)...the end.

IMO, it fell off a cliff immediately after the first 18 + 3 episodes...and I don't mean art-wise (although the art did get worse, it was still good enough for me). Why 18 + 3? Three episodes in the "revamped series" were made for the original series and though they were haphazardly placed in the middle of the "revamped series", they were immediately and noticeably way better than the rest of it. The real problem with the revamped series is that all the major characters immediately became pants - the character dynamics that the first season had been carefully building up were immediately and violently dashed in favor of everyone constantly screaming and yelling at each other over nothing, and side-characters that originally had meaningful dialogue and parts instead become pointless flanderizations of their past selves, while all the nice little character-driven stuff disappeared in favor of "wAcKY" premise-driven nonsense. It went from feeling like a shoujo-shonen hybrid that had comedy to pure comedic shonen stupidity - what a dirty stinking rotten deal that "reboot" was. I actually almost got majestic to watch a shonen (inconceivable for him!) because of how much I liked the first season...and then it was all swept right up into the garbage bin once I got to the second season. In fact, I'm still tempted to try to keep watching Ranma 1/2 purely on the strength of that first season, but then I remember how bad and stupid the second season was... (e): Speaking of Ranma, I actually recently started reading the original manga for it. The bits I've read so far have been much more like the first season, so I'm hopeful that it will continue with that instead of the second season. Wish I had an explanation for why I vastly prefer older stuff myself - I seem to generally dislike anything and everything new, which makes zero sense for how old I am. Most of my favorite non-animated movies are older than I am, and certainly almost all of my favorite animated stuff is (and the stuff that isn't is real close). I certainly didn't watch any of it as a kid to explain it - old in heart but not in body, I guess. @uuuhhii Blood almost certainly looks very different from Blood-C by function of being released 11 years earlier. I'm looking at screenshots now, and it is an interesting art style...I might actually try that at some point. Blood+ is hot shonen garbage which I already tried (and expected to dislike right off the bat, which I did), but this looks significantly more promising to my eyes.

I don't think you much have any? As far as I can recall, you have previously expressed that you don't really care that much about art style (except that the CGI IS BAD), even if you can in theory understand why it can make or break a series for some of us. If you have preferences, they are probably not so clearly defined as compared to the rest of us. Sarex probably has a preference for newer stuff but isn't necessarily against older stuff either so it's not really that strong of a preference, while my impression is that InsaneCommander seems to generally stay with 80s-90s stuff but that might just be a function of what he's mentioned in here and/or what I remember him mentioning in here. I've been meaning to watch Aggretsuko for ages. I'll eventually get around to it. @uuuhhii I am unable to find a movie that released before the show. The show started airing on 2011 July 8th, a film concluding the series released in 2012, and there are two live-action prequel thingies that released in 2017 and 2018. Both the movie and the show were animated by Production I.G.; there is also the Blood (2000) movie and Blood+ (2005) TV series that share the same universe as Blood-C, but both of those were still animated by the same studio, so I am unable to figure out what film you're speaking of.

Ranma is 1989, probably the earliest thing I listed specifically (and from what I've seen, Ranma got uglier and simpler the longer it went on). I vastly prefer this over anything post-2000 that isn't Millennium Actress (which was traditionally animated despite being made in 2001, and it apparently has the distinction of being the last major anime film to be so). Rurouni Kenshin came out 7 years later after Ranma in 1996, and is very mid to late 90s-looking (and also looks to be a shonen if the few screenshots I saw were any indication...). I actually did watch an episode of Blood-C, which I thought was bad but not terrible-looking - doesn't hold a candle to what I like most, but it's also not eye-searing like most other series from the 2010s. No LaserDisc as far as I can see, but the DVD versions I looked at quickly looked at least a little less terrible than yours, e.g.: You mean sexual assault that bizarrely isn't treated like it because anime apparently doesn't believe sexual assault is real? Pretty sure that's what you mean, . Yes, something that distinguishes itself as being about adult characters for adult viewers without the strongly untoward elements endemic to ecchi is inherently less insulting and gross than...I don't know, having male characters "randomly" assault teenaged girls and young woman or just having them experience "wardrobe malfunctions" because it's supposed to be funny and/or gratifying someway somehow. Still, not exactly my cup of tea, especially with how extreme Plastic Little in particular was right off the bat.

Everyone has their own preferences. Amentep apparently loves the 70s and early 80s (e.g. Conan...which I like the backgrounds of, but am merely "okay" with the character designs - I certainly prefer it over 99.9% of modern stuff!), I personally prefer a number of styles between the late 80s and late 90s*, Lexx likes very modern stuff, majestic is probably all over the place at this point... I watched Airbender as a kid on live TV - great show, hard to believe it came out 16 years ago, hope majestic one day tries it out. Didn't care quite as much for the sequel series, but it has its fans. Its art style is obviously meant to be anime-esque, though...even if it isn't exactly quite like any anime in particular. *Although I'm finicky enough that there are still plenty of styles even within that time period that I do not care for - the original Sailor Moon, early Ranma 1/2, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Perfect Blue/Millennium Actress, various 70s-90s Ghibli movies are all some examples of my favorite anime styles...and I have my eye on a number of other things that I haven't yet watched like Gall Force, Cowboy Bebop, Gunsmith Cats, Bubblegum Crisis, Gunbuster, and number of other smaller series I can't recall off the top of my head on the basis of looking appealing to me.

