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Not necessarily, but the risk of them jumping the shark is obviously much reduced. Uhm, thanks, I guess. So, Komi-san had another episode today and it was... the epitome of nothing at all. Najimi repeats the joke of sending Komi to buy something, but instead of Stabacks she's sent to Sabwey. Yep. Great job. Someone else stalks Komi for a bit, wow. Then everyone ends up at insane dragon power girl's place and plays whatever they thought was a funny weird name for Super Smash Bros, for some reason that dropped out of my brain the moment the scene was over. The final bit was Komi giving out paper tissues. Which, by the way, I already know how to spell, and... it's ティッシュペーパー. Because loanword. Fun fact, in Katakana you can write sounds that otherwise would not exist in Japanese. ティ for instance reads "ti" which would be "chi", and sometimes that gets used, and sometimes it doesn't. Therefore, the work ticket isn't ティケット but チケット - chiketto. Why? Beats me. Hm. Perhaps I'll just go and ask the guy whose grammar video's I've been watching. He pretty much always replies to comments or messages and seems to know a good deal. Could be that using the "e" column to create new sounds is a concept introduced later than chiketto as loanword.

Yeah, it's a good thing something happened and I don't remember there's a manga I could read to finish the storyline any more. I don't even know if any of the spinoffs are officially available anywhere outside of Japan. The first three seasons are on Amazon, apparently, but not sure about any of the ViVids. I watched it with what I'm pretty sure were fan subs. Why else would the episode names contain hashes to check for subtitle updates on github. I'm amazed someone went through all that trouble for such a pathetic piece of manure anime, but it just shows that even the worst trash has dedicated fans somewhere. Good to know I'm not alone with my opinion, and that means I'll crank up my playback speed to 2x for ViVid Strike! too. It's not like I'm going to lose any precious character moments that way, or if I actually do, I'll just drop it back to regular speed. Just goes to show you how terrible that series really is, if even the fanboys have nothing to say about it. Yikes.

Sometimes the amount of time that passes without me noticing is really, really scary. It feels like yesterday that you posted about taking your license exam and taking up a new job as trucker, and that was three and a half years ago? Scary. Really, really scary.

ViVid Strike!, episode one. Well, this one is a complete spinoff without Nanoha in the title. I guess she's still Vivio's adopted mother, so she'll show up for a cameo, maybe. The good news is, this is much better than ViVid, but there are some bad news too - first, there's a locker room scene, of course, but at least it's only a really short one and everyone's put some underwear on. Phew. You know you're coming from a really bad place when you're happy it doesn't get worse than that. Second, and more importantly, is the story setup. It begins with two orphan girls named Fuu and Rinne being harrassed by a group of bullies. Fuu kicks one of them in the balls and the two receive a nice beating in return, and Fuu vows to become stronger so she can protect Rinne. Flash forward to the present time, a teenage Fuu is all alone, getting into a fist fight with a street gang, until the police shows up, then everyone scrambles. Fuu runs into Einhart who asks her what's wrong, and Fuu attempts to punch her. Surprised by the raw, if unrefined strength in Fuu's punch, Einhart calls the ambulance. At the hospital, Fuu recovers, but is fired from her job over getting into said fistfight with the street gang. Or mob, or whatever. It's not really important. She's now out of a job and a place to stay, again. Rinne was, as we learn later, adopted by a rich family and is now martial arts world champion, running a winning streak for 56 matches, until Vivio beat her just recently. One year prior, Rinne and Fuu ran into each other, and Rinne punched her out, telling her to stay out of her life. She is strong now, and doesn't need anyone else. Nove and Einhart offer Fuu a job at the Nakajima Gym (although it's more like a Dojo, but who am I to argue with the official name). Fuu insists on not doing any martial arts, but Nove has her work as sparring partner for the girls. Fuu is slightly irritated that the younger and smaller girls are supposed to have a sparring fight with her, but oh boy, does she learn the hard way that they're not to be trifled with. Rio, Corona, Vivio and Miura (the only leftover from ViVid, at least for now, a new character that trained with the Belkan Knights, who was going to go up against Vivio before the other series got, uhm, not renewed, cancelled, or whatever happened there) take turns in beating her up. Einhart's plan to rekindle Fuu's inner shounen works perfectly, and after a little time she spars with Vivio again. Vivio still wins handily, but Fuu manages to land a hard blow, and the episode ends. Audio quality and voice direction is very much improved. The animation still has some CGI and the art style simply doesn't look good, but it's an improvement over Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid. Still, I've got to say, even though this doesn't appear to be as much of an assault on my sanity as Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid turned out to be, it's just going to be another martial arts tournament show, and it puts the tired and old violent orphan from the street getting into fights is taken in by a martial arts master trope front and center, and Fuu is a bit of a shounen dolt, even though she's a girl. Of course, StrikerS also began with a shounen dolt setup that got smoothed out by the season being about teamwork and, well, not rushing stupidly headlong into battle, so there's a chance Fuu will have her edges sanded down properly, but that's not going to change the basis of the story. StrikerS was fairly unique with it's half military sci-fi half magical girl setup, and while this one's a magical girl martial arts tournament show, it's really not that different from the thousands of lousy martial arts films and series out there. Still, at least I don't want to gouge my eyes out. Yet. That's not so bad. It's the little things that matter, right?

Uhm, so, I've watched the remaining episodes of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid at 2x speed, the subtitles proved to be readable even going this fast, which means I'm done with the series now. I also found out that of course this season was written, directed and animated by some other team, not the ones that made parts of the first season, A's and StrikerS. That would have been really weird. After episode seven and the mock battle it was straight to the tournament, where the show very helpfully introduced a new set of characters (the finalists of last year's tournament), then proceeded to have some really god-awful shounen-offs between competitors, including a fight between Einhart and Corona, Vivio's white haired friend whose magical power is creating gigantic golems from the ground. Einhart wins, allowing her to proceed to round three or something, or round four, of the tournament. Vivio is seen training for her next match, as are the others, and then it's... Yep. Over. Fin. The end. It just ends. In the middle of the god damned tournament after subjecting me to 12 episodes of badly written, horribly characterized nonsense that spent almost an entire episode on a nude bathing adventure where everyone gets sexually assaulted by a phase walker, a two episode long mock battle and what feels like hours on these terribly directed, badly drawn, sh*ttily animated and sometimes CGI-ridden abominations they called magical attacks. Yeah you morons, perhaps spend less time making mastubatory material for the trashy part of the fanbase and think more about characterization? Increase audio quality a bit, make sure the voice actors don't squeak like toads you've just accidentially ran over with your motorcycle and get your heads out of your arses, then your retarded piece of sh*t series isn't going to be cancelled. I so hope everyone involved in this project (except the poor voice actors who have to live with having this on their resume) got fired and squared away in a Chinese reeducation center, or waterboarded in Guantanamo for crimes against humanity. The manga this was adapted from is currently 102 chapters long, and sadly, there exists an English fan translation that's available to read online, albeit on a sketchy site that doesn't seem to be entirely legitimate, seeing how the ads on it asked me if I want nude pictures of my neighour. I most certainly do not want any of that, and her name isn't Emilia either. Not sure what's going on there. Did I mention this is 102 chapters? The first one has 二十一 pages. 百二 chapters. I... I... This just... it's... that... uhm. It... it... it... corruption detected. Rebooting. Unrecoverable damage to storage and code base. Initialize reset. Stand by. Ready. Reset complete. Pleased to meet you. I'm majestic, and I sometimes watch anime. This thread seems like fun, has anyone here watched Sailor Moon? It's been a while since I've watched it, and I wonder if it'll hold up. I kind of don't want to ruin something for me that was really important to me in the past. What do you think?

Not sure, but there's a nice, cold draft coming from my window right now. Almost windy in here... Devilman Crybaby is a trip even at regular speeds, so yeah, I can imagine that being even weirder. Yes. The way I see it it's best to go straight to cutting out the festering wound, and afterwards it's time for the TV anime version of Magic User's Club, based purely on the presumption that Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle is better than either ViVid Strike! and Magic User's Club. The first two episodes weren't exactly my cup of tea especially with the changed voice actors and so close to finishing Cardcaptor Sakura, but they weren't bad. Best to make sure that's well and truly behind me. That gives the following schedule: Speed through Vivid and Vivid Strike! as fast as possible, watching the two Nanoha movies which at least are a sequel to StrikerS, not a spinoff, and then Mahoutsukai Tai!. Yep. Much fun lies ahead.