All that definitely makes sense. And of course, I personally love film grain for animation (and don't really mind the subtle frame jitter that you see in traditionally-animated work...although there was one show, I'm forgetting which, where the last 10 or so frames of a scene went like an 15 entire degrees off of what it was supposed to be which was startling and clearly unintentional and yet somehow they didn't bother to fix it even though it was super obvious what had happened), which is another thing digitally made stuff just doesn't have. The art of animation is...I wanted to say dead, but "undead" is probably more accurate, . The Magnificent Myao and the Rambunctious Ran: Myao's "disguise" in episode 12 is quite possibly one of the worst things I've ever seen. When I originally watched that episode, I immediately created a screenshot and intended to post it for you...but then I remembered that you said you would probably watch the show, so I decided to withhold so you could experience it for yourself. Although it is one of the worst things I've ever seen, Myao was wearing it, and that broke my brain and put me in a laughing fit for most of the rest of the episode. Her being crucified with her yelling and screaming and crying and praying was also incredible. As for episode 13...Goddess Myao (or whatever the hell that was supposed to be, with what she was wearing and being carried around by slaves) is the best Myao. Yes, a great final episode for a semi-straight, semi-wacked out parody of a samurai show, .

It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I had a similar situation happen and I ended up creating a new boot manager on the correct drive and didn't need to reformat. I don't remember the exact process for doing so, but I do think it is possible. However, looks like you already reformatted and found the Windows.old, so I guess that'll do. I should really mirror my entire Windows user profile (with AppData and all) just on the off-chance my C drive suddenly dies out of the blue. My first and second ever system SSD drives both died in under a year, and let me tell you, when SSDs die, there is no warning and they are just straight-up gone. At least with HDDs, you usually have a warning if you're vigilant enough...paying attention to odd sounds, occasionally checking SMART data, a rare 2-minute diagnostic scan...but the "it suddenly died and doesn't even appear in my BIOS" is my greatest fear and why I always have everything important to me mirrored these days. The first 1 TB I ever had did that to me and just would not come back no matter how much I unplugged and plugged it back... When I got the replacement drive like a week later, I decided to put both of them in and suddenly the "dead" one came back to life, and I transferred everything over freaking immediately. That was the first and last warning I ever needed on keeping important data mirrored...and the original drive ended up lasting about another twelve months before unstable sectors started terminating themselves and I subsequently ripped it apart to see what the inside of an HDD looked like.

It's amazing how differently people can feel about art styles. I've looked at My Dress-Up Darling a few different times now, because you've kept mentioning how much you like the visual style...and this is a modern type that actually evokes disgust out of me purely from the art style of its characters - it's not an issue of content or framing, or from seeing the animation in motion...but purely the art style while looking at screenshots. Messy lines everywhere that give an illusion of detail but really just seem like visually exhausting noise to me, faces that are somehow creepy and unclean (extreme over-expression, terrifying Cthulhu mouths, huge intense demon eyes, the lizard-skin shine spots that seem to be endemic to modern anime, the seemingly randomly and crudely applied blush gradients...), and of course, since it's a modern show, we get very modern hairstyles and clothing draped across modern skull and skeletal structures that are also noticeably unpleasant to behold...and never mind the use of shapes and colors (why is modern anime always so intensely unnatural looking - stuff from earlier eras of animation generally have much more softer and more natural color palettes, at the very least). I don't know what the intended impression of a character like this is, but the effect I get is that of a crazed and unpleasant demon, which is probably not what's intended for the viewers who enjoy this show. ...Meanwhile, you look at the older stuff that I personally like and are immediately like "nope, can't do it" for a variety of your own reasons, I'm sure. It's especially strange to me, because growing up in my teens, I was exposed only to mid-2000s to early 2010s anime styles, which I immediately hated so much that I wrote off anime entirely...and it was only later that I saw older 90s and 80s styles that I was like "okay, maybe I shouldn't write off the entire medium just because the current era we're in is despicably awful". Why this has happened, why certain styles appeal more and less to all of us, is probably impossible to say. Majestic: I'll respond more later.

I've taken a look at this one before, actually, but I was not listening to the English dub. I remember the terrible underwater spying scene, but I think that was about as far as I got before I didn't foresee it getting any better and called it quits and swore to myself to never speak of it. If I had seen that poster, I strongly doubt I would have even gotten that far - this was one of first handful of non-Ghibli anime films I tried. Speaking of being underwater, your copy of the film looks like it's underwater the entire time - I do not remember the film looking near this bad fidelity-wise...but most likely, I had a better source than you were able to find. Ah, yes, I now just read your spoiler, . However, unlike you, I did not like the particular aesthetic of this film. I am sure the animation quality, as you said, is good, but whomever the primary artist is, I remember looking him up and seeing a couple other examples of his work, and something about the way his characters look is...very strange and uncomfortable to me, and rather unlike most other 90s anime aesthetics I've seen, so I doubt I'll ever revisit anything he was a major part of. It's probably just as well given what you wrote in the spoiler...though admittedly, I now wish I had listened to the English dub for a moment just to hear English!Rei in a different role. @KP on top of ZA WARUDO Really hope the glasses work out, considering it's your livelihood and all, .