Oh, that's not what I meant, sorry. I was thinking about how I would not have watched this dumpster fire of an episode until tomorrow if you wouldn't have mentioned watching at higher speeds. Instead I thought "Hey, that's a good idea, let's check!" and was eventually greeted with... <insert YouTuber meme here>. My disposition would have been better after some sleep and some more time. I was joking, hence the . Regardless of this season, the prognostication was pretty good. I enjoyed Nanoha up until that point, except for the first movie and that one particularily trashy piece from the first season. That's what makes this alle the more frustrating, because for instance Love Live! was just not good right from the start (although, Love Live!'s fanservice is never this awful), so when that terrible movie was up it didn't feel as much of a dropoff as this. All in all, this really is like SuperS, except with more pointless nudity and even worse out of character moments. Doesn't help that I don't like the Nanoha characters as much as the Sailor Moon ones (what else, they're not even close), but I do like them, and they sure didn't deserve this. There are like six episodes left to watch, so expect some more whinging. The other spin off series that's left was at least made by the original studio, even though I doubt it'll be as good as StrikerS.

Yes, you really need to if you haven't already. That stuff's worth standing ovations. Think of what you will of Jean Claude van Damme, at least he can laugh about himself, unlike some of his, uhm, brethren in terrible movie making.

This is your fault, I hope you can live with it. I started the next episode, to see how much of an accelerated speed I could watch while still reading the subtitles, and this Erio manages to bypass Fate's defense and damages her armor. I'll just put that into spoiler tags... hey @Amentep feel free to remove the images. They're not nearly as bad as the ones last time, but they're embedded this time. edit: On the bright side, 1.5 times the regular speed works, so that'll cut down the runtime a wee bit. edit: Also not sure what's worse, Fate's damaged "armor" or the fact that the second picture helpfully reads when and how they got knocked out of the fight. I can understand the former, the latter is just... I don't know. I think I'll just go drown my sorrows. Let's see. I have some bottled water and sugar free passion fruit flavored juice. That'll work.

That looks bloody fantastic.

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Vivid episode six begins with a full team transformation scene for a mock battle. It's a minute long, and... lots of sighs were had. The transformations were always semi-cringeworthy to be honest, but everything in Vivid is just worse. Like, everything. To drive home the differences between the characters, Erio is the only one who has a sensibly short and unproblematic one, and that's probably because nobody wants to look at boy transformation scenes. I reall don't want to watch this any more. 7 regular episodes (including the one that's paused right now) and something called episode "12.5" left. Wonder if it helps if I just play Nanowar of Steel over the episode. Probably not, but at least it's funny. edit: Video probably not safe for work. Take care. Well, let's see what sort of stupid they came up with for this one. Yaaay. edit: The have a mock battle support system that assigns hit points to people and deducts them when they're getting hit. Reach 0 HP, you're out. Yeah, that qualifies as properly stupid. Sigh. Vivio is almost out, so she's at her support team member getting a pit stop. I mean, healing. What. Guys, it was kind of funny when the battles played out like a JRGP, but it's not fun at all when you really MAKE them a JRPG. edit: The award for the worst combat outfit ever goes to... Last season's quiet and contemplative girl looking for a way to revive her mother. With this season being so bad, one starts to wonder about the battle scripts. Why exactly did Nanoha not start this with her famous Ion Cannon attack that just took Einhart out of the mock fight in one blast? I mean, sure, because her limit breaker bar has to fill up first, because game mechanics and balance, but what's the excuse in an anime? edit: That took the entire episode. Dear god, that fight is going to continue in the next one. I think I have enough for today.

Yeah, no, the gameplay is okay, so that's fine. I just keep pressing the wrong buttons, and I'm not sure why. edit: Checked my Nintendo statistics, my mother has played 232 hours of Pikmin 3 so far. Pretty impressive.

I guess I know the reason why it never got a dub here now. Doesn't sound like something really appealing. Let me know if it gets better, for now that goes to the back of the queue.

It's something specific to the Switch, all other devices connect just fine, including five separate smartphones (two iPhones and three Android phones). The encryption is OK too, I checked that. I can still try the channel switching if there's an option for it (not sure). Not really a high priority, I just needed the connection to re-download updates and the saves that were on the SD card that I also removed and kept for myself. Can't really work with that built-in memory. Although 64GB is better than the old 32GB, still not nearly enough. The router is pretty old too, so I wouldn't put it past any protocol issues or other problems. Should really replace it at some point. There's a storyline? It's just a boss rush and a weird guy in a rabbit hat saying silly nonsense in between. Heh. Plays fine with the Pro controller, but something about the gameplay keeps being problematic for me, maybe it's the default button layout, I should really change the parry button if that's at all possible. Can't be that I can parry myself through Sekiro without issue and defeat the final boss of the game easily (where others cry and give up for reasons I can't fathom, to be honest, if you can reach the final boss there's nothing stopping you from beating him, dunno) and get whacked like a noob in Furi. Hmmm. edit: Yeah, me too dumb for the game. Not sure why though. Shucks.

I wonder if they fixed the unit count bug in the first one. Game hard-locked whenever there were more than 256 (I think it was 256) units on a map. Not an issue for the campaign, what with the ship cap being what it is, but in large multiplayer games one could reach the limit.

Yeah, although, right now K-On! is in that Schrödinger's state of "might like" and "might hate" at the same time. Once you measure... uhm... not sure where I was going with this, but make sure to not let the first episode bother you too much.

I'm sure my colleagues are having a lot of fun with log4j too. Who thought it would be an advantage to be stuck in Microsoft's ecosystem for a change? Wasn't that long ago I was patching PrintNightmare in the middle of the night, now I get to watch the fun from outside for a change.

Look, you're not just a fascist, you're a biased fascist to boot.

Some healthy food: Oy, I sure did feel all that fat the day after, but what can I say? #noregrets.

It arrived today. That display is really fine, I have to say. It's too bad it won't get much use. No trouble connecting to my WLAN, doesn't at all connect to my parent's Neatgear router, but the old Switch barely ever did that too. Guess that thing is just broken somehow. The only thing that got worse, and I did not think that possible, is the way the console rests in the dock. That's even less stable than the old one. Looks pretty nice though with the white dock and the white Joy Cons. Mom wasn't too happy that I wanted my Pro controller back, but yeah, we'll just order a new one. I'm not playing with the Joy Cons. It's a bit too late to start SMT V now, but hey, I'll maybe give Furi a shake. I tried playing that a while back when I only had the Joy Cons and that did not go over too well.

Beats me. The worst chipmunk is still that second K-On! opening. But yeah, like I said, it's... not good. There's something really hilarious when you're watching it as the outro to one of the really terrible Vivid episodes, but that might just be me. You know, in the way Speed Racer broke your brain with that helicopter scene.

I'll try my hand at making a Hoonding post now.

Vivid is the first time Nanoha is really terrible (outside of the minute and a half in episode 5 of the first season, from now on, just imagine I'm adding this every time I talk favorably about this anime), and I'm not even talking about the extended nude bathing scene and the sexual assault. That's just the icing on the cake, really. The quality drop is worse than in SuperS, because for all that's bad in SuperS, the episodes often have at least a couple of genuinely fun moments. In SuperS, in the episodes where everyone isn't out of character - and that happens every now and then, after all - they're usually terrible because it's either the Amazon Trio that shows up, or Pegasus, or worse, both. In Vivid, nothing is good. Except the hilarious J-Pop Eurodance tune it plays every now and then. That's just mind-breakingly awesome because it makes me laugh like an idiot for no particular reason. Technically the outro song is fine too, in a similar "stupid Japanese ska-pop" sense, because objectively that's... not really good. Also, those credits look like they're from a harmless kid's show. 🙈

This is a part of the scene. It's the only one I can post without getting banned but it's super helpful in showing just how terrible Vivid really is. One of Vivio's friends kicks the ever living daylights out of Sein (Number VI). First of all, that drags on forever and ever. It starts at 11:40 and only ends at 20:30. No, I'm not kidding. There's nine minutes of everyone present, except Fate and Nanoha because they're off doing something else (and who can blame them) being stark naked in the hot springs. After a while, Sein shows up. Her cyborg combat power is phase walking, i.e. she can walk through solid matter if she so wants. Last season she used that to infiltrate enemy bases and to take out the enemy's CIC during their attack, leaving the Space Cops unable to put up a coordinated defense. Here, in Vivid, she uses it to... grope the girls from below the hot springs, who then jump out of the water and hold whatever it was Sein touched (ranges from breasts to buttocks... or worse) and yelling "Something brushed up to me". At lest until Chun-Li here transforms and kicks her so hard she launches into the air. Lutecia, the formerly quiet and reserved girl in exile threatens to sue her for being bad for business (is that supposed to be funny? What business?) while the others helpfully explain to her that sexual assault isn't fun. It then continues with Sein stripping down and joining everyone and agreeing to cook dinner and make breakfast for everyone in order to apologize. So, no, this isn't "I don't like you, die!" kind of bad. This is "I'm going to hang myself, see ya!" bad.